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Show THE SIGNPOST WEDNESDAY, INUVEMBcR 20, 1940" Publisher Semi-Monthly During The College Year. Official Student Paper of WEBER JUNIOR COLLEGE Ogden, Utah Editorial Offices 1)02 Moench Building Editor J. M. Demos. Business Manager Ardell Russell Associate Ed. Marjorie Vowles Circulation Kent Baggs News Editor David Lund Editorials Dorothy Dyer Society Editors Nola Agricola, Ruth Carver Sports Editors Kathleen Davis, Glenn Shannon Photographer Budd Johnson Consultant C. M. Nilsson Reporters Alice Cottrell, Betty Smeding, Dewey Hudson, Almira Heslop, Doris Kingston, Morris Gordon, Kay Freeman, Don Garner, Frank Arnold, Willard Draper, Dave Belnap, Ed Anderson, Richard Skeen, Delmar Stone, Opal Kogerson, Ada Weir, Ray Wright, Jerry Young, Walter Prothero, William Shipley. Thanksgiving Sidelights . . . To Think Means to Thank . . . To think and to thank come from the same root. Those who have everything to be thankful for frequently do not enjoy life because they haven't a thankful heart. To those who don't think, Thanksgiving is holiday, a feast of the adoration of things. To those who don't think, Thanksgiving is a attitude of the soul. It is a feast of the adoration of the Almighty. Henry Ward Beecher said: "If someone should give me a dish of sand and tell me there were particles of iron in it, I might look for them with my eyes and search for them with my fingers and be unable to detect them. But let me take a magnet and sweep through the sand and how it will draw to itself the almost invisible particles by the mere power of attraction. The unthankful heart, like my finger in the sand discovers no mercies. But let the thankful heart sweep through the sand and as the magnet finds the iron, so will it find in every hour some heavenly blessing only the iron in God's sand is gold." May this be a blessed Thanksgiving to all. Weber college faculty members and students. H. A. Dixon. A Pilgrim's Prayer Please hear, oh gracious Lord, Our thanks to thee ; At Harvest's end, Spring's promise well fulfilled; In all humility, Kneel we in Prayer. Help us, oh gracious Lord, Thy will to see, As time doth wend; With gratitude be filled, In all sincerity, For all thy care. Giving of thanks is a matter always of thoughtful contrast and comparison to things as they were, as they might have been, and as they are. Of such was the first Pilgrim's prayer. Of such should be our prayer today. The tragic events through which our world is passing have brought us to realize how truly great our blessings are. Peace, contentment, friends, and home what greater blessings could one possess? Without them how many superficialities honor, wealth, fame would seem barren? But even as we have been told that man cannot live by bread alone, so we must realize that Thanksgiving is not so much a measure of and a thanking for material gain as it is .a spiritual period of gratitude for the goodness of God to us and those near us. Now more than ever we who possess these blessings realize the benefits to be derived from living each moment for its greatest worth and the necessity for giving thanks for its resulting joys. Dreams Come True . . . "Off to Pasadena," the aim of Whip, will be realized when the girls leave for the Rose Bowl to support our team in the toughest game of this year. Cheering has a great deal of influence upon the team especially if it is all for the opponent. Realizing this and sensing the f'.ght with which Pasadena will play after having been defeated by the Wildcats last year, Whip is eager to spur Weber on to victory. Raising funds for the trip has been a task accomplished by perseverance and ingenuity. Members have successfully sponsored a variety of profitable activities ranging from shoe shines and candy sales to a midnight theatre rally. Congratulations to Whip and her sponsors for their whole-hearted support of W. C. Weber for Weber Weber college Those two words should instill in every student on this campus a feeling of school spirit and loyalty equal to none other. We cheer Weber for what it stands, for its many and varied accomplishments until Weber almost means home to us. We cheer Weber Wildcats at our games and rallies, and there isn't a one of us who does not thrill at the sound of the victory bell. No other school uses our name or colors and we definitely have no use for those of any other school; yet in spite of that, we see sweaters and symbols from other schools around our Weber campus. While it is an honor to win a letter at other schools, we are attending Weber college and our loyalty should be here. Sweaters from other schools have no place on this campus. For the sake of appearances and loyalty let's remove those sweaters and keep this school, Weber college for Weber students. We've Read . . . By ARDELL RUSSELL With a large proportion of young people now attending colleges than ever before with inquiring minds and a healthy resistance to propaganda, what other colleges over the U. S. do and think is of great interest to students of Weber college. These students will be the leaders of tomorrow. Their views, therefore, can help shape, and alter and solidify our views. While scanning the collegite papers, we may find various things, but the most serious might be this letter written by a desperate freshman to his doctor: "My extremely dear doctor: "I have received your statement on the 1st inst. and I can see no justification for your charge of $15 for a scalpel which was not removed from my abdomen before the incision was sewn. $15 seems to be an extravagant price for a knife. I cannot, however, deny that I am using it, because after the operation, the tip protruded through the skin and I adapted it as a hook to hold my pants up. Nevertheless, this use does not rectify the additional charge in your statement. You could not even be correct in billing me $1 for the knife on the assumption that I am using it as a belt, because it does not, as a belt would, hold my pants up on a level keel all the way around. Therefore the only classification that I can find for it and I shall be willing to debate the matter with you on any platform in the country is that of a button. And according to the present rate of exchange, I will allow you five cents for it. That is the best I can do. "Yours truly, . . . ." The Utah Chronicle features an editorial telling just how a college freshman, facing a vague future, feels when he or she enters college. The writer says that perhaps now more than at any other time within the past decade our college freshmen, more serious than in past years, (this may be questionable) view the coming four years with a somewhat skeptical eye. The rising demand for a drastic increase in military manpower as a precautionary measure for defense depicts for the youth of today a future shrouded inuncertainty. What's so new about a third term, More years of worry to repeat ? Some guys who go to college Must believe it's pretty sweet. Examinations . . . As examination week draws near, some students who have been sliding through the pages of their chemistry books begin underlining important formulas and italicized words. Not that they intend to learn them, but it becomes convenient later on to copy them on small rolled-up slips of paper in small brief outline forms. It is not what you would call cheating of course not just a precaution, so that if they forget a few names or figures they can readily refresh their vacant memories at the right time. We hear others say, "What do I care, I'm only after the grade in filling these groups, not the information?" But why cheat anyway? It's what you've been doing the rest of the quarter that counts, not the final ordeal. And besides, the teachers have probably figured out your mark from the intelligent look on your face. (Here's where many of us fail.) Also, cheating degrades one's personality in the eyes of others, and in one's own conscience. But let us look at exams from another point of view. They can be beneficial to us. It is when we are taking quizzes that we find out what wc don't know, and right after the test is the time to reopen our books and learn the correct answers. These answers usually remain in our memories for years after we take the exams. As one man said We profit by our mistakes.Before examination week begins, possibly we should ask this question. Who will be the winner, our integrity or our ponies? Do you serve turkey, madam? Thanksgiving Date Problems Irk Writer Skeen Dear Editor: I am a bit puzzled about when the turkey should be carved at our home. It seems that our nation is lined up for a Democratic Thanksgiving day, and a Republican Thanksgiving day for the next four years. If we eat turkey with the president on November 21, does that signify we are of his party? Or if we should rebel against our state, and eat with the Republicans, are we to be called traitors? Last year I was confronted with this same problem, and was sure I had found a successful solution by celebrating Thanksgiving day with both parties. I soon found that this failed, for it isn't fair for a man to have to recover from overeating twice in the same month. Any solution whereby I could eat Tom Turkey in peace without hurting the feelings of either party would be appreciated! Yours truly, Richard Skeen. Dear Editor: It has been a most unexpected pleasure to receive those wonderful Signposts and I mean just that. Never have I missed anything as much as the friendly portals of Weber college and the genuine and true friendship that the students and faculty offer. It seems that Weber with its capabler leaders has made a marvelous start this year. I wish to congratulate you for the success so far. To read of the activities makes me wish that I were there again. There is an old saying that the school years of one's life are the happiest, which is very true. But of those years, the two years spent at Weber will always be remembered and cherished by its former students. It is quite a thrill to read that you are using the victory bell this year and that there are traditions being built around it. I hope that it may ring long and often. Thank you again for the wonderful Signposts. They are certainly appreciated. Sincerely yours, Bart Wolthuis, Delta Sigma Delta, 330 Parnassus Ave. San Francisco. Dear Sir: I don't know whether you still rate that nobe prefix or not, but being a lady myself I shall give you the benefit of the doubt. To begin again. Dear Sir: What is the general idea of your paper this year, anyway? I grant you one of the most popular newspapers I have ever seen, and possibly one that is technically superior to a great many university papers I have seen, but it also has its other side. One of your recent editorials protested vigorously the use of high school yells. As a result, I presume of your efforts, we learned many new yells ... all right. Your cartoons are very good and you have thus far printed your letters to the editor fairly. But should all of these good qualities go to waste because of a single column? I don't believe I need specify the "scandal" column as being the object of my protest; everyone who has ever been mentioned in it will know which one I mean immediately.It seems highly profitable to professionals to run an "inside dope" column of this sort with only subleties being used as protection against slander, but after all, we're not professionalists yet. The "scandal" you reveal is interesting and that's all. If you have to reach way down to get some of your interest like you have been doing lately, though, I don't think the interest is worth the trail of embarrassment it leaves behind. I realize that this went on last year and the year before that, etc. But why should we have to stick by tradition, or don't we believe in the democracy that eliminated an old, old one in recent elections? I still think the Signpost is swell, with this one exception. If I m alone in my opinion I'll be silent, but I hope there are enough of us who feel otherwise to make our pressure felt. Sincerely, Freda. Readers, how about it? Editor, Dear Editor: I suppose you get tired of read ing complaints all of the time, but the Signpost seems to he the only place one can get a hearing. I'm not expecting results. A simple ex planation will suffice. All I want to know is. Why is the Acorn such an expense? Sure l know it is one of the best year books published. I know that, but does it need to be so expensive that instead of being a necessity, it very definitely is in the ranks of luxury? I am no different than anyone else. I want a yearbook, but well, it costs just too much. This is what I mean. In the school budget the Acorn is allowed $3000 out of the student tuitions. Well, that is partly my expense. Then I belong to a club. One page, one little page can be purchased for the sum total of $10. Then it costs you $2.50 for your club insignia; then you have at least 30 club members. The price per picture is 50c per picture plus the $12.50 for the page. Each page then costs $27.50. But this is not enough. You must also pay 50c for any other club you belong to. By this time you are completely broke and have to pay at least $3.00 for an individual copy of the Acorn. Well, it should be one of the best, it costs enough. I'm not mad. I'll buy one. But these are the reasons more students do not buy the yearbook. It is too much. Sincerely, Almira Heslop. Kampus Korn Is Krabbed Kwick , By Ed Anderson From Nuts, Bolts, and Loose Ends of The Arroyo we borrow the following korny morsels: The reason that cranberries are red is because they saw the turkey dressing. 'I'm stork mad." said the father of fifteen children. Give a Scotchman enough rope, and he'll smoke it. "Ah wins ah got three aces!" "No you don't." "What you got?" "Two eights and a razor." "You wins alright. How come yo'all is so lucky?" Daughter (who has been reading history) "Just think of it! Imagine those Spanish pirates going three thousand miles on a galleon." Mother "Yes, dear; but you can't believe all you hear about those foreign cars." Otyokwa Plans Midnight Party The home of Sue Boyle will be the scene of Otyokwa's midnight party which is to be held after the Powder Puff ball tonight. According to the president. Donna Marie Curran, the refreshments will be served buffet style and will include hot chocolate and doughnuts.The club colors, green and white, are to be carried out in the table decorations. The committee in charge of arrangements consists of chairman, Marione White, with Betty Lou Balch, Valeen Wright, Jeanne Hulmston, and Eileen Potter. Here lies the body of Susan Jones, Resting beneath these polished stones. Her name was Brown instead of Jones, But Brown won't rhyme with polished stones, And she won't know if it's Brown or Jones. From the Mesa College Criterion we borrow the following: free verse by the editor 1 think that i shall never see a paper that takes as much work as this one to put out. i work and work and work all day and sometimes just like the trees in the poem from which this is taken i lift my leafy arms to pray only they're really not leafy but that doesn't keep me from praying well anyway to continue the poem copy is made by fools like me but anyhow i'm sure glad that what with worry about the copy i don't have to worry about making trees too i can leave that to God thank goodness. Heard at the game. Co-ed: Do you think McClung looks cute? Joe: Do you think McClung looks? Coach: Do you think, McClung BRING SPECIAL ( $5 MACHINELESS PERMANENT, No Limit to Curls . Superior Beauty School Corner 2h and Wash. Ph. 161 1 AD I $1 NEWSPAPER TOUR TAKEN 8Y JOURNALISTS (Vontinued From Page One) tertype, and stereotype machines at work, the tour led to the basement, where the final edition of the paper was being run off for distribution. Discovery that the huge rolls of paper seen on the cylinders contain seven miles of paper and weigh 700 pounds eacn was of particular interest Newsboys were crowding the room anxious to receive their papers and get out on the street, as "yo-yo" champions were doing "around the world" and "walking the dog." Copies of approximately 14,000 copies of The Standard-Examiner which are run off each evening were presented to the class by pressmen as souvenirs of the tour. "Through such actual contact with the professional journalistic field, we can become more acutely aware of our own shortcomings and create an even more active interest on behalf of class members," Mr. Cluster M. Nilsson, class advisor, stated. Lyceum Concert Features Austrian Pianist Europe's loss and America's gain was presented to the music lovers of Ogden at the Ogden high school auditorium, on Monday night, November 18. Irving Wassermann, noted young pianist, gave a master musical performance which delighted everyone who was fortunate enough to attend.Mr. Wassermann was born in Austria in 1914. He began to appear before the general public at the age of 13. After his graduation from high school he began to devote all his effort and time in the field of music. In 1936, he won world-wide recognition by winning the Bach and Mossart contest which was held in Vienna, Austria. Before coming to America he had been concert-touring in Europe but due to war conditions was forced to cut them short. Since Mr. Wassermann arrived in the United States, he has thrilled many audiences in the same man ner whien ne aid aurmg nis concert in Ogden. has been postponed until next week because of the Thanksgiving holidays being set one week ahead, rive home Friday evening. A debate that was scheduled to take L. A. TOURNEY ATTRACTS SPEECH GROUP (Continued From Page One) baters expect to visit the museum and also Venice beach, where they will ride on the longest and highest roller-coaster in service. Leaving Los Angeles tomorrow, the debaters are expected to ar-place at Carbon college en route College Women! Flexible Shank Health Oxfords Limited Time Only EXTRA SPECIAL $250 CHRISTENSON'S SHOE MART 2S38 Washington Blvd. Ogden, Utah PATRONIZE YOUR SIGNPOST ADVERTISERS "BEAUTY SERVICE Facial, shampoo, finger tvave, color rinse, eyebrow arch and manicure. OGDEN SCHOOL Upstairs, Egyptian Theatre Phone 247 1 WHITE CITY Big Thanksgiving Day Dance FREE HORNS, GAPS N09SEMAKERS Big Surprise At 1 1 P. M. (Morgan Hawkcs) Admission 35c Plus Tax The Ideal Gift . . for her World Famous LANE HOPE CHEST Make her Hope Chest dreams come true with a genuine LANE Hone Chest. Famous Lane features Include free moth Inniirnnce, famous aroma - tight construction, roller hearing spring lock with key, and dozens of other advantages. Beautifully matched Lane-welded veneen cannot peel or buckle. Lay your selection away for Christmas now. Terms as low m. 00c a week. See the New Nationally Advertised Special $2975 i Furniture s and Carpet Co. XMAS GIFTS LAY-AWAY PLAN Fountain Pens Brief Cases Drawing Sets (Mary Lou Foutz) BRAMWELL - PINGREE CO. ' SPECIAL LUNCH HOT CHOCOLATE AND TOASTED SANDWICH With all the Trimmings 20C AT College Book Store i STUDENTS If your full name is in any of the ads in this paper, take the ad to that merchant's store immediately and you will receive a FREE PASS to the EGYPTIAN 1 |