"Of what good is money, unless we can make those we love happy with it?, - Thad<ery.
VOL. LIV.
Q!hc Biatnrint1 BOURBONNAIS ILLINOIS, MONDAY,
DECE~ffiER
Spain Faces Dictatorship Declares Dr. Jas. Magner
"Money is like mock, not good except it be s pread.'' -Bncon.
14, 1936
NUMBER 5.
Rogers, Buttgen, Straub H.N.S. Choice as Advisors
To the Students, their Parents, our Alumni and Friends I "Current Political Situation In Spain" Topic Of extend the sincere Richard Powers Appoints Student Prefects; Noted Traveler As He Speaks To I. R. C. Society Sets Date For Monthly Meetings wishes of the College Geo rge Roge rs , '37; Edward But"Whichever side wins in Spain a military dictatorship will be estab- Wranglers Will Administration and ChicagO V-ClU b tgen, '37, and Frank S t raub, '38, according to an announcement made lished," declared the Reverend Jas. recently by Richard Powers, '38, A . Magner, S. T. D., in an address Faculty for a Merry On Meet Illini H To Be 0 St T 0 have been selected as the student entitled, "The Current Political Sitadvisors to the Holy Name Society. uation in Spain," delivered before Christmas and a the International Relations Club on Local Platform Grid Co-Champs ·lege Mr. Rogers is president of the COlClub and Mr. Buttgen is presiHappy New Year. December 9 in the Seminar room at the regular monthly meeting of the Teams Prepare }i'or Annual Normal organization. Father Magner, head Tournament of the Department of English at Quigley Seminary of Chicago, spoke before th e largest audience ever to The Bergin Debating Soc ie ty will a ttend an I . R . C: meeting here . . continue a traditional policy WednesDr. Magner insisted that, because the situation is now so far advanced and so many factions are involved, military rule will be necessary to maintain the power of the victorious group. The Republican . government in Spain before th e revolution, th e speaker said, was in reality not a Republican union but a coalitior.t of the R epublican and Socialist interests. Under this system the Church and the State were separated, be stated, but the State was influential in the Church. Under Manuel Azana, ·according to Father Magner, the Church was prevet:ited from condw..:Ung schools or taking part in the industrial or agricultural pursuits of the nation. Since one third of the primary education was in the hands of the Church the suppression of t h e Catholic schools meant th e country would be paganized, not liberalized, declared Dr. Magner. Father Magner said that the Fede ralists Party gave as their reason for the atrocities against the Church the similar policy of the Church in Spain in p ast centuries. The speaker pointed out that this wRasenot the proper attitude for a publican government. Communism organized the Spanish laborers extremely well, while the Church did relatively little, affirmed Father Magner. "The Church", he said, "has not been sufficiently concerned with the practical application of the Gospel to the present day problem s on which Communism has been con centrating." Dr. Magner pictured the land situation in Spain as ex tremely complicated. He stated that when one individual owned a large a r ea of land it was th e policy of the government under Azana to permit th e peasant to work a part of it. H e pointed o ut, however, that little such distribution of land in th e north added to the compli cation. Accordlng t o Dr. Magner th e Spanish popular action group was working for modifi cation of th e CathoJi c laws and th e land laws. When th eir leader was not called upon to form a cabinet he declared he would resign. The lecturer affirmed it was then th e Leftist s tarted the r evolution. The speaker was of the opinion tba t the burning of Churches and the murder of the religious was the work of a relatively small number of anarchists. He declared that, although thi s group was allied with the governmen t forces, they did not (COntinu ed on P age Six )
The Very Rev. Dr. E. V. Cardinal, c.s.v. President.
day when the University of Illinois ~=============~' will send four men to the campus to open the season's debates on the conference proposition. Both schools will use Wednesday's debates as trials for the cases which they will present at the Normal Invitational Tournament next month.
Choral Club Will Present Christmas Concert Thursday
Present plans call for two debates during the day. Bro. Patrick Toomey, ' 37, and Francis Prew, '40 , will present an affirmative case for the Viator club. Edward Buttgen , '37, and Brother Donald Foley, '40, , .:11- be negative debaters. The proposition, which was adopted last September as a r es ult of the wj~e-spread ~git .'Pl!- in favor of ccnsumer cooperatives, reads: ''Resolved: That the extension of cons umer cooperatives would contribute to the public welfare." Heavy Schedule The debating society closed disc u ~s ion on the government ownerst.ip of electric utilities in a heated debate with Northwestern University here last Friday. A ll debates on th e subject were held with teams of the Big T en Confer~nce . Rules forbid decision debates with schools
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Thursday, December 17, a t eight c'C'lock in the evening the St. Viator Choral Club, under the direction of the R ev. M. P . Loughran, C. S. V., will present its second annual Christmas Concert in the Seminar Room. The choristers have been practing long and diligently with the hope of offering another of their excellent programs to the student body. The!'e will be a chorus composed of girls an d selected male voices, as well as t he male chorus. They will sing cEaols of almost every type and desc ription, some that are Christian m s pirit, and speak lovingly of Christ and Mary and th e Angels, others that sing of holiday and cheer and gladness. They will be of Eng-
:~~u::r~nn:~e~o~~:r~iC:~or~~s c~:; li~h, th eir opponents can claim victories. The Rev. J. w . R. Maguire, C. S. v .. debate coach, however, expressed hlmself as pleased with the work of h~s men on the early season proposition. The- tentative sch edule for radio a nd platform de bates calls for over 50 appearances of the wranglers this year. Eliminations have dropped pArt of th e large squad which reported last fa ll , a nd all of the debaters will probably be called into action during th e winter .
German, Danish, American, and Frer.ch origin. . On Saturday eveni_ng, . Decem~er 19, the Chor~l Club wlll smg Chnstmas songs 1n the streets of Kan~ kakee, and m the hospital and hotels. Both the mixed and the male chorus will be heard Sunday, December ZO, from 4_:30 p. m . until 5 :00 p. m., followmg the Round Table Discussion of St. Viator Col· lege over radio station WCFL.
Senior President Addresses Study Club in Momence Engineers See TeleSpeaking. on the "Causes Behind phone Picture The stcry of th e T elephone, a motio:1 picture s hown on December 3 in the Commons Building·, was th e first of a seri es of public prog r ams to be presented by Sigma ~u. the n ewly organi zed Engineering Faternity. The film demons tration was mad e possible through Mr. W. J. Gorden, th e Kankakee r epresentative of the B~ll Telephone Company in Kanka;..ee. The pic tures, which were explained by means of vitaphone, traced the history of the telephone showing itc development and improvem ent, its gTowth from a fifty foot line to ovc:r twenty-three thousand miles. After the en t ertainm ent the EnJ gi neering Club served refreshments.
the Spreading of Communism", Edward W. Buttgen, versatile president of the Senior Class, enter ed into the field of itinerant lec turers when he addressed the second meeting of the St. Patrick's Study Club of Mom e nce, Il1inois, on Dece mber 7.
Mr. Buttgen stressed th e evils in capitalism and the popular indifference as a basis upon whlch Communism · builds and sugge sted that th e promotion of social justice and social charity might possibly be the m eans of combating Communism . An open fo rum was conducted after the meeting by Mr . Buttgen. Rev. F. Demarrie, pastor of St. Patrick's Church and chaplain of the Study Cl ub , finally brought the m eeting to a close on the plea of the lateness of the hour.
dent of the Senior Class w hile Mr. Receive Straub is president of the Junior Class and vice-president of the College Club. St. Viator's Little 19 Co-ch am Mr. Powers, Holy Name Society pionsbip gridders w ill be honored to- president, also announced that be morrow evening at a testimonial had appointed prefects for the vardinn er given by the Viator Club of ious units of the Society and one Chicago at the Del Prado Hotel, committee. The Prefects a ppoint53rd and Hyde Park Boulevard. ed are: Wm. Walsh, '38; J ohn StevTwenty-one m embers of the squad ens, '38, and John Lannon, '37, for will be given their monograms at the Athletes Dormitory; Aubrey Badthis time and it is understood that er , '39 ; Joseph McGrath, '39, and gold footballs, emblematic of their Robert Lehey, '39, for the second championship, will also be awarded floor of Roy Hall ; Robert Lenahan, to th e monogram winners. '39; John Hart, '39; and Thomas The twenty-on e monogram win - R eedy, ' 40, for the third floor of ners are: Captain Thomas Gibbons, Roy Hall; and Thomas COstello, ' 40, '37, Joseph Saia, '37, Danie l Blaze- Edward Mack, '40, and Walter Adair, vicb, '39; Robert Lenahan, '39: Wil- '40, for the fourth floor of Roy Hall. liam Walsh, '38 ; Joseph J enesky, George Hickson, '39, Frank Straub, '40; Anthony Sacco, '40; George '38, and Edward Buttgen, '37, were Cusack, '40; Robert Bates, '40: Ray· appointed as a committee in charge mond O'Coonor~ 39; John Stevens, of en t ertainment and refreshments )39; William l:eCson , '40; Francis for the monthly smokers. Mr. Hick~ Claeys, '39; Raymond Weaver, '40; son was named as chairman of thi s John Donellan , '39; Donald B e tourn c , com mittee. '37; Barney O'Connell, ' 39 ; Luke H oly Name Society meetings will Glea'son, '40 ; John Lannon, '37; a n d be held every second Saturday of Adrian Lessard, '40. t h e month in the Commons building. The Rev. F. J. Harbauer, . C. S. V., athletic director, is in complet e cha rge of the banquet, and a rrange• mcnts may be made with him if you are interested in attending the testimonial dinner. Speakers fo r the The International Relations Club's e\·cning have not been nam ed as we attempt to weigh student attitude togo to press. ward war met with partial success last wee k when 59 of the 300 ballots sent out we r e returned. The votes, while below expectatiions of th e club, represent a fair cross-section of Lhe student body, and local Student and faculty de legates to peace workers are claimmg that Vtathe meeting of the Propagation of tor is swinging in with other schools tbt> Faith Society in Chi cago on in opposition to foreign wars. Deceru ber 6 returned to the ca mpus Forty-eight stud ents voiced the inwith n (:;w ideas and enthusiasm for tention of bearing arms only in promolmg th e society's work here. case of invasion of the states by a The Ve ry R ev. Edward V. Ca rdinal , foreign en emy. Eleven voters are C. S. V., Ph . D., and the Rev. Wil- dete rmined not to fight under any li a m J. Crackne11, C. S. V ., repre - conditions. sented th e faculty. Edward Buhgen, The students were asked to vote '37. Ross Mulen, '39, John Burk, '40, on the two fo llowin g stands: (1) and J ~-Ry L yons, '39, were s tud ~nt r h ereby record my mature and repr.:oser. tatives. resolute determination never to apThe deiegates report that the prove of or participate in any war, ltteeting- was of unusual inte r es t and except to repe l an unprovoked arm~ benefit. Active means for promoting ed invasion of continental United t :1e r;owth of the society were dis - States by a foreign foe. (2) I cus!'!e<l by delegates from schools hereby record my mature and reof th ~~ entire Chicago area. solute determination never to approve of or participate in any war. The poll was part of the Emergen cy Peace Campaign which was inaugurat ed on the campus by the I. R. C. last month. Rev. E. J . Surprenant, C. S. V., h ead c f the Department of Religion, DR. MADDEN SPEAKS bas been appointed to t each philoOn Monday, December 7, Dr. Jas. so ph y a nd religion at th e College Madden, Chief of the Kankakee State of St. Francis in Joli et, Illinois. Hospital Staff, lec tured the m e mbers Father Surprenant succeeds the R ev. of the St. Viator Psychology Club J as. A. Lowney, C. S. V., a m ember in the Seminar Room on "Some of the College Faculty. He wi ll also Disorders of th e Nervous System". continue to teach some subjects h er e Dr. Madden's talk was the first wh11e traveling th r ee times a week to be given to the Psychology Club to Joliet. by an outside expert. Twenty-one
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Delegates Attend Faith Meeting
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Fr. E. J. Surprenant Teaches At Joliet
R. C. CONDUCTS PEACE POLL