SEMPER FLOREAT

Organ of the University of Queensland \;;> Union* \

^ol. XXIII. No. 2 THURSDAY, MARCH 26, 1953

Registered at G.P.O., Brisbane, for transmission by port as a periodical.

Row, Row, Row, Your Boat. And Let The Drowning Drown

One of the most nausecsling and disgraceiul episodes in the uninspiring history of Union l ^'•'"''' 'cver.-eci Ha earlier decision Council occurred at the first meeting of 1953, on Tuesday the 17th of this month. We refer io ihe vociferous and petty objections raised to the sending of financial relief to Butch students v'ho were victims of the recent floods.

npHE whole piffling episode began| desperately for the bank, watching | quarters of an hour is not yet estab-•*• when a letter was read from | his aged grandmother drifting out l,S.R,»(the Behind-the-Iron Curtain' to £ea. «fiuivalent to our W.S.R.) asking j t, , , , -whether Queensland students ]jc\^ovf h0^ff Is low? prepared io contribute to a fundi Miss Maricn Bairy (Commerce, organised ly l.S.ll. as relief foriEveningJ proposed that Union dele Cutch students.

At once '.ve v.-cre treated to the ia"i?piring sight of delegate after cieleeate leaping Ic his Sect to pro­test al the heinous idea of co­operating with a Communist organ-inaticn in any cause wliatsoever This attitude is at ]i;a.st under-siaiidable; what, however, is not at all under-standaWe were the stren­uous objections of a large pavt ol Council to any form ol aid for the flood-stricken Dutch.

Let The Blighters Sv/lm As an alternative to donating

through r.S.R., it wa.« proposed that W.S.R. be requested to deal with the matter. The particular province of W.S.R,, however, lies in South-East Asia, so the .suggestion that Queensland should send a donation directly to Holland was made. It was speedily howled down, Mr. Pyle, of Engineering, stating that, In his opinion, the seriousness of the Dutch floods had been greatly over­rated. No doubt he would have thought so had he been swimming

lished)—and could the motion please be put again. He pcjnlccl out, amid aioaiis, sighs, and yawns, that apart froni the moral i.ssue or extending aid to distressed fellow students, we should watch the publicity ansle

gates be authorised to canvas for i (Mr. Trilje ts joining tho Drama ti donations towards aid for the DutcSi. j Society), How cmbarmssing it would Her scheme was welcomed by Mr,' be if the Ccmmunists used our re-Low (Eng.) with the sublimely al- j fusal o: aid as a piop;iKanda wca-truistic ancl veiy sweeping statement pen ag.iinst us—as well they miyht. that:

"Spcakin,]; for the Engineering undcrjjratJuates, I can say that no donations will be made." Bravo' Mr. Low you seem to be

able to tal:e the attitude of the yteascr.s very much for { ranted.

No doubt swayed by the convic­tion of Messrs. Low, Pj'le, and Co., Council, after much binding in the mar.sh, voted solidly against the motion that aid in any form be ex­tended to the Netlierlands flood victims.

The Tribe's Corroborree At the tail-end of the meeting,

wlien those of the zealous and keen delegates who Vi'erc not half-asleep had lelt, Mr. Tribe moaned sadly and drowsily that he had not heard the arguments over aid for the flood victims—(What Mr. Tribe was do­ing during that particular three-

Council, tired and tearfully pen-

and authorised an appeal within the Univer.sity. guarnntceing a minimum of fifty pounds. A magniricenlly <4cnorovis gesture! — Well, damn you, isn't it? Mr. Tribe, to his sur­prise and shocited confusion, found himself ai pointed Director or the api;eal,

Bo.\es will be appearing during the ne.vt lew days to receive what­ever you may care to give- Sem­per rcsFecttutly su.jgists that all of us could well spare sixpence or a shilling, Ior what i«, despite Mr. Fyle's and Mr. Low's assertions to the contrary, a very worthy cause.

Council Cackles On Selected snippets from the Council Meeting of the 17lh of

March.

Commem. Ceremony: I hand, and sobbed, "Reprieve! Jic-Council came as near as is poss-|P-'evc!,I.;f''fis innercent. innercent

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You'll get your £50 — now stay in there and swim t

Stop Press—

DROWN AND DAMNED

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SUCH, apparently, is the attitude of the elected representatives of

the Engineers—Messrs. Grey, Pyle, and Lov,

These gentlemen have added lus­tre to their laurels by entirely re-fualng to co-operate in the Council' sponsored appeal for Netherlands flood victims.

The Appeal's organiser, Mr. Tribe, was sanguine enough to ask for their help, and was arvswered, first­ly by downright discourtesy, and setnndly, by frenzied trips to Un­ion Office on the part of Mr. Im, 'Who has made himself a ridiculous and childish figure of fun in his

. efforts to protect ibis consltuants' pxrses, I

Bad cesa to you, Mr. Low; why these desperate attempts to kill the appeal before your faculty has had the opportunity to Judge Its merit for itself? If the 'varsity ITatlonal Service Trainees out at Wacol can part with their hai'd-earned slUcr, why tho hell can't you, and the rest of the Engineers?

A brickbat too. for Mr. Gray) who tried unsuccessfully, to xise the loudspeakers at last Commem. Prac to inform the assembled bods as to what he and his confederates have decided Is the Engineers' policy on the Relief tesue. Guard your pen­nies. Mr, Grey, we hear rumours of a price rise in natty gents' hat­ting.

ible to a spirited and lively debate ^ »ri'"'*^ ^^•" in the discussion that cenlretl on the admission of the ordinary or common or garden variety of un­dergraduate to Commem. Cei-emony. Mr. Hoci:ing pointed out. amid fer­vent cheers and loud hcar-henrs, that though the Senate mialit dis­agree, the ceremony is a University function, nnd not an exclu.sivc Sen­ate ond giaduand gnt-togeiher, .Students, as well os members ot iho Senate have the right to watch and applaud their former fellows receive the fruits of their labours;

Ml-. Armstrong (scab!> cicsciibed a certain type of male undergradu­ates as "mug-lairs", adding that the venerable speakers violently dislilccd their lengUiy and oltoii boring ad­dresses being interrupted ty such foul and disgusting words as "Bul-)o". —Hocliing (in all innocence*. "What docs that word mean?" In reply to Mr. Ar.mstrong we point out that in Glasgow tho worthy Deans and Profs, submit to much more vigorous mal-treatment than an oc'onsional flour-bag or inter­jected "Bullo", without apparent peiinanent loss of dignity.

"Anyway," said Mr. Auty, "why don't we storm the City Hall; why should we crawl on hands and knees for our rights?"

Hocking, "We have no rights" Auty (continuing), "At least we

could stage a rival Commem. Cere­mony, and picket the City Hall, ceremoniously dumping those gradu­ands who scab into the fountains, complete with cap. gown, and de­gree." ,

His scheme, though basically sound and commendable, had re­grettably to be dismissed as im­practicable—mainly because of the limited accommodation of the foun­tains.

In the end, Council repassed, with acclamation, the motion, "That this Council wholeheartedly endorses its previous decision in pressing- for the admittance of students to the Com' mem. Ceremony." Rabin Reprieved:

If any of last year's types are still living, they may remember the Censure motion brought against Zell Rabhi. then editor, for his pub­lication of the Sports Blues before tho Sports Union had officially ratified them. The publication was due entirely to a misunderstanding too Involved to be fully comprehend­ed, and after much heated and of­ten petty, discussion, during which Robin wept imrestralnedly with Bhame and remorse, the motion was withdrawn by its mover, and sec­onder. w|iQ were—guess who? Uli-huh, Mr. Low and Mr. Pyle.

Rabha, asked to comment, brush­ed away his tears with a shaking J

{Ictitlicn and Keprchensible: —such Is Union, and Union Coun-

lil, according to one good Christian j'outh. who recused to pay his Union fees, but who saw no objection tc don.ating an ctiui"alent sum of mon­ey. I.s this cournscous conviction, or a rather dist.isteful brand of casuistry? We incline lo the latter view.

On The Streets: Union College is io join the solic­

iting and begging band of doubtful c!own-and-o\uers. in j)rdcr to ob­tain funds for tlie building of the i new tolloge at St, Luci.i. Lnnd has [ been allocated, and a committee of. inacti-scci con-men is to set about i raiding the necess.iry £200,000. | ^

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"PERSONS AND PERIODS

(20ME of our Colleges still persist ^ with barbaric initiations for fte- hers, who must wear black bow-lies, must not walk on front lawns, must not smoke pipes, must take mud baths, must swallow live worms, jniist call seniors "Sir,' 'and revere the college head.

Which reminds me of a true story. .Some years back a lousy fresher (complete v.ith pipe. ,in a forbidden area, disrespectful, etc.) blew up to some final-year Meets, philosophic­ally exchanging the latest yarns, and yelled, "Hey, have any of you bastards seen Cascara?" (the college head).

His atonement lasted nearly three years.

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•pOR singleness of purpose (Sir) • Geo. cridland is h-<ird to beat. It has now been established that George is;—Associate to Mr. Justice Barry; the St. Lucia Evening Vice-PresHlcnt; the Local Secretary-Tre.'isuier of N.U.A.U,S.; the Sect Of the Rcvuc Scciety; the Sect, of the Men's Club; the Sect, ol the Union Coilege Students' Club; thla year's Convenor of Commem. Pracs; the Convenor of the Arts Float; the Editor of the Arts Magazine, and a sergeant in the Regiment. Sir George is an Arts Law Student, plays A grade football for Univer­.sity, ai\d is treated by a psychiatrist twice a week.

:1: -.!: ^ T USCIOUS younjf thing attached •*-' to a lorgnette, a society do, was silting near a plastered footballer. The conversation was conspicuously conge.iled — enter gayly sozzled society dolls squealing "dar-IJng, you look sliattcrin,?." Lueious young thing pricks up her ears, elevates her lorgnette, arches left eyebrow, takes deep breath, drawls "Who's that ovnh thar?" Flustered foot­baller lights up. squints beerily. dramatically uses forefinger and thumb as monocle, and electrified the paity by bawling, "Ovah thar? —if 1 know" (black mark].

Love and Kisses j Mr. Slaughter |

We are pleased to be | able to report that since j oui first issue, the po-wer of j the press hcis been anaply | demonstrated. As c restdt | oi the front page cnrlicle on l

J the Dramatic Society and i I the City Hall Mr. Slaught- j I er. the Town Clerk, has | I very decently co-operated j i to ihe fullest possible eX' ~

tent; so, God -wrilling, you . may expect to see Fry's . I play "A Phoenfac Too Fre- | I qnenl" in front of the City I ! HaU on the night of Wed-f nesday. 29th April.

I We, luva f Slaughter.

you. Mr.

C. (Ior Chastity) Hocking ever appointed Vice-

Principal of EmmanuBl College? Fanatically chaste and feverishly

teetotal, he is obviously the last person on Wickham Tee to know what goes on in colleges after dark. How can he be expected to keep order, serenity and virtue when he does not know what their alterna­tive is?

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AT the Men's Club Annual Dinner •^ last November, Judge Barry's terse comment on Semper Floreat was worth recordhig, " . . . more de­famatory matter to the square yard than any other publication in existence."

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ODIOUS and offensive notices are again reappearing. The library

tycoons with their policy or "Apar-thied" have decided to separate staff from student by giving the former an exclusive staircase to the library.

One wonders why such humbug from the ever-growing St. Lucia bureaucracy is condoned.

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This space had been intended for a shud-deringly intimate ex­posure of organised vice within the Uni­versity.

Stephen Chast i ty Hocking intervened, forbidding, in a high­handed and auto­cratic manner, the publication of Sem­per's scoop of the year.

However we too have solicitors, and an expurgated, un-Hbellous version of the article will ap­pear in our next Is­sue.

WATCH FOR IT!

Politics and the Church The followririg is a condensed version of an address q[iven by the Rev. Mr. Darke at St. Lucia

on Friday last, sponsored by the Socialist Club.

It is to be regretted that Mr. Darke had as a n audience three or four haU-fiUed rows oi Half-dead people, a large numbar of whom seemed to have wandered in lo eat their lunch, and were unable to escape in time to avoid the meeting.

Here, for their benefit and yours, forms of Socialism including Com-Is the pith of Mr. Darke's speech; munism as well as forms of Fas­

cism. Naturally, any plan which has

No Comment

For Your Information THE Australian Committee for

World Sludent Helief chose to include In Its programme for 1951-1952 ^n appeal for medical equip­ment for the Asian students' T.B. Sanatorium, Peking, for which plans had been drawn up.

While the Australian Committee gives its main support to the inter­national relief programme of "World University Service ioeneva), it has been free to select projects from other programmes. It was hoped that, by selecting the Peking Sana­torium from the programme of In­ternational Student Relief—which

everj- shade of political opinion would be encouraged to support one or ttie other of the appeals Included in the total Programme of the Aus­tralian Committee.

As a result of the 1951 api>eal £1D2 was contributed for the Peking project, and a further amount in 1952. Both I.S.R. and the AH China Student Federation were informed of our intention to despatch articles of medical equipment, including a thorasbope. ,a bronchoscope and an electric sterilizer.

However, all efforts on official

It Is unfortunate that in all dis­cussions of Politics and EcUgion vio­lent emoflons are so readily arous­ed. No »ne knows betcr than the re­ligious or political propagandist how the skilful use of words can be the means of ministering to peoples pre­judices, and of achieving specific objects, such as winning an elec­tion or defeating some measure that is disapproved of. Say "Roman Catholic" and the respectable pro-tcstant begins to look and feel mur­derous. Say "Communist" and he prepares to roll up his sleeves. Say "Capitalist" and tlw starry-eyed young Communist has a fit. Ring the changes on such words as "De­mocracy", "Totalitarianism", "Cap­italism" and "Communism" and the emotions of multitudes of usually reasonable people will be so stirred as to produce some extremely ir­rational consequences. The truth is that the vccabulBtly of political thovght is not sufficiently precise, aiid the meaning of political terms varies according to the user ot them. Take a simple phrase Uke "Democratic Rights" and iniagino a discussion on the phrase in which the parties are a Trade Union sec­retary, a Communist, a Millionaire and a" labourer out of work. It is obvious that they will not agree on a meaning to tlie phrase which can be accepted as completely as each would accept the meaning of "A pound avordupois."

It would seem, therefore at the outset that tho Church has a most important function to fulfil in crit­icising, not the terms in use by poli­ticians of all schools, but in insist­ing that they be used with real meaning and not as catch cries to inflame prejudice. Political terms, and the ideas they connote, ought to be as capable of exact meaning, so that whoever uses them means the sajue thing, as any scientific* or mathematical terminology. Further­more, the Church could (by virtue of her position above and beyond politics) direct men's thoughts be­yond the mere vocabulary of poli-tivs, to the fundamental implica­tion's of the political ideas which such words express. Of the Church's right and duty to do this I will say nothing myself, but will quote Our Lord's words to the Pharisees "When it is evening ye say it wil! be fair weather; for the sky Is red, And in the morning it will be foul weather to-day for the sky is red and lowerUig. Ye know how to dis­cern the face of the heaven but ye cannot discern the signs of the times."

has a Provisional Administrative f"^»ncfficial levels to arrange for iius a jTiu. . I jj g transfer of the goods and to en­

sure their dellverj'- to the Santorium and their ultimate use for the pur

committee set up in I.U.S. Prague, that channels of communication with fellow students in China would be kept open, that we would main­tain some link between the 'Eastern' and 'Western' parts of the world, and that Australian students of

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pcse intended by the donors have failed. Further, in spite of re­peated enquiries, no information has Ijcen forthcoming from Prague or Peking about the progress of the Sanatorium though a recent letter to the Melbourne University S.R.C. from the All china Student Federa­tion indicates that the Sanatorium has not yet been begun and that a new site in the western suburbs of Peking is now being proposed.

The .Australian Committee has therefore decided to make available to the south African Medical Scholarships Trust Fund the money collected for the T3 . Sanatorium. This choice was made not only be­cause the S. African Scholorshlp Fund is an established project and urgently needs to expand, but be­cause it is believed that Australian students generally would wish to support this fund, and because International Student Relief ns well as World University Service includes this appeal In Its programme. Fur­ther it too is a project concerned with health. The Australian Stud­ents Labor Federation has endorsed this line of action, it is hoped that all donors will credit the Australian Committee wltli having done all in its power to respect their wishes.

The door has not been closed to support of the Asian T.B. Sanator­ium when it Is completed.,

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Page 2—SEMPER FLOREAT—Thursday. March 26. 1953

Democracy Democratic government is that in

which the governors are elected to office by voters from all sections of the community excepting child­ren. We have seen how this right to vote has grown from being con­fined to a comparative few to be­coming the right of many. On the face of It It ought to be a success­ful n-.ethod of appomtlng rulers. In practice, however, it does not secure what it was designed to secure. First because we arc governed on a Party system. The great weak­ness of this lies in the limitation of choice which confronts the w ould-be elector at the start. He has only a choice between two or three par­ties. He may approve of none of them. As G. K. Chesterton wrote in one of his essays some years ago: "The consei-vatives may want to paint Mr, Baldwin's nose green: the Labour party may wish it to be red; the Liberal party blue. The voter has therefore a choice be­tween green, red and blue, and he must vote for one of them. He, him­self, may want to paint the nose yellow: his vote therefore, Is not the free exercise of a right that It seemed to be. Moreover, he may wish to put into office the men he considers to have the highest in­tegrity, yet they may not be in the party whose political aspirations he admires. And so, ideally, the elected government represents the will of the voters; but actually it does not. It would be more accurate to say that the resultant govern­ment is granted office by the weight of accumulated prejudice and not a little chicanery.

The Planned Economy Opposed to democratic systems

are those which come before us with the idea of a planned society. I t is impossible to deal with these In detail, but they toclude a variety of

been made on paper tends to be doc­trinaire, and in actual practice un­dergoes much modification. It was the ideal of Marxism, for instance to overthrow completely the exist­ing order to bring about a better, and revolution was the keynote of the plan. But violent changes pro­mote violent reactions, and al­though the revolutionary party in Russia still holds authority, the main principles for which they stood have been largely abandoned.

Yet planning is necessary and de­sirable, and it will be Inconsistent ol any of us to deny this whilst we still maintain in our religious teach­ing that God has a plan for. His cre­ation which we must seek to know and avoid thwarting. It seems cer­tain that some form of what we now call Socialism will be the uni­versal form of government in ttie future, and this in spite of the fact that labour movements have received setbacks in New Zealand and Australia and will probably be checked in England. For, whether we like it or not, the Welfare State has come to stay, and at no predict­able future will there be any re­cession from it. Among the Eng-hsh speaking peoples this need not cause dismay, for the traditions of Socialism have been inspired in the past by Christian thought and Christian leaders, and this has pre­vented that anti-clerical bias whicli is so conspicuous on the Continent. Already, in the last 100 years or so our ideas have become modified and the position of workers so changed that to study social condi­tions of the last century is to find oneself in a wholly alien world. And this has come about more or less peacefully.

The feature of Social planning which most conservative minds sus­pects is that regimentation and bu­reaucracy will flourish and men be­came mere workers directed in all their activities by State control, and that initiative and personality will decline. This is a real possibility, for we have already reached the| stage where the whole power and authority of the State is organised for securing the peoples interests. Even Mr. J. B. Priestley, who has done much to further in England the progress of the welfare state is able to write "Many sociologists are saddened by the ubiquitous passion among the mob for liettlng and gambling. But the more we stand­ardize wages, hours and prices, the more we insist on social security for everyone, the more we compel two and two to make four everywhere, the more people will take to the greyhound tracks and football pools." In some quarters lb is being said that now the State controls so much that the Church used to do in the way of social and educational work, and can do it so much more efficiently twilh the public purse and paid officials at its disposal) the Church is obsolete and no long­er needed. This at once reveals a deep and fundamental mis-concep­tion not only of the Church's task but also of the whole meaning of the Welfare State and its moral and spiritual implications. The real fact is that the Church is needed more than ever to save the new ex­periment from disaster.

The Church

there can be no good Ufo for man svlthqut a conscious reaching out ;.owards God and all that pertains to spiritual existence. It is then, not the part of the State to V5urp or impede the work of the Church, but ^.0 see that she has full scope for the exercise of her mission. The State exists to safeguard religion, but It is no part of religion to safeguard the State.

Finally the Church must offer men courage, for this world will al­ways be tragic. Safety and security is not offered to man on this earth, for "sin reigns in the world from Adam." No State can give security against sin with the ruin and mis­ery that follows it.' No State can preserve men from the final inse­curity of death, against which there is no insurance. For the ultimate security is spiritual—the faith that knows that this world with all its tragedy belongs to a true and faith­ful God and that '-nothing can pluck us out of the Father's hand."

So, whilst it is right for the Church to be interested in and to further social regeneration, she knows too much to believe in earthly paradises, and is too scep­tical of man's misbegotten efforts to have much confidence in Utopi­an schemes conceived by politicians and scientists. Always and every­where her task is as it has always been . . . to recall men to God. to convict them of Sin, to shew them the Cross and to offer them redemp­tion and resurrection; to emphasise that tho world which crucified Christ is still God"s world, and is therefore a world that can be re­deemed . . . that life is stronger than death and good than evil.

It is the higher reaches of per­sonality, which are untouched by material satisfactions, which the Church must provide for. If people are encouc.^ged to believe that the chief end of human aspiration is the avoidance of pain and difficulty, all fruitful suffering or creative sacrifice, they can never rise to true personality. '

So then, if we acknowledge the right ot the Slate to Improve men's earthly conditions, we see too that

Letter of the Week "There has been within the last j

two or three years an increasing j number of irregularities in the ] examination s.vstem of the Unlver-' sity. They are listed as follows:— 1. Students being granted 'conceded

passes' after tailing their post in Physics II.

2. Students being allowed to 'carry over' fir.st year subjects to the second year and second year sub­jects to the third year, in the faculty of engineering. .

3. Students in the faculty of en­gineering being allowed to sit for posts after the staff meetings tad decided otherwise. We do not question the wisdom

of the professors or lecturers con­cerned In their decisions, but we should be grateful, if these lecturers and professors will, in fairness to all students, publicize the conditions under which they grant these con­cessions. For instance, a student failing his post in Physics II, has to repeat the year or leave the univer­sity. Another, in similar circum­stances, manages to wangle a con­ceded pass and go on to third year. A furtive grant of a conceded pass Co any one student is obviously un-ialr to other students in the same boat.

We should also like to know why certain students are granted the special privilege of 'carrying over' first year subjects to the second year, and second year subjects to the third year. It is about time tliese concessions are stopped, be- ^ fore the examinations of the Uni­versity of Queensland become a farce.

No doubt, some of our professors or lecturers are liberal and 'charit­able'—but perhaps we may remind them that charity begins at home, and if any students deserve any concession. ,lt is perhaps the ex-servicemen, who tiave helped to make academic freedom possible in this University."

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Jack Schmella:-The Anti-social

Socialist •piLLED with the fire of reforming -*- zeal, Semper sent its newest and greenest office boy to report the much publicised gathering of the Socialist Club, on Friday, the 13th (fateful date) of this month.

Not the least attraction of the meeting a-as to be the address given by Mr. J.ick Schmella, who manages to fill the very similar roles of Labor campaign organiser, and 'varsity Senator, without apparent effort. The weather, to coin a phrase, stank, the graveyard coughs of the faithful apostles of the Welfare State promising premature galloping consumption. And, Indeed, gallop­ing consumption can have been all anyone got from that particular meeting, for Mr. Schmella failed to show up. Not only that, but the meetings organisers either failed or forgot to mention the fact to the hardy souls who braved the rain in order to gather Mr. Schmella's pearls of wisdom as they dripped.

At halt-past one, Jan Smith, the Socialist Club secretary, was still doing the Sister Anne act at the hall's window for the benefit of the fanatical few who remained.

At twenty to two. Semper's re-jTorter. wheeaing broncliially, stag­

gered out. and has not seen poor Miss Smith since. Presumably, she is still at the window, reading Mr. Gair's diary (wicked girl) and still wondering what happened to Mr. Schmella.—So are we; did the Comms, or the Tories get him, we wonder hopefully,

FOOTNOTE.—A marked contrast was the interesting and entertain­ing, though quite non-pollt!cal, talk given on the CoUowtng Monday by Mr. Hlley, of the Liberal Party under the auspices of the S.C.M.

Shall We Join The Ladies ? Commem. Week 1953

April 26 —May I In just four weeks' lime the whole University -wiH be celebrating, in tradiUonal and oge-

long spirit, the Passing-out of last yeot's graduates. It is a time oi rejoicing, of re-union and iaiewell. of feasting, speeching, procession and dancing, when we shed our academic gloom for one week lo wish our grcduands God-speed in a welter of acUvities ihey will long remem­ber.

NOMLV.\TIONS are called for the position of additional Arls Evening Representative on Union Council to replace Tile. Ian Mitchell. Nominations must be signed by the nominee and two other faculty members and handed in at the Union Office 10 days after the appear­ance of this notice in "Semper Floreat."

J. A. BYTH. per A. T.

Hon. Sec. U.Q.U.

Commem Pracs First of all there are the Com­

mem Pracs conducted by the Union at the Victoria Park Refectory. These are free dances where you learn to dance, to lustily sing your Faculty and our Univer.sity songs, and where you get your partner for the Commem. Dinner and Ball. .

It Is the tradition (of venerable antiquity) among students that everj'body pays for him (or her) self at Commem., and it takes only a little effort to get an ideal partner at Commem. Pracs.

Lt.-Gen. Petra Skoien, Hal ©.ivis and Sir George Cridland are your masters of ceremonies, who will teach you to sing, to square-dance and to carry-on the University way.

Commem. Pracs will be held on March 2Ist and 2Sth, and April llth and 18th, while on Friday. 24th April, the Men's Club and Women's Club are organising a Party and Dance aboard the Koop.-i to round off all prc-Coramemoration activities on a high note.

Whack-Ho The University song book.

Do University Good

Women Wives ?

Make

(By MARION BARRY) When a girl happily announces she's a University student

she is invariably greeted by two amazingly conflicting stale-naents.

Some will immediately say that no man wants to marry an educa­ted woman—others that she's only ^oing there lo catch one! (.'\ccord-inff 10 whether they're your friends, or only jealous).

Let us try to imderstand this an-omoly now (and save your parents second and third term fees).

It is the V/eak Man who does not want to marry an Educated Woman.

Before enlarging on that. le-member I am taking the .supposi­tion that the man is educated to the same intellectual standard.

(I do not think it paricuarly wise for a University educated woman lo marry a man who has not reach­ed at least Senior standard.

Such a marriage could be and probably has been, quite successful. But it is essential that a woman re­spect her husband, and after a time this would become Increasingly dif­ficult.

It is only natural that your edu­cated woman will try to correct the man eventually . . . he would resent this . . . and nn increasing number of arguments will ensue.)

Referring to my statement that only weak men do not want on edu­cated wife. This is of necessity a generalisation, and consequently, I am prepared to concede exceptions.

But a man who is sure within himself of his own superiority, does nol need hours of admiring (but vac­ant) looks of wonder as he proudly expounds his own theory as to why

exactly the Electric Light Co. uses so many volts to produce such and such (while she just thinks what a pity the power went off and she missed the 251st installment of "Dickie Darling.")

I have never yet heard an of­ficial backing -up of the implied fact that "liLs" britliiint brain Is so over-tuxcd as to make it im­possible lo wash up after tea. . . Admittedly, an intelligent wife

does not make up for the fact that .vou go on a diet of grills and green lettuce . . . or for the corn beef that she thought might taste different roasted.

Nor does it really excuse your be­loved from thinking Fair Isle was a community settlement planned by Russians ia the Siberian Des­sert . . . or from mending an old bed sheet with a patch from your best poplin shirt. But as most girls nowadays—even

University women who plan careers —do their own sewing and knitting —and make as good a cake as your mother if you make as good dough as your father—you needn't be wor­ried about marrying the blonde fresherette in the second front row. She'll never tell you you don't even need that subject.

1 realise I have said nothing of the more obvious advantages of an intellectual wife—such as her ability to entertain suitably etc., to find greater enjoyment in reading to

And Here Is V/hat the Men Say--X handed this section over to two

(obviously Law) students — and these were their replies. (Being Law students, slightly curtailed)—

One said . . . There are all sorts of marriages;

the economic marriage, the social or "family" marriage, the sex mar­riage, the Christian marriage, and a host more. Your humble servant doesn't claim quite to know what the Christian marriage is, but since all the others are quite impossible affairs, unreasonable, baseless, and in fact pointless, this type must be the only one which gives any oppor-hmlty for happiness and satisfac­tion—the only one which provides any justification for a society whose basis has been repeatedly proved, by strife internal and external, to be the home, and the family unit. • Somebody still at this University said that the real object of a Uni­versity education was to get a clear picture of tilings, or a philosophy of life. But if the picture is already •perferctly in focus, it is ridiculous to twiddle with the lens. You have only to look at the marled life about

you to realise that the marriage pic­ture is just such a one.

I'm sure no girl comes to the Uni­versity specifically to "get something worked out" about marriage. If she does make this the object of her reading, she will probably spend years disposing of a succession of warped ideas about society, econ­omy, the male, sex and chlldbh-th. And when if ever, she finally works things out "for herself", she will find herself, with G. K. Chesterton, "in the ridiculous position of being backed up by all Christendom."

So let's answer the question blunt­ly.

Of course University women make good wives, as do the vast majority of women of all sorts and degrees, (see end,)

If the potential wife does glean any benefit from time spent at a University such benefit lies cWefly in the opportunity she gets to rid herself of the insidious effects of a system of strict denominational education, a system which, let it be noted, the only really civilized country in the world abolished long

overcome boredom nnd loneliness, and her better understanding oi both her own and other people' prot:lems. Of these the reader should need no retuinder.

Girls—we've simply got to re­member that mon thrive on "show­ing off." Just let them do that suc­cessfully, and they'll never even no­tice that you know more than tliey do.

Before I am accused of hypocrisy let me assure you that I don't do this. The ones that do still talk to me really know much more than I!

That is the woman's angle. But the question effects the male stu­dent equally.

ago. (Married people have to do things

with and for one another the motive of which is neither rational nor ut­ilitarian; It can only be spiritual)

If this precept cannot find justi­fication from society as it is, then BO many more brickbats for society; and this writer at least will be con­tent to stand out with George Bernard Shaw and those other no­torious gentlemen who get publicity in these pages all too often. The other satd . . ,

To answer this question satisfac­torily we must consider exactly what goes to make a good wife? People are divided on this funda­mental pohit but generally the op­inion Is held that when that de­lightful myth.the average man feels the call to settle down and repro­duce In his own image and like­ness, he looks for at least certain qi^alities in his potential soul-mate.

Firstly, he looks for someone sex­ually attractive.' at least in hia own eyes and Love can be exceedingly blind on such occasions. The ques-

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WHACK-HO is again to be pub-li.shed this year under the editor­ship of Bnrry Conaty and Cedric Hampson. It has the highest audited circulation of all song hooks sold in the University, and you will practically have to order cne in advance from your local newsagent to ensure getting a copy.

NUAUS Song-Book Also this year there is an NUAUS

Songbook (cf very limited numbers) of songs more of the smoking variety which have proved highly popular ill] over Australia (e.g., Abbdul, Lilian. Red Flag, The Lord Mayor's Daughter, etc.) A few of these will be available at Commem. Pracs,

Sunday, April 28lh, 1953 Commem. Week begins with pray­

ers for the University, conducted by leaders of the Churches of Bris­bane, to which all Undergraduates, Graduates, Univer.sity Staff mem­bers and Senate members, and all associated with the University are Invited to attend.

Services will he held in the fol­lowing Cathedrals and Churches.— Roman Catholic;

St, Stephen's Cathedral at li a.m The Very Reverend Denis Taylor.

Church of England: St. John's Catliedral, at 7.30 p.m. Archbishop Halse.

Presbyterian; St. Andrew's Church, Creek Street. at 7.30 p.m. The Rev. Norman Webster.

Congregational; City Congregational Church. Wickham Terrace, at 1,30 p.m. The Rev. T, Rees Thomas.

Methodist: Methodist Churcli, Albert Street, at 7,30 p.m. Rev. George Nash. All students are speciaUy invited

to attend these services, whicii are to honor our University and its ideals in -solemn Christian worship. Monday, 27lh

The Debating Society will conduct a lively and topical debate on a subject University students seem to find rather uppermost in their thoughts. Last yciir's debate was one of tiie liveliest ever and is now a part of debating history

Refcrtovy. Gcoige St.. 7,30 p,m Supper will be served.

Tuesday, 28th The Musical Society, long the most

vocal of all societies, will have a choir recital at the University. George Street, or (it is possiblei in a place more openly public in

Semper Charm Contest

You must have been a beautiful Babe, Cos Baby

look at you n o w . yes. we have them—the original,

adorable photograplis of the happy childhood of our beloved lecturing slaff. UnlorUmately, because of the precious nature ol these childish records, we cannot print them here. However, they will ije prominently displayed at all centres, for yoiu-earnest perusal.

Printed below is an entry form for our "Semper Charm Contest." We ask you to nxmiber the ten in order of preference, and there will be a substantial prize for the student who most nearly approaches the ludges' choice. Each entry costs 6d. Extra entries may be submitted on ordinary paper, so long as 6d, accompanies each eiUry, and pro­ceeds are for W.S.R.

FOOTNOTE, — Subject to their approval, wc hope to conduct a guessing competition as to tpe iden­tity of the photographic subjects.

town, Tlie Society is in training for the

Inter-Varsity Choir Festival in Sydney in first vacation, and you can be assured of first rate enter­tainment. Supper will be served. Wednesday, 29lh

The Dramatic Societ.v, repeating Us ambitions of 1952, when Chris­topher Fry's "Sleep of Prisoners"

was presented at St. Paul's Church, are this year producing: Christopher Fry's play "Phoenix Too Frequent" In front of the City Hall in town. This is a most ambitious scheme, and the play is to be produced by Mr. Donagh McDonagh. It wUI be elaborately staged and costumed,

anil leaders of Church and Stale will be invited to attend. Thursday, 30th

The Commem Ceremony is to tie held ui the City Hall. There our graduands will formally graduate before a most colorful and impres­sive parade of our University Senate Members and Academic Staff, and before the adoring e>-es of relatives and the envious eyes of imder-graduates.

Because of a miner lack of under­standing, of appreciation and of compassion, the Senate is unwilling at present to allow undergraduates in general to attend the Ceremony. This anachronism, the only blot on the whole week's proceedings, will, wc most sincerely hope, be overcome before the Ceremony this year, for the denial of such a privilege is a body blow to all hope of creating and developing a University feeling; and spirit here in Queensland.

Friday, May 1st The Commem. Procession takes

place on Friday morning. All Faculties and all Societies are urged to enter floats in what has always been tiie most popular of all pro­cessions In Brisbane.

Entries for the Procession close in about tluee weeks' time, and de­tails of each entry should be in the hands of the Committee at the Union Office as soon as possible.

You can make this procession really good if ycu will devote a few minutes to thinking about it and a little more time in getting it together. The celebrated Oscar is ceremoniously awarded at Commem. Ball af midnight for the best float at the Precession, Dinner and Ball

The Commem, Dinner at Victoria Park is a dinner to which all graduands £ire Invited free, and all undergraduates and friends are in­vited at the cost of 12 6 per ticket This is a sumptuous meal of food and drink in the true University st.vle. wliere our belcved and most highly regarded Vice-Ghancellor, Mr. J. D. Stoiy. e.Ntends his best wiflics to those who have Just graduated.

The Commem, Ball is the biggest and best ball of the whole season. All undergraduates, graduates and their friends are hn'ited to dance till 2 a.m, at Cloudland. All tbe new graduates and their partners are tlje guests of the Union as well as the Members of the Senate and the Deans of the Faculties.

John Nutter is this year's Con­venor, and he and his committee will shortly be opening alcove book­ings for the ball. Tickets are 15/-single.

In all, then, you have a very big and lively week ahead of you. Almost Immediately you will have to start^savlng for It; partners have to be got, tickets bought, alcoves booked, floats planned and carried out, and all the other things done to make up a full and enjoyable Commem. Week. EXCELSIOR—HS

S. C. HOCKING. President. U-Q-U.

Entry Form Name. Faculty, and Year

Order cf Preference .' '

Fold, enclosing sixpence (6d.), and drop into a W.S.R. Bcgci

SEMPER FIOREAT^-Thuisdoy, March 26. 19S3-.fag«^

AT WAR WITH WAUGH After BO many grimly realistic war novels from America a

satirical farce about war might hove been very good indeed. One imagines something Uke Gogol's "Dead Souls" or the hotel scenes from Eafaka's "Amerika", a revelation of the universal muddle that is war, a parody of army ritual and the obsuxdUles of military bureaucracy: but one would not, I think, expect Eve­lyn Wough to wiite it. He has made the attempt, and of course he has failed. His "Men At Arms" Is a very fragmentary piece, never satiricai, never subtle, and very seldom even funny.

'TiHE fault lies deep in the con--*• ccplion of the work itself, Waujih has not made up his mind whether he is writing a satire or a sentimental love story.

One rather suspects after a care­ful reading, that he has missc'd most of the absurdities, or what is worse in a pretended satirist, has taken them seriously him.seK, The fault Is inherent In ali the later novels where Waugh tries so hard to be 'important.' They are .split by the amblg'uity of his approach. Tire satire is never pure because Waugh never gets [ar enough away from his subject to see the absurdity of the whole. It i.s not good docu­mentary because lie never goes far enougli into the subject to sec anything but the very obvious sur­face, Waugh is one of these minor novelists, so common today, who feels themselves obliged even in farce to be '.significant,' Unfor­tunately he has simply nothing of importance to say. One Example ''

Here is Just one exiimplc of Waugh's elum,sy and pretentious attempts'at gravity: 'Now tliere was silence over all the diners while the musicians softly bowed and plucked.' 'It seemed n long way from Tony's

excursions into no-man's-land, fur­ther sttll. Immeasurably far, from the frontier of Christendom, where the great battle had been fought and lost; from the secret forests where the trains were, even now, while the Halberdiers and their guests were bemused with wine and harmony, rolling east and west with their doomed loads.' • This piece of high seriousness in the middle of a scene of riotous farce is a good deal

funnier than most of Waugh's con­scious humor in the rest of the book. It is unfortunately, typical.

This novel, Wnugh tells us, is the flrst of a trilogy recording the phases of a long love affair between a civilian and the army. The axalr itself has all the nostalgia of lost adolescence, and of the hero, Guy Crouchback, who is thlrty-flve, Waugh says; 'In the last few weeks at the training depot Guy had been experiencing something he had mt-ssed in boyhood, a happy adoles­cence.' The result is that the train­ing scenes (better done in a dozen

I films I could name) have the air of •a boy .scout',"; picnic, which Waugh treats, not satirically but senti­mentally. Guy himself, with no eonviction.s except an obtrusive Catholacisni r-nd .some ratner vague theory about regeneration tlirough war (indication this, of a darkly sadistic side to Waugh) and none but the most obvious sensations, is a mere shadow. He barely manages to keep our interest for the length of THIS novel. How Waugh hopes him to keep it for two more is a mystery tlint I think which Waugh himself will not solve. Interesting People

For.the most interestln,!; people* in the liook are Apthorpc, the eccentric lieutenant, and Brigadier Ultchic-nooU; and the only really funny part of the book is the Thunder Box episode where these two madmen cross swords. Neitlier, I think, is well drawn.

They live only in fragments, have no jSignificnnce beyond the parti­cular, and remain rapid sketches rather than full-blooded comic por­traits. Again Waugh only scratches the surface. But when they are on

the scene Waugh is content to be merely funny, with no heroics, and for that at least we can be grateful, Apthorpe fades out towards the end of the book and dies. Rltchle-Hook, I presume, will go on.

I should not have written so much about what is, after all, a very trivial book. If Waugh had not been so pretentious, and If certain critics had not taken his pretentions seriously. (He has just been'awarded the James Talt Black Memorial Prize 1953 for this book.) MEN AT ARMS is not a good novel. It barely touches the true subject. The characters are at best brief sketches nnd at worst, which is pretty often, mere names, Crouchback, the hero, is just a cipiier; 'People would say to htm tn eight years' time, "You were there during tiie war. Was it like that?" and he would answer, "Yes. It must have been.'" That is typical of the vicarious atmos­phere of war and the preparations for war in England and Africa, tliat the book i)resents. It is not the epic it pretends to be. it is a shadow, what I called tt in the beginning, a fragment. It would take a very much better writer than Waugh to give us the whole.

A Felicitous Trifle Take a very fine French playwright like Jean Anouilh, give

him as translator such a lover of words as fellow-dromoUst Christopher Fry, and the result should be at least an interestiag piece of theatre. "Ring Around The Moon" fl'Invitation ou Chateau") is all that and a good deal more. TT is, in fact that rarest of rarities, •'• an almost perfect comedy, skil­fully contrived, beautifully written, with all the wisdom and wit' one mijsM expect from such an old hand as Anoullh, and In the viewing, a delight from start to finish.

The situation is too complicated to be detailed here. It Is a play about love and mistaken Identity, a

United Nations Essay Competition

THE United Nations Is offering 10 , fellnw-ships of a free trip to U.N.

headquarters in Neiv York for the best cs.says in the United Nations 1953 essay contest.

Tlie winners will he allowed a month's study of a particular activ­ity of the United Nations.

In addition the Australian National Committee for the tom-petition is offering prizes of 15 guineas, 10 guineas and 5 guineas for the three best essays submitted in .Australia.

The assay is not to exceed 2500 words and the closing date is April 24th.

Full particulars of conditions may be obtained from the Secretary, A.A.U.N., Room 515. 289 Queen St Brisbane.

Donagh McDonagh producer of

"Ring Around the Moon"

satire and, as usual with Anoullh, a morality, but one in which the lesson Is so nicely concealed that it Is not likely to distract or irritate even the most sensitive critic. But what makes the play a good one is not the strength of the moral so mucti as tlie strength of the social criticism, and not even that so much as the sheer skill with which Anoullh takes his large group of characters—a millionaire and iiis spoilt daughter, twin brothers, one a playboy the other a prig, a ballet dancer and her awful mother, the old lady who pulls the strings of the plot and sets all these puppets working—and exposes them as just what they are, selfish and preten­tious and thoroughly ridiculous.

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NEWMAN SOCIETY

Need we remind you of the picnic to Surfers' Paradise on Sunday ne.xt, the 29th March. An attempt will be made to catch the 8.55 a.m. train from South Brisbane (you had better not miss it, it's the last), and we will meet you on the station at least five seconds before, near the end of the train. Get a second class excursion ticket, which will hit you up for 8/6.

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The characters are most deliber­ately drawn, right down to the butler, Each plays a significant part in the action, and each adds his share of the comedy, for there is nothing superfluous in this play and nothing discordant. It is indeed the perfection of the tiling that is most; likely to be your strongest impres­sion. It has that tightness of plot, unity ot effect, vividness of charac­terization, memorability of phrase that mark.s the first rate play from the merely slick piece of theatre. RING AROUND THE MOON may be a trifle, but is a very fillcitous one. It is In my opinion the best little comedy we have seen for years.

The Twelfth Night Production: Donagh McDonagh's production

for Twelfth Night, while it did not exhaust the possibilities, did at least point to some of the play's greatness. Direction was intelligent, group­

ing, especially in tlie last act, bal­anced, and tiie play had a fairly definite rythm. What one missed was the slickness of production that I think a sophistocated play needs to be quite successful. And slick­ness, I admit, is rarely achieved, even by the most industrious pro­fessional company.

The acting, except for the younger people, who were generally too young and too Inexperienced, was excellent. I especially enjoyed Jean Jarret as the old lady, .Alan Denby as the millionaire (reminiscent, this, of Allster Sim), Eisa Brooks as the mother and Ludovlc Gordon as the butler. Dawn Rees did fairly well \vlth the difficult role of the young girl, but Peter Wagner's perform­ance in the main role of Hugo-Prederick, with its double charac­terization, lacked subtlety and assurance.

Decor was adequate and costume excellent. Both music and ballet were used with skill to give the necessary formality to what Is a very stylized play.

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Proceeding to Degrees

Each year since 1923 I have had the honor of making portraits of many of the graduands proceeding to degrees. •

You are asked to accept this let­ter as an invitation to call at your convenience for a 'CompUmentary' Sitting and for which you incur no financial obligation. You will re­ceive several proofs from which, it you felt pleased with them, you could have a few finished at very reasonable cost for presentation to your special friends.

For your convenience, i have available the necessary Hood, Gown, and Trencher for your use.

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Notes on Newmanism JUST what Is the Newman Society?

That is, no doubt, a question many of you are asking these days and in these few short lines I hope to convey to you some of the spirit and Ideals of the Society. The New­man Society is a society of Catholic University undergraduates and graduates, men. and women, which has as Its inspiration the sanctity

', and profound learning of Cardinal Newman.

Tlie Queensland University New­man Society is hut one of the many like societies flovuishing in Univer­sities throughout the world.

A .society is perhaps best under­stood from Its objects. Those of the Newman Society are;

" . . . to foster the spiritual, in­tellectual, cultural and general in­terests of Catholic Graduates and

lundergraduates, and to create a j spirit of good fellowship among '.Catholic members of the University;

' , , , to introduce Catholic Fresh­ers to University life;

" " , . . to encourage Catholic Un­dergraduates to take part in Uni­versity affairs. . , "

These, you may say. are very op-' tomistio'in their range and magni­

tude; I agree. But wc arc incurably optimistic and, what is more, we believe th.nt year by year wc are at­taining more nnd more to the com­plete fulfillment of these ideals.

Our first concern of course, is to spiritualise our daily life at the Un-versity. To help towards this end the Newman Society attends in a body at the Academic High Mass at St, Stephen's Cathedral, which con­secrates each year to Htm who gives it to Us, Throughout the year lectures by prominent laity and clergy are .sponsored by the So­ciety; the Rosary is said each week !by membens of each University Area; a winter School held in first term allows students to discuss to­gether questions of jsaramount im­portance to them in their Univers­ity and Profes.sional life; and a Re­treat each year in Second Term provides the opportunity, so nec­essary In these days of haste and

uncertainty, of withdrawing a while and putting our own house in order. To give to Commem the spiritual significance It .should have, the Newman Society will hold this year a Commemmoration Communion Breakfast.

In the social sphere, to foster good fellowship between members, nn enthusinstlt" Committee arranges Dances, Hikes, Tennis Parties, House Parties, Holiday Camps . , . every occasion being a grand oppor­tunity for people to meet fellow un­dergraduates of different years and Faculties,

Cultural activities include Lec­tures and discussions both at Gen­eral Meetings and at the Univers­ity. To help to introduce Freshera OS painlessly as possible to the ad­venture of a University education, the Newman Society holds a spec­ial Welcome to Newman Fresliers where they can get to know tli3 older members of the Society and where the Programme for the ycar Is explained, ALso. this year a series of Tutorials will be given to Fresh­ers by senior undergividuatcs and Graduates of the Society.

The Society encourages, nay ex­horts, its members to be active participants in University activities.

There is an old .saying which asks us to leave this world a little bet­ter tl'.an v.'e found ic; wc consider that it is our duty to apply this axiom to the University, not at all in a sense of prig.qishness but be­cause we realise that only by full participation of every member of the University in the various ac­tivities can the University attain to being the seat of learning and source of enlightenment to all men that is its destiny.

Now to Catholic Freshers and non-Newman Undergraduates I am not going to say: The Newman So­ciety needs you. It is your duty to join.—That is nonsense. There will always be the many enthusiasts who can implement the Society's objects and ideals without having to force others to help. But this I do say; you, as a Catholic Undergraduate have a definite duty to this Univers­ity to help it to spread light and

liberty; what better way can you fulfill this duty than by active, en­thusiastic membership of the New­man Society?

In parting let me express a very hearty welcome on behalf of the Society to ALL Freshers. May you have a h'appy and successful so­journ at our University 1

COLIN APELT. President. Q.U.N.S.

I A Word to the. Wise I This is the last lime copy such as tMs will go farther I than- the W.P.B In its raw and uncultivated stole, it w a s I work of art guaranteed to drive any typesetter to drink. I It was:—

! (a) Written in pencil \ (b) Single-spaced I (c) Chronically mis-spelt j (d) Generally illegible

I Any mis-spellings that remain should not be readily I blamed en the editor or the proof-reader.

A Matter ot Opinion Are We Up the Pole?

W/IIAT are the prospects of slud-jc],ouicJe,, j ^ addition tliere are too:will soon all be wearing academic cnts? Unemployed graduates jfe-v commonwealth Scholarships' gowns, and nothing else.

are becoming a glut on the market. Uiidergrads seeking vacation jobs

to help eke out their meagre exist­ence are getting a very cold

and scholarship allovianccs are tool small. Soaring costs, doubled fees,! and staggering transport costs arCj placing us in,the position where we

Apathy, Thy Name is Student

CONGRATULATIONS, Rod With­ers, for your article (Skin Deep

Cynicism). You appear to have come half way to a conclusion.

Miss Erbacher, down on her knees, in best lilstronic manner, supplicat­ing the dead heads of the City HaU, reaches no conclusion.

Long have I , thought on this itrangc attitude of the City Coun->il towards Univerisity Students, and : have been forced to one conclus-on—the blighters think we are pro-;resslve, or aggressive.

Tliose shlny-seatcd rate-coUect-jrs read in their newspapers that 10,000 students riot tor improved ondltlons in Karachi,'* "Students age demonstration in Teheran",

JItc, and they quake.

' What more likely "than that, stu-ients being allowed to congregate n the Square, they will remember he leech-like bus fares, and storm-ng Into tlie City Hall, will trot out tfr. Roberts, and dump him in the ountaln.?

Fear not, O City Fathers! We hink only Milk Shakes, not Kou-niss!

Our Editor. (God bless him), is concerned with student apathy. Yet another worthy whose hearth shall break 1 Student apathy can be found in more important aspects of stud­ent life than Debating or Dramatic Societies. How often are the pages of Semper Floreat torn with enthus­iastic argument on questions of Sci­ence. Philosophy or Society? Frank­ly, we couldnt care less!

Students of this University will tolerate anything. They question not, neither do they think.

The Police censorship of Com­mem. Procession, is an insult to stu­dent good taste, It stultifies initia­tive. We can't even throw an egg at Commem,

AU that is now needed, is for the Belle 'Vue to close, and co-educa-ean to cease and wc shall have lost

1 Pour Freedoms. Shall we buck? ot wet It is pleasant to find that the

(^ice-Chancellor and Women's Club have one point In common; Tlie disjointed character of the'Unl-kferslty which }lea about town like

the parcelled out result of some Wife murder—and just as dead!

One thousandth of the Annual Budget should complete the Uni­versity buildings.

This would make Mr. Storey's mind easy, allow the girls to get to­gether for a bit of a natter, and take numerous building workers off the dole. f

Wot about it Bob?

J. H. HANTY Vet. Science (IV).

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Degenerate Bourgeois

Although there is not much com­fort in the knowledge, wc are not alone in tightening our belts. In genera!, living standards are drop­ping and unemployment is increas­ing recipiocally. At the same time wc \vdvc shortages of a lot of needed canimoctiUes, and unemployed peo­ple who woui'J be willing to produce them. Obviously, something is (Vi-ong.

Cur trouble. Uio Rndical Club con­tends, is il'.e caiiilalist system. In order to iniike his prolit, ihc capi­talist paj-j the worker less than enough to buy back the commodity which lie has produced. Result— Much !i,?edcd commodities go un­sold, and production has to be siis-nended. Workers and tradesmen are

! sacked, leaving fewer people to buy j the commodities, aud so on, until we I liave a depression,

j Another result is war. While I there is a war armaments can always I be sold at a profit, (Of course, we i go on paying for wars, past, present, and future, all our lives,)

I

Into the Fray Erbacher v. Lindemayer — Round One

Your leading article dealing with the City Councfl's refus­al to let the Dramolic Society perform in King George Square calls for some comment. I feel tiiat the attitude at the City Hall is justified, and the article's expression of hurt rights is con-lounded. ,

First oC all, you accuse the City dents or Christopher Prj' is suffic-Hall authorities of "denying the students the right to emerge from their ivory tower, and so bring a little second-hand culture to the masses." If that statement means that the students are in need of a means of self expression on a plane other than the academic, and that those villains at the City Hall are deliberately fnustratlng them, then the statement is sheer rot. Students have plenty of opportunities to "emerge from their ivory tower" in places more suitable than King George Square, I might say that some of us do little other than "emerge".

But considering the whole busi­ness from both sides, it seems that the Council is suspicious, while, as your article puts it. remembering last year's "Sleep of Prisoners" ef­fort "the Dramatic Society, under the Erbacher regime planned to go one better."

City Comicil suspicion, of cour.se, is not hard to understand. All pre­vious organized students activity in the streets of Brisbane has tended to lower our prestige. For instance the procession, even though it may be relatively orderly in Itself, ts us­ually accompanied by boisterous frolic, which, while probably quite Innocent, is highly annoying to vari­ous sections of the community. In particular, the City Council has hud a pretty Irritating exi»rience from rs. Bathing in the fountains outside tlie City Hall Is only one of the many pranks, which, while being delightfully amusing, must prejudice them against us. And since in the eyes of the populace, we are all merely students, all capable of the same things, the Dramatic Society Is apparently undw suspicion of planning irresponsive activities.

There is another angle to consider, too. Tho Dramatic Society's pro­posed amphitheatre is a public thoroughfare. Traffic would be up­set. True, wc have had "visiting Presbyterian parsons, and local physical culture groups" in K,G. Square, but these are not often dis­orderly. The City Hatt authorities are, of course, under no obligation, legal or moral, to grant such re­quests. And I am Phillistiue enough to suggest that neither the stu-

lent reason for them to stretch a point. And after all, Albert Hall, half a block away, is usually large enough to house UQDS avidiences. (I hasten to add that I am generally one of the audience,)

It is doubtful, anyway, whether a dramatic performance in the open, in .such a place would be success­ful. For instance the trams would drown all but the most strident .of voices. The whole idea, in fact, seems impractical, suggests itself as being a bit of a stunt, lends itself to all sorts of pranks, and probably only the traffic would find it at all diverting.

Yours faithfully.

GRAEME LINDENMAYER

Since Semper does not appear with any great degree of regular­ity, wc have given Miss Erbacher U.Q.D.S. president, the right of reply to Mr. Lindenmayer In this lssue.~Ed.

Dear Mr. Lindenmayer,

While I do not know you person­ally, I assume from your letter that you must be very yong. Let me, therefore, take you by the hand, .so to speak, and clear up one or two

You may not agree with us that j the solution of onr trouble is "the I ownership in common of the means ol production, distribution and ex­change by ail who work with hand or brain"—but surely you will agree that something must be immediately done to ensure the graduates em­ployment in the professions for which they have been trained.

Perhaps you will also agree -R-ith us that reduced travelling expenses and more hberal and numerous Comnionwetilth Scholarships are ivorth doing something about.

We also suggest that military training is deferred until the end of our university courses.

U.Q, RADICAL CLUB.

r .suggest that a play performed in the opon air, and in such a place as King George Square will attract that attention. After that, the rest is up to us!

There will be difficulties 'to be overcome, of course, but, despite your Cassandua-Iike forebodings, we believe we can overcome them'. You consider the attempt "fool­hardy", we prefer to think of it as "enterprising" Just a difference in terms, that's all, and Time alone will tell which was the happier choice!

One way and another the public gets a good look at Students dur­ing Commem Week and, as you point out, it Isn't very often that we appear in a creditable light. Here, then, is a chance for us to at least alleviate our unsavoury' rcput-atlon, and show that the Uni­versity can amuse itself—and the Public—on a higher plane than the Procession would seem to indicate.

Just to reassure you, Mr, Linden-little points on which you seem con- mayer, I might add that on this fused. Had you read ALL of the ' occasion the U.Q.DS. is concerned relevant article you attack so vig-ourously, this would not be necess­ary. However , . ,

In simple language then, here is the set-up:—

• As part of the University Cele­brations in Commem. Week, the U.QX).S. plans to perform "A Phoe­nix Too Frequent" in King George Square, at the base of the memori­al. If you had read tho play you would realise that the site chosen can provide It w-ith what it needs— a simple, dignified, yet artistically striking back-ground.

That is one consideration; an­other is this: We want to show tho public' that good Theatre can be stimulating and entertaintag; that it is not merely the province of an interested few. But, first of ail, we have to attract attention to it. And

with more than Its own lionor and glory. Our proposed performance ot "A Phoenix Too Frequent" is a Un­iversity function, with the full back­ing of the University Authorities and the Students' Union. Also—and this I'm sure will prove the moat unkindest cut of all—the Powers-That-Be at the City HaU have at last been convinced that our inten­tions are honourable, and wo have been given the green light 1

So it looks like you've been left to carry the banner all by your­self, Mr. Lindenmayer. Too bad, old mant Next time, bo quite sure you know whicti side is gohig to win before you commit yourself.

IRENE ERBACHER^

President. U.QBS.

SEMPER FLOREAT—Thursday, Moawdi 28, 1953—Potge 5

God Preserve Us from

The Man In The Street A good film, like any other work of art, bears the stamp of Its creator, is marked, in mat­

ter OB in style, by a unique personality. Usually it is Ihe director who succeeds in integroting the various departments of the fihn, and we are familiar with such names as Ford, Chaplin. Houston, Heed, Clair; but sometimes, as in "High Noon", it is the producer. "High Noon" is morkedby the some cinic realism and violence thai is lo be lound in all Kramer's films, from "Tho Champion" io "Death of a Salesman". I t i s . inmany ways, the best thing he has done.

GOOD westerns are very rare in­deed. Ford succeeded In those

pioneering epics where he found the heroLsDi and space he needed for his art. Henry King made a good attempt In the "Gunflghtcr", but failed because imagination fell short of tbe tbcmc.

Now, applying his realism to what has usually been an excuse for he­roics, Kr.imer tackles the subject that defeated King, "High Noon" is a study of a crowd's reaction to a crisis, their cowardice, apathy and despair when the town Is threaten­ed by evil in the form cf a return­ed murderer and his gang. It suc­ceeds because the central situation and the characters who have been placed In it are immediately real and significant, not only for this little western town in the eighties, but for us today. The piecs is beaut­ifully underacted, with some excel­lent camera work and careful di­rection from Fred (The search, The Men) ZlBimerman,

And yet somehow, for all its ex­cellence. "High Noon" lacks that sense of the gigantic we saw in "Stagecoach" and the final scenes of "The Gunfighter". Kane's long search for companions in his fight against evil, the betrayals, the pet­tiness, the weakness, is admirably done, but It fails to be genuinely tragic. I think this is because Zim­merman has played up the deple­tion of the crowd at the expense of his central figure. Films in which tbe crowd is the real protagonist, frequent on the Russian screen, rare on the American, fall if ony one character towers above the rest, and Zimmerman vacillates be­tween Crowd-as-protagonist. which would seem to be right in the light of the theme, and Kane-as-protag-onist, with the result that neither is fully conceived. It is a serious fault because it prevents "High Noon" from achieving what might have been a real greatness.

But the film is too good to be dismissed with faint praise.

The ruthlessness with which the crowd is drawn, the way each man i.'! made to betray friend and ideals (even, in the end, Kane's Quaker wife), the clever building up of a pictije of fear and evil in the un­seen Miller, the delicate lack of sentiment In the drawing of the hero, (he has had an affair with a Mexican girl, which is admirably suggested but never commented up­on) all this makes "High Noon" a most original and satisfying film. Kramer has at last ceased his ra­ther puerile attempts to shock and has got down to a significant theme and handled it well.

One hopes that "High Noon" will prove the turning point in his art, and that the future will see his genius come to a full and luxuriant maturity.

Rest In Peace

Dear Madam,

It is a great pleasure for me to acknowledge receipt of your mag­nificent donation of £235/4/10 (S.A.) to our Fund,

On behalf of the committee of the Fund, the scholars assisted by the Fund and the students of Wit­watersrand University, I wish to convey our deepest gratitude to you and your organisation and through you to the students of Australia for the generosity of Australia's contri­bution to the fund.

We are planning to award four bursaries this year, thus bringing the total number of students sup-

Men's Basketball

j^T the A.G.M, of this club, it was decided io revert to

the type of series conducted in 1951.

Last year's games were marred by weather and lack of courts but the interest and promise shown by freshers has raised hopes for a suc­cessful year's play, Tlie Intervars­lty carnival has been allocated to Adelaide and a team will be sent during First Vac.

Practices have started at the Wool Court. Exhibition Grounds on Wed­nesdays, 2-5 pjn. and at St. Lucia on Sundays, 9,30-11.30 a.m. The first round of Intervasity fixtures will be played on Saturday, 18th April, starting at 6.30 p.m.. and all team nominations should be placed with the Hon, Sec. by 4th April Any players who are not in a team may nominate and will be placed in one. The number of teams is limited only by the numlJer of play­ers, the usual quota being five A grade and six B grade teams of seven or eight players each. The A grade teams normally consist of older players—freshers playing in B grade—but it is possiblet as was the case last year) for freshers to play in A grade In their first seas­on. For Information and nomination forms, contact: R. BAYNER, Eng. TV, (President). K. HIRSCHFELD, Med. V, (Vice-

President). N. PYLE. Eng. IV, (Hon. Sec).

Watch your Notice Boards! Bas­ketball wlU be there.

I MISS I * UNIVERSITY I

1953 I f .

Faculties. Clubs, Societ-

For Your Information The following letter was received by the Secretary of the

Australian Committee of W.S.R., from the chairman of the Af­rican Medical Scholarship Trust Fund. W e reprint.il here so that you moy gam at least a vague idea of the work of W.SJR.

ported by the Fund to twelve. That we have been able to support as many students as this over the short space of three years, remembering that each award costs the Fun at least £1250 (S.A,) has been due in no small part to the.generous sup­port we have received from students in distant lands. Amongst these the students .of Australia have always been of the most generous. The knowledge of Australia's sympathy with and understanding for the objects of our Fund at a time when academic freedom in South Africa requires constant defence if it is to be preserved, is of tremendous "morale - maintaining" value to South African students.

I ies, and all other bodies |

I interested in nominating c< [

I candidate in the Miss Uni- f

I versily, 1953, campaign |

f are requested to get crack- |

I ing. Lapel badges ore |

I available at Union Office, |

i George Street. So for Mr. |

I Stephen (ChcoUty) Hock- \

I ing is leading the field— i

I a lamentable state of of- I

I fairs that should be a chal- |

I lenge to every average or i

j ever, beloved average fe- i

I male. |

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Pago 6—SEMPER FLOREAT—Thursday* March 26, 1953

Attention

The Newman Society Is tWs ycar endeavoring to bring before tht notice of every thinking student E series of lectures .dealing 'with tht fundamental facts of our existence The first of a series of lo LEC­TURES will be given in the MAYNE LECTURE THEATRE by Dr, J. A BALLARD, D,C,L., Professor ol Moral and Pastoral Theology at ' Pope Plus XII Seminary, BanyoJ on MONDAY, MARCH 30th, at I.ICI p.m, T

The meaning of life, your place 1 the universe and ultimate destin are vital burning questions whtc for the serious student demand ar answer one way or the other. Havt you at the moment anything to look to beyond this world with Its plea­sures that do not satisfy, its wrongs that are not righted, and its hopes that are not fulfilled? We would stress- that the real nature of God win be explained in this lecturti which will be above all else an ap­peal to the reason and not to the emotions.

Therefore we earnestly appeal to ' you individually to reflect well upon the following statements and ask you to devote one single hour of your entire course to hearing a -logical and satisfying exposition of that most fundamental of facts.

"IS THERE A GOD?" 1. Everyone admits that MAN can

reason. The advance of Science substantiates this.

2. Can we prove from REASON that there is a God, and is the belief in the existence of God a 'SUR­VIVAL OP IGNORANCE AND SUPERSTI-nON?

3, Can Reason alone tell us any­thing about this God?

4, Can the established laws cf any Science, e,g„ Medicine or Physic? disprove the existence of God?

5, If there is a God, what does HE seem to the world and to each, man in particular?

6. Finally, does morality depend on the existence of God?

Questions are invited at the end o^ the Lecture. (

What Is This Thing Called Love? Dearie,

No doubt you have heard by now of the changes that are planned la the near future for my establish­ment. Because those nasty City Council boys have had their fees raised for the use of my back stairs. they have gone and issued me witl' a Resumption notice. —CADSl

However, with the 'varsity shif to St. Lucia many strong protest have been received by me from staf and Senate members, of the grea waste of time and money Involvet in travelling into town to see me Thus, perhaps, the Resumption No. tice ia well-timed. In order to ac commodate all my old tlien telle a the 'varsity and capture the new iti creased trade I have decided shift to St. Lucia, So would yoi please publish this notice in you! paper and also my assurances tha-quality will be maintained unchang^ ed, arrangements having been coml pteted for fidl supplies of marihul ana and home brew to continue p j sale. In appreciation of this I ef close a free ticket for one visit fi yourself, dearie. Further notice w_ be given when my new establislS menfc k open for business (hen heh). and the back stairs wUl be re­served for the use of all your dear little boya,

Ta-Ta Duc-ks, Be seein' yel

MRS. BLACK

P.S. I trust this will not inconveni­ence the staff at George Street.

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Advice tfiven on looattons for^ Practice, Fnrcbase of FraotlceSi

LocuiBSi ote.

Do University Women Make Good ,; Wives (continued from page 3) tlon now arises—Aro University (iraduates sexually attractive? At iJast, to take the worst possible ^lew here, they have as much chance of being so as their less c ducated sisters.

Three year's study of Shakespeare < r Anatomy may make a girl a b et-ter companion for a University graduate, and hence perhaps a more ijkely wife. But that doesnt necess-drlly mean she would be a better Vlfe. I People—even married people—of-

tien say that companionship is the qessence of marriage; but if this Were true, It would be difflcult to fjee what coiL-ittuctive function mar-

tage performs in our society. Providing man doesn't require his

vj/ife to be a domestic .slave, a uni-y.irslty graduate woman—whom we c'xpect would have attained a reas­onable intellectual and cultural standard—should be a good life companion.

However, that's only a theory. In practice it's a different matter.

• In fact, most university women are hopeless home-muddlers and many of them acquire a pseudo-cul­ture to the detriment of their com-

,monsense handling of the count­less chores housework involves,

Also, one's wife must be a pleas­ant and stimulating companion. This is where education stands her in very good stead. To my mind the whole question of whether Univers­ity women make good wives or not revolves round their education.

A University girl has the same anatomical structure as an ordinary glrl~ln fact she Is just an ordinary girl plus education.

An educated man must have for a wife a woman who can converse on equal terms with him of any topic he choses, A man who lacks the so-called benefits of' education requires a spouse whose interest in things acaderfllo is juat as small as his own. Thus for him a University Graduate would not make a good wife.

Of course marriage is one of the greatest of life's many gambles. This is only too obvious from the sight of so many people selecting partners with whom they find rap-turous blLss for a few short montlis or years only to find sad disillus­ionment m some dingy Divorce Court.

Hence it is Impossible to say that University Graduates will make good wives.

They are just as prone to human frailties os anyone else.

However the point Is that they have a notentlol capacity and Ihcre is absolutely no reason whatsoever why they should not make good wives—the rest is up to them-selveg,

And these said . . . STEVE HOCKING: I ts marvel­

lous what a little make-up and other mechanical and scientific aids can do.

SIR GEORGE CRIDLAND: I've never married one.

(For. a future lawyer, I feel he has incriminated himself rather bad­ly in the face of cross-examination. 1

JIM BYTH: I am at present en­gaged on an extensive survey of the habits teh-eh) of University women. Any likely candidate should make applicatloji for a private interview

I at the Union Office.

ANNIE NEEDS A GUN Delicately as the morning mist

they rose, and with little more than a hoarse whlsiier and a plod ot muffled feet, they drift, trying hard not to run—the majority succeeding —from tlreir seats, file down the aisle and out the door. How the lilayers beam with delight at the Cfbvlous enthusiasm of tlie grateful qudlence to get to hell out of tbe tihoatro and home before mum has cjrunk the entire stock of rum.

How common can you get? Very common if the distinguished theatre patrons are a typical cross section of tlie elite of tills gj-eat village. Wake up Brisbane! How can we expect to have any decent self-respecting company come back and give of their best, when tliere is such a high percentage of the corned-beef mob which walk out during the final act.

. THESPIAN.

Cynicism

Withers A Fresher Replies

T should like to try to answer, on behalf of some of this year's

Freshers, the article "Skln-Dcep Cynicism'' whicli appeared as a "welcome" In last week's Semper.

After a few days of this com­pletely new and different life I did not thhik we could feel any more raw and Inexperienced than we al­ready did mitll I read the scath­ing remarks the author had to make about the attitude to life of the tjTiical student. Tlie tender green shoots that we have been .sprouting rather tentatively were considerably withered to say the least of It. Although many of us have, this year, determined to fight against developing this shallow so­phistication of which ho spoke, our shallow impulse will be to copy those who have travelled the road before us and that is just what we are told we should not do.

Wc do thank him for this interest though, and hasten to assm-e him that although we are, as yet, "un­tainted by any trace of realism" we are also untainted by sophistica­tion, and we do realise as we pass this milestone in life the seriousness of our re.sponsibility in making our own decision. We will do our best and all we ask is to be given a fair go, unhindered by prejudice. If we appear a little to light-hearted on the surface it is because we wish to cheer those people who. like the authour, despair for student human­ity, by giving them momentary glimpses, around this den of skin-deep cynicism, of the bright young fall of SOME FRESH LITTLE FRESHER

I Umpteen Club and Society Notices]

S»C«M« 7.45 p,m.. Friday, March 27th. at

St. Andrew's Anglican Church Hall. South Brisbane.

EVENING OF RECORDS Including vcrae spoken by T, S.

Eltot ("4 Quartets"). Anthony Quayle, Claire de Lune, J'a2z Classics. ADAHSSION — 2/6 (which includes

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URGENT WANTED: Copy for "Whack-ho".

Songs, Jokes, Definitions, Cartoons, etc., urgently required.

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the Students' Union and Presidents of Clubs and Societies is drawn to the following regulations of the Union which date from 12/9/50. Regulation 19A (il) and (iii):

No member of the University of Queensland Union shall affix to the walls of Union Buildings or other University or Union pro-pertj--notices, pamphlets or other written matter—except on notice boards provided, without the per­mission of the Hon. Secretary.

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Our Girls Win Me/bourne too

Intervarsity Swim good' for the men

The women's swimming team of three members s w a m brilliantly to tie with Sydney for first place in the Inlervaraiiy Swimming. Olympic representative Nancy Lyons won the brehstatroke. Empire Gcmes swimmer Jeanette HoUe took first place in flie backstroke, and Heather McBride gained top honours on- flie diving board, •

(Unfortunately we nre not able to on tlie nigtits of 5tli and Uh provide you wltii any intimate de-taUs and results of these astonish­ing Aniflzons.)

Men's Events

Ttic 1953 Inter-V.irsily S^vimmlng and W.Ttcr Polo Championships were licld in the Valley Baths, Brisbane,

SPOTLIGHT

•pEATURED in Spottlglit this •'• week is Howard Hlckey, who has tlie unique distinctiun of being our only full-time ondergr.iduatc rtouble Istue winner.

Howard has rcpreaented the University at fcotball since his freslier dav.s, and gained selec­tion to the Australian Univer-siiies football team and the State .side in 19. 2, and was awarded a full blue that year.

While in Melbourne with tbe football team last year. Howard also comiJcted in the Inter-varsity Athletics and gatned a Blue for his cflort in the broadjimip.

on the January.

Added attraction was tiw pres­ence of a combined New Zealand Varsities team, which later met a combined Australian side, selected on the results of the abovemcn-tioncd cliaiVipionships.

Tlie highlight of the first night was tho outstanding performnnce of Martin Trcnnery—debonair Kings-.. man—who nearly upset tlie Ijooks by his terrltic battle with Empire Games star, F. Stevens, and Olympic swimmer W. orchard in the 100 metres backstroke.

Bill {"Man of Bronze") Blake performed brilliantly ti\rougi)oul the scries, both in the water and on the land, and later gained selection in the combined Aus­tralian side

In the 200 metres freestyle. Bill was a close second to Junior Foster, former Victorian junior titleholder, who clocked 28.6 sees. The home relay team excelled themselves by defeating Sydney and running second to Melbourne.

The 400 metres freestyle and the diving were held the following morning. Bill Blake performed well to take third place behind the Vic­torian Olympians John Foster and Bill Orchard. Tlie diving was won by Svdncy, who were the only en­trants.

On the second night the out­standing event was the 100 metres freestyle, won by Orchard, with Poster second and Blake third.

Queensland Men Overworked

A disappointing feature ot the series was the fact that Queensland, the home Slate, could only muster four men in their side. Apparently no one else was available or wjlUng to compete. Consequently tliese lour liad to swim the whole pro­gramme between them, and ob­viously no water-polo team could be entered.

The Victorians were suberb in the water-polo, and their handling, ball-control and tactical play was a de­light to watch. It was estimated

I that the presence of Olympians Poster aud Orchard meant 10 goals to the Melbourne team for a start.

Inter-Dominion Swimming

The combined team was then selected to meet the New Zealand­ers. One Que&nslander, Bill Blake, was selected to contest the 200 metres and 400 metres freestyle events, and the relay. Australia scored convincing wins in both the swimming and water-polo.

Bill Blake gained second place in the 400 metres to Poster (Aust.) and third place In the 200 metres to Poster and Moore (N.Z.) High­

lights of the test were Orchard's wm in 100 metres in 63.4 sees., and Tievor Eagle's (N.Z.) win In tlae 200 metres breaststroke in 3 mln. 3 sees., after titanic struggles. While on tour the New Zealanders visited Toowoomba and Murwlllum-bali. Parties and trips round the countryside were held In both towns and the visitors had a chance to sample our surf nnd beaches which they voted first-cla.'--o. This ended tJieir Queensland tour, which thougli unsuccessful in the com­petitive sphere, proved a wonderful success in. the sphere of good sportsmanship. Their friendliness and tlieir hakas will be long remem­bered by t hose of us fortunate enough to come into contact with them.

LOOK TO THE FUTURE

In a little imder two years ars Australian Varsities team will .be touring New Zealand

In ihe less distant hiiure a team will be going to Sydney. So Swimmers 1—start support­ing your Cluh now. and strive for a place in one oi these teams—the goal is well worth the effort.

Walch the Notice Boards for details of the University Swim­ming Championships io be held early in April.

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Blake In Aquatic Dream On- Eve Of Big Race

Close Call Iti Intervarsity Cricket

The nrmual cricket match between Sydney University and Queensland University w a s played a t St. Lucia Oval on 16th-18th December. 1952. Sydney University emerged victors at approximately 5.58 p.m. on the last d a y crfter a close and excit­ing game.

Inter-College Cricket Emmanuel versus Union- — Emmanuel won on First Innings Emmanuel batted first, reaching a

total of 108, the chief rungetters being R. Deeth (30) and 0, Wilson (23). The main bjirden of Unions' bowling was taken by C. Primmer (4 for 28 on 11 overs); D. Clarkfion <2 for 8 o5 4 overs); and J. Murpiiy 2 for 16 off 3 overs).

Union replied witli 59, tlms giving Emmanuel a win on the first Innings.

Kings versus Leos — Kings won on First Innings Leos batted first, scoring 51, of

whicli N. Jotinston compiled 25. Mitcheli, of Kings, liad the bowling figures of 5 for 18.

Kings replied with 93, after being 0 down for 41 at one stage. Those

Top scorer for Union was C. Clark-son (19),

J. Wliite was the most successful bowler for Emmanual, taking 5 for 9 otr 7 overs. Other wicket-takers were M. Lemon (2 for 8 off 3 overs), and R, Davidson (1 for 8 off 5 overs). A feature of the match was the fielding and fine catching of the Emmanuel team. .

to reach double figures for Kings were: Newsome (20), Mitchell (16), Callow (14), Armstrong 10.

•J. Gordon bowled brilliantly for Leos, taking 5 for 21. .

I.C.C. Swimmitig Carnival Friday. 27lh March, at the Valley Baths, commeclng at

7.30 p.m.

Come along and

Watch The Freshers Drown at least 20 will be sacrificed purely for your sadistic

enloymenl

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Poge e—SEMPER FLOREAT—Thursday, March 26. 195^

Queensland won the toss and elected to bat, and were dismissed in the flrst innings for 154 after rain had interrupted play for seveiai hours. B, O'Sullivan batted attractively to score ^ nms in 63 minutes, and W. Harris compiled a useful 23 runs. For Sydney, L. Tliew (capt.) took 4 for 49 off 18.4 cvcrs, .and K. Williamson took 4 for 51 off U overs.

Sydney went in to bat in their first innings and were dismissed for 175.

J. Solomon batted well for the visitors, and compiled 40 runs. He was woli supported by P. Hull 25 and D. Ford 23.

For the home side L. Lukin took 3 for 48 off 12 overs, and W. Harris took 3 for 51 off 15 overs.

Queensland did sllglitly better in their second innings, compiling a total of 158. D. O'Sullivan followed up bis first innings score with a patient 21, and W. Harris and N. Rattle (capt.) scored 27 and 26 re­spectively. D. Ford was Sydney's outstanding bowler, taking 6 tor 49 off 13 overs. ^

Sydney were set the taste of scoring 137 runs in IGO minutes, and after some very good bowling by L. Lukin and C. iWcngcr, were S wickets down for 160 runs with approximately half an hour to play. However, D. Ford with 26 not out, and J. Thompson wltii 12 not out, turned defeat into victory, and tlie winning run was hit in the last over of play.

K. Sheflleld's attractive hand of 35 runs was largely responsible for Sydney's victory, and was sup­ported by a useful 26 runs from D. Buckingham. '-

L. Lukin finished up with 3 for 33 off 8 overs, and C. Mengel 3 for 64 off 12 overs.

Queensland, though defeated, went close to victory, and gave Sydney its Toest game for some years ,and the fielding of both teams was to be

commended. The teams were entertained after

the match and the official dinner was held at the National Hotel.

SPORTS FLASHES-

rriHE Clem Jones Shield for Interj •*- Varsity competition with Armlj-dale College was presented at a, recent sports Union meeting. ThlA Inter-Varslty competition Is alreadv proving a great success, and ar4 rangcments have been made foir cricket and tennis teams to compete at Easter, and for football and.-Hockey trips dui-lng the May vac. I

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WHEN the Varsity football teana takes the fleld this season in A

,-;radc Fixtures. Internationals an^ State reps, will be as common ag freshers al flrst term lectures. Thcf Internationals are Con Primmer^ Lou Hatherall and Johnny O'Neill' The State or near State players ln.j-dude Big Jack Carrol, Ashley Girle', Chilla Wilson, Gtcn Slilel, Ros4 Shicl, Howard Hickey, Sid Canta-massa, Johnny ("Snoggles") Mur­phy, Johnny Craig and Sir GcorgD Cridland.

* * * ELL-KNOWN Cth yeav Med. .

spin bowler, Mcr t Thew, was in devastating form for the 6th year Med, v. Welgijts and Measures social match . ' ^

Unconcerned by the blinding ra in which prevailed, th is demon bowler took 2 for 0 in liis first over, and was looking really dangerous when he disappeared into a 10ft, water-hclc a t the bowling crease. Mert emphaticnlly denies t ha t Sydney University cricket capta in , T. Thew, is a relative.

:i! * * T T is rumoured t h a t g iant gondo-•*• tiers (rowers of gondolas) will make an all out bid to win the I .CC. Regat ta for Union College this year. This is the flvst year t h a t Dr. Hickey's huskies have tu rned their ta lents to the aquatic sphere. Main danger will be rival paddlcrs from. St. John ' s Venetian College.

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UNIVERSITY Hockey Club opened tijeir sea.son two weeks ago with,

a seven-a-side mixed teams matchj and competed for a plate of doubt­ful origin, presented by the cluli president. Regular matches have been held since and club games start on Saturday, April llth.

* * * PORMER test cricketer. Jack ^ Moroney would have been put to shame if he had seen Clem Jones' innings in the Varsity C. f Tombul-Sandgatc n game last week. Clem carried his bat through the innings, scoring 55 runs in 4i hours, and in the 21, hours prior to tea he acutally made 10 runs.

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MEN'S BASKETBALL

FAST — EXCITING

University Championship Series Come along. Brhig your friends.

EACH SATURDAY NIGHT

from 18th April, 6.30<-10 pw. at

WOOL COURT

Exhibition Grounds

PRACTICE STARTS NOW

Wednesday, 2-5 p.m. at Wool Court Sunday, 9.30-lUO at St. Lucia

N. T. PYLE. Hon. Sec. U.Q.M, Basketball Club

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BOAT CLUB REGAHA

Toowong Reach, Saturday, March 23th at 2 pjn.

Come and see the last r&cing be­fore ti^e Queensland Chafflpionships on Easter Saturday.

oi4 A good football season Is coni

- ^ fidently expected. AU the stars have their boots down—"Dad' Primmer.

Big Jacl: Carrol, and the other Australian players, Lou Hatherall and John O'Neill are again turning out. Actually Ray Clark, now in, staging camp in NB.W. pending joining the Australian Battalion-in Korea, is the only player from last year's premiership side not avail able, We wish Ray bon voyage and' safe return.

Freshers should not be dismayed by the line-np of stars! If you en­joy playing football, we can find a place for you in one of oiur teams. The number of teams flelded de­pends on the number of available players. Practice is held Tuesdays and Thursdays at Victoria Park from 5"p.m. All interested are in­vited to try out; .Watch your Uni­versity notice Iwards for Ifjforma-tion concerning trials, or contact the hon. co-secretary, Dick gtaveley, at St. Lucia (IT2021, X288) or Union CoUege (B7464).

Officers Of Th© C u b President: Jh, R. Contamessa. Hon. Co.-Secretatie8: Noibeil

Byrne; R. W. Staveley. Executive: E. Thompson:,R

Henderson; T. Moore; D. WII son; C. Wliaons J. Murphyrj A. Girle.

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