THE SCIENCE UBYSSE Y

. VOL. XXV

VANCOUVER, B .C., TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1943

No. 28

RED DEVILS DRAFT SATANInvade Commodore Tomorro wFor Annual Frolic At 9 p .m .

Special to the SCIENCE Ubysse y

By IM4LII.REDEVIL

• HADES, FEB. 9, 1943—SNOWED under by old Father Neptune, harassed by conflictingregulations and rumours of rumours, haunted by shortages of ale and beer, and shelle d

by beauty and glamor for the past three days, Satan's little red devils gleefully tossed theirdipsticks and CE30 paper onto the floor and prepared to celebrate for the event of the yea r

—THE SCIENCE BALL AT THE COMMODORE CABARET TOMORROW NIGHT . The

hard-working, fast-t hinking, and smooth-talking EUS braint trust of R.oy Deane, GordonRogers, Stan Beaton, Bob Davidson, Jawn Creighton, Sandy Buckland, Brick Elliot, Mr .

Thompson, Mr . Moore . Mr. Norton, Mr . Narod, and Mr . Bannerman have broken their clam -

like silence to issue the following Order-in-Council :

1. SATAN 'S FROLIC, otherwise kno'vn as the SCIENC EBALL, will he hold at the Cotinno(lore C olhotet Wed-

nesday night .2. Lit red devils will he admitted for St .25 .3. Tickets are on sale from any member of the brain trust .

4. Dress optional .5. Corsages banned .6. Pep meet, today noon. Ap . Sc . 100 .7. Watch for the Science Issue today .8. Mystery prize will be awarded for the best decorate d

table .9. Be respectful to the Discipline Committee .

10. Bring your own . . . . girl, that is .

TicketsIn an exclusive to the SCIENC E

UBYSSEY, genial John Creigl tton—little red devil in charge o f

propaganda—stated that a few tic-kets would he sold to Artsnte n

and Agricultural .students. Pre

ference ,of course, goo: to the

redshirts : but if any tickets re -main unsold or not spoken fo r

by tomorrow morning at 11 :21 1

hours these may he bought b y

other students from lhc: EUS e x

cutive .With the usual confidence o f

forestry engineer . Jack said, " '

know that every Sciencenntn w'h ,

c ;tn beg , borrow, or otherwise ob-

tain the price of a ticket iS3 .25 i

will attend This frolic, he re-

vealed, "will 1,e the most nretno r

;Ihlc one in the liter of the slip -

tick hrignde . "

Tall and Coo l'Mote (If tau will' d .,turd and

whatnottetl at the

St i~ lice

Bai l

nitstt r) price nvYarded for tht '

beat lilt rated t ;ihle . According t o

Gordie Rotten, . Irresidotit or th e

1' :ni ;ittecr . '

Unrlertlrad~t,ate

Se -

ciets'

simil a r prize will ha (a .

hired Oda year . All sea ; ttt sttt~lcnt .

Inl~`tld till( io del',~rale tl t' e C'Itl :n 1

; i c,•<I IC, he dawn early It111rorro5 '

afternoon labs and l'''ures n(t,t -

ithstanilim 'According to the (sl)( r , hie :Inv .

Hunt' atria h :ily,rn, i„tt tha line

ulI of i I i'I•or . tams i

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the

will ; the Mechanicals are perfect-

ina it pipeline to trans mit hea t

from IIell to Vancouver next win -

ter : the Electricals are still think-

ing : the Foresters won't talk : and

the others (including the junio r

tear>:a haven't started .

Dress OptionalAll engineers are reminded tha t

formal dress is not esential . Main

little red devils hat" indicate d

that they intend to wear busine'a

suits . This years policy is this t

no different from that of previous

tears. Yottr El1S executive wis ' .

10 make it clear that SATAN' S

FROLIC formally the SCIENC E

BALI, -(price $3.25) is yoti : '

part : and it 's going to be a de -

InOeratic p ;it•1 y .So wear what yoil want With -

in reason, of course . ( :et in touch

with your best girl friend-or i i

'be is not in town, someone else

',' tits Ball is a alive :led to be fla t

)'EST set i1, too . shall pass, bu t

when you look hack on it .yo a

will recall the greatest revival o f

Science Spirit :lace the c:nn-

l,aian of -,yell

the less said the

bette r

Patrons

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h„nnrnrt.

Sc i ence Hall arc : Ihvnu and Mrs ,T .

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Buck Begets

Blushes A t

Red Pep Meet

THE COEDS on the campus .

shed a tear or two when they

heard that the much-discussed ,

long-anticipated Science Pep Mee t

could my he held in the Auditor-

ium as in the past . Don't blame

the Red Shirts for they worked

hard to put on a Pep Meet just a

little better, yes, and just a little

livtier, for nu,yl,e spicier) than

usual . Blume it on that unpr e-

dictable and fickle weatherman ,

and the coal miners who are work-

ing everywhere but in the coa l

We're sorry Co-eds but we too

are disappointed, for we have bee n

looking forward ' to a comely blus h

or two. Martins ; in the vicinity o f

the nevi : nml :lowly mittrating t o

cast a ruddy glow over those dim -

pled chee p s .

However the Red Devils can't b e

stopped that easily, and the Pep

'meet still goes on . It will he hel d

in Applied Science 100 at 12 :30 to -

day, noon, • and as the space i s

bathed and tho Little Red Devils

will he thug first, well that doesn ' t

Icave maul) roost for Co-eds . Fo r

those who want to come early, the

line will form four deep, and wil l

stretch out ailon the West Mall .

Roy Deane is capably runnin g

the show, ably assisted by one

John %ahinski who is rapidly earn-

ing himself a reputation as a play-

wright . Doing the honors as M C

Will be the perennial Q . Buck (Re -

member that one about the littl e

snake without a pit . )

Brock Hal l

- Opens

Wednesda y

There'll Be A Hot Time .

Films tat

ALL Ar.T n4EN h,QE. ttNflE5)2\ ;3t- r

n The Old Town . To ite♦ 1du : ) r iot

I` tro lls of the

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Page .Two

THE UBYSSEY

---Tuesday, February 9, 1

• Faculties On Parad eForestry Engineering

IT DOES TASTE GOOD IN A PIPE ! "

Join the Picobac Fraternity. It meanspleasant hours in every day—hours of mild,cool sweet converse with a pipe—that com-panion which enlivens company and en-riches solitude .

'Picob&GROWN IN SUNNY, SOUTHERN ONTARIO

• SINCE THE START of the War, 16 of the 2 9forestry graduates of the last three years hav e

enlisted in some branch of the fighting forces . Th elargest number have joined the Air Force and theR .C .E ., but other services include Artillery, Signa lCorps and the Navy .

The remaining graduates are engaged in manyof the various phases of the production and fabrica-tion of the essential war material—wood . Their ac-tivities range from logging of spl•uce and fir to in-spection of spruce wing-beams prior to assembly i n

• GRADUATES FROM the Honour Course inChemistry and from Chemical Engineering ar e

serving in the war in many capacities . Some areengaged in research on war problems in the labora-tories of Canadian Universities, the National Researc hCouncil of Canada, the Ontario Research Foundatio nor in industrial research laboratories . F I f t yare employed as chemists in oil refineries, five o fwhom are at Bahrein Island, in the Gulf of Persia .

Forty are serving Defence Industries, Limited ;thirty are in the copper-zinc-nickel and magnesiu mproduction industries, four others are employed b ythe Aluminium Company of Canada . Twelve are em -played in the production of hydrogen-ammonia-nitri cacid and ammonium nitrate and two in sulphuric

a fighter plane.Earlier graduates have also joined m

branches of the Active Service or are doing essentiwork in Industry or Government Service in thetection, management, production and utilizationforests and forest products . The' Government hstressed the immediate importance of wood ; ►aterifor the war effort and UBC foresters are ably assis tin producing these materials, but are alstpl

. for a continuation of wood supplies whit willurgently needed in the post-war period .

acid plants . Five are employed in the productionpotash, sodium carbonate, sodium sulphate and boTwenty-seven are serving in the paper industrififteen of whom are producing rayon pulp formanufacture of cellulose nitrate .Nineteen •are chemists in food producing t ldustr iFive are employed in the production of synthrubber and ten in various plastic industries . Sixemployed by Government Inspection Boards or`Goveri ment Purchasing Departments .

Sixteen are in the Armed Services, inclu• 'two in the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps .

In addition, many other graduates, who majoreel in chemistry, are s.ervtng in a wide assortmen tnccmical industries .

Chemical Engineering

Mining Engineering

Fraternity find Sororit yPrinting and Engravin g

our SpecialtyDANCE PROGRAMMES

INVITATIONS, 'AT HOME 'LETTERHEAISS an dCIiRISTMAS CARDS

•

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INNOCENC E• AN INNOCENT pre-med stu -

dent (whoever heard of an in- .

nocent pr(;-med student?) woul d

like a date with another innocen tfor the Science Ball . Teetotalers ,

'D.P.'s, Kappas and triflers nee d

not apply. Object—matrimony, I fnecessary . References and inciden-tals on request . Is there some gir lwho is willing to take a chance?"Nothing ventured, nothing gain-ed" . Phone KErr 0000—i faccepte dnickel will be refunded .

Doo Pushers.

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Graphic Engineering Paper, Biology Pape rLoose Leaf Refills, Foutain Pens and Ink

and Drawing Instruments

• METALLURGICAL research in the University ,prior to and in the early war years, proved s o

important in relation to War production, and to meta lplants, that in 1942, it was organized by grants fromDominion and Provincials Governments under . aBoard known as the British Columbia War Metal sResearch Board, which is now in busy operation .

Practical results of these research activities in-clude development of treatment methods for certai nores which can be mined in quantity in BritishColumbia from known tonnages . As a result, assured ,

• IN THE PRESENT war Mechanical and Electrica lEngineers are chiefly concerned with the design ,

construction, and operation of endless types of equip-ment . The solution of the problems confronted i sgenerally beyond the scope of University work . Butsome twenty students in this department have beenassisting an industrial firm of Vancouver in makin gdrawings and plans connected with the manufactur eof war equipment .

About a year ago the need for technical of-ficers in the Royal Canadian Ordnance Corps an din the Royal Canadian Corps of Signals was empha-sized . Quite a number of fifth year students enlistedat that time and arrangements were made whereby

probable and possible productions of such metals ,metal products, as cobalt, tungsten, Nickel and aresnic, promise to run into large figures . And a largtungsten plant is already under construction .

An interesting phase of the work is the inveitigation of metal treatment problems, arising in loeaengineering works, in connection with steel and all ometals . Many of these problems have already b esolved with much benefit to local manufacture . Thwork is rapidly growing . While not spectacular Iwill be of great and increasing economic importanc e

fourth year students might enlist, attend specialcourses for four months during the summer anreturn to the University to complete their final year .Seventeen of the fourth year students who volunteer-ed were accepted . They ali received their commissit)nsand after completion of their final year in the sprin gwill return as officers to active service .

The authorities are quite definite in statingthat Engineering students should complete their Uni-versity work but this plan for saving time has provedso successful that they intend to use it this comin gyear and possibly extend it to other services . Inaccepting it any student is making his finest con-tribution to the war (fort .

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EDITOR'S NOTE—The following gem wassubmitted as the PERFECT acknowledgement to heused for annual theses . Drooling with love, it couldwell be studied by those who pass not by merit alone ,• IN PREPARING this report, the author wishe sto thank particularly Dr . Serganovitch Smith, B .A . ,B .A .Se ., M .A .Sc ., Ph .D., F .R .C .S ., Fellow of the G .S .A .and Hero of the Georgian Days for the assistanc erendered to this grateful and respecting student wh owould like specially to stress the kindly spirit o fcooperation and the thoughtful consideration show nto him during the cold snap when this so noble pro-fessor shared his warm office with the undeservin gauthor .

Deeply I recall the never-failing enthusias mwhich he displayed during those long, trying and Imay say intimate hours when the author strugglin galong with his limited facilities was inspired an dstimulated by the brilliant imagination and endles singenuity displayed by this so splendid and resource-ful geol .tgist, without whom, I may say, the geologi-cal department would be at it loss,

I feel that it is my duty, and it certainly i san honor, to acknowledge his assistance, nay modsthan assistance—say rather direction—which thisgreat scientist, this great intellect, this mental marvelhrs been pleased to so generously endow my efforts .Such a man comes only once in his generation, per-haps once in a century .

I r :YI)ERSTATE :4ENT

He was obviously cast in the same mold a ssuch eminent, and in my opinion, less brilliant geol-ogists as Sir Archibald Fleccme, ('. . K Brawlson, et al .Lest I be accused of dealing rather hastily with thi stribute, for I have taken care to err—if I err at all —in the conservative direction, I shall try to sum th echaracter and genius of this keen philosopher andintrepid scientist by quoting that prominent Icelandicpoetess, Olga Ojijkapoo :

"Brown thumb does not from smoking come ,Nor bronzed probiscu sFrom the Sun . .

}raw true this Is .

estlay, February 9, 1943 THE UBYSSEY Page Three

.Urge United Enginneering ' CouncilEDITOR'S NOTE :—In Publishing this review of Mr. Free -

land's address to the Assoctiation of Professional Engineers inDecember, 1942 we sincerely hope that the undergraduate s

will realize that to attain a singleness of purpose all engineersin every branch of engineering must unite to form a stronglyco-ordinated body—A FEDERAL CONGRESS of ENGINEERS .Once united, the engineers—and not, the politicians and th efinanciers—can direct the sane utilization of our rapidly dimin-ishing natural resources such ns minerals, power, and forests .Mr . Freeland's timely plea is one that should be thoughtfull yread and discussed by all engineers—retired, practising, an dunder graduate .

• -IF THE Engineering profession wishes to direct post -war policies of rehabilitation and reconstruction to obtai n

the sound utilization of the nation's resources, all studen tand practising engineers across Canada must organize astrongly co-ordinated Dominion Council to act as their voicein post-war politics .

Dean Finlayson Looks Ahea dchange of ideas beetween mem-bers of similar professions. Butsince they are disunited they areunable to meet our present ab-normal requirements in full ."

• " DURING the post-war reconstruction period well-traine dand , efficient engineers especially those- with a broad

knowledge and sympathetic understanding of the require-ments of humanity will be vitally needed to ensure a saneadministration of the nation's unexploited resources prophe-sied J . Norrison Finlayson ,Dean of the Faculty of Applie dScience, and Head of the Civi lEngineering Department, in a re -cent interview .

mated that negineers should for mvoice in national affair : .

Displaying a keen interest in th eeducation and training of youn gengineers, particularly thosewhose financial status preventsthem from attending college o rUniversity ,the Dean looked aheadto the day when the engineers ,the state ,and industry woul dmake definite plans to enable anyqualified student of promise t oobtain technical training.

Such was the keynote of th eaddress of P . B. Freeland, retirin gpresident of the engineering pro-fession in British Columbia atthe annual meeting of the Asoscla-tion of Profesional Engineers lastDecember . In his short spicy talkMr. Freeland discussed the motio nof past-president . McNeill, tha tthe present Dominion Counci land members of Voluntary Engi-neerin i, societies should unite t o

form a joint Dominion Council o fEngineers .

In describing the Associations o fProfessional Engineers as tho 'civil

UNION NOWOnly if thoroughly united can

the engineers put up a unitedfront, "especially in the post-warperiod when those returning fro mfighting our battles for us maybe strongly represented . "

"I hope to see the day when en-gineers no longer have to go ha tin hand begging for jobs .

Condemning the tendency o fmost engineers to subordinate th awelfare of their profession to theirown particular job he stated, "w ewoke up suddenly to find tha tother groups who have taken theprecaution of amalgamating re in avastly superior condition to ours ."

servants of the engineering pro-fession ' he stated, "They are theonly engineering groups that hav elegal Provincial rights which en -able them to regulate the entry ofalien engineers into Canada, to se thigh standards for students an dthose entering the profession, an dto prevent possible abuse of privi-lege by some practising engineers, "

"'Though the voluntary engi-heering societies do not have thesepowers they are commendable i nmany ways. They permit the ex -

The Presidents of all major an dminor C.S .E . clubs are requeste dto meet in the Brock . Thursday ,l'ehrurrry A reps-imitative o feach club must attend .

BILL MERCER, ,President L .S .E .

Mother centering room unexpect-edly) : "Well I never . .

Modern daughter : "Oh, mother ,you must have."

THINKING ESSENTIALConfidently viewing the futur e

and with calm deliberation th eDean stated that the main pur .pose of any university trainin gwas to teach a man to think-sane-ly, logically, and coolly .

"The present war-time demand 'for civil, mechanical, and electrtcal engineers may be expected t ocontinue indefinitely, and th eanalytical training that all engi-neers have received tvill enabl ethem to triInsfcr front cane brand sof

engineering

to

i1 th,'r ,ne,Yi SSilry, with little hits et time .

To aside'v : their t„r.itei i in ei 1ing the federal gdverrnncnt to util-ize 1111(1 conserve our resource smost wisely Dean Finlayson inti -

one Is The Day When Joe Was Young And Ga y"He feared neither man nor beast, women nor artsmen . Life

left this world unsullied by the unavoidable association of thoseinance descendants of Homer Artsmen . He died of a broke n

heart—but he was a MAN .

prexy, singing in the GeorgiaBUZZ RYAN—tho best g ong lead-er we ever had .

tables away. Casually I regardedhim. Then not so casually . Thenferociously—the word ARTSMANcareened around in my mind . And later : TILE MIGHTY MIT E

himself (still pure), and a gam eof ten-pins when his thumb gotstuck and he followed the bal lNASH—from the Yukon—and hi swild tales of dark meat . IIOWI EBENNET--a miner who kne whow to enjoy himself. BILLSMITH, WATSON, VIC THOR-SON—a banquet, a beer, A hFuey 's, and then? Also a stor yof a mosgtiito .

Then there was the second yea rScience claw In '38 and a fros hpresident whose pants flew fro mthe top of the Science flagpol e

And lately : A reunion party- -tire remnants of Sc . '42, an dfriends, and a game of "Win ,could hit the yellow lino from ter mstories tip ." SHORTY DEAN war m(with a bottle),

•

• NOW I will tell you younge rSCIENCEMEN and any Arts-

mtn who can drag themselvesfrom their toys of Joseph Blotz ,Sr. My tale is not about thepresent Joe Mote (may his sou lroast In Hell) but about Josep hBlotz, Sr ., his father . You notice .I cursed Junior, for he partlycaused the death of his father—my friend .

The first time I met Joe, Sr . ,was quite a meek lad in second -year science . But I'd been brough tup right, so after the fall mid-erm I staggered down to the then -. ience hang-out on Georgia St .eeling rather low, having beenad on most of my exams, I walk -

Id in . Quietly I sneaked to a11 table in the corner, set wel l

:part from those of husky red -- • etered carousers who calmlygnored me .

I placed a dollar on the table ,'ltd said, "Waiter, bring me te nif your best ale--one at a time . "

His eyebrows raised an inch . 1ordered at, the time, but a min-te later I realized he'd bee n

. .rving these red-shirts by th erayful .

.IAL OUTCASTLonely and silent I sat there ,

end slowly sipped my beer .

Iooked neither to right nor left ,as an outcast ,for I wore n o

ed sweater to bind rite to theothers. As I sipped my ninth ,dill gloomy and unhappy, I fel t

touch on my arm . I turned .jumped. On the chair next t oe perched ii little MAN wh oore a red sweeter ."How the hell did you ge tere I cried in

tren v y .

what MacKenzie King was doingto our medicine supply, he col -lapsed, and it took are severa lminutes and a bottle of rum tobring him around. One moreshock would kill him .

Then, on the afternoon of Janu-ary 9th, Joe and I were sittin ghaving a few schooners togethe rHaving finished the suds on th etable, I called for a couple more .The waiter ;smiled sickly, and said ,"THERE ISN'T ANY MORE . "

I looked at Joe ."No more?" he gasped . With

those words he slumped slowly t othe floor . I knelt over him. Hewas dead .'I sat back in my chair and let

my mind wander over the ex-periences I had had with Joe . Theywere by far the best times I'v 'ever had . Then I thought of Joe' s: :on, Joe Blotz, Jr ., and I cursed .

'It was he that hastened the deat hof Illy beat friend . He it was wh obroke his father's heart . Had hebeen other than a chicken-heartednincompoop, Inc Sr ., would healive today. But when a man' sheart is broken and his only lovedenied him by the r:uvernment ,what is t} ere to live for ?

turned to Joe. He said, "Go ,son, and God be with you . "

"Take it easy, son," he said ,"I ' m your friend . How about - abeer? "

Since I had been brought upright, I ordered a big one fo rhim. He gazed at it a minute ,with a look of profound emotionin his eyes, then with one word —SCIENCE — he raised it to hi elips, and downed it .

At that I turned to him an dsaid, "Sir, who are you, andwhat are you?' By the way h etook that drink I knew he wa sMAN.

`

DOWN TO EARTHWith that I leaped out of the

chair . Wildly yelling "SCIENCE" ,I dove at him . A heap on thefloor, we thrashed madly about.Then suddenly he was up an daway, with me executing a pince rmovement at his heels . He was agood runner, I was tanked. Inseveral minutes I came pantin gback, bloody and proud. As Ireached the door, one of the mostpowerful redshirts yelled, "Heypal, come on over ." I went in-troduced myself ,and started t olive as a MAN. Suddenly I re -membered Joe. I looked for him ,but he was gone .

After that first time 1 saw himoften. After ten beers he'd ap-pear, end then we'd talk as usua labout Wine, WOMEN, Song, an dSCIENCE. Sometimes t h e r ewould be only the two of us ;other times there would be ucrowd of the trusty redzhirts, andwe'd revel till dawn .

Those were the good old days ,and memories still linger of :

"Well, son," he said, "I'm JoeBlotz ; and I'm to the Engineerin gFaculty what malt is to beer, whatNapoleon was to Josephine, andwhat those other redshirts will b eto you in less than fifteen minutes . "

At these last words I sobbeda little and he looked at me withsurprise. "Cheer up," he said ."those lads don't notice you be -cause they don't know you're ahudding engineer . You've no re dhweater, you know . "

With these kind words I perke dup a little. Then he went on ."You must do something to showthen: you are an engineer . "

"How about buying them around?" I asked hopefully ,

"Lad," he said, "you can buy'them gallons of beer (if you canget it) . They'd drink it all right .but they wouldn't take you t otheir hearts as a fellow enginee rYou must do something spectacu-lar that's in keeping with th ehennurahl . profession you hav echosen as your own, "

As I gazed around the well -packed ta'.ern, I noticed an In-sipid-looking specimen

several

ALFIE ALLEN—the SMU Sprexy in ' 28, and a signpost out -side the pub on a beautiful even-ing at 11 :35. J. CAMERON KIN G—his capacity and his love life .GEORGIE MINNS—a logger, hi scapacity, and his love life. BILLCRAIGHEAD--a big and beauti-ful blond whose vices were simila rto Minn's . THE MACINTOS HTWINS--the inseparable Don an .iJohn of rugger fame, and aScience Smoker in '38 . CHUCKLIGHTHAI.I, — one-time SMUS

THE GHOST RiDE SEnough of raemories . They,

make me rue the night I net Joe' ;son in '42 . I was astounded whe nI saw him. Could this be Joe' sson'? Where were the old nr :uc 'sterling qualities? His thirst, hl .spirit, his love of it good shim.joke? 1 was chocked when Junio rhad one beer and their left . I', uafraid Joe, Sr„ was watching in yface, for when I looked at hir ehe sighed .

It was then I iogan to rmoti' ethat Jim was not as perky as li eused to be, and tiler . were worrie . llines on hi .,s forehead . Her didn' tdrink an hcnrtily, didn't chuckl equite so readily Suddenly I reel . .ized that Joe was failing, tmd Ins '

heart sickened within no ,

In the fall of '42, Jim only rip ..

peered a couple of tunes On anutahle night when I' told 111111

NO MORE FORTY SORTIE SAnd so I say . "D;unn Joe Blotz ,

Jr .- -the coniind spirit of Science .Would to God the old days wei rhack, whin I?ni ineem worrie dmore eked ticg satiny arf' .nmrc rin dpulling on pep meek than the ydirt ;timid exams and crunch, an dwhen 1':n ;'ineer :< couli gathe rarotni,l the tap down town and no tworry ;Wont where their nexthear tva, coining front .

"The old order chin,',th, yield-ing {lice to ices —

Will Joe Biotz . Jr inherit an yof ilia fether's giu+lities ?

Will Joe Sr . ge to hell "Sev the Science iaeue in 1944

Page Four —THE UBYSSEY Tuesday, February 9, 194 3

Presidential NominationsAre Due.• CAMPUS politicians re

main silent—too silent asthe deadline fQr presidentialnominations draws to a close.So far nobody—man, Womanor child wishes to becomePresident of the Students 'Council for the session 1943 -1944 .

Students are equally disinter-ested in the other positions. TheGrapevine says that Bob Whyt aof the Unemployment Bureau willrun for Treasurer, Murdo Mac-Kenzie of the Mamooks for LSE ,and Richard Bibbs of the Parlia-mentary Forum for Jttnlot Mem-ber or Preiicient of MUS, andMarry Franklin for president of

MAA .

SCIENCE TRANSFORMS SOVIETEngineers Lead Russia 'To New Power And Prosperit y

• THAT ENGINEERS can also write successfully is provenby Dyson Carter, a Canadian chemical engineer and

author of such controversial, mature, and challenging booksas Night of Flame, If You Want to Invent, Sea of Destiny ,and Russia's Secret Weaopn . A former research worker i nphysical-chemistry and an invention consultant, he is no wa widely read journalist having contributed to such publica-tions as Esquire, Magazine Digest, MacLeans, and others .

In Russia's Secret Weapon (pub-

lished by Contemporary Publish -

ers, 155 Selkirk Avenue, Winnipeg )

Carter explains the amazing transi-

tion of the Soviet Union from akind of primitive peasantry to on eof the world's mightiest powers .In art cxpinnatiun that will appealto all engineers he say, that th eleaders of the Seeder Union havecompletely ;loll ths,rislll,"lly appliedSelene,' to rte,ste , i , ortal, pohtc,il ,

t'(ollolllle ;het lllllll,il

ol'ig,llll/ alt) nof ;1 type fllllle, to he ;et'cil Illlin,5 -

elide . C h arter trrlte :; wilt a simpl eyet powerful style -not with th edet!ichncnt of an (deserver or o fa student but as a militant believ-er, an ardent devotee who has see nthe wonders of the Soviet and i sbursting with enthusiasm .

•

centres the Soviet plan for con -trolling Science called for a lab -oratory in every f9ctory and field .Fifth, research problems were t ocome from industry, agriculture,and the State Planning Commis-sion, "7l DETERMINED NATIO N

In his conclusion, Carter com-pares the Soviet attitude to thewar and the post-war world wit hours . Armed with their weapo nof Science and steeled by fierc ebelief in the justice of their sys-tem, the Soviet peoples fight a sone great heroic army . Thoughour leaders avow the cause o fprogress and draw up plans for thenlillcniton, we are unmoved byvisions of this Utopia ; for though'themes speakers prex'aim free -(tool freedom from hunger an dwant, freedom horn of security fo rell, ireerl)'ln fin' the r,ppresse drave., freedom ()I ' Collaeletlee fieldthought . . . ee are uncertain . "

"That is the ditTerence betwee nits an tithe people of the Soviet .However desperately we reach ou tto feel the shape of the new worl dpromised us, we cannot touch it svague outlines, But the Sovie tpeople have built a' new worl dwith their own hands! While w eguess and hope for a new way oflife, they know it--they have it--they LIVE 'IT!"

Victora Co-eds

Defeat UBC

• FEMININE debaters fromVictoria College defeated UBC

team in a debate held Friday i nArts 100,

0Panda Mitchel and Isabel Cla y

from Victoria College arguing thenegative of "Resolved that Cana-dian National unity can best beachieved by increasing the scop eof Dominion jurisdiction," defeat-ed Panela Seivewright and Bett yTapp of the Women's PublicSpeaking Club .Russia's secret weapon is Science .

This Soviet SCIENCE has brough tabout an industrial revolutionwithin 25 years, has given the So-viet people a new way of life an dthe incentive to defend that newway of life with all the power an dresources of a new industria lnation .

-John Hood ,Science '44 .

SCIENCE GROWS WHEA TClearly and concisely, Carter de -

scribes the Yefremov system o fgrowing whent which has resultedin yields of 200 bushels per acre .(A Canadian. fritter considers 41 1

bushel ; per acre a heavy crop) .Ych chat teas a peasant fanne rWho studied agricltifurn in a rol-

ertlYs 1u ul

chord

Overcomin gtilt'

,meet um, of i,c'd ~n IlIi, and t'V -

pie(-) C alll~Irt e .l -.I-t II11t-Ilt:, Ii i

uulve tht ul :i}:noun) Itrott ;nd pdw

et' of t,nnshwe :lnel eventuall yfound a Wily to irlcre :1Se the a -mount of sunshine available t oeach plant .

Briefly, the Yefremov system i sas follows: Grain is planted ac -cording to the way the sun's raysfall in each particular farming re-gion . "Sowing does not follo wfences or roads or rivers, as Inthe old system, but is laid out b yspecial surveyors who have bee ntrained to know the sun's directionthroughout the season . . . Before,it was not economical to fertiliz egrain fields . Now it has become

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practical to do so ; for Yefremov ' ssystem makes live times morewheat grow on each acre at littleextra cost in machines and labor ."

CONQUEST OF COA LIn the Soviet, low grade coal is

not mined . It is burned under -ground to produce enormous quan-tities of coal gas . "To set a coa lmine on fire you need two shaftsleading down to the coal, and a-horieental shaft -joining the twoshafts . The coal is lighted . Sur-face fans blow air down one shaft.The quantity of air controls th eamount of coal burned and th eheat produced . . . This inferno ofhart trans the nee(' into a gas-

t':urk :l of ii unitotts inIt11it . "

The coal gas produced is used i nthree %%ins . II may be burned i nresttiar industrial remains . It mayhe used in the new super-hot ga sturbines, directly coupled to elec-tric generators which have reduce dthe cost of electricity to one-fifthof that of hydro and steam plants .Finally, the flaming mines may he 'used as vast automatic chemica lfactories. "

Carder also mentions the recen twork of the Russian physicist, Dr .Kapitza, winner of the FaradayMedal . Dr . Kapitza hits developedtt turbine which spine at the rat eof 60 .000 revolutions per minuteand blows air at the rate of 120( 1miles per horn• . With it he wa sable to make liquid air and liqui dhelium much quicker and cheape rthan by the standard methods .With this turbine and the enorm-ous omelets of cunt sits from thei rMewing mitres, the Russian chent-ists were able to make the highes trtlt ;llity motor fuel, explosives, syn-thetic I either, plastic :; . .and a fleetof other products- .

Most Canadians prefer Neilson'sJersey Milk Chocolate for itsdelicious Flavor and wonder-ful Food Value.

STATE MEDICIN Ein the thirty nine pages of thi s

hunk, ( ' ertcr also describe :: the So-viet system i,f state nn'dicine wl' ichuutkcs tee (blest medical servicesavailable to everyone, free o fcharge . Moscow has become therecognised leading centre ill bloo dresearch and is now far ahead o fother countries . He graphically an-alyzes the effects of Science o nthe lied Army: the Civil DefenceOrgauizat ion, which has trans-tul'nled eA'cry ('Iti/l'il ( marl or wo-men) lets, e trainer) ilehtel' ; mar-riage ;lad the ecl10111 ty of Woolen ;and the opllurtllnities everyone ha Slu enjoy mean art, the theatre .the lihr ;~riea, ;lnrl slx,rts and re -(sealinit centre :;,

• S ;V7(.)OTII is the word for anew idea in clothe :; in whic h

tie are t;pecializing this spring . Th etw'o-piece frock, made to be wor nes a suit as well, the jacket linedwith, sttnuner weight silk, and a sclever a sheer blouse as onecould imagine with tiny tucks an dlace insertions edifices of th epeed old cloys . These suit ; eremost effective its light weigh twools anti special odor. ; and oft'hales, and are the most wearabl e

garment one would want . Why• not slop at LAWRENCE studio o n

the third floor of the ARTS AN DCRAFTS BUILDING 578 SEY -i'IOUR ST, and talk over th emolter with Lydia ?

i- 1) t'(',1'I'1( ►NHow did the Rlis:. .) ;, devel„p

terh'IilU ns so elii rk',c :? "The thee--scul Anndcn1y It Science we echant ;'r, ; fr,,lll It society of gray-ht .irdr ;

titee a holy rushing th et a i'

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pen{, .e .

Second, scinute student :• \yore ad -nutlet io uniyeraItws telly if the yshowed ;fo real ;thilt, ; il l fac ewere (Merged, all stall,' t,O ant eIr,ud while they studied .

1'hlyd ,nrlenc~• ?;laden( : ; had to work 'ar ttune Al

uliltat S"

ul

nil f1ll Iii

1'n ;ll'II

tae ;id of a I is rrwetu'c}1

of Purdy's luscious chocolates onFebruary 14--Valentine's Day. Orif you want the girl back hometo know you are still thinking ofher, and that the girls in the bigbad city haven't made any differ-ence ,this is an ideal way . Wha tgirl wouldn't be thrilled whenthese chocolates are tops for vari-ety and flavor—they really meltin your mouth . A dark Phi KapPi wanted to buy his girl a boxof Purdy's candy, but he couldn' tget it himself, so he asked one ofhis married Scicncemen friends topick it up for him . When themarried pal took it home his wife 'spied it and thought it was forher . He had quite a time not onlyexplaining that it wasn't for an yother girl friend of his.

• • • •

• THERE'S a new shipment of ,Gothic brassiere at B. M

C'larke's, 2517 Granville Street ,South. They are tea-rose an dwhite end come in junior an dmedium sizes—32, 34, and 36 . Theyare reasonably priced at $1 .a5

. CL AR.KE'S also specialize i nstiltedly fitting slips and all typesof linr:erie in all styles and sizesand priced for all pocketbooks .

• CASUAL Shoes for casua llion's is the antvyer tU you r

s1I'illg-Ilole shoe prohlenl . Youarc' ilrelhilhly con°+ryinq your las tfew r ats Cnnpin>i for Very :;peeia iut c,i-•ion .; .told so want a pair ofSt1kitisl :hoe : ; that are not the ladllal prn,s ;tic oxfords . Your aria •act call he found on the MEZZA-NINE I''l,,OOR OF RAE-SON ,'}'here yeti will find ;ill styles an itypes of .stunt, :dews ill t"i :dlll' tics ,nu,ccie.ins . loafer;, and tell price det 57 .95 . They curve mostly its ta u

very s .ul ;trt to weer either wit'' iy'otlr IleVC `;1 'lit t suit or for 11)(11' "info) 11111l Weal' MI the eatllpttS ,

• IP \V TO [Neese your girl in.'nil easy !Waal take her a 11115

The I' U .S . will meet it the re-rrention room of the V .G .H. at7'30 pil, Friday, February 12, -is impel tent that all members at -tend end tiring with theta som enrti .'le t'or the family .

Tuesday, February 9, 1943

THE UBYSSEY

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THE UBYSSEY

Tuesday, February 9, 194 3

ENGINEERING KALE1DOSCOP EScience Poems, Jokes and Personalitie s

Little Red Devils. . .' That We KnowROY DEANE-who says his fav-

orite vice is drinking, doesn't talk

so boldly when his better seven -

eighths is around . He's a geologist ,

but has to steer clear of their fam-

ous standards and confne all hi s

prospecting to ham and eggs fo r

the kids . But hang around if you

want to hear the latest about-

EDNA CLARICE-the envy of al l

the girls on the campus, she works

in the machine shop with twenty

MEN. She has to file more than he r

finger nails there, but we hear sh e

can turn a neat ankle on the lathe .Her ambition is aeronautics, bu t

our Science Queen keeps her head

on the ground .

BILL ANGLEY-who graduate dlast year by the grace of God an d

Doc Seyer (the chemicals' persona l

God), can still fling a neat pen, a s

you can see by the cartoons il l

this paper . We thought going toTrail would make him went t o

change to drinking water, at least ,

but we guess he's still sticking t o

El Stuflo . After all, he was thefirst to sketch the El Stuffo ma -

chine ; and it was he who suggestedadding more anti-freeze to th e

formula.

JOHN ZABINSKI - our stron gman of the football field, They

say that Zebu can press half a to nwith the bell-bars, but he never

presses his army pants . We don' tknow why the knees get crease dthogh - perhaps it's from stick-ing them under a poker table ,

and perhaps-

CAMPBELL WILLIAMS - theflash from Nanaimo. He used to be

able to do the hundred in tenseconds flat, but since dissipationset in we're surprised when wesee him not flat . •And talking about

lying on the Chem 16 lab floor-that smell from a nearby flask i s

sure familiar . But we won't saymuch about tam so ho won ' t get

in wrong with his gal friends,plural.

VERN THOMPSON-as one o f

the editors, he's reticent about be-

ing talked about, but we alway swonder about those cousins of hi s

across town . Taking a course in

civil does more than teach yo u

how to hold your own aroun dbridges-you find out how to hol dyour own in lots of other placeswe know of.

JOHNNY BRYNELSON - whenhe ' s sober he can argue with th ebest of them at AMS meetings-even with our Educated Bill, bu t

just let him smell a cork, and he'l lsell Snake Oil in a Swedish accen tto the nearest victim, They have-

n ' t had to burn electricity at theScience Balls for the last ten years ,because he's always been lit highenough .

AL NAROD-the rugby field isn' tthe only place he does his runnin garound. We hear he throws twokinds of a neat piss. As athleti crent of EUS he pr„hrihly thinks he' srecant to de all the liLIcittt ; .

HI1,1, BACKMMAN thee all hi mthe educated E;ngimeg, het th eheight of Iu

we . is

opening a beer bottle with his

teeth . We guarantee he can't evert

read on a non-alcoholic stomach ;and we are wondering where h e

got the money to buy a secon d

beer the other day . Surely the

Alma Mammy Society hasn't pu t

him in u position to stop drinkin g

water .

GORDY ROGERS - that tall ,blonde, good-looking prexy of EUS

is. unfortunately civil in both man-ner and profession . We wish w e

didn't have to draw on our imag-ination and all those things w e

hear about him to give you thereal truth. But we won ' t say any

more-cause he's pretty big .

BILL SMITH-one of th~ bi g

boys of the old Joe Mote era . H e

learned plenty in the mines, an ddoesn ' t confine his prospecting to

nicks . He didn't pick up that Swed-i_,h accent it mn rgasbord, and

yeti win he Sulk' he horned tha tS 1tclt talk faun the reel thing .

(And yeti

.n include XXX i n

that .

MACK "SHORTY" BUCK-he' snot taking part in any extracur-

ricular vtivities this year-say she has too much work to do . We

wonder who he is working on .

STAN BEATON-one of the few

fellows who is both a brain anda d--n (darn) good fellow . He

says he is deaf, but he always

seems to be able to hear those

sweet nothings being whispered i nhis ear .

JOHN SLATER---tall, dark and? .In the summer he spends his tim echasing squaws along the Yukon ,

and in the winter he concentrateson the Kappas. He has an infinitecapacity .

GEOR(ll: "SOUP" CAMPBELL-SKONK---runty, -blonde and beaut-iful . A Chemical who jits like areal jitterbug . His ankle-length'Loot-suit chain (stolen from th echem . lab . and complete with bottleopener) really wowed the girls .

BOB "PINKY" DAVIDSON -(careful on the spelling of Pinky )our star cross-country runner whogets paid for tapping telephon ewires end who pays for trappingtelephone girls when his girl -friend finds out .

GEORGE BRYANT RAMSBOT-TOM FRASER--started to get kid-ded by Walter (our own W . Gage )

about five years ago, and has neve rquite lived it down. But he's agood sport, and he'll do a bayone tcharge in German anytime if hi sfcllnw electricals need amusement .GBR is a high-voltage man an dWe wonder if he stays insulated ,or if he smirks with his Dream i nBlue. We have an idea he's a goo dpicker, and now he dances the weehours away, he's probably quit ean oscillater (No, Joe, I didn't sa yosculator) ,

I1f)N BANNEItMAN-is a mech-

anical that we've beard about . Be -hind that quiet cantouf :age he ca nreally get steam up in the ol dbwler ; and when he does, get a -round, bw flies; it ht circles, but

Protection• 0 GOD it is a wondrous thin g

Joe Scienceman's first mus-

tache ,Its briltles big are just the ri g

For sifting hot caf hash .

Its rugged glory is displayedSo freshette gape with awe ,

He matches strikes upon the spike sThat fringes his upmost jaw ,

He sleeps with his head in a buc -

ketTo protect the pillowslips ,

Lest he turn at night from left t oright

And rip them'all to bits .And, chaining in the survey school ,

Should it be they 're short a stake ,They yank a hair from Joe's lip -

wear ,And promptly all is jake .

. Fog• !BEHIND an acrid cloud of blu e

He tuffs, end, contemplates theic1:'

t)f

~Il

his

cilleat ;uos

sntirkin tfemmes .

Anil scorns , . n h low soh-adul tcreatures .

Behind his newly-muscled bac k

Some bonehead fool essays : t

crack ,

And though their quips are un-

abate d

His dignity Is not deflated .For he is of the stauncher few

who loom above the jabberin g

crew .He sits serene and unconcerningAmid a stench like rubber burn-

ing.

in the shortest distance between

two points .

BRICK ELLIOT-is an electrica lwho lives with more than electron-ics . Last summer he gave ou trivets to the passerboys; but h e

can't give out passes to the rivette rgirls now because of a tie that setsin on most Sciencemen after theyhave had their fling or two. He'sa brick, so we won't throw to omany rocks at him .

JACK HAMMOND-is one of thisyear's artists of no mean ability .The devils on the wall that you'l lsee at the ball (and I don ' t mean

the ones peering out of the wate rjug) will all be his chillun . Andwe hear that he drew them frompersonal experience . He's' not asailor, but he sure manages to kee pa string of gals at every table inthe Caf . We sometimes wonder Ifhe drew any of those attractionsthat the walls of the mechanicaldrayghting room are plasteredwith .

SANDY BUCKLANII-he gets a -

round OK, but his been workin gso hard lately that he doesn't hav eto clean up these mornings aftergetting out of the Georgia gutter .We hnve an idea who he's workin gon, but we herewith put forth apublic warning that he's been ver yronscientiou .s on that triple still i nthe Science basement . We have anidea the profs know what's goin gon, or why would the janitors be~weeping hits into the waste b w-ket every sight,'

KEN lle'rAG( ;AR'r-- is anotherof these herd-rock }„ uyr ; who duets

. .

"I've been misbehaving and myconscience Is troubling me."

"I see, and since I am a psych-iatrist , you want something to

strengthen your willpower? "

"N. Something to weaken m yconscience."

. • • •

At a dinner party in New York

a South American visitor, was tell-

ing about his country and himself .

He concluded : "And I have a most

charming and sympathetic wife ,

but, alas, no children ." Then as hi scompanions seemed t o expec t

further enlightenment, he continu-ed hesitantly, You see, my wife

is unbearable ."This was greeted by puzzle d

glances, so he sought to clear the

matter up: "I mean that my wife

is inconceivable ." Seeing that this ,

too, was not understood, an d

floundering in the Intricacies of

English, he finally explained tri-

umphantly : "That Is, sty wife i s

impregnable ." -Reader's Digest .V k .

When the co-ed graduates, she

reaches the age when her voice Is

changing from yes to no .• . . .

Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star; .

He took rite riding in his car .

What he did I ain't admittin'

But what I'm knittin' ain ' t forBritain .

Evolution of the automobile, ac -

cording to the Pittsburgh Press :1940-No running boards

1941-No gear shift

1942-No tires1943-No car

. . . .

He : "How about a little ride i n

the country? "

She:"Not tonight . . . I 'm too

tired. Let's run out of gas in

town . "

. . . .

Redshirt: "Say, honey, what have

you got on for tonight? "

Co-ed : "Nothing that I couldn' t

get out of for you dear, "

. . .

Mechanical Engineer : "Do you

know what knee action is? "

College Widow : "Yes, and don' t

you try it! "

As soon as gentlemen engineer s

enter a girl's room, they take off

their hate and coax .

his best to live up to the reputa-

tions set up by every Swede wh oventured below the three-hundred-

foot level . McT. lives happily, hig hand low, and we understand hehas a season brass to the Alex

which you can borrow for a abortur two .

ROD MORRIS-the biggest little

man ever to come out of Applied

Science . "Five-foot two, eyes of

blue" and all that junk, notwith-standing Rod has done a marvelou s

job at leadhand in our Hallowe dHalls . Rod is a geolugi-t, but don' t

hold that against hire . Gcsilogists

may have a piece in the sun al--though they arc a trifle slimly .

Roughneck at boarding house :"Brigham Young married tourwives in one day, two in the morn-

ing and two in the afternoon ."Refined sw,et young freshette :

"Good nght!!l!!"Roughneck: "It must have been! "

. . . .

Kate: "So Harry is teaching youbow to play ball?"

Sue : "That's right ; and when Iasked him what a squeeze play

was, I think he put one over on

arse" '

A thing of beauty Is annoyed!forever.

. . . .

They call her 'Checkers' becauseshe jumps when you make a wrong

move.

Then there was the freshman

who thought that a neckerchief

was the head of a sorority.. . . .

He (philosophically) "Why is i tthat you have so many bo y

friends? "She : "I give up. "

. . . .

The main difference between a

popular; gal and an unpopular one

is yes and no .

• • . •

An American applied at the Can-

adian recruiting office to enlist.

"I suppose you want a commis-

sion, " asked the officer ."No thanks," was the reply, "I'm

such a poor shot I'd rather wor k

on a straight salary ."

it it • •

And then there's the one about

the Follies queen who woke up th e

morning after the raid to And her -

self fully clothed ."My God," she screamed, "I've

been draped . "

• • . .

He carne over to see her untilhe knew what they were saying

about her .

She was trying to work her way

through college by selling sub-

scriptions to the Saturday Evenin g

Post. But most of the little ro d

devils wanted to take Liberties.

Notice• NEW dates have bee n

set for the pctures of theexecutives of the Engineer s

and Aggie Undergraduat e

Societies. These will b efinal and unless executive sturn up, their pictures willnot be in the graduation is -sue of the Ubyssey . Follow-ing are the dates : Engineers,

Thursday ; Aggie,' Wednes-day. All are at 12:30 in th ePub .

• THE EXECUTIVE of the ArtsUndergraduate Society wil l

meet in Arts 104 at 12 :45 Friday ,February 12 . The central executiv eun(1 the executive of each class arerequested to turn out . This meetin gis important . Please be prompt .

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Tuesday, February 9, 194t

T HE U BYSSEY

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Pringle Drive. Starts This WeekNimmons Play For "Taxi-Tea-Dance" Fri. At Brock;Tag-Day To Be Thursday

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s

by MAURY SOWAR D

• SINCE THE University gym-nasium will be closed for the

remainder of this week, thus can-celling the scheduled Senior Abasketball game next Wednesda yas well as the Intra-Mural pro -gram for this week, and since ou rMiss Eileen McKillop nelected tohand in her write-up of the Co-e dbasketball garneplayed , last week ,then Inter A basketball will hav eto assume the sports spotlight fo rthis issue .PLAYOFFS THURSDAY

Fortunately, there is quite a bi tof news about the Inter A boys.Both UBC teams, Varsity an dFrosh have made the playoffs, an dsaid playoffs are due to star tThursday night at the King E dgym.

Before their• last game againstSparlings, Frosh were tied withVarsity for third place behind th eunbeaten Higbies and the second -place Gregory-Price team fromNew Wesminster.

Frosh were not quite certainwhether a win over Sparlingswould be to their advantage • ornot, because it would shoot theminto third place and mean tha tthey would have to play themighty Higbies in the semi-fina lround of the playoffs.FROSH MAKE THIRD

Sparlings solved the Frosh pro-blem for them by defaulting thegame. This boosted the first yea rboys into undisputed possession o fthird place and everything seeme dhotsy-totsy, especially for Varsit y(not to be confused with Frosh) .PLAYER MIX-U P

One more cloud has arrived onthe horizon, however . It seems tha tthree of the four ex-Calder boy swho attend UBC (remember th esaga of Don, Pat, Marty an dGeorge) are not eligible to illay foreither Varsity or Frosh . DonPetrie and Marty Martin had beensigned by Frosh while Varsity ha dsnaffled the services of Pat Camp-bell .

The necessary forms had bee nsent in to Inter A officials an deverything was humming smoothlywhen word arrived that the Lowe rMainland Basketball Associatio nhad refused to honour the signedforms sent in by the Inter Aleague .

President Joe Hall of the Inte rA league is working on the prob-lem now and he hopes to have th emotter o ;earecl up by next Thurs-day .

. . . "One of the most

outstanding men inthe University from

the view-point of

character. No man

was more looked up

to." . . . Dr . Frank

Dickson

The following article waswritten by M. L. Van Vliet ,Athletic Instructor of the Uni-versity of British Columbia, asGeorge Pringle 's Basketbal lCoach and personal friend, Mr .Van Vliet probably knew himat least as well as anyone onthe campus. The UBYSS,t Ywishes to thank Mr . Van Vlietfor his exceptionally fine articl eon George Pringle, which wethink you will agree, sheds amost illuminating light on thelife and character o (this ver yfine man .

• A NATIVE SON, George

Pringle was born in

Vancouver in 1913, fromwhere he went to Texad aIsland and spent his earlyyouth . His father, Rev.George Pringle, D .D., wasat the time serving the coas tof British Columbia as the

Captain of a mission boat .Magee High School had th ehonour of seeing Georgeprepare himself for entranceto the University of Britis hColumbia and Union Theo-logical College .CHAMPIO N

While attending the University .he won his "big block" five time sin basketball and was consideredone of the finest guards in Canada .In 1937 he was an outstandin gmember of the Varsity DominionChampionship Team. Also in thesaute year he was winner of th eBobby Gaul Memorial Trophy . Ata student at Union College he was

awarded the Robert H . Morrison

Memorial Fellowship in 1938 .A past of his training for th e

ministry was spent in a missionfield at Robsart, Saskatchewa nduring the summer of 1936, and thesummer of 1937 at Williams Lak ein the Caribou . Previous to thi stime, as a means of paying for hiseducation, George spent five sum-mers in the Campbell River log-ging camps where he graduated a sa high rigger, Rev, George Rober tPringle was ordained on the 13thof May, 1938 .

?'IRST PARIS HThe Bridge River area (Bralorn e

and Pioneer) was his first parish ,where one ten-year-old boy tol dhis father that Rev. Pringle di dnot seem like a minister becauseho was such a good "guy" . In 194 0he was called to Peachland an dWesthank and remained there unti lgoing into active service .

The untimely death of this il-lustrious graduate occurred whil eon operational manoeuvres in thesouth of England on January 24 ,1943 .

lily CHARACTERGeorge Pringle so nearly ap-

proached perfection in all of hi sendeavors that all who knew hi mmade the tame remark, "The fines tyoung man I have ever known, "A shy smile, a determined jaw, akeen and fertile brain, a vigorou sco-ordinated body, and a heart bi genough for any who needed o rwanted the love and care of a tru eChristian---that was George .

He had a personality that spark-ed with wit and friendliness an da character patterned after ou rCreator, Himself .

He cc'aa newer heard to say e nunkind !cord ebent artn1ne, never

• AT TIE FIRST meeting o fthe newly organized UBC

sub-committee to raise funds forthe Pringle Bursary, plans wer emade for a concerted drive to ,reach and surpass the $500 dolla rquota asigned to the University .

. . . "He was ascholarship student ,a truly great athlete ,an excellent minis-

ter, and as far aswe are able to judgefrom these here onearth, the perfect

man." . . . Mr . M . L .Van Vliet

boisterous, yet always enthusiastic ,full of patience, yet quick i nthought and movement, gentle i nnature, and firm in his belief swhich were so soundly based onChristian Ideals .

The Bible suggests a way, o frighteous living and George fol-lowed these suggestions to the ver yletter .

He was a scholarship student, atruly great athlete, an excellentminister, and as far as we are abl eto judge from those here on earth ,the perfect man .

Stop PressThe UBC Students Council ha s

vetoed (meaning last night) th e,proposal of them UBC sub-Commit-tee on raising funds for the Prin-gle Bursary to raise a portion o fthese funds by means of a "Tea -'Ca xi Dance ." The nmtion to vetothe sub-Committee's Nt'apoeal wa spasser) by Council, BILL, BACK -MAN, treasurer of the Council ,dissenting .

This action on the part o fCouncil came cci n great sorpria eand shock to those stir ferns wle iwere errculging the Science Issu edown of the Point Grey News -Gazette . The general comnleu rwas that this move fw counci lwas high-handed end arbitrary tothe 'nth degree

Bill Rachel n, dissenting no-e nher of Council be proxy- on theissue was (t'utted es caving, "I fSluc!ente' Council ).c'I hes t ontalce an tint-and-nut contribn-tiort to the George Prirtt,l .c Bur -sr ry Fund, instead of tr .u,sfcrrin e

money allocated to the amebas e

At first, it was planned to usethe proceeds from the Science PepMeet, which you are probably justgoing to. attend or have just at -tended, for the Pringle Bursaryfund . However, because the Au-ditorium is remaining closed, i twas felt that such at move wouldnot be practical since ' AppliedScience 100, the new scene of th ePep Meet, holds only 250 . Then;was a game scheduled for nex tFriday noon in the gymnasium ,but that has been shelved becaus ethe gym won't be available til lnext week.TAXi-TEA DANC E

HOWEVER, THERE WILL BEA TAXI-TEA DANCE AND ATAG DAY FOR THIS WEEK .

You probably don' t know wha ta taxi-tea dance is and probabl yhaven't been to one, but you mayrest asured that 'it really is some -thing .

The admission is 10c for girl sand 5c for boys (sounds good al -ready, eh fellows) . When yo uen-ter the doors to the ballroom, youwill be greeted by the strains ofmusic as provided by Phil Nim-mons and his Varsity Orchestra .Phil will keep up his solid sendingfor two and a half . hours, th eduration of the dance .10c PER DANCE .

For each dance, (composed ofthree numbers, two sweet and onehot), you will pay 10e and lea dthe girl of your choice onto thefloor . For the girl of your choice,you may choose from, in general .any one of the girls present and ,in particular, from fifty-oddchoice morsels taken from th eranks o fthp Sororities and Phra-teres, who will be present toprovide a nucleus for the dance .TAG DAY THURSDA Y

Next THURSDAY, there will bea TAG DAY to collect moneyfor the Pringle Bursary Fund . Youwill buy your tag from a pairof students, composed of on eglamorous co-ed and one hand -some Big Block member. Largedonations will be acknowledged innext Friday's UBYSSEY .

of war bonds (Bill said this o nhearing that the rumour tha tCouncil may make a donation t othe Pringle fund in the form o fwar bond ;), I personally am • i nfavour of contributing as much a sX100 to the fund . I disagree wit hCouncil's decision

that

t h edance should he disallowed . Ifeel that the Alma Mater Socie .ty should support this drivewhole-hearted . "

The reaction of Lionel Salt ,former senior editor of the prize -winning UBC' Totem, and a closepersonal friend of Pringle's . was ,that he . for one, tad r"c'n GeorgePringle at UNIVERSITY DANCE Sbefore he was ordained as a min-ister, and although he (Pringle )did not dance, he made the roundswith Myrne Nevison, with who mhe used to go around, talking t ohis frieitrle . and ctrnerriilr enjoyi nhimself .

Inter APlayoffsFor Thurs.

F. 0. George Robert Pringl e

George Pringle

. A Short Biography

Page Eight

-Tuesday; - February 9, 1943

THE UBYSSE Y

Saskatchewan Takes McGoun Cu pThe Science Ubyssey

(MEMBE7R C .U .P . )Issued twice weekly by the Students' Publication Board of the Alm a

Mater Society of the University of British Columbia .Office : Brock Memorial Building--Phone ALma 1624

Campus Subscriptions--$I .50

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Science Editorial BoardEDITOR-IN-CHIE F

1,3111 Backman, Forestry '4 3

SENIOR EDITORSGordie Rogers, Civil '43

Roy Deane, Geological '4 3

ASSOCIATE EDITORSBob Davidson, Electrical '44

Stan Beaton, Electrical ' 4 t

ASSISTANT EDITORS

Sandy Buckland, Chemical '43

Vern Thompson, Civil '4 3AI Narod, Civil '44

John Burton, Electrical '4 4

Charlie Moore, Science 4 6

CARTOONISTBill Angley, Chemical '42

REPORTERS

Ken McTaggart . Geology '43

Bert Elliot, Electrical '43

Roy Morton, Science '45

Vaughn Mosher, Science '44

Len Cox. Mech . '43

Franc Joubi n

• Editorial . .

• GIRLS, k your la rt pair o f

Sticking to Tradition• FOR THE fifth consecutive year the engineers have edit -

ed and written their own annual SCIENCE ISSUE. Thisyear the Science Editorial Board have decided to experimen twith shape, make-up and style ; hence we give you the firs ttabloid to be printed'by the Publications Board . We have noapologies to make to anyone for the issue . We are proud o four writers, poets, journalists, and cartoonists who hav eskipped labs and lectures and ignored late lab reports t ogive you your ANNUAL SCIENCE ISSUE . 'Take it away .

Guess Who ?If she calls you to her bedroom in the wee hours of the niceAn thru her half-closed eyes you detect a tell-tale light ,If her bosom heaves tumultuously, like the tide upon the ocea nAnd her voice is .soft and tremulous, betraying her emotion ,If her nostrils dilate widely with each gasping, panting breat hAnd her shapely body trembles as might one approaching death ,If she beseeches and implores you as she grasps your trembling han dTo alleviate her suffering — the tortures of the damned--

BOY, OH BOY! THAT'S ASTHMA AND YOU KNOW IT !

• Slopping With Hairy Mann

Mus Soc Stage ".Pirates''

Tomorrow At 6:15 P.m.One-and-twenty Redshirts"Sing a song of slide-rules ,Of lager and of bock ,In the Mus Soc . "

• THIS YEAR, as• in former years, the Musical Societymembership roster includes a solid chunk . of engineers ,

twenty of them, and one Sciencewoman from the Nursin gcourse . (0 Boy!) Science is represented in every branch ,except make-up and costumes, of the work which has goneinto the production of the current opera, Gilbert and Sulli-van's "Pirates of Penzance," or "The Slave of Duty ."

•

i

nylons nixed, your rayon:wrecked, your silks scrapped ?Don't cry Use a bottle of Hun-

nigcant'.s liquid G"o and thrill you rScienceman Lover . "Remember- -

"Hunnirrgcam's for cunning gains . "• FOR these chilly morning s

wear a pair of the latest re d

flannel ''Thernu,,cal" panties . Al lsizes from one hatchet-handle t othree axe-handles . Also Arts -

men's sizes for evening parades .

• Tired of beer-parlors?Tthe nvisit the Slip Shod Inn, th e

home of the pcntaroniil do-nut and

the hypocvcloid cruller, Their cof-fee will cure that tired feeling r o

other fuelin :ii else valuable fo rrennrvins serial winder float bout _

legged elide rule -

• A '1' .Al .I, prrusid, ~I ( ;<~Ifn 1\1 ,

v-,i, out

vv'it}(

!WI

utc• ba! d&,ittlee're Lac-friend ;, room-mat, .

the other night . As he shifte dgears he rem-eked that I)e likedtaking experienced girls home .When sir e shyly said that sh ewasn'~ experienced, he said tha t

she wasn't home yet. Anndon't forget those cute shoe s

And don't forget those cute shoe sI saw in Say-Son's today . Com-bination wedgies and skis -- an d

: :o darling chic--complete wi d .hwheels for summer wear .

THE NEXT TIME you relax

with a highball or Scotch an dsoda with ice cubes from you r

trio oink a toast to that practica lSikhs, Mete' .

He invented th e1'ir't ice-mckin_r, machine, ;ur ltrios freed moor from depcndin sun n :uoral I ce sources .

RED PIRATESHolmes Gardiner, Electrical '43 ,

has his gang of stage hands bang-ing away like mad with their ham-

mers'on floors, flats, thumbs, andanything else handy, even the od dnail . Rumour, unverified, has i tthat the A-Men in the Armour y

were deeply shocked by the pro-

fanity audible at that distance .

Working with Gardiner are Wal t

Goodwin, Mechanical '43, Perr yHooper and Orville Ontkean ,

Chemical '44, Frank Haney ,

Science '45, and Don Wales, Camp-

bell Warrender, Alec McGinn, an dRoy Jolly, Science '46 .

Science has also crept into th ewhite collar or executive class i n

the person of Ron White, Chemica l' 43, vice-president, who is stil l

looking for the push-button he

thought went with the job .SCIENTIFIC ARTISTS

Numbered among the Artists

(sounds gpod, don't it?) are th efollowing pillars of A p p l i e d

Science : Bob McLellan, Science ' 46 ,who has a leading role as th e

Pirate ,King, chorus members A IDay, Ron White, Chemical '43, Pa tO'Dynsky, Science '45, Len Cox ,Mechanical '43, and Gloria Murphy .

Nursing '47; orchestra membersTed Spaetgens, Mechanical '43, wh o

is concert master, Chris McGregor .

Science '46, 2nd violin, Bill Sin-

Clair, Mining '4$, 1st bassoon ,(you're wrong fellas, it's a musica linstrument) Leo Foster, Scienc e

'46, double-bass, John Carrothers ,Science '44, trombone, andArvi d

Reckston, Science '46, clarinet .

Deane Electe dGrad Prexy• SUPPORTED by a well-organ .

izcd brigade of little red de ivils, Roy Deane, President o f

Science '43, was elected presiden tof the Graduating Claris of 194 3

Other persons elected are vice-president . Bill Smith; treasurer ,Brick Elliott . secretary, Margare tBuller ; Valedictorian. Mac Buck ;prophet, Lucy Berton; class poet ,Len Cox ; and class wilier, Budd yGraham .

Legality of the elections wasquestioned by William Merce rwho bounced in when the elec-tions were being completed .

T,(1ST---Bunk in Bluebird Librar yfolder . Finder please return to M .Wingate, Gamma Phi tnhle .

Here's The Dope• FIRST nighters can see

the "Pirates of Penzance "Wednesday night at 6:15 ,which is exclusively Stu -dents ' night. The ticket officein the Quad will be open th efirst part of the week an dtickets can be obtained o npresentation of the studen tpass .

Tickets for the performance o nThursday, Friday and Saturda ynights can be obtained at Kelly' s

on Seymour for 50c, 75c, and $1 .00 .

The Musical Society has an-nounced that special buy and street

car service has been arranged foron these nights.

The production will last for a

little over two hours and if thepreview which was presented over

CJOR last Sunday night is an v

indication, the opera will be oneof the best ever presented .

Female DevilsAnnounce Ball• TOXIC mixtures of ether an d

Ilsley's best revenue producerwill permeate the air at the Georg-

ia on Thursday, February 18 a t9 :00 p .m . when the NUS hold their

annual dance . The nurses and es-corts will dance to the music of

Fred Hollingsworth until 1 :00 a .m .Dress is optional and corsages

have been banned, in their placeboutonnieres will he on sale at th e

door for fifty cents a piece . Theproceeds will go to the British

Nurses Relief Fund .The patrons are : President an d

Mrs . Klinck, Dean and Mrs. Fin-

layson, Miss Fairley, Dr . and Mrs .Dolman, Dean Mawdsley, Mrs .

Kerr .

• MURRAY was a red -headed hell raiser o f

Science '43. He may kno wsomething about some of theminor explosions which oc-curred in the Science build -ing war' back in '40-41 . Mur-

ray is now a FO. in the

RCAF, Huai beware,

[IBC Wins One;

Loses One

• UNIVERSITY of Saskatchewa n

regained the much-travellec l

McGoun Cup from the defendin g

champions, the University of Bri-

tish Columbia in the annual Mc -

Goun debates last Friday night .

Obtaining seven points of a possi-

ble eight the Saskatchewan ora-tors defeated UBC's travellin gteam of Dave Williams and Jac k

Hetherington and a Manitob a

team in Winnipeg.

UBC's home team of Lea Car-

bert and Dick Bibbs, third yea rSciencemen, won the decision ove r

Manitoba's travelling team of

Morley Kare and Bert Hamilton.The McGoun Cup has been won

twice by UBC debaters; first in

1938 by the Big Four of Morris

Belkin, Struan Robertson, Ale x

Rome, and Alec MacDonald, and

last year by veteran speakers Ro-bert Morris, Arvid Backman, Bob c

Bonner . and Arthur Fouks, who

obtained eight points out of eight

to take the cup from Saskatche-

wan .

• INTERVIEWED In hi s

asbestos - lined Inferno

last night, Satan—proud sire

of all the little red devils—regally decreed that Car-

sages are banned for hisFrolic at . the Commodore

Cabaret tomorrow night .Interrupted by the reserv-

ed yet impish Stan Beaton ,Secretary-treasurer of the

Engineers UndergraduateSociety who reported tha t

the coal stokers had gone onstrike because they were re -

fused the right to organize ,His Highness stated that he

intended to make his froli cthe most democratic of all.

dances—no corsages, dressoptional, price, three an d

nee-quarter bucks.Flowers will NOT be sold

at the door .

A . B .

• THE MOST EFFECTIVE pre -

civilization arm was the how "

t+nd arrow used by pre-histori ::

savages to hunt their prey . Nowa-

days we often gaze on little Dan ICupid--a li'I red devil in hi .;

own right—who scores bullseyestbit.h his bow and arrow and one

masculine arm . For further de-tails read Mary Ann .

• THE SURETE and Scotlan d

Yard beamed when Lombrosopridefully told the world that he

had isolated the CRIMINAL type ,

But, alas, he has a psychologist :

and hence, very, very fallible . Fo rhe did not realize that criminal s

are made; not born . Today al l;woven criminals and some inno-

cents; are catalogued by finger-

printing—a system invented by a nEnrlishman in 1828 . His name wa :;

Pt t i-k in e ,

Corsages Will

Be Taken

At Ddor

MURRAY PICKARD