Show nt STUDENT LIFE LOGAN UTAH MARCH PAGE EIGHT Forensic Oratorical Contests Held March 25 26 Utah-Idah- o All “Hatted-U- p For The Grand Opera Monday and Tuesday § V! Lc 1 'i i£j t?- - s o Jointly sponsored by the Agora club college lettcrmen’s debate group ami the school debate department the first Forensic and Declamatory contests for annual Utah-ldah- o will be held here on March 25 and 2G school students high according to J Robert llullock director of the Agora dub and general chairman of the meet This will be the first opportunity that Utah and Idaho schools have ever had to compete in debate against each other Although the college has sponsored a number of debate tourneys including the western junior college matches last year this is the first high school tournament which has been held here The forensic meet will include F intra-squa- ? I Student Manager State Speakers from Albion Normal school Albion Idaho will invade the Aggie campus Tuesday March 7 for debates with members of the Utah State squad according to William S Adams student manager Albion State will bring at lertst two teams Mr Adams said and teams will be picked from the Aggie junior college squad to meet the Albion groups Debates will be held Monday evening at 7:30 p m and are open to the public Colorado Teachers college will appear in Logan on March 23 in senior college competition The Colorado debates will be held in the evening and are also public Tentative plans call for Aggie teams to make trips to Los Angeles for debates with California Institute of Technology Occidental Redlands UCLA and the University of Southern California to Stockton California for the western states tournament through southern Utah for debates with the Utah junior colleges and to Salt Lake for the annual junior college tournament Scribble magazine is doing a little chiseling on the walls of time At least the new cover so deplete The artiste working on the Scribble this year are Miss Boss Faye Munk Merl Frazer I'anghan Dean Bislioh ami Max ''aaver I £ I formal debate oration and extemporaneous speaking and awards wd! be given to individual high men and to the winning schools The purpose of the matches however is more to promote good debating through an exchange of ideas than to pick a winning team Mr Bullock said High School Question Teams competing in the debate phases of the program will discuss the national high school question Resolved: that the several states shall amend their constitutions to provide for a unicameral legislature Extemporaneous speech titles will be drawn from a number of topics on the labor problems of today Orators are limited only in that their speech must be original and must be written on a patriotic subject Each team entering the debate tournament is assured of at least six rounds of debate since no decision will be made public until this much of the series is concluded If a champion is not evident at the end of this competition several more rounds wall be held Mr Bullock said Invitations Issued Every high school in Utah and in southern Idaho has been invited to Aggie debaters have participated participate in the contests Invita- in 33 intercollegiate contests alissued to almost tions have been ready this season and have en75 schools in at least twice that many gaged Housing arrangements are being d practice debates acmade at fraternity and sorority to Dr Wallace J Vickers houses and at college dormitories cording head of the college debate departMeals will be taken care of at the ment Of the 33 debates between is A banquet college cafeteria Utah State and other schools 13 planned for one night of the ses- were participated in by junior colsions and all visitors to the lege debaters and 20 by members of matches will attend the senior college groups Brigham University of Utah Ricks college Young university University of Idaho Southern Branch Colorado university Denver university University of Wyoming and Colorado State have met Aggie team members in debates Three teams made the trip to the Rocky Mountain Forensic League tourney in Provo last November two junior college teams w'ent to Rexburg Idaho to debate Ricks college and the University of Idaho Southern Branch and two senior and two junior college teams went to Fro vo last week end to meet the University of Utah and Brigham Young university m a triad discussion Miss Marie Sharp William Adams Edward Barrett Miss Lila Maughan Lazone Duncan Richard Palmer Miss Maurine Cottle Miss Betty Jean Fonnesbeck Miss Jean Hansen Bryant Keari Virginia D Reeve David Gancheff Paul Coburn Conway Sonne and LeMar Hendrickson havd participated in matches this year Bill Adams Student Debate Last year’s lettermen who have Manager not yet entered in formal intercollegiate competition include: Allan DEBATERS CONTEST Hatch Rulon Carlisle Silvan Witt-we- r Garth Rudd Wesley Mitten Robert Bullock and Cora Fuller WITH ALBION Student Life Staff Dines 2 o 05 0 O This distinguished group of opera enthusiasts were caught in a relaxed and unposed moment Money fame publicity could hardly hope to induce these students to pause for one brief minute before dashing for the main hall intersection However persistent flattery won the to be presented Monday and partially attired in the regalia of old Spam locale of the opera "Carmen" which is Tuesday nights days of dressing in costumes have already brought gray hairs worry-wrinles and headaches to many who have been seeking a solution to the problem of what to wear that may have been worn fifty years ago In my wanderings last week however I found one girl to whom it gave not the slightest bit of worry but a great deal of fun Her first act of preparation wras to buy a package of black dye with which she dyed a pair of her window curtains as well as a large piece of cheese cloth When next I chanced to look in upon her her costume was completely assembled and she was in the midst of trying it on Suddenly there stood a lady of the past in a bright blouse with leg o’ mutton sieves and a skirt that was once a curtain trailing about her feet And what’s this? A bustle! (Don’t look now but I shade think it is the under the fastened by strings skirt) Her hat is a regular Paris creation of not more than fifty years ago — an inverted basket covered with black cheese cloth Ah tied under the chin yes! There’s one girl ready for the march back to fifty years ago (Editor's note: The following is a letter received from Louis Tremelling senior who is traveling in Latin America with Dr H Loran Blood plant pathologist of the college experiment station Mr Tremelling is acting as Dr Blood’s Spanish interpreter Dr Blood is in South America collecting seeds and specimens of wild tomato plants for the use in breeding experiments and improving present commercial tomato varieties) La Paz Bolivia Jan 29 1938 Dear Ralph: In fulfillment of my promise to let you know about the expedition to South America I’m now writing from La Paz Bolivia We have covered nearly all of Peru on our trek for the tomato We not only and ornamentals have found plenty of specimens of wild tomatoes and ornamentals but rare specimens of humanity and the manner in which they live are more curious than the beloved tomato We haven't made any coU lections of any of these specimens yet because Dr Blood doesn’t think they could be propagated in their natural state in good old And while we’re on the subject Ancient (’ivilimtion Leaving Lima Peru the wheels of time roll back at least a lots) years The plowing is still done by oxen and it he antique wooden that is the "better-to-dplows class" have oxen and plows the rest of the small farms are cultivated with a lorm of gruh-ho- e Tile average size of each chucia or farm is a 11 lie less than one lire Neuily all these farms aie inclosed by rock or adobe walls ilxmt 4 ft high The planting is done by broadcasting The greater part of these farms are so precipitous that machinery and animals would be of no use to the people One is amazed at hov the Indians can cling on to their farms and perform their labors in such dangerous places 21 (HHj Foot Mountain The hills are terraced from bottom to top in the most unbelievable places These mountains make our Rockies look like ant hills We have traveled over mountain passes more than feet high and yet the peaks towered above us 6000 fet The mountain fever sorroehe as it is called here caused from extreme keeps many of the ajkitudes tourists from seeing the interior of the country except by aeroplane For example La Paz capitol of Bolivia is 12245 feet above sea level or nearly 3000 feet above the peak of Mt Logan the highest point in the vicinity of Logan After seeing these mountains and the extremely dangerous with some impassable ranges Two k bed-lam- p t certain girls in Logan are planning a revolt They daren’t think of what their favorite brothers or will look like after a week’s neglect of the razor However certain wish that this taboo on shaving could continue for a month or so— making Hie beards into really something worth looking at t And did you notice the large number of students searching through family albums or the lists of A C graduates to see how many of their relatives figured in the establishment of this college? It is also amusing to note the large number of students who have been planning to do something drastic such as announcing their engagements or taking the and committing easier course suicide so that their names would appear in the issue of Student Life which is to be preserved for fifty of the years in the corner-ston- e main building Perhaps it’s a good idea — maybe I will But at present I’d prefer the second —Keyhole Fanny USA mid-ter- GENERAL ELECTRIC APPLIANCES FOR EVERY NEED! CACHE VALLEY ELECTRIC CO HUGHE’S “Clothes of Charm” SPRING DRESSES and Up $795 Featuring Navies Prints Pastels! o dug-wa- YEARS 1988-FIF- TY Louis Tremelling Outlines South American Trip Plans Costume (Editor’s Note: This is the Morrill Act signed b President Lincoln in 1862 and providing for the estali lishment of Land Grant Colleges by the donation of fed Utah received 200000 acres Thus tli eral lands Utah State Agricultural college was made possible) lie it enacted by the Senate and House of sentatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled that there be granted to the several State for the purposes hereinafter mentioned an amount public land to he apportioned to each state a (piantiti epual to thirty thousand acres for each Senator anil Representative in Congress to which the States are ft! spectively entitled by the apportionment under the of eighteen hundred ami sixty: Provided That mineral lands shall be selected or purchased under provisions of this act And he it further enacted That all moneys denial from the sale of the lands aforesaid by the states t which the lands are apportioned and from the sale of land scrip hereinbefore provided for shall he invest? in stocks of the United Stales or of all States or some other safe stocks yielding not less than five per centun upon the par value of said stocks and that the money so invested shall constitute a perpetual fund the capita of which shall remain forever undiminished (excepts far as may be provided in sectioned fifth of this act) and the interest of which shall be inviolably appropriated by each State winch may take and claim the benefi of this act to the endowment support and mainten ance of at least one college where the leading objec: shall be without excluding other scientific and classics studies and including military tactics to teach sue1 branches of learning as are related to agriculture ant the mechanic arts in such manner as the Legislature of the States may respectively prescribe in order promote the liberal and iiracticil education of the ij classes in the several pursuits and profession of r" Resourceful Coed College s M which though not carrying much tune or rhythm express much devotion to staff leaders Yet no matter what some may think the most noticeable result noon several students was more Friday at or less complete satisrealized that was a thing faction of nearly fifty large of the past and that final term examinations would not start for a while yet so they threw all cares to' the winds and enjoyed a Student Life luncheon Nearly fifty persons most of whom were members of the staff and a few of whom work on the paper joined forces to "storm” the cafeteria and following a ALWAYS AN AGGIE BOOSTER brief period of gossip or other general conversation they proceeded to eat This last process seemed to be of great interest not only to the eaters themselves but 27 North Main also to certain persons in the hall who could not walk past the glass doors without slopping to gaze on the staff members in envy Many varied results were noted the chief one it is hoped being an increased interest in the welfare of the school paper (We all know that it is only a prosperous enterprise that can stage two or throe good parties) Others were a COEDS’ realization on the part of most of the students that Editor d can really give a talk when he wants to A1 Thomas and his friends also proved to the staff that they know how to originate and sing very amusing little verses Red-for- Morrill Act Marks Beginning Of Present Agricultural High Schools Have First Opportunity To Meet in Competitive Debate u 3 1938 FROM NOW one does not wonder that Peru and Bolivia are unable to civilize her indigenous race Coca Makes Life Coca is the staff of life here that is the natives could" not live without it The coca is p shrub which abounds in both Bolivia and Peru from which the leaves are stripped and chewed by the natives They use with the coca a type of lime ash to loosen the cocaine in the leaf Women men and children have their cheeks perpetually bulged with a great ball of coca Chica National Drink The national drink is Chicha a The drink made from maize chicha is manufactured by the native women who sit around a large urn and masticate the corn so as to mix it well with saliva then spit it into the urn After a proper time of brewing with a mixture of ants and bugs it has the proer flavor and alcoholic content Today in Arequipa Peru where a few years ago 200 women worked in a chica factory modernization has crept in and the chicha is advertised free from spit Pizarro Large The Gringo tourist is increasing very rapidly down here every year One of the things which should not be missed is the mum-ifieremains of Don Francisco Pizarro in the great cathedral of Lima This has been such a good drawing card that Pizarro now hag two corpse ore in Lima and one in Cuzco Peru History must be wrong because it says that Pizarro was a large man but these corpse are about 5 feel 4 inches Can’t blame them though these are the largest they could find down here among the small native indigenous race and then they have to be changed every so often and fresh ones put in their places Moineiitite We get along pretty well down here traveling around but we have trouble with the word momentito The Dr is trying to learn Spanish and I have been at it three years now but we can’t figure out how long a momentito is They Always do things down here in a momentito It’s a variable term according too the magnitude of the propina (tip) d Adios Louis Tremeling American Consulate Lima Peru BY AFTOV MERRILL Pull up a chair and let’s look into the future— abouL fifty years from now 198 to be exact— ' Another basketball game has just been won by the Aggies in the fairly new Peterson gym The Aggies are still holding the conference title they have had for the last forty-nin- e years (remember we didn't quite make it in 1938) That Sophomore Jimmy Parkinson is upholding the tradition set by his grandfather Berkeley back in the old days Of course there's another equally famous Ryan on the team while the other three regulars (Petersons) will go down in history as the "scoring Petes" At Last! It took fifty years for the final erection of a new Union building but the persistence of the students finally convinced the faculty thaf the Dansante owners didn't need any more of the school funds The lounges have just been refurnished in the latest of modern furnishings As the Military Ball will be held soon the great ilance hall is decorated to commemorate the founding of B O T C one hundred years ago Tile military dept has been inereaseil a great deal — we’re expecting war any day now (The same war we were expecting in ti du-tri- in life The entire student body eagerly awaits it’s issue on Thursday (Quite a change?) Of oourse Bob Redford (grandson of Ralph) is fighting to keep something out— or put something in— just like his old grandpappy Remember the "Big Apple?" How tame it would look beside the latest dance step that’s sweeping the country — the "Avacado" — from which we swing into the "Evergreen” (Not limited to Freshmen) No Improvement? Many students are finding it a lot harder to make good marks than it was in 1938 Perhaps the old idea of apple polishing is worn out Then again perhaps all they need is a little training in the art Fraternities and sororities are still fighting to gain top honors on the campus Each one tried to out do the other when they started to build the fraternity and sororitj row about thirty years ago and they’re still having friendly fights Enrollment Doubled The enrollment has reached six thousand to date The addition ot 1938) another Home Economies building The Same Old Story? of the library as the I understand the Buzzer has been well enlargement as a complete new chemistry out on time since: 1939— coming have added to our instituand the Student Life has become building tion Upon the finishing of the new a weekly newspaper of some note mechanic arts building we shall have enlarged our campus to extent of being classed with state universities of the east Just As Filial “Old Main” is badly in npsl some more repairs— of courses year another part is strengthen if it weren’t for sentimental sons it w ould be cheaper to an entire new building But years now the “Old Main” wit! lighted “A” on the tower hasty a Familiar landmark for old p — the campus would he at a without it —Yes in looking back were proud to be graduates of stir school of great renown— and know the true Aggie spirit continue on through many r generations In Ham’s Cafe Serving Quality Food! College Students Welcomed! GEORGE B EVERTON 17(i ‘ NORTH MAIN ‘Logan’s Only ExcIusiveTyp ewriter Shop” Extends Congratulations To UTAH STATE’S 50TII YEAR CELEPRATION SEE THE WORLD’S ALBERT CHAMPION TYPIST TANGORA TODAY 2:30 MAIN AUDITORIUM ROXY I O o & o o o o o o o o o O’ o O’ & o o o o o o o o o o o o o o a O’ o o o o O’ o o o o o o o o o o a o o a F o o & o' o o o o o o O’ o o o The Modern Drug Store UTAH STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE SEMI-CENTENNIA- L AN ACHIEVEMENT DESERVING OF PRAISE - - AN INSTITUTION TO BE PROUD OF ! & o 0 0 0 o o o o F V 0 If 1 o o o USERS ¥a Fir3IT tms -u O o o & & o I Ceorje Brent Olivia o ' de Harillamll Words cannot adequately describe a dream realized such as the college on the hill represents ! o i & o o o & l |