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THE
VOLUME XXV
NUMBER 7
dunng the past week. Vice-Presi- ~ent Garner has !?resented to the
W'qr :!lrtrnr
FEBRUARY 16, 1940
ALUMNI NEWS '19
Hardy Cross Dillard, assistant
professor of Jaw ~t the University
AN ALUMNI REUNION A Short Story
by
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EDITORIAL BOARD
HENRY C. BouRNE, JR.
Editor
F. M. SrMMONS ANDREWS..................................................Managing Editor
GEo. WI-IITAKER ..........................................................................Photograpl1.er MR. W. H. ARMSTRONG......................................................Faculty Adviser
of Virginia, and D1rector of the In-
stitute of Public Affairs, on Febru- 1fr wAS around three o clock one ltbrary a c.opy of h1s ne'." biography
T. H. PARTRICK B. F. REAGAN
R. T. STONE
B. c. CLARKE
D. F. LANGHORNE
C. R. W. ScHoEw R. A. RILEY
E. S. PEEL
K. F. BROOKS
R eporter&
On the main street, m the bus1- an mformm~ picture of.a remark- ness section of town, a man slightly able ~eade; 111 the financtal and in- past middle age emerged from the dustnal h1story of. the coun.try. To door of one of the city's foremost quote f;,o~ a .review of. th1s biog- businesses. He was a rather large raphy: With 1ts many hitherto un- man, with iron gray mustache andIpublished pho.tographs, and its hair and dressed in an excellently wealth of s1gmficant new material, tail ored gray business suit. A s he the book sh.ould interest all ~hos~ to was swept along into the .bright su.n- whom J. P1erpont Morgan ts still. a
shine, he had a very sati~fied smile J(Otent legen~l, a~,d are characterts-
important transaction and his cares Young Melbourne by Lord DaVId were over for the w:ek-end. Walk- Cecil. The latter is considered by ing along the once-familiar streets, critics. all over the country as the he seemed to be visualizing himself best b1ography of the present day.
in his student days at the Univer- Also, the new World Almanac, sity. He looked askance at the new 1940, and a copy of Brewe.r's ~a~d­ shops and buildings which had dared book of Famous Names tn Ftctlon
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P. C. RoBINSON BUSINESS BOARD
EowARD A. MITCHELL Business Manager
H. B. THOMSON ................................................Assistant Business Manager W. J. LoNG ........................................................Assistant Business Ma.nager W. B. STALNAKER..........................................................Circu.lation Manager
T. S.
Entered as second-class matter September 28, 1928, at the Post
Office at Lynchburg, Virginia, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
THE WORLD IS GOING TO THE DOGS7
Most of us are inclined to look upon the outside world as a pretty dark and dreary place. Twenty some years ago everyone was thinking that things looked pretty bright. Germar~y had been driven to her knees, an;I British and French diplomats had unposed peace terms on her that 1t would take exactly twenty years to throw off. y.rell, the tw,enty y~ars are over and history has repeated itself so far tn Europe. 1he Umted
States got in that war long ago, but really arrived too late to do any good, according to the British and Fren.ch .military lea~ers. They won
the war. We didn't have anything to do w1th It. Our Prestdent, Woodrow Wilson tried to make a peace without victory, but no!-Germany had to be J;umbled. Well, now they are paying. Surely it is no concern of ours. What did they expect Germany to do, lie on its face in the mud and not try to get up? It had to turn to somebody. Hitler is not a great man; he is a product of the times.
We ought to have learned our lesson, seen the results of our inter- ference in European politics. Our ways of thinking and our ideals are different from theirs. We wanted to give Germany a fair chance to come
back, not to make her desperate. We don't understand Europeans; they don't understand us. England and France are continuing their subjection of a nation that won't stay subjected. We don't want to help. We must not help. Let us stay over here on our side of the water. You may argue that European trade is necessary for our welfare; but with only a small amount of European trade c mbined with the yet-to-be-developed South
American trade, statistics show still a balance in our favor. We do not advocate severing all relations with Europe, but all entangling alliances or ·interfe1·ence in European politics (as the Father of our Country so aptly put it) should be avoided.
tJcally Amencan.
Other books ~hat have been pur-
RoBrsoN ..............................................Assistant
Circulation
Manager
on his distinguished lookmg face-
the air of the successful business
man who has just completed a big chased for the library are Treasure deal. And indeed, he had a right Island, the great adventure story by to this air, for he had just closed an Robert L. Stevenson, and T~e
William K Langhorne was re- view, things don't seem so bad after all. What if Roosevelt is running cently elected president of the Inter-
Thus if we look at this old round world from an American point of the country into debt to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars?
That's not a bad as losing thousands of men in some petty political quarrel. What if we have thousands of citizens on relief? That's better than having our mothers and sisters in constant danger from bombing raids. We really have a Jot to be thankful for-if we keep it that way and don't go blundering into affairs that don't concern us, affairs about which we really don't know the true facts. This old country is a won- derful place if we just have sense enough to enjoy it. Our values are different from Europe's. Wars occur over there with the frequency of
football games. And they call football brutal.
Even if we must glance at European affairs, there are plenty of optimis- tic turns to happenings over there. Little Finland, though pitted against the cumbersome Russian Bear, seems to be holding her own so far; though for how long is very uncertain. Faint rumors keep continually coming out of Germany that the Government is weakening. The fact
that she has made everal offers for peace proves something of the strait that she is in.
Before the World War the allies informed the United States that they were sure to be defeated. They appealed to the United States to save
them from total annihilation, and we responded. After the war it was a different story. As we have said, according to them we arrived too late. The war was won just before we got over. This is just another of their tricks to suck us into the mrelstrom of war to further their interests.
This same old propaganda machine is beginning to work again and we are already feeling its effects; but we are twenty years wiser. Some are bound to be swayed, but let us keep our heads, and this will be a wonderful world.
As one of our number said, "Let's quit hulling and get to work." We are the ones who will have to go. We ought to fight-not men, but fight to enjoy our privileges as Americans. We aren't going to any dogsI
Fraternity Council at the Univer- sity of Virginia.
'38
Angus Echols and Robert Ristine, students at University of Virginia, visited school for the Miller School- V. E. S. boxing meet.
'39
was named Jackson, "I graduated wall? Well we told him to JU~P intheclassof'92." · ! d But10
FRANCIS HARRISON,, '34
ary 2nd, made a talk to the Lyfl:ch- Jlwarm spring afternoon and the,by ll;larqUJs James..It IS a natural
burrr Women's lub on the subject streets of the old college .town were and m.formal portrait ~f one of the 1
of ';',Education and Politics." He bustling with excitement 111 prepara- 1mo~t. was introduced by Mr. H. W. Matt-
field of V. E. S.
'23
Shepperd Strudwick has ~ star- ring role in the curr~I?t ,r;1ov1e pro- duction, ''Congo MaiSie. He ylays the part of a young doctor m an African jungle who was saved from death by his worst enemy.
'24
Robert C. Taliaferro, graduate of
the Universities of Virginia, Lyons .and Paris, is a tutor of Greek and mathematics at St. John's College,
in Annapolis, Maryland.
'26
Douglas M. Braxton is associated
with the Liggett & Myers Tobacco Company, in Oxford, N. C.
'27
George H. Boyd is rector of St.
Peter's Church at Perth Amboy, New Jersey. . .
Harry H. Russell, Jr., 1s a semor engineering draftsman in the United States Navy Department, Norfolk
ravy Yards, Portsmouth, Va.
'28
Edwin R. Carter, Jr., is now rec-
tor of St. Luke's Episcopal Church in Richmond, Virginia.
were hurrying to and fr?,. int~nt Puh_tzer pnze wmner, i~ the author 1
upon getting ready for tl?e. 1111trat10n of The Raven, the biography of of goats into the frater.mttes. Other Sam Houston, and also of :1ndrew students, who were neither so for- Jacks01:-The Bord.er Captam-The tunate as to be fraternity members 1 Portratt of a Pr~stdent.
nor so unfortunate as to be the The second g1ft w.as an auto- goats, were bravely carrying on try- graphed copf of f. Pter~ont Mor-
ing to be nonchalant about not be- gan, an lnttmate Portrmt, by.the E. ing among the favored. . . autl~or, He.rbert .L. Satterlee. Thts 15 b.
Important men m American tion for the week-end. Students poh.t1cs to~ay. ~r. James, twice a
Haywood Weeks is in the bank- to supersede the old familiar places have heen bought.
ing business in Kinston, North he recalled, and he grinned boyishly
Carolina. as he remembered some spot where "Well, since you are a member of
'31 long before he had seen or done the fraternity, I guess I can let you Caskie Norvell and his wife vis- something that had impressed him. in on it. You see, in '15, we took in ited school on Sunday, February People whom he passed on the only a few goats, and so we figured
11th. street turned for a second look at up a very potent initiation. Of
Tom Bost is assistant sports pub- this man who was striding along course, we went through the regu· Ita!
licity director at the University of totally oblivious of the mob around lar rites, but it was so short, we North Carolina. him. He seemed to be enjoying decided to have some fun later. I G
'34 himself, and indeed he was having remember that night very well, al· Harry F. Langhorne is in the de- the time of his life. though it was nineteen years ago-
partment of meteorology of the Pan- American A irlines in Baltimore, Mel.
'35
William T. Heilman is a partner in the Wildwood Advertising Serv- ice in Wildwood, N. J.
Fairfax Gray Drewry is stationed on the battleship, U. S. S. Phila- delphia, with home base in San Pedro, California.
'37
Bernard L. Reams attended night chapel service on Sunday, Febru- ary 4th.
Finally he recalled himself from in fact, exactly nineteen years to· his reverie with a jerk, and was night.
greatly surprised to discover that he "We had one boy who was very had been walking for almost an hour high strung, but he was sassy too, and a half. Because it was getting and didn't take orders very well. late, he took a taxi to his hotel for a He knew all the answers and almost quick cleanup before dinner, since broke up our initiation. Then we he had been invited to dine with an held a council of war, so to speak, old acquaintance. to decide what to do with him to
When he reached his hotel he de- scare him. But nothing seemed to cided to go to the hotel bar for a faze him. We took him out to the quick pick-me-up before dressing. railroad station and tied him on to The spacious bar was crowded, but a side track, but when a train a~ he managed to squeeze in beside a preached, he only laughed a~ well dressed man of about thirty- kidded us about trying to scare him five. He paid no attention to him with anything that old.
until he noticed that the man was "At this we became more deter· staring at the fraternity pin that he mined to fix him. The fool! If only was wearing on his vest. he had pretended to be scared! But
Suddenly the man at the bar he didn't, so we took him on.to t~e spoke, "I beg your pardon, sir, but roof of the library, on the sidebe~
did you go to the University here?" that deep lily pond. You.rememthe "Why, yes," said our friend, who that tree right by the side 0~
tr
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go It14 lllled
ing squad at the University of Vir- booth. . .
1 screamed and shouted for h~.P· he
when we started to grab 1mr to laughed shrilly and marched o~e rd
the edge and jwnped. .W~er~ve him splash and then,hts]eastyou voice floated up to us. A~ water guys might get us some c ean da!11n if you want us to take a
bath!'
"By this
gm1a.
Buddy Heald is out for freshman
track there. He was also out for intramural boxing and won a fight.
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Mr. Julien C. Addison of Lynchburg was appointed to fill the vacancy created by the resignation of Bishop Jett as
Chairman of the Board.
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