BUY A 25c WAR
STAMP TODAY
Belles
OF SAINT MARY’S
DON’T TELEPHONE
LONG DISTANCE!
VI, No. 3
RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA
R. and Bus Officials
Explain Travel
Problems
Thanksgiving Travel to be Diffi
cult ; Christmas Congestion Will
Be Relieved by Month’s Vaca
tion
, Since the chief topic of discus-
at Saint Mary’s has been the
ifansportation problem, The Belles
^titerviewed the Southern Railroad,
^^aboard Railroad, and the Atlantic
^^eyhonnd Bus officials in order to
formulate an accurate picture of the
Pi'esent situation.
Traveling during Thanksgiving
J'’cek will be practically impossible;
’’aveling during Christmas holidays
^’dl he simply tough. These are the
opinions of bus and train officials in
daleigh. Even oii normal week-ends
Jesses and trains have everything
can handle, hut during holidays
’’^eling will be much worse.
Because of heavy troop niove-
trains are just about filled to
^^Paeity. For an example of one
^’^ipany in the South alone, Ernest
Norris, president of the Southern
aihvay System, writes: “In the
rst seven months of this year Ave
^ye carried almost 600,000 men in
ffiiforni, all moving under orders,
jjdey traveled in 24,915 coaches and
ffilmans; in 1,564 special trains
5,563 extra cars attached to our
„®Sular passenger trains. And these
, SUres do not include the additional
j '^lulreds of thousands who have
over our lines on furlough
, ill small groups on transfer
orders.”
October 23, 1942
'lii
®eouraging business; they are do-
everything possible to try to
j the crowds. Standing
j. allowed in coaches, but pullman
.oservations should be made as far
advance as possible.
.Atlantic Greyhound Bus officials
j^^d that they could guarantee noth-
S concerning transportation. Bus
(See P. 2)
^^asses Elect
^^niaining Officers
g] ^^st Week the various classes
jj^®cted the rest of their officers for
? School year. They are:
•/) Ticgg, Vice-President of the
Class; Bets.y Long, Secre-
Nancy Brockman, 2'reasurer;
j, '‘ty Clark, Legislative Member;
^ ^le Clarke, Harriet Whitaker,
^®*'garet deRosset, Katherine Legg,
Marshals.
Hickey, Vice-President of
Sjn‘ ,^^P^^ornore Class; Maybelle
Til ^^(^I’^tf^np'^'reasurer; Eleanor
^ opias and Virginia Woodard,
Marshals; Caroline Long,
B^ffaiive Member.
(jV jjce Shamhurger, Vice-President
'he Freshman Class; Barbara
(See P. 2)
SCHOOL to Support CIRCLE INITIATES FIVE MEMBERS
War Fund Drive =====
Mr. Hughes Represents Saint BELLES Aim for
Mary’s; Drive C o m b i n e s 21
Naturally the railroads are not
Causes
Saint Mary’s is again to take
part in the United War Fund, and
Mr. Hughes has been asked to be
come a Major representing the
school. Last Tuesday Mrs. Robert
S. Wyatt, member of Speakers’ Bu
reau for United War Fund and for
mer chairman of Raleigh Commu
nity Chest, spoke in assembly on the
importance of this drive.
This drive does not include (he
T. B. Association, Travelers’ Aid,
Salvation Army, Chinese Relief,
Red Cross, and a few other organi
zations. But the “21 Causes in One”
have been combined so that people
will know how to give wisely, and
at the same time not be harassed by
so many different pleas at different
times during the year. Instead of
merely the teachers and officers hav
ing a part this year, the entire school
will be asked to contribute.
Mrs. Wilson Hollowell, III, will
be a Captain to canvass the faculty,
and Miss Frances Vann a Captain to
canvass the officers. Student Cap
tains are the Presidents of the five
classes, Ruth Sherrill, Laurie Lucas,
Betty Barnes, Sallie McKinley, and
Betty Suiter. The day students will
not be asked to give here as can
vassers will solicit them at their
homes in town. *i x j
Last year the amounts contributed
bv the colleges here in Raleigh were as
follows: Meredith, $481.20; Peace,
$161.00; Saint Mary’s, $216.00; and
State, $2,387.87. This ^^ar S%nt
Mary’s is asked to contribute $372.38,
the other colleges being asked to in
crease their giving in proportion, as
over $116,000.00 will be needed for
the “21 Causes in One.”
New Plan Initiated; 25c War
Stamps Sold When Belles Is
Delivered; Competition Among
Halls
The Belles staff, with the approval
of Mrs. Cruikshank, is initiating a
new plan for selling war stamps at
Saint Mary’s. Realizing that the
present stamp sales system is unor
ganized and inadequate, the staff is
going to try a new and more indi
vidual method. The opportunity for
co-operating in such an important
phase of the war effort is given to
every girl in school. Here is the
plan: the staff is going to make a
special effort to sell one 25c stamp
to each student every two weeks
when The Belles is delivered. At the
end of the school year each girl
should have at least fourteen 25c
stamps.
Every other Friday afternoon a
staff member comes to a student’s
room to bring The Belles. She ex
pects the girl to be there, and she
will ask her to buy a 25c stamp. If
the student does not have a war
stamp book, the staff member gives
her one. Upon leaving the room,
the staff member tacks up a card on
the outside of the door with the
names of the girls living in the room
on it. When a student buys a stamp,
a gold star is placed under her name
to show that she has done her hit
for America this two weeks. '
Also there will be competition
among the various halls. Sales re
sults are to be posted on a board
near the post office.
PENDER LOOKS AT THE NEWS
Guadalcanal in the Solomon Is
lands is the focal point in a battle
K seems likely to develop ^0 0^
of the decisive struggles of the var
h the Pacific. Huge fieets of enemy
ioinbers are attacking the airfield
on Guadalcanal which the Japanese
built and the Americans seized in
lugust as the work was being com-
olefed Guadalcanal is the key to
he entire area. The possession of
it for Japan would h^ean a juniping-
off place for new conquests and the
launching of a second invasion fleet,
more jioiverful than the one defea ed
Tthe Coral Sea, aimed from this
area at Australia. For America,
Hctory in the Solomons would pro
vide not only a defense against Jap
anese advances, but also a starting
point in turning back
lands already conquered. The latest
communiques indicate, heavy land
fighting to come as well as a pro
tracted struggle for sea and air mas
tery.
Stalingrad has again reached a
crucial stage. The Germans pressed
their revitalized assault on the city
with 60,000 men and a tank divi
sion supported by aircraft. Losses
are staggering on both sides. But
the Wehrmachf still has not achieved
its major goal for 1943: conquest of
the Caucasus and its oils. Russian
troops fight on.
Conquered Europe shows that
Germany is worried about an Allied
offensive. Frenchmen last Friday
rioted against the Laval Govern
ment’s efforts to meet demands for
150,000 workers for German indus
try. Outbreaks at Lyons and Am-
(See P. 4)
L. Lucas, Hart, Soar, Richard
son, and Jenkins Chosen From
Entire Student Body as Out
standing
The Circle held its first initiation
of the year last ITednesday night.
The five girls to receive this honor
were Laurie Lucas, Virginia Hart,
Marjorie Soar, .Daphne Richardson,
and Lillian Jenkins.
Laurie Lucas, of Greensboro, is
president of the Sophomore Class
just as she was Freshman Class
president last year.
Virginia Hart is from Chatham,
Virginia. She is a member of the
Junior Class, and is Miss Brown’s
assistant in cliarge of the mail.
Marjorie Soar, a day student, is
a senior and a second year student.
She is president of the Day Stu
dents.
Daphne Richardson, of Fayette
ville, is Chief Marshal. A candi
date for graduation in June, Daphne
is also working for a certificate in
organ.
Lillian Jenkins, of Goldsboro, is
editor of the Stage Coach. Lillian
is ^ a senior, and last spring ably
edited the Saint Mary’s Handbook
for 1942.
SMS Girls Attend
Y. P. S. L. Convention
Mary Thomas, Elizabeth Royall,
and Betty Edwards attended the
Y. P. S. L. district meeting at
Christ Church last Saturday. The
Service Leagues of Christ, Good
Shepherd, and Saint Saviours
Churches were hosts to the visiting
leagues from Durham, Chapel Hill,
Henderson, and Oxford.
The business meeting, which was
presided over by Evelyn Smithwick,
diocesan secretary of the Y. P. S. L.,
opened with a short welcome, devo
tional, and roll call of the leagues
in this district; each president gave
a report of his league’s work during
the past year. After a discussion of
various league problems and objec
tives the Rev. John A. Wright intro
duced the guest speaker, the Rev.
Mr. Lee Sheppard, pastor of the
Pullen Memorial Ilaptist Church.
Mr. Sheppard spoke on “What youth
can do now to further its interests
in the world of the present and the
future.” The business meeting end
ed with the benediction by the Rev.
Mr. David Yates, of Durham.
The delegates were then enter
tained at a spaghetti supper; later
some attended a dance in the parish
house of Good Shepherd Church
while others went to the State-Wake
Forest football game.
The next morning the convention
ended with the celebration of the
Holy Communion at 8 :00 o’clock.