Indiana University - Arbutus Yearbook (Bloomington, IN)

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Dl€ JOHNNY f Against It WHICH would you rather be: very, very intelligent or able to raise beautiful, delicious, young onions? Surely, that was a hard question for a small bov to answer by himself without any help from his father or mother or brothers or sisters or aunts. But Johnny had just that e]uestion to answer. It was up to him, as they say in slang circles. He could not ignore the (juestion, and it was far from him to laugh at it and consider it absurd, as older folks would have done, ' du can not laugh at things in this world. Even the funny weekly is a serious matter when you get down to the meta- physics of it. Somehow Johnny was young enough to realize all this. I guess childhood is a good time because ciiildren take everything seriously and enjoy it instead of trying to sepa- rate their serious moments and their joy moments like grown- ups. So Johnny honestly and truly was up against it. Which would you rather be: very, very intelligent or able to raise beautiful, delicious, young onions? The way of it was this. Johnny Jenkweltner, to be short about it, had one of those wizard god-mammas who figure in fairy talcs and other useless literature. This is not a fairy yarn, however, so if you have whiskers as long as the finale of a comic opera, do not feel that you have to chuck this and scoot the red and yellow books over on the shelf in the nursery li- brary to make room for it. Really, Johnny ' s god-mamma was not what you would call a regular god-mamma. She had dif- ferent methods. She worked in a sensible manner. She did not say Hocus pocus and bring certain things to pass. This, rather, was Johnny Jenkweltner ' s wizard god-mamma ' s course of wonder working: she asked Johnny what he wanted or [■■■ii-i AF '

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innitaiatssza LUX ET ERITAS A F U X D A T I X D A ' P E M When first those sturdy pioneers Gave back this forest to the state They planned the pride of future years Whose birth, to-day, we celebrate. Upon these hills beside this stream The flower of Indiana ' s youth First realized their father ' s dream. And saw the dawn of Li,t,dit and Truth. Those fathers little thought the hall They builded then would ever grow To teach and prove that, after all, To live is really but to know. They little knew, when tliey had wrought, Their children ' s children e ' er should see The time when every honest thought Proclaims The Truth shall make vou free! And yet their hopes that men would live To see their motto used and taught Deserve all tribute we can give To those brave champions of thought. They had a faith in fellow-men; They knew that only in the mind Would live the hopes they cherished then- The brotherhood of humankind. May every good our fatiiers wrought Bear rich reward from year to year; May men forever heed tiie thought, The motto, they established here. Shine on, O Light! Forever be A beacon to the nati(jn ' s youth; A guide to all that makes us free; A symbol of eternal Truth. Live on, O I ' ruth, till time has gone! And teach us all to know and love Thy light that leads us ever on To that diviner Light above. — Earl Hudelsox. HHBL

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jan ' whicli he wanted (she most often narrowing it down to make his choice easy), and he told her, and she told him to get to work and get it for himself, and he did, and surely enough, he always got it. One day Mrs. God-maninia put tliis terribly iiard young onion proposition before Johnny. She iiad a way, you know, of half-way directing Johnny ' s life by the (juestions she asked him. — or able to raise beautiful, delicious, yoinig onions? Johnny scratched his head furiously. It seems to me, he ventured, that that is a ciuestion which would take some intelligence to answer correctly. A fine answer, a mighty tine answer, complimented the mother. .She ilid not always e.xact a precise yes or no reply to her interrogations. ' hat am I going to do about it, then? asked Johnny blindly. Well, the thing for you to do is to go to school and keep on going to school and keep on going to school and keep on getting more and more intelligence until you can decide which you would rather be; ' ery, ' ery intelligent or able to raise the onions. So Johnny started into school. He went t(5 school, and went to school. J3ut he could not decide. Lots of times he forgot all about the question; yet, when he remembered it again, he still could not decide. He kept climbing up higher and higher until he was away up a junior or senior or some kind of post-graduate at a college. For a long time, the young onion side of the answer had appealed to him as ridiculous, but he was not sure and did not decide. Then he began to change, and one day he made up his mind; yes, sir, in favor of the young onions. He had had his eye on some very, very intelligent persons. L HINPL- P