Show STUDENT LIFE LOGAN UTAH PAGE TWO OCTOBER Alumni Group Lays First Plans For Building Of Campus Home In Case Of Complaint 1 1913 Postmaster Becomes Indignant When Subscriber Complains Campus i Camera Perhaps this is strictly a plea Then again we may bo apologizing or providing an alibi for what is to come later in the year But frankly we have been worried and still Tentative plans for a USAC alumni house to be conare concerning the future of this paper structed after the war have been laid by the executive committee of the USAC alufnni association according to This being the end of the first week we aren’t quite as Secretary Leonard W McDonald Such an alumni house leery about registration at Utah State at we were last would be located on the campus would house the alumni all of the following faciliSaturday afternoon It looks to us as if there is really a offices and might have any d group of students this year Don’t quote us ties : alumni offices guest rooms for visiting alumni trophy or museum rooms where class ancj school momentos could registration figures haven’t been given out be kept on exhibit kitchen reception room committee So we may have people to write about a few nevs rooms and lounge The house would be the official headquarters for alumni and would be their-- home while on sources the campus As a group they would own the building: ' Funds for the house will be colThat’s what’s been troubling us Would there be anylected during the coming year to warrant a regular weekly publication at Utah Servicemen Like thing through gifts or subscriptions by State? Or for that matter anything to warrant a paper alumni and construction will begin Girls Tea Dances at all? after the war Russell Croft presi- ITa! Not so long ago we found out why editors of exauatry go gray Since the Lord and the U S mail service saw fit to become more urban we held thought comthat a certain aura of privacy surrounded post-car- d rerural began weekly when your muniques However ceiving cards from a subscriber inquiring about his paper we took steps toward investigation The cards kept coming One mail carried two cards the first from the subscriber asking why he didn’t get the paper any longer the second in effect: “Dear Mr Editor: He does too get his 'paper I put it in tha box every week and if he don’t get itit’i cause it’s lost on the way home” It was signed “Postnews-shee- good-size- Here is how we feel We know Student Life isn’t read Issue Invitations Teas and tea dances for not only by everyone as past surveys have proved This editorial won’t be avidly digested by the student body It may be freshmen but sophomore and junas well are the latest read in some hour of sheer boredom perhaps in a psy- ior girls offered services by our service class as it erratic and Life But Student windy chology men Invitations issued by way of is strike still the campus pulse Campus the blackboards in the language you at times may pulse is undoubtedly a trite phrase but it’s a description department rooms 3rd floor Mam If there’s one activity which makes an attempt to represent read “Important meeting! Frosh all students it’s this paper women— third floor animal husbandry building — Sept 29 1943’ Of course this is all very well but Later in in the year when you feel that the paper’s with no RSVP attached how is too and on don’t be editors hard the the slacking up a girl to know who her host is to staff Remember that w'e can’t do much without that news be At rate all source students and their activities If you want to get a formals any were turned in to the little extra out of college demand participation in some scrap metal drive so we haven’t activity in which you feel that you have capability It will a thing to wear be offered if enough people demand it That’s how weil The most attractive thing about armor-plate- d basis And keep Student Life running on a full peace-tim- e that’s how you’ll get a kick out of college Some people have even preferred activities to the which is on again this fall extra-curricul- hall-patrolli- ar And weil try to eliminate alibis for publication of copies of this paper t Now Bat After The War Union-- No the proposed tete-a-te- te strict impartiality is the of the hosts “Surs invite all sophomore women to’ Its annual tea dance — 3rd floor animal husbandry bldg” “Phi Beta Kappa invites all t junior worpen to its annual fall tea— 3rd floor animal building” We appreciate the honor and all that sort of thing boys but aren’t you afraid that the “3rd floor animal husbandry” will be a bit crowded? We love you boys bu! then we love so many people ar once-gre- at one-ten- th The STUDENT LIFE 1943 1944 Member Associated Collegiate Press Rooms News Campus 75— 110 Campus after Commons Building Telephone 7 p m Wednesday telephone 50 Neophyte Lists master” long-standi- OF TEXAS COLLECTED MORETHftN 8500 KEYS ’ (Hap YOUR PALS OVER THERE 1OM‘' WAR GIANT STUDIES LAW Clifford ’ Thompson s feet 7 inches TALL STUDIES LAW AT MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY IN MILWAUKEE NOTE HOW HE TOWERS OVER HIS CLASSMATE ' BONDS Dwellers At Eccles Mansion Have Fairy Story Setup a was Impressions of bed-tim- forty-tw- o - pending upon whether they’re going up or down the stairs which somehow seem to connect parts of the campus Not that we're complaining This campus is beautiful oh yes and the steps are probably very beneficial to the slim chassis an asset desired by the entire student body with a few male exceptions Another especially fascinating feature is a matter of 1500 prmy navy and marine trainees marching around the grounds It's good to be where really fine music is appreciated The trainees' arrangement of "Pistol Packin’ Mama” is something out of this world (or is that just a wisu?) And their whistles have developed into a fine art They are cooperative people too Look at the with the way 'they participate civilians in the marathon race taking place each time classes change The winners are those who succeed in getting into the wrong classes first At last when the first day of school is over and doubts arise and the weary student drags himself— herself— homeward pardon the lights on the tower of Main seem to make an "A” hut registration has dimmed the eyesight Anyway we’ll be sentimental and pay a little tribute to the blessing of higher learning here-- - at Paduca normal and so on and bo on You bet to become an organizyou ed philanthropist The title is so dreary it’s also doubtful if you’ll venture past the loan desk This reviewer liked the book all right but he’d hate to recommend it to friends It would be a good Christmas gift for some senile and retired professor of English who flunked you in American Literature This professor is still basking in the greatness of those 1920 books of Lewis “Main Street" and “Arrowsmith” But if you personally crave fictional enlight- ed over "Gideon Planish” enment the October edition of Or you can always look ‘‘Blue - Beetle —at favorite your Sociology” by- - Ogburn and corner drug store is recommend- - girls The girls living in the tower room are the recipients of many an envious glance and they gloat over their good fortune by indulging in such conversation as “Sister Anne dost thou not see my broth' ers coming?” “I see nothing but the sun making dust and the grass growing To date the prize should go to the group of cadets who answered a marine's aproval of the form divine: “Oh mama buy me that!” with “I don’t know what you want with that” green” And as they finger their feather-ccoiffures they sigh “Rapunzel Rapunzel let down your hair” In Mrs Ellen T “Ann” Anthony who the gracious housemother sees that the Cindereilas are in the by the stroke of seven-thirt- y girls find a friend confidant and Her interesting conversationalist varied experiences range from actd ing as a matron in a Indian school three hundred miles inside the Arctic circle to witnessing the December seventh bombing of Hawaii and her pleasing Australian accent adds interest to her stories Along with Mrs Anthony the girls who have come from outside of Utah feel that their trip was well- worth the trouble As one expressed it ‘Tve always wanted ut half-bree- - Another femme passed a group of cadets expecting the usual comments and was astonished to hear a hushed whisper “Oh Grandma what big feet you have” More than one girl has blushed angrily and pretended that she didn't hear when a sailor has remarked casually "Wonder what’s keeping her out of the WAVES?” Not content to limit themselves to Jhese acidulous statements the air corps now sings a song for ail astonished and disgruntled women on the campus to hear: “We like the girls in Logan They say they’re mighty fine They’re either under seven or over forty-nine- ” to marry a rich man and live in bouse like this Now I can marry for love” a PA we traveled 90000000 i n August miles— an over j REPRESENTED FOR ADVERTISING NATIONAL Student subscriptions per year Editor Associate Editor Business Manager Boston Lot Angcle from fee TINGWALLS San Francisco Mail subscription OUR WISHES FOR A SUCCESSFUL SCHOOL YEAR! 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Some passengers were crowded which we regret But we would rather he crowded than to leave one essential traveler behind all-tim- -- weekly by the associated students of the Utah College Printed by Clark & Earl Printing Company 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 Act of October 3 1927 ng nt a scrap key drive UNIV In ’’l - - Educational Clime Murder mystery fans will get double enjoyment from reading a new crime book just off the press In the first instance the story is good and in the second comes the desire — that of having a gratification of a superintendent of schools as victim The book? “Goodbye Dear Elizabeth” by Grace Hoster of Blackfoot Idaho Monday Sept 27 1943 Jyst as sure as they remember Pearl Harbor to be December 7 1941 students at Utah State will recall registration day 1943 as a day when no one knew from nothin’ With a class schedule carefully deleted to exclude signifi-cacourses many a freshman soph junior and senior sought aid from bewildered profs and got precisely none The classroom-office- s of teachers Tuesday morning VveYe inadequate to accommodate students and too many of us have sore hips from balancing texts while we waited to find out if class would be upstairs or down Three-bas- e Hit New Yorker mag scores again with accent on modernity in cartoons Pictured in September 21 issue is the young e story His grasp of the situation squirt hearing a is acute and critical He says “You mean the Three Bears made all that stink about a lousy bowl of breakfast food?” just mirage the Finding that the swimming pool Gals freshman girls jn the oliUEccles mansion console Morale Neglects College wild Higher Learning court is which tennis neither themselves with the Propaganda is building the morale of most of the civil“Where are you from?” they rumor nor insidious propaganda but solid concrete' ians but the college girls are entirely forgotten The prized pieces of period furask That’s about the first quesAfter spending a tiresome summer with only females tion fired at the collegiate neo- niture left by ‘ the Eccles’ the hopes soared to the heights at the sight of a company my and and chandeliers beautiful him it makes to want drapes Can't Crack Wise? phyte service men marching across the quad Memories of the of — “Oh not please say again” Some- and the skilfully landscaped garsweet nothings that only a man can say came to me as one ought to pity the poor new dens draw exclamations from each I hurried out to meet the approaching men student homesick and not in need newcomer and the girls can never Join the Air Corps “Someone’s in the kitchen with Dinah” was all that I of reminders every few minutes pass the upstairs reading room “Gideon Planish” heard In fact not one of them even looked my way that he’s a "furriner” in these without drawing their hands lightOne glance in a mirror supported my belief that I parts ly over the walls and murmuring Says Vitriolic Scribe Gets Doubtful However it is to be admitted reverently "Brocade” looked all right and with renewed hope I walked on into Tired of the usual whistles and the library : that there are a great many interWith the exception of the beds Reviewer Praise esting things to be found on the all the furniture for the bedrooms flattering comments the coeds exOnce men me were was before then that It again my an of Subject interesting con Utah State campus to take one’s has been taken from the former pect them to make and finding that were dashed to the ground by the remark that thoughts troversy involving the New York mind off the old folks at home residence The beds with never a response get though new they to girls was not allowed Times the New York Herald and For instance there’s the distincare not the Louis XIVs that might such sterotyped behavior the ser- speaking Now the New Yorker Sinclair Lewis” tive a week of the same procedure my only joy after way that people walk here be expected in such a mansion vice men now vie with each other new book “Gideon Planish” is They’re always stooped over front- the more practical bunks Most to see who can make the most un- comek when a company carries on traditional chivalry and interesting but far from rating ward or bent over backward de- of the bedrooms accommodate moves from the side walk while I pass by six complimentary remark the Ameri- (Reprinted from The Silver and Gold) According to a recent survey of the National Opinion Research Center seven out of every ten Americans are in favor of American participation in a post-wworld union Repeated nation-wid- e surveys on this question have shown that an increasing number of our citizens want post-wworld In the latest survey thirteen per cent of the people expressed themselves as being opposed to American entry into any union of nations Four per cent thought it w'as a good idea in some respects and thirteen per cent were undecided among Although it is indeed heartening to know that the ma- high can’s novels jority of U S citizens realize world peace organizations will The book has a theme that Lewis be effective only if we join in it is disturbing to find that obviously proud of over of us would again favor isolationism It is philanthropy That’s whatorganized Gideon incredible that they still cling to the belief that the United Planish is a man who helps rich States can disregard other nations after the war people dispose of their money in worthy charities Planish went to Most of us are realists enough to know that complete college and organized a Socialist world citizenship cannot come in our lifetime But our club his first week When he hope for an effective world league is not without some graduated he got a degree and a basis We have learned some lessons in this war which will lot of honorary degrees and becam not be soon forgotten We have learned that brutal aggres- dean of men He was highly imsion on a helpless people will affect all nations in due time moral at least in his thoughts but We know only too well that if we allow aggressor nations to the administration never got wise Gideon tired of college and swallow up smaller nations they will one day come to swalfinally got mixed up with a charilow us too We must not let the lessons we learned about table organization whose aim in Ethiopia Manchuria and Czechoslovakia pass out of our life was to give aid to Eskimos Then he became associated with memory about a thousand other such After the war we must not return to nationalism or groups and placed himself on a "even “nationalism tinged with internationalism” Our for- level with such despicable Lewis mer mistakes have been too costly to be repeated That characters as Elmer Gantry and thirteen per cent of us who oppose our entry into a union Ann Vickers When you read the book you of nations must be converted to internationalism There is a job to be done after the war and it will take every one won’t become morally degraded and it’s doubtful if you'll ever get of us to do it well ncn so want ar dent of the alumni association reported that in a recent August survey conducted among alumni association members more than 90 percent favored the project Proposed site for the alumni house is on the edge of the college plateau east of the Commons building and south of the women’s dormitory This triangular area overlooks the southern end of Cache valley and provides one of the best scenic views of Logan Detailed plans for the building and for the fund collection program are being worked out and will be announced in October President Croft said Alumni interested in the project were invited to send suggestions to Leonard W McDonald executive secretary ts WITH WHAT YOU DON’T SPEND FOR WAR BONDS AND STAMPS! 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