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Show SIGNPOST Friday, April 9, 1948 Signpost WEEKLY PUBLICATION OF ASSOCIATED STUDENTS OF WEBER COLLEGE 402 Moench Building Member Plsso dated GbHe&iate Press Editor Dick Layman Business Manager Jean Heimke Assistant Editor . . . . Boyd Knowles Sports Editor Keith Hunt Music Editor Bill Bobolis Business Assistants Kent Foutz, Lorraine Price, Max Marble, Larry Sevy Circulation Manager Nancy Chadwick Editorial Adviser ' L. C. Evans Business Adviser O. M. Clark Reporters: Charles Carver, Emma Lou Barnes, Nancy Beach, Darlene Medell. The First Step THE FIRST STEP in Weber's lengthy march to the new campus in the foothills beneath Mt. Ogden was taken this week, taken when the state board of examiners tagged $250,000 "Weber college." IT IS A FIRST STEP, and a long step, but the goal is still a long way off, and the efforts needed to attain it are still great. "Our foot is inside the door," said president Dixon, but, using the same analogy, we're a long way from the pantry. A new campus, let us hope, is only the harbinger of a four-year college for Ogden. AND THERE are other considerations, as well. The hoped-for student union building is one example. A campaign for funds for its construction is expected to get under way spring quarter, and the backing of every Weber student is needed for its successful completion. ONE EXCELLENT method of supporting the school is attendance at the forthcoming Republican mass meetings, April 19, and at the Republican and 'Democratic county conventions May 1 and April 17, respectively. Delegates should be urged to support a greater Weber college. A POLICY of informing the public of Weber's needs is greatly to be desired. Nothing is gained by hiding one's light under a bushel. It was perhaps the lack of general information that caused Weber to be ignored so long by the state. While we owe the board of examiners a vote of thanks, they should be reminded that Weber is still short of its ultimate goal. THE FUTURE must see students and faculty more eloquent in voicing the needs and desires of the institution. No better method of doing this exists than making sure that Weber county delegates fully understand these needs and desires. Committees are now being formed to carry the message of Weber to the elected representatives of the county. With full backing by all those associated with the college, this movement should ensure another long step in the direction of a greater Weber in the near future. D. L. 1G-ITEMS 12 Hours Needed For Pay Undergraduate student-veterans in colleges and universities taking 12 or more semester . or quarter credit-hours of classroom instruction are considered full-time students, and will receive the subsistence pay increases as recently provided by Congress, the Veterans Administration said today. The V. A. announcement was made as a correction of erroneous information released recently by a wire service which stated thatstudent-veterans taking less than 15 semester hours would not receive the increases in subsistence payments.The ceilings of $175 and $200 remain unchanged. Mails Explanation The Veterans Administration is mailing an explanation of the law granting increases in subsistence allowances to eligible veterans attending schools, colleges and universities under Public Law 346 and Public Law 16. This summary of the law will be enclosed with checks received in April. V. A. said that the enclosure should be studied carefully, and that those veterans who find it necessary to file applications should do so immediately.Unless veterans attending colleges and universities under the G-I Bill notify Veterans Administration within 30 days before the end of a term or semester that they do not want to take leave, V. A. automatically will place them on 15 days' leave. V. A. explained that veterans in these schools are placed on subsistence rolls from the date of enrollment until 15 days after the close of the term or semester. Weber Forum Dear Editor: I would like to reply in answer to the letter published in the Signpost from "A very discouraged wife," for I want people to know that the majority of the veterans and their families have a little pride and self respect. There are a few, such as the discouraged wife, who are making everyone disgusted with even the word "veteran." I am one of the disgusted ones and I'm a veteran's wife. I will direct my remarks to her, and they can apply to anyone who feels as she does. You haven't been a veteran's wife long, for you speak of its having been within the last year that you learned of living in "one-horse, filthy dumps," and pinching pennies, and you seem to be of the opinion that your husband should have things handed him, because he did his duty by helping protect his country and securing a future for your coming family. ..My husband gave four years of our lives and I mean ours. Can you know the anxiety of wondering each minute of every day if your husband is still safe? We had to give up our brand new little home, that we had lived in only six months, for we couldn't keep it on a private's pay. We had to sell our car to pay for the baby we were expecting. Our little girl was three -and a half years old before she knew daddy was more than just the picture she said her prayers before at night. We never had a birthday, Thanksgiving, Christmas, or wedding anniversary together, before we had been married five years. Those are things no one can ever repay us for. And I'd hate to think anyone owed us anything for them. It is true, we can't be choosy a-bout the places we can find to live in. Conditions are bad for everyone, not just the vets, but I maintain a place doesn't have to be filthy try a little soap and water. Just a little interest and imagination can do wonders for a place for practically nothing. You should see our orange-crate cupboards. They don't look half bad with bright curtains. I only hope you have gathered that not all vets' wives are discouraged, and we aren't begging favors. One Who Knows Dear Editor: In any given organization, educational, industrial, etc., one is certain to find a small portion of a minority interest devoted exclusively to the activities, why's, and whereabouts of others. There is no MOTHPROOFING - WATERPROOFING - REPAIRING Quality Dry Cleaning Co. VERNON S. POULSEN, Prop. OGDEN, UTAH 2215 Washington Blvd. Phone 2-5133 real doubt that such individuals mean well. In fact, they are wholly satisfied that they are the shepherds and guardians of other peoples' lives. Weber college, in this respect, is not the least qualified to take its stance in the archives of gossip. There are those at Weber who, either having no business to attend for themselves, or just not desiring the exertion of such attendance, take the activities of others and smear them about. In other words, people who are unable to take care of their own lives are wandering about our fair school, preaching the inconsistencies of others. I know this to be a fact, since I've been feeling, recently, the reflections of such preaching. Anyone who, in reading this article, cannot make heads or tails of it, or derive any sense from it, are simply innocent of any implication. There will be, however, those who will know quite well enough the purpose of this manuscript. To those, I would like to say, "If you have the desire to whisper something into someones ear, whisper it into the ear of the person concerned. Otherwise, (please) keep your little pink pro-bosis out of affairs or other peoples' business that do not concern you." Bud Winegar NEW i RECORDS! i j Special 29c j I PANTONE i MUSIC CO. Come See Us, Fellows UTAH BARBER SHOP 368 - 25th Street Stratford Scores 'Dead-End7 Jobs Students who withdraw from college to take what he termed "deadend" jobs were criticized this week by Dr. William Stratford, Weber dean of men. "Some students feel that because they do not receive a sack full of silver dollars at the end of every class, they are receiving no value from their college training," Dr. Stratford said. "As a result," he continued, "they are attracted by 'dead-end' jobs, which offer immediate money, but which are unprofitable compared with those obtainable after two or three years of college training." "Two years of college can bring back far more than one of these dead-end jobs can ever offer," he said. "There is no lack of jobs; the lack is of well-trained people to fill them," he concluded. BEFUDDLED By MUDDLE With the motto in mind that all work and no plagiarism makes dull reading this week's column will be devoted to a few inches of stolen corn. From that notorious publication, The Utah Comical, comes the obituary of Otis R. Octane. "This well known local sign painter died after drinking a quart of shellac. He had a fine finish." Also found in the classified ads of the same paper is an extremely promising business opportunity Work in a peanut factory, salt away a couple of hundred a year. Under the heading of "wanted" we find the following: Man will mallet would like to meet woman with bow legs. Object: Croquet. Daffynitions: Posterity what the Founding Fathers would not have talked about so glowingly if they had known we were going to be it. Song writer one who does not show the genius of Bach or Beethoven, but whose tunes do. Professor one who is paid to study the sleeping conditions a-mong college students. Rural life it's found mostly in the country. Two weary young Weber students recently amazed their bacteriology instructor with their ability to answer questions so accurately. After searching for hours through various volumes supposedly containing the necessary information, and still failing to discover what were the contributions of the Chinese people, they wrote in desperation, "Chinese checkers and more Chinese." CHANODO Junior members of Chanodo entertained their big sisters with a buffet supper Friday, April 2. After the supper the junior members took their sisters to the show. Mrs. Marva Gregory, club sponsor, was also in attendance. RECORD RAMBLIN With Bill Eyes," featuring '1 one of the great- Columbia has reissued a fine V cookie Gene nV$ Krupa's trio V playing "Dark est saxophonists of our time, vW-N 1 1 Charlie Ventur-a. Charlie's mas- V j1 tery of his horn - j ls cieariy uem-A onstrated here x plus some tasty, and fekSs JWis.l drumming interesting piano. Reverse side is the Krupa version of that fine tune "After You've Gone," featuring the well-known Roy Eldridge on trumpet. Roy kicks it off in a great manner followed by a moving clarinet ride then more Roy. Roy clicks off those skyscaper notes with ease. Yea, man, this will really "wig" you. Columbia seems to be a Krupa kick and I must say there is nothing wrong with that. Gene's "Teach Me, Teach Me, Baby" is a fine tune in the blues idiom. It's sung very convincingly by Delores Hawkins, who is vereey good. You'll like the interesting intro especially the bary sax this is followed by a bop alto, then Delores moves in on the vocal in her moving style, and man you're gone. Don't miss this one. Flip side finds Gene and Delores collaborating on "You're Turned the Tables on Me." Intro is delightful and so is Delores. Fine chick. By the way, the results of our musical poll showed that the students liked X. And The Flowers Are Furnished By OLIVE and MARK Klenke Floral Member of F. T. D. Association OGDEN, UTAH 2955 Wash. Blvd. Ph. 5789 Skiers YOUR HALF-WAY STOP TO SNOW BASIN Kodak Film, Hot Lunches, Beer Broadbent's CANYON STORE LET GEORGE REPAIR IT Mate) For 13 of Down-town Price A Complete Line of Jewelry and Watches GEORGE F. VAUGHN Repairing K3ock 1036 -23rd Street Phone 2-6885 Club Tropics Formerly Sully's On Old Highway-Turn Right on Viaduct Enjoy Excellent Food with Ice Cold Beer In A Gay Atmosphere of The South Seas |