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Show Welcome Legislators , Sweetheart Dance ASSOCIATED STUDENTS OF WEBER COLLEGE VOLUME 2 OGDEN, UTAH, FEBRUARY 9, 1939 NO. 10 v i - UTAH SOLONS ARE W. C. PRES. DIXON WELCOMES LAWMAKERS, NAMES WAYS TO IMPROVE SCHOOL Lists Youth Exodus, Building and Campus, Budget By H. A. DIXON The Migration of Youth The census shows that Utah has seven per cent more people from one to twenty-five years than the national average, while she has between four and seven percent fewer between 25 and 45. If we export 3,000 youths each year, they have cost the state for their education about $840 each or a total of $252,000, if high school graduates. Utah is in the export business of trained youth. Our state is to be admired because in proportion to its wealth it sacrifices for education more than any state in the union except Arizona, New Mexico, South Dakota, Washington and Colorado. We must go on educating our young people because we cannot plow them under as the farmer in Morgan says he does with his crop when ;t has no more value. The first thing that we should do is to train the youth to meet the positions that are open and the second thing is to memorialize congress to pass t h e Harrison-Thomas-Fletcher bill, which is merely the extension of the equalisation principle on a national scale. Operating Budget The legislature can grant us the conservative operating budget which we have respectfully requested. It is not an adequate budget but an economy budget as it is drawn. This year we receive $80,000. Next year we ask for $114,000 and the next year for $111,000. It is true that these amounts are an increase of almost $30,000 per year. The justification for the increase lies first in the fact that the enrollment has increased 44 per cent over the biennium when the last appropriation was made, and second, in the fact that we were given a much needed new building. Since there was no certainty as to whether the building would be available for use during this biennium, no appropriation was made to maintain it or to employ instructors. The support of this division of the school and the increased student load have consumed a $9,-000 surplus which we accumulated last year as a result of increased tuition collections. We (Continued on Page 2) geajej fori-JeJt We didn't mean to we didn't have the slightest intention of prying but we stumbled across these bits of sentimental verse, and we just couldn't resist printing them. Ii. would appear from reading these that the Valentine season has affected quite a number of the hearts (or should we say "heads") of our Weberites. We cleverly uncovered the following poem while it was being shouted from the house-tops by its author. It seams to have been written by Verna Watts to some follow by the name of Hatch. I want you for my Valentine. I want you for my beau. I want you 'cause you're ducky, Donald, And gosh, I love you so. (Continued on Page 4) House Speaker -J ih LI HEBER BENNION, JR. Courtesy Salt Lake Tribune Debaters Start Chapter Four Weber college debaters and Coach L. H. Monson went to Carbon junior college, Price, February 2, to establish a chapter of Phi Rho Pi, national debating fraternity. This installation makes the second chapter of the fraternity in Utah. Barbara Reeves, Betty Jean Light, Raulston Zundel, and Charles Letz made the trip. They debated with Carbon opponents. "Lowell Barker," stated Mr. Monson, "a former Weber debater, is debate coach at Carbon."School Debate Teams Go to Coast Five speakers and their adviser, L. H. Monson, left early Tuesday for Stockton, California, where they will engage in a tournament at the College of the Pacific. Blair Burton, Howard Coray, Raulston Zundel, and Charles Letz are the debaters. LaMoian Suttlemyre will compete in speaking contests for individuals. Harold Benson was originally selected to make the trip, but because of the illness of his mother remained at home. Mr. Monson has firm confidence in his speakers. He was certain of success as they drove awav on the week-long junket. Excelsior Sweetheart Candidate is Called Away Unexpectedly Verna Lindsay, one of the seven candidates for Excelsior's Sweetheart, was unexpectedly called to California Tuesday because of the death of a dear friend. She will be unable to attend the annual Sweetheart dance Friday evening. Miss Lindsay's absence from the dance will leave six girls trying for one of the big social honors a girl at Weber college can achieve. Sweetheart Classic Friday Evening Tyrone Power Will Choose Her Who will be chosen? Tyrone Power's selection for Excelsior's sweetheart, will be presented at the fifth annual Sweetheart dance in the Weber college ballroom tomorrow night. This Valentine dance sponsored annually by the Excelsior club is the big social event of the year. Seven Weber coeds, who in the estimation of the Excelsior members possess the qualities of an ideal sweetheart, have been selected to reign over the ball. From the photographs of these seven girls Verna Lind-sey, Shirley Chritchlow, Barbara Earls, Kay Storey, Farrel Ensign, Kay Blaes and Dorraine Herbert "The King of Motion Pictures," Tyrone Power, will chose the girl with the most attractive personality and appearance.Three of the more exclusive business houses are presenting the seven candidates with gifts. Fred M. Nye will present the sweetheart with an evening gown. From L. R'. Samuels, the two maids of honor will receive I. Miller bags. A rose bouquet will be presented "to each girl by the Flower Shop. The sweet-(Continued on Page 4) Intelligentsia Plan Southern Fete "Mardi Gras," a costume ball having as its motif fun and frolic, will be sponsored March 24, in the Weber college ballroom by Frenisti. "Mardi Gras" will be modeled after the riot of the same name held in New Orleans, Louisiana. The ballroom will be transformed by a profusion of vari-colored booths, from which candy, ice cream, popcorn, peanuts, sandwiches, soda water noise-makers, and other agreeable extras will flow. Headquarters for the occasion will be the "Cafe Metropole." There dancers may gather and have orders served at tables by petite young ladies a la bayou. 'U' Professor Explains Geologic Wonders F. W. Christianson, handsome geology professor from the University of Utah, enlightened Weber college students last Friday in assembly, with his clever jokes and information on the wonders of Southern Utah. With colored motion-picture slides he revealed the five chapters of e arth's history preserved in the Grand Canyon, Zion's, and Bryce. Professor Christianson presented solutions of the mysteries of how fantastic formations and colorings originated in the canyons. Lenny Wight and his swing quartet, consisting of a clarinet, piano, drums, and bass caused feet to tap with rhythm with his Benny G. Goodman chamber music style. Jimmy Maher was at the piano, John Neil plunked his bass, and Herb Hillier beat rhythm from his assortment of drums. R. Murdock gave a sax solo. The Geology club, under the direction of President James Taylor, presented the assembly. This organization was organized in the fall by Geology majors. Mr. Olio Childs, head of the Geology department, is the club's sponsor. Members will take trips to Wyoming natural gas fields and Craters of the Moon National Monument near Arco, Idaho. GUESTS Give Close Range Look at School Growth and Budget Increase ' "n ir. j t- a- Senate President " 1 s J! ?: f i j IRA A. HUGGINS Courtesy Salt Lake Tribune Suttlemyre Wins Anderson Award "If I were dictator in the U. S., I would limit those who are going on to higher education." So quoted Gordon Barney as he opened the extemporaneous speaking contest for the Anderson Jeweirv Co. award. Twenty minutes before, each of the six conrestants had decided what be would do if he were dictator of the U. S. and spent tne following moments collecting his thoughts upon his subject. Pauline Rogers would eradicate the slums and so would Ml lie Allen, Morton Fuller, and Blair Burton. La Moian Suttlemyre advised sending the negroes m a colony which he would prepare for them in Africa. Judges David Trevithick, Fred Nickson, and Gilbert Tolhurst rated LaMoian Suttlemyre best "spur of the moment" speaker, Pauline Rogers second, and Blair Burton third. Because of this rating, Suttlemyre is now representing the school in extempe, oratory, and impromptu at College of the Pacific, Stockton, this week. NUMBER, PLEASE Every year college deans pop the routine question to the undergraduates: "Why did you come to college?" This fall one coed unexpectedly confided: "I came to be went with but I ain't yet." New Jones Arrives If it had been a boy, he might have been named Franklin D. Roosevelt Jones. But it was a girl that arrived on the president's birthday, January 30, to Mr. and Mrs. Dix Jones. The newcomer is an eight-pound" brunette with brown eyes. She is a second daughter. Her three-year-old sister is blonde. The parents have encountered difficulties in naming the new arrival. The father wants her called Dixie Lee, but the mother prefers saving the "Dix" part of the name for a boy. The mother, in addition to being wife of the schooj's treasurer, is the daughter of Mrs. Tanner, faculty member. Mrs. Tanner, it is reported, is doing quite well. TODAY vuiiege neau i resenis Case to Legislators Eighty-odd Utah lawmakers and their staff -and friends are visiting Weber this forenoon from 9 a. m. until 12 a. m. Their purpose is to determine growth and expenses at the school and arrive at some conclusion upon the request for $225,000 budget for the next two years. The group is made' up of the sturdiest citizens of each county of the state. Leading them in their dealings with Weber college and education generally are such figures as Ira A. Huggins (D), Weber, president of the senate; Hcber Bennion (D), Daggett, speaker of the house; Gordon Weggeland (D), Salt Lake City, chairman senate appropriations committee; William D. Wood (D), Weber, chairman house appropriations committee; James A. McMurrin (D), Cache, chairman, senate education committee; Wilmer J. Maw (D), Weber, member senate appropriations committee and other committees. From 9 until 10 o'clock the visitors were conducted through the buildings, visited classrooms, and the new vocational building. Professors C. H. Anderson, John Benson, Charles Osmond, Guy Hurst, and David Trevithick acted as guides. President H. A. Dixon, in a 10 o'clock assembly, packed with interested students, welcomed the guests and reported what Weber college is doing as a state institution upon the present budgetary allowance of $160,-000. He indicated a highly satisfactory increase in enrollment of 44 per cent over 1936. Dr. Dixon feels, however, that to continue to care for the increase, the next two years should be defrayed by a $225,000 allotment. Dr. Dixon further showed that the school is meeting the immediate desires and needs of these students as directly expressed in national survey. Senator Huggins indicated that he has an interest in education generally and in Weber college specifically. However, this legislature faces a retrenchment problem, of major proportions. From his talk it appears that he is strongly in sympathy with the task Weber college faces with its present budget, however.Other influential men Wood, Weggeland, Bennion, Farr showed a similar attitude toward the problem of necessary economy and necessary education both almost equally pressing. This afternoon the visitors will continue their investigations at the school for the Deaf and Blind, and State Industrial school, and the Sanitarium. By Reed Anderson Deanna Durbin Last June, Deanna Durbin appeared in person before the convention of the Utah State Bank ers' association at Salt Lake City. It was my privilege to see and hear her there. The meeting was scheduled'for eight. By seven, a full hour before starting time, fifteen thousand persons had jammed into the eight thousand capacity building, the famous old Mormon tabernaclo. Thou s a nds more (Continued on Page 2) V |