St. Viator College Newspaper, 1931-05-25

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Volume XL VIII

No. 16

Monday, May 25, 1931.

ST. VIATOR TO HOLD ANNUAL SERVICES D. OF I. VISIT : !EDWARDGORMAN Impressive Ceremonies to Mark Observance of Memorial Day COLLEGE CAMPUS I Asce~~: ::I:Sa:b~r~:~e:~1 NE~ PRESIDENT A scensi on Services.

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year by St. Viator students in a T S Delegates to State Con- manner according to the practice of he ophom ore s

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former years. A day's vacation was P romin ent Manteno ,declared and the entire student body College for Inspecattended the High Mass in the d-I Youth to L ead Them t' f G ds lege chapel at eIght-thirty o'clock 010 Through Junior Ion 0 roun Thursday morning. The Mass was celebr.ated by the Very Re.v. J. W. R ' Year Approximately one hundred dele- MagUIre, C. S. V' I Pres id ent of St. gates to the state convention of the Daughters of Isabella, held in Brad- Viator College. Classes were resumed Edward Gorman, Manteno, Illinois, on the following day. ley on May 15 and 16, visited the I became the new President of the College late Saturday afternoon ill - - - - -Sophomore class at the election held

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Viator student, attending this school --for a time during the days of the b D b em er ars lty e ate Academy. He returned to St. Viator T T , last year to take up his stud ies in e arn a es onor, ,I the college course. Mr. Gorman is S d College. Those who acted as guides 0 an I S e con an Arts s tudent, and one of the most were Thomas Wilkins, John Burns, ---. ~0:~11:~ ca:;::~nent underclassKenneth Bushman, Edward Gorman, John W. Mehren, '34, of Wmnetka, John McAndrews, Gill Middleton, Illinoi s, won the 1931 Stephen N. The post of Vice-President was Raymund Wenthe, and Edward Moore oratory award on Friday j w.on by James Hunt, Ch Icago,. wh lle Behrens. evening May 8th when he very elo- ' hI S brother, Edward Hu nt, wlll reA quartette composed of James quently' eliminat~d five other con-II ta in hi s office of Class Secretary.

O'Donnell , Edward Hunt, Donald testants in the finals held in the When the results of the ballotl"g Anderson, and George Hynd~, with Coll ege Club rooms: Robert were made knO\~n, it .wa s found that.

Werner Salg accompanI st, ap~ : Nolan, '34, of Rockford, Illinois, Ed Hunt and GIll Mlddl~ton, formel peared on the program of the D. ot placed second while Francis De~- Class President were tied for the 1. banquet at the Kankakee Hotel Lauriers '34 'Of Kankakee Illinois position of Secretary. A flip of a on Saturday evening. This group rece ived' thi;'d place. Th~ larges~ coin decided the post, and Mr. Hu n t has acquired quite a campus reputa- crowd ever to attend the annual f won. . t ion for the ir harmony and were in- oratorical co ntes t approved the unJ. Kenneth Bush man, PeoTla, Ill., vited to entertain the visiting dele· an imous verdict of the three judges will handle t he purse of the class for gates after their fame had spread in giving their deci s ion to Mr. next year, and Raymund Wenthe, to downtown musical circles.

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Mother's Day was observed at the College in a manner singularly befiltilla an institution of Catholic ~ sons. For the day set aside for the honor of all the mothers of the country was also Holy Name SunI· .o' udent apd ay, an d every C a th OIC "' proached Holy Communion; it goes without saying that each a nd eve~~ Mother was fondly remembered those Communions, n0. s 'lsted by Rev. Father Mu,nsch, ., Jose ph Hoog. Holy Narnc Society president for the year 1930-1931, ndministt:'red t.he Holy lame oath to five ncw membe rs immediately fonowing the ~even o'clock Mass, TIll: ncw mCl'nbers weh:omed by Father Munsch ami the president arC: James Almeroth, Thoma~ Hayes, John Gorman, Edward Bern'ns anti John Ryan.

According to Mr. 1I 00g, thero will he n ~light. ('hange in the manner o( running otT the Holy Name elertion~ fOI" the coming yeur, which will lak,' place at 11 date lo be named lah'r. The nomination~ will be made and thtt voti'S ('ssl at th{> sam\.' m£"eting 8!'1 be(or~, but lht.' president h01W~ to ct'gister nil the members (I( thtl lItl)Y ~nmf', and rt.'~trid the v~lting- to those reJot'ish'red, FormerIy, the l'ntire stwh'nt body efist a '·~)h'. Th .... ~IN·tion. tht> ln~t outstandin~ om." of thc< Yi'ar at the (,olle~e. ",hall ~ watl'hl~ with grt-at intt'rt',..t. and \\"'t' urg'\' t'\"t~ry mt.'mbt-r of the lhlly ="anw tt) rt'~stl'r so that hI;.", may til\" t'lig-ibJl"' to ,·ott.' .

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R H DA The annual English Essay medal ev. , . A. 1 rche, distinguished will be awarded this year to Miss chaplain of the Marines a nd hero of Frances Clancy of Kankakee, Illinois, Belleau Wood, will be the celebrant, and a mernber of the Junior class. He will be assisted by other army Miss Clancy's essay was selected by chaplains as deacon and sub-deacon . the judges from an approximate The Mass will start at eleven o'clock, hundred entries on the subject, and central standard time, and w ill be her victory over such a fie ld of atte nded by the facu lty of St. Viator competitors is indicative of the merit College in academic dress, the studof her winning essay.

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The question for di scussion this T~e gnweyard commemorating " ear was "Gandhi and the Freedom the men of St. Viator who gave ~f India." Miss Clancy wrote in "er their lives in the World War w ill be characteristic interesting style, and erected by the statue of the Sacr ed dealt with the theme in a rnost Hearl at the c.ntrance to the College thorough and exhaustive mann(=,r It grounds, a nd the r emain in g serv ices was in the happy combi natio n of the of the day w ill be held t here. Robe r t two virtues of reader-interest nnd Tuckel', member of th is year's Senior knowledge of the subject that the cla ss, will deliver the address of the work found its greatest merit and day, and Miss Mary Tay lor, a lso of rose above the other themes sub- the Senior class, will read Jo hn . d McRae's IIIn F lander's Field." mItts .

Second place in the contest was The Catholic H ig h Schools of Chid o t T . G·n M·d 11 t f cago and surrounding territory w ill awareIe 1 1 ( e on 0 Bloomington, Illinois, a member of be invited to be the guests of t.he C h d d '11 tt d the Sophomore class. Mr. Middleton ollege 011 t at ay, an WI ad enh a lso wrote at length on the matter, I' the services in the, morn ing an t e touchi ng on its most import,m t baseball game at mght.

JUNIOR SENIOR PROM IS HELD

of the present. Indian. s ituat,i,on un-.

Gh d der,'h e spec.I fi c t OplC 0 f an. 1 ., 'I B D I F I I n' us.t. "e lvorcec 'Tom n( Ian Pit Alth h t f M ,[0 hI lCS; t Ik oug par ShOt f r. "e ren s a .were somew a 0 a pro-BTltlsh attItude, hIS arguments Upper Cla sses Unite t o on the whole were quite fair and unprejudicial to the natives of Innia. ' Stage Final Danre of He appeared to ha ve a complete Y • C G knowledge of his subject and this, ear In 0 ege ym coupled with his ease and w~e of gestures, easily made him the outThe final dance of the year alld h i ' I IT' f h S· standing speak,er of the e~e ning, t east socIa a all' 0 t e emor Mr. Mehren. gamed mUCh. of hIS plat- cIa" as students of St. Viator was form eXpf'rlenCe only th.1S year a~ a held in the gym on last Friday evenmember ~f the affi,rmal:ve. squad ~f ing. The affair \\'as an immemic the Bergin Debat,m g , Society. Ills success, due large ly to the efforts of expcl"ience stood hlln 111 good stead, Hel'hert Shea, President of the Junas was evidenced by the close 9.tten- ior cla~s, and Kenneth Clothier, tion that his audience gave him all executive of the Senior <'lass. during hi' ten minute, talk.

The gym was beautifully decorated :Mr. Nolan, algo a Fre~hman, w:).s in a m'w effect, and every effort was a teammate of Mr. Mehren's on the made to insure the comfort and 1031 AfTirmative debating squad . His pleasure of the students and their experience and his easy flnency guests at this last home affair of made him n very clo!'e second to the the ~cason. ~rusic for the occasion winner. )lr. !-Iolnn ha sa ,'ery plells- wa, furnished by the popular Ray iog \'oic!! and his speel:h proved to \\r u lff and his Ambassador:;, of Kanbt.· very intere~ting to tho!'e as - kake~. The orchestra is one of the :-::t'nl.blNl. )Ir. DesLauripT:-i. although olde;:)t favorites with th(> !=Ituc1<mts of not n mt>mbt"r of lhe Bergin ~ociety, th(.· cl)lIc~e, and Ray played his hu:-: Rcquired a degree of profi,{:i,nc.-y ~wet:te~t tunc~ for the entertainment 111 th~ Public.' Speaking rlasses ~hat of the~tudenl:;, and th~ departing made him one of th~ mo ... t C'JunlifieJ S~nior~. of the ...'\"('ning's sp ...·ak .... rs.

The crowd wa~ one of the best )Olr. \Yilliam Reilly, '3 I. )Ir. James that hag turned out all yt'sr, and Let'. '3-1, and )1r. Gill "\IH.ldlcton. '3:t. although it wa~ n,~cc'3.;aTily 5i.malied wtort." the other three ("ont.e-stant!'i fot"' fair was prvnoun(·ed one of the most the m("unl, but wen." un·~ble to O\'er- than the Homt!cominJt dance, the af(C,lntinued on oage six) delightful e ...t:r given on the (·ampus.

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FRANCES CLANCY II WINS ESSAY PRIZE

JOHN WMEHREN ::~~ire;"er~' ~~c:~e:ret~~::~h ~~: ORATORY WINNER I~~~:~g\h:h~e:P~~::1de~~ni.r~~ ~~~

various buildings and about the camt t t d t . ht pus by elg compe en s u en s, The loca l tour was arranged by Mrs. Stelter of the Darche Cirde of Brad ley and the officials of the

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Preporations for the IllOSt impressive Memorial Day services ever held I' ar St ' .V·In t ~r are bemg . camp ltd e e ~s I' th e Vlatonan goes to press. Th Is enrs --yeur, as i~ ~re~ous , t he b oba last week. Mr. Gorman won by a P r omi nent Junior Girl t b: a small majority over James Laffey, Adjudged Winner of lege, and plans al'e being la.id for

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phases in his excellent style. Other espec ially good bits of work were subm itted by William Clancy, Franci s L:Jrkin, Burke Monahan, and Ke nneth Bushman.

The contest was judged by a COInmittee of four judges composed of the Rev. T. J. Lynch, Dean of

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Studies, Prof. Munay Hickey Ley, of Besides the regu lar number of the English Department, Dr. John Hi story stude nts, quite a f(·w intcrTr~ccy 811is, Head of the Department e~ted vis itors have bee n attc:.nding of History, a nd Pro.f, Miles Dunning- I the::' I('dures on Medi eva l Art that ton, of the EconomIcs Uepartme nt. afe heing given on the Tuesday evenings during May, by Rev. Father A. L. Girard, '07. During the College Offers Eight course of the past two lecture., he Weeks Cou rse in C hern has giv('n a detailed and interesting' sturl yof ~he great Cu:holic cat~eAn eight weeks' cour~(' in inor. drals of "'u~ope. In hHi .coliectlOn ganic ch('l1Ii~try has been offered to of co lored slideH, J:'ather GJrafld hus the studenL~ of St. Via.tor College two or three. rare VIf'WS of tho Cuthcand anyone who rare" to regi.ter dral of Rholm" before and nfu,r the for the cIa. ". The cour~e will be ravages of the World War. Th(' under tht' personal supervision of CathNlral of Chartrc!4 has h,·cn thc' Rev. IJr. Chri~topheT Marzano, sclcclNI as b('ing (JOe of lh(' mORt r. S. V., head of the Science School typj(·al (·xamples of the medieval of Slo Viator. Three hour _' credit church builders, will he awarded for th(! cour~e, which Many studc·ntH have ('Xprr~A8ed may be foIlowt!d by fiN'clnd 8~mc s tRr their appr('ciation of th(' (·f)UrHe by chemi try n/'xt year.

Futhf>r Girard and Hay that they hav~ ohtalnE:fl mu(·h valuabl/~ inform· ati(," on thf' cultural bU('kground \Yith the- a/Jdition (J! SCTe(!n H ((ir that TNdJy (:xi"t.ed during- th~ period th<.· e<·cr,nd UO(Jr oN'upantfl , th(· W:H gf:n/'rfdly r(tf~'n~d ttJ, by di)ifJUragjng un .June lJug.& ha~ cca~ed.

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Editor's Comment

THE VIA TORIAN

Oilers and Westray's Clintonians are

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The S pring is very much with us place. We intend to take John's aga inJ accomp.anied with its cus- g olf clubs away from him, however, to ma r y dose of fe ver. From which if he is going to throw us down

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Ra lph Hoo ver I It is a pleasure of the Viatorian to E di tor-in- Ch ief K enn et h Bus hman congratulate one of the members of lIianag in g Edito r Fea t ure W ri ter :.:. ...... GiII Middleton Feature Writer ......... Fran ces Mary Clancy most faithful contributors to the Feature Writer .......................... Jos eph Loga n Viatorian this year, and we a.r e ......... _. ..... Robert Tucker I most happy to extend our felicitaFeature Wri ter .... ............ Patrick M. Cleary t ions to her upon her excellent bit Ca mpu s B r ief s of work In the Essay Contest. We E ditorials ............................ Carl Lampe hope to print her Essay in the next Athletics .......... _. ............ Kenneth Cloth Ier issue.

Freshman As sis tants : We wi sh, also, to express our ap Alumni and Third Co rridor .................. James Dugan ................. Wilbur Callahan preciation to Dr. Bessenyey for his D oubl e Dribbles ... ......... Frank Wirken excellent bit of work from the Athl etics Senior L ea gu e ..... ....... John Boyle Sociology cla ss. It is truly unusual .. .... ............................ _.... Edward Coakley for any class to attain to the popuMa n a ging Editor. ...................... John Mehren larity which has come to the SocioF ea t ure Writer . ....... _...._.................... John Burns logy a.nd Political Science classes of li'eature Writer.... .

Circu lation Manager .. .. .......................... .......... Ro bert Spreitzer this year, and such interest is worthy

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Co mpliments of

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The final dance of the year-and of their collegiate career, for the Seniors-is over, and the affair rates

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the bookstore stationery after last C. of St. F. affair.

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If Professors Taught As the Coaches Coach It isn't often that a college professOr calls down one of his students,

Entered as second class matter at th e Post Office of Bourbonnais, Illinois, tory. Mr. Mehren, like Miss Clancy, On the other hand, football coach es und er the Act of March 3rd, 1879. is a valued member of the Viatorian spend much of their time finding

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Address a ll cor respo ndence r eferring eit her t o a dve rtis ing or s u bscription to Another bit of congratulations but when it does happen the student goes out to John Mehren, winner of grumbles to himself just as though The Viatorian. Bourbonnai s, Ill.

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staff, and we are doubly interested fault with their proteges in a verbal in his victory for this reason. It I manner all their own. What if was our pleasure to be a member of I coaches were professors? I.f they the affirmative debating team a long were, perhaps th eclassroom dIalogue

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winner of second place in the contest, HWhat's the matter with you a nd we have admired their eloquence bunch of hobies? I want you to put more intimately throughout the year. some pep into the recitation t h is morn ing. You're not at a ny pink The practice of guest lecturers is tea. All you've done t his year is being used even more extensively in stall around, and I'm one guy t hat the classes of the H istory Depart- won't stand for it, see? Yeah, I I me n t tha n in Sociology . Through mean you, Billi ng, and you too, Hart.

I the efforts of Dr. John Tracy Ellis, "There's one thing that I don't ' many well-known lecturers and au- like about yo u, Hart, and that is t hat

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have been brought to the you are too d- cocky. Can you reclasses, among them the Rev. E. V. cite the line of Shakespea.re that I CANDY t' h --t d t 0 f th t Cardmal, C. S. V., Rev. J. W. R. assigned for today? You can't do it ? nce upon a Ime t ere were two s u en s. ne 0 em sa Maguire, C. S. V., noted soclQlogist That's about the class of work that We S upp ly S t. V iato[ College down along side of a Cat holic education and wen t to s leep. L ittle and economist, Rev. T. J. Lynch, Rev. you've been doing all year.

F . 0_ SA V OlE CO. did he cars that millions had been invested in bu ild ings to pped W J Bergin, and the Rev. A. L. "Hey, you dizzy blond in the f ront Dis tributor 'I ith a cross, that thousands of men and wom en had given t h eir GIrard. row, can you come out of the coma !il'es to the cause, that Christ was deeply interested and Mary --and give it? All right, that's not L _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _- - ' concerned. H d d h' b t l d h t't D' d h I The pl'lze for the greatest b,t of bad. You're showing better form, ______________--, e nee e IS eau y seep an e go I. I e athletic accomplishment for this year blondie.

D em a nd g et beauty? Oh, that's another question. would undoubtedly be awarded to "Wake up, SmIth, and tell me The other said: "All this va st expen diture of m oney a nd Frank Manns for his wonderful no- where Shakespeare was born. What?

Arseneau's Uniform energy and man power evidently means som eth ing_ S urely t h e hIt, no-run game ~gamst valParLlso' l Why, you half-wit, you dumb cluck, BREAD Church must think me important when it plans so carefu lly for I It has been just eIght yea-rs smce a gowan to the showers. I nlean It, my education. Surely Christ must be interested wh en He asks V,ator man turned this trick last, don't stand there wIth that far-away "IT' S QUALITY SATISFIES" we are informed. the last no-hit, no- look in your eyes, git. men and women to give up everything in life just to ed ucate m e. run game being turned in ill 1923 by "I don't know what you'll do when G. A R SENEAU BAKERY \Vatch me get all I can out of my Catholic education -" So h e Pat Farrell, now the Rev. J. P. Far- you meet the semester exams. I Bourbonnais, III. rolled up his sleeves, trained himsel fto be an educated Catholic, rell of Holy Trinity Parish, Bloom- can't drill any knowledge through and went through life a leader of whom Christ an dthe Church ington. your phony domes. I give up. Get _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _, were pr~ud.

The observance out of here now and don't show up "ROSWITE" AN D "ROS E" Wh h ( h th h t b b II d " h " . I of Mother's Day again until you study your lesson,."

IC weer you appen 0 e a oy ca e e or a gIl' at St. Viall'r is another bit which - The Daily Iowan.

BRAND HAMS AN D BACON The alert one? Then we want to see you in St. Louis t his ' cannot escape comment. The recepcalled " she")-which type of student are you?

I tion of Holy Communion for Mothers Jourdan Packing Co. In your charity kindly pray for summer. 'Ve only wa nt the alert ones there, t h e on es who h ave at the seven o'clock Mass by the en- the departed founders of Sf. Via814-836 W. 20th Street realized that their Sodality or S_ S. C_ is the won derful ch a n ce to tire t stud1 ent baddY was one of the tor College Endowment Fund.

Chicago, Illinois mos so emn an lmpreSSlve th ings prove themselves Christ's own captains later on. of the year.

Rev. Michael Quirk Telephone Canal 3848 Beauty-sleepers are invited to stay hom e. We have com Rev. Goo. P. Mulvaney, C. S. V. Rt. Rev. Msgr. D. L. McDon·ald fortable beds in St. Louis, but we don't have to import t h e John Boyle, official statistics-comRev. Mar tin Brennan d rows y , thank you. The drowsy, like the poor, we have a lways pller of the Viatol'lan, is laid up with Rev. William Murtaugh a broken arm and we are left wlthwit hus. out a standIng for the Senior League.

Rev. J ohn Suerth Dine and Dance We do want the alert, the k ind who will enjoy the compan- Callahan says that he is a poor Rev. J. F. Kirsch IOns hip of keen-minded s t udents who wani to listen to inspir in g Math student and that it might be Rev. Peter P. O'Dwyer AT Mr. Fran cis J . Ly nch talks on leaders hip, to sit around a table a nd discuss program s adVIsable for someone else to try Mrs. Mary Lynch a nd m ethods and ideals, who will get a thrill o ut of seeing m Odel i sortIng out the teams and putting Foxy's Always Inn Mr. Jer ry Murphy .. '" . . t hem In thelr l'lght places. No one :SodalItlcs In actIOn. May be the one we want IS you. seems to want the job, queerly Mr. Patrick Cleary For the last two weeks of August the Summer School of enough, but we are informed by Mr. William Hickey UNDER NEW MANA?EMENT Catholic Action will run. Your room and board and tuition a n d both Callahan and Cleary that the 1'______________-' L_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _-'-_ _ _ _• hooks and all essentials will be a little under $50 for the two , - - - - - - - - - -_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _, 1._ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __ \\·eeks.

NOTRE DAME CONVENT Lambert Hardware Mass and communion will s tart the day_ Talks and discusAccredited to Illino is U ni ver s ity Kan ~ak ee, II!. " ions, practical work and experience will follow. Social features A Select Boarding School for Girls and Young Ladies. will be emphas ized. You m ay be s ure of delightful companionThis institution is conducted by the Sisters of Notre Dame. and offers s hip. A nd the binding thread of the two weeks will be "Christ every opportunity to young; ladies for a thorough Christian a nd secula r education. Prices reasonable. F or Catalogue, address h1 th e life of the student."

R E ACH-W RI GHT & DUSON SISTER SUPERIOR, Notre Dame Convent If you are the leader we think you are, we'll be seeing you lhe las t two weel,s of Aug us t.

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I negro. Lynching and g eneral prec Sociology Class Presents Views Itices of terrorism over the negro by whites of questionable repute, is Acquired During Year's Course graduall y feeling the force of public opinion. The Southern gentll,,!len arc the Negro's friends; both need Most Novel Class in College Writes Synopsis of the other for their mutual arlv311ce ment and fo l'the developll1~nt of New Material Uncovered and Discussed 1 th eir beloved Dixie.

I What is crime ? This was the first During Year. Class Lauded as Most I qu estion which was di sc ussed . From Practical this na turally followed the queries, what is a criminal, w ho are criminals, cr im e in relation to society? 'ATe A new and most interesting course was introduced into the , were told that the meaning of curriculum of the college this year with the reinstitution of the I "crime" has changed throughout the S,ociology classes under the tutorship of Dr; Gabriel Bessenyey. man centuries, that is, things that The course early outgrew Its first proportIOns, and while less were looked upon as crimes three than a dozen students registered in its classes, the distinguished I hundred years ago are not pun is!,Doctor and his guest lecturers seldom spoke to less than twenty able now, and some things lor men with the class reaching its maximum attendance at sixty- which we sentence criminal s to state five. Sociology is believed to be the on ly course in the college at institutions now were unheard of 'vhich so hi gh a · r ate of guest attendance was evident, and the then . It was during this lecture that fact that the voluntar y attendance f requently overshadows the the various degrees of punishment number of registered students is have brought home to the students emp loyed by the State was di::Hxs~ed. proof of its great popularity with the fact that they are presently Yea rs ago the idea behind t he th ird t he student body. The phenomonal dealing with subjects which conceril degree (as we call it now) was to growth of the course and the many them intimately. In addition, the leave as many scars as possible. It disc ussions concerning its lectures class has been taken on field tr ips io was the belief of the police officials 'has led the Viatorian to inves tigate study t he inst itutions under d iscLls- then that these unlu cky persons its great popularity. sion at first hanel. The personal note would serve as a detrim ent to crinl€ .

While many varied answers have }las been sounded through the year, rnanner of punishment is considered been received as to the reasons for therefore, by the intimate acquaint- At the present time, however, this .the popularity of the class, they ance of th~ :.;tudent with the subject illegal and the chief aim of our seem to all simmer down to th e under discu ssion at all times. the culprit as possible without leavsimple explanation that the ment . .n· Dr. Bessenyey has vet:y kind ly police is to do as much damage to has endeavored to make his class :l asked his class to compile its opinion ing any traces or mad:s of cruelty. practical, living thing with the stud- of the subjects studied throughout In general, we learn that the motives ' ents enrolled. In accomplishing th is the year, and had, with the a"td of behind crime and the punishment of I end , Dr. Bessenyey has used many Mr. Ley of the English DepGlrLment, crim e has changed, both from the new and novel methods of presenta- fitted out the following concen:::us view point of the punished and the for pubhcation. punishers. 't ion. .

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lectures have been concise and to F rom Sociology Cour se the point, and his ma ny apt example~ , have placed the subject matter before the students from new and un::Man, woman, old and young, good I I Th D t . ·d d· and cad, white a nd colored, their usua ang es. e oc or IS a1 e In actions, individual and collective, his instruction by the wea l th of ex- wise and foo lish, have been our ;tlbper.ienc~ in bot~ Europe ~nd Ameri~l=\ ect matter in thIS course. We have ' whIch. lIes at hIS finger~tIPs. By hIS ;ound that environment food chmexpel'1ence a nd engagmg style of f t d I .'h I d s peech, he has been able to bridge I' a ffe:n socIa practIce ae a ItS the gap between acade rnic t heory e' ec on m a n . . and actuality . And in its inteHse It seel~ls. hal:l y pOSSible that any . . . l2erson, hvmg tn the present age, in practIcallI ty hes one of the great the United States of America, having , secrets of the s uccess of the co urse. Jived there all of his life and eduThe students have come to feel that cated in its school s, co uld reach the they are no longer dealing with textbooks and theories, but that their age of nineteen years or the second study is life and the men amI women year of his college career, without who make up that Hfe. The student rea~i~ing ~~e enol~l1ity o~ the. variol!s finds examp les iN· his proble ms in SOCla pro ems t at SOCIety IS grap-

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economic law, that all demand s must exc itement of driving the huge conbe s upplied. The demand is created traption that he rolled everything by unmarried men, adu lterous men, but pants. by reason of occupation (army, navy, The Derby might have brought 2.nd men who are necessarily s ingle 'etc.). This demand is met by a tears to the eyes of some individuals, 's upply of women who enter tl:e and s miles of happiness to others, practice because of disappointment but it effected but two members of in love, because of econom ic l'easons, the stu dent body here.

Or merely because it is the easiest because of their adulterous nature, The Viator quartet entertained at way to earn a li ving. Many socie- the Daughters of I sabella banquet in ties are at work to abolish the prac- the Rose room of the Kankakee tice completely. The only possible Hotel the other evening. They were way to abolish the practice complete- awarded much applause after thei r Iy without endangering all women exhibition of golden-tuned harmony. is to do away with the demand. But IThe boys are Ed Hunt, O'Donnell, that has proved impossible. The Hynds, and Anderson. next best thing to do, therefol'e, is --to check its spread and the sprc:w The Senior class has taken over of dangerous and incUl'able diseases the task of selling the "donation as long as possible. In some cou n tT ies fund" booklets, and if the rest of this is done through legali7.ation. the student body would apply for That is, any woman entering the life their booklets, the Ancients would must receive a li cense from the be much obliged . government examiner and must s ubmit to exam ination at regular inierThe most exciting boxing match vals . Such a condition tends to keep of the year will take place on May the practice within certain definite 26th between HK id" Berens and K . O. bounds, although many means of Kane. This wi ll be a fifteen round evasion have been discovered. In bout, and no quarter will be given addition.. this practice of watchful on either side. These grudge fig hts waiting tends to raise the moral always attract a large crowd, and standards of the com munity in that this sho uld be both iast and interthe dividing line. between the two esting. classes of society are defin itely marked and the temptation to overThe Clintonia Club has been orstep the bounds is less acute. ganized and the office of President Many other problems have like- awarded to Hamilton. The offices of wise been taken up and discussed by Vice-President and Secretary go to the class, including the intangible Karl", and Ken Westray wi ll combine matter of social prominence, relations the offices of Treasurer and Sarof man to environrnent, society, in- geant-at-Arms. This is a secret dustry, relations of capital and labor, club, and trespassers in the club effect of isolation, and the various rooms of 204 wi ll be severely puntypes of government. It is to be re- ished.

of the prison and successfully showcd that there was a need for pFison gretted that insufficient space preBus Manns, s miling young Freshreform. In the last one hundred vents the publication of opinions upman hurler, certainly made himself years very little, if any, advance ment on these points also. known to the Valparaiso nine and has been 'm ade in the management Campus Brief-s---l gave them a few pointers in the art of prisons and this fact should of baseball when he refused to alstartle anyone when we conSIder the lo w a hit or a run in beating them 111 other fields durmg the last cen9-0 the other day. And his first This Spring weather has certainly advancements which have oeen m~de time on a mound, too. Maybe Ripl ey tUl'Y· Three reasons are adm itted by been creating havoc among the studwi ll write about it.

I.!riminologi sts why a prisoner should ent body. For example- the studbe sentenced: (a) to repay society, ents who were formerly opp05ed to (b) to protect society, and (c) to s leep in the afternoons arc now reform the prisoner. With our pres- among the chief contender s for h011ent day penitentiaries it is impossible ors in this spo rt. But this drowsy We rece ived a very gracious com to even discuss the last point men- atmosphere is but the fore-runner of tioned which shoudl be one of the an approaching storm-a storm of pliment on this column the other day most important reason~ . from a young lady in Moline. We brain racking exams. thank her very muc h, and assure her The high point of these few \ve~ks Captain Cleary and his inimitable that Wirken is a fr iend of ours"Cubs" pulled the first triple play in and you can put that in italics. the city in wh ich he resides, even among his friends and da il y COnl- that very thing j even mOre than ment. His speech was, in my opin- the his tory of the soft bal! league.

The screens on the windows have "Lewis", star catcher, was the keypanions. that. I not only fai led to realize ion, the best delivered throughout stone of the play, which broug ht a been causing consternation on the The second key to the s uccess has the enormity of these problems, but those hectic weeks. I am quite sure Lhunder of applause from the gal- third floor. We feel that our rights lain in the method of research adopt- I was actuall y ignorant of the eXist- I that his talk ,~on over many of tne to t he freedom of the ledge are belery. ed by the instructor. Outs ide read- ence of some of t hem . For exarnple: s tudents. Professor Crawford ating infringed upon. ing is required of the Sociology class the Negro Problem. tempted to refute these arguments The Viator Independents, under the in a ratio which probably exceerls To the Southerner or one that has but owing to the lack of til1le be was As we write th is our worthy premanagement of Burly Logan, anthat of any other course in the en- lived in the South, there can be no unable to conclusivel y provt: his nexed another fa st and fla s hing ball f ect seems to be going in for zoology tire school, but, strangely enough, doubt a s to the existence of a negro foints. The "big item " that stands in a big way. Take a look at the game last Sunday. The opposition every student is up to the minute on problem. The War gave the young talk on cap ita l punishment was th ~ wa s unable to start any rallies specimen on hi s door. hi s work. The answer lies in the male negro oppo~tuniti~s .to travel. ou t in my min~1 i.n refe~'ence to the aga inst the unerring pitching of class of texts chosen by the Doctor He generally, agatnst hi S wIll, travel- statement that It IS pOSSible to prove Phil Mackey, the Independent ,tal" And Charley Byron comes in for his reading. He has on the led and in travelling ass imilated that capital punishment hlJlped to hurler, who put the ball where he s inging " One Little Raindrop." Jus t reserve shelf modern books (few of some of ihe European nation s dOC- I decrease cl:il11e in a city like Chi..:ago, desired. Pat Cleary, slugging cellter as if we didn't have enough to which ha ve been written previous to tr in es of eq uality. Returning hOll'l.e, noted for lts gang~ter rul e. fi elder, had a perfect day at bat ami worry about.

1927 or 1928) - books which dea l he early infected his fe ll ows with Even greater than the Crime or in the fi eld . with the problems of today-now. this belief and the practical applica- Negro problem, beca use of its uniNature is taking its co urse, and For example, when the gang prob- tion of t hi s theory in Southern versal scope, is the problern of ProCaptains Westray and Lee are slowly but s ure ly we are los ing our lem was discussed by the class, the America met with disfavor and in stitution. Serious as this problem is, fighting it out fOl' fir st place as the Gandhi. Ah, we ll, such is life. Hair students studied from Thrasher's many instances physical resistance. 1l10~t people seldom, if ever, hear of soft ball season draws to a close. today and gon e tomorrow. excellent and ex hau stive work The Northerner's idea of equality it. It is never mentioned in the "Gangs", which deals with every sort is to me a su rpris ing one. The negro home, nor is it mentioned in any Th e Monogram Club had its picPat Farrell promised to write us of gang in the city of Chicago to- is by nature and inclination an in- course in education except Sociology. t ure taken the other day-the first a poem for this column and here it day, Park and Burgess' "The City", ferior man. It is true that the Falsely modest society attempts "0 composi te picture of the Clu b fOI t Ime to go to press and we're still and "The Gold Coast and the Slum" I Northern neg1'o is genera ll y a good hide it completely from the average several years. poemless. w.e~e used a s preparatory bouk~ to \WOrk man, .considering the .tasks q.l- j individual, a~d ~y doing so .OO(;S 11lore gl\ e the student the necessa ry back- loted to hll11. The professIOna l man harm than If It would pIcture the Roger Wheatland and Ga ylord Ladl es and gentlemen, and you ground for the st~dy of gangs, gang among the negro is an exception hideousness of it with complete Chapman, the men who represented too, Wes : The questIOn for di scuswarfare, and crime. Resear ch has yet has been advanced by many as a emphasis.

Golf Tournament, made a good show- sion tonight is how to arrange our been encouraged, therefore, by the fitting I?xample of the negro's inrrhe practice is as old as h:story, St. Viator in the Little Nineteen classes Monday in order to see the and seems to have existed in some ing, and s hould be among the top- circu~ parad e in Kankakee. Yes, use of carefully selected novel-like telligence. works of reference.

I However, the view of the Boston ! form or other even in t he days of ) notchers next year.

Murg, Lhey're going to have elcAnother appealing feature of the negro who said, "Boss, P se not a primitive man. .It certainly exists --phants and monkeys and even zebrag. clnss hns been the presence of a problem, I'se a per::;on", is sl'lwly at the present tllne and very prohEngineer \Veber has completed the ,What! You're afra id of zebras? number of guest lecturers, all sin- being brought to the fore and mcas- ably will c~ntinue to exis t in the fir st successful run of his new steam \Vell, maybe you can borrow .Jim's "Cre students of their subj~ct, who ures being adopted to educate the future. It IS an outgrowth of the roller. Abhoo was so aroused by the rille. jimdugan

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l our modern beliefs and isms on the basis of their real worth, casting Triple plays, double plays, foul aside the faIlacy that whatever is plays, misplays, and all the other modern . is best and th: equaIly I s pecies of plays are woven into the harmful Idea t hat everythmg that IS games played in the Senior League. modern is bad. It is an absorbing The spectator is treated to every I philosophy of ou r times, intended for Kankakee's Largest Stoclc play imaginable in baseba ll. He 1 those who are modern enough to I has but to visit the baIl field any know the thought of the day, and QUALITY RADIO time after dinner or supper, and he yet ultra-mod~rn enough to know will be amply repaid for his trouble. that thought IS not of the day, but ,_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _...! of eternity.

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Jim Lee seems to have the most - -formidable outfit at t he present "Applying that 'philosophical daywriting. He at least presents as light called cornm an sense', Dr. Sheen We won't blame this one on a Freshman, As a matter of ncar as possible the same 1ineu~ a t examines contempora ry ideas in the fi eld of morals, r eligion, science, ~Qnp faci, a Fros h did not commit it. A big shot did. It all happ en~d each pcrformande. evolution , sociology, psychology, and wh en he went io buy a pair of gloves.

Vince Morrissey leads th e initial humani sm: Wi t h the fin esse of an "Kid gloves'!" asked th e salesman. sackers He is one of t he main I expert thmker and the grace of the reasons for the "Oilers" place out In poli shed wrIter, he drops many of "I s hould say not! I'm a college man now!" f 'ont I the pet beliefs of our age into the 1 • limbo of abs urdities. He s ucceeds '--_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _---'

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****** "A man just hanged himself in the gym."

"Well, did you cut him down?"

"No, he wasn't dead yet."

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"Oh, I'm wearin g my black s uit today."

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At the hopShe: "That moon fill s m e with hunger for something."

He (hastily): "Let's dance."

ship. The Magazines have found the going tough in baseball. Mallage r Gibbons is faced with injuries, a nd his s quad has dwindled to u mere eight men. He is rebuilding, however, in an effort to get back into the runnillg. batters with his speedy underhand Pat Cleary has been fooling the s lants, but his support has been faulty. Ask Pat!

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One short inning- Two men on, no "So he'll know how to sow hi s wild oats when he goes to outs, batter hits to Schwartz at th's t, Chi t hi s vacation."

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t hen, Schwartz t o Carroll to Pollock to Madi gan-tripl e play. Tie that!

The facts mu st be faced, and, like t he brave littl e soldiers I ---and sai lors and marines that we ar e, we intend to face 'em. Our 1 Whil e Ken Westray was losing a €nd is neal'. Farewell wo rld, yo u've given us our share of fun decision to Jim Lee 1-0, Ken Cl othi~r , a nd Fra nk Wll'ken were engaged m and hard knocks. Well, maybe not so much on t he fun. Any- a pitcher'S duel t hat resulted in a how, the point is, that we feel that we ar e marked with the 1 32 - 4 win for Clothier.

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Sympathizer: "And did her father come between Ex-suitor: "No, only behind me_"

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I All were games that had Loen postponed. More games would have been 1played if it were not for the twelve shoPPing' l mning affair engaged ill by Lee an d Delaney. Tl>is game lasted most of t he morning with a slight interl mission for dinner. Hostilities were res umed after the meal, and the " Oilers" emerged on top, 7-4.

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FRANK MANNS HURLS NO-HIT, NO-RUN GAME ROOKIE PITCHER TOSSES WAY TO IRISH WIN FROM I Tennis i~~r~nB~:~kakee WHEATON FALLS BEFORE IRISH FAME IN FIRST COLLEGE GAME. STATE NORMAL U·i,.;'.::::~~.•":.:::",,~~;;: ~:~ Defeat Teachers 11 to 6 Aft G t B tt' er rea a lng Spree

St. Viator Nine Annexes Second Victory in Two Days by Defeating Wheaton 11-2

lenge and match. The Irish squad was invited to play the Kankakee City Champions on the Kankakee courts, and accepted the cha llenge, winning with ease, three matches to

Youngster from Alton Enters Baseball's Hall of Fame with Perfect Game in First Contest of I College Career. No errors Committed by Either Side as Valparaiso Loses 9-0

on;hufHitowski started the firewOl ks by winning his match in struight St. Viator won their second Conse ts, 6-1, 6-4. Shuffles appeared to ference game in as many days by

St. Viator went on a batting rampage against State Normal here on I Friday, the 15th, to win their first Conference game, 11-6. With Todd A rookie pitcher from St. Viator College Wednesday climbed on the mound and showing all his oIr!. the pinnacle to which all hurlers aspire as he turned back a time for m, the Teachers were no powerful Valparaiso University baseball team hitless and score- match for the Irish. Although the less to win 9-0. That rookie was Frank Manns, from Alton, visitors qollected eleve nhits from Illinois. It was Mann's first game of ball in coll ege, and the first the Viator veteran, he kept ~hem time he had stood on the mound or at the plate for St. Viator. w el1 scattered, and their biggest It was Mann's day. He tu rned back the Valpo men one rally was only two runs. after another with ease. Bus had a perfect game in the bag unNormal took the lead in the third t il the seventh inning, when he weakened enough to allow a base inning when Todd walked McFadden. " R. Melera got on first through Lafon balls to one man. Th e fi rs t man up d l'ew a base on b a II s 111 the eighth, and another man was • f ey's errol'. Ryan forced McFadden hit. Then Bus proceded to retire I at third . Then Webber clouted a

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have the s ituation very well in hand taking Wheaton into camp by the at all times and the score is hardly count of 11-2. They continued their an indication of the great difference hard-hitting pace, set the day p1'evbetween the abiLit ies of th e two <.:on- iou s, collecting fifteen hits, s ix of testants. which were for extra bases. The Pat Cleary then went to the net game proved th e worthiness and to. pl~y a terriffic volley game and s tr ength of the club, and they s hould WID h,s match, 6-2, 3-6, 6-0. be ab le to clean up the remainder of Monteeth Weaver was the only the sc hedule without much effort.

Viator man to lose, dropping his set I Lefty Waldron, who broke into his 6-4, 6-4 after a valiant fight. college baseball with a bang when The Viator doubles team of Shuf- he cras hed a homer in the first game, flitow ski and Cleary then took the appeared in a different rol e and the side with ease. But three men single to score Melera. Smilie flied court and easily defeated their 01'- agai n stole all the honors . The faced him in the ninth, and they out, but Leonard came through with went out in rapid order, Bus striking --a hit to score Ryan. ponen~s in. the next match, 6... 0, ~-3' 1 versatile so u thpaw held t he Wheaton out the last batter to face him to The first night baseball game ever I .

Play 111 thls set was featured alIk8 nine to s ix blows and was the m3,ster come into the dugout with the per- attempted at St. Viator College or St. Viator Opens UP. by the flashing net work of Cleary of t he situation at all times. Hi s fect record. in the immed iate vicinity will be The firework s s tarted in the fifth and the brilliant stroking from the variety of balls kept the opposilion Struck Out Ten. played on the local diamond as lhe inning . Carney fli ed out to right backline by Shufflitowski . guessing and s ix of them are yet Ten Valparaiso slu ggers fell victim I ri sh meet the Boosters Club of field. Ahern came up and sent a The Viator team was easily the I wonderi ng what the ball did w hen to the curves and drops of the Via- Kankakee. It is planned to use port- single to right and scored when bet:er of the two,. the su~erior ex- they struck at it, Pete Christman, howmg up k "at veteran backstop for the Saints, tor youngster as he s ent them back ab le lights, which will be mounted Todd hit a long d~uble to center. penence of the Insh s S ffl to their bench after whiffing at thin. on trucks and placed about the field . Waldron hit a line drive to the every crucial point. hu itows I s ca ught t he youngs ter, and the com. h t' . ce s 'on to I While Illght football IS a common shortstop who knocked it down but play w.as the marvel .of the sperta- bination looked a s good as any that a Ir tree Imes 111 sue's 1 h' the h d k d strike out. If it had not been that t mg on Bergin field during was unable to make a play. With tors, IS ten er stro mg an necur- has appeared so far. the no-hit no-run record overshad- Fall, the baseball game will be Todd on third, Waldren stole second ate placements running his oppo nent I While Waldron may have bLen the McHugh singled to all about the court. Cleary indul~cd hero of the contes t, he certainly \vas owed hi s ~ork in this field , Manns so rnething of a~ innov~tiOl.1 and the unhampered. wou ld have the s atis faction of tee- res ults are awaIted WIth mteres t. right scoring both Todd and 'Valdron in his customary brilliant, smashmg pressed by some of his 'teammates. ing his name go down in Viator anand advanced to FS,eec,.orn"sd ft0n"edthe throw game. merrily smacking away at Pete Laffey, who, incidentally, hails s ix th and se v..:nth innings, howe ver, to the plate. out to everything within reach, and di s play- I fro m Lefty's hom e w hereabouts was I ll~l s a s a great stnke-out pi.tc her, and the loca l C1 ew scored three runs the s hortstop for the second out. ing a cannon-ba ll service. outs tanding at the plate, gctlin~ bvo Siupport Perfect.

The real Il'Ish blow-off came in the Pete Laffey slapped a beautiful doubles and a trip le in five tr ip" up.

Manns was backed by perfect sup- in each frame. Laffey opened thing" single into left fi eld to score MC- , Senior League Leaders.

1 Pete has been doing s ome exccpport as he steadily hurled his way w ith a smgle, and was followed by Hugh. H e also took second on the i tionally fine hitting and fie ld ing, and into t.he hall of baseball fame. Nut 'Veber, who likeWIse contl'lhuted a peg home, and then pulled a Ty Home Runts-Carroll : hi s services are invaluable to the an erro,' was charged against hiS l one-base knock. Puff Romary doubled Cobb steal of third base, The t h row D ! team. Weber, hard-hitting center Tripl e P lays- Cleary S octors teammates as t hey strove to keep his to score them both . Puff scored on was wild in the attempt to catch Putouts- Oldham fielder, added two home runs to his re cord clean. No Valpo man got Ahel'n's fielder's choice. him and Pete scored the fifth run . ) impress ive list of round trips , and in Errors-Callahan and Lee ( tie farther than second base, and but In the seventh, Hamilton connected standing. Weber's line drive was Double Plays-Oilers that department he is eas il y tha one runnel' had the right to claim with a single, Ferris sco r ed him ca ught by the second baseman to Flits-Morrissey class of the Little Nineteen. that honor. The Viator marhine w ith a double, and Weber scored retire the side.

Ass ists-Murgatroyd With the services of a dependable No rm a l Rallies. left-hander, the Iri sh squad has by clicked with perfect precision and Ferris with a singl e, Web came mowed down the Valpo batters with home on Romary's triple to count the Normal made a valiant attempt to The box score : far the best outfit that has appeared maddening steadin ess, It was a third run in this inning. rally ir. the seventh, but Todd CheCk-I s'r. VIATOR E for several years. A sout hpaw is a R H PO A V Jator · d ny, f rom S ta r t t 0 fi' I a nd St . V'Ia t or score d once more .tn th C ed them aftel." they had. score.d two Wal(II'on, Ii. valuable asset to any club. and 11151, .. AB 1 tf U I I'f any co II ege te a m in elg. . hth Ah ern d rewa base on b a 11 s runs. The Iri sh scored 111 then half McHu h, 2b ....... 5 2 2 2 0 0 Waldron seems to have the goous.

I' t 'IS d Ou) 2 1 1 the countl·y could have taken the but was out trying to stea l second. of the seventh on a single by Fenis' i F . g Ib .. 5 3 1 It is interesting to note that all of 2 3 6 0 0 the Irish pitchers have gone the measure of the Irish as they trotted Manns got hi s second hit of the a Texas leaguer by Laffey, and a ~:~~~', 5S. ,..

2 2 Ollt on the field to retire the opposi- day and scored on McHugh's single. flllk e hit by Carney. The Teachers W b ' f 0 2 full route in the games p layetl2 tion and trotted 111 to slam base-hit>:: IIanulton struck out and Ferris got tried another rally in the eighth, but R e et, c 3' b O O which is a feat worth mentioning .. . . ' omary, .

1 2 1 0 all over the lot. hi s second double of the day, b ut succeeded ,n SCOTing but one run.

IC f 0 1 M c H ug h was pu II ed up a.t t l Ill'( · I arney, c.1'" .. .. ..... .4 0 00 1 Ferris Hits Hard.

Iris h on Another Spree.

Ahern, 4 1 8 0 Second only to the great game Laffey flied out to end the II1mng.

In the last half of the eighth, the Todd. p. ..... 3 3 2 2 0 turned in by Manns, was the sensnThe box score.

Irish went on another spree. Todd tional hitting of Tom Ferris, lengthy ST. VIATOI~ AB R H E got a base on balls to start the in4l 11 10 27 0 31 Th e continued rainfall of a week first-sacker from Kankakee. 'rom McHugh, 2b 5 0 1 0 ning. Waldren sent a line drive to ST. NORMAL AU R H PO A E proved to be th e downfa ll of an old tr""cled to the plate five times, hit Hamilton, If. 4 1 0 center field, a nd got three bags on McFadden, If. 3 2 1 0 0 Viator institution as the timen triple, n pair of doubles , and drew 1'\'rI"is, Ib .1 3 0 it when it took a bad bouncc. Mc- R. Melera, SS. 1 2 2 0 honored Intra-Mul'al diamond beh ind n base on balls, giving him an official Laffey, ss.

5 0 Hugh struck out, the third strike be- Ryan, Ib 1 2 11 0 0 Roy nail was deserted by the Sen ior botting average of .750 for the day W eber. d.

5 2 0 ing called. Tom Ferris then poked W ebber, rf.

1 1 2 0 0 League baseball teams in favor of a with every hit an extra base affair. Romal'y, 3b G 1 0 out hi s third straight s ingle of the Sm ilie, cf. .4 0 0 2 0 0 new and Ie.. muddy playing fie ld lIlonns pl'oved himself to be a lmost Carney, rr.

0 0 0 day. Laffey's hard hit liner found L eonard, c.

0 2 2 0 just so uth of the regular baseball '" great a hitter as he is hurler by Ahern, c.

5 1 0 the center fielder under it. Weber, A. Melera, 2b 0 3 2 0, diamond ~lamming hvo long ones into :.mf(' Mann~, p.

3 2 01 hitless until this juncture, Rent one Bennington, 3b 1 1 0 1 0 Worn deep with the runs of yenrs t"nitory nnd gathering two of the - - - - of hi" drives down to the shortstop, Bryan, p.

0 0 0 0 go ne by, the paths of the buses on Viator nine runs. \Yeber, h!lrd-hit·13 9 13 0 and it was too hot for the youngster Shiner, p.

1 1 0 0 0 0 lhe old diamond hpcamc u.lmoHt It ling olltfi~ldcr was the only other YALPARAr,;O AB R H E to handle. Romary doubled to cen- . Ahern 0 0 0 0 0 0 "'luar. ditch to catch and hc}lrI the Vintorian to cross the plllLt' twice, Ruthschild. :ib 0 0 0 ter, scoring Abhoo, who raced from xGrimes 1 0 0 0 0 01 rain . Within a day, thc diamond nnd " 'l'b nlso collectl.:'d b\'() hits out H. Schultz, ~~.

0 0 0 first to home much in the manner - - - _ _ _ resembled a Rma ll lagoo n, which or five trips to the plntter. Puff R. Schultz, If. - -- - _. , 0 0 0 of a man bent on going places.

30 GIL 21 ~j 2 threatened to broaden itself from Romll!'), w" allowed a tl'lplc on his Steunkle, Ib 3 0 0 0 Carney popped to fiNt to retire the Ran for Webber in ~Jth. xBatted pitcher's box to fi"t and third bagp long drtv~ O"l.:'r the right fidJ waH; Jirka, ri.

3 0 0 0 side. for Smilie in 9th. and (:xtcnd its dimcnRionK to that of PutT had two hit ~ to show for his Rucinski, 2b 3 0 0 0 \\'ith a man on first and third and Umpire: Day. a m iniature lakf! . .. i'( trip~ to tht:' platt" for nn e\'en Kahnert. cf.

3 0 0 0 two out, Grime~, pinch hilling for Score by innings: l\cw baK3 W{'r!' procurc~d, however, :100 av.ra~.

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3 0 0 0 A. ~lclera. beat out a hit to Laffey. Xormal 002 OOi) 21 l - r, and play c(JOtinu",1 with',ut a pre"iator Scor('~ in Third.

Halt", p. :; 0 0 0 ~('oring the man on third. A moment St. Viator 000 O;,L 11x 11 cf'pliblL' brf'ak in th(. MchNluJ e on thf!

3t. Viator opent.'J it sl..·oring in the - - - - later Lefty \YaltlrclJl made the most Triples - \Valdron; doubles _ ~1e. OI~W field. third inning when Tom Ferris trip~ 30 0 0 0 ~en:;;ational catch of the game when F;:,dden, Todd, Romary; struck outIt.\d~ and j0u r nt.'y&.1 home n minute Running ~cor(>: he cau£'ht Bennington's high foul by T(J()d, 7; hy Bryan, 1 in five jn~ The Illinois S"nate hM iu,t pu ••ed I It'r \)n a pa~~t'J ball. Aht'rn sing- St, \ 'iator 001 013 310-.. -!) 13 0 while running at top 8p~f>d. He 11ln~~; by Shin('r, 1 in threr: innings. a bill which will place th" fly(> .tau· ,\".1 ttl ~tart the fifth innin~, and \~alparab.o 000 000 ()()(),·O 0 0 turned he:..d OVE:r heels in doing so. \\"alks.-off TOlld, 5; off Shin('r, 2 in normal tl('hf)(}J !J undf·r the: ('(Intro) of ~'"Ort~ on Hamilton'!'i tloubl to mak.e Stnl k out by ,).Iann . . , 10. Triple::; but cnmf;' up ~milinJt with the apph- :j inning!'ll. flit by pitchf'r-.McP'adden, IlIin(}i !l StaU: N(,rmaL Thi.~ js to thl' \'Ount :!-O in r~wvr o( thl' Irish.

F\.orri.--;, Rumnry. Douhle.:;: Ferris:! . . a(ely clutched in hi3 mitt. ('arney.

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It fll th m wu evident. they lhe • tllrns up<tn the ""'lrur.s. thirty. cThe m....t ,.,.. Jucl.R"1!<i by Dr. Glenn be men hrt!

Rul thr P..,...rs. '21. oC Gltn F:lyn, lUinoi-. men re ~d Ilrrt "alle. and only on lir. Thoma. lIowl:lnd...C ChicaR"o. d lh m went ("rthor. Two llI. n oi •• and Mr (. n. J.nkrn•• BO· •• Iked. IU"I th( "th prrncipsl DC Kankakee ",~h CH AS. ('~ RIEL\ nONALP \1. H1~: I .. \"ho tJII Manns! : - -- - - - A F re hman from ELEC'Tr.tC\L CO:'liTR,\{:TOHS \;-.0 DE .' LEN:; A'V,n. IIIlnol •. 0:1,.

Ell... trician~ for S Viator ('olll-ge tinily h' I. kll"wn J Thnk L~ ?ttnnnc, Telephone 99:> 36;) En"t Gnurl Slrf~l I .. to \ 18 tor he is Bu,.".

Jtt! ill I!ro..fohn Thomas Ryan. (' S. V.. . _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _- , gruduate of que te IlIlIh '25. and Bro . .ro!:l'ph Eugene .supr(>n· will lw ordained l'~'n~idrratJ )~ p:ri~~l~ on ~llnd:ty, )Ofoy :lht, hy thf' In&! for hi~ gc-honl Rt. ftc," Bt'rnnrcl J. Sheil, D. fl .. 'ali, Practice Limited ta It'IIll, Iff' cAIlV' to Olwdliary hi~h()p of th~ Ar('h-diot'e~e EYE. EAR. NOSE AND THIW \1' St. \ intor without of ChiclIgo. at the Quig)py Prepara. nny g-f!'al fnnfare or trumpets, lory Seminary in Chicago, Bell Telephotw 253 hOYoj'v4'r, und prOct,p,-jed to lry hi!\ Re\' , Father Ryan will !fay his fir~t ha"d at roothall la.t rail. Ru, had Solemn HilCh ~ra .. at 11 :15 o'clock 602 City National Bank Bldg.

KA KAla:E. ILL. I t 1 k - h' h h I on Sunday, June 7th, in St. Viator's Icr. U quar('rlal" III IK Mt:OO, 1·lIhcd hall. r'h' r'h in Chira~o; whi!e Rev. Fal,hand tth()\I,-'l,d cnn!lid('rahlt" Jlrombe ('r Suprenant will ~ay his first Soia pil~ t dlJrin~ th~ fnll workouts, hut l'mn High :\fa~~ at 10:30 o'clod:: in il rl hU~'lI'n('(1 thtll Viator ''''3~ well St . .Joseph'foI (,hurch in Manteno, • 'I'Jlli,." with quarter. in the porson, illinois. on the same day.

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D. J. O'LOUGHLJN, M. D.

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JlIDdit'p fil'ld, l.ate in th(> ~en ... on. htHH'Wr, Kurt' wn~ injured and the I youngst"r from -'lton got his chane". , lit, pnlV('tl to Ilt' 11 f.'Ompf·t('·nt director Col!~ge or th,> t,·nm. nnd he 'pent the reIllUimlt'r of the Fea~on a~ n n:plul"t.'\'illur,,' IInit i:ds of Bnurh(lnnai~ I1H,'nt for 1lamHton.

Hu.3 pro\'('d to be an indifferent h-lVI' "rum) .. II ttwir 'Hlppo!"l fnr Olt' :, 11111 m I l'il'llic Iwld on .llIly fnurth at I':l~k(·tbnll playe.'I', al~o, and he enOil' ( ·lIl1t·f~f•• Thill wn n't'c'ntly mad!' tl'fer! into h:1.:o\d1311 withnut much in I"own I,)" \11" ,\, UI'UU(·\t·rt'. who, us tI... wny or an athletic reputntion ~o ('hnirnlUll, 1H't\(h tht' \ ·iIlM!:t· ('U111 hdp hilll out. He did some preIIpn. on tO~!$ing with a buttery-mat!' mit It"" Tht' ('tlll~'!{I' g'l'tlll1Hh, wilt bt, in t.hl' JZym, nnd turned out for thC' thrown IlPI'fl til (hI' ~t'lwrnl jlllhik. t~·nll1. H{' did not nppear to be shownn.! n ..mIn linw i~ till' plnn for nil. ing much stull, and. although listed Tht' flnlil'nt nttradipn of the' dflr nl1HlOY the.' pit~:h('r~. h(> was put down will hI' thl' tlltHin~ Clf tlH' mognili. 0\8 om.' who should very probably do ,'I'nt t\\t·nly .. lhuUfllnd dol1nr, Gt'(\fga lt1!lSt of hi~ plnying in u utility role.

11\1\ tyit' hOI1H'. huilt ond taflotcfl1l1y lIt' took hi:-; fortunl' quietly and (urni8ht·d h~' til\' ('nlh'~t,. in ont' llf ra irnly, unci \\'edlle~dnv it \\'a~ d(>cid('hk:\j.[o's IW\q'st Hnd filll'$l If' ... i. (>d to give him hi~ chnnc!' to prove himst.'lf a pikher nnd a boll player.

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Roth or the pri.st.q to be th"ir Phi!o,ophy at the College and , 396 SO TH SC Hl'YLER AVE. th('lr ThC'oJogy at the Vintorian Semirary 10 \Va~hinlrton, D, (" The student body through lhe ViaAlwa ys Drink Pasteurized Milk. Our Wagons PU~K YOllr Door Every Morning Before You Have BrcnkfllKt. tor inn . :,i~he~ to exp ress their con"ratulat,ons to these two alumni Both Phones 45 DRINK MILK ~uc('e~sfu l in their labors in thi!ir I L - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - , and to hopC' that they will be most cho!,;l' n fi e ld,

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Classes Take Field Trip to Hospital I Meals, Short Orders, Specials and Confections A note of practicallity wns injected Private Dining Room for Ban(luet!t a nd PnrLlc,j into the .tudies of the SOOiOIOgY I KA KAKEE, ILLI NOIS anr! Economic Hi story classes as the two uh:J.ncio nt.'d their r ooms l or a field trip to the Illinois State Hos- I' - - - - - - - - - -_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _--l

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pital for theThe Insane Kankakee on ~lny 12th. trip atwas arranged Dr. Gabriel Bessenyey as a dimax to mnny r ecenl lectures in the two courses dealing with the problem oC insanity and its so lutions.

Approximately sixty members of the two classes made the trip, and were taken throu"h the institution

by Dr. :\Indden. An unu sual interest in the Ho'pital was displayed by the :-;tudents , and their questions concern- I inJZ' it!' inmates a nd methods of treat- , - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - , ment for the various forms of mental T, eave Your Laundry an d Dry C leaning With diseases kept the doctor and his as- I

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Breaks Arm Tht.' lat(,·:,t addition to the hazard:t of life on anti off th(' Yintor campus ha>:: \.'('mt..' to us in the ~hnpe of a ~alllo

'"go!f." .fohn Boyle.

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on the order of the conventional pitl~her. He i~ ;lhtlut fin' fC'l't . .·ight in{'h(>~ tali, a.nd \\'l'iJ.!h~ nbout one hundred a nd thirty-th .... JlllUI\(:Is~ But siz. \-"'OS no handicap to him yesterday as he pitile:;~ly m\.l\\'l'd down Yalparaiso wtluld-ht.' :-Iug-g'l'r:-<, In nature. he is .:\ hapPy-g'\l-lu('ky chap, and one of ~istants quite busy until long aiter thl' I1h):-it ntfahl(· men I)n th£' ('nmpu~. )tanns i!'l not built

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SHEA BROTHERS AGENCY DOMESTIC LAUNDRY CO. Rug CleaneJ'll

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SIXTY-SECOND GRADUATION IS HELD Final Academy Graduati~n H~ld; jMEMORIAL DAY Seventeen Students Wzn Dzplomas SERVICES

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The Last Class Ever to Graduate from St. Viator IncIiment Weather Pre- United States Senator Thomas]. Walsh of Monvents Holding Services A cademy Given Diplomas at Commencement tana Addresses Graduates and Visitors; Rt. On Porch of Marsile Held on June Eighth in Gymnasium Rev. Bernard]. Sheil, D. D ., Auxiliary Hall, But Chapel IS Bishop of Chicago, Presides a I Crowded

ca~~e o~~in:t~fV!~!o~as~:a~e::nd:e; SOCIAL SORORITY

HOLDS ELECTION

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night, June eig hth, a s t he last class Thirtee n m en and one co-ed joined ever t o graduate from thi s institu' In s pite of the heavy downpour of ••• the ranks of Viator alumni on June tion's high school secured its diplorain about two hundred visitors from eighth a t th e s ixty-second annual mts. Seventeen gradua t es wer e g iven the sU1Tounding towns were in atcommencement held at St. Viato': th eir s heeps kins at t he exercises ac ae oac osen t endan ce at the annual Memorial College. Clear, s unny weather s miled To Lead Cooed Organ- Day se rvices, held here at the Col- S upon the Colleg e for the day, and held in the gymnas ium.

The Commencement ser vices were lege on Saturday, May 30th. If the uperior of Viator ian the entir e services were held out-ofpresided over by Willia m F . S ullivan, ization for Ensuing I wea ther had been at all fa vorable, Seminarians in Wash- doors. Presiding over the ceremonies of Chi cago, President of th e g raduYear it is thought that a crowd of five 0.. was the R e. Rev. Berna rd J. Sheil, ating class. Frank Doyle r eviewed six hundred vi sitors would have been ington Is Victim of D. D., Auxili" ry Bishop of Chicago the his tor y of t he class fro m its presen t , as innumerable verbal and Heart Attack and an illus trious son of St. Viator entra nce into St. Viator , and Thomas At its final meeting of the year, written invitations had been extended with the clas., of '06. United States Keegan prophesied th~ future. Char- the Social Sorority of St. Viator Col- for the affair Although the inAll Vl'ator was Senator Tk'"as J. Wal sh of Mon· lege held a n election of officers for ' St. profoundl y tan a r ecel'ved t Ile degr'ee of Doctor' les F ly nn r ead t he Class Will, anrl next yea r. Miss Rachael Roach, cle ment weather did not permit the s hocked on Saturday, June l~th, James Crowl ey deli ve r ed t he Valedic- Ka nkakee, Illinoi s, was chosen to holding of a field Mass and of the w hen news of the sudd en death of of Laws from St. Via tor during. the tory. The Rt. Rev. Msgr. James various other outdoor exercises. the th R M t" J B C S V afternoon, !lnd dehvered the PrillCITarra nce of Springfield spoke briefly s ucceed Mi ss Mary Taylor, of Bon- s olemnity of the indoor services was e ~v. ar In '. re~n, ' . ' ., pal address of the da y. fi eld, as P res ident of the Societ y, Sup erIOr of the Vlatonsn Semmary to the gradua tes and ga ve them his whil e Miss Rita Murphy, also of in no way lessened by t!le chang e. in Was hington was brought to the I Banquet nel.d at Noon. benediction .

Kkk h yo P 'd t Services Held in Marsil~.

College Father Breen's death came The a nnual Semor class banquet e Honors Awarded. a;. a ':: ~as ;'Cos n l C~;1 ~e~~ et~' The a ssembled students and visit- sudd enl~ from a heart a ttack as he .w as held in th e refectory at noon.

ISS e en onn or WI 0 e tt d d S I H' h M I rh e proceSSlOn f ormed on the pOl'ch The Excell ence Medal presented , urse s trin s of the Sorority in the I?rs a en e a 0 emn Ig a ss ! was pre paring to ri se to say his . . . . by the Rev. M. J. McKenna of Chi- p . g . . m the basement Chapel, with Rev. 1l10rnin Mass. of Mal slle Hall and proceeded lIneago, was awarded to J a mes J . yeal to come. In her capacI.ty ?f Father Landroche, C. S. V" of Fath!r Breen was a n old s tudent medlate ly to the large dining hall Crow ley of Ka nka kee. Fra nk E. Trea surer. MI SS Greta CardOSI WIll Fournier Ins titute of Lemont, a s of St. Viator , coming here in 1900. which had bee n prepareu for the Doyle , Oak P a rk, was next in merit. be the new ~ecre ~ary. . celebrant, Rev. Father McAnneIJ y, of meal. Kenn eth Clothier, PrEsident Th e Math ema ti cs Medal awarded The Sor orIty I S endmg the fir st St. Pabrick's Church in Kankakee, H e r ecei ved his A. B. degree from of the graduating class presided over by th e Rev. J ohn J . L ynch, of Bour- year of its ex is t ence,. a year marked as (I eacon. Rev. Brother WI' lll'anl the College in 1904, and secured his the affair. The toa s t to the fa culty b t t t th Mast er's in 1906. He was ordained bonn a is, wa s aw ard ed to Thomas J. y .a~ eXffe~ s l vef pa:~l c lpa IOn In Th: Cra ckn ell, C. S . V., Rl' ted a s ma5ter on May 25th, 1907, and came baclr was delivered by Jost'ph E. Hoog, Ryan, Kin sman, Illinois . . James J. SOCIa . a a irs 0 . e campu s. of cer emonies. The c;inging was to the Colleg e a s a n instructor in ~. S., '31. Patri"ck M. Cleary, E. Ph., C I So t ' 1er t Sor orIty wa s organized las t fall as a , fUl'nl's hed b h St B d' H II 31 spoke on Dream s and Mo co-ed co unterpart of the Colleg e y t e . e.rnar s a E ngli sh. . '" . .-' 1'nr ow ey w~ nex , In n I. List of Grnduates.

IchlOr under the dlrectlOn of BI O. Aft er spen d'mg s evera I yeaI's 1'31 mg, and FranCIS B. Cal roll, B. C. S., Club· a nd Mary Taylor was elected d I' " .

Sylv a n A. Bo na, Calumet City, Ill. . ' .

Mulvaney and accompa med by Bl'o. t h' t St v · t h t ' e Ivered the toas t A Fas t ApJ a mes J. Cr ow ley, Kanka kee, Ill. Its first PreS ident. The SOl'onty Im- Stafford ' r"a c ~n~ a C I' ~a ore I~ was C~an s- preciation." The toas t to St. Viaege m e Fra ncIS E. Doyle, Oak Park , Ill. I medi ate ly began to la y plans for The l~embers of the faculty and berrl . Os tOhuD kUSt °F , C lam- I tor College was proposed by Churles a ctlVItles of the year and cnrned e l am, ou a 0 a. rom 0 um- W Cl'tf ' . .

L OUIS M. Drassler, Ka ~kak ee~ Ill. t hroug h t he firs t pr;gram of card of the College graduatlllg class were Ibu s, Father Breen was called to I .

1. ord, B. Ph." 31, and WIlham Adhema r O. Des La ul'lers, Ka nk a- arti es and da nces ever atte mpted by a ttired in ca ps and gowns, a nd to- E nterpr ise, Oregon to s uperv ise F. S.ulhvan, H. S ., 31 , d el~ vered the kee, Ill. ~h d f St V' to I ge ther with the student body ;-narch- I missiona ry work in that section. partmg toa st of the last High School Fra ncis P. Devine, Cheba nse, Ill. l e co-e so . la r. . . ed in solemn procession before anel Ab t B cla ss ever destined to gradua te from ago F th No r bert L . E g g es, Bourbo nn a is, Ill. Plans fo r even more actiVIty next after the Mass ou . 8 year d , . a ~r Wre~n St. Viator. Herbert J. Shea, Pl'esiCha rl es R. F lynn, Chi cago, Ill. yea r are a lready in fo rm ation, and I:vas agat~ ~ove , gomg . as - dent of the Junior class proposed Louis A. lIebert, Bourbonn a is, Ill. t he new P r esident hopes t o ex tend Tucker ~ehvers Address. m gt~n thls tune as .Sup er~or Of. ~he the toa s t to the HGentle men Gradu~ .

II Ith e a cti vities of the Sor ority to in- The Memonal Day ·add ress wa s se mmary. He occupied thIS pos ltlOn ates" , and Thomas N. Keegan, I .I clude a n even g r eater fi eld of en- g .lve n by Mr . R 0 ber t 'r LiC k er , '33' t 'l h I' S d ea th . th e Very Rev. J. W. R. . ChI cago, . , In un I M Syl vester J . KerW in , ChI cago, II . d . the ha llway on t ire li rst fl oo r of The body wa s broug ht to Chicago aguire, C. S. V., P res id ent of St .

1 Ma rs il e Hall. His talk dealt ma inly a nd the funera l Mas3 was s ung in Viator College bade the g raduates J oseph D. La m arr e, Bou rbo nn a Is, eaVOI. Ill. -----with the aspect s of modern oatriot- I St. Viator's Church. The Rt. Rev. " Au Revoir."

Daniel L. Ma dden, Chicago, Ill. Holy Name Chooses ism a nd its a tt it ud e toward; honor- Msgr . Willia m J. Kinsella was celeServices Held at Marsil •.

Joseph E . Murphy , Chicago, Ill. Officers for ' 31-' 32 1ing t he soldier dea d of tbe nation. br an t of t he Mass. Af ter the Mass The fin a l grad uatin g ser vices WHe John J . Re'lll y, Bou:bonna l s'll~ll. ___ Mr. Tucker very e loquently scored in Chi cago, the body was brought ~o held from th e. front pOl'ch ~f Mars il e Thomas J . Ryan, K lllsman, . t he tende ncy to beh tt le t he efforls of Bour bonna iS a nd mterment was m Hall. The di ns of the Bis hop was Will iam F. Sulli va n, Chicago, Ill. The a nnua l electi?n of officers of fi g h t in g men du ring ti mes of na- t he Commun ity cemetery. The Very . erected on the por ch bef o re t he en______ t he Holy N ame Society was he ld on t iona I str ess.

R ev. J . P. O'Ma honey, C. S. V., pro- r tr a nce ~o th e building proper, and EW PH IE T S SAY I Monday evenin g, J~n e 1, in th e Miss Mary Tay lor, '33, r ead in . a vincia l of the Via torian ord er in th e fa c ~lty of lhe Coll ege occ upied northwest classroom m t he basement very pleasing man ner the MemorIa l America read t he services a t the the posi ti ons on the sp aclOU~ porch MASS AT COLLEG E of Marsile Hall. A good sized crowd Day poem,-written b; Alfred Noyes. grave. ' I fl a nking the episcopa l throne. The was on hand to heal the repDrt of Very Rev. J. W. R. Maguire, C. S. - --- _ g rad ualln g classes wer e placed on Many stutlents took advantgge of the retiring president, Mr . .lose ph V., President of the College gave a _ .

• the la wn below, fa cing the faculty t he privilege of attend ing one or the Hoog,. '31, and to partake in t he short ta lk on the necessity of the SWimming Pool IS a nd speakers. The grea t crowd of tirs t Masses of both Rev. Father selectIOn of officers for. ne.xt year. students acquiring a respect for Opened for Summer VISito r s was s prea d across the Eugl'ne Suprenant, C. S. V., '25. and After a perIod of enthUSiastIc baHot- t heir country, and upon th is sense campus before Lhe Ha ll.

Re\,. Father J ohn Ryan, C. S. Y., '~5, ing it was found that Mr. Gill Mid- of patriotism is insti lled into the I -.- .- . .'

I The Bachelor Orationc of Arma nd uuring the forepart of the week of dleton, '33, had been elected Ly • students of a Catholic college. After The great . w hi te-tile sWlmmm g O. Lottinvill e, A. B., '31, and Churles June lst. Father Suprenant said his ,light majority over J. Kenneth thanking those organizations (the pool of SL Viator has been opened R. Murp hy, A. B., '3 1, opened the ' B t"rnar d' S ILI il II on R us h man an d T y S ch war t z 1·0 r til'- American . . . flrst 'Ll I as~ nt St. LegIon and c<>mpany L for. the summer months after . ul:derTh it f ternoon ct: remon .lcs. Mr. .Lottln )Ionuay mQrning and his seconJ presidency. Mr. William GibbGn;, of Kankakee) for their co-operation gomg. a t horough cleamng. ~ ville Hpoke on the HubJect of " A :\l as~ at the COnt·ge Chavel un '33. was chosen vice-president, Mr.·m k' th' dressmg rooms were cleaned an Search for V I II ."

Tu~sduy morning. Fntht~r Ryun 3!lid Burke !\JonahAn was given the office F tmh a I~g l . e servdlcets a success , redecorated at the same tim.:. and ~hile M · M a hues: dd uman 18 m , h e names 0f a er u agUire rea fil' It' r. urp y u re.jC(l t hc Ma,,:) for th~ studlo:'nti\ in till' (,hapel, of Secretary. the Viator alumni who died in the the t~nng p an was g iven an (acuIty, graduate~, and VhULo J'S on \\\'dnt":-iday morning. Both Df the :\Ir. )lidJleton was vi.ce-pre.lident late \Vorld \Yar. overhauling.

"Humanism and Cat h ollci~m." . t . tI b R f th ~oc ' "t, tlurl'ng hi" F~ - hman . .

The pool has been placed under . youn~ prlt'!'i ~ 'lLert' assign" y e\". 0 t!.-. h. / ~ u;:-, The ex~rcises closed With a sal~te management of Tom Ferris, well- Confer IJeg-r ee on Sena tor \-'\'aJHh. f'8th"r Will. Bergin. C. S. Y., and year llnJ \Va> president of the St. by the finng squad and the soundmg k V· hI te T h The de~ce of DO':(.ol· of La hoth ga\~ tht'ir bll·:-sin~,. to the John St.·rehman's Society during the f t b th b 1 nown IRtor at e . om 8S anWH waH ~tullt'ntc-;. s..:holnstic year just past Although 0 aps y e ug ar. noun ced that the pool will be open- cfJnferr£'d upon U. S. S~nator ThomaH he has mad. no d.finite plan. fnr cd to women from two until four- .1. Wal'h hy th~ Very Kev. J . W. p..

Dr. John Tracey EI1i~ will spend thirty in thp afternoons, 3TJd will be ' Maguir~, C. S. V., P re~jdent of Ht. Dr. Gabrid Bl':,st.·nyey will spend nt-xt ypnr. it b kno\\"n that he favors ummt'r touring Europe. He op~n to mO:"n from ~evan until nine Viator; thp proclamation being rf-QU hi V1h"'ation on an t.·xt€>not't.l tuur or thp :oOprt'llu oC th~ S<x:iety'il influence the sailed from :-;.w York on June 15th. If)'clf)c k at night.

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class r ather more th an is t he us ual on the Via tor di a mond. The big wo nt of coll ege ed it ors, a nd we f eel swimmin g pool in th e gymnasium that our fa it h in them has been will be open all day and r elief from 111 0r e t han justified . But while we t he heat may be f ound in its depths. envy our succeSSor t he ser vice!; of T he affa ir will be t opped off by a Calla han, Meh ren, Dugan, Burns, big display of firework s at night.

Boyle, Wi rke n, a nd Sp ~e itzer,. we T he celebrati on on the College . lealIze O~l' .adva ntage m receIvm g grounds has long fea tur ed the ob· t he contnbutlO ns of Bob Tucker, PaL ser va nce of t he da y in this part of Cleary, Ken Clothier, and J oe Logan. t he State. Since it has been ('om~ob h a~ b~e.n on t he Viatol'ia n staff bined with the regular St . Via t or since hi S F res hman days, a nd I S an picnic, it is ex pected to have an old hand at the ga me ; Ken and J oe appeal to stud ents a nd g rads second have proven t hat a thletes ca n be onl y to Homecoming . studen ts and w ri ters as we ll. It is hard to t hink t ha t our effi cient John T oohill . sca nd al-monger a nd philosop her, 'DocT o begIn, we have al tered t he to r Clear y, will w ri te no more.

Annou nce ment of the tragic death policy of the pa per so mewh a t drast icall y. We set out to make t he I of J ohn Toohill, '27, came with a Viatol'ia n a g reat crusadin g power.- - And t hen there have been many ! shock to t he f ac ul ty and student a force to mou ld the student opinion li ttle journa listic thrills fo r us "to I body of St. Via tor of r ecent years. and di r ect it in thc cha nnels we ~e J11 ember. a nd remi nise nce over. Fo,-' Mr Too hlll was drowned in Lake ~h oug h t best. It look us abo ut t h ree ! mstance, In our very first Issue \ \'e MIchI ga n on June 10th, when the Issues to lose all our ego as to our scooped all t he pa pers on the Viator · backwash fro m a pass ing tug upset ability to per suade men to believe \Vesleyan footba ll ga me, Lrir.ging his canoe, throw ing him into the t.hi ngs they preferred not to believe. the complete story to t he cam pus deep wat er.

And we lost most of our illusions as fo ur hours before the Kanka kee He had bee n one of t he most to the t r emendous power or the papers we r e out. T hen t here was promi sing of r ecent Viator gradupress at about t he same t ime. t he acco un t of t he moment ous Legri s- ates. He was inter est ed in journalFlynn duel which meri ted world-wid e ism, and was editor of th e Viatorian \Ve contin ued to cater to t he attention.

And . by world-wide, we du r ing his final year at St. Viator. s t ude nt mi nd a hit more t han ha d mea n j ust t hat. Comments on the He was the fi r st editor of the Viabeen t he policy of our pr edecessor s, article we r e fo r thcoming f r o rn a ll torian to publi sh the paper in its howeve r, wi th the r es ult t ha t t he over A mel'ica and Europe. The na- presel) t f orm, having changed it a lumni column suffered according ly. tUre of a ll w hich comments we do f rom t he fo rm of a monthly magaThe resul t of which policy was a not choose to r eveal, but t he a rticle zine r e'fjew. complete reversal of our conception 1ra ised something of a tempest in a Afte r gra du a ti on, Mr. ToohHl acof the duty of the Viato ri a n. \Ve Iteapot at the t ime. And we w,)"1der cepted a position with the Bloomingare now convinced that it shoul d be how ma ny remember t he stor y of the ton Bulletin, la ter joining the s taff the duty of the school paper to keep student evacuation of St. Viator of t he Decatul' Herald. From the a lumni contact by reflecting studCl'i t fo llowing t he semester examinations. Her a ld, he went to the head of the life a s it exists, by keeping a well- That issue was pri nted with a black Sports depa r t ment of the Illinois filled alumn i column, and by watch- I bor der. And so we could go on in- State Regist er of Springfield , whence ing its circulation carefully rather definitely ; t he on ly conclusion is t he Chi cago T ribun e secured his serthan by tak ing sides in contegtBc that it has been more than wo r t h vices. He had bee n a mem ber of the matters in an effort to direct s ttld- while-but we wou ldn't do it aga in . sports staff of the Tribune for the cnt opinion and allowing the a lum ni I ____ past two years. columns t~ go h~ng. Alumni are in- I The time has come to say goodby F unera l services wer e held in teres Led 111 then' College only so I to another graduat ing class, and a Holy Trini ty Church, Bloomington, lo ng- as they fee l t hat they have final iss ue of t he Viato ri a n is dedi- on June 13th. ~o me intimate contact with its every cated to them. It is at t imes li ke He is survived by his moth e'!: and day life, and it is the duty of the th is that we are fo r ced to r ecognize f ather, Mr. a nd Mr s. M. Toohill, and s tudent publication t o furnish that the absolute poverty of words. No Marti n, stude nt a t St . Yia tor and conta ct. The student is rather more language contains expressions suf - P res ident of t he College Club.

0 1' less well informed on the prob- fi cien t to express the feeli ngs of ----lerns of the campus, but the alumnus both the under- class men and of the \Varren McClella nd, '27, f orme r likes to hear about eve ry happening grads. \Ve offer our best effort, debater and athletic ma nager , is in detnil. fully conscious of its insufficiency. reported to have recentl y taken a wife unto himself in P ittsburg, Pa.

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J. KENNETH BUSHMAN Princeville, Illinois Next in merit: Willia m Gi bbons, Bloomington, Illinois THE DEBATERS' MEDALS Prese nted by th e Rev. P. C. Conway of Chicago, Illinoi s, and the Re, M. J. Mars ile, Chicago, Illinois, are awarded t o the f ollowing member of this year's varsity teams: .

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The encyclical just issued by Pope in their dealings with their emp loyes pay any income taxes, that is, the Piux XI on capital and labol', anti- and counseled t he latter to a ssodate I11CQme of' ninety -s ix pel' cent is les:s cipated in a summary made public themselves in unions, the better to than the amount made exempt by the on the occasion of the celebration in promote their common interegt B unl1 law, $3500 with a slight addition to Rome of the fortieth anniversary of protect themselves against llnju~t , those having depennents. the publication by his distinguished exactions or unfair treatment. has been figured that the aggrepredecessor, the revered Leo XIII, For one in our day occupying gate income of the 504 individual ~ of a li~e letter, on the Condition ~f l offi.?ial 01' o:her high statiOlI givmg paying taxes in excess of $1,000,000 Labor, IS a document of such mel'lt I weIght to Ius words to commend lhe is s uffi cient t o keep 615,000 automoand timeliness as to deserve the ! l'nionization of labor is trite, but re - I bile workers employed full time at studi ous attention of all who would I member ~hat the letter in question ! current wages for one year. keep in touch with current thought WMS publIshed forty years ago when I advert to thes e startling ti~url! s on the problems that confroni the it was not uncommon in apOlf'>glst:; for two reasons. In the firs t place, world. It is particularly appropriate for heartless and grasping industrial- an agitation is in progress, fOlTI f:nted that it should be the theme of dis- ists to refer to a strike as a "rebel- or at least inspired by ~,he dass that cussion on an occasion sllch as this lion" of workmen, terminolog'Y im- has been able to monop ... jj'l.e so large that its wise comment on the cause plying a view denounced in the en- a share of the prodigious wealth of wor ld-wide economic unrest and cyclical in these vigorous words: coming into being in this country The above picture was snapped a s Senator Thomas J. Wals h began hi s its sage counsel for the rernoval of "'Religion teaches the rich man and during the last ten years, (the nathe same may afford a guide io the employer that their work people tional inc9me rising from G6% bil- address to th e gradua tes and vis itors at the Commen ce men t Day ceremonies.

The Sen ator is s tanding on the por ch of Ma r sile HaH. youth about to engage in the strug- are not their slaves;-and that it is lions in 1919 to 89% billions in 1928, gle of life. I am prompted, ac('ord- shameful and inhuman to treat men an increase of over 30 % ) to reduce ingly, to submit sorne referencea to like chattels to make money by. or wages because of the prevailing tion requiring no more men than power becomes insatiacc. The l'l'Iuscle this historic document and some re- to look upon them as so much muscle business depression and unemploy- formerly. In 1920 the average freight Shoal s development l20ntemplates an flections induced by a study of it.

01' physical power." ment, and the decline in prices gen- train consis ted of 37 carSj in 19 2~ addi t ional supply of 100,000 hor se The encyclical has evoked no end Having thus expatiated on the erally. It is true that a!':. prices de- of 49; in 1920 each car in a freight power, and eventually not less than of praise from the secular press errors and evils attendant upon ex- cline, wages are in effect proportion- train carried an average load of 709 half a minion; that now in progress tempered, indeed, occasionally in the T,anding industrialism, he warned the ately increased, but how e lse shall a tons; in 1929 of 804 tons. Bigger at Boulder or Black Canyon, 1,200,000 case of journals astonished and, one capitalism against a course likely to more equitable distdbution (If the and better engines and cars, heavier horse power, while the projected imis led to think, a little dis8ppoiTIted, I popularize socialism (of which more new wealth being constantly crca te:d rails, improved road beds are among provement of the St. Lawrence now that views so liberal should emanate hereafter) and the wage earner be effected? That is being produC'ed the contributing factor s thus pcr- insi stently demanded by the indusfrom the Vatican. raising foolish hopes of a Eutopia In volume and at a rate never before mitting the moving of treble the trialists of the State of New York It quite naturally advpris to the raisin gfoolish hopes of a ~~utopia in the history of the world approach- weight of freight without increase and adjacent tenitory, means an circumstances leading to the letter of sure to terminate in disappointment ed, must be recognized, a develop- in the number of men employed. ' addition of 5,000,000 horse power.

LeO, summarizes its salient features, and disaster. ment that is due to a mult :tude of O~e man in a . tower in, a ~ard opcr_ l Ins tan ces a r e not rare in which extols the wisdom of its philosophy The humane sentiments of Leo':; causes, including the mechanization atIng a complIcated sWltchmg device the differen ce in the cost of power and expresses gratification at the letter of which the extracts re,~!l l of industry, inventions and discov- does th~ work that ~n c~ dl:!manded a s between that developed through 1 reception accorded it by all who look only feebly, in outline, portray, are eries in the domain of science, mass the serVIces of a .mul~ltude t o pt.: rmit I the consumption of coal and that for justice to and the improvement echoed in the recent encyclical of the production, improved bu~iness meth- ~10 vem~nt of trams In t~e crowded coming from the falling water of a of the condition of those who toil. present Pontiff, who evidently dreads ods and the development and appli- IndustrIal ,and c ~l1lll1 e rcIal c e n ter~ ' 1 ri vel' has turn ed a doubtful or failing The author, a s the guardian of the the spread o,f the communistic move- cation of new sources of power.

At an earlier ?enod th.e n u tom~ tIc I enterprise into a decided success. And faIth of the fathers , was plofoundly men t wi t~ Its mordant h~stility, to We are. tol? that at the time _of brake played Its part m reduc~llg I now natural gas carried in pipe lines impressed with the view tu At the every rehglOus ~elIef, ana palt~cu- the olgamzat~on of our government the force necessary to move tra m s, man y hundreds of miles in length behard condItions to whIch wagi'! earn_ l larly the. ChrIstian faIth, exhIbIted more than eIghty per cent of our ~oth passenger an~ freight. These gins to compet e both with ,.:oal alld el ~ were reduced under the unbrtdled I by the rulIng class In RUSSIa, throu~h population consisted of the familie~ Improvements are mstal1ed to lessen watel' in the generation of cheap aommion of capital, made them easy the perSIstence of. thos~ eCOl~onnc : of those engaged in farming; now ~s they do lessen the cost of operat- j power. The efficiency of electrical victim s of theori st s and ag-itators wrongs agaInst whIch hI~ en: ment I less than thirty pel' cent are included mg, equipment in factories is such that · I t· . ·t d predecessor so powerfully mverghed. j in the families of those who follow The Department. o.f Labor re.ports ,vhl'le onl y 33 per· cent of the total W h 0, m a revo u lOnary SpU'1 , ma e L .

1 d I h war at once upon the prevailing I eo havmg a lu. e~ .to 't e en~r- I the advocation,- that is to say, that that ~h e productlvIty of raIlroad pow er equipment in such in 1914 economic system and upon r evealed mous fortunes of mdIVIduals and tne in the earlier time mentioned it re- labor mcreased from 1915 to 1926 was electrical, it was 70 % of all jn religion, He recognizes Lhat the I poverty of the masses," Pius remarks quired the labor of four-fifth s of all by more t han ~3 pel' cent an,d the 1927. The new orders for electrical abuses of capitali sm} to use a term that "the immense number of pro- l our people to provide food ~nd th e Burea~ ?f RaIlway ~cononllcs, an eqll iprnent in 1929 were double those lately come into vogue, its violence tJe!'tyless wage-earners on the. one I raw material of clothing fOJ the or g .amzatlOl1 of the r aIlwa ys o~ the of 1922. The customers for industo the dignity of man in vhe treat. hand and the superabundant nches whole; now their needs ill that re- Umted States, adds that efficrency trial power rose from 380,000 in 1~20 ment accorded employes, in all too : of the fortunate few on the otlier IS j gard are supplied by less than c..ne- in railroad operation ha s ad va nced t o l ,079}000 in 1929. and the electric , . t d d' a n unanswera ble argument that the third a pproximate ly 20 per cent s ince ener gy appll·ed to r·ndustr·y ·, r, the many il1S ances , ma e se uct.!ve prohI d b d I . . posa ls to abolish private property eart y. goo, s so a ,u~ ant y, ~ro- I If one reflects on the advance in 1922, Con sequ ently the total wa ges sam e period mor e than tr ebled in . t· f II h duced 111 thIS age of Industrialism agricultural methods since the time paid to railroad operatives ha s de- amount. an d f or th e appropl'la IOn 0 a sue I " , I b II by the state, to be thereafter admin- I are. far from ngtly drstnbuted and when the ground was ploughed by clined thr ee-quarters of a i ion All thi s means that the product. t d b ·t th eqUItably shared among the vaflous oxen seed scattered by hand grain since 1920, the number employed ivity of human labor has increased IS ere y 1 as e common em- I I f H ' } ployers of all workers. He listed, 1c asses 0 men. cut with a sickle or cradle, thrashed having been reduc<:::u by 361,912. imm ensely. The same nurl1ber of among the conditions of his time What is the situation in that re- with a flail and winnowed in the Upon what '?Ule of right or r eason workers can produce vastly more lithe growth of industry, and th~ spect in our favored land· where, wind, as is still done in backward should the saving all inure to the than in former times; thE::y should surpris ing discoveries of science} the perhaps, a higher standard of living countries, and then attends to the benefit of the stockholders? Why ha ve more of th e things that are changed relations of masters and among the people as a who le obtains I perfection of modern methods in the should not the wages of the opera· pr oduced, that is more money for workmen; the enormous fortunes of than in any other country? Figure~ I same field, he will have some ap- tives incr ea se as the numbel nE'!ces - theh work enabling them to s~cul'e individuals and the poverty of the supplied by the Trcasu~y Depal'i- preciation of the marvelous increase sary to accomplish the same result a grea t.er quantity, in value, of the masses and finally a general mora l I ment show that in 1920 mComeg of in the productivity of human labor. decreases? thin gs produced; there should be an deterio~ation," all of which had con- I $1,00~,000 or more totaled ~77,078,- , If one man's labor produces as much It is scarcely necessary to dwell equita ble di vis ion of the g a ins re tributed as he asserted to bring it ! 139j In 1928, $1,185,135,330, 111 other I as that of ten men formerly, should upon the innumerable facto rs con- s ul t in g from economies and impre ve"to pas~ that Workin~ :Men have i words, such incomes were multi.plied I· not the one get ten times the wages tributing to the reduction of cos ts in ments as between labor and capital. been given over to the callousness I fifteen time~, representing .no doubt lof each of the ten, due allowance manufactur ing and in supplying' The bare fa ct that a busine .. deof employers and the greed of un- I an increase In the average Income of I being made for a proper return to power and light. It will suffice to pression is upon us, th~lt becau s ~ of restrained competition."

He in- ! ~ach . In. 192'7, 290 persons report:d ! the :apitali~t or employer on :he refer to two. Careful tests ana prac- un employment laborers are offer ing veighed against the doctrine that ! Incomes 111 excess of $1,000,000; 111 I mach me whIch thus make3 posslble tical experience have demanded that themselves at a diminished wage, is labor is a commodity subject to the I 1928} 496 were thus fortunate or un- ! the more abundant product? coal is now from three to five times no justification for a reduction. Were stern law of supply and demand and I fortunate, as one views the matter, It is in the order of progress that, a s efficient in the generation of wag es a s high as they ought to bave that opportunity for etnploy:nent I and in 1~29, ~04. individuals a~mit~ed I on the who~e, wages should .t~nd con- power a s it was twenty years ag o been at the time to the level 0i which should be open to unrestrained io- such a gIgantIc Income. Bear 111 mmd !-'tantiy to Increase, a condItIOn that owing, among other influences, to it is proposed to reduce th ose now dividual competition. To quote his I this is. inc~me, not net wealth whit'h, shoul~ b: ~atifYing to all,. seei~g i~lproved methods of boiler co~ s truc­ current ? The American peopl~ holu words, he declared that "If through I assummg It returned five per ,cent I that It slgmfies a correspondmg In- tlOn and a better llnderstandmg of in detestation a character who died necessity or fear of a worse evil, of its value, would be conservatIvely crease in the standard of living to, the conditi on~ requisite to peric(! t imm ensely rich, his fortun e having the workman accepts harder condi- ! esLimated at not less than $20,000,- in turn, increase the demand for the I combus tion; ln other words, the cf) s L been swe lled, as common rumor had tions because an employer or con- 000. In that year 24 persons report- ! necessaries, the comfvrts and the of coal in industry has been r ed uced. it, by the purchas e of securities tractor will give him no better he Ied incomes in excess of $5,000,000, I conveni~nces of Iife,-- the moving by half or more. The llse of the thrown upon the stock exchange at l .is the victim of force and injustice," I an average of more than $10,000,000 i factor. In the ~rofitable employment automatic stoker has displaced a a fra cti on of their real value by and he added, "The first concern of . each, ! of capItal and In the opportuPIty for goodly army of men, the country a s holder s made desperate by t hreated all is to save the poor workers from I The returns shows that In 1928 work for the w.age-earn:r. a whole being cons idered. Man losses in a fina ncial panic. the cruelty of grasping speculators ; ther e were 1,539,139 taxpayers ha~- ! In :he domaIn of raIlroad trans- power is being replaced by other P erh aps laborers can n·') w be who use human beings as mere in- I ing incomes less than $5,000) then ! portatlOn the advance, ,has ,been than human energy cOl1s tantly, and secured, in t he keen competition f Ol' struments. for making money." He If total income being 4,227,537,000. In equally apparent a~~ strlkm~. ~wen- cheaper and more dn ci~nt powel' is ~ o bsJ a t st ar vation wag es, but let us raised his voice against the el:lploy- the same year there were 15,780 ty years ago, a ileIght ir~lIl l~rely s imilarly being availed. The ex- no t hasten to comm end those who ment of chBdren of tender a ge and persons with incomes in excess of if ever e~ceeded 1500 t~n s m we::ght. t ension ~n the employment of elec tric propose the policy of so imp!'oving of women in tasks unsuited to them I $100,000, their total being apprOXi- 1! Now trams transportmg not less , eneTgy lS .one of the m'll'vels of . the the situ~tion with which we are eonon moral or physical grounds. He mately the same amount, to be ex- than 3000 tons are not uncommon I modern hl St.Ot'y of manufacturm,g. fron ted. pleaded with employers to observe j a ct, $4,370,659,000; in other words, and others carrying as hig~ as 4000 i Hyd~o-ele c tl'l c plants contin ue to (Continued on page six) the dictates of jus ti ce and humanity 1the 15,000 approximately. at the top, tons are not unknown, theIr opera- multIply a nd t he dema nd f or cheap

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one of the outstandin g works s ubmitte d for the year. His Bachelo r Oration proved that he ha s los t none )f hi s old ability to reason clearly, luicld y, a nd to ex press h imself ·orccfull y. Because of his Ruccesses n hi s high sc hoo l anci co llegt: life, ve feel no fear in freely predicting I ~ mos t brilliant .future for him in lis chose n fi eld of end eavor,

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Carroll's eve r-ready good bumor ann his frank personality made him one of the most popular men on the campus. H e (':ha n~ ed acquaintan·.;es mto friends with a mysterious al'hemy of the m oment strangely his ),"TJ. He \\-' ill be missed frOM the amp ' ~ almost as mu ch by tl-.e l'reshmcn of last year who knew 'l im bl,t for a s ingle term, as hy the Pi;er-cla~~me n who have known him or m:lny years.

HOBEHT E. TUCK ER " Hack" Fall Wayne, Ind. Vi3to r ian 1, 2, ~, II ('la ss Secretary 1, 2, 3 Viec-Pres ident " ('allege Club Secr eta ry \ Holy Name Marshall 4 When Robert E. Tucker ur.l o? ded from Ft. \Vayne just four y~ars ago, S t. Viato r was furnis hed ,\'ith one of ihe most ca pable of secretarie~ and lieutenants . For four years :'ITack lJ has been, by common conse nt, secretary and chief of operations of ju st about eve rylhing under· taken by the stlld.:ct body. Hi s c:.lass wa s firs t to r ecog nize hi s ability as an organizer, and he he ld the position of secretar y with them dur in g t he Fres hman, Sophol1tore, and J un ior years. Th e College Club r

FHANC IS B. CARRO L L "Fat" Chi cago, Il l.

Football 1, 2, 3, <l Viatorian 3 School Play cl Vice-President 1 College Club Presidcr:t ': "}'at" firs t made hi s :lppcarance 011 1 he Viato r cam pus ni nC' years ~.go, .~ nd, w ith t he exception of one yca !', Ie hos bee n here eVf'r s ince. Ca nol] vas a leader in the Vi 'lt.O l ACJldC"lTIY, ~ well-known and l iked athlete and I cho lar.

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eyer), man within n radiu5 of te.n lone . of the. fin.t men to ll\'Cl.HlW ~h> miles. Con~equcntly. when the edJ- qunlnted wIth the neWC'Qll1l'rs to tbt.:' tor of the \·iatorian began to cast campus. and hi::; rirclc- of frie>nc.is l''\:. about for u new Campus Briefs tends from the Pt'C'shlC'nt of thesc ribe, he did the obvious thing and Senior da::ts to the h-,wt.':-.t Fn,':,hDUln. Of.

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"P.t<,'· Yodel'. Ind. Baseball :1. 1 Football I \\'hen ';Pete" Chri :t'nnn <k'dtll.'cI h) continue his edlll'ution at St. \ intor after g raduation fl' III (JUII1 /' tlh ' College gai lwd unotlwl' <.id\'llt ;\1u1 gentleman Lo 3dd to it.~ li 'J~ til a lumni, and he gain'll a h(l~t vf nt'\: friend s who were q kk to "(li~li'd ate hi~ ability.

H e hnd made cumdrierahlt, of n rep utation for hims L'I I as an nthlL'li.· I star at Quincy, llnc.l he fin,r tried ! his h!l!Hl at base';all . He wu~ sO

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His dis posa l towal'ds argum ent on a ny and all s lIbj ects at any and all times made hi s r{'lOI11 one of the most popular meeting plaees on the (.ampus, and "Doetor" Cleary ni ghtJy 1 propounded hi s new philosophy to an ever in creas ing gro p of di sci ples. I [lis a cq'..lajnta nceships r eac hed out ! on all s ides and e mbraced the most coslllo polit:t n g roup on the {;ampus . t I \Vi::;hcs for t-h c s~:cce~s of t.he I ri sk young man from FOTt vVayne, L gal1spol't, Quincy, London, Pari s, .lnt! lIong Kong will Come from every o,~(' \';ho knew hirn- and who did not?

JOSEP H F. LOGAN :"; ~cccss fd that the veteran Viatur "Burly" La.:;kst')p was forced to divide his Fort Wayne, Ind. time behind the bat w ith Christman Football 1, 2, 3, 4 "Pet-e" tried football la s l fall, an d/ B~seball 1 des pite t he fact that he was' Sen· Viator ia n 2, 3, 4 ior, m:1de good and became a re~ular Class Treas ureI' 1 gc:ard.

Delegate to Advi sory Board I Hi s work in the classroom ha ~ Tee:1Slll'er Monogram Club 4 bee n i:l no degree s hort of his at h1 I vVhen t he mos t popu lar rn embel's !etic acco mpli shme nts, and he held , of the class of '31 ar e reca ll ed by the r es pect of his instructors-as welJ I th e students of years to come, the '" tl.at of hi s playfGlIows in sport. n:lme of UBurly" Logan w ill be among T o Up ete" we offer thc ho'pe t hai 1 the first mentioned . Joe came to St. hi s dreams will be realized, and a~­ Viator from Central Catholic of sure him that he will be reJl'lember~(J Fort Wayne foul' years ago and be- at St. Viator as an example of the came a fi gure on the campus within ide a l Catholi c student. a month of his arrival by winning ----a place on the varsity football team . I, ROBEHT McMAHON I n the next year he branched .out ~nd Berkley, Calif. became a member of the Vlatonan Although Bob sec ured his prer ~ch oo l training in this vicinity, h( 1 attended the Univer s ity of Southctr California for the first three ycar ~

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IIi s a1Jilit~1 as u ieacier was not he Hi g h School, he tr ied bucking confined to' th e athletic fie ld alone t he world for a year, but the call 01 howeve r, and he ha s occ upi ed severai S~. Viator. becan.le to? strong for of the most important student posi- hlll1~ and, In the fa ll of 1927, Carro,lI tion s on t he campus in t he past year. j a!?al ~ s\~ung ~~ the ~oUl'~onna ~ s Besid es occupying the pos itions of Llllu ted and petl~lOl1e? fOl a loom 111 Monogram Club President, Senior Roy H a ll to beg m hIS college work.

Class Pres ident, and College Club The f oo tball coach too k one look at Vice-President with aU th e l11ultipli- '"Fat" and to ld hi m to l'~port for t.he city of duties attached to those offic es, he fou nd t im e t.o be one of t he mosi va luable members of t he Via tori"n staO·.

I Wha t.ever J{ CI1'~ pogition in his new life may be, we feel aSSU f ('O of his success if he gives as good <l("..:0unt of hi s stewa rd ship ns he ha:-' of his four years at St. Ybtor, CH A InES n. ~I U npHY Kankakee. 111.

Ora to ri ca l Contest 2 Debating 2, 3 Bachelor O1'ntion -l Honor Student "Summa cum la"lde'· ·1 Excell ence Medal ·1 Philosophy ilIedal -I Eight years of study a s :l Yin tor man wer e capped on Jun e eighth by the diploma handed Charles Mur phy.

Four years were spen t by the Kan kakee st udent in the old Yia tor Academy. wh ence he gn~uated with honors in 1927. l\hlintaining his hi gh srholastic reeord throughout his col· leg(> C011'e(>1', he was able to g-raduate wit h tht' highest honors of the class of '31.

Besides his re~uh\r appear2nCE on the honor roll of St. Yjator, he was ncdaillled as both nn orator and an able dl?bat('r. He won the Oratorical ~redal in his Sophomore year, and was a memhel' of the \'Cll-Sih' debating- team in both his Sop homor~

line. He did, and was one of the mainstays of the I rish for-ward w . . . ll for four years.

He had always exercised a quiet leadership over the student body by his example, and as College Club elections drew near last year, the mernbers of that august organization del'ided to gi\'e him his full due.

Accordingly he was elected Pr2s~tlel1t by an o\'erwhelming majority, ard has led the sludent body through this year in his capacity a s incum-

held its elections firs t last Spring, however, and took ,. Hack" fo;- its own personal use brfore th~ Class cou ld get him.

To prove that he could do more with a pen and typewl"iter than n:akp out I'ninutes a nd reports, he gamed a position on the Viatol'ia n staff in hi s Fres hman year, an :]ccolllplishrn ent worthy of more than pass ing no tice, and he has held t hat position with incr eas ing ability ever ~i n te then .

He has always been a busy man, bu t busy or not, Bob always found time to help a friend or lend a hand with the management of some stud t ent enterpri se. H e possessed a rare co mbination of ability ane! willitlZness, a nd his place will he doubly hard to fill in future year~ becau5c of that.

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PATRI CK M. CLEA RY "Pat" Fort \Vayn e, Ind. Viator ian 3, 4 School Play 3, 4 Class Secretary 4 T ennis 4 In the fall of 1929 a couple of trunks bearing t he pennants of Quincy Junior College arrived or.. the Viator campus, closely followeJ by a young gentleman who a nnounced himself as Patrick Cleary and avowed his intention of taking a science course, majoring in Biology. IIPat U was on the campus less than a week before he knew all the old-timers, most of the Freshmen, and was accumulating a large store of knowledge concerning the inner-life

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"Burly" possesses a remarkable ability to lead, and his tact in handling men was soo n recognized and he was placed in charge of the Hoe. , of his collegiate course. He came t' partment of Maintenance of Wa-r'- St. Viator last fall g\ an off -campll ~ one of the most important studen t student, ani suffice it to say for hi!: positions on the campus. And for personality and charm of rnannc1 two years the "Department" bas I t hat the quiet newcomer is alrend} functioned with a smoothness and known to practically every man ir efficiency seldom seen beiore. attendance at St. Viator, both or: The likeable " Burly" was always and off-campus.

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I coming alumn i. and ne ha~ ~n Am,aM wa, fated to ,pend his JOSEPH E. HOOG called upon timd without number !o early dars in the growing metropolis '-Joe" transform other rOOm.s andfoor.:: vi Papineau. Illinois, and there he Fort Wayne. Ind. for dance;:-, partie::.

-smoker.,;, uDU fir;;! co!!c:eived hi~ love for two 1:rt:~t Football 1. ~. 3 UHiram" came to ::~ Viator four subjects--French and Literature, President Holy Xame Sodety ..t. y~&r.. ago and d~tennined cPO!· a ~-hat ha\'"e you.

H~ readines.;:;. to pla~ h..l":i artistic Electin!' to attend St. \'ia'or for his School Play ~ l:oce c,... UTae. Aftet' spending ~wo Banquet Speaker -4 ;;.an at St. Viator. re decided to talent at all time5 at the di~po.sal of cla.:...:)ical course. he combined the Another true son of Centrnl Cathtry tr•• Vninulty oC TIIinois f'>r a the tudent body is but one ,mall "".'.0, and tbe result was his tbesis ou olic, whence hS\'e l'ome so man, while One .singh: Mm ter sufficed t:'xample Jf hi::; willingne ....,:i to aid "The Lrnes of Lamartin~," e"-ery man \\ith whom he \.:arr.~ in~o He tried his hand at debating in Yiator stalwarts. in thE:' past, is J~ Lv prvvt" to him that hi, heart 'Ioa>till with tt", "Id school, and he r~· contact. Althocgb his major ...-a, !n ht:-. Sophomore year, and ~came a Hoog. He chose the science C'ourse tUl"m'd Wltho_t frrrtrl~r dela}· HI History, .~~ wa~ one of the m'-::,t ~ble re£uht.r on the varsity team, but the and has persisted in his pur3uanct:" return a, If) t !ilYnonom It 1'1 h and interest;na- critic .. " f brera~ure rostrum lost its appeal to him in on the campu:". and his ('~:-t.'rta"'Nn" the folJowing year, and he WIthdrew I t:a\e often liJuminated the P~?f':" oi {I'"om extra-curricular life to Jevote the \-iatori:;n, h: time to the study of Frem." litcr"lTV" has teen renowned f)T four ! .r~, He h:l~ L~en one of ~ht.; ll)IJ::t yean a a chnllr. and hi th.,.....;!~ ,mia ... le of st ..·dents during hi.. . stay I ')f a~ ont' of the Le t e\o''''r prtc'."l::lh:J 1 'S~ n": r.othing eVE'r (h~turbed I r "r a of:£ree. In gradl.<.alln" hlm. equanimi ty of the unhurried St \ lator will 10<;,(, one of hcr mo . . 1"n :ld, Jro:t what he \"\'ill do in aUt" ~tucer:ts and ',,1Hing worl:. r" e f ... tl:re, w~ r!o not know, but we '1 :.re that lift, will neq'r . e too EJJ\IO:\D L. »HE\ "Ed"

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CH.\RLE.:> "'. CLIFfORD

" Hiram" F.rmer City. 1,1.

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F'oottall 3 Bonfield, Ill. ('Ia. s. DI·lt:j.!ate to .\t.!V1S ry Buar,1 t Prt!~ idcnt, S. S, S. \'. C. -l lIolY' ~ame ..... ('! gate I \ membe-r of the minority party I The second contnhut .JJl of (2i.llnc:; T)f St. Viator· -the.' cO-l'd~- :\Iary has (',)Ih'g(' and Fort \\" ayne to th(' IItudl'nt body of SL Yiator \ia~ Edm(mti L, Sh(>a. II .. b1'lHlght 'Iuite u n ..'cord n:;; hoth a ... tuelt·nt and an ath ldc with him. tlnd has co ntinued to maintain his rt'putation during hl~

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Tht.' nnal rnf'eting of tht' ;'\ly ~og"Un. ist Club wn... held on ln~t Friduv evening in tht· room of its fUUlld\.~~'.

Pat Clt?nl'Y, The l't;'('('nt 1't.'t1ll·J\ ur balmy v,'('uthE'r unu th(, pn'$~nl'e 01 all the- singing tiower~ nnd bloolltlng lirds On the l'ar'llpU~ hu~ KI'NIUY til" plt:'ted thl' l'oll uf lllembt'l':\ and thl.'

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wilds of the Collegt..' Club I'oom". 'l'ht, was l'l'ndt..'l't:'d ull thl' mort' by ~tt'nk~ fl'it'd 011 1'0::1 Yt'Ul"l or hi~ l· nv£'·womani~h the l'It!ctricul stovl'~ of lht> l'ollt.l~l' IT~ide n 4...t'.

Alw<ly ~ q :.: il't nnd L.nn~~~.HlJinK, ,Ioe It:'fN'tOl'), (no matdll'M Wl'rt' u~~d tu WOIl hi .s wny into the heai't:l ()j' hi~ stnrl th~ til't'!1), row pkkll\~, und .:hs"mat clS 3nd thc fn"~llty cagih' and potatot.· M butl'hert'd into :'Ili lnd , qui\'kly, Hi s elevAtion t·) the Presi· d('ncy of lhe Holy Naml' Sodet y in Etl H llnt 1l1Otles lly :-'lI~~ll'1l~ that 1:- .,(,:1iur yC31' Li iJl(.i.·u~lvt' ui the W,' mil'.ht l.!'tl.' tht' fullowilllo(' f ...'olul'll~ rd~h It'~ard ~ntert:lined by Ua.· ~tl!d­ III the Int .. n';j t uf U 1ll0rt' l'nt~rtt\lIl~ t'nt l ody for hi s <:hnrnct('1' uIlIJ i I l'aI3. iUt1 ~HH.l in~tt'udivt' Viutonuu ' lie ha ~ symboliz eu th ... h lglll.'st typt' I idl.ll' l..f ~~ d H unt )f t.'OUI t(lO":~, ennub lt'd manhuod tu !...tU I ), of 111 '1 li~t> null t'Hli LSI lln cl we fE"ei that our lo~~ will hI:.' '\Thy ulld How ttlt' velY g rl'al g-nin o r thl' \\'Hdd. lIi~ l't\nlj.Hli~n Eij(U III -4t L'; l1glhd1 unu

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It t oo k us nin~ months to tind it t. but Wt;' ha\"~ nnHlIy di$t'o\t:'r~d that thf' prt'tty grt:"t.'\1\ and IigUl·\.~1 ~tntionery in Room 2~i is thl' P ~')­ pert)' of the gentll ma" WITH hnu', \,h

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his .xter"al lif. tu ,,,,fl.d the sol€'mnity whkh is within him. Oil-I you t'vt'l' attempt to pr~st:'r\ ~ dignit) in n sufi' wind with tl (oot-sqUI1N

t...l tht' ei('rnentnl'Y lu st wl·\.,k. null the I t'::lult wa~ u ::oteak fry h\.'ld in lb.\.'

th,; 11 tIJ1!T of lh" s;:-tn,AoI rat cr Blrf 1n frnm the IIlme inKI itutlOn, Rnd .u m.'\\-" I,owling (."om~Jinalion '.Va IJrofnptl y r'H"Hwd. (n two pi ne!'

1 ht·rt·(UII·, for lhl' pa t two yt.:o S ha Lh\i work "UirullI" he,'n out:;'and 1I1~ in t~U' c'hl'mi t :. lab and on till howling ull.')1 in O.£' ("olll'g.· t)n Th hi two 10 ... ' S ht.· hn~ been ('(111 "tnnt, flllowln~ nuthwJ.r hut c:ht'mi tr 1u inll'f(l"l" wuh hi bowling, and IwthinK bUl /'0" hilI: III intt'rfc wilh hi dW1J1I tzy \\',thflut ('!iC tunl, tYoq plul"t·. on HIl' \'ial'~" (..&11 pu urt , jCU1l11o!' '0 al', III futh", lit' .' t I d lwxt }'t';H. 111\ 1:\

The life 01 the graduate is trut;· a path of thQrns and [hist1~s. Tr-s.· di.gnifi€'dl.y \.'Onsclous of th~ trust ditiQn d~~::i that hli' mu~t ~\~r ~ which b sOOn to ~ plal'~ in hirn, and, al.·\.·ordingly~ ht:" mU:1t l't"gulat~

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Ht' \\U pr('\"t'ntt;>fi from en· ); gill'" in alhlt,til'1 ut ~t. Viator b) hi Vl'uturt' illltl tht' Ih·ld uf upplil."! ltu Illes princil,It,s, hut ht~ maintainl'r! hl It.' der hip in his Cia a und in lhe 'tal h.\,. ucletit' I ! thl~ cnmpu \\ to tI nOt know what "1-·41" p::IUS to do In th,' (utur~ but "Ceel to,

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ht.'r Kn-at(':-.t dforts, \\"ht.'n th~ l'O-t'tis t11!l'ided to organ· izt', it WU!f, to ~Iury lht'y turnN.! fur It'utlenihip, anti, U ~ I'rl'!oIidt'nl of the nt'\"'IY-lJrj(unizl'd SOl·i nl SOl'"Ority 01 :it. Viator Coll.g.. .hl' guided the or capital and labor u. hi. ((ol1l'I'ul nt'\\ gruup thruug-h all tht- trouhlc ~ topi<: and u~ing thl' (.onl'y('lklllH uf nnd prot)lt:'llls of it~ tir14t Yl'ur of ('x- Pope Lt'o XlII and Pope Pim XI un IStl.'rt(·t'.

Sht· oq.~ltnizt:d thl' 8o('it't)' that !'tubje<:l a~ rf:tl'rE:'ncl'.~, Senator nd put it thr Jugh n !lnl un ur l'n- \\'nLh clt'li\"t'rl'd u mUMt ." Urrlfl,l(' dc · ucavor thul wuuld huvt:l bet'll ("f'f.:'dit .. nUlIl.·lutiun of the prc~t'llt Hy,8.t~ 1lI ut aUt.' tu tht· I ollt·gt" nllb it t,lL ("upltul with Its tl'nOl'lll'ieg to ol vi d .... lIt'r quit't, unu sunlinK nlann~r lht' JIt'Oplt, irltu twu K"rcbt l'iU"!JrH'!i or !H.Hlt' her th~ (rll~l1d uf I'n-ry Vnl' till I velY IlI"h un,j vt-'ry "VOl 'ril l' w hol " the lll"llpU and ht'r n·ady rnil~ will uf hi nddn.'s~ whil·h hlll 1.l'l'll 1"1'.

II I "'" fr oIn I. r hall n"xt )·t'nr. JU t)( I lll'l't I III lIIt1.ny ()ttlt'r j'.IUI JlUl~, t ' Will Uto (ound UII tht-' III iUI' I HtKt! uf thi I~ Ut-1 l.f tht- \rialoflbn.

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A!lhol'l{h the Corpu. ('hrl.tl ",'0l't':4~ion Wft!'ol pn'v(lnlcd by thl' falu, thl' ,s('·lIiul":o:J di~l.'oVtHed u IUlW usc and tht' ollly pUH.:ticn i OU(-o, so ttl!" (('ontlnut-d fron. fir~t pugE:) advantcc! rUI their 4..'Up and 1l0W11

by Ht'\'. T. J, Lynch, Dean, Thl' outtlt K It Mel'IIUI thal thl' trlortur.

Se nutol' lhf:n })I'oct!t'di:'d to delIver bou.rd ~ Illukt., Hnt:' umbl'~lhu.. , while onto uf the m o~ t inten;'lJltnJC nnt! i~ll · thl! guwn!' Khl~d watl,r lln('ollllllonly pf(.'."ivt' udtlreHHe~ ~Vl'r h~ard on lhi:' well Viator tUmpUH. Taking the prohli:'ITI

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Wl' wundl:-1r JUHl how II1kny W'u.ul. would have nQtict.!d th~ rTIuttnktl if thl' wrong thln1lulTl1llY hucl ht,t.11I l Ol'tl'lt: iI OV"I tht.lit MhouJd{>fB nt th~ UtitC"

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Senator Walsh Addresses St. V iator

character of their charge;. And sys tem under which the state would Company, expressed himself simtlarthat leads me to notice a ten!? ~en- appropriate all private property con - ly, declaring that the condition in In your charity kindh prn)' for tenee in the letter which give, oc- trary to the mandate "Thou stall which our country finds itself at the departed founder" of St. Via. ('a, 'jon to these remarks, that. has had not steal." this time with six million men out. tor College Endo" ment Fund. e~pecial attention from tnp preS5, The "true Socialist" referred to by' of employment is a challenKe to cnpLeo having dctlared that whatever namely, h~O one can be at the ~ame Pius is made clear by the folfOwing italism which must give Wt1Y to S(\Lne Hc'. ~I iohn.l Quirk might be "aid in behalf of unre- t.ime a Rincere Catholic anJ a true comment of the Catholic Encyclo- other system unless meap:; can strided competition generally, it Socia1i~t." I allude to it be.:ause it pedia: "State control and even state speedily be devised to relieve the Rev. Gpo. P. Muiyaney. C. S. v. ought not to be applied as t he rulinl'" ea~ily lends it:!cli to misreprc~enta- owners hip are not necessarily Social- distress implied and ensure against IH, He,·. Msgr. D. L. McDonald policy in respect t.o labor, and Piws tion, to which the prejud iced and ism, they become suc h only ,,,,hen its recurrence. holdly d!'clare. that "the wage paid de~igning' find it easy to resort in they result in or tend towa rd s th e Europe is even nearer the brink He\". Marlin Brenna n to th(· workingman must be sufH(I~nt J'nattcrs affecting the Church. Tllat prohibition of private ownership not of the precipice than we, according for the suppo rt of himseli and his it wa~ not intended to discountenance on ly of 'natural mon opolies' but to Frank Simonds, writer on cc,ndiwhat is quite generally referred to also of all t he sources of wealth." tions in the Old \V orld , just returnfamily." l(e\,. John Suerth It has been r emarked, indi sc riJn- ed from a three-months' t rip abrm~d, L{!t us not. declaim again~t thp co n- as puhlit ownershi p of public utilmanifest from the context ina tingly, by persons having no par- who tell s that while in America the Rcv. J. F. K irsch ('~ntrati{)n of wealth a nd then rcmain itiui is Hilcnt wh{!n poJiti e~ a re propost::o , aR well aR from t he reco rd of t he ti cular Ry mpathy with its doctrines talk is of the revival of business, in I Hev, Petcr p, O'Dwyer the nC'CCH8n ry effect of which is to Church in felation to s uch. L est any in their purely r eligiou s aspect, per- Europe it is all of "the c han ce~ of mninla in or intens ify that evil of ~u(' h interpretation be put upon his sons obviously concerneJ abont their survival of the whole systc m of cap· Mr. F ra ncis J . Ly nch th(· disastrouM co ns<'que nc es of whic h WOlds, the r evered writeI' remarked, indi vidual possessions, that the Cath- ita li stic civilization." II half the i\J rs. 1\1ary Ly nch buh.ark energy di splayed in ferreting out we huve been so r epeatedly wa rn ed . illL is rightly co ntend cd t hat ccrtain olic Church is the las t A !nong Kuch is th e s ugg estion that Im·ms of property must be reserve:d against socialism. Doubtless similar alleged communi stic propagandists Mr. Jer r y M ur ph y our nati on nl tax sy~te m shoulJ be to t he states, since t hey carry with se n t iments, p erhaps hopes, now are I in this country and in arousing pu b- I ~Ir. Pat ri ck Cleary I'f'v ised so as to impose a h/--avler them a n o pp ortUJ~ity for domniatior. cherished touching its nttitude to- ( lic sentiment against th e ruling class hUJ'(l en on those of s l1Iali or moder- too great to be ldt to private indi- ward communism. They emanate of Ru ssia- ruthless d espots-wer e 1\ 11". \ Villi a ll1 Hi ckey ate inco mcR who now pay and to In - v idual s without injury to the c:Jn> from those who have every reason expended in exposing impositior,!' to sec prese rved the status qu o, th e perp etrated by our own, we might elude othel's nOw exe mpt bccaus(' of munity at large."

Thc idea of the a cq ui s ition by the ultra-conservatives who are, for ob- turn a deaf ear to th e Ca ssanda th (· paucity of th eir income, to the f'{·Ji ef, of co urse, of those of gleat natio nal gove rnment of the railroads vious r eason s, co n tent w ith the ex- who warn of an approaching catawea lth. From the sa me so ul'ce co mes of the co untry to be thereafter oper- lsting order. It is to be regretted clysm. At it is, the admonition of lhe ins iRte nce upon the r epeal or ated by it gained no little s upport that the Ch urch should be regarded the encyclical of the Pope that Kankakee. III. emascu lation of th e anli-tru st laws. at one time w hen those in co ntrol of as t he upholder of any particular eva ngeli sts should be prepared by Another circumstance moving m e thern were active and in(\uential in economic system or any particular i nten se study of s ocia l matters to Welcome Your to make special reference to the ob- ou l'pol itical affa ir s, not infrequently political system 01' establishment, for combat present day econnmic ten· se l'vation of both encyc lical s i ll th e cOl'ruptingly s o. It ha::. s ubsided as it is all but inevitable that it comes dencies is addressed with peculiar Banking Business acc umu lation, in th e prese nce of popul a r protes t against much in ter- to be regarded a s, in a measure, appos iteness to the young men going r es pons ible for, at least more or less l out from this institution a nd others Cor. Co urt St. a nd Schuyler mut h poverty, of imm ense fortunes, ference has waxed w ith t he developis th e di sc uss ion of the Ru ss ian ven- ment of higher standards in public tolerant of, the abuses, the wl-ongs like it into the world to order Ib; Avenue ture in co mmun is m and the effort life. Th ere is every r easo n to feal' and the crimes of the institution future, and to serve either in the to excite fear of its gaining a loot- s uch dominat ion on the part of lhe with whic h it is, i n a sense, wedded. ranks of the workingmen, among hold in out' country.

Ia ll ied power interests as to be E s peciall y does it t hus become t he t h ose who direct g ia n t industrial .and When in Kankak ee You Are T he encyc li cal jus t iss ued undouL t- inimica l to the best interests of the object of attack when it is t he be ne- I commercia l enterprises, or t hose who Always Welcom e a t the edly had for one of its purposes th e co mrnunity at large, and consequent- ficiary in a material way of the guide t he ship of state. cheCki ng of popular s upport of that Iy wholesome that at least s onle of sys tem or institution it espous-E.S. sys tem a s its p r ototype was intend - the great properties supplying energy The Church is today suffering in ed, among other ends, to arrest the be r eta ined by and operated through Spain from the oppressions and fo1Pu'lm ~ n Booths. So (l ~ ;Olln · s pr ead of sociali s m, it being l'ecog- ] agenc ies Of. the governm.ent a s .the lIce of Its falle n monarch and hiS tai n, Majestic Radio nized by t he authors of both that I most effectIve ch eck upon extm:hon. satellites, the consequence of the While You Wa it. b ut fo !' the abuses of the system Eve n if t he comment quoted were Phon e 951 J. Berelos, Mgr. sought to be ovedu r ned, the sub- ! not found in the document bei ng cans titute proposed would gain substan- vassed the fact that without any further pro?f of the wi sdo~, ~rom tia l acce ptance nowh er e.· It was Idisap proval frorn the Church the the standpOInt of both orgamzatwns, emi nently so und in the Pontiff to railroad s and public utilities of loany of the American l dea of t he tota l , I conclude that in order to make head kinds are owned and operated by se paration of the two, against anti-re ligion corllmunistic I the government in s tates in whidl If we can but remove heavy abuses j propaganda, he must labor to elim- her influence is potential would 1'e- in our econo mic system responsible i hmte t he excrescences and r estrain \ fute t he notion t hat a ny hostility to in large part for t he uncqual dist he excesses of capitali s m. Those I ~uch yol.icy was impli.ed in w hatever tribution of wea lt h so consp icuous t respons ible for th em have not failed JS said III the encyclIcal derogatory in thi s favored land, toward which Kan!,al(ee's Larges t Stock the Crea t or has been exceptionally t As a parting testimonia l to its to attempt to utilize the popular to socialis m. hatred of the tenets of co mmunion What was really mea nt hy the ex- lavis h in his gifts, there need be no Self-help Departmen t,. a banquet was QUALITY RADIO as exemplified in Ru ssia , and pal'ti- I pressio n above adverted to 1.:; not fear of our people embracing com- tendered the workers 111 the refectory cu lm'l), the hosti lity di splayed by its diffi cult to discern. It could not mun is m and the Church can most by the College. Approxi mately fifty ' - - - - - - - - - - - - - - leaders to eve r y fornl of religious Ihave been intended as a disapproval effectually combat t he loss of 30uls were in atten dance to enjoy the good " RO SWIT E " AND " HOSE" belief, to divert attention from their of the common ownership of goodg, throug h t he baneful teachings of t hi ngs p r epa r ed for t hem by Chef own p lans lo swe ll their fortunes at seeing that the early Christians in Marx and other apostles of un oelief : Rus so and h is staff of cooks, BHAND HAMS AN D BACON Don Anderson acted as tosatmaster t he ex pense of the multitude. One the attachment they had rOt· each upon w hich communism is based, by might almost say that eve ry effJrt other , not unlik e that between mem- making common cause with t hose for the event, and introduced the t.o save the public fr om pillage fi nes bel'S of the same family, all pre- who strive for justice to the man various speakers with a wit aod 814-836 W. 20th Street ability all his own. Brief speeches so me one speaking on behalf of tha t sc ribed by a hostile world they went who toils.

Chicago, Illinois Our Church has not been exempt expressing. appreciation to t he Colill -de fined group commonly referl:ed out to co nquer in th e cause \1f the to as Big Business, denouncing Sl!ch Mast er , fo und themselves impAlied from the reproach justiy leveled at lege and Mr. E dward E. Gallahuo · Telephone Canal 3848 efrort as socia listic, bols hevistic and to the adoption of t hat system. I n other deno~l1 in atio n s of having 110n- for t he opportuni ties given t he studcommuni s tic. The spokes men for Acts 11 al et seq., r efe rring to thm:e ored those ",h o have been bountifu l ' ent body were made by Martin Too- - . - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - , ce rtain public utilities co mpames, who lis tened to the preaching of toward it without too careful inquiry hi ll , Eddie O'Neil, Herbert Shea, am! r - - - - - - - - - - - - - Mr. Gallahue s upplying power and light, whose Peter, we are told, "They, therei\Jl'e, ~nto whether their abundance has 'William Hamilton. finullcial transactions and practices that received his word were baptized; not been amassed through question- then spoke briefly commending the g enerally have been held up to public and there were added in one day able mea ns, including the oppres5io n I members of the Departmcnt for the odium and reprehens ion through re- I about t hree thousand souls. And all of th e poor. Caution in the respect spirit shown throughout the year, YOUn NEXT SUIT AT ve lations befo re the Federal Trade they that believed were together mentioned is, I take it, enjoined in 1 expressing his appreciation fo rthe the following sage inj unction f r om cooperation s hown, and, as his fi:"ml Commission, have been particularly an d had all thin gs in co mm on." profu se in their charactel'ization of The encyclical descants upon the the encyclical, namely: "Every e'fort order of the year, commanding his at.tempts to restrain them as being I fa ct that practically all th e propon- must be made that, at least in the men to aid the College in its proco mmunistic in ch aracter and in- ents of the theory of socialis m, its future, a just share only of the gram of extension for next year. s pired by l\1oscow. They seek to evangelists, so to speak, were athe- fruits of production be permitted to turn to t heir own profit t he horror ists whose disbelief in l'eligion, nat- accumulate in the hands OJf the Senor Hipolito Monserrate, '33, ;-_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __ of Christian people at the outrages ural or revealed, were inextricably wea lth y, and that an ample sufficien("o mmitted in RUSBh, against relig- interwoven with their economic cy be supplied to the workmen ." known about the campus as " Skipion and its mini ste r s, including th e ! dogma, the acceptance of which Having said this, the author added py", will set sail from Baltimore on desecration of places of worship would na t urally incline to acquies- the solem n warning that unless :;er- Jun e 18th for his home in Cayey, ' el'eded t hrough the piety and sacri- cence in their teachings as a whole, ious attempts be made with all eu- P orto Rico. During his t wo years th:e of other times, by denounciilg the rejection of a part of which ergy and without delay to put them at the local institution, "Skippy" all forms of public ownership o-Z would stamp the devotee as no true (the idea expressed and others like has establishd quite a reputation as it) into practice, " let nobody per- a student, a boxer, a musician, and public utili ties by municipalities, Socialist. sbl tes 01' the nation, as bolshevistic But a stud ied perusal of the docu - suade himself that the peace and a real fellow, and no doubt his many and anyone \·entures to .:ritidse ment w ill disclose that it was not tranquility of human society can be friends wish that they could be able t heir business methods as an apolo- against the common owner3hip of .effecti vely defended against the to bid him bon voyage at the dock gist for :lnd promoter of soc inlisl'n, goods t ha t the malediction was forces of revolution." If it be thought in the city of Cal ve rts . Although the motive obyiously being either to le\·eled w hen that should be effeded by anyone that the languagf" last the Senior's plans f or the continuance monopolize the opportunity sffotdcd by the voluntary consent of those quoted is needlessly alarming let it of his course to fit him to be an the past 1\1. D. are not yet completed, ae hopes by the demand for power or to pre- concerned, as is the case among the be recalled t hat within \'l'nt :1 ('omparison of r~lte.3 that members of not a few orders sanc- month Da ni el Willard, President of to be able to return to IllInois next might demonstrate the cXl:essive tioned by the Church, but against a the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad yea r.

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THE CITY BANKS

SECOND BANQUET HELD FOR WORKERS

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College Entertains SelfHelp Department at A Feed in the Refectory

Merchants' Cafe

BAIRD-SW ANNELL

Everything in Sporting Goods

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Jourdan Packing Co.

Fashion Believes in G. G. G. Weaves

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ENJOY

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THE VIA TORIAN

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'presents us with this peculi~r para-'liveliest of all cultural Vlsions I from text-books. They have learned dox, that the highest and the most Christ. They are traditionalist" only that the three great aims of s cold e u r e gifted of the sons of men, when they to deny the most vital and enduring lege education are self-control, serenlived according to the dictat.s of of all traditions-Christ and bis fested them througbout the golden mere culture, wandered into stranbe heritage. They desire to give man ity and service, and they have manilands where the alluremcut of the the wings of an angel, whilst den y - ,' hours of their r esidence on this We live in an age of expenme~ta- I hfe, because genIUs 15 ~he redeemer world enmeshed the'll and where the ing him the world of the super- campus. tion and novelty, an ageh that . desIres They have -ilscovered · ·IIf ·m,OXlcate d natuI.al. The)' would make man walk The motto of Solon, inscribed on I I of dman. rf . n rt d ,the . song of t h e ammal e so to move seaward from t e gnm an< 1 9o~ 1 e In I ~ra:y so 1 u e ane In them that culture wore but the mast the heights of the spirit, in which the Delphian shrine--KNO",,' THYof the past with its standards, tra- I cloIstered habItatIOns; they h~ve l of i norance: taste born of culture they do not believe. They are or- SELF-has taught them to reject ditions, and chen shed belIefs, an age come m contact wIth moral aXlms beca:e immorality. In the "rilIi,"t phans who have eaten the cr umbs of the popula}" gospels of a materialthat has but one cntenon of truth: t and a. swe.et r.easonableness for m~n hands of Cardinal Newman r.lere secular knowledge, only to ignore istic age, has ever urged ihern to novelty, but one standard ,OJ error: f \Vh~ I.l ve, In Iv~ry towers. By i~e ~ culture has roved to be the the divine sanction and truths. They move upward, out of the flesh. into antiquity. Our day, the chIld of the aSS imilatIOn of Ideas from books, If "hi tory of th~ natural man." would make men great by walking the realms of spiritus l nobility. They 19th century, desires to stand silent we are to believe them, man will s .

Ca ducation by 1ts force and only with men, by turning his eyes ',tlsve repudiated self-expressions (as upon lonely peaks of Dorien, looking easily become a paragon of virtue, a beau~, e and kn~wledge, by its love- in upon his pu n y self, when instead moderns would term it), have pracinto the bay of the present. Modei"n- walking Polionus, whose covered t· I . h·b·t· th I liness, so elevate man fTom the I they s hould have preached the light Ieee an 111 Ilion on em:)€' ves ity calls it wisdom. I can it chaos, maxims will leads him to a heaven thralldom of the se nses, so separate of Christ that ftashes frorn the which has produced tranquillity in because we are isolated in too revo l- on earth. Their ideal of heaven .:leems his higher from his lower nature eterna l hills. To be most modern their inner lives,-a serenity which utionary a way from the past, whilst. to be an abundant s upply of books that he will act always with tne they should go back to Bethlehem has made the attractive clamors of our day glances most lovingly bJt and a s ufficient time to read. securities and the intelligence so be- and live in the hut. They should the world far distanct echoes, which most wistfully into the Pacific of the As far as they go, they de!.:ierve loved by humanists? Knowledge and robe themselves in the ganne nts of has allowed them free communion in future, where it hopes to see th e serious cons ideration and attention_ education are noble aimo; for man's shepherd s in adoration with whom the still and awful Quietness of tlleir subtle but elusive truth s,vim into But the questions that the humanists attainment and beautiful sanctories I they should exult, because there was own sou ls where, in meditation t hey its kin. Like Ulysses, our day wish- must answer are these: Will knowl- wherein the man worships. When di vine truth born into the world in have gazed upon the exquis ite beaues to sail into the glimmering \Vest, edge and literature give to man a t· f I 0 t l·t and I hear,l fi d pursued with zeal, it brings a treas" the perso n of Christ. With Him the les 0 mm r a 1 y lave way beyond the farthest stars, I' e morality? Will culture give him a ure of a glory to a world. With j greatest of poets who saw the lily the sweet whisperings of Eternal by the splendid hope and animaied religion? Will the mere s tudy of the Horner, we may ressurect the spirct outglorying Solomon who touched the lo ve. Such serenity has set them by the dream, a phantom-of truth's works of genius so lead man out of of ancient Greece, with Sophocles, surface of t he eart hand compelled free to enter into the joy of ::iervice complete conquest and of man's a1'- him self and enable him to clir.1b the we may watch man walking grandly it to g ive up its wisdom for men's Lo humanity. rival at an island-the land of Pros- starry spheres and beat for judgment to the river of death. Virgil will uses, who made the souls and the Today, GentJernen Graduatf"s, you pero, where the word of culture aml upon his life at the bars of etern ity'? make live for us through rhythmic bodies of men and women clean, they shall cho ose the calling that attracts the music of an Auill will chant him Will merely human educatloll, (;on- language the glory of Roman lmper- s hould live. Without the hinderance you. Today you may become the to the noblest culture and discovers sidered as the reading of hooks, save ialism: through the eternal agony of of books they should go to Him to farmer, the manufacturer, thp baltker for him a religion that will make of I him and the world he inhabits?

Dante's Inferno we may walk, list- learn the divine and sup ernatural - what does it matter, provided you man, a god.

After all culture is a most fickle ening to the cry produced by man's humanism of God's sou l t.hat yet can see the use of it, and find satisIn the midst of this ceaseless vran- lady that has walked most anllably inhumanity to man; up the mount eehos in the heart of men, so much faction in doing it well. Today you dering of the human spirit, in the I in the twilight of the past, stopping of purgatorial self-purification we t hat they become inftamed with love may call yourself the future lawyer, midst of this clamor-filled age, a man at times to produce a decadent Nero may climb and enter the paradise, and heroic with COUl'<.:.ge before Him Lhe doctor, the priest, the authol"has become a contradition. He is a and a cultured Julian. She is still where men and women are fCl'ever whom the winds obeyed; they should and because you have lear ned the prodigal and a Midas: a proGibal in our midst, riding in the guise of impa,r aciised with Christ, the Saviol'. go and kneel in adoration and in 'imperishable value of self-co ntrol, beca use he s its in the temple of Freud's philosophy, and wearing the Through the hell and heaven of love, because to become great the of solitude and of service, you s hall truth, us ing but its husks, while robes of Joycen obscenity. She stops man's own creation, companioned and soul must Ji ve for Christ. They becorne, regardless of Y01lr choice, Midas-like, his soul is starved to at the literary palace of a D' Annun- appalled by Shakespeare, we may shou ld learn the humanism of the 'the aristocrats of democracy-f'n death because it is either ignoled zio to produce a blithe de cadencs (;f stroll. An the pageantry of wor!d dolol'uS way and stand tl'ansfigured t he sceptre today is swayed by the altogether or its existence is for- a sorrowful paganism. She e;ten genius may be ours. But with this, at the foot of Cava lar y's Cross where hands of those men who posse~s got.t..en or hidden beneath the blas- spins the spider's emotional web of culture in our hearts and its fires man in hi s naked dignity is alone clean, wholesome and disciplined in· phemy of tbe age which preaches a Proust and darts into the brain of the storied treas ure of all human acknowledged. There they will learn teUects. man's sufficiency for man. The con- an H . G. Wells, impelling him to impal ed upon our imagination, does that out of sufferi ng comes triumFine spiritual leaders that you are, gregated- is ms of our age have en- preach the ~ospel of man's assul'e'd it follow that we, the heirs of the phant happiness, and out of death we hope to emulate your example. abled man to fly the heavens, not in divinity on earth. Thu s she has centuri es, are morally better than the eternal life; that those who cling To you-joy. To you-peace_ To the fi et'y chariot of his so ul, but walked through the maze of the cen- illiterate peasant, who jumps at will to the cross are at the heal't of the you- contentment. May the lives upon the aero-plane, the child of hi~ turies, ever alluring men. ""hen left in and out of the sup ern atural world. world, and those who look at the which you have so nobly begun in· hand and t.he offspring of his science. to his own power and to his guidance, The experience of the race proyes, Saviour bleeding are alone the true crease in knowledge and wisdom and Man has enrich~d his environment, to worship at the s hrine of men's and our testimony vividly bears out, heirs of all the ages. Hence a Cath- spirituality under the t!o mpeling inbut ha s st.arved him self so much that own making, when he but admired the fact that when passion beats olic student, with Christ born daily ftuence of the teachings of our IO\;tnow a plea for a new religion, hum- his own perversity. She is now here, upon the heart, when the fire of sin in his heart, is most mod er n, because llnl rnoth er·-St. Viator College. a.nism, which is culture and know 1- now there, now everywhere, only to stirs the being of man, that knowl- he is above and beyond time. Hnv-----edge, are the magic words to herald lell us of the pleasant grove ",here edge and intelligence are unaNe to ing dreamt upon the glories of the Moulders of M e n mm int.o the promised land of self- be palpably nowhere. who now c:.\n save him from himself, because cul- past, having walked with Christ, the Joseph E. Hoog, B. S., '31 'r edempt.ion. To restore man's ow n the fair lady keeps her ba.lner and tUre may never touch the tal:ernacle eternal humanist, as a compan ion, soul to impoverished man, to bring ~ ings. If we cou ld but know. we where rnan is man, where intelligence he is ready to meet the present and Mr. Toastmaster: Your "Excellency: to him a vision of higher things, to ~vo 111d all listen to the melody, and and knowledge dies-the conscience. the future with all their problems. Honored Doctor of Laws: Right cloak him in the garment of lhe be saved by her song. It is so cheap A knowledge of all the philosophies The assimilation of knowledge will Reverend and Very ReverBnd Monsupe l'natul'a l, there has come a most thal it never cost the blood of Christ. and a thrilling of the beauty of all be but for him a romantic adventure signori: Very Reverend President: hunwn religion - humanis m - that She has ope ned magic casements in the poets advocated by the humanists up to the dime cerge, where ea rthly Very Revere nd and Reverend Fathwould save the world not by the the past, and has permitted her de- a force given to the mind by the time recedes into nothingness and is ers: Gentlemen of the Class of 193 1: Way of the Cross, but rather by a votee to enter her fairy land, tile winged words of the poet and by i..he swallowed up by the li ghl of. infinite Ladies and Gentlemen. knowledge of the sornber culture of paradise of the merely cultured. speculation of the philosophies are truth, the splendor of eternity.

Commencement Day ho lds a mula Sophocles. by imbi?in g ~he highest Me~ and women heard her music ~n weak moral systems, because they do tiple significance. It is a day of ~pirit of Plato's phtlsophlc ecstacy, ancIent Egypt, only to forego their not make vital the conscience nor ----honour. not on ly for the gruduate b y a h al' d enmg . d th roug h lumalll·t y an d become b l nay, streng th en t h e h eart 0 f mnn nor · 0 f th e mm eae.;tl~, Gentlemen Gra.d uates who sta nds at the top of the marble the logic of an Aristotle and the even depraved. To her thcy listened prevent him from tearing t he civine !-itail'case, awaiting descens ion into unh'c rsul culture of a Goethe. They in gl'oves of Athenian Acadernies. image from his breast. Real humanII erhert J . Shea, ':12 lhe salon of the world, but oC honour tell liS that a knowledge of the work 31 only to become for a tirnc angc·ls fty- ism should demand such an e(~l!catioll Scholarshi p and fri e nd s hip are in- as well for those who huv e guided ("l"entell by the genius of man, and, in g in the sun of truth. This hap- that would temper the will to remain terlinking keys whi ch open the door him through the intricale cor ridors stt?ept'u in the frenzied and burning pened only when they brought cul- unyielding and that should cause the of understanding in evel'Y college of a college curricu lum . Th(!ge guides word~ of whi<:h he is capable, will ture and conscience into unity. These co nsc ience to be stern.

When both man's career. Scholars hip is not are about to throw open t.he doors mak{> man like unto a god, whose men became animals when passior..s these powers, the will and the \.:on- mere Look-lore: it is sy mpathy with for the graduate, to apreud before !-luivation seems to be guaranteed by bent upon the golden casement of sc ience, are recognized by conten,. all that one comes int.o (;ontact 111 hi !-i eyes a panorama of the wodd hi g cupacity for cultu re, and whose th e ir int.elligence. In s uch momellts porary philosophers , and when ~he}J' this atom-built, star-s prinkl ed, s pirit- s w(>cping in its e ntirety, bewildering uamllution is inevitable, if he re- they fOl'got the God within the ("on- then and then only may we believe inhabited univ er se oC space lind timt!. in it!-i Hubtlety, mys Le rioli K in its runin:; illiterate. To humanbts, to I science. During culture's highest humanis m tend Lo educa te thelll, Friends hip, like its twin, sweE::lCf1S movementH, dazzling in its co lour. know i~ to be saved, und the only flowering in Haly, the least song in it. Knowledge and edu~ation of and enlarges the sc hola r's life, l>l'ing- The y have prepared the st.udent fol' damnation is slavish ignoranL"e. thrilled the heart and so filled the and by themselves will never teach ing it into harmony with all nature. hi M venture among the s waying, rellt' lh.'l', un Irving Babbit froll! the mind that even genius became mon- I restraint, that high blessing of ed uThrough lhe three years acquaint- c:eptive masst!s, by clot.hing him in a qllit't al'udpmic wayg oC Han·ned, a um ents of human perversity and c:at.ion. The emotions and feelings anceship with the gent.iemen of the majestic garb which 80 differs from Paul Elmer Moore- Crom th" groves folly, where men with intelligence must be checked and nurtured into class of nineteen hundl'cd and thirty. the l'eHt. of Ol en, that he loom ts befol'c of I'rim·t,.'ton, havc concluded under alprt a nd intelligence universal. sank . wnys of security and peace. These one, the fact that !:Scholars hip and t.hem as a product of Christian rethl.' inspiring infiut'nce of Matth~w beyond the depths. 'I'hey became I are ignored by humanists because friendship ruled in a so rt of co fincrnent.

Arnold that a knowledge .>f the wierdly desolate, because they listen- they never teach us to spiritualize regnancy o\'e1" the domainli of their You, fo'aculty of St. Viat.or Collegl!. \J(·~t in human liternture will save cd but to the music of culture. The our emotions. There are more tll ir.~li hearts and minds wa!1 eve!' impres- have assumed the task of preparuthl' world, that a culture nnd A. steep- history of humanity has proved th~t in man than are to be found in their sed upon me. \Ve, undt::l'c:lass m{'n' l tion; it is you to wh?m w (: .in o~r Illg of tht' [ler~onfthty in ne~thctics nwre culture. divorced from religioll, philosophy.

Their culture may be have ever looked upon them 3S the youth tum(:d for gUidunc(: 10 thJF. will pri.l\lut:e SUl'h l\ harmony uwong ha ... made man u disciplt:: man of acceptable, if man wert:: a machine, ex~mpJHr:i of a life fruitful in intel- grtat living ca~tle· the world it iA tht,' Intt"lIl'd, will and soul that from tastc-, only to catch him in the way- but yet he thrills to the brt!eze lIf lectual ac:complishment and I'lpiritual you who atted a~ the maHtcr, by 8ubtht' trunqull air o( Iibruries, there ward trammels of his own sense. emotions and palpitates to the rnusic advanccm(:nt. jug-ating uoworthy qualities; the will tly thl' dl,)v~ of l'ultur~ to tl'ing 1'h(' cultu.rt' of the humanists has of the world. The system of the In rf:vi(:wing my fricnd.i hip with polbh~r, by brighteniog lu ~tT(' l eHK inlht.' suving rnornlity ()( lIlun. They m.' n~r, nor wil} it ever, givt,! final humanists is balked when it attcmpt:i the graduau:s of thhs year, it ....'oldd tc·Il(o(·t!i; the in lSpir('r, by I'Jf'v«ting dl'l'", It tilULi that n iitt>ratur~ ",let-ped pt·nt·(, to a man'!\ soul. when ternpt£lo- to soh. e the mystery-man. app~ar to me that from their co lh~ge lau-n t a~pirationf'l. TIJday W(· Hw nd III hi~h Int ... lli~t:n,"~. and a ~y~tem of tions lure and the imagination beThe modern human~itst:! have livetl tC)ur::lf', lhty have harvc.stNJ 8 l dnc- prf-parf'd tl) b~~ r~vif!"w~d by the. ~f"V­ ml)l'ulit~·, g.J\\"rnnl through the meJ- (.'omt.'~ dizzily fasCinated by the lu:<- in the past a~ if it w~r~ a sepulchrl'. thing richt'r and .\Vurlhi£-r than in_lf'rf'St uf critic· ... thf" world. \Ve go ium of ~)t...~, \\ ill h.·ud to the d;vtce ury of th~ nt.'sh. ~ny, hbtury e\eD Tht'ir vi~ion L.. nt::\'cr attuned to the rurmati()n thlll nll;:ht be garnf-red (Contlnuf'd (JO pagf! U-O)

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rrhen come~ a duy in every year G1ndhi W3!:l born in the year 1869, ment of Indians residing in British of the people J and that he considered 'Nhe: n A merica pauses in her whid at a little seacoast town, Porbunder. Dominions. (8) Total disregard of it only just that he should be imWind life. She halt. her ordma'y Hi" r arent, belonged to the Vaishya, our feelings by glorif)-ing the Punjab prisoned if the Judge believeJ he pursujt~ and requeKts her citjz(:n~ to that jg the third, trade, or agricul- Administration and fiouting the Nln- was acting in accordance with a just look back a century and a half over tural, ca~te. In an atmosphere of hamedan se ntiment." Gandhi's sum- la\\>. Rational, broad, and judiciflus the highway of tim"'. She bid~ them deep religious faith, he received his mary states quite plainly the srrounds in all things was he. t.ravel in s pirit to t hat renowned early training. His mother was a on which India believes that she has The next important event in lhe · _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __ s pot where flfty-Bix God-fearing, d(;vout Hindu with whom he read I a rig.ht to demand her life of Mahatma Gandhi is his fast high-fSpirited men affixed thpir name.i daily the Bhagavacl-Gita. \Vhen he Gandhi has learned the truth of at Delhi. Here, indeed, he ;)howed In clear, bold, dauntless !Jcript to wa~ still a young boy, he had been Gladstone's words that "Every yehr himself to have been saint-like tn that mighty document thdt spt'lt n:f ~ :'jeu, aC('ording to the cu~tom in and every month that a subject peo- hi ~ self-immolation. At this time we Our photographs are inexpenPreedorn ror n nation. She loves 1ndL1 of marrying at a very early pi e are kept ?nder the administrati.:>n I see not so much Gannhi the leader sive, yet treasured for their lho~~ men; s he loves that d(lCUnl(;nt; age. From this home-life he went of a despotIc government, renders of the Indian people but simply worth as living portraits. und above all, she loves that Free- to En~land where he completed his lhem less fit for frep institutions." Gandhi, the man. \Ve see in him dom. How many years shaH it be ed'calion and training as a lawyer.

But immediate causes leading to the glorious heights to which th<' soul 153 North Sc hu yler Ave_ before u poor strugg ling people in He wa~ not very s uccessful in his lhe utter loss of faith in the British 10f. man C~ll soar. We have ~ere a u far <.:orncr of the world, bordE::l'ing plactil'e of his profession in India, Empire were the series of "black h _man bel1lg, weakened by Jllness Phont! l107 Kankakee, Ill. on the Jndi an Ocean, can respond t<' 80 he took advantage of an oppor- acts" perpetrated against a still de- ' anJ a recent operation, harassed by t.he thrill of Freedom? How many, tunit.y that presented itself of un- pendent country. Gandhi stated b~-I ar.x iety over the outcome of hi~ many yean~ befote she, too, can bid del'taki~g a lawsuit. for a Moham- l fore s~l'io;JS trouble began that if he d"'ar~st .proj~cts, . cO~lpelled by the her peopl(;! to ponder over th.J.t ::11- medan 111 South Afl'lca. There he at- did not believe racial equa lity to be self-J\ sttficatlon hIS mmost soul deluring prize which forms the bac!<.- t:'!ined success both at the Bar and a creed of the British Empire he manded to seek a remedy for the bone of every nalion? "H ow long',! as a leader of hi s countrymen. It ! would be a rebel.\Vhen he f~unj violence enacted and to atone for his Lord, how ,long?" is the cry of the was ~t this time that he put to a t hat such equality actually did not s ins and th~se of .the people. The aroused indians. Yea, how long, practical purpose the teachings of exist, he co uld do nothing mOle test of love IS sacnficej and no saclheir leader would respond.. But Tolstoy, his Own Bhagavad-Gic.a ancl I than take t he ~tand of a rebel, to lifice :vas too great for Mahatma f(: rncmbcr, my brothers, love IS our the Sermon on the Mount. Finding maintain the consistency of his posi- GandhI to perform for the sake of 119 Court St., Kankakee, Ill. ,~u i de;. ~ou l -force, our weapon;. ancl 1lhat the Indians. were being oppres- I tion. In view of the things that lo ve. ~he Great-Souled one imposed SwaraJ (self-government.). our aml- sed by the whIte people in that happened he could arrive at no other upon hlln self a. fast of twenty-one- I :.-_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _._ ___ _ t~us M.ahatma Gan~hi would inti- BI it.ish co~ony at Natal, Gandhi or- conclusion. The government retained days. ~or this purpose he retil'~d mate hiS war campaIgn. g:lTllzed hIS countrymen and begall l its war powers in time of p eac~ . to Delhi where a house called Kll- , - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - H[S" this war ?,:' we cry. "Love" I ~ camP.aign of Satyagra~a .. Surpris- Jury and appeal were denied to per- khush; or ..Hea~t's Joy, at the fLot of 1 and sou l-force!

In what strange IlI1 g were the results! ThiS httle band sons s'Jspected of revolutionary ten .. the hlStOllC RIdge on the farther Dine anJ Dance terms lhis leader thinks of war! cnder hi s supervision by sheet' force dencies. Inol'dinate taxes ar'e de- side of the city became the scene Of !

AT Yes, but it must be remembcr('d ~hat of spirit tr i.umph ed over the thous- manded of the Indians, according to the heroic deed. Many times duri~g Mahutma Gandhi is not the usual ands o.f whl~e settlers. The E ngli sh Istatistics. One article points out the long twenty-one days .Gandh.l s kind of war general. He is as strane..! lecoglllzed hIS power and service and quite clearly that taxes twice as doctors and attendants adVIsed hIm I from the ordinary, practi cal, prosaic I man y times honored him with medals. I heavy as those upon the English and to giv: up his proje~lt. But ~and~l , Rtuncipoint., a s his n1 ethod of ga in- In the Boer War he served the three times as heavy as tho~e 11110n was Immoveable: Have faIth In UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT ing freedom. Before we can begin I Dritish beea.use.' as he said, he loved the Scotch are laid upon the God" was his reply to all. to understand his system of revult, them . AgaIn In the World War he "Yet." it continues, "they have no trembled constantly upon hIS liPS, L -_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _---I it is imperalive that w£' ~tJ dy this showed his attitude toward Britain representation in the British Parlia- not the prayer of the Pharisee but - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - , fi.gul'e w ho . has aeqllh:ed stich majes- by the disting~is~ed service he r en- j ment." Sir William Wilsoll Hunter ~h~ sim~ le, trusti~g petit~on °l~' the I !::UJ' Your Guaranteed lic PI'Opol·t lOns. He IS the cynosure Idered. Why IS It, then, we would speaks of the "tradition thal u,,- chdd.

My fast, he said, IS a of the eyes of the wollo. Mahatma ask, shou ld such a sta unch supporter I limited sums of money might Le ex- matter between God and myself."

G., a ndhi is a thin, frail, little In;).n, become a n equally strong resister ? tracted from the natives by the mere However, hi s retirement to Delhi s ixly-two yenrs of age, worn by the IThere must have been some just terror of the Britis h name. " No was of a more profound nature than nLlst.~ l ity of hi s manner of life. He cause for the change. For if Gandhi wonder then, they are such a povert.y- the sole object of reparations ~vGu ld i:-; rhil d-l ike in his simpli city, pot:tic loved England as greatly as his fre- s tricken race . Sir Charles Elliott indicate.

Authorized i,n his conception of Beauty and quent avowals and his worthy deeds says "Half the agricultural populaMahatma Gandhi realized that only LINCOLN 'I"'ut h, sai ntl y in his love for C:od would in dicate, there was sUl'ely a tion do not know (rom one half- discipline and reform among the lcORD und reli g ion. He is rigid and le:lr- strong provocation to account for year's end to another what it is to people could PJ.t India in a stnte o.f r less in hb ndhel'cnce to the Ch ri~t::ln hl~ present attitude. have a full meal." Such conditions preparation for his s ubsequent Plans. ! doctrine, "I't!sist not evil , overcome \Vhal is t.he attitude Gandhi now as these Gand hi felt to be in abso- One of his dearest projects was ~ ~vil wiLh good. " He believes in it, assumes toward Great Britain and lute contradiction to ~~'1~ ideal r~la- Hindu-Muslim Unity. The Indian Hot theoretica ll y, but practically, gild what are the causes for such a posi- tionship between Empile and s ubject leader believed that in order to attlpplies it in the common occurrenc.t::S tion? First of all, Mahatma Gandhi and in direct violation of the la,,' of tain any kind of independence it was 1 of life. The sta mp of the ascetic is I is very broad, very just and reason- love. Consequentl y he impo~-::('d sat- necessary that the sharer s of that lIpon him; the appeal of the mystic 1able. He has preserved in his heart yagraph or passive resistance t:pon independence be united among th.~m­ ema nate:-; from him . His life is ex- the same frie ndly feeling toward the India. Events occurred \, hich ordy selves. The fast at Delhi had a pl'OFirst Door emp lar of the triumph of the spa'it Englishman; but as to the system served to intensify his conviction found influence upon the Hindus and North of Luna Theatre over the body. Physically his so ul of Government established by them that all-India Non-Cooperation was the Musselmans. For a long time is ehaincd; spiritually it is as free in India, he has had an entire r e- the only stand open to him. Arnong violence and riotings were entirely :1::> lh~ sky lark of Shelley. Each versa l of feeling. He quite plainly these were the Amritsar and Punj~b ' suspended; and, indeed, some 01' their - ' ).Hayer he utters is a. winged thing states that he hates the British massacre, and. the Khilafat Vlrong. leaders who were present at t he im- I - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - , bearing it closer to its Maker. He system in India and the "ruthless The Khilafat Movement was one of pressive ceremony on the last day Demand t'1l1'eS for only his soul; hi s body is ! exploitation of Indi a." He believes Gandhi's strong attempts to aid in when Gandhi broke his fas t, sOlenm- 1 by the rigol'S of £"3t3, that t he facts must be plainly faced; I the union of Hindus and Muslin,". Iy pledged themselves to the furthcrVigils, and forms of self-deniaL \Vhat no longer can he go on leading the Its aim was· to restore the power of mg ~f thIS umt. On this occasion at I ",·omp.nion fol' the brown-robed people toward reform undel' the de- I the Calip h as the Head of the Mus- Deihl Gandhi told thc people as- I IIlIlIl of Assisi! So close in spirit al'e I lusion t ha t it can be brought about , Iims and to secure better treatment sembled how h. had bfen worklDg "IT'S QUALITY SATISFIES" lhey. He has a deep, abiding lo ve! under the wing of the mother (;Ol1n- for Turkey . In the massacre at Em Hmdu-Musllm Umty for t hIrty G. ARSENEAU BAKERY for his fellowmen-"bl'othel':3 and try. For such Gandhi truly believe~l Amritsar hundreds of unarmed Indi- years and had not yet achieved it.

Bourbonnais, llL s isters'l he calls them. In all his and sought. He had no intention of ans were killed. A large meeting A~othel' powerful factor that~ Jik~­ beliefs he is absolutely sincere aoci, I proving a hypocrite by attempting of a peaceful nature was being held WIse" tend.ed toward a reactIOn \n I would add, absolutely consistent. to break with the British Empire when the British soldiers opened fir~ fav~l. of ~l S plan was the Maha~ma s To him, the Sermon On the :Mount is that had been his toast. When h~ on them. The presence of Sir Michael pOSItIOn 111 regard to thp Khllafat one. of the most bell.utiful and most. ~rs~ inaugurated reform alllong toe O'Dwyer as Lieutenant-Govel nor of I wrong. He expended every effort Kankal<ee, III. pel'iect docume nts WIth which he has lndlan~,. it was. ~one with. faith in Pu.njab w~s undoubtedly. respons,ible toward the restoration of the Caliph e\lel' come in contact.

So powerfu: the B.lItl sh Empne. What nappened fot the VIOlence at Amntsal'. 1.hus at Co nstantinople whom the Musselis his cOJolViction in his its teachings to thIS iaith? Th~ En~lis~ them- at various times outbreaks occurred mans regarded as the Head of their thnt they have become the model t, selves were responslblt! lor ItS IJss. to mar the perfection of Gandhi's ,. .. . which he patterns his life, the mark Let me quote here the words of Mr. principles of non-violence-passive rehglOn. The qUick-m:llded Gand", REACH-WRIGHT & DI1'SON lhat has stamped his attitude toward Gandhi himself, he says : "See what resistance.

On one occas!f)n mad- saw that this was the psychological England. Love, he believes, should the British Empire means to India: ness seized the Indians and over_l opportunity and took advantage of s~l'v~ as the bright sun of man':. (1) Exploitation of India's resources threw all that theIr leader had taught (Continued on page ten) -------------~.----~ existence to shed benevolent rays for the benefit of Great Britain, (2) them, thIS occurred at the time of over all his associations with hi s An ever-increasing military expendi- the Prince of Wales' visit to Bomuay. brothers. \\'hen the cloud of ''-dis- ture and a Civil Service the most There even the presence of GandhI alreclion" casts a shadow on their expensive in the world. (3) Extrava- could not check the devils that rei:llions. then let not man sin gant working of every Department seemed to have heen let loose by the I Sidney Herbst, Pres. and General Manager ngainst thnt fundnmelltal principle in utter disregard of India's poverty. breaking of the tie of self-restraint of lo\e hy acts of \-iolence, but let (4) Disarmament and therefore emas- that had been drawn so tauntly.

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May I employ the words of the famo~s N ineteenth centur y no velist, and say that today is the best of days, and yet it is the worst 0 f da ys ; it is a day of m ourning, and yet it is a day of rejoicing; it is a day of sorrow, and again it is a day of joy; it is a day of dejection, and it is a day of hope. In all its aspects, it is a day of vast and gripping s ignificance, containing as it does the phantom spectre of memorable ond heroic days of the past, and t he glorious vis ion of unknowable and unchartered days of futllre years.

of selection and discipline is poise, 'Qr as the Greeks and Romans called 'it, IImeden aga n", and decorum.

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Although the Catholic should not be satis fi ed with humanism as a s ubstitute for religion, he sho uld at least recognize in it !l positive ad-

immutable, for it embodi ed t he better future. More and more per- the sensational, and for "record- vance from the purely natura.l, which eternal principles of truth and jus- ~ons are becoming skepti cal 0f breaking" feats . may and does lead eventual1 y, as has tice taught by Christian mothers. s keptici sm, and suspicious of such Although humanism is never new, been proved by the example of sev'f '11 f t h d ffic' cy prog)'ess it mu st ever meet new problems. era I h umanists, to religlon.

Ca II t h em waste f u I 1 you WI, or ca c wor s as e len , , they showered t heir money like wild s.cience, and liberalism. OU.r o'~rl Today, the main error s it must dtrive That humani sm s hould s npplfmt blossoms before the w ind; they gave Ih terature of protest, exemplIfied m to uproot are those which arise from Christianity was never intended hy t heir li ves as t hough t hey were giv. Mencken, Lewis, and DeCasseres, naturalis m and humanitarianis m, In its founders. It merely offer s a rise of a clear moo n in a wet heav- l though not in the least constructive, general, a huma nitarian is one who common level for cooperation to t he ing nothing. Theil' presence in is aiding the situation by tearing has sympathy for the bulk of man- diverse Chritian sects, to combat the E urope was an insp iration, like the down old barriers. There are move- kind, faith in its f uture progress, force of na t ura lism. ens. "They came because they saw ments afoot which a r e strivi ng to an d t he desire t o serve the cause c·f If we cou ld suddenly be sna t ched on the other side of t he bloody abyss eff~ct. a return to order, to. sound this progress. The scientific or util- back into the ages of fait h, w hen t ha t vision fo r which t hey had a l- obJectives, and to restoratlOn of itaria n type of humanitarian works the entire civili zed world was bound ways fought-a wo rld without war, I values in human existence. Fore- against the law of measure by advo- together by the same r elig ious bewithout poverty, without pr eventable mos t among t hese mo ve ments is cating specia lization. In order to liefs, we migh t then condemn hudisease, without ill-paid workers, Ihumanism. In France, und er the contribute his mite to the progress manis m as a s up erfl ous, inefficient of man, he deems it necessary to con- doctrine. But, unfortunately, the . h True patriotism is exemplified, not WIt out 'Ignora nce an d h ope Iess tOi'1- 11ea d ~rs h'Ip 0f J acq.u e ~ Ma 1'1'tain' .hu in the Menckenese syste m of criti- .mg ml'11'Ions, Th ey f oug h t to b ut.' Id malll s ~ h as been ,I,ntl)lately aSSOCla ' - fine his activities to as narrow a Held return to such a unanimity of belief cism, but rather in a courageo us and the road to a society in which peo- i ted WIth ScholastICIsm . In Amenca as possible. S uch a man sacrifi ces is a lmost impossible. Th e originally . tl' d · a d Egland hUlnanism while not well-rounded development for a life Christian religion has been divided constructive utterance of id eas t hat p Ies s h ou IIc d e t erlTIllle 'WlT own eS- 1 n n, , ca l1 s attention to evi ls, and on the tiny ni government and in all things so closely re lated to scholasticism, is doom ed to rnonotonous toi l. into so many sects that today their th t d th d" nevertheless avai li ng itself of the On the other hand, the sentimental name is practically leg ion. MOl'eother hand , builds ideals for t he a concerne e corr.mon goo .

It d kid f th t type of huma nitarian is far too ex- over, in the Middle Ages, the civilgteatest number of citizolls. A naThat the world fa il ed to attain the cu ure an nowe ge 0 e pas. tion wit hout heroes is a nation with- I ideals for which Americans fought; I ~umam sm really dates back ,to pansive. Believing as he do es that ized world wa s limited to lhe na rout moral fo r ce. Too prone are the t hat dishonesty and dIsease, that \\'a1' an cIent , Greece, Rome, Judea, Ind13, impulses and instincts are good in row confi nes of a s ing le continent. d dt ' th 'd 'I d Ch na but the t erm was first themselves and always to be follow- Since then vast new continents have y intellectuals 0fff t he prl!"sent dba to ~~ct a~~ r:oc~~:~tion a\hI:t ~~~:~~lal.~~~~ ! ~:ed in I th~ fifteenth century in Ita ly ed, he r ejects the idea of selection been included in the pale of civili ze-h your decry every e ort put .. OrL. ' I . I'me. W'th h' O t'Ion an d h ave been so intimately 11m, any t h mg t d d al oppression a nd aggrandiZ('ment to denote the type of sch olar who a n d d'ISCIP se states mel1, every moveme n" en tork still r emai n makes this a dny in~ appreciated th e content as well as and ever ything is desirable because bound together by modern scientific by our country, every aCt;lOn a -en ' , I II thO f I I H h by our nation of forty-eight ~ov- deed, of discouragement and depres- the. form of, the great c.lasslca a 111gS are 0 equa va ue. e progress t at we ar e beginning to Ih TI h t sion yet nontheless a day on which WrIters, DespIte the great dIverS ity professes an ex uberant sympathy for think no longer of widely se parated . er elgn commonwea t s. lroug ou ' 'f . t d' I d d mankind. Sometimes this sympathy continents but of the world as a the yea r, governme ntal action and the "sickening pang of hope is but? ancl~n, me I,eva, an mo ern " f th bl . 't Ideal IS perceptIble' each faculty degenerates into a passions f or l'C- whole. As a result we have not only d f d policies are dIsparaged and depre- e erre, or e no e SpI n por- ! " . ' cat ed , and the ideals. of natIOnal j trayed by t he youth of America humamsts, a umty of aim, a com mOD forming others. the various Christian bel iefs, but the , t fIt b t bIt A h shou ld be cultivated In due m ea~ ure There is likewi se a clash on firs t beliefs also of all other peoples inhonour 31nd patrlOti s m are cl'ushed cann a al 0 ege no I I y. S t; e , D d'ff \ sun of Idealism rises up on t01110now so as to aVOId one-Sidedness and principles betwee n the humani st and corporated into our civilization. Hu, mto the dust. Memonal ay I ers f ' ovel emphaSIS the purely naturalistic philosopher. manism, then, combines not only t he from the other days.n the year, Its pIercmg lays of 10 tmess shall 1 '. .

The latte,' consl'ders man to be only Ch " b I h B dd a t b tt th dlt .

I t b de t g fkat on hu r1s tIan, ut a so t e u hist, the however, for on this day the intel- ~~ l11U~d : er e con t. lor.s 111 , n, 1 s d ro; s ~ l~If thl t' Hth - a complicated physical and chemical Confucian, and the Brahmanist into lectual s are once more th~ construce wo r a out us; some Imc, men mams m eno es a e l e a e machine. He endea vor s to explain one unified body by offering comtors of ideal s. It is t he only day ~l~S~ andft Shal\ ,;'ealize ~ha\ Men.IOt pr~p~~ :tud Y of ~l~ni(l~d ~~ mn~( intellect, will, and the phenomena of mon ly acce ptable principles to rescue h 13 when memories-sweet in thcir sad~ 1 ay ung I ce a r e g ove moan a s uc a s u y s ou ena e consciousness by the laws of matter the world f r om the ma elstrom into ness-rise to give due honor a nd the vast are n ~ of the days, was the mankind to perceive and realize its and motion . He denies that t here is praise to t hose men w ho cast aside fina l provocatIve of t he fin al battle humanity. Stuart Sherr:Ian, in his ' in man a universal centre w hich can which naturalism has plunged it. the monetary a nd cul tura l pur~ui ts between t he great white w hale of "Contemporary Literature," has, per'The Catholic, above all, s hould be 'r day to fo llow ;.\n ideal an d work and the indo mitable, Ahabiau haps, given best exp r essio ns to the be set above the et ernal flux of the least contemptuous of t he new of t hel .

H things, In the words of Emerson, h . t' t b 't . f h essence 0 umalllsm. e says, umalll S IC movemen, eCa use 1 l ~ - foll owed it- through murk and Spirit of man. : " The essence of Elizabethan, as of he has failed to recognize that: essentially a r eturn to the plain mud and mire, through lament and "Ther e are two laws discr ete fl ar e and fire, through de:ipnir a nd ?ther humam sms , IS the ~j~d erstanclcommon sense, which has so 10llg d . d d th t"1 u f A Search for 1Ing of ma n, and the defimtIOn of the Not r eco nciled,been the centra l trad ition of ChristeS,tructiOn an ea, un I , Y su - 1 • s here of ro erl human activity.

Law for man, and law for thing; ianity. Tha t he s hould be sa tis fi eJ ferIng, t hey . pro:,ed , hcmselves V alues : Humanism ~e hiloso phi:al Ymind of Shake- The last builds town and fl eet, with it as the Alpha and th e Omeg,a worthy of theIr Id ea l, ane! ,,~th 1 P P But it runs wild, breasts bared to the heave ns, ~tood Armand J, Lottm vl11e , sp ea~" s age bega ~ th e work ?f re' of his adjustment of himself to the A g lance at contempo rary life and flect on by cleaVIng the umversal And doth the man unking."

Divine order of cr eation, is not deI befo IW re their J co un trymeI n and cr ierl: ' li, terature revea ls a state of chaos, along three levels. On the lowest It is necessary for man to a djust manded of him. But he 3"hould • e are aso ns : we lave won our illusion, and depression. Unbridled level is the nat ural world, which is himself to the natural order, but he recognize in it at least a noble a tfl eece." subjectiv is m has brought forth phil- the plane of instinct , appetite, ani- must not lose sight of that s till tempt to make man human and to Hence, I say, it is the best of days, osophies as numerOus as philosoph - mality, lust, the a nima l passions or greater need, his adjustment to a elevate him above the pu rely materfo r it is the only annua l occasion 011 ers, and religions as numerous a s affections; on this level the regul a ~ hi g her order, It is this which clear- ia i. And, pa rad oxically enough, the wh ich we stand befo re the a ltar to religionists-w ith the r es ult that t ion is by necessary or natural law. ly distinguishes him from the me- Catholic, whethel' he w ills it or not, offer thanks for our delivera.nce ; it men have grown skeptical of both On the middle level is the human chanica I and a nima l levels ; it is this is a humani st, although admittedly is t~e worst of day~" fo r wlt,h the philosophy and religion. Socratic world, whic his r egulated and, in a which posits the dignity of the in- more than a hum anist, because the saCrifice of thanksglvl,ng , must be precision in the use of terms is so sense, created by the will and knowl- tel1ect and of the will of man. humanistic concept of the nature of blended the solem n Intoning of a un iversally neglected that intelligible edge of man; work ing ripens the man is exactly in conform ity w ith requiem for those w ho ha\'e fallen communication between m an and natura l wo rld; but governed by r eathat of Catholi c or Scholastic phil oa ll the blood-streaming flCIJ of pagan man is rapidly becoming well-nigh son, the special human faculty; and Humanism and sophy.

Ma r s. 'l'ogelhel' the incense of t hanks impossible. In th is age of happy ill uminated mOI'e or less from t he I Catholicism The natUl'alist, blinded by the prea nd prai se of suppli cation and sor- liberty, religion, moral conventions, level above. On the third level is co nce ived notion t hat ma n is merely r ow, a sccnd s to the blue of the socia l co nventi ons, a ll restraints have the sup ernatural world, which is Charles R. Murphy matter, a nd eng rossed in the modern morning s ki es. Laug hter mingles been cast aside, No\'elty has been the plane of spiritua l beings, a nd It has become, of late, a fa r too ps uedo scientific spirit, which is the with tears, a nd the darkn ess or s ubstituted for truth, beauty and the home of eternal ideas." Thus it general cus tom amo ng Catholics to ! logical outcome of that notion, that mourning find s r eli ef in belief in an goodness as man's highest a im , a nd is the business of the human ist to look upon the new humanistic move- t he only data of experience is thut Almig h ty Providence, Memoral Day Ilothing has done mOre to create the protect t he human level from the ment as a sterile, inefficient sub- whi ch fa lls under sense perception, beco mes for us, both a day of sorrow desire for novelty th a n ha s modern unlawful intrus tions of either the stit ute for reli gio n, as a controlling I thinks of man not as an intell igent and a day of joy, science. Real science is an exceed- animal 01' divine levels, to make a power capa bl e 0 fres tormg ' " t as va I Ut' t 0 i L' e mg end owe d WI' th [ ree WI·11 ,uU On Memoria l Day. American prag- Ingly valuable gift to civilization, .distinction between nature and man, human existence. Perhaps s uch an a mere maChine, acting blindly acmat ism is, at least temporarily, but unfortunately there is at present and between man and t he divine. attitude is occasioned by our ten- cordi ng to the ever-chang ing s timuli supcrseded by Arnerican idealism, I too much pseudo-science. So absorbed Humanist s believe that it is pos- dency to conf use modern humanis m received from hi s environment. TI.e Throughout the nation today, m(:n have men become in the things that s ibl e to find in human nature a uni- with that of the m edieval Rennai s- center of human co nduct is, CO ll seund wom('n turn for the moment to contribute directly or indirectly to versal centre or norm, and set this sance. In principle and method the qu ently, no longer within mun himthe sce nes of yesteryear, and retrace t.he comforts of the body, that they up as a model for imitation, just as same, they are quite disparate in ! se]f but in his s urroundings, and hi B the high and glorious ideals which have scant leislire to cultivate those in religion we endeavor to imitate purpose. Both move ments were at- conduct will change according t.u the prompted t hcrn to heights of 3clf- things which enhance and beautify those w ho embody the ideal in re- tempts to establis h a fin eness of pro- changes in hi s environment. e O'uec ment, se lf-abnegation, 3clf, the so ul. Our chi ef executive has ]igious perfection. Pascal's dictum portion and moderatio n in human Th e naturalists, however, in their sacrifice. The man who cries: "Dol- told us that we have reached a high- is often taken to express the mean- life by a study of the nature of man' preconceptions, are bliss fully ublivil l nr mnd Arnerica" is tcmpcred by et' degree of comfort and security ing of this universal centre; a man But they are distinguished, however, ous of a vast fi eld of experience, the his rooolleclion o[ Americans, rich that ever exisled before in the his- has it when he is able to combine in t hat the fifteenth century human- imm ediate data of conscious ness, nnd POOl', high and low. rural and tory of the world, a statement that in himself opposite virtues nnd to ism was a revolt from the exagger- which transcends purely sense exurban, educated and illiterate. \.... ho is as true in what it says as in what occupy all the spaces between them. ated asceticism and supernaturalism perience. The human is t, however, l'nlli~d to the bunners with the fer- it leaves unsaid. This lack of pro- To attain this "universal centre," of the medieval ages, while the new accepts not only the data ot the VOl' of Crus.."ldt:'rs when the first call portion, this one-sided progress, is i. e., the proper living of life, selec- is an attempt to establish human senses, but more es pecia lly the data. l'nng through their land for the de- keenly felt in American education tion and discipline must be practiced, propol·tion by turning away from the oC consciousnes8, which reveuls to ren~f of derno .... rntic ideal~. \Yhcther today; here it has already reached We must cultivate intellectual dis- all-engrossing naturalism of the him the fact that there hs in man a they were victors or vanquished, that state predicted some years ago crimination in the things that make present day. And consequently, jf certain vital control, a freedom of mukes little difi"t'r('nce; upon the by Sir Joshua Reynolds: "A provi- for experience worthy of thc dignity the old humanist, by divorcing him- choice, that lift!:!. him above the au1.ohorizon of their milldt. was painted sian of endless apparatus, a bustle of man, and train our will to c1ntr01 self too completely from the s uper- I maton of naturalism, makes him huin inJt'liblt' colours the heauty of an of infinite inquiry and research may our instincts and emotions. 1 he vir- natural, fell into naturalism, the man, and enables hjm to rogu1t\.tc iUl'ul whkh to tht:'1l:1 wus living and I be employed to evade and shuffle off I tue that results from the cultivation modern, by tempering the natural (Continued to page cJeven ) I"

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Alma Mater. F or sixty-fi ve years SIde he wears the sword or twth' l bring the spinning wheel back into \ truth, but NON-VIOLENCE! Truth she has defended Chris tian truth, has and over his body is thr~wn the c~mmo~ use in India. He expl~ins is the law of our' being!"

(Con ti nu ed fro m pa ge seve n) !f orm ed ChMstian character, ha s mantle of wholesome restramt. On his attItude thusly: HWhat I object There is one more question J fo rth to t he door, proudly bearing s ~read Gh:is:ian influence, has re~og~ his counte~ance may be . s een the to is . the craze for machinery: not ~vould like to consider before con~lud· on aUf soul s your seal and your OIzed Chns tian needs, has practlced glory of virtue, and he l~ crowned machmery a s such. The craze 1S for mg and that is the reason lor Enc~ ins ignia- the star of St. Viator Chris tian charity and nouri shed with the diadem of intellectual what they call labour-saving ma- I land 's hold over India, It seems to bill our inspiration; the hear t-~rown- C hri ~tian ideals. F or a s many years, greatness, He is, to be s ure, somC!~ chinery. Men go on 'saving labour' l be the concensus of opinion thnt the t:d cross the love which we will bear her son s (sons shall I call them ' what the medieval ,pri~ce, ~pur:ed till thous ands are without work, and ' Cause is econom ic. H. G, 'Wells has loward humanity; the s ymbol of r ather than gradu~tes ) have bo:ne lby the courage of hIS mye~tigatlon" th rown,on the open street t~ dte of lcalled the conquest of IndiA a "tn>~ Chris t will be symbolized by our th e torch of Catholic truth, pursUlng a.nd s trengthened by the Ideal,s, of starvatIOn. 1 want to s~ve tltne a nd ' mendous piracy," Sir George Otto carrIage and our mannel S, and t he the darkened paths of duty to llght- righteousness, he faces the l'1sm g \ la bour, not for a fractIOn of man- Trevelyan says: "There is not a fteur-de~li s wil l be the beauty upon 1en and 111umlOe the way for futur e s un,,, and bids the world "good fllorll- kind., but for all. I wan,t the concen- sing~ e person in India who wo uld not WhlCh we shall feed our mtel1ects. g eneratIon s. AmId t he greates t of Itng tratlOn of wealth, not In the ha nds conSIder t he sentiment thot )"c hold Truly th, . wor ld can pay us but dlffi cult,es, des plte overwhe lmmg de- - - -of a few, but in the hands of all. ·lndia for the benefits of the Inha bitone compliment, w hi ch shall rebol!l:d fen ts, regardless of unconquerable GandhI" and the Today machinery merely helps a few ants of India a loathesome un4~: ngto your credit. They ca n but say : impediments, has s he kept pace to r ide on the bac~ s of millions. The liSh piece of cant." And Sir William 'rtuly, here are Catholic gentlemen. wi th the times, until today, s he Freedom of India impetus behind it all is not the phil- Joynson Hicks says, /I'Ve hold lnditl Then s ha ll we kno w t hat you have stand s, the finest and only Catholi c anthropy to save labo ur but greed. as the finest outl et for Britl.h glVen us everythlO g essentIal to the LO .1n~ i;lg c~lI ege in the State of (Continued from page eight) It is against this constitution of I goods." These are the opinions ~)f foil an d compl ete deve lopment of 1 111l101 ~-u mque m the traini ng she it, Its effect wa s reconciIiati-)1i lor things that I am fi g hting with all my a few English men of whom there the perfect Chnstmn You, w ho [Imparts' a tIme, but, as he said, he has not migh t." What a perfectly logical are more of the same idea. Lord have taught us, not the attamme nt Mas ter t hat St VIator College IS , 1completely effected hI S purpose, One consistent thinker he is! Would that Birkenhead, chancellor in 1920 gave 01 a h vehh ood, but the ge ntilIty of she il ves in comparatIve obscurii.Y passage f rom his W'~itj ng "Hindu there were a Mahatma Gandhi of figures to s how that over forty pel' li ving; you, w ho by yo ur exemplary and conte nd s wIth many hards hIps. 1Mushm Umty" explams quite cl eally America to deal with the big prob- cent of the exports of India befoTe li ves, have glVen us a true sense of For her, no trumpets blare, no bards 1 what such Unity means. He ~ays: lem of unemployment today! He the war went to England and the val ue, a true estimate of facts , a sing, no decorations are decreed. She " It consists in our having a C()!Hmon I see~l s to have studi ed t,he poverty. of British, ~m?ire and sevehty percent Lrue knowledge of high purposes asks none, She only commands that purpose, a common goal and common IndIa, to have gone to Its foundatIon 10f IndIa s Imports came from - Engand hi g h ideals- you, who ha ve as - her sons uphold and honour 'her sorr ows, It is bes t promoted by co- and di scoveved its cause, and now to land, He says : "The loss of India !iumed the ro le of father, confidante, nam,e, It is impossible, for us to operating in order to reach t he COlTI- have fo und a re~~dy. He tells us would, be the firs t s tep in the rlisinteacher, master and companion-you, realtze to day the graVIty of our 1mon goal by sharing one an:)the1."s that there are mIllIons of people of tegratlOn of the Empire." In thp who have carried on, despite serious task, but sufficient is it to know that sorrows and by mutual toleration. the agricultural class who for a few face of s uch opinions, figures and diffi culties a nd obstacles, a nobl e the marvels her dexterous hands , A common goal we have. We wish months in the year have work to do fa cts, it is obvious t hat England's wo rk in a most noble manner, have wro ug ht recog~ize the true this great country of ours to be but who are left a.b~oIutely idle hold is entirely ~f a ~elfish nature, 1'he culmi nation of your task greatness of the mIghty Mother. I greater and self-governing. , . , And throughout the remammg months. that for economIC gam shE' J raws your sacrifice, your labor is at hand'. W'hen time, with its gifts, s ha.ll have ! mutual toleration is a necessity for Home-spinning, he believes, will take I tight the leash that checks InJia'R We beg of you to t hrust open wide proved us, we as her sons m the a ll time and for all races. We can- c~re of these" as \~el1 as the many movements.

In the leader of India, England t he door that we may prove to the past s hall return to lay our laurels I not live in peace if the Hindus will who are phYSICally mcapable of real waiting 'WOrld t hat t he dreams you at her feet to pay her the reward not tolerate the Mohammedan form labour. It is an industry that can has to deal not with the ordinary have dream ed an d t he visions you she desires, the, g:nerosit y of our , of worship of God and his manners be carried on, by the old and the perso n. I~ Mahatma Gandhi she has have seen , were not made of etheral heart, the ever hvmg awareness of and customs j or if the Mohammedans young, by chIldren and the infirm to cope WIth a well -educated, highly clo udlik e substances, but were men ~ lour mind and lives enriched by will be impatient of Hindu idolntry aged , He believes that it is a stablc cultured man-one whose so ul holds eager, willing, a nxious, filled Wit~l faithfulness to Christ. or cow 4worship. It is not ne cessary I industry in that man can always find c,om~uni o~ with its CI'eator, whose t he "angnine hopes of youth,-mcn Th e average readers of College for toleration tha t I must approve I ~ permanent occupation in it. It is' l hfe IS dedI cated to t?e purs ui~ of the who but des ire to appear in the lil11f'- 1Humor, curre nt weeklies and daily of what 1 tolerate," he f eels, the means whereby the True and the BeautIful. Thls seek4 Another r eform of Gandhi's that wealth of the country can be placed, in~ after Truth an? Be~uty are de lig ht of the wor ld , that t he gra ndeur newspapers receive the impression of your tute lage may be kn own by I that eareless days, happy hours. was necessavy for real unity of the not in t he hands of a few, but in the fi~lte ly rel a ted to hiS attItude townrll al1 mankind. verda nt cloistered walks, colourful Indi an people was concerning HUn_ hand s of all. What are we to think ~1 S country and ~ellowmen. He sees holiday crowds, generally form the touchability," It is, indeed, India's of Gandhi's views in this regard? ~n both. the capac~ty for freedom thtlt background of any picture of the s harn e to know that among her three Are we to consider th em antiquated, 1,1s , the m~erent rIght _of e~el'Y Hving Christian Citadels college man. In the eyes of the hundred eighty million people sixty I imp"actica l? t hink not. They thmg. Smce God has glven them (' I arl . \V CI'R( d 1'1 II "l1 ' world, he walks through f our years million bear the bl'and of "Untouch- I mus t be judged with regard to the truthful for he says : "These beauti •• ; 1 r~S • , 1 )r, 1" ,,' 1 of unstinted pleas ur e, founded on an , ability."

We ask what is meant by kind of a civilization to which they this capacity they are beautiful and Mr. Toastmaster: , ~ay ,It please incessant merry-go-round of social this stra nge word. Horrible to have I are related. Gandhi is not a mere , are tr~thful inasmuch as they make Your E~cellency: Dl s tIn glus hed Sen- act ivities, May I s ketch for you, on to admit, it means exactly what t he visionary. He has faced the facts in J me thmk of the Creator at the back ato l'; RIgh t ~ever:nd And Ve r y Rev~ 1 the canvas of reality, the true co l- li tera l sense would 1I11ply. It IS used IndIa as they actually eXIst. India'£ I of them." .. eren~ Monslgnol'l: Very Rever f' nd Ilegian, and in so doing, pay tribute m no del1vabve sense that would, I ways are not those of Europe nor of I _ __ _ _ PreSIdent: "' Reverend Father s , anti to these men who, in' the race of perhaps, a mehora te the hOrl'Ol of It. I Amer1ca The people are of a di1- 1 Brothers bellow tlassmate:,; : Fl'H,!.lds \I hards. hip ' have bOl'ne the m onctony, N t means pleclse ' Iy th a tSIX t Y l felent type ,' then' progress and deof St V': t e l} 0, I _ . la Or , o. egethe toil, t he Jrudgery of reseal'eh, in nulh on people of IndIa are conslderecl velopment IS not nearly so rapId as I I twas dUl'lng t he golde n Ren'ais- Iordel' to make of thel\!~elvcs an in- to h~ve a polluting effect upon any- is ours. They do not feel the need sance~ th a~ age of ferti le a rt a nd Idiv idua l, rather t ha n a numbel'; in one w ho, by accident, t ouches one of of eve ry modern devi ce ; they are l e~l'1~ll1g- t h ~t t he Holy Father (:0T:l- ol'uer to stand out amo ng- the masses the m, Gandhi would gather these happ y without them Why disturb mi ss ioned MIchaelangelo to decorate I of humanity as a leader; in order to s ixty million to his breast as cre~'.- 'I them befo re they are prepared?

4 the C,athe,dl'al ,of S,t. Peter .. With !seize the opportunities which Ameri tures of God equally as those whQ Gandhi's intention in advocating' Thirteen Names Appear suc h IIlfim te pams d id he chI sel and ' ca offers, as well as accept the re - run f rom then1. He can put hirl\- Khaddal' (home-s pun cloth) is to On Coveted List; The ~arve the marble, that, upon fin h h- \ sponsibility which is theirs as (:ollege self into the soul of one 0f thes e and offer a solution to an economic that mg one of t~e statues" he stood and Imen, look out upon the world and view ~t is distressing Indi~? He is doing Freshmen Lead with gazed upon It, and cn ed: "Speak"! _ The vast majority of men who at- a s an "Untouchable" would, What ! jus t what should be done in our Five for the work portrayed in everY !tain to a college education, are in- a wor ld of misery he sees ! These own situation, He is advocating a ::;,e nse his own ge nius-a geniu s of \ bued wit h the spirit of self-sacrifice. people a r e downtrodden, humbled to practical remedy in a desperate need. hre an~ sweetness that cou ~d only b~ ,A college, is no t a marr iage mart the dust so that in truth t hey grovel Another theory to which I believe The Mahatma Gandhi sees that . ' ' ' names of thirteen students fo und III a man at once Simple and Inor a SOCia l sq ua r e wherein young in it great. Like unto t he commission of ! men and women 'gather to form they 'must be made a race capable of ' Ga~dhl, has gIven a practICal apph- of St. Viator College appear on the Miac ha el I ' th .. f' . .

• ca bon IS the Peace Pact. The Peace final honor 1'011 for the scholastic ,ange 0 IS e C? ~mlSSlon 0 !SOCIal contacts or pohshed manners self -respect and assured of equality i Pact finely stated that there would year of 1930-31. The li st is led by t. Viator Coll ege. LlV1ng marbl e I which wi l1 lead them into the iI- before India can be completely in- I b no n but If r d no r I J. K th B h P ' ·th ~as becom~ plastic in he~' ha~ds, and I lul~lined circles of polite, but super- dependent, In this, too, he realized 1a~terna~i~;e e:::' t if ~n: ecould c~:e enne us man, eo ria, Wl ~he has ploduced somethmg meffably ficlal societ y. In other words, El that internal r eformation mus t be P", 45 honor points in 18 hours and J. greater and k bl . b I '. . . the League of NatlOns whlCh IS but Burke Monahan, Chatsworth, with R , un s~ea a y mo~e eau- , co llege IS not a fimshmg school. It brought about before India's status i a negligible uantity as far a s Tndia like record t lful tha n t he Images whIch took Idemands, from t he first days of the as a free, independent, competent. q ,'I , ' form under t he delicately inspired [eight hundred devoted to study, nation can be assured. l iS concerned, . Mahatma ~an~ht not I FIve Freshme~ were among t~e hands of t he Florentine Her finish I . t f th d'" only has offeled the alternatIve but I students to attam final honors wIllIe ."

- I every momen 0 , e stu ent s tIme. A s tIll further reform was that has actually put it to the test. De- th S h d J' I ed . . . e d ptoducts ale peerless ChnstIan It takes from hIm the freedom of aga inst child-marriage Gandhi knew ' , , e op omores an umors pac gentlemen a d ' t th h h " . fimte success has resulted 10 man y three men each. But two Seniors 1 nin O em s e a s I hIS youth and s ubJ ects him to the well the social conditions existent in I . t ' I t t '. breathed, not her own genius, but t he rigorous discipline of scholar s hip, It India A man s uch as he certainly 11Gns adnh~esf' ICOffithP e e ~uccests, no ~et. appear on the list. esse nce and beauty of H' h ' h' " an I ee s a t 1t IS no necegsary The list Li one of the s malleg~ of I • 1m w, 0 a.ges s eIzes ,1m from the SOCIal wo rld, could not countenace conditions in I that war be waged and blood be s hed recent year!, being four names ago ga," to the wolid a ph ilosophy , filled wlth the glamor of enterta in- t he country he sought to set free t ttl · t f I d' t I of sweetness and Hght. l11ent a nd gayety, and places him in t ha t only served towards it degrada- i~:e e I~:rn; ~~na lSpU es. 'Is shorter than the li st which was puhAs the work of the Italian sculptor a solitude akin to the cell of the t ion and demoralization. He r espected to ecause e n lans are not aD e lished in February and believed at and artist lived through eight cen - anchorite. It demands of hi m scien- woman highly and attributed to her carryon a s uccessful war carn- that time ~o be the fma llest ro ll in turies, so the work of St. Viator tific research, and exacts from him an equal status with man, He de- paign? Hardly, in view of the fact the recent scholastic hh:tory of the College, of greater value, will ever I definite conclusions on his labor. It plored child-marriage which is given that they fought s plendidly in the COllege. speok of the transcendent lovliness wh irls him into the land of philo- such exhaustive treatment by Ka th- World War, HI know," Gandhi says~ 'fhe fact that unexcused class cuts of Christ, From year to year, down I sophy, and requires him to produce erine Mayo in "Mother India." Gand- "that war is wrong, is an unmiti- are not necessary is by seven --down· t hrough the unfathomable tl t th I · gated evii. I know, too, that it has students who went through the , Ie I'u . n every respect, In every I hi a lso insists upon the aholition of got to go. I firmly believe that free- semester without acquiring a s ingle Il11StS of time, will t his institution scope, it is the dire~t antithesis of drugs, intox icating liquors and such but one of many of its kind, awake~ the picture which t he wor ld depicts t hings w hi ch the Indians do not dom won through bloodshed or fraud unexcused cut. The final hi gh school is no freedom. Would that all the honor list is also published, with six in the hearts of men a graphic con- it to be.

I know how to use properly. He con- acts alleged against me wer e f ound men attaining henors in t ftis division. ce pt of Christian enli ghtenmen t and Such a life forms and develops the demns self-indu lgence in every form; to be w holly indefensible rather than culture. It,js because St. Viator college man, so that on g r aduatio n, and believes t~at e~ch step taken ! that, by any act of mine, Non-vioCollege has taught me, in unmistak- a s he pre~ares to reenter the world, I towa-:d self-demal m th~ matters ! lence was held to be compromised, Murray Hickey Ley has departed able terms, t he priceless heritage of \V ~ fi nd hlln garbe~ in the raiment I mentlO,ned are for the ultImate good or that I was ever thought to be in for his home in Davenport. He ex. favour of violence or untruth in any h ' Cutholicis l!l. t hat I desire today to of th oug ht; on hiS shoulders he ! of IndIa and her people. a cclaim proudly that s he is my bears t he epaulet of courage; a t his ! Another of Gand hi 's projects is to I shape or form. Not violence, not unn!:t teac ing for bUS1-

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IRISH TRIM DEKALBI BLUE ISLAND, LOSE TO BRADLEY IN TWELVE INNINGS Hilltoppers Eke Out an Extra-inning Victory for Second Defeat of Season for Viator Baseball Team. Todd Pitches Three-hit Game at DeKalb

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After losing a hectic 12 inning battle to Bradley's hard-hitti ng Conference champions, the Irish of St. Viator stepped out to take the remaining two games on the schedu le I to end t he season with a record of · six victories to two defeats.

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In a hectic play-off game, Ken s tantly throughout the game. The Westray's fi ghting band of ballscore at the opening of the eight h smashers knocked out a 7-4 victo ry inning favored the Hill toppers in over Jim Lee's HTe~as ?ilers" to the 3-2 count. St. Viator scored take down the 1931 Semor League twice in its half of the inning to baseball crown. The game was ntta ke the lead 4-3, but Bradley count- t ended by t he entir: student body of ed three times in the last ha lf of the the College and eh cted as much as eighth to give themselves a two run ' many of the varsity contest s. advantage.

Lee elected to do his own pitching, Nothing daunted by the Bradley w hile Westray first entrusted his r a lly, the Irish hopped on t he Rill- hurh ng to Almeroth untIl the latter topper pitcher for ' three more runs Iwas knocked out of t he box, when in the first half of the ninth a nd the captain himself took over the

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The game was forced because of Someone found Todd for a hit, a two-way tie between the two out-a nd was advanced to third on two fits for the title after t he regnlar s acrifices. He came home on a clean season had been ~ompl eted. Each s ingle by Galitz, and the game was team had a record of nine victories tied at seven all. and one defeat.

The tenth and eleventh ininngs DIAMOND DUST passed without incident, with both There seemed to be some contropitchers hurling a ir-tight ball. Things versey concerning the right to home picked up a litt le in Viator's half of run honors. To avoid trouble we the twelfth, however, w hen a ru nner will announ ce the complete listreached second befor e dying. Bradthe man who led the league in ley promptly went the Irish one homers was Logan; Reill y, Oldham, better. With one man out, Todd issued a walk. The next Bradley hit- Lee, Runt, Westray, .md the man tel' took a goodly swing at the ball who led 111 errors was Dodor Cleary a nd laid it against t he fence to score STILL remembers that trIple play. the man on base and win the game. Commissioner Farrell says tHat it 8-7 was a great year, but that the gate .

Blue Island Fall s. receipts wer en 't so hot. Logan wins t he prize for the greatest bit of perThe Blue Is land Fans' Club was ing in but three games on the entir e the seventh victim of the Irish as sonal perseverance-he missed playMeN aughton pitched his way to a schedule and played independent hall, six-hit win, 6-3. The gam e was besides. Those t hree missed games played on the Fans' diamond, but th r ow his all-time record out, howthe presence of -a 'hostile crowd was ever, for continuous performance ~i~~~§~~~~~~~~~~~~§~~~~~~~~~~~~2:~§~~~2~~~~~~~~~·g~ no hindrance to t he prowess of the nothing equals the old-fashioned /I!= roller towels. Rudnytzki was Joe's ------=-======= Iris h I vorymen. I Todd's contribution to th e Jaw-hit closest rival for all-time, all-team records of the Viator pitchers was honors-he played under the name of made at DeKalb when the veteran 'Smith'-scorekeepers can only stand held the Teachers to three hits to so much. Personnell of the winning West ray, Karl', Coppens, blank them 6-0. The game followed team: closely the no-hit, no- run game of O'Donnell, Russell, Derere, Devine, I We Supply St. Viator College Manns at Valparaiso and t he two- Dugan, Reilly, Stith, Rebert.-Press 346 E. Court Street hit victory of Waldron at Wh.af,on. Agent, Callahan.

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June 9th. It is reported that bi, talk was one of the most intert'.ting and instTuctive ever given at 8 lfTaduRtion ceremony in the E\'cl'lC'rcQn City.

(Continued from page nine) I the order of the universe, which in· . . . evitably and necessarily points to his ImpressIOns, emotions, and de- j its Author. Thus bumanis.m is as s ires, a s wen as to direct them to a Babbit calls it, but a midway h~use higher level, and so develop a really in the a scent to spirituality, and on human character.

BACHELOR DEGREES the t op of that s teep slope is the This is the ess ence of humanism. palace of God. The following student., having completed the prescribed course of Its ve ry s implicity seems to make it atudies and s ubmitted an acceptable th esis , aTe awarded the Bachel or's a pitifully ineffective therapeutic for the sickened state of modern civil~ d.gree: \ ization . Yet it has been the very forgetfulness of tbat principle that CHAS. RIELY DONALD M. RIELY Bache lor of Arts, Isummu cum laude' to has been the cause of chao!:!, for proELECTRICAL CONTRACTORS AND DEALERS CHARLES R. MURPHY gres s in all its form s, i.ndividcal , Kankakee, lHinois social, national, international, scienElectricians fo r St. Viator College tific, and artistic, is, in the last Thesis: HS ome Recent Attacks on Behaviori stic P sychology." analysis,. dependent upon the conTelephone 995 362 East Court Street 1J cept man has of his own nature. i Bnchelor of Arts, 'maxima cum laude' to If man is purely material and is not elevated above t he na tura l by a ARMAND LOTTINVILLE supernatural principle, hi s life will Papineau, Illinois be nothing more than a t r a nsition Thesis: HThe Lyrics of Lamartine." from a naturali stic optimism to a fata lis tic pessimism. Con ceiving himPractice Limited to Bachelor or Arts to self as naturally good, fraterna l, and EYE, EAR, NOSE AND THROAT ROBERT McMAHON I a ltrui stic, he will gi ve free reign to Berkley, Ca lifornia his every emotion, and desire until Bell TelephollE' 253 Isuddenly disillusioned by inexorable Thesis: "Thomas Carlyle; as Criti c."

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