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Show Page 2 SIGNPOST Friday, April 7. 1950 Signpost BIWEEKLY PUBLICATION ASSOCIATED STUDENTS OF WEBER COLLEGE 42 Meonch Building Phone Weber College Extension 26 OGDEN, UTAH ors Charles E. Pomeroy and James R. Wolter Business Manager Sports Editor Assistant Sports Editor , Society Editor Assistant Society Editor Feature Editor Music Editor Feature Writer Business Advisor Advisor Reporters: Beverly Barbiero, Bud Elliott, Joan Garrett, Robena Parker, Cliff Pomeroy, and Paul Stansa. Just Good Advertising Editors note: We printed in last issue a letter requesting where and why student body funds go, and a doubt as to the justification of a certain $225 expenditure for the "pepteam". In fulfilling our promise to have the Board of Control make its own answer, we herewith present their reply. Dear Editor: In reply to a letter appearing in the Signpost last issue, I would like to correct certain mis-conceptions arising from a lack of facts. The letter which pertained to the cheerleeader's trip to Kansas, stated that $250.00 was appropriated for the trip. $225.00 was appropriated by the student Board of Control for the trip and of the amount appropriated, the cheerleaders spent only $175.00 on the Kansas junket. It was also stated that "certainly all of us have heard the old refrain 'lack of funds' ." In regards to the financial stability of the student body at the present time, I can only say that facts will not support the claim that we are in a "poor" financial condition. I believe that a comparison of ythe current financial standing of the student body with the status of the previous administrations at the same period of the year will show that this year we are actually in good financial condition, in fact the best in three years. The money that was appropriated for the use of the cheerleaders, furthermore, did not come from the budget of any activity on the campus. It was taken out of the student 'operating account', an account established for just such expenditures. The members of the Board Of Control feel that it is merely good business to send the band to California, to send student delegates to various student-body conventions, to support a very active debate squad which represents our school at speech meets, an athletic program that is a credit to the institution, and many other activities of this nature that necessitate the appropriation of funds for travel. Weber College received much publicity in the Kansas newspapers with regards to our colorful cheerful cheerleaders that were at the .basketball tournament with our team. The cheerleaders received several write-ups and pictures in the Kansas newspapers and received compliments from all sides on the colorful show they put on durng the time-outs and half-times of the Weber games. The members of the baskethall team have expressed themselves as being appreciative of the fact that the cheerleadars were at the tournament. Their moral-support was felt greatly by the team. We on the Board Of Control still feel that the amount of money spent compared with the amount of good-will generated and the amount of publicity that the trip by the cheerleaders brought to our school was not out balanced. I hope this letter will give students a better understanding of the entire matter, and I would like to invite any student body activity to attend our board meetings any Monday at 12:07 in the associated students office, Associated Students Office, Moench 312. Sincerly yours, Peggy Wood Student Body Vice-President Musical Discs Feature Peter Cottontail Music Master Curt Massey, whose voice and instrumental work have kept his ratings climbing now goes higher with the new season. Massey, of course, is currenty in excellent taste with the Easter season. The reason lies in that new EAT Where It's NEAT j Where You'll All Want to MEET KING'S-X DRIVE INN ! HAMBURGERS Robina Parker Rulon Garfield '. LeRoy McParland Shirley Stadleman , Dorothy Johnson , Gordon Allred Lincoln Clifford Jim Bonner O. M. Clark L. C. Evans Vernon Hill, .London waxing the big boy is showing on, a ciisk reponea as being "Peter Cottontail." Red Hot on the platters this week are: Music! Music! Music!, If I Knew You Were Coming I'D'VE Baked A Cake, It Isn't Fair, "f MALTS Joyce Carey Hits With Fresh Hovel By Gordon Allred The Horse's Mouth, as the final volume of a trilogy is like a spec tacular towering in reference to the popular novel of Joyce Cary. The interested reader is more likely to say something about like this, "a work of art, written by a philosopher, a man with real individuality, and extraordinary insight into human nature." The Horse's Mouth is a book in which Mr. Cary has brought all of his versatile powers to bear, with a remarkable character known as Gully Jimson, who with the opening of the novel, is 67 and fresh out of jail. From the very beginning, Jimson is represented as an eccentric artist with unbelievable genious and ability. Some day his paintings will be worth thousands, hanging in aristocratic living rooms and art galleries; but in the meantime, Jimson, still unrecognized, starves and stumbles his way through the world living in rags, to exist on whatever crumbs he can beg. With no morality of any kind he finds it necessary to steal anything which can be hidden in his shabby, pockets. For each little bit may mean a tube of paint or sheet of paper, and perhaps, some day a place to carry on his work. The novel, though heart wrenching in instances, is not designed for this purpose. Essentially it is comedy of the rarest type. Gully Jimson, an artist who can capture the golden sunset on the misty Thames with all its splendor, almost counters his genious by indecent, half mad antics, which while keeping him in a constant state of hot water provides the reader with endless mirth. Whether evading the police, for breaking the windows of an enemy with stones, or painting ludicrous murals on a beautiful living room in the absence of its owner, he is said to be "forever talking about art, life and nature, the folly of men, a walking encyclopedia of eccentricities and wisdom." This novel, written in autobiographical from, which was strangely neglected by the American populous for nearly five years, is a book that should not be missed by any one interested in a completely different and unusual writing, with great powers of description, and human understanding. Practical Hew Courses Dated Resulting from a survey investigating the problems of personal living, the Social Science department of Weber College will present to registrants of the next and following quarters a series of courses to aid in overcoming some of the difficulties likely to be encountered in social living. James B. Harvey, head of the program, feels that students desire an opportunity to study more liberally in this field. The courses offered in the new W. C. catalog are: Marriage and the Family, Child Development and Guidance, Child Psychology, Applied Psychology, Basic Nutrition and Balanced Diet, Food Selection and Preparation, Home Furnishing and Decorating, and Clothing Selection and Personal Grooming. Chattanoogie Shoe Shine Boy, Rag Mop. I Said My Pajamas, Cry of the Wild Goose, There's No Tomorrow, Dearie. Coming up on the list of demands for popular records are "Why Do They Always Say No! and The Piano Roll Blue. The "Piano Roll" is a revival of blue songs this week, this catchy, rollicking tune should hit the spot. "Say No" is a gay groupe song, lit with infectious spirit and low lightvaude-and-tavern flavor, it's mad, merry music. Recording artists try anything to get their recording popular, now their putting them on television. The diskers, are seeking to promote records via TV by encouraging their artists to make video appearances and demonstrate live renditions of current waxings. POLEMICS ALAMODE EDITORS NOTE: The following is third in a series of pro-con articles on vital local and national problems sponsored jointly by the Weber College International Relations club and Signpost. Any student may contribute to this series by arrangement with Harold Bateman, club advisor or Lawrence C. Evans. Signpost editorial advisor. ( This weed's subject is: Is Mercy Killing Justified? PRO By Chas. E. Pomeroy Up to this time science has found no drug that will give any but transient relief from pain. Under existing law, the majority of sufferers from incurable diseases painfully drag out their lives in misery, some maddened by pain even commit suicide During a convention of American physicians in the Mayo clinic, not long ago, an emminent consulting surgeon in concluding an address to the assembled doctors asked those among the audience WHO HAD NOT terminated the miserable life of a hopelessly incurable pain wracked patient, to raise their hand. NOT ONE HAND WAS RAISED. Towards the end ot 1847 a committee of nearly 2,000 New York doctors drafted a bill to the state legislature urging that mercy killing be t J brought out VNi"- into the open In- ii J 'ip 2h and safeguarded against abuse, rather than as practiced at present, without regulation or control. A simple workable plan necessitating the voluntary plea of the suffering incurable to the civil court which attests and judges the patients voluntary action, and his hopeless painful existence, and then permits a seconded plea before the painless humane euthanasia of he who desires it in legal fassion by his own physician. That the moral principals of mankind are not violated by the act of bestowing merciful peace peace upon suffering incurables is well expressed in the words of Dr. A. L. Wolbarst, New York Urologist, in the January 1948 Readers Digest, "To withhold euthanasia against the expressed will of the incurable sufferer is but a denial of the physicians solemn obligation to relieve suffering." This viewpoint was shared in the same article by 54 Protestant and Jewish religious leaders who asserted that it was not variance with moral principals. In the presence of need, in the absence of control, and in the face of the facts I urge that you give this matter some thought. May Calendar Dram Packed There is scheduled "a regular festival of drama in May', according to John Kelly director of the Theatre Workshop class at Weber. Rehearsels have already started for the Cellar Play which will play the first week of May. The play is Kind Lady by Edward Chodorov. It is a mystery Melodrama in three acts. It promises to be a great success. The second week of May is the Community theatre week. The play is under the director of Miss Carolyn Glassman. Mr. Pirn Passes By is the play. The second week of May the Theatre Workshop will present a musical drama to celebrate the Golden Spike. This will be presented on the area in front of the City and County building. The third week of May the Theatre Workshop students will be on the wagon theatre presenting their street play. It will be a child- J HAY RACK PARTIES The Lodge Is Available for After-Ride Parties and Refreshments Sunny Slope Dude Ranch &ORTH OGDEN CON By Rulon Garfield With the acquittal of Dr. Herman Sanders in the recent "mercy killing" case the feeling is generally becoming paramount that mercy killing is justified to relieve intense pain, excessive suffering and eventual lingering death. In fact, Dr. Sander's own minis ter had a special prayer-service in which they prayed for Sander's acquittal. I believe, in cases such as this the idea in question is basic for all human thinking. It deals V with just who has the right and authority to take a person's life. Man, frequently throughout recorded time, has always sought to become a law unto themselves and they like to play god in a world that was not of their making and with a life they did not produce. The fact that Almighty God, in the beginning, created the heavens and the earth and that He said to His Son, "Let Us make man, in our image, after our likeness" .... seems to make no impression of the minds of the worldly wise. I maintain it is verily true when the scriptures declare . . . "the Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away, blessed be the name of the Lord." That it is not my prerogative to take life nor to create a soul, is what that means to me. Bold disregarding of this philosophy has brought the world into a chaotic condition when through the Hell of war a life of a man means no more to some people than the life of an Aberdeen-Angus. We must stop this trend of thinking and recognize that God is the source, the force and the final end of human existence. A person might view into the future and see "mercy killing" cases. All sorts of sadistic medical doctors, chiropractors osteopaths and non-professional would be parading before future judges saying "the patient or my mother or sister was in so much pain and would die eventually, I just had to bring it to an end. ren's play but is yet to be worked up. Members of the class that will be participating are Jack Buckley, Harry Butler, Elaine Creer, Carol Folkman, Shirley Gigliotti, Renee Glover, Niel Hess, Marilyn Howard, Raun James, Harold Jones, Dale McLane, Eldon McLatchie, Walt McPhie, Chyrrel Olsen, Pat Olsen, Robena Parker, Anne Rasmussen, Betty Ross, Betty Sandstrom, Dick Slater, Clarence Socwell, Bruce Thompson, and Mary Ziemer. Ross' Cafe HOME MADE PIES Fountain Service Over Forty Years Serving Ogden 364 - 25th Street ......... . . ti HORSE BACK RIDING Phone 2-0331 |