IBatlp iHiuroon /Vol. 34. No. 54. UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO, THURSDAY, JANUARY 18, 1934The GreeksHave a Word—By HARRY MORRISON—PSI UPSILONIn my opinion the fraternity thatpresents the best front of them all isPsi Upsilon. This is not to say thatit is the best fraternity. They’ve atrreat bip house and they’ve alwayshad a lot of smooth ^ys; theirreputation in this respect does notsuffer through havinpr Connor Lairdand “Beautiful” Cullen jrracinff theirtable. They have a lot of athletes andin this day of reviving football hopesand interest in athletics of all kinds,things like these are bound to makean impression. The fact that manyof them like to assume a costume ofparts used to attract a good deal ofglamor to them but now that theDekes have taken over much thesame type of costume their appealhas faded to some extent.The frat club was founded in1833 at Union College, which makesit fairly old. They had a chapter atthe original university, which Hutchwould call a “small-town collegewith no reason for its Existence” andwhen John D. turned the place intoa “center of the world intellectualmovement” Psi U establi.shed theirlocal chapter here in 1899. For a“large and powerful” national fra¬ternity, a dearth of chapters is quitenoticeable. There are 27 of them,strong in the east, good in the middle-west, none in the south, and 3 westof the Mississippi.ATHLETICSRegardless of what the Psi U’s .say,they are essentially at the presenttime, an athletic fraternity. They<eem to be somehow a little afraidof admitting all this but I see noth¬ing to be ashamed of. There are 38active members in the house and ofthese 19 men engaged in sports havereceived major awards. There are .5pledges, transfer students, who mayor may not do anything in the realmof sport.®. Of the aforementioned 19,four are active in more than onesport. Again let me say that the hoysover there insisted to me that thegeneral run of their conversation isnot always athletics. When we wereat lunch yesterday we talked aboutthe really good food we were getting.That is something.Incidentally the boys seem to beable to get right out and win a fewIntramural trophies every year, de¬spite the fact that a lot of their bestmen are ineligible due to their otherathletic proclivities.ACTIVITIESIt has been said that Psi U is veryheavily overbalanced, that all they 'know is peculiar mu.scle movementswhich enable them to do thiug.-^ in anathletic way better than other peo¬ple. This is not entirely true. Thereare 6 sophomores seriously engagedin activities, three in Intramuralwork, two on the Cap and Gownstaff, and one on the business staffof the Maroon. There are twojuniors, ope a Blackfriar manager ;and one an Intramural manager, whodo things in an activity way. And :there are about three seniors whoare doing something towards run¬ning the affairs of the undergraduate ibody. Figure it out and it adds up |to eleven men of the 38 taking an jinterest in the activities of the Uni- ■versity.WATCH THISDespite everything that can be 'said, we’re still left with the perhaps junpleasant idea that there are toomany muscle men around for the inumber of guys who are in activities. |Adding much more'to this would be jgiving an opinion but I don’t thinkthere are enough men over there inactivities relevant to the realstrength of the fraternity. IThere is no real strength in pub- Ilications, with no one on the editorial ^staff of Maroon and not much chance |of anyone getting on. Psi U never itook much interest in the Phoenix iexcept for light reading. This may |have been a good thing both from ithe standpoint of the fraternity and Ithe Phoenix but it’s a fact never- ’theless.One more thing that comes outonce in a while is the obscurity ofsome of the members. Every yearsome man will appear on campus iwhom no one has ever seen before iand whom no one will ever see again.Finally it turns out that he is a PsiU and has been an active Psi U forthe last three years. Or some un¬known will win a game of baseball for(Continued on page 3) RESEARCH SURVEYUPHOLDS PRESENTRELIEF MEASURES Play All Polo Gamesat North Side Club ERSKINE DEFINESWright Study DisprovesTheory of EconomicParasitismBy DAVID H. KUTNER(This it the first of a seriesof articles dealing with the workof members of the Social Sci¬ence Research committee. Theseries will be continued at ir¬regular intervals, presentingother aspects of the committee’sfindings.) The exclusive Chicago Riding club,I located at Ontario street and Me- IClurg court, has been secured by thej Maroon polo team for the remainder ;I of its home games, according to 'Bruce Benson, captain of the Polo j: team. This has been made possible j; through the courtesy of the Black ■' Horse troop, which plays at the rid- |I ing club, and which has agreed to j! furnish ponies for both the Maroons, and the visiting teams. Thus a short-! age in polo ponies, which has handi-I capped the squad, is alleviated. CREATIVE ART ASCDMMENT ON LIFE Freshmen SponsorMixer at Ida Noy.Says Music Is LeastUtilitarian of FineArtsUnemployed families in Chicagowho have received relief from themajor relief-giving agencies in thecity have for the most part been de¬serving of it and have not been act¬ing the part of economic parasites,according to a complete study of thesituation just completed by HelenWright, associate professor of SocialEconomy at the University.Based on data obtained from1,003 unemployed families, chosen atrandom in the autumn of 1932, MissWright’s re.search presents certainirrefutable findings;The first, and in fact the greatest,observable difference between thosefamilies seeking relief and thosewhich are not, is in the intensity withwhich they have been affected byunemployment. Of the 658 familieswho had not had relief, 369, or 56per cent of the group, indicated noperiod in which some member of thefamily had not worked at least ona part-time basis. But, among the345 families on relief, however, only49, or 14 per cent, had hati someperiod employment during theperiod.Economic PositionRelevant facts about wage-earnersand dependents and previous con¬tact with social agencies suggest veryclearly that the families not on reliefhad been in a better economic posi¬tion than those who had had relief.They had more wage-earners andfewer children; a smaller percentagehad been known to social agencies,either relief agencies or others, priorto the period of unemployment.Figures on certain housing condi¬tions found in the two groups like-wi.se suggest that the families on re¬lief were somewhat poorer than the •others. More of the relief familieshad been living in basements; morehad only stove heat; more had livedin overcrowded surroundings; more i(Continued on page 3) FACULTY MEMBERSPARTICIPATE IN NEWLEAGUE OF CITIZENSSeveral faculty members of theUniversity and other prominent resi¬dents of the communities of HydePark, Woodlawn, and Kenwood, have irecently united to form a Neighbor- Ihood Citizens’ League. The new or- |ganization aims to find an effectivepattern of local neighborhood gov¬ernment as applied especially to theUniversity community, and it will beimmediately concerned with inform¬ation for the construction of thispattern.The group of twenty-five is headedby George Fairweather, assistantbusiness manager of the University,and includes Harold F. Gosnell andJerome G. Kerwin, associate profes¬sors of Political Science, and Mary jB. Gilson, assistant professor of jEconomics.The party sy.stem will engage theimmediate attention of the organiza¬tion, which will attempt to make po¬litical parties responsible and repre¬sentative. Open meetings will be heldin a few weeks at which the primarysystem and local public finance willbe discussed.At the first session of the group,which Was held on January 8, themembers determined that they, asresidents of a local community shouldmake every effort to intelligentlyunderstand what should be expectedfrom the political control of the gov¬erning center of their neighborhood.Renaissance GroupContinues Exhibitof Abstract ArtAlumni MagazineFeatures Mergerin Jantiary IssueMerger, merger, and more merger !is not only the main topic of con- |veraation these days, but is also the |subject for two of the articles ap- ipearing in the January issue of theAlumni magazine, published yester- ;“The Great Merger Library by jMilton S. Mayer, a Chicago newspa¬perman and collaborator with John |Howe in the writing of “Steps in the :Dark,” is a combination of the ad¬mittedly imaginative, the suspected ^apocryphal, and the alleged his- ;torical. The address delivered by iPresident Robert M. Hutchins at thestudent convocation is printed to ;clarify the impressions of the alumni |regarding the situation. 'Jean Henry Large, sister of Mrs. ,Herbert Hoover, makes her contri- ibution to the interesting “autobiog- jraphical biography” of Katherine Be- |ment Davis. “Who’s Afraid of the jProfessional Athlete?” inquires John jM. Stalnaker, member of the Uni- |versity’s Board of Examiners, and jformer-Director of Attitude Meas- jurements for the special committee |on Physical Education and Athletics jat the University of Minnesota. |Also in the issue is found “The jShakespeare Industry” by George iSherburn, Professor of English. In !this article are pointed out mistaken jaspects in the program for the ArtsCollege as outlined in the Novemberissue of the magazine. An exhibition of abstract art show¬ing the integration of art and sci¬ence by four twentieth centurypainters continues in Wieboldt 205under the auspices of the Renais¬sance Society. The artists represent¬ed are Picasso, Gris, Braque, andLeger. The exhibition is open dailyincluding Sunday from 2 to 5 andwill continue until February 2.To quote from Mrs. Schutze, presi¬dent of the Renaissance Society: “Inthe last century there has been anew mutual consciousness of the artsand sciences, and an increased rec¬ognition by artists of certain factorsin plastic structure. This type of.structure represented what might becalled the ‘Non-Illusionist’ art of thetwentieth century.”The pictures have been loaned byprivate collectors and art dealers inthe East and in Chicago. 'I'he mathe¬matical solids, which are also on ex¬hibition, are loaned by the depart¬ment of Mathematics of the Univer¬sity. “.All art is a criticism of life,” saidJohn Erskine, author and a formerprofessor at Columbia, in the Wil¬liam Vaughn Moody Foundation lec¬ture in Mandel hall last night. Mr.Erskine expanded his announcedsubject, “What is American Music ”and said that he referred only tomusic in particular because it wasthe least utilitarian of the fine arts.Those people who conventionallyfoster the arts are but supportingmuseums according to Mr. Erskine.He w’arned that even the great mas¬terpieces would die if those who at¬tend syjnpbonies and operas were in¬terested in merely attending. Atnone of the presentations would theyhear American music. Composers,under the influence of the so-calledpatrons of the arts, do nothing butimitate the museum traditions. Mr.Erskine pointed out that peoples whohave had no art have been blottedout in human tradition.Three PhilosophiesThere are three philosophies withreference to conception of justice,beauty, and order according to thelecture. There are people who acceptlife as it is; there are those, suchas Plato and theologians, who cre¬ate an imaginary world to comparewith life; and there are those whoendeavor to create justice, beauty,and order when they haven’t foundthem. The latter are the artists;they .start with a vision. Even thepolitical dictator and the social re¬former are artists according toithese criteria.“Art,” Mr. Erskine continued,“must make a comment on life,otherwise it will but clutter the fore-mentioned museum.” The artist mustfirst have a passionate love of life,and he must have a knowledge of thepast in order that he may give avision of the future.Walt WhitmanThe lecturer cited a quotationfrom Walt Whitman which .said thata man will be studied and loved inexact proportion to his love andstudy of his country. Thus beforethere can be American art, we muststudy America. Mr. Erskine point- ied to Stephen Foster, Willa Gather, 'and Mark Twain as people whose art |embraced that which they reallyknew and loved.“We in America consider the arts iirrelevant to life, but we must takethem seriously,” E)*skine stated. An all University mixer, sponsoredby the Freshman Executive Council,will be held Saturday from 8 :30 un¬til 12 in Ida Noyes hall, followingthe Chicago-Michigan basketballgame. The dance was originallyscheduled for last week, but waspostponed until this Saturday.Jack Webster, president of thej Council, announced that the entirej third floor has been reserved for theI dance, and that music will be provid-I ed by a five piece orchestra. Refresh- .uhL PLhSelect Twenty Studentsfor Parts inPlaysAfter several weeks of intensivetryouts the casts for the Dramaticments will be served, and there will j Association’s ninth annual Playfestbe no admittance charge.SCHUMAN DESCRIBESTRENDS IN 6ERMANYAT NSl TEA TDDAT have been completed. Three one actplays, written, acted, and directedby .students are on the bill this yearfor January 25, 26, and 27.Edith Grossberg, the author of the' first play, “Roots,” takes the part ofj Mrs. Davis, one of the leading char-i acters in this study of a Jewish fam¬ily living on Hyde Park Boulevard.! She is also the student director. She-i lah, who has just returned fromschool in Germany under the HitlerDr. Frederic L. Schuman, assist- | regime, is played by Terry Hirsch-ant professor of Political Science, feld.who has recently returned from a Cast of “Roots”trip to Germany and Russia, will Her parents are Margaret Ran-speak at a tea' today given in his i®,." Barney Klein-, „ .schmidt is Arthur Berns, engaged tohonor by the iNational Student ; Shelah, while a young German whoLeague in Ida Noves hall at 3:30. i follows the girl back to America, isDr. Schuman will discuss his trip and! the current situation in Nazi Ger¬many. This will be his first public: appearance since his return toAmerica.; Dr. Schuman believes, quotingI from a statement to The Daily Ma-' roon, that, “the Nazi war menace can1 be met only by un unflinching willon part of the French bloc to main¬tain the existing distribution of arm¬aments, territory, and power. The' danger of the anti-Semitic and FascistI propaganda on the part of Hitlerite' agents in the United States can bemet only by a determination to ex-i pose and frustrate the schemes ofI the Nazi party’s foreign bureau.”A Soviet film. “The End of St.Petersburg,” portraying the Russianrevolution will be presented tomor-; row under the auspices of the Na¬tional Student League. The picturewill be shown in the Social ScienceAssembly hall at 8:30. .Admissioncharge is 20 cents. The events of thelast days of the Czar, the WorldW^ar, and the uprising in St. Peters¬burg will be dcnicted.Pyre Noted Actor,Enacts ‘‘Franscescada Rimini” SaturdayBradley, FamousHunter, PresentsFellowes FridayGERMAN ECONOMISTSPEAKS ON RECOVERYMelchior Palyi, eminent Germanprofessor of Economics, will be thespeaker at the winter dinner meet¬ing of the Graduate Club of Eco¬nomics and Business to be held inIda Noyes hall Wednesday at 6:30.Professor Palyi came to the Uni¬versity as the result of conflict withNazi interests, and ha^ been givingclas.ses since the beginning of thewinter quarter. His talk Wednesdaywill be' on the “Theory and Practiceof Recovery Policies.”The second of the round table dis¬cussions sponsored by the GraduateClub will be held Friday in the Com¬mon room of Haskell hall at 4:30. Herbert Edwin B’radley, law'yer,traveller, and big game hunter, willintroduce Air Commander P. F. M.Fellowes at the fourth of the Stu¬dent Lecture series Friday eveningat 8:30 in Mandel hall. At presentMr. Bradley is president of the Chi¬cago Geographical Society.In 1921 the lawyer accompaniedCarl Akeley of the .American Mu¬seum of Natural History in an ex¬pedition to the Belgian Congo. In1924 Bradley made another trip toAfrica, making the first exploringexpedition through the country westof Lake Edward. His experienceswhile searching for tigers in Sumatraand Indo-China were recounted invarious magazines and geographicalimblications.Following the introduction. Com¬mander Fellowes will describe his ex¬periences during his now historicflight over Mount Everest last April.Moving pictures of the flight will beshown.On account of the demand fortickets to the lecture by RaymondMoley, international economist andeditor of Today, tickets for his lec¬ture on February 6 will go on saletoday. Tickets for both the Fellowes’lecture and that of Moley are nowon sale for 55 cents and 85 cents atthe University Bookstore, Wood¬worth’s Bookstore, and the MandelCloisters box office. Walton Pyre, eminent actor-diseurand former director of Otis Skin¬ner’s productions, will give a play re¬cital of “Franscesca da Rimini” Sat¬urday night at 8:20 at the Cube Ex¬perimental Art theater, 218 SouthWabash. Tickets may be purchasedat 50 and 75 cents.“Franscesca da Rimini,” a play ineight scenes, written by GeorgeHenry Boker, takes place in Italyabout 1300. Walton Pyre will por¬tray all the eight roles in the play.For the first time, modem costumeswill be used.The Cube Experimental Art thea¬ter was founded by a group of cre¬ative arti.sts who wished to make thestage into a laboratory and work¬shop. Anyone interested in drama¬tics may come to the Cube Elxperi-mental Art theater Tuesday or Wed¬nesday at 8 for tryouts. At presentthe theater is casting each Tuesdayand Wednesday for “The Crisis ofApril 15” and “The Merchant ofVenice.” Both plays will be directedby Walton Pyre.SKULL AND CRESCENTAPPOINTS SALESMENMore distributors of tickets to theSkull and Crescent dance to be heldFriday of next week in the Cloisterclub were announced yesterday byJack Webster, in charge of freshmanticket sales.The freshman salesmen are JackWebster, Dean Phemister, John Beal,Floyd Stauffer, Bob Btethke, NedBartlett, John Ballenger, JamesMelville, and Dan Heindel.The advance sale of bids, pricedat $1.75, has been good accordingto Dick Zacharias who is in chargeof ticket sales for Skull and Cre.s-cent. As yet there have been noreservations made by groups fortables. played by Charles Nicola. Under¬studies for the play are RobertaGuttman and Serette Kosman.There are only four characters inthe Second play, “The CreativeUrge” written by Robert Sharp.Frank Springer, chairman of theDramatic Association and Lois Crom¬well, who has appeared in numerousplays take the parts of Tom andJane Fenwick, a young New Yorkcouple;. Georg Mann is the “otherman.” Thrsse three are directing theplay jointly.' Roger Baird has thefourth part, that o^ grocery boy.Veterans ParticipateThe third play is Dorris Fish’s“Painted Mesas,” with many veteran' players of the Dramatic Associationtaking part. Robert Ebert, the stu¬dent director, is Binks MacGregor, ayoung New Mexican who ha.s justreturned from a chorus job in aBroadway revue. Jean Russell takesthe part of Janet MacGregor, hiswife.The “bad woman” from New Yorkis played by Ethel Ann Gordon, whileJoan Guiou has the role of Grand¬mother MacGregor. Three Mexicansare played by Rita Cusack, HowardChandler, and Edward Clark. Ste¬phen Hawxhurst takes the part ofMichael Brewster.Dorris Fish, who wrote “PaintedMesas” has left the University andis now enrolled in Duke University.She is staying on campus until afterthe first performance when she willreturn to Duke.Mirror DancersBegin Practicesfor Tap ChorusThe Mirror tappers yesterdayswung into rehearsal in pi’eparationfor the ninth annual Mirror revue,to be presented in Mandel hall March2 and 3. The members of the balletare continuing daily practices inMandel in the third week of theirrehearsals.Helen Leventhal has been selectedto fill the vacancy in the Tap Choruscreated by the resignation of Vir¬ginia Russell. Other members of thegroup are Peggy Burns, Betty Cason,Margaretha Moore, Peggy Moore,Virginia New', Lorraine Watson, andPeggy Holahan, who also acts as di¬rector of the chorus. Miss EdithBallwebber, who is an instructor inthe department of Physical Educa¬tion and is supervising the work, metwith the eight dancers yesterday inIda Noyes hall. Rehearsals will beheld daily, with the exception ofSaturday and Sunday, from 3 to5:30.Cleta Olmstead, who danced inlast year’s ballet, will again partici¬pate in the dancing, according to anannouncement made yesterday byBerta Ochsner, director of the Mir¬ror ballet. Alice Davis has been se¬lected by Miss Ochsner to take partin a group of special dances whichare now being planned for the pro¬duction.Dorothy Mae Johnson will assistEsther Weber, chairman of the com¬mittee on design.iltiiiiil Zt OA^ iV1Ar6(. THURSDAY, JANUARY 18. 1934‘00Uwspaper of the•ept Saturday,and spriiiKersity avenue.-d into SinKle ciA>i«:Jniversity or Chicajfoy Maroon, or for anyiFOon.u aa second class matt cch l>‘. 1903. at the post¬al Chicane. Illinois, under the Act of March 3. 1879.The Daily Maroon expressly reserves all right of publicationof any material appearing in this paper.BOARD OF CONTROLJOHN P. BARDEN, Editor-in-C hiefVINCENT NEWMAN, Business ManagerWILLIAM GOODSTEIN, Managing EditorWALTER L. MONTGOMERY, Cir ulationJANE 1. BIESENTHAL, Associate EditorBETTY HANSEN, Associate EditorEDITORIAL ASSISTANTSTom Barton Howard P. Hudson Howard M. RichNoel B. Gerson David H. Kutner Florence WishnickWilliam Bergman BUSINESS ASSISTANTSWilliam O’Donnell Robert Samuels' SOPHOMORE REPORTERSCharlotte Fishman Raymond Lahr Ralph NicholsonEdgar Greenebaum Janet Lewy U-an PrussingRuth Greenebaum Curtis Melnick Harker StantooCharles Hoerr Donald Morris Jeanne StolteHenry Kelley William WatsonSOPHOMORE BUSINESS ASSISTANTSRod Chapin Zalmon Goldsmith Gerald SternFYank Davis - - - — . .Eld ward Schaar Everett StoreyEDITORIAL COMMITTEEMarie Berger Louise Graver Preston CutlerGeorg Mann ' home in a wor.^ whose citizens unwittingly liveby theories.They might improve the present chaotic condi-; tion of contemporary literature.They might restore ideas and distinctions,' which had been fruitful in the past and forgot-i ten in the present, to an intellectually impover¬ished world.1 Education, we believe, w’ould be worth startingover if any heretic ventured to start an institu¬tion like the college Mark Van Doren assumedfounded for purposes of theoretical investigation.Scoffers will say: "Pursue this idea far enough,and you will find that inevitably you will want toread the books in the language in which they werewritten."Scholarly, unabridged translations of everygreat book have reduced this contention to ab¬surdity. All can be read and understood in Eng¬lish. The more significant of them number onehundred or less, and might be read in a singletwo-year course.Cautious hesitancy seems to be the chief char¬acteristic of most educators. Though they areperfectly aw’are of faults in present systems, theywill not change until they have empirical proofI that the change will remedy all the faults. Evenj then they pessimistically realize that even if thej change is for the good, it will create new faults,j Still, a plan such as Mark Van Doren proposesj has not even been tried, except in isolated cases,j where it has proved empirically excellent andintellectually fruitful.And still, some people oppose it with the trulyasinine question: "Why change?"—J. P. B, Lettersto theEditorEditor, The Daily Maroon,Dear Son:Night Editor: Charles W. HoerrThursday, January 18, 1934MARK VAN DORENON BOOKSbook"For never would th"re be written awhich they could not understand simply by read¬ing it from the first word to the last.This unique compliment is from Mark VanDoren, poet, author, critic, literateur, to graduatesof a hypothetical college that required its mem¬bers to read certain books, and the plan for thiscollege, Mr. Van Doren out-lined in TTe Nation(December 6, 1933).Teaching in this institution, like studying, con¬sisted of reading books, requiring an intelligibleaccount of them, and recollectng the contents ofall previous books accurately and completely inthe course of discussion upon any given book.The books were masterpieces written in the lastthree thousand years. Ideas in these bo'~'ks mightcome under the heading of poetry, of histoiy, ofphilosophy, of fiction, of theology, of natural sci¬ence, of political and economic theory.But the peculiar characteristic of Van Doren’sproposed college was that nobody did anythingbut read the books. Students were not forced"to get the facts" from a digest, commentary, orbiography which revealed the number of wivesthe author had and the modern significance of hismind, according to the belief of his biographer.College boys who complained that these bookswere not suited to their personalities went throughthe institution rapidly—in the front door and outthe back—for they had supposed that one at- Itended college to develop one’s personality.Other unfortunates, brought up on outlines, in¬troductions. histories of literature and thought,and collections of excerpts, had lost their abilityto read almost before it was evident, and so werequite firmly eliminated from the Van Doren col¬lege.The rest settled down to the task of reading theinevitable books. Two or three teachers metwith small groups of them to question the studentclosely concerning the contents of the requiredbook. If they had read it badly, they were madeto read it again.They made excursions only into the author’sthought, not his life, or the life of the peoplearound him.Then, says Van Doren, after four years a gen¬eration of students was loosed upon the worldwithout preparation to cope with its modernfacts, but in their favor, it might be said that theywere educated."That is." added Mr. Van Doren, "they wereequipped with so much understanding of what thebest human brains had done in the past three jthousand years that they realized without diffi- Iculty how few contemporary human brains— jnaturally—were of the best." jOn the careers of his graduates. Van Dorenvery 'ucidly states that they might be sufficientlycompetent in the recognition of theory to feel at i The Travelling Bazaar?I BY CHARLES (“Scriblerus”) TYROLER |CLL'BS AT RESTEighty-nine have .(/(>»( tliv n'otf of the thirteen. .. .it’.s all over. . .and now the Circle horn-honk¬ing can. despite Sidney, go on in an erer monyif-ing crescendo... .for they alieady have whatthey’re going to get and even if they don't like itthere’s nothing they can do about it; so why thinkabout it?. . . .they can’t do nnytiting more 7io7c. . .for it’s (ill over until next year....and then asodden calm will pervade the Circle, and we’llI’ealize that club rushing is starting again. . . .andit’s lucky that clubs have rushing to remind nsthat there are such....it’s lucky.... until nextyear.* * *Logic a la M. AdlerOn mules we find two legs behind.And two we find before;We stand behind before we findWhat the two behind before.Gert Stein Eisendrath• • «OXE iri? LEFT OUTIt was at one of those week-end scavengerhunts, and .somebody was told to get the funniestthing that he had ever seen.We doff our well-worn chapeau to the guy thatcame back in about ten minutes with one of theMaroon editorials!« * *INTERIMwe stroll in the cold air....our nine o’clock isover....we feel good....but our ten o’clock isstill to come (and our eleven) . .. .not so good. ...we feel energetic... .we rush into rosenwald andalmost hump into e. ann gordon and stevie hawx-hurst who are gazing into each other’s eyes en¬raptured... .they probably wouldn’t have noticedit if we had bowled them over... .we climb a stepor two....there is a landing we pausephil werner and gil hilbrant brush by... .Cali¬fornia’s jack reynolds is bundled up in a sheep¬skin coat.... he is smoking a pipe... .la’wrence-ville’s bob barr is up on the stairs....he comesdown and over to us.... he tells us that our fra¬ternity house dog is dead. . . .we are almost cheer¬ed.... the darned mongrel always slobbers overour pants. ...he isn't dead....we find thatout later. . .jay berwanger, jack .«cruby and ralphbalfanz pass by.. .two girls are coming down thestairs. .. .“it was just the cutest thing youcan’t possibly imagine. . .why my dear I was sim¬ply mortified’’. . . .we light a cigarette. .. .we puffas milt oliv used to in his phoenix column.. . .wefeel a slight nudge at our side. . . .it is professorharlen bretz and he is smiling and pointing tosomething. .. .we follow his arm.... it is a sign....“no smoking’’. .. .we grin sheepishly as ourshoe smothers a one-puffed butt, . .we look aroundthe corner of a w'all. . . .d. kerr and m. moore arecooing to each other.... ?fc turn away withoutdistracting them....they don’t know that theyaren’t alone.... f/(C bell rings and people bustleby as we climb the stairs resignedly.... After reading your sheet, I wantto tell you how much I agree withthat guy who wrote in the other day. complaining of Morrison’s column onj fraternities. I think the whole thinghas been unkind and in bad taste. InI fact. I suspect both you and the writ-j er of it of possessing very untler-graduate minds. One w'ould think: that fraternities existed merely asI competitive institutions for campus; activities, and to hell with the onewho did not grab off campus bi.gshots.The column could have been veryuseful to incoming men had it dweltthoughtfully on the atmosphere—and it should be the best interpre¬tation that could be made—whichexists in each group.You ought to point out that this••olumn has seemed to measure theworth of each fraternity merely bythe amount of noise that their big¬ger men made on campus. Thatthere should exist, and doubtlessdoes exist in the case of most fra¬ternities. a community of interestswhich contributed something ofvalue to its members, but which isnot readily discovered in a mere sta-: tistical review.Even if your intention in this col¬umn has been to kill off the weakfraternities, I believe some words ofseeming kindliness and understand¬ing are decidedly in order.Best regards,John P. Barden Sr.This guy’s background is Deke, !* Westem Reserve, ’00, and talks as jthough he might know something, jBesides, we don’t dare disagree with jhim.—-ed. IGRINKER PUBLISHESBOOK ON NEUROLOGYAn attempt to present the studyof the nervous system as a part ofthe biological sciences rather than in! its specific relations to dif«'ase has !ben made by Roy R. Grinker. associ- iate professor of Neurology, in hisbook. “Neurology,’’ which was pub- ili.'hed last w'eek. jThe new publication modernizes itssubject by correlating important bio- ilogical facts, theories, and hypothe¬ses with scientific and clinical datathat concern the human nervous sys¬tem in health and disease. DREXEL THKATUEK. 63rdSpencer 1 racy inTHE MAD GAME’Mats. Daily 15c till 6:30■lvr.TTL'l\ HUE’TTL ARTSCHOOLFigure Drawing,P aimingArt Supplies1546 E. 57th St.Plaza 2536. . 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J'he Reynolds! lui^ at 8.MiscellaneousNational Student League lecture,;ii,l tea in library and lounge of IdaNat 3:30..lewish Student’s Foundation Mid-wiiit-r Tea Dance in theater of IdaNlives hall at 3:30,distory Club election of officersin .'oeial Science 302 at 7 :30.I Limes Club in theater of IdaX i\ i - at 7 :15.Alpha Beta Zeta social meeting in', W . C. .A. room of Ida Xoyes at 8. eESURCH SURVEY ' Norgren Coaches SWORDSMEN BtnLEUPHOLDS PRESENTRELIEF MEASURESCiqiu^THE MAGaIzINE FOR MENTHE BRILLIANTNEW MAGAZINE« FOR MEN *• The only thing on whichdeacons and touts have everagreed —because it's jam-packed with belly-laughs andbrow-raisers for every manof every type and taste!OUT TODAY! (Continued from page 1)had lived in small dwellings; andmore had lived in low-rent dwellings.In most cases, the non-relieffamilies were distinctly better offthan the relief families in regards tothe total assets owned. Particularlystriking are the differences betweenthe percentage who owned theii-homes without mortgage and be¬tween the pejcentage who ownedother apartments in addition to theirown.lAirther data shows that for thewhole group, the percentages of re¬lief families who used credit, whoborrowed money, who got help fromfriends and relatives, and had evensold some of their household goodsto get money are strikingly largerthan the correspomiing percentagesof the non-relief families; that is, in¬formation indicates greater use oftheir own resources by families whofinally had to apply for relief, as theonly way <»iit of their dilemma.“The conclusions to be drawnfrom this comparison of the familieswho had, and those who had not had,relief in a group of one thousand' families with unemployed wage-earn¬ers can be very briefly stated,’’ MissWright concluded. “The figures gofar to support the theory that thosewho get along without relief are asa group distinguished from thosewho get help by easier economic cir-^ cumstances in the past and a lessdistressing immediate situation. Theylend no support whatevei- to the con¬tention that the families not on re¬lief are more ready to live on theirown resources or to endure hard¬ships than those who have had help.Thus while one thousand familiesmay not be sufficient to dispose tin-: ally of the theory of the inherent su¬periority of the families who are noton relief, they are sufficient to cre¬ate a strong pi'esumption that thetheory is dead. .And may its ghoststay in its grave until equally con¬clusive evidence indicates that it hasa right to live.’’The .students at Syracuse univer¬sity have the privilege of ballottingon the subject of the chapel talk.freshmen . . .We know its boring to go fromone frat club to the next telling allthe boys all about the new plan andwhere you went to high school andthe day you got that first tooth.Take time off from your wan¬derings and reserve a table in a realfraternity atmosphere where youcan see for yourself who does any¬thing on campus.your opportunityThe Skull andCrescent DanceJanuary 26 Cagers in BasicPlays, DefmseF'eeling that scrimmage' and stillmore scrimmage is the only way tosolve the problem of the Maroons’inability to win conference basket¬ball games. Coach Nels Norgren hasbeen drilling his charges in allphases of play during the week. Lit¬tle is being done to change theteam’s style of offense other thanfurther emphasis of the fast break.As the season progre.sses it becomesmore apparent that much of the fu¬ture succe.ss of the team dependsupon the effectiveness of Bill Haar-low. He has yet to go on scoringsprees, such as he indulged in whenat Bowen high school.Bob Pyle has seen little servicethis week in practice though he issecond high scoring forward on theteam. Tommy Flinn played the en¬tire game against Illinois and willprobably start in the Michigan gameSaturday. Stan Kaplan, erstwhileguard is seeing more action at for¬ward and may also break into thelineup. Wegner, who played thefirst half of the Illini game at guardwill probably be replaced by LeoOppenheim.While Chicago is now the lonefive in the Big Ten race without avictory to date, at the other end ofthe ladder we find Purdue, paced byNorm Cottom, perhaps not to beheaded in its pursuit of the confer¬ence crown. The Boilermakers haveaveraged close to forty points agame, including Cottom’s forty-twomarkers, and are now blessed witha layoff until February 10. In con¬trast to this absence of conferencecompetition, the remaining nineteams have games scheduled whichin some cases are played with onlyone night of rest between contests.Iowa, the choice to push Purduein the title chase, and the team thatstands the best chance to chalk up awin at the axpense of the boys fromI.afayette, appears to have had anoff night Saturday. The Hawksbarely managed to eke out a onepoint victory over the Gophers. Inspite of this, indications show thatIowa and Northwestern are the twoteams to watch, as one or the othershould pull a surprise. PURDUE IN OPENINGBIG TEN DUAL MEETMaroon fencers encounter theirfirst Big Ten competition in approxi¬mately two weeks when the PurdueBoilermakers invade Bartlett gymFebruary 3.The Maroons defeated Purdue lastyear 10-7. This year, liowever, theBoilei’makers have been consistentwinnei’s and should furnish stiff com¬petition.Those who will probably see ac¬tion against Purdue are LouisMarks, George Gelman, Chuck Law¬rence, Jeffrey Fried, Burton Youngand Ormand Julian. The latter twoare the only seniors on the squad,the rest of the men being sophomersor freshmen.In addition to these men there isa host of good material available tofill in any gaps in the lineup. Prom¬inent among the freshmen are BillSherwood, Hank Lemon, Ed Sibley,Jazapaitis, city individual championin foil while at Lindblom High.school, and Arthur Lidov.Sophomores who are likely to seecompetition as the season progressesare Lee Winter, state individualchampion in foil while at Crane Col¬lege, George Gelman, winner of theintramural fencing championship,and Campbell Wilson who has ex¬perienced intercollegiate competitionhaving fenced, for Los Angeles Col- !lege, 'All in all, the team looks like it’sgoing places this year and shouldprove a strong contender for the BigTen championship.THE GREEKS HAVEA WORD(Continued from page 1)them in the Intramural league andwill turn out to be a real Psi U.Don’t think that this is writteti tofill space, either. Demand to see all36 actives and 5 pledges lined upagainst the wall.ET L’ARGENTThe fraternity is in a good finan¬cial position. They charge certainfixed sums, $56 and $21 per monthfor men living in and out of thehouse respectively, and they can af¬ford to give a discount for promptpayment, which is some indication oftheir financial strength. The only ad¬dition to this payment is various so¬cial assessments which come to about$1.50 a month.The national dues are taken careof by the local chapter, with no ex¬tra assessment on the chapter mem¬bers. This is something that not allthe fraternities are able to do.PLEDGINGDelta Kappa Epsilon announcesthe pledging of Dana Wilson of Hins¬dale.Sigma Chi announces the pledgingWhat’s the News?There is only one way to keep abreastof the ever changing college world ofwhich our University is the spirited lead¬er!THE DAILY MAROON reflects hotonly the changing traditions of the Mid¬way but also the progressive innovationsof Universities as a whole.SUBSCRIBE NOWONLY $1.75JANUARY TO JUNEHOFFER NAMESGYM LINEUP FORWILLIAMS’ MEETConsiderably encouraged by the ,news that Emery Fair is eligible, iCoach Dan Hoffer was able to an- Inounce tentatively yesterday his jstarting Gymnastic team for the Imeet with George Williams College |January 26. Captain George Wrighte |will compete in all five events. Also ito see action will be Hanley, Fair, Iand Snyder in the horizontal barsand the horse; Murphy Adams, and jConstantine in the rings; Murphy,Schroeder, Fair, and Constantine inthe parallel bar.s; and Nordhaus,Constantine, Kolb, and Roberts inthe tumbling.At the present time this year’steam does not seem to be as strongas last year’s Conference champions,who won by a margin of 12 pointsout of the total 1200 points. TheMaroons are strong in the rings andthe parallel bars and fairly strong inthe tumbling and horse events. How¬ever they are weak in the horizontalbars. The entire squad has beenworking hard, though, and as mostof them are in good condition, theyare bound to improve as the seasonprogresses.According to pre-season dope, Il¬linois seems to be the class of theconference. Its team includes sev¬eral veterans and also Rehor whohas not been in residence for twoyears, and was Chicago city high.school champion a few years ago.of Albert Hought'"' of Chicago andJohn Cranor of Huntingdon, Pennsyl¬vania. MID^WINTfcK :>«Finchley offers the men of Chicago the oppor^tunity of purchasing the finest clothingavailable at extremely low prices. It maytruthfully be stated that the valuesbeing presented can not be dupli^cated elsewhere in Chicago.Business SuitsStaple Blues and Oxford Greys includedTOPCOATS and OVERCOATS/3|50 485 0/i68’ oCLOTHES TAILORED AT FASHION PARK/J Slight Charge for AlterationsFancy Madras and BroadclothShirts$235FURNISHINGSLeather Goods and NoveltiesDRASTICALLY REDUCED19 East Jackson Blvd. Fifth Avc„ New Yorkfraternities . . .We know you’re putting out alot of effort in this rushing busi¬ness. We also advise you to keepup the good work and not miss thisopportunity on the very eve ofpledging, to put your best foot forforward.All the freshman will be thereand all the frat boys ought to begrouped around their own tableready for inspection.your opportunityThe Skull andCrescent DanceJanuary 26r IN ORIGINALDAI Li iA^.OON SPORTS (,r.< THURSDAY, JANUARY 18. 1934SportFlashes■ II a viccory over^Xorthwestern intia-ast Friday, opens theamingr season tonight at.ett natatorium. The meetcomprise six swimming events1 ,nd a fancy-diving contest, in whichJohn Roberts, Boylan, and Stantonwill try to outpoint Nick Rears, Loy¬ola champ. The heaviest competitionof the evening will take place in the200-yard breast-stroke race when DanGlomset, Maroon captain, and ChuckDwyer meet Max Bridenthal, crack-erjack Loyola record-holder. Al¬though Loyola showed evidence ofhaving a good team this year, theywill be no match for Coach McGil-livray’s men who, if performancesin practice mean anything, will begreatly improved over last year.Entries in the other events willinclude the following men;400-yard relay—Chicago; JohnBarden. Phil Stein, .\1 Sachs, LennieLevi.Loyola; Bill Stoeri, Dan Vanden-Berg, Captain Eddie Ertz, Trick.Medley relay—Chicago; Don Bell-strom, Joe Stolar, Stein.Loyola Hobbs, Wise, Dan Boone.60-yard free-style—Chicago; Bar¬den, Levi,Loyola; Captain Ertz.220-yard free-style — Chicago; iRay Macdonald, Sachs.Loyola Jim Elwell, Stoeri. :150-yard back stroke—Chicago;-George Nicoll, Bellstrom, Macdonald.Loyola Elwell.If Loyola has any men to enter ithere will be a 100-yard and a 440-yard free-style race. Barden andStein will swim in the former, whileMerritt Btish and Frank Nahser, wa¬ter polo captain, will try to outdis¬tance Loyola men in the I4O. Michigan—Precaution—Doomed—-By TOM BARTON- PHI SIGMA DELTA ANDGOPHERS WIN IN l-MBASKETBALL GAMESLEVINE GAINS FIRSTplace in BILUARDSDave Levine continued his upwardclimb on the billiard ladder yesterdaywhen he defeated Murray and tookthe fir.«t place. Murray was put inthird place, Daskais remaining insecond, Levine had previously takenthird by defeating GifFen who is nowin fourth.Another upset in the tournamentwas made by Schaar who took Turleyoff the ladder and advanced to theposition. But Schaar was not able toadvance further. He challenged DickLevin and beat him, but Levin chal¬lenged him and won, keeping hisplace in fifth.TONIGHTS GAMES7:30Phi Kappa Sig. vs. D. U. 11.S. A. E. II vs P.si U. 11.Deke II vs. Phi Psi 11.8:15Spartans vs. Disciples.Alpha Sig. vs. S. A. K. When Harry Kipke goes to Yaleto coach the grid team there—and itis fairly certain that he will go—Michigan and the Big Ten will losea brilliant coach. Kipke’s record forsuccesses at Ann Arbor needs nomention. However Kipke’s succes¬sor at Michigan appears to be thefirst consideration on sporting pagesat present.It is doubtful if “Hurry Up” Yostwill return to active coaching to takeover the job; Bennie Oosterbaanlacks the experience for the position;the Michigan department of athleticswould not pay Friedman or Newmanenough; that seems to leave the pres¬ent basketball coach, Franklin Cap-pon, as the most likely successor toKipke. Cappon, who knows footballand basketball, has frequently beenmentioned as successor to Yost asAthletic director. Whether Kipkeconsiders himself counted out aspossible athletic director on the re¬tirement of the present director maydecide his acceptance of Yale’s of¬fer.* * *Coach Shaughnes.sy isn’t takingany chances on losing any of his menby ineligibility next fall. Shaughnes-sy has his boys report their scholas¬tic progress each week.♦ ♦ *“Red’’ Grange, after stepping offa couple of touchdowns to enable theChicago Bears to beat a Pacificcoast all-star team a few days ago,signalized the doom of collegiatefootball. “Red” said that the profes¬sional type of game afforded morethrills and indicated that unless theN. C. A. A, does something aboutspeeding up the game, college foot¬ball will lose its appeal to the pub¬lic.We admit that professional foot¬ball has been coming along financial¬ly, but the old color of the collegiatecontest will still draw one or twocustomers through the turnstiles. Thepros play the majority of their gameson Sunday, and we venture to saythat if a good college game wereplayed in Chicago on Sunday, at¬tendance at the Chicago Bears’ gameon that same Sunday would besharply hit. And attendance at col¬lege grid games last season, a sea¬son of depression in general was thebest in many years—which does notseem to indicate that the collegebrand of football is doomed to theextent that “Red” says. j Several close and interestinggames featured last night’s Intra¬mural cage contests. A.lthough manyof the games were characterized bythe flying tackles and headlocks thatwere so prominent in past intramuralcontests, the teams showed a definiteimprovement over previous showingsthis year. F.specially exciting werethe Phi Sigm.a Delta’s 26 to 19 vic¬tory over the Phi Psis and the Goph¬ ers 26 to 25 victory over the “200”Dormitory team.Phi S^ma Delta Win Over Phi Psi*Probably the most exciting gameof the evening was the only fratern¬ity game scheduled. This was the PhiPsi-Phi Sigma Delta contest whichwas carried over from Tuesday eve¬ning. The teams were fairly eventhroughout the game, and a momentbefore the final whistle blew, the PhiPsis were winning 19-18. Howeverjust as before the whistle blew, aPhi Sig player made a basket. Thejoints were disputed, but the gamewas given to the Phi Sigs. Wernerled the losers with 7 points, andHorwitz the winners with a like num¬ber.In another close game the Gophersdowned the “200” organization 26 to25; Nelson starring for the victors and Panter for the losers. Also hardplayed was the game between thePonies, led by Sherre and Wolbergand the C. T. S. group led by Masse-link and Stark, in which the decisionwent to the former by 18 to 11. Hof-fer’s Reds were defeated in a hard |played game by the B. and B.’s by ■a score of 17 to 12, in which Stern jplayed a strong game for the victors.“37” Club Player Injured }In the game betwen the “37” cluband the “700” Dormitory group. Bill ■Runyon of the “37” team slipped,and falling into the wall suffered asevere head cut. The former won by ;a score of 27 to 1. Other lopsided 'scores included the Independentswin over the Palateers 37 to 13, theChizzler’s 37 to 10 rout of the U HiPanthers, and the Medics win overthe Gamma .\lphas 27 to 9. Faculty RecreationTourney AnnouncedA doubles handball tournamentfor members of the University fac¬ulty will be held on the handballcourts in the West stands of Staggfield. Entries for the tourney closeWednesday, January 24, and playcommences Monday, January Jit.Drawings are to he posted in thelocker rooms of the West stand.'..According to Clark Shaughnessy,director of faculty recreation, theprizes for the tournament will con¬sist of a lot of fun and exercise, andpossibly a get-together dinner after¬wards.The faculty of the Northern StateTeachers’ college has voluntarily re¬duced their salaries in order to cre¬ate a fund for impoverished students.This was prompted by the revelationthat several students were living onone meal a day.Friday—Jan. 19thfraternity nightAT THE HOTEL SHERMAN-COLLEGEINN — honoringSweet Hot Music by DELTA KAPPA EPSILONPSI UPSILONPHI KAPPA PSIALPHA DELTA PHINOBLE SISSLE OrchestraGREAT FLOOR SHOWNo Cover Charge—No Minimum■Reservations—Fra 2l00iIs WHAT DO YOUTHINK ABOUTGRADES?Do you, as a student, feel that the present systemof grades — (A B C F etc.) is satisfactory?Are you, after your several years’ (or quarters’)educational experience convinced that this systemis quite adequate for our present needs?Or on the other hand do you feel that this afore¬mentioned system is simply a relic of the old lock-step, spoon fed methods -— an archaic remnant ofan outmoded educational order?What ever your viewEXPRESS YOUROPINIONIN THE DAILY MAROON QUESTIONNAIRECast Your Vote Outside of the College Libraryor at the Maroon Office.imperfect\'ol. 34. No, 54. Bail? ittivroo.iUNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO, IHURSDAY, JANUARY 18, 1934The GreeksHave a Word— By HARRY MORRISON—PSI UPSILONIn my opinion the fraternity thatpre.sents the best front of them all isPsi Upsilon. This is not to say thatIt i« the best fraternity. They’ve aLtreat bip house and they’ve alwayshad a lot of smooth puys; theirreputation in this respect does not-uffer throuph havinp Connor Lairdand “Beautiful” Cullen pracinp theirtable. They have a lot of athletes andin this day of revivinp football hopesand interest in athletics of all kinds,thinps like these are bound to makean impression. The fact that manyof them like to assume a costume ofparts used to attract a pood deal ofiflamor to them but now that theDekes have taken over much the<ame type of costume their appealhas faded to some extent.The frat club was founded in1S33 at Union Collepe, which makesit fairly old. They had a chapter atthe oripinal university, which Hutchwould call a “small-town collepewith no reason for its Existence” andwhen John D. turned the place intoa “center of the world intellectualmovement” Psi U established theirlocal chapter here in 1899. For a“larpe and powerful” national fra¬ternity, a dearth of chapters is quitenoticeable. There are 27 of them,stronp in the east, pood in the middle-west, none in the south, and 3 westof the Mississippi.ATHLETICSRepardless of what the Psi U’s .^ay,they are essentially at the presenttime, an athletic fraternity. Theyseem to be somehow a little afraidof admittinp all this but I see noth-inp to be ashamed of. There are 38active members in the house and ofthese 19 men enpaped in sports haveleceived major awards. There are 5pledpes, transfer students, w'ho mayor may not do anythinp in the realmof sports. Of the aforementioned 19,four are active in more than onesport. Apain let me say that the boysover there insisted to me that thep‘ iK-: al run of their conversation isnot always athletics. When we wereat lunch yesterday we talked aboutthe really pood food we were pettinp.That i» somethinp.Incidentally the boys seem to beable to pet ripht out and win a fewIntramural trophies every year, de¬spite the fact that a lot of their bestmen are inelipible due to their otherathletic proclivities.ACTIVITIESIt has been said that Psi I’ is veryheavily overbalanced, that all theyknow is peculiar muscle movementswhich enable them to do thinps in anathletic way better than other peo¬ple. This is not entirely true. Thereare fi sophomores seriously enpapedin activities, three in Intramuralwork, two on the Cap and Gowmstaff, and one on the business staffof the Maroon There are twoJuniors, one a Blackfriar manaperand one an Intramural manaper, w’hodo thinps in an activity w-ay. Andthere are about three seniors whoare doinp somethinp towards run-ninp the affairs of the underpraduatebody. Fipure it out and it adds upto eleven men of the 38 takinp aninterest in the activities of the Uni¬versity,WATCH THISDespite everythinp that can be-aid, we’re still left with the perhapsunpleasant idea that there are toomany muscle men around for thenumber of puys who are in activities.Xddinp much more to this would bepivinp an opinion but I don’t thinkthere are enouph men over there inactivities relevant to the real'trenpth of the fraternity.There is no real strenpth in pub¬lications, with no one on the editorial'taff of Maroon and not much chanceof anyone pettinp on. Psi U nevertook much interest in the Phoenixexcept for lipht readinp. This mayhave been a pood thinp both fromthe standpoint of the fraternity andthe Phoenix but it’s a fact never¬theless.One more thinp that comes outonce in a while is the obscurity of8ome of the members. Every year>ome man will appear on campuswhom no one has ever seen beforeand whom no one will ever see apain.Finally it turns out that he is a PsiC and has been an active Psi U forthe last three years. Or some un¬known will win a pame of baseball for(Continued on page 3) RESEARCH SURVEYUPHOLDS PRESENTRELIEF MEASURESWright Study DisprovesTheory of EconomicParasitismBy DAVID H. KUTNER(This it the first of a seriesof articles dealing with the workof members of the Social Sci¬ence Research committee. Theseries will be continued at ir¬regular intervals, presentingother aspects of the committee’sfindings.)Unemployed families in Chicapowho have received relief from themajor relief-pivinp apencies in thecity have for the most part been de-servinp of it and have not been act-inp the part of economic parasites,accordinp to a complete study of thesituation just completed by HelenW’ripht, associate professor of SocialEconomy at the University.Based on data obtained from1,003 unemployed families, chosen atrandom in the autumn of 1932, MissWripht’s research presents certainirrefutable findinps:The first, and in fact the preatest, 'observable difference between thosefamilies seekinp relief and thosew’hich are not, is in the intensity withwhich they have been affected by' unemployment. Of the 058 familiesI who had not had relief. 309, or .’iO, per cent of the pro up. indicated noperiod in which some member of thefamily had not worked at least ona part-time basis. But. amonp the315 families on relief, however, only49, or 14 per cent, had had someIieriod employment durinp theI period.Economic PositionRelevant facts about wape-earnersand dependents and previous con¬tact with social apencies suppest veryclearly that the families not on reliefhad been in a belter economic posi¬tion than those who had had relief.They had more wape-earners andfewej- children: a smaller percentapehad been known lo social apencies,either relief apencies or others, priorto the period of unemployment.Fipures on certain housinp condi-[ tions found in the two proups like¬wise suppest that the families on re¬lief were somewhat poorei' than the •others. More of the relief familieshad been livinp in basements; morehad only stove heat; more had livedin overcrowded surroundinps; more i(Continued on page 3) Play All Polo Gamesat l^orth Side ClubThe exclusive (’hicapo Ridinp club,located at Ontario street and Mc-Cluip court, has been secured by theMaroon polo team for the remainderof its home pames, accordinp toBruce Benson, captain of the Poloteam. This has been made possiblethrouph the courtesy of the BlackHorse troop, which plays at the riil-inp club, and which has apreed tofurnish ponies for both the Maroonsand the visitinp teams. Thus a short-ape in polo ponies, which has handi¬capped the squad, is alleviated.FACULTY MEMBERSPARTICIPATE IN NEWLEAGUE OF CITIZENSSeveral faculty members of thel^niversity and other prominent resi¬dents of the communities of HydePark, Woodlawn, and Kenwood, haverecently united to form a Neiphbor-hood Citizens’ Leapue. The new or-panization aims to find an effectivepattern of local neiphborhood pov-ernment as applied especially to theUniversity community, and it will beimmediately concerned with inform¬ation for the construction of this' pattern.The proup of twenty-five i.■^ headedby Georpo Fairweather, assistantbusiness manaper of the Univer.sity,and includes Harold F. Gosnell andJerome G. Kerwin, associate profes-, sors of Political Science, and MaryB. Gilson, assistant professor ofEconomics.The party system will onpape theimmediate attention of the orpaniza-tion, which will attempt to make po¬litical parties responsible and repre¬sentative. Open meetinps will be heldin a few weeks at which the primarysystem and local public finance willbe discussed.At the first .session of the prouj),which was held on January 8, themembers determinf'd that they, asresidents of a local community shouldmake every effort to intellipentlyunderstand what should be expectedfrom the political control of the pov-erninp center of their neiphborhood.Alumni MagazineFeatures Mergerin January IssueMerger, merper, and more mergeris not only the main topic of con¬versation these days, but is also thesubject for two of the articles ap¬pearing in the January issue of theAlumni magazine, published yester¬day.“The Great Merper Library” byMilton S. Mayer, a Chicapo newspa¬perman and collaborator with JohnHowe in the writing of “Steps in theDark,” is a combination of the ad¬mittedly imaginative, the suspectedapocryphal, and the alleged his¬torical. The address delivered byPresident Robert M. Hutchins at thestudent convocation is printed toclarify the impressions of the alumniregarding the situation.Jean Henry Larpe, sister of Mrs.Herbert Hoover, makes her contri¬bution to the interesting “autobiog¬raphical biography” of Katherine Be-ment Davis. “Who’s Afraid of theProfessional .Athlete?” inquires JohnM. Stalnaker, member of the (Uni¬versity’s Board of Examiners, andformer-Director of Attitude Meas¬urements for the special committeeon Physical Education and Athleticsat the University of Minnesota.Also in the issue is found “TheShakespeare Industry” by GeorgeSherburn, Professor of English. Inthis article are pointed out mistakenaspects in the program for the ArtsCollepe as outlined in the Novemberissue of the magazine. Renaissance GroupContinues Exhibitof Abstract ArtAn exhibition of abstract art show- Iing the integration of art and sci¬ence by four twentieth century |painters continues in Wieboldt 205under the auspices of the Renais¬sance Society. The artists represent- jed are Picasso, Gris, Braque, and 'Leper. The exhibition is open dailyincluding Sunday from 2 to 5 andwill continue until February 2.To quote from Mrs. Schutze, presi¬dent of the Renai.ssance Society: “Inthe last century there has been anew mutual consciousness of the artsand sciences, and an increased rec¬ognition by artists of certain factorsin plastic structure. This type ofstructure represented what might becalled the ‘Non-Illusionist’ art of thetwentieth century.”The pictures have been loaned byprivate collectors and art dealers inthe East and in Chicago. I'he mathe¬matical solids, which are also on ex¬hibition, are loaned by the depart¬ment of Mathematics of the Univer¬sity. ERSXINE DEFINESCREATIVE ART ASGDMMENT DN LIFESays Music Is LeastUtilitarian of FineArts“.\11 art is a criticism of life,” saidJohn Erskine, author and a formerprofessor at Columbia, in the Wil¬liam Vaughn Moody Foundation lec¬ture in Mandel hall last night. Mr.Erskine expanded his announcedsubject, “What is American Music ”and said that he referred only tomusic in particular because it wasthe least utilitarian of the fine arts,j Those people who conventionally! foster the arts are but supportingj museums accordinp to Mr. Erskine.' He warned that even the great mas-terpieces would die if those who at-; tend sy/nphonies and operas were in-j terested in merely attending. Ati none of the presentations would theyhear American music. Composers,under the influence of the so-called; patrons of the arts, do nothing butimitate the museum traditions. Mr.Erskine pointed out that peoples whohave had no art have been blottedout in human tradition.Three PhilosophiesThere are three philo.sophies withreference to conception of justice,beauty, and order according to thelecture. There are people who acceptlife as it is; there are those, suchas Plato and theologians, who cre¬ate an imaginary world to comparewith life; and there are those whoendeavor to create justice, beauty,and order when they haven’t foundthem. The latter arc the artists;they .'tart with a vision. Even thepolitical dictator and the social re¬former are artists accoi'ding tolthese criteria.“Art.” Mr. Erskine continued,“must make a comment on life,otherwise it will but clutter the fore-mentioned museum.” The artist mustfirst have a passionate love of life,and he must have a knowledge of thepast in order that he may give avision of the future.Walt WhitmanThe lecturer cited a quotationifom Walt Whitman which said thata man wmH be studied and loved inexact proportion to his love andstudy of his country. Thus beforethere can be .American art. we must'tudy America. Mr. Erskine point¬ed to Stephen P'ostei’, Willa Gather,and Mark Twain as people whose artembraced that which they reallyknew and loved.“We in .America consider the artsirrelevant to life, but we must takethem seriouslv.” Ei’skine stated. Freshmen SponsorMixer at Ida Noy..\n all Univer.sity mixer, sponsoi'edby the Freshman Executive Council,will be held Saturday from 8:30 un¬til 12 in Ida Noyes hall, followingthe Chicago-.Michigan basketballgame. The dance was originallyscheduled for last week, but waspostponed until this Saturday.Jack Webster, president of theCouncil, announced that the entirethird floor has been reserved for tht“dance, and that music will be provid¬ed by a five piece orchestra. Refresh¬ments will be served, and there willbe no admittance charge.nUMAN DESCRIBESTRENDS IN GERMANYAT NSL TEA TODAY I, .uhlPLDi'. Frederic I.. Schuman, assist¬ant professor of Political Science,who has recently returned from atrip to Germany and Russia, willspeak at a tea today given in hisj honor by the National StudentLeague in Ida Noves hall at 3:30.Dr. Schuman will discuss his trip andthe current .situation in Nazi Ger¬many. This will be his first publicj appearance since his return to.America.Dr. Schuman believes, quotingfrom a statement to The Daily Ma¬roon. that, “the Nazi war menace canbe met only by un unflinching willon part of the French bloc to main¬tain the existing distribution of arm¬aments, territory, and power. Thedanger of the anti-Semitic and Fascist, propaganda on the part of Hitlerite' agents in the I’nited States can bemet only by a determination to ex¬pose and frustrate the schemes ofthe Nazi jiarty’s foreign bureau.”I .A Soviet film, “The End of St.Peter.<hurg.” portraying the Russianlevolution will be presented tomor¬row under the auspices of the Na¬tional Student League. The picturew’ill be shown in the Social Science.Assembly hall at 8:30. Admissioncharge is 20 cents. The events of thelast days of the Uzar, the WorldWar. and the ufirising in St. Peters¬burg will be de()icte(i.Pyre, Noted Actor,Enacts ‘‘Franscesca' da Rimini’’ SaturdayGERMAN ECONOMISTSPEAKS ON RECOVERYMelchior Palyi, eminent Germanprofessor of Economics, will be thespeaker at the winter dinner meet¬ing of the Graduate Club of h'.co-nomics and Business to be held inIda Noyes hall Wednesday at 0:30.Professor Palyi came to the Uni¬versity as the result of conflict withNazi interests, and has been givingclasses since the beginning of thewinter quarter. His talk Wednesdaywill be on the “Theory and Practiceof Recovery Policies.”The second of the round table dis¬cussions sponsored by the GraduateClub will be held Friday in the Com¬mon room of Haskell hall at 4 :30. Bradley, FamousHunter, PresentsFellowes FridayHerbert Ed won BVadley, lawyer,traveller, and big game hunter, w'illintroduce Air Commander P. F. M.Fellowes at the fourth of the Stu¬dent Lecture series Friday eveningat 8:30 in Mandel hall. At pre.sentMr. Bradley is president of the Chi¬cago Geographical Society.In 1921 the lawyer accompaniedCarl Akeley of the .\merican Mu¬seum of Natural History in an ex¬pedition to the Belgian Congo. In1924 Bradley made another trip to.Africa, making the first exploringexpedition through the country westof Lake Edward. His experienceswhile searching for tigers in Sumatraand Indo-China were recounted invai’ious magazines and geographicaljiublications.Following the inti’oduction. Com¬mander Fellowes will describe his ex¬periences during his now' historicflight over Mount Everest last April.Moving pictures of the flight will beshown.On account of the demand fortickets to the lecture by RaymondMoley, international economist andeditor of Today, tickets for his lec¬ture on February 6 will go on saletoday. Tickets for both the Fellowes’lecture and that of Moley are nowon sale for 55 cents and 85 cents atthe University Bookstore, W'ood-worth’s Bookstore, and the MandelCloisters box office. Walton Pyre, eminent actor-diseurand former director of ()tis Skin¬ner’s productions, will give a play re¬cital of “Franscesca da Rimini” Sat¬urday night at 8:20 at the Cube Ex¬perimental .Art theater. 218 SouthWabash. Tickets may be purchasedat 50 and 75 cents.“F’lanscesca da Rimini,” a play ineight scenes, written by GeorgeHenry Boker, takes place in Italyabout 1300. Walton Pyie will por¬tray all the eight roles in the play.For the first time, modein costumeswill be used.The Cube Expeiimental .Art thea¬ter was founded by a group of cre¬ative artists w'ho wished to make thestage into a laboratory and work¬shop. .Anyone interested in drama¬tics YYiay come to the Cube Hxperi-mental Art theater Tuesday or Wed¬nesday at 8 for tryouts. At presentthe theater is casting each Tuesdayand Wednesday for “The Crisis ofApril 15” and “The Merchant of 'Venice.” Both plays will be directed il)v Walton Pvre, Select Twenty Studentsfor Parts inPlays.After sevi'ral weeks of intensivetryouts the casts for the DramaticAssociation’s ninth annual Playfesthave been completed. Three one actj)lays, written, acted, and directedby students are on the bill this yearfor January 25, 26, and 27.l-.dith Grossberg, the author of thefirst play, “Roots,” takes the part ofMrs. Davis, one of the leading char¬acters in this study of a Jewish fam¬ily living on Hyde Park Boulevard.She is also the student director. She-lah, who has just returned fromschool in Germany under the Hitlerregime, is played bv Terry Hirsch-feld.Cast of “Roots”Her parents are Margaret Ran¬dall and Harry Yeidel. Barney Klein-schmidt is Arthur Berns, engaged toShelah, while a young German whofollow's the girl back to America, isplayed by Charles Nicola. Under¬studies for the play are RobertaGuttman and Serette Kosman.There are only four chaiacters inthe second play, “The CreativeUige” written by Robert Sharp.Frank Springer, chairman of theDramatic Association and Lois Crom¬well, who has appeared in numerousfilays take the parts of Tom andJane Fenwick, a young New YorkcoupK. Georg Mann is the “otherman.” Th^.'-e three are directing theplay jointly. R.oger Baird has thefourth part, that of a grocery boy’.Veterans ParticipateThe third play is Dorris i^ish’s“Painted Me.sas,” with many veteranplayers of the l5ramatic Associationtaking part. Robert Ebert, the stu¬dent director, is Binks MacGregor, ayoung New Mexican who has justleturned from a chorus job in aBroadway’ revue. Jean Russell takesthe part of Janet .MacGregor, hisW'ife.The “bad woman” from New Yorkis played by Ethel .Ann Gordon, whileJoan Giiiou has the role of Gi'and-mother MacGregor. Three Mexicansare played by Rita Cusack, How’ardChandler, and Edward Clark. Ste¬phen Hawxhurst takes the part of.Michael Brewster.Dorris Fish, who wi'ote “PaintedMesas” has left the University andis now eniolled in Duke University.She is staying on campus until afterthe tir.st performance when she w’illreturn to Duke.SKULL AND CRESCENTAPPOINTS SALESMENMore distributors of tickets to the.Skull and Crescent dance to he heldI'riday of next week in the Cloisterclub w’ere announced yesterday byJack Webster, in charge of freshmanticket sales.The fi'eshman salesmen are JackWebster, Dean Phemistor, John Beal.Floyd Stauffer, Bob Bethke, NedBartlett, John Ballenger, JamesMelville, and Dan Heindel.The advance .sale of bids, pricedat $1.75, has been good accordingto Dick Zacharias who is in chargeof ticket sales for .Skull and Cres¬cent. As yet there have been noresei'vations made by groups fortables. Mirror DancersBegin Practicesfor Tap ChorusThe Mirror tappeis ye.sterdaysw'ung into reheai'sal in preparationfor the ninth annual Mirror revue,to be presented in Mandel hall March2 and 3. The members of the balletare continuing daily practices inMandel in the third week of theirrehearsals.Helen Leventhal has been selectedto fill the vacancy in the Tap Choruscreated by the resignation of Vir¬ginia Ru.s.sell. Other members of thegroup are Peggy Burns. Betty Cason,Margaretha Moore, Peggy Moore,Virginia New, Lorraine Watson, andPeggy Holahan, who also acts as di¬rect oi- of the chorus. .Miss EdithBallwebber, who is an instructor inthe department of Physical Educa¬tion and is supervising the work, metwith the eight dancers yesterday inIda .Noyes hall. Rehearsals will beheld daily, with the exception ofSaturday and .Sunday, from 3 to5:30.Cleta Olmstead, who danced inlast year’s ballet, will again partici¬pate in the dancing, according to anannouncement made yesterday byBerta Ochsner, director of the Mir¬ror ballet. .Alice Davis has been se¬lected by .Miss Och.'ner to take partin a group of special dances whichaie now being planned for the pro¬duction.Dorothy Mae Johnson will assistEsther Weber, chairman of the com¬mittee on design.LOA. iVIAK&(* THURSDAY, JANUARY 18, \93-i“lunir o' T.ir>iaNii '”.11'. -niversity Chicago.Mas. on. .ir .'or anyMa'ch [H'St-Mar, -•f i'utilio.'itii'n■>f ary ia. ai'r-a m :his oaj'or.BOARD OF CONTROLJOHN P. BARDEN, Editor-in-C hief\TN*.'EXT NE\\.MAN. Business .ManagerW'lLLLA.M GOODSTEI.X, Managi n- EditorWALTER L. .MU.VTGO.MERV, On ulationJ.\NE I. BIESENTH.AL. .Associate EdAorBETTY HAN'SE.X, .Associate EditorTom BartonNiHii B. Gerson EDIfORlAL ASSISTANTSHoward F. Hudson Howard M. RichDavid H. Kutner Florence NVishnickBfSI.NESS ASSISTANTSWilliam Beryman William O'Donnell Robert SamuelsSOPHOMORE REPORTERS. harl.itti' Fishman Raynii lui I.ahr Ralph NicholsonEldKar Greenebaum lanet l.ewy i«an I’russinjrRath Greendaum . urtis- Mt Inick Marker StantonJhark'S Hoerr Dona,,; Morris l>•an^e StolteHenry Keiley William WatsonSOPHOMORE BUSINESS ASSISTANTSRod Chapin Zaimon Goldsmith (ierald SternFrank Davis Eviward Schaar Everett StoreyEDITORIAL COM.MITTEEMarie Berper Louise . ra'er Freeton CutlerGeorp Mann home in a w'or whose citizens unwittingly liveby theories.i hey might immun e the present chaotic condi¬tion ot contemporary literature.They might restore ideas and distinctions,which had been tvuitfu! in the past and forgot¬ten in the present, to an intellectually impover-i.-<hed ■world.! ducation we believe, would be worth startingover it any heretic ventured to start an institu¬tion like the college Mark \ an Doren assumedounded tiir puiposes of theoretical investigation.Scoffers will say: “Pursue this idea far enough,and you will find that inevitably you w'ill want tore.ad the books in the language in which they werewritten.Scholarly, unabridged translations t>f everygreat book have reduced this contention to ab¬surdity. .All can be read and understood in Eng¬lish. I he more significant of them number onehundred or less, and might be read in a singletwo-year course.Cautious hesitancy seems to be the chief char¬acteristic of most educators. Though they areperfectly aware of faults in present systems, theyW'ill not change until they have empirical proofthat the change wdll remedy all the faults. Eventhen they pessimistically realize that even if thechange is for the good, it will create new faults.Still, a plan such as Mark \ an Doren proposeshas not even been tried, except in isolated cases,where it has proved empirically excellent andintellectually fruitful..And still, some people oppose it with the trulya.sinine question: “\X’hy change?”—J. P. B. Letters GRINKER PUBLISHES ■BOOK ON NEUROLOGY Jto the .■\n attempt to present the study | ■"t the nervous svstem as a part of 1Editor the biological .sciences ra'dn'r than in 1its specific I'elatioiis to dismast has 1 DKEXEL tmeatukkoN E. t,.irdSpencer i racy in“THE MAD GAME”Mat*. Daily I5c till B:3(1.Night Editor: Charles \\^ HoerrThursda\. January 18. 1934 The Travelling Bazaar?DV ^ \ t h. rxw ^ --- TYROLERMARK VAN DORENON BOOKSbe written a book“For never would th' e -which they could no* understand simply by reading it from the first word to the last.This umque compliment is from Mark VanDoren, poet, author, critic, literateur. to graduatesof a hypothetical college that required its mem¬bers to read certain books, and the plan for thiscollege. .Mr. \ an Doren out-lined in The Nation(December 6, 1933).Teaching in this institution, like studying, con¬sisted of reading books, requiring an intelligibleaccount of them, anc recollectng the contents ofall previous books accurately and completely inthe course of discussion upon any given book.The books were masterpieces written in the lastthree thousand years. Ideas in these bo'^ks mightcome under the heading of poetry, of history, ofphil osophy, of fiction, of theology, of natural sci¬ence, of political and economic theory.But the peculiar characteristic of Van Doren’sproposed college was that nobody did anything jbut read the books. Students were not forced j“to get the facts ’ from a digest, commentary, or jbiography which revealed the number of wives ,the author had and the modern significance of his jmind, according to the belief of his biographer, jCollege boys who complained that these books jwere not suited to their personalities went through |the institution rapidly—in the front door and outthe back—for they had supposed that one at¬tended college to develop one s personality.Other unfortunates, brought up on outlines, in¬troductions, histories of literature and thought,and collections of excerpts, had lost their abilityto read almost before it was evident, and so werequite firmly eliminated from the Van Doren Cf/1-lege.The rest settled down to the task of reading theinevitable books. Two or three teachers metwith small groups of them to question the studentclosely concerning the contents of the requiredbook. If they had read it badly, they were madeto read it again.They made excursions only into the author'sthought, not his life, or the life of the peoplearound him.Then, says Van Doren, after four years a gen¬eration of students was loosed upon the worldwithout preparation to cfipe with its modernfacts, but in their favor, it might be said that 'heywere educated.“That is.” added Mr. V^an Doren, “they were jequipped with so much understanding of what the 'best human brains had done in the past threethousand years that they realized without diffi¬culty how few contemporary human brainsnaturally—were of the best.’’On the careers of his graduates. Van Dorenvery ’ucidly states that they might be sufficientlycompetent in the recognition of theory to feel at BY CHARLES (" Scribierus");; r. Y; js;; ss jjyyu a ::;;x k x ;; x x Uc/.rus AT RK'SrKiirhty-nine have A-.r x-.,n (,f the thirteen. . . .it's all over . .and now thi' Uirelt hoin-honk-ing ran. despite Sidney, go on in an >n r moMvt-■1)1/ rrrsrr)!(],>.... {tn- thi'v already have whatthey're going to get and even if '*/'< .7 (foii'f likr ifI there's nt'thing they ean do about it; so wiiy thinkI about it'.'. . . .they can't do (nn/fliintj wore »o;e. . .I for 't'n fll orrr until next year....and then aKuddo) cithn will pervade the Circle, and we'llI realize that club rushing ix atartinj df/aiu. . . .andj it’s lucky that clubs havt' nos//1)1.9 ft? ’■i}ui»d /os1 that there are such .... it's lucky....//////7' l/i'iir.* ♦ VLogic a In M. AdlerOn mules we find two legs behind.-And two we rind before;We stand behind before we finijWhat the two behind before.Gert Sfciyi Eifit ytdrntli• • •I 0\E WE LEFT OUT! It was at one of those week-end scavengerj hunts, and .somebody wa.s told to get the fininiestfiling that he had ever seen.I We doff our well-worn chapeau to the guy thatcame back in about ten minutes with one of theMaroon editorials!* * *IXTERIMwe stroll in the cold air....our nine o’clock isover....we feel good.. .but our ten o’clock isstill to come (and our eleven) . .. .not so good. . . .we feel energetic... .we rush into rosenwald andalmost hump into e. ann gordon and stevie hawx-hurst who are gazing into each other’s eyes en¬raptured. . . .they probably v/ouldn’t have noticedit if we had howled them over. . . .we climb a stepor two... .there is a landing we pausephil Werner and gil hilbrant brush by....Cali¬fornia’s jack reynolds is bundled np in a sheep¬skin coat.... he is smoking a pipe . . .lawrence-ville's bob barr is up on the stairs....he comesdown and over to us. . . .he tells us that our fra¬ternity house dog is dead. . . . we are almost cheer¬ed.... the darned mongrel always slobbers overour pants..../)?<( he isn’t dead. .. .we find thatout later. . .jay berwanger, jack scruby and ralphbalfanz pass by. . .two girls are coming down thestairs... .“it was just the cutest thing youcan't pos.'ibly imagine. . .why my dear I wa.s sim¬ply mortified” , . .we light a cigarette. . . .we puffas milt olin used to in his phoenix column.... wefeel a slight nndge at our side.... it is prof(*ssorharleii hrelz and hr is smiling and pointing tosomething.... we follow his arm....it is a sign....“no .-moking". . . . we grin sheepishly as om-shix’ smothers a one-puffed butt. . .we look aroundthe corner of a wall. . . .d. kerr and m. moore are<(;;dng to each other....ir* fnrn airog withoutdistracting thion. . . . they don’t know that tlie.t'aren't alone. ... ^//c fo il i-ings and [leople bustli*l/y as we climb the stairs resignediy. . . . >:Yta X Editor, The Daily Maroon,Dear Son;.\;’trr reading your sheet. I wentA' tell you how much I agree withthat guy who wrote in the ether dayI I'mjila’.ning of .Morrison's column on:'i atcrnitics. I think the wliole tilingha- Iho'u unkind and in had ta.-tc. In’.uv t. 1 suspect both you and the writ-, r o:' it of possc.-sing very under¬graduate minds, (hie wouUl thinkthat fraternities existed merely ^aseomj'etitive institutions for campusactivities, and to hell with the onewho did not grab off campus big,-hnts.The column could have been veryu.-eful to incoming men had it dwelthoughtfully on the atmosphere—-and it .should be thi’ best interpre¬tation that could he made—whichexists in each group.You ('light to point out that thisI iilumn has seemed to mcasui'' the !worth of each fraternity merely by 'the amount of noise that their big. ;ger men made on campus. Thattheie should exist, and /iouhtlcss |does exist in the case of most fra- 'tevnities. a community of interests 1which contributed something ofvalue to its members, hut which is 1not readily discovered in a mere sta- jtistical review.Even if your intention in this col¬umn has been to kill off the weakiraternities. 1 beliexe some words ofseeming kindliness and understand¬ing are di'cldedly in order.Best regards,John P. Barden Sr.This guy'- background is Deko,Westirn Reserve, ’(h!, and talks asthough he might know something.B- -'<l(-s. \vo ,i(.n't dare disagree withhim.—-ed. ate pii'fessor of Xeurology, in hishook. “Xeurology.’’ whicli wa.s publi'hed last week.Thi' new puhlicalion modernizes its.-uhject by n>rrt luting impv'i'tant hio-log.cai facts, theories, and hypothe¬ses with scientific and clinical datathat concern tlie human nervous sys¬tem in health ami diseastn I HUETTL ARTSCHOOLFiijure Drawini;P aintin^An Supplies1546 E. 57th St.Plaza 2536I . 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Bookstore5802 Ellis Avenue 106 Blaine HallTHE DAILY MAROON. THURSDAY , \i<VAh/IVjday on theQii adran stiesThe Daily M aroonN'i>rht editor for tlic next issue:!l, \v:ii (l Rich. Assistsuit: Rsilph Nich-(.'.-Dtl. RESEARCH SURVEYUPHOLDS PRESENTRELIEF MEASURES(Continued from pai?e 1)luid lived in snisill dwellines^; andMusic and Religion more Inid lived in low-rmt dwellinj;'.Joseph Bond chapel, “The Fifth( inmaiulment” hy I’l-ofessor AntonI’.oisen of the Chicago Theological^ minary at 12.Phonograph concert in Social Sci-, ace Assembly room at ]2:2().LecturesPublic lecture, “Municipal Court]’iocedure” hy .Judge .John .1. Stons-tciiy. Chief .Justice of the Municipal( urt of Chicago. The ReynoldsCluh at 8.MiscellaneousNational Student lA'ague lectureaii(f tea in library and lounge of IdaNoyes at .3:30.Jewish Student’s Foundation Mid¬winter Tea Dance in theater of IdaNoyes hall at .3:30.History Club election of officersI, Social Science 302 at 7 :30.Dames Club in theater of IdaNoyes at 7:1.5..>\ll)ha Beta Zeta social meeting inY. \V. C. A. room of Ida Noyes at 8.THE BRItLIANTNEW MAGAZINE■* FOR MEN *• The only thing on whichdeacons and touts have everagreed—because it’s jam-packed with belly-laughs andbrow-raisers for every manof every type and taste!OUT TODAY! In most cases, the non-relieffamilies were distinctly t)etter offthan the relief families in regards tothe total assets owned. Particularlystriking are the ditferences betweenthe peicentage who owned theirhomes without mortgage and be¬tween the percentage who ownedother apartments in addition to theirown.Further data shows that for thewhole group, the percentages of re¬lief families who used credit, whoborrowed money, who got help fromfriends and relatives, and had evensold some of theii- household goodsto get motley arc strikingly largerthan the corrcspomjing percentagesof the non-relief families: that is, in¬formation indicates greater use oftheir own resources by families whofinally had to apply for relief, as theonly way out of their dilemma.“The conclusions to be drawnfrom this comparison of the familieswho had. and those who had not had,relief in a group of one thousandfamilies with unemployei' wage-earn¬ers can be very briefly stated,’’ MissWright concluded. “The figures gofar to support the theory that thosewho get along without relief are asa group distinguished from thosewho get help by easier economic cir¬cumstances in the past and a lessdistressing immediate situation. Theylend no support whatever to the con¬tention that the families not on re¬lief are more ready to live on theirown resources or to endure hard¬ships than those who have had help.Thus while one thousand familiesmay not be .sulTicient to dispose fin¬ally of the theory of the inherent su¬periority of the families who are noto.n relief, they are sufficient to cre¬ate a strong presumption that thetheory is dead. And may its ghoststay in its grave until equally con¬clusive evidence indicates that it hasa right to live.”The students at Syracuse univer¬sity have the privilege of ballottingon the subject of the chapel talk.freshmen . . .We know its boring to go fromone frat club to the next telling allthe boys all about the new plan andwhere you went to high school andthe day you got that first tooth.Take time off from your wan¬derings and reserve a table in a realfraternity atmosphere where youcan see for yourself who does any¬thing on campus.your opportunityThe Skull andCrescent DanceJanuary 26 Norgreti CoachesCagers in BasicPlays, DefanseFeeling that sci-immage' and stillmore scrimmage is the only way tosolve the |)roblem of the .Maroons’inability to win confeieiua' basket¬ball games, ('oach Nels N'orgren hasbeen didlling his charges in allpha.ses of play during the week. Lit¬tle is being done to change theteam’s style of offense other thanfurther emphasis of the fast break.As the season progresses it becomesmore apparent that much of the fu¬ture success of the team dependsupon the effectiveness of Bill Ilaar-low. Tie has yet to go on scoringsprees, such as he indulged in whenat Bowen high school.Bob I’yle has .seen little servicethis week in piactice though he issecond high scoring forward on theteam. Tommy Flinn played the en¬tire game against Illinois and will iprohahly start in the Michigan gameSaturday. Stan Kaplan, erstwhileguard is seeing more action at for¬ward and may also break into thelineup. Wegner, who played thefirst half of the Illini game at guardwill probably be replaced by LeoOppenheim.While Chicago is now the lonefive in the Big Ten race without avictory to date, at the other end ofthe ladder we find Purdue, paced byNorm Cottom. perhaps not to be ,headed in its pursuit of the confer- 'ence crown. The Boilermakers haveaveraged close to forty points agame, including Cottom’s forty-twomarkers, and are now blessed witha layoff until T'\d)ruary 10. In con¬trast to this absence of conferencecompetition, the remaining nine |teams have games scheduled which ,in some cases are played wdth onlyone night of rest between contests.Iowa, the choice to push Purduein the title chase, and the team that.stands the best chance to chalk up awin at the ijxpense of the boys fromLafayette, appears to have had anoff night Saturday. The Hawksbarely managed to eke out a onel>oint victory over the Cophers. Inspite of this, indications show thatIowa and Northwestern are the twoteams to watch, as one oi- the othershould pull a surprise.THE GREEKS HAVEA WORD(Continued from page 1)them in the Intramural league andwill turn out to be a real Psi U.Don’t think that this is written tofill space, either. Demand to see all36 actives and 5 pledges lined upagainst the wall.ET L’ARGENTThe fraternity is in a good finan¬cial position. They charge certainfixed sums, $56 and $21 per monthfor men living in and out of thehouse respectively, and they can af¬ford to give a discount for promptpayment, w’hich is some indication oftheir financial strength. The only ad¬dition to this pavment is various so¬cial assessments which come to about$1.50 a month.The national dues are taken careof by the local chapter, with no ex¬tra assessment on the chapter mem¬bers. This is something that not allthe fraternities are able to do.PLEDGINGDelta Kappa Epsilon announcesthe pledging of Dana Wilson of Hins¬dale.Sigma Chi announces the pledging SWORDSMEN BATTLEPURDUE IN OPENINGBIG TEN DUAL MEETMaroon fencers cncountei- theirfirst Big Ten compt'fifion in approxi-mafely two weeks when the PurdueP>'oil(‘i'mak('rs invade Bartlett g.vmFebruary 3.The .Maroons defeated Purdu.’ 'astyear 1(1-7. 'fhis yeai. iiowever, theBoilermakers have been consistentwinne!-s and should furnish stiff com¬petition.3’hose who will pi-obably see ac-tioii against Pui'due are LouisMaiks. George Gelman. (’buck Law¬rence, Jeffrey Fried, Burton Youngand Drmand Julian. The latter tw'oare the only seniors on the squad,the I’est of the men being sophomersor freshmen.In addition to these men there isa host of good material available tofill in any gaps in the lineup. Prom¬inent among the freshmen are BillSheiwood. Hank Lemon, Ed Sibley,Jazapaitis, city individual championin foil while at Lindhlom Highschool, and Arthur Lidov.Sophomoies who are likely to seeI competition as the season progressesI are Lee Winter, state individualchamiiion in foil while at Crane Col¬lege. George Gelman. winner of theintramuial fencing championship,and Campbell Wilson who has ex¬perienced intercollegiate competitionhaving fenced, for Los -Angeles Col¬lege.All in all, the team looks like it’sgoing places this year and shouldprove a strong contender for the BigTen championship.HOFFER NAMESGYM LINEUP FORWILLIAMS’ MEETConsideiably encoui’aged by thenews that Fhnery Fair is eligible.Coach Dan Hoffer was able to an¬nounce tentatively yestei’day hisstarting Gymnastic team for themeet with George Williams CollegeJanuary 26. Captain George Wrightewill compete in all five events. Also' to see action will bv Hanley, Fair,and Snyder in the horizontal barsand the horse; Murphy .Adams, and; Constantine in the rings; Murphy.Schroeder, Fair, and Constantine inthe parallel bars; and Nordhaus,Constantine, Kolb, and Roberts inthe tumbling.' At the present time this year’s; team does not seem to be as strong, as last year’s Conference champions,: who won by a margin of 12 pointsj out of the total 1200 points. TheMaroons are strong in the rings andthe parallel bars and fairly strong inthe tumbling and h^.rse events. How¬ever they are weak in the horizontalbars. The entire squad has beenworking hard, though, and as mo.stof them are in good condition, theyare bound to improve as the seasonprogresses.According to pre-season dope, Il¬linois seems to be the class of theconference. Its team includes sev¬eral veterans and also Rehor whohas not been in residence for twoyears, and was Chicago city highschool champion a few years ago.of Albert Houghton of Chicago andJohn Cranor of Huntingdon, Pennsyl¬vania.What^s the News?There is only one way to keep abreastof the ever changing college world ofwhich our University is the spirited lead¬er!THE DAILY MAROON reflects hotonly the changing traditions of the Mid¬way but also the progressive innovationsof Universities as a whole.SUBSCRIBE NOWONLY $1.75JANUARY TO JUNE MID^WlNThKFinchley offers the men oF Chicago the oppor¬tunity of purchasing the finest clothingavailable at extremely low prices. It maytruthfully be stated that the valuesbeing presented can not be dupli¬cated elsewhere in Chicago.Business SuitsStaple Blues and Oxford Greys includedTOPCOATS and OVERCOATS'48’°68’°CLOTHES TAILORED AT FASHION PARKA Slight Charge for AlterationsFancy Madras and BroadclothShirts^235FURNISHINGSLeather Goods and NoveltiesDRASTICALLY REDUCED19 East Jackson Blvd. Fifth Ave,, New Yorkfraternities . . .We know you’re putting out alot of effort in this rushing busi¬ness. We also advise you to keepup the good work and not miss thisopportunity on the very eve ofpledging, to put your best foot forforward.All the freshman will be thereand all the frat boys ought to begrouped around their own tableready for inspection.your opportunityThe Skull andCrescent DanceJanuary 26w 'p1TONIGHTS GAMES7:30Phi Kapf'a Sig. vs. I), r.S. .A. E. II v.« Psi r. II,D.'ki' TI vs. Phi Psi II.8:15Spananp vs. Disciples.-Alpha ?i,e. vs. S. .A. 1-.. II. DAILSportFlashesa .ii'cory over^.N 'rrhwt'stern intia-Friday, ■.’P-'n-: au*..mine .'i-asio' t-.^nivht atet" r.atat.'rium. T;' meetI'Miipri^e ' X swimmin.u events.11:1 a *'a”-y-divin.e esmtest. in which,7..K.i Rebfrt>. Bi\vlan. and Stantonwill Try to outpoint Ni. k Keav'=. L^o--da champ. The heaviest competitionof the evening: will take p'ace in the21':; yard breast-<troke race when PanGlomset. -Maroen captain, and ChuckDwyer meet Max Bridenthal. crack-erjack Loyola record-holder. .Al¬though I.- yola showed evidence ofhavin.e a grood team this year, theywill be no match for Coach McGil-livray's men who. if performancesin practice mean anything:, will betrreatly improved over last year.Entries in the other events willinclude the following: men:400-yurd relay—Chica^ji^: JohnBarden. Phil Stein. .A1 Sachs. LennieLevi.Loyola: Bill Stoeri. Dan Vanden-Berg:. Captain Eddie Ertz, Trick,Medley relay—Chicag:o : Don Bell-strom, Joe Stolar. Stein.Loyola Hobbs, Wise. Dan Boone.bO-yard free-style—Chica.eo : Bar¬den. I.evi.Loyola: Captain Ertz.220-ya''d free-style — Chicag:o:Ray Macdonald, Sachs.Loyola Jim Elwell. Stoeri.150-yard back stroke—Chicago:George Nicoll. Bell.'trom. Macdonald.Loyola Elwell.If Loyola has any men to enterthere will be a 100-yard and a 440-yard frei >rvle race. Barden andStein wil! -\^im in the former, while.Merritt EAish and Frank Xahser. wa¬ter polo captain, will try to outdis¬tance Loyola men in the 440. Michigan—Precaution—Doomed—-By TOM B.XRTON-LEVINE GAINS FIRSTPLACE IN BILUARDSDave Levine continued his upwardlimb on the billiard ladd< i' yesterdaywhen he defeated .Murray and tookthe firsr plai-e. Murray was put inthird plai--. Daskais remaining in.'econd. Levine had previously takenthird by de feating Giffen who is nowin fourth..Anoth-r upset in the tournamentwas made by Schaar who took Turleyoff the ladder and advanced to theposition. But Schaar was not able toailvanee furthei-. He challen.ged DickLevin and i'eat him. but Levin chal¬lenged him and won. keeping hispviee in tifth.Friday—Jan. 19thFRATERNITY NIGHTAT THE HOTEL SHERMAN-COLLEGEINN — .honoringSweet Hot Music by DELTA KAPPA EPSILONPSI UPSILONPHI KAPPA PSIALPHA DELTA PHINOBLE SISSLE OrchestraGREAT FLOOR SHOWNo Cover Charge—No MinimumReservations—Fra lA.sOON SPORTSTHURSDAY. JANUARY 18. 1934PHI SIGMA DELTA ANDGDPHERS WIN IN l-MBASKETBALL GAMESWhen Harry Kipke goes to Yaleto coach the grid team there—and itis tairly certain that he will go—Michigan and the Big Ten will lo-^ea brilliant coach. Kipke’s record forsuccesses at .A.nn .Arbor needs nomention. However Kipke's succes¬sor at Michigan appears to be thefirst consideration on sporting pagesat present.It is doubtful if “Hurry Up” Yostwill return to active coaching to takeover tie job: Bennie Oosterbaanlacks he experience for the position;the Michigan department of athleticswould not pay Friedman or Newmanenough: that seems to leave the pies-ent basketball coach, Franklin Cap-pon. as the most likely successor toKipke. Cappon, who knows footballand basketball, has frequently beenmentioned as successor to A ost asAthletic director. Whether Kipkeconsiders himself counted out aspossible athletic director on the re¬tirement of the present directoi maydecide his acceptance of Yale’s of¬fer.* * *Coach Shaughnos.'V isn’t takingany chances on losing any of his menby’ineligibility next fall, .^haughnes-sy has his boys rej^ort their scholas¬tic progress each week.* ♦ ♦“Red” Grange, after stepping offa couple of touchdown* to enable theChicago ttf,.is to beat a Pacificcoast all-star team a few days ago.signalized the doom of collegiatefootball. “Red” said that the profes¬sional type of game afforded morethrills and indicated that unless theN. C. .A. -A. does something aboutspeeding up the game, college foot¬ball will lose its appeal to the pub¬lic.We admit that professional foot¬ball has been coming along financial¬ly. but the old color of the collegiatecontest will still draw one or twocu.stomers through the turnstiles. Thepros play the majo*-ity of their gameson Sunday, and we venture to saythat if a good college game wereplayed in Chicago on Sunday, at¬tendance at the Chicago Bears’ gameon that same Sunday would besharply hit. .And attendance at col¬lege grid games last season, a sea¬son of depression in general was thebest in many years—which does notseem to indicate that the collegebrand of football is doomed to theextent that “Red” says. Several close and interestinggames featured last night's Intra¬mural cage contests. Although many:>f the games were characterized bythe flying tackles and headlocks thatwere so prominent in past intramuralcontests, the teams showed a definiteimprovement over previous showingsthis year. Especially exciting werethe Phi Sigma Delta’s 26 to 19 vic¬tory over the Phi Psis and the Goph¬ ers 26 to 25 victory over the “200"Dormitory team.Phi Sifstna Delta Win Over Phi P»i»Probably the most exciting gameof the evening was the only fratern¬ity game scheduled. This was the PhiPsi-Phi Sigma Delta contest whichwas carried over from Tuesday eve¬ning. The teams were fairly eventhroughout the game, and a moment' before the final wh'. tie blew, the Phi‘ Psis were winning 19-18. Howeveriu.*t as before the whistle blew, a: Phi ,Sig player made a basket. The1>oints were disputed, but the gamewas given to the Plii Sigs. Wernerled the losers with 7 points, and! Horwitz the winners with a like num¬ber.[ In another close game the GophersI downed the “200” organization 26 to25; Nelson starring for the victors and Panter for the losers. Al.so hardplayed was the game between theI’onies. Icii by Sherre and Wolbergand the C. T. S. group led by Masse-link and Stark, in which the decisionwent to the former by 18 to 11. Hof-fer’s Reds were defeated in a hardplayed game by the H. and B.’s bya score of 17 to 12. in which Sternplayed a strong game for the victors.“37” Club Player InjuredIn the game betwen the “;I7’’ cluband the “700“ Dormitory group. BillRunyon of the “37” team slipped,and falling into the wall suffered asevere head cut. The former won bya score of 27 to 1. Other lopsidedscore.* included the Independentswin over the Palateers 37 to 13. theGhizzler’s 37 to 10 rout of the U HiPanthers, and the Medics win overthf' Gamma .Alphas 27 to 9. Faculty RecreationTourney Announced.A doubles handball tournamcivfor members of the University fac¬ulty will be held on the handballcourts in the West stands of ,8{auL’field. Entries for the tourney ch.Wednesday, Jar.uary 24, and [daycommences Monday, JanuaryDrawings are to be posted in • lelocker rooms of the West stands.According to Clark Shanghnes .director of faculty recreation, theprizes for the tournament will con¬sist of a lot of fun and exercise, ai 'l{)OSsibIy a get-together dinner aftwards.The faculty of the Northern SlateTeachers’ college has voluntarily re¬duced their salaries in order to cre¬ate a fund for impoveri.=hed students.This was pronii^ted by the revelationthat several students were living onone meal a day. WHAT DO YOUTHINK ABOUTGRADES?Do you, as a student, feel that the present systemof grades — (A B C F etc.) is satisfactory?Are you, after your several years' (or quarters’)educational experience convinced that this systemis quite adequate for our present needs?Or on the other hand do you feel that this afore¬mentioned system is simply a relic of the old lock-step, spoon fed methods —— an archaic remnant ofan outmoded educational order?What ever your viewEXPRESS YOUROPINIONIN THE DAILY MAROON QUESTIONNAIRECast Your Vote Outside of the College Libraryor at the Maroon Office.IMPERFECT I