The Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 23, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 17, 1947 Page: 4 of 4
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By ROBERT FLACKS
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POR ABOUT A month we have seen numerous advertise-', competitive match
* ments in magazines and newspapers urging the public to Rlco Gymnasium at 2.30 p.m.
come to Europe this summer. In one paper Sunday we even
saw a notice saying that special student tours to Europe
would be conducted this summer—49 days for $985 dollars,
all expenses paid. Even if we
had $985, we would no more
go on a conducted tour than
we would go to a Philharmonic
concert with our ears plugged.
Hejfe if how Hiich a tour would
probably work—You'd join the
group of old maid school teachers
and divinity stu-
dents in New
York, receive in-
structions on how
tii act in a for-
eign country and
be given a cabin
directly over the
propeller shaft.
Y u r r o o in-
mate would be a
washed out art
t e a c h (> r from
Washkaj Wisconsin who hud already
Tmu Division of the Amateur
encing League of America will
in the
Sat-
urday, April 19.
Dallas Y.M.C.A., Houston Fenc
ing Club and Galveston • Fencing
Club have accepted the invitation
of the Rice fencing team to stage
one of the scheduled A.F.L.A.
Seasick Remedy, atabrine pills and
DDT powder.
After an uneventful crossing and "thjg cho"oi"for the" bene-
'.oat train ride, you wou d arrive in ,Jt of tho8u interested in viewing
Paris, the mecca of all European ■ ju(jKe(j competition. In the men's
tourists. The first morning there, I diviijon bout8 wi„ be with Raber
after a true continental breakfast j epeCi and foi, Th{j women.a teBms
of ham and eggs and French toast, j wjll fena> with foi,
your sightseeing of the city would j ' 1
twin. The guide, an American who1 „ „ w,
wot Id speak English with a French ^ ^ance and he fifth largest city
acccnt to give the proper atmos- the World' Sltl,nU,d 0,1 both ba,lks
phcre, would caution you not to
yet separated from the group or
i Ise you might become lost. "How
lreadful!" would say one of the
school teachers. "Paris is such a
wicked city!"
G
ETTING ON the rubberneck bus
the guide's spiel would start,
Ladies and gentlemen, you are
unpaged his bullies of MothorsiU's now about to see Paris, the capital
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of the Seine river about 110 miles
front its mouth on the English
channel. Paris was known to Julius
Caesar, about 50 A.D., as Lutetia.
It was then the chief city of the
tribe of the Parisii, from whom the
name "Paris" was adopted.
"The streets of Paris do not fol-
low any unified plan, However,
there are several magnificent bou-
levards. 'Boulevard' is a French
I word meaning 'bulwark'."
j The whole of the -19 day, all ex-
; pense tour would be like that You
would eat only in cafes from which
• ho travel agency would get a cut
f>nd be allowed to choose souvenirs
from a selection which the guide
! would bring to your room—such
things like plaster of paris models
| of the Eifel tower (named after
1 Alexandre Eifel who built it in
11800) and picture postcards of the
> Place de Vondome (which has a
bronze column made by melting
1200 cannon captured by Napoleon).
THE ONLY WAY to see a foreign
country is to do It on your own
hook, Get a Baedeeker, read it overj
I the night before and decide what ;
j vou want to visit in that particular
j place. Then start out and see what j
j vou want to, not what you are j
supposed to see. On a conducted |
tour, for instance, you would never !
see anything like the vegetable •
market in Paris at four in the j
morning when the farmers bring in
fresh food from the country. You j
wouldn't hear the clatter of tvieir|
ox drawn carts over the cobbled'
streets as they arranged the!
rroduce in stalls, and then at a j
"•emlarme's siirnal clean up the '
trash around their booths and wash I
off the streets so that everything i
would be tidy when the housewives j
"tart to come at 0 a.m. You i
wouldn't woe the farmer* and house-j
"'Ives h«<?irlp with expressive Gal-1
lie motions for ten minutes over !
the price of a head of lettuce.
On such a formal visit you would
be told not. to go out at night unless
vou were with a guide. You
wouldn't be able to walk in the
Montniarte at 2 a.m. where you :
miirht see some big Frenchman j
u haling the dickens out of his girl
friend for not turning over the
nights proceeds to him. It would,
he frowned upon by the travel
agency if you sat in a cafe in
Pigalle late at night where you
could see the chorus girls from the
Casino come in for a snort between
nu mhers.
ANYONE like to go to Europe I
this summer? Sign up now'
with Flagg's Famous Touring
Agency—50 days abroad, .$080 with |
all expenses paid!
THE THBEBBBK
—"1 1
DR. HOUSTON *
(Continued from pact 1)
men and woman in scienee, indus-
try, government, engineering, law,
business and education.
Weeter Speaks At Banquet
Dr. Dixon Weeter, chairman of
the research division of the Henry
E. Huntington library in California
spoke at the banquet held at the
Riee Hotel Thursday night.
Throughout his address, Doctor
Weeter made thinly veiled jabs at
chauvinism, nationalism, racial
nrejudicc ai\d narrow political be-
liefs.
He said that Houston has become
nart of the major Industrial struc-
tures of the nation, and added,
"Houston is now too prosperous and
cosmopolitan to qualify as a nos-
talgic outpost of the Confederacy.
Houston Is living for less in the
nura of a lost cause than in that
of the main chance and still more
expansive tomorrow."
Doctor Weeter stated that enor-
mous help is being given Commun-
ists by indiscriminate lumping to-
gether of all varieties of so-called
"liberal" opinion. He is convinced
that Soviet Russia in one way or
another hopes to dominate the
world.
"Now as always," he added,
"the Soviets are quick to regard
ill disagreement with them as de-
nraved and sinister, and arma-
ments in the hands of others as
an affront to Mother Russia.
"This is not new," he continued.
"It does not call for panic or hys-
teria; nor most assuredly for the
enforced disarmament, end of se-
lective service, and research-dis-
mantling nor the ideology of
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R1C1 Hon -
(Continued from pace •)
•till tumpwai by a
I the only one
ele.
With this
retaliated,
hurling of "
of Costa and
line-up, the Owls
the fine
the hitting
, who eaeh got
Henry Wallace with its
like quality."
Calling some Texas behavior
puzsling, even to a native son,
Doctor Weeter, a former Baylor
University student, said: "After
many experiments, noble and other-
wise, over half the counties in the
state are once more technically dry,
and my alma mater recently almost
missed hanging an honorary degree
upon the president of the United
States because a clergyman of this
city, chairman of his denomination's
righteousness committee, declared
that no good Baptist could remain
tn 'and drink his liquor and play
his poker'."
T)w
the
trouble. In this T.C.U.'s
three runs were scored. This didn't
■aam to bother Bishop thought and
from the beginning the determined
Owls left little doubt as to the
outcome.
While orchids are being handed
out, a whole basket should go to
the ^ine group of fans that have
shown to fill the stands and root
for the home team.
Rice plays no conference games
this week so focus your attention,
on the Texas-Baylor series in Waco
today and tomorrow. This writer
predicts one apiece—Layne, one,
Baylor, one.
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The Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 23, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 17, 1947, newspaper, April 17, 1947; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth230720/m1/4/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Rice University Woodson Research Center.