^ Batlp itaionVol. 40, No. 38 Z-149 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1939 Price Three CentsDean Smith Explains Washington TripSeeing RedLast week Dean Smith told the Dies subcommittee abouta certain amount of Communist activity on the University cam¬pus. The Maroon has always believed Dean Smith much too in¬telligent and far too much interested in the good name of this.school to deliberately go out of his way to paint it in false andunflattering colors. It .seems unfortunate to us that it has be¬come necessary for a University official to lay charges againstany student activities before a federal investigation.Freedom of thought and opinion has always been consideredfundamental to American democracy. Whatever, beyond restric¬tions necessary for the security of the country, interferes withthis freedom is rightly termed unAmerican. The Dies committeeis inve.stigating unAmerican activities. For this service thereis much need—in these days of foreign unrest many forces areseeking to overthrow our democracy. Fa.scism is one of the.se:a triumphant Communism is another ideology which would sup-pre.ss our liberties. In exposing the.se movements, in showing ho^^far they are going to subvert American democracy, the Dies committee could perform valuable functions.But this is not what the Dies committee is doing. In itsown methods it .seems to us unAmerican and subversive. Wit-nes.ses mu.st testify without the ordinary .safeguards of legal pro¬cedure: evidence is .strangely .selective. In.stead of working hardto expose perils to our democracy, the committee seems to bedevoting a good jiart of its efforts to the political trick of dis¬crediting the admini.stration. And far from removing menacesto our freedom, it has threatened the freedom of individuals—in publishing mailing li.sts of organizations accu.sed of beingCommunistic it has smeared the names of hundreds of goodharmless citizens with a red brush. W’hen it degenerates .so faras to try to establish that .some of our own student groups areengaged in subversive activities, it is doing something repre¬hensible. It forbodes interference with and is an insult to theintelligence our democracy depends on.Certainly there is a Communi.st club on this campus, justas there is legally a Communi.st party in the country. Also, itseems undeniable to us that the ASU is indirectly Communistcontrolled. But what is necessarily subversive or unAmericanabout this?(('onlinued on page two)I Samuel N. Harper DiseussesI Russian-Finnish SituationI Hy BILL H ANK L A Resents Criticism;ASU Holds Meeting‘Uncle Vanya,’W orkshopSho w.Falls FlatSuperb Set, ExcellentCostumes Fail to SavePlay.By PEARL C. RUBINSLast night’s production of “UncleVanya” was the DA Workshops firstcostume play and that is precisely allthat can be said for the performance.Not even a few sporadic outbursts ofsomething that looked like actingRuth Alilquist. . . PA oom ])h!could save the show from being justa series of pretty pictures.Very PrettyIt was all very pretty: the make-upwas better than any ever seeii oncampus stage and the sets were a newhigh in artistic achievement and i)ro-(Continued on page three)Giant ISpivspaperDecorates Gym forMaroon CarnivalBent on setting a precedent of('hristmas dances bizarre to an ex¬treme, the Daily Maroon will take thefirst crack at initiating a series ofYuletide festivals when it presents itsdance Friday night at 9 in Ida Noyes.l^un in conjunction with the Stu¬dent Social committee, the idea wascradled by Miss Margaret Kidw’ell,head of the Ida Noyes Council, whofelt the campus lacked a .social eventto taper off the fall quarter beforethe holidays. The Student Social Com¬mittee is acting in an advisory capac¬ity.Giant NewspaperThe major complaint long directedagainst dances held in the vast gymhas been the lack of romantic con¬viviality the bare wall spaces and highceiling lights give. To offset this, theMaroon will cover the rear w'all behindthe orchestra with a giant front page.‘14 feet long and 30 feet high. To coverthe rest of the North wall marooncolored drapes will be hung.To further enliven the wall space,which runs to dimension of 75 by 100feet, John Patrick and his satiricalpen will wander among the celebritiesand caricature them. These will behung on the walls so all can see th''foibles of the local big shots put onrecord.Darts at HimmelAmong the concessions, will be oneto give all those who have axes togrind with vitriolic Dick Himmel anonportunitv to satiate their sadisticbends. Club girls will set un a boothat which darts can be bought to nitchat a picture of Himmel. If his discre¬tion leaves him, the Bazaar writermight actively take the place of hisPaper likeness and dodge baseballsHe says he never gets that indiscreet.Among the crowd, much in th"fashion of socialite photographers atNew York’s famed “21” club and Storkclub, will be photogranhei’s to snappictures and develop them in tintypeon the scene. The background offrivolity and Maroon posters will be(Continued on page three) Russia’s invasion of F'inlaml hasbeen a great big headache for Pro- ifes.sor .‘Samuel N. Harper, the Uni-versity’.s greatest authority on Ru.s-sian affairs. Sunday night he wasscheduled to give a si)eech on “The.Soviet Union and the International('rises" at International House. Quite(lankly he wished that he had notpromised. Mustering courage, how¬ever, he did his professional duty anddelivered wdiat he termed “an explan¬ation of Russia’s point of view, butnot a defense of her recent action.”Professor Hari)er’s emphasis is that“the Soviet’s conception of moralityand jiolitics is fundamentally <lifferentfrom ours, and,” he explained, “it ismy job as the student of the areato look at things the way Moscowlooks at them.”Not Imperialism“Is this an imperialist move forexpansion—motivated by a lust forl)ower? Will it spread to Norway andon? I <lon’t believe so,” he stated. “Idon’t believe that more territory isStalin’s driving motive,”. It is amove to augment the world revolu¬tion?”“Stalin’s stand for peace,” I feel,“was sinceie as an instrument forspreading social revolution. But theevents of the last few days seems thePfeiffer to HeadSenior Class CouncilThe new Senior Class Council se¬lected Charles Pfeiffer, Head StudentMarshal, and member of Owl and Ser¬pent, as its head at a meeting yester¬day. Pfeiffer’s function will be topreside at meetings of the council,each of whose members has equalpower.Pfeiffer was head of the organizingcommittee for the Council, and didmost of the work in planning the elec¬tion. He was better qualified thanany other senior for his post. |At its opening meeting in Cobb 203,:the council, which consists of Jim ,.Anderson, Janet Geiger, Thelma Isel-1man, and Bob Reynolds, besides Pfeif¬fer, discussed the work of last year’sSenior class and made tentative plansfor its this year’s program. The coun¬cil’s meeting was unofficial except forthe election of a chairman. worst possible way to help revolutionbv peace. Stalin’s words of 1935, ‘It’sclear that levolution cannot be ex-Dortod’ make it difficult to understandthis method of brutal assault by theRed Ai my.To Strengthen Defense.A mcie i)lausible explanation isthat it is the latest Russian move tostrengthen defenses and to weld moresecuiely a Russian orbit free fromforeign domination.As a background for better under¬standing of his analysis. Dr. Harperbeg:;!! with an outline of the entire.^oviet period with special referenceto Finland. “Hi Octobe!' of 1917 whenthe Bolshevik revolution broke outwith its slogan of ‘convert the im-pe!ialistic war into civil war in allcountries!’ recent Russian, Finnishfriction had its beginning. The Finnsbroke away from the Bolshevists onthe issue of the ‘self determinationof people’ principle which the revo¬lutionists intended to be along Sovietlines. Intervention by the allies fi-(C«»ntinued on page two)Three SpeakersDiscuss Strike“I’m on strike against the Herald-.American”;“I am director of the Hearst legalstaff”;“Looking at the strike in perspec¬tive. .. ”These three statements representthe positions to be taken by thespeakei's at a meeting scheduled bythe Labor Problems Council for Fri¬day in Social Science 122 at 3:30.Harry Wohl, international vice-president of the American NewspaperGuild, is the striker who will speak.Ed Woods is the Hearst managementrepresentative. Professor George Ax-telle of Northwestern University willshow the strike in perspective.The strike against Hearst wascalled by the American News¬paper Guild about a year ago. Theworkers who struck were employed onthe Herald-Examiner which has sincemerged with the Evening American,and become the Herald-American. Thestrike has attracted wide attentionand has been marked by bitterness on Mass Meeting DirectedAgainst Dies Committee,Smith’s Action.Primarily directed against the DiesCommittee, which it considers a threatto American civil liberties, and againstthe action of the dean of students inwhat it feels to have been a misuse ofhis office, the American Student Unionwill also answer the charges whichDean Smith made against the organi¬zation in his testimony before thecommittee at a maf^ meeting, nextThursday at noon in iVlandel hall. Themeeting is also endorsed by 'The DailyMaroon.With Malcolm Sharp, associate pro¬fessor of Law, as the chief facultyspeaker, four students are already ex¬pected to make statements at themeeting. Ruth Brody, Harry Cornel¬ius, Bob Merriam, and Bud Briggswill each speak on some aspect of thecontroversy. None of them is repre¬senting any oiganization. ChairmanSidney Lipshires will give the officialstatement of the ASU. Further or¬ganizations and individuals are beingapproached for participation in themeeting.In regard to the specific statementswhich Dean Smith made concerningthe ASU, Harry Hoijer, instructor inanthoropology and faculty sponsor ofthe ASU, said,“I think it is a great pity that DeanSmith saw fit to present such testi¬mony to the Dies Committee as theDaily Maroon has reported. To thebest of my knowledge, his testimonyis inaccurate on several importantpoints. On a matter which concernsthe political activities of students andstudent organizations, it would havebeen much more in the traditions ofuniversity scholarship if Dean Smithhad subjected his facts to more care¬ful scrutiny.”In answer to Smith’s testimony ast^he Maroon reported it, the ASU exec¬utive committee issued the followingstatement:“Aside from the question of wheth¬er or not Mr. Smith had the moralright to turn over to the Dies Com-(Continued on page three)Hold Annual GridBanquet Tonifjlit:Alumni AttendA capacity crowd is exrected to at¬tend the annual football banquet to¬night at 6:30 in Hutchinson Commons.Sponsored by the Chicago AlumniClub, the dinner will also attract ap¬proximately 125 high-school seniorswho have played football during thepast season and who stand in the up¬per half of their class.Fraternity MenEach fraternity is expected to havea large delegation and the alumnihave contacted for the remainingseats. In an effort to interest thehigh-school students in Chicago, thespeakers will discuss various phasesof University life and the opportun¬ities offered at the University.Following the invocation by DeanGilkey, and the dinner. Dean Smithwill welcome those present on behalfof the University. T. Nelson Metcalf,director of athletics, will introduce thecoaching staff while Coach Shaugh-nessy introduces the varsity playersand Coach Norgren presents thefreshman squad.SpeechesSpeeches include those by Co-cap¬tains Wasem and Davenport, a dis¬cussion of “A Few Legal Angles” byJudge Hugo FYiend, president of theOrder of the C; and a talk on “Chem¬istry, Too is Important,” by John J.Schoomer, vice-president of the Chi¬cago Alumni Club.'To conclude the program there willbe more talks—one by John Chap¬man, president of the Chicago AlumniClub, who will speak on “All Is NotGold That Glitters,” and a speech di¬rected to high-school students by JayBerwanger. Pictures of Berwanger’simmortal runs will then be shown. Better Do So WhenAsked Than Wait forSubpoena, Says Smith.By ERNEST LEISER“Frankly, I resent the criticismthat I have been getting about my tripto Washington. People have been say¬ing that I stuck my neck out; theirimplication has been that I took thefirst chance I had to go to Washingtonto squeal on my own initiative.”“I felt it better to go when I wasasked by the Dies subcommittee, thanto wait for a subpoena. That sub¬poena would put the University onthe defensive, and I felt, and still feel,that neither we nor the organizationsdiscussed had anything to hide.”This was Dean Smith’s answer tothe charges raised against him, andto the conjectures as to his reasonsfor going to Washington last Thurs¬day to retail the activities of campusradical groups to the Dies committee.Questions AskedDean Smith pointed out that thepress reports of his testimony failedto distinguish the two types of ques¬tions he was asked.“I was asked to state, in my per¬sonal opinion, whether I thought theASU and the Communist Club were‘UnAmerican and subversive’,” saidSmith. “I replied that it depended onthe definition of these words. For me,Un-American means that they oweallegiance to a foreign government,movement, or person, and in thissense they appear to me to be subver¬sive.”(Continued on page two)Peterson TellsRed ViewOn Finnish WarAsked by the Maroon to explainthe Russian invasion of Finland fromthe Communist point-of view, yester¬day, Communist Club’s Jim Peterson,expressed the following opinion. Itwas his judgment of the internationalcrisis, said Peterson, and was basedupon his observation of the facts ofthe situation.“Like the Polish government, theFinnish government speaks for cap¬italists and landlords. This govern¬ment is controlled by the same classthat murdered five per cent of theFinnish ))eople when the Soviet Uniongranted self-determination to the op-l)ressed Finns, which crushed the pop¬ular rule with the gallows, knout,and bayonet. This same class was apillar of Czarism before the Revolu¬tion, and Mannerheim was a czaristofficer. Today these people wear thegarb of “nationalism.” ^“Their government deliberatelychose war, acting against the inter¬ests of the Finnish people, and eggedon ever since its inception by foreignimperialism; the “democracy” ofcapitalists and semi-feudal landlordspreferred to fight the U.S.S.R. thanto reach the terms on which the lat¬ter’s representative were negotiating.These terms constituted no threat toFinnish integrity and national secur¬ity, and although the U.S.S.R. waswilling to make ample recompense byceding Soviet Karelia, the reactionarygovernment chose war. This actionis part of the international drive ofimperialism to transform the war in¬to an anti-Soviet war.“Working for the British imperial¬ism, for their class interests, andhanking on help “more powerful thansympathy from the United States”as Tanner said in his appeal to worldcapitalism, the Finnish reactionaries*^ried to mislead their people.“The democratic program of theorovisional Finnish people’s govern¬ment answers these intriguers. Thegovernment chose war, but the Fin¬nish people are just beginning totake their destiny out of the handsof imperialists, and to embark on apopular program for a new Finland.”Page Two THE DAILY MAROON, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1939(The Daili) iilannntV ^ r* ^FOUNDED IN 1901MEMBER ASSOCIATED COLLEGIATEPRESSTh^ r ailv Maroon Is Die official studentnewspjipef of the University of Chicago,published mornings except Saturday, Sun¬day and Monday luring the Autumn,Winter and Spring quaiters by 'I'he DailyMaroon Company. 5831 University avenue.Telephones: Hyde Park 9221 and 9-2-.After 6:30 phone in stories to ourprinters. The Chief Printing Company,148 West 62nd street. Telephone Went¬worth 6123.The llniversity 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 any materialappearing in this paper. Subscriptionrates: $3 a year ; $4 by mail. Singlecopies : three cents.Entered as second class matter^ March18, 1903, at the post office at Chicago,Illinois, under the act of March 3. 1879.represented for national advertising bvNational Advertising Service, Inc.- College Publishers Representative420 Madison AVE. New York, N.Y.CHicAeo ■ Boston ' Los anselis - San FranciscoBoard of ControlRUTH BRODYHARRY CORNELIUSWILLIAM 11. (JRODYDAVID MARTIN. ChairmanALICE MEYERBusinessHARRY F. TOPPING, Business Mgr.ROLAND 1. R1CHM.\N, .Advertising Mgr.EDITORIAL ASSOCIATESMarion Gerson. William Hankla, Pearl C.Rubins. John Stevens, Hart Wurzburg,Marian Castlenian. Ernest LeiserNight Editor: Pearl C. RubinsAssistant: David E. MartinSeeing Red—(Continued from pajfe one)Registered Communists andtheir unregistered “fellow-trav¬ellers” are able to control theASU because they are the onlyones willing to devote much timeand energy to working efficient¬ly for it. Most liberals belongto the ASU because they feel“something ought to be done.”Just what should be done andhow, they don’t know exactly;and usually they can’t takeenough time to find out because,after all, they came to thisschool primarily to study, not tobe social reformers immediately.With their incomplete knowl¬edge about problems involvedthey do not feel justified in in¬itiating action.No such scruples, however,bother the radicals. With theirsystem of standards alreadymapped out for them, they areconvinced they have the truthin every matter that comesalong, and are able to devotethemselves to acting efficientlyfor their causes. Since mostliberals are not spurred on bysuch active enthusiasm they letthe radicals lead the way—upto a certain point. As long asliberals remain in the majority,there is little danger that theASU will ever become activelysubversive.At this University the onlythings the Communists en¬danger seriously are theirchances of improving their ownminds. Though they pay tui¬tion they put action above study,and often their actions show afine scorn for theoretical truth.But this is not a matter forDies’ investigation.Communism is no deep men¬ace on this campus. At thepresent time the Communistsare covered with confusion; andthe more University studentsread of news from Finland, theless likely they are to be en¬thusiastic about anything con¬nected with Moscow. Persecu¬tion at this point might serveonly to divert sympathy back tothe hunted reds.So distasteful are the chargesof being Communist controlledand unAmerican to the ASUthat it is spon.soring a mass¬meeting this week to protest. Inso far as the Board of Controlbelieves that in the name ofAmerican democracy the ASUshould be given a chance to an¬swer the charges and prove it isnot subversive, the Maroon en¬dorses the meeting. TravelingBazaarJoe Hanley crashed through withthe biggest news of last weekend.Friday night, after the biggest fra-teinity rushing function of the yearsat Ida Noyes, technically sponsoredby the Freshman Council, the Fifty-Fifth Street Home for Wayward Col¬legians played host to alumni and stu¬dents with a dash of spirit unparal¬leled so far this year. Featuring thisoutburst were 1) the old combinationof Ned Rosenheim and Betty Newhall,the former ordering his beers in lotsof ten; 2) raucous rhythm by theDekes. the other three singing in thebackground; 3) a love-at-first-sightsession carried on by Chicago’s Dekesand Northwesteim’s Kappas that aft¬ernoon; 4) an item which goes toshow that this was a great rushingfunction. At twelve, after the dance,a typical wayward freshman wastransported from Ida Noyes to Han¬ley's by means of one of the AlphaDell fleet. At two, following an in¬tensive Hanley hotbox, said freshmanwas driven to an open-all-night spotin Beverly by the l*si I's, who had ar¬ranged to meet the Dekes there. Thefreshman is still on the fence. Didyou ever sit on a three-corneredfence?Elsewhere that night, Chicago wasrepresented at the Stevens, meaningthe Navy Ball, by Margaret Peacock.Georgia Disch, and Pat Wolfhope.who spent better than half the eve¬ning writing and sending postcards,not playing post office. They weretaken by some Sigma Chis, who gottook.Puzzle of the week is based on arumor that Alpha Delt John Busbyhung his pin on the aforesaid MissDisch on the same Friday night. Thisincludes implications. We think youunderstand. Doris Daniels also ran,but not fast enough. A Deke got her.At least a pin would seem to indicatethat.About females in genei’al: You’veheard that four out of five women arebeautiful and the fifth goes to Mich¬igan. We have women at Chicago.They don’t go to Michigan. Thereforethey are not the unbeautiful fifth. Butthey are not beautiful. What arethey? This is just a plug for .Aris¬totle.Outside of Grant Atkinson’s birth¬day party at South Shore. Hanley’sheld the spotlight again Saturdaynight. Those lit up—by the spotlight,we mean—were people, this time dis¬tinguished by being fraternity men.Or is that being distinguished? Thistime they were Psi I's with a modicumof Dekes, returning from Bob Erick¬son’s wedding, at which the Swedewas said to have been pallid. Nodoubt he cut himself while shavingand used too much talcum to cover thewhole thing up. These, in the backroom, regaled the entire company withfeidthy ballads. And we do mean nas¬ty. Former Abbot Frank Carey cameback from the Jesuits in good style;we think maybe he went on accountof the awful Blackfriars scandal, inwhich the Psi Us lost control ofBlackfriars. Lillian Luter was notthere—again. We know where shewas. The Alpha Delts saw her Thurs¬day night at a new night club theydiscovered near a starch factory.Also at Han’s Saturday night wasthe newest campus sensation fromoff-campus, Elbe Tadge. She made herfir.^t appearance of the year a weekago at the Deke party in flaming at¬tire. At the close of the party her es¬cort, so angered at the lupine be¬haviour of , tossed her coat in thelatter’s face and said, “You take herhome.” To which she acquiesced with¬out a word of protest. The wolf tookher home. You would too. As beforenoted, she turned up again this Sat¬urday night. This time she had a datewith three good joes. After blockingthe aisle with crowds attracted by hermagnetic figure. Miss Tadge harkedto the coyote’s call and hied hersedfhome with three good joes—but theyspelled their names differently. “Iknow it’s wrong,” she said, “but I justcan’t help it.” She is now on the listsof the Freshman Date Bureau.Psi U Chuck Pfeiffer pledged PhiPsi last night. He arrived as the PhiPsis were sadly in need of men, be¬cause of the entire Sigma harvestwhich was eating supper there. SaidPfeiffer: “I had the best time of mylife.” Janet Geiger pledged Sigma.Deke Jim Anderson had three datesSaturday night. He has a black eyetoday. And a Mortar Board pin.Five flashes on the Chicago Quad¬rangles are a group of redheads, be¬ginning with Peggy Flynn, throughRuth .\hlquist, Naneen Hiller, SueIsaacson, Edith Hungate. Every Tues- Harper^(Continued from page one)nally clinched the Finnish stand, andthe Russians were eventually drivenalmost past Leningrad. The peacesettlement instigated by the allies in1920 set the present border arrange¬ments and establishe<l Finnish inde-I'endence.Communist CompromiseSettled within her own borders for7 years, Russian’s Communism in1927 began to show signs of com¬promising its international ideal ofworld revolution. It was this issuethat precipitated the conflict betweenStalin and Trotsky out of whichStalin emerged victorious. Stalin’sprogram which followed smacked ofnationalism. The USSR entered thefamily of nations, joined the League,backed a program of collective se¬curity, and soft pedaled its doctrineof international revolt.Collective SecurityThis, Dr. Harper explained, wasStalin’s reaction to the rise of a circleof potentially hostile powers in theform of Germany, Italy, and Japan.Stalin opposed appeasement, andwished for more support from theDemocracies for collective security.“Soviet policy was generally construc¬tive for peace up to this time,” hesaid.“Then came Munich and the ques¬tion, why was the Soviet left out?Was it considered negligible, or dan¬gerously strong by Chamberlain andDaladier?” These were questionswhich the speaker merely raised.“However,” he added, “Munich wasnot anti-Russian. It seemed only anattempt to isolate the Soviet.”Turnabout at MunichMunich was the turning point forRussia. It knew that Munich wouldnot bring peace and that aggressioncould be checked only by genuine col¬lective security. However, Stalin sawthat his attempts at cooperation withBritain and France were doomed tofailure, and promised that unless acollective program came soon hewould act by himself. Russia’s pro¬gram would be to secure from domi¬nation by the small states in the Rus¬sian orbit, which might be used asspring boards for attacks by foreignpowers. Subsequently mutual assis¬tance pacts with Latvia and the otherBaltic states were signed. Russiaassured the small states defense andpromised to cross its frontier to meetan aggressor as it did in Poland. “Thedemands on Finland were likewisepart of this defensive program,” Har¬per said.day they appear, regimented in blackskirts, powder blue sweaters, and redhair.Dick Himmel just walked in to re¬view the writing of this missile, aftera quick trip to Hanley’s. We meanit didn’t take him long to get there.Saying he was sober as a jay, Himmelasked if Ellie Tadge was any relationto Lillian Luter, took no as an answer,and disappeared into the vast depthsof Lexington Hall.This is not by Dick Himmel.iJlllllllllllllllllllllllllliiliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii Smith—(Continued from page one)Smith pointed out that he did notmean that the organizations were sub¬versive according to the definition inthe Illinois Sedition Act, that theywere perfectly legal in this sense ofthe term, and consequently were en¬titled to recognition by the adminis¬tration.Lipshires’ AnswerHe said that he did not feel thatSid Lip.shires’ answer was valid. (Lip-shirea said that ‘Of the 17 executivecommittee members of the .\SU, only2 are Communists.’) He claimed thatin his testimony he said, that by farthe minority of the members of theASU were communists, but that thecontrol of the ASU is effected by theCommunists, and their sympathizers.Smith seemed surprised that therewas such spirited controversy over histrip. Said he, smilingly, “I can’t forthe life of me see why they’re irri¬tated. I have made clear my personaldislike of the Communists before. Asa matter of fact, when a former prom¬inent radical on campus, newspaperreporter at present, read my testi¬mony, he admitted that there wasnothing new or untrue in it.”In Official CapacityWhen Smith was asked if he wasacting in an official capacity in histrip to Washington, he said that theissue didn’t come up as such, but sincehe was called at his business address,he presumed that he was and he tookthe official files of the University withhim.He .said that he knew that the .\SITwas sponsoring a mass meeting toprotest his action. When the Maroonasked him if he would like to speakat the meeting, he said that hecouldn’t, because of “College Day”plans. He said that he didn’t feelcalled on to testify even if the datewas changed, since his position wasperfectly clear.The University had a tradition ofacademic freedom, said Smith, andsince the radical organizations werewithin the law, they would bt* recog¬nized—and sanctioned so long as theystayed within the law.“What did he think of the DiesCommittee?” He said that he didn’tknow enough about its work to com¬ment, but that its purposes were le¬gal, and probably desirable.Today on theQuadranglesPublic Lecture. (Division of SocialSciences) Joseph Weckler “Mana andTaboo”. Social Science 122 at 4:30.Graduate Political Science Club.Frank Banc, Thomas Green and Ken-nith Sears “Interstate Trade Bar¬riers.” Social Science 302 at 7:30.Theological Club. Dr. Karl Beth,Meadville Theological Semina r y“Some Aspects and Outlooks of The¬ology in Germany”. Swift CommonRoom at 7:30.D.\ Workshop. Tchekhov’s UncleVanya. Reynolds Club Theatre at 8. Ellis Eating Co-opSuspends Snack ServiceThe Ellis Co-op has decided to sus¬pend indefinitely its late evening lunchservice better known as the “snack-ery.” According to Harold Guetzkow.the co-op manager, only 15% of themembership utilized the service there¬by making labor costs relatively high.In its next meeting the co-op as¬sembly plans to discuss fully variouspossibilities of providing low cost eve¬ning snacks for co-op members.I THE TEXT OF THE |CANTERBURY TALES |S JOHN M. MANLY S“ and SM EDITH RICKERT J= Studied on the basis of all known manuscripts. =M TO BE PUBLISHED IN EIGHT VOLUMES 1M JANUARY 2 Sg Pre-publication price $25 (expires Dec. 31) M= Price After Publication $40 SM See sample sets and a Chaucer exhibit when you M^ leave your order at the sI University of Chicago Bookstore jg 5802 Ellis Avenue MlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllHlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllIlH^THE DAILY MAROON, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1939 Page ThreeHuman AdventureGoes On AirCandles andGarlicBy GEORGE T. PECK ‘Trained all Fall with avidity and.kill by Mr. Levarie, the UniversitySymphony Orchestra is ready to giveits all next Sunday evening in Mandelat S. And its all is quite a lot, judgingnot from college but professional^tandards.They are out to do the twenty-ninefugues out of Bach’s Art of theFugue, for the first time in Chicagoand probably for the first time in A-inerica. The department has the onlyknown complete orchestral score inAtJNES DAVIS 'the country, and Manager Towey hasscurried from musician to musician topick up such odtl instruments as tenort rombones.All this sounds jnctty far-fetched,to tit the school »)f ultra-ultras whoworship mss. of slight music of Gem-iniani, Gesualdo, or some other com¬poser unheard of to the layman. Butit isn’t. It is to orchestral fugueswhat Bach’s .Mass is to religious mu->ic.and the fugues have gathered dustonly because program arrangers, withjustifiable timidity, fear presentingtwo hours of Bach.At a clip these two hours wouldstrain even professionals, but by visit¬ing dress reheasals Friday night atT:d() in Mandel, the musical muckercan get enough of his teeth in thescore to enjoy himself muchly onSunday. So go. To repeat, this is amost rare chance to hear some of thegreatest music ever conceived.That a mere college orchestra of analmost embryonic music departmentshould have the guts, talent, andsweat to produce something of thissize should bo a souice of pride to thewhole university.♦ ♦ ♦Preview of what the college talentcan do was given last Sunday nightin Bond Ghaped, when the Collegiumgave its first performance. Playing toa packed house, the chamber orches-tiM’ gave evidence of sincere hardwoik and Mr. Levarie, of inspiredconducting in the Handel ('oncertoGrosso in E .Minor. It was clear andvigorous.Before this the choir gave work¬manlike performances of a motet ofdcs Pres, one of Hasslei’, and a pas-sacaglia of Marini, knowing the lan¬guages as well as the music.♦ ♦ ♦The Chicago Symphony goes in forgrandeur this week too. Thur.'=day andholiday the Ninth of Beethoven willsing forth from the orchestra, a chor¬us of about 250, and soloists AgnesDavis, soprano, Lillian Knowdes, con¬tralto, Joseph Laderoute, tenor, andMark Love, bass.At nominal fees the Illinois Sym¬phony Orchestra gave its first per¬formance of the season last night inthe Blackstone theatre, under the ba¬ton of Izler Solomon.Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco lived upto expectations last week, filling theSaidonberg concert with romanticfurore.:|c iK «The week is too full of music: Ser-kin gives the second of the MusicalArts Piano Series in Orchestra Halltonight . . . Gianini at popular pricesin Tosca Thursday night, Reggianiand Kiepura for Rigoletto Friday’night, and Rethberg and Martinellising Trovatore in Sat. Mat....PledgingPhi Delta Theta announces thepledging of Andrew Peterson ofNormal, Illinois. Alan Smith ofSouthhampton, England, and Har¬ry Beach of Chicago.Beta Theta Pi announces thepledging of Roland Whitman ofWinnetka, Illinois. Radio Office PreparesScript for Highest Rank¬ing Program.By JUDY PETERSONLargely because of its success lastsummer, which the Columbia Broad¬casting system describes as “phenom¬enal,” the University’s “Human Ad¬venture” radio program will be on theair again sometime after the first ofthe year, this time on a regular l.’l-week broadcast cycle.At the close of its eight week pe¬riod, from late in July until the mid¬dle of September, the “Human Ad¬venture” ranked highest in audiencesize of all educational progiams onany network up to that date. It wassecond only to Major Bowes’ “Caj)itolFamily” in number of listeners to anyCBS sustaining program, and hadone-seventh the audience of “CharlieMcCarthy,” most popular program ofany kind on the Columbia network.As in the case of the original se¬ries, Sherman H. Dryei’ and the staffof the University Radio Office willprepare all scripts for the broadcasts,and are responsible foi- gathering allof the material which is presented inthem. Brewster Morgan of Columbia,who directed the Hollywood Hotelprogram two years ago, will act asdramatic director for the “Human .Ad¬venture” again, which will includeBenton, Howe SpeakBefore Student ForumVice-president VV’illiam Benton willspeak at the Student Forum baiuiuettomorrow. Mr. Benton’s speech, whichdiscus.ses “The University of Chicagoas a Pioneer,” will be short, and thefloor will then be thrown open forquestions. This is in line with Stu¬dent Forum tradition which alwaysseeks active audience participation.John Howe of Benton’s office will alsobe present.The banquet will be in Ida Noyesat 0 and tickets are available for 40cents at the Student Forum office,Lexington 15 B. There are only afew tickets left.Xmas Shoppers GetBreak at BazaarOnly 19 more days until Christmas!Do your shopping early at THE B.-\-Z.A.AR...is the plea of the Occupa¬tional Therapy Departments of theHome for Crippled Children and Bill¬ings Hospital. The Bazaar will beheld in the playroom of the Hometomorrow from 10 to 5.The Bazaar is run to secure moneyto buy new materials with which towork. Gifts at reasonable prices canbe secured. Knitted cai)s, tooled leath-(■r belts, woodwork, and fancy needlewoi'k, are among the kinds of articlesoffered for sale.^Uncle Vanya —(Continued from page one)fessional perfection, but the F)lay wasnot there. A play of frustration suchas “Uncle Vanya” is not supposed togive the impression of the joyous life,but frustration can depress ratherthan put to sleep. And this latter, theslow drugging of the conscious mind,was the effect given by last Tiight’srehearsal. The only fire that burned inthe entire play was confined to thecandle which burnt under the ikon inAct two and three.The two players who gave the mostpleasing performances, pleasing butnot moving, were Bob Cohn as Profes¬sor Serebryakoff and Peggy O’Neill asMaria. Jack Campbell as Astroff wascompletely unable to do anything withthe part, his greatest contribution be¬ing nothing more than the presen¬tation in the second act of a stockdrunk scene. Pierce Atwater as Vanyawas totally unconvincing, broughtnothing to the part and did nothing Howard Barlow and the March ofTime orchestia, with all-professionalcast of 15 people.With the diversity w’hich charac¬terized the first broadcast cycle, thesubjects of the first five programsrange from a modern clinical analysisof the “witches” of an earlier day, toa dramatic presentation of “The Use¬fulness of Useless Knowledge.” Thelatter, referring to the inventionswhich have grown out of apparentlyimpractical discoveries, is largelyconcerned with the work of the Prince¬ton Institute for Advanced Study, ofwhich Albert Einstein is a member.ASU-(Continued from page one)mittee student names from the officialfiles of the University, and to dis-ciedit the reputation of the Universityas a liberal institution, most of hisassertions were completely untrue.The Nazi-Soviet pact, for instance,has been mentioned at only one meet¬ing of the organization At an .ASUmembership meeting on Ameiica inrelation to the war, four studentspeakeis gave four conflicting viewsas to the character of the war. Thefinal speaker was the only one to de¬fend the Soviet-German pact.“The .ASU has repeatedly said thatCommunists were members of its or¬ganization, and that as long as theycontinued to abide by the rules andthe spirit of the organization theywould continue to be members. Ofth(' 17 executive committee members,howevt'i-, only two are Communists,:\n:l many of the others, as well asmany members of the organization asa whole, have rei)eatedly stated their( ; position to the aims of communism.The .American Student Union is not afront for any iierson, organization, orMsm’. but is concerned instead withracial, social, and labor ])!-oblcms, andwith extending democracy to meet theneeds of the people.”.A petition censuring Dean Smithfor “his (’eliberate action in discredit¬ing the University by his distortedtestimony” is being ciiculated amongfacultv memhe.'s and students by theASU._more but look the part. GeorgeSchloss’ Telegin was just a littleBi-onx boy who had some how beendone wrong. In playing the part of.Marina, Gloria Ploei).‘-t failed to actold enough, one could not imagine herto be as aged as the lines of the playre(iuire. Miss Ahlquist and Miss Cas-tleman as Helena and Sonya were adisai)pointment; neither showed anyfeeling.Slow PaceChekov’s “Uncvle Vanya” is a playwith meat and due either to faultydirection or bad material the Work¬shop has failed to produce an evenpassable show. The pace is slow’, butit is not the slowness of frustration orboredom but the slowness of mis-plotted action.The plan was diiected by William.M. Randall and costumes were de¬signed by Harriet Paine. The superbset and the excellence of stage tech¬nicalities were due to the designingof Bai i y Farnol and the work of stagemanager Demurest Polacheck.There will be three performancesthis week: tonight, Wednesday, andThursday nights at 8 in the theatreof Reynold’s Club.4 MONTH INTENSIVE COURSEFOR COLLEGE STUDENTS AND GRADUATESA thorough, intensive, stenographic course —starting January 1. April I, July 1, October 1.Interesting Booklet sent free, without obligation— write or phone. No solicitors emploved.m ose rBUSINESS COLLEGEPAUL MOSER, J.D., PH.B.Regultu Courses for Beginners, open to HighSchool Graduates only, start first Mondayof each month. .Advanced Courses startany Mo.iday Day and Evening. EveningCourses open to men.16 S. Michigan Ave., Chicago, Randolph 4347HOTELSt. George Dining Room**on the Midway'*1433 East 60th StreetLuncheons 25c ■ 40c Dinriers 35c - 40cSpjBcial Evening Six Course Dinner 45cOpen 7 A.M. to 8 P.M, Offer Poetry^Essay PrizesAgain This YearA prize of $50 will be awarded thisyear in the competition for the DavidBlair McLaughlin Essay Contest anda similar award of $100 will be givenin the competition for the John Bil¬lings Fiske Prize in Poetry. Contri¬butions for either contest shouldreach the English office, Ingleside .304,not later than May 1.The McLaughlin Essay contest isrestricted to students in the collegeand the award is made on the basisof a critical essay of not more than3000 01’ less than 1500 typewrittenwords. The subject is limited to mat¬ter pertaining to the Humanities orthe Social Sciences. It should not besigned, but should be accompanied bya sealed envelope containing the nameof the writer.Fiske Poetry PrizeIn the case of the Fiske Prize inPoetry the competition is open to stu¬dents in any school or college of theUniversity, graduates as well as un¬dergraduates excepting former win¬ners of the prize. No competitor mayoffer more than one contribution, butthis may be a cycle including severalrelated poems. There is no limitationas to length, subject or form.Each contestant will submit hiscontribution typewritten and signedwith a pseudonym. A sealed envelopeshould be enclosed containing a cardbearing the pseudonym, the name ofthe contribution and the name andaddress of the contributor. Only un¬published poems may be submitted inthe contest, and the University re¬serves the right of first publication ofthe winning contribution.Last year the David Blair Mc¬Laughlin Essay Contest was won bySamuel Wolfenstein and the John Bil¬lings Fiske Prize in Poetry wasawarded to Elizabeth Schoening. Dance—(Continued from page one)blended into the pictures.With the idea that beauty contestsare humorous at best, there will besuch a contest operated on the basisthat all and sundry may have as manyballots as they wish to stuff illegallyfor their favorites. In fact, the onlylegality is illegality.Prior to the dance all fraternitiesare having open houses. From therushing functions the Greek boys willtramp over to Ida Noyes to continuethe contacts made at the houses ear¬lier in the evening. 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SOMERSETMAUGHAM“Closer to the mood of Of Human Bondage than anyof that book’s successors”—Gannett. $2.50Fiction—Sterling North—Seven Against the Years 2.50Richard Aldington—Rejected Guest 2.50John Steinbeck—Grapes of Wrath 2.75Ann Bridge—Four Part Setting 2.50Lin Yutang—Moment in Peking 3.00Noel Coward—To Step Aside 2.50Christopher Morley—Kitty Foyle 2.50General Subjects—Brockway-Weinstock—Men of Music 3.75Max Lerner—Ideas Are Weapons 3.50Will Durant—Life of Greece 3.95Henry Canby—Thoreau 3.75James Thurber —The Last Flower 2.00IF UNDECIDED—GIVE BOOK TOKENS TO YOURFRIENDS AND LET THEM SELECT THE BOOKSTHEY WANT.A New Way to Solve the Gift Problem!50c - $1.00 - $2.50 - $5.00 or any value you wish.WOODWORTH'SBOOK STOREI 1311 E. 37tli St. Open EveningsXPage Four THE DAILY MAROON, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1939THE DAILY MAROON SPORTSVeteran Squad ReadyFor Season’s OpenerIneligibility Stays Awayfrom Norgren’s Door;Reserves Good.By DON HAWKINSOld Lady Ineli}?ibility. who raisedhob with the early season efforts ofthe Maroon cage squad last year,hasn’t put in her appearance aroundthe Fieldhouse yet this season and, asa result. Coach Nels Norgren is sleep¬ing better these nights. With theopening battle of the year only a dayaway, he has no less than six veteransof first string caliber at his disposal.Contrast this picture to last year’swhen two of the late season starterswere ineligible at this stage.Lounsbury and Richardson haverounded into shape since the end ofthe football season and will bo readyto start against Chicago Teachers. Al¬len, Stanley, Stampf, and Jorgensoncomplete the sextet from which thestarting five will be picked Wednesdaynight.Adding to the picture is the promising showing of several sophomorerecruits. Chief among these are Zim¬merman, Fons, Charlton, and Wagen-burg, who in the practices have dis¬played ability.Chief joker in the picture is thefact that the Maroons have a longway to go before they can rate as afirst class aggregation in the leaguethey inhabit. Nevertheless, Chicagoseems headed toward a definite im¬provement over last year and shouldknock off its share of opponents be¬fore the jerseys are packed away nextspring. 30 Maroons to GetLetters at BanquetMajor letters will be awarded to22 members of the University of Chi¬cago football team this evening at theannual football dinner at the Univer¬sity. Eight players will receive minorlettei’s.Leading the letter winners in min¬utes played in Chicago’s eight gamesthis year is Co-captain Bob Wasem,w'ho was recently elected by the teamas its most valuable player. Wasemplaved 444 minutes out of a possible480.The letter winners are: Davenport,a senior; Wasem, a senior; Letts, ajunior; Wilson, a junior; Parsons, asenior; Tony Basile, senior guard;Morrie Grinbarg, senior center; BobHow'ard, junior fullback; Ted Howe,senior fullback; Bob Jampolis, juniorquarterback; Ken Jensen, sophomoreguard; Dick Lounsbury, senior end;Walter Maurovich, junior guard; BobA. Miller, sophomore quarterback;Bob C. Miller, sophomore end; RalphRichardson, junior end; Hugh Rendle-man, junior tackle; Duncan Scott,junior guard; John Stearns, seniortackle; Baird Wallis, junior guard;Milton Weiss, junior tackle; and DickWheeler, senior center.Minor lettermen are: Bob Dean,sophomore halfback; John Keller,junior tackle; Bob Kibele, sophomorehalfback; Bill Kimball, junior full¬back; Bill Leach, sophomore quarter¬back; Wallace Ottomeyer, junior full¬back; John Palmer, senior end; andAndrew Stehney, sophomore quarter¬back. SKATING TICKETSStudents interested in skating onthe University rink under thenorth stands are urged to get theirskating tickets now. They may beobtained upon presentation of atuition receipt at the Athletic Of¬fice in Bartlett Gym.As soon as the weather is coldenough the rink will be open. Anotice will be posted in front ofBartlett and a flag flown over theNorth Stands when the rink isopen.tiR” Fencing TeamDefeats Medical MenLed by Bob Straetz with the saberand Billy Reilly with the foil, the Chi¬cago “B” team downed a surprisinglystrong Illinois Medical School fencingteam, 14 to 13. Straetz w'on his threematches, while Reilly lost but one ofhis trio.Loyal Tingley, fencing NumberThree just for practice, also won threematches in epee.In addition to this meet, the laddertournament, which has been in prog¬ress for the last few w’eeks, is aboutover except for the final round. Thethree top men in each event will fightit out Wednesday afternoon for firstplace.Alex George, Loyal Tingley, andStuart MacClintock will battle it outto decide the top foil man; epee cham¬pion will be Tingley, Herb Ruben, orHarmon Ginsburg; A1 MacDonald.Dick Glasser, and Paul Siever willdecide w'ho is the best saber man.Claridge, WilliamsPace Pin TourneyAt the end of three weeks of com¬petition in the bowling tournamentMarial Pliss w’ith a score of 202 topsthe list in scores for single games. Inthe women’s division leaders are PatClaridge with a total of 486, Iris Mil¬ler with 474, and Carol Russell scor¬ing 450. Badminton teamTops Hyde ParkUniversity of Chicago badmintonteam was victorious over the HydePark YMCA team in their match Sun¬day, defeating them by a score of 15to 6. Outstanding University playersin both their singles and doublesmatches were Eleanor Coambs, JohnNewland, Gertrude Polcar, Bob Ral¬ston, Jules Rudolph, Robert Glaeser,and Ray Smiley.An unfortunate outcome of the aft¬ernoon’s play was the injury of New¬land. After just completing a sixmonths’ vacation from active compe¬tition becau.se of a shoulder injury,Newland was struck by a recurrenceof this trouble during one of hismatches. His loss to the club for theremainder of the year will be deeplyfelt as Newland has been one of theiroutstanding players.Continue RidingDuring Winter DaysAt a special meeting of the wom¬en’s riding club last Friday it wasdecided to remain as an active clubluring the winter quarter provide<lthat an hour agreeable to all could befound. In jiast years the group hasdisbanded during the winter but itis hoped that this year some outsideriding can be done, weather permit¬ting. If not ring work at the academywill take its place.Plans for intra-club comi)etitionwere postpone<l, })robably until spring,as the women felt they were not yetready for such activity. Arrange¬ments for a club dinner following theChristmas holiday were also broughtup for discussion.In the men’s division with only oneweek left to go Jules Williams leadswith a score of 553, C. G. Daughertytakes second place with a total of 542,while Harry Harman scoring 522 fol¬lows close behind. Students!!SAVE FROM 20% TO 50% ONYOUR LAUNDRY BILLFLUFF - FINISH10c PER LB.UNDERWEAR. PAIAMAS, SOCKS. ETC.FLUFF DRIED.HANDKERCHIEFS IRONED—NO EXTRACHARGEShirts Ironed 9c EachAdditionalMETROPOLELAUNDRYWESLEY N. KARLSON, Prop.I 1219-21 EAST 55fh ST.I Phone Hyde Park 3190I Between Woodlawn and Kimbark Ato.more smoktng vZone smoked. 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