October 7, 1949 Put the Suit On

tThe Notre Dame ^iM:S!iiM^:z ,^-iJri«."*.--i October 7, 1949 Put the suit on... JB J PLATEAU SLACKS Now you feel it,.. Now you don^t! $20.00 RASMUSSEN MEN'S SHOP i06.108 S. Main 130-132 W. Washinglon The Scholastic '? letters ^^^m-m^TPm^ Top Secret? Editor: For the past year or so I have been carrying on a correspondencs vdth two or three representatives of other univer sities to the NFCC3. They were not too surprised when I told them that the Notre Dame student body knows little or nothing about the work of the NFCCS and that many do not even know what the organization is. They wrote of how the Notre Dame represen tatives are very nice fellows and that as far as the social ends of the conven tions are concerned, they are right at the top. However, they went on to say that newest idea in sport shirts! the ND representatives do little, if any thing at all, toward contributing toward the business aspect of the meetings. No Van Trix constructive criticism, no comments, no ideas, no nothing! Something really new ... really different in the sports world—Van Trix! The collar, cuffs and Avaist are I was very sorry to hear this for it knitted. but the shirt body is made of popular seems far from the Notre Dame way of doing things. I confronted one of woven (not knitted) fabrics. Right for sports ... for these representatives last Spring ask class ... or for those evening bull sessions. ing how I could join the organization and I was told that all the Notre Dame In ivashahle Cotton suede, §3.65. Van students are members. I thought it Gab gabardine, $3.95. Rayon check, §5.95. very strange that we are all members Also... Vanaca wool Flannel, §6.95. and yet receive no reports as to the activities of the organization and many of us don't even know of its existence. Q I read in the latest issue of the SCHOtASTic that one of these represen Van HeuseC tatives has now been elected to the "the world's smartest' shirts presidency of the Student Council. My big prayer is that he will realize the PHILLIPS-JONES CORP.. NEW YORK I, N. Y. responsibility of such a job and carry out the business of the position and not consider it merely one of social prom inence ! Name Withheld A Rebuttal for "Smiley" It's Adlers for Editor: I read with' much interest the "Roughly Speaking" column in last week's SCHOLASTIC. My particular at Van Heusen tention was brought to the fourteen odd lines dealing with "Smiley, the Happy Cop." Indeed he is a rare specimen. Smiley may like the world, all right, but I think he has it in for poor guys who live in a thriving metropolis and are not used to the Stop, Wait, Go, Walk system of traffic control. (U^^- Last year, just before the Christmas 7^ vacation started, I happened to be in M THE OKim... iMHiM ( MSNMUM greater South Bend on a slight shop ping spree. My heart was naturally Oct. 7, 1949 full of joy and good Avill for my fellow not a tradition. It's a law that the LASTIC published a new constitution, man. Then I met Smiley. I was hurry University has made because it doesn't which had been drawn up by a Student ing for the bus along Michigan street like the main floor to be cluttered with Council committee, in one issue, and and was just starting to cross Jefferson people. Nobody in those offices could subsequently an article telling of the when the traffic light (if you'll pardon think when mobs passed through, going defeat for adoption of this constitution the expression) turned to the Wait sign. to classes. That's why we are "re by a vote of the remaining members In my haste I failed to notice this. (I quested" not to use that narrow stair of the council. Since that time nothing wasn't the only one.) I had just case on the inside, too. fui-ther has been published as to what reached the other side of the street actually happened afterwards. The stu when an official, but polite voice said, , So keep on halloAving those glorious dent body never had a vote on the pro "Hey, Bud, can't you see?" I pointed stairs — or you'll get bounced right off posed constitution. to my glasses, but he didn't seem to 'em, according to tradition. Evidently this year the residents of like that. Jim Kingsley the individual halls are to have no part 328 Alumni Apologizing all the Avhile, SSmilem y in the election of the council members, for the council is functioning Avithout Tote out my ticket, and I missed my SCHOLASTIC reader {and writer) Kingsley is way off base on both counts. any elections. Is this the case and is Webster says tradition is something it fair? I finally figured it out, though. I Edmond C. Tonti guess he doesn't believe in Christmas. passed down from the past. According to reliable sources, the tnatter of the 159 Alumni Hall Name AVithheld inain stairs harks back to the days of For all the facts see the Council story P.S.: Please uathhold my name, as I Father Sorin. Its origin has been lost on page 9. As for the ethics, you be do not wsh my police record to be but it is by no means a recent edict. the judge.—Editor. A. publicized. That side stairway is restricted for fac V -•- ility use.—Editor. 'Life' to the Rescue Tradition Debunked Editor: Editor: What's Going On? I wonder if Ave realize the importance Editor: of the Fall of 1949? It features the In last week's editorial, you endorsed occurrence of the third most noted con the glorious tradition that "no under In the last edition of SCHOLASTIC I tribution to Notre Dame's progress dui-- classman should traverse the hallowed read the article on the election of a stairs" of the Main Building. president by the Student Council at ing the one hundred and seven years of the second meeting of the semester. If the University's existence. The first I hate to be a wet blanket, but that's I recall correctly, last semester SCHO (Continued on Page 33) BROWSERS ATTENTION! The Browser's Register is all set . come in and register for our weekly drawing. You may be a lucky Browser Winner. No purchase is necessary to win ... no box- tops to save . it's simply our way of saying you're ALWAYS welcome at Adier's! Don't forget to register each week. Make the Max Adler Co. your downtown headquarters. WATCH THIS SPACE FOR BROWSER WINNER Weekly Browser Winner will be announced in Adier's Advertisement. • MICHIGAN at WASHINGTON The Scholastic can buy a suit (or a cloak) now, and pay for it when your insurance divi dend arrives! THE WEEK To get in on this deal, all you have to do is hurry down and turn over your insurance policy (making their credit manager co-beneficiary). Of course, by giaek McQoldrick you'll have to leave all your other clothes as security, and if you're not a citizen, you must present a personal, ^^ Top of the Week Liberal Education certified letter from the Secretary of World Series — (it's rumored that One senior (this is a true story) who the U. S. Treasury. some scholars bet dollars.) is majoring in sociology, had a few elective hours for this semester, so he The WEEK pauses to salute the signed up for a harmless looking course Neo-technics Dodgers and the Yankees. The Bums lcno^vn as "The Chinese: their history We understand that the Departments and the Bombers had few supporters and culture"—(History 193 in the Arts of History and Eeligion have a new here on the campus last week, when and Letters bulletin). On the first day IBM machine that will not only correct things looked black for them. But there of class he walked into the assigned the departmental exams, but will think was an ND-Yankee fan club with head- room in the Social Science building, and up the questions to be used on these ^ quarters in 138 Dillon, where Jim Slat- saw the prof, but no one else. Said tests. Some students who have taken -^ tery. Jack Kelly, Don Grieve, and a the student, "heh, heh — guess I'm the these depai-tmentals think that this lot of others crowded around Tom only one who showed up." Said the should be an improvement over the O'Neil's short wave radio and listened prof, "heh, heh — you're the only one old method. to Mel Allen broadcast the games from in the class." Should be an interesting semester, Tom. New York. And down at the Stratigon- Mail Call extension of the Ebbets Field bleachers, Last week, freshman Egbert Bflskt loyal Dodger fans Jim Heany, Bill Cul- Browsing wrote to his brother Joe, requesting len, Eoy Wendell, etc., drank imported We see where a local store got the money for books and stuiF. Joe sent (from Brooklyn) Schaefer's beer, and jump on the rest of the nation's cloth five bucks for books, but kept the stuff morally-supported the Brooks in their iers with an ad that makes the famous locked in the liquor cabinet. chase after the Cardinals. Gilbert 30-60-90 days extended charge As we go to press, the WEEK picks account look like a Notre Dame foot ^ the Dodgers in a seven-game series.

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