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omq cbolastic ..^^>-X DISCEQUASISEAAPER-VICTVRVS VIVE-QUASI-CR^S•inORITVRVS VOL. LIV. NOTRE DAME, INDIANA, JUNE' 4, 1921. No. 28. WHEN SANDMEN COME potential "cubs" who sit in his class rooms, - VINCENT D. ENGELS. for they are the daily recipients of the wit which has strung a line of chuckles from Owensborough, WHEN sandmen come to weigh my eyes Ky., to South Bend, Ind. With altruistic reveries, To shrive me from stern, sordid care, But there are serious moments in these class To sink me soft in spirit air. hours, for to quote the Professor, his big job is To waft my soul to silent skies— I slip from days of tears and sighs ) To that heart-flooding paradise Where Youth is Youth and ever fair, I When Sandmen come. My ears are deaf to earthly cries, > My thoughts live Heaven, realize The dreams of day, escaped from where And whence I dreamed them, unaware That they must surely crystallize When Sandmen come. ,ECAUSE Notre Dame is just Notre Dame, the rendezvous of an exclusive gentry to 'whom the pedantic seeker for culture is as ridiculous a figure as a money miser, it has always attracted to its silver lakes the most genial, the most faithful, and the m-ost lovable persons in the world. There was Father Sorin to begin with, and Luigi Gregori. And then there came a whole cheerful bevy of them— } Stace and Stoddard, Egan and Howard. Today I we have the Honorable Colonel Hoynes, Pro­ to "make real gentlemen out of these rascals." fessor Martin McCue, and—God bless his soul. And this, believe us, is no easy task. But Mr. Doctor Cooney. Cooney (whose ancestors were Irish, as you It seems hardly proper to write of Professor may have guessed) does not despair of the work. Cooney in prose. The clumsy phrases contrast "I'd rather turn out gentlemen and scholars too painfully with their subject. One should than wags whose achievements end with the treat of him in tetrameters, but since he is a writing of a news story. Practical journalism journalist, prose would undoubtedly please him can be learned in one month under any city better. For although every journalist is at* editor, but it takes inany years' to make a scholar, heart a poet, he cannot bear to see himself and many, many more years to make a gentle­ exposed in rhymes and meters. He is a "bashful man." critter" and our estimable Dean is no exception "We ask you if that isn't an ideal worthy of to the rule. Program committees dash to his the name. We tell you that it is a real pleasure office every day, and trail back again;, for lucky to study under such a knight of words. Can indeed, is the club which can extract his promise such a character, though journalistic, be handled for an after dinner speech. Lucky too, are the in Journalese? Rather not! 498 '&5e Hcfcre- Same Seholascic THE IDEAL HOME. proper development of the mental side of the child? In many cases these opportunities are CLIFFORD B. WARD. unavailable, but this is a negligible obstacle. A man's home should be the birthplace and The home can—and must—if it is to be ideal, the material expression of his ideals. It should teach the child to respect, to appreciate, and to be these things, because next to religion the seek education and culture even if its actual home is man's greatest moral influence, and attainment seems impossible. But let it be since man is the unit of society, the hom.e m.ay said here, if a paradox be permissible, that I be considered the greatest m.oral influence of consider any man to be educated and cultured societ}'- as well. Accepting this to be true; if he at least seeks, respects and appreciates that the "ideal home" is the greatest factor education and culture. towards good, through the development of men and women of Idft}^ ideals, we ma}'- concern HASTING SPEEDILY. ourselves here, with the question, what con­ stitutes an ideal home? LOUIS BRUGGNER. The old adage: "like father, like son" seems An old proverb says '' Festina lente!'' Modern to me true but rather incomplete. Why con­ wiseacres have explained the epigram by adding, sider the influence of the father, while one over­ "Haste makes waste." All of which means a looks all the other.things that go to make up the great deal to those who think and a very, very true domestic atmosphere? Surely the wife little to the general public in this, our much- influences the husband, and the husband the vaunted Twentieth Century. wife, and the children are influenced by the Americans are always in a hurry. An im­ thoughts and actions of their parents. migrant coming to this country, used always The nature or location of the house we choose to plodding along behind a yoke of oxen, or for our home means nothing here. A dingy to wending his wear};- way homeward afoot, "shack" in a coarminers' district ma}'- as easil}'- has his breath fairly taken away at the speed be an ideal home, as the grandest mansion on of life in America. He whizzes from shore to the "exclusive" Riverside Drive-of New York destination on the wings of an express train; Cit^j". Perhaps I should sa}?- it can m.ore easil}'' he jolts about on the speeding elevated, roaring be the ideal home, but that would lead me into over the bustling streets below like a dozen a discussion irrelevant to i^ thero.e. hurricanes combined; he works in factories The ideal home should possess religion, re­ where large-scale production in a minimum finement, and education. Not the religion of time is the pass-word, where ','piece-work" the "Sundai'^-cloak" t3'^pe, nor the superficial and the tim.e clock run hand in hand into Midas' sort of refinement, nor not necessarily an 3'^awning mouth; he sees around him people extraordinar}'-^' education._ Children are the scurrying about like so many, ants around a greatest imitators in the world, and oftentimes scattered nest. To me it is a wonder that he what the}'^ imitate in their youth is "ingrained" does not step back on the transport, which into their ver}'' nature, even if the inclinations brought him to this country to get his breath to imitate run counter to the inchnations of and to get a better view of the bewildering reason and good judgment. The environment kaleidoscope of America, or that he does not of the home, therefore, must be good if the moral flee again to his oxen, thoroughly scared by the qualities of the child are to be good. Its environ­ maniac sweepstakes he finds here. ment should develop to a well-balanced propor- For the Americans are in- a hurry. Europe, portion, mental, moral and physical sides of man. especially since the war, realizes the fact. Gerr The moral side should be developed by prac­ many lost the War because she thought the tical exempli&ation of one's religious beliefs, United States could never mobilize and get b}'-adherance to.one's religious tenets as firmly- into action soon enough to make any difference. on "wee;k-days" as on Sunday. France, fully satisfied with her maximum, speed It is hardly necessary to say much concerning rate of twenty-five miles an hour by railroad the physical side of man, as this usually takes stared with eyes like golf balls when she saw care of itself. But what about the mental side? quarters and halves of mammoth locomotives Need all the opportunities of the best tutors raised out of the holds of the hastily built trans­ and universities be at one's disposal for the ports, bearing the trade-mark "Made in U. S. ^e Noure 5ame Schdascie 499 A." and destined in a week to be ready for action, men and women alike, when they get to be The bourgeoisie and the paysannerie fled in fifty, feel that they have lived too long, that terror from the vicinity of the American road- life holds nothing more for them, and that they bed with fingers poked into their ears whenever ought to die. they heard the far distant piccolo shriek of the These hurry-to-die -people manage in many locomotive whistle, and watched with bated ways to achieve their end. Occasionally the breath the American monster as, with a roar newspapers explain the end with the pregnant almost rivalling that of Niagara, it flickered word, "despondency." More often, however, past. Packard intoxication, lard on the liver, fatty Perhaps, in the case of American participa- degeneration of the heart, money madness, tion in the War, we may say that the end justi- fox-trotting, and these catch-as-catch-can, up- fied the means, and that the end of the War and-away cafeterias are the' instruments that was sufficient recompense for the mistakes are clipping the coupons off the lives of men. engendered by too much haste. Yet I think Many men are rushing to the river Stjrx in that the element of haste is just exactly one of upholstered limousines,- dining on rarebits and the big things that are wrong with America, cock-tails and French pastry; many perhaps Getting on in the world seerns to have taken think they are going there on a week-end house the form of getting there, or rather everywhere, party. The trouble is, they cannot rush back in the world.

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