Vol. 40, No. 39 Z-149 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1939 Price Three CentsHutchins Won^t TalkROHKRT MAYNARD HUTCHINS HARRY (). GIDEONSEGideoiise Agrees to Debate HutchinsOn Educational Policy, But Prexy is Too BusyTowey GivesOut Hot TipsOn His BandCarnival Music MasterTells Stories on the“Hoys.”“Sure, they’re concert men, but ahit on the slap-ha))py side at times,too. Why, I remember...” and ChuckTowey, the entraginc: and accomp¬lished chap who will lead the or¬chestra for the Maroon ChristmasFestival dance Friday night at IdaNoyes, trailed off on a tangent aboutthe ri.sque activities of his horn andsheet men.Ho began to tell of the time yearbefore last when he and four of boysspontaneously i)roduced a swing ses¬sion under the window of PresidentHutchins at 2 in the morning aftercoming home from a job in a happystate.No .\ppreciati<*n“Hutch’s window was oj)ened wideand I think our music or whatever itwas that we played must havesounded pi-etty bad. .Anyway ho calledtho campus cops. .lust before theycame one of our sax men suggestedwe move out onto (JOth street. Thatbeing city property the campus gen¬darmes couldn’t touch us. We i)layedand ))layed, while the lads in bluemade as much noise telling us to shutup or we would be bounced fromschool and sent to Sing Sing, .Alca¬traz, .Almira, I.eavenworth, and a tenyears’ sentence of listening to Soc. IIlectures."Somebody among the boys had theid(“a to play until the city cojjs came,then to dissolve into the night. Well,all the campus police from .olHh streetto the downtown campus werescreeching and hating us plenty untilwe heard the siren of the city crui.serheading in our direction. That wasour exit cue,” Chuck finishe<l.. . . Hut Seriou.slyOn the serious side, Towey managesthe University Symphony an<l intendsto become a i)aleantologist if he ever(('ontinued on page two)Thera itistsHoldliazaar Todayit BillinasChristmas is just around the cor¬ner! The Hazaar of the OccupationalTherapy Departments of the Homefor Destitute Ciipj)led Children andHillings Hospital will be held in thoPlayroom of the Home today from10 to 5:!10. Tea will be served in theafternoon in the playroom which isthe most eastern building in the Hil¬lings Group.The occupational thera|)ists whodivide their time between the twohosj)itals do not intend the work tohe vocational training, but work withthe doctors so that ceidain muscleswill be exercised. Beautiful luncheonsets and scarves are woven, handsomelinoleum blocks are printed, charmingwood and soap carvings are made, andmany other things are made withleather and needlework.Help TreatmentThe patients are charity patientsand the Bazaar is hel<l to raise moneyfor materials since the occui)ationaltherapists desire to show the patientstheir earning capacity and the de¬finite desii-e for their goods. In manyinstances this training has helped todeveloj) the personalities of the i)a-tients.There are all kinds of apparatusfor develoj)ing different muscles andsome can be used on the beds. Per¬haps the most novel apparatus is abicycle set-up which a patient ridesto provide energy to run his sawExcellent hand and leg exercise ispiovided by the various looms.Success StoryOne of the boys in the home whowas a student at the University ofIllinois before he got tuberculosis ofthe spine has been doing leatherworkduring a part of the two years thathe has been at the Home. His workhas been so good that his family hasopened a store in his home town tose’l his products and thus providehim with spending money. One halfof .ill completed work is given to thepatients. AgriculturalEconomicsOpen to Sen iorsIn line with their jiolicy of offeringa cour.ee in agricultural economy atleast once during the academic yearthe Economics De])artment presentsduiing winter quater an “EconomicAnalysis of Agricultural Problems;Maladjustments in the Plains States.”The course, not previously announced,will be given by Professor R. R.Renne, Head of the Department of.Agi'icultural Economics, Montana.State College, Bozeman, Montana.Th(‘ subject matter will include an('conomic analysis of the principalfarm i)roblems, particularly laml ten¬ure and t(‘nancy, farm taxation andcredit, soil conservation, and properland u.se by regions, with specialemphasis upon the economic difficul¬ties peculiar to the Plains States. Inaddition the course will consi<ler theeffects of agricultural mala<ljustmentsan<l farm distress upon the nationaleconomy as a whole. The underlyingphilosophies and basic features ofvarious agricultural programs suchas the Federal Land Purchase, SoilConservation, Resettlement and FarmSecurity Administration, and the.Agi icultural .Ad justment .Adminis¬tration will be discussed.Prere(iuisites for the course are astudy of elementary economics amisenior standing. Last year two coursesof the same type were given by Pro¬fessor Young of Purdue ami Profes-.sor C. W. Schulz of Iowa, and threefellowshii)S fi'om the Farm Founda¬tion are held by students studying atthe University.AiiiGriGiiii ^ Dll (h ICongress PresentsSpeaker freiii liiiliaAs part of his nation-wide speakingtour, sponsored by the AmericanYouth Congress, Rajni Patel willspeak on “India and the War” tomor¬row evening at 8 in Kent Hall, underthe auspices of the American StudentUnion. Admission is 30 cents.Long AssociationAt present secretary of the IndianStudent Federation and a barrister oflaw in Middle Temple, London, Patelhas been actively associated with theIndian Nationalist movement sincethe age of 14, when he ran away fromhome and began working with ittoward its ultimate aim of indepen¬dence from Great Britain.Because of his Nationalist sym¬pathies he was refused permission totake the Civil Service examinations inIndia, which are controlled by Britishagents, and has been in prison sev¬eral times for the same reason.Pre-ConventionPatel’s lecture also constitutes partif the ASU pre-convention discussion.Since the central issue of the conven¬tion this year will be the peace ques¬tion, his discussion is considered sig¬nificant in regard to the relation ofcolonial peoples to the present war. University Fund DriveKeeps President fromMeeting: Star Opponent.President Hutchins declined to de¬bate Harry D. Gideonse on educationalpolicy of the American College, yes¬terday, after Professor Gideonse hadagreed to meet his one-time prexy ona University lecture platform at anyconvenient date in the near future.Hutchins pleaded a full calendar offund-raising activity as his excuse.Professor Gideonse, long an out¬spoken critic of the Hutchins plan ofeducation while at the University, leftfor a higher ranking post at Colum¬bia. He later became President ofBrooklyn College, N. Y. Here at theUniversity Gideonse never attained arank higher than that of associateprofessor of Economics, though hewas deemed worthy of—and received—a salary near that of a full pro¬fessor.Hutchins vs. MclbyTwo years ago, while Gideonse wasyet in the University, Hutchins agreedto defend his educational stand, pro¬viding his opponent was not a memberof his own faculty. As a resultHutchins met Ernest Melby of North-w’estern before a packed Mandel Hallaudience. The debate was sponsoredby the Daily Maroon but Hutchinsoutclas.sed Melby to such an extentthat little of value was said in delin¬eating the opposed educational ideol¬ogies.Because students at the Universityusually think that educational empha¬sis at all colleges, is always laid uponcultivation of the intellect alone, andare unaware that there is a strong oii-posing view which holds that the“whole man” should be educated, thoDaily Maroon chose to attempt againto bring Hutchins and Gideonse tothe same platform.Higher LearningGideonse is the author of “TheHigher Learning in a Democracy,” abook w'ritten in answer to Hutchins’“Higher Learning in America.” Heagreed to debate Hutchins at any timeafter .January, 1940. Almost the en¬tire administration, including Presi¬dent Hutchins, is engaged in the drivefor new funds in connection with theUniversity’s Fiftieth Anniversary cel¬ebration.Frosh Get ChanceTo Know FriarsThe Board of Superiors of Black-friars will hold a get-together for allfreshman men, Thursday from 3 to 5in the South Lounge of the ReynoldsClub. At this time one of the mem¬bers of the Board will tell about theorganization, and several prominentalumni will be present to tell aboutpast hit shows.Freshmen who have had dramatic,singing, or staging experience are es¬pecially invited to attend. It is hopedto get news-reel pictures of the showtwo years ago, but at any rate an actfrom last year’s show will be given.Members of the organization will beon hand to tell freshmen about Black-friars’ colorful history of thirty-.sixyears as the University’s all maledramatic organization. WilliamBentonTalks at FirstForum BanquetStudent Forum members will gatherat Ida Noyes at 6 today to partici¬pate in the first Student Forum Ban¬quet of the year. The principal speak¬er will be Vice-president William Ben¬ton, who will discuss “The Universityof Chicago as a Pioneer.” John Howeof Benton’s office w'ill also be present.As most of the members have alreadypurchased their tickets, other stu¬dents who wish to attend may getthem in Lexington B for 40 cents.The Forum schedule for the W’interquarter calls for three trips throughSouthern Ohio, Southern Illinois, andMissouri. Problems in education withemphasis on tho -Chicago Plan will bethe main topics of the tour. Becauseof this, Mr. Benton urges those whoplan to participate in any of the toursto prepare questions for him concern¬ing the Chicago Plan and the Univer¬sity in general, in order that theymay better understand the Univer¬sity’s views on contemporary prob¬lems in education.Eleanor Hammer and Velma Whit-grove will represent the Universityat the Big Ten Women’s DiscussionConference at Ohio University, Col¬umbus, Ohio, December 8 and 9. A1Pitcher, director of the Forum, willmake the trip to act as one of thejudges in criticizing the methods usedto arrive at any conclusions that mayhe reached. The topic of the confer¬ence will be “Resolved: That Anti-Democratic Organizations Should BeSuppressed.”I<la Noyes Councill‘l aiis Christmaslaiiic'lieoiiAn innovation of the Ida NoyesCouncil will be a Christmas luncheonin the Cloister Club December 15 atwhich they will act as hostesses. Aspecial 35 cent luncheon consisting ofturkey a la king, or tuna fish a laking, on noodles, cranberry salad,bread and butter, plum pudding andcoffee, will be served from 11:45 to12:30. Mack Evans’ Chapel Singerswill entertain with Christmas musicfrom 12:30 until 1.The Council hopes that groups offriends and members of organizationswill plan to engage a Christmas tableon that day. Reservations may bemade in the Main Office of Ida NoyesHall (Local 1071) until 7 P.M. Decem¬ber 12. All reserved tables will re¬ceive table service.Moholy-NagyL. Moholy-Nagy, director of theSchool of Design sometimes knownas the “New Bauhaus,” will speakat Int-House tomorrow evening on“Bauhaus Photography,” using Ko-dachrome slides to illustrate histalk. The meeting is under the jointsponsorship of the InternationalHouse Camera Club and its SocialProblems Club and will be held inRoom A at 8. Predict MaroonTeams of FirstRank CaliberCo-captain Davenportand Wasem AddressHigh School Seniors.“In a few yeai’s I’ll be sitting up inthe stands munching a hot-dog andwatching the mighty Maroons battlingaway as they did in the days of old,”prophesied football co-captain JohnnyDavenport at the annual football ban¬quet held in Hutchinson Commons lastnight.He reiterated the sentiments of co¬captain Bob Wasem when he told thecrowd of outstanding high school sen¬iors who were guests at the banquetthat “the school doesn’t need to besold to prospective freshmen. Thereis a gridiron out there just beggingfor a championship team.” He wenton to tell the guests that they didn’thave to worry about eligibility at theUniversity. “Just look around theroom...we don’t look like ‘greasygrinds’,” he said.After introducing the varsity squadand thanking his assistants for theirlOO'^f co-operation during the season.Coach Clark Shaughnessy stated that“several fine things resulted from thepast season.” Most important was agreat reawakening of student inter¬est in good football. To prove thisfact he told of 35 upperclassmen whoyesterday volunteered their servicesto personally counsel members of thefreshman squad, and see that they areeligible for competition next year.“The team was whipped by circum¬stances,” he said. “Unless the boyscome out for winter and spring prac¬tice in a body a team cannot be de¬veloped in the fall. You freshmenmust come out for winter and springpractice or we won’t do much betternext year.” He explained “that Chi¬cago cannot face teams like Illinoisthat have eight different defensiveformations, or Ohio which runs playsfrom 14 distinct offensive fonnationswithout more practice."”(Continued on page three)Orchestra ToPresent BachesArt of Fugue^In its premiere concert of the yearon Sunday at 8 in Mandel Hall theUniversity Orchestra will present thefirst Chicago performance of the com¬plete “Art of the Fugue” by Bach.A collection of fugues on one themein various shapes, the piece wasBach’s last composition and was leftunfinished at his death. The work isnot written for any special instru¬ments because Bach did not want tobe bound by the orchestra. Written infour parts, the “Art of the Fugue”was composed not merely for the¬oretical soundness but to be heard aswell.Crasser OrchestrationThe composition was orchestratedin the style of any Bach orchestrationby Wolfgang Crasser. It was firstplayed in this form at St. ThomasChurch Leipzig in 1927 where Bachonce held the position of organist. AThe piece has been performed or/.vtwice in the United States; once inWashington by Stokowski, and theother time by the famed conductor,Albert Strosel.In Sunday night’s performance theorgan will be played by Gilman Chase,organist at the First UnitaidanChurch, 57th and Woodlawn. Sieg-'mund Levarie conducts the orchestrawith Charles Buckley assisting.Chapel Union ThrowsBarn Dance SaturdayA barn dance, as only Chapel Unioncan present them, will be held in IdaNoyes at 8 this Saturday, the dayafter the Maroon Carnival.For 15 cents, Chapel Union mem¬bers and anyone else on campus willsee or hear, among other things, anorchestra consisting of Chuck Toweyand Cody Pfahnstiel (one of them willplay second fiddle), refreshments,square dancing (directed by “Turk”Morril, one of the foremost autho'*’*’of square dancing on the c*'plain dancing, unusual dabull sessions.IMPERFECT IN ORIGINALPage Two THE DAILY MAROON, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1939(Llu' Dailu iiiariuniFOUNDED IN 1901MEMBEU ASSOCIATED COLLEGIATEPRESSTb^ rail? Maroon is tbe official studentnewspaper of the University of Chicago,published mornings except Saturday, Sun¬day and Monday l‘,ring the Aututnn,Winter and Spring quaiters by The DailyMaroon Company, 5831 University avenue.Telephones: Hyde Park 9ii21 and 9222.After 6:30 phone in stories to ourprinters. The Chief Printing Company,148 West 62nd street. Telephone W'ent-worth 6123.The Daily Maroon expressly reservesthe rights of publication of any materialappearing in this paper. Subscriptionrates: $3 a year; f4 by mail. Singlecopies: three cents.Entered as second class m.atter March18, 1903, at the post office at Chicago.Illinois, under the act of March 3, 1879.REPRtSENTED FOR NATIONAL ADVERTISING 8VNational Advertising Service, Inc.^ College Publishers Representative420 Madison AVE. new York, N. Y.CHicAco • Boston • Los Angeles • San FranciscoBoard of ControlRUTH BRODYHARRY CORNELIUSWILLIAM H. CRODYDAVID MARTIN. ChairmanALICE MEYERBusinessHARRY F. TOPPING. Busine.ss .Mgr.ROLAND 1. RlCliMAN. .Ailvertising Mgr.EDITORIAL ASSOCIATESMarion Gerson, William Hankla. Pearl C.Rubins. John Stevens, Hart Wurzburg,Marian Castleman, Ernest I.eiserNight Editor: Richard PhilbrickAssistant: Ruth EarlyDivorce Ahead?Ever since the Russio-Germanpact this summer, many at theUniversity have wondered justhow long campus Communistswill be able to stretch their loy¬alties to the degree of elasticityreciuired for pointing with prideto Russia’s actions. If the Po¬lish affair put our Communistson the spot for explanations, themethods Russia is using now tointroduce peace and order to ournumber one debt-payer, Fin¬land, leaves them gasping forgood rationalizations.Yesterday one of the loyalcomrades told the Maroon thatthe Finni.sh government is cap¬italistic. It “is controlled by the-same class that murdered fiveper cent of the Finnish peoplewhen the Soviet Union grantedself-determination to the op¬pressed Finns, which crushedthe popular rule...Their gov¬ernment deliberately chosewar.” This is an interestingstatement, if only as an exampleof the unhappy corner intowhich American Communistshave been driven.The charge of capitalismcould be hurled even more ap¬propriately against our owngovernment than against Fin¬land. And the accusation oftyrannical misrule is not likelyto fool anyone. Finland is theplace all of us are accustomedto turn to as an example of or¬derly and progressive govern¬ment.The small country which de¬clared its independence of Rus¬sia in 1917 has a remarkablerecord. Though at first it hadto suppress disorders severely,,it has since then become bothstable and prosperous. We hearof it as a leader in the coopera¬tive movement; we hear that itsworkers are both employed andtreated well. There is legisla¬tion for an eight hour day; pro¬visions for workingmen’s com¬pensation ; and a strong move¬ment to turn tenants into smalllandowners. Prompt paymentof foreign debts testified "to itseconomic stability. But the Fin¬nish government did not stopwith providing for the materialwell-being of its citizens—thecountry is noted for an excellenteducational system and for en¬couragement of the arts to theextent of subsidizing the com¬poser Sibelius.How the Finnish government“deliberately cho.se war’’ ismy.stifying, and certainly in¬volves a strange conception of’^ower of choosing. It is”g to think that refusal'ereign country to sur-sovereignity to an-The University of Chicaco assumes noresponsibility for any statements appear¬ing in The Daily Maroon or for any con¬tract entered into by The Daily Maroon. The Traveling BazaarBy DICKLove Finds ChuckBanfeChuck Banfe pens a rival column fora rival rag, but dat don’t r'^an dathe’s a lug. In fact he aint no lug. He’sa Phi Psi.FIdward Everett Horton is a rivalactor in a rival teater, but dat don’tmean he’s a lug. In fact he aint nolug. He’s a Phi Psi.Phi Psi Banfe tried to get Phi PsiHorton to drop around the house someday for lunch. In the repeated at¬tempts, Hanfe began to have frequentlunches with his actor brother. Mr.Horton liked Mr. Banfe. Mr. Hortoneven liked to talk to Mr. Banfe, so MrHorton says to Mr. Banfe, “Howwould you like a job being my com¬panion (i.e general stooge,'but that’sjust my interpretation) and travel allover with me?’’This is geting awfullylong so I’ll finish quick and say Banfefinally accepted a summer job condi¬tioning Mr. Horton for his stage ven¬tures. He also got Mr. Horton to cometo lunch, which was his first idea. HIMMELBest Wheeze of theWeekAbout to be married Bette Hurwichtells a beautiful little story whichtook place in the stacks. Two gentle¬men were talking. One gentleman re¬marked to the other gentleman, “Har¬old Laski is a bitch’’. Another gentle¬man happened to be passing at thetime. He looked at the two other gen¬tlemen and remarked, “Pardon me,Harold La.ski is a bastard.’’ The gen¬tleman smiled and walked on. couldn’t have been dull anyway, PaulFlorian’s club sister, Beati Gaidzikwas there with Bob C. Miller. DorisDaniels was there with her new pinand what went with it. Bud Stein-bach. Today on theI QuadranglesASU BluebookNow that Dean Smith has put theASU on the map, comes time to treatASUers with finesse becoming theirnew position. The ASU’s first step toglamourize itself isn’t that massmeeting Thursday at all; but rathera Tri-Way ball Saturday night at theCongress with the ASU, CommunistClub, and the Interfraternity Councilbeing the three ways. Leaders of theball will be Dean Smith and Judy Pet¬erson, leading the right wing, ofcourse. Left wing will be led by anamazing coincidence by Martin Diesand Adele Rose. It’s a regular ratrace to see who will be queen of theball.Bette HiirwiehNewsreel...Maroon reviewer Rubins castingeyes on the dress rehearsal of UncleVanya the other night let her stomachulcers get the best of her and cameout with a nice vitriolic review. Welltaken though was the point that itwas a very picturesque production.With Ruth Ahlquist and Barry Far-nol’s pretty green walls how could itbe other Life’s magazine’s pho¬tographer, snapping campus beauties,remarked that Doris .\lt was themost beautiful girl for the camerathat he has ever seen, and he is oneof the country’s ace photographersand gets around plenty. This opinionby a professional cameraman .seems tosubstantiate the amateur beautyjudges who selected her as freshmanbeauty queen... F*hi Delts are gettinga break. Brothers Recker and Farwell,crack composers and comedy pianoteam, are giving previews of the mu¬sic they are writing for Mirror 1940.Few houses are coming up .so fast inactivities as those boys. First bestdressed Bates, then most representa¬tive Murray, and next year JohnniesBex and Doolittle all over the place...Grant Atkinson, with lots of fan¬fare, became a man last Saturdaynight and threw a big party at theSouth Shore just to prove it. What aparty! Champagne flowed in thestreets like borscht. Myra Kovan, whowent from man to man and into aWarner, was the biggest attraction,with the University’s Audrey Eichen-baum running a close second. Also onthe dance floor all at once were Car¬olyn Wheeler, MaryLu Price, RuthAhlquist, and Kay Chittenden. Mor¬tars Boards Wheeler and Price werewith someone I don’t know andDon Warfield respectively. SigmasAhlquist and Chittenden, along withJean Scott and a couple of other girlswhose names slip me at the momentwere smiling sweetly at their Psi Udates, who were mostly Bobs Evans,Jampolis, and MacNamee, Roy Stan¬ton and Dink McClellan, and cameover to the Atkinson table to taste theforbidden fruit of the 21st birthdaycake. Ruth Ahlquist, who looked alot more beautiful than Jack Kron- iemeyer’s picture of her, had nevertasted champagne so I slipped her aslug. It didn’t even tickle her no.se,but I did.. .Chester Hand says theFoster dance Sunday was dull.. .He’snot an authority cause he wasn’tthere. Marjorie Goodman was though,and she said it was a good party. May¬be that’s cause she was with BudAaronson and they waltzed. It Graduate History Club, Symposium,“Personal Experiences During Eu¬ropean War Crises’’. Social Science122, 8.DA Workshop “Uncle V’anya’’, Rey¬nolds Club Theatre, 8.Public Lecture, Associate Prof.Scott, “The Transfer of English Lawto Colonial America’’, Law North,3:30.Carillon Recital, Mr. Marriott,Chapel, 4:30.Zoology Club, Moving Picture,Zoology 14, 4:30.Basketball, vs. Chicago TeachersCollege, Ficldhouse, 8.Totvey—(Continued from page one)clears himself of music responsibili¬ties.His particular forte is the bassfiddle, though any instrument in thedance band with the exception of thepiano are at his command.Fiiday night prior to his Maroonengagement he will be in rehearsalwith the cami)us symphony prepar¬ing for their concert on 19 Bach fugesto be given Sunday afternoon.He also tells of the times, abouttwice a year, when his hoys gatherbeneath Fostei-’s portals to play forthe beauteous inhabitants. He thinksthat by way of warming up for theFriday night job they might <io thatThur.sdav. A word to the wise is sufficientQuality-wise and price-wisepeople buy Blein'sFiner MeatsKlein'sFiner Meats1030 East 55th St.SPECIAL ATTENTION GIVEN TO"PHONE ORDERS"FOR PROMPT DELIVERY—THONE FAIRFAX 0354-5"Serves the CampusCommunity"QualityClothesREMEMBER HER THISCHRISTMASwithMrs. STEVENSCANDIES63rd & EllisCourlfsy oi I'ulir.. . . Mr. Zons <]otFor the floor show. Maroon talentwill be recruited. Bob Reynolds.Johnny Stevens, and PC Rubins havea tap dance routine in which .MissRubins wears a skin tight black satinfrock.Surprise act will be the Pinsk quar¬tet recruited from the Beta House.Comrades MacClintosk, Corcoran, andLefkowitz carry the male section.While that Tovarich Brody will carrythe tenor (which is me of course). $10 to $20 WeeklyI’rominent Kastorn Shoo Manufacturor,producing comploto lino of dross and foa-turo shoos, stylod for the campus, wantswoll oonnoctod roprosentativo at CHIC.AGO.Tho rijfht man can covor full collouo ox-ponsos as our repri'sontativo. Wo willsupply full instructions and comploto linoof samplos and e<iuipmont. Writo statinK(lualifications. IKnapp BrothersBrockton. Mass. Play A BigPart in the Lifeof Every ManREXFORDSClothes for Men28 E. lackson Blvd.2nd floorONLY DAYST OSHOPFORCHRISTMIISother can constitute an act ofagression these days. Thiswould be a monstrous principlefor a strong power to make gen¬eral.No longer can our campusCommunists tell us Russia is“the greatest force for peacetoday.” They will have to stoptalking about imperialist wars.Their vocabulary is diminishing.Unless they return to the phrase“w'orld revolution” we wonderwhat there will be left for themto say. THE LARGEDISPLAY orGIFTS AT THEU. of C. BOOKSTORE5802 Ellis AvenueHillI IMPERFECTHE DAILY MAROON, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1939 Page ThreeBullSessionHy SIDNEY LIPSHIRES(imit philosophers have beerknown for their heroic defense of cer¬tain ideas, but their defense has al¬ways been made with due regard forthe facts. Camp followers of philos-o])hy have also defended ideas withjrnat vipor, but in a mechanical fash¬ion, and with a disregard for the factswhich frequently leads to a completeviolation of them.The Daily Maroon seems to have itsown philosophers, and they have putforward a noble idea: student actiontri'oups are foolish. Two weeks ago.however, the proponents of the ideastumbled a little along the i)ath thatload' toward truth and beauty. Theiroverzealousness led them to mistaketwo facts about the .American StudentI'nion in relation to the Labor Prob-loins Council. The .\SU. it was .said,\> ished to dominate the Council: theAST put forward a program of ac¬tion, and scoffed at one of education.Without adequate investigation, theseini>statements became the basis foran editorial continuing the Maroon’scampaign against student actionirroups.Lather than attempting to dominatethe Council, the ASC wished only toact as one of many participating oi-iranizations. upon a basis of federa¬tion. Its suggestion of a small, work¬able executive committee, diicwtly re--ponsible to the (Uganization as awhole, was the only point ui)on whichthere was disagreement within theCouncil. Other delegates wanted anexecutive body composed of two mem¬bers from each particii)ating organi¬zation.Controversy over piogram arosewhen the suggestion of .ASC delegatesthat the Council’s constitution identi¬fy it as pro-labor organization, withprovision for a majority of the Coun¬cil voting to excliKle known anti-laboielements from its membership and itslost rum. was opposed by other dele-trati's who did not want to have theCouncil “stigmatized” as pro-labor foifear of frightening away ju-ospective(onseivative members.Such errors, of course, may be for-iriven. Zeal has iHMm known to blindthe most unprejudiced of seekers aft¬er the truth. Hut there also comes tomitid a violation of ethics—of the sa¬cred journalistic code. Sin'ely thiscannot be lightly passed over.Some time ago, a sigtu'd review,tnot a news story), appealed in the•Maroon concerning a picture tlu' .ASCwas showing, “The -100 Million.” .Al¬though the aiticle was afterwardfound to be shorter than the assignedlength, certain sentmices wer«> deletedby the editor-copyreader. The first"lie iioteil that one very dramatic se-queiua' of the picture traced the saleof war materials to .Tapan back to theCnited States, and commented that itwas unfortunate, for the Ixmefit of■American audiences, that the pointcould not have been more stronglymade. The second sentence, of whichonly a part appeared, mentioned theextremely valuable leadership and as¬sistance given the Chinese iieojdo intheir war against .Iapane.se aggres¬sion by Chinese students as one sideof the current argument on student ac¬tion groups.The .ASLI believes in action- actionbased on thought. It carries forwardboth an educational purpose, and anaction program. The majority of stu¬dents, I believe, will admit thatthought and action are inextricablyintertwined. Social Science studentsare eager to get their fingers intopolitics. Biology and physical sciencestudents manipulate the physicalWorld. Social service students do fieldWork; law students have moot court;.young doctors heal the sick; aspiringjournalists gain experience on the Ma¬roon. Realizing that many studentsore isolated from the world, and thatmany of them act without understand¬ing why they are doing so, the ASUis pledged to educate and guide bothits own members and the thousands ofstudents at Chicago w'Ho have to act• very day of their lives.Vdventure, Pretzels,Beer at Scout Club Press ReleasesDavid Daiches^New Book*The Novel and ModernWorld* Is Different Fic¬tion Approach.By WILId.AM HANKLA“The Novel and the ModernWorld,” a different approach to mod¬ern fiction, by David Daiches w’as re-lease<l yesterday by the UniversityPress. This hook differs from othersof its kind by approaching its subjectthrough a study of symbols in litera¬ture, showing their relation to plot,and the dependence of art on thestate of public belief.Professor Daiches is now a facultymember of the English Departmentof the University, where he has beenteaching courses in recent and con¬temporary literature. He is also aBritish subject, and has taken de¬grees, as well as taught, at the uni¬versities of p]dinburgh and Oxford.In a foreword Dr. Daiches statesas his purpose, “to illustrate, directlyor indirectly, the main problems thathave faced the writer of fiction in thepresent century,” and further “thatthose problems are not unrelated toother jiroblems of mo{lern culture andcivilization generally. ..”The first two chapters, “Selectionand ‘Sigjiificance’, ” and “Character”lay a groundwork of theory and thesisupon w hich Mr. Daiches in later chap¬ters treats such examiiles as .lohn(ialsworthy, .loseph Conrad, and Kath¬erine Mansfield. In chajiter I he ex¬plains the limitation of his discussionto what might seem to be a ratherarbitraiily selected group of writers.“Wheimver anybody during the pres¬ent centui-y—and a fair part of thelast century too—has had anythingto say on any subject whatsoever hehas tended to jire.sent his message dis¬guised as a novel.” This means thatmuch fiction produced in our time isnot really fiction at all, and the criticwill have to confine his attention to asmall and select grouj) of authors,Daiches selected writers whose im¬portance is attested by the generalvoice of criticism and who at the sametime provide an illustrative text fora theory which he hoped to develop.“This theory,” he states, “is, briefly,that the most serious and importantsection of modern fiction reiiresentsan attenqited adjustment betw'eenliterature and a certain state oftransition in civilization and culturegenerally, and that this adjustmentexjilains most of the differentiatingfeatures of the twentieth-centurynovel as well as provuling an im¬pressive example of the kind of re¬lation that exists and always has ex¬isted between any particular art andthe general state of civilization.”(ialsworthy is discussed as the typi¬cal case of the V’ictorian survivinginto the mo<iern world, unconcernedwith modern motives and techniques."Katherine Mansfield’s response to ex-jierience was such that she was ableto extract, and present, the greatestsignificance from a very limitedphase,” Daiches says.The effect of today’s transitionaldisintigration of obler beliefs andvalue-standanls is to leave the worldwithout a community of belief—apublic truth—upon which the authorcan rely for dependable emotional re¬sponses. Public truth is shattered in¬to innumerable private truths, andw hen this happens the artist loses hisbasis foi- cultural communication andart cannot flourish. “Which is an¬other way of saying,” the author con¬cludes, “that no real literary revivalcan come until after the transitionis over.”University men will have an op¬portunity to catch the flavor of theNorth Woods Thursday evening whenCarl Handel, veteran guide of theNorth Woods, tells stories of his ad¬ventures in the big timber, at an all¬campus men’s smoker. There w'ill beunlimited amounts of beer and pret¬zels at the gathering which will meetin Lounge A of the Rfeynolds Club at7:30 under the sponsorship of theUniversity Scouting Club. Organizations FailTo Pay Red F.rossRoll ("all PledgesAlthough the 1939 Red Cross drivehas ended, collections for it ai-e asyet incomplete, for a number of fra¬ternities and girls clubs have failedto make good the pledges they made,thus hampering the successful com¬pletion of the campaign. The roll ofprompt organizations includes onlythe names of Esoteric, Delta Sigma,Chi Rho Sigma, and Quad among thegirls clubs and the Phi Psis, Phi Delts,and Dekes among the fraternities.Whether the debtors are unable tomeet their obligations or whethertheir failure to pay is an oversight isuncertain.CT IN ORIGINAL | InsideStoryi PEARL C. RUBINSI RICHARD C. MASSELLWithin a short time little Sigma Chiwill be on its way to becoming onceagain one of the most important fra¬ternities on this campus. One of thehighest ranking houses here duringthe 1920’s, but very low in prestigeduring the past eight years, the Sig¬ma Chis are finally in a position togive the now dominant fraternities, theAlpha Delts, Phi Psi’s and Psi U’splenty of competition.Instrumental in Sigma Chi’s suddenrise is their shrewd, capable leaderJohnny Culp, who through his workon the freshman gridder tutoringcommittee is able to contact the mostpromising candidates of the season..Also important in the move is JoeStampf, athlete and contact man, A1Folsom, would-be conspirator, A1Veeder, millionaire alumnus and theSigma Chi national council, one of thestrongest fraternity councils in Amer¬ica, which has during the past fewyears built the weak Northwesternchapter to the strongest position onthat campus. Today the Chicago chap¬ter is unquestionably the weakest linkin the mighty Sigma Chi chain.Determined to get a foothold thisyear, Culp has used his position tobring the most promising freshmanfootball players into the fold. Usinpthe old technique of buying off thenaiural leaders and letting the restfollow% Culp has offered a “ride” (easyjob for room and board) to the fresh¬man that the big houses consider themost promising of the year. Bob Sten-berg, and just to make sure that theyhave a strong foothold, they offeredanother one to Chuck Boyd, also verypromising. With these tw’o stars as anucleus. Sigma Chi hopes to have apledge class that includes about eightor ten of the outstanding players. Sofar besides Stenberg and Boyd, theyfeel they have the following sewedup: Pete Nicola, Nick Parisi, 'f^illOostenberg and Benny Labuda. ,So far the attempts of the othe''fraternities to break up this combinavtion have been unsuccessfu*. If Sigma Chi is able to get this group safeljinto the fold, they will have the pres¬tige and man power to compete oieven terms in future years with thtnew reigning houses of Alpha DeltPhi Psi, Psi U, and Deke.Letters to theEditorBoard of Control,The Daily .Maroon:May I correct two misunderstandings which have ari.sen from your “Inside Story” of Friday, December 1Neither officially nor unofficially coI accept the credit for organizing th*freshman football tutorial service,am, of course, and have been glad tcooperate with them in their efforts.I must object, also, on their behalto the statement that these activitiewere undertaken “with considerablsecrecy.” I happen to know that Dea*Works was officially consulted, andcan certify that the matter was discussed with me. We encourage an.effort to assist the scholastic peiformance of any student.Leon P. Smith,Dean of Students in the Collegt Football—(Continued from page one)After praising last year’s captainLew Hamity and this year’s co-cap¬tains for “their great courage in play¬ing 60 fighting minutes under terribleconditions,” he concluded by sayingthat “men like Berwanger, Davenport,Wasem, and Wallis really have guts.”Climax of the banquet was thespeech by John Chapman who told thealumni that a good start had beenmade with the present freshman team,and the good work must be continued.He said that financial aid w'ould beappreciated because “we must com¬pete with other schools with their ownmethods.”Other speakers included Jay Ber¬wanger who said “the University canbe a great educational institution anda great football school, Nels Norgrenwho introduced the freshmen, LeonSmith, John Schommer, and WrisleyOleson.ClassifiedFOR RENT: 5715 and 5721 Kimbark Ave.,5 and 6 room apartments available forimmediate possession. Modern bathroomswith showers. Sun porch. Electrical re¬frigeration. Will decorate to tennants’choice. 6 room apartment with 2 baths—$100. 5 room apartments $75.C. Wallace John.son, Inc. Dearborn 7961FOR SALE — Electrically operated Victrola;perfect condition. Also records by Caruso.MacCormick. etc. Call Fairfax 8779 after8:00 P.M.Sl'Ri EASE to April 1; 6 comp. fur. rms.,shower, irar., maid avail., all mod. Suit,for profs. Vin. 1805.W'VNTI'D—Companion to help drive new carto Los AnKeles leavinK December 20. Tele¬phone evenings Delaware 2470.STARTS TODAY !A Great Satire-onA "Grown Up" World^ "GeneralsEnglish »«*- iTitles WithoutButtons"FEATURING THE "DEAD END"KIDS OF FRANCE.SONOTONE ® BURENA 25c to 2—35c to 6:30PARKERRESTAURANTFamous For Fine Food6304 Stony Island Midway 8989The John MarshallLAW COURSESb W W (40 weeks peryear)SCHOOL Afternoon—35s years5 days.. .4:30-6:30FOUNDED 1899 Evening — 4 yMriMon., Wed., Fri.«6:30-9:20ANACCREDITED Poit-graduat.LAW SCHOOL 1 year..twice a wMkPractice cowrt.tTEXT and CASE exclusively.METHOD Alt coursM iMd• to d.gr..t.For Catalog roeom- Two y9or%' collegeMondod lilt of pro-logol work required fortubiocti. and booklet 1 entrance."Studyof Low and Proper New dosses formPreparation" oddroitiEdward T. Loo Doon. 1 in Feb. and Sept.315 Plymouth Ct., ChicagOr HI* MAKE CHRISTMAS A REALCHRISTMASwithMrs. STEVENSCANDIES63rd & EllisA Cold Wave May StrikeAny Day NowIs your car ready to TAKE ITwhen the thermometer drops?We can save you time, moneyand trouble in preparing iorwinter driving. Call or see ustoday ior Complete Service.WALDROM’SSTANDARDSERVICE'- r-- -Dorchester 1004661st & ELLISPage Four THE DAILY MAROON, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1939THE DAILY MAROON SPORTS32 YearlingFootballersGet NumeralsTwelve Out-of-Towners,Twenty Chicagoans Con¬stitute Roster.Thirty-two members of the Univer¬sity of Chicago’s freshman footballsquad will receive 1943 numerals thisseason, T. N. Metcalf, director of ath¬letics at the University, announced.The number, including members ofone of the largest and most promisingfreshman groups in many seasons onthe Midway, represents a 25 per centincrease over the number of numeralsawarded last year. In addition, twen¬ty-two team members will be awardedfreshman reserve numerals, an awardwhich has not been made since 1931,resumed this year because of the sizeof the squad.Numeral MenOutstanding numeral winners in¬clude: Adam Kosacz, halfback, chosen“most valuable player” at Calumethigh school last year; Bob Sternberg,named all-city halfback at Lane Techlast year; Charles Boyd, 190 poundall-state halfback from Washingtonhigh school, East Chicago, Ind.; BobWeinberg, 207-pound all-section endat Parra gut high school last year;and George Drake, all-suburban leagueguard at New Trier high school lastyear.Chicago numei’al winners arc:George Basich, back, Morton juniorcollege transfer; Bob Cummins, tackle,Hyde Park high school; Dick Dolan,end, Sullivan high school; Drake; JackGlabman, guard, Austin high school;Karl Guttler, tackle, DePaul univer¬sity transfer; Fred Hattenberger,center. Lane Tech; Edward Heller,back, DePaul university transfer;Leonard Humphreville, guard. Provisohigh school; John Ivy, back, Bowenhigh sehool: Kosacz; Beimard LaBuda, Maroon Five MeetsTeachers TonightAnother story of David meeting Go¬liath will unfold tonight when Chi¬cago Teachers clash with the Maroonsin the Fieldhouse for the openinggame of the year. Local fans, by theway, will be pulling for the traditionaloutcome of the tale to be reversed.Pregame indications ai’e that it willbe.Teachers will match their .'^hort,fast aggregation, the tallest of whombarely reaches six feet, against thebeanpole outfit from the quadrangles.Experience this season lies in favorof the invaders, who have alreadybeaten their alumni 45 to 30 and lostto DePaul 44 to 25. Chicago, however,will probably start a team of veter¬ans who worked together as a unitlast year.Chicago StartersProbable Chicago starters areStampf at forward with either Stan¬ley or Allen at the opposite post and Lounsbury at center. Jorgensen andRichardson will hold down guard pt>-sitions. Three Maroons, Lounsbury,Richardson, and Stampf have a four-inch advantage over Gottlieb, tallestof the Teachers, while a fourth, Jor¬gensen, has three inches to sjuire.To match against the overwhelmingheight superiority of the IMaroons,Chicago Teachers offer speed plussharpshooting Joe King at guard.King, who stands only five feet sevenin his stockings, averaged 15 pointsper game last year and seems headedhigher this year, according to reportsof his first two games. Completingthe invaders’ first five are Mulcahy. along shot artist, and Mark, who worksbest from close under the basket, atforwards; Gottfried, the six foot piv¬ot man at center; and Granzin, atight defensive man and snappy ballhandler, at guard. WAA Holds Aiiiiiial Banquet;Initiates 45 New Members.A,t its annual initiation banquetheld last night at Ida Noyes Hall theWomen’s .\thletic .Association in-;lucted its new membeis. Rei)resent-ing the activities club connecttnl withthe association and outright member-shii)s the grouj) of newcomei s includes \forty-five women.From Tarpon club come VirginiaBoth, Kathleen Comstock, GeorgeaDisch, Diana Doutt, Flloise Ginxle,Francis Happ, Eleanoi' Karlstrom,Ruth Klopsteg, Iris Miller, MariellaMooie, Jane Monies, Sue Null, JoyPlatt, Irene Reynolds, Evelyn Slick, iJane Tallman, Jean Welch, Peggy |Wheeler, Jo .Ann Mitchell, Jean Me- |Lain. Marjoi ie Stern and Gloria |Warner. jFf'ncing representatives includeCaroline .Allen, Ruth Berman, MaryEaton, Mary Graham, Elizebeth Her-linger, Jo .Ann .Mitchell, Elizebeth Van Liew, Jane Wihson and Norma A'mo-ver.Lorraine Bouthilet, Helen IlirschNancy Lesser, Mary Korellis, JuneSark, and Annette Weiss join the•Association by way of the riding club.Concluding the list of initiates areCaroline Miller, Annabel Brown, Ma-delein Palmer, Sarah Jane PetersMary Her.schel and Dorothea Def'fenbaugh not belonging to any ac¬tivities club.Read the MaruoiiHave you tried?Mrs. STEVENSCANDIES63rd & EUisWHY DOFM'r AM mUME PUMWRITE A mm ABOUT FLYMG ?one just did!Tli«» .Siorv: Take away today’s ligbU*d airw’ays;take away radio beams and you’re back in the ’20’s... with the hard-shelled jiilots who flew the mail “bythe seat of their pants.’’ Here’s a novel of one reck¬less flyer who inheritchI a bankrupt airline, a handfulof insubordinate pilots, and a girl manager who pre¬dicted he’d have to grow up—or crack up.Tli«» Aiitli«»r: When an expert flyer is also an ex¬pert writer—that’sLeland Jamieson! Millionsof Postreaders know his short stories. His first full-lengthnovel is part autobiography, part fiction—all superbentertainment. Right now, as High Frontier hops off,Capt. Jamieson is at the wheel of a DC-3 somewherebetwc*en Miami and New York, where he regularlyflies day and night runs.HIGH FRONTIERby LELAND JAMIESONAY FOOTBALL?” He was on thewho had broken Billy Cooper’s leg. Theig to boo. And today was Game Day.on page 22 of this week’s Post.ACE THE WAR. The writer, Johned with French shopkeepers, peasants,•ed into Germany and spent hours with' insight on how the common people of4NDS HAVE SO-0-0 MANYien, Hollywood’s Boy Wonder, was ahappy endings. But could he kill his'.eading man ? (Quick, get the script-girl!)a Happy Ending, by Edith Fitzgerald. WILD COYOTES BREAKFASTED WITH US! Snow’ed ineight months of the year, seven thousand feet up in the High Sierras,the author of this unusual nature article and her husband actuallytaught wild coyotes “table manners”! Read The Coyotes Come.MARRY FOR LOVE-REPENT AT LEISURE. A boy ofnineteen marrying a woman of thirty-one? It won’t last, people weresaying. But the wife, desperately in love, had the courage to find out.Read Please Let Me Come Home, by Helen Deutsch.IT WAS SMART TO BE RED. Eugene Lyons gives you aWho s Who of Communism’s 61ite... how they line up unsuspectingprofessors, naive clergymen, writers, and “society” folk as a frontfor their propaganda.AND... Short stories by Maurice Walsh and David Lamson; articles,poems, editorials. Post Scripts and cartoons. All in this week’s issueof The Saturday Evening Post.