Notre Dame Scholastic, Vol. 76, No. 04 -- 3 July 1942
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^.<I^J^/^^ Diamond Jubilee 1867- 1942 "Old Glory" Goes Up; An Impressive Ceremony With The Navy At Notre Dame Volume 76 Number 4 JULY 3. 1942 i ATTENTION! U. S. NAVY OFFICERS You can't drill in uncomfor table shoes. Here is real quality and foot comfort that complies with regulations. These are not samples! We have hundreds of pairs stocked in our store to se $49 5 lect your proper size from. Exclusive representative for NETTLETON — CROSBY SQUARE — WALK-OVER — FOOT JOY — STACY ADAM — MATRIX and Q-N SHOES X-RAY FITTED BY EXPERTS ^OOTW^A.U\\\ o/ FA.^UVOt< 120 South Michigan Street The NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC Entered as second-class matter at Notre Dame, Indiana. Acceptance for mailing at special rate of postage. Section 1103, Oct. 3, 1917. Authorized June 25, 1918. Vol. 76 JULY 3, 1942 No. 4 NAVAL OFFICER - TRAINEES WEIGH ANCHOR AS periods between lectures, drilling, gun- loading, rifle-range performance, first- LARGEST CONTINGENT OF V - 7 SEAMEN ARRIVES aid, and mathematics. This ordinarily is the every-day schedule for V-7 men ex cept that on each day one platoon will BOB DUNNE have an athletic period rather than a lecture. It was anchors awelgh Thursday night the navy marching to meals, marching for the last of Notre Dame's 1,100 naval to classes, and marching to the exercise The 1,300 coming July 6 represent officer trainees who have just completed ground in crew-neck black sweaters. many colleges- and universities and every a six week's indoctrination course at the section of the nation. Shortly after they University. The exodus began Saturday The drills will be missed only until arrive, the men will receive inoculations and by last night the entire group had Monday, however, when the larger de of all types. departed for parts unrevealed. tachment of incoming trainees arrives. The navy will then be occupying four Upon leaving the local station, those This Monday, July 6, the University halls here: Lyons, Howard, Morrissey, men who qualify will receive midshipmen ratings and depart for additional train welcomes its third and largest contingent, and Badin, which was recently evacuated ing at one of three other training centers. a unit comprising 1,300 V-7 apprentice by students. One deck officer crew will transfer to seamen, to the naval station. This "v\dll Should the arriving apprentice seamen Abbott Hall of Northwestern University be the second V-7 group to come to Notre follow the same schedule as the first V-7 at Chicago, while another deck group will Dame, the first contingent having trained unit did, an average day for the future go to Columbia University at New York. here from April 12 until May 18. There deck and engineering officers will be on The engineering class wiU proceed to a were 800 men in the first indoctrination the following order: designated training battleship. course. Breakfast at 7 a.m. From approximate Conducting an inspection tour of the Radio, engineering and Diesel special ly 8 a.m. until noon and afterwards until station Monday was Admiral E. C ists, business executives, trade experts, 4 p.m., the various platoons will alternate White, of the naval medical corps. factory chiefs, and key men in all fields made up the personnel of the commis sioned specialists that departed last fiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiittiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiitiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiitiiiiiiiiittiiiiiiitiiiaiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii night. Some were sent to shore stations and some to ships to relieve experienced war ship officers. According to Capt. H. P. Burnett, com manding officer, members of the outgoing class will be stationed on ships and bases throughout the world in six months. Lt. F. C. Dugan, training officer at the sta tion, has stated that the men are anxious to get in the fight. Captain Burnett has been at Notre Dame since the past September when he received his captain's commission and took charge of the University's E.O.T.C. contingent. During his 32-year naval ca reer, the commandant received the Vic tory medal of World War I, the second Nicaraguan Campaign medal, and expert rifleman's badge, as well as the subma rine insignia. During their course here, the khaki- clad officer-trainees carried out a thor ough physical as well as mental program. Eleven physical instructors directed the men's sports and daily exercise period. Already Notre Dame appears to miss reviewing the thrice daily procedure of At first they look like this. THE NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC Disce Quasi Semper Victurus Vive Quasi I EDITORIAL I Cras Moriturus FOUNDED 18 6 7 the God-created equality of men, then, Entered as second-class matter at Notre Dame. "God and Democracy" Indiana, Acceptance for mailing at special rate of and only then, will the war-making dic postage. Section 1103, Oct. 3, 1917. Authorized The following article is reprinted from tator doctrines of super races, super June 25, 1918. conclusions compiled by the Catholic, classes,, and super men be permanently Protestant, and Jewish members of the uprooted. These doctrines will be re 1941 senior class in the College of Law. placed by the peaceful and democratic The Notre Dame student commission had solution rooted in the principle of the 100,000 of these pamphlets printed and brotherhood of man under the father copies have been sent to the president, hood of God, so clearly outlined in the vice-president, and members of the Con American Declaration of Independence. gress of the United States as well as (No. 2 above). army and naxy camps. Because of its particular significance at this time, the "7. The American Declaration of In dependence was an act of faith in God. SCHOLASTIC reprints it here: i \. Its principles were acknowledged to be "Is God necessary? Yes! Without Him, self-evident trutlis by men of all religious EOBEKT D. LEMENSE, Editor there can be no real American democ beliefs who fought to make America free EDWARD RONEY, JK .Managing Editor racy." That was the uiMuimous conclu and independent. , DANIEL DOWNEY Campus Editor sion of a sy7nposium conducted by Cath BILL REYNOLDS Sports Editor "8. According to the American concept olic, Protestunt, and Jewish members of CHARLES KLEIBACKER Admin. Editor of democracy, liberty is a necessary con ROBERT' LONERGAN Promotion the 1941 Senior Class in the College of sequence of God's creative purpose. TED WEBER.. : Photo Editor Law, University of Notre Dame. A digest Without God and the eternal responsi GEORGE THOMPSON ...... Art Editar folloivs: JAMES CHRISOVBRGIS—.Sta^ photographer bility of each man to his Creator there GAIL FITCH, JR Advertising "1. The founders of American dem is no excuse, no justification for human REV. CM. CAREY, C.S.C, Faculty Advisor ocracy ofiicially declared that the justi liberty. This is the reason that aZi foonns fication for their work was to be found of dictatorship are essentially atheistic. 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