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Vol. IX, — No. 15 Friday, 19th July, 1940 ttuKlHiered at U.l'.O., BrUhaud, fur irnnainlBglon lij- post as n perladlcftt. • ' ^^ 3d, per copy

What's Wrong the I.S.S.?

WitI-

American Students Allege Political Partisanship

ISOLATIONIST ATTITUDE TAKEN.

Information which may interest many students at the • Queensland University in view of the present I,S,S, Appeal has just come to hand.

According to "News Bulletin," the official monthly publica­tion of the World Student Association, all major student organ­isations have been advised to withdraw from the International

: Student Service. The "Bulletin's" message is quoted verbatim below:—

"Charging the Geneva Office of the International Student Service with using relief in order to interest Americans in the Allied cause, on May 3rd delegates declared their inten­tion to advise major student organisations to withdraw from the European Student Service Fund, whose funds abroad have been administered by the I.S.S.

"Among organisations expected to secede are the Na­tional Student Federation of America, American Student Union, Association of Medical Students, American Law Students' Association and United Student Peace Committee.

"Catherine Deeny, Executive Secretary of the Fund and Ellen Hays, Assistant Secretary, resigned their respective positions.

"Miss Deeny declared, 'I can no longer work for an or­ganisation which has ceased to maintain the confidence of the majority of American students. I am convinced that the I.S.S. does not deserve that confidence: it has repeatedly neglected the Spanish students whose sufferings are of longer duration and more terrible than the sufferings of any other single group of students in Europe.'

"Miss Deeny continues: 'The Geneva Office of I.S.S. seeks out Poles and Finns to help, although these are well taken care of by wealthy adult groups. Our conclusion must be that the I.S.S. leadership discriminates against the Spaniards for political reasons, and is interested in using relief in the same way as it was used in 1917—to help bring the U.S.A. into Europe's war—and I for one intend to resist this attempt'

"Seceding student leaders made clear their intention to continue united efforts of solidarity with students in need, and declared that Spanish students—undergoing starvation, slavery, and the threat of deportation to Franco Spain-deserve the first and most immediate help on the European Front."

While There's

There's Law Liberty

\ Psst! Psst!! We saw a freslierette witli freslier

at Stadium last Saturday niglvt. Prac-ticaiiy tlie only female there, and yelling for blood louder than tiie old Iiands.

• • * Wlio was tile far-gone tliird.year

IWed., who, after the Med, Ball, was found drinlting water from a liorse* trougli at 3,30 a,jn,, and malting neigliing noises?

• « * Tiie lecturer we mentioned last

week will be in great fettle for the Hocitcy dance to-morrow niglit. He can Hit 10 stone 2 now—did it .'ast Saturday.

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Heard tliat a certain filth year Med. was very interested in engagement

You Have a Perfect Right to Obey It

In any state, the majority of whose adult, sane inhabitants is able to choose and to change its rulers, the only moral right of the minority is by lawful means to change itself into a majority, if it can, and the difference made by war is found in the temporary limitation of those lawful means.

With this statement, closely restricted, as he said, in its application, Professor H. Alcock, addressing the Radical Club recently, established the pivot about which his remarks upon the subject of wartime freedom were to revolve.

rmgs a week or so back. Latest re- negative, true; but just try making ports however indicate tliat said in­terest no longer exists, the lady in the case having given a definite re­fusal following tlie Lawyers' Bali. Looks to us tliat a certain would-be barrister is going to go far in this world if his powers of continue to be so silken.

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Before we can go any further, con. linued Professor Alcock, I must ex. plain what I mean by freedom accept, for general purposes, the academic definition given nearly three hundred years ago by Thomas Hobbes; "The absence of external impediments to motion." That is

a positive definition. That wiil land you in the moi-ass of so-called "rights." The only rights I am pre-pared to consider in this conte.Nt are moral rights and legal rights. The latter arc those which will be grant-

persuasion cd in a court of law. The former, i.e., moral rights, are neither absolute

"Ride a Cockhorse to Banbury Cross," or at least so thought one En-

nor uniform. One has a moral right to do something or abstain from do

„;„„„„ . , , „ , , 4 ., i,.r J '"8 it If one's claim m that respect gineor who strolled along to the Med. . A,^U J • .• i-. ^ , n„ii i,>.. 1 o ~ % . * . • - . « ^ IS admitted by the generality of one's Ball lost week, Rumour hath it tliat u u«.. i • . i * 4u . ^ i,„ .^„...,t J .u i. . J J- . ^ 7 habitual associates, but that does not he mounted the statue dedicated to , , . . .-^ „, ,. ,, „„. ,,. ,. v,^^ n^^ ^ J 1 1 .1 affect the question whether the action King George, and it was only tlie, u . .• • • ,. • i,. „,.««,! „j J r u- ,,. . , or abstention IS right or wrong in the promised reward of his affinity's , ,,., „ ., • , , J J ., ^ .. J . . , absolute sense, or even IS legal. sweet surrender that from his lofty perch

enticed him I

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

B.B.: You've lost your talent right . enough. Think we'd better let it

slide. Besides, that lady is prob-. ably hunting me with a bowie as

it is.

OSCAR: You're right about the feebleness. What's more, a serial

• feature must be submitted in its • entirety first.

EDMUND: Controversy is closed. Have passed your letter on to Y. Can't use the other material.

HERE'S WHY YOU WERE DISAPPOINTED.

NEWS BEHIND TIIE NEWS.

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BRING IT BACK, YOU CAD!

One of tlio numerous hockey stidks that v^ere distributed at Vlcporia Parli on Wednesday for the ilnter-Faculty hockey matches has Wt yet been returned.

PIi^<^ vvho haa same is re­quested .io leave it In Mr. Hul-beri'flt office.

Several inquiries from people expecting: a case of funds em­bezzlement have been received concerning: the brief announce­ment of tho abandoning of the Women's Club Dance which ap­peared in last week's "Semper." Some explanation seemed called for, and on making: inquiries we nncarlhcd the following facts. The Women's Club Dance is usually

free, but this year it was decided that an admission fee of 2/0 should be charged, the Union grant being used to pay any expenses incurred. Pro­fits were to be donated to the Uni­versity Women's War Work Group.

PURSE ZIPPED UP. At a general meeting held on 30th

June, it was pointed out that little if any profit could be expected from the dance, and consequently it was felt that such unnecessary expense during these troubled times was not warranted. Therefore It was voted

"What should a bloke say when a female asks why men have to wear a white strap underneath their foot­ball strides?" asks one of our cor­respondents. Tell her to do some Physiology is our advice.

• • • Hear of the Varsity lass who was

a little annoyed on finding her name in a recent paper included among those blessed with a stork visit? A case cf coming events casting their shadows?

• • • Who was the Med. stude. after the

ball who found the window closed in his dire necessity?

Professor Alcock then sought, by instancing' tlic relations be­tween Robinson Crusoe and Man Friday on their island, to show that mural rights are 'relative, conditional, and reciprocal," (hough not necessarily "simple or equal." Jlutual understanding, which worked well enough in this two-man community, broke down in a numerous society, and from the need for standardiza­tion of rights and duties law arose. Law, went on the speaker, claims

to embody the moral rights of those

make that iorrection because a state is a complex of rights to which a

I group of people living in a defined territory have lent all their force, whereas a nation is that group of people itself. The group, or its in­dividual members, even those who exercise tlie direction of their com­mon affairs, may act morally towards other nations, but does so only from choice, not by compulsion, moral or physical, for there is not a society to supply Uie one ncr a power to supply the other kind of sanction. That state of affairs leads to nervousness, lo fear and so to war.

Tlic speaker then pointed out lliat freedom was not a right as he had defined right, but could be used as a term to cover a list of freedoms wliidi could be called ri gilts. International agree­ment of such tisis would depend on the coincidence of national codes of morality, and wc were to guard against the temptation in large societies to secure t3ie extension of wliat seems freedom to us by the coercion of others. Freedom, is to be judged by those on whom restrictions fall.

LAW IS FREEDOM.

Yes, To-morrow is July 20. Help the W.U.W.W.G.

By coming to the HOCKEY DANCE.

that the dance should be abandoned. Why the Club should wait until tjie last moment to make the cancellation public we don't Itnow.

At the same meeting the Club de­cided to abandon the "Hen's Party" for the duration of the war as it was felt that the money necessary for ex­penses could be put to better use. GRANT GOES TO GOVERNMENT?

The Club was then faced with the problem of disposing with, the Union grant which usually covers expenses for both functions. After much dis­cussion a motion was passed that the club should seek permission from the Union to make a gift of the grant to the Government. The suggestion was placed before the Union, which gave Its sanction.

I The first and fundamental element jof our freedom, went on Professor I Alcock, is the rule or supremacy of law. Right back in the fifteenth century, recorded in the Year Books of Henry VI.'s i"eign, was to be found in our law courts the following noble

• . , , .. , , , 1, , .11. I maxim: "The law is the highest in-subject lo It, but not all of those . ., .,. x,. , , . u

-1.* „. J . • ^ . heritance the Kmg has; for by the rights, and to recognise and enforce!,„„. ,_ ^._,, _". '.. ' . , , duties, but not all moral duties. In doing so, it may disregard or suppress claims recognised by some of its subjects. It also sets up a new, ab-j stract entity, the State, which has rights, but not duties. This has at least two evil consequences. In the first place, as the State is abstract, it! can operate only through men, and those men who exercise its directive powers are easily led to forget that they are not the state but only mem­bers of the society represented by the state: they are Robinson Crusoes in this respect, that their Men Fridays allow them greater rights: but like their prototype, they have them only conditionally and in return for the acceptance of duties. Failure to ad­mit that reciprocity leads in extreme cases to civil war.

DISHONOUR AMONG THIEVES. The second evil consequence of the

abstract quality of the state is that in Its relations with other states there is no morality of any description. There are no. rights and noi duties in the international field, or, more properly speaking, in the inter-state fiel(}, I

law he himself and all his subjects are ruled, and, if the law did not exist, there would be neither King

jnor inheritance." That old saw does 'not refer to law in general, but to the law, a particular system, and the "in­heritance"' to which it refers is that system of the rights of individuals it

, protects and makes possible, not only by its existence but by its continu­ing spirit, a spirit informing the evolving consciousness of a people that the generations have not sun­dered. Consequently this freedom, this essential right, is to live under one law, our law, not somebody else's, but a law binding our rulers as much as ourselves and without exceptions.

That first, essential right,- to ih© supremacy of law, is not affected by the existence of a state of war. Thus, even the recent legislation at Cari-tierra greatly extending the execU-, tlve authority of the Federal Governji: ment, while it limits or makes posi slbie the limitation of other r l ^ t s l merely exemplifies that suprenaacj^ law on which all'pur'freedonf?^ p e n d s . -'• -"-•• • ''"T^'V-.X,'.^

(To be <g()ritinuedi)A^J^

SEMPER FLOREAT Friday, 19th July, i940i

BOOK REVIEW.

SONS AND FATHERS: MAURICE inNDUS. Jlor^at

(COLLINS.)

"Sons and Fathers" is far more than a story of Russia during the rise of Bolshevism. It is n revelation of the agony and the strife of a great social upheaval which sets at naught all individual ideals, sentiment, and effort, drawing all men into a great blind struggle which pits father against son and man against man; a dreadful travail which is fiercely welcomed by some as a wonderful, inspiring birth, desperately resisted by others as a tragic death, loathed and feared by all who see only its pain and its terror. It is these last, lovers of mankind and haters of blood, who must suffer most, for they are not allowed to stand aside and work, out their own destinies. "The fate of these people transcends the drama of their individual lives; this is what happens to liuman beings' when a Revolution takes place."

The pathetic, ineffectual striving of the individual is the keynote of the book. Kolya Mitosa is a young intellectual, a brilliant medical student with high humanitarian ideals; his father is a hard, cold, un­compromising Revolutionary who. becomes a Cheka Commissar. The story of the bitter struggle between father and son might have been am­bitious and striking enough; but the novel go,;s much further to trace the in-fnted love of Kolya and Irina, the daughter of a Czarist Colonel who is just as resolute to defend tradition, honour, and existing institutions as the elder Mitcsa is to make a com­plete and violent break with the past. The lovers refuse to allow their fathers to draw them into the' hell of cruelty and hate, but they can find no rest and no escape. Finally Irina joins her father, and; is shot by frontier guards; on hearing j of this Kolya resolves to kill his father, but even now he finds that} he cannot be "n dreamer and a': gunman both.'' As he lacks the! courage to kill, so docs he lack the! courage to die, and he sees himself; as a ghost, a wanderer, loving life' and yet able to have no part in it —for the new inheritance is only j for "men of granite hearts and cal­lous passion." In a hopeless re­nunciation he goes forth to take the cynical advice which he lias so often .spurned, to abdicate mind, soul, everything, and to gratify the appe­tites of the flesh.

The characterisation is intense but .sympathetic, with sharp contrasts between parents and children, be­tween the sentimental intellectual and the unfeeling revolutionary, the idealist and the nihilist. All of tlie characters are vividly alive—Kolya, Irina, Mitosa, Colonel Mirovoy, Kolya's mother and his cynical friend Vanya; and their reactions towards and against each other are presented with poignant truth. Strong emotions are treated with delicate skill, with a sure command of the rise and fall, the light and shade of deep feeling under the changeful' stress of despair and hope, bitterness and tenderness, over-shadowhig griefs and short-lived "joys. In a noble reconciliation of powerful realism and warm sym­pathy Mr. Hindus has given a deep and helpful survey of the trials which beset men and women in our ovm time, a time of drastic change and conflicting passions.

M.M.P. (Our copy from McLeods', 9/-.)

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DEBATING SOCIETY FUNNIES.

the most that lays the bonniest egg." "That tt isn't the hen that cackles

FRIDAY, 19th, 8 p.m. Men's Common Room.

EDITORIAL STAFF: f^itor REGINALD MATHEWS Sporting Editor E. G. BROAD Social Editress BERYL MILLETT Sub-Editors M. BURVIL, L. T. CARRON, „ , W. RADCLIFFE, L. J. WEBB. Business Manager C. GORE.

Vol. IX. Friday, 19th July, 1940 No. 15

The Ballet Again I expected last week's editorial to rouse some fury among

what King Hal so amusingly and penetratingly called "the local, dilettanti," I can imagine them in the act of leon-inely tossing the locks from their eyes, smoothing their paint-and-beer-stained dressing-gowns, snatching up a sheet of papyrus and a stick of charcoal, and, one eye cocked on their Arnold Haskell's, settling down to show me what a cultural bum I am.

In the reply to King Hal, I noticed an interesting point-Queen Mab mentions how often one was to see students perus­ing Arnold Haskell in order to qualify themselves to spout a few technicalities and borrowed artistic notions.

Well, well! Why all this sudden activity, this unprecedented interest in "art"? Here we have the curious spectacle of people who would bring their dinner up if you forced them to sit out a performance of, say, Mahler's "Lied Von Der Erde,^' growing long hair, acquiring a vocabulary of technical terms and equip­ping themselves with a few delightfully conventional and re­assuringly middle-brow ideas on art especially for the occasion. And then having the insolence to ilaunt them in print against anyone whom they suspect of thinking for himself on the matter.

Pardon my laughing. But are these the people who fill to overflowing the Mods. Room each Friday lunch-hour, when the University Gramophone Society plays its records? Are these the enthusiasts who flocked to hear Georg Szell, among the world's very first flight of conductors; to hear Lotte Lehmann, a dramatic soprano than whom there are none greater and of whom there are few, if any, the equal; to hear Alexander Kipnis, Artur Schnabel? Seats aren't dear in the City Hall. You can get a good one, as I do, for two bob. And, of course, these are the people whom I shall see in milling droves at the Beecham concert to-morrow night.

Well, I think I have rubbed in that justifiable sneer to my satisfaction. Now I miglit take a glance at my critics. Papillon says he read my article with interest. It is a pity he did not also read it with attention. I should then have been spared his letter.

It would be easy to put a charge of buckshot through A.W. J.'s letter, but shucks, what's the use? For instance, "the music for 'Swan Lake' and 'Aurora's Wedding' was specially composed by Tchaikowsky for Petipa to fit his choreography to it." Lord, isn't this fitting of the ballet to music just what I complain of? And, "Why dance at all, if there is no story? . . . this would, in time, lead to . . . and empty display of technique . . ." Why, then, is not absolute music an empty display of technique? If Brahms were alive, A.W.J., and you told him his D minor con­certo was empty technique, he would probably knock your block off.

Then who should up and at me but a deadly foe of ancient times, Mary McLelland, no less. We'll find room for Mary's outpourings next week. But I'll deal with her now. "Dancing is inevitably blended with music," says she. But I don't expect the ballet to be dancing. Why, even the mighty Haskell, whose word is law down here, backs me on that point. Then Mary speaks of the ballet's use of "good" music as a background. Well, Mary, if you consider such stuff as the "Swan Lake," the "Aurora's Wedding" and the major portion of the "Sylphide" music good, then I have complete measure of your cultural stature and refuse to argue further, since to do so would be futile.

Finally, to highbrows who read my editorial and didn't agree with it, I say "read it until you understand it." On middle­brows—of all earthly monstrosities I think there is nothing more pitiable, contemptible or detestable than a midde-brow, particu-arly when they aspire to cross swords with the elite—on middle­brows (those "rinsings of the wine-glass") I smile tolerantly. And to what some people are pleased to call low-brows—those good, plain, unpretentious- men who either did not read the article, or, if they did, forgot it the next Instant and had no thought whatever of trying my patience with a footling criticism of it, I offer my thanks and a blessing. And there's an end to the matter. I refuse to discuss it further except with my equals.

We Look at the War The World Staggers On

III. Mr. Churchill has told us this is the war of the "unknown

warriors." The B.B.C. tells us of deeds of super-gallantry;' it even brings heroes—by what persuasion it is hard to guess-before the microphone to narrate their own sagas. Patrons of news reels and readers of daily journals see the work of perhaps the bravest of all the men with the fighting forces, the official photographers. It is very thrilling; but is it war? Napoleon would not have thought so. He once remarked: "In war men are nothing; it is a man who is everything."

Napoleon was great as an aggres­sor. If circumstances did not pre­sent him with the initiative, he seized it. So long as. he could do so he was nearly invincible. If numbers were against him, he so manoeuvred his forces as to be superior at the point he chose for joining action. So far, in the present war, Hitler has had little difficulty in taking sole charge of the initiative, thanks to the absurd, defensive strategy of his op­ponents. He has run little risk, for the advantage of numbers has been with him all along, thanks to the short-sighted impolicy of those who had time and warning to prepare to meet his challenge.

Defensive strategy and defensive policy belong to the little men. The peace of the world is not to be en­trusted to such. They make wars possible. That makes us long for the day when that valiant old fire-eater, Winston Churchill, may be able to make good his promise and wc gain the initiative. Before then we shall need to have discovered "a man" and our rulers will need to have acquired that greatness that made, William Pitt the chooser of victors. Meanwhile, the old policy has borne its inevitable fruits and we must await the next moves of the enemy and make sure our men are ready to meet them.

The events of the past week (15/7/ 40) afford evidence of no small skill in large-scale defence. Under the shield ot the navy, operations south of the Mediterranean have assumed the character of those frontier wars and "punitive expeditions" which occupied Kipling's soldiers. The Italians have even provided "Fuzzy-Wuzzies" to do the fighting for them and get kWlcd by our machine-guns.

While Germany and Great Britain are engaged in mutual raiding, two types of German attack, the one an­ticipated publicly by Australian Cab­inet Ministers at the very outset, the other beyond dreaming a mere six weeks- ago, have been developing. Vicious elTorts to stop the use of British cast coast ports by bombing convoys in the narrow seas were bound to follow the occupation of

jthe Low Countries and Northern France. Our own bombing of barges in estuaries and on canals on and near those coasts at least indicates one of the ways in which the Teu­tonic Napoleon hopes to emulate his predecessor. If this method suffers Interference to any serious extent, Hitler may possibly delay his adver­tised attempt at invasion until he has tried the effect of intensified attacks on British ports and shipping—and, incidentally, allowed the R.A.F, to attain full strength and equipment and the new armies time for thor­ough training.

THE DIPLOMATIC FRONT.

Three diplomatic events of im­portance have occurred during the week. The first is the appointment of the Duke of Windsor as liaison otflcer with the Western herhlsphere in his new office of Governor of the great American tourist centre, the Bahamas,

Secondly, there is the reversion of France to the provincial system of pre-Hevolution days. This, of course, weakens France industrially, • mili­tarily and politically, as the Germans

intended to do. But whether it is anything more than an intermediate stage before complete totalitarianism depends upon the passive resistance of the French worker and peasant. If this should develop, Laval's paper constitution may be blown away by German fury.

What will be the reactions of the Vatican to the new French state is-still speculative.

AUSTRALU: POLITICAL.

On account of the obvious distrac­tions and danger of a general elec­tion it is being urged in many quart­ers that the life of the present Com­monwealth Parliament should be ex­tended. In Great Britain, Parlia­ment prolonged its own life during the last war and no doubt will do so again during this, for all parties agreed and a simple Act of Parlia­ment was all that was necessary. In Australia these conditions are lack­ing. The Constitution itself limits the life of a House of Represent­atives to three years; and the Con­stitution can be changed only by a process including a popular referen­dum, which involve.'; most of the ob­jections raised against a general election, or by Act of the Imperial Parliament.

It would. Iiowevcr, lie a breach of Imperial constitutional prac­tice for the Imperial Parliament to act without tile support of substantially the whole commun­ity here. Such support is obvi­ously lackiniT. Tlic Labour Party believes that it can ^vin an elec­tion on its o^m war policy; and so lonjr as the Imperial Parlia­ment cannot be sure that this belief is utterly unreasonable it is unlikely to act. Other con­siderations than the principles of Dominion sclf-sovcmmcnt, how­ever, might possibly induce it to override tl»c normal practice of peace time.

ECONOmc.

Although as yet no definite fig­ures have been authoritatively an­nounced, there is talk of an Aus­tralian war expenditure of £150 millions during 1940-41. This sum may represent the utmost that the Commonwealth Government thinks it can spend wisely and eflfectively in the course of the present fiscal year. However, at the end of last week the British Prime Minister pointed out that the situation was so serious that the maximum effort was required not only of the United Kingdom but of the Dominions as-well, i t was suggested in these col­umns recently that the maximum financial effort of Australia m i ^ t hs worked up to between £300 mil­lions and £400 millions per annum by. means of a progressive plan on compulsory saving. If that estimate is correct, the necessary link between the immediately contemplated e>t-pendlture and the ulttaiate woiilcl appear to be a swift orgainisation foii' expandhig the production of esseii-tial materials and munitions. /

PETROL RATIONING. / The press discussions of the peitrol

rationing scheme during the last/few days show that the Australian pub­lic does not .even yet realise)'the' gravity of the situation. CgmpMnts) have been made that no'one wd'u"

Friday, 19th July, 1940 SEMPER FLOREAT

Sez You? STUDENTS MUST BE HELPED—

BUT NOT BY LS.S.

Sir,—Elsewhere in this issue ap­pears an extract from the "News Bulletin" of the World Student As- support—I will be active in working

there will be no political discrimin­ation—a scheme which helps those who are not already being aided by wealthy individuals whose humanity has never before moved them to give

soeiation, with which practically every Student Union in the world is aililioted.

I had feared for some time the developments indicated in the ex­tract quoted. Because of those de­velopments, and for other reasons which I will outline below, I feel that no further support should be given to the International Student Service Relief Appeal by students in this University.

This statenient probably surprises those who recall that I was mainly responsible for introducing the I.S.S. Appeal into this University three years ago; that I was chairman of the flrsi committee here, and an ac­tive worker on the second commit­tee.

My reasons, then, for this change of attitude.

Firstly, the difficulty of making sure that money and goods distrib-

to make that Yours, etc.

scheme popular,—

MAX N. JULIUS. ~;o:

LS.S, FINANCE TO BE INVESTIGATED.

Sir,—At the Union Council meeting on Wednesday International Student Service was discussed. According to a bulletin issued by the World Student Association there have been secessions and resignations from that body. The grounds for the action were that political discrimination had been used in the allocation of monies for the relief of distressed students.

Two basic facts must therefore be acluiowledged in i-espect to the Student Relief Appeal now being conducted within the University;—

(a) Jf political discrimination has been used in the I.S.S. then we must

uted in Nazi-occupied Europe reach, necessarily fight it. those for whom they are intended. \ (h) The principle of Student Re-

Secondly,- the difficulty of sending hef is still fundamentally correct, out of Australia any large sum of | One thing is certain—that the col-money to a foreign country. Certain' Section of the money is in the hands regulations of the Australian Gov- of men who will safeguard against its ernmcnt create this difficulty.

Thirdly, the fact that as a result careless and irresponsible distribu­tion. The Queensland treasurer is

of their participating in the I.S.S. j Dr. Robinson; Prof. Bailey is trca-.scheme over the past two years, a surer for Australia, while Prof. large number of students have devel­oped the "righteous" feeling that they can wash their hands of the neces- Poal has the express support of Sir sity for similar humanitarian work John Latham. Chief Justice of tlie in Queensland itself. As for those who are still conscious of this obli­gation, some would feel that helping

Murdoch is in charge of the collec­tion in West Australia. And the ap-

John Latham, Chief Justice of High Court of Australia.

The iiosition is thus clear. The Student Relief Appeal must go on.

various comfort funds was adc- The I.S.S. administration of monies quale; some, myself included, would'must be investigated by the Union, incline towards helping and exam-1 The Council of the Union must then ining Queensland's growing unem- [ ensure that the collections made will plovment problem—in Queensland:'le given to the right authority. This alone, according lo the Bureau of will lioar forward the true spirit of Industry's latest figures, there are the appeal Initialed by a sincere re-30,000 ocoplc, classified by the cognition ot the need for assistance Bureau itself as "willing and able'over.seas, and carried out with that to work," who arc without employ- 'liS'i •<"" i" view.—Youi-s, etc, ment. The point I am making is thnt in this new and changing situa­tion tho demands of Australia itself'

K. H. BRADSAW, Prcs. U,Q.U.

-:o: rVE GOT EAKTIIENWAIIE TOES, must be given more prominence and

closer attention. Fourthly, the question of political ^.^._^^^ ^^ ^.^^^ .^^^^^ j ^^^^ ^^ ^^

discrimination. This I regard as the;.^ ^^^^^^^^ supporter of your cause, most important. It is a serious ac- j ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ . , ^ ^^^ . ^ ^^^^,^ j , ^ ^ j , ^ ^ cu.salion, and of course further in-;„,^ ^.„„,. ^^^,^^^ ,^^^.^^^^ ^^^ ^^^^^

But how can I continue to vcstigntion would be valuable. But .so far as I am concerned I am satis­fied with the statement of tho World Student Association. I will not bur­den a letter already too long with figures showing the gross dispropor­tion between the amount distributed by LS.S. to Polish and Finnish stud­ents, and the amount distributed to Spanish students, many of them wounded in a war agabist fascist in­tervention, and suffering for more than 14 months in the barbed-wire concentration camps of France. The February issue of the World Stud­ent Bulletin gives a most moving description of theh' conditions.

In refusing to participate in the I.S.S. appeal or to contribute to it, and in suggesting that other students

'on your , slingers.

stand which one must be something of a dancer oneself. Had you chosen to see "Paganini," in which even the dimmest intellect can perceive the violence of tho dramatic forces at work, I feel sure that we should have been spared last week's piffle.

"Many ballets seem to have been written to conform with music al­ready in existence, and they are tied to crudity in that they have stories." Well, well. Three absurdities in one sentence must approach very close to your record. I do grant you that a few ballets have been composed to ready-made music, but the music for "Swan Lake" and "Aurora's Wed ding" was specially composed by Tchaikowsky for Petipa to fit his choreography to it. It was Diaghi-leff who said that the only way to produce a ballet worthy of the name was to form a committee from the choreographer, the composer and the expert who is to do the decor. "Bal­let is the result of a collaboration in which musician, painter and choreographer interpret a common theme, each in his own medium; the closer the collaboration, the better the result." Why dance at all if there is to be no story? "For Art's sake," perhaps you reply, but this would, in time, lead to nothing short of acro­batics—an empty display of techni­que, in which the dancer would be performing steps which had become a meaningless formula, and perform­ing them not to develop an idea, or to exhibit the beauty of his art, but merely to underline the difficulty of his task. Noverre first preached the law that ballet is no excuse for danc­ing; dancing in the ballet is a means of expressing a dramatic idea. Fur­ther, no ballet can be written—it is merely an idea in the mind of the choreographer, who transmits it to the dancers he controls, and who pass it on lo posterity through their pupils.

You approach very close to Serge Li far when you ask for ballet without music. Some years ago Lifar made the astounding statement that ballet didn'l need music—just noises, and oven devised "Icaro" in an attempt to prove it. But as v/as to be expected, in spile of its great possibilities, it was a dismal failure. For ballet can­not be divorced from music, for in true ballet the music speaks to the dancer, the dancer interprets the music to tlie audience.

But after all tiiis I have an uneasy fooling thnt you v.'rotc that leader with your tongue in your chcelc. At nil events I hope so, for the sake of tho aesthetic side of your soul—if you have one.—Yours, &c.,

A. W, J. DICK.

IT'S NOT WORTH THE CANDLE TO BURN IT

AT BOTH ENDS.

not even acquainted with the facts. If you had any knowledge at all, you would know that Maori maidens do not "waggle their buttocks and wiggle their bellies." This they have always left to their Polynesian sisters in their exploited dance, blatantly termed "hula-hula." Theirs consists in handling the poi, and swaying j rhythmically the whole body, but! especially swaying from the waist' upwards, not, like the "hula maidens," from the waist downwards. Again, the "wiggling and waggling," in its original and best form is not done with roguish abandon, but is restraincdly done to indicate maturity and to celebrate the ceremonial eve of matrimony, so honoured by the true Polynesians.

It is evident, King Hal, that you , .. . ^ . .. gained your knowledge from Ma,°'"°,"^,^.' ^•^^'^..t^Y'''^,^*^"™'^- ' Burke's girls at the show. 1 / biographies study of M. and

I'll wager, King Hal, that you have ^ "». - ^urie, the discoverers of not got the go (I almost said another '•«/;"'"• "'"^'""^'^ the speaker, show-, word) in you to find out what it is , f ^ ' \ their lives had been entirely you are raving about, and give up a f 7'^"* « S l ' T ^ ' l ? ' ' " ? ' ^ ' ^ few of the nights you spend reading I ^"*J' ^" J^"^*^ ^^f, ^.^^ considered third-rate "True Stories" and thril- f hardship or suffering too great, lers, to acquainting yourself with the i i' ^ .f""! , Pf ^ l ' * ^ . L * ^ . l r ! ^ ' " ! ^ ^ . contents of one of the many books written on such a subject as that """I!/}!!^.

"There arc those to-day who feel the call to 'take iheir ease, cat, drink and bo merry.* To fol­low Christ means the crossing out of self and Oie givtng of oneself in the spirit of love to the world,"

So said Canon VVatkin when addressing the S.C.M. lunch-hour gathering on Tliurs«lay, the 11th instant, his subject being "Follow Me." The first essential was to look up­

wards to God as Father, It was this that shone through everything Christ said and did, and his attitude to man­kind compelled Christians to look

'make of their discovery a gift to

of "The History of the Dance as an Art."—Yours, etc.,

QUEEN MAB.

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WHAT WOULD THEY DO WITH­OUT THEIR HASKELL?

Sir,—I began your editorial with great interest; I even finished it with great interest, but withal, much as­tonishment.

Why did you go to the ballet? What did you expect to see? A

THEY GET TIUNGS DONE, In India, Dr. Stanley E. Jones had

found a new mode of aproaeh to ^ e higher castes. Calling together the leaders of the different types of re­ligious thought he encouraged open,

i discus.iion on what religion meant to. I each one. The Indians were impress-I cd with the unapproachable beauty of Christ and by the fact that his fol- . lowers, unlilic those of other faiths, had tlie power to achieve their ob­ject. .

The Christian life was the only life worth living, said the Canon; "when you have seen the power of God come into a life, you have seen a

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movie? Or a play? It is not the sur­face of the ballot which is the es- miracle of the grace of God." senco of the art. Ballet is not for the eyes alone. "It is not an excuse for dancing, but a means for ex­pressing a dramatic idea" (Haskell).

Thus, when we sec the ballet we drink in a story which is told by the dancing, and which by reason ofi combination with the music and thcr decor creates a series of emotions] similar fo what a great work of art. can give. Both music and decor ;irc necessary to completely sway us. A i bnllcl danced without music andj decor would be quite intcrcstin.sj, • but it would not stir our emotions.

The other point which you con-, sider is that of programme and nbso-1 lute music. Programme music is

The International Relations Club will hold its annual half-day conference on Saturday morninff, July 28th, in the Mod­ern Languages Koom. Tiic con­ference will open at 8.30 a.m., and finish at 12,30, Tiiis meeting is to take the form of a discussion on tlic "Various ,\ustral-I'.m Atti­tudes Towards the War." There v.'ill be three main speakers

upiiold the way you run "Semper," when you expose yourself naked to the attacks of the enemy, as you did in last week's footling leader? Alas, tho idol has feel of clay'.

Perhaps 1 should remember that inanities always follow lack of know­ledge, but must you adverUsc that lack?

Of course I don't blame you for printing that bilge by bluff "King Hal"—it's your job to fill up odd corners of the paper with anything that offers, no matter how trashy. But I do pity your ignorance of even the fundamentals of ballet.

You say, as though it were some final condemnation, "Much of it was pure miming." Let me quote you

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ically the onlv type with which a ^ ., ^ ^ , , , hnilct can be combined. If music isl-^""^ from the Department of Infor-trulv absolute, then no stoiy can be'.'^'f^"- g^ '"\S HK' Government oUi-lakcn from it. Only a few ballets tudc: one giving the ''"cifist^ pomt of to absolute music have been created

BALLET BULLO.

adopt a like attitude, I wish to make ^^^^^^ ^ ^^ ^^jj^t ^^.^.^ it quite clear that the prmciple of ^^^ ^^^ ^^ ^^^ <.„..„,„„.* onUmritios student relief of an international character Is not being discarded by

and one of the foremost authorities on ballet in the world to-day.

'Mime in ballet varies from the me; and should it be possible to ^''o^^ purely conventional sign language of out a scheme which guarantees thatj^j^^ ^^^^^^^ ^^^.^^ j ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^^ ^^^

__ _ — ... r;-[skilled acting of the Fokine dance I dramas. It must be thought of as

think of buying a new car to run forty miles a week. The answer to that is that nobody should be en­couraged to buy a new car. Quite

part of the dancing itself—because, for adequate interpretation, every role in ballet requires mime."

The main cause of your disillusion-apart from the question of petrol, ment, and therefore the cause of your the motor industry is pre-eminently suitable for • commandeering by the

more-thnn-usually stupid leader, was that you were foolish enough to go

Government to produce armoured]to see two ballets that definitely are cars, other Government vehicles and the most classical of the classical, and aeroplanes. Many of the employees

. must he' suitable for training to, as-seriible aircraft.

therefore art- not for the amateur balletomane. I refer to "Swan Lake"

and most of these, including "Chore-artinum," "Seventh Symphony" (Beethoven), "Boethoveus Varia-

~. ' . , ' tions," have been failures. Nowadays Sir,-On reading King Hals ''di-j^^^jj^^j^ ,g.,yi,y ^.^.^^^j^^ ...^^ ^^ecol-

cu ous letter last week, 1 felt that the' ^^^^.^, j^,^ of the composer (and. of only sensible thing to do would be* ^ . ^^^.^^ ^^^ , ^ stravinsky-to reply that such ro did not merit ^i^ghiioff series of ballets is a mute any consideration. However, tlml ^ ^ f ^^ . ^ ^^^^^^^ might be termed apathy, and I, for j ^ ^ , , , ^ , , ^ , , ^ ^^^^^^^ these differences, one, wish to refute the prevalemj^ ^^ . ^ ^^,.^^^ ^^^ ^^^^^ j ^ ^ applause.

•Many in the audience seemed to idea that Varsity women are apathe

^ \ , ^ , , ,, ,. . . , ' clap anything which appeared to Art can be termed '"creation which , ^ , ^^^^ ^j^.^^jj^ g„^ ^^^^^ o

demands skill of mind and imagina tion." If it cannot be understood by King Hal that such was necessary to conceive and execute "Paganini," "Les Presages," "Protee"; and those are only three, then it is certain he is naught but an "0," an imbecile, an idiot. If "Art" means anything, then under its heading must be included the music of Chopin, and necessarily thereupon "Les Sylphides," since be­tween the latter and its accompani­ment, there exists perfect co-ordina­tion of movement and meaning.

Good King Hal, have you ever; made any attempt to discuss seriously your contorted and gloriously be-' fuddled ideas?

At least the foundations of this "in­sincere, witless diivel" upon Art came from black and white—that is, print—judging by the number of Arnold Haskell's to be seen in the

leave their seats when much clap­ping was due to the artistes.—Yours, stc

PAPILLON.

and "Aurora's Wedding," to under-hands of students. You,. King Hal, are

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View; and a third to give the aver­age .Australian outlcok.

As this is a conference, it must be realised that plenty of discssion of an argumentative nature is invited from the Hall; and so we earnestly hope that as many as possible will attend, . U who habitually attend the meet­ings of the Debating Society on Friday nights, should be especially interested in this subject.

Morning tea, provided 'by the Committee of the LR.C, should prove not the least of the attrac­tions.

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INTER-FACULTY HOCKEY DRAW.

WEDNESDAY, 24th JULY. 3 p,m.—Medicine v. Engineering I.

Vet. Science v. Arts I. 4 p.m.~Flnai.

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S E M P E R F L O R E A T Friday, 19th July, 1940

last Minute Touchdown Gives Varsity Win Over Brothers Students Outrough Brethren 13-11 For those who enjoy slashing, smiting, .spine-chilling foot­

ball, last Saturday's game against Brothers' tigers was just what the doctor ordered. Despite a fe wsedative lullabyes early in the first half and midway through the second, the duel was full of pugnacious "pig" play and rigorous rearguard raids. The students were strengthened by Private V. M. Nicholson, who got leave from camp to strip with the reds; Slippery Nick scored two slashing touchdowns after superb chalf-line dashes. Mrs. Broad's bonny boy Eddie credited the other try and converted two. The red vanguard gave a great forward display, and really paved the way for Varsity's first win over Brothers this year. Carter, Donoghue and Cribb tantalized onlookers with their high pressure work, and often steam-rollered the brethren's pack.

THEY'LL BE UNBEATABLE SOON.

For the first ten minutes or so Brothers were definitely on top and took tile lead 3—0. Soon after. Varsity evened the score when Broad abandoned hi.<! accustomed .sobriety and dived inelegantly over the line for a touchdown. No extras were added, so the scores were even at 3—3.

VAUX TOO SMART. Soon afterwards Vaux "Mercurial"

Nicholson put Varsity ahead when he out-smarted and out-paced sev­eral Brothers' defenders to score a racy try under the uprights. Broad kicked the goal, and the students led 8—3 at the intei-val.

BROTHERS BITE BACK. Brothers' early post-lemons dis­

play was particularly pugilistic. After Costello had added three points from a free, the hugging and embracing tactics of the black and white forwards, combined with some nifty spotting tactics in the backs, seemed to demoralise Varsity, A try by winger Sheahan, which was con­verted by Costello, gave Brothers the lead 11—8.

THAT RAH-RAH SPIRIT. When the match seemed practic­

ally over, Varsity electrified every­one with a sensational last minute dash. Newcomer D. Cooke made a daring interception near mid-ileld, and, after a couple of quick passes, Nicholson collected and wasted no time in planting the ball under the posts. Tlie score—11 all. Broad kicked the goal, making the tally 13—11 in favour of Varsity. BARRACKERS WORK OVERTIME.

The barrackers certainly gave more than moral support on Satur­day. Tlie opposition supporters tried to emulate the effort of Var­sity followers, With cracked voices, dry throats, but indomitable spirit, Varsity won botJi the salesmanship and gridiron.

BAD HANDLING. Bad handling marred many a move

throughout tho game, yet at times the pigskin was thi-own about in fine stylo, Tlic tackling was right up to standard with "Torpedo" Bridgman a diamond among cut glass. "Latus" Broad had the right kicking boots on, but evidently hnd them on the wrong tootsies. These points, though not actually needed, would have had a softening eflect on the barrackers* throats,

CRIBB SHOWED 'EM HOW. "Blondie" Stacey was continually

harassed and at times was slow in gathering the ball fi-om the line-

outs and scrums to get it away. Cribb played a fine game among the "pigs." He was ever wilKng, and a smack on the blinker was not sufficient to curb his spirit. Lex Isles was there all the time, and did much to keep the forwards in a body, not a number of individualists.

Hooker handy Andy O'DriscoU did not show up to any extent until the second half and then he showed Walsh of Brothers just how it was done.

It was a god game generally, de­spite the "prophecy" of defeat. Maybe you will be beaten next time, Varsity?

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MYSTERY CLEARED UP.

A monlli or so ago tlic Foot­ball Club raffled a bag of beer to increase Club funds (for the Inter-Varsily Carnival which was subsequently cancelled). Tickets were sold and a sum of money was collected. However, nothing was heard of tlic bag of beer. Consequently, rumours of the

doubtful integrity of the Football Club began to stifle the Varsity at­mosphere.

Latest news, however, clears up the mysteiy. The bag ot beer was, indeed, a reality, and has been won by Mr. Kevin King (no address given!).

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Street) Have much pleasiu-e in

extending a cordial invitation to Students to call in for a

Complimentary Sitttag (Proof shown without obli­

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Don Fraser, Travcs and Dingle lost to R.A.P. by 2 goals to 1. Eight other Varsity men in­dulged either in riotious frcsta or peaceful siesta. The fiesta-men (a majority) showed that they wero no mere cogs in a Totali­tarian organisation, and abandon­ed Fuehrer Copcman's Positional Piay Plan as undemocratic. Fuehrer Copcman, a broken man, then delivered several moving perorations to the errant ones, but he was, as tlie poet Coleridge puts it, most like unto a woman wailing for her one-eared demon lover who, unfortunately, has be­come deaf in that ear. The team should not have lost.

Lack of practice once again has proved fatal. Each of the forwards is qualified to write on "Seven Subtle Schemes for Scoring Solo."

All but Adair had a pious horror of passing, and one suspects that Romantic Ronald only indulged be­cause he has learnt to flick.

Fraser and Dingle played really fine games. Traves was almost as good. But weary wee Willy Wood-head wilted—and how!—in goal.

Bill Law got the only goal—a good one. R.A.F.'s goalie made many fine saves.

SHE-MALE HOCKEY NOTES.

Looks as tliough Oie "A" hockey team is definitely bucking up. Another goal on Saturday! My! My! tliat's two we've got for the whole season. Ain't wc proud of ourselves? And how! The match showed, however, that

Varsity are playing a better game. The forward line is organising itself

j somewhat, though there is a tendency ifor individual play, and not enough of the team spirit. Ann Darcall's solo dashes are more suited to" the Air Force, and we suggest that she apply to tlie local recruiting officer. We're sure he'd be pleased to accept so charming a recruit,

Fast and furious work by Marj. Alisop, Frances Butcher again play­ing consistently. Keep it up girls, it's what we want, and one of these days we'll double headline you. YOU CAN'T LAUGH AT AUDREY-

Half time, and ths score still a duck. Over loud sucks of orange the team discussed possible tactics, and maybe it was the orange, or maybe the tacts, but Little Audrey did it again. Took the field like a champ., made the necessary connection, and there it was—a goal In the bag. Any­way, it was nice woick, and from our vantage point in the tree tops we ap­plauded loudly. We were there in­cognito, you see, and the tree tops afford the best camouflage—but we've got hay fever. Wattle trees never did agree with us.

Waal, after resuming our perch (we nearly fell off in our excitement), we settled down to watch the rest of the play. We were not impressed. That hang-over from the Meds. Ball was painfully apparent. Talk about Limp­ing Lizzies and Dishvag Doras. We nearly went to sleep. Wild hitting and lack of combination was fully exhibitionised much to our disgust. That's when we felt the hay fever, too, so no wonder the world appeared lousy. We were relieved when the game finished with the score 3-1 against Varsity. SHE WOULD PUT WATER WITH

IT. Oh! Just a minute. We've not

finished yet. (Always keep the spicy bit till last, that's our motto.) Who was the girl who nearly shot a goal for t'other side? It was only with great restraint that we preserved the secret of our presence in those tense moments of agony. However, we'll let you off this time, but don't do it again. It's bad for our heart.

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INTER-FACULTY HOCKEY

ROUND I. Arts I. d. Engineers II., 4-2. Engineers L d. Arts IL, 5-0. Vet. Science d. Dentistry, 1-0. Agriculture d. Science, 4-0. Medicine d. Massage, 7-0,

BOUND H. Arts I. d. Agriculture, 6-0. A good clean afternoon's fun

no intestate deaths. The high spot of tho afternoon occurred when Miss

I Williams, of Arts, educed, a sanguin­ary torrent from tlie classic pro­boscis of Mr. Sharpe, of Engineering,

The Arts I. boys played classical hockey, or something. Anyhow, it was classical.

Slant Ai'tes in aeternumi

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Tennis Seconds Fall by Wayside

Surprise Defeat Leaves Two Teams in Grade

With two teams still left in the semi-finals and finals of their respective grades. University may be able to dominate the fixtures on Saturday. Both the Firsts and Thirds are firm favourites among the teams still left in their grades. The Second team was unexpectedly beaten by Easts in the quarter final of the Men's Pennant Grade.

The Firsts received a real thrill and thought they would have a close match when after the first two singles had been played they were five games down. B, Courtice struck no end of trouble when he played Brimson, and for the first time for years he was presented with a "duck." Mann went on looking very determined, and after establishing an early lead had to fight for every point to win by the odd game from Dr. Crouch. Squire went on when we were tlve games down, and in about seven minutes we were one game up, due to the "Bulwark's" steady but terrific play. Cumming swarmed all over Kable and finished 6—1 after a few minutes. Our doubles combinations were too strong for the opposition and we ran out winners by 18 games.

SECONDS COME OFF SECOND BEST,

The Seconds had a lean day in the field and all four players lost their

singles. Singleton supplied very good tents to beat Cameron 6—2. Our doubles combinations were superior, but after three doubles the leeway could not be made and the fourth doubles was not played.

The Thirds received a forfeit from the Fourths.

RESULTS.

University I. v. Souths, 39—21. B. Courtice v. N. Brimson, 0—6j C. Mann v. Dr. Crouch, 6—5; R. Squire V. R. Ellick, 6—0; D, Cumming v. J. Kable, 6—1, Mann-Courtice v, Brimson-Kable 6—2, v. Crouch-Ellick 6—0; Squire-Cumming v. Crouch-Ellick 3—6, V. Brimson-Kable 6—1,

University II, v. Easts, 27—36. C. Murphy v. R. Webster, 4—6; M, Cameron v. E. Singleton, 2—6; C. Roe V. W. Grealy, 3—6; W, Park v. G. Hall, 1—6. Cameron-Murphy v. Singleton-Webster 6—2, v. Grealy-Hale 6—4; Roe-Park v. Grealy-Hale 5—6.

THEY DIDN'T MEAN TO SCORE.

LUCK LANDS Bl HOCKEY TEAM TWO GOALS.

Bl won i^ain against St. Andrews. They are easily tlie most consistent Varsity team, and deserve the lead in the Grade premiership. But they certainly get by witlj some flukey play. T^vo goals came from richochcts early in the first half. The rest of tlie game was somnambulistic and scoreless, although the for­ward line played like the Comedy Harmonists in good voice. If the team devoted less time to

work, and read the book of rules occasionally, umpires would co-oper­ate more and the game would be less reminiscent of an attack of hiccoughs.

Brooks and Cossins gave fair dis­plays in the forwards. The backs were tenacious, although they made

rather elementary mistakes at times. Blind hitting prevailed. Woodhead saved all that came his way. Varsity won, 2-0.

And now, twisting my beard in em­barrassment, I must talk to you boys about the facts of life. All teams are due for reprimands for swearing in a really penetrating way. It cer­tainly shows enthusiasm for phil­ology but, men, we have engineers in our midst. We must care for them as little brothers, cherish them, keep them unspotted. Also, it is getting our teams a bad name.

And, furtlier, it has never been a Varsity custom for anyone but a team's captain to make comments on vlie field on a player's mistakes. Un­fortunately, some members are let­ting their enthusiasm render them too critical. So a suspicion of bad feel­ing, previously foreign to the club, has been begotten.

Finally—KEEP YOUR WIND FOR PLAYING!

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