M_ WHO GOES 1 HERE? 17,000,000 dead-17,000,000 soldi ers Economic disorders that have not This organization does not claim and sailors killed in the last war! yet been righted. A bitter defeat for to have solved the world's troubles Who are they? Statesmen? Poli- one side, a bitter victory for the other. or to be able to cure all the world's ticians? Big-navy advocates? Mu ni- ret the world is drifting toward ills. It does feel, however, that in- tions manufacturers? Business lead ers another war right now. And those telligent efforts can and must- be whose factories hummed during wrar who profit by war will encourage made against war and toward a times? Editors whose papers lcive that drift unless we who suffer by secure peace. If you think so, too, to stir up international bad feelii war fight them! we invite you to write for a copy because it helps circulation? What YOU can do about it- of the World Peaceways program. No - not one! It will show you how you can do Just average citizens. Young men World Peaceways is a non-profit your share, however small, in a with their lives before them. agency the purpose of which is to modern, practical effort to build They were told it was glory, a nd solidify the desire most people have up a strong publibz opinion against look what they got. Look what all to abolish the whole silly business war. WORLD PEACEWAYS, 103 Park of us got! Back-breaking tax es. of war. Avenue, New Yok. VOo DOO TRAVEL NUMBER April, 1937 INDEX PAGE Editorials 2 VooDooings . 6 Highest Fashions . 7 Thither Yucatan- Sure You Can . 8 The Day the Moving Men Came .11 I Co-Eds Cry for Super Men 12 The Roue (facing page) 12 Grand Central at 5:30 . 14 We Nominate- . 16 Recordings .. 19 Voo Doo THE M. I. T. COMIC MONTHLY Published by the Woop Garoo Society for the Students of Entered as second-class matter at the the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Office: 303-304 Walker Memorial Cambridge, Mass. Published monthly from September to June Vol. xx APRIL, 1937 No. 3 Subscription $2.00 per year Office hours: I to 5:30 P.M., Monday to Friday Member A. C. C. E. Copyright, 1937, by the Woop Garoo Society M# O DOO General Manager - G. EDWIN HADLEY Business Manager - HARRY B. HOLLANDER Managing Editor - WILLIAM G. GIBSON Business Board Literary Board Advertising Manager- William F. Pulver Literary Editor - Robert Casselman Treasurer - William F. Wingard Make-up Editor - Arthur W. Vogeley Abraham Patashinsky Art Editor - Robert Flanagan Gus M. Griffin Ichiro Takahashi Robert A. Stone Stuart V. Arnold Frederick E. Erdos Jeanne V. Kitenplon Business Associates Literary Associates John H. Bech Dorothy Betjeman Donald Cole Charles Freeman Graham Brush William Van Nymegen Samuel Omansky George Palmer Norman Klivans Herbert Jaffe Oliver Smith Louis Gerson William R. Schuler Fred R. Sheldon Charles Friedman Herman Meyer Joseph Harrison Richard P. Knapp Charles DeMailly Edward L. Hurst Art Associates Raymond B. Krieger William L. Schubert The Issue Art While methods sometimes incur Phos's dis- At least one page in the following reflects a approbation, the general idea of a column which desire to present, in VooDoo, something more has as its avowed objective the criticism of the worthwhile than a book of jokes and cartoons of Institute's too-long established customs is a girls. If possible, there will be included in sub- thoroughly praiseworthy achievement, and Phos sequent issues other sketches and drawings of hands The Tech a figurative medal for its cour- worth, more artistic than humorous. age, along with a lemon for its lack of taste. Spring Travel The dorm dwellers want their windows Knickers, Leica and guide book with him, washed ... the sailors are on their river, thread- Phos embarks in this issue upon a voyage of ex- ing their way among the shells . the birds ploration, cut somewhat short by curricular exi- twitter . the grass chortles as it thrusts its gencies, but showing him in the end that it is greenness upward . the co-eds wear filmy not necessary to go far afield to uncover material dresses, and look more beautiful than usual ... for thought, reflection and study. His next is- it's spring, the swan song of the universe. sue may show the results of this discovery. MI.T. VOO DOO 2 VIVIEN FAY principal dancer with Max Gordon's huge four star musical play "THE GREAT WALTZ" Returning to the Boston Opera House on Monday, April 12th, for a two weeks' engagement. 3 M.I.T. VOO DOO AIR-COOLED PIPE A PIPE 12 FEET 6 INCHES OH, -YES THERE IS. I WELL, SEEING IS NOPE - FROM CONSERVATIVE LONG? GO ON JUDGE- HAVE IT RIGHT HERE BELIEVING. I'LL OLD ENGLAND- AND WHAT'S STOP KIDDING ME - IN MY COLLECTION BET IT COMES MORE, IT'S MADE OF THERE AIN'T NO FROM AFRICA pORCELAIN GICH ANIMAL! OR SOME SUCH PLACE! SEE, THE STEM IS CURVED AND INTERTVINID IN AN INTRICATE PATTERN. GTRETCHED OUT STRAIGHT, IT WOULD MEASURE TWELVE AND A HALF FEET ITS PURPOSE WAS TO COOL THE SMOKE AND SAVE THE SMOKE'S TONGUE FROMBITE" I - WELL, IT'S CERTAINLY YOU'RE IO% RIGHT. - F=IRST FOR ITRODUCING THE SCIENTIFIC THE LONG WAY ALLOFUSSTEADY **CRIMP CUT'AND AGAlIt FOR DEVELOPING PIPE SMOKERS AROUNDTO COOL COME -TO -THINK THE NO-BITE'PROCES 'BITELESS SMOKING HAVE REASON TO HERE'S THE SMORTEST THANK PA.- OF IT R.A. STANIDS 'FOR -THE PERFECTIN WAY I KNOW- ANSWER TO WHAT PRINCE A PIPE NEEDS ALBERT.............. _4 PRINCE ALBERT PR1INCE ALBERT GUARANTEE' ISSWELL MONEY-BACK MAKIN'S'TOO! Smoke 20 fragrant pipefuls of Prince Albert. If you don't find it the mellowest, tastiest pipe tobacco you ever smoked, return the pocket tin with the rest of the tobacco in it to us at any time within a month from this date, and we will refund full purchase price, plus postage. (Signed) R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Copyright, 1937, R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company OF A* IRINGE ALBERT THE NATIONAL JOY SMOKE 'oa(!a Grandling fl onNo Vodoinm . RESEARCH FOOD FOR THOUGHT We don't know why Chemical Students have been kicking about Engineers have a right to the mess- Walker food ever since the building iest lab in the Institute, but it may was constructed and probably be- be a little free entertainment foi fore. In fact, we do more than our Freshmen on their way to and from share, too. There really must be classes. It's fascinating business to something wrong with the food - stand and watch the seniors work- for the other day we saw the man- ing on theses. Everyone hurries ager, or he looks like a manager, around on important research. The eating his lunch in Walker's most other day we spent a lot of time powerful rival across the river, and watching the floor scrubbed scien- he wasn't eating anything that tifically, and a patient senior slowly Walker doesn't serve. scraping rust off a pipe. If ..... .... JIf~ WISHFUL THINKING AS CO-EDS GO- There are several fraternity men who have never signed W.C.T.U. Whenever freshmen run out of pledges, but they have suddenly Thcat conversation, there are always co- found that several beers, give them a eds to talk about. The other eve- much better appetite for dinner. Is no ning a freshman with a big opinion And most every evening they spend of himself was giving the co-eds the an hour sitting at the bar watching verbal once-over. Finally he con- the door for a certain blond to walk Fe rret 2 ceded them one point. "Now about in. They never speak to her and this skating co-ed - She's not so hot she doesn't even wave to them. compared to Vassar, but for Tech- They just sit and watch. boy! She's beautiful." * HIGHEST FASHION Full Dress for Bwcna South Station Speed.ster sleeveless Linten Tux. for Floricla. Note thie cuatlesS Trousers. B8nC Qa ter big3 g me I yO nust , see South-ea-sc cty-slicke spurns smiling, sincere sevvice WtrV--wings it Waikiki - cwe of correc-t Nor are arge UNrAP jIMP\i , IL/L 1 But see Amer"es fhrst - n IS outf It" Equipped w7th ho-tratt ventilaton. JAitM#tA ?/saLcafan~ 2/ow CanL by bill gibson who style themselves writers to sit About this time of the year, with down and say, in the longest and spring along into, and nearly most involved phraseology known through its second month, and the to Roget's Thesaurus, that some- little red robins twittering (I hope thing is getting into people's blood. they'll be twittering) the travel And I see from the cover that it fever begins to get into people's must be travel. So here we go, and blood. Now a great deal has been the only thing (readers excluded, of said about things getting into course) which may suffer is the people's blood, and I suspect, blood. Which takes a very consider- though I cannot, of course, prove able beating anyhow, and can prob- my statement, that the largest part ably absorb the increment of woe of it is the most preposterously ab- without even a petulant gurgle. surd hokum. As nearly as I can re- One of the first symptoms of member from my physiology class travel is the preparation of one's ac- in prep school, the blood consists quaintances.