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February 23, 1935 TELEPHONE GIRL CONFESSES ALL When I approached Elizabeth Garrett, the telephone jrirl, and threatened her with an interview, she broke into a broad grin and said, “Law, Miss, I don't know nothin’!” “But wouldn’t you like to have your name in the paper?” I asked. She answered me with, “I ain’t so particular about it,” and laugh ed again. These statements were plain enough to me. Perhaps she didn’t want to commit herself, thinking that I might make trouble for her by being too free with my words. I reassured her and soon she was talk’ng unreservedly. “About how old are you, Eliza beth?” I ventured. She doesn’t seem to have the pe culiar trait that most women have —that of being reluctant to tell their age, so she said, “I guess I’m about twenty-eight or twenty-nine. I ain’t really sure ’cause my mother died when I was just a lit tle girl and my father died in 1920.” “Where were you born?” I ask ed next. “In Greenville. That’s where all my folks are. I don’t work in the summer time. I always goes to Greenville and stays.” “How long have you been at Queens, Elizabeth?” was my next query. “Ever since 1929. I ain’t been telephone girl but just this year. Before I was maid over in South Hall.” “Which do you like better?” “Oh, I like answering the tele phone, but I believes I’d rather be a maid in the dormitory.” During the time I was talking to Elizabeth, we -were constantly in terrupted by girls wanting her to deliver phone messages, to send laundry, to call taxis, to mail let ters, and to do various other odd jobs. She does these things will ingly and good-naturedly. She has a marvelous capacity for remem bering names, knowing practically all the boarders, and calling most of the day students by name. She sends out laundry and keeps the girls’ money straight. She will trudge all over the campus to look for a girl who is wanted at the tel ephone. I asked her whether she'd ever been married. When I got a nega tive answer, I asked her that inev itable question, “Elizabeth, have you ever been in love?” She treated the question as a huge joke, throwing up her hands and laughing until she shook the 200 pounds on her big frame. I finally managed to extract an an swer and again it was “No.” I teased her, saying that I didn’t be lieve her, that I knew she must have been in love at some time, but upon the subject all I could get was that emphatically spoken “No.” If there has been a great love in Elizabeth’s life we shall not be privileged to know of it. I also learned several other in teresting facts about Elizabeth which I hadn’t known before, and of which, I am sure, the rest of the student body are unfamiliar. Before Elizabeth came to Queens she worked as a pastry girl at Kress’, and I’ll venture to say that those pies were good, because, when Elizabeth does anything, she does it well. She left Kress’ at the suggestion of one of the maids who was working at Queens. The hours were better and the work was not so hard. Elizabeth has her likes and dis likes just as the rest of us have. She was very emphatic about her disTke of turnip-greens, and just as emphatic about her preference | for meat as a favorite food. She i likes black, green and blue, but she does not seem to share with some of the other members of her race the barbaric love of bright red. I asked her what she liked most to do. The answer was prompt, “I likes to sing, I guess,” she replied. ' When Elizabeth is in a good humor she sings as she goes about her work. This is a key to her happy oisposition. There are very few times when she is not good- natured and helpful, so her day is usually one of song. QUEENS BLUES Tolerance Trio Visits University Time magazine, February 11, 1935, has an interesting article about the Tolerance Trio, who were at Chapel Hill, N. C., the other week. An unusual trio this—a Cathol’c priest, a Jewish rabbi, and a Protestant (Presbyterian) min ister. On their Southern tour, 'hey will visit many cities. They are under the auspices of the N.ational Ccnf’erence of Jews and Chiistians, an organization head ed by three famous men: Newton D. Baker, Roger William Strauss, nrd Carlton J. H. Hayes. The t io presented very graphi cally, bv means of pertinent ques tions and answers, certain funda mental truths about each religion. Time reprinted some of the most striking questions. The Protes tant asked the Catholic: “Do Catholics believe that all Protestants and Jews are going to Hell?” “No,” replied the Catholic, “we believe that no one loses his soul who does not knowingly sin against the Light. With repentance, any one will be saved who follows the Light Each one of the trio took his share of the blame for the lower ing of moral standards caused by the movies. Rabbi Lazaron con demned the Jewish producers; Rev Mr. Everett Clinchy added that the Presbyterian Elder, Will Hayes, was the supposed “con science of the motion picture.” The Reverend Mr. Riggs, the priest, said that considerable Christian money was being invest ed in the motion picture indus try. Sorority Pledges Continued from Page I, Col. 5 tie, Louise Faircloth, Evelyn Hen derson, Frances Sohmer, Jean Orr, Cubby Cole, Bonnie Cox, Frances Bost, Lillian Smith, and Frances Miller; Alpha Delta. Theta, Har riet Brown, Frances Scarborough, Janet Hilton, Mary Barton, and Margaret Thomson; Phi Mu, Jo Hackney, Y. V. Taylor, Anita Stew art, Eugenia Brumley, and Louise Morris; Chi Omega, Georgia Un derwood, Martha May Asbury, Mary Currie, Elsie Hunter’, Ann Little, and Marie Niekirk. 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