Notre Dame Scholastic, Vol. 74, No. 01
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S^^^^SSTT^HS^^SSSE^^SJ MS^^ ^^ ;~-i^--2s->„ "^i^^gt#^jfea> -rgfeliiAS^^l THE NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC PUBLISHED WEEKLY - FOUNDED 1867 THE NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC HOW GOOD IS THE NOTRE DAME TEAM THIS FALL? A football expert tells you // in this week's Post ^ What players from here will make headlines this season? Which of our opponents will be most dangerous? Frank Wallace has just completed a swing around the country, chinning with coaches, getting the inside, and now brings you the names to watch... Why will the South nab off so many good players? What important rule change will speed up this year's game? Who is Wallace's choice for back-of-the-year? For No. 1 lineman? All-America? Turn to the Post for a fact-crammed article that predicts all this year's winners. Read Pigskin Preview of 1940 by FRANCIS WALLACE Also in this issue: Young Ames gets coaching in love When Young Ames sat down on a bench outside the White House, he didn't know the stranger beside him was the President! Walter D. Edmonds lets you eavesdrop while Andrew Jackson explains how to 7 Mysteries of Europe get a father's consent when you are poor, and your girl is wealthy. Read Young Ames, Andrew Jackson, and the American Eagle. Jules Romains this week begins the story of his unique role in recent secret diplomatic Communists take over U.S. Merchant Marine? maneuvers in Europe. "I had not planned to 20 miles from West Point is a hotel where sailors are trained to prepare say all this imtil much later," states France's American crews for Communism. Course fee, $125. On graduation, sea first man of letters, "but 1 think it may be men form party nuclei aboard ships. Our Communist-operated National helpful now to give the people of the largest Maritime Union claims 51,000 sailor members. For details of this brazen Democracy still intact a chance to see through scuttling of Americanism, read Seagoing Soviets, by William McFee. what weaknesses peace and liberty were lost..." A fascinating, shocking chapter of The cop with the asbestos voice history, hitherto never told. "Old Man Kitzmiller is putting up a loving cup big enough to take a sitz bath in, to see if flatfeet can sing better than detectives." You are No. 1. The Mystery of Daladier invited to a music f est to watch Tannhauser get a vocal rubber hosing, in a slightly cockeyed yam by Joel Sayre, You TeU Me Your Dream. by France*s Author-Diplomat MARY ROBERTS RINEHART continues her new mystery novel, The Great Mistake... ALSO—short stories, cartoons, poems and Post Scripts. All in your copy of the Post—now on sale! THE SATUI{pAY EVENING POST 3^ THE NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC And I'm Taking Over, See? Sam Soph, after going down for the third time, came to, finding himself in COLLEGE PARADE the lower regions, supplied with horns and a pitchfork. Hardly had he gotten RAYMOND J. KELLY settled in his new abode than he began ordering everyone aroxmd. A reserved seat in the old reviewing Heaping Handfuls of Insult "Say there, young fellow" spoke up stand—^most interesting—^yet the parade Satan, "You talk as if you own this has barely started and already Mr. Mc- One of the notorious picture-cartoon place." Gowan, as we staff members call him magazines that sprouts pictures of prize "You're dam right," was the prompt to his face, is howling for this page. fighters and unbelievably beautiful reply "My rector gave it to me when I Three or four college papers, all from blondes took one of our Eastern institu was at Notre Dame." out West, and the Presidio, "edited and tions for a ride, recently. A cartoon • published by and for the inmates of the came out showing a sweet young thing State Prison at Fort Madison, Iowa," at a perfume counter, telling the sales From 'Way Out Thar are all the material yet available for the girl, "It doesn't have to be subtle. He's The Frisco U. Foghorn beat us to this cautious culling and garbled gleening, a Yale man." The idea was pretty good item from the West Pointer by a scissors that is the job of the unfortunate sent but when the identical cartoon appeared and a half, but anyway "It wasn't. to walk punishment tours on the College in two different places in the same issue so very long ago, during June Week too, Parade. we began to suspect that a Harvard man on Firtation, I bet that she wouldn't was loose somewhere. In the Presidio, we found a most inter marry me. She called me and raised me esting column "Bastile Boulevardier" five." which contributes the initial piece to this The Foghorn, along Avith every collie year's Parade. Fearless Reporting paper, those from Kosary, Chicago and such schools excepted, has filled its sport "A bunch of the slugs were whooping From Universitad Santo Tomas, Ma pages with accounts of the power, speed, it up, and the Pepsi-Cola was flowng nila comes something new in our experi cleverness, and all-round brilliance of its freely over the Canteen bar. Along about ence with college periodicals, two differ football team. The lead article on. the the third bottle the lying reached an all- ent papers from the same school in dif sport page, describing such potential All- time high and finally the subject was ferent languages. The Spanish magazine Americans as "Tank" Hill and Bill Teles- reached concerning how far back differ we found interesting to the extent of the manic, was concluded. "all this and ent memories could go. Shylock Crane pictures of five Filipino misses it con heavy too." opined that he remembered his first tained. Further than that, my knowledge • J.- birthday because the family horse saw of Spanish, acquired after two year's him for the first time and ran away. exposure to Jose and sundry copies of Statistically Speaking Bar-None Bradley topped that one by re LaPrensa proved too inadequate and I A member of the staff of the calling the day of his birth, saying it turned to the Varsitarian, the English Califomian compiled an impressive-a^- was a Friday and he remembered the paper. ray of figures, indicating that UniveftB^7': abalone on the table. It remained for "Due to one reason or another all the students spend over 5J4 million doUani • Jimmy (The Dunce) Caffrey to give out columns for this issue of the Varsitarian per year for clothes and i)ersonal eqiiip-~ with the prize-copper. Casting a disdain were found to be unpublishable. ment. Men, he estimates, spend $29,627.17 ful eye on Crane who was ordering his W^hat would happen to Notre Dame for cuff links alone; while women's ex fifth hamburger, the squirt of the and the SCHOLASTIC if those liberal, for penditures, per month, just for chewing squared circle, roared: 'Youse mutts eign ideas entered the close-cropped skull gum, total $433.97. That last item has ain't seen nuttin' and your memory could of our Mr. McGowan ? the makings of a nasty remark. be matched by a mildewed herring. Why, I can remember clear back when an angel on the assembly line cracks to me, "Turn over, brat,' and let me hook on your ears."'" Chips Artie Shaw is the feature of the USF club dance to be held at the Palace Hotel, San Francisco, following the Stanford game Masked Sophomore vigilantes kidnapped a Freshman beauty queen at a University of California fashion show, attended by two thousand spectators. All part of the publicity for the annual Frosh-Soph Brawl Ball St. Mary's (Calif.) Collegian devoted its sport page to bewailing the loss of its ace publicity man, a semi-heroic character known on the Coast as "Tom-Tom" Foudy. Holly wood wooed him away from the Gael's athletic office with filthy lucre to the sor row of the entire school. Make mine snap courses. I'm here for the social life." THE NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC MUSIC NOTES THE WEEK By John W. Larson i FRANK WEMHOFF- A quick glance over various programs Top of the Week Around the quads played by the major symphony orches tras throughout the summer indicates a Begins the Battle of Notre Dame. "They say he calls his congressman • somewhat surprising and curious neglect Weather Strip because he expects the of Joseph Haydn. There have doubtless rep to keep him out of the draft." been summers tvhen the symphonic music "Why, hello, Joe, you old so and so of Haydn held a prominent place on or Dear Parents Where ya livin'?".... "In the caf, but chestral program bills. This summer, I they send all my letters to Serin." "I" think, could scarcely be included among Well, I'm here. We have one window. just saw an awful accident" "Yeah, them. Rather, there has been a prepon I breathe while roomie exhales. My room I've got a date with her tonight." derance of Beethoven, far too much of mate gets forty dollars a month allow "My watch has gone wrong." "You Wagner, and ah alarming overdose of ance. His family owns a winter home in can blame its environment.".... "Were Tschaikowski. Brahms, too, has battled Florida and he has a thirty-foot cabin you fooled at Howell's too?'' "They've his way through the usual manner of cruiser. I sure like him a lot. On Sunday been serving chicken like that here for cycles.