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Show Payc 2 THE SIGNPOST Editor Jacob Wees, Managing Editor H'H Glasmanr. business Manager Orville Nielsen Associate Editors Edgar Driver, Stanley Johnson News Editor Jih" McEarlanu Society Kditor Norma Panton: Administration Morton Fuller, Aurline Osmond Athletic Editor - I'!"1 Elakely Athletic Reporters Edith Berghout, Sam Burton, June Spoil.; Features, 1 larold Benson, Norma Harrows, Kverel Harris, Mary Peterson, iJonna Jenkins, Pauline Rogers, Edna Bench, Ted Collins, Marie Chevers, Audrey Bush. Contriluitors, Helen Thome, Helen Jugier, Kva Rogerson, Robert Montgomery, Wendell Forsha. Hill Thomas Constance Ford, Beth Cardon, Verna Watts, Marjorie Carver. Copy Helen Jugler Circulation Chet Gilgen, Barbara Reeves Typists Beth Cardon, Verna Watts Published every other week by the Associated Students of Weber College Intcrmountain Publishing Co. SF-B ; STUDENTS' ANATHEMA Opcn-handcflness is sounding; the death knell of all of you antiquated intellectual bigots. Can you remembjr back to that initial experiment in cribbing. Perhaps it was the first grade, then maybe again you didn't get in "the know" until the second or third. But after getting your initiation you carried on in lesser or greater degrees. Every year you, became more adept and also calloused tp the various forms and methods of attaining a superficial rating. This rating did you link now able harm by becoming a form or cast about your inner, true character. When people and friends looked at you, to them you were that rating. And because you had attained it by a blind unthinking act you finally came to regard yourself by this rating; very few of you see ypurselves in your true harsh light. But in this very danger there is safety. I know what you are, you know what I am, we both live up to our rating. No one gets out of his form. If he does, he is forced- by i idicule; abuse, and ostracism, to get back in. It was the easiest way out. Everyone takes the easiest way; why should you be any exception ? , . . . Ah ! And then you came to college. Upon seeing what methods and enthusiasm were used in cribbing here, you realized 'what slackers you had been. You were amateurs. Sophs were tempered masters at this universal game. Maybe you had a last lingering moral that prevented you from bringing your own "pony" to tests. But that did not prevent you from using those who had. But it doesn't matter, only th,o?e who did not have to use them didn't, and then they watched their neighbor's papers for extra ideas. Gee, but it's a swell system. It's a wonderful system. By means of it we are all raised up somewhere near the smart one's level. Now in the middle of this panacea an insidious, creeping influx of evil is threatening the system. Do any of you remember back in any of your classes when the professor came out with an acknowledgement of the system or some little phase of it? Do not let these frank statements allay vour suspicions (fears). They have slowly, maliciously built up an attitude and background for the final devastating expose. This took place last Friday when the faculty gave their assembly. In one of the scenes a professor artistically threw every known system of cribbing into your face. This is the finale of the teachers' propaganda. They have built up a frankness and knowledge of cribbing between you and them until you will finally let the system slip out of your grasp. It will no longer exist. How can you crib when the prpfessor knows all about it? Common frank knowledge will put you in your places. There will be only one or two smart ones. The rest of you will fall into a sodden mob, down where you belong. Do you intend to let this happen? What are you going to do about it? What can you do about it? Poor you. 1 1 PI me Tinner snn phnne 73 ecdes hldq gden, utah Weber College Student Body Officers I Read and Support the Standard-Examiner . . . the Newspaper Which Supports Weber College A f ' 111 The pix at left appeared in the Standard - Examiner, May 17 n s 4 i J 1 t I I 7ke OuUide WcA4 by Harold Benscn FRANCE'S BOOMERANG 'Blind isobt'on," "economic strangulat:on." "blundering diplomacy," "avaricious lol t cs" are just few of the v Rorcnis epithets that Dr. Malbone Graham, professor of 'vstory ami political science at the diversity of California at Los Angeles, used to characterize the central European situation at the annual international relations convention at Provo recently. Having ju t returned from a one year tour of Europe, Professor Graham was in a position to give us first-hand, authoritative information on the momentous evtn's that have just transpired.. Taking us back twenty years, he clearly enumerated each of the events that enabled Germany to break the shackles that held her in supression and to rise from a prostrated, war-racked state to one of the most formidable powers in Europe.When the war ended, Dr. Graham stated, the German people were elated and with , renewed energy set about to rebuild their country economically and politically.' A republic was established with Frederick Ebert as president. Germany was earnest in the resolution to cooperate with other European countries. The untimely death of Ebert while he was at the plenitude of his power was a blow to Europe as well as it was to Germany. His conciliatory . policy, however, was successfully carried out by Hinden-burg and Stre"emann. Germany under their leadership negotiated the Locarno and Kellogg peace pacts and entered the League of Nations. France was, nevertheless, dubious about the sincerity of the German nation and took the utmost precautions against any possible attack Informing alliances with the countries surrounding Germany. . This "Anaconda - policy" . v;as detrimental to Germany politically'' and 'economically. It was obvious that a break somewhere would be inevitable. The only alternative wa.s to re-arm, and this policy the German nation followed out secretly, although it contravened with the Versailles treaty. When the last of the foreign troops had been withdrawn , from German soil in 1930, that country was well armed and in a position to resist any possible attack. Since that date her re-armament policy has continued at a rapid pace and has received especial impetus since Hitler assumed power in 1933. Professor Graham attributed a great deal of the failure of the League of Nations to ameliorate conditions in Europe to the fact that the United States failed to join. "The policy of 'blind isolation' that our statesmen committed this country to in 1919 prevented us from joining the league and thus that organization was greatly weakened and the vision of Woodrow Wilson for universal peace was dimmed." For the past decade the impotence of the league has become very manifest. When Germany remilitarized the Rhineland, the league expostulated with Germany that such a policy was a violation of the Versailles treaty, but its efforts were without success. When Italy acquired Ethiopia, the league imposed sanctions, but without success. When Munich conference was discussing the dismemberment of Czechoslovakia, the members of the league at Geneva looked up to the tall Alps mountains and exclaimed with a cry of dismay : "Fall on us !" Jack Thomas has his bid in for the coed girl. . . . Llave you? . . . "I have," answers Alan Christensen. Swing in at the College Inn For School Supplies - Lunches Candy - Cokes - Malts Music We Meet at JOHN'S SWEET SHOP for the Best Signpost Needs Students' Help As readers and enjoyers of the Signpost let's be symbiotic not parasitic. In biology we learn that a parasite is an organism which lives at the expense of another organism. We also learn that symbiosis is a condition where two orgairsms live together with mutual benefit to both. Our semi-monthly paper, the Signpost is, made possible by the advertisements the business men and women put in it. Let's not let these people who are so willing to help us feel that it is merely good-will work, but that it is really beneficial to them thus creating a system of symbiosis. And when we patronize our advertisers let's just mention, "We saw it in the Signpost." Signpost Gets New Business Manager We are sorry that for the present our business manager, Henry Jensen, was forced to resign because of lack of time to take care of both his lessons and the work connected witlv' the paper. We are pleased to anno'unce that he is to be succeeded by Orville Nielsen, who has been working in advertising. time OmU (Continued from Page 1) heels at Smyrna and thus kept his own backyard intact. As a statesman, he occupies a irche all by lvmself. Lie introduced female suffrage and developed an exceptional code of laws. Then to while away leisure hours he united the tribes of Turkey and Ankara and forged them into , one nation. If Kemal were a European, he would be greater than Mussolini, Hitler, Stalin or Roosevelt. All he needed was a good press agent. In his personal history, however, Mustapha Kemal Pasha, now Kemal Ataturk, has left a record so depraved, drunken, vicious, and alto gether terrible, that it seems incredible that one man could incorporate such, a dual personality in one body. . When but fourteen he contracted an alleged kidney ailment from Constantinople's shady women and was finally brought to his knees by it. Although 1 jndreds of women have passed through his life and his unofficial harem, Kemal's history can be divided under the names of the four women who greatly affected it. Zubeida, his mother, was the person most responsible for Kemal's success for it was she who gave him the ambition and determination to lift himself above his environment she was rewarded by dying in exile. 1 Halideh, a brilliant and cultured woman, educated in American schools, gave him his ideas of democracy and woman sufferage. When the break between them came, Halideh, who had inspired him at Smyrna, fled to England before Kemal's cut-throats could assassinate her. After breaking with Halideh, Kemal, in seeking relief from his conscience ran the pleasurable gauntlet of debauchery, drunkenness, and brawling with a certain Colonel Arif, but was brought up EVERSHARP PARKER WATERMAN FOUNTAIN PENS and PENCILS At STEVE'S Office Supplies 2414 Washington Blvd. Foresight by Edgar Driver P,obbie was busily planning what he would do when the night finally came around. He was very impatient, but he had much to think over. "Let's see"", now." he said, half aloud, "we'll take ol' Mr. Armand's gate off and fasten it to the weathercock atop the widow Lucy's barn. That'll just be another excuse for him to see her, anyway. Isn't that what you say, Jack?" Jack, a fellow-conspirator, agreed with a nod and: "Yeah, and we can move the Smith's chicken coop off its foundation, too. It's been done every year since I wuz a yearling. They're good people I wouldn't want to disappoint them." "We could turn the irrigation ditch into Mr. Nelson's spud cellar." "Naw," broke in Jack, the last time we tried that, the whole bunch of us couldn't sit for a week." "Maybe you're right, but maybe he won't be waiting to shoot salt into our hides again, maybe." The plans drifted on for a few hours then darkness grew about them so they parted. Bobbie's last words were: "Gee! I sure wish tonight wuz Halloween instead of Columbus' birthday. short by his now far advanced kidney disease. But instead of ending his career there, relief appeared in the form of Fikraiye. Fikriye was the antithesis of the gay, bawdy women he had intimately known. She was the sweet innocent type, usually sought by artists seeking a virgin. The Ataturk made her his mistress when he tired of her, she shot herself.Kemal then met his fourth and last playmate, Latfia, an unveiled, modern woman educated in American and French schools where she had been taught how to get her cake and also eat it. So when the loving Kemal tried to bully her into becoming his mistress, she kicked him off her doorstep with the result that the next day he kicked in her door and proudly announced they were man and wife. She promptly asserted her position by directing his life, instituting the American form of balloting, and proclaiming woman as man's equal. Not being able to fulfill the role of the obed'ent husband, Kemal divorced Latfia with the expressed idea that he wanted to be alone. This was easy since he had executed his last and only friend, Colonel Arif. Kemal died Thursday, his infected body being beyond repair; but his career is a bold example of a man who was both a hero and a heel. 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