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Show WEBER COLLEGE SIGNPOST FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1943 So Far So Good As Weber College Enters Another War Year; Girls Will Do the Honors Now Well, what does the war situation add up to for Weber college and the students who are going to be a part of the school this year? Yes, these are trying times for colleges and universities that cannot adjust to the changes of a world at war. And they test the others, too. They test the colleges and universities that can change and adjust. Everywhere, of course, enrollments of the usual pre-war kind are low in number. But the government policy of educating the personnel of the armed forces whenever advisable has preserved the schools at least in part. At Weber college the situation is still better because its vocational school was operating when war was declared in 1939 in Europe and since then has given training in mechanics and in other war-needed skills to thousads, both to mechanic learners and to private groups and individuals. But still it must be acknowledged that the large number of students Weber college sent to war last year staggered the student body and required some changes here and there. But a sound educational program and basically good morale carried the college through the year with honor. In fact, last year every time the fellows left, by ones or twos or groups, morale seemed to intensify, as though we at Weber had become more and more a part of the war with every fellow that went away. Those that stayed did the work of those that left, and tried to do it the way the others would have done it themselves could they have remained. And sometimes the boys would come back from piloting bombers in North Africa and manning warships in the Coral sea, and what they said to us from the auditorium platform, and man to man, let us know that it gave them a lift to come from the hell of battle day before yesterday and find Weber and Dr. Dixon and the students welcoming them in the same good old way today. And it gave us a lift, too, to find out how they felt about it all, to know that they had faced death so that Weber would be here when they returned, essentially the same fine, friendly, strong school they had left, pulling for them more than ever, and worth fighting for more than ever. Yes, last year we stayed with the fight and came through all right, like our boys at the battle fronts. But what about this year? This year, it is rumored, there is one junior college in Utah that will not have a boy on the campus. What about Weber? Will it have any boys to carry the male leads in plays, to report sports for the school publications, to carry the honors in athletics? Will there be a boy to be president of the student body even? The answer seems to be that there will be a few males on the campus but not many. Once again, we say: Well, what about it? What about it, girls? Will you carry Weber through as well as ever and keep the school going for the boys to come back to when they have won the big fight? The answer, of course, is simply: Some will, some won't. But anyone who has met the type of freshman student who is coming to Weber this year knows that the school will have the finest of the high school graduates as first-year classmen this fall. They have a lot of pep and are determined to do their part in the life of the school they have looked forward to for so long. They have come in spite of new obstacles the war has put in their way. And they will contribute more to Weber college because of the war than perhaps anyone dreamed they could, before. Welcome ... we need you! Intramurals at the University of New Mexico have been organized for the new school year on a platoon basis. There will be approximately six navy platoons, three civilian platoons, and one faculty platoon. JhsL SiqnpiiAt Editorial Office: 402-403 Moench Building Published semi-monthly by students of Weber Junior College Editor Bonnie Clay Business Managers Pat Jurgens .Lois Carver, EDITORIAL STAFF: Shirley Mills, Barbara Singleton, Dorothy Cardon, Kathryn Inge-brctsen, MarJean Hickman. CIRCULATION : Afton Parker, Betty Nelson, Beverly DeVree. FACULTY ADVISER: C. M. Nilsson. Member of the Rocky Mountain Intercollegiate Press Association 1943 -:- Member -:- 1944 Associated Collegiate Press Nice of You to Say So . . . Honors that have come unsolicited to Weber college during the summer include the kind remarks of Lieutenant Brandin concerning the qualifications of the school in the naval cadet training program, the pleasant reaction of the governor's party and the Utah state board of education during their recent detailed tour of the school, and the bestowal of numerous promotions and awards upon Weber students in the armed services. Green and Growing . . . To those who understand the importance of the outward look of things, the continued care and improvement of the college campus is a token of the day when the grounds will be even more of a beauty spot than now. But even now we feel that the campus is as refreshing a place in summer as there is in the whole city. A recent touch is the levelling of the rank growth of weeds and grass that grew up during the warm months on the site of the old College Inn. The largest single improvement of late is of course the new lawn and shrubs of the inner quadrangle. Freshmen will note how fine these look now, and the sophomores will be pleased with the way in which they have come along since spring. A Weber Coed . . . Now that the school paper is out of the hands of Miss Jean Anne Waterstradt, it seems fitting in this, the first issue of 1943-44, to give a word to her unusual work during the troubled school year of 1942-43. First, she worked a half shift straight through the year in the offices of J. G. Read & Bros. Second, she did her school work in such a creditable way that she was listed on the honor roll of graduates in June. Third, she shouldered 100 per cent of the terrific work and responsibility of editing the Signpost. Fourth, the paper gained the highest rating of papers entered with the Collegiate Press from schools the approximate size of Weber college. Fifth, the condition of the copy, of the dummies, and the meeting of deadlines drew the approval of probably the toughest composing room in Utah, that of The OgdenStandard-Examiner, Jack Shewell, foreman. We don't want to make something inhuman out of Jean Anne for to Her schoolmates she is just a darn good kid but anyway, sixth, she did this while she was still 18. On Other Campuses . . . Enrollment at the University of Dubuque, Iowa, during the summer was 433. This figure, the equivalent of pre-war enrollment, was reached when a naval training unit arrived. Exclusive of the sailors, the women outnumbered the men by 125 to 52. Prospective WAVES are now enrolled at the University of Colorado at Boulder. They are studying languages. If they do well in their three-month course, they will receive commissions and be allowed to continue in languages for an additional nine months. Wages while the women are at school is $150 a month. This covers all expenses. Society at New Mexico university is enlivened, according to the Lobo, whenever one of the pre-war male students returns on leave. Courting, if any, is rapid-fire. The homing soldier's ringing of the door bell and the sexton's tolling of the wedding chimes sound almost together. The coeds play for keeps these days. Peterson Looks At Life . Cartoonist Robert Peterson is now in the navy, studying at Farra-gut, Idaho. We planned to print blank space, thinking it might do just as well though we liked this at the time. It was a iast-minute conception of the artist when he found that the navy might happen to him if he was a good boy. His cutline read: "We decided to enlist in the navy, but I couldn't pass the mental test So I'm taking him to try the marines." Letter Tells Attitude of Girl Who Prefers Mess to W. C. Editor Feels Urge to Reply Dear Editor: I am writing you to say that maybe I ain't coming to school after all. If I want maybe I can pick it up later, Ma says I am kaky waky. Grandma says I am clean mad. Grandpa says he never saw such a kid. Dad says he don't care what I am like but he won't support me all my life. I have decided to live my own life like I want to in spite of them. I am getting a job in one of the picture shows for $20 a week, that will be $80 a month. Much as I would like to come, I can raise plenty of H-E-doubJe Q on that and grab me off somebody when the war is over, if not before. Maybe you remember me from Officials O.K. W. C. on Recent Tour (Continued from Page One) institution like this has been able to transfer so quickly from a peacetime to such an elaborte wartime program," and Oliver G. Ellis, state treasurer, who lauded the foresight of Robert H. Hinckley and Frank M. Browning, two Ogden citizens, for stimulating war and air industry. in Ogden. Dr. Henry Aldous Dixon personally thanked Chairman W. R. Mc-Entire and Commissioner L. M. Hess of the Weber county commis sion for the commissions gift of the old courthouse to the college for use as a dormitory. The sparkling dining room in which the luncheon was conducted, it was pointed out, was once occupied by the cells of the county jail. Reports Progress The guests first assembled at the ladies' lounge in the college gymnasium, where Dr. Dixon presented a brief explanation of the college's policy and a report of its progress. The group inspected gymnasium facilities, the new receiving depot for college equipmern in the Central building, the Moench building, its classrooms and laboratories, the library, the women's dormitory, engine, machine, sheet metal and welding shops in the vocational building and the armory annex, the naval air cadets' quarters, and the mechanic learners' and regular students' dormitory In the armory building. At the Robert H. Hinckley (Ogden municipal) airport the group saw 40 planes and 20 insturctors in service training naval air cardets. Art Mortensen, airport manager and flight contractor for the naval program, told the visitors regular stops of commercial airline planes at the airport soon will be scheduled. As many as 1,300 landings have been made at the airport In a single day, and planes based at the port have spent 18 hours in the air in a single day, Mr. Mortensen reported.Dr. Dixon reported that the federal government has expended more than $200,000 on shop equipment which will become property of the state and remain at the college. Another $500,000 worth of equipment for the instruction program also is quarterd at the college. Lieutenant Brandin described the 18-month naval aviation cadet training program, of which Weber college plays an essential part, which costs $40,000 for each cadet. Young Man Catches It, And Doesn't Mind Here is one that would realiy balk the nation's traffic cops, who these days find babies driving trucks instead of riding in perambulators.The Los Angeles Baseball club, which is leading the pack in the Pacific Coast league, has for its first string catcher, Billy Sarni, 15 years old. Billy's parents were talked into the contract with the aid of a $10,000 bonus after having refused offers from the Pittsburgh Pirates, Boston Red Sox, Cleveland Indians, and Chicago Cubs. high school. M got me to write this for you when she saw me Tuesday. Sue Glotz. Dear Miss Glotz: Usually I don't bother to write letters in answer to those sent in. But since we have a mutual friend in M , I wanted to tell you that you are at least temporarily off the beam. You are getting into a situation which is going to be pretty sticky. The first thing you will do is get tired of your job in the show, or get fired perhaps, and marry the first offer. Possibly it won t be an offer at all. Then you will either be dropped like the well-known hot potato or you will have a large family whom you will not know enough to take care of in health or to help educate.Now I don't know what this school or any other could do for you, because education is such personal matter, but the theory is that education will give you some degree of good taste in the choice of a husband, also some attraction for such a man, and usually a well-paying vocation so tnat you can let the procession go by for a while while you are making a selection. Later on when you are married and have a family, you will be able to establish them in the world with good health from the care you have given them, and with character, and with a beginning in education, so that when they grow older they will be able to do well by themselves from the start you have given them. Furthermore, as your double chin appears, and the wrinkles, and you find that you are getting on toward 30, your husband will still count himself a happy man because of possessing such a woman as you, who have done so well by him and his household, and who withall have some intelligent and interesting thoughts to express. Besides all this, the neighbors will think okay of you. On the other hand, it Is worth something to try things out according to one's first idea even if It may finally make you a star among a constellation of morons. Love, Ed. Braithwaite Cites Aims Of Program (Continued from Page One) dents of Weber college will be held each Sunday morning, to which all students are invited. Functions of Lambda Delta Sigma, national religious social fraternity, will be under the direction of the executive council. The girls' chapter is officered by Melba Hale, president and Donna Rae Jones, MarJean Hickman, Ruth Tor-geson, and Valeta Purrington. A boys' chapter will be organized as soon as school gets underway."Certainly with the newest and, in many respects, the most beautiful and well-equipped institute building on any college campus at our disposal, and with an enthusiastic and talented student-body using it to its full advantage, we should realize our aims," Mr. Braithwaite continued. "The institute belongs to youth, dedicated to give opportunities to youth to inculate in their lives the eternal values that even war cannot destroy that give strength to the spirit." The People You Meet in the Old Home Town These Days Drama Man Sets Up Speech Plans (Continued from Page One) Guild members. Weekly programs over station KLO is the objective. Such programs will emphasize the production of radio plays pertinent to the war effort and community need. In the field of platform speaking the college has maintained annually an active interest. Contests within the college itself are featured each quarter. The participation in contest with other institutions, while limited in the present crisis because of the war, will nevertheless be conducted as extensively as conditions permit. Participation in poetry festivals at Utah State and at the University of Idaho, Southern Branch, are definitely planned. It is a special wish of the college this year to initiate creative efforts in one-act play writing with a view to securing produceable plays for public performance. A play-writing course to serve this end will be organized if students with an interest sufficient to maintain such a course are discovered. Students contemplating attendance, whether registered or not as yet, are invited to make known to me or to members of the English staff their interests in specialactivities. Dixon Tells New Students About Weber College (Continued from Page One) more will give the desired degree. All men who can afford it, however, should take a one-year or two-year course to become an expert in some one line of work." I can foresee not only astonishing growth in the regular day school, but also in some of the newly-established special services. For example, this extended day and night schools registered 600 students in regular college courses last year. I can see tomorrow, or day after tomorrow, a registration of 1500 in these special schools. A unique and democratic program that offers at least a terminal education for "all of the children of all of the people" and a location in a rapidly-growing industrial and cultural area are not the only factors that will help to make our dreams come true. The backing of the state and the state board of education, the loyal support of the community, the vitality and scholarship of a young and vigorous faculty, and a devoted student body are less tangible but equally important factors. To you who have the significant privilege of attending college today, when so few are accorded this privilege, I say: Work at full speed ahead. Work as hard and as long each day as our cadets, or as the boys under General Mark Clark at Salerno; and unlimited opportunities are yours. At the Opening of School We Wish ) the Students the Faculty and the President of Weber College Another Great Year . . George D. Cardon Co. ABSTRACTERS 2428 Kiesel, Ogden By Tat Jurgens H (Note: Columnist Jurgens, you will note as you go along, has spent the summer as a music vender.) As well as a pay check, the job this reporter held down during the past summer supplied me with a great deal of material with which to keep this column ?oing during the year. This oeing the first edition of the paper the freshmen perhaps won't be familiar with a few traditional features of the Signpost. Among these traditions is the music column usually written by a inng-winded student who can be found most often tucked away in a record booth with a rapt expression on his face listen: ng to the Brandenburg Concertos or something equally deep. When the lajt variation has died away in the distance, and a tremendous sigh escapes our columnist, he dashes for a typewriter and begins pounding out the virtues of Bach. Another Side However there is another side to a music column as far as I am concerned, and this side is far more interesting to write about. For instance, the people who wrote the music that brings about these sighs and rapt expressions are equally as interesting as the music itself. Then there is a wealth of material to be tound in the people who collect libraries of music. Meeting them, talking to them, comparing notes on music is just as entertaining to write about as the things they have in their libraries. Also, the field of semi-classical and swing has reached far more ears than any other type of music. To all these different fields then, will 'his column be devoted. Perhaps the reader won't be too surprised if a few books and plays happen to slip into it just to add variety, of course. Very Interesting This first column will turn to the people who collect libraries. The war has brought some very interesting people into our com munity. One dull afternoon in the middle of July, a tall dark man came up to the counter where one of my fellow workers and I were trying our best to see who could keep from yawning the longest. He approached me with a request for a recording of Malaguena. Now that is not so unusual, because we were constantly getting calls for it; but his accent was unusual. I had never heard anything like it in my life. We didn't happen to have the record in, but I got him settled in one of the booths with some Strauss waltzes. After sitting together wondering what kind of an accent he had, Jessie and I came to the conclusion that it was a combination of French, South American, Turkish. We couldn't figure out anything else. When he came out to make his purcase, he left an order for Malaguena. This brought new hope into our tired hearts. His name would of course be a clue. It was a clue, but we weren't bright enough to follow It. His name was Irani. I stared at Jessie, and she stared right been at me. At last, I could stand it no longer. Would You Mind? "Mr. Irani," I said, gulping hard, "would you mind my asking where you came from?" Smiling at us as though he were perfectly aware that we had been talking about him, he said, "Not at all. I came from India." And with a slight inclination of his head he said, "So long, my dear young ladies." For one healthy split second we could find no words, then our imaginations ran rampant. 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