The Notre Dame Scholastic 195 {•Jllltlttinilllllllllllliltllllllllttll* lllltlllMlltllllllllllllllllllllDlliiillilllitlliiKiiiiiiiiiiit IIIIIIIMtlllllHIIIItlllllnllltllMlllJ^ COMMENT { The Notre Dame Scholastic i Again we have the "morning' after I Disce Quasi Semper Victurus Vive Quasi CrasMoriturus | the night before," or the aftermath of I Founded 1872 I an election which is disappointing to even a non-partisan. The poor Eepub- i EMIL L. TELFEL EDiTon-ix-CiUEF | : HARLEY L. McDEVITT GRAnuATE IIAXACEU = licans have gone clown the slide, hav­ ing been given a vigorous push by the I EDITORIAL STAFF \ irate Democrats. i .JonJC E. BERGAN Manai/infi Editor : : .JAMES J. KEARNEY Assintant Manaaina Editor | : EDWARD E. BUEXXAX Axsistant Managina Editor | : WALTER V. BEESLEY Makeup Editor z The Republicans entered the race : ALFRED E. GALL Make^ip Editor i under a handicap because most of the : JAJIES K. COLLIXS Features Editor 1 : AUSTIN BOYLE Sci-Ipt Editor i officials of the same party were so in­ : PAUL .J. HALLINAN Associate Editor : efficient that the general public just i RICHARD J. O'DOXNELL The Week z couldn't stand them any longer. But i RAMON G. SMITH The College Pairadv § the G. 0. P.'s made up a party just z FRANK E. SEWARD Music and Drama • to give the Democrats something to I W. LESLIE RADDATZ Campus Cfubs | run against. I NEWS STAFF I z NEIL C. HURLEY Netcs Editor z I WILLIAM C. KARL Assistant Ncivs Editor z z EDWARD R. BRENXAN MYROX CRAWFORD JOHN PICK = An editorial in the South Bend I JAMES CAUMODY ANTHONY R. SCHREINER LAWRENCE DUNDA = News-Times enlightened us on a : WILLIAM FITZGERALD WILLIAM CORR SAXGUINET WILUAMS | matter which should be of importance z JOH>; CONLEY LLOYD TESKE LIAWRENCE PUYBVLSKI i to all of us. The editor, who evident­ : F. GRANGER WEIL Z ly lets nothing escape his glance, I SPORTS STAFF I called our attention, by way of his i JOHN A. KIEXER Sports Editor z paper, that the game with Indiana I CLEVE C-^REY JAMES E. MCFEELY, JR. HENRY B. AS-MAX | i ROBERT BALFE GEORGE BELTING T. EDWARD CAREY 1 last Saturday was so inconsequential I BUSINESS STAFF \ to the newspapers of Bloomington i JAMES H. RORKE Local Advertisino Manager z that they didn't have enough spirit to : JAMES L. RIZER Foreign Advertising Manager = send a reporter to cover the game. i JOHN R. BLANDA Ijocal Circidation Manager z Instead the sports writers hied off to z ANDREW McGUAX Foreign Circulation Manager \ some little game, which, as the edi­ \ FREDERICK BAUER MERLE BALDWIN R.VYMOND J. NABER JOHN P. HESS = torial says, "was played before 200 empty circus seats." The point in­ Vol. LXIV NOVEMBER 7, 1930 No. volved was that the papers of the down-state cities are not doing their TABLE OF CONTENTS share to advertise football games which have a direct bearing on the Once a Voice Frontispiece state and which are a credit to it. The Week 197 The News-Times sti'essed the fact Cotillion Plans Complete—James Carmody and John Pick 198 that Indiana university was given Cotillion Committee Chairmen 201 free columns of space for publicity, Coming Events—William Karl 202 Chesterton Receives Degree—Lloi/d W. Teske 203 not only for the game in South Bend, Glances at the Magazines—Edward R. Brennan 204 but for all their other games, while A Man About the Campus—Mijron Crawford 205 the papers which ai-e in the city Campus Opinions 206 which supports the state institution Music and Drama—Frank E. Seivard 207 almost ignore the football team, in The Wink 208 fact, the write-up of the Notre Dame- College Parade—Ramon G. Smith 209 Indiana game was put in one corner Campus Clubs—W. Leslie Raddatz 210 of the page where it would certainly Editor's Page 211 attract no notice. We agree with Quakers Next Notre Dame Foe—John A. Kiener 212 the Neivs-Times in its criticism of the Rockmen Rout Indiana—T. Edward Careif 213 Bloomington papers when they say Splinters From the Press Box 220 that they are not acting fairly. It On Down the Line 224 was also pointed out that there were . more of these papers represented at THE SCHOLASTIC is published weekly at the University of Notre Dame. Manu­ the Navy and Southern Methodist scripts may be addressed to THE SCHOLASTIC. Publications Office, Main Buildlmr. games than there ever have been at a Notre Dame-Indiana game. Indiana Entered as second-class matter at Notre Dame, Indiana. Acceptance for mailing at could not have a more prominent op­ special »-ate of postage. Section 1103. October 3, 1917, authorized June 25. 1918. ponent than Notre Dame. Why not THE ADVERTISERS IN NOTRE DAME PUBLICATIONS DESERVE THE PATRONAGE OF be fair to everyone? ALL NOTRE DAME MEN. —W. V. B. B.. .^ The Notre Dame Scholastic 197 r HE perverse god of the elements who controls the V^HRISTMAS still seems far, far away. Falling snow- Indiana weather has once more been unjustly condemned. flakes are yet novel enough to cause dreaming students The epidemic of coughs and sneezes that is making itself to stare out of classroom windows. The jovial features of heard on the campus should not be attributed to the that romantic person known as Santa Claus are as yet caprices of the Hoosier breezes. A more material cause absent from the advertising pages of the papers. Nevsr- may be found. A human agency is at fault. We do not the-less, there are symptoms of the holiday spirit already know whom to blame, the Republicans or the Democrats. being manifested on the campus. The local state and But both parties certainly wreaked a horrible vengeance city clubs are well under way in their preparations for on the students when they attempted to stimulate the the dances that will take place all over the country during business at the voting machines by passing out celluloid- the Christmas vacation. Enterprising salesmen are wrapped ropes to aged but beardless freshmen. Many a exhibiting to dance chairmen the programs and favors student has been breathing in wheezes since the day of that will eventually find their way into the dainty hands che elections. Tuesday found more excitement around the of a thousand "only girls." The annual Chi'istmas dances gymnasium than has been witnessed there since the day are a social tradition that is really worth while. Many the old gym burned down. Considering the number of campus skeptics consider them merely another mild foi-m cigars distributed in its vicinitj'", it is quite remarkable of racketeering, but there are not many cases in which that the pj-esent building is not a smoking ruin. The this is true. The instances wherein the financial results most pathetic case of the day that is recorded is that of were in ths red seem to have frightened the racketeer the frosh who was given a "two for a nickle," tried to away from the dance promoting business. The Notre vote but was intercepted, and thereupon had the cigar Dame holiday affairs provide the only real opportunity taken from him by a hard-hearted local politician. The for students in a particular locality to get together during politician was probably a Republican following out the the two weeks' winter intermission. Thsy also allow ths new Hoover economic policy. Not having an interest in alumni and undergraduates to meet amid pleasant and Indiana politics, we have not taken the trouble to find out enjoyable surroundings. Furthermore, the prep school who the winners were in the local contests. But judging boy who is contemplating entering the University has a from the quality of the smokes that the campus repre­ chance to become acquainted with Notre Dame students sentatives were donating, we imagine that the party which from his section of the country. These are all very valid had the most left when the daj'' was over was the victor. justifications for a holiday dance, but what club, while making its plans, has ever had them in mind? V^iAMPUS politics were not ended when the polls closed O'VE R enthusiastic sports writers have frequently stated on Tuesday evening. There is another mighty battle yet that one-half of the Notre Dame student body at some to be waged. In fact, some of the freshmen have time or other in his college career has battled on the just begun to fight. For the yearlings have not had the gridiron. Our sneers at these apparently exaggerated opportunity to choose the class officers who will lead them reports have suddenly disappeared. It seems that the through the storm and strife of their first year at Notre athletic-minded gentlemen of the press were right after Dame. But the war is already under way; meetings are all. They were right, that is, if they included in their being held; propaganda is being spread; promises are statistics the unheralded, but gifted, undergraduates who being made, and everything seems to indicate that it will are addicted to that popular sport called "touch-tackle." be a great fight. The tactics employed by the badge- It is probable, even, that the aforementioned sports writers wearing button-holers in the state election were quickly underestimated the number of Notre Dame men who take taken up by the Brownson bailers, who held a private their pigskin play seriously. The remarkable thing about conference on Tuesday evening. Their gathering in the this touch-tackle game is that the participants derive library basement resembled an old-time Chicago club absolutely nothing but pleasure, mixed with an occasional election at which the typical Chicago means of intimi­ pain, from their mad dashing, yelling, and passing.