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Joint Army and Navy Tests Will Be Held On April 2

S t u d e n t s M a y S e l e c t E i t h e r T h e A r m y O r N a v y T r a i n i n g P r o g r a m s

The joint examinat ion for the Navy V-12. and the A r m y A-12 College Tra in ing P rograms wil l be given on Fr iday . Apri l 2. f rom 9 00 to 1100 A M

Although the examinat ion will be the same for both reserves, t he phys-ical r equ i remen t s differ for the Army and Navy

The Navy reserve is open to any ma le citizen of the United States, who has reached his 17th b i r thday and not h is 20th. and has or will have by Ju ly 1st. g radua ted f r o m high school All potent ia l officers must have at least 18 20 vision, and must agree to remain unmar r i ed unti l a f t e r they receive thei r commissions.

The V-12 program is designed to re-place the V- l and V-7 reserve pro-grams. All s tudents who a re ac-cepted in this reserve will be sent to a Navy approved College, and will be t ra ined the re whi le they are in uni -fo rm on act ive duty They will be re-ceiving pay and will be under mil i tary dicipline.

The A r m y A-12 reserve program is open to men be tween the ages of 17 and 22 who will have completed their high school education by Ju ly 1st.

The purpose of his reserve is to select s tudents for college t ra in ing under the Army Specialized Tra in ing Program, and to classify o thers in respect to relative t ra inabi l i ty S tnden ts wi thout the necessary phys-ical r equ i rements for the college t ra in ing would benefit under the lat-ter clause.

Those who wish to t ake the exam-inat ions may obtain cards at t he of-fice of Mr. Riley Hughes These cards are to filled out before tak ing the test. Those wishing to t ry for the V-12 P r o g r a m should fill out the Ad-mission and Identification Form for the Navy College Tra in ing Program test and those desir ing the A-12 Pro-gram should fill out the Admission and Identification Fo rm for the Army College Training P rogram test. If there is no preference , e i ther card may be used and the fact indicated.

No s tudent who is connected with any other reserve program may take this examinat ion.

Alembic Ready For Publication

According to present plans. "The Alembic" the college creat ive l i terary magazine. will appear sometime dur ing the second week of April, J ames F. Shiel. editor, announced

This is the first issue to appear un-der the new formal ly organized lit-e rary board which is made up of rep-resentat ives f rom each class. The board consists of John T. Stafford, of Providence; John Farley, of Provi-dence; Alber t Tetraul t , of Providence; John R. Kenney, of Providence; and John Buckley, of New Bedford, Mass

A commendable quant i ty of mate-rial has been submit ted in the form of short stories, plays, poems and vari-ous types of informat ive articles. The greater par t of the mater ia l is now in the hands of the pr inter .

Lecturer Students To Make Merry At F rosh -Soph Dance

COLLEGE ALUMNI PLAN BREAKFAST

N o t e d J u r i s t F r a n c i s B. C o n d o n Will S p e a k

S u n d a y

The Honorable Francis B. Condon of Centra l Falls, associate Justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court, will be the speaker Sunday at the Provi-dence College Alumni Association's Communion Breakfast . Chief Pet ty Officer Fred J. Murphy. U. S N R . '35. chai rman, announced today

A Memorial Mass for Deceased Alumni will be celebrated in the Student ' s Chapel in Aquinas Hall at 9 o'clock by the Rev. Frederick C. Foley. O.P.. assistant dean of Provi-dence College and chaplain of the association. Fa ther Foley will also preach the sermon

Seated at the speakers ' table will be Governor J . Howard McGrath, '26. Very Rev John J . Dillon O.P.. pres ident of Providence College, Rev. J e r emiah T. Fitzgerald. O.P.. vice-president . Rev A r t h u r H. Chandler . O P . , dean. Rev. Vincent C. Dore, O.P.. t reasurer , and Mr. Edward Crotty. director of physical educa-tion. Also the officers of the Alumni Association: Dr. James F. Colgan. '24, president . Mr. Louis C. Fitzgerald, '34, secretary, and Dr. Daniel J . O'Neill. "24. t reasurer .

NEW RECRUITS Several more Providence College

s tudents abandoned their books to take a more active par t in the war as soldiers in the U. S. Army.

Pau l Cayat ta . Freshman pre-med. of Providence, lef t last week. Charles Magnani, Sophomore in the Philos-ophy depar tment f rom Attleboro, and Pasquale Onofrio, a Freshman in the Philosophy depar tment f rom New Haven, will leave for Camp Devens early next week.

Rt. Rev. Msgr. Fulton J. Sheen

NOTED LECTURER TO SPEAK HERE

Rt . Rev . M s g r . F . J . S h e e n Will A d d r e s s T h o m i s t i c G u i l d s At H a r k i n s Hal l

Tickets for the lecture of the Rt. Rev. Monsignor Fulton J. Sheen to be held Friday evening. April 30. In Har-kins Hall, may be obtained by stu-dents at the information booth in the rotunda, it was announced today by the Rev. Dr. George Q. Friel. O P Director of the Thomistic Inst i tute of Providence College Tickets are priced at one dollar and ten cents each.

Monsignor Sheen. Ph D.. is best known for his series of discourses on the Catholic Hour, a half -hour radio program sponsored on Sunday eve-nings throughout the year by the Na-tional Council of Catholic Men He has at t racted a great deal of at tention because of his appeal to non-Catholic as well as Catholic audiences. Msgr. Sheen Is also known as the instructor of such notable converts as the late Heywood Broun and Henry Ford the second He has long been known for his Interest in the application of reli-gious principles to politics.

Born in El Paso. Illinois, on May 8. 1895, Msgr. Sheen at tended St Mary's School in Peoria and then went to the Spalding Inst i tute also of Peoria

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P L A N S M A D E FOR DEBATING

S c h e d u l e W i t h L e a d i n g E a s t e r n C o l l e g e s B e i n g

A r r a n g e d

The Providence College Debating Union is now completing arrangements for a series of intercollegiate debates to be held In Harkins Hall dur ing the remainder of this month and the first part of the next. Thomas E. Carroll, manager, disclosed last night

Letters have been sent to the de-bating teams of approximately 25 nearby colleges and universities. Al-ready five teams have been definitely scheduled for debates in the near fu-ture.

The N A T S topic. Resolved: That the United Nations Form a Permanent Federal Union After the War. will be discussed Each team will consist of two men. who will debate in the "American style."

Transportat ion difficulties will, of necessity, limit the opposing teams to those representing colleges and uni-versities in the near vicinity. For the same reason the Debating Union's road tr ip next April will be restricted to Eastern educational Institutions.

Alumnus Passes Mass. Bar Exam

John McElroy. '40, bro ther of James McElroy. '43, has successfully passed the Massachusetts Bar Examinations.

John was an Honor Gradua te in the Classical Course f rom La Salle Acad-emy. He was graduated f rom Provi-dence College in 1940 with a Bach-elor of Philosophy degree.

After his graduation f rom Provi-dence College Mr. McElroy at tended Law School at Boston University f rom which he was graduated In Jan-uary of this year. He is one of three men applying to take the Rhode Is-land Bar Examinations.

T i c k e t S a l e s I n d i c a t e H u g e C r o w d Will A t t e n d

I n f o r m a l A f f a i r

One of the largest crowds to at-tend a dance at the college will promenade at the Frosh-Soph Hop to the music of Joe Russo and his Col-legians at Harkins Hall tonight. The theme will honor St. Patr ick and the auditorium will be decorated with festive green d r e a m e r s and sham-rocks.

The Rev. William Doyle, O.P., and the Rev. Leo E. Schnell, O P . moder-ators of the Sophomore and Freshman classes respectively, definitely an-nounced that there would be no tickets sold at the door. Because of the large crowd expected, there will be only a limited number of tickets sold today.

The joint Sophomore and Fresh-man Committee has worked out elab-orate plans for the decoration of the auditorium. Bright green s t reamers will be draped f rom the ceiling lights to the walls. A hundred-year-old Irish harp will be spotlighted against a background of shamrocks on the stage. Kelly green streamers will be hung f rom the balcony to form a bright background and to f u r t h e r carry out the motif of the dance.

All the sprightly lads and coleens, whether Irish by destiny or by de-sire, will dance reels and more mod-ern versions of the dance to the music of Joe Russo and his Collegians. This 12 piece band is composed almost en-tirely of students of the college.

Co-chairmen of the informal affair are William Lynch and William Mills. Sophomore members are James Egan. Leo Conti and Edward Crouth-ier. William McKenna. Thomas Brady, and John Clifford are the Freshmen.

Former Student Now Air Cadet

Matthew C. Cunningham, ex-'43, of Pawtucket , who left Providence Col-lege at the end of his sophmore year last June, was recently appointed a Naval Aviation Cadet and was trans-ferred to the Naval Air Training Center, Pensacola, Fla., for inter-mediate flight training, according to the public relations office of that sta-tion.

While here, Cunningham studied for a Bachelor of Philosophy, major-ing in Education.

Upon completion of the intensive course at the "Annapolis of the Air." Cunningham will receive his Navy "Wings of Gold' ' with the designation

of Naval Aviator, and will be com-missioned an Ensign in the Naval Reserve or a Second Lieutenant in the Marine Corps Reserve.

STAFF MEMBERS Four new staff members were re-

cently added to the Cowl. They are Edward F. Casey. Freshman arts, of Attleboro; Pasquale F. Onofrio. Fresh-man philosophy, of New Haven; Henry J. Gilman, Junior business, of East Providence, and John F. McBurney, Freshman arts, of Pawtucket .

Casey, Onofrio, and Gilman will serve as news reporters. McBurney is a member of the Sports Staff.

Out In The Fields With Crotty C r o s s - C o u n t r y M a d e

E a s i e r

"In spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to the things a girl has been th inking af all winter " This adage so universally accepted does not hold t rue in regard to the stu-dents at P C. Perhaps they are those exceptions that prove the rule.

When Dame Spring comes to this honorable Institution, and weaves her magic spell h i ther and yon, the boys get that old urge to follow the open road into the wide spaces. But no such bliss is theirs; classes drag on in-termit tent ly; the monotony of every-day rout ine beats into their very hearts and souls l ike a s ledgehammer.

Physical Ed classes move outdoors, and once more the ers twhile s tudents a re pepped up by the bracing tonic of cross country and vault ing over the

barr iers . No longer Is the thud of flying leather ( tr i te isn't it) heard in the gym and bleeding noses and puffed up eyes are a thing of the past (it says here) .

Embryonic tumblers, both bad and reckless forsake the imitators of Sonnenberg. Mahoney, et al, forget half Nelsons and counterlocks. Pun-ishing toe holds (curse the murderous villlans that shew them), are rela-gated to their limbo.

Ah! the dear old days spent inside are forever (it is hoped) behind. How too too confining and oppressing it was. It filled one with claustro-phobia (fear of light spots). But all that Is past. The victims are free, so to speak. Now we are out in the f resh air and sunshine, communing with Mother Nature.

The exercises would still be the same. Thoughts of the Army would

N e w M e t h o d R e l i e v e s M o n o t o n y

make us do our exercises more faith-fully. Perhaps we might even be able to do twenty push ups. Possibly we could increase this figure. But not too much, , we warn you. You heard about what happened to Amer-ica's Most Muscular Man. He could do nineteen hundred odd pushups. (Also, he was respected by the Army.)

Running cross country was the main object of the students ' wrath. It seemed so useless running around Thomas Hall, back of Aquinas, down Eaton street and then up that tor tur-ous River avenue hill. It seemed so monotonous, always running the same route.

However the usefullness of run-ning cross country was soon proved

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2 T H E C O W L , F R I D A Y , M A R C H 19, 1943

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PEACE PLAN T h e p r o p o s e d p l a n f o r a p o s t - w a r i n t e r n a t i o n -

al p o l i c e f o r c e f o r m a l l y i n t r o d u c e d in t h e U n i t e d S t a t e s S e n a t e l a s t T u e s d a y s h o u l d b e c a r e f u l l y n o t e d a n d s t u d i e d .

A d v o c a t i n g i t s a d o p t i o n , S e n a t o r J o s e p h H . B a l l of M i n n e s o t a s a i d t h e p l a n w a s t h e o n l y p r a c t i c a l w a y of " c o n t r o l l i n g t h e p l a g u e of w a r . " F r o m o u r s t u d y of p a s t e x p e r i e n c e i n e t h n i c re -l a t i o n s w e a r e i n c l i n e d to a g r e e t h a t t h e p l a n or a s i m i l a r o n e i s t h e b e s t g u a r a n t e e a g a i n s t t h e o u t b r e a k of a n y m o r e w o r l d c o n f l i c t s in t h e f u -t u r e . W h a t i s m o s t i m p o r t a n t , t h e r e s o l u t i o n h a s t h e t e n t a t i v e a p p r o v a l of P r e s i d e n t R o o s e v e l t , V i c e - P r e s i d e n t W a l l a c e , a n d S e c r e t a r y of S t a t e H u l l . It w o u l d s e e m , t h e r e f o r e , t h a t t h e p l a n h a s m e r i t , a n d a n a n a l y s i s of i t s p o i n t s s o f a r a s w e k n o w t h e m is in order .

In i t s p r e s e n t f o r m , t h e p r o p o s a l u r g e s t h a t t h e U n i t e d S t a t e s t a k e t h e i n i t i a t i v e in f o r m i n g a U n i t e d N a t i o n s o r g a n i z a t i o n w i t h a u t h o r i t y t o c a r r y o u t t h e f o l l o w i n g p r o g r a m :

" R e s o l v e d , t h a t t h e S e n a t e a d v i s e t h a t t h e U n i t e d S t a t e s t a k e t h e i n i t i a t i v e in c a l l i n g m e e t -i n g s of r e p r e s e n t a t i v e s of t h e U n i t e d N a t i o n s f o r t h e p u r p o s e of f o r m i n g a n o r g a n i z a t i o n of t h e U n i t e d N a t i o n s w i t h s p e c i f i c a n d l i m i t e d a u t h o r -i t y :

"1. T o a s s i s t in c o - o r d i n a t i n g a n d f u l l y u t i l i z -i n g t h e m i l i t a r y a n d e c o n o m i c r e s o u r c e s of a l l m e m b e r n a t i o n s in t h e p r o s e c u t i o n of t h e w a r a g a i n s t t h e A x i s .

"2, T o e s t a b l i s h t e m p o r a r y a d m i n i s t r a t i o n s f o r A x i s - c o n t r o l l e d a r e a s of t h e w o r l d a s t h e s e a r e o c c u p i e d b y U n i t e d N a t i o n s f o r c e s , u n t i l s u c h t i m e a s p e r m a n e n t G o v e r n m e n t s c a n b e e s t a b -l i s h e d .

"3. T o a d m i n i s t e r re l i e f a n d a s s i s t a n c e in e c o n o m i c r e h a b i l i t a t i o n in t e r r i t o r i e s of m e m b e r n a t i o n s n e e d i n g s u c h a i d a n d in A x i s t e r r i t o r y o c c u p i e d b y U n i t e d N a t i o n s f o r c e s .

"4. T o e s t a b l i s h p r o c e d u r e s a n d m a c h i n e r y f o r p e a c e f u l s e t t l e m e n t of d i s p u t e s a n d d i s a g r e e -m e n t s b e t w e e n n a t i o n s .

"5. T o p r o v i d e f o r t h e a s s e m b l y a n d m a i n -t e n a n c e of a U n i t e d N a t i o n s m i l i t a r y f o r c e a n d t o

s u p p r e s s b y i m m e d i a t e u s e of s u c h f o r c e a n y f u -t u r e a t t e m p t at m i l i t a r y a g g r e s s i o n b y a n y n a t i o n .

" T h a t t h e S e n a t e f u r t h e r a d v i s e s t h a t a n y e s -t a b l i s h m e n t of s u c h U n i t e d N a t i o n s o r g a n i z a t i o n p r o v i d e m a c h i n e r y f o r i t s m o d i f i c a t i o n , f o r t h e d e l e g a t i o n of a d d i t i o n a l s p e c i f i c a n d l i m i t e d f u n c t i o n s t o s u c h o r g a n i z a t i o n , a n d f o r a d m i s s i o n of o t h e r n a t i o n s t o m e m b e r s h i p , a n d t h a t m e m -b e r n a t i o n s s h o u l d c o m m i t t h e m s e l v e s t o s e e k n o t e r r i t o r i a l a g g r a n d i z e m e n t .

P e r h a p s t h e r e s o l u t i o n s h o u l d b e s u b j e c t e d to s o m e r e v i s i o n . O u r c o n c e r n , h o w e v e r , i s w i t h t h e f a c t t h a t s o p r a c t i c a l a p l a n f o r t h e p o s t - w a r w o r l d h a s b e e n b r o u g h t f o r t h in t h e S e n a t e . U p -o n a c c e p t a n c e it w o u l d t e l l t h e w o r l d n o w , w h i l e t h e a r m i e s s t i l l f i ght , t h a t t h e U n i t e d S t a t e s S e n -a te , w h i c h m u s t r a t i f y A m e r i c a ' s t r e a t i e s , f a v o r s o u r n a t i o n ' s p a r t i c i p a t i o n in a n i n t e r n a t i o n a l u n d e r t a k i n g to s e t t l e d i s p u t e s p e a c e f u l l y a n d p o l i c e a g g r e s s e r s a f t e r t h i s w a r . F a i l u r e t o l e n d a c t i v e s u p p o r t t o t h e L e a g u e of N a t i o n s a f t e r t h e first W o r l d W a r w a s o n e of t h e m a i n s a u s e s of t h e p r e s e n t o n e . W o r l d p e a c e m u s t b e g u a r a n t e e d . W e h a v e n o p a t i e n c e w i t h t h e b l i n d i n d i v i d u a l s w h o w o u l d w i n t h e w a r first, a n d r e c o n s t r u c t t h e w o r l d a f t e r w a r d s . T h e S e n a t e p l a n i s a s e n s i b l e o n e . It i s u p t o C o n g r e s s t o b e s e n s i b l e a n d a c t o n it .

College Gossip By JACK BRADY

At exactly e ight - th i r ty this evening, Joe Russo will raise his baton, the Collegians will begin to play, and happy couples each wear ing their bit of green will begin to dance and thus another annual St. Patr ick 's Dance will be underway.

Irish melodies will be mixed with modern swing in the best Russo manner ; Bill Corkery will give several vocals: Phi l Tra inor and Walter Breen are sure to join in with their usual chorus. Johnny Lopes, F rank Cross, Bill McKenna, each will lead their delegations in force, each t ry ing to outdo the other. In short, all Providence College will be on hand for its "Big" li t t le dance of the year at Hark ins Hall. ALONG THE WAY:

Al Palmieri , Shor ty Lee. Bunny Rabbitt , Harold Briggs. Fred Sowa, and Bill Mart in have entered a team in the Pawtucke t Boys' Club Senior Invitat ion Tourna-ment. They have advanced to the semi-finals and are playing against the Coast Guard team tonite. . . John O'Neil was the fifth in his class to be accepted by Tuf t s Medical School. . . Ned Crowley seems to be taking qui te a r ibbing f rom Pe te Louthis, Ernie Brousseau and Bunny Rabbitt , about a certain someone who lives in Centra l Falls. . . Celebrat ing March 17th at the Eire Society Dance in Pawtucke t were 'Duke' Ferland. Charley Goodman (all good Ir ishmen) Bill Lynch and John Cunningham. Ralph Keenan also was in a t tendance in his new sailor suit.

Ted McConnon's St. Raphael basketball team did the impossible last Sa turday night by winning the State Bas-ketball Championship. Ted in his first year of coaching became the first coach to win the t i t le for St. Raphael. Handicapped by his induction into the Army recently, Ted had to obtain special leaves in order to coach his team.

The courageous stand of his team was recognized in schoolboy basketball circles by their receiving invita-tions to both the Eastern States Catholic Tournament at Newport and the New England Catholic Tournament at Boston.

Here 's wishing Ted continued success in the games to come. So, unti l next week, keep listening.

D O R M DIARY By JOE ANLAUF

Well—good old Saint Patr ick was really raised f rom the dead this year and had qui te a t ime cf it before he went back into re t i rement until next March 17. As fa te would have it the first d raught of ye olde green brew was tasted by Lenny Feldberg. Major Rheinhard t has been voted the most photographed senior in the dorm. Vinny Vasilauskas wrenched his knee again in the Siena game but is back on his feet a f t e r a few days in bed. Poor Bill the porter has really got the miseries lately t rying to keep his cart in view and stay sane. At tendance at daily Mass so far this Lenten season has really been commendable and let's keep it up. Ed Foley looked like the spirit of Saint Patr ick himself hobbling along with staff in hand. F rank Smyth is back again af te r his brief vacation in the wilds of Massachusetts.

Mr. F rank Leo Trotta, Jr. . has recruited new mem-bers for his unemployment union. Lou Sibbio, '42. is back prepar ing for en t rance into midshipman's school at Notre Dame. Chet Zabek and Joe Vaghi are playing on the same basketball team at N. D.. and their club is leading the in t ramural league. The elevator is really taking an awfu l beating these days. Guzman Hall doesn't look the fame any more what with all the repairs being made. Frank Parise is working down at the hospital and doing all right for himself. Af t e r this year the second floor of Aquinas will never be the same. Wonder where Dan Di Iulio gets those ties he's current ly featuring? Gene Neagle is really wasting his talents up here, it 's too bad vaudevil le went out with prohibition. That seems to wind up things for this seven, so until next week be good.

With General Giraud 's repudiat ion of all Vichy edicts, a very regret-table and yet very interest ing episode in European History is coming to a close. The men who have dominated defeated France may soon be as un-known and forgot ten as the Spaniards, Germans, and Austr ians who support-ed the conquering Napoleon. His-torians of the f u t u r e may consider Vichites only in footnotes. Unfor tu-nately. we who are living in their age cannot be so casual: w e must serious-ly and earnest ly s tudy the men of Vichy as abnormal political "case his-tories." In each one of these histories, the par t icular personali ty, its growth and action, w' l l present an i l lumin-ating pic ture of what results f rom con-fused ideas, unabashed betrayal, or vault ing ambition.

Every person who has heard the names Thorez. Deat. Laval. Diroit. Flandin. Faure, Darlan and Petain has found himself wonder ing about these men. We ask curselves just what are these men doing? What is their aim° How did they seize power? How is it that ex-premiers , ex-presidents, and ret i red generals could join the enemy in plunder ing their own nation?

Answers to these questions are not lacking; The Catholic wri ters . Mari-tain. Sim n, and Bernanos; the jour-nalists. Alexander Werth. Genevieve Tabouis. Per t inax. Pols, and Arm-strong have all given us lucid e x p l a n -ations. So have other l i terary men such as Andre Maurois. and Saint Exupery. While some of these people wrote in a rage, those who viewed events c bject ively and historically pro-vided the tempera te answers above re-proach. These lat ter have proved the most condemning—the most unre-lenting.

Here, for example, is an incident which throws a flooding light, it seems to me. upon the sham of Vichy. Many people, relying on fatuous fai th ra ther than facts, held that the government of defeated France was doing its best to restrain Hitler 's influence. They ignored the persecution of Jews and the mass sur render of refugees. They reerned to forget that high in the Pe-tain government was M. Flandin. It was he who. during the Munich crisis, sent a telegram to Hit ler saying. "I have constantly followed your activity in the past year with great interest and sympathy." These few words con-tain many wri ters hold, a simple and obvious clue to the main at t i tude of the

French "collaborators." If he was so interested before he was a Nazi un-derling. how interested he must have been af ter . Why did they not fight Hitler? Why did they wi thdraw their armies? Why did they sur render the French Empire? Because men like Flandin, and along with him Laval. Deat. Diroit, and Thorez, saw that a German victory was amenable to their personal ambitions.

Let us look at another concrete ex-ample that indicates a common Vichy at t i tude. Soon a f t e r the German armies began to overrun Northern France, Petain the eighty-three-year-old hero of Verdun was called into the govern-ment. Af t e r he had signed the armis-tice and was made chief of state, he began to establish an authori tar ian government. It upheld the bien pensant capitalist, promulgated anti-semitic laws, and established youth labor camps. This new government which was hailed as the beginning of the new order in France by Deat. was piven the title of the National Revolution by Petain.

This old soldier hoped his revolu-tion might reform the old evils of the Thi rd Republic. For many years he had watched these with anxiety, and finally the German invasion gave him the opportuni ty to do something about them. It was well intended, but still stupid and confused ideas, that made Petain a servant of the Nazis.

A lot has been said about the diffi-cult job he had when he came to power. The main reason he took pow-er. they explain, was to moderate the excess of the invaders. That is par t ly true: but now he is also t rying to stop another invader. This t ime the invad-er is bearing the ideals of the pre-war France. But the former envoy to Fran-co. Petain. is still s tubbornly advo-cating resistance.

This was to be a factual and objec-tive account of Vichy, but it is almost impossible to be objective about that regime. The forces involved are almost too violent to remain unmoved be-fore them. But still every person should give some consideration to the problem.

But let us warn you. Only if you can bear picking over a barrel of rotten apples, wi th all its foul odors and crawling maggots, will your in-testinal for t i tude support a candid examinat ion of the contemporary con-t inental political scene. If that does not stop you. perhaps the sights of mules and jackals in the seat of power will.

FOLLOW COPY By JOHN STAFFORD

S P O R T S FRIARS DEFEAT

SIENA IN LAST GAME OF SEASON

C r o t t y m e n Foi l V a r y i n g S t r a t e g e m s of I n d i a n s T o G a i n 5 5 - 4 3 V e r d i c t

The hoopmen of Providence Col lege racked up their 15th win in 20 out-ings and closed their season when they defeated Siena College in the gymnas ium of the Christian Brothers Academy. Albany. N Y . Saturday night The final score was 55-43

The Friars dominated the play throughout the game, though the In-dians unvei led a parade of strategies

The scoring was started by Sowa of the Friars and it was s ix minutes be-fore Siena was able to pass the ball through the hoop—that on a foul shot. T h e Indians then picked up six more points to lead the Friars 7-6. the only t ime that the Friars w e r e not in the lead for the rest of the evening

Siena s lowed the play midway in the first half, but Larry Drew and Al Palmieri forced the S ienese to step out and the game moved at a faster pace

At the half P C was leading 23-19 The opening of the second half was

s imilar to the first half, for the In-dians w e r e unable to score for five minutes whi l e the Friars were push-ing their advantage to a 33-19 score

At this point the Siena coach shifted his strategy once again: he sent in Winorowski to take the pivot spot. Winorowski was a solid lad w h o made it possible for his teammates to pour in a f ew baskets. But the Friars had seen Warner Keaney use the same tac-tic and they soon put an end to its effect iveness .

The Indians attempted to stop the Friars with a fast pace and came with-in one point of tieing the score, but the S ienese could not stand their own pace and Crotty's men in their accus-tomed style started to move ahead

During the last ten minutes of plav

Boxers Train For Bou t s

S e v e n M a t c h e s S l a t e d F o r N e x t F r i d a y ' s A l l - S t a r

S h o w

Preparations are proceeding In high gear for the third All-Star Boxing Show which will be held Friday eve-ning. March 26

Advance ticket «ales for the bouts, the last event of the present trimes-ter. have been quite high at this early date

It Is planned to hold seven bouts for championship awards In the vari-ous weight groups A comedy bout, a lways a popular feature In past shows, will round out the evening s entertainment.

A goodly number of title aspirants have been working out for the past week under Pete Louthis. P C 's rep-resentative In the pro fight ranks

Several men who fought In last De-cember's show have returned to de-fend their titles or to gain crowns which they failed to win upon their first attempts

Mickey Marra. w h o won a close de-cision over Ray Walsh, and Gene Leco. w h o gained a technical K O over Jack Farley, are former winners try-ing to retain their crowns. Tom Need-ham. w h o lost a close decision to El-put up an even greater battle this time.

Among the others who are work-ing out daily are Rogers. Mendozzi. Di Iuglio. Murphy, and E. Russo.

Providence was never in danger Wincrowski and Kemp and their

teammates. Mastriani. Connelly, and Pryzbylo were the stalwarts of the Indians.

Sowa. Martin, and Palmieri did the heavy scoring for the Friars, whi le Lee guarded well and scored four field goals.

Larry Drew played his final game in the form that has marked him as one of the outstanding guards of the season.

T h e s u m m a r y P. C. 151) Sena (43)

r, F P O. F. P. Martin, t 5 t Hennessey. f 0 0 0 Sowa. t 4 t It Hurley. 1 0 0 0

Drew. K I 1 Ryan. t l 0 2 Palmieri . c 2 16 Kemp, c > 0 I

Lee K 4 1) 8 litzky. k 2 * 6 Kirby . f 1 0 2 Connelly. n 1 t •

Rabbitt . K • 0 i) Connell. f 1 1 3 Michaud. k 0 0 it Mastriani. t 4 II s Sullivan. c • 0 it Pryzbyio. K 2 t 6

Carberry, f • 0 ii Pigott. 1 « 0 (1 Vasil'skas . f (1 • 0 - Win'r'wski. c 1 1 4

Renzi. K • 0 0 Coyle. k 0 • 0

Totals . . 23 9 Totals .. IT 9 43

SCANNING THE SCORE SHEETS

By AUSTIN M A T T H E W S

S tand ing of the Teama 100 Club 20 New Bedfords IB Sally's All-Star* 17 Aquino Ramblers . . . 15 Soph Stars 14 Stars and Strikes 13 Stragglers II McKems . 8 Loafers . . 8 Carey's A C 5 P C Flashes 1

With only one more week of match play, the 100 Club It the only team to have cl inched a first division play-off berth, the other three positions be-ing still wide open In order to finish the season before exam week, w e will bowl on both Monday and Tues-day nights. April 5th and 8th No team may use a man in the playoffs who has not bowled with that team at least once during the scheduled season.

The feature of last week's round was the match between the Aquino Ramblers and the Soph Stars The Stars won the first string by two pins, the second string by a substan-tial margin, but the Ramblers same back with a strong third string to win and take the total plnfall by another two pins.

Not satisfied with an even split, four men from each team decided to stay around and bowl another string to settle the issue. The total of this string was Aquino Ramblers 361, Soph Stars 361. so nothing had been settled. Because it was getting late, it was then decided that the three lowest men of each team would bowl two boxes of an extra string, and the two high men. Jack Mordente and Anthony Fratantuono, would bowl the final four The first s ix boxes left the teams so close that It developed into an individual duel between Anthony and Jack

When Anthony got a spare on his first box and an X on his second it looked as though the Soph Stars were in But Jack managed to pick up a spare himself, and he came up to the last box needing only a nine to win. With both teams cheering loudly. Jack threw just one ball and cleaned off the alley After five strings, the question was finally settled, and the Aquino Ramblers were acknowledged to be the better team.

Next week throughout the State there wil l be held a War Bond Bowl-ing Contest which anyone who bowls in league competition may emter. Contestants will bowl on their regu-lar night, but their scores wil l be entered in the tournament. All bowlers will have an equal chance for everyone will be handicapped to 125 according to his individual aver-age. Prizes will range from a first prize of a hundred dollar bond down to numerous prizes of two dollars in war stamps. We'd l ike to see a few of the fe l lows from our league taking some of that prize money. So all you fe l lows who want to enter the Tourna-ment see me before next Tuesday. The only requisite is a fifty cent entry fee. which wil l be used to buy the prizes.

Las t Week ' s Resul ts New Bedfords (3), 100 Club (1). Sally's All-Stars (4), McKems (0). Stragglers (4), P C . Flashes (0), for-

feit. Five by Fives (4), Loafers (0). Stars and Strikes (3). Carey's A C. (1>. Aquino Ramblers (2), Soph Stars (2).

Ind iv idua l Records High single, Ga l lone 150 High three, Gallone 378 High t e a m single, Carey ' s A. C. 536 High team three , Sal ly 's All-

S t a r s 1548. (Cont inued on P a g e 4)

P. C. Hoop Forces Hit New High In Scoring

WRESTLERS PREP FOR BRUIN CLASH

F o r t h c o m i n g M a t c h e s A r e T e n t a t i v e l y S c h e d u l e d

F o r N e x t F r i d a y

With eight candidates working out dally the P C wrestling group is preparing for the coming matches with the Brown matmen.

The matches, which are being held In coordination with the Physical Ed-ucation programs of both institutions, are tentatively scheduled for next Friday.

Eight men are training at present but It is expected that others will be chosen for their showing during regular Phys E periods

Those listed at present Include: Izzo 120 pounds. Di Iuglio 145, Mazzarella 145. Pliakas 155. Dalton 165. Cella 165. McCaffrey 170, and Lopes In the un-limited weight division.

All Students The Athletic Department an-

nounces that all students are for-bidden the use of Hendricken field until further notice. Ath-letes must use practice fields

Because of the difficulty in ob-taining athletic equipment a t present, no baseball or Softball equipment will be issued unt i l further notice.

S e r v i c e - R idd l ed Q u i n t e t W i n s F i f t e e n O u t of

T w e n t y G a m e s

The Friar basketball quintet, Coach Ed Crotty's fifth at Providence, had a most successful season, and with 15 wins In 20 games set a mark that places P C high on college records for 1942-43

Although the original team did not play the entire season because Zabek. Ethier. McConnon and Reilly were called to the services. 1240 points were scored against opponents that gathered 922 points This gave P C . an average of 62 points a game against 46 1 points of the opponents.

Freshman Bill Martin was the high scorer with a total of 201 Points. Ted McConnon scored 179 in 12 games. Pagliaroli got 162. Sowa 145. Palmieri 144. and Zabek gathered 106 points in nine games. Larry Drew 88, and Bob Reilly, 74 points in 15 games.

"Shorty" Lee's 57 points in eight games give only an indication of the

-upport he gave while playing a fine The Friars scoring average of 62

game at guard. points per game was the highest in the history of P. C. basketball and placed the Crottymen in the runner-up spot to R. I. State as the highest scoring col lege team in the nation.

G a m e - F G F P t s M a r t i n . . . . 20 86 29 201 M c C o n n o n . . . . . . . 16 82 15 179

Pagliaroli . . . 17 67 28 162 S o w a . 20 61 23 145 P a l m i e r i - . 20 61 22 144 Z a b e k 9 47 12 106 D r e w . 20 32 24 88

Re i l ly 15 27 20 74 Lee . . . 8 24 9 57 E t h i e r • 19 I 41

S u l l i v a n I 4 1 9 M i c h a u d 11 3 2 8

B u r k e . . 4 > 1 7 C a r b e r r y 7 2 1 5

Rabbitt 1 3 0 6 K i r b y 5 2 2 ( V a s i l a u s k a s . . . . . C 0 t 2

THE COWL, FRIDAY, MARCH 19, 1943 3

4 THE COWL, FRIDAY, MARCH 19, 1943

SCANNING THE SCORE SHEETS ' C o n t i n u e d f r o m P a g e 3)

Ind iv idua l Ave rages w e e k s to ta l

bowled p in fa l l ave rage Ga l lone . . . 9 1589 105 14-15 K a p l a n 3 953 105 516 F r a t a n t u o n o 4 1265 105 5-12 Sheehan . . . 5 1564 104 4-15 Nachba r . . 5 1556 103 11-15 A P a l m i e r i . . 3 924 103 Smi th . . 5 1537 102 7-15 Hill < 1814 100 7-9 Driscoll . . . 1 301 100 1-3 Sandpe r i l 5 1497 99 4-5 Morden te 5 1486 99 1-15 Sibor . . . . . 6 1778 98 7-9 R o u t h i e r 6 1775 98 11-18 P i che t t e 6 1775 98 11-18

Uzal inski . . 5 1477 98 7-15 N a j a r i a n 6 1771 98 7-18 Michand . . 1 294 98 Magnan i 5 1466 97 11-15 Nixon . . . . 6 1754 97 2-3 McGill . . . 6 1745 96 17-18 Bonte 3 872 96 8-9 Breen . . . 4 1153 96 1-2 Rabb i t t . . 5 1441 96 1-15 Cercone . . . . . 3 286 95 T u r c o t t e . . . . 1 286 95 1-3

Adle r 3 1143 95 1-4 W e i n t r a u b 4 1136 94 2-3 Fusco 2 568 94 2-3 D o h e r t y . a 1688 93 7-9 Roa rk 3 834 93 2-3 O r a b o n e . . . 3 1397 93 2-15 K e n n e y . . . . S 1396 93 1-15 Dun leavy 3 1395 93 McCrory 1 279 93 Hano ian 2 558 93 Ke l ly . . . . 2 556 92 2-3 G o o d m a n . . . . 4 1110 92 1-2 Casey . . . . 3 828 92 T. B r a d y 3 828 92 Mitchel l . . 4 1102 91 5-6 Wha len 4 1101 91 3-4 Z i nno 2 549 91 1-2 Lance lo t t e 2 545 90 5-6 S imons . . . . 2 545 90 5-6 J . P a l m i e r i . . 2 544 90 2-3 Kass 3 1356 90 2-5 Onopio 3 1353 90 1-5 La Fo rce 3 810 90 P l i akas 4 1078 89 5-6 M a t t h e w s 6 1609 89 7-18 M a c N a m a r a . . 1 266 88 2-3 Ryan 3 794 88 2-9 Br i ck l ey . 1 265 88 1-3 Hendr i cks . . 4 1057 88 1-12 J. Brady 1 262 87 1-3 Eps te in . . . . 1 261 87 Muldoon S 1299 86 3-5 G. H a r r i n g t o n 1 254 84 2-3 Pa lmisc i ano 5 1268 84 8-15 M u r p h y 3 1265 84 1-3 Ko lodny 3 754 83 7-9 F r a g a 4 1004 83 2-3 Wilson . . 2 500 83 1-3 Sa lmanson 4 995 82 11-12 Sarde l l i . 6 1492 82 8-9 H o m l y n 3 745 82 7-9 Lee 4 1017 82 3-4 Mooney 1 247 82 1-3 M c B u r n e y 4 986 82 1-6 J . H a r r i n g t o n 2 484 80 2-3 Michel le t t i 1 241 80 1-3 F r a n k 1 238 79 1-3 Walsh 4 907 75 7-12 Car ro l l 6 1353 75 1-6 P i k e . . 5 1126 75 1-15 K e l e g h a n 4 894 74 2-3 B i r g e 1 218 72 2-3

N O T E D L E C T U R E R T O S P E A K H E R E

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H e e n t e r e d St. V ia to r ' s Col lege in Bor -bonnais . I l l inois, and then e n t e r e d the s e m i n a r y at St. Pau l . Minnesota . Mon-s ignor Sheen a t t e n d e d t h e Cathol ic Un ive r s i ty at Wash ing ton . D. C : Uni-vers i ty of Louva in in Belg ium, and t h e Angel ico in Rome.

His o rd ina t ion took place in Peor ia on Dec 20. 1919 H e has o b t a i n e d the degrees of Bache lo r of Ar ts . Bache lo r of Canon Law. Doctor of Ph i losophy , and Doctor of Div in i ty H e also holds h o n o r a r y degrees of Doctor of Le t -te r s and Doctor of Laws . At p resen t he is P ro fes so r of Scholas t ic Phi los-

ophy at t he Ca tho l ic Univers i ty . Among his most recent books a r e

F reedom U n d e r God," and "For God and C o u n t r y . "

To aid in the a r r a n g e m e n t s for the lec ture , Fr . Fr ie l has n a m e d two com-mit tees . T h e first, f r o m the Teachers ' Gui ld wil l consist of: t he Misses J a n e and M a r y Moran , Grace and Cor ine Car ro l l and M a r g u e r i t e Fox of P rov i -dence , and Miss May H a n l e y of P a w -tucke t .

R e p r e s e n t i n g the P u b l i c Se rv ice G u i l d will be: t h e Misses M a r y Mul-lern and M a r y P a l m e r . Mrs. Elda Ven tu r i D a w b e r . and t h e Misses Ca th-e r ine Dugan and Helen Ca l l aha r .

IN T H E F I E L D S W I T H C R O T T Y

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to us. It w o u l d s t r e n g t h e n o u r legs a n d inc rease o u r wind. Bu t it still seemed so mono tonous p lodd ing over

the same course that w e had run so many. many, t imes before. We w e r e told not to worry; a solution had been found.

Finally the day of days arrived. We were to learn the solution that would do away with the monotony of cross country running. Breathless-ly w e rushed through the exercises. Then the solution to the problem was explained. We would run the cross country in the opposite direction to which w e had been accustomed. What a solution! What a let down! And what a cross country' course.