VMI Cadet. November 23, 1931

              THE CADET PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY
THE CORPS OF CADETS VIRGINIA MILITARY INSTITUTE
Vol. XXV LEXINGTON, VIRGINIA, MONDAY, NOV. 23, 1931 No. 11
Col. Wise, '02, Gives
New Facts Regard-ing
Indians
CIVILIZATION PRIOR TO CO-LUMBUS
MAIN THEME
Slides Supplement Lecture of
Former Commandant In J. M.
Hall Last Monday.
Lt. Col. Wise's lecture evidenced a
careful and thorough study of that
part of American history of which
very little is known. A great deal of
this information, he says, is in the
book rooms of the Vatican at Rome
and in the Library at Copenhagen,
Denmark. In these Libraries are
documents and relics which indicate
a civilization in North America in
the eleventh and twelfth centuries
that was in many respects superior
to the European civilization at the
same time.
The outline of the history of the
American Indian from the time of
the coming of the first white men
up to the present time was traced. A
great many "facts" of American his-tory
were shown to be mere legend,
among the more interesting of which
were some of the stories concerning
Columbus and later John Smith. Hia-watha,
says Wise, was not a child of
the brain of Longfellow, but a real
Indian and probably the greatest
Red Man who ever lived. This in-telligent
and forceful "savage" is
really the author of a great many of
the principles incorporated into the
government of the United States.
By way of showing the patriotism
of the real American, the Indian, Lt.
Col. Wise said that not one Red Man
sought exemption during the World
War and that 18,000 of them volun-teered
for service at first call. Those
who remained at home subscribed
more per capita for Liberty Bonds,
etc., than did any other group of peo-ple
on the continent.
Lt. Colonel Jennings C. Wise, a
graduate of the Class of 1902 and
former Commandant of Cadets, spoke
to the Corps in the Jackson Memor-ial
Hall last Monday night on the
subject of his recent book, "The Red
Man in The New World Drama." The
lecture was fully illustrated with
slides and evoked a just amount of
Little is known, said Colonel Wise,
Gobbler • Keydet Banquet
Reviewed by Miller
V. P. I. Seniors To Be Hosts To
V. M. I. First Classmen.
By J. G. Martin, IV, Special Envoy to
The Catacombs.
In a special interview granted to
The Cadet by Louis N. Miller, spokes-man
of the First Class Interinstitu-tional
Thanksgiving Banquet Com-mittee
in his office in the V. M. I.
catacombs Saturday morning an at-tempt
was made to eke out some
straight dope on the annual V. P. I.-
V. M. I. banquet to be celebrated in
Roanoke following the Turkey Day
game. For fully ten minutes Mr.
Miller refused to make a statement.
At last, however, he weakened and
requested to be interviewed on the
prohibition issue. "Ask me," he said,
"whether I believe in the prohibition
amendment or whether I believe the
dry law should be enforced."
"Do you believe in the prohibition
amendment or do you believe the dry
law should be enforced?" he was
asked.
"I do," asserted Mr. Miller, as
snickers became audible in adjoining
offices.
"Now, about this banquet, Mr. Mil-ler
"
"Ask me," he said, "who I think
will win the Thanksgiving game."
"Do you think V. M. I. or V. P. I.
will win the Thanksgiving game?"
he was asked.
"I do," was the reply. "Now ask
me about the O. D.-O. G.—as you
were, the O. O.-O. D. — football
game."
"I do," he replied, not waiting for
the question.
"Now, about this banquet, Mr. Mil-ler
"
"Come around to my room," said
the great man curtly.
"But your office, sir, should be the
place for interviews "
Abruptly the Moose magnate broke
into a fast and fluent discussion of
the banquet. For a full half haur he
opened on the issue, his prejudice
against the press, the weak points of
commissioned officers, the Chino-
Nipponese war, the art of routing C.
M. T. C.'s with tomatoes and the V.
M. I. plumbing system.
President Chrisman of the Gobbler
First Class, H. L. Maheffety and
"Bunt" Ottley, the latter to act as
toastmaster, compose the V. P. I.
banquet committee, while Messrs.
Playing Last Game Saturday V.P.I, and V.M.I. Sports Editors
Review Thanksgiving Day Possibilities
MILITARY CLASSIC TO BE FIGHT TO FINISH
FLYING SQUADRON PRE-PARED
TO MEET HIDDEN
STRENGTH
of the American Indian because cen
turies of misinformation have woven Miller, Moore and Wood form that of
around him tales of barbarism that j the Keydets. The banquet is to be-are
grossly false. The white man gin at 6:30 at the Elks Club, with V.
who came to civilize the savages has P. I. as the hosts, and will conclude
had to clothe his own inhuman con- j with the exit of the last man. Stuffed
duct in the stories of the terrible; celery will be the feature food. Be-cruelty
and treachery of the savages, | yond these details the interview was
when as a matter of fact the Indian]a complete failure,
was not only more civilized than "You can quote me as saying," ad-those
who came to civilize him but j mitted Mr. Meller, "that all things
much more religious and temperate point to a 100 per cent perfect bull
in his actions and habits. session and gutfeqfc"
With slides Lt. Col. Wise traced the history of the contact between Commanders Will Furnish
the Indians and the white race. He I
gave proof to show that whatever
barbarism and treachery the Red
man may have been guilty of was Heine Woodson's Melody Boys
PaulTremaineTo Play For
Thanksgiving Hops
Gen. and Mrs. Lejeune To Lead
Second Class Ring Figure.
HARRY STARK.
Gobblers To Concede Nothing
Despite Disappointing
Season.
With the eyes of the Institute fo-cused
upon the Second Class Ring
Figure Friday night, the social ele-ment
will be in its glory this week-end
when maidens from all over the
East will pour into Lexington for the
Thanksgiving dances. All day Fri-day
the highways leading into the
Rockbridge County seat will be
swarming with cars bringing girls to
brighten up the occasion, and each
bus and train will bear its quota.
Activities will begin in earnest
Friday night, with Paul Tremaine
holding forth in Ninety-Four Hall.
The figure will begin at about half-past
ten, and it will be unique in sev-eral
features. It will start off with
a sort of Pershing Formation — the
kind that was so successful at York-town.
General and Mrs.. Lejeune will
lead off, and they will be followed by
Epps and Siegel and their partners.
By C. W. Ruble
Sports Editor, "The Virginia Tech."
Blacksburg, November 20 (Special
to "The Cadet")—After three days
of much needed rest following the
startling game with the University
of Virginia, V. P. I.'s crippled Gob-bler
eleven closed the record book,
which contains the scores of the sea-son's
games, and began a week of
intensive practice for the Thanksgiv-ing
battle with V. M. I. Despite their
rather disastrous season, members of
the football squad and the corps of
cadets feel that memories of the
earlier defeats will be wiped out with
a victory over the Flying Squadron.
The once abundant football mate-rial
with which V. P. I. was blessed
earlier in he season has now been re-duced
to almost a handful as Old Man
Injury has laid his disabling hand on
a large number of varsity perform-ers.
The Gobblers have been forced
Music in Roanoke
taught him by the white man. He
criticized the government of the
United States severly for the negli-gence
and stupidity which has char-acterized
its dealings with the In-dians.
Wise himself has been in-strumental
in effecting reforms in
this work.
One of the highly interesting parts
of the address was the story of the
first white men, long before Colum-bus,
who lived in America. The first
land fraud in America, says Wise,
was Lief Ericson's naming the bleak
shores of what is now New England
and New Foundland "Vinland" in or-der
to encourage the Norse to settle
the land. The implications was that
the country was well adapted to the
cultivation of great vinyards. The
idea had been first put into effect
when the island of Greenland was
named.
(Continued on pag« 4)
Rank Among the Best.
Talk about your Cab Calloways,
Wayne Kings, Paul Whiteman's, and
Guy Lombardos, V. M. I. has them all
rolled into one in Heine Woodson's
Commanders. They can play a hot-cha
mooch like Cab, a dreamy waltz
like Wayne King, can make White-man's
Rhapsody in Blue turn green
with envy, and when it comes to
smooth, sleepy fox trots Guy must
step aside and let Heine show how it
must be played.
The versatile Heine takes an old
barn dance tune such as Steam Boat
Bill, the drummer covers his drum
with asbestos, O'Brien, at the piano,
gets a death grip on the keys, the
sax section picks an old grudge fight
with the brass, and then we have mu-sic.
Music which makes one's feet
start dancing of their own accord,
(Continued on page 4)
, ,to take things easy in practice to
Behind these leaders will come the j(, b e c a u g e t h e c r i p p l e g h a y e b e en
entire personnel of the figure massed
in a column of eights. At the end of
the hall, they will break up and form
the figures V. M. I. and 33, after
which they will pass the favor table,
where the girls will receive favors
from the leaders. Passing through
the arch, they will receive their rings
and drift into a waltz.
As announced before, the girls will
all be dressed in white and carry arm
bouquets rather than the customary
shoulder corsages. The bouquets will
be of red aond yellow roses. Gener-al
Lejeune will receive his class ring
in the figure, being the first man of
'33 to pass through the arch.
Saturday there will be a dansant
in the afternoon, and Saturday night
Tremaine will play for his third V.
M. I. dance in the Gymnasium. The
immense popularity of the radio pro-grams
presented by Tremaine at
Yoeng's Chinese American Restau-rant
in New York last season assure
the fact that his orchestra is an ex-cellent
one, and the V. M. I. Hop Com-mittee
was fortunate in obtaining his
orchestra for this engagement. The
orchestra is on its first southern
tour, and it is reported that Tre-maine
is enthusiastic over playing
for dances at V. M. I. and other
southern schools. His large reper-toire
embraces all the popular dance
selections of the day, and he is to
play several special numbers for the
figure.
[unable to participate in anything so
fa rexcept signal practice.
Following of football here in
Blacksburg have noted with ever-in-creasing
apprehension the marked
improvement in the V. M. I. eleven
as the season has progressed. The
writer warmed with admiration as he
watched the Keydets battle the Uni-versity
of Kentucky last Saturday at
V. M. I.'s homecoming game. It was
a sterling exhibition of true fighting
spirit pitted against odds that against
another team might have been over-whelming.
V. P. I. knows that its
football team is in for a real battle
Thanksgiving, but- what Thanksgiv
ing game hasn't been a battle from
start to finish?
It is the general belief here that
V. M. I. has the best coach in the
state in Bill Raftery, and that it may
be this factor that may give the Lex-ingtomiano
a slight edge in Roanoke.
But V. P. I., with all its disappoint-ing
showing to date, concedes noth-ing
in this game and many supporters
believe the team will come to life
next Thursday and play the brand of
football they have been expected to
play all season.
Coach Orville E. Neal is expected
back at the drills the latter part of
the week from his sick bed. Mean-while,
his assistant, Coach Lyal
Clark, has been carrying on. It would
be dangerous and perhaps mislead-
(Continued oo P a s * E i g h t)
By F. F. Finklehoffe,
Sports Editor The Cadet.
When the setting sun envelopes the
dust strewn and barren football sta-dium
in the "Magic City" on the
night of Thanksgiving, many thou-sands
of erstwhile spectators ' who
have been so fortunate as to have
been able to witness the "Military
Classic of The South" will be slowly
treading their weary ways home-ward,
and no matter what the tarn-ished
scoreboard may have for its
story, those fortunates will be re-turning
from a real, honest-to-good-ness
football encounter.
The comparative performances of
this year or any other year are toss-ed
to the winds, when the Flying
Squadron of the Virginia Military In-stitute
and the Maroon Jerseyed Gob-blers
of the Blacksburg School meet
face to face in their annual struggle
on the gridiron. Both Institutions
use as a criterion of a successful sea-son—
a Turkey Day victory.
In spite of a not too auspicious
start this year, the V. P. I. boys can
boast of a team of no mean ability.
From all rumors that the breezes
have wafted Lexingtonward—and on
the wings of students of this great
American game of ours—V. P. I. has
got the stuff for one smooth football
team. Whether their erratic per-formance
has been due to lack of co-ordination,
or mere inability to get
started, is not ascertained, but if any-one
has any qualms of conscience as
to the power of the Gobblers on this
coming Thanksgiving, he may rest
on that score, because after the pre-liminary
marching and martial mu-sic
has culminated on the field, the
Big Red Team is going to line up
against one of the most powerful
outfits in this part of the Southland.
There are three men in the V. P.
f. line that need not bow to anyone,
when it comes to effective meander-ing
in a forward wall. These are
Harry Stark, mammoth tackle; Gene
flite, super guard, and Captain Gene
Brown, who has proved to be a tower
of strength in the center of the line.
These three men have been a bul-wark
of strength and have stood out
as more than able performers. Sea-mon,
Palmer, and Chandler make a
trio of excellent wingmen, with Pal-mer
being able to cope with the best
of them. Dyke and Grinus, on the
right side of the line balance off a
most efficient advance barrier. In
reserve there are Swart, English, and
Betts, three performers who can be
referred to only as alternates rather
than substitutes.
For ball toters, the Blacksburgites
boast of eight fast backs who have
caused considerable trouble to many
opposing outfits. Heinie Groth has
been getting the call at the number
barking post, due to his agility, and
superb ball carrying ability. This
young Iowan is a sophomore, and be-fore
many a moon has set, the pig-ikin
followers in these parts are go-
-ig to wake up some morning with
.he realization that this 180 pound
speed king is a real star. He's a
triple threat man of the "old school"
-ype, and his cavorts on the broken
field has already proved a nemesis to
many a prospective tackier. This is
>ne man the Cadets are going to
fear—no question. Then there is the
lighly touted Casey. This boy has
shown some artistic ball carrying on
-he open field and he carries a con-itant
threat inasmuch as he is the
ype of ball player that is apt to get
lose for that old heart rending touch-lown
at any instant. Hardwick is
another halfback that packs a punch,
le's not one of the sensational boys,
ut he's the kind that they can slip
he old apple to anytime they need
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