Show Jhe Student Iiife 1944 1945 Member Associated Collegiate Press News Rooms Campus 110 Commons Building Campus 75 — after 7 p m Wednesday telephone 50 Telephone Published weekly by the associated students of the Utan State Agricultural College Printed by Herald-JournPress Entered as second class mail matter September 1908 at Logan Utah under the act of March 2 1879 Acceptance for mailing at special rate of postage provided for in section 1103 Oct of October 3 1927 KSENTEO FOR NATIONAL ADVERTISING BY National Advertising Service Inc 420 College Publishers Representatne New York N Y Madison Ave Chicago Student subscriptions per year Editor-In-Chi- Boston Los Ansels from fee Marian Carlisle Editor LaRue Evans Business Manager Hatch Lucille Feature Editor Society rUe $100 Harry L Bonnell ef Associate San Francisco Mail subscription Carla Rae Editor V “A Tree Grows In Brooklyn Past Election Causes Tears Nervous State inn Still Rakes In Cash uj With each and every leap year there comes a fascinating time which should be given a special name such as "National Nervous Breakdown Season" or “This Has Gotten Be Done Das” I am sure that if you are an American between the ages of ' four and 150 years you have 5 Jff - h experienced at least one of the ‘rX u novel adventures When were very young perhaps you were impressed mostly by the cute little donkeys anti elephants that you saw around As you grew older you became aware that there were some human beings mixed in with them — al- ’i X- - though you may still have a little trouble during a political campaign in trying to distinguish which are the human beings y t-It is during political campaigns that friendships (among other things) are broken paper is wasted radio programs devote their time to speeches eveiy-bod- y "i i has a cold tears are shed vocal cords are worn out we ' have bad weather bets are made h ‘V ami incidentally a vote is taken In spite of all this life must go on and it dpe- s- the only differ1 i ence being that there is a little more of it going on than usual— and it is going on I would say with a little extra vigor s: Eventually and for the obvious need of preventing a drastic devv ‘’Kpa-cline in the US population as well as for a few technical 7 x T reasons this whole emotional YSfi- turmoil which I have so kindly called to your attention reaches its' climax and then is it over! Hollow-eye- d and with fingerg nails well chewed a nation emerges out of its’ politics much as some one might pick himself out of a mud puddle he had just fallen into The deed is done and for four long years regretting or rejoicing can be done in abundance That is the way with elections and 1944 is no exception At the In the true spirit of Homecoming Aggie Spurs welcome alumni time you read this a wonderful man has been chosen as I’resi- dent of the United States of America! By the way his name is either r- Franklin D Roosevelt or Thomas E Dewey You see when this article was finished the election Behind the partitioned walls of the art department was not Everett Thorpe has on display seven of the twenty porHave you ever tried building a float for a parade? If you traits he plans to exhibit with the Logan art group near have then you know all toe the end of November complications involved If you “The Gopher” one of the paintings displaying’ a twistEvery student of tnis college haven’t had the pleasure then I ed Has a certain thirst for knowfigure blasting out of a sand trap is oil E’s easel at on durwill tell you what goes — — the present He nearly gave thirledge Whether it be of different sexes ing the process away several tiroes painting to the sentimental Turning Or merely concerns the solar First a committee is appointwhile it was in the rough stage? side is a pi lure “Little Gray ed to think of a very clever but thinks it will be one of his plexus Home” Here is peace and solibest now way to have the float They tude in a lilt’e gray home wth But as many of you know and weeks spend hours days Displaying designed realism roads nestled near the winding This was not forever so thinking Finally someone after are several other points one hills rolling lias their brain for Let s turn for a moment to the racking entitled “The Weeds” and the The story behind the story is a suggestion This starts the other “Fishing on Logan Dam” past framed in the monstrous full on a new hue of thought When times of living weren't so others On display in Dr Carlisle’s oflife portrait of President C G and before long the whole scheme fast fice is another of the exhibition Ev has called this lus is worked out Adney This paintings painting poitrays headache and has entitled it When a girl could flaunt her Then the long and tiresome Logan mountains and is entitled “The Unfinished Portrait” The charms search for material begins Have “Storm over Mt Logan” picture is eight feet by four And have a young man in her you ever tried to shop for someGoing over to the portrait side feel so with considerable squeezarms are a pair of pictmes which will thing absolutely necessary that to huge for Ev’s They had no yen for bookish nobody seems to have ? They ail be displayed together called “Ev ing it is still apartment seem to have the same answer lamin’— and Doris” This is a picture of E'u h year the board of Stayed out from night to early ‘‘Sorry we are out of stock of Ev and his wife set with a goif trustees purchases a picture ot that particular article Therc’3 a course backing mornin' the president ot the board but war on you know We may hae never bifore has a loeal artist They shunned both Greek and it sometime next week if you painted" the portrait Ev saw' a will call back’’ So then your gin to work First they tell evHeiroglyphics shining opportunity but when first idea is gone with the wind eryone what is to be done and Turning green with scicntifies he picture was about half finclue to missing articles why and there always has to be ished the boaid puswd a law someone m the group that doesSo again they hold a confab Some even made apologies n’t quite get this or that idea in order to find another go d For all the ics and ologies sajng no more portraits Aow Ev is stink with a large unidea Just as they aie at Iho which makes explaining even No one studied and we’ll wager finished portrait that is too more difficult of not and enn No one knew whut was their point giving up For the next few hours the large for his 'house too small having a float someone Inn a major for his garage and too much brainstorm Eureka! They all air is humming with activity in the wav for his offue like it and so again the long During this time all that can be But that as has been said before and tiresome search Their luck heard above the hammenng and Along with a fellow Salt Lake All happened in the days of yore is almost as bad this time as aitist Ev has planmd three sawing is an occasional curse And with the coming of conwith their first attempt but because of a badly battered othr exhbitions The first wall scription be in Salt Lake during the though they have to accept a few thumb After many trying moThat age is now past all ments your task is accomplished winter and later the same exsubstitutes they finally accumuhibit will be shown in Los and the float is finished to late all essentials and Han Francisco At last they can actually be- Now men are such commodities They're often classed as oddities Heaven pity the gal one touches Who lets him slip out of her Coca-Col- a clutches i fejlH- cl a ’ — Sports Editor Hick IX Gardner Copy Editor Dorothy Cottle News Editor Le Hoy King Exchange Desk: Patsy Barber Audrey Taylor Korda Fite Proof Desk: Gayle Jacobsen Georgene Doutre Kathie Woodruff Joyce De Witt Kathleen Hammond Helen Merrill Lila Steffensen Dona Marie Simpson Dorothy Simpson Kae Stock Rula Hailstone Roma Hailstone Lorna Jolley Dorothy Myers vs Staff: Dorothy Ann Hill Helen Nicholes Ramona Peterson John Stewart Lynn Burton Adelle Young Afton Hall Dorothy Diamond Arlene White Kathleen Allen Merlene Paxton Betty Esmeyer Grant Parry Evelyn Park Louise Willie Peggy Hodges Bobette Peterson Marian Gottfredson Sherma Lund Mae Bigler Florence Fotes r i iturc Staff: Barbara Carter Bonna Jones Kenna Faye Oswald Emma Jane Schoenfeld Luana Hyde Florence Henderson Norma Anderson 6orts Staff: Reid Lewis David Jennings Burns Crookston Dan Ludlow Calvin Coburn Mary White Bob Hickman Royal Reid ciaty P’uff: Planch Stewart Haze IStoddard Evelyn Applome Meiva Siegfried Jeanne Adamson Irene Hendry Doris Ann Johnson Carol Page Beverly Schultz Roma Nielsen Joan Beckstead Staff —Adelle Young Wesley Blood Jack Bowen &' Mr Ik i''S ' -- Unfinished Portrait Gives Erection of Float evolves Despair And Still the Sororities Yap Awhile back colleges throughout America were electrified with the announcement from Stanford university that all campus sororities had been given the gate ousted as it were “It can’t happen here” sorority women at Utah State srid and they said it in other schools too But it is our opinion that it can happen here and it will too if our four naional sororities don’t stop their endless bickering and start to strive for a little cooperation along the lines of true Greek friendship originally set up in pearly all fraternity and sorority charters Year after year it goes on and the girls become more vicious and vituperative in their efforts to squeeze out some other group make life for them as unhappy as possible and then gleefully gloat over their “victory” The injured group then knocks itself out in an attempt to get revenge on their Greek buddies Maybe it will go on forever and the girls will never have the criticism of the public heaped upon their shoulders But people all over America those who haven't had the divine privilege of belonging to sororities hate the sorority system anyway and there may be bad times ahead for the girls if they don’t cut off their claws and act like human beings for a change instead of like characters out of “Dick Tracy” Customers Still onjoyiiiff a liig’h measure of popularity even afz es of America is Hetty snlti' a year on the lnok-slA Tree (irons in Bcockhn There seems to be some n" fascination attached to the book because it is certainly a modern-da- y Perhaps the fame of Brooklyn V its biidee and Dodders and accents has made the 4 or mavb d ” ”lly is something sensation a best-sell“ h' n which is also on A Tree Grows in the dock is the story of i ictures among: coming: mot' Nolan who lives in c nstant atmosphere of poverty through her own cut look on life never realizes that she allied with anything hut a veritable seventh heaven Franc ie has a beautiful young mother Katie Xq who married a romantic Irishman with a colorful Johnny Nolan And she has a little brother Neeley a guv and unconcerned Aunt Sissic who marries new bands without benefit o! going IhrougTi divorce courts Best of the characti rhutions is probably that of A ’ Sis de whose warm heart never allowed inhibitions enter And Johnny Nolan the singing waiter always d: unk always with some exciting Irish melody on his is also a good portrait "I''V'i’ A free Grows in Brooklyn is a true pid of Brooklyn is strictly a matter of conjecture There’ little of the “dese dem and dose” school o thought in f book The main ehurai tars are for the most part se and pure and untouched by the real troubles of the 0r Fianeie Nolan seems to thrive on the elements of overt and her mot he is beautiful throughout despite her f forced hardships But to say that A Trie Grows in Brooklyn is not worthy work of fiction is dangerous so we’ll say tin you'll probably go for it saccharine though it gets to iit times Artist Thorpe Headache Present Imperfect id-- as & cle-'si- c er ’ ha1' j ' Aggie Newcomers Witness Traditional Homecoming BY LUCILLE HATCH Participation in the traditional homecoming will tt year be hugely made up of newcomers Never having nessed said event before we feel qualms of anticipation the thoughts of the coming ’Mid alums prof and experienced students we hope to find our place in th levival of the college days of yesterday Contnuln ting the opinion tnu v week-en- we have HO abst on tile campus Dean A I’oiki'sen aid I’rof A N d N i ensen spent quite an atternoou recently Beginning at the parking lot eat of the them buibiing they unmet on an mt testing ami intelligent convei satien while in search of the neiessaiy auto From there they wont to eveiy other parking lot cull still hesitating to ask tile other where he had paikcJ his car After about foi minutes of this they gained courage and found that both had been in quest of a ride with the oilier noticeable evidence of other than the worried looks of many was the immediate shortage of pencils Two minutes befoie the dreaded exam began customary pro edure was ta borrow the pencil nearest to you Although accomplishing nothing but an easing of tension the ad was provided and the lender had made another friend Only mid-ter- Petty ca sli is one thing not available at the library Endeav-o- i mg to pay a five cent fine from our last dollar we waited in vain while the attendant searched high and low for change Not being A dumb giil is a dope A dop is a di ug Doctors usually pv drups to relieve pain Thereto!-dumb girl is just what it doctor ordered Where were your forefattei born? I only have one father Your business? Rotten Where is Washington? He's dead I mean the capital of tl United States They loaned it toEurop Now do you promise to port the Constitution’’ Me? How can I? I a wife and four kids - Duly High su ha1 Life I Young People Have Religion (ACP) — Criticism is often heard concerning the sometimes almost irreverent attitude of the young people of today Those who make such criticisms frequently have not stopped to look around them and take account of the actual situation In Lawrence for example the buses are crowded every Sunday morning with university students on their way to or from church These young men and women do not have their parents around urging them to attend — they do it because they want to A large percentage of the two dozen churches in this town also have regular Sunday evening meetings which are composed almost entirely of young people Programs for both these vesper meetings and for Sunday School classes are planned by young men and women ot University age and are truly inspirational at times' These same young church-workein addition to teaching Sunday School classes regularly also compose a large part of the church choirs and voluntarily attend choir practices once a week rs The Army and Navy are still issuing pleas for more chaplains to fulfill the religious needs expressed by the Service men Three or four church services are held each Sunday morning at most army camps to accommodate the crowds For the skeptical the soldiers’ familiarity with the words of hymns and the service’s ritual might prove a rvelatipn Evan with their limited pay checks service men are generous with their donations perhaps because t Uy more than those who remain safely at home can Appreciate what the modern religion accomplishes in a way and how faith in an Being can carry tXem through in times of need This feeling is demonstrated ly the requests of men on the battlefront for hymns rath- j than the shallow "popular” music whenever camp shows I around They also read an amazing amount of liter-- t ’’art such 'as daily devotional booklets and New Tta Which various religious organizations distribute the young people of today can’t recite Bible J fey memory— maybe they don’t believe in sitting 1 O Sunday afternoons and meditating —but the re-- J Uiey do have is a much more vital thing— one they —Pwly Kansan 4 ma-tri- al llbe An-ftt- Have a So glad you’re back There are many diamond rings n And VERY many things Either one has no man to please Or else he’s fighting overseas love-lor- Our social action is so rotten We’ve almost stooped to picking cotton We find that the majority Belong to some sorority We’re undergoing a social change That to some may seem quite strange If we by chance should want to study We are not told our brain is muddy In fact study is stimulated Because so few are ever dated Then there are some who causo inflation —They keep men out of But now we’ll quit and go to press With just one small correction College rhymes with knowledge hats that go with everything you’ve the same smart new styles in far more expensive Guv little versions or offering a soldier the comforts of home No pUce like it And nobody knows it better thin a is one of the fighting man back on firlough comforts of home that belongs in our family refrigerator At the words Have a “ Coke " refreshment joins the party The good old American custom of the pause that refreshes is spreading in many lands around the globe— a symbol of our friendly s Ice-col- d i Coca-Col- a COI COMPAItY home-way- BOTTttD UNDrit CRYSTAL yes But there’s really no connection Bv JUiana Hyde at an HOME! 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