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Title: The Carolinian
Issue Date: Volume XVI (Issue No. 5) March 1953
Publisher: University of San Carlos
Year: 1953
Language: English
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Place of publication: Cebu
extracted text: 1353 Summer _________ Classes | IN THE UNIUERSITU OF SON CORIiOS CEBU CITy Gfa&t (M 14 I (Based on quarterly system) All courses offered----------including Review classes in LAW PHARMACY ENGINEERING CPA REVIEW Registration begins on April 6 Regular Classes open on April 14 Communicate with the Registrar or the Secretary General THE SCHOOL YEAR 1953-54 OPENS ON JUNE 15. 195S Published by the students of the University of San Carlos Cebu City, Philippines • 1953 EMILIO B. ALLER, rdilor; VICENTE N. LIM. aoxociatc; WILLIAM GEORGE BOWLER, literary; DELIA SAGUIN. society; BUDDY QUITORIO & ANNIE RATCLIFFE nnd IGNACIO SALGADO. Jr., now; ARISTON P. AWITAN. Jr.. feature; ALBERTO C. MORALES, alumni and exchange; TOMAS ECHIVARRE. sports; CELEDONIO BARRAM EDA. Jr.. military; ADOLFO CABAILO and DESIDERIO ANDO, art; RUPEIITO CASAS. photoorapher; JOSE P. DE I,A RIARTE. reporter; NAPOLEON G. RAMA. eon. C. FAIGAO, Adviser FULVIO C. PELAEZ & REV. BERNARD WROCKLACE, S.V.D. Moderators________________________ by Mario D. Ortiz On da Level _ __ by Buddy Quitorio Nocturne........... by Patricia S. Reyes I Admire the Communists— by Rev. John Tong Che Tche 10 Whot is Russian Communism?— by Rev. M. D. Forrest, M.S.C. 11 Whot do you Think .... More Laurels for USC— by Agusti Roving Eye___by Bert Youthful Urge— by Feliciano puscrats_____ by Deli □ radio 48 3 5 8 NOW WE GRADUATE Hundreds of Seniors in their respective courses will march on Commencement Day. Yes, we are graduating, and graduation to us is a great event which will not be forgotten. If we are sure that we really made the grade, we will enjoy our triumph. But if we know that we don’t deserve to graduate, our conscience will prick us xvith the knowledge that we are not fully prepared to cope with the rigors of professional endeavor. For Com mencement is not merely a celebration. It is, rather, a beginning of an actual, practical life frought with trials and tribulations. Our period of preparation may have ended, but how well we shall fare out into the world of reality largely depends on how much we have learned and the pluck we have in correctly applying them. The die cast, we cross the threshold to actual endeavor. And, in so doing, we look back with nostalgia on the pleasant associations we have in school. We are reminded of the tireless and altruistic efforts of the administration and the faculty in shaping us morally, physically, and mentally into the individuals we now are. With deep gratitude in our hearts, we leave the portals of San Carlos with the solemn Carolinian pledge that we will hold high the banner of our Alma Mater as our inspiration and our guide. INTERROGATIONS Why did it take about two weeks for the Messrs. Cecilio Putong, Benito Pangilinan, and Venancio Trinidad to deny the expose of their being members of the Special Committee for the Elimination of Re ligious Instruction in the Public Schools organized, by a Masonic Grand Lodge resolution! Strange that it took them so long to think of an alibi which, anyway, is not plausible. Why cannot Mr. Putong recall having signed said Grand Lodge resolution when Mr. Mauro Baradi was even man enough to disclose that he had conferred with the former about the resolution before the committee was formed! Stranger still, in the face of the latter’s testimony further supported by photostatic evidence printed in the Sentinel. Either Mr. Baradi and the photostat lied, or Putong must be lying. Why did Mr. Elpidio Quirino, the President himself, try to promote Mr. Pangilinan to the Undersecretaryship of Education, even after Mons. Madriaga apprised the President of the situation involving the three top Education officials! Deeply intriguing. He must be up to something Machiavellian again: to win the votes of Pangilinan and his following which Quirino must sorely need to assure his coming reelection, regardless of the sacrifice which such intrigue entails. Why did the Grand Lodge of Masons rush to the aid of the officials under fire with sly arguments obviously intended to by-pass, evade, or generally muddle the specific issue involved! The Masons betray themselves in so doing. By trying to cover up the surreptitious activities of its agents infiltrating the Education Department, they are inadvertently unmasking themselves and their bizarre motives. (Continued on pnye id) By LEO BELLO We went through a dizzying pace when putting up the February issue, and we thought we could settle down and feel at ease alter all the materials were bundled up lor the printer. But another ogre stared us on the face; we had to jump off and be on the go again. We survived the ordeal of the mid term exams, thank God; and, for our reward, USC Day came 'round the corner enrapturing us with its 368th Anniversary Celebration of the birthday of San Carlos as an institution. And yet there was a catch to all the gaiety and flurry of activities which were intended to entertain. It meant there were a lot of things to cover and a consequent delay in our deadline. We felt the strain of our lives in the preparation of this school year's last issue. Soles had to be ground again. Sparks had to fly from overworked typewriters, and Buddy, Bert, Herbie, Tummy, Joe, Barramides, Adolf, Nazi, Ariston (the sweat that sizzles tunes), and all the rest of the go-getter gang had to stick it out with us in the pseudo —Carolinian office (which on deadline week we poker-facedly, unashamed, accommodate as our own to the undetectable discomfiture of other people). Sure, we have even an editor's official table which we share with good Father Peter Tsao who does not mind our boisterous company when he is not in. Yes, all these, and Pentong, too: that slap-happy jerk of a photografter with his vanishing acts. As usual, he sure gives us the run-around everytime we need him bad. And we had to pin him down fast, elusive camera and all, to do us the ticklish job of shooting the subjects for the cover photo. We had to play the role of producer, director and prompter rolled into one in the shooting of the greatest picture the quadrangle studios have ever produced. But that is beside the point. We took so many angles but only had to choose one. And the thing which consoled us most was the realization that everything was about complete and ready for Father Kloesters of the CTS when we buckled down to a final splurge in writing down this column THIS ISSUE When Nap Rama again handed us a manuscript, we had an inkling that it must be something very special. So it is, and we were not wrong about it. The Magna Carta of Godless Education is an argu mentative masterpiece which clearly puts into play an analytical mind. We did not know NGR could really dish it out as good as this on a burning issue of the day. This is the most complete expose we have read so far, clearly defining the issue involved and un masking the government officials who have tried to exculpate themselves by devious means with the help of sly sympathizers. Herbie is burning the hoops again. This time, with a melodramatic Auf's Wiedersehen. But really, his Passing Thru kicks off a lot of things and ideas you feel you could have thought about, yourself, but which you can never write about from LVN's own angle of approach. That much, he is unique. And more: his sincerity is nude. Spring Fever must have gotten into Bill months ago. The words must mean much to him, he had to retain it as the title to his story about an educated robot. You will know what I mean if you read the story. We are honored again with a contribution from the editor of a local forthnightly. Our Fight Against Sabotage is eloquently delineated by him, the piece clearly speaks that it is written by an orator. Atty. Mario Ortiz, the author, edits the K of C's Council Tidings, and is a political timber for the 4th repre sentative district of the province of Cebu. We wish him all the luck there is,as a Carolinian to another. Buddy Quitorio has grown so fearless, he says he does not care whoever gets hurt provided he is On the Level. We never can tell that we now have the rare honor of brushing shoulders with another Arsenic Lacson in the making. I tell you, with his sharply developing barbed wit, he is coming up and always on the level about anything. And Buddy has not only developed a barbed wit, he now turns out to be a poet as well. He blames it on the staff environment. "If Leo does it, why can't 1?" So he went down from over the level to express himself in shredded prose. I'm a Non-Entity, he asserts as an aftermath of having read Leonila R. Llenos' My Why. Reading poems, you can't help but admit that poets are so self-centered. Patricia Reynes takes a bow with her Nocturne. She uses a modern technique in story-writing, we were flabbergasted at first when we could hardly make heads and tails of what she wrote. This "flash back" method is worthwhile inspection for the un initiate. Father John Tong Che Tche was sincere when he said in his last speech, "I Admire the Communists." In spite of his sincerity, he was executed. Therfr must be in that valedictory more than meets the eye. Reprinted from the stateside Catholic Magazine, Our Lady of the Sacred Heart, our good friend Johnny Mercado should be thanked roundly for recommend ing it to us. The second to the last instalment of the series What is Russian Communism? is printed in this issue. Two issues from now, we will surely miss this series. What Do You Think About Graduation? This is the question Junior asks some students. Their answers are varied, but the thing is, graduation means a lot of expense, no matter how you look at it. Now comes The Roving Eye of Bert Morales looking into a lot of things regarding other student (Continued on page 35) THE CAROLINIAN •‘On proper occasions if and when circumstances warrant, we must show the dangers and adverse effects of religious instruction in the public schools”. (Par. 3; Resolution of the Special Committee composed of Dr. Mauro Baradi, Secretary Cecilio Putong, Director Pangi linan and Asst. Director Trinidad.) The Magna Carta of 1 /^OW that most of the dust 1/ f has settled, the real issues // f in the religious controversy I t7 that recently touched off a nationwide uproar, are get ting into a clearer, sharper focus. More often than not, people like us, thoroughly exposed to diverse re ligious climates, leap at the chance of taking sides in religious tiffs. Our yen for doctrinal discussions is se cond only to our love for political bull sessions. We catapult from springboards of set prejudices and prefabricated notions. There is hardly time to delve into the heart of the matter. In the process, the true issues are by-passed, or mostly muddled. When the Catholics recently raised a protest against the appoint ment of a top education official who, according to documentary evidence, had pledged to go around the con stitutional provision on religious in struction, a counter-holler went up from different quarters and from some well-meaning but mis-informed Catholics. Among them a good friend of mine, visibly itching to go into a religious polemics, accosted me: "So you are going to speak in the Cath olic Rally? I would like to have my say there, too, about the Catholics' attempt to sit on the head of the gov ernment." He then went into a Godless Education C). C^Rama spiel of bigotry, intolerance, perse cution of the minority, a pious lec ture on the separation of Church and State, topped off by a sweeping statement: "Religion should be taught at home and not in the classroom." Somehow, he had summed up the stereotyped, moth-eaten arguments that pop up everytime the Catholics bat for their rights as citizens and for the enforcement of the constitu tional tenet on optional religion. I refused to warm up to his taunts. It was a waste of breath to argue beyond the issues. The con tentions were, at best, beside the point, except the one about the home being the place for religious instruction, which was no argument at all. This was, if anything, an interesting piece of opinion, without props or reasonable basis. For the fun of it, I toed his line of reasoning and threw a bait: "Bio logy should be taught at home and not in the schoolrooms." What was the reason for this? If I told him, I said, my reasoning would be as scantily-clad as his when he got to defending his Catechism-at-home Atty. Napoleon G. Rama, current Editor of the ANG LUNGSURANON, a Catholic weekly, is an immediate predecessor of current Editor Aller in the CAROLINIAN. He is one of the sons of ex Senator Vicente Rama, also an alumnus of San Carlos. Although busy editing the Cebu Catholic Weekly and his law practice, he pinch-hits for the CAROLINIAN as contributing Editor. theory. He was entitled to his private opinion, so was 1. But one must draw the line between a mat ter of opinion and logic. Oddly enough, despite its es sential nonsense, the line about home being the only suitable place for religious instruction has gained quite a currency among the group of dissenters. Probably because it has a flag-waving, catchword ring, like "Home is where the heart is," "Women's place is home." But like most catchwords, it appeals more to the ear than to the brains. What guarantee is there that the students could learn better their religion at home rather than at the classrooms? A lot of nonsense could be skipped if we took time to in quire into the issue: Is religion worth learning at all? Is it as vital as Mathemathics, as necessary as Sociology, as important as Shakes peare? Probably, the most tragic com mentary on the Philippine public school system is that it taught the students everything on the face of the earth and other planets, except the One who made them. It in formed the schoolboy everything about man from toenail to root-hair, except what man was made for, what's his business being born. Most of those who hollered, per(Continued on page 2!>) MARCH, 1953 Page 3 VICENTE N. LIM THROUGH now alex the carnival's over. . . the hayride's ended. . . it's the final issue were putting out this time. somewhere in the news section you'll probably find that our boss (Leo Bello/Emilio B. Aller/E. B. A., etc.) got the Cebu Press Club's award for the best written editorial, of course we won (natch! ), and i wonder what the editor got for a prize, couldn t be a ream of bond paper or a roll of typewriter ribbon, could it, leo! alex, no one can raise any kicks about this here journal, it's been done with the most work and the least assistance (eh, leo!) and in several, table-hopping places, we used to have a CAROLI NIAN room in the basement below the bookstore before, y'know. so, instead of slaving in a dingy, musty, cobwebby attic. . . we pushed our pens in a lukewarm, airless, cellar room we lovingly called our office. then we moved out and surrendered that room to the lensman for a laboratory, darkroom, office and sitting room combined, we lugged what paraphernalia we had up to the lib. arts dean's office. . . and vanished one by one. displaced persons! they never had it so bad in Czechoslovakia. pretty soon there was another funny rumor about this magnifi cent, wonderful college organ getting a fixed, set, stationary place of its own by ousting the topkicks in that "Visiting Room" or what the heck it is, near the lobby of the main entrance, the gag said they'd allow the staff to occupy that in the pursuit of better facilities and working space for the crowd who runs the official organ of the student body. hah. so now it's all over and done with, like the copy and the dummy and the rewrite and ail the stuff that is crumpled and thrown away in an overcrowded metal wastebasket when the whole setup is set up and packed for shipment to the printers. we wonder who next term's crowd are going to be, and, who ever they be, we hope the ruts are smoother, the ed gets headaches and forced insomnia, and we get a lot of sore backs, aching wrists and limp fingers in the service of this marvelous, grateful, gal-amorous bunch of overgrown juvenile kickers we love to call Carolinians. that'll be all, alex, from. herbie. • by VNLIM You wouldn't know how swiftly the days roll off the calendar, how rapidly Time ticks off the watch... Just a few days ago it was mid-term exams; then it was all over but the nervous, fearful, nail-biting, hair-pulling wait for the re sults. Then along came USC Day with all its accessories in the manner of com pulsory purchase of tickets, hopeful, promising — and then disappointing! — raffle tickets, labor with decorating ma terials, scissors and glue over floats and rented buggies. Then, that, too, was all over. And now, the heck with it, we are stared at by the leering, ominous, threatening bloodshot eyes of the Finals peering around the corner! I meant to sort of conduct a one-man poll of all the teachers' opinion on finger-snapping in class in order to attract the prof's attention when raising one's hand to recite. Everytime someone does that, I'm reminded of hack stands and cheap restaurants. You snap your finger and yell "Hey, cabbie!" or "Oh, waiter" when you want service in those places. Of course it's all so silly and insignificant... but always that harmless gesture brings to mind impoliteness or lack of breeding. I When I started to query our professors on the matter, their replies were rather discouraging, so let's put it on ice and to heck with it anyway. One prof said, "It depends..." and I'll be d........ if I knew just what he meant. Another paunchy, sagging-jowled, wrinkled-browed top man around the third floor flatly said "No, it does not annoy me." A third one said — but enough of the sorry story. I wouldn't know how (Ame rica's) Dr. Kinsey and his interrogators did it with their questions! A lot of Law boys are going to be Page 4 THE CAROLINIAN Author's Note:—Along with February, came the first signs of spring. And along with spring, came spring fever. Judg ing from what is written here, that spring fever bug must have really bitten Uncle Oscar. So if what you read doesn't make sense, don't blame me. P S. Any simi larity between characters or places is purely coincidental. /T WAS after the Philippine Gov ernment had rejected Uncle Os car's Upside-down Lighthouse for submarines that he seriously got to work on his next big enterprise. They say that genius is on the borderline of insanity so I always felt that Uncle Oscar was on the borderline of genius. My curiosity was aroused when I saw Uncle come home with all kinds of junk such as an old water boiler, automobile fenders and all sorts of metal objects. I would hear him hammering away down in the cellar. So one evening I went down there. "Airwick," he said to me, "I'm working on an idea that will revo lutionize the domestic life of all people." "That looks like a robot you are designing," I said casually. "This is gonna be what I call the Robutler. Think of that! Soon every home will have a butler! No longer will you have to be rich to afford a Jeeves. Now people will have more time to drink tuba." "But scientists have already created robots. What makes yours so different?" I asked. "My Robutler will be more hu man. See all these electric gadgets? They will even give my Robutler emotions! I'm gonna make this ma chine a male, because males are stronger. He will be almost, I might even add, exactly like a man! Think of all the possibilities! They can be used by the armed forces, bas ketball coaches and even old maids!" It was a few weeks later when Uncle Oscar asked me to come down to his workshop. Bursting into Uncle's workshop I heard a strange voice exclaim, "Hello Airwick!! Can you lend me five bucks until next week?' I was amazed to see and hear the Robutler talking! There stood proud Uncle Oscar grinning from ear to ear. The Robutler then shook my hand and what a grip! He was over six feet tall and smok ing one of Uncle's cigars. To me this was an epic day in the history of our industrial development. I noticed that a metallic object stuck to the Robutler. "Magnetic Story j even College of Liberal Arts personality," Uncle explained. Uncle went on, "I use castor oil on him. It makes him run better," and 1 could see the sly smile on Uncle's face. "He loves to eat nuts. . . with the bolts. He doesn't snore when he sleeps but he squeeks. I'll get the 'bugs' out of him. Then let's show him to Aunt Loling." The three of us went upstairs where Aunt Loling was baking a pie. She knew about this Robutler but showed little interest. She wasn t scared nor surprised. The first thing she did was to tell the robot to wipe his oily feet. The Robutler helped himself to a piece of pie and wiped his greasy hands on her good clean kitchen towel. Aunt Loling remark ed that the "thing" acted just like Uncle. The Robutler had no name so we decided to call him Robert after Aunt Loling's brother. Soon Robert became well known in our town. It was always a laugh when he ed into the Men's room at the cor ner tavern. Robert loved beer. In cidentally, Robert could eat food but his main energy was electronically created. He didn't need vitamin A, B or C but he did need batteries A, B and C. Meanwhile Uncle Oscar was get ting all the 'bugs' out of his Robert. He also got a few real bugs out of him which made Uncle proud because it only showed how nearly human Robert could be. Robert was quite intelligent. He even learned to bet on horses and shoot dice. Uncle had to give him spending money. A friend of Uncle's a Mr. Herkimer B. Fuddle, ask Uncle if he could borrow Ro bert for his daughter's wedding re(Continued on page Ki) MARCH, 1953 Page 5 Say it with Lines.... My Why By Leonila R. Llenos You cannot stop my poetry----quench rather Beauty first— Cannot choke me out of voice From bargaining un-noted songs With the sun, astride a strand of hair. You must ask what meter I do use. What form of verse, what style of rhyme? Would it not alter the lusty disregard Of the Soul's vast knowledge unlessened by a school If you're told: a true idolator feels and is not tutored to trim and border what he feels? Why do 1 need to know ol rhyme or meter When I only have to drag consciousness Unstruggling, Along a long day's harmony — from sun-walking down sun-dreaming And from the master lips of the hours Without fee or effort imparted flew out The meter and the rhythm of Infinite's verse? Vlon-Entity by Buddy B. QuiTdnio College ol Law lazy streams. . . whipping up impetus cascade upon still, unmoving pebbles.. . while inside of me, i look at a low dark self.. . and see nothingness, painfully, i turn towards blurred reflections on swirling waters, time... coming, gone as the flood swells and the pebbles are swept, the whole of me lost and dragged along seaward. . . unknown. Unknown the word strikes me like a dismal tone of a dirge that sings pl gloom and the sad refrain ol wind sighing in agony while wandering shiftless and alone. The sea shall claim me as flotsam drifting on and on carried by the whims of unchartered currents restless and forlorn. .... Say it with Lines Page 6 THE CAROLINIAN TT IS a sad commentary on our f educational system that despite f the universal recognition of the *- need for religious instruction for our youth, the three highest officials of the Department of Edu cation appear to be the very persons designated by a secret society with the task of eliminating religious instruction in the public schools. Caught in the web of their own duplicity, their fellow-Masons are now loud in their shrieks of "into lerance" against the Catholic hierar chy and leaders of Catholic Action who saw fit to expose the treachery of these three, and who did nothing more than assert their democratic rights to demand a redress of their grievances through due process of law. The Catholics cannot do other wise than to act now, because it is the Catholic youth which is most affected by the dubious policies of these highly-placed officials. This dangerous set-up cannot but call for militant action. When three public officials who swear to uphold the Constitution and the laws our country in the open, pledge to sub vert its aims in secret; when three trusted educators play the sinister role of Dr. Jekyll and his monstrous counterpart, Mr. Hyde, are the Ca tholics expected to sit tight and laugh at their dangerous antics? What kind of a shepherd is he who would not act to save his flock from wolves in sheep's clothing? Is a good parent or brother expected to do nothing when he discovers that his child or kid-brother is systemati cally drugged or poisoned by his enemies? Yet that is what is hap pening in our country today. . . An artless president once called our Constitution "a mere scrap of paper." These three high officials of the Department of (Mis-) Educa tion have made of one of its most vital provisions, in the angry words of former Justice Luis P. Torres, no thing but "a dead letter." It is a dead letter, because the very offi cials sworn to implement and up hold the law are precisely the "chosen few" who have been as signed the delicate mission of frusAGAINST SABOTAGE by Ilario J). Ortiz * trating the will of millions embodied in that all-important provision of the Constitution. The law is clear. Sec. 5, Art. XIV of the Constitution pro vides for optional religious instruc tion in our public schools "as now authorized by law." The law then referred to. Sec. 928 of the Admi nistrative Code, in turn authorizes a priest or minister of any church or his duly authorized representa tive, "to teach religion for one-half hour, three times a week, in the school building, to those public school pupils whose parents or guardians desire it. . And lately, Art. 359 of the new Civil Code, pro vides that “optional religious in struction shall be taught as part of the curriculum at the option of the parent or guardian." But are these laws enforced? Ask the parish priests and the catechists throughout the Philippines, and you will hear a tale of woe that one can hardly expect of a vauntedly Catholic country, supposedly 'the only Christian nation in the Far East." Ask the parents and the school children, and you will know that the law involved is best honored by the breach thereof, so that you will begin to wonder if you're living in the right country. Their complaints are a matter of record. They under score the raw deal, the smug indif ference, the arrogant hostility of local public school satraps who, however, are the least to blame be cause their big bosses are, after all, sworn "to eliminate religious in struction in the public schools." In fairness, of course, to our local public school officials in Cebu, there are but very few isolated cases of discrimination or obstructionism re ported here. But in a great many (Continued on page .1.1) MARCH, 1953 Page 7 yn ON DA£^ This being the last issue ol the "C" lor the current school year. we can fidget only so much and hope that our gentle readers would be (dangblasted!) kind enough to understand us if we get dragooned into tantrums and wind up sniveling over sobbing shenanigans. But don't get us all gnarled up. If anything, we still have a lew kicks left in our systems so that if anyone ever gets booted in the course of this spiel, the assault should please be treated purely as a friendly gesture. Just that! A number of lucky droops are graduating this year after nervous and hectic days of faithfully marching into sporadic pre graduation and post-graduation huddles between parents of these mental slowpokes and their prolessors or their deans. With their graduation assured, these jerks roar into borrowing skir mishes with more or less bene volent and gullible classmates. They borrow almost anything— your coat, tie, socks, and your shirt. Even your last bottle of foul-smelling pomade. And they don't return what they borrow!! Us? We would 'uv gone up that stage too, if that 1! OO ?? pro! didn't get untimely wise! Parents, apart from forking over their hard-earned moola, must also suffer from the un pleasant task of writing notes of forgiveness for their son's or daughter's idiocy and all that! ft's really too bad if the Dean concerned doesn't budge an inch. The darling pampered dottie or sonnie flunks! Vacation days! They play a thousand heavenly symphonies in the ears of truants, loafers, small-time ruffians, idlers, bums, smart alecs and fugitives from Roman Law. . . During the USC Day parade, two carloads ol staffers were the objects of many a cop's ire. Even Doc Solon himself was pretty mad. These impetuous news hawks and newshens, goaded by flash-happy Pentong, tore down upon the streets to the mirth of Delia and Lilia who were with the staff. And Pentong who, to all appearances was dead se rious, climbed posts a la Cheetah to get the right angles but didn't shoot one good pix. "Unprint able.1" boomed the Moderator. Banner gossip: Somebody sweated romantic during the pa rade. Tee hee. "To be or not to be," was only a question until some mercenary yokel got butterflies in his bread basket and priced the query at sixty-four dollars. So, the $64 PAGING THE CPC JESTERS This should make Ripley perk up. The members of the Cebu Press Club, in an overpublicised stunt, committed themselves to offer prizes to the winners of the editorlol contest which they sponsored during the local observance of the National Press Week. Up to this writing the win ners of the tilt have not re ceived their prizes. It must have been a fat, round |oke, so it Is being bruited about. The winners, however, are still hoping that the contest would not turn out to be the year's biggest hoax. question is: "Who was that mum my lumbering up and down the streets during the parade?" That bandaged, plastered, cas tigated Roman Arch, mummy touched off a wave of snickers from the crowd. Why, sez an ex newshound, it even stole the whole show! Ask Lil Tobes and Delia Saguin of Campuscrats fame if the mummy did not throw the staffers into an amusing guessing game. One upped and asked: Suppose the bandages will. . . aw, skip it. Here's a sizzling tip: Ting lamiro has a fancy way ol stick ing cigarettes into his mouth. Gingerly, he lays the roll on his left palm, tugs at his left pulse with the other limb and eureka! The derned smokestick flies into the air and is snatched by his mouse. .. er, that is, his mouth. The rub is in the training. We are trying it and it ain't funny! Some people point accusing (if not sore) fingers at this writer lor having ah, POLITICAL am bitions! My word, ain't it all too flattering? Just because I lam pooned the mail clerk, must I be flattered? Look at me. . . a wine-guzzling low-brow, running for a battered seat in Congress! If you haven't played hooky in your Political Science palavers, you'll remem ber Congress as the house where bills are made and paid for by the people. Surely, I'd like to heaven to be a pot-bellied, lynx-eyed Diputado. Imagine, bay, I'll take hearty swigs of beer, nibble on "hot" potatoes, swipe firecrackers, expedite im migration papers, crown barrio pulchritudes who will come handy as queridas, and go on a globe-trotting rampage. It's all bravado with a modicum of fi libusters and a good grip on chicanery, see? Just why there isn't a Supreme Student's Council in USC is be yond us. We see no reason why there is no such council where students can learn the intricacies of government. Besides, we have in these hyar parts a chock-full of political loud-mouths and clowns who will make Congress a poor second fiddle in buf foonery! Through the effort ol far-think ing pen-grippers, The College Editors' Guild of this Southern dust-phalt jungle was organized (Continued on page S8) Page 8 THE CAROLINIAN THE LETTER lay there. Its drabness in contrast to the white-starched linen sheets. Tear-drenched and crum pled but still showing the crease where it had been folded. Top edges as if torn and pinched by something thin and sharp. The date. . . December 24. . . Plain type writing paper, the kind you can get at most office stationery stores. Typewritten. Firm and bold strokes. Clean and clear-cut lines. Determi nation and strength of will showed thru. The fingers holding the letter were taut and strained. Slim fingers. The hand, pale, almost white but alive. Strained veins showed thru the wellformed forearms. Slim hands and fingers but not sinewy. Pale now but could have been creamy peach without the tension, the body not in agony. The hand clutched and unclutched, as deep and heart wrenching sobs shook the body. Sheer agony from soundless sighs. The body shaking convulsively and the hand never letting go off the letter. Clutching it as if for life itself. .. Why?. . . The letter, yes, the letter. . . It began.. . Darling Lyd. Fervent wishes to you tor the foys and happiness of the season. This should have began with a "Merry Christmas”.... but let me hope that you are In your merriest meed when you read this. I knew you will open this the last. The envelope Is addressed to you In my handwriting, so you will keep this ter yourself alone. Ceuld I be with you now, but please read on. "Merry Christmas, Darling." "Merry Christmas, Ric. You know, how I wished I were a poet. There is something that I want to say but the words are not with me to convey to you that which is in me. Some thing deep that only our two hearts can understand." "My gift to you Lyd. Nothing much, but with it goes the glow of giving to someone so dear to me." "The gift is meaningless, if the essence of the giving is not in the giver. Oh, Ric. .. it's the love that goes with it that is dearer to me." "Remember Darling how you used to make fun of me.' "When did I, Ric?" "When you teased me about my handwriting. You used to say, but how can I understand what you mean? I can only read up to the third sentence. All the others are cryptograms. And the fun we had trying to decipher all. But as you used to say the ending is all I need to know. . . I love you." SUoaI Stouf NOCTURNE by S^at'iicia C Sleynes I should not have come, Lyd, think of the time we spent. The time we spent trying to fit every minute of these few days to our plans. We should not have changed them. . . Now this. . . bitterness and regret. "I know how you feel, Ric. But nothing will be taken away from our plans. Only the place will be different, and this would mean much more to us. Besides, the whole gang will be there. Mother will be dis appointed if you wouldn't come. She had promised me this party, for us, for everything." "Wouldn't I feel out of place, Lyd? With all the other guests? You might find me clumsy and not to your ways in their presence?" "But we are no different from you. Mother understands that I know, she will be glad to see you. Do you think she doesn't know about us? Oh, how many times had I confided to her our dreams and plans. You should see the glow in her eyes, her very wishes for our happiness whenever I bring us up. The girls at the office are looking forward up to this party. Lucy, Carol, Fe and Pete, will be there and so with the others. Even Vic has con sented to go. He'll carry you bodily, so he promised, if you won't go." The letter continued: I had always my misgiving and doubts. Could this happiness last? You always knew best Lyd, and you were so set on that. I want your happiness and if it is this, so be it. I was uneasy of course, to the point of clumsiness. Who wouldn't be with those big names of the 400? Your mother, I love her for that, made me feel at home though. You had always intrigued me. Those lapses of aristocratic mien and voice. The haughtiness you show inadvertently at times in front of our crowd. Sometimes you make us feel rank outsiders. I could not understand you those times. I just couldn't get away from that feeling that you are not what you show to me, to us, to be. You are so high up, untouchable and unattainable. Only when together alone, and you snugly in my arms will that feeling pass away. At nights, I reassure myself that this all is not a dream, that it is real, and that you are mine. . . But I have always wondered. I remember first meeting you at our annual office outing. Remem ber how I gaped at you openmouth ed? You must have laughed at me then. You didn't show it though, but your eyes did. There was a challenge in them. "Enjoying yourself, Mr. Villar? "Huh,,, . . Why. . . .er. .. I mean yes. ... Miss. . . .?" "Aragon. . . . Lydia. . . . call me Lyd for short." "Tired or resting?. . .. Fine weath er for our picnic and ideal for out door dancing. You seem to be en(Continued on page lx) MARCH, 1953 Page 9 JN THE name ol the Father, ol the Son, and ol the Holy Ghost. Sacred Heart of Jesus, have mercy on us. O Mary, conceived without sin, mediatrix ol all graces, pray lor us." (Alter this prayer. Father Tong turned toward a picture ol President Mao, with a deep bow, then addressed the gathering:) "Men who do not believe in God or in soul, men who do not recog nize the Pope as vicar ol Christ assert the movement for the triple independence to be nothing but a patriotic movement. They acknowl edge religious freedom and allow purely religious relations between the Pope and the faithful. But to day, in the name of that same move ment, we are called upon to take a stand against the representative of the Pope, Msgr. Riberi. And per haps tomorrow, in the name of the same movement, we may be urged to attack the Pope, the vicar ol MAO TSE TUNG both state and Church! But the very opposite is the case. The more things develop, the wider becomes the rift between the two parties, so much so that today it has come to the point where it is no longer pos sible to turn back. Soon, even the last ray of hope which kept us up will be darkened. I reproach myself for being unable to change things for the better, and for that reason I think I can do no better than offer my soul to the one party and my body to the other, hoping to further the mutual understanding of the two parties. I cannot do otherwise as long as a mutual understanding will not be reached, but I do not regret any sacrifice on my part. “Those in authority have repeat edly declared that they do not intend to resort to force. Hence, 1 leel obliged to speak my mind frankly and never to say what 1 do not mean to say. If a declaration is in keeping with my conviction, I ADMIRE THE COMMUNISTS!’ Christ. And the next day, why should we not be pressed into as sailing Our Lord and God, Jesus Christ Himself? “No doubt, theoretically speak ing, one could make distinctions regarding these attacks. In fact, however, there is but one God, one Pope, and one representative of the Pope. No distinction, no separation can be granted in this respect. 1 would indeed cease to be a Catholic were I to subscribe to the triple independence. "Gentlemen! 1 have only one soul, which cannot be divided; I have a body, which allows partition. It seems to me best to give my whole soul to God and the Church, and my body to my country, for I do not refuse to serve my country with my body if demanded. Ma terialists who are convinced that there is no soul must be contented with the surrender of my body. "How beautiful it would be if state and Church could work to gether! In that case the Church would be grounded on the real triple independence, to be recog nized as frankly and never to say what I do not mean to say. If a declaration is in keeping with my a patriotic movement indeed. How much good would be effected for For sometime the Red propaganda had been directed toward establish ing a national Catholic Church in China and, as a first step, had ad vocated the removal of the papal representative, Msgr. Riberi. In Chungking, his residence, a big de monstration was staged against him, attended by the gross of the popu lation. Among the speakers of the day were, alas! two Catholics, one of them even a priest, who voiced their disapproval of the foreign dignitary and came out in support of the nationalist movement. The bad effect of these speeches was more than offset by the vigorous words of Father John Tong Che Tche, who roundly scored the scheme of triple ecclesiastical independence, from foreign aid for the clergy, from foreign personnel, from religious ideas foreign of Chinese thought. In consequence of his frank state ment, the 45-year-old priest was arrested in the sacristy of his church, never to be heard of again (June 2, 1951). The text of his speech, smuggled out of China to Rome, is given here in full. I'll sign it; if not, I'll never pretend to agree with it by merely giving my signature. Suppose 1 would go against my conscience out of fear and say what I am not convinced of or sign a declaration at variance with my conviction, I would deceive the state. If I excused myself after wards by saying that 1 did wrong under duress, I would likewise de ceive the Church authorities. Would that not be tantamount to sowing the seeds of discord between state and Church? "I am a Catholic indeed. This does not hinder me from expressing my admiration for the Communists. They do not believe in God or in a soul, nor in heaven and hell — in this they are mistaken. Still, more than one quality of theirs compels my admiration, rouses my lethargy to action, and reminds me of the millions of martyrs of the Church in the course of the past 20 centuries. "I admire the Communists be cause they defy death, never giving up their conviction. They do not say, like General Li Ling, glossing over his surrender: ‘I did not choose to die, but saved my life for my future task! And should I cling to life under the pretext of preserving (Continued on page 36) Page 10 THE CAROLINIAN ll tiat ■ Russian COMMUNISM DESTROYS PATRIOTISM SINCE Ruscomists avowedly aim at the violent overthrow of parliamentary government, in place of which they desire to set up a despotic communist regime, as they have already done in the enslaved countries behind the iron curtain; since these benighted fifth columnists despise the flag of their own respective countries, which they wish to tear down and unfurl in place of it the repulsive banner of the hammer and sickle; since they act like automata or robots moved and directed by an alien tyrannical power enthroned in Mos cow, it is evident that they spurn patriotism as they despise true de mocracy. Ralph de Toledano, born in the International Zone of Tangier of American parents, and educated at the Fieldston School and Columbia University, who became a writer before he joined the armed forces, has made a detailed study of all forms of totalitarianism and has had extensive experience in field work and investigation. As a discussion leader at an experimental youth camp, he has grappled with the problem of the indoctrination of teen-agers who have been blind folded and poisoned by communistic propaganda. In his excellent pam phlet, How Communism Demoralizes Youth, he writes: "All loyalty for country, for fa mily, for friends becomes secondary in their worship of the Soviet Union. If betrayal of their country is de manded, if they are told to spy on their friends, if they are ordered to turn in their relatives, so all-em bracing is their devotion that it is sure to be done. It is sometimes hard for us to believe this, but an abundance of evidence, incontrovertibly damning, thrusts itself at us to demonstrate its truth. The Re port of the Royal Commission in Canada which investigated the theft of atom secrets is one shock ing and revealing document attest ing to the hold of the Communist ideology on its adherents, showing to what lengths they will go in its service." (p. 13) But we need not go to Canada to get proof of the demoralizing in fluence Ruscomism exercises on its duped or knavish followers. The Committee on un-American Activi ties has brought before the public some astounding revelations, and will unearth perhaps still more as tonishing evidence, of the complete lack of patriotism — of loyalty and fidelity to their own country — and of mental and moral corruption in those who have swallowed the ve nomous dope or opiate styled Rus sian Communism. TRAITORS TO THEIR COUNTRY A Canadian friend of mine, whose home was open to soldiers during the war; who, in fact, "mo thered" them in their absence from their own home or homeland; and who will ever be gratefully remem bered by many a soldier and by many a soldier's mother, told me that on one occasion, when she was entertaining a group of soldiers, the conversation turned to the possibi lity of war with Russia, and one of the soldiers declared that, in such a contingency, he would lay down his arms. The good lady promptly rebuked him for his disloyalty. I do not know whether the soldier in question was a Canadian, an Australian, a New Zealander or some other national; this matters not, for all Ruscomists and fellow travellers are "tarred with the same brush." They would fight Nazism or Fascism, but not a still greater evil — Russian Communism. We must bear in mind that the war — World War II — was in progress for two years before Hitler broke with Stalin. Communists conven iently forget that for two years the Hitler-Stalin pact was in force, in virtue of which Poland was cruci fied. Whilst the Nazi-Bolshevist pact prevailed, Ruscomists in every country denounced the war as im perialistic and capitalistic and con demned it in the severest terms. But no sooner had Hitler invaded Russia than the whole character of the war changed. Now it was a glorious thing to fight — for beloved Soviet Russia! The soldier I have mentioned was probably not a dyed-in-the-wool Communist, for he had volunteered to fight, but he was tainted or impregnated with the virus of Bolshevist idolatry. After Russia stabbed Poland in the back, there was a solid likelihood that the Allies would yet have to fight the Soviet forces. It was pro bably of such a contingency that the group of soldiers were talking in Canada. I was in Australia throughout the war, and I vividly remember how the Communists denounced and condemned the war as im perialistic and capitalistic, and how, (Continued on page 36) MARCH, 1953 Page 11 Mfat T>o. tyu /Z> /Z SZ --------------------------- Conducted by ------------— ARISTON P. A WIT AN, JR.-------------Here we go thinking again! We think of so many things especially on gradua tion time__ sheepskins, allowance, shindigs, heart-throbs and leave-takings. And we frown as well. I did a lot of eyebrow-raising lately when I came upon my article, Vocation Reactions (February Issue), and found out that a phrase somewhere at the end was misplaced! The proofreader must have been a trifle careless because some staffers were grumbling about typographical errata. But enough's enough! For this month's print, we harp on the inevitable. This thing called graduation has to happen.........twice a year at that! We confess that we were overly de lighted to learn that USC will close shop in March. Just think again. . . . shorter days, fewer assignments (?) fewer exams! Wonderful, eh? Wait a sec, brother. Don't forget that effective February 10 to March 28, classes swing in at 7:10 in the early morning. We've to shorten our dreams and get up early-----eat early and dash off to school. . . . Ouch! My appendicitis! So you're graduating huh, Chico? These days should keep you moving. A lot of shekels keep pouring into the coffers of Cecil's, Regis and Robles. Gotta be glamorous in the annual, you know. Before you join the processional march, be sure you're in fine fettle—fix your cap and gown, tie your shoe laces, don't breath at all (yuk!) and hey! Wait a moment! What d'ya think . . . Wllfredo P. Manzano ... ABOUT GRADUATION? • INEGO A. GORDUIZ, Secre tarial Dept., says: "Graduation confronts our minds with various thoughts and multiple feelings. It is a moment of rejoicing and sorrowing. We are blissful to have realized a certain course in college. We are recipients of felicitations from our parents, brothers, sisters and dear ones. But, it is a heart-breaking day of parting from our Alma Mater, benevolent teachers and dear classmates. It sets us to a great contemplation of the past and the future. We recall the difficult problems that stirred our intel lectual capabilities. It marks the transition before the commence ment of another hazardous task that lies ahead." Inego A. Gorduii Marianita Tiro • MARIANITA TIRO, College of Pharmacy says: "Graduation is a time to rejoice. It is the moment of triple happiness. The first happiness is that of the stu dent. He rejoices because he realized his ambition, after the arduous struggle that he had to undertake. The second happiness is that of his parents. The thought that their child has achieved his goal is a consoling joy. They have realized that after sacrific ing, something can be reaped. The third happiness is that of our beloved Philippines. Our country rejoices in having more of her sons and daughters mentally and morally equipped, and in a bet ter position to serve her. • WILFREDO P. MANZANO, Pre-Law says: "Graduation is the moment of glorious achievements. It is a victory won after the struggle which the students hur dled during their trying years. It is a day of serious thinking and planning. Our hearts at this day are full of joys yet, our minds are confronted with problems on how we can begin our task that lies ahead." • SYLVIA R. QUEROL, College of Liberal Arts says: "For me, graduation means a realization of a student's long-cherished dream, to be geared up for the exigencies of life and livelihood, which continually had inspired him to hurdle the trials and tri bulations while trudging on the irksome road to knowledge. It', is a temporary break for students who had to sweat on their way and practically squeeze their gray-matter out over lessons and problems. It is a termination of the student's training in theories to which he has been engaged throughout his school years. Yet it is a mark of a new beginning, a prelude of a practical life, and the commencement of applying what he learned during his theoretical years." (Continued on page Page 12 THE CAROLINIAN MORE LAURELS FDR USE JUST as we expected the results of the editorial contest spon sored by the Cebu Press Club in connection with the National Press Week and participated in by all college editors in the city, gave THE CAROLINIAN the top-rung po sition with the editorial Education and our Country's Ills written by its editor, Emilio B. Aller. UV's Famador and CSJ's Mata copped the se cond and third place, respectively. To make things complete, our JUNIOR CAROLINIAN, the high school counterpart, also romped away with the third place in the high school division, with high school editor Bartolome C. de Cas tro's editorial of Letter for Little Virginia. This is a rare honor which every dyed-in-the-wool Carolinian is proud of. The bacon brought home by our college paper, does not only justify the hitherto favorable comments received by its editor and staffers from as far north as Aparri and way down south as Jolo or from Donnely, Alberta, Canada, to Rome itself, withal it encourages every embryo writer this side of the Islands to improve on their literary wares. We take this occasion in com mending the Cebu Press Club. The whirl of activities they sponsored during the National Press Week are healthy signs. Our local Fourth Estaters proved to all and sundry that they could stand on their own without depending upon the initia tive of Manila. They had their own version of choosing outstanding men and women of the year as evidenced by their bestowal of awards upon 14 prominent individuals who have, in one way or another, made out standing contributions to the com munity in their respective calling or profession. Such encouraging activities shown by our local pro fessional writers are worth all the commendations they rightfully de serve. But one activity they had which needs some room for improvement is in the contest of college editors. They would be extending more be neficial effects in encouraging our student writers if they could go fur ther by sponsoring the following contests among student pen-pushers: (1) The best-edited college maga zine of the year. (2) The best-writcJlgustin <B. Ramiro EDITOR ALLER He wrote the year's best college editorial. ten literary column of the year. (3) The best-written sports column of the year. (4) The best-written short story of the year. (5) The best-written essay of the year. Of course, these entail a lot of expenses. And it is known from re liable sources that at this writing, they even have not been able to give the official prizes for the win ning college editorials. But they could show more initiative in soli citing aid from big business firms and civic-spirited groups in raising the amount they could commit themselves to give as prizes if they would not be able to foot their commitments from their own poc kets. Thus, the Cebu Press Club will be instrumental in giving every student writer the inspiration and encouragement the latter so very badly needs, which would urge him to become a better writer. If The Carolinian editor won this year's best college editorial contest, this means that the general standards of our magazine are good enough. Newspapers are usually judged by the intelligent reader through the kind of editorial its editor dishes out. But it is not enough that The Carolinian basks in the honor of such a passing accomplishment. A more difficult task lies ahead. If it has attained the kind of standards it now possesses, the trying obliga tion to maintain its standards and to keep up the good work should concern the winning editor and his successors very much. It cannot be denied that this official organ is making itself a good name in the hearts of Carolinian students and alumni alike. It has even done more than that: it has won the hearts of readers from the general public in the Philippines and abroad who have had occasions to peruse its contents. You can ask them as to their impressions about the quality and substance of this mag and they will tell you what they have been known to remark by word or by letter. Probably, one of the greatest influences which promoted the im provements in this mag is the harmony and cooperation existing between the Administration and the student body with regard to the policies looked up to as guides in the publication of this students' mouthpiece. As long as the relation is maintained, there could be nc reason why The Carolinian will not be maintained as it is now. It may also be mentioned here that former Moderator Rev. Luis E. Schonfeld had done much in pro moting the improvements in this magazine. He was perhaps cons cious of the fact that in the life of a college or university, an official organ of the student body is vital. It is a dependable mouthpiece of student ideas and opinions and a good and effective vehicle in popu larizing the institution it serves to prospective students and patronizers. Realizing all these, he did all he could to exert his influence in building it up into the kind of ma gazine it is now — his one re markable tribute to USC. He left, and the current moderators are carrying on. It is the hope of every Carolinian that the present state of things should continue to flourish if it must help bring more honor and renown to USC. ° Commerce Alumnue MARCH, 1953 Page 13 ALBERTO C. MORALES / tFTER all the hustle and bustle, the hurry •J 1/ and scurry of a hectic University Day, we were just about ready to junk this column in favor of a nice, long restful sleep. ( He... hum. . .) But no... Come what may, the CAROLINIAN "must go on". And so, a-rovin' we must go. First to catch our eye is Manuel G. Gogola's editorial in the "WESNECO TORCH" (Bacolod City) on celebrating College Day. A fat or lean celebration is beside the point; the spirit counts more. Clearly evidenced by more than the tongue, the infusion of the College Day's spirit is what we expect, what the College de mands .... We find no reason lor indifference, but all for a cheerful cooperation. That what really counts is the spirit, we agree. Although, more often than not, the spirit is ever willing but the flesh may be weak. Talking of USC Day festivities, we have yet to hear of a lean celebration. It is no exaggera tion to state that whenever San Carlos U shows off, she gives all she's got. .. colorful floats that could vie with those of the famous Tournament of Roses, classy programs for your delectation plus educational exhibits to feast your eyes on, not to mention the several amusement booths which offer you a run for your money. In the light of the recent expose on the alleged conspiracy to alienate religious instruction from our public schools, a very vocal article bearing a direct relation to this issue appears in the St. Theresa's College "ORION" (Manila) and is well worth one's reading time. The author, obviously a militant Catholic parent, swears that ... Not until the University of the Philippines gives a thoroughly Catholic education would I con sider sending my child there. His reasons: Everything that has been built up all these years (referring to four years of H.S. Christian edu cation) will be undermined. Man is not made of steel; man is plastic; reading can influence him, so can environment. True, Father Delaney is out there in Diliman, pitching for our Faith. Yet, the wonderful work he is doing leaves much more to be done. "Rodriguez Resigns CEG Post" — thus screamed the headlines of the CODS "ORAL REFLECTOR'S" New Section. The details: Atty. Ernesto R. Rodriguez, Jr., CEG moderator for seven terms resigned his post following a fu rious controversy over the recent election of the Inter-Collegiate Girl. . . The nation-wide popular rift in the Guild started when CEG officers in an un precedented move revolted against what they termed dictatorial and impartial power exercised by Rodriguez. Come to think of it, several editorial staffers of the different school mags in this city banded themselves last month into a penpushers' club baptized as the College Editors' Guild of the South. Could this be an offshoot of the CEG shakedown in Manila? If it is, let's hope it doesn't follow the tottering footsteps of the mother Guild from whence it sprung. A. D. Cebuma of the MCU "PHAROS" sounds an appeal to those of us: ........who are more fortunate, who are untouched by misery, who stand pat with luck and squeamish luxury, who squander with three square meals while those (the destitutes) barely exist on a single to share them some of these graces that had fallen a little too much on our lap and so little on theirs... . These little joys and helps we shared then reflect the true heart beat that are not found in bold head lines, yet depict human interest, so they are still encouraging, for 'inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of my brethren, ye have done it unto me.' Amen. Thus ends his prayer — one that will fall into the deaf ears of the society matron whose mahjong? losses may run to 3 or 4 figures but couldn't spare a buck or two for charity, the government official whose junkets abroad entails expenses which could have swelled the scanty coffers of our charitable agencies, the unscrupulous businessman who doesn't hesitate to bleed the poor white in his mad scramble for profit. From the De La Salle College "LA SALUTE" comes an editorial titled "What Price Courage." In this materialistic world ol ours where suc cess is measured in terms ol wealth, power and prestige, it seems out ol place to discuss of privi leges, heroes and men who died for an ideal. (Continued on page 19) Page 14 THE CAROLINIAN OUTH as reflected by the young is good to see. But youth as sported by the old is a spectacle. The sight ol a flower in the eariy morning calls lorth admiration; but the sight ol a blossom in the first flush of evening after the 'sun has lost its rage” occasions is no less than wonder. I was dragging myself home late one night when I came upon a man, obviously in his late fifties, singing at the top of his voice un derneath a window. I cast a quick glance at the crowd around him and it did not take me long to no tice that he was quite alone in his pursuit. Nevertheless, this did not seem to bother him at all for he stood there transfixed in the most convincing pose of adulation vzhilst from his throat ensued a very ori ginal interpretation of "Don't Blame Me.” I'm not sure now whether v/hat I heard and saw was a trick of the imagination, but I had the feeling then that despite its anti quated appearance, the guitar in the old man's hands responded with emotional alacrity; so much so that a few moments later the win dow opened and light streamed full below where the man warbled his love melody. I can't rightly say what hap pened to me then, but somehow I felt a surging back of my ertswhile lagging spirits and the buoyant en thusiasm I witnessed to have af fected the briskness of my footsteps for before long I found myself a stone's throw from home while all the time I was valiantly calling to memory a passage I had read some where: "Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety; other women cloy the appetites they feed; but she makes hungry where most she satisfies." How these lines could have pos sibly any connection with what I saw, 1 wouldn't rightly know. But it was most probably because I was wondering why the phenomenon of being young just clings on and stays put on people who apparently know only how to abuse it or is this so because they know how to make the most use of it? Good for Cleopatra because the youthful aura became her. If wrinkles did come at all, these only served to heighten the fullness of her maturity if the voice did drag and wobble on its edges, this but only made her tone acquire the se ductive resonance which had ren dered men her willing captives. But this same aura sticks at (Continued on page I.',) MARCH, 1953 Page 15 Spring Sever (Continued from, page 5) At last all the hullabaloos are over... after those three full days of merry frolicking, going back to our books and messed-up notes seems awfully strange... everyone is simply tired and hesitant in resuming his studies.... but why feel utterly gloomy about it? For all we know our Summer Vacation is almost here!! The Parade which initiated the formal opening of our USC Vanity Fair was truly spectacular... it was rather an arrogant display of artistic and symbolic floats by the different departments of this University. These floats were a true portrayal of the ingenuity and cooperation of the students who made them. Because all the floats were beautiful, it must have been hard for the judges to choose the best........ Aw! let's talk no more of these rollin' structures, huh? Let's rather concentrate on the 'big-crats' perched on them... they're more important, aren't they? The Lib' Arts float, as you will read somewhere in this issue, was chosen the most Symbolic float. It featured Communism as a menace to this world and to the Philippines in particular. There was a make-believe iron curtain and behind it was a bunch of Liberal Arts studes who represented the different peoples of this universe... there was BILL BOWLER who even while the float was already moving was still busy scanning for a stand-in... poor Bill, but there was no other yankee around... so in the name of America he had to stay blushing up there with a rake in his hands. A certain on-looker couldn't help but giggle when he saw CRISTINO CANGA clad in a priest's attire.... no one could imagine that a mischievous and noisy guy like him will look as reserved and saintly as only a holy priest can be. Cris, you're not only a smart-aleck, but also an actor! This could be some news to Miss LOURDES VARELA. The beautiful mermaids.... ROSITA TY, ADELAIDA VAILOSIS...................... fresh from Neptune's kingdom took their time in adding artistry to the Pharmacy float. These Queen and princesses of the Undersea did look lovely relaxing on their rocks... but poor sirens, how they must have suffered the excruciating heat of the sun!! Legs!.... Legs!.... my eye!........ Roman legs... classic legs... aristo cratic legs... frog's legs?... nope, not that! You should have seen those Roman Warriors on the Engineering — Architecture float exhibiting their classic gams... there was CARLITOS ALVAREZ who in spite of the heat of the sun stood there as valiant as a true Roman Emperor. Beside him stood his beautiful and dignified lady, JUDITH GARCIA... that was a lyre she was bringing, I suppose. SUSING de la SERNA seemed willing enough to cut one of his auricles just to have someone take his place up there.... to sketch a model is easier than to do the modelling yourself, no JESS? Roman manhood at its best (and I do mean at it's best) was well represented by ARTURO LARAZABAL... sigh!.... what an Adonis this guy is! The Education float was chosen as the most artistic float. What could be more artistic than giving us a picture of the Garden of Eden itself?.... ah! nature at its best!.... Never had an idea that lots of teachers-to-be could look pretty angelic too. CITA SALAZAR... who looked rather cross because she had to hold a golden trumpet steady until the parade was over. EDITH BELARMINO.... who looked as if about ready to fly up there.... she (Continued on page 35) ception. Uncle at once obliged be cause here would be a chance to really test the Robutler's effective ness. If Robert made good, Uncle would certainly get his patent claims. We were invited to the reception and so we started training Robert in his chores. Miss Fuddle was a beautiful bride. Even Robert kissed her, which isn't quite the thing for a butler to do. But we were all amused. However, little did we suspect that Robert was sneaking drinks at the reception. He was syphoning ethyl gasoline from one of the guest's cars. I was the first to notice his wobbliness. I was horror-stricken with the thought that Robert was getting tight. Instead of going hie he went click. He spilt a tray of cocktails on some ladies, then started chasing one young blonde girl. Robert was com pletely berserk. He started to eat the wedding presents, including some expensive silverware. Uncle remained cool throughout it all and sneaked up behind Ro bert to turn him off. Robert fell to the floor with a sickening crash. Meanwhile the panic-stricken guests had fled. One had phoned the police and soon we could hear the siren approaching the Fuddle res idence. Of course, they had to ar rest Robert. We all went to the sta tion house and Uncle turned Robert on again. His first words were "Where am I?" Robert had quickly recovered from the ethyl gasoline but it was too late. Mr. Fuddle was very angry at Uncle and wouldn't help put up any bail. Uncle and I had no money so poor Robert had to go to jail. It might be interesting to note.that while Robert was rusting away in jail, Uncle was once again busy down in his workshop. Once more I saw him bring home metal junk and once more I heard him clang ing away into the small hours of the night. I thought this had cured Uncle but I was wrong. I finally went downstairs to his cellar worship and there I saw him making another robot. I asked him if he didn't create enough havoc. Uncle looked up and merely smiled, "I'm making an even smarter robot, Airwick, to be Robert's lawyer and get him out of jail. Page 16 THE CAROLINIAN Film on Rifle Marksmanship Show In order to acquaint the Cadets with the techniques of rifle marks manship, a film was shown at the USC audio-visual hall. The phases of instruction illustrated by the film were correct trigger squeeze, range and windage adjustment, sighting and aiming exercises, and actual firing in the range. Military Competition Held In conjunction with the U-D ce lebration, the Corps of Cadets staged a competition on close order drill and disassembling and assem bling weapons. Results: Company Drill 1st—"B" Btry, 2nd Bn CO: Cdt. Capt. Delfin Pengson 2nd—"B" Co, 1st Bn CO: Cdt. Capt. Eutiquio Colon 3rd—"C" Co, 1st Bn CO: Cdt. Capt. Carlos Tajoda Platoon Drill 1st—2nd Pltn, "C" Co, 1st Bn Pltn Ldr: Cdt. Lt. Constancio Mahinay 2nd—1st Pltn, "B" Btry, 2nd Bn Pltn Ldr: Cdt. Lt. Segundo Gonzaga 3rd—2nd Pltn, "A" Btry, 2nd Bn Pltn Ldr: Cdt. Lt. lose Salingua Weapons (Assembling & Disassembling) Carbine Caliber 30 Ml 1st—Cdt. Cedric Tan, "B" Co, 1st Bn 2nd—Cdt. Crisostomo Torres, "B" Btry, 2nd Bn 3rd—Cdt. Cristino Canga, "C" Co, 1st Bn Garand Caliber 30 Ml 1st—Cdt. Felipe Tajoda, "C" Co, 1st Bn 2nd—Cdt. Jacinto Godardo, "B" Btry, 2nd Bn 3rd—Cdt. Domingo Cabinong, Jr., "B" Co, 1st Bn BAR Caliber 30 1st—Cdt. Felipe Tajoda, "C" Co, 1st Bn 2nd—Cdt. Cedric Tan, "B" Co. 1st Bn 3rd—Cdt. Manuel Medel, "B" Co, 1st Bn Machine Gun Caliber 30 Hvy 1st—Cdt. Teotimo Accento, "A" Co, 1st Bn 2nd—Cdt. Niedas Intong, "A" Co, 1st Bn 3rd—Cdt. Ruben Penserga, "A" Co, 1st Bn Best Marching Unit (Parade) — "A" Co, 1st Bn CO: Cdt. Capt. Pedro Patalinghug Best Performance, Manual of Arms (Inter-Battalion) — 2nd Bn Bn Comdr: Cdt. Lt. Col. C. Sario On the whole, the 'Blue-stripers" had a slight edge over the "Reds." By Celedonio Barrameda Jr. ROTC Editor and PRO Those who composed the board of judges were Capt. Antonio Gon zalez (Commandant), Lt. Filomeno Gonzalez (Adjutant), and Lt. Miguel Villamor, a youthful Peemayer now assigned in the III MA. Junior Sword Fraternity Organized In order to strengthen the ties of comradeship among Junior cadet officers, and to foster teamwork and esprit de corps for the welfare and progress of the whole unit, a Junior Sword Fraternity was organized. The elected officers are Cdt. Major Demosthenes Gumalo, Presi dent; Cdt. Capt. Delfin Pengson, Vice-President; Cdt. Capt. Natalio Yuzon, Treasurer; Cdt. Capt. Desiderio Ando, .Auditor; Cdt. Lt. Cele donio Barrameda, Jr., PRO; Cdt. Lts. Rodulfo Gustilo and Anthogenes Blanco, Sgts.-at-arms. The Fraternity plans to fete the graduating advanced cadets with a farewell party. Developments will be announced later, and by the time this issue gets off the press, the shindig will have been realized. Summer Troining for 2nd Year Basic Cadets The D.M.S.T. recently disclosed that all prospective graduates of the Second Year Basic Course are to undergo summer training in Fort William McKinley, Rizal province. No second year Basic Cadets can qualify for graduation from the basic course without undergoing this training. In a telegram recently received from the G. H. Q., AFP, the cadets are to provide themselves with the following accessories before report ing to the training camp: - - Six pairs of drawers, six pieces under shirts, six pieces of handkerchiefs, two towels, two caps (overseas) six pairs of socks (green) two suits khaki, one belt khaki, toilet articles, and sewing kit. (Continued on paije >2) MARCH, 1953 Page 17 Nocturne... (Continued from page i)) joying this........... must be a novel ty to the rich to be with us.; . the working class, I mean.' Seems to me, I have seen you some where. .. now.. . could that be you I saw featured in the issue of Pictorial Review?" Featured at the Manila Hotel or some other swanky place. Fashion girl of the years debutantes." "But I'm not what you are think ing of. Mr. Villar. Can I call you Ric?" "Are you not Evelyn Orozco?" the Real Estate Magnate's daugh ter?" "No, Ric. . . She's a distant cou sin though. We look alike to be twins. But you flatter me though. . . comparing me to Eve. .. Evelyn." I should have known then when you stammered thru that Evelyn business. You couldn't be any other. But I was dazzled by your nearness. You had a patent on slacks. The way you filled your slacks with superb form and grace. The amiety, the grace you held your body. The un seeming tilt of your face towards me. Those eyes of mirth and laughter. Of challenge. Those lovely red lips, so near. .. to taste those half open ed laughing lips. I held on to myself. You must have noticed my agita tion. Take it easy Ric, myself to me. You might get burnt fingers. You are just fun to her today. Tomorrow you are just of the train of admirers. You must have plenty of them then, even as you have now. "There's the music again, you dance, don't you Ric?" "Would you? It would be a pleas ure Lyd. . . May I call you that?" "But you are." I had you in my arms. I didn't dare count the seconds the music will last. I closed my eyes, lost in heaven. The very nearness of you. Near the end of the music, I opened my eyes, and your's were there, silently laughing at me, daring me. Mysterious and intriguing. Not of pity though nor of compassion. I love you for that Darling. How many times did we dance, Lyd? 1 was a bit clumsy at first, but you made me feel at ease. Easily and snugly you fitted into my arms. Vic saw us and so with the others. Fe and Pete sat out watching us. At the end, Fe, called out "Ric, must An Appeal To All Students A well deserved project otters Itself to the University of San Carlos. The project would consist In building up a literary collection of the works composed by prominent Visayan authors. The execution of such a plan however is beset with a serious difficulty owing to the nearly complete destruction of Cebu City during the last war. In consequence of this obstacle, we appeal to all students of San Carlos requesting them to review the book collections of their parents, grandparents, other relatives, and friends in search of any preserve editions or manuscripts of Visa yan authors. The knowledge as to whether such books and manuscripts exist, and where they are to be found would be of immense service to our information, for the time being. It Is hoped that later on the USC may build up a microfilm collection of those works which are prac tically unavailable. The expenditure of such effort Is truly worthwhile, since valuable literary works may get lost completely. In cidentally It may be remarked that our Graduate School Intends to make these works a special object of Its studies. Teofilo del Castillo's "Brief History of Philippine Lit erature" mentions the names of the following Visayan writers: Fernando Buyser y Aquino Salvador Clocon Valentin Cristobal Jlmeno Damaso Celestino Gallares Eriberto Gumban Cornelio Hllado Jose M. Ingalla Peregrlno Javelona Any Information about the works of these and other Visayan authors will be greatly appreciated. I remind you?” Your eyes looked up to mine with an unspoken query... Who is she?. . . 1 could see the relief in your eyes when I told you that she was a cousin of mine. Fe and Pete who was with her were getting married by next June. She's working with us and she is getting the feel of an office with the hope that she can be of help to Pete in his law firm. That is after the ho neymoon. You looked relieved. Lovely she is, you told me. All women are lovely when in love, I answered. Your eyes were quiz zical. There was a hint of cocquetteness in them. Could you mean me? Your eyes asked. How they made fun of me on the way home. Specially Vic. He is my roommate. Don't be a fool chum, he admonished me. You should see the stag line. You know, Vic con tinued, the trouble with you is that you are grinding your nose at your work all day. You haven't even no ticed her until now. Or have you. You haven't noticed the glances she throws at you at times. Were these true, Lyd? Vic con tinued. . . Sometimes, I wonder. Mr. Montano, the boss shows a distinct difference to her. Could it be that her family owns this firm? Mr. Manuel Laserna Angel Magahum y Merle Jose M. Nava Amado Osorio Navarete Norberto Romualdez Serapion C. Torre Vicente Sotto Flavio Zaragosa —The Dean of the Graduate School. Montano is all hands when near her, or is he the favored one in the stag lines. Oh, but I answered Vic. She's not the one you're thinking about she has just told me. Could be, countered Vic. But she definitely is an image of Miss Orozco. Vic had me there. It was both an an swer and a question. Monday after. All day and you didn't even give me a glance. Was Vic perhaps right? You were cruel that day. Everybody seemed to be expecting something from me, they were watching us. Fe was all pity. I couldn't get the courage to walk over and talk to you. So near and yet so far. Were you think ing of me then Darling? But you saved the day for me. "Feeling low down Ric? You asked. "Why No. ... I wanted to hurt you." Glad you still remember me. Though it all ended up yesterday." "How can you say such?. .. There was a hurt in your voice. "Please forgive me, Miss Aragon. Let me invite you to a coke to make up for my rudeness." (Continued on page J8) Page 18 THE CAROLINIAN ... If we place the corridors of the first, second, and third floors end to end and begin walking from one end, we would have to walk 585 meters to reach the other end. That's more than half a kilometer! You’d walk a mile going back and forth and you wouldn't know itl (we wonder why some "sigh-seers" never get tired. Maybe "Campuscrats" here could give us the an swer. ) ... Of the whole student population, only a daily average of 11 % make real use of the library, that is, 11 students out of every 100. The would-be lawyers have the highest rate of daily attendance with a record of 42% of its enrollment. Then it goes down to the Commerce department with a record of 3% as the lowest. Of course, it would be unfair to include the Secretarial de partment with its one year course.. . it counts with 2% only. Going in side the library? Yep, to read newsby IGNACIO SALGADO, JR. papers! (that's the biggest unrec orded percentage!) ... It costs a lot to be mischievous! That is what is costing the Univer sity on repairs, repaintings, and re placings on damages done by the students. You should see Fr. Engelen blow his top when he catches a student red-handed — with shoes on the railings or with pencil in hand busy on a make-believe "can vas" (Oops... Engineers and Arch itects — look out!) It's a good thing his bodyguard.. .er.. .rather, his po lice dog does not blow its top too! . . . Now, don't be surprised if you hear about the King of England reading about our "Herbie" here — with a giggle at the corner of his royal moustache! You see, our "Ca rolinians" do not circulate around this part of the world only, they are sent to Universities and Royal Fam ilies in Europe. So if they ever hear about the Philippines, they could also see about us thru the University of San Carlos. "Frau leins" could be writing us in the Carolinian fan mail. . . . Just in case — ROTC second year basics, you better get ready. A summer training is in the offing! Gosh, it sounds like a severe and heavy thunderstorm brewing on the horizon! Brace up, boys, it's going to be rough and tough sailing aheadl Hey, ain't our sponsors going along? Uh, uh... guess seein' us off will be good enough, how about it, cuties? Well, so long! Who knows, our paths may cross on top of the Ma rikina hills around Fort McKinley!! ----------------- THE ROVING EVE-----------------(Continued from page 14) Rizal was such a man. Rizal believed in prin ciples. Rizal died for such principles. Such a man also was our own Dioscoro Nacua. May he rest in peace! He "knew his law too much" and died for it This is on election year, and if we are to believe the political dopesters, blood will once more flow freely in November. It is for us; therefore, to stand up for our rights, to fight for our ideals and die for them if need be — or else, Rizal and Dioscoro will have died in vain. In the common tao's limited dictionary, a filosofo is a brass, outspoken person who reasons without Reasons. To correct the misconception, Dr? L. Enriquez, Dean of the St. Paul's College Graduate School in Dumaguete City, writes in the "PAULINIAN ECHOES": Philosophy is seeing things things whole, see ing them as il the eye ol the mind could see through them and beyond them and know what it was in the past before things were. It is placing values on things, labeling them as it were, writing the price tags of ultimate values and making a mental of them — what to hanker for; even die for, and what to leave out as bagatelle though the rest of the world should break its neck on the rush for it. Ergo, to be called a filosoto in the true sense of the word is more of a compliment than an insult. With the 1952 Yuletide season over, the Rizal Memorial Colleges "RIZALIAN" editor-in-chief, Jose T. Amacio, looks back to tell us of certain Christ mas absurdities.. . Noteworthy among the Christmas celebrants are those who passed the day in debauchery, pro fanity and some kind of contumelious and licen tious acts without delving into the real significance of that magnificent event. Still many absorbed by the mundane lustre, did not even spare a time to pause and meditate what is Christ here for. Indeed, the ends for which Christmas is ob served have been overshadowed by the less im portant means. It has become a question of the "tail wagging the dog." On the lighter side, Peemayer RBM (R. Mayurgas?) of the "CORPS" up in the Pines City allays the ladies' suspicions that .. . accepting an invitation to the Ring Hop is tantamount to accepting a marriage proposal. They do not know that an invitation offered to a girl is merely an act or an expression of a cadet's simple desire to have her as a drag, just like an invitation to an ordinary dance. . . Some women, though, would rather have such an acceptance mean what it should not really mean. Do you follow us? Among the leaves of the AU "ARELLANO STANDARD" in an article by Melecio Molina, Jr., explaining why students leave school. Major causes are: 1. poverty owing to the typhoons 2. instructors indifference to the individual pupils and students 3. lack of "consideration toward the students and pupils. If we might add a fourth cause, it's wedlock (it really "locks"). You'd be surprised to learn how many have quit school to devote more time to raising "a boy for you and a girl for me." (Continued on page 28) MARCH, 1953 Page 19 ALLMNCTEI Alumni Homecoming On the last day of the University Day festivities, USC alumni in and out of Cebu City gathered at the Library Hall for the traditional homecoming under the auspices of the alumni association headed by Atty. Cornelio Faigao. The reunion program, which started with a sumptuous dinner, got into full swing after everyone had his fill. In his characteristic Canto Voice wit and humor, USCAA Pres. Faigao opened the after-dinner speeches with the remark: "I’m sorry this party turned out to be a dry one. There seems to be something lacking." (A voice from out of nowhere hollered, Beer!") Everyone present was then given a chance to speak his or her mind. But nobody wanted to say anything about anything, not even the lawyer-alumni. So, Representative Zosa, one of the in vited guests, took the floor to denounce the alleged conspiracy of top education officials to obstruct religious instruction in the pubHc schools. He claimed that the appointment of these school officials to their present positions was deliberate. The fiery speech ended, Atty. Faigao put before the body three motions which were automatically seconded and ap proved. Namely: 1. That USC non-alumni faculty mem bers who have taught in Son Corios U for two or more years be considered honorary alumni. 2. That a commemorative plaque containing the names of all alumni who perished in the last global war be put up in the school premises. 3. That there will be a yearly selec tion of the Most Distinguished Alumnus of USC, the award to be presented during the annual USC Day celebration. Immediately after the approval of the third resolution, Atty. Fulvio Pelaez was empowered to appoint the members of the so-called Tower Committee, the function of which is to be on the lookout for prospective awardees. Last speaker for the affair was Rev. Fr. Lawrence W. Bunzel, SVD, Acting Rector, who expressed his thanks to those alumni who, in one way or another, have contributed to the success of the USC celebration. He further told them that they must be alert about political develop ments regarding religion, continue to keep a more than passing interest in USC doings and, above all, to pray for the Alma Mater always. USCAA Homecoming Banquet. "What, no beer?" Nine Ex-Carolinians Pass Medical Board Examinations Among the 224 candidates who suc cessfully hurdled the last Medical exams are eight new doctors who finished their pre-med studies in San Carlos U last 1947. Kudos are in order for Jesus Comoro, Prudencio Camara, Leon Casals, Jorge Dosdos, Graciano Du, Corazon Kaimo, Gumersindo Mesina, and Caridad Ybanez. The ninth successful examine is David Capobres who, however, spent only one year in USC. Drs. J. Camara, P. Camara, and Ca sals are with the Velez Clinic while Dr. Du is practising at the Borromeo Clinic. The latter and Dr. Dosdos have laid down tentative plans to take up post graduate work in the States when the opportunity comes. Dr. Kaimo was until recently connected with the Tojong Clinic; Dr. Ybanez finds time to teach at SWC while ministering to the sick at the Sacred Heart Hospital; and Dr. Capobres is on the Southern Islands Hospital Staff. Of Dr. Mesina, no word is available as yet. February Weddings First wedding news for the month was the Segarra-Araneta nuptials solemnized at the Cebu Metropolitan Cathedral last February 11. After the rites,, the justweds entertained their friends and guests at an early breakfast at the CNS Building. Engr. Nick works with the BPW; Carmelite is an AB degree holder from USC. Engr. Herminio Valencia could not have chosen a better day to take unto himself a wife, Milagros Zayas, than eve of Valentine's Day. The quiet wedding ceremony was held in Cagayan de Oro, home of the bride. The new benedict is with the BPW here in Cebu. (Turn to page 21) Page 20 THE CAROLINIAN ALUMNOTES (Continued from, page 20) “Da CfOtC . But topping everybody else is Paulino P. Amora and Rosa U. Gimarino, both Carolinians, who picked Valentine's Day itself to "love, honor and cherish" each other forever. Sponsor for the bride was Mrs. Magdalena Israel, USC faculty mem ber, and, for the bridegroom. Atty. Pas cual Garrido of the Cebu Internal Re venue Office. The "I do's" were pledged at the Sto. Rosario Church officiated by Rev. Fr. Bunzel, SVD, USC Acting Rector. The groom is finishing his BSC course this year while the new Mrs. Amora is a BSHE student. The couple received their well-wishers at the La Suerte Hotel. Amora-Glmarino Wedding Breakfast. "The eake’s the thing!” Pelaez and Valencia Elected Officers of Cebu Pharmaceutical Association During the annual elections of the Cebu Pharmaceutical Association officers last February 15, Charito Pelaez, one time USC ROTC Sponsor and youngest sister of Law Dean Fulvio C. Pelaez, was chosen treasurer. She is presently em ployed at the Cebu Public Health Labor atories. The PROship went to another USC alumna, Bing Valencia, who incidentally, fills prescriptions at her brother-in-laws drugstore, Farmacia Borromeo. Four Ex-USC Hoopsters Featured in Prisco-White Gold Tussle At the Eladio Villa Memorial Stadium last February 22, four former USC BB big Why we are still tracking down the alumni despite Atty. NAP RA MA'S election as "ALUMNI CHIMES" ed? Our good friend and former colleague, NGR, says he's a very busy man. What with a law prac tice to attend to and a deadline to beat now and then as editor of the "ANG LUNGSURANON." Can't blame him, can we? That Attys. Ramiro Atillo and Jesus Lim are assigned as special investigators at the SIS Office in the Capitol? Our big surprise was learning that "Boy" turned out to guns showed their wares before a record crowd that yelled itself hoarse throughout the thrilling minutes of play. Ironically enough, three of them played with White Gold against the Priscoans, newly crown ed National open champions, captained by Bodong Mumar, the only ex-Carolinian on the opposite basket. Having former teammate Naring Fernandez and two ex-USC star players, Nap Flores and Joe Espeleta, to reckon with was simply too much for Bodong, even with Nano To lentino's helping hand. Guntime found the White Gold Five ahead by 6 points, 38-32. Mentor of the victorious quintet was no other than Coach of the Year, "Herr" Silva. Two PAF Lieuts Visit Alma Mater "Home is where the heart is." So, the first thing Lt. Manolo Mercado and be a lawyer instead of a doctor. We knew him to be a pre-med stu dent in the then Colegio de San Carlos. Well, "only fools don't change their minds" eh, Boy? And for a bit of belated info, Atty. Lim decided to ditch his life of single blessedness last December 10 in favor of connubial bliss with a Flo rence Nightingale, Alicia Migallos. Incidentally, there should have been three ex-Carolinians at the SIS Of fice but for the resignation of Atty. Ricardo Abella, who, immediately after, joined the legal staff of the Lu Do and Lu Ym Company. Who the present occupant of the deputy governor's seat is in the Third District? Atty. Guillermo Lazo, Class '50. Even as a student, the qualities of a dynamic leader were already evident in him. He was voted President of the Senior Class Organization in his last year of law studies. BB fans saw him captained the Law Five to victory in the 1950 Intramural Cage Series. We re member that last year he made the FP headlines when he bitterly as sailed the authorities' utter indif ference to the Nacua case. What's happened to the four beauteous Garces sisters who, at one time or another, graced the USC campus? Dinday. who, in so cial circles, is treasurer of the select Femina Club, holds an executive post in the Cebu Girl Scouts Coun cil. When asked about future plans (if you know what we were driving at), she blushingly threw us an en igmatic smile. Jesusa busies her self with social work in Manila. The other two find time to mix household chores with office jobs. Clarita is engaged in Red Cross work in the Big City and has been happily married to Liberate Casals, another San Carlos product, since January 2, 1952. CPA "Bering" juggles fig(Continued on page il) Lt. Lino Abadia did during their 5-day stay in Cebu City was to visit their Alma Mater, USC, in order to renew old ties. A little more than ten months ago, they left Cebu for the Lipa Air Base in Batangas to start their grind with the Philippine Air Force. Despite the tough training sked dished out to them, they managed to come through with flying colors and got their wings and gold bars last January. Both are now fighter pilots in the 8th Fighter Squadron, 5th Air Force Wing, Basa Air Base. Keep 'em flying, boys! MARCH, 1953 Page 21 The U.S.C. Quondrongle at 6:30 p.m. \ A /hat had been looked tor i' |/ ward to with anticipation and a tinge of excitement was now slowly forming into exu berant reality. Hosts of student class officers and their helpers were puttering around their cars and floats, putting on the finishing touches with colored crepe paper, paste, ribbons, balloons and tape. On either side of the street were parked cars — shining, newly-wash ed automobiles, topped-down jeeps, convertibles, a decorated scooter and an adorned Jeepster. The time was running on into the schedule for the start of the annual USC pa rade. And, suddenly, it was on. . . Unwinding slowly to the beat of a stirring martial music, the horde of participants eagerly uncoiled from the campus where they had been massed into orderly formations, out into the street amid crowd-lined sidewalks and packed streetcorners. Earlier, the Physical Education crowd had put on an amusing show. A field demonstration whipped up after weeks of sore legs and tired arms .. . and exasperated P. E. in structresses. High school girls and At 6:40 p.m.—Trickling in. college coeds wearing varied cos tumes for varied numbers, stretched and tip-toed on the campus before a throng of bemused, interested spectators. So, that's what had been distracting the 3rd floor Law boys on those windy afternoons before the start of the evening classes! Now the parade was well out into the parade route and stretching further. . . passing the crowd-lined streets, interrupting the traffic, being the object of curious, admiring in different and absorbed gazes. The floats were done with touches of lavishness, ingeniousness, painstaken labor. The persons as signed to ride on them were chosen for appeal and for grace. The floats, again, were, as usual, sym bolic and eye-catching, elaborate. USCDay By VNL both simple and ornate, modern and reminiscent. The gay and colorful parade wound through its route and finally returned to the take-off point. The ROTC cadets, glad to be rid of the burden of rifle and marching ca dence, hastily deposited their Springfields and Garands and Car bines in the armory, and flocked to the street, mingling with the crowd, participating in the stares and cat calls, the expressed admiration and the laughter. And, as suddenly as it finally started, the parade — the highlight of the day — ended. The crowd broke up into a disordered, wander ing mass. People went home to change, others went inside USC, some loitered outside. Nearby par lors enjoyed a brisk, sudden boom in cool drinks and second-rate cigarettes. The awaited, anticipated USC Day was on! In the evening, when one got past the guards at the entrances and went on into the bowels of USC, one was, it seemed, in a difAt 6:35 p.m. A Concert number. ferent world of lights and feminine make-up. USC was alive and throbbing with people—youngsters, Carolinians, visitors, adult men and women—sightseers, all. From the ground floor up to the third story, there was an endless wandering through rooms and booths. There was the search for friends, the quest for a special one, the aimless, un caring search for anything or any one at all. The stage, downstairs, was like a theatre. Seats had been lugged from rooms and placed in neat, walled-off rows in the basketball court. There was the idle chatter while the people waited listlessly for the program to begin. Of all the booths, perhaps the Engineering room was the most unique. The booth was drenched in a bluish-gray color the shade of a bruise, imparting the eerie tint on the people within. Special bulbs, they said. The color of the people in that room attracted more notice than the display. For two nights the pattern was more or less the same. There was always the crowd and the intermin able buzzing, the pretty faces and the pretty shapes, the empty eyes (Continued on page 37) At 6:50 p.m.—Full-house. Page 22 THE CAROLINIAN VK TOKI/IL SCI TIOII The University Piesta Sights Left front view of the first-prize most symbolic float The most artistic float against the skyline Girls' High second-winning most artistic tloat University Boys' High placed second most symbolic float Another view of the first prize most symbolic float With lower facade of the main building as background, Education float gets home Third-ranked float for symbolism (Day ’53 The Ancient Greek amazons could not have done better in beauty, form and poise. . . Junior Normal-Elementary float — crowd-drawer not prize-winner. Senior CEs First Prize-Winning Exhibit—a perfect landscape with all accoutrements of a progressive model poblaclon. the modern ^betaili> about OLD USC entertained again from February 20 to 22, with approximately 15,000 spectators consisting of the public and Carolinians as guests and eye witnesses. USC Day is an annual celebration which the university population offers to the public. This time it commemorated the 368th birthday of USC. It took weeks of preparation to usher in the grand affair. The ad ministration, the faculty and the By Ariston P. Awiian, Jr. students practically left no stone un turned to insure the completeness of preparations. When finally, Feb. 20 came, spectators and guests were treated into the brand of USC Day 1953 could offer. A literary and mu sical program was had on the first day and the demonstrations, the mammoth parade, and the formal opening of the Fair was had on the following day, Saturday, Feb. 21. Sunday, February 22, found USC practically flooded with gruel ling crowds from top to bottom. It was the last day of festivities. Different reactions were regis tered by the Cebu City population that turned out en masse to witness the grand parade-motorcade. Start ing from the USC Parade Grounds and hugging the route through Jones Avenue, Juan Luna, Carmelo, Magallanes, D. Jakosalem and P. del Rosario Streets, the paraders went back to home grounds. During the parade, the Carolinian Staffers were busily dashing off, with cameras and notes while covering the differ ent features of the Parade. The floats were symbolic and artistic, and all that could be desired by spectators. Artful hands shaped out the floats which represented all Departments and Colleges of USC, so that the applauses, the praises and the admiration of the crowd were only matters of consequence. The float of the College of Li beral Arts copped the first prize as the most symbolic. With "Light of the East" as its symbol, it simply conveyed the idea that the Philip pines where Peace and Freedom is safe-guarded by Religion has weathered the menace of Commun ism. On one side of the float, Sta lin is featured representing either slavery or death, and on the other side of the Iron Curtain were the symbols of Peace and Freedom USC’s 368th BIRTHDAY Zke Jete’s Honor Slate FLOATS: Most Symbolic: 1st: College of Lib. Arts 2nd: Boys' High School 3rd: Pharmocy Most Artistic: 1st: College of Education 2nd: Girls' High School 3rd: College of Engr.-Arch. BOOTHS: 1st: Girls' High School 2nd: College of Engr.—Arch. 3rd: College of Law ONE-ACT PLAYS: 1st: "The Valiant" — College of Law 2nd: "Marriage Proposal" — College of Lib. Arts 3rd: "Suppressed Desires" — College of Commerce EXHIBITS: 1st: College of Engineering 2nd: College of Home Economics 3rd: Elementary Dept. AMATEUR SINGING CONTEST: 1st: College of Lib. Arts — Eddie Pascual 2nd: College of Commerce Sinen Catlngub 3rd: College of Education Lydia Moran 4th: Girls' High School — Milagros Faigao ROTC COMPETITION (See ROTC CHATTER p. 17) which Stalin has always sought to destroy. God-fearing people, China and Korea were represented as victims of ruthless Communism. Atty. Catalino Doronio together with Rev. Fr. Enrique Schoenig, S.V.D., Liberal Arts Dean, some spirited members of the faculty and the Liberal Arts Student Body, for two days before USC Day, rolled up their sleeves and worked on it to catch up with the parade's deadline. They made it and won. "Hitch your wagon to the stars," . . . that was what the allegorical float of the Boys’ High School con veyed. Four classically garbed students symbolizing their respect ive ambitions rode in a chariot. They had three horses, INDUSTRY, PERSEVERANCE and DETERMINA TION, pulling the chariot towards the stars of success and accomplish ment. The chariot-driver depicted USC. There was also an angel to guide them, signifying Catholic religious instruction. This wellplanned float won the second prize as the Most Symbolic. The float of the College of Phar macy copped third. Its design de picted the Sea Kingdom, where also life and riches are found. Sirens that portrayed visions of beauty, sea plants and animals, sea shells, and other sea products were shown. "We use sea products in our pre parations," that's what the Phar macists said. The College of Education pre sented the most artistic float. There was a big snake that wound around a beautiful tree while on the other side, maidens like berries were growing and languishing at the wayside. That of the Girls' High School copped second. It portrayed the dignity of Christian Womanhood. There was a big white cross planted on a deck of flowers upon which ladies representing different profes sions stood. Flags of peace-loving countries adorned both sides. Third prize (for the most artistic float) went to the College of En gineering. They put up an arch of Roman Architecture. The gadgets were rareties to the layman's eyes and naturally, curiosity begot ins pection and approval. (Continued on />«</»' >t<>) MARCH, 1953 Page 27 “The way to a man's heart is through his stomach," said Dorothy Dix. But I know better than that. I believe that the way or the shortest way, rather, is by way of the kitchen. It is in the kitchen that a housewife concocts the food that caters to the gastronomic whims and caprices of the lord of the house. Webster defines the kitchen as a room set apart for the preparation of food. To me it is more than that. To me it is the stage where the marital drama starts. It is the room where the young husband recites his famous speech, “You do not know how to cook the way my You’ll perk up when you scent mother does." It is also the place where young husbands discover to their dismay that what their wives have really studied is not home eco nomics but home extravagance. Now-a-days wives cannot be con tented with a kitchen without an American stove. “Why in heaven's name can't they cook with the old native stove, when just a short time ago Nanay could do wonders with one" is the common complaint of many husbands. The kitchen is sometimes the barometer of one's financial status. One can always be sure of some thing broiling if he sees smoke emanating from the kitchen of a house. Or have you been once invited to a town or barrio fiesta and approached a house with mis givings and fear? What if the host has given you the vanishing act? But you felt relieved when actually you noticed culinary activities with spiced smoke coming out from the kitchen. But alas! most kitchens today are no more than a showroom where the housewife displays her smart kitchenware, up-to-date imported American stove (most probably bought on the installment plan), and the newest thing in gad gets, for the people of the house mostly sit it out in fashionable restaurants and the well-appointed kitchen is used only once in a blue moon. The Smell that Fills It is in the kitchen that the lame of the little woman as a cook rests. It is the place where the anxious young wife sweats it out either to dish out a masterpiece or bring out a burnt offering. This part of the house is not so unromantic as others have thought it to be. On the contrary it is the place where the romance of the kitchen maid and the handy man around the house begins. It is where the Jack-of-all-work whispers sweet nothings to his kitchen love, and presto! the next thing you know your home will be minus a maid and handy man when the romantic pair so decide to take French leave. So many people think of the kit chen as a lowly room, unworthy of their notice and attention, where nothing ever happens. On the con trary it is from this very room where exciting things happen, where the thrill of the party is first felt. “What if the soup is not right? What if they won't like the way this stuffed chicken is cooked?" are some of the questions the lady of the house will ask. In fact many people want to be near the kitchen when a party is going on just to be on hand in case something turns up from that direction. Who says that a kitchen is not glamorous? It is and I think that many will agree with me that as a culinary objective, it is as gla morous and as exciting as Holly wood itself. THE ROVING EYE (Continued from page 19) Here's something for the professors' books: Some instructors disregard the indivi dual rights of pupils and treat the students as inferiors. Many instructors even hate to be asked questions by their students regarding their lessons. They consider the asking of questions as an insult to their abilities as instructors. We wonder if instructors refuse to be questioned not because it is insulting but because they themselves do not know the subject matter well enough — blind leading the blind. The Roving Eye is but an eye and can rove only so much. The strain is getting us and so, we take time out to inform you that, God willing, we shall be seeing you again in print some school year 1953-54. In the meantime, our eyes will continue to rove or, to quote our Ed, eyes were not made for seeing. Page 28 THE CAROLINIAN Zke Magna Carta of godless Education (Continued from page 2) secution, bigotry. Church interven tion and what-have-you, when the recent controversy exploded, would be eating back their words (without vanilla) if they bothered to inves tigate the issues. Up on the high perches of the education department are three men who since 1949 have been members of the masons' "Special Committee for the Elimination of Religious Instruction in the Public Schools.” The document — the lOItlC EFFICENT DEGREE WORK mg .... jillnan EE FOR THE ELIMINATION OF RELIGIOUS SUCTION IN PUBLIC SCHOOL9 s recommended to appoint a Special Committee of Religious Instruction in Public Schools, inted the following: jbmilled a complete report with the following Photostats seldom lie; if. at all Chairman Member Member Member here to the provisions of the Constitution of that "Optional religious instruction in the public 11 be maintained as now autho V, Section 5); ever vigilant and fight any and all schemes the Constitution of the Philippines on 'ious instruction in the public schools; oper occuMoiis anil if und when circt * must show the dangers and adverse effect! ^ruction in the public school?, ill the recommend;! its apnnival. Said Magna Carta of Godless education — is still found in the fiies of the Grand Lodge (see cut). In the third paragraph, the officials, Sec. Cecilio Putong, Director Pangilinan and Asst. Director Trinidad pledged that, "on proper occasion and when cir cumstances. warrant, we must show the dangers and adverse effects of religious instruction in public schools. " These same men, upon taking their oath of office, swore solemnly and publicly to defend the Constitution, abide by the laws and work for the general welfare. Despite the extensive publicity whipped up by the Manila papers on the expose, the three officials never dared to categorically deny the story. When the heat became unbearable, Dr. Putong, after two weeks of hemming and hawing, turned up with a lame statement that "he did not recall having signed the special committee's resolution. But he fooled no one. The loophole he cut thru his denial (he was rely ing on recollection)—a sort of escape route — was much in evidence. However, Dr. Baradi, head of the special committee, was man enough to disclose that he had conferred with Dr. Putong before the commit tee was formed, thus scuttling what ever was left standing ol Mr. Putong's denial. The wave of indignation hit a new high when Pres. Quirino after having been apprised of the whole situation by Mons. Madriaga, took the remarkable faus paux of pro moting Mr. Pangilinan, another com mittee member, to the undersecre taryship of Education. Obviously he underestimated the overwhelming Catholic population, by a long shot When the investigations went underway, the Grand Lodge (so ciety of masons) rushed to the aid of the officials under fire In paid newspaper spaces, it made known its stand: 1) belief in God, 2) in brotherhood of men, 3) in civil liber ties, and set up the defenses: 1) it meant merely to combat the "con certed move in 1947 to implement compulsory religious instruction.” 2) a hierarchy owing allegiance to a foreign state should not dictate the Philippine government on ap pointment and removal of officers, 3) the Lodge is really for religious instruction, 4) we should unite in fighting the common enemy Com munism, instead of engaging in minor bickerings The Grand Lodge had no al ternative than to evade the issue. The defenses could be knocked off, one by one, by its own special com mittee resolution. The title and the third paragraph of said resolution had said a mouthful and had made the Lodge's position in the present controversy, hopelessly untenable. It would be mightily interesting to learn just what are the "dangers and adverse effects of religious instruction." The masons' devout protestation as to belief in God and the Constitution would look ridicu lous and bizarre alongside the re solution's third paragraph. It was not against compulsory instruction merely, but against religious in struction itself. Was the famous resolution (dated 1949) really meant to put a halt to the "concerted move in 1947 to im plement compulsory instruction or is the Grand Lodge kidding? They have built a reputation for alertness. The line about the hierarchy's alle giance to a foreign state is too silly for comment. Everyone knows that our affairs with the Vatican relate merely to Faith and Morals. Catho lics in all countries have such rela tions with the Vatican and no state had kicked about it except the communists-run states. The Church-State separation doc trine is grotesquely irrelevant to invoke here. Apart from its true legal concept and application, the matters involved relate to and affect directly the vital interests of the Church. In the light of the uncover ed policy of the education depart ment to obstruct religious instruction, in the schools — a violation of a constitutional provision -- it is sounder to say that the State had meddled in the affairs of the Church rather than the Church having got ten in the way of the government. Senator Esteban Abada arosslv (Continued on page .12) MARCH, 1953 Page 29 SPORTS Round-up By "TOMMY" ECHIVARRE Sp0rt$ Editor MA N to MA N * With Tummy ache Fausto Gardini, the Italian tennis king, was literally dethroned by his own temperament. Tch.. Tch... what a way to lose a crown! The way things were going, it seemed to have been Gardini's game all the way through until a linesman crossed his path... The Gazetta Dello Sport, Italy's biggest sports paper, washed Gardini's hands by shoving the blame to the Italian Tennis Federation for not having untempered the racquet ace,... and the Philippine press, for "overdramatizing' the incident. (For gosh sakes... can we help it if it's true?) ...and whoever heard of Federations curbing down tempers? Waal... I'll be dawggone! The EVAAPS meet is over. There were no Gardinis nor GDSes to create tantrums and alarums. Everything was okay and everybody deserves two whoops and a holler. (What, no medals?) » » » Lady Luck was making faces at our CAAL artists again. Maybe she saw the gus-dusfed (or disgusted) look our big-headed basketeers were sport ing while putting on those numberless jerseys. And what's more them monkey suits cost 49 <t (tax included) on the local market. Hmmmmmmm... pretty fancy things for a choosy outfit (and what s more, beggars ore not choosers). And three leading Catholic schools each with fat coffers were supposed to have fooled the bill. (Me and my big mouth!) Our volleybelles nearly snatched the pennant away from the CCAA'ers. Had they kept their pretty heads instead of losing them everytime a service came whizzing by, they could have used them door-knobs to keep the ball on play. At least, the other side was using it. Next time I'll put up a coiffuring shoppe for them — exclusive.... and for free! (Continued on page 37) SHINBUSTERS MAKE GOOD IN '53 NATIONALS I HE SAN CARLOS U eleven, / fighting it out with all heart and soul, finally lost their grip on their last game of the Na tional Inter-Collegiate soccer cham pionship title. They had to give in at the semi-finals while trading boots with the de la Salle green ar chers, last year's champions and present NCAA football kingpins. The soccer tilt started on February 27 at the Rizal Track-Football sta dium. Making mince-meat out of the University of the Philippines in their first engagement, • the San Carlos booters, "Indomitable squadron of the South", moved on to the semi finals with new hopes of repeating THE USC SHINBUSTERS: Standing, L to R: W. Chiongbian, (Coach); 0. Jimenex; G. Layumas; S. Mondragon; A. de Jesus (Captain); E. Ballesteros; C. de Jesus; S. Mapeso; A. Veloso. Kneeling. L to R: J. Omadjay; Banogon; A. Gomex; F. Somergido; G. Valmayor; L. Salas; F. their glorious 1951 achievement. Three successive goals by Sofronio Mondragon, inside right, and a beauty by skip Alfredo de Jesus made it 4-0 at halftime. UP's lone point was registered by Valdez. At the next half, the last two markers to make the final score 6-1, was annexed by Luis Salas. Then the de la Salle team took over. The Green Archers were not so good. But they managed to keep their shirts on throughout the game on a fifty-fifty basis. Score: 1-all. On the extension period, it looked like San Carlos holding the driv er's seat for the whole route. It end ed on the same basis, 2-all. Then a replay was called for the next day. By then, it was doomsday for San Carlos. Three of its prized play ers were in bad shape after the (Continued on page 37) Page 30 THE CAROLINIAN Aaaahhh! Nestor M. M oral OH BOY!! "Let's put our books away. .. study time is over. . . gaily tripping. . . homeward skipping. . . soon we'll be at play." Yes sir!!! . Vacation, the greatest dream of dreams for students. The time to go slow and hibernate. The time to ad just our minds and store away our acquired knowledge in school (if there is any) for future use. Vaca tion is like a soothing balm designed to put our body and soul into a state of relaxation. It is like mentholated steam siphoned by people to clear their clogged noses and shaky nerves plus a hysterical foggy imagination after a monotonous school grind. Like an invigorating sea breeze slapping and kissing our faces or maybe tuba-tuba leaves plastered on our monicker... ex cuse me. . . sides of our foreheads, vacation is unanimously approved as the student's Utopia or one boy's garden of Eden, without Eve, that is of course like many other cases it has its advantages and disadvan tages. The author I will miss the library, the place where boys are visibly curtained from the girls but who still manage to cast shy glances at each other. I will miss the lobby, the place where wolves meet wolves. 1 will miss the coop, the chapel, the halo halo stores. But the sentimental and tragic part of it all is the parting between me and my inspiration, my guiding star (Margarine) and the source of my. . . burp. . . well-being and... burp... happiness. She will be leaving for Jolo where she will spend the vacation in pearl-div ing and making knives. For recrea tion, she says, she will help her buyo-chewing and kris-brandishing relatives fight the army. Atta girl!! I will not see that Boris Karlofish clerk again, at least for a while. I will not encounter questions which will set my mind jay-walking into the territories of. .. .4's and 5's. 1 surely will not miss that prof who gave me a grade that was just a wink away from the island of doom ed men. On the other hand, I will save money, energy and clothes. 1 can erase from my mind that thought of reviews for quizzes and exams. No more doggone heat — absorbing and pitiful ROTC drills and double-times, carrying those rifles of ancient models sometimes mistaken for elephant guns, that could make your limbs go jelly. That lousy ax-toothed, loudspeaker nosed company commander who could land jetplanes on his oversized forehead can go to Korea and get himself pulverized with our regards. I have planned to spend my va cation on grandpaw's farm and thrive on grandmaw's superexcellent cooking. 1 am not going to give fowl-life there any peace. 1 will relax under the swaying coconut palms, gaze into nature's wonder land, munch giant guavas, tambis, chicos, caimitos. . . alka-seltzer. . . please. I can see my ever loyal flea-covered dog sleeping beside me. I can see the verdant rolling hills in shawl of green, I can hear the murmuring of the brook and the shrieking cries of agony of murdered chickens for dinner. I can hear the toothless whistling of the leaves, and the unli mited, uncontrolled, high-pitched voices of the fair maidens washing clothes and bathing themselves in the brooks. I can hardly wait to ride my favorite carabao who runs like a Cadillac convertible over mountains and molehills, over val leys and plains. At long last the city life cannot bother me then. For more interesting objects, I will stray among the brooks where 1 can see the truly virgen, typical Maria Claras washing clothes clad in multicolored patadiongs and healthfully palopaloing their laun dry. A scene so truly Philippine. Our ROTC sponsors have got no thing on these women. Except for the fact that these highland girls (Continued on par/e IK) MARCH, 1953 Page 31 ROTCHATTER (Continued from, page 17) KOZC femmes Personalities By Cosmirabueno Corps of Cadets Participate in USC Day Parade Adding more color and martial animation to the USC Day parade, the Corps ol Cadets marched with the participating elements. In fulldress uniforms, they showed their wares to the impressed public. The artillery units presented a specta cular sight as they were mounted on trucks (weapon carriers) which dragged ponderous howitzers be hind. The Infantry sweated it out on foot. But their reward however was satisfying beyond measure as "A" company (an infantry unit) ob tained the acclamation as the "Best Marching Unit" of the whole corps. Not to be outdone, though, were the Corps Sponsors. While sitted demurely in their respective cars in their white uniforms, they were re cipients of applause and ovation from the public. 16 Cadets to Graduate from Advance Course Sixteen cadets are to graduate this year from the advanced course of the R.O.T.C. it was disclosed by the D.M.S.T. (Department of Military Science and Tactics). Eleven are graduating from the Infantry while the rest will graduate as cannoneers. They are Cdt. Col. Cosme T. Mirabueno, Cdt. Lt. Col. Cirilo Sario, Cdt. Lt. Col. Eleno Ybanez, Cdt. Lt. Col. Pedro R. Patalinghug, Cdt. Major Honorio Aranas, Cdt. Major Jose Villanueva, Cdt. Major Eutiquio Colon, Cdt. Major Dionisio Capuy, Cdt. Capt. Uswaldo Cayongcong, Cdt. Capt. Amancio Cuaresma, and Cdt. Capt. Bienvenido Revilla. They all belong to the Infantry Unit. Artillery men are Cdt. Lt. Col. David Dulanas, Cdt. Major Eutiquio Valmoria, Cdt. Capt. Modesto Pal mares, Cdt. Capt. Diamelo Borromeo, and Cdt. Capt. Restituto A. Bacalso. For these cadets graduation means the termination of four solid years of gruelling work. It will effect the change from silver discs to golden bars and from swords to 45 cal. pistols. At present these cadets are wait ing for the approval of their applica tions for commission to officership in the Armed Forces. FELLOW CADETS! -To amuse you once again, here I'm gonna introduce to you the line of addi tions that grace the upper bracket of the ROTC feminina. Certainly the College of Educa tion is not far beaten in filling up the gaps in the ROTC reel of beau ties. Modesty aside, our lone de partment accepts only about ten to fifteen coeds, who, of course, must meet all the necessary qualifications, or shall we say, could make shabby-dead cadets move like birds on the wing. First on the roll, we have here an American-Filipino cutie, born a Cebuana but tentatively residing in that wonderful city of Panguil Bay. It's worthwhile mentioning that the position she occupies now is not new to her, for during her high school days she held the apex po sition of her institution's garden of beauties. That's why when the unprecedented resignation of our former Corps Sponsor surprised us it came to my mind to approach this assiduous church-goer with beauty and brains rolled into one. When we requested her to accept the position, she declared, "I am willing to do my best in order to foster the morale of the cadets." So, my fellow cadets, wipe off that sweat on your brow. Let those frayed nerves rest for a moment. There's no use getting excited, for our Corps Sponsor is friendly. Miss Isobel Martin is the name. Cdt. Lt. Col. Eleno Ybanez, pro bably the handsomest guy in our staff, became a little hopeless when his sponsor left him a while ago in order to represent Cebu City in International Fair in Manila. All his hopes vanished but he found another. The search is history. G-2 agents stood fast but ready before i launching actual operations. We ! posted all combat operatives (talk1 atives) on all corners of the Univer sity. Finally, at exactly ten hundred : hours one of the rangers sighted and encountered her. She regisi tered heavy resistance (objection). A pre-arranged signal initiated enj velopment. At eleven hundred I thirty hours, the enemy surrendered ! (the chosen sponsor agreed). She hails from the place of the terror | Tawantawan — CARCOM, beside ! Panguil Bay, facing that famous Malindang Mountain. She is Miss Leah Lacuna of the College of Liberal Arts, who now holds the second highest position in the corps. For the Red Stripers (FA) they have that girl with dreamy eyes whose sigh is, for me, as deep as the ocean. Her refined ways and manners have won admiration and respect among the Field Artillery Battalion cadets and friends. She is no other than Cadette Lt. Col. Rosario P. Reyes daughter of Dr. Valeriano Reyes and Josefa Pelaez of Medina, Mis. Or. Here's a mighty sweet gal from the Eastern Visayas. Keeping you in suspense is not just. But I tell you, she's cute. She is shy, yet admirable. ANNIE RATCLIFFE. Annie first got into the pages of the CAROLINIAN sometime ago when she won first place in a declama tion contest sponsored by the Uni versity. Then, her name hit the pages again when she was appoint ed assistant news editor of the same organ; and the third time, by being unanimously elected as SWEET HEART of the Officers' Fraternity. By virtue of this, she serves as the inspiration of the "USC ROTC CA DET OFFICERS' CLUB." She is as young as her face portrays, a maid en of sixteen summers. Academi cally speaking, Annie rates number one among Secretarial sludents. MAGNA CARTA. . . (Continued from, page 29) distorted the issue when he assessed the situation as that of the majority persecuting the minority. Framed correctly, the question would be: Must the will of the majority be frustrated by a handful of people? Should the minority be allowed to impose upon the wishes and will of the overhelming majority (Catholics represent 85 per cent of our popula tion) without their consent and against their interests? Are we under a democratic or a dictatorial regime? Let's not kid ourselves. No mountain is being made out of a molehill. The case against the edu cation officials is real, tight and tremendous. The task of molding the lives and characters of millions of school children and generations of Filipinos have been thrust into the hands of those who had secretly pledged to expel God out of the classrooms. Page 32 THE CAROLINIAN OUR FIGHT . . . (Continued from page 7) places in the Philippines, the gen eral complaint assumes alarming proportions. We hear of the law at times thwarted by a technicality. Here we have a clear case of de liberate, calculated suppression of all good intentions underlying the law on religious instruction by three Masons sworn to eliminate religion in the public schools. As a matter of fact, these "hon orable gentlemen" do not (for they cannot) categorically deny their membership in the infamous "Spe cial Committee For the Elimination of Religious Instruction in the Public Schools," nor successfully repudiate its chairman's report of their activi ties. That report was recently con firmed by the author and chairman of the said committee, Dr. Baradi, who virtually admitted the authen ticity of the published photostats and the veracity of the contents therein, implicating Messrs. Putong, Trinidad and Pangilinan. For theii activities, these three honorable Masons received a special commen dation in the December 1951 issue of the "Cabletow," official organ of the local Masons. Yet, true to form, Putong and Co. now shout "Pres sure" and "Persecution" against the din of the people's indignation that followed the expose of their treach ery. They want us perhaps to fold our arms and leave them to their worst designs. They would rather have us play the role of the legend ary monkey who pretend to hear not, see not and know not — while the three wiseacres play their neat little trick of "The Vanishing Reli gion" upon the plastic minds of our youth. We liked to think we had only the Communists to reckon with in our fight for justice and truth. But these three top educators turn out to be just like Communists, for they operate in much the same way. They live upon our institutions, take shelter upon our freedoms, glibly quote our laws. . . even as the devil would quote the Scripture to serve its own purposes. A Communist would infiltrate into a munitions plant, maneuver himself into some key position and, if you're lucky, you catch him all set to burn the plant down. These three public of ficials are, in their own surrepti tious way, just as guilty of Sabotage as the Communist intruder. Like Greek warriors of old, they ride concealed in the wooden horse of liberalism and infiltrate unnoticed Sditorials, . . (Continued from page 1) Why did Senator Abada try to grossly distort the issue some more by asserting that the situation is that of the majority 'persecuting the minority when the Catholics are only availing of legal, justified and reasonable means guaranteed in a Democracy to petition for the redress of grievances as vouchsafed for by the Supreme Law of the Land? He is trying to pull the wool over our eyes, perhaps believing that we are too naive to detect it. And why should we entrust into the hands of those who have secretly pledged themselves to expel religion out of the classrooms, the most delicate task of molding the lives and characters of our youth and generations of Filipinos? This should wake us up from our lethargy. Don’t let it be said of us by posterity that we simply shrugged our shoulders with indifference or stupidly blinked our eyes with resigned unconcern at the very moment when the future of our youth and that of our children’s children were at stake. Preposterous! into the citadels of our faith, the better to perform their bizarre mis sion — the annihilation of a people's creed. A Filipino, like all other men, is composed of body and spirit. Kill the spirit, and you have less than a man. Deny that spirit the nourish ment for a healthy growth, and you will have at best an automa ton, schooled in the three R's, but weak in morals — ruthless, hope less, aimless. A nation of such men cannot last. It was, to be sure, a measure of common protection, at once a credit to the vision and the genius of our founding fathers who moulded the Constitution, that the provision for optional religious instruction was included in our fundamental law. Surely they were not joking when they inserted that. A Constitution that invokes the guidance of Divine Providence in its Preamble cannot but reveal the sincerity of purpose and the loftiness of the spirit of its framers. The provision on religious instruction is certainly intended for just that — religious instruction, re gardless of whether the religion to be taught be Catholic, or Protestant or Iglesia ni Kristo. But the trium virate of Putong, Trinidad and Pa ngilinan, for what are now known to be obvious reasons, prefers to leave the youth free from religion in much the same way that a man with murder in his heart would leave a drowning child free of a lifeguard's assistance. Protestations of good faith or promises of reform from these peo ple are entirely useless. Their dual personalities, their faithlessness to a public trust and disregard of a bounden duty, render them unfit for the positions they now hold. As ■+ Masons, they took an oath to obey its laws and resolutions. As public officials they subscribed to another oath — to enforce the laws of the land "without mental reservation or purpose of evasion." Which oath is stronger to these men? Good Ma sons, the Masonic organ has cited them for "faithful and inspired ser vice" . . . hailed them as "genuine sources of inspiration" for all faith ful Masons. But what is their record as public officials? Did they not pervert the law on religious instruc tion when they subjected it to the option of public school officials ra ther than that of the parents? Did they not stifle its benign objectives when they considered religious ins tructions as an unwelcome extra curricular activity instead of an op tional subject intended to be taught "as part of the curriculum?" Which oath did they foreswear? As Ma sons, they complied with their as signed mission (to eliminate reli gion) .... a mission which is in consistent with their oath as public officials to uphold the laws of the land (including that which provides for religious instruction) Isn't there a case of perjury here? And is a perjurer an honest public official? But where do we Catholics come in and what are we supposed to (Continued on page 41) PASSING THROUGH. . ■ (Continued from page 4) dow vanishes. Or make one up yourself and mail me the tongue twister. And don’t make it a twang testerl It’s been nice, showing YOU what a crackpot a joke like a Law freshman can be, eh. * * * S’long, people... hope you do better with your attempts at college than I did with my Roman Laws 1 and 2. MARCH, 1953 Page 33 WHAT DO YOU THINK? (Continued from page 12) Nenlta Po • NENITA PO, College of Edu cation says: “Graduation? To me it is something great that carries with it a feeling of ac hievement. It is an event in one's college life worthy to cher ish and remember. The fact that at graduation your school an nounces you to the public for having successfully passed your course makes you happy, espe cially if you have been an honest student. However, you cannot help feeling insecure and afraid if you have played the role of a truant." To an honest student gradua tion is surely a happy occasion. He has the secured feeling that he has not cheated himself. The talent and graces given to him by God are enough inspirations to buoy up his spirit when he begins to see life, not from a student's angle. When his Alma Mater sends him out to the world to commence life outside of school, he is not afraid to go. As our college days culminate with graduation, let us make this a happy occasion — an event to remember by." Zke youthful Urge (Continued from page 15) times on the wrong people and this is when it becomes distressingly in teresting. A very good friend of mine tells of a story in his tender years which, according to him, always makes him feel a little younger by its recollection. There taught once in his barrio school an aging woman. Only thing was — she did not wear and act her years. She dressed within the latest fashions and danced the current versions. Rumor gained ground that teaching for so long had en abled her to accumulate a fortune. It was not unusual therefore that all the barrio's Certified Experienced Bachelors vied against each other for her favor. It turned out, how ever, that this lonesome daughter of Eve took a fancy for our young friend. “I was only a boy," our friend recalls, “and I couldn't quite comprehend then why of all the eligibles around, she had to pick on me. She practically made me do all the recitation in class while all the time she would plant her eyes upon me with a kind of pe culiar intensity born perhaps of the treatment given her by the years. I am not by nature an observant fellow but when she called my name and spoke to me, somehow, I couldn't rid myself of the impres sion that her voice suddenly ac quired the cuddling huskiness of a sleepy mother in the dead of night when she urges her little one to be asleep. The climax of the affair occurred late one afternoon when she bade me remain after classes. She had a good many things to eat in her lunch basket and I was helping myself to them when she began assaulting me with questions which would have been interesting had Time been a little kinder to her. Then she began a girlish essay on her attractions for me so that, unable to cope with the embarrass ment of the moment any longer, I exclaimed, 'But, Madam, I am afraid my mother wouldn't want me to hear such things, yet.' “And to this she answered, ‘But, Josito, young man, the calendar of my years hasn't really started until the day I met you and since it has only been three month's time from thence, don't you think I'm a little younger myself than you think you are?' " Just what it is that makes one say and enact things in his pecu liar way and in his own peculiar time may prove rewarding to com prehend; but what it is that com pels one to do and say the same things outside the province of his custom and day is not only very entertaining but highly refreshing as well to both the senses and the spirits. This must be truly so be cause men, wherever they are, have been known to have resorted to de vices just so they could prolong, if not suspend, that brief, fleeting moment in a lifetime when “All is dear and sunbeams bless." There is such a thing, for ins tance, as Plastic Surgery where by thru a process of eliminacflROunifln mouTHFULS • Atty. CORNELIO FAIGAO (after “tasting" the different menu at the "C" staff’s send-off party): "I’m already weakening." • Atty. BONIFACIO YUSON (warning his students against pit falls In the provisions on Sales): "Boys, it is very pellggers." • Anecdote In the .College of Law: Prof. Yuson’s term for capable stu dents is "copy-ble." • Mr. MARIANO FLORDELIZ (ad monishing a student In Physiography 1): The question with you Is that you know too many wrong things." • Alumni and Exchange Ed AL BERTO MORALES (going home late one night with fellow staffers): "I’m very happy tonight but my future looks terribly dark." • NARCISO BACUR (leaning dreamily on a prlmed-up cutie): Why, your hair will make a nice ash tray!" • AGUSTIN JAMIRO (after know ing that Leo Bello won a cash priie of fifty pesos for the best editorial): "I came here to see how you let fifty smackers slip through your fingers like Mercury." • Mrs. REMEDIOS SORDO (irked by repeated questions from a stu dent): "You must clean your ears before coming to school." tion and addition, one is made ca pable of defying the laws of time and for which all one has to pay is not the desire to be an actor. Then there is an innovation under the name of Max Factor which thru a series of painting and ornament ing, perhaps, learned from scalp hunting Indians, one becomes a Betty Grable provided, of course, she doesn't move as fast as does her contemporary. And there is, too, a kind of school the curriculum of which guarantees one, if she is spirited enough to be able to speak (Continued on page 39) Page 34 THE CAROLINIAN ----------------------------- Caroliniana----------------------------(Continued-from page 2) publications on The Carolinian exchange list. The spirited maestro is a dynamo personified. He runs the Alumni Chimes besides. Another newcomer to our mag's pages is Feli ciano Alegrado with his The Youthful Urge. He must be an ardent believer in the truism that youthfulness cannot be determined by one's age but in the way he feels. Our Delia Saguin cracks a healthy joke or two at Campuscrats. That way, she makes people hap py, if not with her contagious smiles. She is the energetic Secretary of the College Editors' Guild of the South. Our Corps Commander writes about femmes. He must be so deeply engrossed about them. Why, he can even write a good cross-section of their cute personalities. It is an ordinary case of a rooster crowing about the hens in his backyard. Two features are written about USC Day by VNL and Awitan, Jr. This year's affair is the most completely covered, if it can be said that way at all. We had to make sure that nothing could be missed by assigning all members of the staff on the coverage. Result: There are a lot of facts doubly reported. Well, somebody in the staff remarked that it is better over done than misdone. So, we have them all, with pictures as well. The Dean of the Graduate School appeals to students to help build up a collection of vernacular literary works written by old Visayan writers as mentioned in Teofilo del Castillo's Brief History of Phil ippine Literature. Now let us see what we can do about it; are there any callers? You'll perk up when you scent The Smell That Fills. says Purificacion N. Lim. She ought to know it from experience. I bet she must know how to cook into a man's heart, through the kitchen, of course. When Tummy Ache writes a column, he means business. His sports column can take a dig on sport's great and near-great alike. Man to Man, he speaks straight from the shoulder. Tommy Echivarre is that frank and reliable. Nazi Salgado, Jr. is a new hand in the Staff. We never knew why we did not pick him up and avail of his services before. When it comes to nosing for news, he is a regular go-getter. Bud Quitorio must be happy with his valuable assistance. And Bud has acute Annie Ratcliffe besides under his wing. That pokerfaced news ed is sure lucky and Nazi too, in spite of the hard time Bud is giving him on beats. Ah, Vacation, Ah ... , smart-alecky Nestor M. Morelos drools. This guy is always at it. If not making fun of girls, he makes fun of himself. This time, it is a better bargain. The girls no longer feel they are being hunted down and lampooned, because our smarty even lampoons himself. The Pharmers, the most glamorous girls in USC, celebrated. Their presentation of an Interpretation of the Principal Seasons of the year is something new. That Junior-Senior Prom must be a swell affair. But we missed the invitation, so we told a Pharmer off, in the most chivalrous manner, of course. Al though that time we could not be serious: we were only kidding to lighten our deadline burden. Of all things, the College Editors Guild of the South is a reality. By the time this gets off the press, The College Temper, official publication of said guild will have been well-circulated. We are members of the guild itself. Pretty soon there will be social activities on tab. But the one thing we are proud of is the official publication. We are publishing it on practically nothing at all to start with except a lot ol pluck, nerve and grit. Elmo Famador is one that inspires cooperation. He is that serious-minded and sincere in everything he does, we feel that with him as President, the CEGS is in good skippership. We? We are only the 2nd Vice-President of this guild, and that is not much to crow about. We can only become President if Elmo and Frank drop dead or incapacitated. And we don't want that to happen. Ben Fred and the rest of the members will bear me out in this. The present set-up is good as is, and we have pledged that we will do our utmost to promote harmony, understanding and unity and strong student opinion among ourselves, if only to prove that we can do better than Manila. seemed unaware of the admiring glances thrown at her direction. My goodness, I almost forgot the staffers' cars.... they were decorated elaborately in technicolor! They couldn't help but steal the show... one would rather think they made it a point to attract the attention of the on-lookers by speeding-up and stopping suddenly like nobody's business. Well, you can't blame these people... they're a bunch of news hounds and photo-maniacs!! nosing its way in and out of the swanky convoy. INTING'HERBIE' LIM sat between two worlds.... at his right was sophisticated CHONG VELOSO and at his left was sweet and charming INDAY TEVES.... lucky guy, JOE DE LA RIARTE said. Our Ed sealed himself infront and PENTONG with his side kick... er... camera sat beside him. Inside the other car was a merrier group... what could be more CAMPUSCRATS (Continued from page 16) exciting than speeding your way thru the enormous crowd! BUDDY QUITORIO ... who had no use for his coat because of, he sez, "the sweltering calidity" and the crowd inside the car. ARISTON AWITAN... cursed himself for forgelting to bring a Carolinian copy with him. He said people would have even noticed us better. He was not a bit contented with the blatant "Carolinian Staffers" sign! LIL TOBES... who said: "I wouldn't miss this grand parade for all the basket ball games in this world!!" It would be unfair if we talked only of the floats. What about the people marching? Aye, the whole Corps did add grandeur to the parade. Band Master SELERIO, followed by his drummers. trumpeteers, et al, marched arrogantly down the street. All the members of the band were donned-up spic and span in white uniforms... that's class for you! But they looked more of elevator boys and busboys in swanky hotels, so a staffer cracked. A brief survey on the programs pre sented at the USC quadrangle during those three nights.... they were all suc cessful... every participant did his part wholeheartedly.... that's the true Caro linian spirit!! ISOBEL MARTIN, the Fraternity's Corps sponsor was also doing her full share in the program. In the dance presented by the College of Education, she was an enchanting ballerina flitting gracefully around her garden while the birds of nature twittered gaily about her. Joining this gay spring mood were a group of (Continued on page 39) MARCH, 1953 Page 35 1 admire the Communists myself to be of use to the Church in times to come? The Communists like to say: 'For one man who falls, ten thousand will rise.' Should a Catholic, then, forget that the blood of martyrs is the seed of Christians? "I admire the Communists be cause they are not afraid when they have been accused of foul deeds. They will say: 'The eyes of the people see clear and cannot be de ceived in such things.' That's why they proudly march to the place of their execution. And should a Christian shrink from being accused unjustly, from being persecuted? Should he regard it as worthless and absurd to die innocently? Then he would be oblivious of the fact that our supreme Judge is God Al mighty, Who is full of wisdom and goodness. Who is justice and right personified. "I admire the Communists be cause of a third quality. When they feel they are right and cannot con vince others, they' still know how to stick to their belief without wa vering. When they are unable to refute their opponents at a discus sion, they do not capitulate and make concessions to them regarding their ideas, nor do they despair of their party and desert it. Is it pos sible for a Christian to forget that his Faith derives from God? Why should he, when unable to defend his cause successfully, give up his viewpoint and declare that he is What is Rnssian Communism? from the moment Russia was in vaded, they completely somersault ed, praised the war, and demanded that the allies should open a second front. A certain Australian member of Parliament replied to a Commu nist objector at a public meeting: "Yes I am in favor of a second front — in Siberia! To speak of Russia as being "our gallant ally" during the war is to utter sheer nonsense. Russia was never an ally in the accepted sense of the term. This I emphatically pointed out in a lecture in Australia during the war: "Let us suppose that three nations. A, B, and C are allies. This means that, if of the three is attacked, the other two will come to her assistance, and that, if two of them are attacked, the third will come to their help. Now, Aus tralia has her back to the wall, fighting Japan, and what does Rus sia, our so-called ally, do? She fails to lift even a little finger Page 36 (Continued from page 10) wrong? In the end, he would twist the truth of his doctrine, upset the order of the Church, and become c traitor to God and his own soul. And if I should perchance be a traitor to God and my soul, who could vouch that I would not betray my country and my people? There fore I will not waver in my Faith and, still less so, shall I make other Christians waver in their convictions or abuse my position as a priest to undermine the Faith of the faithful. "The Communists, whom I ad mire, and their government genuine ly respect our Catholic Church, which I love. They endeavor to win the support and aid of Chris tians. I must say I feel honored because of this. Must I not double my efforts to be a steadfast Chris tian, who can also meet the noble purposes of the Government? "I have a great desire to invite you also into my dearly beloved Church, in order to lead you to God and make you our brethren in the Faith. Do not consider me a fool talking nonsense, nor think that I am not serious. I am fully con vinced that idealistic Communists, once they get to know the Catholic Church, will become Catholics living wholly by their Faith, far superior to a Catholic of my caliber. So I pray to God to turn many Sauls into Pauls within the Communist party, far surpassing the miserable priest that I am. This is my view of the (Continued from page 11) against our most dreaded foe; she has even a trading pact with Japan!" I have no wish to revive the cruel memories of the terrible war — the most terrible in history. But I could not refrain from pointing out the fact that Communists throughout the world viewed the struggle not with the eyes of national patriots, not with the eyes of their own country, but with jaundiced eyes — with eyes, implanted in them, as it were, by Moscow. A COMMUNIST'S FIRST LOYALTY IS TO SOVIET RUSSIA "The first requisite for a Com munist," writes Louis Budenz, "is tc understand that he is serving Soviet Russia and no other nation or in terest. Never will he be permitted to express one word of reservation or criticism of the Soviet Govern ment, its leaders or their decisions. Whatever they say or do is always 100 per cent right, and America can be right only by being in complete situation. "I beg your pardon for the faults of this address, which it was im possible for me to prepare as I would have liked to. I wish to point out, moreover, that my speech has not been authorized by the Church authorities and hence can not claim to give the viewpoint of the Church. Nor has my talk been approved by the government. My words are merely an expression of what I conceive to be an ideal, which perhaps will remain my own beautiful dream for the time being. "To sum up: I am a Chinese Catholic, I love my country, I love my Church too. I reject emphati cally whatever is at variance with the laws of my country and the precepts of my Church, and 1 re fuse to cooperate with whatever may cause discord. But if the go vernment and my Church cannot come to an understanding, there remains nothing for a Chinese Ca tholic but to die sooner or later. Why not offer one's life even now, in order to bring about an early understanding of the parties now one against the other? If my pro posals are rejected and any mutual understanding is declined, then any peace move is blocked. If, despite the desperate situation, a solution is attempted courageously, the ob jective, namely, reconciliation will be reached. Once more, pardon all the deficiencies of my speech." agreement with the Soviet Union. Never, during the twenty-five years of its existence, has the Daily Worker deviated from that rule, never has it ceased to prostrate it self before the Soviet leadership." (This is My Story, p. 234.) "The Communists in the United States openly admit their allegiance to the Communist International at Moscow, and glory in the fact that they obey all the orders issued from there immediately and implicitly." — H. R. Report No. 2290, 71st Con gress, 3rd Session, Jan. 17, 1931, p. 9. The International Communist, French edition, August 5, 1935, declared: "Those who say we do not take orders from Moscow are against the proletarian state. It proves they are allied to the bour geoisie . . . and are the enemy of the proletariat class .... To re ceive orders from Moscow, as Di mitrov said, is to follow the example of Lenin and Stalin." THE CAROLINIAN MAN TO MAN. . . I'm quite sure that our shinbusters got it pretty hard when they had to ■ lose the semi-finals against the Green Archers. But they were not the only ; ones hard hit — USC got it straight ; in the heart. Three of our heroes, spilled their blood on the green — for good ole' USC. But a game is a game — even if somebody gets killed! How those three got it — we don't know. But there must be something more to it than meets the eye. The varsity brought back from Cobadbaran the bacon all right... inside their bloated tummies (Now look who's talking!) Yeah, very funny! But I didn't know that them boys have a vulture's I appetite, er, ah, of course, not to men- i tion the Reverend Manager. (Nix, Fa- | ther, I was only kidding). And imagine I this-, they had to eat at least ten meals I a day plus merienda. Brother! No ! wonder they nearly lost the other j game. I Before the boss gets wild ideas | about this high falutin' page and yank I me off, I’d like you sportsmen (not to I exclude King Gardini, sir) and mus- [ cular myrrmidons to eat and digest some food-for-thought tips from a re gular brick, an authority on PE, about j decorums on the field. j "One side or the other has got to lose. And the boys that make the j right kind of men are the boys that ; go into play as hard as they can to I win, play fair but play hard — take i a whipping without a whimper and : come back for more. Win if you can, lose if you must. That is the sort of I men we want to develop." I USC DAY. . . (Continued from page 22) and the absorbed ones, the tramp of feet and the shuffle of shoes. Gum-chewing and chain-smoking was part of the order of the night. And when it was all over, and the chair had been lugged back to the classrooms. . . and the floats had been stripped of the pretty, colorful things.. . and the cars had been rewashed to remove the paste and the imprint of tape. . . and the specimens had been removed from the walls and lecture tables moved back into place. . . when all that remained of the carnival that was USC were removed. .. there still re mained a nostalgic but short-lived impression of the happy days and gay, busy nights that were USC Day. (Continued from page 30) Former USC skipper, Joe Espeleta, sinks a twin-pointer from under the basket for White Gold in the Frisco-White Gold tussle last February 22. Local quintet upset the national champs, 38-32. draw. Center half Alberto Quino suffered a foot injury and Anastacio Gomez, who took his place was in no better condition. But he stood his ground until the final boom. In side right Sofronio Mondragon, A-l scorer and mainstay of the team, was benched due to an ankle in jury the epic battle. These gummed-up condition of the team finally showed signs of a crack-up in the last half of the re play. They had the initial lead at the first half, due to Alfredo de Jesus's sneak-in marker. Halftime score was 1-0. Then the fatal half came. A guy named Benito Razon threw the monkey wrench on the Carolinian set plays and superb passing. He registered two goals in a row during the last twenty min utes of play and San Carlos went tailspinning like a busted egg-beater. They had to go. The final tabu lations: 3-1. WARRIORS BACK FROM MINDANAO TOUR Gracing the pages of Mindanao athletic history, the USC dribblers brought home the mythical bacon after posting impressive victories against Mindanao's first-rate BB teams. They were playing under the auspices of the Candelaria In stitute in connection with their threeday town fiesta. In Cabadbaran, Agusan, the "C" boys were billed to angle with the Mindanao Mother Loders outfit and the Mabuhay Basketball League. Their first encounter with the Ma buhay Basketball Leaguers was not so impressive as rough weather and showers doused the game. The Ca rolinians were goners from the start to the finish until they finally caught up and shoved over the Leaguers to the tune of 35-32. The next billing was well attendded than the first. The reputation of the Mindanao Mother Loders as (Continued on page 40) MARCH, 1953 Page 37 ON DA LEVEL. . . (Continued from page 8) in a conference held at a local university. We have high hopes lor this association because we believe that the CEGS means turkey in local college journalism. In fact, the different editors that compose the CEGS have come up with the maiden issue of their of ficial organ, THE COLLEGE TEMPER. It is published once in every two months. For the rec ord, it may be said that the CEGS out-CEGed the CEG of the Phil ippines. Please repeat the line and please examine your tongues. . . At press time, the Catholic populace is still boiling over the revelation in The Sentinel, pur porting to show that three top Edu cation officials are hatching on a macabre plan of eliminating Religious Instruction. Tch, tch.. . If the charges be found to hold water, we respectfully suggest that these officials be awarded charity tickets to Moscow with our sincerest compliments! Students are showing healthy signs of interest for newspapers. They are showing. Period. Just inch over to a serious-miened newspaper hog and you'll jin him in inter-stellar hazards with Buck Rogers or Exmark. He doesn't give a dee about news items, you know. And what's more, if you just wait long enough, he'll tap you on your shoulder and borrow your pen. Don't frown. Just give with the pen so he will not purloin the crossword puzzle section. The writer knows where of he speaks. Many a recurrent theme of gripes from certain quarters is the alleged domination of law students on the pages of the Carolinian. The E-in-C himself was a law student, now turned Liberal for reasons unknown even to the missus. Sssshl! Bulldozing for four gruelling years of stu dent-lawyering, he was just about to get the sheepskin when he found out that he wanted to be a loyal Liberal first. Wonder what took him so doggone long. In the present set-up of the "C", most of the pen-sloshers are Law studes to boot. (Continued on page 39) NOCTURNE. ■ . (Continued from, page 18) There you were, with the voice I longed to hear all day. You smiled your forgiveness and the world was forgotten. Did I really hurt you that afternoon? There was fire in your eyes, that too ended suddenly. Your husky and soft voice always makes my heart go thumping and aflutter. How many times had we been to gether after that? Or had you al ready picked me out. I was madly in love with you. You must have sensed it. Sometimes you were far from me. Sometimes so near and so enticing. Nights I slept listlessly. Wanting the morrow to come. The day's end seemed so long. Walk ing with you. Talking with you. Yes, I had told you about my girl friends when you asked. Of Gloria, the daughter of the richest man in town and why I couldn't dare say to her how I felt. There was that unseen barrier that sepa rated us with a finality. Gloria and their kind took it for granted that their life was the only kind. They don't know and care to know how the others lived. If ever that should come to me, it should come with a meaning. There has to be a reason for it. How the days and weeks flew by. Nine to five weekdays. Eight to two Saturdays. I kept my nose to the daily grind for I wanted to learn more. Saturday afternoons. Sun days. Again with you. The surcease to the pace I have been setting for myself. Times when you begged leave not to be with me. Insane jealousy reared its head within me for no reason at all. You had head aches or you've got to be with your mother to the province. And then December. Cool, nights | and balmy days. The world awak ening to something joyous. The sense of anticipation in the chil dren's eyes, the hustle and activity in everyone. Misa de Gallos. Our first Christmas together. The Office crowd's Christmas eve party. . . and you were mine. .. remember? You gave me your package. Each one of us had one. We were to exchange gifts together. Just a small one, with all the pretty rib bons. "Merry Christmas Ric." I took the package and opened it. Your eyes were on me. Questing eyes. Slowly I unravelled the lovely ribbons, inside. ... a handwrought VACATIONS, AAAHHH! . . . (Continued from page 31) like to talk about those days when Andres Bonifacio and Tandang Sora were still in circulation, or they talk about those days when swim ming was had in balintawaks. Well. . . well, it's good to be re viewed on Philippine history. Signs of city life are however shown there. Like for example, pedal-pushers and jeans. These are always in vogue but they are worn by old men while plowing fields and harvesting. With these various mountain sceneries, the international fair booths can start packing and leave for their respective countries. . . sour grapes. However, I will bring along with me treasured copies of The Caroli nian as souvenir to lessen the longing and yearning for the school and faces of dear Carolinians. It I will also bring back memories of ; the serenading of dormitories, counting posts in the streets, the i parties, jam sessions, excursions, I picnics, barn dances, and miscel| laneous activities in school and out of school. So, friends and classmates, gra duates and undergraduates, ends another schoolyear. With a Shakes pearian "Parting is such sweet sor row" attitude I wish you all a very happy vacation. Don't grow too fat, for you might have a difficult times enrolling yourselves. You know what I mean. Just pack up your things and take it on the lam. Good-bye, I hate to see you go butaaaaa.... have good time!! Bueno.... somos diferentes.... er. . .er. .. . Mi cafetai. . . hasta la vista!! heart-shaped locket of solid gold. "Open it Ric" you asked me. A cameo likeness of you inside and the inscription.. . From me to Ric, with love. There was love in your eyes, lips half parted. I just took you in my arms. The hunger of you was in that kiss. You didn't resist. You kissed me back. "I love you" that was all that I could say. Soft and warm, you snugled up to me whis pered my name. Pushing me gent ly from you, holding me at arms length, your eyes shining with me.... I'll never forget that night. And now this. You are Evelyn Orozco. Evelyn Maria Lydia Oroz co y Aragon. The year's debutan(Continued on page 39) Page 38 THE CAROLINIAN THE YOUTHFUL URGE (Continued from page 34) CAMPUSCRATS. . . (Continued from page 35) ON DA LEVEL. ■ . (Continued from page 38) with the gentleness ol a dawn breeze, and to drawl with a per mission a-la Patricia Neal. Finally if worse comes to worst, one, can only go to the nearest dentist and with the cleanest ol brand-newteeth smile her way on to eternity. There are those, however, who maintain that age not only can be restrained from passing by a clean, cool bath from the good, old Magic Fountain but also by sustaining the original form and symmetry of limbs and body. Thus the birth of Diet-ing. Those under this school start on a valiant mission of self starvation and if one really likes to be a hero, one gets a coffin for a medal. Hero-casualties of this in vention, however, are becoming less and less with the advent of another science aimed at achieving the same end — the preservation of the "morning glory." Here many novel ties are introduced ranging from coffee, chocolates, multi-vitamins, pills, massage, to early mornings and late evenings. While it is true that this dietethical device for capturing perpe tual exuberance really has its merits and possibilities, still there is to account the forever youthful fact that Nature always has her own way of showing no matter what, and considering that nowhere in this world is there a clime wherein everybody isn't crazy about eating, it is no small wonder to note why some would rather be funereally young than gastronomically old. le, voted most lovely and charming by all society editors. You must have had your fun. Why didn't you tell me Lyd? Why did this have to go on? I should have known when you give me the address yesterday. And I shouldn't have come. That would have been better. The full impact didn't fall on me until I was at the gate to your mansion. I stood there, how long? Dizzily I heard you call me. Ric, Ric. You were radiant in all your beauty. You pulled me inside. You said you were waiting for me to be sure. My head hadn't cleared up then. You presented me to your Mother, your circle of friends. They ac knowledged the introduction with an light-footed dancers who pirouetted and waltzed around this enchanted garden. PHIL RUIZ entertained the audience immensely with his singing. He appealed especially to the teen-agers who were simply crazy over his rendition of modern hits. To introduce something novel and ra dical some commerce studes decided to transform the stage into a cotton field in of Virginia.... they gave uS a picture of the niggers breaking the monotony of work by tap-dancing. Brother! it was so hard to recognize the real identity of the dancers. You know who those pink mouthed, colored folks were? Here they are: GEORGE ARCILLA, LOLONG PAS CUAL, ELIZA STA. CRUZ (star-dancer) ROSARIO REYES, ANNIE RATCLIFFE, ADELAIDA, LILIA CORCUERA, AURELIA JADULCO, INDALECIA ANDO, and ES TRELLA ZAPANTA. "Tummy" Echivarre... he thought the parade to be too short. "Gosh!" he said "It took us only a few minutes speeding round the City." A coed and a rogue introduced for the first time Ballet Moderne here in USC. The dance which was entitled: "She is working her way thru College" was danced on toes by ESTERLINA MANCAO and EDDY PASCUAL. It was cer tainly an entertaining repertoire. Now it is not only going to be a mere so-long but a good-bye to you all. Say how about joining us in saying: Va cation here we come!!!"... Exams!........ pooh! why think about ’em? Pooh! Pooh! — Nocturne — (Continued from page 38) indulging mien. Did they acknowl edge the man? the unknown one? Could this be the latest plaything of Eve? What they had in mind, I don't know and don't care to know. Now I understood all with the full impact. The nights you pleased headaches. The days you were away. Then that day, a year ago before two days before Christmas. That could not have been anybody else but you coming down the car. You were with your society clique. I rushed up to you, calling you. . . Lyd. . . Lyd... You just stared at me and thru me. In a haughty voice you asked me if I was ad dressing you. I felt so small. However, through no fault ol our own, some students got cold feet. Others didn't give two chips about unveiling their journalistic 'talents. We assure our readers that we (not I alone) would only be too glad to eat our words (bunk/) if we come back next year and find windfalls of con tributions—not sickly doggerels and smelly prose like we have in this column. Pentong, our flash-happy pho tographer, harps on the same sour tune ever since the USC Day Parade was over. With the agility of a chimp, he had the temerity of staging an acro batic one-man show by climbing a concrete post just so that he could give an unusual angle ic one of his shots. In so doing, the poor joker crushed his watch against the post, to the sadistic delight of the other staffers. Poor Pentong, tchk, tchk! Later, he went to the extent of requesting the other staffers to chip in in paying his bill for the repair of his ailing gadget. No dice, no soup, ergo, drop dead! Before we end this drivel, we'd like to know it Flor Rombawa from out there in Pangasinan still scans the pages of The Caroli nian. And to our McKinley-bound boys, we give this parting ad vice. Remember that Armi is ex plosive stuff. Basta. . . Again I had mistaken Evelyn Oroz co for Lydia Aragon. That was just unbearable, I fled from the scene. I could imagine the fun your friends had. How did you ex plain that to me the next day? You are a borned actress, your eyes were expressionless and questioning when I related to you what hap pened. You looked surprised. Is this a game amongst you? A clock chimed eleven o'clock. Almost midnight and the midnight mass. Church bells merrily ringing. The night was clear and cool. The air was soothing to the tired mind and body of Ric plodding to no where. Shoulders down and feel(Continued on page 41) MARCH, 1953 Page 39 SPORTS ROUND-UP (Continued from page 87) a classic team and San Carlos U's big-time playing, loaded the gym with eager beavers. The Loders were not a team to be laughed at. They fought and bounced like wildcats, giving St. Charley's eagers a heck of a time protecting their lead. Then, the final quarter came and phftttt. . . . there was a tie. The game ended on a 50-50 basis—the score being 50-all. The Loders turn ed down a five-minute extension. In Butuan, an exhibition game be tween the Father Urios College and the Warriors cancelled classes. The Warriors won easily with a big mar gin. . . 48-22. EVAAPS INITIAL MEET SUCCESSFUL The five-day sportsfest of the East Visayan Athletic Association of Private Schools winded up in a grand slam last February 22. The maiden issue of the biggest meet to be held by private schools in the Visayas and Mindanao blowed its lid off with a band concert on the first day and made its exit on the fifth day through colorful dances en masse. PE STUDES DISPLAY WARES ON U-DAY Students of Physical Education had their day when they presented to the U-day celebrants mass and group dances of the tinikling, moro dance, square dance, stick rhyth mics, modern gymnastic and the freehand exercise, the grand de monstration owed much of its suc cess from the tutorship of Physical Directresses Miguela Martin, Glo ria Aleonar, Mrs. Luz Santiago and Mrs. Gloria Cabahug. Miss Aleonar's students performed the pyra mid building which featured the dif ferent phases of the play. Mesdames Luz Santiago and Gloria Cabahug pitched in the hotch-potch with their students from the Girls' High drawing oohs and aahs from the audience, the result of many an hour's practice of the "balance beam." LAW REGENT BB MANAGER Reverend Father Bernard Wrocklage, SVD, current regent of the College of Law, takes over the seat of Team Manager of the popular USC cage team. Future plans for the team were not disclosed but indications of touring, the neighbor islands of Bohol and Leyte were materializing. Details about USC's 36Stk HirtMay (Continued from page 27) Aside from the floats, other parI ticipating elements added spices ■ to the parade. Led by Capt. AnI tonio Gonzales, Commandant, and I Lt. Filomeno Gonzales, Adjutant, j the ROTC and PMT proved them! selves equal to the expectations of ■ the onlookers. I The International Fair which currently is giving a colorful show in Manila, must have loaned im petus to, those responsible for the construction of the different booths. These booths occupied all floors of the main building. Classrooms were converted into bazaars of re creations, frolic and exhibits. Get ting inside was like losing one's self in the land of fairy tales. "Throw a dart and win a heart," appeared in red letters on a poster that hang on one of the walls of the Girls' High booth. Their darts really pierced the hearts of the judges. The GHS booth was ranked the best of them all. Aside from being a place of games, this booth wqs also a garden of flowers. Ar tificial flowers with real leaves adorned its walls and refreshed the eyes. "Say it with Flowers." These words on the wall met every eye that craved for the beautiful. Or chids for remembrance, Pansies for thoughts, Hyacinths for memory, were means to express words for anyone was there to enjoy the sight. Those interested on how things are drawn beautifully, how build ings are planned well, how ma chines work and how electric bulbs glimmer, found satisfaction at the Engineering-Architecture booth. The marvelous skill of the students in Architecture under the supervision of Mr. Jumalon and Architects Bel tran and Ruiz, fed the eyes of the lovers of art; the mechanical set-up guarded by engineering students who willingly explained the types of machines displayed when called upon; the ability of the electrical engineers-to-be, in making ways to make electric bulbs twinkle, won much acclaim with the sight-seers. Their efforts in setting up the splen did show, were more than compen sated when the booth arbiters ad judged it the best. The booth of the College of Law, The Lex Circle and the Portia Club joined hands in making it a remar kable one. Flowers that sprouted from vines adorned the walls. On the screen.. .er, I do mean on the stage. Atty. C. Faigao, Mr. A. Ordona and Mr. V. Medalle took turns in presenting literary-musical programs. While ballerinas and ballerinos were performing flashy swings, hops and graceful strokes to music, the audience was jampacked with hooting, applauding and impressed crowds who were practically standing on their chairs most of the time. Groaning pro tests arose from those at the back. At tense and dramatic moments when the show was good, they could no longer see the footlights. From curtains to footlights, the stage set-up was embellished by changing light colors. But let's get to what were really shown. The first night's literary-musical program featured the USC Sym phony Orchestra and Choir led by our well-known USC musician, Rev. Fr. Joseph Graisy, S.V.D. Dancers who knew their High-land flings entertained the crowd. Then, two nights more of stage enchant ments followed. The one-act plays presented by students representing all departments showed top attrac tions. The "Valiant," directed by Atty. F. Pelaez and presented by students of the College of Law, copped the first prize of the one-act play con test. It portrayed the life of a man who, though sentenced to die in an electric chair, still refused to divulge his identity. The College of Liberal Arts was victorious again. "Marriage Pro posal," the one-act play its students presented, directed by Mrs. B. B. Valenzuela was adjudged second. Who said that Commerce stu dents give special attention only to salesmanship? You could eat back your words now that the play enti tled "Suppressed Desire" presented by the College of Commerce cop ped third. Over station DYRC the Amateur hour is a feed to the ears of music lovers every Thursday night. But we staged our own version for Carolinian vocalists on the second night. Eddie Pascual who may have been born when Feankie Sinatra's star shone, came out as the year's best singer. The last number of every night's program was the rolling of the raffles. Lady Luck ruled supreme as night-cap appetizer. A Playground Demonstration was dished out on the second day. (Continued on page 11) Page 40 THE CAROLINIAN ures in the Manila SMB Accounting Dept. Not to be outdone is four some's youngest, Nena, an RFC bookkeeper in this City. On March 7 of last year, she decided to cast her lot for good with an HS alum nus, Fernando Lozada, a chemical engineer at the Bais Central in Negros. To date, Clarita has not yet DETAILS . . . (Continued from page 40) "Slimnastics for molding the body beautiful" were shown. Also there was a military competition for the different units of the USC ROTC. And now, swinging the lens to the different exhibits put up by different departments. . . . The College of Engineering did a good job in putting up the best exhibit. The Senior Civil Engineer ing Class of 1953, skillfully rigged up the scale-model of irrigation, water supply, hydroelectric project and town planning, complete with power plant, commercial and resi dential houses, hospitals, airport, green rice fields, etc. "The constructors of this set-up are what the nation needs," said some sightseers. Marked as the second best ex hibit, was the one shown by the Home Economics department. Dif ferent types of houses, beautiful yards, gardens and lawns, home arts display, products of handicrafts, shell craft, embroidery table set ting for different parties and cookery were featured. If I were to say something about it, I shall say that the exhibit really proved that home is really the place for the woman and its wholesomeness results from her influence. The Elementary. Department showed the indomitable spirit of Baby Carolinians by ranking third on exhibits. Congratulations to these young people and to their teachers too! Their clan can teach those who still are suffering from lack of it. But those were not the only ones that impressed the spectators. There were other exhibits put up by the Zoology, Botany, Chemistry, and Physics Departments. Although they were not able to get prizes, their booths evoked a lot of praises. They also deserve kudos and congratulations for their efforts. With the USC Day past, Caro linians go back to their serious role of professor, teacher and student. But they look back with pleasant thoughts to all the glamour, gaiety (Continued from, page 21) presented Father with his "little di vidend" — neither has Nena. That talking of sisters, the Hubahibs, Esperanza and Exaltacion, have their own share of marital bliss? Pansang has changed her NOCTURNE . . . (Continued from page -39) ing dejected. Hands in his pockets. Listlessly drifting along with the crowd. Mind benumbed with grief. Ric stopped beneath a street lamp, pulling out matches and cigarettes. A piece of paper crumpled around a small package fell down. He stooped down and pick it, up. He opened the piece of paper. In side, a small daintily ribboned package. He caught sight of his signature on the paper. What is this? he asked himself. He smooth ed the paper. It was the last page of his letter he gave to Lyd just this evening. He opened the package. Inside a man's gold bracelet. Two hearts pierced by an arrow within a Cupid's bow. Two names. .. . Ric and Lyd... He turned it over "FOR EVER DARLING." ........Tling,,, Tling........the mantle clock chimed in eleven o'clock. Outside church bells ringing mer rily .... Lyd stood up. Began dress ing listlessly for the midnight mass. Choosing a simple dress from among the dozens. . . Lyd sat down in front of the dresser.... turning.. . . look ing out unseeingly thru the win dow. . . A soft cooling breeze drifted in. .. playing hide and seek among her tresses.. . now touching her face... caressing her lips. .. softly drying away the tears. Unfeeling she sat there. Why must this be. . . . Oh my God.... but why?. . . . Sometime. . . someday. . . somewhere a woman must sit down and wait. . . waiting for that loved one... Heart at break ing point. . . reaching out with her thoughts... . perhaps. . . . why oh why.-. . . Dear God in Heaven.......... "Lyd, Lyd, I haven't realize, for give me........" "Ric, oh, Ric, my love. . . You have come back. . . . nothing matters ex cept that you have come back to me." and magnificence of USC Day, 1953 brand, with both gladness and nos talgia in their hearts. name to Mrs. Medardo Martinez and is presently running a rooming house near the Pontifical U. On the the other hand, Naring, a schoolmarm in Cagayan de Oro, wears on her third finger, left hand the ring of Dr. Pacifico Casino. "Keeping the home fires burning" for another (Continued on page 4<>) OUR FIGHT . . . (Continued from page -3:1) do? Well, I suppose we are still living in a democracy — a constitu tional democracy, if you please, where the voice of the majority is, barring emergencies and fraudulent elections, the Voice of God. We Ca tholics form that majority. Hence we can and do demand that we be heard in the all-important issue o' religious instruction. "We ask no special favors" for our group. We merely seek to vindicate a hard-won right to be free to teach our religion in the public schools where the Fili pino youth need religion most of all. In order to achieve this end, we need the support and en couragement of officials who are sympathetic with our cause — im partial, able, free officials (and I don't mean Free Masons), consist ent, honest and patriotic; officials who will give life and substance to the law on religious instruction with an eye single to the greater good of all rather than the predominance of a sinister minority's dubious pur poses. We seek to eliminate from their vantage point those very peo ple who have, in the ugly fashion of fifth-columnists, undertaken the infamous mission of eliminating re ligious instruction. It is high time for us Catholics to assert ourselves... to fight Sa botage with all our resources.. . in self-defense. The principle of separ ation of Church and State has been unfortunately construed today as separation from the Catholic Church only ... a divorce from God in our public school system. The times call for action — active, militant, determined Catholic Action. We're not doing this for ourselves. We're fighting for the moral and spiritual survival of this and succeeding generations. It's our duty — the duty of every man, woman and child baptized in the Catholic faith, nay, the duty of every citizen, to work and fight, through democratic processes, for the recognition and vindication of our trampled rights. We must act now or it will be too late. It would be tragic folly to lose our best legacy — our father's Faith, by default. MARCH, 1953 Page 41 Administration • Summer Classes Open April 14 In line with the administration's policy of keeping up with students' needs and demands, the University of San Carlos will open summer courses in all departments. The opening of these courses on April 14, based on the quarterly system, was announced by Rev. Fr. Francis Carda, SVD, USC Secretary General. Review classes in Law, Pharmacy, Engineering and CPA will also be offered, the same announcement in dicated. Registration will commence on April 6 and regular classes will open on the fourteenth of the same month. The regular school calen dar for 1953-54 begins on June 15, 1953. • Invite Gov. Osmefia, Jr. Commencement Speaker Cebu Governor Sergio Osmena, Jr., will be the main speaker at the USC graduation rites to be held on March 27, 1953. This was revealed by Rev. Fr. Carda, SVD, in reply to a query posed by this reporter re garding the commencement activi ties. Elaborate plans are underway in preparation for the coming grad uation ceremonies. It was further disclosed that the commencement exercises of the Secondary department will be held on April 10, 1953. Graduate School • Eleven Complete Graduate Studies in Ttvo Years The Post-Graduate School grad uated a total of eleven successful Included in the list ol successful M.A. candi dates for the first semesVlslbly Impressed as the show was candidates for the Master's Degree within the last two years, accord ing to records compiled by the Of fice of the Dean. Of this batch, three students finished their studies in the Summer of 1952. The rest fin ished their courses during the first semester of the school year 19521953. The three summer grads with their theses are: ( 1) Emma Casals, who wrote on "A Study Purporting to Suggest a New Approach to the Study of George Eliot's 'Silas Mar ner' Using Shakespearean Tech nique with Philippine Law and Cases; (2) Antonio M. Aguilar, whose thesis was "The Financial Social and Educational Status of the Philippine Veterans Enrolled in the Different Schools, Colleges, and Universities in the Visayas and Mindanao"; (3) Eugenio Viacrucis, who took up "A Comparative In vestigation of Parent-Teacher Asso ciation in the Philippines and those in the United States," as his thesis. Those who completed their course during the second semester of 1952 were: ( 1) Romana Manalo, whose thesis was about "A Critical Survey of the Conditions of Living of High School Senior Students in Bohol and How They Affect Students' Welfare in General"; (2) Constancia Famador, who delved into "The Teaching of Patriotism. Its Prob lems in Post-War Phil ippines", and (3) Dominador Floreto, who wrote about "The Sixth Grade Classes in Cebu City in 1948-1949". ter of the school year 1952-53, with their respective theses are (1) Sulpicio Tinampay — "Integration of School and Non-School Experience in Character Foundation", (2) Dominador Trocio, — "The United Nation's Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization and Its Edu cational Work in the Philippines", (3) Lucio Tumulak, — "A Critical Study of Co-operative Trade Train ing in the Cebu School of Arts and Trades", (4) Severiano Garcia — "The Status of the Public School Teacher in the Philippines" and (5) Petra Y. Tolibas — A Study of the Present Status of First Public Sec ondary Schools in the Division of Leyte." Law • Seminar Members Featured in Radio Program A radio program sponsored by the local unit of the United States Information Service featured the USC Seminar members in a roundtable discussion of "Democracy and Religion". The recording of the dif ferent discourses delivered by the Seminar team was done at the of fice of the USIS. Among those who participated in the program were: Vicente Delfin, Johnny Mercado, Johnny Borromeo, Noli Cortel, Manuel Aranas and Buddy Quitorio. Fr. Wrocklage who founded and organized the USC Seminar, acted as moderator. THE CAROLINIAN irlous booths . . . Page 42 • USC-FEU Debate Set For March 14 '"We are ready for the debate with Far Eastern University. We are only waiting for the final word from them. They wanted it and asked for it." This was the disclo sure of Law Regent Fr. Bernard Wrocklage, SVD, when queried about the developments of the pro posed USC-FEU forensic tilt. The debate which is slated for March 14, 1953, will be held at the USC Quadrangle at seven o'clock in the evening. Members of the USC panel of debaters are Expe dite Bugarin, Autemio Gebana and Augusto Derecho. Noli Cortel was designated alternate. Fr. Wrocklage averred that prac tise debates have been conducted on the proposed subject: Resolved, That the President Be Elected for a Term of Six Years Without Reelec tion. The USC debating team will defend the affirmative side. Manila Mayor "Arsenic" Lacson has been proposed as the guest speaker. • CL’s “The Valiant” Wins Top Place in Dramatic Contest Superb acting and excellent por trayal of "The Valiant", a one-act play written by Holworthy Hall and Robert Middlemass gave top honors to the College of Law thespians during the dramatic contest held in consonance with the observance of the USC festivities. This is the sec ond consecutive year the College of Law wins the first place in dra matics. The play, directed by Dean Fulvio C. Pelaez and assisted by "Kit" Borromeo was the unanimous choice of the Board of Judges for the top notch berth. Second place went to the College of Liberal Arts, in a play entitled "Marriage Proposal", while third honor was awarded to the College of Commerce which adapted "Suppressed Desires". Those who took part in the play were: Vic Delfin, Noli Cortel, Nap Mabaquiao, Lydia Moran and Au temio Gebana. Liberal Arts • Liberal Arts Play Gets Second Prize The play presented by the College of Liberal Arts entitled, "Marriage Proposal" was adjudged as the second best play during the College Day festivities. The cast of characters was com posed of Aniano Desierto as Stepan Stepanovitch, a Russian farmer; Delia Saguin as Natalia Stepanovna, Stepanovitch's daughter, and Jose Cerilles as Ivan Vasiliyitch, a neigh bor. Jose Cerilles was chosen as the best actor of all the thespians who showed their wares during the USC Day. The play was directed by Mrs. Bemardita B. Valenzuela. • USC-Made Chemical Apparatus Attract Crowds in USC Fiesta The Department of Chemistry of fered one of the main attractions during the USC Day when it exhi bited a number of USC-made che mical apparatus. These devices in clude special burners for melting glass at high temperatures, appara tus lor the determination of diluent measure, condensers, a teniscope which is used for determining vapor pressure of liquid, cold finger boiling point apparatus, Claisen flacks, and gadgets for gauging vapor density including Hempel fraction apparatus. The last men tioned device was modified by Rev. Fr. Oster, SVD, who is now in Eu rope on vacation and is expected to be back by July. Products and beverages derived from corn, peanuts, coal and saw dust were brought out in the dis play. The derivatives consist of whisky, pluscose, plastic, wine, al cohol, soft drinks, benzene, methyl alcohol, acetose, glacial acetic acid, acetic anhydride and ethyl. • Liberal Arts Float Wins First Prize The College of Liberal Arts cap tured the grand prize in the Float Contest when its float was adjudged the most symbolic. With its theme as "Light of the East" it depicts the whole world in its present situation. The theme em phasized the prevailing peace in . . . iampacked corridors. . . Spectators at another booth. . . MARCH, 1953 Page 43 the Philippines safeguarded by Re ligion and menaced by Communism. The float featured the differences between one and the other side of the "Iron Curtain" separated by a gate. Inside the curtain were the symbols of Communism, represented by Stalin holding the chain of slavery and death, and threatening the security of the family life, the practice of religion, and the freedom of the working class. Communist China and Korea were represented as the victims of Redism. On the other side, were peace and freedom which Stalin seeks to destroy. Liberal Arts • Biology Dept. Bares Exhibits The different phases involved in the study of Zoology were success fully illustrated during the last USC Festival by the exhibits of appara tus, models, specimens and scienti fic charts. The first section of the exhibits demonstrated the preparation of slides for microscopic studies. This was followed by a display of dif ferent magnifying devices among them being lens, dissectoscopes, stereoscopic-binocular — dissecto scopes, specially designed pocket, or field microscopes, and a power ful binocular research-microscope with a magnifying power of 1824 times. With the help of these mag nifying devices the development of a frog could be followed through the different stages up to the emer gence of the tadpole. The import ant systems of a fully developed vertebrate, a frog, were actually shown on dissected and meticu lously labeled specimens. The second section of the exhibits showed the different phyla of the vast animal Kingdom. Aquatic and terrestrial local specimens as well as those from other countries fol lowed in an orderly way. One section of the room was trans formed into a booth dedicated to the crown of creation, man. Va rious expensive models of organs and systems and their functions im pressed the visitors with the walk ing skeleton of "Johnny Apollo" scaring the weaker sex. In the last section, the exhibits of Ecological apparatus and working devices, illustrated the relationship between organisms and their en vironment. Also on display were scientific charts, collection of but terflies, the Aquaria with tropical fishes and the exotic "souvenirs" made out of shells, corals and scales of fishes. The onlookers showed a particular interest in the bioscope which mag nified living organisms on the screen. In the Botany section, charts of the plant kingdom as well as speci mens of living plants from diverse phyla were shown. Various classes of pressed leaves were conspicu ously displayed. A well which was artificially made at the center of the room was surrounded by dif ferent plants. Pharmacy • Junior-Senior Prom The traditional Junior-Senior Prom which took place Sunday, March 1st, again marked the most colorful celebration of this year's activities in the College of Pharmacy. As usual, the Roof Garden was the set ting of the bequeathal by the Seniors of their legacy to the up-and-coming Juniors. The Interpretation ol the Four Seasons ol the Year—Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter, in music and dance directed by Miss Milagros Urgello, adviser of the Se niors, highlighted the event. The participants in their proper attires actually portrayed the four differ ent phases of Nature and their garbs: spring-green, summer-pink, autumn-brown and winter-white. The giving away of the Torch (by the Seniors to the Juniors) to the tune of "Auld Lang Syne" was the solemn part of the ceremony. Rev. Fr. Hoeppener, Regent of the College, emphasized in his speech the worthy examples shown by the Seniors for the Juniors to emulate. Rev. Fr. Bunzel commented, "This is the only party wherein I could see almost all of the Fathers pres ent." Incidentally, the Rev. Fr. Prov incial was able to witness the Prom. He arrived on the morning of the celebration. Rev. Fr. Provincial talked about the "8th Capital Sin— SADNESS." He explained how SAD NESS could affect the business standing of any profession and how cheerfulness could comfort and en lighten the customers who if, sickly, need to be pepped up. He added that pharmacists should practice "the coating of pills" with a smile. • Wonderland in Phar mer's Booth With the celebrated Alice and her gilt-edged wagon sketched on the facade, the visiting public found a veritable Wonderland inside the Pharmacy booth. It showed a miniature castle, a witch, gaily tripping elves and clus ters of flowers. Colored bulbs prov ided the desired lighting effects foi the display. • Undersea Realm Depicted in Pharmacy Float The realm of the underseas was pictured by the Pharmacy float that showed off in the parade last USC Day. With Rosita Ty as the "Queen of the Mermaids," eager onlookers saw a bevy of appealing "prin cesses" reclining among seaweeds and seahorses. Miss Milagros Urgello was the spirit behind the construction of the unique float. Engineering-Arch. • Seniors Get First Prize In Exhibits The Senior Civil Engineering project romped away with the first prize in Exhibits when they showed their "know-how" to the public during the University Day festivi ties. They presented a small scale model ol a general scientific project. It was a complete model ol a town with a water and electrical supply system that included a dam, irriga tion facilities, and a hydro-electric plant. Among the features of the dam were the reservoir, the headgate, the spillways, and the diversion canals connecting the irrigation system to the rice fields. Electricity generated by the dam's water power, was conducted through the town by "high-tension" wires sup ported by "steel towers." The town itself was complete with commer cial and residential buildings, a hospital, an airport, recreation cen ters, and thoroughfares. The seniors did all the work by themselves feverishly for one week. It was a wonderful job of model engineering and, as a result, attract ed a round-the-clock fascination of crowds. • USC Science Workshop to Expand Fr. Richartz, SVD revealed that the Science Shop of the University of San Carlos may expand so as to extensively manufacture science instruments. These instruments may be extended for use by other schools. Some of the instruments used in the various science depart ments in this school are made in the U.S.C. Science Workshop. Page 44 THE CAROLINIAN • Instruments for New Course Exhibited Main attraction of the Physics Department was the "show of lights" which was put up during the U-D. Other crowd-drawers were the optical instruments which were ex hibited for the first time. Those shown were the spectrum analysis. Interference and Diffrac tion, Polarization, Optical instru ments, and Vibration waves. How ever, Fr. Richartz head of the Physics Department, disclosed that these instruments are for advanced use in Physics and will probably be used next school year when the school will offer Bachelor in Physics. • Architecture-Engineering Float Places Third The Architecture-Engineering float captured the third place pennant for the "Most Artistic Float" contest. The float featured the ancient Roman Architecture of beauty and glory. With a mummy pacing the float to make the introduction, six bugle-toting and be-haloed Roman legionnaires, dressed in style, stood and sat astride the float with two "Roman beauties" fondling apples and grapes in their hands. On the top rung of the float was a "Roman Goddess," glorifying Architecture. The "Goddess" was Miss Judith Garcia. The two beauties were Misses Maria Nita Tire and Isabelle Achas, while the muscular tough looking Romans were Melecio Ajero, Carlitos Alvarez, Arturo Larazabal, Bernardo Olavides, Rudy Ratcliffe and Jesus de la Serna. The mummy was F. Miole. Architect Jose Ruiz was respon sible for all the ideas depicted in the float. The bulk of work done by the Architecture students were lessened with the help of those from the Secretarial Department under Miss Guangco. • Architecture Course to Be Completed A full four-year course in Archi tecture will be offered next year with the addition of the third and fourth years. Currently, the Uni versity offers only the first and se cond years in Architecture. This was revealed by Jose A. Rodriguez, Dean of the College of Engineering, in an interview. College of Commerce • Commerce Booth Draws Praise Spectators and visitors during the USC Day were favorably im pressed by the exhibits shown in the Commerce Booth. The Booth BARTOLOME DE CASTRO He wrote year's 3rd best High School Editorial which depicted a bank had a unique facade and housed pictures made by typewriters. Also display ed through the kindness of Max Factor agents were a variety of Max Factor products. Samples of powders were given to visiting la dies. Counted among the attraction in the Commerce booth were the parlor games which offered tempting prizes to players. • Commerce Float Depicts Labor-Capital Relation Through the supervision and guidance of Miss Cabatingan, USC faculty member, the College of Commerce put up a float portraying labor-capital relation during the celebration of the USC Day. The float, consensus indicated, was the neatest and most symbolic but failed to win a prize on account of a technicality. • Commerciantes Go “Harlem” in Dance Number Joint Secretarial and Commerce department students performed a dance number entitled "In the Old Cotton Plantation." This was one of the presentations of the College of Commerce during the observance of the USC fiesta. Considered unique was the ren dition of a tap dance featured in the dance number. The participants had to blacken themselves to look like niggers. The offering was suggested by Miss Guangco. Library News • Equipment to Bolster USC “Filipiniana” Division Definite and positive steps have been taken to obtain Microfilms and Micro-cards from the UNESCO. Responsible government author ities directly concerned with the UNESCO have been prevailed upon to aid the university in the procure ment of these equipment. This course of action was taken by the Librarian owing to the incapability of the University to deal directly with UNESCO. Private schools, ac cording to Rev. Fr. Baumgartner, SVD, cannot make transactions of this kind with the UNESCO. "Go vernment aid must be sought," he added. Through the use of the devices now being acquired, the Filipiniana division of the USC Library will be put up which will enchance re searches on things Philippine. • Exchange Library Materials with Washington Library of Congress In a formal statement released by Rev. Josef Baumgartner, SVD, USC Librarian, an agreement be tween the USC Library and the Library of Congress in Washington D.C., to exchange library materials has been recently entered into. The materials sent by the University in cludes the Law Review, catalogues and The Carolinian. From Wash ington, bibliographic helps such as Cumulative Book Indices and the Publishers' Trade List Journal are received. This recent agreement was hailed by the student body as well as the administration as an indica tion of the prestige enjoyed by the USC Library. Religion • Report Marriage Validation Cases Members of the Legion of Mary in this university, particularly those from the Praesidium "Cause of Our Joy," have gone on extensive sur veys of slum districts of this City. The results of their interviews with slum residents were submitted to the mission group which has taken upon itself the task of validating marriages. Indications are to the effect that indifference towards Church re quirements re-marriages have been greatly dispelled. The members of the Legion of Mary have, conse quently, been commended for faith fully carrying out their obligations and duties as Legionnaires. MARCH, 1953 Page 45 (Continued from page 41) Miscellaneous • University Day Boards of Judges There were four Boards of Judges all in all for the different contest that highlighted the USC Day ce lebration. The panel that composed the judges for the float were Fr. Alfred Rennix, ORSA, Mrs. Rosario Messa, and Mr. Ramon Melgar. For the Exhibits and Booths, the board of judges were Mrs. Rosario Messa, Fr. Dennis Mckillip, SVD, Fr. Alfred Rennix, ORSA. Another board of judges selected the best plays and actors. They were Mr. Morton Gordon, Dra. Flora Pinero, and Mr. Jesus Chanco. The judges in the Vocal Solo contest were Dra. Flora Pinero, Mrs. Conrada Pingol and Miss Angelita Fortich. • Erratum Alejandro Tantoco, one of the Civil Engineering graduates of USC who recently hurdled the Board got 99% in Mathematics and 94% in Hydraulics instead of 96% and 92% respectively, as inadvertently re ported in the Engineering News of the February issue. Our apologies to those concerned. —ED. Republic of the Philippines Deportment of Public Works and Communications Bureau of Posts, Manila SWORN STATEMENT (Required by Act No. 2580) 1 he undersigned,EMILIO B. ALLER, Editor-in-Chief. of THE CAROLINIAN of publication), published six ---(language In which printed), having been sworn in accordanc management, circulation, etc.. Act No. 201: NAME Editor: EMILIO B. ALLER .. Managing Editor: — None BusineM Manager: — None Owner: University of San Carlos ........................ Printer: The Catholic Trade School ........................ Office of Publication; University of Sun Carlos yition is owned by a corporation, ’ Mockholdci .mount of stocks: — NOT APPLICABLE, (era, mortgages, or other security h of security: — NOT APPLICABLE. POST OFFICE ADDRESS ............................ Cebu City Cebu City a, Manila Cebu City — NOT APPLICABLE. Subscribed and affiant exhibited (Sgd.) EMILIO B. ALLER Editor-in-Chiet 1953, at Cebu City, the City, on January 14. 1953 (Sgd.) FULVIO C. PELAEZ NOTARY PUBLIC Until December 31, 1954 MD, Dr. Solomon Abarquez, is Esme Resuena. Why Atty. Celso Veloso is sel dom seen around town? His legal services demand his presence not only in Cebu but also in the neighi boring islands. If he happens to be ■ in town, he can be found at the i Jayme Law Offices but, more often than not, he can be seen tete-atete-ing with a lovely colegiala in one of those Lahug mansions. Our most obliging informant further tells us it won't be long now before Celso has to give up the Bachelors' Club presidency to become a bona fide member of the Benedicts' Club. That the faculty roster of the Abellana Technical High School ! contains the names of several USC ! alumnae? The ATHS English Dept. I alone has Ludy Morales. Baby : Agoncillo (nee Fe Sarthou), and Paring Morales (nee Amparo Rosal). I Preparing the Abellana lasses as I future homemakers is Jovita Ouano. | 1949 Prexy of the USC Home EcoI nomics Dept. Club. Ludy M. was then handling the purse strings of ! the said Club. Who is "infanticipating" for the ; third time? Finy Lucero, the former i Fineza Gimenez. Hubby Roland Lu cero is USC Lex Circle Vice-Presi dent but is better known to us and to you as Law's funnyman. Where Droning Azurin (nee Andronica Torrefranca) has establish ed residence? In San Jose, Antique. Fact is, she represents that province in the nationwide WWM Mrs. Phil ippines Contest. Gifted with a prima donna voice, she probably doesn't spend too much time in lull ing her two kids to Dreamland. Two other Mrs. Philippines candidates are Nena G. Belo and Florita O. Madamba. May the best missus win! That Mary Moran, now Mrs. H. S. Carroll, lately sent her Cebuana friends Stateside greetings? She writes from sunny California where she resides with her hubby and her son, Pat. When she was still pur suing the Secretarial Course in this university, she was known to all for her beautiful song renditions and terpsichorean abilities. Page 46 THE CAROLINIAN Mariya • 1953 SECCItiN CadteUacia ^be6e cumplirse el articulo de la constitution que incluyela religion como asignatura optional en las escuelas pu6licas. c I OS filipinos queriendo hacer Z de si un gran pueblo hicieron una constitucion y adoplaron como una de sus provisiones la Disciplina Moral dejando asi a los encargados del gobierno su implementacion. Estos para implimentar lo mandado legislaron la instruccion opcional de la religion en nuestras escuelas. La gran cuestion ahora es — iSe cumple la instruccion opcional de la religion en las escuelas publicas? Muchas respuestas en pro y en con tra se han emitido sobre el parti cular. Nosotros decimos que obstaculizar y privar esta ensenanza es ciertamente un acto anticonstitucional. Relegarla horas envirosimiles en que tanto discipulos como maes tros desean un momento de descanso es ciertamente obstaculizar. Senalar trabajos a los ninos como la limpieza de los cuartos y corredores en la hora en que deben estar en la close de religion es sin duda privarles de este derecho. Y, <j,que diremos de la tolerancia de algunos maestros sobre los ruidos que hacen los ninos en los cuartos vecinos a la sala de close de religion? Practicas como esas, de parte de los que estan encargados de la implementacion de la constitucion son sobremanera danosas porque estan crecmdo en el animo de los ninos la idea de que la religion no es necesaria en su vida. Asi crecen, faltos de verdaderos principios morales, principios que deben servir de Ireno a las malas inclinaciones de la voluntad y desordinados juicios del intendemiento. . . Se hacen juguetes de los caprichos de la vida, faciles de corromper y fragiles en sus desposiciones. Pero este estado de relajamiento moral de los estudiantes en las es cuelas se puede mejorar todavia si la instruccion opcional de la reli gion, por insuficiente que sea, se cumple debidamente dando preferencia a su ensenanza, considerandola como el base de todas las ciencias, senalando la hora mas conveniente, proveyendo maestros, en numero suficientes y en preparacion capaces de desem penar tan noble cargo y animando a los ni nos a asistir la close de religion. —Bienvenido Billanes SI ZNuestros £ectores La inesperada marcha del Rdo. P. Luis E. Schonfeld para la Argentina, dejo huerfana a la Seccion Caste liana "El Carolinian" y por ello se ruega a los lectores de dicha revista que juzguen benignamente esta seccion, que carece desde la edicion pasada de Editor en Castellano, el cual era. el alma de la mencionada seccion. "El Carolinian" no puede careces de una seccion Casteliana, y por lo tanto desde esta columna se ruega encarecidamente a todos los estudiantes de espanol que procuren contribuir con sus escritos para que dicho sec cion no quede extinguida por falta de material para la misma. £a 3-iesta de la Universidad En estos dias, hemos podido admirar y apreciar sol grandes progresos de este Centro Docente Catolico de Cebu, en el corto espacio de siete afios contados desde la rehabilitacion del mismo despues de la 2" guerra mundial que dejo arrasada, dicha institucion. El progreso de la Universidad de San Carlos no debe appreciarse solo por sus magnificos edificion, no, todo Cebu ha podido ver en esto tres ultimos dias durante las fiestas, que el verdadero progreso esta en lo que en el interior de estos edificios se elabora. Todos cuantos han visitado los pabellones de exposicion han po dido ver el trabajo realizado en nuestra universidad y el valor educativo del mismo, y sin duda alguna habran tenido una excelente impresion, al ver las exposiciones de la Elemental. Intermedia y Su perior de ambos sexol, quedaudose admirados al contemplar el proyecto de los estudiantes de cuarto ano de Ingeniero Civil, y las exposiciones de los pabellones de Biologia y Fisica. La cabalgata magna que recorrio las calles de Cebu admiro a todos cuantos pudieron verla, como lo prueban las diferentes resenas de los periodicos locales. En cuanto a buen humor y medios para atraer a todos aquellos que quieren divertirse U.S.C. lo demostro en sus pabellones de juego, que se vieron con curridisimos los dios que duro la fiesta. Desde estas columnas la seccion Castellana de "El Carolinian" felicita a todos aquellos que contribuyeron al exilo obtenido en la celebracion del Dia de la Universidad. MARCH, 1953 Page 47 I.---SrKlNW Mother Earth awakens trom her long, deep slumber and discards her wintry blanket of Ice and snow. The air tingles with hope of beautiful days to come, which bring joy of expectation to the hearts of all living creatures, like watch ing the dawn break the darkness of the night to herald the brightness of the morn. The birds are atwitter on the boughs that quiver as they feel the sweet sap of life coursing through their veins. And the streams and rivers freed from their cold, icy shackles rush down to renew their friendship with the warm blue sea. The surge of life and the urge to grow are felt everywhere, while the gentle rain from the snowy clouds, and golden sunshine from the blue sky above, turn into reality what the first breezes of spring have promised the children of the earth — that the joyful season of resurrection is here again! Hearing the sounds of activity, in the world outside, the buds quietly and shyly peep from their brown encasements, and seeing the magic all over, happily burst chirp and play with no thought of the future, while the ants labor all day long to prepare for adversity. In the far north where the sun is usually frugal with his golden treasure, he suddenly goes into a reckless mood and pours out his riches from early morn until midnight. And nature keeping tune with the new luxury, displays her most magnificent colors on the horizon. The pale forgotten moon looks on the glorious scene with disillusion, however, in the distant lands of perpetual summer, her lovely highness reigns supreme over the cloudless skies and blue lagoons. The sweet scented tropical flowers burn in cense to her shining beauty, and as the sampaguita and champaca odors bathe the night, while a love song drifts through the moonbeams, we exclaim like Shelley in the midst of moonlight magic — I die, I faint. I fail! (Musicstarts and at thy ,"! the Like a song, summer gradually fades away, but not before it has displayed Story by MILAGROS URGELLO Faculty Member College of Pharmacy • dreary days of winter seem remote and far away. IV.—WINTER The world is now quiet and sad, and mother earth grieved by the loss of her happy children, covers herself with a cold mantle of ice and snow, to forget and sleep over her deep sorrow. But. in the hearts of men there is re|olcing, because one wintry night nearly two thousand years ago, an angel from heaven brought the glad tidings that the Son of God would be born of a Virgin to save the world from sin. Man can now triumph over the forces of evil and regain paraIn DRNCE and MUSIC, The College of Pharmacy presented The Interpretation ofthe four Seasons of the Year into bloom, covering the w!io!e country side with fragrance and myriads of color. The apple trees stand like snowy brides in their wedding finery, while the cherry blossoms and wild flowers on the broad meadows and hillsides, complete the bri dal ensemble with their delicate hues, like the happy bridesmaids around the bride. The lilies in their dazzling purity, concerned not with worldly happiness, raise their heads heavenward like the gentle virgins who dedicate their lives to worship and adore the Man who gave Life Eternal through his resurrection on the first Easter mom. Ah! life is sweet and God is good to give us the beauty of His creations to see and enjoy, while the music from the songs of birds, the bubbling of the brooks, the rustling of leaves In the breeze, the laughter of happy people blend harmoniously Into a symphony, that would make the heart soar like the skylark at dawn, as it pours forth its canticles of praise and thanksgiving to its creator. As birds sing and poets write verses to express their delight in the beauties of spring, fairies and maidens dance to the accompanying music of the swirling, dancing waters of the Blue Danube. (Music immediately starts and Like the child that has blossomed into a young maiden, spring passes on to II.—SUMMER As the days lengthen, and the skies turn bluer and the air balmier, nature basks in warm sunshine, heightening the colors of the flowers, and deepening the green of the grass. Meanwhile, the bees capture the gold of the sunlight and steal the food of the gods (nectar) from multicolored flowers. The grasshoppers its riches in the luxuriant foliage of God's noble creation — trees, silent and lofty like sentinels of the earth's hidden jewels, beautiful with the changing beau ty of the sunrise and sunset, graceful like ballet dancers as they bend and flutter In the wind. (Music and dance start and the narration continues when thcif end.) The fruits of summer have ripened and the season of harvest has come. Ill—AUTUMN Nature has reached the peak of her activities and looks back with pride at her numerous accomplishments, musing gladly over the wealth that she has gathered from the generous earth, the grapes ripening on the vine, the trees heavy with fruit, the fields golden with grain, the pastures alive with contented sounds. And then the realization that soon she would lose all this bounty as she would depart like Proserpina from the face of the earth, changes her aspect from sobriety and decorum to reckless ness and extravagance. She plucks the gold leaves from the trees and scatters them with abandon over hill and dale. She bums her possessions and takes de light when the whole countryside is aflame with brilliant colors of orange, gold, red and copper. She drives away her precious songbirds and scares the shy creatures from the woodlands. When she has divested herself of almost every thing, and stands naked In the cold, the snows fall gently over her to cover and erase the ugly scars of her dissipation. Meanwhile, the gypsies on the hills making the most of tho last warm days of fall, make merry by the campfire, putting into music, dance and song, their passionate love for life, making the blood run like sparkling wine, and the cold, dise of eternal bliss. The joyous feeling is all over the land, and homes blossom out with holly and bright red berries; Christmas trees sparkle with silver stars and multicolored lights, while out in the snow the pines and firs stand in regal grandeur adorned with frosty diamonds glinting In the sunlight, transforming the landscape into a fairyland. Sleigh bells SPUING, SUMMER, A OTO MN, WINTER tinkle merrily as Santa Claus drives his reindeers across the wintry skies to bring gladness Into the hearts of millions of homes. In the stillness of the night soft voices drift gently like snowflakes from heaven, singing the story of that won drous night when the holy Infant was born in the manger, adored by. kings and humble shepherds alike. (The sinyiny oj Christmas carols — and then the narration continues.) As the last sounds of Christmas die away, the cold north wind cruelly blows into oblivion the farewell song of the dying year, recounting the past joys and sorrows, success and disappointments, the beauty and ugliness of reality, and the unending struggle of life against time. But as night is followed by day, and winter by spring, the death of the old year is forgotten by the birth of a new one; a new year that brings promises of high hopes and great expectations and perhaps a richer and more beautiful life for each of us. THE END THE CAROLINIAN Page 48 9*ite^n.eied 'Blue Danube' SUMMER. . . "Trees" SPRING. . . WINTER. . . "Oh Holy Night' AUTUMN. . . 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