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The Belles of Saint Mary’s The Belles OF SAINT MARY’S Published every two weeks by the stu dent body of Saint Mary’s School. Editor .... Exchange Editor Managing Editor Facultg Adviser . Nancy McKinley . . Gale Lamb Mary-Genb Kelly . 0. A. P. Moore Sue Harwood Anne Dunn Alice Bell Hannah Bell Carol Cobb Ann Castleman Helen Ford STAFF Ida Quintard Ann Seeley Bunny Stribling Margaret Swindell Elizabeth Toepleman Mary Prances Wilson Sophia Redwood Kathryn Norman Mary Taylor Martha Newell Olivia Anne Smith 1939 Member 1940 Plssocioled CoUe6icrte N. C. Collegiate Press Association MIDDLE WAYS It has been said that only two views are possible with regard to America’s position in world affairs today. We maintain that a middle position is tenable, although in this editorial we are not advocating a particular stand. Those in the middle position do not agree with the Pacifists that nothing justifies war. They also question the assumption made by those who believe in the immediate necessity of an official state of war. The dubious assumptions include the following: the ability of the United States to provide armed forces at such a place as will he useful to the British, the only defense line of the United States to be England; the certain disaster of the American way of life in case of a German victory; the value of a British victory when weighed against the cost of war and the questionable results of English peace terms. If we believe in the validity of these assumptions, then we are ready to declare war today; if we do not, then we are not ready to take such action. Depending on which assump tion we do believe, we will decide at different moments to go into the war. What it is important to realize is that these statements are assump tions and the facts supporting them are obscure. This does not mean that Americans as a whole can never act because we hold different opin ions. We can act, but we hope we can be at peace or at war and still see that various shades of opinion as well as the black and white tenable. It is, of course, equally important that whatever our decision is, we try to use reason and do not put off fac ing the situation until the mythical tomorrow comes. — The College News, Bryn Mawr. THIS COLLEGIATE WOELD (By Associated Collegiate Press) OUR BELLES GRAY AVOODARD Age—19. Height—5 ft. 7^/2 in. Hair and eyes—black and blue (re spectively). Home—Rocky Mount, H. C. Favorite food—milk (need calcium). Spends spare time—not studying. Favorite expression—“Ho!” Favorite piece—“Hone But the Lonely Heart.” Is always seen—in bed. Favorite article of clothing—my British walkers. Is looking for—yesterday. Ambition—“I don’t know, do you?” Is wild about—Harry. Pet hates—breakfast and Spanish. Odd likes—James Cagney and lo tions. Hobby—movie-ing. Favorite color—blue. That fingernail polish won’t come off her glasses, so when you see black and blue hair and eyes (respective ly) embellished by pink rimmed specs, it’s Gray. She is also noted for her endlessly enviable wardrobe and her ability to get charmingly along with everyone—from the honor-rolled intellectuals to the most glamorous of the station-wagon set. But Gray’s most outstanding charac teristic is her wit, that mock-solem nity of question tfiat you don’t real ize is funny until you have listened most avidly to the very end, and sud denly catcfi yourself with your thoughts tangled up in one delight edly confused laugh. You most often see Gray acting as a Marshal, but she is also on the Hall Council, the Y. P. S. L. Council, the Treasurer of the Dramatic Club, and a member of the Glee Club, the Political Sci ence Club, the Altar Guild, and the Granddaughters’ Club. Comes this week a dispatch from Kent, Ohio, that should, we rather expect, start a howling storm of pro test and contradiction: “Co-eds are much less emotional than men students, if measurements taken by Kent State University psy chology students are accurate. Using respiration, blood pressure, and elec tric changes of the skin as measure ments, a man and a woman student were tested by university psychology club members. Various types of music ranging from Artie Shaw’s ‘Hight Ride’ to a Debussy funeral march were played to stimulate emo tion. With the funeral march the man’s breathing became much slower and deeper, his blood pressure fell and his general body metabolism de creased. When ‘Hight Ride’ was played the man’s blood pressure rose, respiration became shallow and raj)id, and metabolism heightened. Under Ravel’s ‘Bolero’ each period of raised tempo brought a corre sponding rise in the student’s body processes. But the young lady? Ravel and his trumpet blast hardly produced a shiver. Debussy left her cold as ice, and Artie Shaw made her only tepid.” All right, folks; send your evi dence to the contrary to Associated Collegiate Press, in care of this paper. BETTY WALES Parade of Opinion By Associated Collegiate Press FEED EUROPE? Britain’s recent thumbs-down o® American proposals to feed Europe® hungry has checked, but not stilled) the red-hot argument raging here. A representative statement of tb® case is found in the editorial columns of the Harvard Crimson. The CriiH' son holds that outside relief is gently necessary. “The most pro®' ising proposal made so far,” co® tinues the Crimson, “is that of IR'’' bert Hoover. His idea is to let Re occupied countries buy foodstu® here with their liquid assets now i'* this country, and carry it home their own ships. Added to this wou® be the food contributed by nuiue’’' ous charities. If at any time it aP' peared that the food was going Germany, the shipments could P halted immediately. Hegotiatioa® would have to be undertaken by R® State Department with British a® German representatives. Upon R shoulders of the recalcitrant pa™ would rest the responsibility R whatever calamities may eventufl' from a foodless Europe.” A new and interesting slant given by the Princetonian, which P® lieves it would be to the advantag of this country to check famine ,o»® Age—nearly 18. Height—5 ft. 8 in. Hair and eyes—hlonde and blue. Home—Edenton, H. C. Always seen—having a good time. Favorite food—mushrooms. Favorite song—“I Can’t Get Start ed.” Is wild about—horses and dogs. Favorite color—blue and red. Ambition—to have long hair. Especially favorite article of cloth ing—saddle shoes. Is hoping for—a diploma. Spends spare time—movie-ing. Favorite sport—swimming. Pet hate—empty mailbox. Hobby^—knitting socks. Favorite expression—“Yee-woo-get- tum.” Worst fault—procrastination. If anyone can solve the mystery of why Betty’s hair won’t grow, said anyone will be greatly appreciated by Betty. It has not grown, says she plaintively, for tw'o years. She is one of the more leveLheaded indi viduals in English H who, more often than not, sees no point in va rious Spenserian or Miltonian points, says so—and gets away with it! She is vastly perturbed—or was when in terviewed—by a lack of odd likes; she likes everything everyone else likes—such as movies and raw car rots, which, she admits, are not odd at all. Betty is a Marshal, and she is also a member of the Letter Club, the Altar Guild, the Political Sci ence Club, and the Granddaughters’ Club. Europe. The Princetonian reas; that “the revolution against Hazii®^ on the continent must be waged by powerful underground democrat ^ movement organized and equip?® • by Britain and provisioned P^ j America. Once the people of F | rope who still cherish the ide® of freedom feel that behind tbe stand not only the armed nHS)* of Britain but the moral and rial support of the United States, R fierce indignation which they 1 feel against their oppressors will ^ translated into positive action. Tl®! * - - - rtP) will refuse to be crushed to and united will resume the against uniformed men.” At the University of Wiscoa® the Daily Cardinal adds its point, as follows: “Opponents ol 1 / » ^ * 1 Til Mr. Hoover’s plan claim that by allowing food to pass through ^ blockade, the danger of revolnti^^ would be increased and the cause joR’ freedom helped that much R However, the latter make two sumptions which may or may ao correct. They assume first that , ^ subject people CAH revolt. Hazi machine and Herr HiiaR. g and his secret police are soineta the world has never seen bd^,. Secondly, the opponent of «/ 7 ” f I L Hoover’s plan has to assert ths’’ d safe in a free country which definitely suffer from a Hazi viC' can conscientiously require the n cent people in central Europe to of starvation so that the j government which he thinks fie®' may survive. V contrasting view is ' the IVashington University Life: “It’s the old question of and means. Does the end—the vation of British Democracy thus the defeat of totalitarian democracy, of the new revoluti justify the mean.s—the use of tion as a part of economic wat (Continued on page 4)
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