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Show Page 2 THE SIGNPOST The ign2cM Published every other week by the Associated Students of Weber College Editorial Advisor Max McEwan Editor Norma Barrows Associate Editor Delmar Young Editorial Assistants Administration Claude Williams, Barbara Clark Features ...-4- Dorothy Dixon, Wayne Farrell Society - - Aurline Osmond, Gladys Kalney, Mary Ileinen Sports Pat Quinn, Minnie Purdy Business Manager Morton Fuller Advertising Norma Pantone, Jacob Weese Circulation - Chet Gilgen Photographers Bill Havenor, Stewart Wheelwright Nurses Humanitarians? The nurses from the Dee hospital have stolen the hearts from several at the "Weberites". These young women are afflicted by that goodness of heart called humanitarianism. They have the idea that to serve humanity is the greatest goal of life. I do not share their viewpoint. You wish to know why? Here are my reasons, and I believe' that many of our students will agree with me; especially the nurses' boy-friends. Nurses must be tucked in bed at ten o'clock every night of the year. Reader, I ask you is this the human thing to do! Imagine if you will the great thrill of escorting one of humanity's servants to a dance. You roll up to the dormitory at the hospital and ask the jailer (technically called the hostess) if Miss So-and-So is ready to attend the ball. You are informed that she will be notified that you are waiting for her. After a half-hour wait she emerges, and instead of exhaling "Evening in Paris," she disseminates the odor of ether, anaesthetic, and sundry medicinal messes. If any of my readers have ever driven by the hospital, they will surely understand what I have reference to. After overcoming" the weak feeling in your stomach, due to this penetrating aroma, you bundle her into the family puddle-jumper and proceed to the dance, where you have every expectation of an enjoyable evening. Ah, wrong you are! As the clock strikes quarter of ten, you are firmly informed that she must return to the jail (hospital) or be locked out. Readers, bear with me while I make a correction. I do not wish to be too harsh on the poor dears. Perhaps yes, just perhaps they have permission to remain out until twelve. This rare instance occurs but once a month. This is but one of the symptoms of the disease of huminitarianism. Allow me to continue. Imagine, if you will, the predicament of being in love with one of these women in white. You see her in the halls of Weber as she comes from the hospital to further her education so that she may take care of us poor sick. You are allowed to engage her in conversation for perhaps ten minutes, if you are fortunate. Immediately upon leaving her class, she must return to the hospital and go on the floor. This means she must report for duty to care for the dead, dying, and wounded. While waiting for her to come off duty in the evening, you grow cold, your breath comes in the form of ice darts; the only remedy I have found adequate for not freezing to death is to engage in a profane monologue with oneself on the life of being a nurse's boy-friend. After she is released from duty you are informed that from seven to eight is study hour and she will be unable to see you until nine. From nine to ten she is free to accept your company. About nine-thirty you are told that because of a hard day, tests to study for, hair to be done up on curlers, a shower to take, and last but not least the rule whereby she must be in bed by ten with lights turned-out, the woman in white leaves you to trudge home ward bitter at heart, sick of life, and utterly despairing. I do not wish to belittle the nursing profession, but it is the roughest wear and tear on a man's system I know of. After three long years of this life, the great day comes. The girl-friend graduates. But do not be deceived, there is yet more. She is now a Registered Nurse and is on call at all hours of the day and night to serve suffering humanity. At any time she may call you up and break a date just because Johnny Jones has a stomach, or Mary Smith fell down and skinned her knee. I often wonder if they ever think of one's broken heart, which in my estimation is much more serious than a skinned knee. Sophomores Qualify For Barker Contest The sophomores talked it out as gentlemen should. Noted as all time talkers, each one felt he and he alone had the most facile tongue and the best right to Professor Barker's ten dollars. (For the moment they forgot the freshmen, but Ralph Morton Fuller did not.) After two preliminary rounds just before Thanksgiving and a final round Monday night, Howard Corey and Paul E. Grog-ger were awarded the pravilege, President Pat Quinn announces. The talking candidates were Wayne Bundy, James Andrews, Pat Quinn, Wayne Farrell, Frank McQuown, and the winners. GET YOUR XMAS CARDS EARLY This Week's Specials 25 Cards With Name Engraved For $1.25 College Book Store Vagabond King (Continued from page 1) and does, in as exciting a drama as was ever written, with Rudolf Friml's superb music in the forefront all the time. The opera is filled with such songs as "Only a Rose," "Song of the Vagabonds", "Tomorrow," "Huguette Waitz", and "Someday". "There are two good reasons for seeing 'The Vagabond King'," says President Dixon. "One is the fact that it's a great show. The other is that it wril mean uniforms for the band." During the past quarter, the director of the band, Clair Johnson, has found it necessary to turn down many requests to have the band march in parades due to the fact that it has no uniforms. And worse than that, there has been no possibility of securing the needed uniforms. But with the offer of the vocal departments the uniforms are assured. After the required return has been made to the student body, the next $550 is given to the band. And that, says Director Johnson, will be sufficient to outfit the band in fine style. An intensive ticket-selling campaign is under way under the di- ! rection of Ronald Cole, appointed to the position by Mr. Parry and Mr.. Dixon. Through the efforts of the president, the service and business organizations of Ogden have endorsed the campaign. The student selling campaign is being handled by certain clubs in the school and members of the band and the cast of the show itself. All seats will be reserved, and tickets are available at the office of the President. Prices are 50c for adults, 35c for students other than Weber College students, and 2 5c and Student Body Cards for our own students. No expense has been spared in an effort to stage this production in the style it calls for. New sets have been built, old ones remodeled under the direction of Mr. Thatcher Allred. Costumes are being secured from Salt Lake City. The whole production has been Orchestra Makes Debut Jajj Piano Enroll Now! The Modern Way is tin Miracle Way Leading: Educators now highly endorse Miracle Series ED BERRY Studio at GLEN BROS. MUSIC CO. Phone 181 109 1-W The first appearance of the Weber College Orchestra at the Constitution program in Ogden High auditorium met with such approval that they were asked . to broadcast over KLO last Wednesday evening at 8:15 from the Weber College auditorium. Two outstanding numbers were 2nd Movement of Jayden's "Surprise Sympathy" and "The Merry Widow Waltz". College Annual To Go On Sale Dec. 6 The 193S Acorn, the Weber College annual, will go on sale Monday, December 6. The cost of the yearbook will be $2.50 and may be obtained from one of the official representatives at any time after Monday. The taking of class pictures will get under way some time next week, with Rabe Studio the official photographers. Rabe Studio was chosen after prices of the studios of Ogden had been received and consideration given all. The cost to the students will be 5 0c for two poses and the one cut for the yearbook with choice of pose given the student. Extra cuts can be obtained for 10c and cuts of different poses for 25c. Uniformity of background, necessary in the compiling of a superior yearbook such as this year's is hoped to be, and good retouching of the pictures have been guaranteed by Mr. Rabe. The purchase of a new lens and the painting of the studio in special photographic colors has been made by Mr. Rabe in line with this type of work. In order to facilitate the taking of class pictures appointments will be arranged by the A corn staff. Cards entitling students to have the cuts made will be sold along with the Acorn for 5 0c. All pictures should be taken by January 14, the end of the second week of the Winter quarter. marked by an attitude on the part of the authorities "not to waste, but to spend where needed, not to skimp." The opera is under the direction of Roland Parry, head of the musical department. Mr. Thatcher Allred has been in charge of the dramatic and staging ends of production, with Wayne Bundy as student assistant. 7he OutM4e WoA4 By Wayne Farrell For the last five years Secretary of State, Cordell Hull, has been quietly and effectively negotiating reciprocal trade agreements with sixteen countries representing about one -third of the nations foreign trade. The treaties have been amazingly successful. Exports to treaty countries mounted an average of 25. Choice example of how agreements stimulate commerce is Canada. The first nine months of this year showed our exports valued at $381,786,000 38 greater than in the same period last year and many fold greater than in 1932. Successful as he has been, Secretary Hull, until last week, still has the prize feather in his hat to win a trade agreement with England. For most of this year discussion of this keystone treaty has proceeded at a snail's pace with Secretary Hull frankly in the suitor's role. Great Britain is favorable to any agreement which may bring America out of isolation and into European conferences, but hesitant to disturb the network of preference agreements with her Dominions which followed the Ottowa Conference of 1932. The agreements were discussed by Britain with her Dominion at the Imperial Conference immediately after the Coronation, but without much success in binding the colonies to her. During the last troubled month of European diplomacy the British Cabinet took the U. S. Treaty discussions out of the hands of the Board of Trade and proceeded to get down to business. , And so, last week Mr. Hull announced at a State Department press conference and simillasi-couley Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain announced to the House of Commons that U. S. British reciprocal trade agreement was at last ready to be formed. Because of necessarily complicated negotiations, months must pass before the proposed agreements can directly influence trade. However, since it is almost certain that cautious Mr. Hull, nor cautious Mr. Roosevelt would make this preliminary announcement unless each had the end of negotiations clearly in mind. Most observers proclaimed that Great Britain, America's biggest foreign customer, was for all practical purposes solidly laced in among Hull's network of agreements. Mid Season Clearance Sale on Suits and Overcoats Don't Miss This Opportunity to Save from $5.00 to $10.00 on Your New Winter Clothes. THE STORE OF GREATER VAll'KS |