I~Commencement I II BEST WISHES · 1 II

Vol. XLIX

mh:c lJia'fnrian WEDNESDAY, JUNE 15, 1932

Number FOR SUCCESS

No, 14

FATHER SHANNON AWARDED DEGREE "TOO MUCH STRESS ON

RED INK": FATHER SHANNON Noted Priest Criticizes Present Economic System For

Over-Emphasizing Material Wealth.

The Viatorian, as the official organ of the student body and the f8<!ulty of St, Viator 001-lege. extends most sincere sym· patby to Thomas Ahern, mem· ber of the elMS of '3S, on the

CITATION FOR HONORARY LL D. DECREE READ BY REV. T. J. LYNCH

The Very Reverend J, W. R. Maguire Confers Honorary

Doctor of Laws on The Reverend James J. Shannon.

"You can't have good business conducted by bad men and no rt~pul;!ic double tragedy which visited his Eighteen seniors received their college degrees from St. Viator at the can be successful when full of disloyal citizens," declared the Very Rev.' borne Immedla.tely preceding the annual Commencement Day exercises held on the campus Monday, June 6. James J. Shannon, former chancellor of the Peoria diocese in his com- Commencement Day exercises. The Most Reverend Bernard J. Sheil, D. D .. auxiliary bishop of Chicago mencement address to the graduates of St. Viator college on Monday af- I presided over the services and bestowed his benediction upon the gradu-ternooD. Father Shannon declared that business leaders of this genera- The loss of Tommy's father and ates and audience . The honorary degree of Doctor of Laws, honoris causa, tion have taken the human element out of business and life. "They talk sister is a. cause of deep sorrow was conferred upon the distinguished guest by the Very Reverend J. W. R. more of red ink on the ledger instead of red blood in men," he said. "God to all the members of St. Via- Maguire. The Reverend T. J. Lynch, Dean of Studies, read the citation intended that man should rule the market and everything else on earth, tor College. for the honorary degree. instead of these material and inanimate objects ruling man. Humanity i~ -------1 vitally essential to our life and we should not forget it. r "ORORITY PARTY The services were opened by a

H I Y P I ITHREE VIATORIANS \)~~:~:: h:~:pe7":~ C;le::~~:~in ;~: "Huma:y npre::::~ aOO.;:gn" ificent . I AT BIRD"S PARK. seniors were presented to the alumni

.. at a banquet held in the refectory

;iP:~ :~de~h~e~:~:o~f ~~d~~e :~ ARE ORDAINED at noon, Nearly 400 alumni and diers facing defeat and are placing Rosanna Gorman. General I s tudents were in attendance. our trust in God. We are expecting Chairman. Assisted by The banquet was preSIded over by reinforcements from youth-youth- Graduates of the Class of Ruth Arrington and J, Burke Monahan, preSident of the which does not know defeat and 1928. Mary Ellen Smith /graduatmg class. He mtroduced Tom

_.__ B'erns , who delIvered a toast to th~ whose hearts yearn for the conflict. Thursday, the nineteenth of May J day students. The toast to the fac-They will bring us the new spirit I --- witnessed the final sorority social t:lty was delivered by W erner G. that our world needs today. On Sunday, June t.welfth, three event of the current school year. Salg, and to the athletes by Don{ild

"We look at these young people members of the Viatorian Community Bird's park was the scene of a de- T. Anderson. Edmund V. O'Nei11, r ep-today with hope and, if they fulfill were elevated to the holy priesthood. lightful informal party which was resenting the graduating class, de-their sphere in life, the next gen· The young priests, the Rev. Thom- attended by the major portion of the li vered the toast to the undergradu-eration will look at them with grati- as B. Nolan. C. S. V., the Rev. S()TOrity and by their guests. The ates and invested RaJph E . Hoover, tude. When they, by their Christian Frederick J. Wenthe, C. S. V., and undertaking was under the general r·lesident of next year's senior class, and human example have led us out the Rev. John J. Tobin, C. S. V., cbfjrmanship of Rosanna Gorman with the cap and gown of the semor. of this distress, we, like God Al- are all graduates of St. Viator Acad- who was assis t ed by the Misses Ruth The toast to the seniors foHoWing mighty, will join in saying- 'Well emy and College. After receiving I Arrington and Mary Ellen Smith. I the investiture was followed by the done, good and faithful servants'." their degrees with the class of '28, Delicious Repast Served. rTe~entation of the class memorial to

I they were sent to the Catholic Uni- RALPH EDSON HOOVER the coIl · ge by W·II· J H ·It Bishop Sh II P esldes Under the supervision of these very' " 1 lam . ami on. e r , I versity at Washington, D. C., for capable young ladies a very delici- The Very R ev. J. W . R. Maguire,

The citation for the conferring their theological work and where HOOVER LEADS ous banquet was served to the 8t- C. S. V., president of St. Viator, then ot the degree was read by the Rev. they also earned their degrees of t ending guests and to their fIiends. presented the cla";)s to the alumni. Thomas J. Lynch, dean of the col- , Master of Arts. - The party then directed its attention lege. The award was made in rec- The ordination took place in P eo- 1933 SENIORS to a treasure hunt lead by the right Commencement at S O'clock. ognatton of Father Shannon's "quali- ria, Illinois, at nine-thirty o'clock, at Commencement exercises were he ld ties of heart and mind, his zeal, his St. Mary's Cathedral. Sacred orders hC'\fiorable Edward Gorman, president (: t J o'clock. Bachelor orations were work in teaching and prea ching, his were conferred by Hi~ Excellency, of the Junior class. After a great de~ivf"red by Francis J . Larkin, who courage and fortitude In the face of the Mos t Rev. Joseph H. Schlarman, Laffey Chosen Vice-Presi· deal of trekking over the grounds, spoke on the "Need for Ceadership," his tragic physical condition, his high D. D. A good number of s tudents dent; Hunt and O'Connor, the hidden treasure was discovered and Vincent J. Morrissey, whose ora-

SecI'etal'y and TI'easuI'el' by Mrs. Jus tin Legris. The haza rd-ideals and the fact that he is a per- and faculty members of St. Viator ' ous game of "drop the handkerchief" tion was entitled "The Qualities of fect gentleman and a saintly priest: ' College were present at the cere- I .eautrship."

The commencement exercl'ses were monies. At the last regular meeting of the was then played. Mr. Carney. a presided over by the Most Rev. Bern- The Rev. Thomas B. Nolan will Junior class of 1932, Ralph Edson i fairly invulnerable player of the grid- th~~:e w~~dr:::'e l~::rd ~~::te~ha; ard J. Shell, auxiliary bishop of Chi- sing his fi,rst Solemn High Mass at through its last year in St. Viator when he lacerated hiS knee as he fell non in the past, was one of the most

Hoover W:.l.S selected to lead the class I iron, suffered aver. y severe injury·

cago, and one of St. Viator's mos t ten o'clock at St. Patrick Church, College. The choice of the class was while eagerly pursuing a very cer- inspiring ever heard on the Viator distinguished alumni. Bishop Sheil Hartland, Illinois, on Sunday, June practh::ally unanimous. Mr. Hoove!' tain young lady about the premises. campus. It again set his name high urged the graduates to continue thei::- nineteenth. The Rev. James V. VIas opposed by Edward Gorman of The attention then given him fully in the lists of .the nation's orators as spiritual communion with God aftel Rheams, C. S. V., Master of Novices, :Manteno, Illinois. Mr. Gonnan had compensated the ardent youth for h.e surpassed l~ beauty and expres­they left college and to obtain will preach the sennon. pres i!:p.d over the des tinies of the his phys ical injury. Doctor John I Slon many of bIS past a ttempts. strength for their worldly battle from The Rev. Frederick We:1the will class during the school year just Tracy Ellis was the other casualty Frances Clancy Gets Honors. such communion. sing his first mass in the Church of pa.'lt. of the dangerous game; he suffered a Degrees were conferred upon the

"The Need of LeaderShip," and \ St. Gertrude, ChIcago, IllInOIS, a t hIgh A Distinguished Leader. slight fall which seriously s tained a I graduates by Father Lynch. dean, "The Qualtties of LeadershIp" wen noon on the same Sunday The Rev. perfectly immaCUlate pair of flannels. and Father Maguire president The given by Francis J. Larkin and Vin- F. E. Munsch, C. S. V., director of I Th!"oughout his three years at St. summa cum laUde: highest· hODor cent J . MOrrissey, two members of SL Bernard Hall will preach, The Viator College Mr. Hoover has been I DESLA URIERS TO EN_that · can come to a college student, the graduating class, The valedic- Rev. John Tobin has engaged the I most promment m all actlVl b es on I TER MEDIC SCHOOL was conferred upon Frances Mary tory address was given by J . Burke Rev. A. J . Landroche, director of the campus and in scbolas tic circles . Qlancy and Rachael Marie Roach of Monahan the Juniorate to preach for his firs t ! He edited The Vi~torian in his Soph- W e have been advised that Eu- Kankakee and J ames Burke Monahan

Mass which will be u t t omore year and In the ensuing year I s ng a en- d. t d th bl"·t d t t f gene Desla uriers a former s tudent of Chatsworth. A cum laude was thirty o'clock in St. Joseph Cath- sI;ecv~ t e cp~ ICI y Inepa;di~.en ~ at St Viator Coilege has comple ted conferred upon J oseph Torri of Kan-

McMAHON TO BE PRIN- edral, Sioux Falls, South Dakota. . a or 0 ege. a Ion 0 his p;"'paratory s tudi'es and will en- kakee, CIP AL OF ASHKUM H S There was to be a fourth Viator- these activities, Mr. Hoover has cap-• , tained the a ffirmati ve debating t eam ter medical school in the fall a t the I The excellence medal, emblematic

ian ordained but jus t as we are T':" ' ·t f M· t Th f th h · h t h I h· through ODe of the mos t successf!ll lJDlVerSI y 0 mneso a. e news I 0 e Ig es sc 0 ars IP, was con-I about to go to press we learn the seasons in the recent history of St. that Mr. Deslauriers has completed ferred upon Miss Clancy, daughter

Word has been received that ROb- I very distressing news tha t the Rev. Viator College debating. He was his preparatory course with high of Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Clancy, 363 ert McMahon '31 will preside over Brother M. P . Loughran, C. S. V., h hil t t d will E t H · k t t S ' defeated by a small margin for the 0nurs, w e no unexpec e , as IC ory s ree . he graduated the Ashkum township highschool for I' was. forced to und. ergo. an operation. be received Wltb pleooure by hl·S Wl'th a B pI d 70 presidency of the College Club of St. ~ ~ I - us average an over the ensuing school year. Mr. Mc- It IS hoped that It WIll not be long Viator by Mr. William Riley of Chi- fr'cnd::; and acquaintances. In the hours of A work, a <hs tInction a t-Mahon, a graduate of St. Viator Col- until the Brother is well again a nd cago, Illinois. name of St. Viator College, The Vla- ta.med by but few college graduates

able to receive orders in the near Other OtH~rs, toru:tli WIsbes Mr. Deslauners con- Second honors were won by J. Burke lege, Is qui te capable of filling his f t ~ position as his high scholastic record u ure. James Peter Laffey, a lso of Cbi- tl!1Ued success I Monahan, who also maintained a 8

t thl t . eago, was selected to fill the office City," was chosen to fill the office of I plus average and fell but slightly ti. s nstltution bears testimony. J arlatb W. Watson, former student below 111ss Clancy In number of It is very certain that the school is d of ~ce-president of the class for the secreta ry and wlll be accompanied by honor pOints a ttained

an editor of The Viatorian was commg year. Mr. Laffey is one of Daniel O'Connor In the position of I mos t fortUnate to have the services present at the exercises held for the the g r eatest athletes to grace the I treasurer of the gentleman to whom we extend class of '33. "Jay" bas been a fre- 'd· d b k tb II rts f S ______ _ _ quent VIsitor a t gn Iron ~ ~ e a cou 0 . t. Detective Mllton Lang wishes to our sincerest congratulations and visits the College and hIS Viator, bemg, In addition to thIS, After a year of practice we hope I report that if anyone bas any best wishes for a most successful joyed byare always thoroughly en- , one of the outstanding players on the that Mr. Norbert Egges will not have "sleuthing" to be done he will be

I his old fnends and as-I college baseball team. any trouble In reading between lines only too glad to a ccommodate them period at this school qUaintances. I

James Hunt, also from the "Big while riding horses. I at very reasonable rates .

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James Woulfe A If''htlnn18 Loretta Flanagan Rosanna. Gorman Mary Cruise

Ro~rt A. NoLa.n, noted speaker

P .\TRICK N. fTLLAM and d~baler 01 SL , 'Iato r ('ouege' l Photo by Elnbeck

P .. t rlck N. Fullrun. prMldenl·elecl and tbt'l winner of the a.nnual Ora.- C. M. ClI,\RLES J. B}'RON WIIHIUll MeG ulre JOIICph Gorman J03eph Farrell Earl O'Mara

o[ the 1933 Sophomore cla..~" and lorlca1 C<tntN'll sponsored by ~t. \la· C. M. Cbarlt"S rI. By~on. emJof'u! \.\1no('1' of th(" St"ubu.ry Peace Ora- tor CoUege. member or the ~ophomol'fI diu", and torlcaJ Conte"t \\ hleh WM held a t SL 1 out"'tandl"~ EngU'Ih t'tud{"nt nho WOt1

Subsc ription Rate $2.00 per annum.

Addr{'~M R.II corre8pondence referring eiLber to advertistng or s ubsc ription to Viator Coli g('. Though only n ~ tht-" annual EnJlltlh ~a.y ("ont"'t

The Vta.tortan, BouroonnaJs. IlUnots. FrMhman thL... :rf"-3r. Mr. Fullam ~ , spon..iI\()rt"d by SL \,Ialor Co1lfor. - gives proml.,e of being one or the

F:ntcred lL8 fJecond CIMS matter at the Post Office of Bour bonnaJs, Illinois, be. lit speak~r~ a.nd deba.ters to repre- I BA N 0 U ET AT u~der the Ac t of March 3rd, 1879 I Sf>nt S t . Vlatur CoU(~ge on any plut-

Rom"" of lbe day . tudento, Pa.ul L.a..

.~ront.agne . The reason why you nov-

A CMI'; PRINTING CO~ 769 NORTH SCHUYLER AVE. form'HONOR ROLL I HOTEL KANKAKEE e r bear Paul say much or anythloll

I Is because his mind Is u.ually pretty

EDITOR'S NOTES /quenuy, have been forced to beli ev~ far away from St. Viator, three miles that It Is Ule Honorable Mr. Hoover' ~ ---column. 2ND SE)[ESTER-19S2 Dr. Jerome G. Kerwin and at leasL How did you say It felt

And hrre I. th e Io.-' t Issue of The FRESHMEN The Very Rev. Father to be In love, Paul ? Vlrltorlo.n fo r the cu r ren t school year. Wltbout Messrs. Middle ton, Wenth<, Maltujre Address We Righ with relle! and with reg-ret ; Bushman, and Larkin w e, as editor Sem. Honor Metnbers. wi th relief that th~ rather long daYd would Dot have been able to pubUsh Student Hours Points

You've heard a Jot aboul Pat Le­

gris bu t one more parting glance at

{\nd nlght~ of compiling copy are the first Issue on schedule time. hIr. ·Crowley, Richard A . 20 ";;0 The International Relations Club the mao wont harm. In all hi! mod­

brough t its year to a very success- ealy Mr. Legris has concealed trom

(ul close with a well at tended ban- us the tact that very recenUy It W8.8

quet a t the Hotel Kankakee, May 16. announced that he had outcl8.83e<i all The re were ab")ut torty guests at other opponents In the peraona.llty the dinner over which President Rob-

pa'll. fmd with re~re t that we must Bushman typed the entire edition, ·Cruise, Mary P . 19 57 hrl'fl.k Q.<4undcr the close bonds of and Mr. Middleton, in spi te of the O'Brien, John P . 19 51 rellowRhtp that we have forged while jesire of bis very ardent nature to Sweeney, James P. 19 50 l ' HUn!: tho paper. run off to Bradley and to Sorority Hickey, J . Donald .. 18 46

I piCniCS, confined himself to his room Quinn , John P . 17 42

\Vt.' d('~lre, first, to pay \lu r re- I and buried himself In the duties of Stokes, Chest e r H . 17 42 e rt Nolan presided. contest and won for himself the lItie

q>t.. ('l~ to the oeJs who have formed editing a pape r while we complacent \Valkowiak, James R. - 18 ' 3 Dr. J e rome G. Kerwin. of the Unl· of " Personality Boy of TIllDOI .... Mr. versi ty of Ch1cago was the prtnci- Legris previ.ously having won the pal speaker of the evening. Dr. Bourbonnals, Kankakee town and Kerwin proved an engaging speaker, county events. National champ tim· Jls playlng an intimate knowledge 01 I ber Pat!

one o( th e mo'- t Important cogs in I IY looked on. Clancy, :Margare t E. . . 13 14 th\.' (ldmintstrnUon o( our varied du- ___ Cote, Suzanne ~1. . ... 16 36

lk1. To. pnrllculnrly, Ute Misses I Bimmerle, John F. 18 37 RO!'4lUlna Gorman, Marie Smole, Mar- The sports department func tioned Flannagan, Lore tta M. 18 37 ~an.' .. C lancy, "'Tanct's Mary C lancy, without a mtch th~ughout the year Drassler, Louis M. 17 34 and 1.0 Mnry P . Cruise, do we wish and, with Frank Wlrken carr ying thl O'Connell, James \V. 16 32

current foreign a1l'al rs . He attend- Mr. Tom Gorman wtll cooUnuf" ed the banquet as guest of Mrs. during the summer to look after hl!t George E. Brennan. wife of the for~ Joliet Interests 8.8 well as wtLl Mr. mer Democratic National Commlt- Francis Smlth. 'Ed Gorman ha.! t eeman from Ililnois, and her cba.nn~ I turned out to be a Mr. Jeckei It. Mr.

tu l'xt\.'nJ ~ur mo~ t sincere appre- ! burden of lhe reporting, gave U! Z3.rza, Louis F. 18 36 (' Iallon of U1ctr 'n\·nluable assistance_I very ente rtaining gllmpses Into the SOPHOMORES T(, Mi O{s Lucille Put 7. who has edited sports world. And, then. James Lee DesLauriers, Francis G ... 13 " Library Nott.'~." W~ wish to e.xpress I who wrote the major portion of the Clancy, William J. 18 llur mo!'t ~il\l~""rc thnnks and appr e- Tournament Number ran a very c lose Stelter, Agnes B. dation. ,second to Frank. \Valdron, S J lves te r

Toolan. John A .

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'The 'y~nr has be.:!:l filled \\; U1 tn- W e bid a.dieu to Marty Tooblll, t t.' rt.' ~Ung l'Vent~ (t.lr us and (or the brother of the famous editor of for­$tud\.'nt body Consi~t~n t co-opera- mer years. Marty has, mdeed, lived lion of th~ $tudents hn~ made pos- up to the reputation of his relative sl bh' th(l publkntion of new col- and has given us the sidelights on umn~ , pnrtlcularly " \Valter Snitchell." the Little Nineteen activities. • \nd W~ really ~hould reli~ \·e the mlnd~ of th~ ..:-nlin? student body as

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Kelly, Vincent J. ..... 16 Meara, JosepI. E. 19

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Arrington. Margaret R. .. 17 Riley, William J . 19 \Virken, Francis J . .19

JUNIORS

It't tlw h:h..>nlity of the man who is \Ve en\·y our successor the sen;ces I Middleton, T. Gill 18 th~ author of this much discussed of Paul A. LaRocque, John Hugh Bushman. J. Kenneth ... 19

and 1\\\1\.·h cU~:;l~d l.'olunm. But w~ Burns, Kenneth Corcoran and his Gonnan. Rosanna M. 20 W(lO't (or he may be with us next myria.d assistants. James Dugan and y\.'~r ~·run and, pe rhaps, h(' ,,;11 ~n- the other members of The Staff. The h'rts..in U~ \\-Hh SODl't! of his interesl- units of The Viatorian Sta.ff com, 1(lJ.: nt'WS \\ (" "Ill ... tste-, how~n!'· r , as pose a whole which is really so e.~­

flrml\ :lnd ~l!> t'nmhatl('~- as \\"t" ('eUent that. to be its leader is the 1l\ ~\~ , that R.aJph Ed. ... on Hl)() \-er bas ;.Yrt.p.test honor a man may desire h :Ht no t .... mn(.'<.· t1on "ilh thts ("()Iunm. tt.ru~bout his colli"ge career_ And ;\tr. R ","Ht"r fq. qUltl" Inn~nt of all I that's not a bouquet of roses;

rem:uk'l. m :,d(.' h~ 'Ir. $nltche-U. 'V"e "them's facts."

McGrath, John 1. .... _17 Gorman. Edward W. Hunt, Edward J.

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SE:ro."IORS Clancy, Frances M. Roach, Racbae I ~L LarklO. Francis J .

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Agnes B. Stelter.

~~ ing daughter, Dorothy. Hyde. He ha.s firmly slated on aev· 45 Dr. John T . EIlLs and the Rever· era] oCCMions that be bad but two 43 end Father Maguir e each spoke a calls in his bead (that we believe) .14 few words to round out the evening. I one glad and one aa,d, We always 37 Dr. Ellis will not return to Viator thought there was somethlng wron~ 40 in the fall, having accepted a posl· 40 tion at Sl. Teresa's College In Mlnne- ChIck Holcher has purch .... d a

sola. H e will be greatly mi.ssed by new palr or ear block. 80 that h. 34 the Club, fo r It was founded and can play bridge with the two Bere­:: ftourlshed under his direction. l olos' without fearing to looae bls

hea.rlng .

I As tor John Donald alias SKIP-

44 1' DAY DODGING PER Hickey au we ask him If ever 44 ========'-'====== heard ot a PAL sailor by the name 45 Dear Mr. Editor: It seems as of CHRIS wbo was alway. willing to 3S though that the re are quite a few give hIm a llfL Sure Cbrllltopber 3S members of the s tudent body who thus Columbo .klp. We a180 wlah to 3S far bave escaped notice tn your 001. award John DonaJd the medal that

umns so I now nominate the following goes to the student who putl in th~ 48 members tor membership in the un- most alternoolUl at the la.boratories. 36 h,mg beroes club. They are all day Skipper 80me time put tn as many 33 s~udents so lend. me thine ears while as five and aix afternoons a week.

1 give you some " bits about them. '· Hickey Ls also a mwrtclan, nuJf oaId.

w\\uId ~u.~'):,!$t. hO\\"l.'n~r, thst nitch- I. (.'n llh\.,Y han.' t>... .. tn \\"ritt~n by :\.I~ssrs... It is \"\';:tll real ~atisfaction that Sun'.... H~\y-e~. \Y~ntht'. Bushman, I we. reach U.e end of thlS year. \Ve Larkm. or en"n by tbt" lhSS .s Clancy I (\."\:1 that We have acoomplished a I \.,\r hy )'h~ $molt' , The-n.. th~y may '\"~:y tboNilrh und ... ),.ceJle.nt task. in. h1\\"~ hsd no t,.·.,.:mne'\:tlQn ,,1th the . b1i:::h 7h \"1 . Th J I

Straight "A" studenls ,,;th the ...lghest posslble grades.

To begin With let me start With one The penoon showing the most &rO'

0' those brother combinations. I bitlon throughout the year bA8 been Bereolo.: Ted and George respec. Mr. James Conlsky. HIs record time

tlvely. Bridge experts of SL VIa. for walldng one city block bas been tors. ::oiever tigbt wben playtog l<>- set at ten and one-baIt mlnutea.

\~'tumn. ~~ s ~M~: is 8t::n-testin:oni:

which we leave, In cJo.si.n.g. we Wish

R!\lph Hc",wer has e-n'-"~b to aD.- S:.l~SS to thos~ two members or S\'·'t.~r (\,\r In "'c..,mpus Bri.~is..." The Th\.~ t.:::.c. who &.ore taken from us by ,",'\lumn h~ ~"-'n \~ry int~re.gtin.g s.nd cr-ad·' •• 1..!c1'. to, namely. Yi.ss Frances ~ :'\.~h"~$ i\ IsT'f:~ ''('Itl!' wbi"n "--e: seek Mary Clancy and to :Martin Toohlll. t(.l tind \.,\ut WhlC-h s~tion of th~ ps.. Pre.."".ident of the College Club of SL potr is Ul\.l.$t ";d~l\' ~ d. "'t!.. [re- \ l:stor.

Attend The Jul~' Fourth Celebration

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St. Yiator

Ige~eT. George a bandy man with Some _ed Jim. cll'b". Too bad your e11'orls wen In Now dear EdItor my con.clen~

va.!n. George, but we know your in· feels much better kllowtng that n<>­

tentions were of the best. So long body bas been alighted thl.a year and and good luck. Ted wishes it known we hope DOW that everyone can rest that he has deftnlte1y established that in ~ dunng the oummer month.., wben he enters a bndge game there t GOODBYE EVERYBODY ANy) are to be no re--<Ieab. ::oiever mind GOOD Lt.:CK. I am happy DOW as I Tffi better luck nen year. bave been wanting to &bow up Yr.

Then there', that dlmunH.l~e utUe Walter SnlI.Che1l lOT 80m.. tim<!.

Wednesday, June 15 1932

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Qualit:ies of True Leadership By Vincent J. Morrissey

THE VIATORIA

integri ty to realize his insane idea I for a league of nations. Yet is there V an intelligent man or woman today who will not concede that the Lengue of Nations offers tremendous potenti·

It is unnecessary to stress further mindedness, only to yield to the de- alities for good and should be g iven the tremendous need for leadership. moralizing effect of special interests favorable hearing? Yes, a true

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aledictory By James Burke J\.lonnhan.

The previous speaker bas quite ern- and public opinion. It is not easy leader must be a martyr to his Today. another graduating class for the special intention of world-phatically pointed out the need of to lead. It was not an easy task cause, in many instances undergo ,a leaves St. Viator. When this day !s wide relief. We go out from S t. men who are capable of saving civili- for the man, whose bicentennial anni- mental crucifixion, but ultimately hIS done, we will be no longer a part of Viator with his call ringing in our zation from itself. A civilization versary we celebrate this year to most zealous persecutors are com- the student body of this institution. ears and echoing in our hearts. W that had permitted itself, unknow- brave criticism and abuse, to rule I pelled to acknowledge the soundness The bodily ties that have united us have beard his plea for brave and ingly, to be carried away by an age with firmness of conviction in those 10f his judgment. to her halls and to her campus are moral men; we have listened to hi confused and witllout a goal, now trying days of the new-born Repub- The world's immediate need of being snapped asunder this after- cry for leaders. We are perfectly seeks a pOot to guide it from the dis- lic when mob-rule threatened its Ileadershi,p c~n be lessened only when noon as we go forth to labor and aware that there is one anu only on mal abyss of ignorance and error into I dearly bought peace. Yet, he had a man IS . ~Iscovere~ wh~ possesses toil aG the occupations of the world. type of man who is fitted to assum

. .. d fi ·t I these qualitIes. It IS futIle to seek, d' an enlightened world of WIsdom and I set hIS mInd upon a e nl e goa ... Iwe are touched WIth sorrow at the this burden of responsibility-an truth It is in man's very nature to from which no human influence was I a remedy untIl an mdivldual figure thought of departing from the place that is the God-fearing man, the man . I' A I d t I endowed wi th these rare gifts can th be led to depend upon another to able to swerve hIm. ea er mus we have come to love so well; we who not only proclaims e principle push Wm forward. It is this that come to the battle armed with the ! rise above .the common lot Of. man' cannot but regret that the happy of jtlstWf: and charity but who ap makes man so like sheep, seeking a steel of courage and the iron of de- I and lead ~lm back by ~he highest days which we have spent here are plies them in all his dealings. Wbeth shepherd. termination to see a cause through I moral, SOCIal and .eC?nOmIC roads to now a t an end. But our sadness is II er or not we will be able to answe

If then man in his infantile help- to its conclusion when his consci-' I the haven of ChnstIanity. Through- softened by the consideration that the call-whether or not we ar lessness i~ so desperately in need of enca dictates that the cause is "I ~ut all the centuries, b~t especi.all:Y even as we have been prepared ·for those who will help right the thing

. .. t 1D the hours of great CrIses Chnsti- . . .. . . . , . an impelhng force to dnve hIm from worthy one. He must be prepared. 0.. . h this ;:a~k of hvmg, so IS hfe Wal tIng I that are no~ wrong-It IS not for m the chatoic state into which his own repel the caustic attack of a hostile amty has tnumphant~y carn~d t.e to claim that which it may justly to say. But this much I may say blindness has plunged him, of what pub!.ic, for the citizenry, right or 1 b~nner of hope. It IS to thIS ~l- expect of us. I do not mean to . infer with certainty: St. Viator has not qnalities must a true leader be con- ".vrong, is usually inimical to sud-I vme source, that humanity, now mlS- that the industries of the world are stinted ' herself in the effort to mal< !'lituted? Is it sufficient to be mere- den changes in its routine. He must led and lost, m~st go to take Its eagerly anticipating the moment. us fit, she has exerted every pos Jy a shrewd and designing individual let no obstacles be too great to over- cure of rejuvenation. when they can take us into their es- sible bit of energy in order that we..

clever enough to deceive a trusting come, thrust aside every vestige of a W IS· h II tablishments; nor do I mean that w'e I mightt' possess the talent necessary to populace into believeing his cause a deterrent in his path of progress. a ter nltc e will immediately step into positions I tiecome' IeacIers of men; instructing righteous one? To create poUtical y~t, ev~n a blending of righteous- Column which will reward us with large · pe- us by 'word and by example she has entities that are avidly caught up by ness and courage does not suffice to - cuniary compensations. But ·I do taught usl"the strength of the pi! a gullible public? Would it be pru- make man a leader. It can safely Well, the year.is ended, the column say that there is a very important lars upon which true manhood rests dent to welcome a Caesar into our be saiq without fe~r of contradiction wishes the grads, each and eve,:,y undertaking aWaitfng the Catholic But rlow, she has done her part ~d midst? an unmoral chieftain infected that to achieve aoy degree of suc- O::l~ of 'em all the success and hap- colJege graduate today, and its suc- it is squarely up to' each and every with an obsesaion fu ... personal glory? I cess a man must possess a single- pi ness the world affords! cessful COmplEtiOn is vital to · th'e one oflls to show that we hay 1\0! The crisis dictates a much ness of purpose. Men who aspire to --_ welfare of the world. ThiS task is prOfited by her labors. It is our task Raner course. Caesars have built em- le::td are too often reduced to medio- The life of a columnist is indeed ::t none other than that which bas been to show oUr alma mater ~hB:t w lJin's but Caesars were not able to crity by their own varied interests. trying one---but at times, a me~ry so eloquently expounded by the bach- have we have availed ourselves 0

preserve them from the exacting 1'00 often they reach for popularity one!- Saw Roseanna Gorman and elor orators of the day-the · duty the efforts ·she has expended in ou meaSllres of justice. Something no- by assaying to satisfy every whim Jim Carney and that Romary Cherub that is imposed upon every: educated beh·alf. It is our duty to prove t hier somethi;}g finer, something more of a fickle ' public. The ' world is with Miss Smith and "Hem" with Cc,tholic vf suppl}ing Christian leatl- her and to the world that we do enduring must form the bed-rock of satisfied with men who 'trim and Pam and ~(it·s hard to bel,ieve) ership to the masses of men. The IJre- pOssess 'the ability ' of leade~hip. If true leadership. There must be a comp~mise and become "practical," brother Ed Gorman, partaking of the ceding s peakers have told~ 'you that we' do not do so, then it is we who deep appreciation -of the distinction --which means a readiness to barter bounty of a dark young gent i,n a 1 there is a necessity for such leadeT- have failed, it is we ~ho have been uetween right and wrong. He who I their convictions. It is the readiness double-breasted biue, who provided ship and have pOinted out the pri- unworthy. aspireS to lead must be a critical and t J suffer and. S~Crifice all ~or. pri?Ci- nice warm "buns" fresh from Ar- mary qualities which are ' requisite We bid adieu to St. Viator. ' W discriminating individual whose guid- pIe and conVIction that distmgUlsh- seneau's-al1 this at about three of for it. It is by fulfilling this ne'- go in .the ~ope and the trust Uta inb light is the moral law; whose es the cbmpetent leader. Not only the clock on a nice warm night-or c~sSity and by e~d.owing young men I we have pa~,~en, at lea.st .in som politics are open, fearless and based must a ' leading man adhere rigid!y morning! WIth these quahbes that c011egeS ! small q~gree. of that golden hemtag on principles of Christian justice. to his purpose ' but the goal itself - .-- such as St. Viator justify their ex-I whic~ is hers, so that we too may

Today, in the very city in which must be a worthy one. A lofty in- Professors Crawford, Cook and I istence. And n~w another year has follow the guiding hand of her .il Caesar ruled with an iron hand and tention is vividly egseI,ltial to ' the at- Doctor Ellis attended the hugely suc- passed and as It comes to a close, lustrious alumni, to that succes plotted the conquest of the civilized tainment of an ~enduring success. One cessful Senior party at the oCun- our alma mater extends her bands I Wh.iCh. will be a profit and honor to world, sits a man who is a leader of has only to turn back the pages of try Club and provided no end of the toward a U mankind and says: "This us lbo.th. In leaving, we could ,not men and a conqueror of souls. But history to verify this contention. The element for success. . J is my gift to you." . Thus it is, . la- d~'. better . than to oall to mind ! the the Sovereign Pontiff need not adopt opening of ' the nineteenth' century ___ I dies and gentlemen, that, although 5n words 9~ ; .piUS .XI who, in his lates the brutal tactics of a Caesar to found Europe terror stricken at the Lot of the old grads down for the (lne sense our hea.r.ts are touched · fll epcyclical, has said .: "Prayers and gain his end. Instead of a spear and thought of the French Menace which Senior Party and the commencement the prospect of leaving St. Viator, penanc.e. are the two 'potent inspira a dagger, the armor of wisdom and threatened to disturb the status quo exercises, Ray · Sprague I?lew in from till, in another sense, we are anxi.- tions sent .to us at this time by God, the sword of truth are unsheathed on the Continent. Napoleon had set St. Paul where he he..:; two more ous to go out into the world to pllOve that we may. lead back to Hi'm s. against ' the enemy. Nor has the ef- the conquest of Europe as his goal. years at the seminary before he to ourselves and to our college that' mankind . that has gone astray 'BJid fect been less profound. The mes- Here was singleness of purpose. But takes Holy Orders, Ray spent about the faith and the trust which she ·has wanders . about without a guide; they sages of Piux XI have penetrated to Napoleon was not motivated by a three weeks in a hospital there just placed in our ability -to perform the are the inspirations which will dispel the very antipodes of civilization and benevolent desire to better human- before he came down, he looked pret- task of leadership have not been in and remedy the first and principa won for him the popular acclaim of ity's plight when he sought to sub- ty good to us though !-Sam McAllis- vain. W e are eager to accept Ol:lr cause of every revolt and every rev non-Catholic as well as Catholic so- jugate Europe to French rule. In- ter dropped in from Alabama ann! r esponsi bilities not only for the per- olution, the revolt of man agains ciety. This was so singularly in- stead, he gambled the life-blood of golfed with Father Kelly and Father I' sonal sati sfaction of knowing that God." stanced just two weeks ago when the France to sate his own vulgar ap- Lowney and Lefty Laenhardt, who our four years in coll ege have not

words of His Most recent encyclical petite for power. came around a bit late for the fes- I been wasted, but also in order that Can you imagine: we found hair were heard on the floor of the U. S. Appropriately six hundred years tivities, out looking prosperous with our every act may redound as a pins in a nice new shiny box in Ed Senate and incorporated into the before Napoleon's memorable reign a brand new Dodge!- "Boob" Evard I credit to the school which h as given I. . Congressional Record. That is lead- in France a youth cast aside the ma- and Tom Doyle graced the campus us our golden opportunity. . , Hunt's room, perhaps that secre ership, to make one's guiding hand tenal things of life that he might and parts of Bradley for the weel{- I It is particularly fitting ~ha~ this I ambition to become aPa derewsk felt in distant circles. I have his soul and body free to live end too! It was a gala time aU commencement should faU Wlthm the explains them! Then there were th

But is one adequately equipped to in the spirit. His sincerest deSire around, that Commencement Day! very days deSignated by His Holiness, marbles found in the Degnan-Sprie assume the role of leader simply be- was to return to the poverty and Jack Burns and Roseanna engaging I Pope PiuS XI, as a time of special tzer room, all done up in a nice lit cause he can distinguish between simplicity which Christ e~emplified in what was their first conversation 'I prayer for the r elief of the distress- tIe mox!-And the tiny little red right and wrong? Surely not, for during His brief sojourn on earth. and seemingly to 'like it! ed condition of the human. race. Pa~-there are cOllntless numbers of men, With a faith and devotion to the . -__ I taking of the wisdom of his Divine and yellow doll in Tom Hayes' room who are b'ained in the fundamental cause which he led, St. Francis That very quiet John Boyle from Vicarate and guided by years of rich __ _ precepts of Christianity. Men, who worked unceasingly to convince oth- Gary who was a member of last experience, he has viewed the blurred And incidentally, we want to clear recognize the binding force of the ers of the erroneous importance at- year's frosh class was down and told ' expanse of this highly complex crea-moral law, yet would not qualify as tached to temporary goods of this us that at best he likes oNtre Dame I tion and with clear-sighted vision he ly understood that we have no faul pilots of human destiny. Sir Edward life. no better than Viator! That's the has seen the causes of discord and to find with the candidate for whom Grey, England's Secretary of State The world today is in need of a boy John, stick with the grand old disruption that are so fretting men's the young lady voted, her critique in for Foreign Affairs in 1914, was Francis Assisi. A man who can see place! affairs today. He has seen that man this edition would indicate that w doubtlessly a moral man. He was a bit into the future and clearly So long everybody! GOing to Joaf is drifting farther away from his I . . fully co~a~t of the injUstic~ that I de~ne the goal towards whicb he a bit now, be back next year! Good- God; he has seen that the principles dId.- We are sure that both candl would be Inflicted upon humaruty by stnves. The time limit on human luck to everybody! of justice a~d charity are being dis- dates are "scholars, leaders, and gen the conflict which loomed in those life seldom permits such men to en- ___ placed by greed and avarice, and tIemen!" horrible summer days of 1914. He joy the fulfillment of their proPhe- 1 Take notice the colUmn has finally from his exalted position on the knew too, that be was in an ideal cies. They live only long enough to drawn fire! It was started for just I throne of Peter he has pOlDted out position to avert a conflict and en- suffer the taunts and derision of a that reason you know, to awaken the one way in which all our ills, John Ripstra and Joe Splelberge deavored to exert pressure where it group of ultra-realists. A few short some of the dormant spirit around whether they be spiritual or material, are going to their respective train was most needed. Yet, he failed as years ago a man sat at the Ver- and about the campus. and to make may be cured- and that cure is a ing camps this summer to work ou so many others have failed because saUles Conference and proposed a the students a bit more aware of closer commun).on with the Almighty so that in September they will hav he had not the courage to be firm union of the Great Powers for the The Viatorian's presence on the cam~ and a more rigid adherence to His in his convictions in the face of op- preservatlOD of World Peace. At I pus- However we wouldn ' t mmd (vmm&.ndments. Thus it happ~ns position. Many a man bas taken of- home WIld shneks of ImpasslOned havmg been called on that "votm~ that even as we bid farewell to our fice possessing courage and convic- chauvinists branded \VIlson an Ideal- questIon" if the young lady hadn't 1 student days we are In the midst of

developed their style to a greater de

gree. Rlpstra uses the CARNIVER

OUS style while Spielberger uses th

tion, critical judgment and open list attempting to sacrifice American herself been the column's informant. a novena ordered by HIS Hohness FAN style of fighting.

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P<\OE 4

Peace and the Papacy Robert A. Nolan.

MEDAL ORATION

THE WATORIAN

peace of the individual citizen. It I I follows, therefore. that unless there

I is peace in indi vidual men, there can be no peace in society, for society is the sum of individuals. Ten thou-

WednesdaJ, June 15, 1982

Memorial Day Address DeUve red by Joseph A. Toni.

I sand idiots never make a wise man, We are gathered here this morning tract from the merits of these men

------------------------------- nor can ten million citizens who to give public expression of our grat- I whom we are here gathered to com-On February 2, 1932, amid the question is solved, The problem of have hearts torn by false ambition, itude to the services of our dead I memorate,

universal expectations of mankind, the elevation of guns is solved only I selfishness and sin constitute a alumni, and to offer our humble re- And yet, these superior thoughts which were signalized by the pealing by the elevation of souls. peaceful society. W~rld peace is ul- spect to these men who have so un- of ours do not lessen one particle bells of St. Patrick's, the caressing Likewise, peace is not achieved by timately a question of peace in the selfishly sacrificed themselves in the the noble service wWcb these men carillons of Notre Dame of Paris, and the union of the SIgnatory nattons ILDdlVidual. The eVIls which make nation's cause. have rendered: neither do they dis­the deepening tones of the chimes of themselves. Noble as the Kellogg war proceed from WIthin the lDdl- 1 Memonal Day was Instituted for credit the splendid manner in which west~mnster Abbey, there opened in Pact may be, there ~ through It a VIdual, and unless these are cor- the purpose of decoratmg the graves these men exemplified self-sacri1ice. the lItlle city of Geneva, which has fundamental fallacy, In as much ru! rected It IS vam to expect peace in th C' I All these thoughts were known to

: IOf those who perished In e IVl beco~e in the last fifteen years the It IS based on the assumption, that I SocIety Laws never make people \Var~ Yet, It IS Just, it IS proper, them. The futility, the evils and the world s capItal, the world conference International Peace IS the sum of the peaceful, but peaceful people do that such noble sentlment be extend- abuses of wars, were not a revelation for the reductIon of armaments. The peace among nations It affirms that I make laws Peace may be Signed m ed to honor the dead of all wars. to our generation. Not at all. These eyes of the peoples of sixty natIons Amencan peace, plus German peace, dIplomatIc documents but It profits And further, even though this cus- young men, also, knew. As they tUrned toward that City, nesthng be., plus French peace, plus Itahan peace, nothmg unless graven on the hearts d ts d th st.rolled about this campus, as they , tom was maugurate ou lee side Its picturesque lake, to finn plus Japanese peace constItutes In- of men church it is most fittmg that we. studied, as they discussed, as they th.ereln the me~ns by . WhICh they I ternational . Peace. But thiS peace I World peace, then is ultimately a as me~bers of a Catholic Institution, meditated, all these ideals were un­might attain mternatIOnal peace. can be achIeved only by a bond of question of the individual conscience. d d . 'folded to them. They were not , 'I ' should gIve homage to our ea, 111 Pe~c: groups, .women s unions, a~d unlty higher than the SIgnatory na- of individual training, of individual Oi,r own fashion. In fact, we feel primitive, illiterate men. They were relIgIOUS orgaruzations poured theIr tions themselves, and it is here that I education. And yet to s trive toward that With the solemn mtoning of the in every sense our equals. They. petitions upon the conference. In a the Pa~t defeats .ltself In other I peace In the world courts, and at the Requiem, this occasion reaches new too. had misgivings that the ideals word, there was every hopeful indi- words If the nabons are to bind t t th d al cation that this conference would find th ' I t th th t b same Ime 0 Ignore e emor Iza- depths of reverence; this fleeting mo- J for which they were struggling would

emse ves oge er, ere mus e tIon. the barbansm and the Ignor- I ment is sanctified by the shadow of ever be realized. And yet, in the Disarmament an issue full of poUtt- sometbmg outside the nabons which I ance of the indiVidual cItIzen IS to Th' th ri the 's face of all this they were ready to en1 realities, capable of producing a will bind them. A can cannot wrap stram at a gnat and swallow a eternity IS Igt

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gd, f n, t'o sacrifice everyfuing their homeq,

I . . p. • I meet and just. IS goo or us • ~t'1ting peace. a bundle if be IS part of the bundle. camel Moses represented hiS people their education their futUre their Three montns and ' one week have nor can he pack a bag if he is part J on M~. Sinai-below they bowed low be here.. . VE:ry lives whed called upon t~ do so.

J:ossed since that winter morning, of the bag. That which binds must hefore a golden calf. The court of This is a time of seno~sness, of Such action such subordination of I b ts 'd th th' bo d .. - . . .. r everence, of res pect. It IS a time I "

an-. the conference is found flounder- a ways e ou 1 e e mg un. the mdlvldual conSCIence, the mdIVI- ! when we honor and revere the ~pirit self, in view of all such misgivings, iJ1g toward futility and failure. The If the nations of the world are to be dual mind is the only foundation of I . .fi .th h. h th e required supreme strength and cour­g l eat Statesmen, Grandi, McDonald, I united together into a league for the a world peace, and to proceed upon of self-sacn ce Wid; l~h es t age. It is an easy matter for any­Bruening, Tardieu. and Stimson have maintainence of peace, they must be other lines is to create a false and young men s~rren eldre

l e mios

S one to rush unthinkingly into the

I ft G d d · 1)0 d b thO b· d i ' I precious of their wor y possess on e eneva an _ are now pon enng un y some mg Igger an w - fragile peace; peace, peace, and there I ... the ri ht (0 live. Self-sacrifice is very mouth of danger; it is the mark the problems of their blighted pros - .der than themselves, and outside is no peace, for no .m~ is to be I the fOUI~dation of all great achieve- of a high degree of bravery to do so pects in their respective capitals. th emselves. This superior unifying found who has peace In hiS heart! . mE'nt It is a most realistic act di- when one fully realizes the perili3 Wby has this confer ence, with a be- spiri t, wbich is not only internation- It would thus appear of the three I ~ . d 'd I' t· I It I and hazards of such a venture; but g . . . . d f 11 f aI, but supranatural, and hence the I'd th I ' rN!ted towar s an I ea IS IC goa.

mmng so ausJ?I~IOUS an. u 0 pOin~ that ~ave outh~e, e on y ia -the very bed-rock -of Christianity. when one is mindful that all his hope, failed to make, seemingly, even only power capable of binding sociE"- practtc~1 ,one IS the ~hlrd; the o~e In the self-sacrifice of these men, sacrifice might be in vain, then does a minor step toward . tp,e attainment ties together, and to give them that which IS slowly becommg a force In b' d both t f I such bravery approach the sublime.

f . ? B h· h th bI" dl k we see com me ex remes 0 o lts goal. ecause the statesmen peace w IC ey are so 10 y see - the world today. And yet, we are the finite-the real and the ideal. An Thus, did these young men enter of the world have been seeking some- ing is the spirit of the King of not idealists, and we propose to find act resultin from the intimate com- the conflict. How keenly must they thing they knew not of, They have Kings, the spirit of Christ. a remedy for peace problems; name- bination of gsuCh extremities leaps I have felt and even feared the ~th-~:=:Ch s~:~inp!acPe,ea::e'y ahna~e inallo~:~ th:h:e r:a:t~~n~'s pt:oe~~se~ ::Pg~~~ ly, ~ tmOralt. coulrt,b ntelthboer n~ltllOnal above the finite, it approaches the in_ l lessness of mo~ern wh_arfare. ,HOW in-

nor merna lOna , u a ve a na- finite. Self-sacrifice is un-natural; it I tensely conSCIOUS t ey must have themselves to be g':lided, not by the will and peace win be respected un- tions, a court which possesses the been of their complete insignificance basic prinCiples which underlie the less there is some higher personality very spirit of Chr;ist since it is is supernatural. And the super-na- . d tak- t' Aft

tural is worthy of our respect and I In an un er 109 so vas . er wI:t0~e fabric of international comity, to whom these. nations are respon· headed by the Vi~Jir of Christ, name- veneration. having been t~ught and. w~rn~d. to but by sentiments, aims, and inter- sibJe even though it be in eternity? ly, the newly establisheq Va,tican Gity. assert and maIntain thelr mdivldu-ests almost exclusively materialistic. I care not how idealistic nations may 'I.'his city is a small, extra7national This supreme offering was no easy ality what an ironic sensation it The moral principle is forgotten at be; once they deny the responsibi~ity strip of land which makes the Father matter, no mere child's play. These mus~ have been to be identified by G~neva, because the material prin- towards a supreme Law-Giver, once of Christendom independent and out- weI·::: not old men, past the thrills numbered tags! All these trials re~ ciple is favored in Paris. I they deny the IGngship of Christ, s ide of nations, and the only one who of life, looking forward to the peace quired courage, because madness ht .. v-

Peace, according to St. Augustine, once they deny the re~ponsibilities of I is in a position to bind and tie na- and rest of eternity. Neither were ered as near as death, is the tranquility of order. It is conscience, the door IS left open to tions together. The Vatican City is they rash, unthinking youngsters, ig- But if courage were necessary, not order alone, for there is order I all manner of cunning, deceit and another planet, a vantage point, from norant of the beauties and joys which whence would it come? Could it be even among thieves: It is not tran- expeiiency. which the Holy Father can view the hfe can give No, they were m~ distributed along With meager ra­quility alone, for the robber is tran- Deny moral responsibility to God, world. te lligent young men, keenly COnsCl- bons. No. Courage comes from quit in the possession of his gold. It and who will challenge iapan's ' right The Corfu ~d Manchurian affairSIOUS of all that hfe has 10 store; IWlthlD. True courage must be fed is rather the sum of both- the tran- to ignore peace as a moral problem, of our day are sufficient proof that the~' were young men trained and through the soul In the souls of q .liLity of order. and disregard her promises to the respect in some power, superior to eager to answer the challenge WhICh these young men there was a spark.

This definition of peace takes it League of Nations? Deny Divine and outside signatory nations them- earthly existence holds. And yet, a flame which noo.tished courage. It out of the commer cial order and Power above men and will men- selves, is necessary for a true lea- , even though they had much to of- was the flame of Faith; aFaith places it in the moral order, making shrink against war with a great g ue of nations, productive of a true fer, when summoned, they humbly which made them ··see beyond the peace a relationship ' between man power as thinkable and inexpedient? and lasting peace. This is not sole- bowed their heads to higher author- was the fl8JTle of Faith; Faith and himself, his neighbor, and his No, but they will fling themselves in- ly the view of an adherent .. to the ily and gave their 'all-their very be- which brought ' peace and comfort God. It corrects the false imp res- to war with a small power without I Roman communion, but the peace- ings. Such men make better angels. even out there amidst madness and sion, or rather, the assumption of thinking twice about it. When the seeking populance of our day are We are living. \\'e are 3till here, chaos; a Faith which gave them con­our modern world. that peace is the sense of Divine Justice is lost in fa- ! gradually. seeins in the Vatican City on earth, possessed of everything fidence and fortitude even as they absence of a stat~ of war. Such a \ vor of expediency, all that is needed the solution to the problem of world; which they so suddenly forfeited, placed themselves upon the field of condition may be tranquil before a J to make war is an oil well and ' a ' peace. Permit me ,to quote for you I We pride ourselves on being rational, sacrifice. storm, but it is not peace. Peace ~ millionaire, who wants to develop it ·a view that was expressed by Dr. thinking individuals, We . cast criti- Faith and self-sacrifice marked the adds to the notion of tranquility, the I for the sake of constructive civiliza- James Brown Scott, a man whos~ cal eyes on everything around us, Requiem this morning. ·Faith and element of order, or the virtues of tion, or the rights of the great white religious alligance, as he says, is and feel a false satisfaction when we self-sacrifice marked the death of justice and charity. In a word, race! I other than that of the neutral figure uncover the Slightest inconsistency in these young men. Can they have obedience to the universal moral law, Peace can be the possession of so- to whom he turns: . pao::t endeavors; we are thrilled by a died in vain? whic~ presides at all the relations of I ci~ty only on condition that there is "We are so obscessed with bigness sense of false exultation when we , -------men npwever diverse they may be. peace in' the individuals which COll- that we think that large s tates are perceive human frailty falling short I Imagine the Beau Brummel of the

In the light of this definition of stitute society. Very little thought better than little ones ... A dis- of its ideals. day students going into medicine. peace, it is well to recognize that is given today in disarmament con- pute laid before the state of the Vat- I We are wise. We are clever. As SUre Vincent Kelly of the Palar.~ despite the desires fo r peace among ferences to the method by which ican for decision would be free from I we look into the past, we can see Clothing Emporium is going to Med­nations, very little is to be expected peace is attained. It is generally -un- the suggestion of material force to where prejudice and emotion have ical school next year. By reason of (rom the disarmament conference. In derstood as c reated by international compel .i~ acceptance; would be dis- J existed under the guise of patriotism. his perfect figure Mr, Kelly will use the public eye disarmament is often conferences, which, in turn, permit it connected from any idea of territor- We can see where patriotism has of- his spare time in modeling clothes in confused with peace. As a matter of to trickle down, like leaking water , ial aggrandizement; ,WOUld have a ten been nothing more than national- several of the large stores in the fact, disarmament is not a peace through the representatives of the presumption of justtce .. 'tn its behalf: ism. We can see that nationalism ~ndy city. question but a war question; it af- I nations, to the citizens themselves. It and the 'decision, whatever it may be, has often been plain and selfish The two Devere boys have been fects the quantity of steel, not the is first thought to be a world court, is bound to be in conformity with greed. We can point out that great giving us things to write about late­quality of soul: it is concerned with I then in the nations comprising the J the moral code of the centuries, and moral issues, for which wars have ly. We hear that Pe-rry has been the weapons \"\;th which a nation will CO!l rt, and finally, in the individuals I to b.e dominat~d by a ~piritual con- r1 been fought. were often mere hoods I IOO1<ing into the co-educational sec­fight, not with the question whether I of these nations. ceptIOn of thlQgs which temporal for paltry economic gains. We can tion for new fields to cover. We or not it will fight. Decreasing we a- This is a pure inversion of the true judges may sometimes be wi thout. cite examples in which envy and hope you dont get CHECKED Perry. pons eliminates n.9,~ war, but rather I order of things. Peace 1s not the "Protestant though I be, a nd of vengeance hav~ dominated peace As for Burton he has taken up the diminishes the severity with whIch creation of society, nor does it first ! the Presbyterian variety, I lOOk. for- treaties. Even the noble ideals which interesting and profitable game of one will start war. Disarmament is I reside in society; rather it is first in I ward to the state of the vallc~. \ictories should have insured we see backgamon. Yes profitable for the purely an economic question, and not the individuals comprising society. barely large enough for the Ponllfi- degraded and trampled by base, in- others Eh Burt. We wondered why a moral one. The attainment of Family peace, for instance, is ulti- , cal throne--an imponderable state- hUman passions. Indeed we are clev- you look so exhausted lately. It fs peace, on the othe~~ hand, is mors.1 mately a problem of the individual ' rendering services in the future even I er, so much so, in fact. that we hold a lot of work to cut lawns, wash and and not economic, and disarmament peace of the members of a family-l g reater than the Papacy of the past. in bitter contempt the highest ef- simonize cars and many other tasks conferences will continue to be tn- in like manner, world peace is ulU- I because it has neither anny nor navy I forts, the noblest asplrat!ons of past I o~ la~r Eh Burt. Take you on some lImphant failures until the moral mately a problem of the individual I Continued on page S. generations. We are even apt to de- ! time if you find me out.

Wednesday, June 15, 1932 THE VlATORlAN PAGE 5

HERBERT SHEA I ' FRANCES MARY CLANCY I

II I JAl\lES BURKE MONAHAN

pr~:i~ent J~;!~~s, . D B~~~::~~ :.~~~~ . "Ice_preslden~'~o.::~:' C!ass. ,BB~NR~I~hE!. :~o~:~ I President s~:~oU:k;~ ••.

S atrmtaan S.. °Cm.econullg ance. ----------____ --! Member Interna.tional Relations College Club Representa.tive S.

ecre ry eJuor ass. I 01 b ':l Herb, during his sojourn at st. TO THE DAY STUDENT I ;~ ~. t· S If 3 4 TO THE SENIORS College Club Secretary 4.

Viator College bas been one of the I have been assigned th ,:: task of e la. orlan ta ,. For three years we have known Debating 2, 4. , I . . t th Treasurer Social Sorority 4. hie t l\lember International Rei tl most popular men on the Viator cam- givIng a oast to e day students, you as se 0 ars, as a holies, as gen- a. OilS pus. His cheerful smile has ever that element of ever-growing im- Latin l\ledaJ 2. tlemen. For three years we have Club 4. been the beacon which has lighted portance at St. Viator College. The I English Essay l\ledal S. lived together, roomed together, play- Burke registered at St. Viator in his way into the hearts of all the b~st way, perhaps, that I can uo General Excellence Medal 4. I ed together, stuaied together . We I '26. After a year of College, he took men who have been in contact with justice to this assignment is to go Dramatics S. have experienced an intimacy that !S off two years to decide whether or

back several years and contrast the I Four years ago Frances Mary I Doted for its deadliness, but we have I not the time spent there was worth conditions of the day student in found it marked by its life. We nineteen hundred twenty-four, with have learne:l that there is no attach-the pOSiti~n that the day s tudent I rn~nt in all the world quite so corn-now occupIes. I pJete as the friendship of one ma:l

Eight years ago, \'.~~en St. Viator I for another. Beside it the devotion :\cademy was still in operation an of a scientist to his laboratory, the , a.rrangement was made whereby th~ I enchantment of a perfect instrument third floor of Marsile Hall was used to a musician, the adoration of a I to hold two different study halls. On I painter for beauty, the fondness of a one end of the third floor, was the man for a woman- become as noth-study hall for the non-resident stu- lng. In leaving Saint Viator, you :lents. The opposite end was occu- I leave us a more complete und:!r-?iej by the resident student. Be- standing of the r espect one man can tween the two s tudy halls was a COf- have for another., you leave us things

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ridor where the prefect paraded up that words in their poverty are un-and down, like a policeman on his I able to express. beat. The easiest way, perhaps, for You found us three years ago. 1 resident student to pick a quarrel wanderers in a strange land, and you

'with one of the day students was formed our first impressions-im-fo r him to enter into . the' latter's )ressions of the spiri t that is tradh 'Study hall without a perfectly offi. tionally Viatorian. You taught us cial eo.;;c·.lse. The same held true of ~hrough our work and our play to

Photo by Breymeier the day s tudent in his relations with lppreciate those close relationships

him. Coming to us from Tampa, considered by day students that any one compact companionable society. the boarder. Again it was generally I Photo by Breymeier vhich interweave all Viatorians into

Florida, Herb has brought the attempt on their part to enter into C!ancy came to ·St. Viator from St. 1 You bro\lght us to know that col­wa~mth, which has a~ways charac- at'1.1etic com:;>etition, or any other pa.trick'~ High SChOOl: Kankakee. I11.i- lege is not a group of undergrarl­tenzed the southern chmate, to bear ' actIvity on the campus outside 0'1 nOlS Wlth an envIable record ID uates plodding through four years of on aU of his activities. Continued on page 7. 3cholastic activities. During her col- Continued on page 7.

As president of his ciass in its lege years she has been prominent Junior year, Herb guide1 it through' in many activities, and she has held a very successful period of its bis- innumerable offices and honors. She tory. In charge of the nineteen hun- has served as featUre writer for The II dred thirty-one Homecoming Dance. \'i:.Ll~niun during the past two years he achieved a success which is very in which capacity she performed very remarkable, especially when the ob- creuitahly. She was the treasurer stacles which he surmounted are con- of the Soda! Sorority in '31 and '32. sidered. In spite of rumors of an She \vas highly honored by her class economic depression and various oth- when she was ; elected to the vice-er unfavorable events, the least of presidency. She has received, in ad-which was not prohibition, Mr. Shea dition, many testimonj.als to ber high succeede:l in making the affair onc scholarship. She has been made the of the best. We send our best wish- I recipient of the Latin Medal and es to him. I the EllgliSh Essay Medal, as well as

the General Excellence Medal in her fourth year. In brief, Miss Clancy's o.ccOlJlplinhments are so wide and so remarkable that our space

Peace and the Papacy Continued fron page 4.

li mi ted to do her justice.

the effort. Deciding that it was, James Burke returned to us in '29. He is a mighty logician, and pos­sesses an uncanny ability to dis­cern the weakest point in an oppon­er.t's argument.

I As an employee of the registrar's

I office, Burke has become known as coach of the famous Delinquent Team. At regular intervals he has posted bigger and better lists with g round gainers whom even the coach of athletics has envied . . In short, Burke has held the rapt attention of the Viatorian student body and his lis ts are scanned with an attention given no other piece of literatUre which falls wi thin the range of a Viatorian.

Burke has been the "friend ;n

tion given to few men. We wish

need" to many a studen~ and hi~

memory will always be tinged with R

II gratefulness and sincere apprecia-

nor territory. It only has a con- him the best 0" luck. science and law under the control of

a moral and spiritual conception." I 'iCElEBRATION AT But unfortunately the power to which the distinguished Dr. Scott BI-j Photo by Breymeler

ludes is forgotten as the statesmen RACHAEL MARIE ROACH VINCENT MORRISSEY I ST VIATOR'S of the world conduct their futile ne- '·Rascal." "Vince" I gctiations at Geneva. That gatherin~ I I which seemed to presage so much pr~'idC~(tanSkO~~~~y I~~noiS . Treasurer Senior C!ass 1933.

1~S~ ~:: :o~::"~:;~s~s t:~:ni~~: Dramatics 3. St. J ohn Berchmall'. Society 3, 4. Fourth of July Will Witness

iUes and the delegates already show Prominent among the Vince has been one of the Shining ' Annual Festival On the signs of weariness. Even at this scholastio lights a t St. Viator. Sub- 0 ege roun s. is Machael Marie Roach who entered I C II G d moment the American Secretary of St. Viator three years ago. Rachael ordinating everything to his supreme State is home but a few days with g:radllated from St .. P~t~ck',s High ir!terest and desire, he has zealously July Fourth will see the annual little to his credit for his time spent School, Kankakee, IllInOls III 28 and, followed the path of the scholar. If celebration on the Collge Grounds of

after a year at St. Francis College, . h f I h t in Geneva, McoDn~ld has returned to! decided that she referred "her hIS achievements ave at en s or St. Viator. Dancing will be one of London a dlsappomted man, Tardieu p of his idea ls, Vince may, a t least, I the many diversions offered to the was too interes ted in the French Irish." (·1st 2ecure in the kno\vledge that he students, college friends and to the elections and there:ore developed a Entering Via~or :::1 '29. she con- has given unre~ trained effort to the alumni on this gala event. As in 'diplomatic cold' which kept him attainment of that object. previous years, ~he dancing will be tinued her excellent record in scho- I from the ~1iberations. and Bruen- lastic activity and her popularity Few members of the seniors of open to the public a ll afternoon and lng's despair is an open secret. But : eceived a most sincere testimonial III thirty-three are more s incerely likej j all evening. VariouS games and It

what of the conference itself? Its 113:.? When, ~he was selected to govern than Vince. To a charming person- I large number of booths w1ll be 10 ..

destiny is a question' ·ts fut the destInies of t.he Social Sorority I Photo by Breyrneier aBty he adds a ready wit and en· cated on the college grounds,

r ',ddle. The conference' h' as fal'lurede

tao of St. Viator College. Among her I CLARENCE J. RO

" "RY tirely original humor. These char- The fireworks, always a marvelous

l k I f th I ri !\al'ert achievements, Miss Roach l 'f&.n. a e cogn zance 0 e mora p n- "Puff." acteris tics have m ade him very pop- fl pIcture of beauty and quite in keep-cipie, it,s members have refused to ' counts the conquest of a celtain 1 Vi t d th I I be atlect first a moral disarmament. ':ery popular Viator man. I Basketball 1, 2, 3, 4. ~I:;se:'::~~e in at~:ir ";.:~reat that r~: : ~:~te~l%r t~~e o~~~:~~IO: ~f the p:~:

Returning then to my ori"'nal Through her course at St. Vlato~, . Baseball 1, 2, 3, 4. . I' Ail d I'h hi th dl ttl hl . I kith o. honor roll and the summa cum laude Football 1, 2, S, 4. IS eaVlng. sen w . m e ten ng g ues a ego c oc n e

propoSition. may I conclude with this d d h . Ii t I I bes t wishes for success. I evening of the Fourth. The spectacle aw'l.!' e er IS a t ing tes timonial

remark: that so long as statesmen tv her superior mte11ectual aCCOrn- Thirty seconds to go' The score 1 has always attracted la rge numbera decline to recognize the basic fact plis'llnents. Th tl lof one of the greatest games played I Mr Samuel Portnoy (Rubinoff to from Kankakee and the Immediate that men's actions a re guided in th e gen emed~ of St. on the Viator bardwood was 17- 18. J us) ~as in the red this year up untU I vicinity of the college as well as

Via tor and e young la les wish , I the last analysis by moral principle, fihgs Roach t The referee s whis tle announced a the very las t few days of school from the surrounding territory. St. as long as they refuse to tUrn to grea. success and bap· I foul with two throws attached as ; Owing another gentleman $6~OO,OO: Viator takes g reat pleasure in again some such figure as the man of pmess. Puff was hacked while going under ! Mr. Portnoy was g reatly relieved welcoming her friends and students YaUcRn City. who is so pecullarly horror of accumulating battleships, the basket for a shot. The hectic that owing to his great scope of I to be present at this annual event. tittN for the application ot moral nggTessive armies, and poisonous gas- game had the fans on their feet as knowledge in every field. he was aD-principle to international relationship, f-S. Well may we paraphrase the Puff stepped up to the freethrow line pointe1 "CHIEF KNOW IT ALL" by "Boob" Evard, former athlete an1 be(;lluse he is the guardian of morals I words of the great Latin Father, St. to calmly toss in one shot to tie the I the Tomohawk Indians. This posi- student at St. Viator was present a t and the friend of all nations, we can I A:obrose: Ubi P et rus. ibl Pax- score at eighteen all. When he non- , lions draws a salary of six scalps a the Commencement exercIses held on E''>:pel''t little surcease from the grim \"/ht-re is P et er, there is peace! Continued on page 8. I year. i June 6 at St. Viator College.

PAGE 6 THE VIATORIAN Wednesday, June 15, 193%

The Proper Approach To Disarmament: er countries, and vice versa ; the cor- ! pIe, be expected to give up her for- lacy preparation. Mr. Baruch, a

C. M. Charles J. Byron '34. MEDAL ESSAY

I resdonding increase in trade, togeth- I tunate economic, political and social noted authority on this subect , clear­er with the world market would I position to take pot luck with the ly shows us that the last war has bring better prices to' the farmer, unfortunate coolies in China. or the demonstra .. ed to the world that a I manUfa~turer and commercial man; ' peasants of Russia? And this she great industrial country is always

_______________________________ prospenty would return to reign s u- would he forced to do to a certain prepared to tight. Within tltirty days,

"A world peace guaranteed by in- slrales the attitude of the people to- preme! Contemporaneously, the I extent, should she consent to destroy an effici ent indus trial dictator could ternaUonal agreement and support- ward war; that they have profitted ~orld State would promote gre~ter ber g reat battleships, air forc: et , begin a s teadily increasing flow of aU ed by valid sanction had been an by the huge expense of the last mterna tional relations of all kinds cet era, in order to be s uperficlally 1 necessary small arms and machine Ideal and a hope of the civilized great international conflict. The and settle aU mmor disputes which the mihtary equal of such nations I guns, together Wlth their ammuni­world long before the Great War enormous loss of life; the ruinatlOn might anse. InternatlOnal u~iversl- as China ~d Russia The more for- tions, Wlthm nmety days, he could came to test and to s train every of so many lives; the hospitals, saru- tIes and societIes would anse m tunate nations Justly claIm more lrutiate the flows of necessary big source of the fairest form of civili- tariums. soldie rs homes and the like, which the g reat mtellects of each na- I armaments than others; human na- I guns and shells, both explosive and zation known to history." But in a &: ) filled to capacity; the failure of I tlOn mIght confer , the educational tUre Will not allow the situation ever I gas; Wlthin four months, an mdus~ sense, the problem of world peace, fathers husbands and sons to re- s tandard would be r aised consider- I to be otherwise. The very dickering I tnal nation lIke the United States as It is now considered, is peculiar to turn f;om the battlefields tO

I which ~blY by Improved .~ethods of teach- of national representatives LD the could approach complete war foot­

the twentieth century. It is tru t: they so g loriously set out; the loss I 109, and opportunIties to study un- many conferences as to how much ing, so far as implements of des­that ' long before the dawn of the of fo rtunes and personal property; I der a corporation of the greatest the othel;' nations should disarm leads truction are concerned. Unassum­present era, the various countries and 8.;11 have so vividly and tangibly I e~ucators of ea~h nation.. Frien~IY to ho~tility; each nation endeavors ing commercial ships and planes peoples had seen dimly beyond the hrolaght before the people the abso- I nva lry would sttll exist, from which to stnp the others as much as pos- could be converted into deadly instru­horizon fai nt glimmerings of such a lute horror and futility of war; that I would . develop a great syst em of in- sible and at the same time retain I ments of ~ar practically over night. comparative Utopia. But these coun-' they are overjoyed at the prospect ternatlOnai games and contests on a as much and even more than she her- The neceSSIty for speed would urge tries and people made no attempts I of its r enouncement. And t he aver- much larger scale than we now have. self is permitted. The concealment inventors and scientis ts to create and to attain that Utopia; they faced it ; age man today is far better edu- l ~ternational ins~itutio~ and ~ha.ri-I of .arms and poten~ial preparation are I fashion more terrible instruments and it was in their line of vision, but cated and worldly wise than he was tIes would s peedIly arIse to ehmln- universally practIced after each methods of warfare than have ever they were dazzled by its brilliance before the World War. The true I ate s .Lch poverty and other social treaty; hypocrisy pervades the very been employed up to the present and did not advance to meet it. To ca uses and origins of war have been ! wrongs that might . exist. ~ere I rooms of these conferences. Conse- time. The nationalistic instinct of them, it was absolute Utopia. Today, t a ught him so that he w ill no longer I could be but one .glonous, ultImate I ~uently ~ey have accomplished noth- I the people could be aroused and em­world peace is still r egarded by be susceptible to the nimble tongue \ r esult to t~e worklOgs of this p~an; ! 109. BasIcally, every treaty, league I bittered by propaganda and pleas to many as Utopian, but as such, in of government , money and power. I complet~ di~armament by all nattons , an~ confere~ce to date has been a,b- I them to preserve their fatherland's the sense merely of appearing to be I No more will t he unsuspecting ciU- WOUld, In lts result, correspon~ to solutely futtle .. We have a c~ncrete I integrity. Soon the flow of materials too good to be true; yet not impos- zen, u rged on by war propaganda that great movement of the MIddle example of thIS fact today 10 the \ .... oldd ~t~ep pace v,.~th and eventuaily sible. We may even regard it as R. and patriotic addresses, plunge madly Ages, the Crusades, which caused the Pi no-Japanese conflict, and in th~ j surpass the increasing number of peSSimistic term, the ~roduct of those into vital conflict with other peoples. I final breakdown of feud.a lism and the faci. that whereas the nations gather available men. The peaceful plains, "~iSSOUri" cynics, who maintain that H e has learned to determine and ""Conseq.uelft rise of NatIonalism. And! a~ these cOnfe~ences supposedly to in the very act of agricultural pro­our fair earth is inevitably headed consider the true facts of the dis- so DIsarmament would naturally <Jlsarm, they adJOurn to re·arm. The duction, would be trampled and tom toward the abyss of destruction, and pute. The slogan "My country, right bring ~bout. a further development- h ·::tgIJes have failed beca.use .in theIr I by devastation before the rural pa­that nothing we might do WOuld or w rong" is a thing of the past. I~ternatlOnahsm! What more posi- 1=0licy, they made war a p~~alty for triot had time to desert the plough a lter its course; we Ip.ust passively Yes. the world needs and desires bve g ua rant:e could there be for I W'~l:. The ~eagues ti"~ems,~lves w~re and reach for his gun. The staunch awal t our own disaster . peace, now it must discover the World P eace . Imhtary a llumces, hence ,total dls- encouragers and advocates of Dis-

means of that peace. The popular But Frustra! Complete disarma· lonnament ""a.1 Iffil1ossible; war is not .lU"mament would stand aghast and As was said, world -peace has long concept of this means is disarma- ment is absolutely imposible! It is, I a cure for It.";lCU". i utterly helpless at the simple and

been an ideal of the civiliz~d world, me nt, that each nation rid herself of ~s the writer has. enaeavored to pic- The state was fir <:> t originated as. sudden destruction of their impreg­but only an ideal. As civilization all implement 3 of war. Surely, jf .ure above. nothmg more than a an offensive organ as much as it was nable plan; and the crash of that progressed, so naturally did the con- thiS IS accomphshed, war will be glorious pipe dream. I an institution for defense; Indeed, the- destruction would be distinctly heard cept of suc~. a peace become cl~arer, abolished; we cannot have war with- Disarmament is impossib!e primar· true germ of the state was the war- a.,n,d sorel,y felt around the world. until the r:·esent day when it has :)ut the means for it. If eyery na- ily because the human emotions ab- like tribe; and from this germ de- Ap.d ye t, world peace is impera-been definitely set as a goal. In ' tion would ~DTee, and support her 30lutely cannot be controlled by the I veloped the huge mons ter, Nationa! ~ tive; we must have it. It is the this tangible sense, is world peace agreement by valid sanction, to dis~ League of Nations. the World Court, is m. And even today, the belief as duty of every statesman, politician, peculiar to the present day. It first a rm completely, retaining only such or any similar governing body. The I to the primary duty of the state has and of every citizen· interested in became a problem with a possible annej force as would be necessary emotions are abstract and they can- remained unchanged. The ' present this vital question of civilization to solution in the ninet eenth century, I t· f th t and faith in that solution proclaimed for interna l police protection, we not be governed by any such mater- national state is commonly regarded s nve or a end. The cynics will itself in the many peace treaties held should soon have world peace indeed. 1- ial or concrete me3.:1S as were men- not primarily as an institution for I urge the nauseating argument that

An a rmed world s tate could be es- lioned above. AU war is the product defense, but as a cooperative organi- such an ideal is positively Utopian. during that period. But still its tablished, composed proportionately of the irrational or animal impulses, zation for territorial expansion, ex· I Their Mayflower philosophy can hest practicability and possibility was of equal representation from every which ultimately can be traced to ig- ploitation of defenseless people, and I be refuted in the words, ot" Viscount maintained only by a comparative nation, which would ac t as jUdiciar~ norance; therefo~e. the human emo- commercial advantage at the ex Grey, " If you tell me this i~ Utopian, few, and the failure of these con-ferences was accepted m erely as a and executive body for the entire lions are the final causes of war. pense of other nations. As long as I reply that I prefer the chance of matter of conse uence. Toda worl civilized world. International 'dis- They find their. outlet through the this type ?f Nationalism exists, a~m - Utopia to the cer.~ty of dest~c-

. . q y, d pute3 would be peacefuly settled by I channels of Nabonalism. Ay, there's aments Will be necessary. Trealies, tion:' And such IS exactly the Slt-pteace IS .bc~~t Idered by everyone and this body; its mandates and deci- the rub, Nationalism; and it seems leagues and the like will be disre- uation; we must have world peace, I s POSSI 111 Y adhered to strongly .. I· .. . albeit in a modified sense. And i~ I s ions could be easily enforced by I t~at It shall eve~ be With us. Prac- garded as they have been in. the or else destruction Will mevl~ablY .be spite of the additional failUres of the I the mere th reat of its a rmed re~ i tlcally e~ery nation, though a ll peo- p~st; and hen~e, war will contmue. forced upon .us. E~en now, l~ splte

t -serve. The urge and even the de- p ies des lre peace, a re prompted by Disarmament lS not the answer to of the seemmg uDlversal deslre for ITf

13.thIlY cfoIlthemporary ~Onference~, the 1 s ire for war and exploitation might II distrust, jealously and pride, in ::\ the great problem which today chal- peace, with no established means of

aloe people lD the uillmate .. . ' . . . . . . I . . . r t· . . r emam Inherent In the people for a I w::>rd, NatlOnailsm, to keep up their lenges the entire cIVlhzed world. r checkmg or paclfymg the human ~ca LZa ~~nll of thelr Ideal has not certain period, but how could these war propaganda under the cloak of We have seen that moral arm\).- emotions, the various nations are tieen hVl a ~ shaken. Many <90IU- 1 ambitions be realized without the I national integrity and preparedness. ment would exist under the disarma- struggling in the tenacious grip ot on~ uave teen proposed and unsuc- necessary military equipment ? And I T:e'5f' unbridled '1l1pulses have to ment plan, but tnis condition natur- unrest. The recent .revolution in

ce~s ~ y a tempted; yet, at the pres- eventually these inherent ambitions ! have an outlet, and it can be found aUy involves an even greater men- Spain, the Sino-Japanese- conflict, the en tme, .bolur Utopia has beCome ! and rivalries would die out. If the I only on the bloody fields of war. AI- ace to the ideals of this futile prop- assassination of President Doumer, more angI e than ever before. R e- I . .. . . I . .. dl f th nations are successfully compelled to though one SIde of some wars may OSItion; namely, potential armament. and the contmual eruptions 10 the ;~r ess

t 0 h e means, .the final at- refrain from war and resort to paci- i ~e i us tifiable, at least one side is not : We have seen also that the human South and Central American coun­

~~n:en A d as been ~ve~SallY de- I fic settlement in all disputes for a: therefore, b~tcally, a t least, war emotions are the ultima te causes of tries all tes tify to this fact, the sin-

tCh' e . In progress IS bemg made; certain number of generations the never was nor ever will be caused by I war; and causes which cannot be re- I ister aspect of which is made more

e peop e are .aroused: the greatest I . ' . .. .. I . . , t 11 ts f th ' . natura l detestatlOn for war and de- reason; It IS necessarIly the result of moved by dIsarmament. Agam, we alarmmg by the present world Wlde 'tDh e eC

I 0to e time a re giving Slre for peace wIll become tradltlOn- the irra tional impulses. So in seek- know that the~e emotions, if no financial and social crisis. The ever

emse v~s findmg the nght solu- . . tlon. The problem of world eace 10 I al Ih lts post enty. Such a dlsarma- 109 to . attam world p:ace, we must check is put upon them, can lead to increasing high tension. of civiliza-

th f f P , ment plan would consequently break deal WIth abstract thmgs, the emo- but one r esult, war. Now the stage tion and capability, peculiar to the

c ace 0 the fallures of so many . . attempts for its solution is a chal- I down that greatest sing le force we bons. To Insure that ~eace, there 1s set; le t us here suppose the ex- present era, and naturally more deU-lenge to the modern mind; to the have today- Nationalism. m.ust first ~e a moral d~sarmam~nt, is tence of Disarmament, present and cate in the future, will not allow it-people of the twentieth centu ,an~ As a. result of Disannament, the \~thout WhICh the. p~yslcal. reahza- operating in all nations. One of the self to be devastated at the cost of p ' bl t th· · . ry boundanes of the various na tions tlOn of this plan IS lmposslble. The many causes that stir up these emo- its own fineness, by a war as great

TOhss, hYIIO e'hr unmedlate pos terity. would no longer be rigidly guarded causes of war mus t be r emoved, and tions would soon arise; they would as the last and possibly greater,

€: c a enge as been accepted and the futUre is at stake. Let us ac- by meChaniC~l militia; to cross from armaments are not one of those caus- rush to their single satisfaction; we I without demanding and extorting a t · . I tak t .. one country Into another would cease I es; the removal of the means to fight would have war. But no ! the argu- price too dear for this mortal world l;e y d = par lD thIS great strug- to be an ordeal. There would conse- would not r emove the incentive to ment is advanced that the instru- to pay. Assuming even that it may ~o~e~ ope for a favorable out- quently fo llow a great intermingling fight. Does the rifle make the sol- ments of war are indispensable to survive one such disaster, without

of the peoples of different nations; dier? or the presence of cannon t hat condition, and these have been the complete denouncement and re-For the past twelve years, the var-I ~ast friendships and connections I cause the hate and fear inherent in completely removed by Disarmament. jection of war, it cannot long suc­

ious govern~ents have been serious- would arise, which would necessitate m~? ~oral an:nament would s till QUite true, but, as we shall see, the cessfully bear the strain. The pres­ly endeavonog to solve the problem resentment at the very m ention of be lmmmently present, and such a I means for war can only too easily ent generation has the imperative by considering and encouraging Dis- war. The business men and trades- condition could not be detroyed by I and quickly be obtained and adopted. duty to attempt at least a solution ~rmame~t. The high water mark of I men of the enUre world would enter mere PhYSiC~1 disarmament and its I Necessity is the mother of inven- to this problem, not only for itself, tnterna.tionai agreement .was reached into closer alliances; international supplementan es. I tion, and the necessity of prodcing but more important, for its posec~ \~hen In 1929, the Pans pact was commissions and a world market As armaments are not the cause I armamen~ under the conditions that ity. World peace is necessary. but, Signed by fo rty-five sovereign na- would be predominant. With the of war, neither would their r emoval would eXIst, would prove to be a as we have seen, it cannot be at­tions, and afterwards adhered to by removal of armed force from the be a cure for war . The real danger comparatively simple problem to the tained through the popular solution, others, pledging t~emselves to .... r e-

l several boundaries and the increased lies in disproportionate armaments, essential rationality of the human Disarmament. And as long as this

nounce war as an Instrument of na-I progress in methods of travel, there an evil. it seems, that can never be race. plan is advocated as a medium to tional policy and to resort to paci- would be a corresponding increase in remedied; because of the inequality Any na tion, at the s tandard of that great end, nothing will be ac­fi.!..: mean.s for settlement of interna- international exchanges; American of the different nations in s ize, I progress and civilization we have at- complished. The situation, as Imag­bonal dispute. ThIs pact was re-I capitalists and business men would wealth, power and degree of civiliZa- \ tRined today, could quickly change ined, would be beautiful enough in­~arded by ~y as. a favorable tum have enormous interests in France, tion, there wi ll always be dispropor- its peaceful and friendly commercial deed, but its well wishers absolute-In public opiruon; It clearly demon- Germany, Great Britain and the oth- I tion. Could Great Britain for exam- nature into one of threatening mili- Continued on page 8.

Wednesday, June 15, 1932

JAMES CARNEY "Chuck."

President Monogram Club 4. VIce-president CoUege Club 4-Manager of Athletics 4. Varsity FootbaU 2, 3. Varsity Basketball 2. Varsity Baseball 2, 3. "Chuck" is one of the most popu­

lar men on the Viator campus. Known to all the students and know­ing all of them, he occupies a very

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THE V1ATORIAN

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1 l\IART~~~t:~OIIILL By Donald T . Anderson President College Club 4.

L ______________ I The Vlatorian 4.

BANQUET TOAST

THE ATHLETE Vice-president Sophomore Class. Th!9nd of all education is three- Football I, 2, 3, 4.

fold, for although It IS necessary to Monogram Club 1, 2, 3. 4. tr81n the mind in WIsdom, under- When a leader was needed Marty standing and knowledge, by applymg \~.as there to fill the posItIon. As oneself to the games of the mind I the presIdent of the College Club which colleges and uru verst bes pre- he has finished a successful year In

scribe for students, and, at the same all socIal undertakmgs In which he

time to ennoble the heart in the channels of morality, Christian char­ity, and right living, it is likewise imperative to develop the body. The Greeks have told us, "mens sana in corpore sano," or a sound mind in a sound body.

We build up our mind in class rooms and study halls, trying to ex­tract from books what we believe to be the wisdom that is based on the actual experiences of the authors. The great moral influence that the faculty lend in their close associa­tions with us is enlarged and en­hanced by courses in religion and philosophy which play a tremendous part in Christian education. A help­ing hand then .is extended by wis­dom and morality in guiding us on the road to success. However, this training does little in the deve'op­ment of those faculties that help in the perfect co-ordination of mind and Photo by Breymeier

intimate place in the hearts of alII body. For this reason there is fOl:lnd engaged. In addition, be was on the and it is with true regret that we in nearly all institutions of learning committee of the · Monogram Club in pen this testimony which marks his ! a means whereby students may ex- cha~ge of . the dance sponsored .JY departure from our midst. pand the potential possibilities that that organization.

James is quite a romantic young Continued on P~O"t:: (S: Marty is a brother of John Too-man but we will not go into that. I =================== Ihm, former editor of The Viatorian He has mainta,ined a remarkab'e ann during the past year Marty h~ scholastic standing in addition to ac- answered the call to newspaper work complishments in the field of ath- by publishing the Little Nineteer: letics which augur well for his fu- column of the paper. He has main· tu·re. I tained a high standard of sportsman-

In his Sophomore and in his Ju- J ship and literary achievement in hi: nior year he took an active and a I interesting comments of the activi-prominent part in football, basket- tit.:s of the members baU, and baseball. As a senior he acted as student Manager of Ath­letics, and very capably filled tbe position of vice-president of the . Col­lege Club. The highest compliment that we can pay him is that he is a . student, a gentleman, and l\

scholar.

To The Day Student Continued from page S.

mere class work, was a futile anrt hopeless ambition. This institution, they said to themselves sadly, is primarily a boarding-school; we are "Don."

Nineteen Conference. In his loss we fe el

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i I FRANCIS J. LARKIN

II :~~~~~T V:~~~~ ! ~;b;::ng :~~~:::~'~OClety 8, 4.

I Choir 4. TOAST TO THE I The Vlatorian 8, 4.

UNDERGRADUATES International R" lations Club 4. It has become my pleasant duty "Fratorlty" 2, 3, 4.

to convey to the undergraduates of Cooter, as he is affectionately St. Viator College those sentiments known to his friends, has a very dis­and ideas which have been mine dur- tinct honor as a graduate, namely, he tng the last four years. A response I is perhaps one of the yOlmgest stu-to such a toast as .thiS .ca.np.ot he"p I dents to graduate from St. Viator but be of a superficial kInd; for my I task is a difficult one. A f ew mo­ments-in which to reproduce all I

the longings and realizations, the sor­rows and joys, and failures, and phE­osophy of such eventful years as these. A few moments-in which to express a method by which you, who

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are left after we are gone, may rea­lize the best that has been our~,

wi th none of the waste which we . have experienceu. I shall not at-I tempt to compass all the ideals ' which we Ie : ve you, tney cannot be I defined in such brief language. But there are vi vid impressions which I have imprinted themselves in my

~~:~ :0:: i:o~:~~:in:hi::p:e~:::: I which I carry away from St. Viator today and the one I recommend as most valuable to you, is that e ~uca-tion is no concrete object to be measured , by a yardstick and a Photo by Breymeier ,

3cales. It is a quality, not a quan- College having accomplished this per--tity, and it is an inspiration more I formance at the record age of nin'e­than a result. It is what is con- teen. Perhaps we should not reveal

Continued on page 8. his age, for it is Leap Year_ . Cooter has been an active member

)f the College Club. He waS " .nember of the debating team last lear and was only' restrained ' fron} taking part in debating this year by the great amount of work required for his thesis. .

As a member of the Internationa l Relations Club, he has greatly en­livened the discussions and the open forums of the organization by nis pertinent remarks on the various problems of international ~cope. _""

! As a member of the "Fratori~.i'·'

I an honorary SOCiety, Coot has been distinguished by his strict adh~re~ct! to the covenant of the body in the face of the most palpable disregarfj in which the other members have held the agreement. We :wish you could be with us next year, Coot. You know our thoughts, and it's mere repetition to wish yo'u good luck, but here jt is!

outsiders, a kind of an attachment, Football 1, 2, 3, 4. JOHN CORCORAN To The Seniors as it were, and we doubt very much Choir 4. I "Jack." Continued on page 5.

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if we belong. Chairman Basketball Tournament Transferred from St. Louis Un 1-However, as I mentioned at the 1, 2, 8, 4. versity -1. lone s tudy, but a great body of men

start, there is a decided contrast Don bas been the man of the Assist.ant Football Coach 'Sl. J 9triving for a mutual goal, sharirlg between the conditions just describ- ready hand. Fo.r the past four years J ack has completed a pleasant each other's fortunes and misfor-ed and those that now exist. Per- he has given freely of his assistance year at St. Viator College where he tunes, and learning the meaning of haps the best way to definitely prove in the preparations for the Basket- has acted as line coach and In- respect and sacrifice. th'at a fundamental change has been ball Tournament among the High structor in charge of the boxing ac- It is a heavy responsibility that wrought is to review the accom- Schools. Don's preparations have al- tivities sponsored by the college. As you place on our shoulders this af-phshments of the day student during ways been very thorough and the a coach he had a very successful I ternoon, and we accept it with a the past year. ACCO~pli~hments of I Tournaments have reached the high season, producing, with ~UCky Dah- profound appreciation of all , its Im-this body are as follows. On the peak of success attained by them man, a football t eam whlch won the plications. You gave us our first honor roll at the semester, there due to his masterful handling of the major portion of the games on lts insight into the meaning and signifi-were seventeen day students , ap- II arrangements. schedule. As instructor in charge of cance of the name of scholars and proximately one· third of the number In the choir, he has performed ED\V'~:~~~BER boxing his accomplishments are well gentlemen, and now you intrus t Wi

so honored. Two members represent most creditably and his wonderful known to the school and to his op- with the flame. You bestow upon the days students on the Viator de- voice is considered to be indispensible Base ball 2, 3, 4. ponents who were forced to concede us the dignity and the l eader~h lp bate team. And the International to any rendition of the select body Busketball 2J 3. all but one contest to the men pro- that is associa ted with the word Relations Club, one of the brightest of musicians of the college. As a Footha ll 2, 31 4. duced by his method. "Senior." So we are honored. But creations of the year, numbers in its football player Don has not been' Coming to Viator from Loyola Um- . Announcement ha.:J been made that our pride Is tempered by the fervid ranks forty-six day students. The sensational; but he has played COD- versity. Chicago, Illinois, Abhoo im- Jack will return next year to take prayer that we may be worthy to be editor of The Viatorian is, also, a sist ently and has perfectly defended nlediately began to make a nearly over the task of coaching the Via- your successors when, in another commuter . Day students, you have . the line position assigned to him. " 'e incomparable record for himtelf and to:- Green Wave through another brief year, we mount the same ros-made a m08t enviable record for I wish him the best of luck. fOI his Alma Mater. Ed went out successful season. He will be 85- trum which you occupy today to ac-yourselves! You have left your mark for football in the fal] of his Soph si2ted by a gentleman from St. Louis cept the cherished honor and disUnc-on every activity of major Import- OBITUARY year and Sam McAllister at once University from which Jack, himself, lion of a Viator graduate. o.nce in the institution! You are no recognized the ability innate in the trWlsferred last year. May you have longer an attachment. merely outsid- II stlt lwart applicant for a place on the the mos t successful season in Via-ers, you have become a part of but The sympathy of St. Viator COl- I squad. tor's history, Jack. one, and that the student body of St. lege is extended to the relatives and Mr. Weber was assigned to the I Viator College. And it is \vi.th the ! friends of the Reverend E. M. Hay- cen ter berth and fO~ thre~ yea.rs he the first base down in excellent man­greatest pleasure that I extend a den, Chaplain, St. Anthony's Hos- I toss kept this posibon frurly mvul- I ne-r. toast to you today, and I sincerely ' pitat Rock Island, Illinois. r ecently I nerable against the attempted rav- . As Ed leaves St. Viator, .we beg hope that in the years to come that I deceased, for whom a Solemn HIgh ages by LittJe Nineteen foes. In him to take with blm on hiS care­s. toast to the day students will be- Mass of Requiem will be celebrated I b:lsketball Ed has not been as prom- free journeys our best and heartie~t come a regular part of the Com- at St. Mary's Cathedral. Peoria. on inent as In football. In baseball he wishes that all the best things In

monoement Banquet. I May 31st at 10 O'clock. again found his stride and has held liCe may be his .

Spend Independence Day

St. at Viator

f'AO'; 8 THE '"lATORlAN

Contmued from paa:c i. I. Under Graduates Conunued trom p~'iCe 7.

To The Athlete Campus Briefs The Necessi~ of Leadership By Franclo J. Larkin. tained within the pages of a book, I Tborough as our D. B. Editor may

.ie In their physical makeup. The athletic department with Its d1versl- not the book itself, and It Is the a!>-I be, we think that b. h&ll omitted

some of the most "aluable tnforma-f-;mplrea havt! miraculously come to (or reform, for leadership in our fled equipment to accommodate the plication of knowledge, Dot the aC-

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tion concerning our departing bretb-Hfe; and their splendour has obscur- economic world! sport and the season is maintained qulsltion thereof. It is an art more reno After much labor, we ha".o cl the privation and sweat and 19no- But of far more interest to us S\.S for this purpose. than a science; it Is a leading out, complied the (allowing vital (very rance which have gone Into their Catholics, is the moral decay of this It is to the athlete that I pay the educing, as it were, of a11 the I vital) statistics: making. But empires, lIke all ma- generation. We are told that moral- tribute in this brief toast. not only tcrlaJ accomplishments, dwindle and tty never changes, that it was the to the star who has his name con_,potentia.l powers Ln the faculties of Burke Monahan: rot: and only their ruins are left. same in our grandparents' time as it slanUy emblazoned in the headlLnes man. Age-23.

Men arc born, endowed with great Is in our own. Morality, instead, is of current sport sheets and newspa- Be not solicitious. young undergrad- Preferences-BTunettes (large.) talents and abllltie!i; and to those highly relative; it corresponds to the pers, but also the aspirant who must uates, for the outward manifesta- Breeze session RaUng-A.

Herb Shea: Age-~l.

l'relerence-Blondes (small.) 3. S. R.-A.

Martin Toohlll: Age-22.

Preference-Brunette.s. S R.-AA plus.

who develop these talents is given tendencies of the age. Let us, for be relegated to the bench and the lions, the show, the pretense of high­the world's recognition and acknowl- illustration, look to Russia, a coun- lowliest scrub on the squad, for be er education, that which is to be edgmcnt of their personaUty and try that is attempting to conduct Its I too gives up time and energy thnt found in gowns and caps, and learn­power. For these men are leaders. civiUzation without the slightest might be applied in some other line ed conversations, and conceits. Be they make straight the paths fori thought or concern for the will of o( endeavor. humble, humble enough to enj·.y their less fortunate brothers, they do God, or even His existence. Am I I The ideal athlete is the perfect I whatever you may be doing for the the thinking for mankind. A gen- told that Russia is a flare that will amateur. The amateur is one who I good that is in it, and... not for the cro.Uon p~l.!tses, and they are forgot- burn itsel( out in a year or In two makes the most sacrifices not for mere accomplishment OI the commo­ten; they are no longer useful in fl years? I reply that the problem Of ! the mercenary gain whic~ is the ~}ty c~mmon to us all-human van-I new and so-caJled enlightened era. atheism in Russia is more inSidiOll:! ! goal of the profeSSional, but for the Iity. Live in ~our youth, fO~ the pro-

New empires and new leaders than the Black Plague was to the personal satisfaction that goes tn the cess of life IS far more unportant Eddie O'Nelll: spri ng up beSide the ruins of the bodies of men in the middle ages. I achievement of an end. The perfect than that of knowledge. Age--22. old: and they, like their predeces- What is to be done? Regarding amateur is the one who has a strong Finally, be convinced of this, that Preference-Poles (not telegraph.) 80r8, have their period, their de- the cause of this economic and sense of fair play and sportsman- education is a life-long process, not R. S. R.- B plus. cline, and their decay. . moral defection. his Holiness Pius , ship. coupled with the courage t.) to be condensed into four short years.

Thus Is the evolution of socie ty Xl, in his encyclical Quadregesimo I fight hard and live cleanly and at We leave you in the hope, that you Puff Romary: manlfest, the state of constant mo- Anno, maintains that it reverts to the same time be a good loser and a will not only maintain and carry on Age-21. tion from year to year, from gen- original sin and the consequent de-I modest winner as the case may be . the few standards that we have es- Preference-Co-(:ds. eration to g~neratio~. fro~ time be-j rangement of moral harm~ny: Con- It Is easy to admit defeat when it tablished. but also that you will take B. S. R.- B plus.

Werner Salg: Ag·e-20.

yond reckorung. History IS said t.o I tinuing, he says, "A s tem IDSlstence ~ has been administered fairly and up the threads which we have broken repeat Itself, to observe .periOdiC de- j on the moral law, enforced by civil I squarely, but it requires a consid-Iln our carelessness. Mend them and pressions and peaks. T~s was the 1 authority, could have dispelled, or erable amount of will power to ac- attach them to your personality. so conception of the Romans when th ~..: perhaps averted these enormous evils cept victory as it comes and not II that the remaining years of your col- Preference-Social Sorority. r eferred to any human action as .. . There can be no remedy other gloat over the fallen foe. lege life may prove to be a wise B. R. S.-D. bei ng a movement from Golden Age than a frank and sincere return to ,. . f 932 [and fruitful experience. to Golden Age. But. in reality, each the Gospel." So In thlS graduating class 0 1 , And now upon the man who has Abhoo Weber:

. . we have a number who have been I repetition Ln history IS more intense There remains only the advent of d been singled out as one of the lead- Age-25. tl th I t f . ts· I measured by this norm and foun Preference- Lady Nicotine.

laD e as, or 1 scope COllSISt- some modern Moses to lead us, blind .vorthy. Men who have served St. ers of the undergraduate body, upon cntly grows larger and larger -as- k th Go . S . C f B. S. R.-C. . sheep that we a re , bac to . e s - , Viator faithfully, men who have pro- I the presldent of the ernor lasS. 0

sumlng, with its expansion, new avo- pel, to the way of Etermty, for I moted and a.dvanced her a.thletic rep- 1933, I have the honor of confernng cations and interests, new ideals, new Ulero are few men today who pos- utation on the gridiron, diamond anti the symbol of seniorial rank, the cap methods. Because this growing ~ess even a semblance of the virtue I basketball floor. Men with whom I ' and the gown. May it be to you and sphere of activity tends to confuse and ability necessary for sur.h a re- have played, familiar names that will your classmates, Mr. President of the values, to confuse ~e worthy with fonn. Russia has a kind of lead- remain long a part of student mem- Senior Class of 1933, a cloak beneath the unworthy, the. Jus t and charit- ership, but it is of the wrong kinrl; ories of 1932. The fame of their which you will carry the dignity, the able, with the unJ~st and ~elfish.- and ultimately wiii be destroyed by skiii the depth of their devotion and gentility and the higlt Integrity be­men come to the pomt at wluch they the force or its own abrogation of the ~Ieanness of their sportsmanship fitting Catholic College gentlemen.

this nature constitute the necessity complishing nothing. There is no .

The Proper Approach Continued from page 6.

do not know where to turn, nor what divine authority. The leaders in i will be indelibly written on the ath­course to follow; .and are .r~ady to' Germany are divided and split; and Ileuc records of St. Viator College. give up in desp~r. Condttlons. of they work against each other, ac- Gentlemen of 1932 who answer to the

of leadership and Its inspiration. (leadership ,'n our country. names of. .

I

Ahem ly disregard, in their zeal, the fatal Leadership and the correspondiug' I - . t d t f 11 th I d It is for us to encourage, by educa- " Carney stumbling block which renders it im-

Chuck Carney: Age-22.

Preference-ONE co-ed. B. S. H.-A.

Vince Morrissey: Age-27.

Preference-secret. B. S. R.-"still walers--"

Ham Hamilton: Age-22.

Preference--Blonde (sman) B. S. R.-See capacity.

l en t1 en~ 0 I~ ow th e h eo. er, are lion and constant appeal, by the es-· Ferris. II possible. We may take for analogy ;:e n~cie:' ~re:s a:kn:;: ;;c:~ tab~ishment of ideals of charity and I Hamilton. the situation in which the parents rof Do.:g~~~~son: in a society in which the few

g were justice, some young man to lead U!'I Romary. a mentally deficient son find them-I Preference- Brunettes (young).

delegated to rule, and the rest to back to the true path of peace, hap· Toohill. selves when they place their son in a B. S. R.-A. serve. History is replete with times pi ness, and contentment. Perhaps be Weber. high school or college in order that when leadership has been necessary will come fresh in the courage of he might attain the best education. Coot Larkin: 8Jld forthcoming; and there have unshattered ideals; perhaps his in- They build dreams for that son; Age- 19. been times when there is a lack of spiration will proceed from Intense Clarence J. Romary they plan that he shali he taught Preference-any of 'em. leadership. as found in tyrants and suffering, from disillusion and disap- Continued from page 5. the beauties ~ of poetry, the mastery B. S. R.-F. scoundrels. pointment, Lf he proves to be greater of language and the intricaties of

Joe Torri: Age-22.

Preference-Bookish B. S. R.-C.

But we are concerned today with ~::e., u::S;. weA~~i ~~e, w~t: ~~~ chalantly put his second shot through ! calculus; he shall learn to apprecia- I problems, the like of which hav~ the hoop, winning the game, the ate the higher things in life. and be never been experienced by formec faith of the chosen people who pray~d crowd threatened to tear the pillars entirely happy in that sphere. A no­generations. And these, even more for their Messiah. It may not be in from the gym in their exultation. ble and deserving plan, no doubt, than the Revolutionary period in our generation that he will come, for Viator had won'1 The team had won! and a beautiful ideal to hold ~fO~f' Tom Ferris: American history, are times that try Divine inspiration is incapable of be- Romary had won! the boy. But, ab, the terrible ear-

ing understood by m en; and we may . break and disappointment that will Age-23. men's souls. . I There's nothing new an the story . . Preference-Varies. Tl t b' ed have to go on, to complete our lIves _ . . , d arise from his utter faIlUre! Be-

le mos 0 VIOUS ne of leader- with aching minds and bones. But or thlS mCldenL :When Puff playc f cause the boy is totally incapable of B. S. R.-A. ship in this century, I suppose, is in .. we expected to WID as a matter 0 I tile field of economics. An economic th~re shall never .be a true eqUlh- 'I course· if we lost no alibi was ex- grasPi~g the knowledge . placed be-

bnum, moral, SOClal, or any other " ! fore hIm, he cannot attain the ped- George Bereolos: system in which from seven million kind, until men learn to understand pected or offered. He has always ! estal built for him by his well- Age-23. to ten million men have been denied fought till the last second of the I . . Reference-unknown. the words of God when, through men . mearung and unsuspectmg parents. the means of keeping themselves and like Francis Thompson, H e says to I game. He typIfies the finest type They had planned happiness for him, B. S. R.--C. Uleir families alive over a period of .. , of Viator athlete. In him the ,

us, All, Fondest. blindest, weakest,-. I ' overlookmg the fact that he could I John Corcoran'. years, is not a system; it is a mon- FC'hool and its culture and its alb-. .

strosity. Yet our United States is dravest love from thee-Who dravest letics. its Greek ideal, "mens sana es which they had provided. I do Age-. heralded as a country of leaders and me." Then, and then only, will peace in corpore sano," are embodied. not say that the enjoyment of hap- Preference-varies.

type.

I am He whom thou seekest-Thou not enJOY it under the cIrcumstanc- 'I 25

pro\1ders! And false patriots be- , exude over men and envelope them, We take this one chance, Puff, to pine .. is impossible to the hoy, but B. S. R.-A. come Vlolen.tly . ~y when. reform I for they shall have pledged them- let you know that, with our hearts he must look for it elsewhere. He Frances Mary Clancy: of our capItalistlc system .IS men- selves to the greatest Leader of and with our souls, we appreciate would possibly be as happy and con- Age-secret. ti~n~. As for other coun...nes, Aus- them aU: and the world shall no you and the clean sportsmanship and tented with the more common things Preference--Juniors, tria IS bankrupt. and Germany is no longer be able to do them harm. thorough culture that you embody. in life as the brilliant intellectual is B. S. R.-B. nearly so. England has gone off the To a real gentleman, we send sin- in the realm of aesthetics; he would gold standard, thus enabling her to cere good wishes! pay her debts 50 much more cheaply. In keeping with this financial out­rage of the present generation, the United States yearly lacks two mil­lions of doUars when her budget is bnlan~E.d. Disarmament seemed to be the last hope of economists: as a m~s.n.s of paying war debts; but the Co~0"'f'e5S at Geneva has destroyed lliat hope: and nations continue to prepare for wars which they cannot afford to fighL Yet there is no need

SORORITY TO HOLD SUMMER MEETmGS

enjoy his stein of beer even more Rachael Roach. than the intellectual his glass of Age--sweet 16,

champagne.

I wi~ alternate hostesses for each oc- A nd such is the exact situation ci

Preference--wish we knew. B. S. R.-A plus.

Wednesday. June 22, will introdu(!e I C8.S10n. the present plan for World Peac~.

the first regular meeting of the 80- Election of officers for the ensuing The plan itself is beautiful as it Spend cial Sorority of SL Viator College year will be held next Wednesday. should be, but it seeks the haven of for the summer months. We are in- Candidates for the offices are quite peace, overlooking the fact that the I 111 de-pertdence Day formed that, contrary to the usual numerous. Among them are Rosanna road of disarmament is impassable. practice of this unit of the coilege, (Sophie) Gorman, Rita (Bahy) Mur-IThat haven can be attained however, I at meetings wiil be held every two phy, "Gene" Adams and Mary Ellen S V· t weeks througbout the vacation period (Puff) Smith. Continued on page 9. I t. ~a or

Wedn""day, June 15, 1932

THOMAS E. FERRIS "Tom.'!

InternatlonllJ Relu,tlons Club 4. Transferred from Notre Dame. Debating 4. B",,!,ball S. Tom is one of the most prominent

of the commuters section of the college. As a scholar he is very ex­cellent, having made the honor roll regularly in his last two years as a Viatorian. In forensics he has dis­tinguished himself by his brilliant and rather informal manner of de­livery. Debating on one of the great­est of St. Viator's recent farsenic

THE VlATOKIAN PAGE 9

GEORGE J. BEnEOl.OS. '1/ JOSEPH A. TORRl "Georgie." BANQUET TOAST "Joe."

Football Mquad J, 2. :so I By WlIlJo.m A. HamJlton M.(:rTmrlal Day Spea.k0r. It Is with "egret that we note the I In the Ume thnt Joe has he.n

passing of another gentleman from TO THE COLLEGE, with "~a we have learned to appreci·

By Werner G. SIlIg

BANQUET TOAST

A TOAST TO THE FACULTY tor with an enviable record as a A MEMORIAL mire the ,",e Intellectual gifts which

our mldst. George came to St. Via-I ate IlIa 8~ncerity. as well as to !id-

In behalf of the m embers of the football player at the Kankakee All men In thIs world Bet their are his. 1L was with the greatest senior class of 1932 I should like to High School. During his four years I mind and heart on one supreme awe that we perused the title of ..,is

a t College, he has earned the sincere theflis wnJch was based on hJs own express our gratitude to the faculty admiration of all the s tudents. Handi. achievement -, progress. Progress, origina! research work in a field of of our alma mater, for their untiring I capped by having to work down- whether spiritual or material, de- Mcience new to cbemists. Handicap­efforts and deSire to show us the town, George was compelled to fore- notes movement and movement de-I ped by "The Effects of Certain Cala­way to truth. It has been the ma- go many ex tra curricula activities. nles permanence. Thus as we pass lysts on the Reaction of an Isoamyl jor objective of these men to In- I He achieved great success in con- from childhood to manhood, each I£:al1de" Joe came through brilltant-culcate into the habits of good Chris- centrating on his scholastic work. phase of our advance denotes prog- ~;n~a::,ded in a thesis meriting a

tion manhood, it has been their con-I ress and a movement destroys a bond

I ~~:~~:o~~ ~~f!~~Ouea~:u::t~u~h"m~~~~ • .. •• • •••... • •. of Intimate relationship. For a

to the implicit needs of our eXist-I while we are allowed to linger an ' I[ ence and to show us the necessity of [' look about, cherishing and c:inging arming ourselves with vital knowl- to those objects which have won OUT

edge. The extent to which they suc- affections and then once again we, ceeded may well be measured by the I . like weary traveller set O:1t for calibre of the m en they ushered into goal beyond the rainbow. the world.

As we pass from one place to an­other, we have a tender recollectio.i), of sincere friends. Familiar haunts and memorable institutions remain 'dear to u c;. To leave them is indeed a sltd thought but to be forgotten by . thcm overwhelms us with a feeline-of utter loneliness--a loneliness that knows no depth.

The education of you th is indeed an heroic venture; and men that take upon themselves this noble t ask of fu' thering the ideals of good Chris­tion manhood should, beyond the shadow of doubt, receive the identi­cal r espect and tribute as men who for centuries have been acclaimed RS

the great molders of human destiny. [ expressed the role of educators 3.S In parting from S. V. C. we rea' ize an heroic one. I s it not heroism to I that we are leaving a fond friend, ?

I seclude one's self from the world I friend wbose true worth can nevel and patiently probe into the intn- As he leaves us. we hear a sigh be measured. During four yeares sh r

cate secrets of learning so that they ! of regret from those who have bas done much for the graduates o~ aggregations, he has added immeas· might impart the findings of their ! known him during his seemingly 1932, Implanting within us a lov urably to the value of the team. I d f the finer thin scholarship and study to less mature brief stay with us. We hear this an a ~everence or ,.g

Photo by Breymeier

Photo by Breymeier

AS. a member of the Internationa' minds? As men who keenly aware lasting testimonial, "There goes a which hie offer s, and a determlnatton ! He has been a member of the Relatlons Club he has been noted for to overcome the difficulties with Commuters' Club of St. Viator Col-the breadth and for the depth of hi: of all that life holds in store for I student, a friend of all, an earnest J •. - TIl'ct lege and there as w .... 11 as among the .. . them leave the seren·ty of th . - l SCholar and a real gentleman." 0 I which hfe challenges us. ese 1 eals

VIews WhIch cover every subJect of' 1 elr sur , ur I hid d h ' d students residing at the college his , . . . I roundings for the bedlam of war so be~t wishes accompany him! we ave earne un er er aegJs, an the mtncate and dehcate relations I ' . these precepts I hope we will never popularity , while restricted because between Ute greater and lesser states too, is the task of dealing with th t.~ forget. " of a reserve peculiar to him, has of the world. I Continued on Back page. EDMUND VINCENT O'NEILl. been real and sincere. May his

Tom is, also, one of the most dis- . "Eddie." Ccnti r.ued on B. ck page. tinguished and delightful hosts ever t Freshman Delegat e to

various experiment s meet with con­tinued success.

to entertain Viator men. Testimony Cou.ncil. College I

Relations of this is given by all those who Membec International Continued from col 1. were so fortunate as to be his guests at the Sociology party beld at his rural residence las t summer. GooJ luck! Tom!

The Proper Approach Continued (rom page eight.

Club 4. Senior League Basketba ll Captain The general trend of the more vici-

3. 4. ! ous emotions must be curi?ed, nay, Senior League Baseball Captain I eyen so entirely altered that an ·in-All-Star Senior League Baske tbaU I I herent detestation for war and pr~c-When Eddie O'Neill came to 8t. I I tical desire and t endency for peace

Viator in the fall of '28, everyone predominate the impulses of post~!'-expected him to s t ep into a pair of I ity. Jus t as the : rimary reason for "congreves" and take a regular berth the origin of the state developeq

even as the deficient boy was able on the varsi ty basketball squad, for through generations to the u1timat~ to attain happiness, but it must be he had been a stellar player in the I elll:otion of Nationalism, so will edu-gained through other means. what State High School contest. But:b;d )' cation today act in mu~h the s'ame th t th I t · b manner,· and its frw·ts will bless" po' ~~ a 0 er means or so u IOn may e, disapPOinted his fans. J He had come I -

is for everyone interes ted in peace to to college to get an education. I terity with the grace of the afore-ascertairt. But before the solution is Pursuing his cour$e, Eddie remain- said inherent pacific and amicab!e attempted~ the problem itself must emotions. Wbether this plan of uni-be approached properly; it is, name- versal education is the right solu-ly, to attain world peace, not by tion of the problem is not fo r us means of disannament, but in the 1 rashly to prophesy. It should at face of the fact that armaments will least, be given the same trial as the always exist! This approach must Photo by Breymeier others; it cannot but attain, in any be made. before any progress is pos- I event a beneficial result. But what-~ible; Disarmament must be discard- WILLIAM A. HAl\ULTON ever it may be, some action must be ed as a means for international "Ham." WERl\'ER G. SALG taken at once.

"Weenie ." I peace. And unless this is done, our Football 1, 2, 3, 4. The storm clouds are again be-Utopia will remain a Utopia and our Basketball 2~ 3. President Sophomore Class. ginning to brew, not imminently as dreams, dreams. I yet, but nevertheless present, after

We know that the human emotions Baseball 1, 2, 3, 4. \Vee:1ie ha9 a great t"'?cord at St. I a certain degree of peace following and instincts are the basic causes of Ham has been outstanding on the Via tor College. Attending St. Via- the last Great Struggle. These war; and that these cannot be alter- gridiron and to his masterly hand- LI tor Academy, he received his diploma clouds wi ll arouse the waves of hu-ed or checked. We know, too, that Hng of difficult situations is due the with all possible honors. His achieve- man emotion, seeming ly latent in thl! they have not even been considered success with which Viator football ment is the more remarkable in that mighty sea of human unrest. And in the plan of Disarmament. Let us tcams have marched over so many he completed a four year High unless a solution to our great prob-profit 'uy our failures and attempt a hostile fields to return with a vic . School course in three years. His ac- lem is presented to act as a dike to solution of the problem of World tory. As quarterback he has gaine tivity in sports was unlimited the advancing waters, they will rush Peace f!"om an entirely different an- the distinction of being one of th throughout those early days at St. on, unimpended, gathering qlomen-gle, that of diplomatic attention to most popular men ever to don th~ Viator and he entered college with a tum as they progress, and sweeping these aforesaid causes. The Writer:1 traditional regalia of the footba' reputation which he continued to up- every ves tige of modern attainment is convinced that the truest way to hero. I ed awake many nights diligently hold. and accomplishment before them; world peace is to deal primarily with In baseball, Ham has proved his a1' studying. He has achieved his pur- In spite of e"l{tra-curricuia work, eventually to obliterate completely the causes of war through a system around ability. H e has been gen- pose and with him go the best wish- Weenie graduated from College in "that fairest form of civilization of diplomatic education. The inher- eral handy man on the team and es of his fellows and of his profes- ;cheduJed time after performing known to history." ent idea, handed down to the pres- whenever a place was vacated in the sors. vork that would have caused many ent day from the barbarian tribes, infield or in the outfield, Ham was Possessed of a whimsical good- '; tudents to drop quite far behind in Being that. the Editor is a day that the primary function of the lbe man summoned to fill the gap. nature and a disarming Irish smile. their studies. On, another count. also. student we might as well say right state is predatory in nature, must be In this manner. he has played with Eddie has long been a favorite I has he been the outstanding man of I here and now that some one should abolished. and the new idea of per· dispatcrh and With skill at first, sec- among the boys in Roy Hall. It will, the campus. "Rosy," Mr. Salg's tie a small apron around hIs waht manent international peace and bro- ond, thIrd, and short stop, and in indeed, be a loss to St. Viator when favorite vehicle of transportation and put a white bonnet on his head therhood be finnly rooted in the addition, has played in the outfield, Ed leaves for home, but we are con- has won the esteem of the s tudents and let him out to battle the world minds ud hearts of men. I filling either right, left, or center soled by the thought that Viator's and to see these two pals leave I by looking for a job as nursemaid

Continued on co'. 5. very capably. loss will be Philo's gain. I causes the entire school much grief. his most pro~cient art.

PAGE ]0 THE VIA TORIA..~

I these gentlemen we extend our sin- jugatlng our "ills to higher auth-

III (Jolle(Je 9Jegrees and ;;Conors 1'1 CASTIGATION BY I ::~":;;;;~ ~~ =:.!:~' ::;:,:!~ :~~'::':::"~~,O',::~o=

o : EMINENT SENIOR I~e~~t;i~~tth:::ech~a:~~ the in- ~~trl~Om:t~~~ =erlnth~eau;:~~ ilL ____________________________ -'''' Regarding another poln~ ,,1th 10f governments: and the obhgatlon

Doctor of Law" conferred on • --- . which you confront us, we wish to of obeying their orders arises from Iwverflld James J. Shannon, Cblcago, minols. DepartInl! Coed Char l!es I say that It I. the inalienable rigbt of the circumstances of our social na-

BACHELOR DEGREES Dishones.ty E~ployedll In everyone to vote for hIS faVOrite can- ture. Their task. assuredly, is to The (ollowlng s tudents, having completed the prescrihed course of COl1l1ecbon WIth Ba ot- dldate and we would not, under any gwe reason the largest possibie place

HttJI.llcR and suhmltled an acceptable thesis, are awarded the Bachelor's De- Ing: Re~lv By Ye CIrcumstances, wish to challenge this III the conduct of affairs; either we

gre.: EdItor. I right. pian our ciVIlization or we must Bachelor of Arts, 's umma cum laude,' to. Editor'. Note'. The [ollo\\~ ng let- You quesbon the reason governing I perish . Frances M. Clancy, Kankakee, Illin01S. ' L

Thesis: "The Social Theories of Tolsto1." tfor was received by the Critique Col- the publishing of th1S information. A.3 H ere at S. V. C. It bas been our Bachelor of Arts to

James W. Carney, Chicago, Illinois. ." Thesis: "A Critical Interpretation of the English HedOniSts.

Bachelor of Arts Ft;>ancls J . LarkJn, Towanda. Illinois. Thesis : "Sir James Barrie, Dramatist of Fantasy."

Bachelor of Arts , 's umma cum laude,' to . J BllrJ(e Monahan, Chatsworth, Illinois.

Thesis: "The Philosophy of Jacques Maritaln."

Bachelor of Arts v%cent J. Morrissey, Chicago, Illinois. Thesis: "Austro-Hungarian Responsibility in the World W a r."

Bachelor of Arts to Edmund V. O'Neill , Philo, Illinois.

Thesis: "Russia's Participation in the Wa r Guilt of 1914."

Bachelor of Arts, 'summa cum laude,' to . Ruchael M. Roach, Kankakee, IllinOIS.

Thesis: "The Cri tical Theories of Irving Babbitt."

Bachelor of Arts to Martin J. Toohill . B100mington, Illinois .

Thesis: "The Diplomacy of Thomas Cardina l Wolsey."

Bachelor of Science, 'cum laude,' to

uron. The author specifically stated the Coeds are conSidered to be a good fortune to laugh, talk and live that it mlght not be omItted from very p romlnent social and political with the members of the faculty to the columns of this paper. Its gen- unit on the campus a split in their the extent that an Inseparable bond eral indefiniteness. combined \lith ranks in regard to any subject is of of f riendship has been established be­the specific gravity of some definite s ufficient news value to warrant in- tv een us. We have been brought to accusations, r equire an answer for sertion in The Viatorian. teel profoundly the expression of Car-whi<'h the present EdJtor-in-ChleC as- You then hint that this u movc" dinal Gibbons when h e said: "actual sumes CuU r esponsibIlity. had someulterior import. Your contact with living men is lllumin­

terminology, firstly, is very vague aUng to the mind, quickening to the Dear Editor: and, secondly, we are forced to ad· ~yr1i.pathies and firing to the heart."

It would be exceedingly interesting rnit that only yeu a r e capable of Seutiments of love and the recogni.

Joseph A. Torri, Kankakee, Illinois . Thesis: "A Study of the Effects of some Catalysts on

o( an Isoamyl Halide."

to me to be enlightened on a little judging the s ig nificaJ.lce of the tion ot tasks diligently performed matter. In the last issue of The "move" since you, alone, seem to find sha ll ever be like so many bright Viatorian there a ppeared a small any hidden meaning in a very simple lir-h ts on a shIp that direc t success­a rtic le publishing the fact that the ac t. fullv the students' voyage on the Misses Clancy and Miss Flanagan Your question, "Is it so difficult tv tro~bled seas of the world, of a failed to vote for Mr. Hoover irt the accept defeat ?" is quite irrelevant m wo,!J inundated by considerations recent college c lub election. I would view of the fact that the paper, to h, ss \vorthy than those imparted by like this known- I have no objec- which alone it appears to be directed, our Chrisblll educators. Moreover, tion to anyone knowing for whom I is, as you well know, absolutely neu- these sentiments shall ever be the voted. I speak for myself, my sis- tra l r egarding any polt tical action reason for preserving an enduring te l', and Miss Flanagan. In fact, I on the campus of St. Viator Col1ege. place in our memories for the fae-

the Yield 01 am somewhat glad to have it known uity of S. V. C. that I voted for one whom I consider I Another r emark, which to ~s s:ems As some forgotten poet once said to be a gentleman, a leader, and ~ to be quite s uperfluous, asi e rom . " . ~

the fac t that it is answered by your- so we say to you. If you WIll ac flne student. But exactly how, may . . h ld be II t I cept our silence as you would our I ask was m vote known? Is it self. IS that It s ou s range

, y. that sixty-eight others thought the hands, you need not doubt our not the custom of havmg a secret 'd /, S ffi' t n hcarts" ballot? I voted under that impres- same as we dl . u Clen reaso, .

Bachelor of Philosophy to . Edwa.rd A . Weber, Chicago, Illinois.

Thesis: "Emmerson as a Critic ."

Bachelor of ' Science in Commerce to Donald T. Anderson, Berwyn, Illinois .

Thesis: "The Influence of Violence on Labor Disputes."

I sion. . Evidently the methods ern- tor what you cons ider "STRANGE'

ployed were not as honorable as is to h~ found" in the remark that To The College Bachelor tof Science in Commerce to

George J. Bereolos, Kankakee, Illinois . Thes is: "The Importance and U se of Indus trial

Industry."

Bachelor of Science in Commer ce to John W. Corcoran, St. P aul, Minnesota.

Thesis: "The Influence of the F ederal Government can Banking Systems."

h Id b ected. Is it not the I the nom1nee 1S a gentleman, a lead- Continu~d from page 9., col. ... s ou e exp fi t d til d to I pnv11ege of each one to vote for his I er, and a ne s u en an. as we

Accounting .t did t? And h I I are not accountable for election re- .A.~ a symbol. of ,affection for the favon e can a e w y, would hke to know, is thiS fact so suits may we, most respectfully. asH institution which flas given us a bet­mterestmg that it should be pubhsh- that you seek e lsewher e for an ex ter appreciation of Hfe, and a more

on the Amen- d in The Vlatona n ? Jus t ex~ctly planatton of thlS "STRANGE" phe genuine value and meaning to truth,

:'hat is the import of this move? Is Lomenon , _ ._ 1' and a deeper sense of responsibility, Bachelor of Science in Commerce to it so difficult to accept defeat grace· In conclusion. pe~mit us to again tlt.C graduating class of 1932 leaves

Thomas E. F erriS, Kankakee, Illinois. fully? Strange too, is it not, tha t thank you for calling attention to our WIth her a memorial that she may Thesis: "Property E valuation as an Element in the Regu lation r.1 Sixty-eight others, none of whom I action ' which you mayor may not 'I harror in this gift our lasting grate­Business affected with the Public Interest ."

have found print in "Walter Snitch- have considered unsatisfactory, but I fulnf'Ss to her. Ba.chelor of Science in Commerce to \Vllllam A. HamUton, C1inton, Illinois. ell's" column, thought the same a..9 1 regarding which your criticism or I As a token of esteem we have

Thesis: "The Relation of New Competition to Railroads." we did. Sincerely, I comments are UNDULY VAGU~, and chosen what we consider to be a Bachelo r, of Science in Commerce to Francis Mary Clancy. FREQUENTLY MISLEADING; We nL08t u s.eful and, we hope, an emin-

H erbert J. Shea, Tampa, Florida. shall, however , be delighted to reply elllly .ractical gift, in as much as It Thesis: "The Effect of Federal ' Control of Rallroads." Dear Miss Clancy: to any further remarks with which I may VIove an instrument in perfect-

Bac,h~lor of Science in Commerce to Permit us to sincerely thank you you may care to honor us in the ing k nowledge in the genorations of ' Clarence J. ,Roma,ry, Fort W ayne. Indiana. for your very gracious Critique. It near future. (Signed) . I ~tl.tde!lts to come. Almost forty years

' TheSiS~~~~:~~uence of Economic Planning on Modern Indusrial causes us much r emorse to think Ye Editor. have passed since the last edition of

Bachelor of Science in Commerce to 'Verner G. Salg. Chicago, TIlinois.

Thesis: "A Critical Appraisal of Major Problem of Railway Consolidation."

that, perhaps , we have incurred your I ----- -- t his vabnbJe aid to scholarship. and displeasure by an article which a?- ' I men of laarning throughout the Eng-

I ssues Involved in the peared in the "W a lter Snitchell Col- To The Facult'V I· ish.-speai;ing world halled the new umn" of The Viatorian. There are. Continued from page 9 , coT. 2. celi tion of this tine tool of learning

COLLEGE HONORS Class Honors i~r the College Department are awarded as follows:

The HONOR FOR HIGHEST SCHOLARSHIP is merited by

The

,F."runces 1\'1. Clancy, Kankakee, Illinois . Next in .Merit:

J . Burke Monahan, Chatsworth, Illinois. HONOR IN PHILOSOPHY

is. merited by J. Burl<e l\lonahan,

Nex.t jn Merit: Frances M . Clancy,

Chatsworth, TIILnois.

Kankakee. m inois. The ENGLISH ESSAY HONOR

The

The

is merited by Charles C. BYTon, Bourbonnais, TIUnois.

Next in Merit: J. Kenneth Bushman, Princeville, TIlinois.

HONOR IN LATIN is merited by

Francis G. DesLaurie rs, Kankakee, Illinois. Next in Merit:

FranCis J. Larkin, Towanda, IllinOis. HONOR IN ORATORY

is merited by Robert A. Nolan, Rockford, illinOis.

Ne.xt in Merit: Mary Phrania Cruise. Kankakee, Illinois.

The HONORS IN DEBATL"' G were merited by:

J . Kenneth Bushman. Princeville, TIlinois. Thomas E . Ferris. Kankakee, illinois. Ralph E . Hoover. Hoopeston. illinois. Paul A. LaRocque. Kankakee. Dlinois. Thomas G. Middleton. BlOOmington. lllinois. J . Burke Monahan. Chatsworth, Dlinois. Robert A . Nolan. Rockford. Illinois, John P. O·Brien. Chicago, illinois. Harold E . Rosensteel, Bloomington. Dilnois.

however , several points in your crit- --- ! \".,ith great rejOldnti. Convinced of icism which must be explained. most complex form ot human na- its indi~pcnsable pj a~(~ in College cir.

The first of these is that you ture: individua l person~1ities, a p.ro- l ~(es, we thererore bequeath to our "WOUld like this known." May W~, fesslOn worthy of the hIghest praIse . . ?lma matcr the lat~st edition of the then, infer that, to a certain extent, And these men, these heroe~ as I I F':ncyclopcdia Britflnnica. It it should we have obliged by the publication of have term~d ~em. do not r eceive fUU I help to illuminate their minds in the your action? This, a lmos t certain- remuneratIOn 1n so many dollars and eternal search for truth and beauty, ly, is proved by the fact that you cent s, .theirs is not exclusively a I if it should make the way of knowl. "ar e somewhat glad to have it known mon~tary end ; t~ey a r e compensated, edge a bit smoother for the students ~at I voted fo r one whom I con- I too. 10 moral com. of the future: if it should stand in slder to be a gentleman, a ieader, S. V. C. may jus tly be proud of the College library as a symbol of and a fine s tudent." I its r epresentative faculty. It can I the deep feeling of the class of 1932, l

You would not, of course, have any boast of m en with degrees from the I then, we shall feel compensated in inference drawn from your stat e- )utstanding universities in this coun- full m easure. I ment to, for instance, lead one to try such as Princeton, Clark, Notre

conclude that you intended your Dame. Illinois and the Catholic Urn- We also understand that Mr. Ches- , statement to be derogatory to the ver si ty of America, with men like- ter Stokes has in the past few weeks other nominee for whom you did not wise trained abroad in such schools been tutoring in Algebra. More than

vote. as the University of Budapest and that we know not. It is still 10

As you have said, you desired your the Univer si ty of the Propaganda in question whether she's a blonde or

I choice to be published and. as a Rome. Surely such an aggregation brunette. We wish Mr. Stokes suc­result, you did not hesitate to tIl- of distinguished educators possesses cess. form your Coed associates as to th~ many of the a ttributes of an ideal identity of the man for whom you facu lty; and we want these men to Fred Stith would like to have it voted. Hence the source of Mr. feel that their efforts have not heen known that he can think out loud. SnitcheU's information. in vain, we realize that our contact Who would ever think it. He also

You will see at once the injustice with them has had an elevating in- wishes it known that his French pro­of your action in accusing gentlemen f1uence upon our lives, that their nunciation is correct and it was the connected with the balloting whose "or ds have helped to give us a truer printing in the book tha t spelt CoI­actions cannot be questioned. You perspective of reality and have omba as Colombo. O. K . Freddy. accuse them of malfeasance without shown us with lasting vividness the We hear the P . A. LaRocque will presenting facts, of :-rhich there ~re I superiority of spiritual things to the busy himself in trying to get his none. as you may detennine upon lD- mere material phantoms that unedu- name in the Kankakee papers now vetsigation. In attacking their in- cated men do vainly chase. We that The Viatorian is going to rest tegrity you do, not only them. hut I have been brought to realize, more- until September. Nuff sald a bout also yourself, a great injustice. To over, the inevitable necessity of sub- him.

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