The Sou'wester'

SORORITY RUSH WEEK THE SOU'WESTER'CLIMAXED BY PLEDGING Memphis October 8, 1946 28th Year Southwestern At SABA Elects Open houses held Gridiron Saturday night to ADDITIONS TO Lynx Return To NewNew OficersOfficers honor novices

OUR FACULTY -. Billy Long chosen Saturday afternoon climaxed the as president; Claire sorority rush week and the results Moose, Porter, and James, vice-president now are made public. Monday Grossnickle also started the festivities and they join campus staff In a meeting after chapel Sat- were continued throughout the urday morning, Billy Long was week until Friday night, when the elected the new president of SABA. rushees gathered in Hardie Audi- Omitted from the Sou-wester. Other officers chosen were: Claire torium to list their preferences. At pro- in last week's resume of new James, vice-president, Pat Cald- one o'clock Saturday afternoon the fessors on the campus are three well, secretary-treasurer, and Tex respective sorority presidents call- more names with which all the Kressenberg, publicity manager. ed each name on their list and in- students will become familiar in a SABA, which stands for Student formed them that they had been Athletic Backers Association, was selected as pledges of that sorority. short time. They are: Miss Jessie formed last fall to foster school Saturday night formal pledging of Physical Grossnickle, Director spirit and interest in athletics was held in each house with the Education and Intramural Sports here at Southwestern. Under the neophites all attired in white for- for Women; Dr. M. Foster Moose, direction of Bill McAfee, last mal evening gowns. The student Associate Professor of Chemistry; Dr. Diehl Chooses PLAYERS PLAN year's president, the organization body was invited to each house at Dr. M. E. Porter, Associate Pro- * PL Y R functioned as a pep squad at the nine o'clock to congratulate all the fessor of Modern Language. School PastorPRODUCTION basketball games. new pledges. Miss Grossnickle's home is in Pasor PRODUCTI Plans have not been completed The new pledges are: Columbus, Mississippi. She re- for this year's activities, but a AOPi ceived her B.A. degree from Mis- Rev. Revely to head "Family Portrait" will uniform will be decided upon at Peggy Marshall sissippi State College for Women, a meeting to be held very soon. Myrtle Powell mathematics and religious work here; be presented in near with majors in by Thespians A revision of the constitution Barbara Cullins art, and her M.A. from Texas ex-army chaplain future will be necessary this fall, as the Patty Sue Sheffley State College for Women, with a number of students has increased Catherine Arnold time in its history, The Southwestern Players will major in health, physical educa- For the first considerably, making a larger or- Peggy Haire college produce their first play of the year tion and recreation, and a minor Southwestern is to have a ganization desirable. Membership Betty Boisblanc of its in the near future, according to in speech. Before coming to South- pastor as a regular member is divided among the social organ- Mickey Dougherty ac- Professor George F. Totten, di- western she taught at Mary Har- faculty. The position has been izations on the campus, each Fra- Ann De War W. Taylor Revely, rector of Speech and Dramatics. din-Baylor College in Texas and cepted by Rev. ternity and Sorority, and Inde- Jo Anne Guinn For their first production Pro- at the Bouve-Boston School of who was appointed by Pres. Chas. pendent Men and Women being Jo Ann Hall chosen Family Physical Education in Boston, E. Diehl last Tuesday. fessor Totten has represented. The original mem- Peggy Land Massachusetts.Portrait, by Lenore Coffee and Massachusetts. In welcoming him to the faculty, Willim Joyce Cowan. The play was bership was chosen last fall by Chi Omega in Tipton County, Tennessee. d Dr. Diehl said that this year's in- first produced at the Morosco the founders, who were Berniece Ann Baggett in Tipton County,Tennessee. He creased enrollment necessitated the Theatre in New York with Judith Wiggins, Billy McAfee, Jim Wade, Ann Barrier holdegrees;his B.S. A.froM., andMemphis new post which had been consider- Anderson in the leading role. It Billy Long, and Tex Kressenberg. Maretta Buder degrees; his B.S. from Memphis ed for some time and that Mr. is a moving, beautiful story of the Professor Osman, Coach Clemens, Betty Camp DoState Collr'sdege, his Master's and Revely is qualified in every way lives of those who were closely and Miss Gordon are faculty spon- Louise Fitzhugh University. He has taught at Co- for student work." associated with Christ. After a sors. Betty Jane Hall To replace those members who Eula Holmes produc- lumbia, Little Rock Junior College, While taking a B. A. degree at long run in New York, the graduate each year, an appoint- Gere King Sydney College, Mr. tion was acclaimed by critics as and Memphis State. He is a mem- Hampden ive system was set up whereby Frances McGee ber of Phi Lambda Upsilon, Sigma Revely won the Sullivan Medallion Professor Totten announces that each graduate selects someone Berta Radford Chi, and the American Chemical as the best all-round man in the tProfessor Totten announces that from his organization to succeed Harriet Reid Society. He was a General Edu- college. President of the student try-outs for the cast will be held him. Jean Taylor cation Board Fellow with Coopera- body and a member of Pi Kappa very soon. Further information will be re- Beverly Townsend tive Study in General Education Alpha, Omicron Delta Kappa lead- 0 rm leased as soon as plans are formed. Patty Weaver from August 1940 to February ership fraternity, and Chi Beta W Ork On Do s 0- Mildred Wilkerson 1941. He is married and has two Phi scientific fraternity, he was Torch Society Joan Williams children. also an outstanding athlete, letter- I Progressing Delta Delta Delta Dr. Porter returns to Southwest- ing in football, baseball and bas-ressng Torch Society, the senior wom- Jeanne Abbott ern service with the ketball. this fall from en's honorary organization, was Carol Bitner Counter Intelligence Corps of the At Union Seminary, Richmond, The loud hammering and appar- established at Southwestern in Mary Virginia Burchett Army.Modern Hof L anguages at Profes- Va., he was elected president of ent hurry atmosphere which per- 1937. The purpose of this society Sylvia Caldwell . reeivo vades the campus around the new sor of Modern Languages at South-Vthe waude ted p to the wom- Mary Nell Campbell the campus around the new is to grant recognition western from 1936 to 1941. Dr. the student body and after receiv- vades Curtis Porter was graduated Summa Cum ing his B. D. degree entered the dorms during these busy fall days en who have attained a high stand- Mildred Porter was graduated Summa Cum Arm in March 1944 is likely to continue for quite a ard of scholarship and leadership Jean Edens Laude at Washington and Lee Army in March, 1944. time yet, according to Mr. Spring- in campus activities. Namcy Hames University in 1933 and received Until July of last year he served field, who has the latest word di- Women in the upper 25 per cent Nancy Little A.M. and Ph.D. degrees in Mod- as Chaplain of the 144th Infantry rect from the contractor on the of the Junior class who fulfill all Dot Love ern Languages at Princeton in Regiment and then was transferred subject. However, Mr. Springfield requirements, which are based on Sally Lund 1935 and 1937, holding the Her- to the 27th General Hospital as did give a few encouraging facts, actual points, are tapped in the Jane McAtee bert Montgomery Bergen Fellow- Protestant Chaplain. Before com- which should be a cheerful ear- Spring by Torch. Also at this time Shirley Sibley ship in Modern Languages. In ing to Southwestern with his wife ful -for the "cave dwellers" of the Society presents a bracelet to Mitzi Whelin January, 1942, he was commission- and two children, he was engaged Voorhies. the outstanding Sophomore girl. Betty Withers ed Second Lieutenant in the Army in further graduate work at the According to the Bursar, the After each eight weeks period, a Jane Woodson and reverted to inactive status as seminary in Richmond. furniture to be used for Voorhies luncheon is given for those girls Gamma Delta Major, Military Intelligence, on has just arrived and has been plac- who made a "B" average in the Elizabeth Ann Peets July 14, 1946. As Investigations In addition to directing student ed in the dorm. The coeds are now preceding period. Rebecca Truax Officer and Chief Interrogator of religious activity in the Sunday living under the wing of Mrs. Those tapped in the Spring of Kappa Delta the Counter Intelligence Corps Vesper Service, Christian Union Sledge, their housemother, in the 1946 were Julia Welford, Mary Ann Brown Detachment of the Westen Task Cabinet and other Christian com- dorm's basement, wouldn't give Langmead, Kathryn Lynch, Irma Virginia Catching Force which later became the Sev- munity projects, Mr. Revely will two-bits for the furniture as long Waddell, and May Wallace. Offic- Sara Cooper enth U. S. Army, he participated teach a course in freshman bible. as they will have to continue us- ers for the year are May Wallace, Jane Dewbee in campaigns in North Africa, It- o ing the temporary coverings over President; Kathryn Lynch, Vice Ann Faquin aly, Southern France, and Central their dorm's "future" windows. President; and Irma Waddell, Sec- Mary Jeanne Gillespie Europe. During periods of Sev- Honor Council The windows will arrive in the retary-Treasurer. (Continued on Page 2) enth Army inactivity he served as not-to-distant future, it is hoped political observer in Italy and in and them the coeds of Voorhies will Algiers. During late 1945 and The largest freshman class in get much more joy out of their NUTSHELL DIGEST early 1946 he was a military at- the history of Southwestern was furniture. As for the extehsion on Calvin, tache at the American Embassy called together last Friday morn- TUESDAY, October 8-Synodical Auxiliary of Tennessee; 7:30 P.M., work is proceeding possibly a lit- in Mexico City. He holds the ing after Chapel to choose its boy Hardie Auditorium. Bronze Star, Purple Heart, and and girl representative to the Hon- tle slower. The furniture has been Commendation Award. Dr. Porter or Council. Cliff Pittman and Ro- ordered and is expected to arrive WEDNESDAY, October 9-Kappa Sigma Open House-All student is a member of the Modern Lan- bert Edington were nominated by within the next two or three weeks. body invited. be hoped that by the time guage Association of America, the the Council to represent the boys, It is to THURSDAY, October 10-Tri Delta Coffee Hour, 3:30-For mem- the work- Linguistic Society of America, the and Mary Howard and Jane Mc- the furniture does arrive bers and new pledges. American Association of College Atee to represent the freshman men will have the dorm ready for Professors, and Phi Beta Kappa. girls. Cliff Pittman and Mary How- occupancy. This statement miight FRIDAY, October 11-Christian Union Open House honoring Dr. Due to lack of information, Mr. ard were both elected by a large be too optimistic. Most likely it Revely-4:00, S.A.E. House. William Thompson was omitted majority. They will assume their is! 12-Student Council Dance; 8-12 P.M., Farga- from this story. Mr. Thompson is duties as regular members of the It can be plainly seen that this SATURDAY, October son Field House. now serving as Instructor in Chem- Honor Council when they are article deals with only future pro- doubt fam- sworn in at the next meeting of gnostications and not with defin- istry Labs, and is no MONDAY, October 14-Chi Omega Chocolate Hour, 4:00-5:00. iliar to all Science majors. the Council. (Continued on Page 8) Page Two THE SOU'WESTER October 8, 1946 SOUTHWESTERN IF YOU HAVE "ENTSBILL" MALLORY; AT MEMPHIS STUDENTS A FRIEND TO ALL MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE THE TIME ESTABLISHED 1919 By Tom B. Miller He was outstanding in college Dick's letters are always inter .- . and in later life; died in esting. Besides imparting news o f This weeks students, select- service over Italy mutual friends he usually man - ed at random from the student ages to wander off into a persona l body, seemed extremely co-op- In the year of our Lord 1945, essayist strain of consciousnesss. erative and a few even enthus- a hero died, winging his way home- Dick being the greatest of admir iastic about Southwestern's new ward from the tortured skies of ers for Wordsworth, I am neverr cafeteria in the Neely Memor- bloody Italy. A mature man of surprised to find myself readingg ial Hall. The question they were some forty-four years, he had lived PUBLISHED WEEKL. all about "a magic October dayy asked was "What are your gloriously, and so he died. Major By The when the sky is incredibly bluee thoughts on the new cafeteria?" William Neely Mallory had just STUDENTS OF SOUTHWESTERN and wooly cumulus clouds are sus Peggy Gallimore: "It's wond- completed a brilliant and arduous Memphis, Tenn. pended motionless between heaven erful! Gives me more hours to work, for which he received the and earth-." sleep and I can't get locked out Legion of Merit; it was "Opera- Yesterday, however, right in thee from my bread and butter." tions Mallory", the knocking out REPRESENTED FOR NATIONAL ADVERTISING BY middle of a discourse of matterss Wheeler Carleton: "It has its of ,22 of the 24 bridges across the National Advertising. Service, Inc. most interesting and private, I Idisadvantages, but it undoubt- Po River in Lombardy, so as to College Publishers Representative read, "Best Wishes For the Sea- edly is the best that can be done isolate the bitterly contested An- 420 MADISON AVE. NEW YORK, N. Y. under the existing circum- zio-Monte CHICAGO' BOSTON- LOS ANGELES SAN FRANCISCO son of Ramadan." Cassino battle area. No one outside of Algeria ever stances." "Memphis Bill" Mallory was not heard of Ramadan nor anyone who Bob Montgomery: "I like it a graduate of Southwestern, but Member has been there has ever forgot it. because I can eat at any time, he was one of the school's most Issociated Colle6iate Press Ramadan begins when the last Sbut I surely do eat a lot." ardent supporters, having been purple rays have slipped behind Gin Peoples: "It serves the connected with it as a director and Ditributor of purpose the long bare slopes of the Kasaras of eating and such an as the treasurer. A Yale man, he Colle6iate Di6est on the last day of August. Then, arrangement is necessary under was captain of the unbeaten foot- the school's almost simultaneously, firing of crowded condition, ball squad in the year 1923, and but I cannon can be heard from each still like last year's family was chosen as captain and full- style meals." Entered as second-class matter at the post office in Memphis, Tenn., of the scattered little villages which back on Walter Camp's All-Amer- under the act of March 3, 1878. populate the mountain sides. "Sonny" Connell: "The method ican Team. In his business and of eating family style seemed social At this Ramadan season Dick life he also attained great more in keeping with the friend- and I were the house guests of M. honors, a few of which are listed TEX KRESSENBERG...... Editor Rayat, a French colonial servant, ly, homelike atmosphere of the below. BILL INGRAM...... Business Manager school, but I think Mrs. Hill is President of W. B. Mallory & DICK WOOD ...... Associate Editor who, along with his wife and two doing very well under the pres- Sons, Memphis Compress and Stor- CLAIRE JAMES ...... Society Editor lovely daughters, operated the ent circumstances." age Company, NANCY LITTLE ...... Fashion Editor small post and telegraph office Memphis Freight ANN PRIDGEN ...... Circulation Manager of a suburb of Algiers. Although Carol Bitner: "It's very prac- Bureau and the Memphis Cotton JEANNE O'HEARNE ...... Head Typist the Arabs alone enter into this tical. It would be impossible to Carnival, a member of the Board SPORTS STAFF: Bob Amis, Barron Sieferd, Bill Sutherland. festive occasion, the French seem serve so many in any other way." of Directors of the Cotton Ex- - o--- BUSINESS STAFF: Mildred Curtis, Mary Nell Campbell, Peggy to enjoy it equally. change, and a director of the Na- Land, Myrtle Powell, Nareen Key, Jim Turner, Martin Hollinger. We were disappointed with the tional Bank of Commerce, he was TYPISTS: Virginia Mulder, Dorothy Wilson, Ann Ross Reeves, Sara first evening of the season as our Parade of awarded the "First Citizen" Key Maxwell, Jeanne Amis, Gordon Young, Marilyn Alston, Lucille little village seemed to be similar TOPINIONS by the Junior Chamber of Com- Maury, Jane King, Jean King, Carolyn Rier, Bobbie Thompson, Smerce, and was elected king of the Brantley, Mary Battle. to any other evening. We walked Betty Jo Cotton Carnival in 1935. LITERARY STAFF: Dave Statler, Jean De Graffenreid, Lily Ann along the streets listening to the "For a little I'd call it off. All This was Bill Mallory, South- Goswick, John McIntosh, Amelia Brent, Peggy Mc- din of merriment that issued forth Beggs, Tom we do is try to rest after a mis- western's friend and advisor. It Alexander, Vinton Cole, Ed Maxwell, Walter Haun, Eloise Metz- from the doors of the restaurants. ger, Bob Amis, Alma Van IIook, Tom Miller, Barbara Burnette, Here and there a Hall of Prayer erable sleepless night," one ex-GI is in his memory that the mam- Leona De Mere, Jeanne Abbott. was doing its ordinary gloomy bus- complained to the couple standing moth new Student Union Building be named, and it is in his STAFF PHOTOGRAPHERS: Billy Hightower, Ben Gilliland. iness and above the soft mur- beside him in the supper line. will "Keep your mind on the good memory that this poem was writ- mering of evening strollers the time for years from now," remon- ten by one of his innumerable de- lonely strains of Arabian chants voted friends. '_.. n...... '_._._._ drifted into the streets. strated the friend. "Four years from now"! Another BILL MALLORY rire rrevention The next morning we were four years to put off living, to ex- Son of fame in high attainment, Iawakened by another volley of This week is National Fire Prevention Week. Each year thous- in a one-room apartment. Four Moulded in a vivid realness, cannon. Mine. Rayat explained to ist ands of people are killed or injured, and millions of dollars in prop- after months-even Lifted to a dash and color- us at breakfast that from the fir- more years erty is destroyed, by the raging menace of fire.. years-of sleeping on the ground Living marks of God's creation- ing of cannon at sunrise no Arab and eating rations from cans, of Fading never in our memory! As is the case with so many other hazards, fire does not seem to man or woman was allowed to eat living in deserts, swamps and jun- Could he speak to us in absence, be particularly frightful until it strikes close to home. We like to or drink even the softest of drinks gles, dirt and mud. Or perhaps it Could he tell us his desire, think that being burned to death, or having homes and property until the firing of the cannon at was the rancid odor of a starvation -e would linger in the parting destroyed by fire, is a terrible catastrophe, but that it just doesn't sunset. he stayed our thought of sor- happen to us. We grudgingly pay fire insurance rates, and rest as- In the center of town was a diet of a German prison camp. Yes, Till four more years to wait to have row- sured of complete fire protection. This is analagous to taking out square surrounded by sycamores even the simplest comforts of flushed our praise of mighty great- life insurance, and then neglecting to take care of our health. and in the middle stood a band home. .Everencss- selfless! Ever modest! stand. On the first morning of Suppose we all look around us and see just what we can do to Will the GI Bill of Rights be a Ramadan to this square children With compassion born of sharing, reduce the fire hazard. Realizing that the Sou-wester office would lisillusionment to the ex-service He would turn our thought to of ages from three to fifteen years be a happy home for any fire, we pledge ourselves to remedy the men? Will they give up and seek others came dressed in costumes that situation immediately. We suggest that you resolve to do likewise con- other recourses for reestablishing o shamed Arabian Nights. They were rWho went forward serving bravely cerning your home, place of business, or wherever you see work that their lives which were so wrangled To return in memory only- needs to be done. of all colors, made of exquisitely embroidered cloth of the finest by the long war? Will they give up Chiseled names in stone immortal! in despair materials. The girls wore orna- at the cost of living? -PAUL SAWRIE Or will houses ments of all sorts consisting of be forthcoming in the not too distant future and al- - arm and ankle adornments, ear -o Cut System low men with families rings, gorgeous head pieces, etc. a chance to attend college Last fall a Southwestern student had his grade lowered one letter They spent the morning playing and gain a more Girls Pledging stable place because he happened to be sick on the day of a Math quiz. We fail games which we were never able in the future? to see why a system of cuts that allows such an occurence is allowed noon when to understand until the groom was not anticipating (Continued from Page 1) to continue as a part of the college regulations. they suddenly disappeared. beauty. Ruth Edna Griffis only pa- The bulletin states on page 43, "Requests for excuse of absence The children were the Several times during the month Elizabeth Leatherwood surely are presented to the Dean on a form provided for this purpose, but trons of the streets. It was we would see a fleeing Arab chased Joy Masino such requests are not to be made before the student's unpenalized a month for children, at least we by a number of his townspeople. Monkey Oliver emergency absences have been exceeded." Let us suppose that a stu- thought so then. Not until the bel- We were told that the unlucky one Jeanne Patterson dent uses his alloted number of emergency absences, and each of low of the cannon at sun-set did had been caught eating during Oneida Pruette them happens to fall on the day of a quiz. The individual professors their elders venture forth. Yet the forbidden hours and a thorough Mary Ann Ramsey are not authorized to excuse these absences, and can not, therefore, when they did, the town seemed to beating would be his if overtaken. Ann Ross Reeves allow the student to make up the quizzes. If, as is the custom of a become all alive at once. The res- This odd ritual of fasting during Dottic Steindorff number of professors, there are only 6 or 8 quizzes that semester, it taurants opened up, crowds passed the daytime hours and feasting at Zeta Tau Alpha would be virtually impossible for the student to pass the course. up and down the streets, and the night lasted the entire month of Marjorie Allen merriment of Ramadan held forth. September. Betty Jo Brantley This is, of course, an exaggerated case, but it does demonstrate This was a season blessed with All this was interesting for the Margaret Boiser the fact that the cut system here is very unsatisfactory. We feel sure many marriages, and almost any first week, but soon our enthusi- Billie Kaye Carter that not even the college administration is satisfied with the present hour of the night one could hear asm waned, and, as the noise of Helen Ruth Copler arrangement. It seems rather strange that in a school which is proud a wedding procession moving up revelry went on all night, we were Katherine Daunhaecer of the way its honor system functions, the students are required to and down the streets. A rich old unable to sleep. Helen Stanley DeBerry furnish evidence of the fact that illness prevented them from attending Arab, whom we called Caief, called So today on the first of October, Virginia Jones a lsoo IfnTI anrnfstor wa lk nut of an 1JIIiti iwith tCe 4sU- a class. 11 IIpro essorUI can wall out o an t exami lllliL wtl llle assuro nuI- I suppose a lot of Arab mothers Beverly C. Kessling ance that there will be no cheating, surely a student's word shouldwe ingof ied so e are packing away pretty costumes Betty Jean Lee be acceptable as an excuse for absence from class. wedding of his eldest son. De- lighted, we went along and joined in moth balls, shop-keepers are Mary Ann Minderman This subject has been discussed very much on the campus, among in the strange ceremony . The boasting of inflated Ramadan sales, Virginia Mulder the faculty as well as the students, and several solutions have been groom had never seen the face of and the few foreigners who were Wendell Phillips suggested, ranging from unlimited cut to no cuts at all. We are not his veiled bride, and from per- unfortunate enough to be there Betty Jane Robinson coming out in support of any one of the suggestions, but we firmly sonal obsevations Dick and I took are looking forward to a quiet Georgia Skouteris believe that a change of some kind should be made. a dim 1night's sleep. Dorothy Ann Wilson view of this match. We hoped I b v v .. .,vi.. October 8, 1946 THE SOU'WESTER Page 3 October 8, 1946 THE SOU'WESTER Page 3 EXTRA DATES ON FRESHMEN SHED SIGNS AT PAN CALENDAR

DANCE NEXT SATURDAY In addition to dates assigned at the first joint Pan-HetIllenic meet- Lynx Chat ing, each fraternity and sorority Long-awaited event CHI 0'S TO HAVE will have one extra afternoon date Pant! Pant! Kitty is really house. The house of blue lights is bursting out all over. sponsored by council; ANNUAL BANQUET on the campus. The whole student beat. What with frat rushing and body will be invited to attend each sorority dashing all behind, try- If it's anything that Kitty ad- Happy day is near! of the functions, with or without ing to take a slight peak at lessons, mires, it's a guy that doesn't give Miss Holcomb, one of dates. This measure was taken up easily. We are referring to because of the large enrollment and at the same time check up on Ernest Flaniken, president Tommy Hauser and his doggedness of the founders, is to be and the desire that every member all last season's romances and this Stuudent Council, has at last re- with Barbara Bowden. Although of the student body be able to season's newest, it's about to get lea sed the information for which guest speaker Jasper has come back, Tommy re- attend some social function, the best of ole Kitty. Whew! the freshmen have been waiting. fuses to holler "Uncle." Good luck, et Each It deals with the Student Council The annual Eleusinian Banqu of the Greek letter or- Please be patient dear reader, son. ,h+ ganizations Dance on October 12, at which time of Chi Omega will ne neld tonignht have their choice of maybe by the time graduation rolls Just who are you putting the one afternoon of the week assign- around, we a celebration will be held by the at 6:30 p.m. in the Sorority Lodge. will have cornered most screws to, Miss Van Hook? ed edthem. frosh, marking the end of fresh- In celebration of its founding at [of the romances. These transfers and freshmen T'he schedule assigned by the are giving poor Kitty man regulations. But-attention the University of Arkansas on quite a time. freshmen! There are a few strings Pan Council is as follows: To save the typesetter any undue We don't know what the score April 5, 1895, dinners will be held attached. Behave until then or Week starting: October 6 - trouble, it is sufficient only to con- is 'cause they keep switching who is in charge of throughout the United States by Kappa Sigma. around so much. Sylvia Caldwell Evin Perdue, October 13Kappa Alpha. nect the words, McKnight and decorating the gym, will have you all chapters. October 13--Kappa Alpha. started off with a large bang by Caldwell in the same breath. 'Nuff all in there helping him. October 20-Alpha Tau Omega. getting her picture in the paper. Miss Jobelle Holcomb, one of The first half of the dance wll October 27-Zeta Tau Alpha. said. Many pointed ears gleamed in the be a barn dance-with a real caller Chi Omega's founders, will be the November 3--Pi Kappa Alpha. sunlight and the ready wolves Delta. Speaking of the above two, Kitty by Julia Wellford. Dress Honor Guest of Kappa Beta, and November 10-Kappa came out looking for her. So far provided 5 November 17-Alpha Omicron likes this latest innovation of Tri- will be that appropriate for this will make a short talk on the November 17-Alpha Omicron as we can see, however, the scene Delta. It mignt be a time honored I Pi. is calm and serene. sort of thing-use your own judg- Founding and History of the Sor- custom of theirs, but we're kinda are requirediS November 24-Gamma IDelta. A couple we like-Rier and ment. All freshmen ority. Presentation of the new slow at times. This business of the December 1-Sigma Alppha Ep- Glenn. to come-dates or no-and iff boy wearing the trident pledges and singing of Chi 0 silon. of the you're not there the ratting wil 11 Tri-Delt Jeanne O'Hearne still receives songs will complete the program. December 8-Sigma Nu. pin. We always did feel continue. Plans have been made for communiques from New Mexico. e Members, alumnae and pledges will. January 5-Chi Omega. the male when he gave his for checking up so don't evade From whom, do you ask? Our erst- attend the fried chicken dinner. January 12-Tri Delta. be-jeweled pin to his heart's choice. the issue. At 10 o'clock, out by the Comes the revolution! At the pres- while companion Long John Ma- will be lone. tennis courts, a bonfire e ent, we know only of Frank Mc. Bookstore improvements staged-made up of all the trouble- and Dick Wood as members of may come some signs and baby bonnets. this exclusive organization. and go; a twenty piece or- The second half of the dance will chestra could be installed and be a regular dance, and Tex Kres- The number of various clubs bridge would go on forever. Even that music that spring up about the campus some of the faculty join in occa- senberg has announced 11 will be furnished by the campus Fashions from time to time never ceases to sionally. Eddie Duchin-J. C. Scianni and amaze us. The latest, founded by What gives with this Ingram- By Nancy Little his band. Upperclassmen are urged a certain young, tall, dark young Phelps affair? It's gotta be this man is the T.W.H.H.I. Club. These or that. to come, and, of course, all fren- As you have probably heard by lan sleeves and the peplum of the initials stand for, in case you don't Character: Barron Seiford. zied freshmen will be there-so now, rather than exclusively to jacket was reminiscent of the Eng- already know, "Those Who Have Are you still trying, Hightower? keep that date in mind, October give fashion notes and hints, the lish coachman's coat . . . Bettye gala Had It." According to reports, the Maybe if things go a little better 12, for the Student Council's purpose of this column shall be to Lee Hancock in a black dress, the membership should be quite large. you may get in solid. Who knows? celebration. call to everyone's attention (in top of which was covered with be a small A sight well worth watching is P.S.-There will case there might be someone who sequins, large and small, of green, News has reached these ever- around 25 or 30 cents Tosh while he is listening to some charge of failed to notice) the current styles red and gold . . . Ginger Thomason perked-up ears that the SAE's per person. real hot record. How a man can as exhibited by our own "fashion in straw-colored silk crepe which are considering buying the Kappa ---- get so knocked out! plates" here on the campus. With had small covered buttons down Sig house for use as a pledge The thought just struck us the only two weeks of school behind the back and the new and very at- other day that the boys as a whole, Christian Union us, I sincerely believe that I can tractive bustle . . . Eselle McLean really missed the boat last year. say without fear of contradiction in a pale green and watermelon Cabinet Kappa Sigs Plan Nobody, with the possible excep- that we can proudly boast of a wool, studded with silver nail- tion of McAfee, 'tried to sew up style center that equals that of heads. .. Gala Open House Tomorrow afternoon at 3:30 the Becky McCall. Just goes to show Cabinet will hold any campus, large or small. In conclusion, I find that there Christian Union Wednesday afternoon, from 3:00 you. house and forum at the The policy of being well-dressed are three important keynotes of an open to 6:00 o'colck, the Kappa Sigs Numerous things pop into our time Mr. Tay- is not solely carried out on week- fashion on the campus this fall SAE house. At this will begin the new program of heads to say about the editor, but lor Revely will be introduced to ends by the girls at Southwestern, that have not yet been mentioned, weekly open houses with a gala his fast and furious blue pencil the student body and will also but also during the school week. but are most popular, particularly affair in the gymnasium. There would make short work of our ef- lead the discussion at the forum. Some of these outfits seemed par- with the Freshmen, Sophomores, forts. ticularly worthy of comment be- will be music for dancing, refresh- Mr. Revely has arrived to be Di- arid transfers. Yes, I mean the Jim Wade, you aren't fooling cause they stood out as being at- ments, and entertainment-in other rector of Religious Activities for baby bonnets, the signs, and those us. That job you got is a good tractive in themselves, and, even words, just anything your little the campus, and was only recent- good-looking blue gym suits. There excuse just to hang around and more important, because they were heart desires! ly discharged from the Navy, where are not adequate words to describe play wolf. becoming to the person who wore he served as chaplain. the latter, and then, after all, per- In the way of said entertain- Happiest - Lad - of - the - Month them, thereby showing taste and Last Tuesday Dick Bolling was haps it's best to leave it unsaid ment, the K D Klose-Harmony Club's newest member is Bill Clary. forethought in the choosing of elected representative to the Cab- anyhow. Kwartet will render a few selec- He romps in with the news that clothes. _0 inet by the Sophomore boys. He ----- o- tions in their own inimitable way; the army turned him down. Our replaces Denby Brandon, who has Social Room Notes .. . Johnny Bryant will feature some sympathy, Bill. gone to the Army. Julia Wellford Jane Kilvington in a black and Dorms... real hill-billy singing; "Jake" Sci- Biggest Laugh of Many Weeks: was elected vice president of the beige jumper with aqua trim worn anni will perform on the 88's in Bobby Cobb's definition of "The Cabinet to replace Carolyn Cun- over a short-sleeved aqua sweater (Continued from Page 1) his out-of-this-world manner; Mau- House of Blue Lights." ad- ningham, who was recently -Betty Bynum Webb's good-look- rice Chisholm will play the ever- Harry "The Face" Hawken has vanced to the presidency. . ing red corduroy suit . . Ann ite facts, at least not many of beautiful "Warsaw Concerto"; and, been giving Jeanne Amis quite a Avery, whose clothes are invari- them. Everyone can guess as to in a lighter mood, Virgil Bryant rush these days.... What gives ably compliment-earners, in a plaid how much longer the workmen will will give out with "The Dark Town Harry? jumper, predominently black and be at their job before the final Poker Club", he being the. only Seen at the Vandy-Ole Miss SOUTHWESTERN yellow, under which she wore a materials are obtained from the living human besides Phil Har- game Saturday-Jo Alice Page, black wool jersey blouse . . . Betty PHARMACY factory and the "Finished" sign ris that knows all the verses. The Nena Hill, and dates. Stanley Trez- Flynn's luscious pink wool coat 643 N. McLEAN is hung on the door. At the latest, agenda is as yet incomplete, and evant, Burson Frye, Trent Wood, which everyone said looked good to Mr. Springfield, this according negotiations are underway for some all carrying the colors of SAE. enough to eat. will be toward the end of Jan., even more startling attractions. Miss Becky McCall, of Blytheville, Men's Pan Dance Notes .. . 1947, or in the time for the second Arkansas, and Atlantic City Fame. Sylvia Caldwell in a long-sleeved semester. At that time the 81 Just as a climax to this sort of Tommy Hauser and Jimmy Blank- RECORDS white silk jersey with a pattern rooms in Voorhies and the 40 in carrying on, there will be a Grand enship in a 'cosy two-some. of green leaves running through Calvin will add greatly to the com- Lottery later in the evening, the Puzzle of the week-What w. k. it, worn with gold accessories . .. fort of dorm life and the appear- winner of which will be escorted (well known) Southwestern Pro- We are convinced that we Claire James, a perfect model of ance of the campus. forthwith to the airport, and treat- fessor was seen walking a young ----- o- can give better record serv- new fall styles in aqua crepe with ed to an airplane ride over the lady through Overton Park about cap sleeves and a peplum of lace campus before the party breaks dark-30 Thursday night? ice than any store in this in the same color . . . Jane Phelps up! What more could a poor man Comments on Saturday after- in black crepe, trimmed in net, GIVE ask? We'll see you there. part of the South. noon's bid list discolure: The sor- with a bandeau and wristlet of ority members: "OOOOOOHHH." --- o- - tuberoses . . . Lucille Maury, who to the isn't it wonderful .... A caustic Phonographs and Radios simple black dress was set off to campus wit: "Never in the fields perfection by the addition of pink Memphis Due to a proof reading error of human conflict have so many roses in her hair and at her waist, in last week's Sou'Wester, we made so much over so little!!!" Words and Music and long pink gloves. hereby make our first retraction. Wood, Trent, and Hamer, Lucille Rush Notes ... Community The Canterbury Club is open for are a steady couple these days- by MALLORY CHAMBERLIN Regine Bacot in undoubtedly one membership to men students Serious business, this match-mak- 152 Madison Ave. of the most stunning suits seen Chest as well as co-eds. ing. here this fall . . . Made of rich, -The Editors Oh No!! You're not nervous, brown wool gabardine, it had Rag- Drive Gilliland... Page 4 THE SOU'WESTER October 8, 1946 KNIGHT and DAY Extry--Extry Record Rakes Or By Tosh That's A Pun, Son! S CHAOS By Nancy Davis As I turned the dial on my radio to By RICHARD WOOD "Ex-try, Ex-try... Shake Down the other night I happened By Tom Goswick Jamae's program coming fromcatch the High Hat. This is the My typewriter just sits here and Chamber Exposed. Ex-try, Ex-try, first time I've heard her "combo" looks at me with all its 47 keys. By Richard Wood Readall about eiti! since early in August, I jumped in my third cousin's short, I didn't get to sese "Confes- and it seems It just sits and waits for my fin- No, I don't believe it," I said to me that she has the best outfit I1924 R co phaeton coupe last nignt sions of a Sorority Girl"-the thea- gers to'stumble over its keys, but half aloud. in these parts. The arrangements a spin up to Calico Rock, my alleged brain refuses to trans- and took tre where it was showing caters on- "But it's true," said a Gismo are similar to those of the Good- mit any knowledge to the clean Arkansas to see a picture called ly to migratory Mexican cotton- standing near me. "Come with me; man Sextet, and she has the best white paper placed therein. I'm "Confessions of a Sorority Girl." pickers (there is no cotton in Calico I'll prove it." men around here on their respec- not in the mood to write, for trag- One of the clerks in the grist mill Rock, so the Mexicans police up After dark we walked along The tive instruments. For some ter- edy has struck and numbed my near Gi'mantown told me about butts during the regular Old-Gold Row of "Lurnmore College for rific music all you Casanovas had senses. Life can't go on like this the picture; he had seen it on a rush). So I missed the picture. Gismos." Silently we slipped into better drag your babes down any longer. There is nothing to double bill at the Last Chance to I felt pretty bad about it. On the the house of Eta Hunka Pi, with the "High Hat." The Claridge says live for since that fateful nigiht. Theatre in Tomahawk, Wisconsir n. e- way out of town, as luck would the aid of Gismo's pass key. All that Bob Strong is coming in Fri- in all mankind has dwin- So, I called the Monogram repre My faith have it, I saw a hobo standing Gismos can see in the dark, so I day and in Shreveport and asked they plan to catch Jack dled into nothingness sentative got a good him where I might see the picture near the Missouri-Pacific tracks look at the house. Where Teagarden and possibly Sonny I'm not really a bad kid, al- I am doing a book on the prepara who resembled a major that was could these torture chambers be? Dunham sometime this fall. Inci- though some thinkle may peep so. i at the National Scout The house was lon of Greekletter alphabet soup in my outfit small . . . no room dentally, you can discount that I take care of my sister's two lit- aind the technical lore i the tovi e camporec at Pascagoula in 1898. here for devices of crime. To my rumor that Stan Kenton is gonna tle boys. I get up and give my seat would doubtlessly have been in "Remember the Maine" was the astonishment, Gismo removed the play there. In the first place, the to ladies and elderly men, like Jim :aluable. I got the Reo in a shrewdd slogan in those days. It seems that shield over the fireplace. There Claridge couldn't give him enough Wade, when I ride street cars. I deal with my third cousin who is on Halloween of the previous de- was a button. She pushed it and we money, and in the second place the never beat the girls that condes- an orangotang by the name off cade some un-public-spirited kind- both fell through a hole in the people couldn't stay in the Balinese cend to venture out of their mo- Linseed Oyl, she's the main attrac ergarten lads who were barely old floor. Down we tumbled into black- Room with Kenton's rhythm sec- ther's sight with me. Small dogs tion at the Cypress Knee Zoologica 1 enough to vote dropped epsom ness. Gismo shook me back into tion, much less his whole band. receive my warmest greeting and Gardens on Four Roses Street in salts down the sewers underneath consciousness and from the feeble Patootie Pie-Ella Fitzgerald: cats get a fur massage. I always West Memphis. The Reo had beer the Forest Hill Dairy and caused gleams of a 50,000 candlepower I've always said that Ella's a let the frat pledges hold on to given to her by a wandering bio- an eruption in the pipelines. The floodlight which she always carried terrific vocalist, but I can't give something before I hit them with logist who wanted to discover ir mainline went dry, and the towns- in case of emergencies, I could Louis Jordan's accompaniment people my favorite 2 x 4. But no more. the interest of science what tend- were up in arms. The last make out dim shapes of queer- much. You'll get your money's Alas! encies a 1924 Reo would have to- minute results of this necking bee looking machines. worth from the record. It all happened Friday night in ward mating with an orangotang aren't in yet, but the slogan "Re- "Here," Gismo said, "is the rack." Boyd Meets Stravinsky-Boyd member the Maine" the seclusion of my boudoir (that's The experiment was never suc rings grandly Dried blood was caked on the Raeburn: Raeburn, the forerunner t through our slum-dwelling French for 'basement'). I had just cessful. Linseed Oyl turned out every leather hand straps. "I saw a of the modern "power" style of closed my psychology book in ut- to be Ernest Hemingway gather- time the pipes freeze over. They sophomore get twelve turns be- jazz, comes up with one of the of "Main" ter amazement at its contents and ing material for a novel. He gave say "Maine" instead cause she allowed a Paida What most terrific records I've ever Sibecause people spoke Anglo-Saxon prepared my mental processes to me the Reo in exchange for a bool Iota to get in front of her in the heard. You'll provavly have to absorb some of the higher litera- of verses underneath the bough, in 1898.) Anyway I saw my ex- cafeteria line. Hard Luck!" order to get it, but it's worth the ture of the ages. This was a mas- a loaf of wine, a jug of bread major pistols I had intended to "Whose are those?" I asked, extra effort. sell to terpiece in English literature. Mrs. and my mother's sister Minnie any Seminole tribe of staring at a pile of yellow bones Don't Get Wild, Child-Chubby Benish said so. "Sir Gawain and who is tired of her job paint- Okeefenokee Swamp who might be Must be an alum who refused Jackson Sextet: This is another interested in an overthrow of the Green Knight." I'm sure that a ing throats with barbecue mops the to dry dishes after last year's rush one you'll have to order, but it, too, bourgeois class. The pistol was in your memories. So, for the bene- dipped in coal tar at the College of parties." is worth the trouble. While Jack- smothered in onions and I like fit of those who have but a faint Music. Well, anyway, I got the Reo "See those boxes piled up over son was with the Herman Herd, he mine medium but there wasn't time recollection of this and for those and took off early the fourth of Ju- there?" won the Esquire award for jazz so I ate the gun rare. I took out who have not yet been exposed to ly so as to be in calico Rock for the "Yea." bass men. On this disc he teams another brace of horsepistols and it, I shall give a brief resume of duck season. To cut a long story "Well, they're full of dead rush- up with five of Herman's band, it with the faith-shattering de- shot the hobo like a dog (a Dal- ees. Unfortunately they drank too and what comes out is really ter- matian, I believe). I went over to tails. down the road a piece and is the much punch the night of pledging. rific. It gets an Al rating in any- the body and examined it for gold It seems that King Arthur is holy terror of the neighborhood. Due to sherbet and ginger ale they body's book. fillings or loose Italian lire. It giving a big blow-out one New Our boy, Gawain, with a week to all died of acute suffocation." go was with a twinge of regret that Years and everybody is knocking decides to just stay around for "How could ginger ale I saw the corpse was not my old and sher- Dr. Tuthill Plans himself out. All of a sudden some a little longer. bet cause that?" I asked. major. I've been studying too hard character all diked out in green "There was a skirmish over the Choir lately. I need glasses. Smoked Activities comes riding in the joint on his Now comes the blow. This one last bowl of punch at Open House. glasses would do if I could find horse. Well, this guy is a head particular a.m., while the chief is A Hearda Zeta Psi choked ten The choir of the 1946 fall sem- anybody who'd smoke some for me. taller than John Billings and built out hunting and Sir G. is making Hafta Pledga Daughta pledges. ester has an enrollment that equals They are not a popular brand like Atlas. And he's got some with the sack time, some dame Claimed she had a HECK OF A any pre-war record. The parts of these days. screwy ideas about having a good comes in Gawain's room and plops THIRST! Later she was awarded the choir are well-balanced, with I drove the Reo to Forrest City. time. He offers to swap blows with herself down on the side of the the Order of the Purple Garter plenty of male voices as opposed It balked on a hill and I was tired anybody there and will let himself bed and guess what he does. He by her fellowwomen." to last year's group. of sitting on the magnetos, so be first goat and on top of that slides 'way down under the covers "This," said my friend, pointing Dr. Tuthhill hopes that the choir I traded it off to a farmer in ex- is willing to wait a year before and hollers for her to scram. She is to a rack of whips, "is reserved will be able to take one or more he change for a drink of Apple Jack out with his come-back. just trying to be sociable, so he for greater crimes. The bull whip tours this season, visiting several giving and a pair of Confederate GI Gawain, stout fellow, pops up and pokes his head out and they chat is used only on Informers' Inform- small towns. He also plans to visit shoes. In three days I swarmed take this guy on. He about the weather and who they ers. An Informer is a spy who some of the larger cities offers to up the bank at Riverside Park with on the axe think will run for prime minister keeps a group informed on the way, the first of which wheels out a whopper of an the famous 1842nd Marine Divi- will prob- this green kid's and other pressing topics of the latest rush party ideas of rival ably be New Orleans. and politely chops sion. We sprayed the area with if day. He doesn't do a thing but groups. An informer has an In- head clean off. Now, personally, DDT and zeroed in with wrist- In elections this year Ernest this guy in chartreuse, sit there looking silly. In fact, she former who keeps him informed Flaniken was I had been mortars. I fell on Southside soil chosen president. has to kiss him and even then it's that the rival informer is informed Vice president I would have been somewhat peev- that day, horribly mutilated by a is Peggy Laughter, show-off. against protest. This goes on for that he is informed. Theirs is a sad who has as her assistant Mary ed at Sir G, but not this flying Chicken-in-the-Rough box. I three mornings and Gawain is so lot. Sometmes they He picks up his head and trips off. was removed to the ship's hos- get confused Frances McDearman. Second vice scared he won't even get out of and inform the wrong Informer. Well, time staggers on and our pital on the poop deck of the Is- president - Stanley Williamson. the the sack. He doesn't even tell her Now, this . . .the Cat-O-Nine-Tails hero starts out to look for land Queen. In a year I was well Barbara Bowden is the new secre- that she's got pretty eyes or no- . with a brass handle . . .is tary. Green Knight's hangout. He hasn't enough to see a movie. The feature thin'. He's literally petrified. Not the remotest idea where to look, was "Confessions of a Sorority used only by Vice-presidents." A special honor went to Miss even up to holding her hand or but the kid gets directions at the Girl." I took out my notebook and (Now I know why there is such Betty Bynum Webb, when Dr. Tut- putting his arm about her little local Texaco station and starts ball-bearing crayon. I could en- an office.) "She," continued Gis- hill named her Assistant Con- waist. food ole Gawain. He's got out on his hay-burner. He rides vision my book on the shelf of' mo, "lines all members up once a ductor. Miss Webb, after receiv- a woman beating her brains out so long that he's got calluses and every railroad beanery in the coun- month and gives them fifty lashes ing her B. M. last spring, has re- over him and he won't even give he decides that some real honest- try. But the Island Queen gave a each for not getting their pic- turned to take her B. A. this her a tumble. Oh, no, not the great to-goodness sack time would come lurch. Something was wrong, rad- ttures in the YEHOO GAZETTE." spring. Sir Gawain of King Arthur's Court. in handy about now. He barely ically wrong. I heard the man be- Then we came to the Peg-Table. Since the enrollment of South- No, he has to run out and find ( gets the notion in his head when hind the hot-dog counter shout- On the blood-stained table were western has increased, it was neces- some character in green that will he stumbles on a castle that is ing, "Women and children and f flat wooden pegs and a heavy sary to alternate the different more than likely be glad to see out of this world: Ths s just the John Jacob Astor first!" iron mallet. classes in Chapel. The choir also this guy that isn't too careful thing, so he is let in after the I said, "What's wrong with the "The hands are spread out, here," alternates with Freshmen and his hardware. local gendarme gives him the once- where he swings Island Queen? Did she run afoul Ssaid Gismo, putting her hands in Seniors on Monday, Wednesday and over. He does muster up enough nerve of Mud Island?" 1ittle grooves, "then the pegs are Fridays, with Sophomores and The head-push around this joint to kiss the lord of the castle, quite The doughty old captain who driven in just between the knuck- Juniors on Tuesday, Thursday and really shows him a time. He feeds daintily I'll bet, and then he makes was putting a clothespin on his 1es." Saturdays. This arrangement has him until he makes like June and tracks. Well, he finds the knight nose answered, "What do you "But what is this punishment proved most successful. is busting out all over; lets him and again I'm dealt a low blow. mean Island Queen? You've been ffor?" I asked. sleep 'til noon and all sorts of un- This babe that was the highest delirious. You were transfered "This is for the CRIME OF how I had to get away from there. heard of things. type female wolf of her day, turns while you were unconscious. This (CRIMES . . . reserved only for I looked around for a means to es- Gawain thinks this all very nice, out to be the green boy's better is the Titanic. We've just hit an people who let three Chapel Days cape. Quick as a wink I ran up and, not being too dumb with the half. Now if my wife (if I had one) iceberg." go by without making a sorority a stairway and pushed on the en- housing shortage as it is, sticks had been running around sweet- As my lungs begin to fill with announcement. There are severalt trance. I came up out of the chim- around. He tells his host what he's talking strange men, I would be icy Atlantic seawater, I look back Cother torture devices around. TheI ney of the barbecue pit. Jumping doing up in that neck of the woods tempted to lay her stone cold daid upon my futile life. There just ain't wweighted nose and ear hooks are down, I ran across the yard to the and he guesses that he had better in the market. But t seems that she no justice. I'd die happily if the uused on those members who fail Phi Coulda House. I must get our pull up stakes and go on, but the was a visitor in the castle just to Titanic had just waited long ttostand facing the crest at sun- treasurer to buy a brass handle taxpayer of that household tells put young Gawain to the test and enough for me to see "Confes- sseteach day." for our Cat-O-Nine-Tails whip. him that this Green Knight lives (Continued on Page 6) sions of a Sorority Girl." "Oh," was all I could say. Some- See, I'm a Vice-president! October 8, 1946 THE SOU'WESTER Paaey 5 A CHARACTER Madness On LAST LYNX 11 SPORTS TO REMEMBER The Gridiron IS RECALLED By Barron Sieferd Jim Wade; he won the You've all doubtlessly heard of Finale to football Seidman Trophy for the amazing prowess of the fairer after season of '41 With the beginning of the brisk and, aided by Sitko and Mello, fall winds and the falling leaves, ran rough-shod oved the Ilini 26-6. sports participation sex in such sports as tennis, golf, is well-remembered Ole Man Football is on the grid- Buddy Young, Illinois speedster basketball, and softball - and let's iron once more. This season will rated as one of the finest backs in There is one long, famished never forget those wonderful tid- Five long, war-scarred years football today, was held in check looking individual drifting around bits of femininity, the lady wrest- have passed grudgingly away since be one of the most topsy-turvy by the Notre Dame line. this ivied campus to whom you lers - but has anyone ever con- the high-pitched scream of the that football has seen in many a L ooking at the football sita- new students should certainly be sidered the possibilities of the Southwestern Lynx has echoed day. Many veterans have returned, Looking at the football situa- introduced, if only through the ladies on the gridiron? Now your about the football bastions of the and football will have one of its tion at this point, the Big Nine cold medium of newsprint. Jim reporter has been observing'foot- South . . . Five years is a big de- best years. It is hard to say wheth- pluooks it. In the Southeastern Wade is the name, occasionally, ball games for some time and, ficit to try to overcome, ,but the er the sport will be at its peak as plucks it. In the Southeastern but only occasionally, to be found understandably enough, he has time to do it is now. There has it was before December 7, 1941, but Conference, Alabama, rated to re- at his dust-covered desk in the been observing woman for an even to be a starting point, and the fel- it is certain that this year will peat its performance of last year, Alumni Office. This man, well- longer time, but for some odd lows who love this game of foot- to be hard pressed by bring better football and more is sure known to all those who graced infor the spec- Georgia, and they can't overlook reason the thought of combining ball have decided that this is the Neyland's Volunteers and Missis- these sequestered cloisters during the two has just never occurred year to begin . . . No, it won't be tators.tatOne of the st significant things sippi State. In the Southwest, Tex- the last few years, made quite a to him, other than to have a girl the same football we knew before One of the mst significant things as is heads above all. On the coast name for himself as one of South- warm herself under his genuine the war . . . there will be no crim- pertaining to the return of foot- watch USC and UCLA. Not much western's most outstanding all- bearskin coat in his reserved box son clad band playing stirring bat- ball to its pre-war standards is is known about the Eastern situ- round athletes in many a year, on the fifty-yard line, or to give tle hymns . . . no throngs of thou- the atmosphere of a college town with and still found time to become his slightly suggestive eyeballs ex- sands of spectators . . . probably before the big game. The day be- ation, but Penn is loaded with ervise ogling at the more aband- talent and Columbia showed well in one of our favorite characters. Yno looming stadium for the games fore the game there seems to be Here is a brief resume of his truly oned female cheerleaders. However . . probably no all-Americans will a lull in the air and yet there is their first game. outstanding athletic career, with as many veterans of front-seat show their wares . . . no, it won't something tense, expectant and ex- At random: The team least talk- some points taken from his none- combat will admit, most girls can be the same. that the town is ed about in the Southeastern con- citing. It seems too-modest memoirs. play pretty rough, so why should I But maybe it will be just a little is Tennessee. They showed waiting for everything to break ference This sylph-figured Frank Merri- not they take the spotlight on the better in some ways. There will their old self against Tech, win- lose on Saturday afternoon and well was on the varsity basketball oval platter, and release a man be no men on the field who are no on is sure exactly of the out- ning 13-9. Neyland pulled what squad way back in 1943-44, and, for active beer-drinking? This playing for the money involved. may be called brilliant strategy come. never satisfied with dull mediocri- casual thought has many pos- Every athlete will be an athlete in Game time arrives, and all the when, as the time was running ty, was the high scorer for the sibilities, as you will see by let- the true sense of the word . . . not preparations come to life. The out, they took a touchback to de- year. Wielding the golf stick with ting your eyes dip lazily down in- simply a commodity on the ath- bands with their bright uniforms lay the game and to keep Tech the same vivacity that was the to the next paragraph. letic block, ready to sell to the high- from gaining possession of the march on the field playing high- doom of many an opposing quin- All focused? Good. Now let's est bidder. Somehow we think we ball at a critical time. North Caro- spirited songs, and with the enter- tet on the basketball court, he strain every fibre of our over-work- will enjoy the games more this lina State surprised Duke 13-7 and ing of the teams each cheering was runner-up in the intra-colleg- ed imaginations and try to picture season . . .The fellows are playing looks as if the Southern title is section blasts forth with its fav- it iate golf match in the same year. just how this bizarre scheme would for the love of the game and for Just between North Carolina State and orite cheer and school song. In the fall of the following year, work out. As of a milli-flobstob the glory of the college . . . and University. Many before the kick-off thousands of North Carolina there was much weeping and wail- ago we are in the huddle with the that's all there is in it for them. people said that the "T" was just people are still streaming into the' ing and gnashing of teeth among glorious Eleven of Miss Saltcn- The last team the college had experiment, but Leahyr stadium, some clad in Joe College a war-time the girls and the members of the pfeffer's School for Muscle-bound was in the Fall of 1941, and we style and others in their Sunday has returned to Notre Dame and sports department when "Slim Young Ladies. The Q. B. (quarter- remember it well . . . Memphis sporting best. ithe "T" still clicks for the Irish, so Jim" announced that he would not back to the uninitiated) is speak- State, Ole Miss, Sewanee, Missis- if it's here to stay. Then comes that all-important it seems as attend Southwestern that year, but ing. sippi State, the University of Ken- moment-the kick-off! Thousands Turning away from the Mirror, our loss was Eastern Kentucky'si tucky, all were on the schedule of people are watching and waiting here's hoping football will give gain. This amazing young man, in "Oh girls, will you please make ... The school had a fine team that to see what will happen to their you many thrills during this week- one year's time, established him- the huddle just a little bit closer, year, but they were lucky to win team. This year many eyes will be end. See you at the big game! self on the varsity team in bas- please? I've been dying to fix my half their games . . . They simply looking toward the gridiron, more ketball, baseball, golf, and tennis, thing-o-ma-doogy pads for ten were playing out of their league than this country has ever known. o and, just as a sideline to these minutes." most of the time . . . Who was on For those people there will be many achievements, he attended the Na- C. (aside to .L. E.): "Why Myr- that team? . Surely you re- disappoint-Grid tional Invitational Basketball Tour- member... There was little Ken- surprises and many Men Will Depend tie, are you wearing that same ments. This year's football will On Speed Alertness ney, which is reported to be no old jersey you wore last year? ny Holland, who starred for the bring many upsets and overwhelm- , mean honor. Of course, I thought it had just Marine Corps on Iwo Jima during Jim returned to our oodles of style thenbut after all, ing victories. campus in oodles of style then, but after all, the war when he tore through the Speaking of upsets, the season is Grid practice for the post-war the Fall of '45, and again varsitied arli th . Jap line into the secondary to not yet three weeks old and many Lynx is in full swing on Fargar- in basketball, and also directed his score a touchdown on a murderous with the first top ranking teams have already son Field these (lays, talents into one of the few remain- (L. E. casually spits in C's good pill box . . .Kenny could move with fallen from the win column. The test of Southwestern pigskin know- ing fields which had not as yet left eye and surreptiously ties her that football . . . Billy Speros biggest upset that shocked many how less than a month away. felt his gifted touch-the track shoe strings together). played a lot of ball that year . . . dates have been fans was Cincinnati University's Two tentative team, reborn last year under the Q. B. "Quiet, please. I'm ready He is in school here now, but is 15-6 triumph over Bo McMillan's set by Coaches Al Clemens andl skillful tutelage of Osman and to call the next play. Now Val- unable to play because of his O. one on the week endl Indiana Hoosiers, Big Nine Cham- J. Embry: Clement. Here he carved out the dosia, you center the ball back to coaching post at Whitehaven . . . A & M's of October 25 with Millsaps (here), pions of 1945. Oklahoma following rather astounding his- the H. B., and she will give it the Big Jim Wyatt, a really fine end, vaunted power with Bob Fenni- and the other on November 16 tory for himself. He was State the R. E. who will be behind her; and his running mate, Fleet Ed- with Erskine (in North Carolina) Champ'in the half-mile, more and company was stymied Two or three others are still in and was then you, Penelope, will run down wards . . .Bob Beazley, who alter- when they ran up against Barn- the "letter-writing stage", accord- undefeated in the mile and the the left side of the field for a nated between his duties as a stel- stage", accord- ( hill's Arkansashill's ArkansasRazorbacks. The ingthe to"letter-writing Coach Clemens. A complete quarter-mile; he was a member touchdown, unless one of these lar halfback and being the big- magnificent play of Kenny Hol- schedule is forthcoming. of the mile-relay team that broke uncouth girls from Slobbovia Sem- gest operator on the campus . . . land, former Southwestern athlete, tthe school record and won the inary are so mean that they stop Jim McLure, a rugged fellow who and Clyde Scott, transferee from After two weeks of stiff condi- sstate championship, and, as he you. Is that clear, girls?" could do terrible things to an op- Navy, turned what seemed to be an tioning, the squad is settling down rmodestly admitted, he "did a little Penelope (who is the R. E., in posing line, but who was as man- Aggie run-away into a 21-21 tie. to work on the fundamentals of I high-jumping, too." case you haven't been listening): nerly and genial as they come .. . Missouri bounced back from a 42-0 good football-blocking, tackling, To his fellow students, Wade "Oh, Q. B. I just couldn't run down Lumbering Emmett Kelly, a power trouncing by Texas U. to halt the and teamwork. Full uniforms were wwas the personification of school that side of the field! If I did, at tackle . . . Jim Ising, whose mighty Buckeyes of Ohio State, issued Monday. spirit; during his colorful reign as that would show the left side of "Cush, by Gawd" was a campus 13-13. Incidentally, Ohio State was "The Lynx will feature an open, king of the sports page, a weekly my face to the stands, andyou know byword . . . there was Long John looked on as one of the chief con- alert game this year," says Coache exhortation for greater support my right profile is SO much pret- Malone, a squat fellow, who took tenders in the National Champion- Clemens, "and we'll expect every f rom the student body for the in- tiier in this horrid helmet! You're time to be everybody's friend . . . ship. man to be on his toes the whole ter- and intra-collegiate games just trying to (sob) humiliate me!" We miss Long John . . . and Billy was almost to be depended upon. (runs from Texas University has power, time." Basic formation of the '46 V field, crying her must- Dowdle, another powerful fellow ... speed, and everything it takes to club will be the "T", familiar to Upon his graduation, he was ard-colored little eyes out.) there was tousled Alfalfa Earhart, be a championship team. Led by Coach from his high school days. a warded the Seidman Trophy, as This carrying-on must cease, for who was a skillful general and who the sensational Bobby Layne, they thhe outstanding athlete of his class, this way madness lies. I guess we could do dreadful things to a charg- have walked away with Missouri Likely prospects for top-notch a presentation that was heartily will just have to keep the girls ing end . . . It was a good ball and Colorado to the tune of 42-0 men this fall are Lloyd Graves a pproved by all. He was "our boy," under our genuine bearskin coats club that they turned out in 1941, and 76-0. From all reports from (All-Memphis tackle in '43), Frank wwas this Wade; we'll be needing in our reserved box on the fifty- but it was not good enough to the Southwest they say that Texas (100 in 10-flat) Boswell, and Rich- immore of his kind. yard line. handle the teams it tried to play is already looking toward the ard Dickerson (with Central High -- . . and the expense was over- Rose Bowl. In the past the South- in '45): Little can be prophesied ir whelming. That is one reason we west Champions have always had with certainty until scrimmages are playing strictly amatuer ball to meet some other prominent begin to shape up a starting out- XMAS CARDS this season . . . It is a rather team in the Cotton Bowl. However, fit. HAZEL'S brave thing the fellows are try- if things GIFTS FOR ALL OCCASIONS ing to do . . You won't let them go well for the Long- Looking good at halfback on the FOUNTAIN PENS horns, they will seek permission 'T" last week was Forrest down, will you? Flani- DRESS SHOP STATIONERY to accept a Rose Bowl bid if offer- ken, who really knows how to snag ed. Fraternity and Sorority an aerial. Bill Hightower was do- OPEN EVENINGS Invitations One of the most surprising ing some neat spinning at quarter- and Favors games in its outcome was Notre back. With the entire squad con- Phone 2-2086 The Remembrance UNIVERSITY Dame's crushing victory over I1- tinuing their all-out efforts, many PARK linois. This was doped as one of such "promises" are coming to 1737 Madison Ave. Shoppe GLEANERS the big contests of 1946. Lujack light. Here's wishing them all the 116 Union Phone 8-2215 613 N. McLEAN showed his old form on the "T" best! IL III i'II

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there is hooked up to a joint across El Cine the street that sells 10 cent ham- BOOK REVIEW KNIGHTS... THE ZOO VIEW burgers. The small ads are for By Barbara Burnette (Continued from Page 4) neighborhood theaters. I have se- the shamrock kid says that Sir Editors Note: By Dick Mussett lected "Smoky" as the movie to My Theodosia, Anya Seton G. s such a fine upstanding young This is the inauguration of a As a member of that vaunted be criticised. It is currently feat- The most famous American man that he won't ruin his make- new feature. The idea was born profession commonly called "movie ured at the Bijou on South Third ghost is Aaron Burr, who 'tis up by chopping his head off. Now last Tuesday morning after the critic," I shall attempt to channel Street. My brother-in-law is the said by native South Carolinians, Gawain is getting just a little dis- twelve o'clock Bible class. I was your minds toward a better selec- manager, and my sister told me still searches the midnight dark- gusted at this stage of the game. being smothered in an attempt to tion of films for your pleasure. that they will move to another ness for his lost daughter. This It wasn't enough to wander all make a brilliant end run to the The price of a newpaper is well house if this publicity brings in father was devoted to his mother- over England looking for Muscles, dining hell, and a guy whom I ,vithin your realm, especially if the patrons. The Bijou is the clean- less Theodosia, but Theodosia's de- who he knew would have baked know only by the surname of you wish to be hep on the latest est theater in town. Every fifteen votion to her father reached the Gawain for his livestock's dinner Roper handed me a poem he had production in town. It is suggest- minutes, the floor opens up al- magnitude of worship. In one of an have women make love to him; written or a poem somebody had ed that you acquire the latest edi- lowing all the peanut shells to her letters she wrote. "I had rath- this guy wants to kiss and make written. IHe didn't say anything tion of the paper, because the mov- drop thru to the garbage scows in daugh- up, but just to please Gawain the ability of er not live than not be the as to the authorship. He just hand- ies have the strange Gayoso Ave. My brother-in-law says ter of such a man." knight slices brother G's neck open ed it to me in the middle of the crossing town during the day. If this is a very safe method. Just It is of Theodosia Burr Alston all over Arthur's personnel, and you have to walk; as I do, being so he can run onrushing student before the floor sags, a bell rings, My and that Anya Seton has written court showing off his scar, 'cause I was left to puzzle over it. I de- one of the lesser known critics a and the film is replaced with Theodosia. This is a fictional in- give any Purple Hearts cided to print the poem as a start therefore only slightly paid for they didn't sign warning the patrons to pull terpretation of Theodosia's life, for a new student-contribution col- my job, the hottest paper you can then. up their feet during the flood historically accurate in detil. I'm fast losing all umn. Maybe Roper's poem will lay your hands on is the hbest. Now, Like I say, season. Vividly describ ed is the mar- my ancestors. Can't say bring out the Joe Miller in the ihumb thru to the comics to see faith in Alger riage of Theodosia to Joseph Al- the author of that student body. This is your chance how Lena, your ole flame, is get- "Smoky" is the Horatio that I blame ston, a Carolinian planter, a mar- however. If to contribute anything of your own. ting along, and then flip over the story of a horse. The scene of ac- story for one thing, riage to give political advantage a farce, I The only stipulation is that it be page to the movie news. If you tion is somewhere in the mount- I had written such and prestige to her father. Onel on it written in English. It doesn't have have the nasty habit of reading ains, which should thrill every red wouldn't put my John Henry reads of Theodosia's love for the to make sense; most of life makes the news from the front page to blooded Tennessean. While Smoky either. dashing young Meriwether Lewis little sense anyway. There are no the rear, you will find that the is learning the ways of horses, of Lewis and Clarke expedition. rules. To preserve the dignity of Cinema page comes first and you Fred McMurray, a destitute horse There is the duel between Aaron our college, it is my duty, of course will probably miss Dagwood al- puncher, is trying to be the strong DR. NICK SAYS: way with Burr and Alexander Hamilton, and to pencil out anything off-color. together. Looking down the page, silent type that has a the plan for a fabulous Mexican All else is up to you. Write! Some you will see that the City Com- girls. Finally "Smoky" and sev- Make yourself at home up Empire which resulted in the fam- of the boys who used to contribute mission is taking bids for a new eral other horses are rounded at the branded and are ed Aaron Burr trial. to a scrap-column in the Chicago- sewer construction job, and that and corraled and being given for given a free meal at "the Stable", Tribune are famous writers now. music classes are the fadeout. This is a B-plus pic- it. on Saturday morn- which is located at the corner of You can't ever tell. This is music teachers ture though Mrs. Benish might give SOUTHWESTERN guaranteed lBellevue and Union and which is This is your column. ing. Mayors Aspirin is it less on the scenario. Them cow- the price of run by another of my brothers- GRILL to stop the pain, and pokes ain't so grammatical. And, to $37.37 per ton. in-law. Smokey is trained to be coal has dropped by the way, if you see my brother- is usedl a good cow pony though it looks TILE HIGHER LEARNING All this odd information in-law, tell him that I borrowed 635 N. McLEAN to fill in the space around the to me like he would make a pretty (Or: I Did It, And I'm Glad) his blue serge suit for tonight. , ,-- --- I If you are in a good steak in these days and times. At Southwestern the teaching of cinema colums. section you want However, Smoky is purloined by things academic hurry, though, the over it. Fred's brother, (though I think Ends not at the classroom door, has a marquee The large ads are for the thea- he is really Fred's brother-in-law), For cloister and campus are tire- except the one is sold on the open market for less tutors ters on Main Street and "New Daisy", which, by glue. Fred leaves the ranch house (And may teach just a bit more.) marked MAXWELL-RAWLS one of the newest and and Ann Baxter to search for The courses are many, the hours the way is theaters in among the far reaches of perhaps long, better constructed Smoky The air conditioning unit the Appalachians because he heard But the students have never com- town. STUDIO from Burl Ives that they were plained. known as Smoky Mountains. Mean- That this worthy endeavor shall For blisters are proof that some while, Smoky is an unbusted bron- have its due praise, have received co in a Rodeo and finally winds DISTINCTIVE PORTRAITS A few facts are hereby explained. Swift, Browning, thru Tennyson, Burns. up pulling a junk wagon. So one be day, Fred is watching a parade / WEDDINGS The chemistry course is a definite One hears "Beowulf!"-it may and there is Smoky, pulling the "must", a name, from the junk wagon down the street. Fred Of infinite useful attraction; Or it may be advice asks Smoky if he would rather One learns how much acid a retort smart, 7-4680 come back home or stay in the 1626 Union must hold For many strange characters romp the tale business world. In the end Smoky To produce the proper reaction, thru the Heart. is released to pasture in the stars, How too many carbohyrates can Of the Cloister and and Fred flashes a big smile for tend JAMES E. ROPER ------_ One's grouping to rearrange, ---- ~~_ The things that one needs to keep an iron Magnetic attractions change!

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