FraternityPledging ^ Batlp illaroonVol. 39, No. 61. Z-149 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1939 Price Three CentsAdele Rose Returns; Reportson Arms Embargo Today atMeeting in Mandel HallFinds Officials in Sym¬pathy with Movement;Meets President.Adele Rose reveals the success ofher dramatic flight to Washingtonto plead with President Roosevelt andCongressmen to lift the Spanish armsembargo today at noon in MandelHall, at a meeting sponsored by theMaroon and the ASU.Other speakers on the programwhich will last thirty minutes in¬clude faculty members Mary B.Gilson and Earl Johnson. JudyForrester, chairman of the ASU willpreside.Returning to the campus yester¬day morning, the Maroon Board ofControl member indicated that whileofiicial Washington was .seemingly insympathy with the move, a concerte<laction by the moneyed interests andCatholic groups prevented it.While she did not present her pleapersonally with the President, MissRose was a guest at one of the fa-mou'ly informal Roosevelt teas,where she spoke with the President,Mrs. Roosevelt, and members of theofficial family.•Mrs. Roosevelt AgreesMrs. Roosevelt in particular wasin sympathy with the drive to liftthe embargo, saying that the neutral¬ity act and the embargo act wereshamefully unneutral.The three-thousand name petitionfrom the University was pre.sented to.Marvin McIntyre, secretary to thePresident. A visit with the Spanishambassador revealed that the Ixjyal-isi government is not overly optimi.st-ic over the future, predicting thatthe rel)els would keep all their Catal¬onia gain if no help came for theSpanish government, but that event¬ually a republican form of govern¬ment would come for all the Spanishpt ople.Aided by University professor—Congressmen T. V. Smith, Miss Rosewas able to speak to numerous in¬fluential Senators and representa¬tives, who listened sympathetically toher cause.The outstanding event of herWa-hington visit was a 4.')-minutetalk with Mrs. Roosevelt about the.'Spanish situation jind the collegestudent’s reaction to it. The Presi-ilent’s wife said that an effective pro¬gram can save the college-age peoplein .America from the feeling of be¬trayal which has blasted the dreamsof European youth. She cheerfullycontrasted the non-i>olitically con¬scious, carefree college youth of herday with those of today, and ex-pres.sed the hope that students canmake .America a real democracy. Thomas Talkson New Deal,War, PeaceNorman Thomas, leading Socialistof the United States, will speak on“New Deal—Towards War or Peace ? ”tomorrow night at 8:15 in MandelHall. The Socialist Club, sponsor ofthe event, has set a 20-cent admis¬sion charge.Thomas has been a leading figurein American Socialism for years.Three times, in1928, 1932, and in1936 he ran forpresident at thehead of his partyticket. He has alsobeen a candidatefor governor ofNew York State,and twice he ranfor mayor of NewYork City. A pres-byterian ministersince 1911 Thomas has worked onseveral socialist publications includ¬ing newspapers, pamphlets, andbooks. His latest work published in1935 is titled “War—No Profit, NoGlory, No Need.”Tomorrow night he is expected tohave a somewhat more friendly au¬dience than he had last year whenhe gave a speech in Terre HauteIndiana. His listeners having previously decided that he was a radicaland therefore an unwelcome visitorshowered him with rotten eggs almost as soon as he had started speaking. Snow-BoundStudents SculpSnow StatuesPatterson SpeaksTo Peaee (CouncilWilliam Patter.son, associate editorof the Midwest Daily Record, speak¬ing at the second meeting of the All-Campus Peace Council will presentthe Communist solution of the ques¬tion “How Can We Meet the FascistThreat of War?” The meeting willbe held Thursday at 3:30 in Eckhart308.In this series of meetings thePeace council is attempting to pre¬sent all points of view on the ques¬tion. At 3:30 the meeting will openwith a review' of Bertrand RussselTsposition. Patter.son will speak at 4,then lead a discussion.Leader of ^Missouri Exodus^Talks on Sharecroppers“1 committed a crime down insouthern Missouri when I woke upthe slaves! But Pm glad I did it.”This was the confession of the Rev¬erend 0. H. Whitfield, a Negro minis¬ter who organized the destitutesharecroppers in southeast Missouri,as he spoke before a group at theUniversity last night.Mr. Whitfield laid before his au¬dience a vivid and realistic picture ofthe sharecroppers plight and of theconditions which lead up to the eventnow known as the Missouri Exodus.Life-Long Share-CropperReverend W'hitfield has been asharecropper all his life, and is thepresident of the Southern TenantFarmers’ Union. This union which hewas instrumental in organizing is thefirst sign of life and resistance whichthe down-trodden tenant farmershave shown.The un.scrupulous, ruthless mannerin which the southern planters havebeen exploiting the tenants was thebiggest point Mr. Whitfield got acrossto his audience. He told of the crop¬per’s complete subjection to his plant¬er boss. The planter’s control of allgovernmental administrative agenciesin the south makes it impossible forfederal laws to be enforced or for thesharecropper’s sivil rights to be pro¬tected. In many cases the sharecropper isnot given the opportunity to use va¬cant sub-marginal land for his gar¬den, but must work only on cottonw'hich is profitable for the boss. Whenin '1937 southern farmers were re¬ceiving AAA parity payments, thesharecropper got no governmentbenefits whatever, at the time whenhis condition was growing worse thanever in many states. Later a provisionwas made for the farmer to sharegovernment benefits with his tenants.A,clause in the provision stated thatthe farmer should not evict his ten¬ants to avoid sharing the benefitsunless the tenant should become abother and a nuisance.” “Well,” saidthe Reverend, “immediately thous¬ands of sharecroppers became abother and a nuisance and wereevicted.”It was these evicted people thatReverend Whitfield called togetherJanuary 6, and told to take their pos¬sessions out on highway 61 and waituntil they were noticed.In his talk last night he explainedhow these people, some 700 families,were persecuted by the planters,how people bringing them food andshelter were arrested.He is on his way to Washingtonnow to seek federal aid for thesehomeless neonle. By ERNEST LEISERWhatever the University’s faults,it is indubitably a center of culture!Witness the grandiose works of art,carved out of nature’s gift to schoolchildren and curse of all motorists,snow.No longer can the fraternity menbe classed as “playboys.” No obser¬vers of the Phi Psis’ Venus, theBetas’ Mae West, the Phi Kappa Sigs’Teddy Bear, and the Chi Psis’ Whats¬it, can longer doubt the aestheticsense of Chicago’s Joe Colleges. Soif the tw'o day snow that had 20 menand three snow plows laboring allday yesterday did nothing else, itbrought to the Quadrangles a realiza¬tion that here indeed is a center ofart.Best WorkThe best work, from an impartialcritical viewpoint, was the Phi KappaSigs’ creation. From deep sentimen¬tal eyes to paws which showed atrue appreciation of the beauty of themedium, the bear was an admirableexample of what realism can beachieved in sculpture with no attemptto transcend the artificiality of themedium.Less outstanding from an artisticpoint of view, but with more univer-.sality of appeal was the headless PhiPsi maiden, whose forlorn conditionled pas.sershy to wonder what sortof an institution the big gray man¬sion housed. But the Phi Psis’ hada glib explanation for the decapitat¬ed nudists. They said that they hadbuilt the lady with a head, but thata vicious Psi U had knocked it off.So they made a Venus de Milo outof her.Beta CreationAlways unique, the Betas in theircreation departed from the realisticschool, and sculped a decidedly im¬pressionistically full-bosomed MaeWest or maybe it was QueenMother Mary. Evidently the brothersare organizing a nature cult.Fourth of the white visions was aweird structure, made by the Chi Psisin a moment of ecstasy. Nobodyseemed to know what it is (it follow¬ed the modernist trend) but it lookedgood.According to a stalwart whobraved the wintry breezes Mondaynight, there were floodlights on theTeddy Bear and on the Mae West,and on the little Chi Psi work be¬tween the two was a student lamp.Which doesn’t mean anything.Yesterday afternoon the Sigma iChis were belatedly creating somesort of a snowman, which, if theydidn’t lose ambition may be seenthis morning. The best the women’sdorms could do was a big, dirtysnowball in front of Beecher. Fraternities Show New LifeBy Pledging Record Groupof 189 Freshman MenJames DebatesRussell onDemocracyLord Bertrand Russell will meetC.L.R. James of London in a debatetoday in Mandel hall at 3:45. The sub¬ject is “Can Democracy Be Defend¬ed?” Russell will take the affirma¬tive. C.L.R. James is a West IndianNegro, a member of the Fourth In¬ternational and one of the most well-known historians of the internationalrevolutionary movement. The positionthat James will take in the negativeis that capitalist democracy cannotbe defended because the defense ofcapitalism would be a defense of thatvery institution which in its disin¬tegration is directly responsible forthe emergence of fascism. Decliningcapitalism cannot sustain democracyand therefore resorts to fascism as ameans of maintaining its control overthe discontented workers who, in theirstruggle against capitalism are thetrue defenders of democracy. The de¬bate thus involves the essential is¬sues of capitalism versus socialism,and both speakers have definite opin¬ions on these subjects.James is at present making hisfirst tour of the U.S. on behalf of theFourth International. He is the auth¬or of numerous books, among them“World Revolution”, “A History ofNegro Revolt”, and “The Black Jac¬obins”. The proceeds of the debatewill go toward the reissuing of Soap¬box, campus magazine of the Social¬ist Club (4th Int’l). Tickets are onsale at the Press Building and inMandel Corridor. Shows Twenty-One PerCent Increase Over LastYear.DA Presents^‘Mr. Pirn”Dormitories PlanTo Raise $3(K)For Refugee AidBurton and Judson mens’ residencehalls yesterday offered to lend a handto the Refugee Aid Drive. A sub¬committee, headed by Jack Rapaport,started a campaign to raise $300 foraid in scholarships for refugees andfor Spanish and Chinese war victims.Three men have been chosen so farto head the organization in each en¬try. They are Marshall Hanley ofthe 700 entry. Monrad Paulson, 800entry, and Jack Chasnoff, 500 entry.The sub-committee members fromthe other entries are being selectedby Rapaport and Irwin Salk, head ofthe organization committee for thedrive. They will lead men from eachfloor on their entry, and will can¬vass the dorms thoroughly.Salk pointed out that the collectionof $300 meant less than one dollarper man, and hopefully said that hisestimate was conservative—that thedorms should be able to raise morethan their quota.The total now pledged for the fundtotals $1100. The quota for the Uni¬versity has been set at $10,000.Students in the dormitory will beallowed to specify the cause forwhich they desire their donations tobe used. The money may be dividedbetween the fund for German polit¬ical refugees and the fund for foodand supplies for Spanish and Chinesechildren. How does an English family reactwhen the supposedly dead first hus¬band of the wife of the Justice of thePeace suddenly appears? In its firstproduction this quarter, “Mr. PirnPasses By,” a three-act comedy by A.A. Milne, the Dramatic Associationshows a Buckinghamshire family inthis situation.Margaret Hecht takes the part ofOlivia Marden, the wife; with JamesLawson as the Justice of the Peace,while David Pletcher is Mr. CarawayPirn. Lady Julia Marden is playedby Hattie Paine, Brian Strange byAshton Taylor, Dinah by Ruth Weh-lan, and the maid by Marion Lott.Headed by Frederick Linden, thestage crew includes George Mead,Homer Havermale, James Tedrow,Robert Brown, George Sotos, andDave Fisher. Anne Elizabeth Glas-ner is assisted in her work on prop¬erties by May Strandberg. In chargeof make-up is Margaret Penney, aid¬ed by Kay Kennedy and Lois Holmes.Thelma Iselman is head of the box-office committee; while Dorothy Over¬lock is stage manager.The two performances of “Mr.Pirn” are Friday and Saturday nightsat 8:30. Tickets on sale at the Man-del hall box-office cost 55 cents. Thereare no reserved seats.YWCA HoldsMembership MeetingWith a full agenda, covering social,business, and advanced Mardi Graspublicity, the meeting of the YWCAfor its entire membership will be heldthis afternoon in the YWCA roomof Ida Noyes Hall from 3:30 to 5.Marjorie Kuh, chairman of theMardi Gras, an all-campus party tobe given on February 17 by the YW,will tell about the side shows, fea¬tures, dancing, prizes, and games thatwill all be a part of the occasion.Two important items of businessto be pre.sented to the members arethe reading of the revised constitu¬tion for ratification by the members,and a discussion of the YW’s supportof the Refugee Aid Drive, in orderto determine how much money the“Y” can give, and how the moneycan be raised. Emerging from a week of hecticand turbulent rushing, campus fra¬ternities last Friday surpassed theirown expectations by garnering apledge class of 189, a twenty-one per¬cent increase over last year. Thisrepresents one of the largest classesin recent years.The new high In enrollment was asurprise to even the more optimisticGreeks. At the beginning of lastweek the most generous estimate didnot run over 180, while most of thebrothers predicted only a small in¬crease over last year.Phi Delta Theta astounded its fel¬low Greeks by pledging a class of 21.Next in line was Phi Sigma Deltawith a class of 17. Tying for thirdplace in numerical success were thePhi Psis and Dekes with 15 each.Alpha DeltsThe Alpha Delts secured 13; PsiU, Pi Lambda Phi, and Phi GammaDelta 12; Kappa Sigma, 11; ZBT,Beta, Phi Kappa Sigma 10; and Sig¬ma Chi, DU and Chi Psi with 9 each.The distribution of fraternity-minded frosh was comparatively even,with no recognized house having apledge class under nine, an unusualevent in recent years.SAESigma Alpha Epsilon, as yet un¬countenanced by the Inter-FraternityCommittee but recognized by thedean’s office, interested four freshmenin reviving the formerly defunctGreek society. The question of recog¬nition rests with the I-F Committee,which is to decide whether or not es¬tablishment of chapter headquartersin the men’s dormitories can be calleda house.Prospects of continued Greek ac¬tivity on campus look decidely morepromising with the new pledge class.Earlier this year, two fraternities.Alpha Tau Omega and Phi Beta Del¬ta, became inactive because of finan¬cial difficulties.Fifteen FraternitiesWith only fifteen active fraterni¬ties left, the campus Greeks watchedwith apprehension the pledging fromthis year’s freshman crop. Would thisyear’s pledging indicate another con¬traction in fraternity life? The re¬sults seem to indicate that the bottom(Continued on page 4)Political UnionHears RogersOn DictatorshipDonald DeWitt Rogers, Chicago at¬torney, will speak before the Poli¬tical Union tonight upholding the af¬firmative side of the question: “Re¬solved—that this Union disfavors theRoosevelt blast against dictator¬ships.” His talk will be followed bya general discussion of the subject.The meeting will be held in Kenttheatre at 8:30. Twenty-five centsadmission will be charged for non¬members.The Political Union will also holda closed membership meeting at 7:30in Kent to vote on the proposed re¬organization plan.This plan, if adopted, will providefor changing the members’ party af¬filiations to party titles current inthis country, such as Republican,Democrat, and others. The quotasfor these parties will be determinedin a campus-wide election called onceeach year by the executive commit¬tee. Individual members will bechosen in open party caucuses afterthe party quotas have been set in thecampus election. In effect, this sec¬ond election will be little differentfrom another campus election be¬cause all those interested will be ableto attend and vote at the caucus ofthe party of their choice.This plan was formulated by a re¬organization committee of six menheaded by Charles Crane, chairman.The others are: Henry Luccock, JimPetersen, Bob Kronemeyer, CharlesPfeiffer, and Doug Martin.Page Two THE DAILY MAROON. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1939FOUNDED IN 1901MEMBER ASSOCIATED COLLEGIATEPRESSThe Daily Maroon is the_ official studentnewspaper of the University of Chicago,published mornings except Saturday. Sun¬day and Monday during the Autumn,Winter and Spring quarters by The DailyMaroon Company. 5831 University avenue.Telephones: Hyde Park 9221 and 9222.A'ter 6:30 phone in stones to ourprinters. The Chief Printing Company,148 West 62nd street. Telephone Went¬worth 6123.The University of Chicago assumes noresponsibility for any statements appear¬ing in The Daily Maroon, or for any con-tract entered into by The Daily Maroon.The Daily Maroon expressly reservesthe rights of publication of *!}y ™“**7.***appearing in this paper. Subscriptionrates: 13 a year; J4 by mail. Singlecopies: three cents.Entered as second class matter March18. 1903, at the post offlM at Chicago.Illinois, under the act of March 8. 1»7».RCPRKSSNTCD FOR NATIONAL AOVERTISINO STNational Advertising Service, Inc.College Publishers Representative420 Madison Ave. New York. N. Y.CHICA60 • BOSTOS • LOS ARSILtI - SAR FRARCItCOBOARD OF CONTROLEditorial StaffLAURA BERGQUISTMAXINE BIESENTHALEMMETT DEADMAN, ChairmanSEYMOUR MILLERadele roseBnsiaess StaffEDWIN BERGMANMAX FREEMANEDITORIAL ASSOCIATESRuth Brody. Harry Cornelius. WilliamGrody. David Martin. Alice Meyer.Robert Sedlak, Charles O’DonnellBUSINESS ASSOCIATESDayton Caple, Boland Richman. DavidSalzberg, Harry Topping.Night Editors: William Hanklaand William GrodyThe Trend TowardsHermit ScholarsIt does no good to give stu¬dents a broad background oftraining in their College years ifby the time they come to thegraduate schools they are backin the hermit scholar ranks.They take no courses outside oftheir department, they haveno interests outside of theirdepartment. All efforts benttowards an advanced de¬gree, they regard extracourses as a waste of time.They turn in theses or completerequired courses in record time,well launched on a career asaveragely dull Americans.Tradition may be reckoned atfault more than any other fac¬tor. Tradition it is that requiresan often worthlessly minutePh.D. thesis before in somefields a student is even consider¬ed for a teaching position. Tra¬dition it is that permits selec¬tion of workers for civil servicepositions on the basis of knowl¬edge of one particular subject,instead of on background andadaptability. And students, wageslaves tied to their future goal,must waste good years concen¬trating on one subject.Departmental programs dotheir part, also. The SSA schoolis only one example of a grad¬uate school where an enterpris¬ing student looking out over themanifold opportunities for in¬troductory study offered by theUniversity is told “But there areso many interesting and valu¬able courses right in your owndepartment.” Courses in closelyrelated departments are sanc¬tioned with some misgivings;unrelated courses are tabooedby politely unwritten censorship.The Medical School, where em¬bryo doctors regard the terri¬tory east of Ellis as inhabitedby Reds and long-haired theor¬ists, reaches its desired effectby cramming its pre-med andmedical program so full of re¬quired courses that studentshave no time between breathsto find out what the rest of theworld looks like. Other depart¬ments offer the same outlook,as testified last quarter by econ¬omics professor Oskar Lange,who represented his graduatestudents as possessed of a pro¬vincial viewpoint and no inter¬ests beyond their major.This bodes no good for thedinner conversations of the fu¬ture, and still less good for theintelligent citizenship of futurescholars. The demand for spe¬cialization, once recognized asruinous to the development ofan interesting and interestedlife, should not be so abjectlybowed to by the universities as it is now. Someone has to stopthe trend: there is no betterstarting point than an influen¬tial university.There are government posi¬tions out begging for graduateswith a comprehensive enoughtraining to fill them; all highcivil service posts must someday follow the same trend.Meanwhile the University cando a great service, if in its grad¬uate schools as well as in thecollege, it permits and encour¬ages the development of out¬side techniques and a broadbackground.Letters to theEditorBoard of Control,The Daily Maroon:I’ve heard a lot about the Washing¬ton Prom, and I’ve been planning togo, but I just can’t seem to get adate, and I’ll bet they’re a lot of oth¬er freshmen, and maybe some upper¬classmen too, in the same fix. Whydoesn’t this high and mighty SocialCommittee that’s supposed to be run¬ning the affair do something aboutthe situation?When I was trying to make up mymind what university to go to, oneof the things they told me about Chi¬cago was that there weren’t any pret¬ty girls there, but I don’t think that’sfair. I’ve seen a lot of them—only Ijust don’t seem able to meet them,and I haven’t quite the nerve to aska perfectly strange girl to a dance.At other schools they run “datingbureaus’’ for people like myself whohaven’t anything wrong with themexcept that they haven’t met every¬one yet, and they’re a big success—the dating bureaus, I mean, althoughof course . . . Seriously, someone toldme the Committee was thinking ofdoing this, and I think it’s a swellidea. But inasmuch as the Prom isonly three weeks away, if they’replanning on doing anything of thatnature, they’d better make it soon,and I haven’t read anything about ityet.In the meantime. I’ve a perfectlygood tuxedo. I’m just six feet, blond,blue-eyed, good dancer, expert con¬versationalist, and well heeled at themoment—and I wonder if you’ll runthis notice:“Lost, a black fountain pen on cam¬pus last week. All finders about fivefeet six, weight 120, good dancers,agreeable, should call Cathedral 800any time after 8.”Thanking you in advance,Ned Rockland. Fifth RowCenterCANDIDA TravellingBazaarFriend Ned is not the typical fresh¬man; he's too shy to list his name inthe Student Directory. We knew noone could be this good.The Board. By DAVID GRENEIt is apparently still possible toprint the same kind of comment onCandida that has been the portion ofShaw’s “brilliantly modem and con¬troversial’’ plays from the time thatthey were “brilliantly modem apdcontroversial” until a very few yearsago. For the last week the reviewskeep saying that “Shaw has hereonce for all told the story of theeternal triangle,” that “he hastouched the mainsprings of humanconduct with his penetrating humor,”and so on and so on. Is it possiblethat any intelligent theatre goer willaccept this today when the false haloof modernity has left Candida for¬ever?In this play there is not one char¬acter which is real, not one situationwhich is not shot through andthrough, either with fake sentimen¬tality or with cheap wit, or with themost outrageous superficiality. It isa tiresome trivial melodrama. Forgoodness’ sake, let us give up prais¬ing Shaw in terms which obscure hisreal merits, such as they are! He isat times a writer of fine comedy—witness. You Never Can Tell, Pygma¬lion, and Arms and the Man. He haswritten one play with a genuine senseof a social situation and the nearesthe has ever come to real characters—John Bull’s Other Island. He has writ¬ten one clever, resounding farce—The Apple Cart. He has written some-1thing which may perhaps be a trag¬edy of lasting merit—Saint Joan.These are solid achievements in Eng¬lish drama. Why does the stage stillbusy itself with his ancient fripper¬ies, like Candida? weariedly drag¬ging their out-of-date comments andtheir ultra-modern, now so terriblydemode daringness before an audiencewhich is so adequately supplied withthe same kind of comment from Mr.Coward, and the same kind of char¬acter and the same kind of unsub¬stantiality from Mr. Coward—an un¬substantiality which will in its turnvanish before some other wearisomelymodern playwright. Manna From Heaven byScientific MethodThe Phi Delt landslide was neithera bolt from the blue nor sheer bene¬ficence of Lady Luck we discoveredafter moseying about Phi Delt cir¬cles. As far as we could see, the boygenius of the house seems to bealumnus Gunther Baumgart, whograduated in Math last year, is grad¬uate studying in statistics and is hap¬pily married to Ardis Manney.The Baumgart family, which in¬cludes Gunther, Ardis and his brotherPaul, have nailed down and pigeon¬holed the subtle art of rushing to anexact science. It’s so scientific thatGunther is now on the verge of writ¬ing a rushing syllabus for futuregenerations of Phi Delts, outliningthe whole process from raw materialsto finished pledges.Charts are an important factor.Along one side of the graph run thenames of actives, on the top, thenames of the rushees. As each activegets chummy with a rushee a square jis blocked out—the scientific lingo |thus runs—active number one knows jfreshman number 8. The blacker the |chart, therefore the chummier the ac-1tives with freshman and the brighter |the Phi Delt prospect. According to jcold numbers, Gunther records that in j zoomed to 90 per cent, mainlythrough the medium of activitiesdormitory crusades, and determinedglad-handed effort on the part of PhiDelts.The system is not absolutely fool-proof says Gunther ruefully. At thebeginning of the year they set theirgoal at 20 pledges. And they got 21But they are nonetheless bearing upbravely. ' ‘New Fields of Endeavorhave suddenly opened for youthFor every 25 names you can affix to apetition you get $1, a happy price of4 cents per name. Object of the peti¬tion is to rid Hyde Park of liquor.Most gallant crusaders at present areDick Evans, who must have reformedand George McElroy who nevertouched the stuff any way.Housewives are their most difficultcustomers they report. Nearly 9 outof 10 will say that they won’t signanything without the approval oftheir husbands. “My husband .surebeat me up last time I did,” said onehappily married domestic cheerfully.Romance in the ASUJudy Forester marries Jim Peter¬sen on March 1. To make it a doublewedding Emmy Shields and .AlecMorin will join them to prove thattwo can picket as cheaply as one.Today on theQuadranglesWEDNESDAY, FEB. 1Phonograph Concert, Social ScienceAssembly room, 12:30 to 1:15.Debate, Mandel hall, “Can Democ¬racy be Defended?” Bertrand Russellvs. C.L.R. James, 3:45.Mass Meeting, “Lift the Embargoon Loyalist Spain,” Adele Rose, EarlJohnson, Mary Gilson, Mandel hall,12.American Folk Music Lecture-Re¬cital, John Jacob Niles, Mandel Hall.8:30.Public Lfcture, “Government Con¬trol of Labor Disputes,” AssociateProfessor Gregory, Law north, 4:30.Divinity Chapel, Joseph Bond Chap¬el, “Can We Take the Initiative,” Pro¬fessor McNeill, 11:55.Public Lecture, “England and theInternational Situation. The Mediter¬ranean Problem,” Asistant ProfessorKnappen, The Art Institute of Chi¬cago, 6:45.Call Meeting toAid Douglas Candida was a play which came toMr. Shaw with little thought; it isthe frothy bubble on the cauldron ofhis comic genius. It would be wellforgotten, but apparently the theatrewill not believe that. The audience istired of it, as the half-empty housesshow. The year before last I saw itproduced by Miss Katherine Cornell.Despite their utmost efforts to makeit vital, the play beat her and thebrilliant young actor who performedMarchbanks better than I have everseen it done.Miss Skinner, who is talentedenough to look for a better subject,has not done a better job than MissCornell—and the play still beats thecompany. Miss Skinner herself isfairly good. She carries a certaingracious tenderness into her relationswith her husband (Onslow Stevens),thus conferring on the characterw'hatever degree of reality it can sup¬port. Mr. Stevens himself was per¬haps the most successful of the ac¬tors, I thought. It is true that hispart has something more of a con¬sistency than Marchbanks’, and moreof elasticity than Candida’s, but whenall that is allowed, Mr. Stevens gavethe role a strong and intelligentrendering. 4 MONTH INTENSIVE COURSErO* COllEGE STUDENTS AND GRADUATESA thorough, tmUtmoe. stenographic couru -storting Janumry 1, April J, Juh 1, October l.Interesting Booklet sent free, without obligation— sente or phone. No solicitors emplovnJVALENTINES???Of course we hove them in all sitesand assortments—the kind “the one"will fall for.Swins and Symphonic RccerdRhy CoinmbiaAN UP-TO-DATE RENTAL UBRARYCollege Book & Gift Shop1015 E. 61st ST. moserBUSINESS COLLEGEEAUl MOSER, J.O,.RH •Rogulor Courses fer Beginners, open to HighSehootG -Seioot GrmAsiotet only, stort jkrst Mondayof ooeh month. Advoneed Courses startany Mand^. Day and Evening. EveningCourees open to men.lid S. Michigan Ave., Chicego, iandolph 4347AT THENEWTHEATER RESTAURANT7225 SOUTH CHICAGO AVE.Can You Dance? Sing? OrWhat? Let's hare it in the col¬lege atmosphere at the newBali Bali. A gala night of funand frolic, fine floor show, ex¬cellent music and dance floor.Prizes Awarded Friday Mights(No cover or minimum charge excepton Saturdays) U. of C.Student TalentNightMarchbank.s (John Cromwell) wastoo nervous, too jerky, too uncertainof his general direction. It is almostimpossible to play thi« part well,anyhow. Whenever I have seen it bestinterpreted it has been by a clevermixture of repression, suddenness,and ferocity. Mr. Cromwell washesitant rather than repressed, jumpyrather than sudden, and strident rath¬er than ferocious. None of the othercharacters were outstandingly goodor the reverse.To promote the campaign of PaulH. Douglas, Claude Hawley, chairmanof the campus committee for Doug-las-for-Alderman, has called a meet¬ing of representatives from all stu¬dent organizations for 3:30 tomor¬row in Social Science 302.The personalities and issues of thecampaign will be reviewed and theways in which the organizations maybe of aid will be presented. Allgroups are asked to have representa¬tives at this meeting. Summer is Near forCamp CounselorsMen and women students inter¬ested in applying for camp counsel¬ing positions for next summer areurged to register in the PlacementOffice, Cobb Hall 215, as soon as pos¬sible. Camp counseling vacancies arealready being received and the Place¬ment Office reports indications arethat selections by camp directors willbe made early.A special application form, inwhich .specific qualifications and ex¬perience data are to be listed, hasbeen devised for use this year in or¬der to expedite the recommending ofcandidates. BULKService Stations Inc.No. 12S.E. Corner Cottage Groveand 57th StreetGAS-OILLUBRICATIONSSave Your Profit Sharing Premium Coupons GivenWith Par Ex Regular and Ethyl GasolinesTHE DAILY MAROON. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1939 Page ThreeDAILY MAROON SPORTSSquawk♦ •By LESTER DEANA very significant index of thefeelings of the spectators at the Min¬nesota game was the storm of booingand hissing which marked the end ofthe last period. It seems that thereferee had decided to give the ballto Chicago out of bounds under theMinnesota basket, but a Minnesotaman grabbed the ball, and beforeeither the Maroon players or thespectators knew what had happened,Minnesota had a basket—but thatwasn’t all. Up to that time, the gamehad been nip and tuck, but the de¬moralizing effect of such a raw de¬cision was more than the Chicagoteam could cope with, and in no timeMinnesota had sunk four buckets andput the game on ice.In the first place, why didn’t thereferee call the play back? Secondly,if the referee was unwilling to makeup for his blunder, why didn’t Capt.Bob Cassels call time out right away,and ask the ref for an explanation. Asa last resort, why didn’t Norge himselfget up off the bench and enter a for¬mal protest; there certainly shouldhave been one. If there is a reasonwhy none of these things was done,the Maroon would appreciate any andall letters of explanation.It is hard, however, to keep thememory of the famous “fourth down’’decision which referee Johnny Getch-ell handed down in the CarnegieTech-Notre Dame game from crop¬ping up in connection with this rawdeal.As a rule, members of the team arenot willing to have their opinionsaired in public for the simple reasonthat it has come to be regarded aspoor sportsmanship to beef about of¬ficials. This time, however, one of theplayers, who prefers to remainanonymous, did say something. Whenasked if he thought Chicago got“gypped,” he replied, “Sure, we alldo.” He went on to say that he per¬sonally had done a good deal of of¬ficiating in basketball, and that herealized how easy it was to make amistake. In his opinion, no criticismshould be aimed at the referees. Thespectators, however, who form by farthe largest majority of the “Mondaymorning quarterbacks” in any game,seem to feel differently; perhaps theydon’t realize that their qualificationsfor judgment are undoubtedly verylimited, and that their opinions are ofnegligible value. In this case ,as us¬ual, the spectators are making themost noi.se, but even the players feelstrongly about it; of course, neitherone can do anything about it, butcertainly every effort should be madeto keep such mishaps from occurringoften.Varsity EngulfsStrong FreshmanSquads 61-25The greater experience and train¬ing of the Varsity Track team en¬gulfed the Freshmen 61-25 when thetwo clashed Friday in the Field-house. Coach Ned Merriam statedthat the results were about as hehad expected with the exception ofthe high jump, which fell below par.Johnny Davenport, Big Ten sprintchampion, had little trouble in win¬ning both the dashes, in spite of thefact that he got off to a slow startin the first event. Bob Merriamsaved the day for the Varsity in thehalf mile, when he nosed out Lam¬bert, a freshman, by the narrowmargin of 1-2 a second.The upperclassmen took all threeplaces in the pole vault, shot, andhigh jump; the only event in whichthe yearlings took the Varsity intocamp was the 440, in which theysnagged the first two berths.The next competition for trackmen is the Intra-Mural event; thefraternities are already soliciting re¬cruits to represent them in the meet.PledgingQuadrangler announces thepledging of Margery Brooks, Shir¬ley Burton, Florence Daly, LouiseEaton, Lucille Hoover, HarrietLindsey, Jean Peterson, Jean Phil¬lips, Jean Scott. Alpha Delta Phi DefeatsKappa Sigma in I-M PlayPhi Sig’s Score TwiceAs 18 Fraternity TeamsCompete.The Alpha Delt-Kappa Sigma gameheld the spot in the third round ofthe Fraternity Division IM basket¬ball tournament held last night inBartlett gym as Alpha Delt Snarrsprained an ankle, and Kappa Sig¬ma Kapton suffered a broken nose.The game finished with four menplaying on each side. Alpha Delt win¬ning 36-14.Last Night’s ResultsAlpha Delt 36, ....Kappa Sigma 14Chi Psi 22, Sigma Chi 8Psi U 26, Pi Lam 14DKE 24 Phi Kappa Sigma 15Phi Gam 42 Beta 5Phi Sig “B” 19, Psi U “C” 8Alpha Delt “B” 40 ZBT “B” 8Phi Sig “C” 17 Phi Psi “B” 15Phi Delt “B” 27 DKE “B” 16DU-ZBT—postponedCHI Psi “B”—Phi Gam “B” post¬ponedAlpha Delt “C”—Pi Lam “B” post¬ponedPhi Gam with little teamwork butheight and good shooting by Norlingand Antonie ran all over the Betas42-5. Norling, high point man, talland thin, stood under the basket andshoved the ball up and in.Psi U, with five Psi U womenwatching, took Pi Lam 26-14 by thesimple expedient of trying a littleteam work and missing less shotsthan Pi Lam. Bell, Jernberg, Daniels,Jampols, and Bernard, played forthe winners.Chi Sigma Chi lost to Chi Psi 22-8 in a game of wild passing andpoor shooting. Ulbrich led his teammates, Tingly, Waterbry, Powell,Plumby, and Stoner, with 14 points.With the aid of zone defense andfast breaking, DKE beat a tall PhiKappa Sigma team 24-15. Deke, be¬cause they have some good ball hand¬lers and passers in Mahoney, Gram-ar. Goes, French, and Steinbach, looka lot better than they really are.Matmeii SmotherIllinois Teacher’sCollege, 27-5Snow’ flurries didn’t bother thewrestlers Monday night. They bravedold man weather and practicallysmothered Northern Illinois TeachersCollege, 27-5.The results were as follows: 121pound cla.ss—Morris (C) defeatedShannes (N); 128 pound class—Par-malee (C) decisioned Wanier (N);136 pound class—W. Thomas (C) de¬cisioned Chamberlain (N) ; 145 poundclass—Loeb (C) decisioned Hopkins(N); 155 pound class—Webster (C)defeated Prentice (N); 165 poundclass—Little (N) defeated Hawkins(C); 175 pound class—Butler (C)(145) decisioned Taxman (N) (145)and heavyweight class—Traeger (C)defeated Hunt (N).Since the teachers lacked a man inthe 175 pound class, Butler and Tax-man, who both weigh 145, wrestledagainst each other in that event.The wrestlers are evidently im¬proving their cave man tactics underthe tutilege of the capable SpyrosVorres, who also was a champion notmany years ago in the manly art ofgrunts and groans and tangled liga¬ments.READER'S CAMPUS DRUGFor Free. Fait DeliveryCampus Phone 352 Fairiax 4800KLEENEX — KOTEXKURB — QUESTREADER'S CAMPUS DRUG Niles LecturesTonight onFolk Music“There should be a Department ofAmericana at the University,” de¬clared John Jacob Niles, tonight’sWilliam Vaughn Moody lecturer inan interview yesterday. “Tschaikow-sky, Liszt, Beethoven, all used folkmusic in their compositions. We aredoing nothing to preserve our folktraditions. We are fiddling while theRome of our folk music is being for¬gotten.”“American Folk Music” will be thesubject of Mr. Niles’ lecture-recitalin Mandel Hall at 8:30 P. M. In addi¬tion to describing the development ofAmerican Folk Music Mr. Niles willsing various ballads that he has col¬lected in the Kentucky mountains.He will accompany himself on thedulcimer and at times on the piano.John Jacob Niles was born in theKentucky bluegrass region. Hisfather was Russian and from him heinherited the love of singing. Mostof his life he has wandered aroundthe Kentucky hills listening to thesongs of people who, unable to readand write, have descended from along line of mountaineers.Strange thing about the ballads isthat many of them are, with the ex¬ception of a few words, identical withthose collected from the written rec¬ords of England, Scotland, and Ire¬land, by the British scholar FrancesJ. Child. This Mr. Niles feels, ispart of America’s heritage. Themountain folk of Kentucky and Ten¬nessee are descendants of people whocame from England, Scotland, andIreland and the songs have survivedmigration and illiteracy. Thus Ameri¬can balladry is definitely related tothat of England.Mr. Niles’ distinction is that hiswork has been collected from the oraltradition of the mountains, whileFrancis J. Child’s work has been withancient records of Britain.Mr. Niles’ final ambition is to builda large home with a music hall onhis farm in the bluegrass region ofKentucky. There, enjoying his mu¬sic, he hopes to raise a vast varietyof unusual vegetables for the rawsalads he loves.Why No MaroonNo issue of the Daily Maroon wasissued yesterday because the Boardfelt that the snow would prevent theissue’s being distributed. After theprinter had sent his assistants home,it was impossible to alter the decis¬ion.CLASSIFIEDFOR SALE — 1937 Chevrolet, deluxe sportcoupe; blue: mileaxe 6600; perfect con¬dition ; $400. Mrs. Simpson, State 4630during day.BOARD & ROOM for girl in exchange forassisting during dinner and staying withchildren 2 afternoons & 2 evenings. Mid¬way 7828, 1020 E. 62nd Street.Jack's Tuxedo Shop36 W. RANDOLPH DEA. 0489 Gophers DefeatMaroons in HardFought Battle Women’s FencingTeam DefeatsEdgewater ClubChicago (27) b f PCassels, f •... .. 0 0 0Stampf, f .. 4 2 4Meyer, f ... ^ .. 1 1 0Lounsbury, c .. 1 3 0C. Murphy, g .. 3 1 0Richardson, g .. 0 0 0W. Murphy, g .. 1 0 1TOTALS ..10 7 5Minnesota (34) b f PAddington, f .. 5 0 3Kundla, f .. 5 0 2Spear, c .. 2 1 1Maki, g .. 0 0 3Dick, g .. 3 1 4Warhol, g .. 1 0 0TOTALS ..16 2 13Free throws missed: Dick, Adding¬ton, Maki, Cassels 3, Stampf 4, Mey¬er 2.The Chicago basketball team hitnew lows in the Big Ten standingswhen Minnesota invaded the field-house Monday and managed to catchup and pass the Maroons by a scoreof 27-34. The Maroons now rest inlast place with five defeats in sixstarts, since they were also turnedback by Ohio State Saturday evening,52-25.The fact that Minnesota bowledover most of their opponents by largescores indicates that the playing ofthe Chicago quintet is definitely onthe upgrade.Joe Stampf, despite his injuredfoot, turned in a fine performance,and led Chicago in the scoring col¬umn by accounting for ten points.Near the end of the game he wasevicted on personals. Captain BobCassels broke into the starting line¬up for the second time this season.He did not make any tallies but heshowed his opponents how to handlethe ball. Dick Lounsbury was han¬dicapped by his high scoring recordbecause it was evident he was closelywatched.The Gophers started out slow andseemed to take things easy. But theearly lead the Maroons piled upshook them out of their lethargy.They began passing with such rapid¬ity that the Maroons could not keepup with them.In the Ohio State game, the Ma¬roon five was overwhelmed with abarrage of accurate long shots led byCaptain Jimmy Hull of the Buckeyes,who scored 23 points on 11 field goalsand one free throw. Chicago madeonly one field goal in the second halfas compared to the Hawkeyes’ 27points. The University of Chicago’s wo¬mens fencing team ran through theEdgewater Athletic club 11-5 in thefirst match in which the women com¬peted.Happie Nusbaum was the only oneto win all her matches getting a per¬fect three out of three. Dorothy In¬gram fencing against Miss Delegard,winner of several national titles, de¬feated her in three out of four of thematches. Others who competed wereMary Elizabeth Grenander, FlorenceCaukins and Mary Wesche.The victory was a surprise to coachHermanson who was not optimisticabout the girl’s chances.AnnouncingCampusRestaurantSPECIALSCompleteBREAKFAST15cLUNCHEONS25cDINNERS35cOPEN EVERY DAY8 A.M. TO 9 P.M.1309 E. 57lhTYPEWRITERSUSED and NEWCorona - Underwood - RoyalRemington - Noiseless$12.50 to $78.50Trade Your Old Machine for aNeiv OneCash or Payment PlanAskow’S Bakery Complete Rental and Repair ServiceThe Pride of Hyde Parkwhere fresh, quality cakes, pastries andcookies ore always obtainable.We Deliver Party SocialsHyde Park 5202 Our Specialty1216 EAST 53rd STREET UIOODUIORTH’SBOOK STORE1311 E. 57th St. Open EveningsNear Kimbarh Ave. Dorchester 4800Page Four THE DAILY MAROON, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1939Fraternities—(Continued from page 1)had been reached two years ago whenonly 154 underclassmen joined, andthat now, due either to the Rooseveltversion of prosperity or increaseddesire for social prestige, the fra¬ternity system would be revived.The list of pledges follows: Alfred Schnoor, C. Schlageter, Ver¬non Kerns.Phi Delta Theta v— Kenneth Jen¬sen, David Smith, Ken Geppinger,Chester Hand, Robert Gruhn, AndrewStehney, Raymond Oakley, RaymondEllis, Warren Wilner, Edward Neu¬mann, George Weiland, John Allen,James Tedrow, Hatten Yoder, Wil¬liam Blackwell, Paul Wochos, Rich¬ard Cantzler, Wolfgang Aussendorf,Robert McKinsey, Richard McKinsey,Paul Struch.Alpha Delta Pi — Alexis Miller,Tony Ryerson, Calvin Sawyier, PaulJordan, Arthur Bethke, Paul Smith,Jerry Morray, Robert Dean, HenryMcW^horter, Neil Johnston, LesterDean, William Leach, Lyle Harper.Beta Theta Pi — Dick Himmel,Clark Sergei, Earl Ratzer, WilliamJohnston, Gregory Hedden, RichardOrr, Reid Later, John Zurmuehlin,Richard Shope, Daniel Barnes.Chi Psi — Robert Sager, PierceAtwater, James Degan, Jack Camp¬bell, Robert Weedfall, Peter Briggs,Baxter, Richardson, Olin Emmons,Donald Marrow.Delta Kappa Epsilon —John Lewis,David Siebert, Carroll Pyle, BruceMitchell, Robert Thorbum, Robert C.Miller, Clayton Traeger, James Frey,Lawrence Heyworth, Robert McCar¬thy, Donald Warfield, Joseph Hack-ett, Robert A. Miller, John Thomp¬son, Francis Lynch.Delta Upsilon — Jacob Swanson,P. M. Kuhn, Robin Buerkin, JamesMcClure, W’^illiam Sapp, James En-swiler, George Nardi, Richard Read,Robert Smalley.Kappa Sigma —Alvin Bielak, LouisKaposta, Robert Afton, Thoma.sGreen, William Chapin, Walter Bar-low, Keith Reckard, John Edelbrock, Phi Gamma Delta — Ben Ploshay,Robert Brownell, Alfred Rider, AzadSarkisian, Walter Loeb, Armand Don-ian, Allen Wisley, Robert Meyer,David Siler, Alfred Norlong, PaulJones, Frank Brunner.Phi Kappa Psi — W. Ralph Moore,John Farish, A. Gentzler, Phil Strick,C. Wickham, C. Arquila, C. Watkin,Emil Weis, William Harrah, RobertCrow, B. Dickson, John Chapman,William Kebele, Don Deever, GeorgeWilliams.Phi Kappa Sigma — Robert How¬ard, Reed Buffington, William Nelson,Jack Schlicter, Charles Hippchen,David Rothrock, Wayne Arnold, Rob¬ert Keck, Martin Haidtler, JohnShreve.Phi Sigma Delta — Reinhard Ben-dix, Arnold Goldberg, C. E. Martin,Jerome Holland, Stanley Levy, S.Hirschberg, Norman Halperin, Court¬ney Shankern, Richard Downing,George Lewis, Earl Shanken, BurtonPhillipson, Theodore Bell, MarshallBlumenthal, Herbert Burrows, LesterGootnick, Melvin Steinberg.Pi Lambda Phi — James Krane,Dick Rosenthal, David Lazarus, JoelBernstein, Robert Jacobs, RobertGreenberg, Herbert Copeland, Jerry Blum in HospitalWith AppendicitisWalter Blum, honor freshman lawstudent who was to have beenawarded a cup by the Chicago Chap¬ter of Nu Beta Epsilon Fraternitytoday, is in Mercy hospital with acuteappendicitis. He will be awarded thecup by proxy at a dinner in the Bre-voort Hotel to which all members ofthe Law School faculty are invited.Nu Beta Epsilon is a legal fra¬ternity having thirty-five members inthe local chapter. The scholarship cupis given to the Law School with thename of the highest standing firstyear law student inscribed on it. Asmall replica of the cup will be givento Blum.Gordon, Solomon Kamensky, WalterAngrist, William Levy, and MarvinBraude.Psi Upsilon — Art Johnson, DanGrabb, William Gibler, Alan Vander-hoof, Alan Graves, Paul Florian, EdCaulton, Alex Webbe, Ken MacLel-lan, Ken Cornwall, Dale Johnson, BobReynolds.Sigmi Chi —Joseph Christian, JohnUmbs, Fred Wangelin, Jacob Bowers,F. Richard Hall, Winston Alsop,Richard Law, Frank Van Brunt,David Fischer.Zeta Beta Tau — Jay L. Fox, Ber¬tram Weil, Myles Jarrow, Ray Witt-coff, Robert Korach, Charles Blue-stein, Ernest Wuliger, John Levin-sohn, Ed Morganroth, Edgar Rachlin.Sigma Alpha Epsilon (unrecog¬nized by I-F) — John Howenstein,Dale Scott, Robert Nabours, AlfredLage. Courtney Bases Campaign onFight Against Maehine(This is the second in a series ofarticles presenting the views of allcandidates for the mayoralty election.The Maroon is taking a non-partisanstand in the campaign.)During the past six years ThomasJ. Courtney has served as states at¬torney, but recently announced hisTHOMAS J. COURTNEYcandidacy for the office of mayor ofthe city of Chicago. In speaking of the important is¬sues of the campaign Courtney hasreferred to the tax situation as themost important. Declaring that thecost of operating the city has arisenapproximately thirty per cent duringthe present administration, he claimsthat expenditures during the sameperiod in his office have deci'easedmore than twenty per cent despitetwo increa.ses in the salaries of a'lemployees.”“As your mayor,” said Courtnev“I will substantially reduce the costof your local government and at thesame time improve the spirit andpromote the welfare of the publicemployees.Other reforms in Courtney’s plat¬form include the necessity for sever¬ing the mayor’s office completelyfrom the management and domina¬tion of a political machine, and theappointment of a new school board.selected solely upon qualification andability to promote the welfare of thechildren and the system.Commenting on the delay in theCongress street development, Court¬ney also states that the project willreceive his direct co-ojjeration. Forthe police department he pledges that"as head of the city government, thepolice department can feel assuredmerit would be rewarded with ad¬vancement—promotion would no long¬er be bought and paid for; and appointment to the department will nolonger be a matter of how muchmoney the applicant has and is will-ing to pay.”★ GEORGE BRENT ★ OLIVIA de HAVILLAND ★ JOHN PAYNEthat gives millions More Pleasure. .. and millions of people before and after theshow are getting more pleasure from the happycombination of mild ripe American and Turkishtobaccos found in Chesterfield.It is the exact way these tobaccos are cow-bined together that makes Chesterfields milderand gives them a more pleasing taste andaroma. 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