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Volume XXVIV A MONTH AT VIRGINIA EPISCOPAL SCHOOL No. 3
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THE SCHOOL
A Hymn Is Composed
Early in the year, two boys, Rob- hie Lee and Bill Field, composed c; tune on the piano in the gymnasium. J!r. Banks put the music on paper for the two genuises and later they wrote the words. T he world pre-
miere of the work of the hymnolo- gists came last month with the sing- ing of their hymn by the V. E. S. choir at the regular Sunday service in the chapel.
Cigarette Shortage
A person reads much these days of the cigarette shortage in the 'Cnited States. Life devoted several pages to the story of the shortage. People all over the country are driv- ing themselves frantic in an effort to get a few of the short white "dream sticks."
TheboysatV.E.S.arenodif- ferent. About once a week, the school store gets in a supply of
cigarettes. They are usually all gone after one day. Then the signs begin to show. Again and again is heard the old familiar request. "Lend* me a cigarette, will ya! ?" Long pil- grimages are made to the stores at Reusens in the hope of securing cigarettes filled with stale and rancid tobacco. Pipes begin to be seen in the recreation and V-Club rooms. Country boys bring out their "mak- in's" and give free lessons to all on how to twist 'em. Many boys are seen with great bulges in one side of their jaws. They send forth streams
of juice between gobs of bull. Still after inquiring of everyone in the recreation room whether he has a cigarette, and receiving the uni- ''ersal answer. "No," one can al- ways see cigarettes of a sort. These cigarettes that nobody can smoke are manufactured by VI/. P . Perry & Co., Limited, on third W est, from pillow feathers and laundry paper, on a rolling machine patented by Winfield Massie. M. S.t
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l. God of mercy, God of peace. Speed the day when wars shall
cease;
Give all men the power to fight Satan's works with all their
might.
2. God of mercy, God of love,
Look with pity from above
On the suffering of mankind; Help us, Lord, thy peace to find.
Students Petition For Phone
When the urge became too great for the boys to phone their girls in town every spare moment they had and Dr. Barton clamped down on using the office phone for such calls, Sublett got up a petition to have a pay phone put \\'here the one was last year. Most every boy signed the petition . A committee will be chosen to go to the telephone company and give them the petition. The committee has not been chosen but it will probably be headed by Sublett.
"Mole" Meets His Match
In the gymnasium one afternoon last week the student body and fac- ulty of the school were given adem- onstration of judo. fighting ju-jitsu. The demonstrator was a little man, Capt. Anthony F lores, U . S. Army. The demonstratee or victim of the experiment was V . E. S.'s own Mole Perry,* a bigger man and much younger than Capt. Flores.
However Perry need not feel dis- graced at his frequent trip.; over the captain's shoulder to the hard floor
*Some, perhaps most, of the audience would have prefered the victim to be Capt. Flores sponsor, Mr. Follett.
3. Save our foes and enemies,
Help them Lord, to serve and
please
Only Thee who made us all; Let them not in wickedness fall.
4. ·when these battles all are done, When the prize of peace is won, Bless all men that they may be Strong in the power to follow
Thee. Amen.
of the basketball court. Capt. Flores
is one of the greatest judo experts in the United States as well as the holder of at least one world's record for push ups with the bar bell. He was formerly physical director at Castle Heights M ilitary Academy and, since his induction into the Army, has been instructor 111 judo at several military police schools and at the United States Military Academy at \Vest Point.
Capt. Flores explained to the boys that, before the war, he had taught the softer phases of judo as a sport. Since the war, he has been demon- strating how to use this ancient skill to maim and kill an enemy. He ex- plained that there are seven blows possible which will kill, but for ob- vious reasons he declined to demon- strate. He also pointed out that judo was not originated by the Jap- anese. Like most Jap skills, it was borrowed from its original invent~ ors, the Chinese.
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tion, the captain proceeded to show Mole that he was absolutely helpless in the hands of a judo expert, no matter what kind of a hold he was allowed to take first.
Perry's manhandling over, Capt. Flores answered such questions from the boys as he felt safe to answer without running into the danger of having indirect murder on his hands.
his preliminary
explana-