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Junior-Senior
Dance
Rainbow Terrace
January 14
Z747
THE RATTLER
ST MARYS
UNIVERSITY
OF SAN ANTONI
Junior-Senior
Dance
Rainbow Terrace
January 14
VOLUME XIX
SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS, JANUARY 6, 193 8
NO. 7
Scientists Reelect
Bro. Leo Banck
Local Scientific Society
Holds Election at Thirty-
Fourth Annual Meeting
Bro. Leo J. Banck, head of the
department of biology at St. Ma-
ry’s, was re-elected president of the
Scientific Society of San Antonio
at the thirty-fourth annual meet-
ing of that group held Tuesday
evening, December 14.
Besides being head of the biology
department, Bro. Banck is also
moderator of the Garni Nature
club.
Dr. Frank Suggs was reelected
first vice president and Dr. Henry
C. Slavik, third vice president, was
elected second vice president. Dr.
W. G. Stuck, secretary, was elected
third vice president and J. W. Per-
son was reelected treasurer. Her-
man Hirsch, second vice president,
was elected secretary of the or-
ganization.
Edward W. Heusinger was re-
elected director and W. J. Knox
was elected chairman of the pro-
gram committe.
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State Legal Board
Favors University Law
School in Ruling
An exception to the ruling of
the Supreme court of the state was
made by the Board of Legal Ex-
aminers of the State of Texas per-
mitting the St. Mary’s university
School of Law to admit those stu-
dents who took their first year of
law at the San Antonio Public
School of Law but whose applica-
tions had not been passed on by
the Supreme court in 1936 when
they entered the latter law school.
The conditions on which these
students will be accepted for fur-
ther study in law will be laid
down by the authorities of the
law school.
This exception was granted in
view of the high standards en-
forced at the St. Mary’s university
School of Law, according to the
declaration released by the board.
It is only this year that similar
standards must be adopted by all
bona-fide law schools of the state
in accordance with the rules laid
down by the Supreme court in
1935.
All-St. Mary’s Group
Judge A. I.B. Debate
An all-St. Mary’s group acted
as judges for the debate between
representatives of the Dallas chap-
ter and the San Antonio chap-
ter of the American Institute of
Banking held Saturday evening
December 18, in the Plaza hotel.
William Lemke, a student at St.
Mary’s academy from 1911 until
1923 and at present assistant trust
officer of the National Bank of
Commerce, represented the bank-
ing group in judging the debate.
Representative William Carsow, a
former student at the St. Mary’s
university School of Law, repre-
sented the public. Bro. George
Kohnen, professor of economics at
St. Mary’s, represented the teach-
ing profession.
However, they did not all agree
in their decision and the San An-
tonio team was judged the victor
by a 2 to 1 vote. The subject de-
bated was: Resolved: that the 1937
United States’ Neutrality Act be
scrapped.
REELECTED
Bro. Leo J. Banck
Junior-Senior Dance
Slated for January 14
At St. Anthony
At the regular meeting of the
junior class held on Monday, De-
cember 20, it was decided that
the annual Junior-Senior dance,
sponsored by the juniors in order
to raise funds for the Junior fro-
lics, will be given January 14, on
Rainbow terrace atop the St. An-
thony hotel.
Music for the affair will be fur-
nished by Barney Rapp and his
New Englanders. Price for the bid
is $1.50. The dance will be the
third official school dance of
the school year and the first on
the 1938 calendar. Robert Kerr,
junior class president, is chairman
of the arrangements committee
and will be assisted by Edwin T.
Reilly, class vice president, and
Melvin Salzman.
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Former Professor
Writes in Local Paper
There appeared in the Southern
Messenger an account of an ad-
dress by the Rev. Thomas
V. Moore, professor of psycho-
logy at Catholic university, before
the first open forum of the stu-
dents of the School of Social Work
of the Catholic university. The
writer of this article was Bro.
Gerald Schnepp, former member
of the St. Mary’s faculty and
brother of the Rev. Alfred
Schnepp and Bro. Raymond
Schnepp, at present members of
the University faculty.
The address by Father Moore
was entitled The Philosophy of
Freud and Catholic Social Work.
Bro. Schnepp, who was formerly
the moderator of the International
Relations club, was professor of
social sciences at St. Mary’s. He
was transferred from St. Mary’s
two years ago to the Catholic uni-
versity, there to pursue higher
studies.
Former Rattler Editor
Donates Volume
Mr. Charles Solcher, ’28, of
Corpus Christi and formerly of
San Antonio, donated a bound
volume of The Rattler dating
from 1924 to 1927 to The Rat-
tler office.
Mr. Solcher was sport editor
of The Rattler from 1926 to
1928 and editor in chief in
1928.
Twenty Members
Join Rattler Club
At Banquet
Annual Banquet and
Initiation at Gunter
Held December 16
Following the solemn and secret
ceremony which was conducted by
Robert Watts, president, twenty
pledges became full fledged mem-
bers of the Rattler club of St.
Mary’s Thursday evening, Decem-
ber 16, in the Oriental room of
the Gunter hotel. This affair
brought the total membership of
the club to thirty-two.
Immediately preceding the ban-
quet the formal initiation of the
pledges took place. At the ban-
quet table were seated the honored
guests, Rattler club members and
former members of the club.
Guests of honor were the Rev.
Alfred H. Rabe, University presi-
dent, the Very Rev. Robert Mayl,
former University president and
principal speaker, the Rev. Stanley
Kusman, who acted as toastmaster,
and Bro. John J. Black, club mod-
erator.
The newly inducted members
were: seniors—Stevens Keller, Da-
vid Reynolds, Woodrow Roy, Law-
rence Vetter, Warren Wyble, Wil-
fred Moore, and Paul Rubiolo;
juniors—Steve Catalani, Robert
Kerr, Raymond McBrearty, John
Paul Warnken, John Kimbriel, and
Francis Martinez; sophomores —
Pat Davis, William LeBaron, How-
ard Phillips, William McBride,
Bernie Kerr, Henry Guerra Jr., and
Clinton Jagge.
Father Kusman, in his capacity
as toastmaster, introduced Father
Mayl who delivered the main ad-
dress of the evening. Father Mayl
was president of St. Mary’s at the
time the Rattler club was formed.
Other speakers of the evening
were Robert Kerr, who spoke on
behalf of the new members and
Fred D. Zalmanzig, who spoke for
the Rattler club exes.
Jon Tyner, vice president of the
club, was in charge of arrange-
ments for the banquet.
(This is the sixth in a series of
articles on current, questions writ-
ten by Claude Stanush, managing
editor of The Rattler. Thus far
all of the stories have taken the
form of interviews, giving the
opinions of prominent people on
topics of the day. But for this
week’s issue the author has at-
tacked the crime problem in the
United States by actually visiting
the county jail here in San An-
tonio and seeking out from the
prisoners themselves the causes of
crime. An account of his visits
is given in the following article.)
By Claude Stanush
What was originally planned as
an inside view of the crime pro-
blem in America has become, in
theme at least, an article on mari-
tal troubles, with particular em-
phasis upon divorce. Perhaps I
should say this is an article not on,
but against, a deviation from the
true course of family life. The
relation such a subject has with
the problem at hand is so intimate
that it warrants this consideration.
On the surface, associating divorce
and crime may sound as foolish as
piecing the links in the evolution
of the human race; but careful
analysis reveals that in reality the
Rattler Club
Holds /Frolics/
Cameo Players Present
Comedy; Orchestra
Offers Selections
Under the baton of Bro. Albert
J. Hagemann, music department
head, the University orchestra ren-
dered the selection Pilgrim’s March
to open the program of the
"Christmas Frolics” which was
sponsored by the Rattler club in
the University auditorium Sunday
evening, December 19. Proceeds
from the frolics will be added to
the fund to buy awards for the
varsity football team members.
The idea of having such an af-
fair was suggested by Bro. John J.
Black, Rattler club moderator, who
was the founder of the club and
also its moderator several years ago
when the club annually sponsored
a frolics program. When Bro.
Black was transferred from the
University, this custom was stop-
ped and was revived again this
year upon his return to the Uni-
versity.
Following the opening selection
by the orchestra, the Cameo play-
ers, under the direction of Bro.
Francis Hess, presented a one act
comedy, When the Wife’s Away.
The story dealt with the predica-
ment of a young married man
who’s wife unexpectedly returns
home to find her husband’s best
friend there and also one female
visitor who’s presence there they
were unable to explain. Matters
become worse when the fiancee of
the husband’s friend makes her
appearance on the scene. Members
of the cast were: Clare Alice
Connor, Dorothy Waitz, Martha
McCarrick, John May, Dave Rey-
nolds, and Edward Feille.
The orchestra then played Be-
neath the Holly for the second
musical offering of the program.
The high spot of the evening
proved to be the awarding of at-
tendance prizes and the ten dollar
bill. Robert Watts, president of
the Rattler club, assisted by Santa
Claus and Dorothy Waitz, was in
charge of the drawings. Lawrence
(Continued on page 5, col. 2)
two are to a great extent cause
and effect.
Two Sundays ago, the day after
Christmas to be exact, I made my
first visit to the county jail. It
was my hope that I should find
there, if anywhere, a sympathetic
understanding of that commonly
abhorred creature, the criminal.
What I looked for I found, and
learned besides that the average
prisoner is not detestable at all.
In fact I was so attracted by the
personalities of some of the in-
mates I made a second visit to the
jail several days later. From these
personal contacts I abstracted what
I believe is the reason for 75 per
cent of all crimes: namely, poor
home environment. To this un-
favorable condition parental strife
and divorce contribute much more
than their share.
However incredulous this state-
ment may sound, the facts bear
out its truth, and the first to sub-
stantiate it were the boys in the
juvenile section of the jail.
"My parents are divorced; so
I’m kind of thrown out on my
own,” one of them told me. "I
started to work for a carnival,
but about a week ago they went
into winter quarters, leaving me
VISITOR
Rev. E. J. Weisenberg, S.J.
Debate Squad Invited
To Speech Tourney
At Baylor University
January 14 and 15 Set
As Dates for Contest
According to John Luter, stu-
dent manager of the debating
squad at St. Mary’s, an invitation
has been received by the squad to
participate in the annual Baylor
Speech tournament which will be
held at Baylor university in Waco,
January 14 and 15.
St. Mary’s will be represented in
the debating contest, the oratorical
contest, the after-dinner speaking
contest, the poetry reading contest
and the radio contest.
Each school entering the debat-
ing contest must participate in a
series of six preliminary debates;
three in which the affirmative side
is upheld and three debates in
which the negative side is favored.
Any school victorious in at least
five of their debates will auto-
matically enter the elimination con-
test. The topic which will be de-
bated is Resolved: That the Na-
tional Labor Relations Board be
empowered to enforce arbitration
(Continued on page 4, col. 5)
stranded. I was arrested for va-
grancy and now the police are
sending me back to my home in
Kentucky. I don’t know what
I’ll do when I get there because
things are pretty bad with the folks
right now. That’s why I joined
the carnival and, believe me, it’s
about as crooked a racket as they
come.”
"I tried to help my mother by
stealing,” explained a second
youngster, about 14 years old.
"The court decided to send me to
Gatesville for a year; but when
that’s over, I guess I’ll be about
the straightest guy you ever saw.”
A third boy said he left home
because he was “disgusted” with
the way his mother and father
quarrelled. From a fourth and
fifth came similar tales.
The first thought on reading
these stories may be to call them
defense reactions or rather "pass-
ing the buck.” But an intimate
talk with these boys, I am sure,
would produce a decidedly differ-
ent opinion. My own greatest
surprise was at the sincere tone in
which they told of their troubles
and at the willingness they dis-
played in accepting blame for their
(Continued on page 4, col. 1)
Regional Sodality
Convention May
Be Held Here
Father Weisenberg, On
Visit to San Antonio,
Confers with Local Head
As a result of conferences be-
tween the Rev. E. J. Weisenberg,
state director of the Kansas state
sodality union, and the Rev. James
Boyle, director of Catholic youth
m the San Antonio archdiocese,
it is probable that San Antonio
will be host to the Regional Spir-
itual Leadership convention to be
held some time this year.
This convention, which is one of
twelve such regional conventions
that will be staged throughout
the country, is sponsored by the
Rev. Daniel A. Lord, national
sodality organizer and leader of
the Catholic youth movement in
America, and the Queen’s Work,
official news organ of the national
sodality. Father Lord will attend
this convention.
It has been the custom in the
past to have a national leader-
ship convention, either in St.
Louis or in Chicago, but this
year national officers decided to
have twelve regional conventions
instead and so it is very probable
that San Antonio will be the site
of one of these conclaves.
Father Weisenberg arrived in
San Antonio Wednesday, Decem-
ber 29, to spend the Christmas
holidays as a guest of the Rev.
Herbert G. Kramer, director of
the San Antonio Youths’ Spiritual
Leadership union. He departed
Sunday night, January 2, after five
days of conferences and discussions
with directors and officers of the
Union.
Before coming to San Antonio,
Father Weisenberg conferred in
St. Louis with Father Lord.
While in San Antonio, Father
Weisenberg had several conferences
with Father Boyle. He was
also the guest of Chaplain William
J. Walsh of Fort Sam Houston
and delivered a sermon during
the Floly hour in the Post chapel
on New Year’s day.
Well known in the Middle West
for his activities in sodality work,
the Kansas union director is pro-
fessor of dogmatic theology at St.
Mary’s college, St. Mary’s, Kan.
This marks the second visit to
San Antonio by Father Weisen-
berg.
Father Weisenberg was enter-
tained by the Penmasters club, and
the high school council. He also
made a trip to Corpus Christi.
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Bro. George Sauer
Pays Christmas Visit
To St. Mary’s
Bro. George Sauer, provincial-
inspector of the Eastern province
of the Society of Mary, spent part
of the Christmas holidays at St.
Mary’s university. He spent Christ-
mas day and the two days there-
after.
Bro. Sauer has been inspector of
schools of the Dayton province
since 1909 and has just completed
his inspection tour of schools
operated by the Society of Mary in
the Hawaiian islands and in Cali-
fornia.
According to Bro. Sauer, the
two schools opened in China since
1932 will have to be closed soon
due to the Sino-Japanese conflict
which is raging at the present time
in that section.
Visits to Inmates of Bexar County Jail Show
MARITAL TROUBLES AND DIVORCE BREED CRIME
In Their Effect on Home Environment
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