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. 17 EASTERN ILLINOIS STATE COLLEGE, CHARLESTON, ILLINOIS WEDNESDAY, FEB. 20, 1952 . . ..

officer, · . campus leader elections held tomorrow ' Recreation tickets needed nts urged. 'Bowery Ball' to feature -J for. a I I-school voting ly ea rly faculty, stud'?nt f Joor show Warbler sponsors leader election test by Hilah Cherry aft NAMES OF 65 students will appear on the ballot in the election ELIGIBLE to talce IWO FLOOR shows as well as dancing make up the entertainment of class officers consis1ing of the President, Vice President .• elective Service col­ for the "Bowery Ball," which will be held in the Old Aud, S and· Secretary-Treasurer of all classes in Old Main tomorrow. The tion test should file February 29. election will be held in the south room adjoining president Buz­ at once, Selective Ser­ The "Bucket Sisters," Dean Long and Joyce Reynolds as "the zard's office. ieadquarters advis- fat man," and songstress Hilah Cherry are a few of the veteran en­ A Student Council committee will be in charge of the polls. tertainers who will appear again in this year's "Bowery Ball." · The Warbler-sponsored campus ns and bulletins of in­ Nancy . "Jolson" Baird, "Yodl- leaders election will be held at the llllY be obtained at any ing"' Dorothy LaMaster and Jerry night club theme, costumes of Vice-President same time and students will be lervice board. Follow- Groff at the ,piano are some of short, tight skirts, low cut blouses Dave Cohrs, Nopna Thomas, . provided a ballot for both the class ns in the bulletin, the. the en tertainers. appearing for the and striped "T" shirts are in order Jim Ly�ch, Earl Sawyer, Rita officers and campus leaders. d fill out his appli­ first time at the "Bowery Ball." but not�compulsory,.. Burke, Jack Adams, Elizabeth De­ iately and mail it The "Bowery B�ll," sponsored Dance music will be provided by Students will be required to . Pue and John Waggoner. envelope provided. by Players, was given for the first Bill Garrett and his four piece show their recreation tickets be­ Secretary-Treasurer must be postmarked time last year but because of its "combo.'' fore being granted a ballot. Cam­ Jene Edwards, Pat Major and tnidnight, March 10. popularity it has become an an- Many· "big surprises" are in paigning will not be permitted Alta Buckley. of the applications nual event.. store. Free door prizes will be near the polls. A Student CouncU · for and is to the student's Since the "Ball" has a bowery given away. committee will count the votes Senior the class elections. .. The campus leaders election is President of. the test will be re­ conducted annually to elect those J. D. Anderson, Don Henderson, tlle Jtudent's local Selec,. Pratt says more to the position of ampus leaders Pete ·Edinger, Bill Tucker, Dick board for use in con­ f Eleven write for mention in the 'Warbler. Davis and Jerry Griffiths. jeferment as a stu- known about Abe Following are a list of the can­ Vice-President didates for the individual class Tom Katsimpalis, Roger Young, honorsI exams; now tho n in '20s offices: Richard Parker, Dorothy LaMas­ Bob Cox, •Betty Worland, Rich­ "CONCEPTS OF Lincoln's life ter, rar's office ard All.ison, Donna Horton and Ed 39 flunk are constantly changing," said Freshman Soergel. Harry Pratt, February 13 assem- terminal ELEVEN OF the 207 .students who . Pl'Jlsident bly speaker. SecrFtary-T,reasurer wrote the Junior English exam Kenny Ludwig, Bob Dill, Jdf Janet Railsback, Gene Owens· und Pratt said that not as much was point received honors whi�e 32 failed. Crewe and Andy MacArthur. and Mona Cross. !mo'wn about Lincoln ln the 20's Vice-President. THING? Chances of Honor papws· were written by as is known today. His reasons Nancy Newberry, Joyce Hunter, It in the registrar's of­ Billy Lee Bryan, R. P. Claud6!, were that insignificant documents Doris J. Cohoon, Elizabeth Depew, Scott Miller, John Owen, Ken �tty good. Why not are consl:Antly being • turned up Art' seminar to see Westfall, Dick Berriball, Jeanne aee? Paul W. Fore'lnan, ;Mary Franklin, that throw more light on Lincoln's Jack Frost, George Mellott, Ellen Stucky and Del �ricke. Laughton in film tbe only articles Jlever life. Butler Moore, Ann Wannamaugh­ Secretary-Treasurer at the Registrar's lost Several examples were si d by· er Newton, and Bob Zeigel. � Bill Wilson, Eya Jean Moeller, AN 80 minute film, "The Life of •partment are lost Pratt concerning Lincoln's career As compared with last year's Earlene Petty. Rembrandt," with Charles Lau­ lost hea rts, lost frater­ as .a lawyer that showed interest­ ghton, will be �hown at 7 :30. p.m. and results, in 1951, 6.0 per cent made the lost chord. ing bits of information about today in the Booth library lecture honors and 14.6 per cent failed. . "Abe's'' character. Sophomore This year 5.3 per cent made hoJI­ room. ors and 15.4 per cent failed. President Group IV of the art seminar and Nelson McMullen, Jim Freden­ the art gallery is spoDsoring the Reserve unit hears berger, Earl Steltzer and Martin ' film. There is no admission- and PTA meeting features Chilovich. 'headlines' lecture tpe public' js -invited. lecture by Dr. Boyd Vice-President Carol Wolven has charge of the Ella Mae Kercheval, Jim Acklin, group. Others in the group are MEETING OF the 5143 Post "THE VALUE of Music in School" . Lee Viehwig, John Hamilton, Ada­ Charles Lowe, Richard Jeffers, camp training . compliment was was the subject of a lecture giv­ line Dougherty, Gene Ward and Russell Carter, Rex Hunter, Ed­ held in room 216 of the · Science en by Dr. Earl Boyd of the music Louise Dent. ward Brennan, Katherine Bollar, building February 12, according departmefit at the training 'school to Lt. Col. William Miner, post Secretary-Treasurer Ruth Bennett, and Carl Shull. PTA meeting Last Wt!dnesday commander. Juannee Carlyle Jan Jump and Coffee and donuts will be served night. Carolyn Louise Wilson .• The un1't i's part of the volunteer at a receptjon foUowing the film. Members of the audience parti- reserve of the F'ifth Army area. cipated in an informal discussion Junior Two hour program included a on the. ii!Ubject following the lect- lecture by Col. Miner on "Big Ham Club sees ure. President \ I Headlines of '51" and a lecture on J-ohn Simmons, Dwayne Roe, The me,eting was held in Old map theory by Capt. Wayham of Charles Oxley, Jim Cole and Paul two movies Aud. /' Mattoon. Foreman. TWO MOVIES were the high- Members· of the unit attend lights of Ham club meeting meetings on the campus twice a ... which was held Thursday at 7 p.m. month. Dance to follow in room 216 of the Science build­ I ing, according to Robert C. Wad­ dents ·vote to h ld dell, club sponsor. o ACE discusses Western game Movies dealt with vacuum tubes and elementary electricity. Dis­ convention A RECORD dance sponsored by cussion on the movies followed the ublican sex relations Phi Sigma Epsilon will be held showing. DENT body of Eastern voted to hold a Republican mock in the Old Auditorium Sat\lrday idential nominating convention last week. The vote went "BOY-GIRL Relationships" was following the game with Western ublicans by a majority of 85. tne topic of a panel discussion at Macomb. Library urges total vote �r a Republican convention was 273 while 188 at the ACE meeting last 'l'.uesday Admission price will be 25 cents in the Training school library. voted to hold a Democratic convention. Nearly 500 stu­ per person. fines be cleared The panel consisted of faculty \ McCarthy's shouted but · that dJ.Shonest t a x employees unproved charges bounce · m · · h · ch was p Spanis h b hroug h t somet g to t h 1s continent w 1 to I ay shrink at sound name; the of his charging, then investigating. more and just fly arou!MI and important role in the growth and development of the country. sincere in that he has done his in- McCarthy seems to have fallen ington having little seri That "something" was the horses wnich the Spanish rode vestigating tax bureaus of al­ into the habit of calling everyone on anyone. of these through conquered villages and used in battle. Some most on his own time and with his who disagrees with hnn, or who William's almost money. (He has asked no ap­ horses escaped and multiplied rapidly on the American continent, own makes a serious mistake � inter­ statements, however1 are and my the time white explorers penetrated to the plains, the native propriatiOJ'\S or committees.) national affairs, a Red-sympa­ -for now, for _ Washi Indians had learned to trap the horses and vse them to overtake Six years ago,_ Williams' first thizer. learned what he says will the buffalo which they hunted. year in the Senate, few bothered (I'll admit these mistakes can't listening to. to exert themselves to understand be afforded, but will anything be The importance of the horse grew steadily with the expansion \ the soft-spoke:q man; now when he of American agriculture. It became equally indispensible to the gained by saying all mistakes had ACP-At Rider Colle" rises to speak, people listen. He treason motives?) a cattle industry of the great plains of western United States. Mil- chances for fielding will have something to say! · The differences in the results. team next year are very lions of\horses were engaged in these two industries by the late • Senator John is a typical "com- of these two 'methods of attacking reason: No home field. l 800's. seek , im-Iegged horses by the thous­ In the meantime, I sl mon person who can do nothing sands were pulling fancy carriages, buggies, and rigs around Am- about the mess the governm'\nt is crican cities and urban centers. in,"-but he has done something! Then, in the early l 900's, th"e automobile, and then the farm And that something has been to tractor came ·into u�, and the hors� found himself out of a .job. In level the government's tax bureaus Eastern State News 1920-30 back to an honest basis. alone, the number of horses in the United States decreased v_o_L _. _x _x _x__I_I_v . _�_ . _N_0_.__1 7 _____w_ _E D _N__E s __D A _Y....:, F by an estimated nine million. Almost overnight the horse He made the first step in 1946 �.,.. decided to see if he could PW>llshed weekl7 on Wednesday durln• the · had dropped from America's / number one source of power and when he •chool year, do more than talk about the gov- neadaye during 1chool vacations "or examinations and the 4 -locomotion to the status of a plaything for the wealthy. or WednelJdayo followln• examination week or Frld&J • ernment. He ran for senator. The th� students of Eastern Illinois State Collese. City children read about them in books with wonder In their little-known, feed store owner of eyes, and the farm children who still had a "team in the lot" were 7 4 0 populated Millsboro evidently Entered as second claft• Membn few and far between. The noble horse who had served man in his pleased the people because he won; matter November 8, 191�. at the Poot Office at Char· time of need, bowed his head and with a whinny of resignation it was the first public office he'd leston, Illinois, under the prepared to go the way of the American bison and the dodo bird. ever held! Act of March 3, 1879. Then suddenly, in 195 l, man found himself once again in The next step in Williams' "tax" career was made by the Delaware trouble and issued a call for help. The price of beef had gone so PQINTED BY PRATHER THE PRINTER; CHARLESTON, ILLINOIS tax bureau when they tampered high that people were eating ox-tail soup and in some neighbor- with his tax payment. He had his hoods several families could only afford one ox tail between them, :ACK RARDIN _. _•• ____ ••• -�- ____ �-. __• ______•••••••••• proof of payment and he. decided ort Bill ------··------�------A and so th ey d b passe k d f h hit f ac an wit one amily boiling it to investigate. The results are still DANLEY c.ne night and another family the next. appearing. VIARCEL fACATIE _ . : . _ - - - -- ·-- _____ - - ______·------··- The noble horse heard the call and began to muster From Delaware to New York to his ranks. The fat young horses, the old harness-worn St. Louis to Washington, he has nags, even the indifferent mule heeded the call and began exposed the graft of the few who the march. They marched to Springfield, Chicago, Peoria, were making the whole tax busi- Danville and presented themsel�es at the recruiting ness rotten. Investigating, probing, charging offices. DORIS FEIST •• ___ •______--- ______·-- ---·· this seems to be· Williams' pro- and unloyal right down the - But man proved fickle to last. ce r �REPORTERS: Lowell Guffey, Hil41h Cherry, Bob Bain, Jean Stu �nd now, in some �ities, you can go �? the butcher shop, and look.. "°" : :�ntrast is the more common . Cooks_ley, Johri Hamilton, Clyde Nealy, Virginia Carwell, Gerald H mg 1�1 the meat1 display case, see tender young beefsteak for method� so vigorously followed by $1.08 1 ,, r yan, Beverly· Hershberger, Chuck Bo�les nd Marilyn McCormick. and any Good 1udge of horse flesh can tell you that the Senator Joe McCarthy of Michi­ a )- mother of that beefsteak was a mare and the father an ass. gan. His procedure seems to be FRANCIS. W. PALMER, Adviser l/TERARY SfJPPlEMENT . Eastern State News

WEDNESDAY, FEB. 20, 1952 Essay Types of Friendship ' by Bill Bryan (First Prize)

days ago I met a fellow in the corridor who introduced himself as a class­ BILL BRYAN step- end asked, as classmates so often do, for a comment upon a test our ped into the li­ given. Because of the size of the class and the fact that the course terary limelight in rted, I had never seen him before, but from that first time there his first effort. Bill, thing about him I liked. . a senior English ybe it was the· sincere way he spoke as he looked at me with his deep major, resides in s, r o perhaps it was the short Toledo. He also won blond hair that curled the tunate situation because the friend­ Junior English ex­ way and hung over his high ship is forced and unreal, and the amination honor� and the amusing and differ­ coveted favors cannot be obtained recently. he had of changing his facial anyway since people can see through ·on from jovial to serious in the thin veneer of intimacy. nt and without notice. What­ No person is more unwelcome in us in whatever session we might hap­ was, I liked him. a community than the man who is pen to become the subject bf conver­ liegan a conversation at once, obviously being friendly in order that sation. When such is the case, our tmn't long until we had dis­ he may have free use of the neigh­ acquaintances can sense the potency q_f some common friends and in­ bor's garden hose or get a pay in­ our conceit, and w�tever word they tbout which to talk for a good crease at the local plant. The most say to other people ·about us is not ile. I knew that I had found tragic fact about the friendship that is likely to be desirable. Certainly an ad­ prized possession and one built on such shaky foundations is mirable person is not one who would �eatest blessings a man may that it never lasts. Needless to say, use a friend as a means to the end lriend. I was so proud of my when the favors have been obtained of having his praises shouted all over une that within a few days and the property has been borrowed, the campus, and we could quite easily fllated my joyous experience a cold shoulder is promptly turned up­ detect the insincerity of an)'One who r other intimates; I was proud on the lender, especially if he has the would. · I liked him very much, and "brass" to ask that the article in ques­ The number of ·people with whom I knew that he was fond tion be returned. a person may become intimately ac­ That is the way a sincere and A person who makes friends quainted determines his or her popu­ u.ndship is made, and any­ for the purpose of persuading larity. For this reason we frequently has had �uch an experience them to adopt his point of view run on to those who insist upon forc­ that it is indeed a joyous is frequently found. Politicians ing themselves upon' us whether we often use this method, and it is are ct_ttracted to them or not. Such a unately, not all friend­ sometimes the means used by friendShip cannot be enjoyed, not ,,. as lasting as I am sure religious organizations to spread , only because the motive behind it is .,.. will be for not all are doctrinal beliefs. If the scheme self-centered, but because the person upon equally stable founda­ fails, which it is likely to do since desiring the popularity is so concern­ ln these few paragraphs the perso' being persuaded will ed about initiating other relationships to describe some other resent suih an approach, the so· that he has no time to show a genuine of friendship and the rea· called friendship ends rather ab· interest in anyone. I for which they are made. ruptly. Fortunately, the most tommon nally we find a person who In an effort to gain personal glory type of friendship springs from ·ends for the sole purpose· of or popularity, some of us turn to mak- . the very heart of each individual t>ersonal favors and who ing a large number of friends. These involved. Most people do not · e clever enough to conceal friends are then expected to noise have some selfish aim in view e. This is indeed an unfor- our merits abroad and speak out for when making friends; but, never-

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. theless, almost everyone has, at of a more fitting term and ask to be sincere respect, admiration, one time or another, been guilty allowed to use it loosely. Regardless fection between two individ of such a motive. of our terminology, the only friend- - triese three only one, the last, i ship which is really enjoyable, really worth while. Friendship is a gi Having attended school the greater lasting, and really valuable is one is almost sacred and which part of my life, I may say from ex­ which grows out of that inexplicable certainly not be abused; a fri perience that the temptation to use and altogether sincere attraction two more valuable than the rar a friend as a means to some self­ people have for one another. jewels and should be guardeij centered end is indeed hard to resist. To summarize briefly, I say that fully. Perhaps some would say that I have there are three distinct tyPes of friend­ Between the classmate whorl misused the word "friendship" and in the corridor and myself, I h ship: that which is based upon a de­ that it can be applied only when the a permanent bond rapidly g underlyin"g cause is. unselfish. That sire for personal favors, that which Now I can proudly say that I argument has a point worth consider­ is based upon a desire for personal another extremely precious ing, but I say "friendsl:iip" for want glory, and that which is based upon friend.

The Caste of Politics

by Melvin Hough (Second Prize)

WERE I an authentic artist of some small aqility and were I asked to express along with adding a number of on canvas my version of the political system-found existing within the realm corruptible things to the art list of the world or even within the boundaries of our own country, I'm terribly cer­ the days of old and Jonathatl tain that the crude piece of art that I would be compelled to come forth with I maintain that no indivi would be an _extremely grotesque creation on my part. and I don't care how long he As we gaze thoughtfully (and one will have to be thoughtful) at this make been tutored by religious o believe creation, being only too care­ z:ations as well as being ca ful of the still wet paint, we might ob­ It is those of the multitude who ed by pious old ladies who serve a large, transparent, global, hold their noses tightly and plunge ble in every limb for the fear realm bobbing in an alarming fashion feet first into the dark stagnant sea wrath of God when they on a dark, murky sea. Through the water with the intention of coming slight tinge of corrupti a thick transparency of the bell, made into the realm from the undetneath such individual will be gloomy by the darkness of the sea side that have chosen, by far, the stand straight against the and the heavy, low-flying clouds, we easier method of entering. Though it and abominable state of n would note the large congregation of or international aff�irs. _. is or may be a relatively simple task . half-human, half-serpent creatures to hold one's nose and avoid the Let me go a step furttulll gnawing, scratching, spilling and smelling stench of the stagnant abyss statement. For instance, cursing at each other. as he passes through, it is a much .. Closer observance shows· that greater task to remove the stench there are two entrances into this from his dothing after he has entered MELVIN HOUGH . large glass globe out there on the glass realm through the valve. is a veteran at the sea. The first entrance is ob­ Thus he becomes a rather repug­ the writing game. tained ·by scaling the slick outer nant individual to those within who Besidesoeing News wall of the bell and grappling entered through the top, but to those columnist and busi­ with a group of large green ser­ of us who watch the scene from the ness manager, he pents that encircle the small hole · has a journalism at the top. outer wall, we find it hard to distin­ guish him from the others. minor. Last year he The second entrance is an ope·ning Today, however, we have so many placed in the "Sup­ at the bottom of the globe beneath plement.' the surface of the sea, anti by coming entering through the bottom and so up through this epening arid through few entering from the top that those a valve one may gain a position in few entering from above have their the glass citadel. clothes saturated with "the repugnant young vigorous individual This first entrance, down through stench from close association with on the Bible during his child the top, is the most preferable one; those entering through tbe valve. was constantly advised and ' entering the realm by this entrance Jonathan Swift speaks of lying in by the pastor of the leadi� after having scaled the smooth wall his essay, "The Art of Political Lying," in the district as he grew in and grappled personally with the as having been reduced to an artand hood. As this young person g pink-eyed monsters who guard this later adapted to politics. With this suddenly detects the smell entrance, one has the unquenchable statement, one could or should readily nation arising from the ave satisfaction of knowing that he has · agree; and I'm also forced to believe politics. His desires are to get entered into chaotic abyss, at least, in that we have moved a long way in very nucleus of the glass re1 an admirable fashion. the direction of modernizing this art clean up the whole rotten m . _20, 1952 PAGE THREE

·s cloak of purity about him Thus his pu rity has receded a piece ning and shrewd in planning a aches the globe on a raft from him and he is slowly bowing to course of action that will carry j I hardly float becau� of his the inevitable tempation. A step or him to the objective the most ·ce of water-soaked logs. two farther and he has entered the rapidly, no matter how obscene 1r aev'eral attempts at scaling valve that would make his reforma­ it may. be, will be the one most N II and entering the globe tion an impossibility· likely to rescue the young lady. H the onl¥ proper entrance de- Two courageous knights rushing to As long as we have amphibious n to his sta nding and purpose, save a young damsel in distress in a creatures floundering in the stagnant fE

his cloak of purity is begin­ s;tuation in which only one of .the two water under the bell and wea k-kneed· Jo slip from his shoulders and c'h glires that are afraid to\ struggle for ivalrous hu man beings is needed a is such a conspicous thing will probably lead to some rather un­ the opportunity and responsibility of t ranee to his scaling feat he desi rable tactics by the two along the entering through the desirable· en­ s heed to it and no longer way, since both realize that the really trance, we shall be forever burdened the corner of it across his nose admirable ·thing will be the actual with a caste of creatures who will 'E r off the loathsome· stench rescuing of the beautiful maiden. continue to prey upon the decency of t; him. The one who is the most cun· our rights as peoples of governments.

Woman and Fire x 'i by Robert G. Flick t (Third Prize)

inning God created nZan, but the Omniscient One soon realized that . prepared by feminine hands; was alone and helpless. The aloneness was remedied by creating neither could most food be made With the discovery of fire, man was no longer helpless. These two then, palatable without the flavor-and· end fire, I hold to be-primarily essential to man's sustenance and happi­ fume-making fingers of fire. en the earth and the elements necessary 1or growth, which the Creator Woman is like fire too in her fer- even before He made ma·n, nothing is more important than these two. vent pursuit of whatever she seeks to al Jndispensability to man is envelop an'tl bring within her warm ir first claim held in common; BOB FLICK, senior (or scorching) · embrace. Her fiery alike in many respects. English m a j o r, 11ualities become apparent also in the n and fire are both instru­ r e p or t s •woman melting of many an ice-crusted heart. • of progress. and- Fire' was in­ . Nothing can more quickly burn , lhrough the transformation of spired by his wife. away a man's mental and physical It goes without saying that Bob is an Oblong energies than a woman of selfishness ·ng mortal, could not continue lad with many li­ and insatiate avidness, and; on the were it not for woman .. With­ terary laure1s tohis other hand, nothing can so temper man would end; life would credit. Last year he and fuse those energies into glowing ' 1o move forward in succeeding won first in poetJ-y. creativity as a woman of understand­ ions; the progression of ing, appreciation, and inspiration. In "nd could not be. Equally.... evi­ an hour of dark travail a woman's love the wiecessity of fire to the pro­ does fire transfer heat energy into may be the guiding and strengthening lumanity. flame of light, giving man a renewed machi nes capable of serving man. H physical elements One of the simplest instances of this bearing on the real values of life. riot be made into human is the steam engine, or for that mat­ Woman is the flamelike stimulus without woman, , neither ter, any engine, and it can be· seen which urges man either to the achieve­ most matter be made into through experiment and observation ment of noble goals, to more vigorous 11 form without fire. that all mechanical energy can be re­ breadwinning, or sometimes to folly glass, and most other duced to heat. and crime. Women (especially one depend on fire to be A ma1Jnificent perspective of the woman). have been known. to so im­ into shape. Thus, without r.atural order can be seen here in a press men with their purity and 111n's mechanical progress simple analogy: As the sun is the beauty as to incite a purging of char­ hive rem ained stagnant acter and development of virtue not source of all energy, and as fi re. is the Dark Ages. medium of its transportation in th� unlike the sterilizing · effects of fire ly, in the transfer of energy: mechanical realm, so.God is the source upon germ-infested matter. physical being which woman of all life, and woman is the medium Woman is needed to keep the home e out of formless .matter is of its transportation in the human fires burning, that man may not be eel that indefinable spark of re\lm. The words energy and life an eternal wanderer. The cause of energy known as life. Only ca n be used interchangeably in this ... man's becom ing civiliaed can be the fibres of the feminine statement. traced to these two, won\an and fire; �flow that indestructable cur­ There are many less profound the hearth around which the basic of llegener!ltion into a new similarities between the two. The family group moves is warmed by tganism. In parallel manner food which most of us eat is fire and by the ardent efforts of ,

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woman. The mother's heart and fam­ in the consuming hands of fire. Sim­ and sexomania are simil1r ily hearth are, or should be, one and ilarly, many men claim that there is orders. the same flame. no quicker means of seeing that Fire and woman are both Fire is the sign of learning and green-inked paper, which bears the vital to �man, but they can al r of eternal memorial. As the torch pictures of presidents, consumed than man's most dangerous pos is the symbol of learning, so does to put it into the hands of woman: Both are capable of increasi a child's first knowledge come The resemblance between a spec­ potentialities; both are capable from his ·mother. The ever-burn­ tacular display of pyrotechnics and stroying him. They can both II ing flame of light, such as burns him, or he can become a the eruption of a violent feminine serv over war memorials, battlefields, them. 1. temper is remarkable. and in churches, is comparable to The qualities of both then are the unforgetting heart of woman Man will get up or• stay up all to be consumption, creatiof'ti hours of the night to watch a fire, and w �1 where all the otherwise forgot­ ance, fascination, generation, ten words and promises of man will he not do the same for a woman? ·i· stimulation, melting, explosi a· are kept alive and in faith. Both are equally fascinating, compel­ lization, and light. And on ling, and hypnotic. r Many humorous resemblances ex­ deny that 'upon too close ' and , ist as well. It is a well-known fact Both have been known to gloved contact with either, man that paper disappears into thin air drive men insane. Pyromania quite easily burn his fingers.

Sllort Story

E h Never the Sun IT by Robert G. Flick 51 (First Prize) , n THE ANCIENT Order of Hibernians and its branch, the Mollie Maguires, along were unjust, · but he, like with most of the places mentioned herein are consistent with history and men, had been duped by H facts, although the story I have woven around them and the names used, pre­ ra!l's ·gravy-mouthed app ... tend to the truth in no specific manner. their sympathies · and his 1 / However, drawing from facts, incidents, and opinions written io such ac- mendous power of organ J' counts as chapter 5 of The Pinkerton Story afld volume 8 of Rhodes' American and inciting the mob. d History, the fictitious narrative seems to me to be quite typical· of the overall The Hibernian constituti01'! c character of the organization, the prevalent conditions an'd the persons involved. declared the rights of the w Ii man to organize in resistanCfll )I * * * * -bigotry of crusted capitalist 'E and colliery superintende• )I been designed by a handful'Of ic THE FLICKERING lamplight threw shadow! of indecision across Jim Riley's face scientious miners led by Jertkl as he sat, rifle in hand, on the porch of Murphy Halloran's cabin. The week­ land, a rural teacher, Bishot ti ly meeting of the Ancient Order of Hibernians had been postponed from Friday Daniel of Scranton, and MilQ N until today, Monday, and the meeting pJ,ace moved, in order to evade a sus­ a struggling young Pottsville I pected plot on the organization by Father Glen Green and an unknown accom­ In its infancy the organiza 1 l s plice, possibly a spy member of the Shenandoah chapter. ed these ideals in as effectiv The Wilkes Barre body of the Mol­ iri ner as the men's conscience! a lie Maguires, a wing of the Hiber­ a mock trial at which he had acted law would allow, and no mo nians, had operated without fear of as sole judge and prosecutor and in the Irish hearts of these m apprehension for almost fourteen jury a vast amount of potential vi 1862. which had been attended by a years since the great purge in of illiterate and Halloran-approved to their. Irish tempers and fire At that time Halloran succeeded in men. ran appealed with all his force getting himself elected to the office· Jim Riley remembered the purge suasion; and through their Irish of Body Master; his authority had re­ bility, that potential viole with bewilderment as he sat tonight 1 notl mained unchallenged ever since. outside the meeting room watching to the hands of a madman. I The "purge" was Hallor:an's name the fading lights of Wil kes Barre. Jim If I am wrong in a for a well-laid plot to rid the organi­ had been only seventeen at the time, stereotyped generalities to zation of all those men with enough but he was, at that time, a veteran race, I am not wrong in ge c education and cleverness to see miner and Mollie of three years. He izing about the temper of through and oppose Halloran's plans had acted only as a spectator at fhe men. And I use the singula p for a reign of terror on the whole trials, being c.onsidered too young to posely. Men of the min ' s hierarchy of bosses in charge of the serve on the jury and too ignorant to moles, who burrow benea 1 Ramsey Clark mines. Halloran had oppose Halloran. ground and seldom e conducted the purge in the form of Jim knew then that the trials when the sun shines, are b :c PAGE FIVE

their very association, to quit his job at the Clark, Mill-Creek bound .by oath when he and Shorty 1 20 marked singularity of mine number near Carbondale by lay waiting for Songer near the Mill- ind intent, even a uni· Wednesday, January 3, he could suf­ . Creek railroad trestle on the night of ttern of thought-a possi· fer the consequences? Jim Riley,. who January 5. To avoid a possible trap, ·mism-a grim and slave­ worked near Wilkes Barre, had never the assassination had been delayed w of life-a bitterness to- heard of Songer; the two towns were two days after Songer refused to re­ 40 those who keep- them en- separated by almost miles of sign his job. in blackness. and pover- mountains: Halloran always chose It was a moonlight night, not at all men unknown to their victim. · Not appropriate for a murder, as the fated .lley had become an anthracite only did it appear to be shrewd plan­ rider of the unmistakable Songer In the stel?s of his father, who ning, but it served another _.purpose pinto came into view on the moon­ ise followed in his father's as well, for Halloran could tlius mold caressed road which led to the cover- . Jim haa not been taught to but to work. Not that Jim's and his father's father had nof a better life for their sons; WHEN THE News editor looked over the literary con- was not the reason which test winner list, the name Bob Flick seemed to cover la mily follow another from the page with a scattered few in .between. F!ick replied, to fiiine in one deathless, un- when asked what he thou�ht of winning so many prizes, nd orgy; it was because they "just a bit lucky." · ord no better, because they In deserved recognition and credit to Flick, the News pt in a cycle of ignorance and congratulates him for a thoroughly done job. Bob's work routine by a dreaded fate shows meticulous thought and versatile writing. It is no poverty." wonder that his contributions rated high in all three had driven Jim Riley's classes, despite the iBtrong competition. !her from Ireland in an early No; Bob Flick wasn't lucky. His writing illuminated and the inescapable poverty the quality necessary to triumph. '\. lliunted him there was ·only llftteved here. Added to that o other curses which brought re of misery and persecution. whatever reputation he desired for ed Mill-Creek bridge. Each -s ucceeding are explained by the terms the victim, and the men could not clatter of the ice-shod colt, as it ant" and "Catholic," which question it. echoed through the bridge, brought ds were uttered with a strong Jim · nodded in acknowledgement beads of somber perspiration to the of saliva and blasphemy by and acceptance when Halloran gave back of Jim Riley's neck, and the shal­ ually ignorant, pitiabl�, and the instructions. It would be Jim's low snow spread out from the dark rstood residents of nineteenth first job in which the penalty was to opening where the two men trained llfnsylvania. • go all the way, but after all, wasn't their rifles. Riley grew to possess a it the only way, Jim asked himself? A loud crescendo of h�of· , lntutored, undecided, and He had more than once seen beats as the horse and rider loped mind in a strong, a fiery cross lighting the moun­ emerged from the black tunnel, and well-developed body. tainside in an ominous glow, a brief moment of stillness as e, calloused hand rested instilling the same hatred and they stepped on the soft, fresh· ingly upon the weather- fear in the Irish miners that it fallen -snow. Then two shots had in the Negroes of the South. k of his Winchester as he • ' shattered the frost-brittle silence these - gray, Pennsyl: Jim's wife and young son were terminating the interlude of sus· I-miner's thoughts in the often left alone when Jim had to pense and causing the hotse to frozen, December silence work into the· darkness of winter rear, throw the rider, and run Shiney Mountain in the evenings. away. ' Of course murder is wrong, but is Jim ·and Shorty ran toward the 'fig­ 1 man whose realm of experi­ this murder or war, a private war ure left lying in the gentle snow to been bounded above and between immigrant and native; Irish­ obtain whatever money he might end on all sides by anthracite men against Welshmen and English­ have and to dispose of the body in not have . much space to ex: men, labor against capital; serf Mill-Creek. As they approached, the In the iivorld of thought. Nor against boss, Catholic against Protest­ moonlight revealed a white Roman his world be expanded by ant, Democrat against Republican? Is collar gleaming against the back­ and newspa pers, much less it not equally as just as war? Do not ground of a black overcoat. Shorty felevision. There again pov­ many innocent die in either type of stared momentarily as though he had ened, not only to prevent conflict? And aren't those who are seen a ghost, and then turned and ran �ucation, but to prevent really responsible seldom the ones to his horse waiting in the trees across all!& of such a luxifry as a punished? It seems futile doesn't it, ·the bridge. and yet can man stand idly by and re, how do you suppose do nothing? One injustice seems to Jim knelt over the priest and turned respo nded when he was breed another in a vicious cycle of his pallid face fully toward him. The Into the cabin and told that he endless revenge. poignant gray eyes of Father Glen O'Neil were to serve a Jim seemed to be doing what he Green opened painfully. ice to Wi lliam Songer before thought best to further the cause of "Hello Jim Riley," whispered the flight stating that unless he the organization · to which he was dying man. PAGE SIX WEDNESDAY, FEB. 20,

"You, father? I didn't know : .. didn't he; for you don't even know that Jim's calculation was corr Why were you ridin' Sanger's pinto, him." "But why would he ...?" and why er you gain' to his place who "No, . Father," "Revenge, Jim, against Ra aint no Cath'lic and who hates us "J im, my son, my .son, my poor don't you see?" Cath'lics' · guts? Why you takin' his prodigal son; you a·re a blind lamb "Yes, father, I do see. Then punishment? Why ... ?" caught in a thicket, a fly trapped in all jist his ..." • Jim's head fell on the breast of a vicious web." "Puppets." Father Green and his childlike sobs "I don't want no sympathy, "Yes, jist puppets," mutter• for the priest who had christened Father," Jim whimpered, and the pensively. both himself and his son could be tears froze on his cheeks. "There is still time to get out� heard far out into the winter black­ "Listen, Jim, listen and remem­ before there is blood on your h ber. Murphy Halloran is not a riess. Breath came or:ily with great �" But, father, you ..." difficulty to the aged priest, but he mere miner, as you tbink; his "There is sti ll time," whi spoke with eloquence•a nd impassion- name is not Halloran 'at all; it's Jamison Clark. Does that mean Father Green, and he passed ate sincerity. . be.f "I came to stop you or some anything to you?" into unconsciousness, but died 30 minutes later, he arou other unknowing young man Jim sat silently for a moment and enough to absolve Jim Riley who is following a madman in an then said hesitantly. sin with the benediction of our impossible quest for relief from Seems that I recollect Dad a sayin' 'Father' forgive them, for the)lj oppression and injustice; impos­ that old man Clark what owned all not . . ' sible, Jim, because a murder or the mines had another son besides a war, which is nothing more Ramsey that was left outer the old than a series of murders, never man's will for shootin' a nigger and· This is a purely fictional has and never shall accomplish went to California to mine for gold. of how one man may have e a desirable end." His name wuz Ja mison as I remember. Nineteen others who wenf to t "There aint no other way, father." Father! do you mea n Halloran is lows in and near the year 1877 "H alloran said that didn't he, Jim?" that Jamison Clark?" Pinkerton detective, Jame� "Yes, Father, he did." Father Green closed his eyes and land, brought the Mollies to j "He also taught you to hate Songer, then opened them again, signifying were not so lucky.

The Pride of Mr. Sutton

by Melvin Hough (Second Prize}

"MORNING MR. SUTION," Cletus peered over the rim of his glasses at the as he sat placidly in the chai4 little man that had .just entered the shop. "Be with you in a minute." the electric clippers moved thri · The figure to whom Cletus spoke crossed the scuffed linoleum flQ.or and up his neck. Nothing unusu• seated himself patiently on a chair. His arm moved a time or two as if to pick that; his face always wore thal up a magazine which lay near but each time'he pu lled himself back to an erect contented expression. Some ti ..position and sat quietly, waiting. even looked as though it mig His chin fell to his chest and he - intel ligible words that Cletus had into a friendly smile that wou sat in this manner until the sound o-F heard the man speak in the th ree denly reveal well-hidden the cash register back of the barber years that he had known 1him. about the character of this f chair brought his head up with a jerk. Cletus raked the comb across the man. 'O�ay, riow Mr. Sutton, what'U it be white head, throwing the thinning Having been in the barben for you today?" hair deftly in two directions forming r.ess for more than th irty years in • spite of his prying wa "Hair-cut." The man, stooped al­ a .neat part along the left side of the most from the waist, moved from his head above a small wrinkled ear. enough insight and judgment to place near the wi ndow and crawled The silver hair had not grown whether a man wanted to slowly into the leather chair. His 'hand. noticibly in the last seven days gaged in conversation whilei slid re-assuring into ,his frayed coat and yet here was Sutton sitting in a barber chair. Sutton was pocket where it closed around a sin­ in the chair and calmly demand­ ly the type of man _that did · gle, dog-eared -dollar bill before he ing that his hair be clipped. had tried on different occas settled himself comfortably into the During the three years that Sutton e:ngage the man in conversa large chair. had frequented his · place of business, each time it was in vain. The m Cletus jacked the seat up a fe� Cletus had tried through application only inarticul ate grunts whicb notches. Seven days, only seven days of common sense to psycho-analyze the sole idea of being left alo ago this same pitiful dwa rfe<:I man his customer. Today, as usual, he glan­ his thoughts. had crawled into this same chair with ced. into the large mirror back of the The entire popu lation of probably barely enough money to barber chair hoping to detect some ville was curious about this pay for the barber's work and had new show of emotion on the wrinkled decrepit form of a man and w uttered those same two words. As a face-but nothing showed. The man's sta ntly pu mping Cletus for i matt_er-of-fact, they were the only two face had or11y a contented appearance tion about him. There were a • 20, 1952 PAGE SEVEN Ii rs but facts were few. All that it." Cletus flipped the white cloth been there. Was the man crazy like really knew and that was com- from his lap and the stooped man slid some said or was he just as normal u rll; was that he lived by him­ stiffly down out of the chair. He pres­ as the next? What little Cletus learned , little one-room shack at the sed the tattered bill into Cletus's hand today he knew he would never re-· 1r town. From the grocer came and walked silently out of the shop. veal. He was beginning to understand N nteered fact that his weekly "Come back again, Mr. Sutton." and respect this customer. H �groceries usually cons;sted His eyes followed the man as he His life would always be a mystery oatmeal, a loaf of bread to the curious people of Morgansville. n x M shuffled across the street. They were pie cans- of milk. He worked Whatever his life, past or future, fE puzzled eyes for they still had been rt period of time apparently Cletus knew that the cycle in which J< �ough money for groceries unable to really understand this odd he Oved would bring him back to his a he rested for a time in his individual. He noted a pride in the shop next Friday morning, for a hair­ to e, making his weekly trip way the shaggy figure walked, a cut and somehow for some intangible n for a visit with the barber, pride he had . not noticed before but reason Cletus knew that he would be ·e •upply of money qave out. somehow he knew that it had always looking forward to the visit. r titter d clothes were loose e . tA IMggy, obviously an attempt part to conceal from the that he was a very frail dual. His head, however, Poetry x remely large. Compared of his frail body it was �i king contrast. Had he not What Makes the Red Rose Bloom? loose clothes the size t have been even more ' In 1ppearance. In spite of by Robert G. Flick y environment the man 'de-a pride of physical (First Prize} r1nce. no use for anyone that be- Your heart is a flower, 1oo nosy by asking •personal Which held its crimson treasure tight, , s. A few incidents concerning · . l Until the vernal shower per ta ntrums h�d almost led - And love-invested, fervent rays of light n to take precaution of mak­ Descended on it from my worshipping eyes. t:>mmunity safe by having The· somber shadow flies mitted to an ·insane asylum. bee n all, no definite steps Back to surround the bl ushing petals n taken. In your cheeks whenever I withdraw my glance, the cl ippers in Cletus's hand And just as when the darkness settles, and warped mind was grind­ And the sun is there no longer to enhance, lioughts. 'I'll show the ole The growing garden locks its priceless wares, m• his hateful soul burn in And never dares t I'm make'in my own way­ t I'd never amount to nothin­ Reveal them till the bright warm rays assure cr. That night-enshrouded thieves and careless hands ma fer belong'in to a' of titution;-blamed her fer Could not be near to pluck or injure b right;-said she ought to That which born for love alone demands n decent and then her kids A tested, tried and true, sun-tempered radiation, 't have too big heads. I'll show · An ardent adoration, No one notices min.e, when I Conceived of all-consuming, self-forgetting feeling, up my appearance; Glad he's Mixed with secret-sharing, sweet out-pouring, broken breathing Of each tiny trouble which, .though seemingly not worth revealing, had ma been wicked like he Might become the means of rose-enwreathing were still good to me; she Every instant into closer binding uniwelded wedding; tried 1 when pa left; glad he left. Constantly re-thread_ing I'd told ma fore she died that n't run away-she'd been Thought through thought until the unfurled to know-I out smarted him. Flag of mental marriage flutters in the sun-gold-flooded sky. t itrazy like everyone thinks. Here, amidst a splash 'Of yellow beams, a single heart-red rose 'in all right. They'll see. I'm is hurled all rig ht. Against a field of cosmos blue, and held on high 1lled me crazy in Chicago Are the basic blended colors on which human sight depends, w1nted to lock me up. I'm Without which living ends. go'in to hurt no one. Why did let pa live outfide of a bug Eleme.nts essential and inseparable, when he was crazier than , Those which love must needs consume, e diseased dog!" Are, buried in the mystic parable, y, Mr. Sutton, I think that has "What makes the red rose bloom?" , .

! __,.i · PAGE EIGHT WEDNESDAY, FEB. The Helmsman ' by Robert G. Flick (Honorable Mention)

Abrit�am Lincoln was a man of stature; Tall and lofty as the words he spoke, Plain and honest as the common folk, Wise and shrewd as the cleverest wit.

Yet slow moving, plodding, unobtrusive, undignified, awkward, And long-boned. ) . Hollow-eyed, heavy-hearted, tender, somber, shadowed, bearded; His razor went unhoned.

Abraham Lincoln was a man of state; He drew the fa llen stars from out the gray clouds

Of the Southern Sky,

And once more sewed them in the firmamental Field of blue.

As unfeathered eaglets from their nest Attempt to fly,

The life-g uard of the sea of air restores them to the cradle Whence they flew. , Abraham Lincoln was a man of human rapture; Beneath it all, a man of weakness, tears, temptation, Deep emotion;

Touched by the suffering of the world, Bled by its hate;

Shaken by lost love, the nation reaped the harvest of his Full devotion,

And heaped upon his sorrow-shrouded shoulders the burden of its Monumental weight.

Though wondering, fearing, hoping, grieying; sti ll constantly R�olved.

Striking, clearing, purging,-'freeing; in his hands the world Revolved.

Abraham Lincoln was a man of fate; ' His life like a river, wending toward the sea, Fed from frozen mountaintops, ageless and unchanged, . Flowing from the brink of heaven, above the bounds of shrub and tree. · From the very primal plan of order, his purpbse pre-arranged. And here the paradox appears. , He1was a quill in the Master's hand, an ageless saint, And yet a man within the choking clasp. of years, Subject to pain, sorrow, joy, love, restraint. And so it is with alLheroic blood. The nectar of pierean Spring is mixed with liquor from the ( Lethal stream. No wonder that their melody is never understood, They harmonize the human and Divine with tones beyond man's Wall of sound or wilc;iest dream. Thus stood the helmsman at the ship of state, Steering a star-sure course between the Tentacles of time And the Whirlpool of eternity's engulfing fate. \ . No more than ·a man, and yet a man sublime. Y, FEB. 20, 1952 PAGE NINE ,

Christmas · l

by Robert G. Flick a (First Prize) n Oh star-illumined stable manger, :1 Blessed barn of animal odor, made sweet � By this tiny haloed stranger, '\ Whom the burdened world has waited centuries to greet ...... leaving their lambs, crude men come to see.· � All-adored, unblemished babe in swaddling garment, Glorious Gabriel sang of thee. v A radiant ringlet of angelic light diffused such charm it ... "Summoned men of stellar wisdom from oriental lands :1

To the crowded cribside of the child creator, · Within Whose clenching, baby-pink, and satin hands The chance and hope and means of all mankind for greater-

Than-earthly-happiness had been bestowed. �: (And from those hands the all-sufficient price has flowed, long since ...} :f

Maundy Thursday

by Robert G. Flick ..{First Prize)

So long ago a cock crew in the morning; (One hundred-thousand Thursdays have flown by since.) A sailor swore and threw his breath against the fateful warning. , His ,thrice-repeated oath had been foretold by Heaven's Prince. Gethsemane's blue night gave birth to blacker day, And twelve men's tears to earth a bitter savor lent. But one in shame, for thirty silver coins could scarcely pay For freely given love, priceless forever to all man's gold vain-spent. Ghostly, gaunt, gray, and grim hill, curse-crusted skull- Golgotha, emblazoned on thy barren bosom, a falsely planted tree Has borne a hallowed fruit to enrich the earth past full, With uncontained love, poured forth by God's decree. White maiden mother of the manger child Show us His scarlet stains which made us undefiled.

If One Bu't Knew - by Willia m Garrett (Second Prize)

If one could choose his moment to be born, If Nature deemed that life was one's own cho9sing: To enter mortal challenge and to mourn, Or stay without, avoiding risk of losing;

If one could strengthen faith by merely wishing, ' If one could tell himself he knew 'twas so His thoughts and deeds were bent upon enriching God, Himself, and M'r!n; if one could know; Then, lady, keeper of the sword and scale, Who weighs our deeds and portions out our lot, \ If one but knew, then you could lift your veil, And men would deem it just. But you cannot. · � Men cling to hope and look to some tomorrow When 'knowledge mothers truth instead of sorrow. PAGE TEN WEDNESDAY, FEB. 20, Prairie in the United States by Loren Grissom · (Third Prize) I The rainbow writes bright promises within The prairie-mother of men. Ancl silver rays Of su nlight toast the new-turned sod and pin The red man to his timber claims with days_ Of wigwam smoke to warm the prairie dawn. Th'reshing crews endure the dusty strawpile flakes So that the prairie may hold up her brawn To feed the children of a.race that breaks. The seas have pressed in on this rugged lea, And .all its hunting grounds have seen replace, But even though the buffalo and he Have gone into the happy, heavenly chase, Their spirits have returned, and many roam ' Th� famous acres of their native home.

Ode to Spring

by Ma rgaret Wood

Who i.s this graceful goddess • Whose fleet foot and dainty hand have transformed Winter's bleakness into fairyland? Where'er she steps gay flowers spring, And at her call the birds do sing. Who is this graceful goddess Whose melodious laughter, like a babbling stream, Arouses Earth from Winter's somber dream? Her silken tresses sparkle as of gold, and her radiant beauty never shall grow old. Who is this graceful goddess . Whose fragrance and soft draperies perfume ' The land in peace and serenity costume? A garland of violets circles round her ·head, And t}e r lips are li�e the rubies' deepest red. Who is this graceful goddess? She is Spring, the daughter of South Wi nds and Sun, Symbol of resurrection a�d spirit of freedom won. ' She is man's noble vision, the hope of future years. She is the beauty, love, and peace which all mankind reserves. On Extended Life by Bill Bryan

If end of life like evening did not lurk Behind the prime of noon and strength of day, If icy-fingered death would cease to work, And call the ,souls of mortal men away, If joyous youth might everlasting be, · And I might thus escape that certain grave Beyond the which no living .ki nd can see­ The fears of which do discipline the brave, I would abandon not my moral code, Nor lower standards which before I'd set, But raise them high and press along life's road With vigor like I've never shown as yet, For my pursuit ·of this exalted goal Would strengthen and expand my burdened soul. /

B. 20, 1952 PAGE ELEVEN The Chicken-Eater

by Robert G. Flick

• - (Honorable Mention}

the number of chickens cohsumed in this country pe� year would be The freqvent sound of bone-crack­ ring. I cannot think myself far from wrong to suppose that fried ing leads one to believe that the me­ mashed potatoes constitute the main course of "the American meal'' tf;iod may have been devised by a ly as ba seball is "the American sport." c�iropractor. This species of chicken­ poll were to be conducted, I venture to say that more people would cite eater is most likely to be found in en as their favorite food than would choose any other. In the home, in the small town and is as apt to be rant, on the picnic grounds, male as female. The method is typical fair, the drumstick is found trate of meat from the massacred to the small time operator. forward in ever-mounting fowl, a mistake in her maneuvers ac­ Then there is the college student Fried chicken is no respecter cidentally lets a wing bond flop un- who is versed in the latest and most ; it finds its destination in dignified onto the table cloth. · scientific 01odes of chicken-eating. He s of all classes and types She quickly glances around; and (or she) knows that modern etiquette , from elite society to the when she is certain no one has noticed permits bone-gnawing; he therefore lagabond who roasts the her shameful error, she deftly snatch­ strikes out in open- defiance of the , ltOlen fowl over an open es it back onto her plate. Not for gold older and 'uneducated' silverware­ wou ld she have stooped to touch the struggler. of these types and their greasy bone in order to bite off the The feminine student takes only ical motives I will here de- meat. small morsels off the bone at one Next we have the . 'ripper,' time and nibbles somewhat like a there is the unmarried, who endeavors to tear the flesh cub bear at the chicken leg, as she ed 'debutante' of the from the bone with his fingers holds it directly in f.ront of her face middle classes. She enters and to convey it to his mouth in in both hands, witn her elbows prop­ urant with mincing steps the same way. This is the most ped Yertically upon the table. In the tight-fitting, teen-age uncommon type, and he revels more ravenous male, however, the After carefully selecting in his individuality. The only haz· meat is thrust from the limb in great with the most immaculate ardous pitfall that I have been shreds and is taken into the mouth she proceeds to overlook able to observe in this practice inch by inch. ation precaution by wip­ is that, in the abrupt separation There seems to be an overwhelm­ silverware with a paper of meat from bone, the index ing nostalgia to return to the primitive finger has been known to plunge cave-customs of our hairy and carni­ after the waiter has requested headlong into the potato-bottom· verous forefathers whose meat eating r does she take the bill-of­ ed l11ke of gravy. (Continued to page twelve} �tween the salt and pepper ind begin to pore over its Minutes creep by in which putes prices and makes in­ Sweet Dreams and Bed lam to the freshness of various by Robert Flick ch delicacies. In desperation G. e& pan-fried chicken and The pounding piston of the power house pump potatoes which she had ori­ Used to drug me with ifs throbbing thump. iliended to order. In years gone by · ns as to its preparation and This was my lullaby. ing for the salad follow. With My senses dulled, s bird before her, knife and My tired brain lulled, �and, she embarks. upon the I'd saunter off to somber slumberland . . She has neglected to read And when the sandman's lethargy was contraband, edition of Emily Post, which t it is socially acceptable to My brain would clatter in time and tune With the clicking, en with the f,ingers. The tools Endless ticking loisily as they work to sever Of that insane clock. from. the bone. _Not a few Runnii:ig, racing, threatening, warning the carver's hand imperiled blade as it slips against the Th,at the mOTning Would quickly bf ing the shock Of a thousand little men with hammers of perspiring labor succeed Beating on the blatent bell. mulation of a tiny pile of ments which the battle­ And I would have to rise to stop their clamors, y victoriously devours after Or lie the fork to her right hand. And die . pting to procuse the last Listening to their lunatic orgy from hell. PAGE TWELVE WEDNESDAY, FEB. 20

How Religion Has Stimulated t�e Fine Arts

by Ma ry Franklin_

(Junior Englfsh examination honors paper)

ONE OF the prime factors that has stimulated the fine arts of architectu re, scu lp- turing, dancing, music, painting, drawing, poetry and drama, has been Chicken-Eater religion. Yet this st imulating factor of religion must be divided into two categor­ (Continued from page ele ies: that of Pre-Christ, and that of the Christian era. In ancient Greece and Rome, manners knew no restraint. NQ in Pre-Ch ristian time, the religion of the people was found in their belief in the Chicago's beloved Bushman w gods and goddesses. Many fine temples employing bt!Sutiful architecture were idol of many a small boy and built in honor of these gods and god­ tion-minded college freshmal desses. Sculpturing adorned the tem­ Although Drama has its origin per­ ples; statues were created to resemble envied his ingenuous manners. haps in the ritual which accompanied the gods and goddesses. From the Finally there is the naive fetes in honor of these gods a,nd god­ the ancient Greek religious fetes, it who · eats his chicken with desses came the ritual, dance and has been even further stimulated in same gusto as the male c early drama. the Christian ear by the miracle, mor­ "student but who does so out an ig norance rather than a In the Christian era of religious sti­ ality, and mystery plays of the med­ ieval church. Scenes representing the ledge of the 'facts.' He talks mulation, the arts of music, painting, Nativity, the Crucifixtion, and the as much relish as he eats a drawing, poetry and drama have Resurrection were presented in the skilled at doing both simu been affected. church, then later out of doors, and eously. His lips smack as he rives every ounce of pl When I think -of religious stimula- has sincEf develop,ed into drama and ,,, . tion in the field c>f music many things plays as we kngw it today. Yet, even from his favorite pastime. come to my mind .. I feel that the first today Passion Plays are still being In "giving gestures of emp music was inspired by Christ, because presented . and drawing huge audi­ his conversation he waves the I th ink of the Angell choir proclaim­ ences . This makes me tend to believe ously cleaned. leg bone in the a· ing the Nativity as the first mv�ic ever tf\at religion continues to be a prime expressive movements whidl given to the world. Thinking forther factor in the stimulation of drama. Toscanini would envy. This lif on how religion may have stimvlated Fine arts are stimulated .by all types individual is the least affected music, m.y thoughts turn to the Greg­ of religion. In this theme I have at­ I have described, for he is not orian Chant, and the fugues which tempted to show how the ancient least concerned with social · Bad;>. composed for the great chu·rch Grecian religious beliefs and the be­ nor attention-seeking origin organs. liefs in Christ have stimulated art, defiance to restrictions. In the field of painting and draw­ but it must be remembered that · He only eats as he wants to, ing, religious stimulation is evidenced wherever man raises his voice in der to gain the most satisfa by the medieval church paintings of · praise of a Divine Being-whether he it. He is neither conformist Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, and other calls that Being Zeus, Christ, Moham­ conformist nor individual,i� p�inting� l\ispired by Christ or the med, Buddha, Zoroaster, or the Great vidual, and I believe it is iafe Madonna and Child. Manitou-fine art will be inspired and sume thcff he is the least both When I think of religious stimula­ stimulated. indigestion of the lot. tion in the field of poetry, immediate­ ly my mind rests on the Scriptures. What more inspiration or stimulation Remembering could there be than is found in God's · own word? by Dr. Howard def. Widger Through the ages we are able to see that some of the world's most (guest poem) beautiful poetry is written about the Shall we remember in the after years - Nativity or Christ's Vicarious atone­ The gloriously glad hours that we have spent; \.;,: ment. Examples of this would be And shall the gracious gift of happy tears poem's such as Paradise Lost in which . Be dropped upon the buried love life sent Adam and Eve's sin, God's mercy and To cheer ou r heavy steps along the way? love and the atonement of Christ for Is human fellowship a transient th ing man's si11 are depicted; and a poem To flourish, flower, and fade in one brief day, which remains vividly impri nted in Leaving us nought but empty sorrowing? my mind-"The Burning Babe." To me, the very first poetry given No, never, no! But fragrant memories to the world was of religious origin, Shall sweeten aU the chambers of the mind -. and religion has been �the major sti­ With perfume of past days, like scent of trees mulant of poetry ever since as man Of sandal-wood in treasure-chests confined. tries to write his praise and love of And down the road of years we'll softly sing, the Divinity. For aye remembering, remembering . . -

PAGE THREE listening room Tri Sigs spon�or Botany club motors to St. Louis polio fund drive ossum rated schedule to attend annual Orchid show e by Klod SIGMA SIGMA Sigma, pledges 27. Today were initiated on January THI RTY-TWO bota ny majors and minors and three facultY members Previous activities included break­ 3-5 p.m.-Rachmaninoff : Son­ attended the Orchid show at St. l:ouis Thursday. ata in G minor, op. 19 (Kurtz, fast at Mattoon's Dinner Bell and with electric ra zors, cellist), Fourteen Songs (Maria a "Dream" rush party. The Orchid show, an annual affair, was held in the Missouri Botanical Gartlens, better known as Shaw's Gardens. All kind, to a recent Associated Kurenko), Concerto No. 1 in F The pled&-es are deep in plans The Englishmen hav.e sharp minor, op. 1 (Rachmaninoff, 5izes and shapes of orchids were exhibited at the show. · · for a party honoring the Actives. ' ing about having to pianist) , The pledges are : Georgeann Bell While in St. Louis the students visited the Jewel Box in Forest eold water. Wouldn't 7 p.�King Cole Trio; Benny of St. Francisville; Marilyn Atte­ Park and Henry J. Shaw's library' \ get a kick out of Goodman; Earl Hines tre rry of Olney; Susie Kenney of in connection with Washington' Chuck (;ole, Jim Cole, Jerry Crum, 's our dough that does 8 p.m.-Gentlemen Prefer Blond- Robinson; Jane McCormick of St. James Dale, Pat Ehrsam, Mar­ es university. Francisville; Marian Henn of garet Ellington, Dick Enochs, Thursday, Feb. 21 Those making the trip were Paris ; Frank Fraembs, Harold Fuller, 3-5 G�ne Aikman, Larry Bales, Verne p.m.-Grieg : Peer Gent Lyn Moyer of Decatur; Jane Jean Hudnut, Richard Hvdnut, 1, 46, Bear, Jim Biggs, Paul Carter, Suite, No. op. Symphonic Wiggington of Oakland; Norma David Jacobson, Ruth Lynn, Dick Dances on Norwegian Themes Siegel of Skokie; ·Janet Fitzwil­ Palmer, Frank Pixley, Janet Rails­ 7 p.m.-Al Jolson; Beatrice liam of Mattot>n; Susie Tuttle -of back, Bass eats Greek fish · J. E. Rea, Millie Rea, Doro­ Kay; Fred Waring Mattoon; Rosemary Scheidker of thy Schenk, Roy Shake, Katherirle 8 p.m.-South Pacific Charleston; Jeanne Stuckey 1 of ACP-At the University of Texas Sharp, Bob Sherer, Gene Snack, ·Friday, Feb. 22 Effingham ; Betty Biggs of Law­ a callosed prankster slipped a Dick Stevenson, Melba Strange, 3-5 p.m.-Verdi : Falstaff rencevlle; Mary Frankin of Mat­ Joan Wills, and Bob Ziegle. live bass into a fraternity goldfish toon; Pat Gill of Cl ay City; Jean Monday, Feb. 25 Dr. E. L. Stover, Dr. H. F. Thut, Owns of Mattoon; and Carolyn bowl. In true DarfiniAn form, the and Dr. K. E. Damann accompaned Ye?-A man who gets 3-5 p.m._:Tchaikovsky : Concer­ • Miller of Cl/.arleston. ioldfish disappeared. the students on the trip. ked car, puts a used to in D major, France8'!a Da Rim­ t under his wind­ ini, op 32, Romeo and Juliet Fan­ to keep from drop­ . tasia, Overture 1812 t 1'4!nny, then walks into 7-9 p.m.-Milhaud: Sacred Ser­ and buys a 25 cent vice, Cantate De L'Enfant de La Mere; Brahms: Schickaalslied Tuesday, Feb. 26 makes the heart 3 p.in.-Harlem Jazz 1930; Duke Ellington; History of Jazz, Vol IV Campus Interviews on Cigarette Tests 4 p.m.-ShovJ-boat the American people 7-9 p.m.-Beethoven : Sonata No. pray for strength and 8, C minor, op. 13; Rimsky-Korsa­ ·No. 34 . ..TH E FER'RET when they can't even kov: Scheherazade; Borodin: eir next door neigh­ Dances of the Polovetzki Maidens; ! operatic arias , ) llow J&11itary !" "is some- NEW YORKERS often have· wiri­ 18 a teenage expression . ters more .severe than those in lapproval of a car, Reykjavik, Iceland's capital. The ost anything. The Eng­ latter is warmed by .the Gulf ge is changing faster Stream and the average tempera­ to. ture is 32 degrees in January

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Panther Picks Four teams win IM playoff Lq ntz cancels Washington ga berths; decide rest this week • ACCORDING 'T'o Athletic by / or, Dr. G. P. Lantz, Ea DETIRO'S DEMONS, Gunners, Bullies, and Sig Tau,I have sewed up game ,with Washington 4 Jack Pa an places 'in the intramural playoffs representing League and sity, originally sched y ' • Le ague 3. . March 4, has been cancellet THE FAME of Eastern's Panther's is spreading day by da . Last week y Phi Sig Red, Hot Rocks, and Kappa Sig Gold were still battling low the Panthers to partici Daily News the Chicago carried as their lead story the possi­ for the two spots in League I while Sig Pi Gold, Phi Sig White, and the Illinois playoff for the bility of a gigantic college double-header at the Chi£ago Stadium Sig Tau II wil l have a playoff to decide who goes from League 11. tournament at Kansas City. sometime in March. In that article, Eastern was mentioned along Games played last week found with �uch cage powers as Illinois, l�wa, DePaul and Bradley. the Hot Rocks continuing unde­ the Bullies finishing undefeated highest score of the year Quoting from the Daily News, ''If possibility Number 2 works feated as they walloped Sig Tau as they ran over the Traders 71- Rog D�ttro's team as thet out DePaul wil l invite undefeated Eastern Illinois State college of III 61-33. Jerry Crum and Don 48 and the Phi Sig Blue picking up 16 and. 13 markers. Griesmer did the principle damage Ch�rleston, probably the finest small-college team in the nation, their hird win 30-29 over Ep Sig Gunners went into the 'as they dumped in 25 and 20 ponts. op­ II. on's game unbeaten as to play in the other game. The trouble there is that finding �n Jack Payan bucketed 14 counters Playiing without Willie Lumpp, had taken Kappa Sig ponent for the point-hungry Panthers from Charleston, winners for the losers. · - the Bullies continued to roll as of 17 straight, will be no easy jobl" 67-35 on Baker's 22, Phi Sig Red also rolled along Joe Patridge canned 21 and Carol Marble's 16, Ron Corzin Possibility number 2 i� that the Big Ten champs (either Illinois unbeaten in League •I as they Pullen and Dwight Baptist divid­ and Ron Landers' 10 or Iowa) would play DePaul in one game if the Demons do not handed the Kappa Sig Gold their ed 36 more. · Walter Pyle ran up Cowboys nosed out the EJ receive a NCAA playoff berth. Eastern's chances of playing in the irst defeat 65-46. pon Hender- f 19 points for the losers. I 24-23 in the final game at that time are slim, as the Kansas City tourney (NAIB) is 1son hit his old time form as he Demons took the League 4 ' stadium week. slated for the same weekend as the stadium games. dropped in 16 markers. Bill Rein- title as they chalked up a 69- - Crum, Hot Rocks, has 69 eke, .Jack Farris, and John Sim­ 36 victory over the Gunners ' Regardless of what comes of it, the fact that DePaul officials in three games for a 23 mons added 13, 12, and 11. Elmer after having taken Ep Sig I po rank Eastern a·mong the nations best, gives some more encourag­ erage, the best in the lea Sliull tallied 13 in a losing effort. earlier 88-40. ment to Eastern fans who are proud of their school, and their fine Other players with 70 or Simmons held Jim Fredenberger Don ·Rogers, Harry Moeller, tasketball team. points reEardless of num to three free throws. . John McDevitt, and Bobby Lee * * * games played are Moell8!1 Roy Max scored 18 points and split up the scoring against the Griesemer 74, Reineke a.nd Time to put in a plug for myself and acting Director of Public Harland Riebe 13 as the Fossils Gunners with 17, 16, 14, and 13 and Rogers 71. Relations, Ken Hesler. The reason is that Clyde Nealey isn't the handed ,.Sig Pi Purple their fifth points respectively. Ted Beagle only prognosticator around. As you all know, Tom Katsimpalis straight dt:.feat 57-28. The teach­ did not play for the Demons. recently broke the all-time four-year school scoring record, but what ers have a 2-4 record now. Against the Ep Sig, six players you don't know is that Ken and I, as long1 as six weeks ago, pre­ Sig Pi Gold threw League hit, double figures. Moeller had,16, Going Out of t dicted "Kat" would break the record in the second quarter of the III into a three way tie as Lee 15, Beagle and McDevitt 14, Bob Mieure 12;- and Rogers 11, Michigan Normal ga e at Ypsila ti February 16. Tom did break they dealt Sig Tau II their � � first loss 42-33 while Phi Sig Dave · Sawyer and Joe Summerville the record in the game, only he did so one quarter earl_ier than we White was taking care of the enabled the losers to run up the figured. Mcsfit Five 47-37. * * * Mo Ashley rac d up 11 points e fce I.. at · Not content with their losing efforts in basketball, the Fossilettes in the Sig Pi win while Loren are looking forward to forming a softball team, and also a bowling Blaase tallied 12 for the victims. Snyder's Jewelry Store Radio · & Refriger team. Then they are going to challenge th� WAA girls to tourna­ Ed Smitley of the .winners and DIAMONDS ....: WATCHES Chuck Kleiss of the losers each ments in these sports. Maybe the Fossilettes are looking for revenge RINGS - SILVERWARE Sales & Servic:t as they lost every game they played in the recently completed WAA had 15 in the Phi Sig Misfit game. . FOUNTAIN PENS-BILL FOLDS 416 SIXTH .. tournament. Smitley had more support as Dave * * * Cohrs and Bill Danley added 11 I and 10 points. Put aside the date February 26. Thats when the Panthers Two games in League 3 found journey to Indiana State for their game with the Sycamores. The Staters are as tough as the Panthers when playing in their home confines, so the more" Eastern rooter� at the game the better. East­ WILLIAM A. HAIDUCK ern's "B" squad wil l play the junior Sycamores in the opener. NEW YORK LIFE INS. CO. * * * Life, Accident and Sickness I erroneously reported in last weeks column that I was in Hospitalization Yplisanti, Michigan last fall for the Eastern-Central football game. 216 Polk St. Phone 209 1 We extend an invitatiott I was at the game all right, but it was played in Mt. 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Healey's ord to 10-0 by defeating C�ntral Michigan· and potent Panthers face two old rivals in games on Saturday and Normal 86-67 in a sweep through the Wolverine state. Tuesday nights. Western Illinois makes its initi al 1952 appearance eated and with only two league games to go, the Pan­ on the Eastern court Saturday night and the following Tuesday is beyond the reach of any other conference team as Eastern trave� to Terre Haute for a game wih Indiana State. othei: IIAC contestants The latter game may prove to be the most severe test for the at l\last three games. Panthers· this season since they titl e is the second in a Tom kat sets school haven't defeated the Sycamores on The Leathernecks are currently tern an d the fourtr in the Terre Haute floor in several in fourth place in IIAC coxnpeti­ sto r i n g re co rd campaigns. which they have either \ 1 1 tion. won. In 1948-49 the TOM KATSIMPALIS, Eastern' In previous meetings with Indiana State has been run- aquad shared the first Illinois Sta'te's Little All-Amer- the two teams, Eastern gained ning roughshod over oppon­ ican from Gary, Ind., added new easy victories. At Macomb with Southern and . ents Sllnce their defeat by nta year later split the laurels to his collEige cage record TOM KATSIMPALIS, Gary, Ind. they : downed the Leather­ Eastern, including · a thriller l>uthern. The confer- Saturday as he tossed in 17 points senior, recently set an all-time necks by an 82-67 count while "onship last year was against Central Michigan to bring school scoring record for East­ on the home floor they knock­ over Beloit on the Terre Taute title to be won by his four year scoring mark to 1422 ern. "Kat" has been starting cen­ ed off State 78-65. court. The defeat was the first for Beloit at that time and 'basketball team. and break the all-time Eastern ter for three seasons and has Western lost two of its top play­ scoring record of 1408 held by they have since lost only three not up to their aver­ outclassed/ the "goon" centers ers on fouls in th second half in­ John ·Wilson, ace point-maker who games. In the Michigan games, despite hi� lack of h�ight. cluding one of the nations leading rs came through with graduated in 1951. rebounders, Monzell Jackson. The Fans will remember the out­ rtant wins. At Mt. Katsimpalis, opening the 1951- 6'2" Negro is averaging over 17 standing play of one Sam Richard­ ling 18.9 point per game average, squad found them­ 52 season with a total of 1038 son, Negro center for the Syca­ he amassed ....-a 26 game total of rebounds per game. Another top icit most of the first points, has swished in 387 tallies mores. Richardson stands 6'4'1 and 489 points, bettering- a 1949 rec­ performer for the Leathernecks is just as the Chips took in 19 games to give him the new has developed into a top threat ord of 35, set by John Wilson. high jump champion Jack Pensin­ t lead of 11 points, the high. both offensively and defensively, Early in the 1949-50 season Katsim­ ger. Duane Sandler, wlio just re­ behind Tom Katsimpalis Playing in a total of 88 games, and possesses devastating re­ palis tossed in 32 points in one cently gained a starting position �inutes of sparkling' the former Froebe! high :star has on the Western five, has developed bounding power. maintained a 16.2 point per game game to tie the home court record to ' make their 18th into one of their leading scoring The last game played on the average since he donned an East­ and later in the year he netted 35 tallies against Millikin university threats as he pumped in 18 points State court found Eastern holding ern uniform. in the last Leatherneck encounter. the short end of a 66-59 score. In his freshman year, Tom­ of Decatur to break the record. kat' pliayed only for short per- Tom again set a new high in the Eastern gym / iods in some 20 games to net when he scored 1 15 223 points; but it was at the field goals and eight free thrdws for end of that freshman season. 38 points against Central Mich­ LOOK YOUR BEST­ 1948-49, that the lanky cenJ igan early this season. ter came into his own. Katsimpalis has played in ALWAYS I Traveling with the Panthers to four N AIB tournaments in Kansas C,ity, Mo., for the-Nation­ Kansas City. 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Lee Wrestlers lose Bobby Lee sparkles ih both I Pa.nthers eye at Great La kes clean slate high school arid college Th\STERN'S GRAPPLER.I s\.ut out in ther initial ONE OF the few Eastern players to play on an Illinois state hi�h ance of 1952 by Great Lak in league school championship basketba ll team is the distinction held 38-0 score. The inexperie by Bobby Lee of Mt. Vernon, Illinois. were no match for the ONLY TWO games remain on tap 5'8" for IIAC champion Eastern Illi­ Bobby, a junior playing his fi rst season as a Panther Navy and all were pinne41 nois and both agaipst schools regular, was a member of �he 1949 Mt. Vernon Rams who captured exception of Charles Sihi soundly trounced by the Panthers the state title by defeating Hillsboro. pounder. He was defeated in earlier games. Illinois Normal He was also selected to the tour­ , . score in his match. greed on at least one thmg ; clinched second spot in . the con­ nament all-state team · on the that Lee h�s one of the best ference with its win over South­ basis of his outstandiing play at jump shots, from a standpoint ern Illinois last weekend. the state finals. Tomkat record of both form and accuracy, to If Eastern is able to repeat its In some of the lighter moments be found in this section. victories over Western and North· when friends gather to talk over Many good players who have one ern it will be the first time a team high school days, Lee likes to tell of which Eastern won. style of shooting, as Bobby has, . has been able to go through an en­ about an incident which happened The Panthers won 23 will run into a good defensive man tire schedule in the Interstate con­ at the state tourney. and lost ony six during Ka who .stops them cold. Bobby has a year at Eastern and tied ference without a defeat. Bobby had been high point man habit of dribbling�n front of the IIAC crown, the first lea Northern upset Western in a in one of the games, which of defense and then abruptly jumping ketball title ever to come to weekend game for the Huskies course the Rams won, but the to shoot, often from as far as 30 leston. ·initial IIAC victory. newspapers headlines the next day feet out. . Standings : had, in part, "Rams Win, Hooper In the 1949-50 seas� W L Co)'lsequently, he has very few Fouls Out" and far down in the fought to a three-way til Eastern 10 0 �hots blocked and his scoring de­ story that Bobby was high · point conference championshiRi Illinois Normal 7 3 pends mostly on how "hot" he man with 17. "No justice," says year the Panthers took a cl Southern 6 6 happens to be and the number of 3 6 Bobby. Max. Hooper, who was gue title as Katsimpalis Western shots he takes, 3 5 then only a junior, was consid�red 325 points. Michigan Normal Lee's highest total for one the outstanding player on the Central Michigan 9 8 game was 26 points against te�m. He now is a sophomore play- Northern 1 6 Regis College of Colorado in as far as scoring goes. He ing. at Illinois. the Kansas City holiday tour­ Eastern in the summer of Walt Moore and John Riley, two nament. Bob, who last summer Tickets on sa le BOB LEE leaps with his patented other former teammates are now 'Ball-hawking Bobby and Rog Sarah Utter, is a PE , jump shgt which has played playing at Illinois and Bradley re­ Dettro have been a terror all year Social Science major. H TICKETS FOR the Indiana State spectively. member of the Varsity h a v o c w i th defensemen all to opposing guards who often game Tuesday will be· on sale Of the contingent of East­ have the ball stolen right out of works at the cafeteria. this week. through the Eastern schedule. In 258 ern followers who call them­ their hands. Bobby also is enro118t Three hundred student tickets 18 games he has totaled selves amateur experts at Bobby went to McKendree Col­ marine officers training will be sold in the office of Dr. points good for third high on judging basketball teams and lege his freshman year and prac­ and will enter the marl Charles P. Lantz, athletic director. the squad. players, the majority are a- tically rewrote the record books tive duty upon graduaticfl Ticket price is 60 cents. Students using tickets are �-- urged by Roy 0. Hunter, athletic ticket manager at Indiana State, to enter the gymnasium at the • northeast door. All students tick­ ets are marked "Eastern and State," with the Eastern cheer­ ing section to be seated on th,e stage in the gymnasium. Watch bulletin board under the clock in Old Main for announce­ ment of time tickets will' go on sale. 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Eastern State News ••• NO. 17 WEDNESDAY, FEB. 20, 1952

• Essay Types of Friendship

by Bill Brya n (First Prize) . days ago I met a fellow in the corridor who introduced himself as a class­ BILL BRYAN step- and asked, as classmates so often do, for a comment upon a test our te ped int.o the li­ ilwidgive n. Because of the size of the class and the fact that the course terary limelight in rted , I had never seen him before, but from that first time there lll his first effort. Bill, thing about him I liked. a senior English ybe it was the sincere way he spoke as he looked at me with his deep major, resides in , or perhaps it was the short Toledo. He also won blond hair thclt curled the tunate situation because the friend­ Junior English ex­ way and hung over his high ship is forced and unreal, and the amination honor� and the amusing and differ- coveted favors cannot be obtained recently. he had of changing his facial anyway since people can see through n from jovial to serious in the thin veneer of intimacy . . nt and without notice. What­ ·No person is more unwelcome in us in whatever session we might hap­ was, I liked him. a community than the man who is pen to become the subject ef conver­ liegan a conversation at once, obviously being friendly in order that • sation. When such is the case, our wasn't long until we had dis­ he may have free use of the neigh­ acquaintances can sense the potency of some com mon friends and in­ bor's garden hose or get a pay in­ our conceit, and whatever word they bout which to talk for a good crease at the local plant, The most say to other people about us is not ile. I knew that I had found tragic fact about the friendship that is likely to be desirable. Certainly an ad­ t prized possession and one built on such shaky foundations is mirable person is not one who would Dreatest blessings a man may that it never lasts. Needless to say, use a friend as a means to the end friend . I was so proud of my when the favors have been obtained , of having his praises shouted all over une that within a few days and the property has �en borrowed, the campus, and we could quite easily ttlated my joyous experience a cold shoulder is promptly turned up­ detect the insincerity of anyone who other intimates; I was proud on the lender, especially if he has the / would. I liked him very much, and "brass" to ask that the article in ques­ The number of people with whom I knew that he was fond tion be returned. a person may become intimately ac­ That is the way a sincere and A person who makes friends quainted determines his or her popu­ fi'jendship is made, and any­ · for the purpose of persuading larity. For this reason we frequently has had such an experience them to adopt his point of view run on to those who insist upon forc­ that it is indeed a joyous is frequently found. Politicians ing themselves upon us whether we often use this method, and it is are attracted to them or not. Such a rtunately, not all friend- sometimes · the means used by friendship cannot be enjoyed, not 1re as lasting as I am sure religious organizations to spread only because the motive behind it is ene will be for not all are dodrinal beliefs. If the scheme self-centered, but because the person "flOll equally stable founda­ fails, which it is likely to do since desiring the popularity is so concern­ ln these few paragraphs the person being persuaded will ed about initiating other relationships to describe some other resent such an approach, the so­ that he has no time to show a genuine of friendship and the rea· called friendship ends rather ab· interest in anyone. for which they are made. ruptly. Fortunately, the most common ' nally we find a person who In an effort to gain personal glory type of friendship springs from friends for the sole purpose of or popularity, some of us turh to mak­ the very heart of each individual per_s onal favors and who ing a large number of friends. These involved. Most people do not iti dever enough to conceal friends are then expected to noise have some selfish aim in view se. This ls indeed an unfor- our merits abroad and speak out for when maki1J9 friends; b!-'t, never- PAGE TWO WEpNESDA Y, FEB. 20,

theless, almost everyone has, at of a more fitting term and ask to be sincere respect,) admiratio11, one time or another, been guilty al lowed to use it loosely. Regardless fection between two individu of such a motive. of our terminology, the only friend­ these three only one, the last, is ship which is really enjoyable, really worth while. Friendship is a gi Having attended school the greater lasting, and really valuable is one is almost sacred and which part of my life, I may say from ex­ which grows out of that inexplicable certainly not be abused; a fri perience that the . temptation to use and altogether sincere attraction two more valuable than the rar a friend as a means to some self­ people have for one another. , jewels and should be guarde4 centered end is indeed hard to resist. To summariz� briefly, I say that fully. Perhaps some would say that I have Between the classmate whonl there are three distinct types of friend­ '} misused the word "friendship" ar:id in the corridor and myself, I h ship: that which is based upon a de­ that it can be applied only when the a permanent bond rapidly gr i, underlying cause is unselfish. That sire for -persQl'lat favors, that which Now I can proudly say that I 'I argument has a point worth consider­ is based upon a desire for personal another extremely precious ing, but I say "friendship" for want glory, and that which is based upon friend . . c 14 r 1} IC The Caste of Politics e l: Il by Melvin Hough :l: (Second Prize) v WERE I an authentic artist of some small ability and were I asked to express along with adding a num ber of on canvas my version of the political system found existing within the realm corruptible things to the art list

of the world or even within the boundaries of our own coi.intry, I'm terribly cer­ the· days of old and Jonathal1 tain that the crude piece of art that I would be compelled to come forth with I· maintain that no individ

0 would be an extremely grotesque creation on my part. and 1'don't care how long ht As we gaze thoughtfully (and one will have to be thoughtful) at this make been tutored by religious o believe creation, being only too care­ z:ations as well as being ca ic ful of the still wet paint, we might ob­ ed by pious old ladies who 1. It is those of the mujtitude who serve a large, transparent, global, heitd their noses tightly and plunge ble in every limb for the few wrath of God when they . n rea lm bobbing in an alarming fashion feet first into the dark stagnant sea slight tinge of corrupti n on a· dark, murky sea. Through the water with the intention of coming • a ii thick transparency of the bel1, made into fhe realm from the underneath such individual will be oom stand straight against the gl y by the darkness of the sea side that have chosen, by far, the and abominabll! state of na and the heavy, low-flying clouds, we easier method of entering. Though it wo1:tld note the large congregation of is or may be a relatively simple task or international affairs. half-human, half-serpent creatures to hold one's nose and avoid the Let me go a step furtheil Iii gnawing, scratching, spitting and smelling stench of the stagnant abyss statement. For · instance, cursing at each qt her. as he passes through, it 'is a much Closer observance shows that greater task to remove the stench there are two entrances into.this from his clothing after he has entered MELVIN HOUGH large gl

is cloak of purity about him Thus his purity has receded a piece ning and shrewd in planning a foaches the globe on a raft from him and he is slowly bowing to course of action that will carry II hardly float because of his the inevitable tempation. A step or him to the objective the most ice of water-soaked logs. two farther and he has entered the rapidly, no matter how obscene • several it may be, will be the one most attempts at scaling valve that would make his reforma­ I all and entering the globe tion an impossibility. likely to rescue the young lady. 'the only proper entrance de- Two courageous knights rushing to As long as we have amphibious to his standing and purpose, save a young damsel in distress in a creatures floundering in the stagnant his cloak of purity is begin­ situation in which only one of the two water under the bell and weak-kneed slip from his shoulders and chivalrous human beings is needed glires that are afraid to struggle for ft is such a conspicous thing will probably lead to some rather un- tJie opportunity and responsibility of ranee to his scaling feat he . desirable tactics by the two along the entering through the desirable . en­ less heed to .it and no longer way, since both realize that the really trance, we shall be forever burdened the corner of it across his nose admirable thing will be the actual with a caste of creatures who will off the loathsome stench rescuing of the beautiful maiden. continue to prey upon the decency of him. The one who is the most cun- our rights as peoples of governments.

' ' Woman and Fire ( by Robert G. Flick (Third Pri:ze) n inning God created man, but the Omniscient One soon realized that prepared by feminine hands; was alone and helpless. The aloneness was remedied by creating neither could most food be made . With the discovery of fire, man was no longer helpless. These two then, palatable without the flavor-and­ and fire, I hold to be primarily essential to man's sustenance anc:I happi­ fume-making fingers of fire. ·ven the earth and the elements necessary for growth, which the Csreator Woman is like fire too in her fer- even before He made man, nothing is more important than these two. vent pursuit of whatever she seeks to al indispensability to man is envelop and bring within her warm ir first claim held in common; BOB FLICK, . senior (or scorching) embrace. Her f'}iry alike in many respects. English maj o r, qualities become apparent also in · he n and fire are both instru· reports 'Woman melting of many an ice-crusted he rt. of progress. and Fire' was in­ Nothing can more quickly burn spired by his wife. , through the transformation of away a man's mental and physical E Bob is an Oblong : It goes without saying that energies than a woman of selfishness 1 'ng mortal, could not continue lad with many li­ and insatiate avidness, and; on the t were it not for woman. With­ terary laurels to his other hand, nothing can so temper a r, man wou ld end; life. would credit. Last year he and fuse those energies into glowing [1 to move forward in succeeding won first in poetry. creativity as a woman of understand­ 'ons; the progression o f ing, appreciation, and : inspiration. In ind could not be. Equally evi- an hour of dark travail a woman's love the r1ecessity of fire to the pro- may be the guiding and strengthening • does fire transfer heat energy into lumanity. machines capable of serving man. flame of light, giving man a renewed as physical elements One of the simplest instances of this bearing on the real values of life. · not be made into human is the steam engine, or for that mat­ Woman is the flamelike stimulus without woman, neither ter, any engine, and it can be seen which urges man either to the achieve­ most matter be made into through experiment and observation ment of noble goals, to more vigorous al form without fire. that all mechanical energy can be re­ breadwinning, or sometimes to folly , glass, and most other duced to heat. and crime. Women (especially one depend on fire to be A magnificent perspective of the woman) have been known to so im­ e into shape. Thus, without i::atural order can be seen here .in a pr ss men with their purity and man's mechanical progress simple analogy: As the sun is the beauty as to incite a purging of char­ have remained stagnant source of all energy, and as fire is the acter and development of virtue not Dark Ages. medium of its transportation in the . unlike the sterilizing effects of fire ly, in the transfer of energy: mechanical realm, so God is the source upon germ-infested matter .. physical being which woman of all life, and woman is the medium -Woman is needed to keep the home out of formless matter is · of its transportation in the human fires burning, that man may not be ed that indefinable spark of realm. The words energy and life an eternal wanderer. The cause of energy known as life. Only can be used interchangeably in this man's becoming civilized can be · ' h the fibres of the feminine statement. traced to these two, ·woman and fire; cen flow that indestructable cur­ There are many less profound the hearth around which the basic of regeneration into a new similarities between the two. The family group moves is warmed by lganism. In parallel manner food which most of us eat is fire and by the ardent efforts of PAGE FOUR WEDNESDAY, FEB. 20 woman. The mother's heart and fam­ in the consuming hands of fire. Sim­ and sexomania are similar ily hearth are, or should be, one and ilarly, many men claim that there is orders. the same flame. no quicker means of seeing that Fire and woman are both Fire is the sign of learning and green-inked paper, which bears the vita l to man, but they can also of eternal memorial. As the torch pictures of presidents, consumed than man's most dangerous posse is the symbol of learning, so does to put it into the hands of woman. Both are capable of increasi a child's first knowledge come potentialities; both are capable 1 The resemblance between a spec­ from his mother. The ever-burn­ straying him. , They can both tac!Jlar display of pyrotechnics and ing flame of light, such as burns him, or he can become a serva the eruption of a violent feminine over war memorials, battlefields, them. temper is remarkable. and in churches, is comparable to The qualities of both then are the unforgetting heart of woman Man will get up or stay up all to be cons-umption, creation, where all the otherwise forgot­ hours of the night to watch a fire, and ance, fascination, generation, wa ten words and promises of man will he not do the same for a woman? stimulation, melting, explosi are kept alive and in faith. Both are equally fascinating, compel­ lization, and light. Ant.I one Many humorous resemblances ex­ ling, and hypnotic. deny that upon too close and ist as well. It is a well-known fact Both have been known to gloved contact with either, man that paper disappears into thin air drive men insane. Pyromania quite easily burn his fingers.

' Short Story • Never the Sun

by Robert G. Flick (First Prize) ..

THE ANCIENT Order of Hibernians and its branch, the Mollie Maguires, along were unjust, but he, like with most of the places mentioned herein are consistent with history and men, had been duped by H facts, although the story I have woven around them and the names used, pre- · ran's gravy-mouthed appelf tend to the truth in no specific manner. . their sympathies and his However, drawing from facts, incidents, and opinions written in such ac­ mendous power of organ counts as chapter 5 of The Pinkerton Story and volume ,B of Rhod4i!s' American and inciting the mob. History, the fictitious narrative seems to me to be quite typical of the overall The Hibernian constitutiof'll character of the organization, the prevalent conditions and the persons .involved. declared the rights of the w man to organize in resistance! * * * * bigotry of crusted capitali� I and colliery superintendenl been designed by a handful Of THE FLICK�RING lamplight threw shadows of indecision across Jim Riley's face scientious miners led by Jel'jl as he sat, rifle in hand, on the porch of Murphy Halloran's cabin. The week­ land, a rura� teacher, Bishod ly meeting of the Ancient Order of Hibernians had been postponed from Friday Daniel of Scranton, and Milo until today, Monday, and the meeting place moved, in order to evade a sus­ a struggling young Pottsville pected plot on the organization by Father Glen Green and an unknown accom­ In, its infancy the organizat plice, possibly a spy member of the Shenandoah chapter. ed these ideals in as effectiv The Wilkes Barre body of the Mol­ ner as the· men's consciencefi a lie" Maguire_s, a wing of the Hiber­ a mock trial at which he had acted law would allow, and no mo nians, had operated without fear of as sole judge and prosecutor and in the Irish hearts of these apprehension for almost fourteen which had been attended by a jury a vast amount of potential vi 862. years since the great purge in l of illiterate and Halloran-approved to their Irish tempers and firfl At that time Halloran succeeded in men. ran appealed with all his fore!! getting himself elected to the office Jim Riley remembered the purge suasion; and through their Iris� of Body Master; his authority had re­ with bewilderment as he sat tonight bility, that potential violenall mained unchallenged ever since. outside the meeting room watching to the hands of a madman. The . "purge" was Halloran's name the fading lights of Wilkes Barre. Jim If I am wrong in a for a well-laid plot to rid the organi­ had been only seventeen at the time, stereotyped generalities zation of all those men with enough but he was, at that time, a veteran race, I am not wrong in g education and cleverness . to see miner and Mollie of three years. He izing about the temper of through and oppose Halloran's plans had acted only as a spectator at the men. And I use the singu� for a reign of terror on the whole trials, being considered too young to posely. Men of the min hierarchy of bosses in <;harge of the serve on the jury and too ignorant to moles, who burrow benea Ramsey Clark mines. Halloran had oppose Halloran. ground and seldom e c_o nducted the purge in the form of Jim knew then that the trials when the sun shines, are AY, FEB. 20, 1952 PAGE FIVE

h their very association, to quit his job at the Clark, Mill-Creek bound by oath when he and Shorty 20 op a marked singularity of mine number near Carbondale by lay waiting for Songer near the Mill­ e and intent, even a uni· Wednesday, January 3, he could suf­ creek railroad trestle on the night o{ �attern of thought-a possi­ fer the conseque11ces? Jim Riley, who January 5. To avoid a possible trap, llUimism-a grim and slave­ worked near Wil kes Barre, had never the assassination had been delayed view of life-a bitterness to- heard of Songer; the two towns were two days after Songer refused to re­ 40 those who keep them en­ separated by almost miles of sign his job. in blackness and pover- mountains. Halloran always chose It was a moonlight night, not at, all men unknown to their victim. Not appropriate for a murder, as the fated ailey had become an anthracite only did it appear to be shrewd plan­ rider of the unmistakable Songer fJ:i th e steps of his father, who ning, but it served another purpose pinto came into view on the moon­ ewise followed in his father's as well, for Halloran could thus mold caressed road which led to the cover- . Jim had not been taught to bll to work. Not that Jim's and his father's father had not a better life for their sons; • WHEN THE News editor looked over the literary con- t was not the reason which test winner list, the name Bob Flick seemed to cover one family follow another from the page with a scattt!l'ed few in between. Flick replied, when asked what he thought of winning so many prizes, to mine in one deathless, un­ · nd orgy; it was because they "just a bit lucky." ford no better, because they In deserved recognition and credit to Flick, the New.a lept in a c "de of ignorance and congratulates him for a thoroughly done · job. Bob's work routine by a dreaded fate shows meticulous thought and versatile writing. It is no poverty." wonder that his contributions rated high in all yiree = ine had driven Jim Riley's classes, despite the 1Strong competition. ' - ather from Ireland in an early No, Bob Flick wasn't lucky. His writing illuminated !( 11nd the inescapable poverty the quality necessary to triumph. haunted him there was only "- relieved here. Added to that two other curses which brought lhare of misery and persecution. - whatever reputatiori he desired for ed Mill-Creek bridge. Each succeeding are explained by the terms the victim, and the men could not clatter of the ice-shod colt, as it rant" and "Catholic," which question it. echoed through the bridge, brought ds were uttered with a strong Jim nodded in acknowledgement beads of somber perspM'ation to the re of saliva and blasphemy by and acceptance when Halloran gave · back of Jim Ri ley's neck, and the shal­ i.ciually ignorant, pitiable, and the instructi.ons. It would be Jim's low snqw spread out from the dark erstood residents of- nineteenth first job in which the penalty was to opening where the two men trained ltnnsylvania. go all the way, but after all, wasn't their rifles. Riley grew to possess a it the only way, Jim asked himself? A loud crescendo of hoof· e, untutored, undecided, and He had more than once seen beats as the horse and rider veloped �ind In a strong, a fiery cross lighting the moun­ emerged from the black tunnel, , and well-developed body. tainside in an ominous glow, a brief moment of stillness as rge, calloused hand rested instilling the same hatred and they stepped on the soft, fresh· chingly upon the weather­ fear in the Irish miners that it fallen snow. Then two shots k of his Winchester as he had in the Negroes of the South. shattered the frost-brittle silence ht these gray, Pennsyl­ Jim's wife and young son were terminating the interlude of sus­ oal-miner's thoughts in the often left alone when Jim had to pense and causing the horse to , frozen, December . silence work into the darkness of winter rear, throw the rider, �nd run · Big Shiney Mountain in the evenings. , away. ·cs. Of course murder is wrong, but is Jim and '$horty ran toward the fig­ a m an whose re�lm of experi­ this rll\Jfii:ler or war, a private war ure left lying in the gentle snow to has been bounded above and between immigra·n t and native; Irish­ obtain wh atever money he might and on all sides by anthracite men agains.t Welshmen and English­ have and to dispose of the body in s not have much space to ex­ men, labor against capital, serf Mill-Creek. As they approached, the in the world of thought. Nor against boss, Catholic against Protest­ moonlight revealed a white Roman his world be expanded by ant, Democrat against Republican? Is collar gleaming against the back­ and newspa pers, much less it not equally as just as war? Do not ground of a black overcoat. Shorty 11nd 1te�vision. There again pov­ -many innocent die in either type of stared momentarily as though he had rvened, riot only to prevent conflict? And areh't those who are seen a ghost, and then turned and ran acy education, but to prevent really responsible seldom the ones to his horse waiting in the trees across rchase of such a luxury as a punished? It seems futile doesn't it, . the bridge. and yet can man stand idly by and fore, how do you suppose do nothing? One injustice seems to Jim knelt over the priest and turned Riey responded when he was breed another in a vicious cycle of his pallid face fully toward him: The into the cabin and told that he endless revenge. poignant gray eyes of Father Glen lhorty O'Neil were to serve a Jim seemed to be doing what he Green opened painfully. notice to Wi lliam Songer befqce thought best to · further. the cause of "Hello Jim Riley," �hispered the night stating that uruess he the organization to which he was dying man. · PAGE SIX

· "You, father? I didn't know ... didn't he; for you don't even know that Jim's calculation was corredl Why were you ridin' Songer's pinto, him." "But why would he ...?" • and why er you goin' to his place who "No, Father," "Revenge, Jim, against Ra ) aint no Cath'lic and who hates us "Jim, my son, my son, my poor don't you see?" Cath'lics' guts? Why you takin' his prodigal son; you are a blind lamb "Yes, father, I do ii punishment? Why ... ?" caught in a thicket, a fly trapped in all jist his ... " ti Jim's head fell on the breast of a vicious web." "Puppets." Father Green and his childlike sobs "I don't want. no 1 sympathy, "Yes, jist puppets," mutterel for the priest who had christened Father," Jim whimpered, and the pensively. , , both himself and his son cou ld be tears froze on his cheeks. ':There .is still time tO get out, heard far out into the winter black­ "Listen, Jim, listen and remem­ before there is•blood on your ha r: f"less. Breath came only with great ber. Murphy Halloran is not a "But, father, you ..." < difficulty to the agep priest, but he mere miner, as you think; his "There is still time," whis d spoke with eloquence and impassion­ name is not Halloran at all; it's Father · Green, and he passed '9 ate sincerity. Jamison Clark. Does that mean y "I came to stop you or some anything to you?" into unconsciousness, but befo died 30 minutes later, he arQU 1j other unknowing young man Jim sat silently for a moment and enough to absolve Jim Riley � who is following a madman in an then said hesitantly. i:r sin with the benediction of our im possible quest for relief from Seems that I recollect Dad a sayin' e: 'Father forgive then:i, for they ' oppression and injustice; impos· that old man Clark what owned all l• not .. ' sible, Jim, because a murder or the mines had another son besides E * * * - u a war, which is nothing more Ramsey that was left outer the old ll than a series · of murders, never man's will for shootin' a nigger and This is a purely •fictional a �1 has and never shall accomplish went to California to mine for gold. of how one man may have e ; a desirable end." His name wuz Jamison as I remember. Nineteen others who went to the !1 "There aint no other way, father." Father! do you mean Halloran is lows in and near the year 1877 . "Halloran said that didn't he, Jim?" that Jamison Clark?" Pinkerton detective, James "Yes, Father, he did." Father . Green closed his eyes and land, brought the Mollies to j "He also taught you to h_ate Songer, then opened them again, signifying were not so lucky.

The Pride of Mr. Sutton n

by Melvin Hough

(Second Priz:e) . . "MOR NING MR. SUTTON," Cletus peered over the rim of his glasses · at the as he sat placidly in the chair little man that had just entered the shop. "Be with you in a minute." the electric clippers .moved thrfl The figure to whom Cletus spoke crossed the scuffed linoleum floor and up his neck. Nothing unusu.1 I seated himself patiently ori a chair. His arm moved a time or ·two as if to pick _ that; his face always wore that up a magazine which lay near but each time he pulled himse1f back to an erect contented expression. Some ti pos)tion and sat quietly, waiting. even looked as though it might His chin fel l to his chest and he intelligible" words that Cletus had into a friendly smile that wovTd­ sat in this manner until' the sound of heard the man speak . in the three denly reveal well-hidden f the cash register back of the barber years that· he had known him. about the character of this fo chair brought his head up with a jerk. Cletus raked the comb across the man. 'Okay, now Mr. Sutton, what'll it be white head, throwing the thinning Having been in the barberi for you today?" hair deftly in two directions forming r.ess for more than thirty years "Hair-cut." The. man, stooped al- a neat part along tne left side of the in spite of his prying wa most from the waist, moved from his head above a small wrinkled ear. enough insight and judgment to place near the window and crawled The silver hair had not grown whether a man wanted to slowly into the le,p ther chair. His hand noticibly in -the last seven days gaged in conversation while slid re-assuring into his frayed coat and yet here was Sutton si tting in a barber chair. Sutton was pocket where it closed around a sin- in tt'ie chair and calmly demand- ly the type of man that did n ' gle, dog-eared dollar bi ll before he ing that his hair be clipped. had tried on different occas· settled himself comfortably into the During the three years that Sutton . e:ngage the man in conversa· large chair. . ·had f.requented his place of business, each time it was in vain. The ma Cletus jacked the seat up a few Cletus had tried through application only inarticulate gru nts whic8 notches. Seven dsiys, only seven days · of common sense to psycho-analyze the sole idea of being left alo ago this same pitiful dwarfed man his customer. Today, as usual, �e glan- his thoughts. had crawled into this same chair with ced into the large mirror bac.k of the The entire population of probably barely enough money to barber chair hoping to detect some ville was curious about this pay for the barber's work and had new show of emotion on the wrinkled decrepit form of a man and w uttered those same two words. As a face-but nothing showed. The man's stantly pumping Cletus for i matter-of-fact, they were the only two face had only a contented appearance ti�n about him. There were a PAGE SEVEN

1 but facts were few. Al l that it." Cletus flipped the white cloth been there. Was the ·man craz.y like lly knew and that was com- from his lap and the stooped man slid some said or was he just as . normal l; was that he lived by him­ stiffly down out of the chair. He pres­ as the next? What little Cletus learned rlittle one-room shack at the sed the tattered bill into Cletus's hand today he knew he would never re­ lown. From the grocer came and walked silently out of the shop. veal. He was beginning to understand nteered fact that his weekly "Come back. again, Mr. Sutton." and respect this customer. oflgroceries usually consisted His eyes followed the man as he His life would always be a mystery 11 oatmeal, a loaf of bread to the curious people of Morgansville. M shuffled across the street. They were pie cans of milk. He worked Whatever his life, past or future, t period of time apparently puzzled eyes for they still had been Cletus knew that the cycle in which inough money for groceries unable to really understand this odd he lived would bring him back to his he rested for a time in his individual. He noted a pride in the shop next Friday mo rning, for a hair­ e, making his weekly trip way the shaggy figure walked, a cut and somehow for some intangible for a visit with the barber, pride he had not noticed before but reason Cletus knew that he would be �pply of money gave out. somehow he knew that it had always looking forward to the visit. tittered clothes were loose gy, obviously an attempt part to conceal from th� that he was a very frail ual. His head, however, remely large. Compared ·Poetry t of his frail body it was 'ng contrast. Had he not What Makes the Red Rose Bloom? loose clothes the size have been even more in appearance. In spite of by Robert G. Flick y environment the man ' a pride of physical (First Prize) r1nce. hed no use for anyone that be­ Your heart is a flower, too nosy by asking personal Which held its crimson treasure tight, . A few incidents concerning Until the vernal shower per tantrums had almost led And love-i nvested, fervent rays of light n to take precaution of mak­ Descended on it from my worshipping eyes. lunmunity · safe by ha ving The somber shadow flies mitted to an insane asylum. d been all, no definite steps Back to surround the blushing petals n ta ken. ·in your ch�ks whenever I withdraw my ·glance, the cl ippers in· Cletus's hand And just as when the darkness settles, and wa rped mind was grind­ And the sun is. there no longer to enhance, lioughts. 'I'll show the ole The gcowing garden locks its priceless wares, ln•Y his hateful soul burn in · And never dares t I'm make'in my own way­ t I'd never amount to nothin­ Reveal them till the bright warm rays assure · c•n ma fer belong'in to a That night-enshrouded th ieves and careless hands of 9stitution;-blamed her fer Could not be near to pl uck or injure bein Fight;-said she ought to That which born for love alone demands n decent and then her kids A tested, tried and true, sun·-tempered radiation, 't have too big heads. I'll show An ardent adoration, one notices mine, when I Conceived of all-consuming, self-forgetti ng feeling, up my appea rance; Glad he's Mixed with secret-sharing, sweet out-pouring, broken breathing Of each ti ny trou ble which, though seemingly not worth revealing, n had ma been wicked like he Might become the means of rose-enwreathing were sti ll good to me; she Every instant into closer binding uniwelded wedding; ied when pa left; glad he left. Constantly re-threading rd to ld ma fore she died that . n't ru n away-she'?t been Thought through thought until the unfurled to know-I out smarted him. Flag of mental marriage flutters in the sun-gold-flooded sky. r.razy like everyone thinks. Here, amidst a splash of yellow beams, a single heart-red rose 'itt all right. They'H see. I'm is hurled ell right. Against a field of cosmos blue., and held on high � -C1lled me crazy in Chicago Are the basic blended colors on which human sight depends, wanted to lock me up. I'm Without which living ends. 90'in to hurt no one. Why did letpa live outside of a bug Elements essential and inseparable, when he was crazier, than Those which love must needs consume, the diseased dog!" Are buried in the mystic parable, y, Mr. Sutton, I think that has "What makes the red rose bloom?" PAGE EIGHT The Helmsman

:>: by Robert G. Flick it (Honorable Mention) :l'i ti1 Abraham Lincoln was a man of stature; Ta ll and lofty as the words he spoke, Plain and honesras the common folk, r1 Wise and shrewd as the cleverest wit. .k. Ld Yet slow moving, plodding, unobtrusive, undignified, awkward, ty And long-boned. .y he Hollow-eyed, heavy-hearted, tender, somber, shadowed, bearded; .n His razor went unhoned . .ir _ Abraham Lincoln was a man of state; !B1 Ill He drew the fallen stars from out the gray clouds le Of the Southern Sky, lU hi - And-once more sewed them in the firmamental .cl I Field of blue. r; e1 As unfeathered eaglets from their nest �ttempt to fly,

The life-guard of the �ea of air restores· them to the cradle Whence they flew. � Abraham Li ncoln was a man of human rapture; .a Beneath it all, a man of weakness, tears, temptation, ,1 '.llj Deep emotion; Il'1 Touched by the suffering of the world, Bled by its hate;

Shaken by lost love, the nation reaped the harvest of his Full devotion,

And heaped upon his sorrow-shrouded shoulders the burden of its Monumental weight. · Though wondering, fearing, hoping, grieving; still constantly Resolved.

Striking, clearing, purging, freeing; in his - hands the world Revolved.

Abraham Lincol n was a man of fate; His life like a river, wending toward the sea, Fed from frozen mountaintops, ageless and unchanged, FIC?wing from the b.llfnk of heaven, above the bounds of shrub and tree. From the very primal plan of order, his purpose pre-arranged. And here the paradox appears. He was a quill in the Master's hand, an ageless saint, And yet a man within· the choking clasp of years, Subject to pain, sorrow, joy, love, restraint. And so it is with all heroic blood. The nectar of pierean Spring is mixed with liquor from the Lethal stream. No wonder that their melody is never understood, They harmonize the human and Divine with tones beyond· man's Wa ll of sound · or wildest dream. Thus stood the helmsman at the ship of state, Steering a star-sure course between the · Tentacles of time And the Whirlpool of eternity's engulfing fate. No more than a man, and yet a man sublime. • 20, 1952 PAGE NINE Christmas by Robert G. Flick c (First Pri:z:e} • Oh star-illumined stable manger, Blessed barn of animal odor, made sweet By this tiny haloed stranger, Whom the burdened workl has waited centuries to greet .... r leaving their lambs, crude men come to see. All-adored, unblemished babe in swaddling garment, Glorious Gabriel sang of thee. ,. . A radiant ringlet of angelic light diffused such charm it Summoned men of stellar wisdom from oriental fands To the crowded cribside of the child creator, Within Whose clenching, baby-pink, and satifi hands The chance and hope and means of all mankind .for greater- Than-earthly happiness had been bestowed. ,, (Ana from those hands the all-sufficient price has flowed, . long since ... } (

Maundy, Thursday �I n I by �obert G. Flick (First Pri:z:e} )I IC So long ago a cock crew in the morning; 5 (One hundred-thousand Thursdays have flown by since.} A sailor swore and threw his breath against the fateful warning. Lt His thrice-repeated oath had been foretold by Heaven's Prince. IC Gethsemane's blue night gave birth to blacker day, K And twelve men's· tears to earth a bitter savor lent. ti But one in shame, for thirty _silver coins could scarcely pay i1 I For A-eely given love, priceless forever to all man's gold vain-spent. \s Ghostly, gaunt, gray, and grim hill, curse-crusted skull- r Golgotha, emblazoned on thy barren bosom, /J falsely planted tree Has borne a hallowed fruit to enrich the earth past full, :s With uncontained love, poured forth by God's decree. (j White maiden mother. of the m.!lnger child Show us His scarlet stains which made us undefiled.

If One But Knew by William Ga rrett (Second Pri:z:e}

' If one could choose his moment to be born, If Nature deemed that life was one's own · choosing: To enter mortal �hallenge and to mourn, Or stay without, avoiding risk of losing; If one could strengthen faith by merely wishing, If one could tell himself he knew 'twas so His thoughts and deeds were bent upon enriching God, Himself, and Man; if one could know; Then, Lady, keeper of the sword _gnd scale, Who weighs our deeds and portions out our lot, If one but knew, then you could lift your veil, And men "!ould deem it just. But you cannot. Men cling to hope and look to some tomorrow When knowledge mothers truth instead of sorrow.

nau1 Detore rne ena or tne auar- - .-. ,..,....,.. :!-f"" 1 .-...-VTTTTY 1 - PAGE TEN WEpNESDA Y, FEB. 20 1 Prairie in the United States ). by Loren Grissom ii (Third Prize)

II The ra inbow writes bright promises within ;j, The prairie-mother of men. And silver rays Of sunlight toast the' ne:vv-turned sod and pin The red man to his timber claims with days Of wigwam smoke to warm the prairie dawn. �l Threshing crews endure the dusty strawpile flakes :C• So that the prairie may hold up her brawn d To feed the children of a race that breaks. y .., The seas have pressed in on this rugged lea, 1( And all its hunting grounds have seen replace, n But even though the buffalo and he . .I Have gone into the happy, heavenly chase, s: Their spirits have returned, and many roam 14 The famous acres of their native home. e u I! !I Ode to Spring

by Margaret Wood

Who is this graceful �oddess · s Whose fleet foot .and dainty hand have transformed Winter's bleakness into fairyland? l( Where'er she steps gay flowers spring, And a.t her call the birds do sing. - - Who is this graceful goddess Whose melodious laughter, like a babbling stream,· ll Arouses Earth from Winter's somber dream? rI Her sijken. tresses sparkle as of gold, n and her radiant beauty never shall grow old. 0 Who is this graceful goddess · Whose fragrance and soft draperies perfume The land in peace '3nd serenity costume? I A garland of violets circles round her head, And her lips are like the rubies' deepest red. Who is th is graceful goddess'.? She is Spring, the daughter of South Winds and Sun, Symbol of resurrection and spirit of fr.eedom won. I She is man's noble vision, the hope of future years. She is the beauty, love, and peace which all mankind reserves.

On Extended Life , by Bill Bryan

If end of life like evening did not lurk Behind the prime of noon and strength of day, If icy-fingered death would cease to work, And call the souls of mortal men away, If joyous youth might everlasting be, And I might thus escape that certain grave Beyond the which no living kind can see- The fears of which do discipline the brave, \ I would abandon not my moral code, Nor lower standards which before I'd set, But raise them high and press along life's road With vigor like I've never shown as yet, For my pursuit of thii; exalted goal Would strengthen and expand my burdened soul. I - EB. 20, 1952 PAGE ELEVEN The - Chicken-Eater

' by RobertG. Flick . {Honorable Mention) -

Ethe number of chickens consumed in this country per year would be The frequent sound of bone-crack- ring. I cannot think myself far from wrong to suppose that fried ing leads one to believe that the me­ end mashed potatoes constitute the main course of "the American meal" thod may have been devised by a rely as baseball is "the American sport." chiropractor. This species of chicken­ poll were to be conducted, I venture to say that more people would cite eater is most likely to be found in ken as their favorite food than would choose any other. In the home, .in the small town and is as apt to be rant, on the picnic grounds, .male as female. The method is typical lhe fair, the drumstick is found trace of meat from the massacred to the small time operator. forward in ever-mounting fowl, a mistake in her maneuvers ac­ Then there is the college studen.t Fried chicken is no respecter cidentally lets a wi ng bond flop un­ who is versed in the latest and most ns; it finds its destination in dignified onto the table cloth. scientific modes of chicken-eating. He echs of all classes and types She quickly glances around; and {or she) knows that modern etiquette , from elite society to the when she is certain no one has noticed permits bone-gnawing; he therefore t iagabond who roasts the her shameful error, she deftly snatch­ strikes out in open defiance of the , ltolen fowl over an open es it back onto �er plate. N'ot for gold older and 'uneducated' silverware­ would she have stooped to touch the struggler. of these types and their greasy bone in order to bite off the The . feminine student takes only ical motives I will here de- meat. small morsels off the bone at one Next we have the 'ripper,' time and nibbles somewhat like a there is the unmarried, . who endeavors to tear the flesh cub bear at · the chicken leg, as she ged 'debutante' of the from the bone with his fingers holds it directly in front of her face middle classes. She enters and to convey it to his mouth in in both hands, with her el.bows prop­ aurant with mincing steps the same way. This is the most ped v.ertically upon the table. In the .. , tight-fitti ng, · teen-age uncommon type, and he revels more ravenous male, however, the After carefully selecting in his individuality. The only haz· meat is thrust from the limb in great with the most immaculate ardous pitfall that I have been shreds and is taken into the mouth she proceeds to overlook able to observe in this practice inch by inch. . ation precaution by wip- is that, in the abrupt separalion There seems to be· an overwhelm­ 1ilverware with a paper of meat from bone, the index ing nostalgia to return to the primitive finger has been known to plunge cave-customs of our hairy and carni­ verous- forefathers whose meat eating after the waiter has req ues1ed headlong into the potato-bottom• . r does she take the bill-Of· ed lake of gravy. {Continued to page twelve) �tween the salt and pepper and beg in to pore over its . Minutes creep by in which tes prices and makes in· Sweet Dreams. and Bedlam as to the freshness· of various by Robert G. Flick h delicacies. In desperation ses pan-fried chicken and The pounding piston of the power house pump potatoes which she had ori·"' Used to dryg me with its throbbing thump. intended to order. .In years gone by ions as to its pre�aration and This '("as my lullaby. ing for the salad follow. With My senses dulled, ss .bird before her, knife and My ti red brain lulled, •and, she embarks upon the I'd saunter off to somber slumberland. t. She has neglected to read And when the sandman's lethargy was contraband, t edition of Emily Post, which My brain would clatter in time and tune that it is socially acceptable to With the clicking, en with the fingers. The tools Endless ticking noisily as they work to sever Of that insane clock. h from the bone. Not a few Running, racing, threatening, W@rning is the carver's hand imperiled That the morning blade as it slips against th� • Would quickly bring ihe shock Of a thousand little men with hammers s labor succeed of perspi ring Beating on the bhitent bell. mutation of a tiny pi le of ents which the battle­ And I would have to ri!e to stop their clamors, victoriously devours after Or lie the fo rk to her right hand. And die mpting ·to procuse the last Listening to their lunatic orgy from hell. PAGE TWELVE WEDNESDAY, FEB. 20,

How Religion Has Stimu lated the Fine Arts

by Ma ry Franklin

{Junior English ex amination honors paper)

ONE OF the prime factors that has stimulated the fine arts of architecture, sculp- turing, dancing, music, painting, drawing, poetry and drama, has been Chicken-Eater religion. Yet this stimulating factor of religion must be divided into two categor­ {Continued from page ele ies: that of Pre-Christ, and that of the Christian era. In ancient Greece and Rome, manners knew no restraint. No in Pre-Ch ristian time, the religion of the people was found in their belief in the Chicago's beloved Bushman w gods and goddesses. Many fine temples employing beautiful architecture were idol of many a small boy and bu ilt_ in honor of these gods and god� tion-minded college freshmal desses. Sculptu ring adorned the tem­ Although Drama has its origin per­ envied his ingenuous manners, ples; statues were created to resemble haps in the ritual which accompanied the gods and goddesses. From the Finally there is the naive the anOient Greek religious fetes, it fetes in honor of these gods and god­ who eats his chicken with has been even further , sti mulated in same gusto as the male c desses came the ritual, dance and • student but who does so out early drama. · the Christian ear by the miracle, mor­ an ignorance rather than a In the Christian era of religious sti­ -ality, and mystery pla.ys of the med­ ieval church. Scenes representing the ledge of the 'facts.' He talks mulation, the arts of music, painting, Nativity, the 'Crucifixtion, and the as much relish as he eats allll drawing, poetry and drama have skilled at doing both sim • Resurrection were presented in the been affected. church, then later out of doors, and eously. His lips smack as he When I th ink o-f religious stimula­ has since developed into drama and rives every ounce of pie tion in the field of music many things plays as we know it tod ay. Yet, even from his favorite pastime. come to my mind. I feel that the first today Passion Plays are sti ll being In giving gestures of emp music was inspired by <;:hrist, because presented and drawing huge audi­ his conversation he waves the I think of the Angels' choir proclaim­ ences. This ma kes me tend to believe ously cleaned leg bone in the air ing the Nativity as the first music ever that religion continues to be a prime expressive movements whidl given to the world. Thinking further factor in the stimulation of drama. Tosca nini would envy. This lif on. how religion may have stjmulated Fine arts are stimulated by all types individual is the least affected music, my thoughts turn to the Greg­ of religion. In this theme I have at­ I have described, for he i� not · orian Chant, and the fugues which tem pted to show how the ancient least concerned with social n' Bach composed for the great church Grecian religious beliefs and the be­ nor attention-seeking origin organs. defiance to restrictions. · • liefs in Christ have stimulated art, In the field of painting and draw­ but it must be remembered that He only eats as he wants to, ing, re ligious sti mulation is evidenced wherever man raises his voice in der to gain the most satisfacf by the medieval church paintings of praise of a Divine Being-whether he it. He is neither conformist nor Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, and other calls that Being Zeus, Christ, Moham­ conformist nor individualist, pa intings inspired by Christ � the med, Buddha, Zoroaster, or the Great vidual, ar1d I bel ieve it is safe Madonna and Child. 'Ii Manitou-fi ne art will be inspired and sume that he is the least both When I think of religious stimula­ stimulated. indigestion of the lot. \ tion in the field of poetry, immediate­ ly my mind rests on the Scriptures. What more inspira11on or stimulation Remembering could there be than is found in God's own word? by Dr. Howard def. Widger Through the ages we are able to · see that some of the world's most (guest poem) : ' beautiful poetry is written about the Shall we remember in the after years :}llativity or Christ's Vicarious atone­ The gloriously glad hours that we have spent; ment. Examples of this would be And shall the gracious gift of happy tears · poem's such as Paradise lost in which Be dropped upon the buried love life sent Adam and Eve's sin, God's me;cy and To cheer our heavy steps along the way? love and the atonement of Christ for Is human fellowship a transient th ing man's sin are depicted; and a �oem To flourish, flower, and fade in one brief day, which remains vividly imprinted in Leaving us nought but etnpty sorrowing? my mind-"The Burning Babe." To me, the very first poetry given No, never, no! But fragrant memories to the world was of religious origin, Shall sweeten all the chambers of the mind and re ligion has been the major sti­ With perfume of past days, like sqmt of trees mulant of poetry ever since as man Of sandal-wood in treasure·chests confi ned. tries to write his praise and love of And down the road of years we'll softly sing, the Divinity. For aye remembering, remembering.

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