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EASTERN ILLINOIS STA'I;'E TEACHERS COLLEGE---CmARILESTON WEDINBSDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1943 ocher Praises Katharine Cornell Air Corps Enlists Drama Boasts English Setting cAfee Reviews New Broadway 17-Year-Olds Robbins Chooses "Ladies in roductions for Student Body Lt. Tidwell Retirement" for Winter Play Visits Campus Prof Describes Small Cast Begins THE BUREAU of Naval Personnel Theater Season Stagewise in Washington announced last Leading Lady Rehearsal Schedule week the opening of enlistments in By Staff Reporter . FLORENCE McAfee, head of Naval Aviation to 17-year-old men MURJDEIR IN an old Tudor house e Women's Physical Education only, under a new program. To help on the Thames River Estuary with tment, addressed the Eastern accelerate this program, Lieut. James 1the victim's body placed in a huge mbly last Wednesday morning, N. Tidwell will visit the campus on fire place oven furnishes a :brief . 27 on the subject of "Broad Friday, Feb. 5. mood setting for "Ladies in Retire -1943." All college students over 17 and ment," the three-act psychological She began, "The New York which not yet 18 will be excused from their drama planned for presentation by have heard and read about and 9 o'clock class on Friday to attend Players on March 1 on the stage of e of you have seen is no longer a special assembly at 9 :30 at which the health eduoation building. ilxistence. Oh, there is a city time !Lieut. Tidwell will speak. Sen The play was a long-running New ed New York and it is on .the iors from TC high and Charleston York and London success only a few n, but it is no longer, the gay, high school will be invited to attend seasons ago. Flora Robson played orous, brilliantly ligh�ed city the assembly, the leading role of Ellen Creed in a t it was even a year ago. Mayor In f!a.Ch case, successful appli road production which appeared in uardia has dedared a dimout cants will be enlisted as apprentice Chicago. The play appeared under ry night in the week lest enemy seamen, V-5, but will not be called the same title as a cinema at es find the city an easy .target. to active duty until they have reach Dr. Florence McAfee traction with Ida Lupino in the rBroadway,' called the 'Great ed thei:- eighteenth birthdays, or . . . Broadway lures her part. 'te Way' no longer as electric they have completed .their high Ingram Plays Murderess are not permitted to be lighted, school training or the current year !Marjorie Ingram '43, will handle tre marquees are black and store of college in which they are enrolled. this role of a murderess in .the East ows which have lights must At the time of call .to active duty, ern production, which is dirooted by a black gauze curtain across Harden Addresses the V-5 Apprentice Seamen is trans Mr. C. R. Bobbins, new dramatics front. ferred to "Aviation Cadet, V-5," and director. She brings dramatic Actors Open Kappa Delta Pi begins his regular training as a Na Marjorie Ingram experience to ,the role, as she has J>espite everything, New York is val Avia.tion cadet, at the completion MR. E. L. Harden, principal of ...Graces stage played leading parts in several past Of which he receives his wings and , ving a good theater season, really Charleston high school, was the EI is performances. ther remarkable one. All of the commissioned as an Aviation Of principal speaker at the annual for The plot concerns one Leonora 'ng actors and actresses are ficer in the U. S. Naval Reserve or mal initiation and banquet of Kap Fiok, a retired music hall aotress, except Helen Hayes and she the U. S. Marine Corps Reserve. e pa Delta Pi, national honorary edu Magazine Publishes who lives in her Estuary house with now in rehearsal and will bring A special requirement of .the new cation fraternity, held last Tues Ellen -as housekeeper and •Lucy, the in a few weeks. Not only are program demands that a certificate day night, Jan. 26 at the home of News fditorials maid. Through .the hospitality of Jieat ones .there, but Katharine be obtained from the administrative Mrs. Noble Rains. Leonora, Ellen .brings her two de ell, the greatest of them all, head, or his designa,ted deputy, of FOUR EDITORIALS, printed earlier He said, "Five major problems fac mented sisters from 'London ifor a ed a new play on December 2'1 the high school, secondary school in the year by the News, were re ing the secondary schools can be short vacation.' the holiday visitors. or college now attended, certifying published in the January issue of met and at least partially overcome During Ellen's absence, her nep iss Cornell's play was 'The tha.t the applicant has been recom The School Press Review, a publica by the future teachers who are now hew, Albert Feather, appears seek e Sisters', by the Russian play mended as to moral character and tion of the Columbia Scholastic students at the teachers colleges." ing money from his aunt. iHe tells ht, Chekhov. The acting was quality of leadership by an anony P'ress association, with headquarters "There is an increased need for Miss Fick of Ellen's devotion .to the rb as always for Katharine Cor mous board composed of no less .than in New York city. work in the fields of health, citizen two sisters. He learns rthat Leonora gathers the very best actors she three members of the faculty. ship training, vocational training Three of the editorials were writ keeps her cash in the oven when for her companies. The cast and guidance, reading, and family Further information may be ob ten by James Hanks, News editor, she takes pity on him. so nearly perfect that one of the and marital relationships," he said. tained from Dr. Harold M. Oavins, and the other by EUgene Price, as Plot Thickens icswrote nei School Drops Intercollegiate Football Magazine Describes Campus Play I-lo -- l-lughes's Duties Elephant,'s � To Sig Taus D_r. Widger Compares Life at AN ARTIOLE appearing in the Feb- ACTIVE MEMBERS and pie ruary issue of Safety Education Child ... (t\j)Jf Sigma. Tau Gamma social magazine entitled "Wayne E-'. Hughes ity entertained their girl fri Eastern During Two World Wars by Ruth Maness Joins National Safety Council" des a dancing patty on Satuxdq By Dorothy Tomlinson cribes the newly-accepted assign ning, Jan. 16. ment of Dr. Wayne P. Hughes, for :-I The pal'lty waa "ONE OF the most noticeable dif- WHAT BENEFITS have you receiv Sentinel mer assistant professor of the In at •the "Little ferences between this war and the dustrial Arts. The magazine is a ed from college which you would pus.'' The la5t is chat the 18 and 19 year old publication of the National Safety not have had otherwise? ' was spent in d boys were not subject to the draft Council, Inc. Geneva Weidner: and pla ying in World War I," stated Dr. Howard I've gotten ex In describing the position of Dr. Refreshments of DeF. Widger, member of the Eng perience in leadership here. And Hughes, the ar.ticle says, "In his chocolate and do lish department, who has watched I've had the fun of living in a new posi�ion he will attempt to de nuts were servect.. Eastern pass through two wars. R. Stephenson termine what industrialists regard dormitory and associating with Fraternity m He said, "Most of the boys who as the safety shortcomings of grad the other girls. present were Ross Stephenso!IJ lef.t Eastern's campus were upper uates of industrial training centers. ver Anderhalter, [.ee Cammon, classmen. ,Then, too, the fact that Ivan Kennard: Since .there are about He will then help the various states gene Wright, Eugene Price, we have a much larger army in this three girls to every ooy here a-t build programs to overcome .these Williams, Rasho Winget, I)> war makes the proportion who leave Eastern, it gives me a break. deficiencies. This will mean work Tingley, Jean Kimbrough, Cl college greater. ing with state committees of voca Carol Rebbe: A lot of gray hairs and Hanneken, Dario Cov'i, Uiwell "Another feature of the present tional education leaders and with a ·l<>t of fun. vin, Jack Kersch, George G' warwhich tends to decrease college many local vocational and school Fred Spiegel: I've gotten to meet so Roy Sheppard, Irvin Randolph, enrollment is the part women are shop leaders. Where vacational many more people here at school Metter, Jll!Ck Sensintaffer, playing in the war effort. Some of safety programs are already in op whom I wouldn't have if I had Knott, RObert Inyart, Jim Alili ·the women college students or pros eration he will analyze them to see stayed at home, and I've learned o:rde, and Jack Soderholm. pective students have ·entered the whether they can be improved. If a little bit in school work. Be The guests included Jane W·AVES, WAACS, SPARS, or some time permits, he may make visits to sides the work, I've had fun. enson, Irene Dye, Betty war industry" The firs: war did not individual schools or school systems Betty J. Lewis: I've learned so much Bessie Mae Townsend, Ro lure. away ·so ma:ny girls. They did where his help is needed." more about my major field. I can Lockyer, Betty Jean Engel, not have to go into war indusuies always remember my experiences Culp, Jeanne Cre.ss, Helen Isle y, so highly when the war was_ not ily Greer, Bertha Myers, Mary G here in college-they couldn't have mechanized." Dorothy Tomlinson, Bona Wedding Bells Ring hoppened anywhere else. It's such Emotion Reigns Moyer, Mildred Allen, Betty a wonderful opportunity .to be a For Dole, Spurlin Richmond, Jean Livingston, s ·'·nr. Widger continued in another part of a college. "There seemed to be a greater Schmidt, Norma Dennis, Lillian vein, WEDDING BELLS rang for two Oliver Anderhalter: If I hadn't come dtsplay of emotion in -the first World gen, and Betty J. Lewis. former Eastern students last Mon to college, I'd probably have for War. There is probllibly just as much Dr. and Mrs. Charles P'. lAD day afternoon, Jan. 18, when Isabel gotten all about baseball and other feeling in connection with this war, and Dr. and Mrs. William Dole became the bride of Orval competitive sports. Then, too, but rthe people seem less demonstra were faculty guests for the ev Dr. Howard DeF. Widger Spurlin, chief petty officer in the where besides college would we tive about it. For example, during . . . Views in Retrospect U. S. Navy, in the Mattoon Central get anything like our P. E. class the last war the whole school flliC Community church, with the Rev es? Seymour Speaks at ulty ·and students had parades down erend John Codd officiating at the Grace Guthrie: In the first place, Shelby Institute ·to the square and bll!Ck. They car single ring ceremony. I've met ·a lot of people whom DR. GLENN Seymour of the ried flags, large and small, and .be Home Ee, Manual For her wedding, the bride wore I wouldn't have known if I hadn'.t cial Science department spoke, came very excited about the affair. a black and white ensemble with a Arts Clubs Hear Wood come here. I've learned more the Shelby county teacher's Several times .the entire school corsage of camellias. about the .type of work I'm most tute on Friday, Jan. 29. His to marched' in a parade down to the "ROOSEVELT AND Churchill are Mrs. Spurlin is a graduate of interested in---'Illore than if I had for the forenoon was, "A railroad station to see ,the boys off too smart to create any mark for Mattoon high school and of Eastern. stayed ·at home. College has giv Lesson on War Economics." In to;'the ca.ffips. She is a teacher at the Columbian American and English critics ito en me a chance to do a. lot of afternoon he spoke on, "Towart · "During the other war some of the school and will retain her position. shoot at, at the present ·time,'' stat ·things for myself-it's made me Just and Lasting Peace." faculty ·members and a number of Spurlin attended the University more independent. And it's .taught bus'hi.ess men from the town joined ed Dr. William G. Wood, member of Illinois for two years and then me -to get along with others bet the 'Minute Men.' It was a com of the Social Science department, in completed his college work at East-' ter. mon occurrence for one of this an address before .the members of ern. He was president of the sen The latest Victor, Columbia -the Home Economics and Industrial Irvin Randolph: I have had several group to come out in front· of the ior class, a varsity basketball play Decca Classical and Popul Arts clubs last Wednesday night, entirely new experiences which cui'tain 'and'give about a four min er, and a member of Phi Sigma Ep Records and Albums. -tend to arouse my interests. Col ute talk.· before shows. They also Jan. 27. silon fraternity while here. He is lege is most suttable place to w�iit oh extensive bond selling drives Dr. Wood said that critics are just now stationed at Davisville, R. I. a HUCKLEBERRY learn to get along with others and all' 0,ver the ci>untry. Red . Cross waiting for a plan to develop so they Jewelry and Music Store I am a�ways willing to learn. drfres were' conducted as well. can have something to criticize. "I Sununer School Flourishes defy anyone to draw up a plan for Sigma Tau Delta post-war peace that is just to every ''.Another interesting occurence body," he said. Picks Tolstoy Opus during wartime -was the marked in Nothing is Nicer or More Appreciated than crease. in summer school enrollment. Dr. Wood personally believes that SIGMA TAU Delta, national honor- In: 1917. ,the. summer school enroll the war will be over by fall, but ary English fraternity, and Writ ment:, was the largest up to that makes no predictions. "SO far, all ers club, met last Thursday evening, ·time.- Attendance was high for the of my predictions have been wrong; Jan. 28 in the EngJ.ish office .to se 1918 summer session as well. One I'm still f.ighting the last war," he lect a book for discussion at the A Box of Candy reason.for the increased summer en remarked. second meeting in March. roll:glent was that the girls were not The Industrial Arts club arranged Tolstoy's "War and .Peace" was Corner Confectionery chosen, and Marguerite Little '43, lea.V'in.g.and.that we had fewer teach the entertainment for the joint Northeast Corner Square TELEPHONE 81 ers ·throughout ·the state who were meeting of the two organizations, was selected to lead the discussion. quaUfied·· to -teach. For this reas<>n and the Home Be girls furnished re Manuscripts were read by Eliza .they, came ·in the summer by the freshments of cookies and punch. beth Luer '46, and Jean Henderson droves -to satisfy this requirement. '44, after which the members held ·�.Football as· an intercollegiate a literary I. Q.. test. sport. was abandoned here. in 1917. Bulletin Board Display BETTER CLEANING! There were .still intramuraJ games !RENEW '11HE BEAUTY OF YOUR GARMENTS but none between EI and other col Features Past England Former Student Pens Our Cleaning Method /Will Do It leges. PICTURES ON life in eighteenth Magazine Article "There. were fewer faculty mem century England, which are being SCHEIDKER CLEANERS bers who left during the other war. displayed on the bulletin board just MISS MARY Willcockson who grad- They .. did not feel the compulsion outside the library .this week, are uated from Eastern with the class AND FURRIERS · of 1916, is the author of an article, because the army was not so large. taken from LIFE IN EIGHTEENTH TELEPHONE 234 JUST EAST OF CAMPUI A However, Dr. Charles P. Lantz and CEJNTURY ENGLAND, a portfolio "The Evolution of Class - Made Ballad,'' which was published in the Mr. Hubbard both attended a sum of 42 plates selected and arranged mer train·ing camp at Chicago in or by Dr. Rober.t J. Allen. Januar.r issue of Elementary Eng der to .be able to help instruct in lish Review. Dr. Allen, a graduate of this col the event that the Student Army DEPENDABLE PH 0 NE lege in 1920, is now .teaching in the Trainin Corps should b€ estabiish g department of English, Williams HUTTS TAXI SERVICE ed at Eastern. College. TRADE AT ".t\ltogeth�, t:Qe set up in the edu LIFE IN EIGHTEENTH CEN Campbell's Shoe Shop LICENSED and FULLY catlohai'iristitutiops is definitely su TURY ENGLAND is published by Buy Stamps with the i>e"hor· to that of the last war. We INSURED 36 the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, ar'e d.ouig "a greater service, through Balance and Lick the ' and is one of a series on Life in 24-HOUR SERVICE. cPr and similar courses. Other Side. England. Rixth & Jackson St. Charleston, IL "It might .be interesting to note Just South of Square on Seventh ·that during the last war Dr. Lantz Dr. Allen is the son of Mr. Fiske served' . on .the local draft board, as Allen, who retired -last year from the or:''cii.arleS Coleman serves now. Eastern faculty. A.llother activity that sounds a fa miliar note was the· sending of fac CHARLESTON PROFESSIONAL CARD ulty members around to various MeEker made fine leather bill . high schools to ·urge high school folds-the small size for ladies and boys ·to stay in school until needed." a varied assortment of designs for Phones: Office 126; Residence 715 CLINTON D. SWICKARD men-embossed or plain; priced DR. W. B.TYM S, B� M. D. $1.00 up; all genuine leather.-C. P. J. A. OLIVER, M. D. 1 Hours by :Appointment Conclave Calls DENTIST Coon, The Dependable Jeweler, 408 Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Lawson to Chicago Sixth St. PHYSICIAN AiND SURGEON Second Floor Lincoln Bldg. Charleston National Bank Bldg. DEAN ELIZABETH K. Lawson at- 604% Sixth St.. _____Ch a_ r_le _sto_ n_, __ru· ______.. .. Phones : Office 476; Residence 762 tended the annual winter meeting �hones: Office, 3o;�� _ THERE 18 NO SUBSTITUTE of' the American Association of Uni _ versity Women on Saturday, Jan. 23, FOR QUALITY DR. N. C. IKNAYAN !WILLIAM M. SWICKARD, in· Chica.go. A good hair cut just doesn't hap G. B. DUDJ..EY, M. D. The meeting convened for discus pen-it is the result of long ex Oflice-501 Jackson st. t IM. D. perience and careful attention. sion of state committee reports. An Office Hours, 1:00 to 6:00 BY APPOIINTMENT 604% Jackson St. announcement was made that the You can get that kind of service at the 69 national convention had been can Phone 5111h Jackson Street Charleston, Ill. celled. Plans were formed for the HOLMES BARBER SHOP Residence Phone 380 state convention that is to be held Telephone 132 Southwest Corner of Square at Urbana from May 7-8. L EASTERN TEACHERS NEWS PAGE THREI up Hikes Bi-monthly Scientists ;,.....;;...���������--� Charleston Aids ASK US mbraw Hiking Club Points to Paralysis Drive APPROXIMATELY 100 persons at- ANOTHER tended the annual benefit card olorful Seven-Year History party given in the Main auditorium By Rae Hwnes Monday evening, Feb. 1, in celebra By Ray Metter tion of the President's birthday. A Y OTHER Sunday afternoon,' Talker total sum of between $400 and $500 be .there rain, snow, or sunshine, Margery Thomas, Lee Stevens WHAT IS the importance of buta was realized between the Mattoon a small group of Charleston men ... Expound knowledge diene in the "war effort?" An and Charleston groups having l1lo call themselves members of the swered by Dr. Harris E. Phipps, parties for the infantile paralysis braw" hiking club gather to- head of the Chemistry department. fund. Thomas1 Stevens Speak her for a ten or 12-mile hike. "Butadiene is .the chief material r a.Jmost seven years, ever since The main door awiards were re To Science Club from which synthetic rubber is .to Im�ginning, this organization has ceived by Mrs. 0. L. Railsback, who be made, and if the government pro "IF YOU suspect that your coffee er failed to go on its fortnightly received a pair of shoes donated by gram for synthetic rubber does not has been adulterated, place a few . . the Brown Shoe company, and Dr. go through and if we cannot pro grains in some water. If the grains On June 30, IS36, the founders of Harry Me:ter, who won a hair cut, duce a minimum of at least 200,000 sink directly, and become soggy, is club hiked to Walker's Ford silampoo, shine, and tonic given by long tons of synthetic rubber this they are probably grains of chicory, r their first meeting. They cook the Holmes Ba.rber shop. Several year, rubber will be unavailable for but if they float more gently down their supper that night by Indian other awards were also given: military consumption and most cer afterwards went John and remain solid, they are proba;bly eek, and to Winners in contract bridge were tainly any civilian use. er's home, which was nearby, to coffee," stated Helen L.ee Stevens Mrs. c. P. Lantz, Mrs. L. J. Dvorak, "Butadiene itself can be produced n to "Old John" spin yarns. '44, in a 1talk before Science club and Mrs. W. M. Pierce, for the from two chief sources; from alco iller was a famous character in last Wednesday evening, Jan. 27, in -women; Dr. Arthur Edwards, Dr. hol, obtainable by fermentation of the science building. · region in those days, for not Walter Scruggs, and Camille Monier, almost any starchy t!ubstance (which Jy had he traveled all over the. Miss Stevens gave short talks on for men. In auction, Mrs. Lea;Jl incidentfy opens up a tremendous rld, but he had for many years the detecting of adulterated coffee Todd, Mrs. W. R. Steagall, and Mrs. market for agricultural products), en care of the beloved "Jumbo", and .the a;ccomplishing of sex con John Simpson won, for women; and by the "cracking' of petrolewns. e well-known elephant in the trol of fruit flies. Margery Thomas Robert Finch, and W. N. Steele for "This latter method produces the num and Bailey circus. '44 sooke on a new Vitamin C' treat men. Pinochle awards went to Mrs. greatest percentage of butadiene, be Since ·then, the club_ has never m�nt for hay fever sufferers, and Earl Thomas, Mrs. Alvin Shafer, cause it is the cheaper of the two · ed a trip, although at times DT. Hiram Thurt, faculty sponsor, and Mrs. Flo Beam, winners for methods." re have only been two or three presented the moVie, "Dividing Nor Dr. P. M. Larson women; and Jack Sensintaffer, Ar mbers showing up. mal Rat Fibroblasts into Vitronor "Standard Oil development and . . . Reviews career thui; Wiseman, and Howard Hutton its subsidiary, Standard Oil of !Louis eep Membership Small mal Cells," which presented action for men. ------··------shots of mitosis in muscular fibers. iana, are producing, with private The club is not large, the agree capttal, several synthetic rubbers and Robert J. Rourke '43 served as Miss Stevens pointed out that ent being to keep membership are experimenting with butyl rub Coles county chairman for the drive. most of the coffee we obtain in this lll!l to from 12 to 20 members. The Larson Emphasizes ber, the output of rwhich is very Rourke was appointect by Secretary country has already been picked 'h requirement for membership is promising. They estimate thrut of State Edward J. Hughes to head over and adulterated by the Brazil 60,- able to walk well, and to be be Art of Talking 000 tons will be produced annually, the drive to raise money for the ians. "Often .the coffee we buy is e to do so in all types of weath By Ruth Maness purpose of fig,hting infantile par as much ·as 50 per cent chicory," she with the aid of the government. and over all types of ground. The "I'M NOT exactly a college hobo, alysis throughout the country. said. "Besides butadiene we can use cers of the organization must but almost that," decided Mr. P'. Fifty per cent of the money will neoprene, which is produced by giv� their approval for all new She recommended the trading with M. Larson, new he·ad of Eastern's be turned over to the Coles county Du Pont with such raw ma.terials as bers. a reliable dealer and purchasing of Speech department. "My schools chapter of the National Foundation coal and lime, but as before, .this In addition to .the regular hikes, a fresh roasted coffee, if a consum have been in several different for Infantile Parailysis, Inc. process is more expensive than .the members take three or four er wants the best result. Eastern Te achers News Blackout Fa ils to :'Tell the truth and don't be afraid" Dim Conscience Published each Wednesday ot the school year by the stu dents of the Eastern Illinois State Teachers College at By Helen Stites IT BEGAN as just a typical "bull" session with the Charleston. THE "ALL-CLEAR" whistle sounded and we war and current heart interests coming in for their in Charleston again resumed the activities Entered. as second class matter November 8, 1915, at the share of attention. We mentioned the basketball team we had reluctantly dropped f?r fif and talked about leaving for the army. Then sudden)I Post Office at Charleston, Illinois, under the Act of March 3, teen min one chap piped up with, "Frankly, I'm bored. My Jsi41 utes. Bridge, a trip to the movies, the basket 1879. month in school and I'm bored !" �-• ball game - these pursuits were u �-Prllited by the Cour-ier Publishing Company soon occupying our minds. The remark, outspoken and impulsive th o gh It was, reflected each of our thoughts almost perfectJf JAMES HANKS ...... Editor But turning the lights on again Ever since Christmas, we have done little more thall EUGENE PRICE ...... Assistant Editor , all over the town did not blot out gripe because this place has been so dead. the blackout which screens our con LEE PODESTA ...... Associate News Editor Yes, we've griped but have we really done anyt� science each time a little voice with MARGARET RADEMAKER ...... Associate News Editor about it? The answer is a flat no. We haven't been OORiOTHY. TOMLINSON ...... Features Editor in us asks, "Are you doing your doers ; we have been experts at talking. DARIO COVI ...... Art Editor part to win this war ?" No, it will Certain organizations have become almost non· take more than a light switch to do that. RUTH MANESS ...... : ...... Society Editor existent and certaintly non-functioning. They convez4 MADELINE SLUDER ...... General Editor How many of us took time to realize that once to get their W!ARBLER picture taken and then DALE WILLIAMS ...... -:...... Business Manager we should be thanking God that not one sort of capsized like a folding chair. The argument hal long been raised that Eastern has too many Greeks and FRANKLYN IL. ANDREWS ...... Adviser screaming bomb was shattering the stillness of not enough scholars. There is some basis for this ar ll1lt the night as we sat in our "planned" blackout ? ment, for without organizations, we would crumbll WEDNESDAY , FEBRUARY 3, 1943 Or did we remember that the blackouts aren't completely. "pla;med" over there ? No, instead, we iistened But now it seems as if the tempo of Eastern cam� to the voice of Bing Crosby as he crooned the life is going to be accelerated. This speeding up is tunes that will soon be first on the "hit-parade." Eastern Book Drive fo r Service Men due mainly to a group of individuals who have grown It is time we made an inventory of ourselyes tired of this social stagnation and have decided to do · Merits Wh olehearted Student Support something about it. and took decisive steps toward lifting our own LASJ:' YEAR a very successful Victory book campaign was personal blackout. A faint glow will necessar First, the officers of Women's League and Men'a ily glimmer Union are going to initiate a pr0gram designed to pro conducted at Eastern, and a similar drive is being planned through our blackout when we vide entertainment and recreation for students in the at the present time. The American Army and Navy have called know we have given a lift to some service man's morale. We can all write those long-look�d form of cards and dancing. for another campaign to benefit the soldiers, sailors, marines for letters to the boys in camp that we have Student Counc-il has booked an orchestra, and, al and coast guardsmen in their leisure time. neglected so long. last, the long-awaited formal appears to loom as one One factor which is to be emphasized in the future drive is of the red-letter days of a rather uneventful schm Today: is not the quality rather than the quantity of books contributed. too soon to begin. Or perhaps year. Plans for Pemberton Hall's Washington Ball also There are over 5,()(X),000 men in service at this time and the you were one of us who failed to spend two seem to be materializing. number will probably be doubled by the end of the year if hos hours a week wrapping bandages because of To top off this apparent emergence from the social the fear that we might tilities have not ceased at that time. Such a large number of possibly have to study doldrums, Mr. Robbins has the cast for the winter play, - for an men will certainly require a large number of books to improve exam the evening we were scheduled to "Ladies in Retirement," in rehearsal with presentatit and divert their minds occasionally from the serious thoughts help. Are we going to let the desire for an date scheduled for March 1. "A" or a "B" obliterate the fact that some of war. However, the books must be of a quality to merit the Maybe things are not quite as bad as we had American's life might attention of the service men. be saved by the bandages thought. Maybe we're bored because we are so ready To put it bluntly, the Victory Book campaign is not a mere we wrap ? to accept th e attitude of "Now I'm here; just see if you excuse for throwing unwanted books away. The drive is our can entertain me." In addition, there is one thing we must all chance to contribute so little for those men who are conti;ibuting give much thought t0 before Victory is ours. Last week's issue of the News was certainly encour• and enduring so much for our future welfare. We should never As Jesus has said, "And all things, whatsoever aging. W'e hadn't realized so many people read edl· insult these men by donating only those books we want to clear ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall re torials. At least, the faculty had something to tali out o"f our shelves and private libraries. ceive." Can we completely ignore prayer as a about, and now we know there are two kinds of facult11 . When confronted with the question of specific types which necessity toward Victory and the lighting of members. are most app_reciated. the service men request light fiction, late our blacked out conscience ? When we begin Maybe those teachers, who in the words of one doing our part novels, modern technical books, current non-fiction, murder the lights will come on again professor were so "stirred up," have forgotten that the my steri,�s, -and western stories. within us-the predecessor to the turning on News is supposed to be a student publication, and Th·e American Library association, the American Red Cross, of the lights all over the world. should, we feel, reflect student opinion. an�:Lth�·,United Service Organization will jointly sponsor the fu � sincerely believe that the faculty member who ture national campaign. The college drive will be under the penned a contribution to the Soap Box - this week hal sponsorship of the student council. After the books have been a point and a good one. We hasten to add that she ac;cumulated by the council, they will be turned over to the Strictly Optional has a perfect right to express her opinion. We agree Charleston public library for distribution. From there they will that the "pop-bottle clatter" at concerts is regrettablf ... By Emil be .distributed. to USO centers and to the base libraries of the The point was raised by an outraged professor thal various branches of service. The college drive will be held in last week's editorial blamed the entire faculty. BUI .collaboration with a city-wide drive under the sponsorship of isn't it also true th at the student body as a whole re· CRIME AND Punishment by Fyodor Dostoev- the· local civic organizations. ceives condemnation because of the mentioned "hooll sky is a novel primarily concerned with the calls ?" · After you once read a book, you seldom, if ever, read it struggle in a man's mind and the struggle be again but put it away on the shelf where its jacket may be ad tween his mind and the minds of others. It is We'd like to give the fellow who wrote the a� mired from time to time. When the local campaign begins, get rare to find a novel which is so psychological on the Illinois Intercollegiate conference cage race, and urge your friends to do the same and donate · out those books and yet at the same time so full of suspense. and which was printed in a certain Chicago newsJll\IMll them where they will do the most good. One or more contribu last Sunday, a piece of our mind. Eastern, tied for filt tions· from each of us will do much to satisfy the great demands The story is that of a young student who, place, wasn't even mentioned. affected by poverty and also by some of his of our servicemen for reading material. own ideas, kills an old woman for her money. A bouquet of roses to Miss McAfee for a very c!eval With I He is filled with repulsion for his deed and with and altogether enjoyable chapel talk. Wrath of Allies Reflects Itself fear for the consequences. Pointless query : What did you do during tbe Bombing of Berlin on 1-/itler's Anniversary He becomes ill and upon recovery is uncer blackout? E tain how to act towards his friends and the au NGLAND CELEBRATED the tenth anniversary of Hitler's thorities. Much of the Right at Errol Flynn's big moment, · suspense of the book is rise to power by bombing Berlin in daring daylight raids involved in his mental combats with certain Roosevelt had to go and steal the scene. that played havoc with the scheduled celebration of the event. ·men of the authorities. At last, with his one It has been a bloody decade, a decade that has ·seen the informer removed, he makes his decision. But dreams of idealists who prayed for world peace crumble before no matter what decision he should make, he has One Wa y to Fig ht the acts of the distorted brains of fanatical maniacs who visu been punished enough and more. alized world domination. Part of the interest of The years from 1933 to 1943 will compare in history witl, the story lies in the fact that the hero the rise of Napoleon. Ten years ago I-:iitler was an idealist finds himself in conflict not only with society in general but with his friends with big ideas. Today he is a badly deflated idea lis_t. I� these and family also. These conflicts are able to be ten years,: the world has seen and suffered untold �gomes be _ resolved in one way cause of this man. We have had ten years of swastika-waving, only. It is his streetw The .. . COLSEYBUR . Kickapoo Aristocrat COLSEYBUR BUILDS MORALE by ELP PEN is mightier than the sword," stated Colseybur, "but who wants to spend his life in the pen?" Blackout! Thus it became known that Colseybur would appear in person, for the ONCE UPON A TIME tion, as Eastern's Great Builder of Morale. WE HEAR THAT the Chi Delts could boast that each girl had a man, but now they oan "When the boys from The Canal ----· Helen Stites got a score of black my whiskers, they will feel at marks during Chi Delt "no-talk-to boast that each girl loses a man a Tell me in 1)0 words why you like it. week to her country. Send in another question about man" week. They say she was start has promised not to tJ.seybur CHANGE. ing to the game last Thursday eve AND DURING Je until victory is won. ning when she was overtaken by the the fadeout the Tri Sig porch light "Buch bits of ancient culture as I predict CHANGE, OHANGE, looked as respectable as any other leymour's moustar.:he must like blackout. CHANGE and CHANGE. porch light in town. be preserved," he continued. "I A warden happened by and repri Mark well my predicition. do my best to get government manded her for being out alone. Don't say ·I didn't warn you. IT IS TRULY for the Anti-social Committee, There will be CHANGE.! Hallelujah ! Just ·then Jim Hanks came along amazing how a few words on the C cards for the Education de Halleujah, there will be CHANGE ! and the warden placed Helen in his editorial page can do everything but ent. I shall do something care for the duration of the black bring out the militia. the coffee at The Little Garn- out. When it lifted, they proceeded and, if funds permit, I shall or I heard a song of a whip-poor-will to the game where Helen was espied MARTHA MOORE'S a faculty dance band." on a cool summer evening. by her bi.g sisters. The .big sisters 25 new year's resolutions may not Ifyou have no confidence in Col I heard the leaves rustle and saw a doubted the plausibility of the story have been totally successful .but they ur, we suggest tha,t you join the rabbit run. and mercilessly doled out the black have helped to develop the ·trait of w Hiking Club. I was sitting by a fire, punctuality in her. This week she And felt smoke disappear in the marks. called on Monday to say she was not are. darkness. And Jim Hanks, who .thought he WAITED a whole week for the writing a colwnn. She usually waits There were faces about the fire, WE was helping out a lady in distress, blackout. We thought something until the paper is printed ·and dis lerman National Anthem .the la.st line. · · regretted my decision." PROFESSOR COLSEYBUR. PAGE SIX EASTERN TEACHERS NEWS Win Ties Conference Race Training School Around Panthers Drop Western in Overtime, 45-42 Offers Lunches ... the ... By Mildred Allen "BECAUSE A large portion of the Locker Roo J. Sullivan's Basket children's parents work and can By Don Mead Spells Victory Cagey not lbe home at noon to prepare hot Women 's Longies lunches for the children, we have in By Doyle Dressback By Virginia Lacey itiated hot lunches to be served here FIGIHTLNG AN uphill battle all the way, the Millermen of EI finally at school," states Dr. A. U. Edwards, stranded in Coach Miller's o AT LAST, February 3 has arrived caught, and then went on to defeat principal of the campus elementary during the blackout, it was q and all wAA members will howl We stern of Macomb 45-42 in an training school. bit of consolation to hear the tonight. overtime battle in the health educa ' The program provides for children tone-bass-tenor voice of the tion building last Thursday night, who partake of the hot lunches himself burs t with "For Me Jan. 28. Jane Hon and Margaret Wente . are two co-social chairmen respon regularly to buy five tic kets on Mon With only seconds remaining and My Gal" supported by the all sible for the festivities of the eve · the score 42-40, Jim Sulliv'an, EI day of every week at 10 cents per Eastern Panther Choir. ning. center, leaped high in the air and ticket . Any pupil who brings a re tapped a rebound shot through the quest from the parent may hav'e the Warnings should be By tihe way, I overheard Emily net to tie the score just as the final hot lunch on any day if he buys a those with weak hearts to kincllJI whistle blew. Steinbrecher talking to Miss Hupp lunch ticket .before nine o'clock in . frain from future Panther rich about boxes of candy the other the morning. Then, after iLarry Walker, Panther day, and I think she has something games. forward, .tossed in a free throw in "Parents are expected to send to do with the prizes. the overtime, J. Sullivan gain came enough food, preferably fruit and a The Panthers 'through with a basket to nail the lid sandwiches, to supplement the hot nine star.ts to date. There are down on another victory for ·the Last Th ursday, I went optimistic dish. Sweets are to ·be discouraged five games left to go : Central P'anthers. The alert Eastern defense ally to try out for the dance recital since the children tend to eat sweets mal, Macomb, Carbondale, No did no.t permtt a single point '.:o be but I wiasn't op timistic for long - first and leave portions of the hot and DeKalb. scored against the Panther cause you should have seen all the skilled lunch untouched," stated Dr. Ed in the overtime period. veterans who turned out ! Oh, well, wards. If Lady Luck ever smiled, it is J. Sullivan was the big gun for maybe I'll get to help strengthen out A committee of thr ee, consisting prayer of the Panther .fan that the EiI offe nse with a total of 12 the kinks they get from the first few of Miss Bernice Bankso n, Miss will be laughing now. Should points. Warren was high for the days of practice ! Leah Stevens, and Miss Margaret "Mickey" Dyson em be able to top the Leathe losers with 13 points. Donley, training school teachers, again, the tilt with . ..Ol d dependable Ca Betty Heise was there and believe was appointed to formulate plans for Warren Opens Scoring looms like a snarling monstec me, she has the barn dance--<:alls, the lunches . With the cooperation Warren made th first dent in of the deep. If John Sebastialll e steps and all down "pat". If some of President Robert G. Buzzard and C&D .the score book with a free throw be stopped iµid if Millspaugh one hadn't been holding on to me Dr. Harry Metter, director of place for the .Macomb aggregation. Walker held to a few points, our boys Millermen Meet all during the dance, I would never ments, the school was able to estab th en hit a basket and put Eastern a goo d chance. It is hoped that have finished anywhere near the lish a kitchen on the third floor of into a lead which they held until Cord, the Sullivans, Vail, and Vl Central Normal right spot. the building. Moore and Warren collected a u:i.s er continue their good work. "So ket apiece for the Leath�rn€cks. EASTERN 'S PANTHERS will travel Between 60 and 70 pupils eat at paw" Junior ·Phipps can usuaJJ:.1 Then there was "Tommy " who Kerker and Warren then hit two to Danville, lnd., this Saturday, tables in the corridor daily. Each counted upon for a few poinJli trips a "mean" fantastic-she was pupil is assi.gned to a certain table more quick ones. but they were Feb. 6 to meet the .Purple Wa rriors Dick Lehr can only find his b Betty's woman in the barn dance season. quickly nullified on similar ·tosses by of Central Normal in the second on Monday of each week. eye of the start of the number. A. S·ullivan and J. Sullivan. meeting between the two quintets At 11 :55 a. m., a warning bell of Andy Sullivan leads the Pa Western then started fast break for this year. two rings sounds, which serves as the Miss Moore was there and she was in total points this season with ing against the tardy EI defense and The Miller aggregation of basket signal for the children to wash their leaping high to the strains of .the actly 100. Lehr is next with soon had built up a comfortable eers successfully raised the ourtain hands, comb their hair, and make Blue Danube, but you should have trailed by Captain "Chuck" M lead. They increased their margin this season when they rose up and themselves ready for dinner. seen the small, easy steps she was with 69. w 25-15 a;t half time. smacked the Hoosiers 49-37 in the At 12 noon, the pupils walk to taking later that evening. The Panthers came roaring back year's first game on December 4 in their places at the assigned table. Andy Sullivan attributes his at the start of the second· half and the local gym . Before a diner is seated, he removes You didn't know, I guess, that ing success to "vegetabl es." soon were on .the heels of the pace any food, dishes and silverware from With Dick Lehr hitting the bas Miss Townsend had her own private setting Leathernecks due to �lU'ee ket 12 times from action and once his lunch box and places the lunch training room in the Main building Easte rn has scheduled the baskets by "Chuc k" MoCord, stellar from the free throw line, the Pan box in the space provided. Each for learning the basic steps of the versity of Illinois freshman t Ei guard, and one by A. Sullivan . thers were never headed. pupils is provided with a glass, plate . dance routines--and, oh, the tutors for a game to be played on the Macomb be·at off this attack and Central No rmal has run high and and table service. she had! floor Wednesday, Feb. 10, at 7 built their lead 1to nine points again wide since they left our floor, mow A pupil hostess and her assistant only to have the Panthers come up ing down opposition in seven starts. are selected ta serve throughout the once more with two baskets by A. The probable Central lineup shows week. This makes it possible for McMorris, Bevill For Up-to-Date Sullivan, and one each by Dick Lehr Bush, sophomore fro m Williamsport, each pupil to serve as hostess some SHOE 'REPAmING and J. Sullivan. in the center position; Lizton and Display Fistic Prowess time during the year. The hostess Ma.comb Pulls Away Underwood, junior from New Win DERRILL McMORRI S, former stu- invites the pupils previously assign try chester, at the guard posts; Baitz, ed to her table for the week. She Turning on ·the heat once more, dent, and Floyd Bevill '46, will ap junior from Areadia, and Hanson, indicates when the pupils are to Welton's Shoe Sho the Western men rallied to a six pear in this year's Golden Gloves sophomore from Jefferson, at for- start eating, and checks the table .point lead, and with only three min tournament at Terre Haute on Feb wards. _ servic e and all appointments ·before utes of playing 1time left in the game, ruary 8. Thompson was high point man the meal. appeared to nave everything under Twice winner in the featherweight against the Panthers on the local control. But EI was not to be de division of the same tournament, The hostess collects a ticket from floor with 10 points. nied and the Panthers crept :.ip to McMorris is allowed to compete ·b e each pupil before he is served . and Coach Clayton Miller will prob CLIVE within two points of Macomb on cause of revised tourney rules which reports to the supervising teacher ably start Walker, Vail or Phipps baskets by Walker and Lehr. permit mo re than two years of com the name of any absentee. The as PLUMBING AND BEA: at forward; Schick at J. Sullivan or petition in one event. sistant sets the table, assists the Macomb then .gained control of center ; .and Andy Sullivan and his Bevill will be making his first ap hostess in serving, clears the table, the ,baJ l, and Eastern was not able Plumbin2", Heating and runningmate, Captain "Chuck" Mc pearance in the tournament. He will cleans and stacks the dishes in the .to regain possession of it until there Metal Work Cord at the guard spots. compete in the bantamweight di kitchen, serves by turn with other w:er e only seconds left. Vail took a vision. assistants in sweeping after meals, pass from J. Sullivan and raced Winners in the Terre Haute tour and takes directions from the hos down the side of the court and let Library Sells nament will go to Chicago the lat tess. loose a one-handed hook shot which ter part of February to compete in was no good, :but J. Sullivan was Duplicate Books the Ohicago Tribune Tournament of ·there and leaped high in the air to TOMORROW, FEB. 4, the library Champions. tip in the rebound and knot the score will place on Siale in the main hall at 42-42 just as .the final whistle a number of duplicate text books in RUSKIN .blew. order to make room for the more re Glider Pilots Finish Walker and J. Sullivan did their cent additions to our library. Most ARMY GLIDER men, who have bit in the overtime per-iod to spell of the books offered are on the sub been taking their preliminary victory for the Panthers. jects of, Education, psychology, and THOMPSON'S training at Eastern, successfully . The rebounding and shooting of history, and many deal with the complet ed their work here on Friday, the Sullivan brothers were again the teaching of various subjects. MARKET Jan. 29. :highlgihts of individual play Several especially valuable Amer .ihroughout .the game . They account ican history leaflets will be available 'ed for a total of 22 points between "The Biggest Little Store in Town" at two cents or six for a dime . . them. Open Sunday, 7-11 '. This victory enabled the Panthers FLOW ERS Free Delivery 1to keep pace with Carbondale for IM Standings iconference leadership, as both .teams Won Lost Are Always have been ·beaten only once. ' *Phi Sigs ...... 6 1 EASTERN (45) F'G. FT. . . Appreciated Sig Taus ...... 5 1 Lehr, f ...... 2 ·0 Pilger ...... 6 2 Walker, f...... 4 2 . Thread ...... 4 4 Vail, f ... '..i...... l 0 o s Crisp ...... 3 · 3 L gan' Hardwar J. 0 . Sullivan, c ... : ...... 6 Vuckovich ...... 1 3 CARROLL'S A. Sullivan, g ...... 5 0 Gilbert ...... 1 6 1 . Your Florists Phipps , g ...... , ...... 0 Endres ...... ,.0 6 Dealer in g. 0 . Phone 39 McCord, ..... :.:; ...... 3 *These standings were compiled Will Rogers Bldg. Monday afternoon. Paints, Oil and Glass, Painters' Supplies, Sp Totals ...... 21 3 WESTERN (42) I F'G. FT. ing Goods, Builders' Hardware, Electric ' Moore, f ...... ! .3 Wa rren, f ...... 5 3 SUNFED VITAMIN BREAD f'lage, c ...... ; ..... 1 1 and Plumbing Accessories. Dunbar, c...... 2 1 Rich in Natura.I Vitamins Bl, E, G (B2) and Olark, g...... 3 2 ".Sunshine" Vitamin D. Kerker, g...... 4 0 An Improved. White Loaf of Bread Tot als ...... 16 10 Logan's HardWar Officials : Millard (Decatur) and IDEAL BAKERY Nelson (Champaign) . PHONE 444 NORTH SIDE SQUARE PHONE 1500 1943 EASTERN TEACHERSNEWB PAGE SEVEN All Clear Grace Williams Hanneken Beckons Catholic Students �ASTERN • • • Greets Faculty . NEWMAN OLUB met in ·the sci MISS GRACE Williams, former 1n the ence building at 8 o'clock las.t member of the Eastern Speech Wednesday, Jan. 27. Vice President department, who enlisted in the '45, • • • SERVICE WAVES, writes from her base at Clemens Hanneken presided. Northampton, Mass. The program consisted of a dis She says, "It looks as if I won't cussion of "Famous American cath VICE MEN are W"ged to send the morning we have classes and be writing as much as I thought. olics" led by Helen Harrington '46, rs to the News, telling about in the afternoon we drill for two Just so you won't think I've died, Mary Lower '45, and ·Madonna Alb �icular job. The only way hours ; we also study in our ships." here are the reasons : 8:2(), naval inger '44. Following this Irene column can be made lnterest His address· : John Redding, A. S. organization ; 9:20, naval law ; 10:20, Sparks '43, read a sketch of the life ls for us to print a great many (R) , Coast Guard, Co. 14, Btry. 4, ships and aircraft; 11 :20, naval per of Reverend Father Daniel Morarity, about the service men. Stu- Plat. 2, Manhattan Beach Trng. �onnel; 12 :25, formation for mess; spiritual adviser of the club. ' too, are urged to turn in Sta., Brooklyn, N. Y. 1:20, study period ; 2:20, gym or The members plan .to have a roll es, addresses and letters to the Lieutenant (j. g.) Murvil Barnes, drill; 4:20, naval .history; 5:20, lib er skating party on Wed nesday, Feb. who received a Bachelor of Educa erty; 6:25, formation for mess; 8:00, 10, from 10:30 p. m. ,to 12. Hettie arvil Barr.es, Eastern gradu tion degree from Eastern and a lecture by visiting notable; and Witts '45, is in charge of tickets. has been commissioned a lieu Master of Ecience degree at the Uni 10:00, lights out. t (j. gJ in the nava.l reserve versity of Illinois, is in naval train "The classes are interesting. I'm ts taking an indoctrination ing at Oolumbus, Ohi::i. He spent 10 more and more impressed with the Nessi, Bushur Represent at Ohio State university. years teaching at St. James, St. navy. But my one hope is that I the completion of his COW"ie Elmo, and Bethany . can find time to digest the infor Country Life Club rch 1, he will be stationed in Harry Dean Duffy '41, has been mation we're receiving. COUNTRY LIFE club of . Eastern -flight school as a ground promoted to the rank of corporal at "If the Social Science department was represented at rthe meeting of ol aviation instructor. the Branch Immaterial Replacement still believes the WAVES are just the Illinois Country Life association Center at Camp Joseph T. Robinson, office workers and dishwashers, I Barnes has been a teacher for Tuesday, Feb. 2, in Urbana, by the Ark. He has been there since July just want to say we don't have any 17ears and holds a bachelor of preside'!lt of the club, Catherine tion degree from Eastern and a 10, 1942. KP_ duty. Nessi, and delegate, Joe Bushur. Grace Williams. of science degree from the The current address of Marvin The convention was held as. part sity of Illinois. He was a "Buck" Mizeur is A. S., U. S. N. R., We could see one of . the power of Farm and Home Week at the estate dealer in Decatur before Midshipman School, Tower Hall, 820 men throwing the big switch in the the latex developments in bhe pol Univ'ersity of Illinois. Plans were to St. Elmo. Tower Court, Chicago, Ill. Mizeur, a Hall basement! That's all! icy of rationing gas-lean." discussed for the continued' exist Claude Hayes '44, writes from Sig Tau, was guard on the Panther A Mr. Car Bew rated the follow ence of rthe Youth section of the tftieridan, Ill., "I am to be sta eleven during the past season, and ing occurrence as a result of recent American Coun.try Life association. here at least 16 weeks. How he served as president of the senior ly controlled caporization. When Delegates heard an address by Mr. , some of us may go to Georgia class until his graduation at the end Cpl. Clementson the gasoline combined with the N - Howard McClusky. �lf!cers' training. After that, of the fall quarter. gin, the motor turned completely are supposed to go right across. In a letter received from Pvt. Har Exercises Style over with such a convulsion that the · battery is quarantined be old McLain last week, he writes, "I hood-winked. "This is 11ihe answer BRADING'S several cases of spinal don't think I will be her for the (Editor·s Note : Corporal George e to yow· question," he sald-"the winter. nly be here for my 'tis have broken out. We I will o Cleme:rutson, former business man government is proving to the citi SHOE REPAIRING all confined to the post. basic training which lasts for 23 ager of the News, who ls stationed zens that the "V�hicle must go." Quality Materials and classes are getting more in days, but I might get shipped out at the Air Force Basic Flying school, We list quotations in answer to the Prompt Service . g all the time. We have one for school before those 28 days are at Minter Field, Calif., is c·ontinuing following queery : What would you up. You see my course begins be 417 Seventh St. PHONE 113 l'mununications and airplane Continued on Page Eight · cation." fore that .time. his interest in journalism. Recently, address : Pvt. Claude Hayes, "Our field is surrounded on three a story of his was puolished in the iA, 164th C. A., Bn. (A.A.) sides 'by water. Our drill field is newspaper of the field. Due to its '3heridan, Ill. right down · 'by the Gulf. Now, we cleverness and humor, we are pass t.-Commander Ira Johnson, are beginning to really visit this ing it along to you) . rnber of the class of 1904, en place every morning and afternoon By Cpl. George Clementson WILL ROGERS ___e in the navy. He was a prac to 5 o'clock. Is it tough ? We drill, _ RAISE THE board (walk) and rpa.llS physician at Noble at the drill, and drill so much that you peram!bulation is the present la of enlistment. WED.-TH U RS.-FRl.-SAT.- dream about it in your sleep. Then ment of tractioned rationed Am tenant - Commander Carl we have exercises, hikes, etc. This ericans, according to the Gallop r, who was on board the cruis- You Must See! old Army ·is just what it is mapped Opinion Poll (GOP) , which has U. S. S. Atlanta, when it went out to be." His address is Pvt. Harold been forced to reduce its speed .to in the Solomons area, has McLain 36723292, 400 . Tech. School 35 M. P. H. (Marring People's Hur reported safe. Squadron Flight678-C. Air Corps ry) . attznded Charleston high Technical School, Keesler Field, The following rep-lies were receiv "HITLER'S 1 and Eastern and was grad- Mississippi. ed from quezzionaires : sent to from the Medical 8Chool at In a letter ;to his Sig Tau fratern 99 44-100 members of the ROtary ta, Ga. He practiced law ity brothers, Pvt. Jim Smith writes population : (N. B.) The poll is not before his enlistment in the "Bowie is a pretty large camp. The 100 perce:rut accurate, since one in two years ago. camp is surrounded by high, rolling dividual lost his head in answering. P. Hawkins writes, "I am CHILDREN" hills. I have walked up on- top of Hence, the department left i·t only �udying engines on my new those hills several times and .the fair .to evaluaite his opinion as 66-100 ule. I start out at 5: 10 a. m., view is terrific . You can see ov'er percent incorrect-tusk! tusk ! chow, school and go to noon IT'S TERRIFIC the entfre camp and many miles be at 9;30 a. m. We then re "What is yoW" opinion of the na yond. We have plenty of dust and to school and have regular tional tire and gas rationin.!!"?" we with when it rains-plenty of sticky, red , physical drill, marching asked Will Steer. "Well," he said; mud." Last January Smith was commando tactics. We eat "I don't own a car, but I think it transferroo to a Medical Attach Bonita GRANVILLE and Tim HOLT g chow at 4 p. m., and then will eventually emerge as a fare ment and is taking some basic medi t.o gunnery for two hours. Life program. I have no objections to cal training, '.though he states that SHOWS 2:00-7 :00-9 :00 REGULAR ADMISSION home was never like this." he spends most of his time doing address : James P. Hawkins, clerical work . His address is Pvt. , 2-c, Naval Training School, Jim Smith, U. S. Army, ·Med. Det. ion Maintenance, Barracks 43, 97th Signal \Bu., Camp Bowie, Texas. SUNDAY-MONDAY- FEB. 7-8 , Okla. VALENTINES Robert Beavers, former stu writes, "We are going to a Bill Garrett Returns /I� ()'-;¥'�,,, ry police school. It is a new "BOB HI LL" ol�ane h of the air force and there For Brief Visit t many in it. This is the only The rippling, mirthful Story of a Girl I of its kind, and there are WIULIAM Garre.t '44, member of on her Honeymoon with a . the P'hi Sigma Epsilon fraternity, about 300 boys in it all togeth - man not her husband and, e will be here about eight visited with friends on the EI cam pus during th e past week. IN CHARLESTON worse yet;, the one who is! complete address : Pvt. Rob Remembered at Eastern for his avers, A. A. F. U., M. P. Class baton twirling, he served as drum IT'S 2, Fort Custer, Mich. major while here and also won rec Redding writes, "It is nice ognition in national baton twirling ILi' about all the news from contests. . I am very interested in the He directed the band for one ball teams around Charles- num·ber at the halftime intermis This is the largest training sion of .the Eas tern-Western game KEITH'S n in the United States. We last ThW"sday evening. located aibout 1500 feet from ocean. The bay here is called ca, Bay. We go out rowing day . Today the ocean was REMEMBER .... rough and the boats really Your shoes are going to about. Training includes need re-soling. · code, semaphore, .chemical For the Best in Leather BREAD e, gas mask drill, marching and Workmanship see seamanship. THE GOLDEN RULE day begins at 5 o'clock in "Ask for it morning and ends at 3 in the SHOE SHOP II oon. From 6 to 8:45 we are W. C. Fitzpatrick 522 Jackson ur own. Taps sound at 9. In b y name Time at King's KEITH'S Valentines for all. Also a complete assortment BAKERY WALTER SLEZAK - of Candy ALBERT DEKKER Wholesale Bakers of ALBERT BASSERMAN ING B MlS. Book and StationerySTORE Holsum Bread HARRY SHANNON tflt1. IWUl,rJ# /J""'- West Side Square CHARLESTON, ILLINOIS PAGE EIGRT Math Head Recalls Former Glamour Education Today Cpl. Clementson Art Department Practices Style Cites Eastern Exhibits Covi Wi Dr. Taylor Sees Better Planning, DECEMBE"R TSSUE of EDUCATION Continued from Page Seven THIS WEEK, Dr. Mildred R. TODAY, a publication of the five ing, head of the Art de suggest as a permanent means of Illinois State Teachers colleges, re transportaition during the eme rg has put on display the w More Foresight in Present War flects the tempo of the war and its ency? Dario Covi '43, first of a By Ray Metter effects on teacher education in the state. Mr. I. Walk Alot - "Again we "THIS WAR shows much better Carrying stories on th e technical mustang to the traditions of the planning and using of manpower Recalls History war effects on the five campuses , past, and focus our attention on the on .the basis of special individual new war courses, and curriculum horse. It is marely wishful think talents or educaition," said Dr. Ed changes due to the war, the maga ing to suppose that automobiles son H. Ta ylor, head of the Mathe zine is illustrated with shots of life won't be stallion any more. After eral years, the. matics department, as he recalled on the v.arious campuses. the emergency 'brakes', we can take department has conditions prevaiiling in 1918-19 as up the old slow-gun. 'How fast did . An article on -the inauguration of D. Covi. compared to those in the present senior exhibifai Dr. Frank A. Beu as Western's Wells Car go?" emergency. ing the spring fourth president is carried, as is a Mr. Al L. Iteraition - "To day's Dr. Taylor pointed out that the se ter. Each art major exhlbift series of items on faculty replace trends tend to terrninaite touring. So lective service had already started one week some of the work he ments on the staffs of the five tomorrow, tramp to the train to ge.t done during his four years a.t and plans for a national emergency schools. there." had been drawn up when we enter ern plus outside art work of At Eastern, mention is made of ed the war in December, 1941, while Mr. S. ILJ.ng Shot - "I suggest cial Interest. the appointment of Dr. Hobart F. in the previous conflict, plans were that catap aults be bui1t on every The displays usually Heller and Dr. Harold M. Cavins to hurriedly formulated after war had corner, so we can slide ito work crafts, drawings, and p the positions of dean and dean of been declared. on icy mornings. We wouldn't be Watercolors, oils, pastels, c men, respectively. "The first call for men came with skidding the U. S., ibut tihe Tokyo pencil drawings, and pen The publication als o prints the an a plea for volunteers . A Captain radio would announce to .the nep work are the usual media. nouncement of Roy K. Wilson's Gravenhorst of the State Militia Dr. Edson H. Taylor pedknees that the Americans were the crafts are batik, weavin� commission as Lieutenant Junior company in Effingham spoke one . . . Through two wars slipping in their drive towards vic work, bead work, . soap scul Grade in the United Sta.tes Navy . day in chapel in an effort to induce tory." and pottery. Lt. Wilson was chairman of the volunteers to join the army. Im Mr. W. Ize Geye - "Why all the Miss Whiting has started P'ublic Information Council of the mediately after chapel, he set up a clamor for speed? We have too series earlier this year, Illinois State Teachers colleges for recruiting office in the old main of much of it now. Look at the amount Covi will graduate at the four years and served as ·advertising fice, and at least a dozen men vol .The Soap Box of scrap we've collected. There this term. However, e · manager for Publicity Digest, publi unteered that day. wouldn't be any scrap if haste hadn'1t Wana Creamer aind Jean M cation of the American College Pub "Af.ter that the men kept dropping made waste. I'm solely in favor of gell, other seniors in the al1 DEAR SOAPBOX: licity asso ciation. out, as they have been doing recent walking." rtculum, will be scheduled In A pianist of concert experience ly, until there were only 200 or 300 Miss E•tta Kit--"I'm only a fem spring quarter. wishes to express her humble op-in student.s lef.t." McAfee Reviews inine caricature, and I navigate via ion. No· insults intended! Bands Speed Tempo a pogo-stick. This way, I'm the What constitutes bad depor·tment Broadway Plays , Dr. Ta ylor believes that there was ball and am bouncing my way to at concerts or entertainments ? Car much more enthusiasm and glamour Continued from Page One victory .'' negie Hall would not protest an exit conne cted with the last war. Then, Mr. Benda N. EJbow - "We in during intermission or at the close too many people want. Most of the ·the bands were always marching, America have lost our sight. You of a concer.t (pal'ticularly after the story has to do with three girls who and when the first draftees left, never see a Venetian blind. Build second bo w!) A quiet and well live in th e room together. They there was a big parade. more canals. You can't lose-look conducted exit is permissible and keep finding friends who can't find Chapel programs included more at Guadal." has not been considered a breach of a place to live and so move in with war speakers, Dr. Taylor said. He It is the Poll's opinion .that we etiquette in .the past. them. recalled several speakers who had "The most talked about play in lose the wa r, and let Hitle