•••• •pp '*/ ^Ue. Aatfie 3>(UMe aOfh Year SCHOLA/TIC Vol. 88, No. 19 March 14, 1947 f In This Store For Men You Are Always A Guest Before You Are A Customer HUBERT'S I 813-817 S. Michigan St.- SOUTH BEND. IND. 3 Vi LETTERS Editor: Reference: Letter to the Editor, March 7, Dining Hall employees, the Blue Circle. The cheap attempt at piety in the Blue Ciixle's letter in reference to Name Withheld should be deplored by every thinking Notice Dame man. To the SCHO­ LASTIC'S outside readers, the mistaken im­ pression may go forth that the Blue Circle casts the motes from all eyes hereabout. This impression reflects a falsity more monstrous than whatever implications might have been found in the letter in question. While the Blue Circle was looking down its anonymous blue nose at the SCHOLASTIC and burning vnth a hard, blue flame for the proletariat in the din­ ing hall, it failed to see the same ego­ tistical air of self-superiority apparent in Meet the Missus, wherein the equally His genius gave wings to words hard-working campus maids were bur­ lesqued. The Blue Circle has not seen It was an historic moment. Alexander Graham Bell's telephone fit to burn with either a hard or a blue had just spoken its first words—"Mr. Watson, come here, I want youL" flame over this equally egregious attack. That evening in Boston—March 10, 1876—Dr. Bell's crude Nor, one might mention, has the Blue instrument transmitted his voice only to the next room. But out Circle seen fit to change its name to of it was destined to come a whole new era—the era of quick, easy something less aristocratic. Since it has nation-wide telephony, of radio telephony in all its varied forms, decided to embrace the cause of the ex­ of talking pictures, voice and music reprqduaion systems and ploited, it should cease giving the im­ electrical aids for the hard of hearing. Few inventions have played pression that it is la creme de la creme a greater part in shaping the world we live in! of campus cliques. It might, while it is about it, come out from under the cloak Since 1877—just one year afiier Bell's long experimentation was of anonymity by which its individuals crowned with success—it has been Western Electric's privilege" to have been hidden from the common cry help carry for\v'ard his great idea which gave wings to words. la of curs, and walk among us undisguised. that year Western Electric made its first telephone. More than Joe Wilcox 45,000,000 have followed it—over 4,000,000 of them in 1946 alone. Today, from coast to coast, in factories, oflSces. distriburing Sir: houses and central office installation aews, there arc more than Congratulations to the "Blue Circle" 110,000 Western Electric workers. Imbued with the Bell System which so avidly displayed its ratiocina- spirit of service, they ate helping to provide equipment in record tive mettle in last week's "Letters to the quantities to meet telephone needs far beyond any envisioned by Editor." Seldom do we note a hand the inventor. strong enough to wield a lash over the middle-class American back. H. Smith Keel This year marks the 100th Anniversary of Bell's birth ia Edinburgh, Scotland, on March 3,1847. From early youth, P.S. Who are they? he was keenly interested in aiding the hard of hearing. He SCHOLASTIC'S Associate Editor Keel became a teacher of "visible speech" when 18 years old. and Feature Editor Wilcox write as This work led to experiments with "telegraphing" private ND citizens and not as edi­ sound, out rf which, in 1876, came his greatest invention —the telephone. tors. For a more approving appraisal Dr. Bell was a great humanitarian as well as a great sci­ of the Blue Circle, see story on Page entist. His accomplishments—in aiding the deaf, in com- 26.—Editor. municarions, in aviarion and other fields—were outstand­ ing. His rich life—which had an incalculably great influ­ ence on the world—came to an end on August 2, 1922. Dear Sir: As one who is concerned that prin­ ciples of morality should apply in politics as well as in any other branch of human Western Electric activity, and as one who believes that we must look to Catholics who believe SYSTEM SINCE 1882 in this to put it into practice, I watched A UNIT OF THE BELL (Continued on page 29) m I— Sfe Mitwuw*"..' »»««»«" when you smoke ai«fts«8*fl /C PHIUP MORRIS .i^ CLEAN, FRESH, PURE kmwtn's FINEST Cigarette! There's an important difference in PHIUP MORRIS ^"7 manufacture that lets the FULL FLAVOR of the /»^' world's finest tobaccos come through for your com­ '<* plete enjoyment—<r/gtf«, fresh, pure! That's why the flavor's ALL yours when you smoke PHIUP MORRIS! That's why PHIUP MORRIS taste better Ot »^^ *' —smoke better—all day long! ^*o»»^yllo»»'?f " Jiff££S2^«rmedical**; .^ No wonder that with millions of smokers everywhere, Pmup MORRIS is America's FINEST Cigarette! PHIUP MB ALWAYS BETTER-BETTER ALL WAYS Comprehensive Examination NOTRE DOTEES All majors in Economics due to By JACK FBAIER and BILL PFAFF graduate June 1, 1947 are hereby no­ tified to appear for the qualifying Comprehensive Written Examinatien to be held in Room 109. Social Sci­ ence Building, at 1:15 p. m.. Thurs­ We have never gotten around to ac­ then carefully removes his glasses to day. AprU 24. 1947. knowledging publicly Mr. Frank O'Mal- shave the swaddled shavee. ley as the source of the term "Notre • All candidates are urged to review Doters." We don't know whether he cares What has happened to the Humanist? their general Economics Principles or not, but he is the man we stole our After plowing through tvvo editions of and also the material in all required title from. good grey rhetoric we pi-actically fell courses, except Statistics. • on our faces when we hit the week be­ rOHN H. SHEEHAN Tei'se communiques from the dining fore last's frothy poll. It sounded as if Head. Dept. of Economics hall reveal research being carried on by Fronrath and Burn's grape juice fer­ Ziggy and his crew of pseudocoqui. They mented in the interim! are searching for the secret to a meat­ less weiner for Lenten menus. We wei'e talking about this recently with a Sina- tx'a-loving, tuxedo-wearing, communist Rasmussen Men's Shop stooge on campus. "Ha," he said, "they South Bend's Best certainly won't have far to go to get such a hot dog." We leaped to the breach. "What's the matter ^\^th you," we said, "are you against the American Way of Life, and that grand, traditional old Notre Dame Way of doing things?" He pawed the ground with his toe. See­ ing that he was weakening, we whipped Little Orphan Annie from our vest pock­ et and quoted, " 'If you will obsei-ve, it doesn't take a man of giant mold to make a giant shadow on the wall. And he who in our daily sight seems but a figure mean and small, outlined in fame's illusive life, may stalk a silhouette sub­ lime, across the canvas of his time'." "Go on," he said, "my heart is being touched." We continued, "Leaping Liz­ ards!" "Gar," the Sinatra-loving tuxedo- wearing, communist stooge said, "I've never thought of it in that way!" "We thought not," we said, "don't you know that if you want an abuse corrected here, all you have to do is have a friend that Bow Ties writes a column or editorials for the SCHOLASTIC mention it in the magazine? by Immediately the University leaps to in­ vestigate and correct the mistake." McCurrach His eyes welled with tears, and he New for Spring—Neat patterns, diagonal stripes, dropped to one knee. Our logic had over­ dots and plain colors. Be sharp — Buy your whelmed him. McCurrach Bows at The Men's Shop, where the • selection is best! We quote the Feb. 15 Neiv Yorker: "The University of Naples was closed after a group of students who had failed in their examinations beat the hell out of their professor." Hmmmm! A word to the wse (they say), should be sufficient. There is a barber in town who seems to be a nice gentleman, but who has a quirk more than a little appalling to the TfO ENTIMCES aOBFEllOWSIlDt customer. He finishes cutting the hair, Typing Done TERM PAPERS. MANUSCRIPTS, PKEQS Typinsr done, ten cents per pase CCLLEGC PARADE (double space). Carbon copies, one cent each. Paper furnished. 67 LOU ALMASI and TOM HIGGINS W. J. "WISSEL. 315 Badin JUST THINKIN'.. never again participate in sports in Buf­ Rumor has it that some of the ex- falo. FOR BILLFOLDS swabbies have taken a cue from the All in all, it's a pretty sad situation. miners; they're grumbling about port­ One thing is plain, however, it's time hole-to-porthole pay ... wonder why they we Catholics threw overboard our short­ say, when a man's engaged, that the sighted bigotry. We are always crying Choose from our selections by lucky woman ... is the girl's mother the loudest against racial and religious . we read in the papers that juvenile persecution. When are tve going to be­ delinquency is increasing . you know gin practicing what we preach? BUXTON what juvenile delinquents are, they're PRINCE GARDNER the kids that get 50,000 on those tough pinball machines .