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Athens, February 1, 1947 DEAR FELLOW STUDENTS: We send you our greeting from Greece; at last—after the very many catastrophes and terrible damages that our country has suffered during the occupation. We begin just now to set­ DANCING every Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday tle our schools and university. We wanted so much to come in touch with atihe you, but we had not any chance for that. So I decided to wxite you myself, representing my class, and ask you some informations about your studies and life in the university. You must first excuse me for my mis­ takes (as I have enough) because as you understand it is not a long time since I learn English. I don't want to believe that you won't excuse me that. So I dare to write to you, doing at the same time practice in -writing English letters. And now let me write you our news and ideas. The last year all students have a unique mania to come to America. That's the modern mania. We have heard a lot of your good education. Our class lives with the hope that some day after some years we will be able with the exchange of students to come there. Our high schools and university are full of thou­ sands of students, and we haven't enough laboratoiies or equipment for these. It is enough that our buildings stand up. But I don't think it is so pleasant, our C O M I N G » Wc Lombardo condition, so I stop telling these. SATURDAY, MARCH I Please, wi-ite me about your o^vn stud­ ies, your books, and if you can, some things about our branch of Science which is called "Naturalism." If you want to know our life in detail, you can begin Avi-iting to us and have a kind of correspondence with us. We send you our best friendly love. From Down-Town South Bend A boy student of the University of Athens— to Down-Town Chicago Panos Kotsikos 35 Vatazi St. There is always a South Shore train to or from Neapolis F Chicago. Hourly service each way. For information Athens, Greece call C. W. Veach, Ticket Office, 301 N. Michigan Street. Phone 3-3111. • SIR: CHICAGO SOUTH SHORE & SO. BEND R. R. One of your columnists thi'ew a barb at one of the Chicago dailies in the Feb­ ruary 14th issue. In the same issue the editorial staff employed one of that pa­ per's most flagrant practices. The prac­ tice of meeting criticism with counter- criticism and mud slinging in order to avoid giving answer to your critics is not one condoned by more ethical journa­ lists. Yet you employed just such ameth- SOUTHSHORE od on the complaint of Mr. McBitters. (Continued on p. 30) That some day he might take the place of you When you grow old and lack efficiency?" '"I thought of that a dozen times," said Pat, "But this boy's hardly bright enough for that." —T. E. B.

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The Explanation Preferred Stock—Girl outside the fifty PRINTS OF THE PAST mile limit.—Attentive Abie Pat Conty was a section boss who went A.B. Student—^A fellow who learns to 1911 Seeking employment for his eldest boy; He called upon the railroad president starve like a gentleman. Feb. 4: A return lecture by Mr. Seu- And said to that good man: "If you employ —John Dugan, Badin mas MacManus went over like a lead This son of mine, I'm sure he'll learn things fast balloon in Washington Hall last Thurs­ For everybody says he has ambition. And maybe when a score of years have passed day night. The slim audience on hand The boy may graduate to your position." evidenced that Seumas' last lecture had Badin Drama been well remembered at Notre Dame. "WTiy don't you put him in the section crew?" Time: Three a. m. . . . Apr. 15: The Chicago Cubs took a The president remarked. And it might be Scene: Room 41. 9 to 1 measure of the Varsity at the West Side grounds yesterday. . . . May 6: Loyola of Chicago collected eleven errors and only one hit, as the Varsity romped to a 15 to 1 victory Monday afternoon. . . . Nov. 4: Our football team smothered Loyola 80 to 0 here Saturday. The score was only tied once. . . .Nov. 11: Knute Rockne, Notre Dame's non- Irish left end, ran 40 yards for the only Van Heusen score against Pitt last week, but the ball was called back because the referee's Headquarters! whistle had not foi-mally opened the sec­ ond quarter, and the game ended in a nothing to nothing tie. . . . Dec. 11: A lecture by Dr. Banks on the Nile River kept the Washington Hall audience flood­ ed with a constant stream of information last Friday forenoon. GILBERT'S PRINTS OF THE PRESENT 813-817 S. Michigan St. Most Valuable to Us A poll taken after the game Monday night showed Lenswiper of DePaul most valuable. They say that it was because to, 3>ute HMSMF^,

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OSCAR TAKES A MIDNIGHT ... runs an item weekly about the "best dressed man on campus?" COR MICHIGAN 4 WASHINGTON Sprints to corner of Michigan and Washington only to find the last bus Our compiling of the sentiments of has left. Says a prayer for the Northern Caf Habitues, Rec Hall Ramblers, and Indiana Transit Co. and looks at his Rockne Rowdies leads to the general watch. 11:47. Sprints for another block conclusion that The Week is all wet. Not and comes to halt in front of Oliver Ho­ a few of the men have their own soup 'n tel. Spies a taxi and opens door. Spies fish because: Est. 1900 occupants and closes door. Mutters some­ 1) They sing in the Glee Club, thing about taxi passengers. 11:53. Feels 2) They do (or used to) play with a an itch in \icinity of his 24th vertebrae. band Glasses CORREQLy FIHED Relieves itch by scratching. Also makes mental note to leave Anastasia ten min­ 3) They hopped table at the home­ W. G. Bogardus — E. C. Beery utes earlier next time. Sees another taxi town Stratigon OPTOMETRISTS AND pull up and rushes to it, deftly elbowing 4) They were croupiers at Monte MFG. OPTICIANS elderly woman. She hits the deck, Oscar Carlo hops in cab. Tells unconcerned driver 228 South Michigan Street 5) They put on billiard exhibitions Evenings by Appointment his destination and pleads for speed. Red 6) They were Wheels in the Banquet light momentarily halts progress, so he League talks to God about South Bend traffic lights. S'ix minutes later, cab pulls up to 7) They Imd the foresight to recog­ circle. Pays driver as clock is striking nize their needs wlien they got to midnight and in his haste, forgets to college. wait for nickel change. Thinks about it If Mr. O'Connor can't afford to buy or as he runs a 220 across deserted campus, rent a tux, why in blazes doesn't he hit taking shortcut over grass. Trips over one of the lads in the above seven cate­ stretched wire. Spitting out a mixture gories who is not planning to attend the of dirt, grass, snow, and two teeth, he dance? A little forethought might have talks not only to God, but also to the saved him a lot of bother—or perhaps entire assemblage of saints about invis­ he just didn't have enough copy for last ible wires. Arrives at Sorin out of week's column. breath, wakes up watchman, signs in. At the week's end, the issue was still 12:00 midnight. in doubt. Consensus on camvus seemed Iqs—n bite—H Utter taste—n tteikat to be, however, "O'Connor should go to k ata m tiy 1 Pre-Siaktd Dr. finlm Piper the vjall." ON FOREIGN FIELDS ... • Last week the girl's varsity swimming team of S\vai-thmore beat the Univ. of Speaking of dances though, the thought Pennsylvania, 37-20. Rumors are flyin' is brought to mind that a radical change that Army is feverishly trying to drop has taken place hereabouts. Either Se­ Swax-thmore from its '49 schedule. 'Tis niors are filthy with dough (at Uncle said the kaydets are planning to replace Sugar's expense) or else there's someone them with Rosary College in order to they wish to impress very badly. At the give the athletic contest a more inter- Senior meeting to discuss plans for this sectional appeal. year's Senior Ball, Chairman Rudy An­ derson announced that the price of bids No Breokiig In would be ten skins. To our astonishment, YA FADDER'S MUSTACHE . . . not a dissenting word was heard. Shades of that 55c Blue Plate Special! No Bite We hate to take issue with anyone (it says here in fine print), particularly a No Bitter Tosfe fellow columnist, but in last week's is­ "A man who wouldn't lie to a woman sue of the SCHOLASTIC, M. Jacques O'Connor advocates abolishing all form­ has no consideration for her feelings." It's P al dances at ND because our lads don't —^King's Crmvn I possess tuxes. Accoi'ding to Professor • ^— O', anyone who has a tux is 1) a profes­ OVERHEARD IN THE DINING HALL ... sional fop, or 2) a dandy whose back­ "So the students have found some­ ground has allowed him anything his thing fresh to complain about this morn­ FaAioned by linfcmon heart desires. Far be it from us to criti­ ing 7" In ftmow Pire Co. Iwc, CHIOCO. II. ILL cize, but isn't JAO the same person who 'No, sir. It's the eggs." CANDIES BESTAURANT

FOR By John A. O'Connor

Death came last week to cinemactca- with every suit of clothes, that'll be 45 Sidney Toler, porti-ayer of Charlie Chan something. YEARS for lo these beaucoup years since the de­ mise of Warner Oland, the original Chi­ nese private-eye. But the passing of Something ought to be done about this Mr. Toler should in no way throw a scheduling everything for the same block into the pi'oducers' plans to turn night. A week or so ago the following The Pliiladelphia were going on the same evening! Vet's out more atrocities based on the sleuth­ has been at ing of Earl Derr Biggers' philosophical Club meeting to propose new elections, Chinese. Already they are no doubt Knights of Columbus meeting, debate in the service of Washington Hall against Mich. State's grooming some luckless character for the Notre Dame Men job. We'd like to see Charles Laughton all-girl team, tests in the Engineering cast in the role; he's fat and stupid- and Commerce buildings which pulled and their guests. hundreds of men away from other im­ looking, and deserves such punishment portant, although extra-curricular, ac­ for his last attempt, that hilarious "Be­ tivities, and a talk by Colonel Brown. cause of Him." If not Laughton, then Now we know of a lot of people who how about Edmund Lowe; he's about would like to have attended several of ready for the gate. But better yet, a these meetings and lectures had they woman, a female Charlotte Chan! Kate been on separate nights. There ought to Hepburn's our gal; she'd look as good ^Ae P/tliadelpAda be a central clearing house that will reg­ in a sack-like palm-beach suit as in any­ ulate these evening get-togethers. Colonel 116 N. Michigan St thing else she's ever worn. Yep! Kate's Bro^vn is certainly due for a repeat com­ our choice. mand performance, and the Vets are due some consideration in getting an evening ICE CBEAM PASTBIES and an hour that does not conflict -with ND has had to cope with bulb-snatch- tests or other activities. ers and fire-bugs before, but now it's sugar-bowl snafflers. Seems the cafeteria has missed about three dozen sugar jars within the last month or so. Breakage The Telephone Hour, which follows Somefhing NEW can't account for that many. Somebody the Firestone Hour on Monday nights at is chucking them away in his mattress. 8 p.m. will have as its guest Monday One point investigators have overlooked: night, Febmary 24, the celebrated Ita­ in they could have been ground up and lian tenor, recently arrived in the United sei-ved in some of that unidentified bilge. States, Tagliavini. Music critics and op­ Nofre Dame era devotees have proclaimed Signore • Tagliavini the gi-eatest, and certainly CALENDAkS the smoothest, operatic tenor to warble Women have long monopolized the at the Met. It should be well worth lis­ wearing of underground foiiiifications, tening to. all sorts of bolstering harness which can In booklet form, plastic make an Aphrodite out of a lister bag. pictmres of the campus. But the men have not been idle. Middle- aged business-men have hid their paun­ The Vets are holding their campus Convenient for recording ches in broad girdles. Uplifts on their elections in the near future. Long a gripe appointments and spe­ heels have boosted many a short movie against the Veterans Club, and for that cial dates. actor or ballroom performer up to the matter any student organization, is that eye-level of his partner. But now it they do nothing startling, like smash tra­ comes, a boon to the bony wretches! dition, remove the Dome, call a lynch- 75 cents Shoulder-pads in shirts! No longer will party and hang Mr. Ford, or demand the people laugh when you take off your size student trip for '47 be the trek to Los forty-two sport-coat and reveal your Ich- Angeles for the USC game. Veterans abodish frame. For now every man can better wise up; they can do none of the at the have a build like Bill Russell without above, they can wield no club over the as much as doing a push-up in a semes­ administration, they can start no fires. ter. Gym classes will fall off. Why work­ Best they can do is set good example, out at the Eock when Max Adler can get encourage a few constructive changes, you a V-man physique for a few miser­ and have a few social get-togethers and BOOKSTORE able bucks? These deltoid-falsies will rev­ sit around and tell war-stories. The rabid Badin Hall olutionize mens' styles. Now if they can vet, like the buffalo, is a vanishing only guarantee a built-in personality species. ^>uun tU& Sddo^'i 2be4^ . . .

Our nerves are shattered. What's ened us by 6:02 when success finally more, we're beginning to realize more crowned us; instead of the busy signal and more the futility of all life. we heard long, steady rings. The phone rang and rang without producing results, Until last week we wei-e living a fairly but we hung on grimly. At 6:17 some­ normal life. We went to classes, peeked one lifted the receiver. Weakly we asked m Mm Dfll SCHOLASTIC into texts at infrequent intervals, attend­ for our date. "Sorry," came the imper­ Disce Quasi Semper Victurus ed the cinema from time to time, and sonal reply, "the girls are having dinner Vive Quasi Cras Morilurus occasionally dropped in at KewT^ee's for and can not answer the phone." When a hamubruger and coke. But all nomality 17 students dragged us out of the booth Founded 1867 is gone from us now; we are no longer we had already eaten the receiver and carefree, but mature and fully conscious had started on the mouthpiece. ••••ttiiiiiiiiiiii ••••••••••mil •iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiMitiii ,1 1 of all life's tragic aspects. John Defcmt, Editor By the next day we had recovered to It started on Monday, and by Satur­ the extent that our schizophrenic per­ ASSOCIATE EDITORS day we were verging on the morbid, sonality was only quarter-split and we H. Smith Keel Frank Keenan if not the psychotic. It really started started all over again. On Saturday Sunday night when we innocently walked someone told us that the long line that into a do\\Titown restaurant to transact REWHITE always formed before one of the booths a bit of business over dinner with one of Bob Stock Ed Snyder Joe Doyle was the Notre Dame solution of the prob­ our comrades. He was there, all right, lem. Somebody would get through to St. NEWS STAFF but ^vith a date and two other Mary's early in the morning and as each lim Clemens, Editor couples. We're pretty bitter about him. completed his call, the girl at the other Things would have been bad enough Shaun McDermott, Associate Editor end would call the next one. After without having the girls turn out to be Bill Bradley Joe Harrington standing in line for several hours we John Hupf Lou Homing St, Mary's lasses. To say that we were had our turn at the phone, and we were Vern Kelley Eoy Lang flustered by the presence of such august in such a condition that we had lost ab­ George McCarthy Tom Murray company is hardly the word; we were John Noonan Phil Shea solutely all our ethical values. We didn't Steve Valetich John Waters palpitating. After staggering from the have even a twinge of conscience at the restaurant and recovering from our daz­ idea of cheating the telephone company ed condition, we realized we had a blind of five cents. SPORTS STAFF date for the following Saturday with one Joe Cheney, Editor of the fabulous St. Mary's females. We're afraid that our date was just a Pete Brown, Associate Editor bit suspicious of us. We were alternately Dave Warner Bob Leander Monday followed Sunday, just as sure­ sobbing for all the w^asted hours and Jim Howard John Krueger laughing in sheer relief as we talked Buzz AVrlght Bill Slavik ly as our Social Problems prof unerring­ ly throws quizzes the days we're not over the phone. We're even more afraid prepared. We stepped to the phone to that she had more than suspicions that FEATURE STAFF call the blind date for confirmation and night when we dropped around to pick Joe "Wilcox, Editor make final arrangements. Over the in­ her up. She was a lovely, charming crea­ CSiarles Carrol Carter Gerald Heberlein strument buzzed the sound that was to ture, but during the evening she seemed Bill Leavey John A. O'Connor to be always shying away from us. Not Jerry Olwell Bob Vierhile become maddeningly familiar before the Nicodemus week was out: the busy signal. The other that we blame her. Considering our state St. Mary's number brought the same of mind we are grateful that she risked her sanity by going with us at all. PHOTO CREDITS result. There is a third phone across the lake, we understand, but only a select Kormendi pictures by Jim Ferstel, except shot Of one thing we are certain: never few hundred are given the number. We of Iiaw Building by Al Kuntz; pictures on pages again will we date a St. Mary's girl ^ia 17, 18. 19, 21 and 25 by Gene Reynolds; cartoon are not one of them. on pages 4, 20 and 26 by John Krueger. telephone. If such a happy occasion ever rises again w^e ^vill use the mails or We continued dialing St. Mary's two COVER: Western Union. The probability is, phones; always the lines were busy. We Draw-n by Harry Brown. though, that we will forsake women en­ called between classes, before lunch, tirely to devote our time^to a holy cru­ after lunch, and before and after dinner; Rev. C. I. Loskowski, C.S.C. sade. Convinced as we are that two we broke away from bull sessions to has­ -Faculty Advisor phones are not enough to service some ten to a phone, and once we even woke Bob Kopf -Business Manager 500-odd women, we are organizing the from a sound sleep at two in the morn­ Tom Gorgan _Circulation Manager League for the Preservation of the San­ ing \vith the fixed idea of telephoning, M. E. Varga _ Advertising ity of Notre Dame Men by Installing only to be discouraged by our roommate. More Telephones at St. Mary's. We had reached the point where we were Member of Catholic School Press Association, certain a conspiracy existed to prevent Associated CoUeKiate Press. 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VOL. 88, NO. 16 FEBRUARY 21, 1947 NOTRE DAI4E. INDIANA

STUDENT MUSICAL TO OPEN MARCH 2; Fr. Graner Named TO PRESENT FIVE PERFORMANCES Bishop of Dacca VATICAN CITY.—Feb. 18.—The Con­ Rehearsals for "Meet the Missus" were Avill be introduced in the show, two of gregation of Rites has announced the in full swing this week as leading roles which will be staged as large ensemble nomination of the Rev. Lawrence Leon in the new all-student musical comedy numbers. The title song and such others Gi*aner, C.S.C., as bishop of Dacca, In­ were announced by George Bariscillo, as "Love is in the Air" and "My Aifair" dia. Father Graner, a member of the producer of the show. Cast as a Notre indicate that cupid is invading the Notre Congregation of Holy Cross, studied at Dame student and his wife will be Roy Dame campus for an all-out offensive the University of Notre Dame prior to O'Neil and Agnes Haney. O'Neil is a this spring. his theological studies at the Catholic featured soloist in the Glee Club, and Red-headed Noel Digby, a journalism University, Washington, D. C. He was Miss Haney returns to Washington Hall major, is one of the busiest men in the ordained in 1928 and was sent as a mis­ following a leading role in the 1943 hit, show in his role of director as he keeps sionary to the diocese of Dacca. "Let's Get Going." the dramatic leads in perpetual emo- (Father Graner returned from India a Other leads in the large cast include (Continued on Page 29) few months ago to serve as a delegate Mary Kay Amberg, Ralph Thorson, Mary to the General Chapter of the Holy Cross Ann Wack, and Tom Devine. In addi­ Fathers. He had also been named a con- tion to the many speaking parts, there Performances of "Meet the Missus" suitor on the Provincial Chapter. He was will be a unique faculty chorus and a will be given on March 2, 3, 4, 6, and bom in Franklin, Pa., and had the dis­ mixed chorus of twenty-two voices. Al­ 7. Tickets will be distributed in the tinction of being ordained to the priest­ together 51 students and girls will be basement of the Dining Hall between hood by the Most Rev. George Finnegan, on the stage, and all are hard at work the hours of 11:30-1:30 and 5:30-7:00 C.S.C, his former superior at Holy Cross pi-eparing for opening night, March 2. on Thursday and Friday, February Seminary. He served as a missionary The girls for "Meet the Missus" were 27 and 28. Because of the unusual from 1928-35, and 1937-45 in Dacca, a recruited from the adjacent communities demand for seats ot the previous mission field entrusted to the care of the of South Bend and Vet Village. student musical comedy, athletic American Province of the Holy Cross The musical numbers for the show are books must be presented when ob­ Fathers. the result of months of work by Ed Cash- taining tickets. Married veterans may Father Graner declined at presstime man, a graduate student in the Depart­ obtain tickets for their wives. to comment on his nomination which was ment of Music. Twelve oi'iginal songs released through the Associated Press because he has not received official noti­ fication from Vatican City.)

Juniors to Elect Prom Committee Chief Monday The Junior Prom Committee, appoint­ ed last week by the Student Council and headed by Larry Turner, announces a special meeting for the entire junior class next Monday night at 7:30 in the Law auditorium. Purpose: the election of a committee chairman and the discussion of plans for the annual dance. Turner's group, appointed because of the lack of junior class officers, has al­ ready laid tentative plans, set May 2 as the dance's probable date, and nomi­ nated the following six men for the Meet the Missus—Seated at the piano running over one of the new tunes is Ed chairmanship: George Sullivan, John Cashmon, composer of music and lyrics for the show, while standing (left to right) White, John McCormack, Thomas Hig- are George Bariscillo, the producer; Jim Murphy, one of the script-writers; and Noel gins, Thomas Jackson, and Joseph De- Digby, the show's director. • Spigno. Attire for the occasion will be winter To Hold Senior Ball formals, either tux or tails. The deci­ Seniors to Present sion to rule out summer formals was At Palais on May 16 necessitated by the prohibitive rental Flag to University and the insufficient number available After a respite of four years.. Notre Washington Day Exercises, which in­ in South Bend and vicinity. Dame's nimiber one social event, the clude the traditional presentation of an . ., —Bill Waddington Senior Ball, will become a reality once American Flag by the president of the more Friday night, May 16, at the Pa­ senior class to the president of the Uni­ lais Royale in South Bend. versity, will be given a peacetime re­ For the first time since 1S42, seniors Budenz Inaugurates vival Saturday, Washington's Bixthday, vcill be presented wi*:!! a gala week-end Five-Lecture Series at 10 a. m. in Washington Hall. that will equal in every degree the standards of pre-war festivities, for be­ Louis F. Budenz, former managing Because of the shoi-tage of caps and sides the main atti-action Friday even­ editor of the Communist Daily Worker, go^vns, the June graduating class will be ing, the Ball committee has ari-anged will inaugurate a series of five lectures attired in business suits when they form with Coach Frank Leahy to have the sponsored by the Aquinas Libi-ary with for the processional at 9:45 in front of Old Timei-s' football game played in the his address at the Navy Drill Hall, Sun­ Stadium the following afternoon, May 17. day afternoon, March 9, at 2:30. The the Main Building. The exercises, dis­ Plans ai-e also in the making to hold a series \vi\\ be concluded sometime in May continued during the war, are scheduled "Candlelight Dance" Saturday evening with an address by Et. Rev. Msgr. Ful­ to begin at 10 a. m. with an overture by at a nearby country club. ton J. Sheen. the University Symphony Orchestra. Placing arrangements for the grandi­ Budenz, wiio recently attracted nation­ ose occasion in capable and experienced G. E. Skofrenck will be chairman of wide prominence by naming Gerhard Eis- the affair, and will in turn introduce hands. President John Masti-angalo this ler as the No. 1 U. S. Red, renounced week appointed Elmer Matthews and the first speaker-, C. Patterson. He will communism in the fall of 1945 and was be followed by Senior Class President, Rudy Anderson to act as cD-chainnen. received into the church by Msgr. Sheen. With the approval of the chairmen, John Mastrangelo, who with a speech He then accepted a post on the Notre will present an Ameiican flag to the Masti-angelo further announced commit­ Dame faculty, wiiich he resigned this tee heads as follows: Herb Daiker, ar­ University, in behalf of the class. The past summer to join the faculty of Ford- acceptance address \vill be delivered by rangements; Willou^hby Marshall, deco­ ham University. rations: Jack Galloway, tickets; Don­ the Rev. John J. Cavanaugh, C.S.C, nelly McDonald, Saturday program Msgr. Sheen, the leading Catholic radio president of the University. chaimian; and Bill Waddington, pub­ orator of the day, will conclude the series The National Anthem will close the licity. in May which will be announced in the obsei-vance, and the seniors will file out Seek Nome Band near future. to the strains of the recessional played Committee heads conferred this week The three other lectures featuring by the oi-chestra. to consider the choice of a band but Rev. Joseph T. O'Callahan, S.J., Rev. since a sur\'ey of "name" bands having John S. Kennedy, and Clarence E. Ma- open dates that night has not been com­ nion, dean of the Notice Dame Law^ pleted, the selection of a band will be School, will be held at the Indiana Club. Commerce Dept. Starts amiounced about March 1st. It was defi­ Father O'Callahan, the only chaplain Visual Education Program nitely decided, however, to confonn with to vnn the Congressional Medal of Honor past Senior Ball successes by naming a during World War II, -will speak on the With the preview showings of t\vo band of national fame. topic "Roots of Heroism" on March 20, movies to be used by the Department of at 8:15 p. m. A professor at Holy Cross The announcement of the price of the Finance, a visual education program was College in Worcester, Mass., Father bid will coincide with the naming of the inaugurated this week in the College of band for it is the price of the band that O'Callahan won the highest award given will be the prime factor in determining for bravery in battle as chaplain aboard Commerce. the cost of the bid. the Carrier U.S.S. Ben Franklin. With magazines exploding and flames gutting First plans for the program were for­ The dance is scheduled to begin at his ship, the brave padre organized fire mulated six months ago when William 10 p. m., ending at 2 a. m. with 3 a. m. fighting parties which despite constant Halligan, '25, and Ray Durst, '25, presi­ limits set for retui-n to campus resi­ enemy bombardment were able to bring dent and vice-president respectively of dences. Car permission will be in effect the flames under control. The ship sur­ Hallicrafters, presented a benefaction to as usual. vived the heaviest losses of any Navy the college for that purpose. With the Who Can Come? craft in the war, but reached port under aid of the University administration, and .Dean James E. McCarthy, a com­ Besides June gi-aduates, others eligible its own power. Father O'Callahan was mittee was formed with Herbert J. Bott, to attend the year's most lavish extrava­ lauded by the commanding officer of the ganza are January '47 grads and those ship as "the bravest man I have ever professor of marketing, at the head to who will finish either in August of this seen," and later was awarded the Medal initiate the program. of Honor. year or January '48. The senior class The preview showings of two movies to also opened the Ball to graduate stu­ Dean Manion has chosen the topic be used in the Department of Finance dents in attendance at the University. "The Fruit of Happiness" for his ad­ were held during the past week prior Unfortunately, due to several restric­ dress to be given April 14, at 8:15. to showings before classes. According to tions, there will be a limited number of Father Kennedy, noted author and book Dean McCarthy, although the program bids available for the affair which will reviewer, will speak on "Current Novels is still in the experimental stages, it is go on sale shortly after the announce­ and the Catholic Reader" April 28, at hoped to supplement all courses with ment of band around March 1st. 8:15.—Ed Snyder visual aids by next fall. 10 opposition to what should be the basic ideals of thinking Christians and Chris­ WARREN FRONRATH tian nations. The people of the United The Humanist States must not adopt a self-righteous attitude or self-imposed absolution re­ garding world maladies tut must rea­ lize and concede the great part we have Perhaps, no single issue confronting circumstsances, did this group propose played in creating the present critical the United States today is more inti­ that we cari-y the full burden of estab­ situation. mately concerned with the future of lishing this cooperative policy to the Our historical attitude toward the world peace than our diplomatic policy point of relinquishing any portion of our present Russian government has consis­ toward the Soviet Union. With the pur­ basic political tenets. This arbitration- tently been one of skepticism and an­ pose of stimulating consideration of this al approach, if activated under the con­ tagonism. From the time of its con­ issue, this column of last week posed ditions of mutual willingness to com­ ception in 1918, when we occupied some the question: What type of policy promise, would result in a constructive parts of Russia with our Polar Bear should the United States maintain to­ settlement of differences, rather than in forces in an attempt to destroy the ward Soviet Russia? Student views con­ stalemates that foster hate and further revolutionary movement, we have dem­ cerning the course to be pursued by our disti-ust, such as the one that now ex­ onstrated a refusal to cooperate vnth the State Department in this matter grouped ists. This group recognizes that a great Communist government and to extend themselves into two attitudes; one of se­ gap now exists between the two powers, to them the assistance that should be verity and intimidation, backed by the but they apparently have profited from forthcoming from a more mature na­ atomic bomb and military force; the the mistakes of former generations, in­ tion. It is only to be expected that this other, a policy of cooperation, chai-actei-- asmuch as they maintain that no solu­ attit\ide has produced a similar one on ized by a willingness to compromise on tion exacted by force will be a lasting the part of the Russians. Bearing in the part of both parties. one. Peace depends, they believe, upon mind our initial error and the fact that nations resorting to rational methods of we are a more mature nation, we must The majority of students approached settlement since only these can produce accept as a moral obligation the task supported the policy of severity. They the mutual conviction and agreement so of initiating this reconciliation with a substantiated their opinion by citing past necessary for permanent accord. It must society that is still in its formative actions of the Soviet as a member of the be pointed out that this gi'oup empha­ state. Security Council. They pointed out the sized the possibility of future inconsis­ fact that Russia had taken a deliberate tency in Russian policy, hence the need We must refuse to gi-ant that the sit­ attitude of ofFensiveness and unwilling­ of maintaining an effective military uation is impossible. We must firmly ness to cooperate on the majority of is­ force. The science students demon­ believe that all men share a common, in­ sues involving her participation. They be­ strated foresight in realizing that the nate desire to live in peace and secur­ lieved that Russia's strenuous efforts atomic bomb cannot remain the posses­ ity. Therefore, all governments must to retain the veto power is indicative of sion of the United States alone due to respect this common characteristic and her intention to continue this policy of the fact that the technology necessary must demonsti-ate a great unwillingness non-cooperation despite any e^ort on our to produce such a weapon is the prop­ and hesitation in resorting to forceful part to establish an amicable relationship erty of science in all nations. This coup­ physical methods of settling disputes— between the twa powers. Aside from the led with the fact that they have a fuller methods that will ultimately deprive above example, there was a deeper and realization of the destructive powers of some men of these natural rights. more deciding factor that prompted a atomic energy caused them to be more Next week's question is also a perti­ portion of this gi-oup to adopt such a emphatic in supporting the compromise nent one and by its implications de­ stern attitude: that of a philosophic dif­ method. mands serious and thorough considera­ ference concerning religion, economics, tion: Do you favor peace-time military and politics. Almost without exception, Poll of opinion on U. S. policy toward conscription in any form and do you be­ this group pointed to the lack of a com­ Russia: lieve that such a policy %vould be an effec­ mon criterion of morals existing between tive means of insuring lasting peace? the two nations and hence, the impossi­ Favors Favors No Please address all replies to The Hu­ bility of trusting to treaties built upon force compromise opinion manist, Box 174, Notre Dame, Ind., by such divergent codes. The materialism (percent) (percent) (percent) Monday evening, February 24, 1947. that chai-acterizes ths Rursian philosophy Law 92 8 0 necessarily implies a pragmatism that Commerce 62 27 11 demands a change of policy whenever the Arts 57 30 13 A new method of teaching German at good of the Russian people would seem­ Engineering 47 25 28 Northwestern University has increased ingly require it, regardless of previous Science 41 42 17 by 48 per cent the facility with which commitments to other nations. Also, students learn the language. the obvious intention of the Communist Combined poll.... 59.8 26.4 13.8 movement, as expressed by its messiah, A survey recently compiled from scores Karl Mai-x, to undermine all capitalistic Far from being overly idealistic, the in cooperative tests in the German de­ systems further contributed to this lack thinking student is fully aware of the partment at Northwestern indicates that of faith in anything but a very harsh concrete economic, sociological, political, undergraduate students make greater and unyielding policy toward the Rus­ and moral difi'erences that separate progress in learning the language under sians. these two great powers. He grants a semi-intensive, two-year course intro­ that the immediate outlook is discourag­ duced into the curriculum exactly two The students favoring the second al­ ing, but none the less, he firmly de­ years ago, than they do under the estab­ ternative, that of a policy of cooperation, plores the proneness of the majority of lished system of study. The revised qualified their opinion by pointing to the students to favor force as the first course was instituted as part of the uni­ the necessity for a reciprocal attitude to rather than the last means of settling versity's special program for the bach­ be assuiped by the Russians. Under no these differences. This attitude-is in elor of arts degree.

11 crimination. How successfully she has Sister Madeleva, St. Mary's President, met this test is shown by the appearance of her work in such periodicals as the Lectures At Washington Hall Next Week New York Times, the New Republic, the Saturday Review of Ldterature, and the Notre Dame will be host Thursday her birthplace in Cumberland, Wisconsin, American Mercury. evening, February 27, to the renowned to Oxford University, in England— know Sister Madeleva for her gentle, Literary students and would-be poets poet, college president, lecturer and soft-spoken manner, her sophisticated would do well to copy from her book of Catholic leader. Sister M. Madeleva, humor and her charming but passionate wisdom. "The Bible," maintains Sister C.S.C. She will talk on "The Poet and sincerity. Madeleva, "is the best book of poetry the Philosopher" in Washington Hall at in the world, and after that the diction- Sister Madeleva achieved her first 8:00 o'clock. aiy. I love especially the Book of Isaias magazine publication over thirty years and the Apocalypse. I think perhaps the ago, largely through the help of the late Sister Madeleva has been prodigiously thinness of much of our present poetry Father O'Donnell. From the first she successful in a number of fields, al­ is due to lack of knowledge of this great delibei-ately tested herself beyond Cath­ though she is best known as a leading literature." olic columns, believing that when Cath­ Catholic poet and president of nearby St. t olic writers are not accepted by the Mary's College. She is the author of Her love of the dictionary and of non-Catholic magazines they fail on the many volumes of distinguished verse, in­ words is no shallow vocabulary study. score of art rather than because of dis­ cluding Selected Poems, published by (Continued on Page 33) MacMillan in 1939, and her poems have been widely anthologized. She is the fifth president of the Catholic Poetry Society THE WEEK WITH THE STUDENT COUNCIL of America, of which her good f rend, the late Father Charles L. O'Donnell, C.S.C, former president of Notre Dame, was Last Monday night the Student Council, at its weekly meeting in Badin Hall, disposed of the following items of business: the first president. 1. Introduced two new members: Charles Patterson, representing the College of Another unbreakable link that binds Arts and Letters, and John F. Hoas, from the College of Commerce. this remarkable nun to Notre Dame is the fact that she earned her master's 2. Granted permission to the Law Club to hold a smoker on Feb. 20 in the degree while studjdng here. Thus she is .American Legion Hall at South Bend, and to the Knights of Columbus to hold an a member of that small but intensely exchange meeting at La Porte, Ind., on Feb. 27. Both permissions pending the approval loyal band that are called alumnae of of the Prefect of Discipline's Office. this man's institution. Her Ph.D. degree is from the University of California, and 3. Introduced a motion by John R. O'Connor to install telephones at some central she holds honorary Litt.D. degrees from point in the Veteran's Housing Center. Mr. Hoas assigned to investigate the pos­ Mount Mary College (Milwaukee) and sibility. MarJiattan College. Before becoming 4. Heard a motion by Mr. Louis Streer to lower the South Shore rates for president of St. Mai-y's she was presi­ students travelling to points between South Bend and Chicago. Motion approved dent of the College of Saint-Mary-of-the- and Mr. Patterson named to conduct the investigation. Wasatch at Salt Lake City. 5. Heard report from Robert Shaw concerning the bridge tournament. It will be Sister Madeleva, who is small of sta­ conducted on a campus-^vide basis and will be sponsored by the Council. Twenty-five ture, is not only a good hiker, but one cent entrance fee per couple will be charged; winners to participate in nationwide who counts inountain climbing among her college campus tournament. Those interested see Mr. Shaw, 124 Alumni Hall, before hobbies. Add to these surprising facts March second. that she is an enthusiastic mediaevalist who finds much of her favorite reading 6. Appointed Mr. Lance to temporarily handle publicity for the Student Council in the ^^Titing of the Middle English until such time as a Publicity Committee could be set up. The hope was expressed poets, although her own practice as a that at least seventy-five per cent of the items discussed in the Council meetings poet has been influenced more by the would be published in the SCHOLASTIC. The Council felt that it has not been getting Victorian Catholic poets, Coventry Pat- the proper cooperation from the SCHOLASTIC staff. more, Francis Thompson and Alice Mey- 7. Heard report from Larry Turner, in charge of organizing the Junior Prom nell. Committee, that a meeting of the Junior Class was tentatively scheduled for Monday Nevertheless her interests are strongly night in the Law Building Auditorium to elect co-chairmen for the Prom. Nominations contemporary, particularly in the field include George Sullivan, John White, John McCormack, Thomas Higgins, Thomas of Catholic thought. Largely through her Jackson, Joseph De Spigno. wide friendships among Catholic men of letters, she has made St. Marjr's Col­ 8. Appointed Mr. Humel to contact Mr. Ford, manager of the dining halls, to lege the frequent stopping place of a determine the possibility of granting the students permission to use either one of long line of distinguished Americans and the wings at their discretion. This would eliminate standing in line at an appointed Europeans, including Alfred Noyes, Rob­ wing even though the other wing was not crowded. ert Speaight, Elizabeth Drew, William 9. Vetoed a motion to grant permission for a Freshman dance on the basis that Agar, Jacques Maritain and Morton the calendar is filled up and that it is not a regular practice for freshman to conduct Dauwen Zabel. a class dance.

Expect what personality one will find 10. Heard report from Fred Tansey that a vaudeville clown act will be performed from such an amazing background, lec­ during the halves of the next basketball game Chuck Perrin, Charles Russell and ture audiences and acquaintances—^from Tansey will participate. , 12 Wm *-:^

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ci^i^ Mr. Eugene Kormendi. Notre Dame's sculptor-in-residence, oversees a group of his students at work in his studio. Eugene Konnendi, Sculptor

By JOHN A, O'CONNOR

Notre Dame men approaching the Communion rail in the Rockne Memorial is the hunched St. Christopher, strid­ Sacred Heart Church on Sunday morning kneel below a ing through the waves with the Child Jesus atop his mas­ strikingly simple wooden crucifix which hangs on the pillar sive shoulders. This saintly athlete in stone, symbol of the opposite the pulpit. From His tree of agony the Man of young men who carry Christ's principles into the ring and Sorrow looks down with compassion on the waves of col­ onto the gridiron, is likewise the work of Professor Kormendi. lege men who approach His table, the heartbreak of the ages is in His face, yet His arms outstretch in forgiving love. This beautiful woodcarving of the crucified Savior is The Magyar professor, student of Rodin and Bernard, the work of Eugene Kormendi, Budapest-born sculptor, in and noted well in the artistic circles of Europe, has been in residence now at Notre Dame. the United States since 1940, and at Notre Dame since 1942. After graduating from the Gymnasium and studjring at the Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest, Professor Kormendi Since forsaking the banks of his native Danube for the ispent some time working under the aged master Joseph t\vin lakes of Our Lady's campus. Professor Kormendi has Bemai-d. Then, after five years in Paris, he returned to quietly gone about his work to adorn Notre Dame's grounds his native Hungary, where, beginning with his first exhibit, with some of the world's most beautiful liturgical art. Law his abilities were recognized and acclaimed. His first large- students pour into their proud Law Building under the scale public work was a white marble statue of Queen stone eye of St. Thomas More, looking down from his shel­ Elizabeth, idolized consort of the King-Emperor Franz Jo­ tered niche. This figure of the great English statesman seph. The acclamation of Kormendi's genius was wide­ and minstrel-hearted poet is the handicraft of Professor spread, and soon public squares, parks and buildings mush­ Kormendi. Gracing the recess above the main entrance to roomed with his works. At the Zero Mile Stone in Buda-

13 pest, where all the country's roads begin, stands Kormendi's ness or reliefs; some chip away at stone, hammering a work •'Virgin Mary, Patroness of Hungary." Overlooking the Dan­ of art out of the potency of rock. Some carve Madonnas ube is his heroic likeness of King John Sobieski, Defender out of wood, others bake a ceramic seraph in the kiln. of Vienna and 17th century bulwark against the Turks. Professor Kormendi, who looks a little like the Texas Here at Notre Dame his studio is the north half of the statesman, Tom Connolly, and speaks Avith the heavy Danu- low brick sti-ucture just back of the Main Building. In one bian accent of S. Z. Sakall, woi'ks in the dusty privacy of half Father Lange moulds bodies out of sinew and sweat; the east corner of the building. Hei'e too Madame Kor­ in the other Professor Komiendi cuts life out of stone and mendi, a most charming woman (who, in addition to being clay. an internationally known painter and sculptress, makes delicious tea and chicken paprikash) helps the professor in The studio is cluttered vnth sculptured heads, has reliefs, his creation of art for Notre Dame. Eight now fourteen little liills of clay, and everywhere the powdeiy white dust stations of the Cross, soon to adorn some church walls, are of chiseled stone. The alabaster face of Lincoln looks out taking shape in the dusty studio. from behind a case against the wall; he is flanked by cher­ ubs, Hottentots, and every tjqje of stone head from angel Alumni Hall's chapel boasts of three of Konnendi's wood to gargoyle. Saturdays find the studio jammed Avith stu­ carvings. The graceful statues on the three side altars, dents, studying form and mass, rhythm and expression. the Immaculate Conception, St. Joseph and his Staff of Twenty-nine of these hopefuls are architects, three fine aiis Purity, and the Angelic Doctor', Thomas Aquinas, are all majors. Some daub in clay, shaping pliant stuff into figuri- works of inspirational beauty.

Two more works of the Professor bloom from the high niches on the Infirmary: the Good Shephei'd above the door, and in the south ^ving, St. Raphael, the patron of the sick, ^vith symbolic fish and ointment in his hands.

Before coming to Notre Dame, Kormendi had spent a year in Milwaukee. As his adopted home, it offered many oppor­ tunities to the refugee sculptor. His plaster portrait plaques of the then Archbishop Stritch (at that time residing in Mil­ waukee), Archduke Otto of Austria-Hungai-y (a Milwaukee Aasitor), and the city's noted William George Bruce and Milton C. Potter were well received. When the citizens of Milwaukee wished to honor the 500th anniversary of

TOP LEFT—A student in Mr. Konnendi's ceramics class takes a figure out of the red-hot Idln. LOWER LEFT— Mr. Komiendi stands at the entronce of the Law Build­ ing, below his famous St. Thomas More. BELOW—^A student's clay figure receives earnest study and criti­ cism from Mr. Kormendi. ABOVE—One of Mr. Eormendi's students works on a carving with a wood-hammer and a chisel. TOP RIGHT —Another of Mr. Kormendi's students pours plaster of pans into a mold. LOWER RIGHT—Mr. Kormendi adds a touch to the war memorial destined for the vestibule of Sacred Heart Church.

Gutenbei"g's invention of movable types they quickly called on the.Danubian professor, who executed a beautiful like­ ness of the Gennan inventor for the celebration of the quincontennial.

Prior to his arrival in America, Konnendi was by no means confined to his native Hungary. So widespread was his fame that he was commissioned to create public monu­ ments and other works in such far-flung centers as Rome, Stockholm, Barcelona, the Hague, and old Nuremburg, tra­ ditional seat of Germanic culture and city of the Meister- singers.

tended outward from the body, like a cross, and hands up­ During his youthful student days in Paris, working under lifted in prayer. Connoisseurs lauded its haunting beauty. the watchful eye of Rodin, Kormendi would often slip away Down at Valparaiso, Indiana, Kormendi created a Memo­ from the Academy Julian to spend long houi's in the Louvre, rial honoring war dead at the Seven Dolors Shrine. Here where he was fascinated by the simplicity of Egyptian art. a fallen soldier sleeps in the lap of the Sorrowful Mother. This placid and philosophic style has been a constant source of inspiration to the Pi'ofessor, and is often reflected in his works. One of Koimendi's projects vnll be the proposed Notre Dame War Memorial, which wU completely make over the An exhibition tour carried the Koimendi's to Holland in entrance to Sacred Heart Church. At present, just inside 1939, where for ten months they worked and were well re­ the great doors, on the wall opposite the roll of Notre Dame's ceived. Booking passage for the United States, they plan­ war dead, are two creamy ceramic plaques, symbolizing the ned an extensive tour of the American art centers. After centsnaiy of the University, celebrated in 1942. One depicts their landing in New Yox-k the Dutch liner Statesdam, on long-bearded Father Sorin, founder of the University. Back which they made the ci-oss-Atlantic voyage, was sent to the of his enoi-mous shouldei-s (he needed them for the job!) is bottom by Nazis on her return trip. War had come to the old main building and the little log chapel. The other Europe and the world. Gennan legions swarmed over the disc depicts the simple loveliness of Our Lady, eyes down­ Continent. There could be no return to Budapest now. cast in prayer and hands folded in supplication for the University. In the background is the spire of Sacred Heart Koimendi's first works in this countiy were prizewinners. Church, the unfurled American flag, and the golden dome, At Palm Beach, Florida, his "On to Victory" won tremen­ representing "God, Country, and Notre Dame." Priorities dous praise; two gun-shouldeiing soldiers, swinging along prohibited the use of any mateidal but ceramics in 1942, but in step. At the Herron Art Institute in Indianapolis, critics both plaques are slated for recasting in bronze for the me­ unanimously acclaimed the simple beauty of his "St. Fran­ morial. Both walls in the vestibule are to be done in black cis." This tinted plaster likeness of the Brother to the marble, mth an appropriate inscription honoring those slain Wolf was exquisitely done, garments simplified, arms ex­ for the defense of their countiy.

15" But of all the professor's works, and the beauty of Notre Dame, that Our there are many, his own favorite among Lady's campus may blossom like the the war memorials is the massive square Pincian Gardens, with flowei-s of wood stone group which he ci'eated in Hun­ and stone gary. Here are five lamenting women, representing the five continents torn by war, sitting in a tightly compact group Flood In Howard Hall on a square bench, leaning on each Brings Out Mop Brigade other with loneliness, sagging with soi-- row, weeping and prayerful, exhausted To Shamokins Ed Ostroski last Sunday from the hatefulness, heai-tbreak and night came memories of the oft-told tale horrors of holocaustic war. Such a of Johnstown and its historical tiickle mournful monument is his favorite be­ of water. Engaged in a deep bull ses­ cause, he says, unlike the gi'eat sti-iding, sion in one of the neighboring fourth- chesty soldiere usually depicted in like floor rooms of Howard Hall, Ostroski memorials, here are the real heroes of was oblivious to his domestic difficulties wars, the mothers, wives, and sweet­ until third-floor residents, backed by the hearts. "The boys go because they must, watchman, stoimed up the staii's. but the women suffer the greatest sor­ Upon opening the door (or dam) of rowj " 408 Howard, a cascade of water, inches So in his dusty studio, Profesor Kor- high, streamed into the hall. A volun­ Kormendi's dynamic two soldiers, his mendi goes about his work, instructing teer mop-and-bucket brigade rapidly prize-winning "On to Victory." the students in sculpture, and adding to went into action, draining the Howard River. Oiiicial reports state that no drowned bodies have been discovered. Cause of the flood was a faucet, unique at Notre Dame—^it sticks in place while the water is running. Unnoticed by the departing Ostroski, the water continued ninning into a clogged drainage pipe, and ovei-flowed. A consolation for flooded Ostx'oski- -the floor was thoroughly washed.

Dr. Nutting Addresses Meeting of Liturgy Club Students and seminarians attended an informal meeting of the Liturgy Club on Wednesday, February 12, in the Law Building auditorium to hear Dr. W. D. Nutting. The meeting was presided over by John Mowbray, and Dr. Nutting was introduced by Father Speer Sti-ahan who is to talk at a forthcoming meeting.

Dr. Nutting's subject was "Liturgy and Its Relation to the Student." In his speech he traced the evolution of a person's habit and manner of prayer, originating in simple childhood prayers and culminating in the prayer of the Mass. Dr. Nutting also drew a com­ parison between the religious and eco­ nomical pi-actices of Catholic business men. He stressed the fact that their ethics were often found wanting. Following his address Dr. Nutting elab­ orated on some of the topics he had pre­ viously touched upon in answer to ques­ tions from the audience. —J. P. Reiner

The average foreign_news story pre­ sented by the Americanpi«ss is written on an educational level five years above that of an average adult, an Ohio State Mr. Konnendi relaxes next to his beautiful St. Emericus. study reveals. 16 Rebels Revel at Mardi Gras

By GEORGE McCARTHY

Students from above the Michigan-An­ gela line (temporarily), and below the Mason-Dixon (permanently) had their own version of a Mardi Gras festival a la South Bend last Saturday night, at the Erskine Park Countiy Club. The occasion was the fii"st Mardi Gras dance, engineered by the newly-foi*med Rebels Club, and attended by an estimated 220 couples.

Many men had as their guests girls from The Town, but most studes were accompanied by sweet young things from "ovah yondah" at St. Mary's. Miss Mil­ dred Maiiiin, St. Martinsville, La., lass, who was the date of Eay Hymel, pilot of the affair, presented a regal sight as she pr'esided in queenly manner over the dance. None of the Rebels qualified for King Comus.

Phil Foote and his gallant Southern Serenaders satiated the Rebels with melodic offerings sweeter than a chick­ deft to right)—Bill Hopke, Judy Midldff. Mary Elizabeth Bonnot, Pete Friday, Meg en fry. Best rendition of the even- Kennedy, Bud Bonnot, Evelyn Major, Jose Owens; (standing) Ann Kimber,

ing was Phil's arrangement of Stardiist. Augmenting the musical prog^ram and evoking many ah's and oh's from the au­ dience was the singing of a raven-haired chaiiner from St. Marjr's, Penny George, who delightfully Helen Morganized A Good Man is Hard to Find and Senti­ mental Reasons. Biggest surprise of the night was that Richard, kind soul, wasn't requested to unlatch the portal more than once.

Emceeing the dance and smoothly co­ ordinating the evening's entertainment was Dan Gentile, Radio Club vet of many broadcasts, and a welcome Yankee to any affair. Rebel or otherwise.

In addition to Hymel, whose job it was to supervise the dance, the Rebel's plan­ ning committee consisted of Fletcher Daniels, Chattanooga, ticket manager; Joy ond confusion really reigned at the Rebels Mardi Gras. Shades of Noo Awlins. and Greg Despot, Shreveport, who did (Additional pictures on Page 25) southern magic with the decorations. 17 hurdles. In his first trial heat of the €•• yard high hurdles, Smith set a new N.l. indoor record, and tied the fieldhoiu ; mark of 7.4 seconds. In the final eve;.- of the highs, he equaled the mark whic • he had established previously. The fin; I in the low barriers was very close, wit'' Smith edging out Brodie and Campbe/ of Michigan Nonnal and erasing the olri mark of 7.0 set by Dillon of Notre Dame in 1942. According to information re­ ceived here this week it is believed that his time of 6.9 equals the world record for that distance.

Irish superiority in the distances was ovei-whelming. Bill Leonard won the mik in the good time of 4:22.4'. John Lyons and Lou Tracy showed a marked in.- I provement as they captured third and fourth places respectively. Jim Murphy, Niel Styers, and Tracy finished the gruel­ ing two mile in one two three order. Tracy's performance was more notable, because of the sho\ving he made earlier in the mile event. Bill Tully took the 880, followed closely by Larry Keenan and Jerry Johnson. Keenan's run was an ad­ Anderson of Marquette going over the bar at 13 feet 3 inches for vance over his earlier contests this sea- first place in the pole voult.

THINCLADS MEET STRONG HAWKEYE TEAM IN HELDHOUSE SATURDAY SfUuUe^ piam By By JIM HOWARD

Tomorrow afternoon at two, the Hawk- Michigan Nonnal. The Irish cornered the Football players receiving preference eye thinclads from Iowa City invade the market on points, piling up 73% to 30 in track releases bums most of the track local gym to attempt to win their first for Michigan Normal and 25^4 for the men up every time that they pick up a dual victory of the season over Notre Hilltoppers. newspaper. Because they make "better Dame's powerful track squad. The Iowa Captain John Smith gave the top per­ copy" is a poor excuse to heap more squad has been hitting tougher competi­ formance of the meet, smashing three glory on athletes who star during the tion than the Irish, and may prove a indoor and fieldhouse marks in the fall than on the outstanding members of stronger contender than was expected. the track squad. It takes only a few re­ leases such as those which we have seen The Hawkeyes ai-e a strong team as of late to ruin a whole team. It's not are all Big Nine schools. Their power the football stars who are to blame. They is well distributed and tougher than any­ can't help it if sports editors continue thing the N.D. tracksters have met this to flash their names before the readers year at home. Notre Dame will be weak­ instead of giving the "unknowns" a blow ened in the mile as their star, Bill Leon­ once in a while. But it does put them in ard will be in New York competing in an unfavorable light with the rest of the 1000 yard miV at the National A.A.U. the squad. meet in Madison Square Garden. Bill runs against Bill Hulse of the New York Charlie Callahan, track publicity di­ A.C., Chandler of N.Y.U., and Norwicki rector, claims that sports editors are at of Fordham. fault in this matter. How about it, Mr. Costin? Here at N.D. the team will rely on John Smith, Dave Murphy, Bill Tully, Jim Murphy, Niel Styers, Ray Sobota, HOLY CBOSS vs NOTRE DAME and George Sullivan to capture enough points for their third home indoor vic­ Father Finn, President of the Holy tory. Cross Alumni Association and a parish priest of Schenectady, New York, visited Notre Dame cindermen turned in their the> campus a couple of weeks ago and second decisive victory of the indoor sea­ tried'^to" find an open date on Notre son last Saturday afternoon, winning a Bill Leonard of Notre Dame breaking Dame's football schedule sometime in the triangular meet from Marquette and the tape in the mile. near future. The earliest possible date 18 son. The event was the first half-mile for Johnson, who came in under two minutes. Ray Sobota captured the 440, scoring a surprising upset over his teammate Dave Murphy. The two were in different time trials, or the contest might have been the thrill of the meet, and the time lower than the 50.7 run by Sobota. Coach Handy tried a new combination in the mile relay, and the time was the best of of the season. Ernie McCullough started the contest for the Irish, and Leonard, Sobota and Dave Murphy carried on to finish in 3.25 minutes. Third and fourth place in the 60 yard dash went to Bill Smith and Clifford of N.D. In the broad I jump Jack Hunter took second and Ray Espenan fourth. Terry Brennan and Ray Struble tied for second in the pole vault, each clearing twelve feet six inches. Fourth place in the high jump went to Jack Painter. The Beef Trust swept the first three places in the shot put. George Sullivan was first with a toss of 48' 5". Second position went to Luke Higgins and third Russ Van Kieron (left) and Tom Balenti (right) will be better fighters for to Floyd Simmons. Coach Dominick Napolitano's watchful guidance.

IRISH JOURNEY EASTWARD TO PLAY t tlie P^ieAi Box. CANISIUS. NEW YORK FIVES

By TOE CHENEY—Scholastic Sports Editor By PETE BROWN

is 1950. No definite plans were made for The annual two game' eastern swing Virginia. West Virginia was the only that year. • of Notre Dame's basketball team starts team which beat them by more than ten tomorrow night in the Buffalo Auditor­ points. NOTRE DAME vs N. Y. U. ium with Canisius College and ends Mon­ Leroy Challet and Hank O'Keefe are day night in Madison Square Garden the forwards for Canisius. Both are 6'-2". According to John Powers' column in with New York University. the New York Notre Dame Alumni The guards are Tom Niland and Mort News, Notre Dame will play N.Y.U. in Presently rated third best in the coun­ O'SuUivan and the center, Tom MuUer. the new N.Y.U. gym beginning next sea­ try behind Kentucky and West Virginia, Niland is 5'-9", O'SuUivan 5'-ll" and son. Wonder if the series will be put on a the Irish will have to keep their heads MuUer 6'-4%". Challet is the only for­ home-and-home basis after next year's up to get past these two quintets. The eigner to New York State. He is from game? possible loss of Kevin O'Shea because New Orleans. • of an injury to his untaped knee in the Northwestern game will leave Notre Canisius will be out to score their first RUMOR DEPARTMENT Dame at a slight disadvantage. victory over the Irish in the series be­ tween the two schools. Notre Dame has Rumor has it that Coach Leahy is Tomorrow night's opponent is the sec­ won all five contests. Last year they seriously thinking of moving Johnny Lu- ond team Notre Dame has played this turned back the New Yorkers, 69-47. jack to one of the halfback positions next year whose coach is a former Irish star season. If he does (and we doubt it), and AU-American. Earl Brown is the After one night's rest, the Irish move Notre Dame's attack would be similar man. He was captain of the '38-'39 Notre into Madison Square Garden to take on to Army's offense of the last three sea­ Dame squad and AU-American the same NYU. New York boasts victories over son. Tucker had the choice of passing, year. He also turned in a fine enough UCLA, Southern Methodist, and Duke. Slateraling to a line crasher, or lateraling performance at end on Elmer Layden's The Duke encounter had to be decided to Davis who could pass it or run around '38 football team to be rated AU-Ameri­ in a double overtime when NYU came l- the ends. If Lujack is in at halfback and can in that sport. out on top 64-61. I Ratterman is calling signals, Notre Dame's offense would be terrific. Of His team's accomplishments include The tall man of the NYU starting^ course, the same plays could have been victories over Long Island University, quintet is Center Adolph Schayes. He is. worked out last season around. Jerry City College of New York, and New only 18 years old, but stands 6'-6%". Cowhig who was one of the best high York University. The other side of the The forwards are Marty Goldstein, who school passers in the country a few years • ledger shows losses to Oklahoma A. & M., is S'-IO", and Ray Lumpp, who is 6'-!". (Continued on Page 27) Texas, Oregon' State, USC, and West (Continued on Page 34) 19. sity. In Denver at the AAU tourney their paths crossed again and on the INTI^CDUCING basis of Phillips' dazzling performance as a member of the Fleet Marine five, Kel—and the rest of the country—con­ sidered him a cinch to regain eveiy honor By BOB LEANDER the Big Nine had to oifer. Yet this sea­ ^OAH KeUif son things haven't gone according to the morning line and John pro\ides us with Perhaps you have never entertained what seems to be the only available ans­ a liking for officers. Or then again, may­ wer. Somewhere between Denver, Ha­ be you were an officer yourself—^%vhich waii, and Champaign-Urbana, the Whiz would tend to throw a more complimen- not necessarily te his last. Although a Kid dropped 30 pounds. The why's and taiy light on the subject. At any rate, senior, his contemplated entrance into whei-efore's thereof might someday give even the bitterest ex-PFC can appreci­ the Law School will enable him to take us the belated reason for one of the prin­ ate a fine basketball player and in doing advantage of another year's eligibility. cipal causes of Illinois' recent hardwood so must give an appro\'ing nod to a woes. fonner Marine shavetail, John Edward John attended St. Francis High School Kelly, who currently cavorts at forward in his home town of Utica, N. Y., and with the Krause Krew. captui-ed five lettei-s, three for basketball and t\vo for roving the local outfield. Irish Fencers Lose In no wise new to these surroundings, And, Mr. Kline, he swatted a healthy 22-year-old Kel earned freshman numer­ .340. The St. Francis quintet won the als in 1942-43 and the following season Upper New York State title and fea­ to Northwestern won his monogram. During the summer tured John Kelly as high scorer for two of 1944 he enlisted in the Marine Corps B7 DAVE WARNER and took leave of absence from his Arts and Letters course in favor of 8 weeks of rugged boot-camp training at Parris In a surprising upset witnessed by a Island, S. C. Then followed OCS and capacity crowd last Friday night in the then 2hk yeai-s service, principally •with­ fieldhouse the Northwestern fencing in the confines of Camp LeJeune where team overcame a 11-7 deficit and defeat­ John played a whale of a game of bas­ ed Notre Dame 14-13, springing ahead on ketball. As a member of the South Caro­ the twenty-sixth bout of the evening. lina team he was high scorer, averaging Herb Melton's boys had performed cap­ 18 points per appearance over a 39-game ably, though in some instances none too season. His best effort was a Mikan- impressively, in the foil and sabre win­ esque 34 points racked up against the ning both, 5-4 and 6-3. The Irish looked Norfolk Naval Air Station. The Le like a shoo-in for its third Avin of the Jeune outfit was rated third among the season, but Wildcat dominance in the nation's Service clubs and traveled to epee set Notre Dame back to a .500 the AAU tournament in Denver after season standing again. facing Memphis Navy for the Southeast championship. Bob Schlosser, a freshman from Springfield, 111., was Notre Dame's star Earlier in the 1944-45 campaign, the of the evening with three victories out gyrine five were playing Camp Peary and of three bouts; DiCicco turned in five out finding the going a trifle rough. In fact, of nine. Displaying a sensational ability with only seconds remaining, the Seabess were running two lengths ahead when to come from behind, Schlosser treated Brookfield, then of Peary but now a mem­ the overflow crowd to some beautiful ber of the Chicago Gears, felled Kel Avith executed parries and repostes. Coach something—possibly a lead pipe. It was Herb Melton expects to rely heavily on just the thing for the whistle-tooters Schlosser's work in the remaining match­ who awarded the groggy and wobbling es. The difference between victory and forward two charity tosses. God forbid defeat might well have hinged on the sur­ that Moose Krause run out and club him prisingly poor showing of Al Ortiz, over the head before each free throw, usually a dependable point getter. Ortiz but Kel made both shots and the Le showed up for the match with an upset Jeune Bugs went on to win in overtime, stomach and consequently was in no tem­ though not until one careening Irishman per for the ballet-like speed of fencing. had been led from the floor. Other x>oints for Notre Dame were dis­ seasons. His average there, too, was tributed among Ventura (Sleepy) Gon­ Not ordinarily plagued with injuries healthy—^20 points guaranteed, whether zalez, 1; Lou Burns, 1; Ralph Witucki, and rel^ated to the bench, John never­ 1; Pete Gross, 1. theless sat out the St. Louis U. and Dart­ an afternoon or evening performance. mouth games as a result of a broken hand Engrossed as he is with Notre Dame The squad was supposed to appear in sustained in the Drake fracas. The in­ basketball and his studies, John has still Milwaukee tonight for a match with the jury wasn't detected until the game was found time to ponder the mystery of the Marquette Hilltoppers, but the match over and it then accounted for his hav­ Whiz Kids, Andy Phillips in particular. has been cancelled. Tomorrow afternoon ing tallied a lone bucket. His total of Kel met the Illini star when he was sta­ the Meltonmen invade Madison, Wis., 121 points in 13 starts indicate his real tioned here in V-12 for several months where they will try to outthrust an un- scoring potential. This year's action will and scrimmaged against the Irish var­ jnelding Wisconsin Badger. 20 BENGAL BOUTS THREE WEEKS AWAY; Lifeguard School TO HOLD FINALS ST. PATRICK'S DAY Has Huge Turnout About one hundred Notre Dame stu­ By PETE BROWN dents have availed themselves of the opportunity of participating in the Senior Red Cross Life Saving School which be­ Three weeks from next Monday night perience are Frank Fahey, Lakewood, gan in the Rockne Pool on Tuesday, Feb­ marks the 16th renewal of the Bengal Ohio; Russ VanKeuren, Rockford, Illi­ ruary 18th. Although this number is Bouts. Under the shadow of the Golden nois; Merritt Hoglund, Chicago; Leo Ma- really too large to handle with present Dome, sixteen contestants will be out to honey, South Bend; and Jim Greenwell, facilities, it is expected that about 60 to claim eight titles ranging from 127-lb. Moi-ganfield, Kentucky. All but Hoglund 75 men will complete the course and be class to heavy\veight. are sophomores in the College of Arts presented with the Senior Life Saving and Letters. Hoglund is a senior in certificate. The school is under the super­ As of Tuesday, Febniary 18, all of Commerce. vision of Mr. Gil Burdick. the aspirants had not taken their physi­ cals, and the complete list of entrants Of the other 17 fighters registered, This course is a fifteen hour course was not available. But even despite this, there are three each in the 175-, 165-, consisting of 10 one and a half hour the current probable list of contestants 155-, and 147-lb. divisions; two in the periods and a two hour examination. far exceeds those of previous years. 135-, and 127-lb. classes; and one in the Students are taught all the methods of heavyweight division. No one but Satti modem life saving including approaches, Of the list now available there are has entered the 142-lb. bracket. carries, defenses, and releases, as well ten men who have had previous experi­ as complete instruction in artificial res­ ence in the Bengals. Most of them fought piration. An instructor's school will be The lone heavyweight so far is Bill last year, but two fought as far back as held at a later date if there is suflBcient Kirley of Hopkinton, Mass. He is a ju­ 1943. These two are Tom King and Bob interest. This course consists of 30 hours nior in Arts and Letters and lives at 162 Lee. of instruction, and the student when Dillon. graduated will be eligible to teach the King is from Concord, New Hamp­ life saving courses to others. shire, and when he is not using his soph­ The other potential champions are omore text manuals in the College of Dick Cottey, Paul Boulus and Paul Mr. Burdick would like to build the Arts and Letters, he piles them in 158 Schafly in the 175-lb.; Pete Friday, Tom number of Senior Life Guards up to the Zahm. In March, '43 he was a contestant Landig and Jim Engel in the 165-lb.; peak reached before the war when about in the 127-lb. class. He hopes this year Bill Hopke, Bob Leander and Sars Quig- two hundred students held Senior certi­ to participate in the same division. King ley in the 155-lb; Dick McGoldrick, Walt ficates. The main purpose behind this is is a vet with three years service ^vith the Evans and Jim Klockenkemper in the to insure a sufficient number of trained Army in Europe. 147-lb.; Bob Hennebry and Dante Mer- men at any particular place where Notre curio in the 135-lb.; and Bob Phillips and Dame men might be swinmiing. Bob Lee, an off-campus student, takes Tony Ortiz in the 127-lb. —Joe Doyle his weekends in Cicero, Illinois. He is a junior in the College of Commerce, and hopes to lose enough weight to fight in the 147-lb. class. After having four bouts in the '43 Bengals, he spent three years in the Navy. Bill Roemer of South Bend and Dick Gorman of Chicago were t^vo of the first entrants in the 175-lb. class. Both are sophomores in the College of Arts and Letters. Roemer has the greater experi­ ence of the two. He has fought twice in the Golden Gloves and three times was winner of a city championship in South Bend. He lives at 422 E. Angela Blvd., and spent 20 months in the Marine Corps. GJorman has moved on campus and is now residing at 239 Farley. He won the 175-lb. title in the summer version of the Bengals in '44. He has two years in the Navy behind him. Last year's 142-lb. champ, Bob Satti, is out to defend his title in that division. He lives at 239 Dillon and comes from New London, Connecticut. He is a junior in the College of Arts and Letters. The other five men with Bengal ex­ A group of Bengal Bouts entries read the bulletin board for informatioik 2L in the home mission field. It consists of LOST—ONE ADMIRAL TO HOLY CROSS 26 churches, schools and hospitals in four dioceses, including the only Catho­ By ED SNYDER lic Negro hospital in the South. When he looks back on the past ten In 1924 a young man of Spanish- Mexican field have built ten new church­ years. Father Mendez says that he is American parentage was voyaging from es, rebuilt one, and erected a baby clinic amazed at the progress that has been Barcelona, Spain, to enter the U. S. in two dioceses. made by the Order in the South. His Naval Academy. He met an American While in the construction business. coal-black hair and sparkling dark eyes priest during the trip, and when the Father Mendez became a "scourge" are certainly not those of a 40-year-old ship had reached New York the Na\'y to the railroads, since from rejects he man who has made no small record for had lost a future officer, but the Holy furnished most of the raw materials for himself as a builder of churches. With Cross fathers had gained its new Home his chuiches. They were made from nat­ new approaches in mind, he has already Mission Procurator, Rev. Alfi-ed Mendez, ural stone, railroad ties, telegraph poles, begun the task of rounding up funds C.S.C. logs, and streetcar poles, with old loco­ so that the home mission work can con­ motive bells serving as church bells. In tinue. Alfred Mendez was always on the move one instance. Father Mendez asked his as a youth. His father was in the foreign If and when the Navy gets vnnd of its parishioners to bring him some wood. commerce field, and young Alfred, though loss, it will no doubt send a letter of The next day they turned up with 40 born in Chicago in 1907, was educated remorse to Father Mendez's superior, railroad ties. That night he read in the transiently in such pole-apart places as the Very Rev. Thomas Steiner, C.S.C, paper that a ti-ain had been derailed New York, Chicago, Montreal and Bai-- United States Provincial of the Holy in a near-by town. Heaven was stormed celona. He took a crack at the secular Cross Fathers. The text of such a letter by his prayers until he found that the priesthood while in New York by at­ might read, "Why if we had Father derailment had been caused by other tending a preparatory seminary for a Mendez in the Navy he could probably reasons, and not a lack of ties under the year, but he longed for a group with build us a small fleet from tin cans rails. esprit de corps, something like a Marine alone." And come to think of it, no doubt Corps with roman collars. His family Mexican labor, working at the non­ he'd try. • • »i • had been in the 'iia.vy for 300 years, union rate of §1.50 per day, with Father so why shouldn't young Alfred go to Mendez as contractor, architect, and su­ Economic Round Table Annapolis? An appointment was pro­ pervisor, put up the structures. "When cured and in 1924, he boarded a ship for during my absence the laborers would Accepts Three New Members New York to enter the academy. erect a door in the wrong place, we would just change the design of the church to The Economic Round Table held its A young man on a trip can get quite fit the mistake," he blithely reports. regular weekly dinner meeting at the lonely, and maybe that's what brought The architecture of the churches has Ramble Inn last Thursday evening, at Father Eugene McGuiness (now Co-adju- caused no little ripple of interest. Re­ which time three new members, Allen tor Bishop McGuiness of Oklahoma City) cently, an architectural magazine de­ Gilbert of Sorin Hall, Pat McCarren of and future Father Alfred Mendez to­ voted three pages to a report on it. A Walsh, and Lou Tondreau of Badin Hall, gether. At any rate, when the ship national trucking finn was even con­ joined the club. docked, unkno\^Ti to his father, Alfred fused by it, and the story of their confu­ The discussion for the evening was' headed for Notre Dame where he joined sion gives Father Mendez cause for led by the President, Pat Nolan, follow­ the Holy Cross Order. laughter. It seems that the firm in an ing the delivery of a paper on "World advertisement represented one of its Government" by Chuck Montrie. Various Father Mendez was graduated from trucks as standing before a "300-year- proposals for world government were dis­ Notre Dame in 1931, and four years later old Texas mission." The picture was of cussed, together \\nth the advantages and was ordained to the priesthood. During the Santa Cruz mission completed by disadvantages of such plans and the diffi­ the remainder of 1935 he taught at the Father Mendez in 1941. culties that would be encountered in University, but was transferred to the bringing about such unity. foreign language department of St. Ed­ Despite the catch-as-catch-can mater­ ward's University, Austin, Texas, at the ials that went into his churches, there beginning of 1936. was still a financial problem to be solved TRANSFER STUDENTS by Father Mendez. He did this in many Students who wish to transfer next Later in 1936, Father Mendez received ways, and that's probably why he has semester to the College oi Arts and new orders fi'om his superior. He had been named Procurator of the Holy Cross Letters or to the College of Com­ been assigned to the Mexican Mission Home Missions, with the principal task merce from any college of the Uni­ field, which sounded wonderful until he of financing further mission work among versity are urged to apply imme­ found out that the mission field consist­ the Mexicans, Negroes and whites of the diately, according to a joint an­ ed of one priest, namely himself, one South. He tells of the thankfulness of nouncement of the Rev. Francis P. mn-down jalopy, and St. Helen's Church, parishioners at one mission when a new Cavanaugh, dean of Arts and Let­ located 30 miles north of Austin. His church had been completed. At an .early ters, and lames E. McCarthy, dean congregation was made up of 3,000 morning Mass he found that a hen had of Commerce. been generously contributed to the col­ Spanish-American parishioners, spread Last semester many students ap­ lection. Shortly after Mass, the hen laid over 2,000 square miles of Texas desert. plied for transfer too late to be ac­ an egg, which Father Mendez had for A mountainous task lay ahead, but Fath­ commodated. With current high en­ bi'eakfast, smug over being able to get er Mendez buckled down to it, and soon rollments ond strictly limited quotas, interest from the collection plate so soon Mendez-built mission churches were it is important that a student who after a service. springing up all over the San Antonio wishes to transfer to one of these Archdiocese. To date, the 40-year-old Today there are 11 Notre Dame-train­ colleges. make application to the Procurator and his co-workers in the ed priests and one lay brother laboring dedn of that college without delay. 22 from seclusion with a revision of his Econ Major Visions proposal: Notre Dame students would History Department cut each other's hair. At presstime, the Nofre Dame Utopia barber shop was still open, but McWitt Resumes Discussions was more optimistic. Nobody had as yet By JOE WILCOX Modem militai-y conscription and refuted him. Said he more modestly: modem total war will be the chief top­ Lean, hungry, bespectacled Cassius "I have done nothing. Any economics ics when the Department of History re­ McWitt threw an economic bombshell major would have done the same thing." opens its regular discussions on "The into campus life last week. Veterans, Notion of the State in the Various Pe­ harried by rising costs, had consulted riods of History," Tuesday evening, the brilliant young left Elbow (Wash.) Two N.D. Professors Febraai-y 25, in the Auditorium of the economics major, in hope of getting a Law Building. Leading the discussion solution to their myriad ills. Finally, Write History Textbook will be Professors William O. Shanahan after months of concentration, McWitt and Robert D. Brown. Presiding will be had the panacea. Hereafter, Notre Dame Professors James A. Corbett and M. Rev. Francis J. Boland, C.S.C, the head students would work their way through A. Fitzsimons of the Department of His­ of the Department of Political Science, college by doing each other's laundry. tory have written the major portion of who has recently returned from service a new high school textboox in world his­ in the Navy. Approached by curious scribes, Mc­ tory published recently by William H. Witt had a ready answer to all the Sadlier, Inc., of New York. The first two The earlier discussions, which were queries. One newsman, plagued by his chapters of the book, dealing with pre- intermpted by the semester examina­ wife's soap shortage, wanted to know Christian history, wex-e prepared by Rev. tions, examined the chief notions of the where all the soap was going to come Anthony L. Ostheimer of Philadelphia. state in ancient, mediaeval, and early from. Retorted McWitt: "From the modem times. In the December discus­ Rock. We will sell it to each other." The volume, entitled Christianity and Civilization, is published in the Catholic sion. Professors Willis Nutting and Outspoken McWitt declared his theory Social Study Series. It contains more Matthew Fitzsimons centered their dis­ was "incontrovertibly sound." "There than eight hundred pages and the ably cussion about the political theories of mil exist," said he, "a pei-fect example written text is remarkably well illus­ Richelieu and those of the English lead­ of the inexorable law of supply and trated ^vith maps, diagrams and photo­ ers in the formation of the modem state. demand. A very simple economy vn\l graphs. The discussion Tuesday evening will con­ result; all will be paid alike for equal centrate chiefly on the relations that work. Intense concentration upon one The portion prepared by Professor exist bet^veen the modem state and the thing will produce the finest laundry in Corbett covers the histoiy of Western military arm of the government. Of all the world. I anticipate that within a Europe from the foundation of Christi­ the activities of modem government that few years the entire country Avill be en­ anity to the period of the French and distinguish it from earlier periods, the gaged. It seems to me, after months of American Revolutions. The modem modem ai-my and especially the activities the most intense research, that I have period, beginning with the Revolution, of that anny in total war are probably hit upon the long sought-for Utopia. I is treated by Professor Fitzsimons. the most interesting. am elated." A similar textbook in American his­ Mr. Shanahan, who will discuss the Less elated, the average student won- tory for high schools, to be published problem "Conscription in the Modem dei"ed what McWitt was driving at; by The Declan X. McMuUen Company State," is a specialist in military his- asked one, "Where is all the money going of New York, will bear the names of toi-y. His recently published volume, to come from to pay each other ^vith?" Professor Aaron I. Abell and Father P'Tussian Military Reforms 1786-181S, Thomas T. McAvoy, C.S.C, as part au­ has received high recognition. Besides Replied the undaunted Cassius, "I thors. Both volumes were to have appear­ his experience in the classroom and in should not expect a mere layman to be research. Professor Shanahan served in ed last fall but publishing difficulties able to understand complicated economic the Naval Air Corps during the war and have delayed their appearance until this theory. We will get our money from was engaged in the preparation of the year. each other, of course." history of our naval air war prior to Another mere layman, ^vith ideas of obtaining his release from the service. his own, made a c-unter proposal: Every­ one would do his own laundry. Two Periodicals Asking Colonel Brown, who recently enter­ tained the student body with an account Economics professors were not sure if for Anecdotes and Poems of his experiences during the German McWitt was on the right track. One, blitzkrieg into Belgium, has just com­ Two forthcoming magazines are solicit­ Professor Adam Malthus Mai-x, Ph.D., pleted a long term of service in the ing writers. Those students who are in­ said he would have to analyze McWitt's Army. Because of his studies of Euro­ theory. "On the surface, it seems that terested in Avi-iting poetry or prose on pean governments and their war ma­ this man has something. Of course, I current events, the arts, literature, chines which he made while he was in A\ill have to write an explanation." music, or the theatre are asked to con­ charge of the European section of Army tact E. T. Geldin, 817 Longfellow St. intelligence, he is well qualified for his Another professor discounted the whole N.W., Washington 11, D. C. The other topic, "Total War." Colonel Brown is hypothesis for the time being, said he magazine, titled "Survey of College Wit a graduate of the Naval Academy at would have to wait and ^v^•ite an expla­ and Wisdom," is interested in anything Annapolis, the Army War College and nation to Marx's explanation. of humorous natui'e in the form of poem, the American and French schools for Perturbed at the cool reception of his anecdote, or joke. The contributions ai*e staff officers. Because of the increased idea", McWitt retired for three days, was to be mailed to "Survey of College Wit attendance at these discussions, they fed by loving proteges who bore Spring and Wisdom," Box 18, Tiffin, Ohio, by have been changed from the Rockne Me­ (1933) lamb and succulent frankfurters March 25, to insure publishing in the morial to the Auditorium of the Law from the dining hall. Today he emerged April issue of the magazine. School. 2a Lyons, Howard Halls ^^iom lAe Afuoc/uffducu o^ Nicod&m444> Hold League Lead Gradually the i-ace in the Intex-hall Basketball League continues to take on a definite form and there were no major changes in league standings during the The month of Februax-y wast upon the shalt be thine. But Ealph spoke and past week. There are no more games land, and there hadst been a great bliz­ made plaintiA'e moan, and said unto her. scheduled in the Lightweight League zard; and thex-e wast mickle snow. And Verily, methinks I caimot eat that; and the 150-pound men of Zahm Hall Ealph O'Eaffex-ty didst look out xipon it, wouldst thou xxot giA^e unto me a piece were undefeated in the sclieduled games, and vexily, he didst love it not; but the that hath not such fat about it? thus earning the right to claim the light­ pangs of hunger didst gnaw at his \4tals, weight crown. The Club League has Whereat, Goatherd Gracie didst snxile, been di\'ided into tAvo di\asions and the aixd well he wist that he must fare foi-th and didst smix-k, and didst fix upon Ealplx championship ^^^ll be decided on the basis upon the fiigid scene so that he might a withexing glance. Indeed, spake she, of a double elimination tourney. No pax-take of the ^^ctuals that wex-e in the thou knowest not when thou ax-e Avell off. team has been eliminated in the games establishment known as Ye Dining Halle. Think how little it doth cost thee to eat played thus far*. Aixd it didst cax-k him much that he needs herein. Thou couldst be eating dogfood. Lyons and Howard continued to lead must go there, for he wot that it wast a What dost thou think that thou ax-t, a the field in the Western Dixasion with place of great iniqviity, where the .worm hviman being? And she didst throw upon the 2-0 records that each held last week. didst die not, for vex-ily, it wast sex-ved his plate ye fat mutton, whereat all her However, the Howard-Badin game of in the salad. cohorts didst applaud; and the chief of Feb. 12 is not reported. In the only them, that Avast knoAvix as Sausage Sam, game played in the west last week Alum­ But Ealph didst scx-ew his courage to didst giA'e unto her a medal for meritori­ ni ovenvhehned Morrissey 50-22. the sticking place, and he didst brave ous sex-vice. Breen-Phillips were still leaders in the the wintx-y blast; and ere long he didst Eastern Di^•ision with St. Ed's trailing come unto ye portal of ye great Halle. And Ealph didst sigh, for he Avist that just one-half game beliind. The lads And when he didst enter thex-ein he didst it Avast folly to protest more, lest he be from "Breezy P" added one more victim whiff, and he didst think him in the State cast xipon the blizzard. And he came to their string as they dusted Sorin of Denmax-k. But he didst recall his nigh to ye damsel of ye potatoes, Avho 44-28. Leon Hart again proved to be empty stomach and laboi-iously didst didst giggle, and cast them upon the the top man on offense for the winners. make his way unto ye steaming table, mutton. And another of the same ilk In the game briefly for the winners was for thex-e was a gx-eat line. hadst peas, and she didst throw thenx upon the Avhole, And she didst also take Rudy Schaeifer, a Cleveland boy who And when he wast come unto ye steam­ gx-aA'y, Avhich she didst cast upon the may be a great football star here in the ing table, ye damsels thereat didst give whole of the plate, so that it didst cover years to come. Bill Michaels and Eay a great cry of joy; and although it wast even the peas. Petrezelka paced St. Ed's to a 47-29 win tx-uly the middle of Febx-uax-j^, they didst over Zahm which gave the Saints a 3-1 dance a Mayi)ole dance, for so great But the line didst stop, Avhilst they of record. In the other game played last wast their happiness to see Ealph come the kitchen didst carx-y Avatex-, that there week, Farley edged by last-place Cava- thereto, and so mickle were the things might be a greater supply of milk. And naugh 31-28. Wax-d played another fine they Avist they could do unto him. And they didst likewise cast water upon the game for the losex-s but Seidel and Bitt- behold, he didst give his ticket unto ye bread, Avliich Avas most stale. And then ner of Farley led their mates to \'ictox-y. keepex-, that he might legally partake didst Ealph proceed, and they didst give The Walsh-Farley tussle of Feb. 12 Avas of potage, for well wot he what wast the unto him a piece of cake, that didst seem not x-epox-ted. fate of those Avho came thex-e without passing Avell, for there Avast on it thick Three games Avex-e played in the Club ye mealbook, for ye Fox-d hadst spoken Avhite frosting. And Ealph likewise bore League duxing the past week. The unto them, and hadst said, behold, and with him a Avilted salad, that didst swim Knights of Columbus topped the Eebels max-k my Avox-ds well what I say unto in Ainegax-. Axxd he didst take aAvay his 43-33; Kentucky won one the easy way thee: he who cometh hex-e without ye tx-ay. by claiming a 2-0 forfeit from the Max-- mealbook, him I shall cast fox-th upon ried Vets; and the Law Club lost a close ye blizzax-d. For thou knowest thy feast And Avhen he came unto the table one to Philadelphia 29-28. is not f x-ee. whereat he Avast to eat, he saw that it The Chemical Engineexing team beat was nigh ye portal, Avhex-e entered the the Engineex-s 44-13 in the Gx-aduate And when he hadst at last appx-oached Avintry aix-, so that it Avast little Avax-mer School League. In the only other game ye steaming table, his hcaxi; didst sinke than Avithout. But Avhen he didst turn played, the Qex-gy swamped the Axis A\'ithin him, when he saw Avhat wast about to sit elsewhex-e, he wast stopped and Lettex-s cx-ew, 71-30. thex-eat; for even as he came, and it wast only the hour of six, they didst bear by ye tx-affick director-, Avho spake unto The standings as of Tuesday, Febxnx- away ye roast beef and didst carry in him: Wist thou not the rules? If thou ax-y IStli, excepting the above-mentioned mutton, exalting mightily, and px-aising Avilt not follow them, begone, for there games: Avith psalms the name of sheep. And are ten thousand in yon blizzard Avho Eastern Division the mutton wast the color of tattle-tale A\ill. And Ealph Avast sorroAvful, and sat W L grey. They didst give unto Ealph soup, him in the doox-, Avhere he didst shake Breen-Phillips Hall 3 0 wherein Avex-e floating bits of AVOOI. And and quake. St. Edward's Hall 3 1 Avhen Ealph hadst appx-oached unto ye Walsh HaU 1 1 mutton, ye custodian thereof, a damsel When he didst attempt to eat of ye Farley Hall 1 1 Avho Avast known as Goatherd Gracie, soup, he didst take therefrom a bit of Soxin Hall 1 2 didst breathe a px-ayer unto ye Cooke, Avool; and there Avast engx-aved upon it, Zalun Hall 1 2 and didst select fx-o m her mutton a most Gilbex-t's for Sweaters. And he put it Cavanaugh. Hall 0 3 excellent fat piece, whex-eon wast no lean from him. He didst then address him (Continued on Page 25) at all, and said unto Ealph, behold, this unto ye mutton, potatoes, and peas, but 24 they were most cold. And Ralph said INTERHALL SPORTS Graduate School—5 p. ra." unto himself, verily, cold mutton is more evil still than hot mutton. But he didst (Continued from Page 24) Tues. (Feb. 25) Chemistry v. Clergy thing of his libs, which were by now Thui-s. (Feb. 27) ....A. & L. v. Ch. Eng. barren of flesh, and he didst devour the Western Division meal, eveii unto ye salad. Then didst W L SWIMMING he set him to his cake, for the cake didst Lyons Hall 2 0 appear good. But when he had eat of Howard Hall 2 0 All swimmers are urged to practice for it one bite, he vnst that the frosting Avast Alumni Hall 2 1 the coming interhall swimming meet made of Pepsodent Toothpaste. He didst Dillon Hall 1 0 which will be held sometime in March. Badin Hall 0 2 look upon it wistfully, thinking what There will be six individvial events and might have been. And he didst arise and Morrissey Hall 0 3 i two relays. A complete list of events go forth. The schedule: vd\l be given next week. All campus halls should have a team entered. The But the next day he didst awake and Western Division—7:15 p. m. bethought a demon Avithin him, and he last meet was won by an off-campus took him unto ye doctor. And ye doctor Fri. (Feb.21) Howard v. MoiTissey team which was well organized. There spake unto him. Verily, what hast thou Mon. (Feb. 24) Lyons 1?. Alumni should be enough swimmers in each hall eaten? And Ralph made answer. It hast Wed. (Feb. 26) Dillon v. Badin to organize a top-notch team. no name; but behold, a part of it wast mutton. And ye doctor didst wash his Easteini Division—8 p. m. Newest event on the intramural agen­ hands, and said unto Ralph, Go forth; Fri. (Feb. 21) Sorin i;. Cavanaugh da is the handball squash tourney now thou \vilt recover, and thou wilt become Mon. (Feb. 24) B-P. v. Walsh being held on the Rockne courts. There accustomed to the uses of the ages in Tues. (Feb. 25) St. Ed's v. Farley are 40 men entered in the handball sin­ Wed. (Feb. 26) Walsh v. Zahm gles and 19 teams listed in handball this place. And Ralph didst depart. And Thurs. (Feb. 27) B-P v. Cavanaugh doubles. In the squash tourney 12 men before nightfall, he wast recovered suffi­ are listed in the singles and there are ciently to bear himself again unto ye Club League no doubles. First round and prelimi­ Dining Halle, and it wast Friday. And Fri. (Feb. 21*) Villagers v. Kentucky nary round games must be completed and i-eported to Mr. ScanneU or Mr. he thought unto himself, anon doth begin Mon. (Feb. 24*) Rebels v. Law Tues. (Feb. 25**) Aescul'ans v. Ky. Szekely by Monday night to avoid for­ Lent, what better penance than this? Wed. (Feb. 26'=)....Mar. Vets v. Villlagers feiture of the match. Winners of open­ And he took unto himself filet of carp Thurs. (Feb. 27**).. Law v. K. C. ing rounds will be given in this column au gutter. * Games at 5 p.m. ** Games at 7:15 p.m. next week.

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Veterans will be eligible to vote on inter-American Clubs Two Slates Running presentation of their membership cards, which wU be available for non-members Hofd Officer Elections for Vet Offices on election day or anytime beforehand With t^vo contending slates and a rep­ at the room of retiring president Joe Both the Inter-American AiFairs Club resentative pile of platform planks the Dillon, 218 Badin.—B06 Stock and the La Raza Club elected officers for Veterans Club will go to the polls next the present semester at recent meetings. Monday to vote on its 1947 officer choices. Elections will be held at lunch and din­ Luis Pallais of far famed Managua, ner periods in the basement of the dining McGrath Proposes Nicaragua, succeeds Tom Poole as pres­ hall. ident of the Inter-American Aifairs Club, Chinese Policy while Jaime Velez of Colombia replaces A second slate of officers, headed by Dave Slattery, was nominated early this Support of the Kuomintang govern­ Fernando Serpa as vice-president, and week to oppose the previously named ment as the lesser of two evils in China's Hermilo Gloria, a Texan retains his job Keel ticket. Since no nominations were present civil strife was advocated Wed­ as secretary. accepted after Tuesday noon, the ballot nesday night in a detailed study of the In the La Raza Club, Ramiro Samanie- battle will center around Keel and Slat- Chinese problem presented to members go of Ecuador has relieved Roland Du- tery and their respective parties. of Wranglers by Art McGrath, political science senior. arte of his duties as president, while a Slattery's line-up named: for presi­ fellow countryman, Jaime Pinto, is the dent, Dave Slattery; for first vice-presi­ After outlining the philosophies and new vice-president. The other new offi­ dent, Tom McCaifery; for second vice- policies of both Nationalist and Com­ cers are Jose Alberto deRojas of Cuba, president, Ray Kenney; for third vice- munist factions McGrath reviewed the treasurer; Francisco Salido of Mexico, president, Bill Hoene; for recording military resources of each and basing his secretary; and Eric Rey de Castro of secretary, Joe Conetry; for financial sec­ conclusions on personal interviews with Peru, sub-secretary. retary, Frannie Curran; for correspond­ military observers, surmised that in a ing secretary, Fal Evans; for sergeant- prolonged struggle the Communist route at-arms. Bill Tully; and for treasurer, armies would be victorious. Asst Deem of Engineiing Raymond John Smith. Linking this possible success to the Schubmehl wishes to express his Keel's party had already nominated menace of Communism throughout gratitude for the sympathy extended for the same offices: H. Smith Keel, Bill Europe today, McGrath concluded that by the priests, faculty and students Duggan, Bill Henessey, Bob Uhl, Gunnar the United States should throw its sup­ of the University on his recent be- Hald, Bob Traver, Frank Keenan, Ziggy port to the Nationalists as a check-mate recnrement Czarobski, and John A. O'Connor. to the growth of Communist power. 28 REVIEW & COMMENT and should be required reading for every switched from one scene to another, ex­ university student. It was important (Continued from Page 5) pressed amazement that a revolving when first published in 1941, but since stage had been installed in old Washing­ a certain day several years ago in the some poUyanaddicts advocate, is hardly ton Hall. feasible. Only in precedence of values sky over Japan, its importance has mul­ does the past govern us. Rather we tiplied a hundredfold. A large production staff is gradually should cultivate an understanding of new overcoming the numerous difiRculdes en­ forms of expression, using bygone stan­ countered in bringing a full-scale musi­ dards as intelligent points of departure, "MEET THE MISSUS" cal comedy to the campus, and optimis­ (Continued from Page 9) instead of damning so dogmatically mod­ tic Producer Bariscillo has given his zis- tion. John McKeon, assistant director, ern poetry, modern music, abstract paint­ surance that all will be in readiness when ing or any art fonn we do not fully com­ and Ed Cashman, who handles the mu­ the curtain first goes up a week from prehend. sical numbei-s, are always on hand to make sure that those not on stage at Sunday night. Important men behind Why, and where, this attitude will the moment are dutifully reading lines the scenes of "Meet the Missus" include lead us is analyzed in a book by Pitirim or practicing lyrics. One observer at a John FitzHenry, who is pianist for the A. Sorokin, entitled The Crisis of Our recent i-ehearsal, not accustomed to the show and is constantly on hand to pro­ Age (E. P. Button & Co., Inc., $2.50), precision with which Digby and Co. vide music for the many songs, and Ger­ ard Hekker, head of the property com­ mittee, who is busily scouting South y^jr'3^"''^">v-'^x Bend for items ranging from telephone % switchboards to buzz saws. Another group, under the charimanship of Wib Marshall, is hard at work designing and painting five new sets depicting famil­ iar campus scenes.—Jim Kelly

70 Smy FR£S/f COA/eER/ Wanted: 101 ND Men 70 SMOf(£/H/i^Eft^ Who Offered Dates Somewhere on this campus, among its more than 4,000 students, there are 101 men of whom Notre Dame can well be proud. Their names are as yet unknown but every effort is being made to discover their identity. According to a story by the Rev. S. John Tucker in the February 16 edition of the Chicago Herald-Ameri­ can, they have written to Betty Jean Lampe of Roselle, 111., and offered to take her dancing. Betty Jean, was bom with­ out feet, and was therefore confined to a wheel chair for the past 22 years. Re­ cently, through the generosity of Herald- American readers, she underwent an op­ eration enabling her to wear artificial feet. New Blend! New Taste! Now searching for a home in Chicago New Freshness! where she must go for periodic adjust­ Made by the revolutionary new ments of her new feet, she already has "903" moisturizing process. ideas for the future. The Rev. Tucker Beneficial moisture penetrates every tobacco leaf—gives you states that she plans to attend a model's a smoother, milder, better school and to take dancing lessons as smoke! Get new Raleigh "903" soon as the artificial limbs are fitted and Cigarettes today. adjusted. As this may take as long as two months, 'the Notre Dame students •will not miss out on account of Lent but will have something to look forward to when the social life swings into high I gear once more. Si i The SCHOLASTIC, which wishes to fa­ tS-2 cilitate the meeting of Betty Jean and as her future dancing partners, hereby is­ sues a request for them to step up and let their names be known. Line forms on the left.—J. P. Reiner 29 of student attitude which is as unfair LETTERS as it is exaggerated. specializing in the I have consulted the list of students (Continued from p. 3) as held by the Director of Student's ac­ examination of the eyes You didn't answer his complaint with counts. I find there is no person such a logical or forceful argument, you didn't as "Archie McBitters" in attendance at Dr. E. J. Cain answer it at all. Notre Dame. Surely, you check all let- tei-s before you print them?' OPTOMETRIST The war is over, gentlemen, and even Your magazine has never before the most diehai-d proprietors are begin­ printed a pseudonym in connection vnth. ning to admit that the customer might Letters to the Editor as far as I can be right. "Mr. McBitters et al" are your find—^names are either wholly withheld customers and desei-ve more considera­ or listed correctly. Ergo, the name of Prompt Lens or Frame Repair tion than to be brushed off for having "Archie McBitters" by inference is the the impertinence to question your meth­ name of a student at Notre Dame. I service in our ojfn laboratory. ods. On the editorial page of the same would like to meet him, in the flesh, that issue you deplore the fact that 37% of is, not as a vague phantomlike charac­ 212 S. Michigan Street the Engineers interviewed on an impor­ ter figmented to apply in general terms Phone 4-8251 tant national problem had no opinion. in a rather abstract fashion. At the same time you refuse to accept the opinion of one of the students on You might say "someone wanted his an important campus question and impu­ name ^^ithheld and we just made up dently toss it aside as the ramblings of one." This is a serious misrepresen­ a nobody. tation and your precedent in using a pen name to bolster a most derogatory let­ Instead of conducting polls on the ter is hard to understand. closed shop, a poll on what the students Instead of a cute quip or line of sai*- think of the SCHOLASTIC, or even more casm after this letter why not explain pertinent what they want in their SCHOL­ the facts. If you were duped, admit it ASTIC would profit the Univei'sity more. and print a rather apologetic retraction We are not all comic magazine fanatics for those who know Notre Dame only (the classification given all who dare through the columns of the SCHOLiVSTic to raise a voice against your present edi­ and not as we do who are here on the torial policy), but we do like something a spot. If on the other hand, you knew the little lighter than the present fare. We letter to be false or misleading, please get our share of the deep literature in tell us why you honored it as truth by class, this overflow in the SCHOLASTIC is printing it. just too much of a good thing. Come out of the intellectual fog, you are practical­ I'll sign my name, please print it, don't ly alone. Take steps to correct the pres­ substitute. I do not happen to be at ent student dissatisfaction with the all ashamed of what I write. Please SCHOLASTIC. Get with the crowd and give let us, your readers, in on the current us a "representative" paper everyone editorial enigma, we do not mind if you can enjoy. are embarrassed. J. D. Usina, 335 Dillon Neither cynically nor satirically, but sincerely yours, For all we know Archie McBitters H. E. Monahan may be but a figment of someotie^s 311 Lyons Hall imagination. In printing a pseudo­ nym-signed letter we were merely "How To Make Good Pic­ Our only regret is that a limited exercising the prerogative of break­ tures" is thoroughly up to writing staff prohibits the printing ing our own rules to bring to the stu­ date — truly the complete of more and better light fare, but dents as fine a piece of satire as we handbook for any amateur not, we hope, of the "Imppy-little- fiave seen in many a week. photographer. Its 240 pages collegiate-moron" (Archie McBit­ Let diametric Critics Monahan are packed with a wide va­ and Usina reread the now famous riety of photo information. ters, SCHOLASTIC, Feb. H, 194-7) type. Surely there can be no objec­ McBitters to determine just whom, Hundreds of diagrams and he was poking fun at.—Editor. pictures. Get yours here. tion if the light fare is spiced a bit with serious articles for those in an • intellectual fog?—Editor. Sir: Ault's photo service in the Cafeteria I object vigorously to the last state­ ment in the lead editorial of last week's SIR: SCHOLASTIC, stating the intention of the AULT'S I challenge the authenticitiy of the in­ editor to "prescribe a stiff dose of the sulting letter published in the 14 Feb­ social sciences for the 37% so engrossed Camero Shop in their math and physics that they can Opposite the Courthouse ruary issue of the SCHOLASTIC above the ignore a strife-torn world." 122 South Main St name "Archie McBitters." It seems to Phone 3-5041 be a piece of very clever deceit which This masterpiece of fog-bound think­ should have been obvious to you. Its ing evidently follows from the fact that contents envision an existing situation 37% of the engineers held no opinion 30 on the subject of "closed vs. open shop." Now let's consider the remedy pro­ The following is written in reply to From this single fact, the crystallizers posed for the alleged ignorance of the the poor misguided young man who ap­ of student opinion sitting alone with engineers. I, along with other engineers, parently without any basis whatsoever, their thoughts (poor company at best) have been exposed to two courses in on the subject of "closed vs. open shop." deduced that: 1) engineers knew very economics, each about as valuable as a except perhaps the fact that he has met little of current labor problems, and 2) lead balloon. The textbook for each a career girl who has had the ability their darkened minds may be illumin­ course was filled with paragraphs which and brains to outsmart him, wrote the ated by the simple device of a "stiff strongly suggested that the author narrow-minded and senseless article dose of the social sciences." pounded out the first and last sentences about career girls. Let us now consider the reasons that and left a student (doubtless one from The old adage that there is a woman may have prompted an engineer to give the lofty plane inhabited by the SCHOL­ behind every man is truer today than his "no opinion." In the College of En­ ASTIC editors) to pack the pulp in the ever before. I am sure that if this gineering we are taught to express an mid-section. Inevitably the professor, giv­ young man had the brain power to think opinion only when we possess sufficient en such a book, was forced to teach al­ things out, he would be among the first, facts (once again for the editors, most entirely from his own knowledge, but this I doubt, to admit this fact. FACTS) to reasonably justify our con­ highly colored by his own political opi­ First of all, we unhesitatingly bring clusion. An honest "I don't know" is nions. Often the knowledge was inade­ up the fact that thoiisands of girls are worth more than a definite "yes" or "no" quate and the politics was certainly out working and keeping a home so that with no better basis than the faithful of place. their husbands are able to attend school. reading of Bertie's observations from So far, we have heard no cries of pro­ Tribune Tower. In line Avith this, it Concluding, I fail to see that a dose test from the men on this aspect of the might be interesting, and quite possibly of social sciences would remedy the situ­ career girl. revealing, to detennine what percentage ation, and I strongly suggest that the Secondly, if the real facts behind most of that 65% of A.B. men have actually editors of SCHOLASTIC investigate the career girls were known, you would find worked in a closed shop which was man­ undei'-lying reasons for the actions of that in most cases they are not only aged by someone other than a relative others instead of doing as Stephen Lea- supporting themselves, and doing a fine or a good friend of the family. To many cock's horseman and dashing off in all job of it, but providing for younger of us, that 37% of "no opinions" indi­ directions at once. brothers and sisters, and in many, many cated a reluctance to give a definite E. P. Reid instances maintaining a home and living answer backed by insufficient data, while When toill "sufficient facts" be for parents who are ill. Why not give the resounding "yesses" of 65% of the in to justify cold-scientific-approach credit where credit is due. A.B. men indicated an eagerness to yelp R. P. Reid and cohorts to formulate As for your friend in New York, who f. noisy, although unsubstanriated, opin­ an opinion?—Editor. considers himself the pooi* mistreated ion. male, I see no problem at all. As far as February Clearance Sale

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31 I can see, the only thing that seems to We feel sure that as soon as men once your writers read the papers? The sec­ bother hira is that his wife has proved moi'e begin to act the gentlemen they ond was a sarcastic "dear old South hereelf superior. Perhaps if he had some profess to be, the girls will have little Bend" that, like the first was in "College of the initiative and ability which she difficulty in regaining ths feminine chaiin Parade" under "Stoi-my Weather." That possesses, he would find a position which and poise which you feel she so definitely article was a cmde attempt at humor would enable him to provide the kind lacks. to say the very most of it. The third, of home and li\ing which she, •\\ithout Name Withheld in "The Week" remarked that South any help or guidance from him, has the • Bend was "this Burg." According to capacity to do. February 15, 1947 the bulletin, Mr. John A. O'Connor is from Venice, Calif. He had better re­ We also indulge in the old-fashioned SIR: What in the world is the matter with vise his idea of a "burg." theoiy that the woman's place is in the the SCHOLASTIC these days? In your It has come to the point where your home. Any girl, career girls included, Febniai-y 14 issue thei-e were only three thoughtless remarks are no longer hu­ would be vei-j' delighted to remain at slurring remai-ks about South Bend. morous. I have been reading the same home. But, we also feel that few hus­ The first was a nasty remai'k about ones for a long time and they are get­ bands are able to furnish the type of leaving here to go back to the "States" ting corny. Why not turn your "liter­ home, clothes, and above all, the sense —^because of the'weather. It was just ary talents" to more useful channels of security which we have every right as cold and colder over just about all of and leave South Bend alone. It is no to expect. the United States last week; or don't longer funny. E. Probst Off-Campus • Dear Sir: Open the Door Richard Sonata May I inquire as to the name of the Address Unknown member in good standing of the Nation­ Too Many Times al Association of Manufacturers who hplt^ That's the Beginning of the End penned the story "Reds Active in Na­ tional Student Union, N.D. Delegates UTEST Copp's Music Shop Say" featured in the Feb T issue of SCHOLASTIC? TUNES 122-24 E, Wayne St. I refer to his statement—"The dele­ gates to the international meeting smell- ed Communism at the Prague meeting— (a smell that many people feel is con­ taminating every union, labor or stu­ dent.). (Parentheses are mine.) Since he didn't mention who "many people" were, I shall infer that it is himself since the N.A.M. is seldom that brash. The unidentified source is an old Hearst trick and please, let's not allow the SCHOL.ASTIC to sink so low as to set Kenton is strictly stratosphere up Hearst as its idol. Union and man­ stuff in popularity polls with his agement are in enough of a quandary powerhouse drive. Capitol's latest album"Artistry in Rhythm" is a coliecdon of Kenton kicks... eight exciting, original compositions never before recorded. At your dealer—now!

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32 without us exciting to red-baiting and labor baiting. W A N T E D — Men For Soles Work William O. "Ward 152 Dillon Hall Contacting Physicians, Hospitals, Etc. • February 15, 1947 Long established nationally kno\vn ethical pharmaceutical manufac­ Dear Sir: turer has limited number of openings for men interested in contacting physicians to promote and interpret most recent developments of An article in "From the Editor's medical and pharmaceutical research. Desk , . ." of the February 14, 1947, SCHOLASTIC, entitled "The Vet Studies," Permanency, security and excellent opportunities for advancement verifies the oft-heard claim that "the re­ for successful men in this organization. Salary and Expense. turning veterans are far ahead of the Minimum of 3 years college work with major in biological sciences non-veterans in the race for academic such as zoology, comparative anatomy, physiology, bacteriology, achievement." organic chemistry, etc. Age 23-30. Whether there is a boast or not in the Replies held strictly confidential. Give full information regarding last sentence, "The comparison which background. follows clem-ly (italics my own) shows Box 185, Notre Dame, Indiana the academic superiority of veterans," I do not know. I am quite sure, though, that if some unfortunate veteran had never chanced to finish grammar school and were to go back to complete his ele­ mentary education, he would again "be far ahead of the non-veterans in the academic achievement." After all, the veteran is older than his non-veteran counterpart, and logically more mature on account of his service experiences. If the reverse were tme (the non- veterans performed better than the vet­ erans), then there would be reason for consternation. Let's acknowledge the vet­ eran's superiority, and cease this prolix­ ity of assertions to that effect. Yours truly, Charles A. Hickman 320 Breen-Phillips Hall

SISTER MADELEVA (Continued from Page 12) "I love words," she has said, "because I love the Word. The first meeting of any class of mine is devoted to the beginning of the Gospel according to St. John, 'In the beginning was the Word'." Sister Madeleva has traveled exten­ sively in America, in Europe and in the Holy Land, and is a devoted lover of Nature. Many of her best poems are lyric celebrations of fresh, delicate, colorful manifestations of Nature's moods and their reflection on her own spirit. Shar­ ing the Nature bent of her poetry is the even more basic inspiration of her love for the Creator whose handiwork is so miraculously reflected in life and Nature. From her poems one easily perceives the exacting artistic discipline to which she subjects herself. She holds that every word has to work and almost fight for a living in a line. Since 1915, every poem she has written has been published. ^ter Madeleva lectured on "The Frontiers of Poetry" in Washington Hall several years ago to an enthusiastic 210 SOUTH MICHIGAN STREET audience. A new and larger group of students now has a valuable oppoi-tunity to enjoy her charm and absorb her wis­ dom. 33 ing in a triple hatchet murder of two prominent South Bend families? We bet NOTRE DOTE1.S that would fix Joe's trolley. By JACK FKAIER and BILL PFAFF After leafing through the new "Infor­ mation Please Almanac" we have come to the conclusion that the work is in dire need of a censor lihrorum and an Imprim­ atur. (And mebbe a proofreader famil- Perhaps Archie McBitters (whose con­ of political lethargy anyway. We were at liar with Michiana.) Not only do they tribution headed last week's "Letters" the Palace last Thui'sday to see "State misdescribe "Moose" Connor, as our col­ column) was a bit too bitter about the of the Union," and were amazed at the league Mr. O'Connor pointed out last intellectual level of This Old University; frigid reception it received. Perhaps the week; but they list St. Maxy's, Notre and perhaps the Editor was rather dense audience didn't agree with the liberal Dame, as a school of "529 male students." in his reply; but we wonder if Mr. McBit­ views expressed in the play, but cer­ ters might not have something. Of five tainly they should have had no argu­ thousand Notre Dame Men, about four ment with the plea for honesty and IRISH JOURNEY EAST had an opinion on the closed shop that democracy in politics that the show pro­ (Continued from Page 19) they felt worth expressing. When Jim pounded. The theatre was two-thirds Rounding out the quintet are guards Burns and Warren Fronrath made their empty before the curtain calls were over. Don Forman, and Sid Taiienbaum. The oi-al suiA'ey to augment the letters, they The only two comments we heard on the former is 5'-10", the latter 6 feet. Tan- found an average of 18.8%, or one fifth play were: one gentleman to another, enbaum is the pride of the east coast. of the student body, who possessed no "Still goin' to vote Democratic? Haw! He was rated Ail-American by the ex­ opinion on the subject! A sui-vey of the Haw!" And one little woman (obviously perts last season. opinions of Alcatraz Men would prob­ an "American Uncorruptible") to an­ ably do better than that. The only miti­ other, "I'm going to see the management Notre Dame leads the parade with gating factors we can see in the serious­ of the theatre about this play." NYU in victories during their 12 year ness of the situation are the methods of We're afraid the Messi's. Lindsay and span as annual opponents. The Irish the column. It seems to us that the Grouse, and the Messrs. Burns and Fron­ have ten wins against three losses. New column could be made considerably rath forgot that Northern Indiana is York upset the Irish last year, 62-58. livelier, and a better question could have still Tribune Territory. been chosen to start things. • LOOKIN' THROUGH THE HOOP Much as we love radio sometimes it Thei'e can not possibly be any jus­ We are a little teed off on the subject gets even us down, especially on the local tice or law of average if one is to serious­ level. There is a certain announcer that ly consider what took place in the gym works early evenings at WHOT. He is last Monday night. Notre Dame defeated DR. ROBERT F. LUCAS driving us to opium and WSBT. Why? DePaul 80-45. . . .Past History: Ken­ GENERAL DENTISTRY Here are some of the gems he has gotten tucky, 60, Notre Dame ,30: DePaul, 53, X-rays and Consultation off recently: blithe, rhyming with myth; Kentucky, 47. . . . Draw your own con­ Diseases and Surscrj- of Moutli and Jaws the song "Marchita," "Mar-sheet-ah." He clusions. . . . John Brennan scored the Telephone 4-5G61 702 J. M. S. Building South Bend, Ind. is also the man that calls in Elmer Dav­ first eight points for ND and finished is' commentary, "come in Washington, the game with 23. . . . Question in the take it away Mr. Davis!" We can picture mind of the capacity crowd: Can this be Mr. Davis nervously fidgeting before the the Bengal Bouts preliminaries? . . . DRS. PROBST AND SINGLER mike, a cough di'op in one hand and the Answer: No, just some happy fun-loving DENTISTS script in the other, waiting for woi-d boys playing basketball. 503 Sherland Building Phone 3-1254 South Bend, Indiana from WHOT in South Bend to "take it away." Joe Boland is another who annoys us SOUTH BEND a little, although compared to the first ONCEOVER gentleman he is as filet mignon is to mys­ X-RAY LABORATORY tery stew. Outside of changed news con­ and a clean S25 Sherland Building tent, the architecture .and lumber of shave! L. E. Hsher, M. D. M. J. Thornton, M. D. "The Old Sports Shop" hasn't changed • in the two years we have been here, and old timers assure us that ten years ago ROSE DENTAL GROUP he was "strolling dowTi Memory Lane" LEONARD A. ROSE, D.D.S. with the same overwhelming eagerness CYRIL F. ROSE, D.D.S. PETER J. ROSE. D.D.S. that he did last night. If he keeps it up 623-629 Sherland BIdg. 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