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Show SIGNPOST Friday, Slay 14, 1948 Signpost WEEKLY PUBLICATION OF ASSOCIATED STUDENTS OF WEBER COLLEGE 402 Moench Building Moabct Pbsociated College 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. Bill, Not Joe THE RANKS OF G. I. Joe, the college war veteran, are being invaded by a new type of vet, G. I. Bill, the boy who joined the service after the war for a short term enlistment and spent his time serving the army of occupation. I call these vets G. I. Bill because that is the reason that the majority of them enlisted in the first place, for to them the G. I. Bill of Rights was not offered as a reward, but as an incentive to increase enlistments to bolster the services which had been decimated of manpower following V. J. Day. SINCE FOR THESE FELLOWS the G. I. Bill of Rights was their main objective for their enlisting there will be a much higher percentage of them taking advantage of the "Bill" than the war vets, many of whom had already finished college, did not plan to go or had their old job or trade waiting for them when they were discharged. JUST WHAT KIND of a guy will G. I. Bill be? In the first place since he enlisted immediately following graduation from high school and stayed in the service only for a short time, he will be younger than G. I. Joe was when he received his ruptured duck and turned collegiate. BECAUSE OF THIS, and the fact that having served in the peace-time army he was not so far removed from the American way of life as were his predecessors, he will more closely resemble the high school grad who goes directly into college than the war veteran who served three and four years overseas in combat. ONE LAST RATHER interesting fact for the girls to note with glee is that G. I. Bill is a bachelor; as a result the G. I. family will soon become a rarity rather than the rule on college campuses. George Dickson TBEFUDDLED BIG GAME TODAY By MUDDLE Apparently some of the Weber students have been doing just a little practicing for Sadie Hawkins day. Bonnie Vogt was seen flitting gaily about the campus with a huge net she claimed was for butterflies. Today it will be bigger game for ail the girls. Viv Dean informs me that a man's hair and teeth are his best friends, but even the best of friends will fall out. Daffynitions ...JVIirthquake what Marion Blackinton has at the slightest provocation. Chinese laundry ticket a mark of irony. Language the art of concealing thought. Kentucky the state where they have poor fued laws. With June, the month of brides, approaching I'm reminded of that fine old saying, "A husband doesn't mind if his wife comes from a fine old family so long as she doesn't bring them with her. Want Ads Lost: One portion of a box of chocolates (pink for Sharmea). Wanted: Information leading to return of shotgun last seen clutched by a form in student body office. Wanted: Girls' social club desires beer can opener and 17 pretzels. Dial 4431 after 5 p. m. Wanted: Sheet music to "In Your Easter Bonnet" contact Frank Blair. Wanted: Information on how to match pennies and win. Dee Call. Weber Foncm t Dear Editor: Without casting any reflections whatsoever upon the designer of the new Signpost title plate, I for one, along with a good many other students, think it "stinks". The old plate was designed to portray a thought the signpost a bulletin of the goings on around the campus. It was appropriate, distinctive, original, rustic, and eyecatching. It has been on the paper a long time and is never forgotten in the minds of all the present alumni scattered throughout the world. To change it now is almost sacreligious. , Who cares what some "foreign national committee" thinks about our traditional title design? The paper is not supposed to be printed to please them, but instead it is for the benefit and pleasure of the members of the Weber family. Eugene C. Kartchner Faculty Women Fete Leaders at Banquet Nearly 60 members were in attendance at the Weber college faculty women's annual banquet Monday, May 10. Purpose of the event was to honor outgoing officers of the organization. Based upon an Indian theme which featured the motif of "peace," the banquet was held at Ma's and Pa's in Roy, and was under the arrangement of the group's new officers, who were elected at a meeting Saturday, May LET GEORGE REPAIR IT For 13 of Down-town Price A Complete Line of Jewelry and Watches GEORGE F. VAUGHN Repairing 1036 - 28rd Street Phone 2-6886 I 10" Albums Margaret Whiting Sings Includes MY ROMANCE - THIS CAN'T BE LOVE - LOVER & Others Stan Kenton ARTISTRY IN RHYTHM - OPUS IN PASTELS - FANTASY & Others Single Records Frankie Carle SUNRISE BOOGIE - MOONDUST RHAPSODIE Frank Sinatra NATURE BOY - S'POSIN' Andrews Sisters SABRE DANCE - HEARTBREAKER Glen Bros. Music Co. 1ELVIRA FANGLESNAP MAY 24 DATE FOR ACORN DISTRIBUTION Tentative date for Acorn distribution is Monday, May 24, co-editors Carol Jean Vendell and Dean Hurst announced this week. The first half of the Weber yearbook is completed and was printed last week, it was reported, and work is continuing to enable staff members to meet the May 24 deadline. A few copies of the Acorn will be available for purchase at $2.50 for the benefit of students who have not already bought their books, it was announced.Co-editor Dean Hurst announced that prints of all pictures taken for this year's book will be available for sale to students after the book is distributed. These include class pictures and group shots. Outgoing officers honored were Mrs. Reed K. Swenson, president; Mrs. Ross Hardy, vice president; Miss Helen Mally, secretary; and Mrs. Walter C. Neville, treasurer. New officers of the group are Mrs. Edward J. Hall, president; Mrs. Clair Johnson, vice president; Mrs. Merle A.llen, secretary; and Mrs. Paul Huish, treasurer. The banquet was the final activity of the year for theorganization. And The Flowers Are Furnished By OLIVE and MARK Klenke Floral Member of F. T. D. Association OGDEN, UTAH 2955 Wash. Blvd. Ph. 5789 Fangie Consults Seer, Both Weep in Beer Once the world was filled withnew one pops up and we have a second lieutenants. Battle jackets blazed with wings, infantry combat badges, and fruit salad. Grom-metless 50-mission crushes were worn by hot rocks who had just been pinned the day before. These milliners' delights also graced the vets of the various theaters who were able to down Scotch competently whilst water gave them the dry heaves. Instead of haystack hairdos and collarless cardigans, G. I.'s were worn, on the top of dashing sea-going bellhops and swabjockies. (I'm an Army brat myself). The man in the uniform was the man of the moment and the hour; the gentleman (by an act of congress) of distinction. Then the late pleasantries were over. The boys were back in their own baliwick. The lads yet in uniform became passe and as obsolete as last years hemlines. All the drive towards the goal of victory stopped with the dropping of the billet doux at Nagasaki. The beginning of the years of confusion started with the world balanced on a thin blade, debating which way to go. Former allies became new enemies and the heat of war changed to the chill of suspicion. Fear a world-wide condition took over where tension had once reigned. Leaders maneuvered into position to get what they could out of what was left. Hackles raised and fangs sprouted as again we started on the road back to the battle years. Little sores of contention festered in remote places of the world, starting the septicima which leads to world infection. But this time, with the calamity howlers beating the war drums, there just aren't only bombs to contend with. We now (all means to the end) have bacteriological warfare to contend with. What a dazzling prospect. Cheaper, too. Instead of an atomic bomb, drop a few bacteria. Set the public in a murderous frenzy and they will all bump each other off and save the taxpayers of the various nations considerable expense. (Scene: Scientists, surrounded by flickering bunsen burners, leer fiendishly into their latest bacterial coup, a test tube of concentrated home brew that can render sterile the entire city of New York for the grand total of three to five years. Or this delectable bit of shine can give us all botulism. Quite thorough and cheap.) With this, we now have a choice in our future. 1. We can have world peace and die of a. starvation b. plagues c. pestilence because as science comes up with a new cure for an old disease, a new disease and an old problem. We will be able to starve to death because most people can't afford to buy food. Our pals the plague, and pestilence are Mother Nature's way of keeping down the population that and birth control. 2. We can have war and die of a. starvation (bacteria) b. plague (rats and bacteria) c. pestilence (bacteria) because we now have the methods of elimination enumerated way above. However, the first choice sounds the most pleasant because you have a chance. The way to abolish war is to make the lads who start them fight them, and take away the profit. Advice if you MUST fight, beat the hell out of your wife, son, daughters, husbands, cousins, and or girl friends or boy friend of the moment. Saves wear and tear on international scenery. Apparently, from the latest on the news front, once again the world will be filled with second lieutenants, 50-mission crushes and all, except that they will be damn lucky if they make more than one. Geology Geography Students Take Trip Approximately 60 geology and geography students left yesterday morning at 5:30 a. m., on a field trip to Zion and Bryce national parks with Walter R. Buss, head of the geology and geography department, in charge. The students will return late Sunday, May 16, the trip having taken four days to complete. The group will spend Thursday night and Sunday in Bryce national park, returning to Ogden late Sunday morning. "This is the eleventh field trip to Zion and Bryce national parks which has been taken by the department," stated Mr. Buss, "the monuments May 19-23, and to Bear Lake May 24. AFTER DANCE PARTY Why Not A Snack, Light Lunch, or Dinner? Also Fountain Drinks Ma's & Pa's CALL FOR RESERVATION JUST ARRIVED VJuxi-Hme GABARDINES tailored by STYLE-MART IT'S THAT FAMOUS v Siw Ni'diZonewir ' J 'ylf hllT! - i 49-5 ZON I. a wondV-fvt tailoring feature found only In SITU-MARI dothes for men. h pre Mat) vnilghlly collor gap. trim HI. America's favorite . . . wonderful Style-Mart Suits with "NECK ZONF" tailoring ore bad in stock. See the smart, sleek Item-Tone Gabardines today. "STORE FO MEW" JIHCE rKW Come See Us, Fellows UTAH BARBER SHOP 368 -25th Street |