oPbe Bailp iHaraonVol. 40, No. 49 Z-149 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO, TUESDAY, JANUARY 9, 1940 Price Three CentsDouglasTalks OnBudget CutCouncilmen Learn Eco¬nomics Under Ace Pro¬fessor.Before a public hearing: of theCity Council finance committee, Uni¬versity professor Paul Doujrlas toldhow $4,.332,400 could be squeezed outof the city’s budget in the 1940 fiscalyear.Douglas praised the Kelly regimefor making cuts in expenditures,lowering the budget beneath thecosts of the William Hale Thompson“maladministration” years. But hewarned the city that its exjjensesshould be cut still more, pointing outthat there were “nearly a quarter ofa million people starving on relief,”and asking that money formerlywasted, should be devoted to (1) Re¬ducing taxes, (2) Paying more of thecity’s overdue bills, (3) (living muchneeded increases to the starving re¬liefers, and (4) Providing additionalcivic services.Proposes SavingsDouglas proposed savings in tendepartments. The most importantitem on which expenditure should becut, he felt, was the purchasing de¬partment. $1,250,000 to $1,450,000could be saved, said the University’sace economist, by the institution. ofa central purchasing bureau. Point¬ing out that the city authorities willbuy from $12,500,000 to $14,500,000worth of materials during the com¬ing year, he asked that Chicago takeadvantage of the possibilities of massbuying. A Central Bureau would re-.sult in quantity discounts, wouldstimulate competition between tbeseller of materials, and break downprice rings, would stimulate scientif¬ic purchasing, and would increaserevenue from junked material.Cut AppropriationsNext biggest way of cutting ex-pen.ses, according to Douglas, was tocut the Committee on Local Trans-portation’s appropriation from $1,-000,000 to $350,000. Another way,which would result in a saving of$000,000 would be to cut the allow¬ance of the Board of Local Improve¬ments and lop another $550,000 offthe allowance for operation ofbridges. By shutting down bridgeswhen there is no tratTic, and by div¬ers other blows, Douglas wouhl elim¬inate the lion’s share of the expendi-(Continued on page three)Heilperin TalksOn ’’Next Peace^Discusses EconomicFoundation of Peace Ne¬gotiation.Dr. Michael Heilperin will lec¬ture on “Economic Foundation of theNext Peace” at a meeting sponsoredi»y the division of Social Sciences to¬morrow at 4:30 in the Social ScienceAs.sembly Room. Last spring he w'asvisiting lecturer in Economics at theUniversity of California.During the last few years Heilper¬in was assistant professor of Inter¬national Economic Relations at the(Iraduate Institute of Internationalstudies at Geneva, where he also lec¬tured in Currency and Finance. Hehas also been a Fellow of the Rock¬efeller Foundation in the UnitedStates, and is author of three au¬thoritative books on Internationaleconomic problems, all of which arewritten in French.Heilperin is lecturing throughoutthe country under the auspices of theInstitute of International Education.Mirror Calls AuthorsTo Work on ShowA meeting of all those interestedin writing music and skits for the1940 Mirror production will be heldthis afternoon at 3:30, in the TowerRoom of the Reynolds Club. WilliamRandall will speak to prospectiveauthors and outline requirements ofthe show. Pepper Speaks Loss of ToD Men WeakensOn Moral *Responsibility’ University Science FacultyHutchins IntroducesLawyer - Statesman InMandel Talk.President Hutchins is going tohave second billing to former Sena¬tor George Pepper when the lattergives his speech in Mandel Hall thisweek. Hutchins will be contentedmerely to introduce Pepper, who willthen talk on “The Moral Responsi¬bility of Educated Persons in a De¬mocracy”.Pepper has had a long and inter¬esting career both in politics and ed¬ucation. He spent the earliest yearsof his career as a professor of lawat Yale University, except for briefexcursions to various parts of thecountry for the purpose of pickingup honorary degrees. Mr. Pepper be¬came Senator Pepper in 1922 whenhe was appointed to the UnitedStates Senate to fill the vacancycreated by the death of the famousBoies Penro.se. Retiring from theSenate in 1927, Pepper has since de¬voted his time to private law prac¬tice. Author of several books on law.Pepper is now a trustee at the Uni¬versity of Pennsylvania.The lecture is to be given atMandel Hall on Thursday. Ticketsmay be obtained without charge atthe information office.Yachtmeii PlanTo Enter RacesWith the meeting of the Univer¬sity Yacht Club Wednesday theyachting activities begun on thequadrangles early in the fall quar¬ter will be resumed. Although theprogram the club has adopted tomake the University active in inter¬collegiate yachting has not been com¬pleted, steps have been taken to en¬ter the National IntercollegiateYacht Racing As.socirition. TheYacht ’ has also received an in-vitatic 'ace for the Boston Din¬ghy C winner of which is us¬ually c red the college dinghychampion.Colleges which are members of theassociation and which race for thetrophy are Massachusetts Instituteof Technology, Dai-tmouth, Brown,Harvard, Princeton, Cornell, Wil¬liams, Michigan and Yale. The clubhopes to have the u.se of the lagoonsat the site of the last World’s Fairhere upon which to sail. Accordingto present plans three or more Bclass dinghys will be purchased bythe group in time for the Springsailing season.Promote PolacherkTo Junior PositionDemarest Polacheck, veteran actorand newspaper man, has been pro¬moted to the position of EditorialAssociate on the Daily Maroon, theBoard of Control announced yester¬day.Polacheck replaces Marion Gersonwho recently resigned from her posi¬tion on the Junior Board.Another Editorial Associate posi¬tion yet remains vacant. The Boarduf Control, however, has decided toleave the place unfilled and awardthe extra two per-cent of the paper’snet profits to the most valuable mem¬ber of the staff.Douglas Re-OpensLaw Lecture SeriesProfessor Paul H. Douglas willspeak today on “Legal Aspects in Col¬lective Bargaining” in Law North at3:30. A public lecture, it is another inthe series the Law School has beenpresenting this year. This lecture willbe the first, however, to be presentedthis quarter. Steiglitz and LillieRETIREMENTS LEFT GAPS IN CHEMISTRY, ZOOLOGY DEPARTMENTSSure—FraternitiesAre TopsBy A Fraternity ManVery few freshmen are rationallyconvinced that they should join afiaternity. In almost every case therushee pledges merely because fra¬ternity life sounds good to him, andhe gets a chance to sign up with ahouse of his choice.Many objections are regularlyraised against joining a fraternity.Some of these objections are nonsens¬ical, others sound all-right but carrylittle or no weight. Examples of non¬sensical objections are statementssuch as, “You don’t need a fraternity,so don’t join.”, or “If you join a fra¬ternity you’ll lose your individuality.You will be limited to a small groupof contacts, and become a stereotypedmember of a group.”Freshmen Who Need FraternitiesThe first statement is obviously ab¬surd. The only freshmen who reallyneed a fraternity are probably menwho don’t get along well with otherstudents, who don’t make friends easi¬ly, or are in some way socially malad¬justed. These men will not becomeGreeks because they probably aren’tinterested and undoubtedly won’t bebid.Being afraid to join a house becauseyou are in danger of limiting yourselfand losing your individuality in atyped group is equally absurd. Any¬one can prove this for him.self by try¬ing to find an example of a man whohas lost his individuality in a fratern¬ity.Typical Fraternity ManThe typical Deke is supposed to bea 240 pound musclebound he-man. DaleTillery and Don Warfield, by nostretch of imagination, could be calledtypical Dekes. Equally absurd is thecontention that either one of them haslimited himself or lost his individual¬ity since his initiation. In fact the op¬posite is true. These men have broad¬ened themselves by gaining many newintimate friends, most of whom theyW'ould not know well if it weren’t fortheir common bond of brotherhood.They still have the same opportunityto make other friends that indepen¬dents have.(Continued on page three)Stiicieiits DiscussFootI)all BailIn order that students may havean opportunity to hear and takepart in discussions concerning thefootball ban from various viewpointsbefore President Hutchins addres.sesthe student body on Friday, the Stu¬dent Forum is sponsoring an openforum on that topic in Lexington 5tomorrow at 4.Four students will present fiveminute speeches, and after they fin¬ish, the speakers as well as the au¬dience will participate in a generaldiscussion. 'The speakers are Mar¬jorie Kuh, James Burt e, Russ Par¬sons, and Dave Martin. NonWouldn^tJoin AFraternity—By An IndependentFriendship for sale! Buy a share ofprestige! Do YOU want to be aBMOC? Learn how. (Cost only $75down, $25 monthly.)The fraternity men have hung upthe signs, laid out the welcome mat,and have painted smiles on their fa¬ces, smiles which will play hell withtheir facial muscles for five days, butwhose efforts will pay dividends whenthe mortgage on old Kappa GammaUmlaut is lifted, with the aid of fresh¬man initiation fees.Who Needs What?Are you likeable, gregarious, ath¬letic, personable, with a conventionalsort of nature? If so, you need a fra¬ternity like the University needs foot¬ball uniforms, but the lads will patyou on the back, buy you free beers,cry on your shoulders, and lie to you,for the next week to get you to takeone.Are you shy, introverted, with noclaims to undergraduate fame, notoverly intelligent or personable, butjust a nice honest, young man tryingto get along with people and not suc¬ceeding too well by yourself? If that’sthe case, a fraternity is the best kindof medicine you can have. It will giveyou confidence, will teach you how toget along with people, and will adjustyou to a society that makes antiso¬cialites miserable. But, in that caseof course, it is highly unlikely thatyou will get in a fraternity unlessyou’re a legacy, or unles.', one of thesmaller houses is especially hard upfor money and pledges this year.No DemocracyIf you believe in democracy asmore than a platitude, if you reallythink that upon the people, treated asequals, depends the “future of ourAmerican system of government”then you can’t join a fi’aternity, themost anti-democi'atic of all social in¬stitutions, and be honest with your¬self. Not even aristocracy, the ruleof the best, is the basis of selectionfor fraternity men, but oligarchy, therule of the most moneyed, determineswhether you are going to be a mem¬ber of the Big Three.The chief virtues of a fraternitysystem are the virtues of any socialinstitution. They satisfy the normalhuman desire to be a member of an“in group.” But this desire should,and can, be satisfied just as well, byfree association — and by free I mean(Continued on page three)Plan Check Up OnOrientation WeekToday, Wednesday, Thursday, andFriday freshmen women and theircounselors are to report to 205 Cobbbetween 12:30 and 4:00. The Fed¬eration of University Women ismaking a check-up on campus reac¬tion to the freshmen week orienta¬tion program which they sponsoreach autumn. All freshmen and theircounselors have been sent postcardsreminding them of the date and time. Failure to Replace Pro¬fessors Due to Loss ofIncome.Professor Harkins is retired fromthe Chemistry department. Profes¬sor Dickson no longer teaches math¬ematics here, and associate Profes-.sor Noe of geology and botany diedlast spring. None of these men havebeen replaced by any major new ap¬pointment. Throughout the Divisionsof Biological Sciences and PhysicalSciences this has been the rule since1936.The chemistry department is evenwithout an official director, althoughProfessor Schlesinger is actingchairman. The late Arthur Stieglitz,former head, retired in July, 1936.Nor has anyone been appointed cur¬ator of the Walker Museum sincethe death of Mr. Slocum. ProfessorRoss at Yerkes and MacMillan herehave left large gaps in the astron¬omy department. Professor Johann-.sen has retired in geology. No onehas officially filled their positions.The last important appointment ofanyone in the entire Division ofPhysical Sciences was ProfessorBowen in geology in 1936.Not Since 19.34In the Division of Biological Sci¬ences no major replacements havebeen made since 1934. In the anat¬omy department Professor Bensleyretired in ’34 and Professor Herrickin ’36. In bacteriology Professor Jor¬dan left in April, 1936. Five yearsIjefore the death of Associate Profes¬sor Noe, Professor George D. Fullerretired. Neither men have been re¬placed. In 1934 and 1935 ProfessorsChild and Lillie of the zoology de¬partment retired. Their boots, too,have remained unfilled.The present drive for funds is aneffort directed, at least in part, tofilling important gaps in the faculty.But equipment must also be improv¬ed. In Psychology, Bacteriology, andAnatomy facilities must be improvedbefore the University can get newmen to come here. And these newmen are important.Vacant Positions“That active, pioneering spiritwhich has been the essence of theUniversity must be fed by youngteachers and scholars who aspire todo for the next generation what theUniversity of Chicago has done forthe past half-century of educationand science,” wrote President Hutch-(Continued on page three)Gaylord PlaysFor Annual HopPopular Swing LeaderStudied Jazz Music Un¬der Whiteman.Skull and Crescent has hired itspiper, one Charles Gaylord and com¬pany, for the coming annual Corsage¬less formal Saturday night in IdaNoyes.As with most of the capable young¬er orchestra leaders now practicing inthe white tie circuit, Gaylord serveda long period of apprenticeship underone of the old masters of populardance music. In his case it was PopWhiteman who acted as tutor.Jazz ViolinGaylord, one of the few accom¬plished violinists who can turn thatinstrument to palatable jazz, swingor what have you, sawed the cat gutin the number one position of theDean of Music’s organization. He evenwon the praise of the late famed BixBiederbeck, swing immortal, who or¬dinarily refused to list the violin as alegitimate swing insti’ument.It was with the aid and advice ofWhiteman that he set up his 12 pieceband. After struggling through aperiod of one night road stands andsmall town hotel engagements, theGaylord orchestra was spotted overNBC on a 68 week commercial ofweekly broadcasts for the MaybellineCompany.His between broadcast dates includelengthy appearances at the PalmerHouse, the Drake, and Congress ho¬tels locally, and first run hotels inMinneapolis, San Antonio, and St.Louis.Page Two I©aily (^aroouFOUNDED IN 1901MEMBER ASSOCIATED COLLEGIATE PRESSThe Daily Maroon is the official student newspaper of the Uni¬versity of Chicago, published mornings except Saturday, Sunday andMonday during the Autumn, Winter and Spring quarters by TheDaily Maroon Company, 5831 University avenue. Telephone: HydePark 9222.After 6:30 phone in stories to our printers. The Chief PrintingCompany. 148 West 62nd street. Telephone Wentworth 6123.The University of Chicago assumes no responsibility for anystatements appearing in The Daily Maroon or for any contractentered into by The Daily Maroon.The Daily Maroon expressly reserves the rights of publication ofany material appearing in this paper. Subscription rates: $3 ayear : J4 by mail. Single copies: three cents.Entered as second class matter March 18, 1903, at the post officeat Chicago, Illinois, under the act of March 3. 1879.RKPRCSKNTED FOR NATIONAL ADVERTISINO BVNational Advertising Service, Inc.College Publishers RepresentatUe420 Madison Ave. New York, N. Y.CHICASO • BOSTOR ’ Los ARGILIS • SAW FAAHClSCOBOARD OF CONTROLEditorialRUTH BRODYHARRY CORNELIUSALICE MEYER WILLIAM H. GRODYDAVID MARTIN, ChairmanBusinessHARRY F. TOPPING, Business Mgr.ROLAND I. RICHMAN, Advertising Mgr.BUSINESS ASSOCIATES.Tohn Bex, Herb Gervin. William Lovell, and Julian LowensteinEDITORIAL ASSOCIATESMarion Gerson, W'illiam Hankla, Pearl C. Rubins, John Stevens,Hart W'urzburg, Marian Castleman, Ernest LeiserNigrht Editor: David MartinAssistant: Dick LevinWords and ActionsAs a result of its recent national conven¬tion the American Student Union is in the sadposition of running counter to the sentimentof American youth, even counter to the sen¬timent of many of its own members. It ha.slet its ideals slip.That not all ASU members sympathizewdth the convention’s decisions is shown bythe fact that a group of liberals encouraged bylast year’s officers has organized a nationalcaucus to campaign for a referendum on theFinnish question. Ten per cent of the chaptersor memberships can force such a vote. Notuntil this referendum has taken place does theASU have a chance to clear itself of the chargeof condoning the Soviet invasion of Finland.Then, if a majority of the national member¬ship indicates approval of the convention’s res¬olutions, the American Student Union can nolonger claim to be representative of Americanstudents.Unless the University chapter of the ASUwants to give substantial evidence to the ac¬cusation that it is a Communist front group itshould associate itself with the campaign forreferendum. Otherwise it can never hope toconvince people that it is not controlled by afew well-organized students who are devoted,come what may, to the cause of a totalitarianideology. As such the ASU will not be a groupmost University students should care to be¬long to.One of the most important services theASU, as a liberal or somewhat radical organi¬zation, performed was provoking studentthought about social questions and preventingthe stagnation into set attitudes which wouldbe so deadly to a democratic country. It helpedremove the unintelligent “my country rightor wrong’’ philosophy. But certainly it is notperforming good liberal or radical service whenits guides its policy by the light of somebodyelse’s country “right or wrong.’’Nor does the ASU provoke any true kindof thinking about social problems when itanswers them not on due consideration of thefactors involved, but rather on the basis ofwhich faction is supporting a particular an¬swer. Reports of the recent convention say thatall the voting followed a consistent party line¬up; that the few liberal resolutions adoptedwere permitted to pass so that the organiza¬tion could remain valuable as liberal camou¬flage. Too often similar reports have been madeof activities in which our local chapter hasparticipated.Whether liberal students have sufficient in¬terest, energy, and time to organize stronglyenough to resist further dictation from thepowerful minority and to revive the ASU as arepre.sentative student group will be indicatedby the success of the referendum movement.The Maroon hopes the local ASU will ally itselfwith the liberal side of this campaign — it’sa chance to show that student action groupscan still be saved.SIGN THE PETITIONAt the present time the Communist causeis distinctly unpopular in this country. Yet todeny Communists the ordinary civil liberty offree speech would be to subvert this country’sideals.Next week the Communist Club is bring¬ing Earl Browder to speak on this campus, andthe University has made no objections. Butthere is strong danger that outsiders whosefeelings are high may come to the meetingand create disturbances. If the Communistsare sincere in wanting their speaker to get afair hearing they should welcome the petitionsnow being circulated to ask that the admin¬istration restrict Browder’s audience to regis¬tered students and faculty members. THE DAILY MAROON, TUESDAY, JANUARY 9, 1940Also, conservatives who fear the Univer¬sity might be publicized as spreading redpropaganda because it permits Browder tospeak should be relieved by the petition. Ifthe University limits Browder’s audience to itsown members it cannot possibly be accused oftrying to subvert the city.Traveling BazaarSocial SeasonThe Winter Social Season got under way last FTidaynight, with the Dolphin Club putting on its annualWater Carnival, closely follow’d by a free party at Ida,said party being not so popular as it should have been,considering the money we saved. Highlight of the latterwas the burning of greens. We gather they did burnthem, but we couldn’t see through the smoke. Neversaw so many people we didn’t know. Except BarbaraPrice, By the end of the evening everybodyknew her. Also present was Wally Angrist, whose girlis a socialist in bow-tie repair, much to our delight.There was a floor show, MCed by Lee Hewitt, and ineluding Punk W arfield, who was good, and some waltz-ers. The latter would have gone over wonderfully—inVienna,Only successful event so far was the Reynolds Clubdance Saturday night. Having two rooms for the dance,the stags could not make up their collective mind as tochoice of location. When the speaker system went deadin the North room, people didn’t give up. Orchids to BobA. Miller for bringing our girl Carolyn Wheeler. One ofour informers reports that Bud Caulton was seen sittingin the North Lounge with some girl. Five minutes laterhe was seen dancing with some girl. Ten minutes laterhe was seen sitting in the Lounge w’ith .some girl. Somegirl! Van de Water appeared with a totsy. A Hyde ParkHigh teacher arrived with wife, and trucked. We herebyaward perpetual possession of the attendance trophy tothe Deke stag line, which has dwarfed all others thisyear. We don’t like the idea, for it seems that nobodybut Dekes can ever dance with girls brought by Dekes.Friday night, the Deke stag line gradually migratedto Hanley’s and contributed to another raucous song-session. Speaking of the Deke stag line, object lessonof the week-end was got by Randy .Anderson and Vin¬cent von Henkee two freshmen who thought they haddates. Added to the customary gloom was a face new toHanley’s—Helen Anderson, sister of famed wolf LittleBob. At same table with her was freshman Hob Law-son, minus his now-famous orange pajamas, or whateverthey are.Quick Fraternity SurveyDekes. Beer, sweat-shirts and bow-ties.Alpha Delts, More sweat-shirts, fewer bow-ties, nobeer. Up several points in scholastic standing this year,because of Cal Sawyer’s five .\’s.P.si Psis, half and half, a nd a house mother.Sigma Chis. 30 men and a Culp. Strong national com¬mittee backing them.Phi Delts. Quantity. Hob Bigelow and Johnny Doo¬little.Chi Psis. BEER. Bill Westenburg and Roy Larsen.Bouquet to this house for the best rushing chairman,which is Westenburg. Biggest authority on swing, whichis Larsen.D Us. Tops in the minor league. Kinder, Crane andTrowbridge.Kappa Sigs. Home of P. M. McCormick, aided andabetted by his fine corn liquor.Phi Kappa Sigma. Blackfriars.Betas. Home of Ruth Brody, Differentest.Phi Gams. Chuck Paultzer and Zander Harmon.Famed for sprint in intramurals this year, due mainlyto Azad Sarkysian.Zeta Beta Tau. Emil Hirsch and Bud -Aronson. Smoothand intellectualPi Lams. Intellectual. Except for Bill Hochman.Phi Sigs. Mel Rosenfeld and Milt Weiss. Athletes.In spite of Johnny Culp, this week will probably hearmore talk and promises than any other of the schoolyear, without considering more physical foi-ms of dirtyrushing. Last year many were caught, few’ fined.Most amusing incident of last year’s fraternity busi¬ness occurred during the .Alpha Delt hell week, whenPaul Jordan, ordered to wait on a street corner untilpicked up by the brothers, was discovered by a car¬load of Phi Psis, who kidnaped him and administereda formal initiation direct from Caesar’s Gallic Wars.He was then abandoned in the suburbs and told to callthe Alpha Delt house, who couldn’t remember wherethey’d left him, but soon found out.Happy hotbox!SOCIOLOGY SOCIOLOGYSOCIOLOGY... in a row of red brick houses stand the last re¬mains of a Bohemian University of Chicago. The lastfeeble tinge of love nests, all night parties, and thethings you read about in the Daily Times, These housesare known as little Bohemia and in it University stu¬dents struggle valiantly to maintain a story book exist¬ence.Most out of place is political scientist Hob (!o|e.Most in place is his pretty neighbor Dotty Ganssle andher friends Briggs, Hemmingway, Starrels. and Schultz.Most colorful couple are Christine Palmer Peck and herhusband George, who incongruously expect a baby.Disappointing, however, is the presence of a certainmorality about the place. Yet Beethoven’s 4th andchattering people almost make up for it. The opendoor policy is now’ an open door for midnight gabsrather than midnight sex. Candles and IGarlicI I' By GEORGE T. PECKAfter the gentle tinkling music ofChristmas and the rather more mod¬ern intonations of the millions inTimes Square or the Loop havepushed back the decade, .Abe Lincolnreturns to Illinois in the person of amost talented Toronto product, thesymphony welcomes a host from thereduced activities of Paris, London.Rome, Milan, etc., and great individ¬uals, such as Szigeti, Flagstadt,Rachmaninoff, et al., come to tow’n.But one w’onders whether evenProkofieff and Stravinsky are w’orthskijoring down the I.C. tracks. Peo¬ple who come inside from the bas¬ketball games or the skating on theMidway say that it is quite pleasantout, but yet welcome the fire andthe hot rum. They must be right, forinside activities sometimes pall. Onehears just enough of old mountainmusic, slightly scratchy recordings ofthe greats, and the piercing, uncon¬trolled whines of the flute receivedfor Christmas. Hut yet for the gard-ners, seed catalogues are arriving,and, if read with the sonorous rhy¬thms of Dante, these amu.so for atime.* *Just in case of an access of en¬ergy, a trip this evening to hear Szi¬geti play Tartini, Bassani, and Mo¬zart with the Saidonberg Symphon-ietta at Goodman’s w’ould he mostw’orthwhile. The program exactlyfits the genius of the Hungarian, hutfor further details go .see SharplessHickman, w’ho know’s.« «Competing only with snow’ andcold, the symphony is pre.senting afull w’oek. Vronsky and Babin, w’hoseBach tw’o piano concerto w’as sosmoothly done on Nov. 23, come thisafternoon to do the great K Flat('oncerto for two pianos.Achieving a nice neutrality bal¬ance, Dr. Stock will give an all-Si-helius program Thursday and Fri¬day, featuring an overture, entitledalmost new’sily Karelia, the SecondSymphony, and Finlandia. ConductorLange rights the balance on Satur¬day night with Borodin’s SecondSymphony and Rimsky-Korsakov’sChristmas Fve.♦ *A new series started up last Sun¬day when the Civic Orchestra gavethe first of five at abnormally cheaprates. The orchestra is a training.school for musicians.Fiery Mr. Solomon continues hisengagements at the BlackstoneTheatre Monday nights with the Il¬linois Symphony, and, to completethe w'eek, Rachmaninoff plays Sun¬day afternoon in the Auditorium.PATRONIZEOUR ADVERTISERS Read The MaroonClassifiedI OR HOUSE DANCES, speeches, functionsPublic address system. 30 watt ampli¬fier, crystal mike, sUnd, 2-12”. Audi¬torium speakers mounted, cables. $50 00Must Sell. See any eve. Bob Thornton6521 Greenwood. Phone Fairfax 79914 MONTH INTENSIVE COURSEFOR COllEOe STUDENTS AND GRADUATESA thorough, mtensive, stenographic course-starting January 1. April I, July 1, October 1Interesting Booklet sent free, without obligation— write or phone. 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However thetime and money spent in the organi¬zation should not be called ‘waste’.Freshmen should realize that they aregoing to have to give both time andmoney to a fraternity, and then shoulddecide whether or not it is worth it.Too Much TimeTalking against a fraternity, on thegrounds that it takes up too muchtime is certainly a funny argument.How could anyone expect to be amember of a worthwhile organizationwithout spending some time workingtor that organization? The greatestgood that a man can get from a fra¬ternity is the formation of closefriendships. He naturally gets closerto his brothers in proportion to thetime he spends with them. He enjoyseating, living, and working out com¬mon problems with his friends. Inother words a fraternity man profitsfrom his fraternity because he is wil¬ling to put something into it.“Don’t join because you won’t beable to study.” Again this is hooey.Anybody who wants to study can'tudy in a fraternity. Examples ofgood students who were also good fra¬ternity men are too numerous tobother mentioning. The scholastic av¬erage of the whole fraternity systemis either slightly above, or slightlybelow a “C”. In either case the dif¬ference is so small that it cannot beattributed to the system.Independents often point with prideto the two or three independentHMOC’s who annually come to prom¬inence in the Chapel Union, the Ma¬roon, and occasionally some other ac¬tivity. “See, you don’t have to be afraternity man to succeed in activ¬ities,” they say. True, but about ninetenths of the outstanding men on cam¬pus regularly are fraternity men. Thepoint is not that you have to be a fra¬ternity man to succeed on campus, butrather that most successes are fra¬ternity men. .And last but not least,how can you expect to hang your pinwithout having a pin to hang? (Continued from page one)gratis. The objection to making yourfriends in the dorms, because youcan’t choose the associates you want,is only slightly lessened, in joining afraternity. For, unless you’re one outof a hundred (the number has gonedown since football players have beenstruck off the lists) you can’t join thefraternity you’d prefer most anyhow.Material AdvantageThere are, of course, material ad¬vantages in joining a fraternity. Ifyou’re good, they’ll want you badenough to get you a job when you’reout of school. Or if you join one ofthe “good” fraternities, you’ll meetsomeone, who will help you ridesmoothly into the world of business.If you think that maybe joining afraternity will help you when you fin¬ish the University, and you want tobe helped, then by all means join afraternity. It’s a good, sound invest¬ment.But unless this is the case, don’tbelieve the bull that’s going to beslung between now and Friday A. M.Because you can get ahead in activ¬ities whether you’re a fraternity manor not (if you do have to work a littleharder, you’ll certainly have moretime to work); you can even play inintramural sports, if you have anyability at all to make friends, and thedesire to play; you can have just asmuch social life, go to as many dances,waste as much time in bull sessions,only you will do your bulling in theMaroon office, or the Reynolds Club,or with the Student Forum, insteadof lounging in the luxurious parlorof Phi Not. You don’t have to be agreasy grind to be an independent.Dave Martin hasn’t cracked a bookin the last two years..And you can even get into the In¬terfraternity Ball as an independentif you want to. Hell, you don’t need afraternity pin to hang on a woman.There’s always an engagement ring.It’s much more effective. (Continued from page one)ins in the September report of theState of the University. But since“the false dawn of 1936-37” when“the University of Chicago made alarge number of highly satisfactoryappointments to fill the gaps causedby the depression of 1931-36” theadministration has resumed “thepractice of leaving positions vacantwhen incumbents retire or resign.”U. of C. Will DieIf the pre.sent drive for funds can¬not fill the gap between recurringincome and recuring expenses, theuniversity “will still be a univer¬sity,” says President Hutchins, “butit will not be the University of Chi¬cago.”How' real is this danger? The fac¬ulties of the four divisions confirmthe story of unfulfilled retirements,but what is the future of a man nowteaching at the University of Chica¬go?What Happens To Profes.sorsFor one thing, according to thePresident’s report, if he was ap¬pointed in 1929 his income and statushave been seriously affected. “Hehas not received either the advance¬ment or the salary increases he wasentitled to expect when he acceptedhis position.” In taking over thework of retired or resigned membershis teaching load has increased fiftyper cent. He has been employed inthe University College, Home Study,and during Summer quarter withoutextra compensation. The policy ofleaving vacant positions vacant “hasnot given younger men much chanceto move ahead.”(Facuity retirements and replace¬ments ill the Divisions of Social Sci¬ences and Humanities will be dis¬cussed tomorrow.) YWCA PartyHonors ItsAdvisory BoardIn honor of their Advisory Board aninformal party will be held by themembers of YWCA Tuesday after¬noon at 3:30, in the “Y” room of IdaNoyes. Its aim is the fostering ofcloser acquaintance and understandingamong the interested women whoserve the organization in a guidingcapacity, and the student members.The board is composed of 25 women,who advise the younger members onquestions of policy, aid in importantdrives and activities, and lend assist¬ance whenever needed. Chairman isMrs. Hayward Keniston, vice-chair¬man, Mrs. Lloyd Steere.All women who are registered mem¬bers, or interested in joining the Y,are invited to meet their advisors andfellow-members.Douglas— Today on theQuadranglesPublic I.ecture (Law School): “Legal Aspects in Collective Bargaining.”Professor Douglas. Law North. 3:30P. M.Foreign Film. (InternationalHouse): “Pygmalion” 4:30, 8:30.Junior Mathematical Club. Mathe¬matics Abroad” W. C. Carter andOtto F. G. Schilling. Eckhart CommonRoom.Public Lecture (Divinity School):“Oracles and Seers”. Professor Nils¬son. Swift 106. 8. Drake Hotel HoldsSunday Tea DanceAn All-Campus Tea Dance featur¬ing Pinky Tomlin’s orchestra, adouble-feature floor show starringthe Stroud twins of Chase and San¬born fame will hold impressive swayat the Drake Hotel on Sunday, Jan¬uary 21, from 3:30 to 7. A specialminimum of $2.00 a couple has beenset.Hotel sponsored dances for collegestudents are not new but this is thefirst time that the idea has beenworked into a Sunday afternoon teadance.Read the Maroon Wednesday - ThursdayJAMES CAGNEY and PRISCILLA LANEIN"The RoaringTwenties"AND GINGER ROGERS IN"Fifth Avenue Girl"Students!!SAVE FROM 20% TO 50% ONYOUR LAUNDRY BILLFLUFF - FINISH10c PER LB.UNDERWEAR, PAJAMAS. SOCKS. ETC..FLUFF DRIED.HANDKERCHIEFS IRONED—NO EXTRACHARGEShirts Ironed 9c EachAdditionalMETROPOLELAUNDRYWESLEY N. KARLSON. Prop.1219-21 EAST 55th ST.Phone Hyde Pork 3190Between Woodlawn and Kimbark Ave.HOTELSt. George Dining Room**on the Midway"*1433 East 60th StreetLuncheons 25c - 40c Dinners 35c - 40cSpecial Evening Six Course Dinner 45cOpen 7 AM. to 8 P.M.Int-House ShowsPygmalionInternational House’s movie sched¬ule for the Winter quarter includesMich proven pictures as Pygmalion,Guodybye, Mr. Chips, and The LadyVanishes. On the program today isPygmalion, the first Shaw play everto he filmed. Leslie Howard playsthe male lead opposite Wendy Hil¬ler. an established star in FInglandliut little-known to American audi¬ences. Perhaps the best recommenda¬tion of the film is the approval ofit> author, George Bernard Shaw.Ballerina, a F'rench film, is sched¬uled for next week, and Goodbye, Mr.( hips for the week after that. ThreeFrench films follow: The Story of a( heat, Mayerling, and the Life andI.oves of Beethoven. Last picture ofthe (juarter will be the English pic¬ture, The Lady Vanishes.Job Hunting Seniors(iet New Test,Application FormSeniors applying for jobs throughthe Board of Vocational Guidance andIMacoment will be given a new type ofapplication form this year. The changewas being made in response to the sug¬gestions of a joint committee of col¬lege placement bureau representativesand the recruiting men of the two orthree hundred companies throughoutthe country who employ recommended"tiulents.This committee maintained thatsince employers can give so littletime to interviewing the students,placement bureaus could ease the situ¬ation by supplying test scores, aca¬demic averages, and generally moreinclusive factual material.The new application form also in¬cludes an “Interest Preference Test,”so called because it gives an indicationof the interests of the student in vari-•^us fields. Actually, it is not a test,'ince it merely involves a decisionbetween two differing types of posi¬tions on the basis of individual pref¬erence. (('ontinued from page one)ture’s of a group, the lion’s share o^whose work “has vanished.”By the establishment of unionscale wages for craftsmen, the citywould save $350,000. In the past, ex¬tremely high annual payments havebeen made to skilled laborers, suchas electricians, plumbers, steamfit-ters, bricklayers, and machinists. Bycutting them to union wages, thecity would be able to save moneyand rectify the obvious injustice ofpaying city workers 20 per cent aihour more than the union compel.'^private contractors to pay.No OvertimeBy not paying overtime to its em¬ployes during rush hours, the citycould save $41,000. It could save$175,000 on its appropriation foigarbage disposal dumps. And by thenon-replacement of separations inthe city service, Douglas promisedthe Finance committee it could save$350,000.These economies, Douglas empha¬sized, should go into effect immedi¬ately. He thanked Alderman Arvey.chairman of the Finance Committee,for letting him attend the commit¬tee’s hearings, and submit his plan.Renaissance SocietyExhibit OpensThe Renaissance Society announc¬ed the opening today of an exhibitionof paintings of the 16th, 17th, 18thcenturies and of modern artists intheir room in Goodspeed Hall. Itwill be on exhibit daily and Sundaysfrom 2 to 5, until January 31.The pictures to be shown, includ-ings works by Matisse, Puvis deChevannes and the moderns Pruna,Derain, and Se Gonzac, have been se¬lected for comparison and contrastto supplement the study of Mr.Pach’s on “Classical Elements inModern Art.”f IMPERFECT IN ORIGINALTHE DAILY MAROON, TUESDAY, JANUARY 9, 1940'imperfect in original ]>AILY MARO ON SPORTS•> Co. Maxene PahyLaVerneMaroons Drop GamesTo Badgers, IlliniConference Weekend ———— ——W, , „ , Chicago 18 B F PWisconsin 20 B F P1 f n T' n 1* P P Stampf, f 4 3 2Schwartz, f 6 111 I 11 X 11 1 C sunley. £ 0 0 OAnderson, f 10 3— TT»..»l.rvPrkr.4-.rk#l Zimmerman, £00 ITimmerman, c 0 0 01 earns unaeiediea Lounsbury, c O O 2Englund, c 0 14Richardson, g 1 0 ISims, g 10 1The first weekend of the conference Jorgenson 2 o ^ ^ ° ^basketball season closed last evening ’ 9 2 lowith three teams leading the pack 7 4 9with two victories and no defeats. The_Maroon five showed improvement in Referee: Getchell; Umpire: John-form by losing a close one to the Illiniat Champaign, 34 to 33. In a slow sluggish battle betweenThe league leaders are the teams two strong defensive teams, the Mid-from Purdue, Indiana, and Michigan, way five opened its conference sea-They finished their first two engage- son last Saturday evening with aments by wins over Ohio State, Iowa loss to the Badgers from the Uni-and Wisconsin, respectively, Purdue, versity of Wisconsin, 20 to 18. Theled by S p r o w 1 and Berretta has contest was remarkable for the lackshown the strongest in the conference, of action, of thrills, of fast break-since they have taken their two con- offenses, and of any feature thattests by margins of 40 to 29 and 49 might provide audience interest,to 32. Indiana is scarcely less impres- The winning team showed the re-sive in winning 42 to 34 and 45 to 30. suits of canny planning on the partThe thii’d team at the top of the heap, of Coach Foster; the Maroons wereMichigan, has come through to the uot prepared to play against a zonetune of 38 to 3(5 in their opener and <lefonse, despite the fact that theyeked out a 44 to 39 win over Wiscon- use that type of play. They failed tosin, Chicago’s first opponent. uiake use of their height in under¬standings: the-basket play after the Badger de-w. L. Pts. Opp. Pctg. fense broke up Ralph Richardson’sfn'dilna ZI—ZZ I 0 87 64 liooo attempts at the guard-around playMichigan 2 0 84 74 1.000 twice in a row. After these abortiveWisconsin 1 1 59 52 .500 attempts in the early part of theNorthwestern 1 1 55 65 .500 game, the Maroon offense was stillChicago 0 2 51 .54 .000 on the assembly line for all the re-Ohio State 0 2 67 89 .000 suits it produced.Iowa 0 2 64 87 .000 o u *0..Schwartz StarsNext in the standings come four p^or Wisconsin, the standout wasteams, each having won one and lost Captain Bob Schwartz, who provedone. This list includes Minnesota, Wis- that he was all his releases said heconsin. Northwestern and Illinois. The was; he sank six field goals and oneformer two took their opening games, free throw for a total of thirteenwhile the latter two won last night, points. He provided the lone thrillNorthwestern dropped their curtain of the evening by stealing the ballraiser to Purdue, but came back last from Joe Stampf with the score atnight to down Minnesota in another 18 all with two and one-half minutesclose game, 26 to 25. Illinois lost to to play, and by dribbling the lengthIndiana 38 to 36 Saturday evening, of the floor and sinking his shot frombut, as has been mentioned above, the side, which effort provided thecame out on top in last night’s en- winning margin.gagement. Minnesota took Iowa into The Chicago team was ahead on-camp in their opener, 42 to 34, but ly at one interval of the game, as adropped the decision to Northwestern result of Art Jorgenson’s long shotlast night. Wisconsin, after Saturday’s after ten minutes of the second halfgame in the Fieldhouse, journeyed to had gone by, which made the scoreMichigan, where they lost 44 to 39. 17 to 16. Hockey I [ Wrestling — Read the MaroonAfter many false starts, the hock¬ey team has finally overcome its ownmomentum and is practicing regu¬larly under the North Stands. Drillsessions are scheduled for Monday,Wednesday, and Friday night from9:00 to 10:30 and Tuesday andThursday afternoon from 3:00 to5:30. Paced by George Stone whothrew his opponent in 3 minutes,58 seconds for the best time of themeet, the University wrestling teamwon its second meet of the seasonSaturday night in the fieldhouse, de¬feating Wheaton College, 24 to 8.Chicago won all but the 121-poundand heavyweight matches.No Big Ten games have been Saturday the team has two match-scheduled, but the Maroons plan to es—one at 2:30 with Bradley Techtake on Notre Dame as soon as they and the other at 8:00 with Normal,are in midseason form. Both of these will be away. MIDWAYBeauty ShopSpecializing inAll Beauty CulturesShampoo & Finger WoreMon., Tuei., Wed., Thurs $.35Fri. & Sat $.50Regular $2.50 PermanentSpecial for $1.50803 E. 61st StreetMIDway 1167..,and Tm happy to present thecombination of the Andrews Sistersand my band for your pleasure everyTuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, **...GLENN MILLERIt^S Cl great tie-up... America’s No. 1Cigarette for more smoking pleasure... 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