oPbe Battp iflaroonVol. 40, No. 53 Z-149 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO, TUESDAY, JANUARY 16, 1940 Price Three CentsAll Freshman Cast Makes BowIn Magic’Performance TonightPolacheck Directs ThirdPlay in Workshop Se-ries.The Dramatic Association Work¬shop production of “Magic” opens to¬night at 8:30 for a three-night runin the Reynolds Club theatre. Afteronly two weeks rehearsal, the short¬est in Workshop history, directorDemarest Polacheck has his all-freshman cast ready for the curtain.G. K. Chesterton’s fantastic com¬edy in a prelude and three acts pro¬vides a good vehicle for the noviceactors. The play is light in tone, witha touch of the supernatural provid¬ing Polacheck’s hard-working stagecrew a chance to produce mystic ef¬fects with theme music. The backstageworkers include Lyn Hill as Pola¬check’s assistant director, Jerry Gor¬don in charge of properties, Don Wil-.son, who worked on the settings,David Fisher, handling the lightingeffects, and Elsa Teller, who helpedPolacheck design the stage set.The cast includes six men and agirl. The only veteran is CharlesMurrah, who played the part of Dan¬ny in “Night Must Fall,” as theDuke. The girl in the cast is Mar¬garet Ann Rathje, who plays therole of Patricia. The other men areWilliam Godsave as the conjurer,John Cook as the Reverend CyrilSmith, Robert Miller, as Dr. Grim-thorpe, Jeffrey Mongerson as Hast¬ings, and Marhshall Patullo as Den¬nis.The .settings are. Director Pola-chcck modestly admits, novel and ef¬fective. There are two scenes, bothsimple, one of a “plantation of thinyoung trees,” and the other theDuke’s drawing room.The recorded music for the over¬ture is Mozart’s Concerto in E Majorfor Oboe and Strings, and the thememusic is Fingel’s Cave Overture, byMendelssohn.Pulse PresentsHerma ClarkAt Mandel HallPulse’s pre.sentation of HermaClark lecturing on “Chicago In theNotable Nineties” promises to be a“great moral show that will notbring the blush of shame to the cheekof the most refined,”'according to ad¬vance publicity.The lecture, to be given the eve¬ning of January 24 in Mandell Hall,will be accompanied by choice slidepictures of “great sensations of thenineties,” from Miss Clark’s own col-b'ction. University lights such asStagg, Harper, and Andrew Mac-I.cish, one of the first Trustees of theUniversity and father of the Libra¬rian of the Congressional Librarywill be shown on the screen as wellas John L. Sullivan, Eugene Fieldand many others of diverse fames.Miss Clark, lecturer, newspaperwoman and columnist for the Chi¬cago Tribune, has delivered her lec¬ture and shown her slides almost ev¬erywhere except in the Royal Courtitself. Pulse presents her as an ap¬propriate supplement and spark-plugto the University’s Fiftieth Anniver¬sary Celebration.Pulse promises good, clean, hilar¬ious entertainment, and claims thepictures are “highly moral . . . en-dor.sed by clergymen everywhere.”Herma Clark says: “I have neverseen an entertainment I liked sowell.”CorrectionWhen Johnny Culp, IF head wasapproached for a statement on thebreak-up of Beta Theta Pi he said,“It removes an element of revo¬lution and change from the fratern¬ity system which was very heal¬thy.” However, Ernest Leiser,Maroon joy-boy, night-edited thatnight and didn’t think Culp’sstatement loked right, so he cheer¬fully tucked an un in front of thehealthy. Mr. Culp meant what hesaid before the Leiser revision andyesterday reiterated and added thathe thought something like the oldBeta house kept all the otherhouses on their toes. He said thatthis condition was healthy and ifthe night editor is careful he maygo on record as saying this. Open BrowderMeeting ToGeneral Public Sixteen Fraternities Pledge 177Men; Twelve Less Than Last YearThe Browder lecture tomorrownight will be open to the general pub¬lic. Since tickets have been on salefor the last several days, and sinceno protest petitions have been turnedin to the Dean’s office, the admini¬stration is taking no action to limitattendance at the meeting to register¬ed students. Anyone with a quarterand the inclination to do so will bepermitted to hear the famous Com¬munist express his views on “Amer¬ica and the Imperialist War.”The general attitude of the stu¬dents, as evidenced in a small sam¬ple questioning by the Maroon re¬porter, was that Browder should cer¬tainly be allowed to speak, but thatthe meeting should be closed to out¬siders. However, the reaction, evenamong those students who expressedan opinion, was one of remarkableapathy.Sell 32") TicketsLack of interest nothwithstanding,the sponsors of the meeting expect asellout for the meeting, and quoteyesterday’s advance sales of about325 as basis for their optimism.There is apparently no organizedeffort either to boycott the meeting,to heckle the speaker, or otherwise tocause a disturbance. The Communiststhemselves, as well as the administra¬tion, have said that they expect notrouble. The ordinary precautions arebeing taken by Buildings andGrounds to guard against disorder,and the B and G men have also madeplans for extraordinary precautions,if necessary.Proceeds will be used for bail tokeep Browder out of jail. Student ForumForms VarsityDebate SquadAlthough the primary purpose ofthe Student Forum is to foster intel¬ligent informal discussion of con¬temporary problems, a varsity de¬bate squad has been formed for thebenefit of those who are interested indebating. The tentative schedule ofopponents are. Northwestern, In¬diana, Purdue, Wheaton, John Car¬rol University, Mundelein, and Ros¬ary College. The members will meetevery Thursday in Lexington 5 at3:30.Debating TeamThose who will be on the team are,Jim Burtle, William Durka, Jim En¬gle, Angelo Geovaris, George Gilin-sky, Hal Greenberger, Herbert Lea¬vitt, Markham McEnroe, Joe Molkup,Dick Reed, Maurice Strantz, LewisTaylor, Harold Wilson, Blanche Ro-mer, Margaret Zimmer, and VelmaWhitgrove. Any other student whowishes to join the team should seeAlvin Pitcher or Jacob Ochstein inthe Forum office in Lexington. Thisyear’s topic of the debaters will be,“Resolved: That the United StatesShould Follow a Policy of Isolation,Economic and Military, Toward AllNations Oustide the Western Hemi¬sphere Engaged in Civil or Interna¬tional Conflict.” They will meetThursday at 3:30 in Lexington 5 todiscuss the definition of terms and is¬sues involved in the above topic.“Communism”Forum member Webb Fiser ad¬dressed a group in the Hyde ParkMethodist Church yesterday eveningon “Communism.” Mandel Jammed asHutch Talks on ^^Un¬dergraduate Life”“You will remain calm until a loudspeaker is installed in Reynolds Clubfor foolish virgins and their maleequivalents,” said President Hutchinstwo seconds after the Mitchell Towercarillon pealed forth the noon-day.An estimated 2000 students crowdedinto Mandel Hall, filled the aisles andReynolds Club lounge to hear thePresident speak last Friday. Approx¬imately 800 did not get a chance tolook at him.The President’s speech, however,lucidly stated why the University nolonger intends to play intercollegiatefootball. “Other sports develop co¬operation, team spirit, sportsmanship,and fair play just as well as foot¬ball,” claimed Hutchins. According tohis theory and quotation from Presi¬dent Wells of Indiana University,only winning football can augmentthe spirit of a university.Subsidization?But, Hutchins added, “There is, ofcourse, one way in which we couldwin. We could subsidize players, orencourage our alumni to do so. Manyof the students and alumni withwhom I have talked have urged uponme what they call ‘legitimate’ subsi¬dization. I am sorry to tell you thatthere is no such thing under the BigTen rules. The University could notbreak the rule. I am sure that noself-respecting person connected withit could seriously want it to.”In answer to the question, “Whatwill the abolition of football do toundergi*aduate life?” Hutchins in¬sisted that “even apart from athletics(Continued on page three) 49% of Total EligibleMen Pledge, Deke TopsAll with 20.Fraternity PledgeALPHA DELTA PHI—9Lin LeachBob ThompsonRichard PhilbrickDave SmithGeox-ge FlanaganRichard MerrifieldBob SmithBob SteirerJames MathesonBETA THETA PI—6Charles DarraghDaniel ConnorCharles MatherJohn J. MongersonRobei't Ki'aybillWilliam Dui-kaCHI PSI—11Donald ConnorJay MullenScott CostelloCurtis FrancisJohn CookTruman Dahlbei’gRobert LawsonFrank RichardHowai’d HellerJames GillisonRobert HullDELTA KAPPA EPSILON—20Hai’old GordonKenneth CoffmanJack RagleCharles BoydWilliam BaugherRex ThompsonRobert MollerRobert KincheloeFi-ank DaschbachVincent LongLionel NorrisEdgar PaineThieery McCormickTaylor MoiTisAthur MoynihanJohn LeggittRobert RaimanClyde LorenzWarren LorenzGeorge LauermanDELTA U PSI LON—14Paul ArmbrusterGeorge BaliaAlfred BjorklandDonald BoyesJames DemetryCarl DragstedtJohn FitzgeraldMerritt GwinnEugene JohnsonHarlan NaasDonald Randa Ashton TenneyRobert TullyReed WhippleKAPPA SIGMA—8Wendell DwightJohn DwyerRoy EmeryEdward GordonDon HawkinsRobert MooreCharles NobleHubert WuesthoffPHI DELTA THETA—15A1 DabbertRichard HullRobert MustainPhil OllmannWilliam GodsaveA. D. Van MeterKenneth AxelsonRobert EricksonFred GustafsonEugene HumphryevilleOrville KanauseDon McKnightRay RandallJames Ti’owRichard FinneyPHI GAMMA DELTA—8Rodney D. BriggsRobert J. DeLorenzo, Jr.Thomas B. HillBernai’d LabudaFrancis David MartinWilliam H. WrightGeorge E. BancroftAdam C. KosaezPHI KAPPA PSI—14Robert Francis MonaghanPaul George ReynoldsThomas Edmond EvansFred John ZahrnJames Ramsey HoatsonStuart Bruce PalmerDavid Talmadge PettyPhillip TaylorLawrence BatesWilliam Edwin SelfEdwin Stanton MungerWentworth WilderCharles MurrahEdgar Wilbur NelsonPHI KAPPA SIGMA—10Alvin ConwayTed SowdersVaughan Gx’ableLatimer JohnsHorace W. ByersPerry CraftonMyles Andex’sonRay HowardHarry Cochran Wesley StancherPHI SIGMA DELTA—5William BartmanMoi’ton PierceTheodore RosenBernard SahlinsLeonard ShanePI LAMBDA PHI—8Robert PreglerKenneth TreimanAbbot SilbermanAlbert LeibmanMaurice BilskyEdward HornerHerbert MandelLeo LichtenbergPSI UPSILON—15Randall AndersonWilliam BarnardRobei’t BeanMai’k BeaubienJohn CrosbyJames CutshawFrank EvansSam FawleyJohn Fi’aineGeorge KrakowkaRobert A. MeyersBradley PattersonWenzl RumlJoseph Van AlbadeRobert WeinbergSIGMA ALPHA EPSILON-Walter LouisErnest Lee Fitz-HughSIGMA CHI—15George CaldisRichai’d CassellWebster CashThomas CottrellWalter FairservisRobert FisherCharles HurstWilliam R. Harper, Jr.William MacLeanPeter NicolaThomas PeelMiles Q. RomneyRobert StenbergJohn TureanGene WarnerZETA BETA TAU—9Irving T. DiamondDavid F. EllbogenT. George GilinskyGerald S. HahnStanley M. ClasterJames R. LeonardRichard L. LevinDaniel SabathGene Slottow The wildest intensive rush week inI'ecent years was climaxed Fridaymorning when 177 men indicated adesire to join one of the 16 nationalfraternities represented on this cam¬pus.This number, which includes eightmen who wei'e illegally rushed byAlpha Delta Phi, and who will notbe permitted to pledge until June, is49% of the total number of men eli¬gible for pledging. Last year’s 189,or 45% of the eligible freshmen, wasthe highest number since 1932. Con¬sequently this year’s crop may beconsidered the best in almost a decade.DKE Takes LeadThe avei'age number of men perclass was 11.1, but the sizes of thedelegations varied from 20 to two.Delta Kappa Epsilon lined up themost and ADPhi took second-placehonors. At the tail end of the listare Phi Sigma Delta with five, anddormitory fi-aternity Sigma |AlphaEpsilon which rang in only tw'o.Rush week began to get wild Tues¬day evening when Beta Theta Pi splitinto two distinct factions, and 11 “in¬tellectuals” decided to leave the fra¬ternity. Contrary to the expectationsof interested by-standers the houseweathered the crisis by pledging sixmen.Wednesday night proved evenwilder than Tuesday as Alpha Delt,Deke, and Psi U were all mixed upin a dirty-rushing scandal. John Culp,I-F head, was infonned by Psi U’sthat Dekes were illegally rushing inthe men’s residence halls. After get¬ting out of bed and hurrying to thedorms, Culp found no Dekes butcaught Chuck Percy in a room witha dozen rushees.As a result of this episode DeanRandall decided that eight men, DaveDurkee, Milton Robinson, Bill Oosten-brug, Dick Blakeslee, John Angelo,Ashton Roberts, Dick Reed, andGeorge Drake could not pledge AlphaDelt until June. Contrary to currentrumors, this decision has been changedin no way to date.The final night of x-ush week baffledeven the most seasoned fraternitymen, as freshmen switched allegi¬ances more rapidly and unaccount¬ably than they have since anyone butNels Fuqua can remember.Beati GaidzikWins BluesSinging ContestSultry-voiced Beati Gaidzik singing“If I Could Be With You” out-oomphed four competitors at theSkull and Crescent formal Saturdaynight to win a featured spot in theforthcoming Mix'ror Show. Encoredby the tumultuous applause of theaudience Beati followed through with“All of Me” to score a victory overJane Tallman, Polly Kivlan, CynthiaDursermer, and Jean Scott. All ofthe girls were good, however, and ac¬cording to Director Randall will prob¬ably be used in the show in some way.“Nobody was more surprised thanI,” Beati, who is also in Mirror chox*-us, said afterwards. In fact, so con¬vinced was she that she didn’t standa chance and would merely appearridiculous, that she had rented a blondwig and planned to come a la siren,turning the act into an obvious farce,but at the last moment decided not to.The contest marked the high spotof one of the most successful Skulland Crescent dances on x'ecox’d. Gx’ossreceipts totaled over one hundred dol¬lars.Literary SupplementContributions for the next Lit¬erary Supplement should be turn¬ed to the English Office, Ingleside304, on or before Febx-uary 1. Man¬uscripts should be not more than1000 words and may be either poe¬try, short essays, or short stories.Undergraduates, graduates andfaculty members of the Universityare eligible to submit manuscripts.Page Two THE DAILY MAROON, TUESDAY, JANUARY 16, 1940^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, 6831 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; $4 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.RCPRISSNTEO FOR NATIONAL ADVSRTISINO OVNational Advertising Service, Inc.College Publishers Representative420 Madison Ave. New York, N. Y.CHICASO ’ BOtTOR ■ LOS ANSlLIt • SAH FRAHClSCOBOARD OF CONTROLEditorialRUTH BRODY WILLIAW H. GRODYHARRY CORNELIUS DAVID MARTIN, ChairmanALICE MEYERBusinessHARRY F. TOPPING, Business Mgr.ROLAND 1. RICHMAN, Advertising Mgr.BUSINESS ASSOCIATES.Tohn Bex, Herb Gervin, William Lovell, and Julian LowensteinEDITORIAL ASSOCIATESDemarest Polacheck, William Ilankla, Pearl C. Rubins, John Stevens,Hart Wurzburg, Marian Castleman, Ernest LeiserNight Editor: Pearl C. RubinsAssistant: Bob RaymerThe Spirit of Fun?When President Hutchins made a big jokeout of the Maroon in his speech last Friday ourstaff applauded happily. We have no objectionsto his making fun of us—we do the samethings to him at the slightest opportunity.That way we both serve useful purposes. Itshows good cooperation between stooges.But just because the Daily Maroon usesHutchins to serve its attempts at humor andhuman interest doesn’t mean that we approvewhen downtown papers become so eager tomake our president a byword for somethingridiculous that they sacrifice truth in theprocess.Recently the downtown papers have de¬voted a great amount of space to demonstratingthat nobody cares very much whether or notthe University of Chicago plays intercollegiatefootball, but that the University did a terriblething in withdrawing from it. Their most con¬sistent way of demonstrating this seems to beridiculing Hutchins for being an apostle oflearning. Of course this kind of argument con¬vinces nobody that Hutchins has acted wrong¬ly. No intelligent American citizen could takeseriously Westbrook Pegler’s criticism of theUniversity for encouraging thinking. Norwould reflective people accept the thesis thatfootball is an essential part of a universitywhich aims at training the mind. The argumentthat football develops the most important phys¬ical virtues and fosters the highest kind ofmoral virtues meets with the same defeat.With intercollegiate football a sport so fewpeople can play at even the most athletic in¬stitutions it would be unfortunate indeed ifit were impossible for human beings to havehealthy bodies without participating in thatgame. And to say that only those who playfootball and similar strenuous sports canreally have courage is to insult an overwhelm¬ing majority of American citizens.A column in yesterday’s Tribune, however,not only rehashed these old arguments; but italso tried to serve up some new ones. Thesenew arguments attempt to show that Hutchinshad the University withdraw from intercolle¬giate football because of his cowardliness, ig¬norance, inefficiency, and because of his wil¬lingness to follow the lead of Communists.The Maroon won’t even attempt to refutethat last point. Everybody knows that the Uni¬versity was founded by that noted Communist,John D. Rockefeller, and that our entire Boardof Trustees is in the pay of Moscow. It will bemuch more enlightening for us to examine theTribune columnist’s evidence for his insinua¬tions about Mr. Hutchins’ motives.Certainly, Arch Ward has facts and figures.He quoted the^following full-time enrollmentstatistics froni"a December issue of “Schooland Society:’’ graduates. Chicago has more graduates thanthe schools it didn’t want to play; almost asmany as the schools it did play. Even so, Chi¬cago still has fewer men eligible for footballnot only because it has a smaller enrollmentthan the schools it played; but also because somany of its undergraduates are transfers whoare ineligible. Last year 60% of those who gotBachelor’s degrees here were transfer stu¬dents. The following figures are what ArchWard might have presented if he had been in¬terested in using statistics fairly:Total(includinggraduates) Graduates CollegeWomenChicago 6,011 1,383 1,017Northwestern . .. 6,075 346 1,295Indiana . 6,271 297 1,323Iowa 6,260 988 1,341Ohio ....13,231 1,311 841Illinois .. 13,510 1,458 1,532Michigan . . 12,098 2,464 1,916Harvard .. 8,209 1,050If the Tribune columnist went to all thetrouble of looking up and selecting the figuresfrom the “School and Society’’ report, we can¬not believe that he is so disinterested in whatthe University does about football as he claimsto be. Or else, it is Arch Ward and not RobertHutchins who doesn’t know what the score is. Alumni CouncilGathersFootballCommentsTraveling BazaarTotal MenChicago 6,011 1,693Northwestern 1,460Indiana . 6,271 1,429Iowa 1,944Now these figures seem to indicate thatChicago acted in a cowardly and inefficientfashion in refusing to schedule games with thethree schools having an enrollment equal to orless than its own; and instead playing OhioState, enrollment 13,231; Illinois, 13,510; Mich¬igan, 12,098; and Harvard, 8,209 men.These statistics establish Arch Ward’s the¬sis beautifully. Moreover, they are accurate.They were presented, as Ward said, by “Presi¬dent Raymond Waters of the University ofCincinnati, whose findings are accepted as au¬thoritative by schools thruout the nation.” Butit is a pity that Mr. Ward could not have hadenough respect for President Waters’ authori¬tative findings to use them properly.If he had looked a little more closely atTable III of the report he would have foundthat the total enrollment figures included By DICK HIMMELSong FestBiggest event of the last weekend, according to allavailable reports was a little fracas over in the Clois¬ters, said fracas being properly known as Skunk andI’hea.sant. Featured was a blues-singing contest, withfive competitors for the title which was won by BeatieGaidzik, more so ’tis said, on account of her popularitythan for her voice. Polly Kivlan sang F'rankie andJohnny. Jane Tallman muffed her chances because oflack of microphone experience.Deke "Scandals”Sunday afternoon, the Dekes had some of the girlsfrom George White’s Scandals at their house for tea, apractice which in our opinion should be encouraged.Basis for the invitation was the acquaintanceship of afew of the brothers with a few of the girls. The Dekesalso got a big pledge class.Funny RushingRushing is a funny thing. Thursday night DaveDurkee pulled into the Deke house after attending anAlpha Delt function, said, “I’m going Deke.” Nextmorning, Durkee went Alpha Delt Jim Matheson haddinner at the Psi U house, spent the evening at theDeke house, also went Alpha Delt in the morning afterspending the night with Bob Stierer and Bob Smith, ,freshman councilmen and .\lpha Delt pledges... .Bob jRaiman was at the Psi U house, telling Johnny Palmer jhe would soon be a Psi U. He left for the Deke house, ;came back in half an hour to say he was going Deke,which he did....Paul Reynolds, with a choice betweeni’si U, Deke, and Phi Psi, took Phi Psi....Psi U and'Alpha Delt worked hard on Bob Stierer and Bob Smithall last quarter and all this quarter. Each fraternity ;believed that if they got one they would get the other, iCame Thursday and Stierer was almost sewed up Psi jU. Came the I-F decision; Stierer swung toward AlphaDelt, and stayed there....The Betas brought downtheir Northwestern chapter for final rushing, came iaround to all the big houses for people they didn’t havea chance of getting, came through with six pledges,including the Courtier’s Charlie Darragh, closest thingto Himmel we have....Bob Law.son, of orange pajamafame, decided he liked beer and went Chi Psi.. .Jewishfraternities had a tough time of it. With only about ithirty-five eligible for their pledging and twelve ofthose deciding to remain independent, all of them got;small pledge classes. Zeta Beta Tau did best when they jpledged five of the independent twelve.... Smoothest of,the smooth deals was pulled by Sigma Chi, who got not jonly three football players, including Bob Sternberg,but also Bill Harper, who, we think in spite of hiseccentricities, has something on the ball.. . .Sigma Al-Ipha Epsilon got two.... 'Pin-newsLucille Hoover, local Quadrangler, is sporting asweetheart pin from Northwestern. We remember herbest as the girl who was made beautiful in the Quads’Victory Vanities skit... .Jack Crane, from reports hoard,is chasing Peggy O’Neill....Somebody accused AlphaDelt Bud Linden of hanging his pin. Linden said neitheryes nor no. We can’t tell... .Ed Rochlin just said hello.He finally got back from his Christmas vacation. By BOB REYNOLDSThough editorials are comparative¬ly dead things, read by only a few,they do represent the slightly intel¬lectual side of a newspaper. Latelythe boys with the active crania havehad a field day with the University’sabolition of football. From every partof the land’s fourth estate commentswere and are being made with sur¬prising acuteness and prolificacy overthe situation.The Alumni Council of the Univer¬sity under the direction of John Nu-veen, head of the alumni drive forsemi-centennial funds, has collectedsamples of these editorials and dis¬tributed them among the graduates.The selections range from the Chil-licothe, Ohio Gazette, which shouts“Shame, Chicago” to the New YorkPost, w'hich applauds the Midway fortaking the lead.The Chillicothc Gazette has this tosay: “Aside from the possible menaceChicago’s actions has on what we re¬gard as America’s finest amateursport, we consider the withdrawal asa violation of the code of sportsman-i ship.”j Many Will Followj The New York Post: “...It is not!j at all improbable that in the future, 'j many of the other colleges where ed-I ucation is the first pursuit will fol- !low suit.” It went An to add that Chi-1cago was not withdrawing to lick its ,1 wounds, for the institution had in- [' crea.sed its winning percentage by II 200 per cent over last year. IJohn R. Tunis, writing in the A- |merican Mercury on a piece called i{“What Price F'ootball” actually puts |I the various colleges in categories ac-1cording to their expenditures and' morals on the grid game. His group '.one included Chicago, M.I.T., Trinity,'and other non-proselyting .schools; inii group two are listed Harvard,]; Princeton. Yale, and Minnesota as^ those schools whose presidents are {I aware of the .semi-professional situa-i tion but don’t let their right hand! know what the left is doing. I' Group Three |In group three he places Fordham, jPittsburgh, Dartmouth, and Ohio ]State as examples of the high pres-! sure type who use summer trainingI camps for players, send promising[stars to prep .schools for further |training under excellent coaches, and {pay players in exce.ss of room, board, jand tuition. |His comment on Northwestern is jworthy of note: “Northwestern has jthe reputation for promising almost Ianything but deliver only infrequent-1ly.” Today on theQuadranglesChapel Staff meeting. Dean’s Sanc¬tum, University Chapel, 9 A.M.Divinity Chapel Service, JosephBond Chapel, 11:55, Associate Profes¬sor Riddle, Worship Leader.Mathematics Club, “Relativity andthe Quantum Phenomenon”, ProfessorLunn, Eckhart 206, 4:30.International House French Film.“Ballerina” with English .subtitles4:30 and 8:30.DA Workshop, “Magic” by Chester¬ton, Reynold’s Club Theatre, 8:30.Public lecture, “Recent Dramas.‘Prologue to Glory’, E. P. Conkle”, As¬sociate Professor Edwards, Art In¬stitute of Chicago, 6:45.S.S.A. Club, Y.W.C.A. Room, IdaNoyes, 7-10.Y.W.C.A. meeting. Alumnae Room,Ida Noyes, 12-1:30.Settlement I.ieague Drama Group,Ida Noyes theatre, 7:30-10.L.P.C. Folk Dance Group, Y.W.C.A.Room, Ida Noyes, 8-10.Classified5461 University. Private home, beantifal qaietroom for business woman or student$.I.50-|4.5*. Mid. 2171.Duke UniversitySCHOOL OF MEDICINEni'RHAM. .\. C.Four terms of eleven weeks areriven each year. These may hetaken consecutively (rraduation inthree and one-quarter years) orthree terms may be taken eachTear (rraduation in four years).The entrance requirements are in-lellirence. character and threeyears of rollers work, inriudinrthe subjects sperifled for Class Amedical schools. Catalorues andapplication forms may be obtainedfrom the Admission Committee.THE NEWLEX THE.ATREFEATURING ‘'PUSH BACK” SEATS1162 E. 63rd St. Open 11:30 A.M. DoilyWed. 6 Thurs.JOHNNY DOWNSin"Laugh It Off"&VICTOR McLAGLENin"Full Confession"Gordon McNeil GivesFirst History LectureFour public lectures will be offeredby members of the student body ofthe Social Sciences Division on Tues¬days in the Social Science AssemblyRoom. The first of this series of lec¬tures in the field of History will begiven by Gordon McNeil on “TheCults of the French Revolution.” T.W’alter Johnson, Haven Perkins, andWinthrop Hudson will deliver theother lectures. COLD WEATHER!Stop atTHE BOOKSTORElor WOOL MUFFLERSWOOL GLOVESEAR MUFFSKITTEN MITTENSWOOL SOCKSU. of C. Bookstore5802 Ellis Ave.Letters To The Editor HOTELSt. George Dining Room**on the Midway'*1433 East 60th StreetLuncheons 25c - 40c Dinners 35c - 40cSpecial Evening Five Course Dinner 40cOpen 7 AM. to 8 P.M.Dear Mr. Hutchins:As one of the “male equivalents” of the “foolishvirgins” who heard your Mandel Hall disquisition onundergraduate life at the University of Chicago, I wassomewhat baffled by your declaration that the Univer¬sity will co-operate with any “healthy activity” under¬taken by the student body.Does this mean that you finally have come to agreethe higher education should train the whole man andnot just the mind? If so, you are no longer the youngman in a big hurry backwards to the days of the mentaldiscipline theory of education. On the contrary, youhave taken a progressive step that deserves commen¬dation.Or does this reference to “healthy activity” simplymean that you ignore the difference between “healthy”and “healthful”?Please fill the empty lamp of my ignorance with theoil of your wisdom and enlighten me on this question.Robert E. Kronemyer. I.JOV. Feoturi-'g’A TRULY WONDERFUL"HAPPY LUNCHEONSoup or juice. Entree, potato,vegetable. Dessert and drink.. nCOLONIAL RESTAURANT6324 Woodlawn AvenueTHE DAILY MAROON, TUESDAY, JANUARY 16, 1940 Page ThreeBullSession* * *By SIDNEY LIPSHIRESThe beautiful painting headed“There Stands Finland” which nowgraces the bulletin boards of our Uni¬versity symbolizes to a great extentthe recent controversies between theAmerican Student Union and theDaily Maroon. For this beautifulpainting might well be called “ThereStands Belgium.” It is precisely thesame type of pro-war propagandawhich was much in evidence prior toAmerican entry into the war of 1914-1918. The anonymous poster employsthe same type of hysterical languagewhich its prototypes—in 1915 and191(5—used with such success. Theobvious reference to “barbarianhordes”, to “women and children”starving and freezing “behind thelines” robs it of any subtlety or claimto well-considered statement. It is adeliberate attempt to rouse masshysteria; as such, it has no regardfor the truth.This disregard for the truth androusing of hysteria is precisely theissue which has lately been troublingthe members of the Daily Maroon’seditorial staff. For some time nowthey have been troubled in heart andmind with the awful thought thatthe A.S.U. is “communist-dominated.”And, in common with the rest of thegreat purveyors of truth, the Amer¬ican press, they have begun to jumpinto the fracas—biting and gougingif need be—but jumping nonetheless,and lambasting as much as possiblein order that no one might accusethem of subversive activity or evenan "old-fashioned” regard for justiceand tolerance.The editors of the Daily Maroonhave been sore troubled and afraidbecause the A.S.U. has refused tocondemn “Russian aggression” inFinland. About the other policies ofthe .A.S.U. they have manifested noconcern. They have been concernedneither with the A.S.U.’s .stand in re¬gard to foreign policy nor with itsforthright position calling for muchneeded social reforms at home. Theythus aptly follow the lead of theirelders who are all to anxious to holdforth the issue of F’inland in an ef¬fort to divert attention from whatis today’s most pre.ssing problem—how to keep America out of war.There are .still over 10,000,000 un¬employed in the United States. Butrecent government action has pareddown “excessive relief appropri¬ations” in favor of armament and ex¬tensive militarization. And despitethe specific promises of governmentoifieials last September, direct mili¬tary aid in the way of guns and cred¬its for armaments is now being ar¬ranged for F'inland, “outpost of de¬mocracy.”Civil liberties are being suppressedin the United States in an unprece¬dented campaign of mass hysteria.This drive is being headed by thosewho have until recently posed as “lib¬erals”; one of the outstanding lead¬ers in this campaign has recentlybeen rewarded with appointment tothe Supreme Court of the land. Onour own campus we have seen thespectacle of a campus newspaper al¬most inciting to riot with vicioushints and innuendoes about an or¬ganization now considered “subver¬sive.” The program of the A.S.U..stands firmly against these and allother orgies of witch-hunting.The A.S.U. would be interested tohear a positive program from theDaily Maroon which feels that it isnot playing a reactionary role in thepresent state of affairs. Where doesthe Daily Maroon stand on such vi¬tal issues as the oppression of theNegro? The furtherance of peaceaims here and abroad? The preserva¬tion and extension of civil liberties?The alleviation of the sufferings ofuntold millions of unemployed andunderpaid? And finally, does the Dai¬ly Maroon feel that its facetious at¬titude reflected in the catch-line “justto lead you into war” is sufficient tohelp solve all of these problems?Rockefeller Gives$2500 to Int-HouseAnother of the numerous giftswhich members of the Rockefellerfamily have made to the universityhas recently become public. The sumof 2500 dollars has been given tothe International House Alumni As¬sociation by John D. Rockefeller IIIto support the work which the as¬sociation is doing. Not only are thereorganizations of Int-House alumni inthis country, but numerous groupsof its alumni are organized through¬out the world. Press Publishes SurveyOfNewspapers-HughesBy ERNEST LEISER“One hundred years ago, in 1835 tobe exact, a few newspaper publishersin New York City and London dis¬covered that most human beings, ifthey could read at all, found it easierto read news than editorial opinion,and that the common man would rath¬er be entertained than edified.” Outof this discovery grew the rise ofmodern newspapers, and out of therise of modern newspapers now comessociological investigation.The latest, and one of the few, sur¬veys of the effect of newspapers onthe minds of the people, is “News andHuman Interest Story” published lastweek by the University Press. Inhighly readable, though highly dis¬organized manner, Helen MacGillHughes analyzes why the humanmind would not always prefer to readwhat it would prefer to have pub¬lished.To embellish her tale, the jacket ofher book is a cartoon from the NewYorker, showing a dignified gentle¬man, looking over the shoulder of thethug sitting next to him in the train,reading the dirt in the thug’s DailyMirror, while his own New YorkTimes remains unread.Sprightly StyleThe sprightly style of Mrs. Hughesis apt to make the reader forget thathere is a scientific work. But herstories are all illustrations of someinteresting, and for the study of so¬ciology, important principles.Mrs. Hughes, wife of assistant pro¬fessor E. C. Hughes, traces the “art”of the human interest story from itsearly beginnings, through its masteryin the hands of such geniuses as Lin¬coln Steffens and Theodore Dreiser,and through its exploitation by suchpublishers of the mass press asIlearst, Dana, Bennett, Pulitzer, andMacFadden.Realizing that the newspaper is the“most robust medium through whichSix Men Retire fromBiolop^ical SciencesDean William H. Taliaferro an-nounce<l today that six men wouldretire from the division of biological.science during the academic year1940-41.In addition to Professor Carlsonwhose retirement was announced lastweek, five other men face the agelimit. Those leaving are Basil C. H.Harvey, dean of students in the di¬vision and professor of Anatomy;Preston Kyes, professor of preven¬tive medicine; Ralph S. Lillie, pro¬fessor of'physiology; Horatio H. New¬man, professor of zoology, and HarryG. Wells, chairman of the depart¬ment of pathology and director of theOtho S. A. Sprague Memorial Insti¬tute.So far no announcement has beenmade regarding promotions or re¬placements due to the vacancies.Hutchins— the modern world has found an under¬standing of itself,” Mrs. Hughes es¬timates the importance of such newscommentators as Mark Sullivan, Wal¬ter Lippmann, Stanley Walker, andWill Irwin, who have come to be re¬garded as heroes and their yarns aslegends.Practical SignificanceThe work of Mrs. Hughes, whichexplains why romance, adventure, an¬ecdote, horrible crime, the spell ofconfession, and even the humor of thecommonplace, draws irresistibly theeye of the sophisticated person, aswell of the demos, presents in excel¬lent popular style, a subject whichhas intense practical significance to ageneration, much of whose educationComes out of the New York DailyNews. Her work is another in theUniversity of Chicago Sociologicalseries, a series established by theTrustees of the University to publishthe results of the newer sociologicalresearches in America.Peace TreatyTheme of NextQuarterly IssueTheme of the coming issue of In¬ternational House Quarterly, whichwill come out Thursday, is the peacesettlement which will end the currentwar in Europe. Three articles dis¬cussing various aspects of the sub¬ject are featured. One, “England,War, and Peace,” by Kenneth Whiteis by a former resident of the Housenow at the University of Liverpool.A Commonwealth Fund Fellowwhile here. White has recently pub¬lished a book, American Labor Prob¬lems, which is the result of work doneas a .student in the University’s De¬partment of Political Science.America and the WorldProfessor Arnold Wolfers, a mem¬ber of the Department of Interna¬tional Relations at Yale is the authorof another article treating of Amer¬ica’s place in the world situation. Thethird article, by Adrian M. Acockhelps to round out the war discussionby presenting the position taken byBritish South Africa and Britain’sother dominions. Remarks about theattitude of the Boers toward the warare particularly interesting. Articlesby Edgar Layther, a regular con¬tributor to Reader’s Digest and Sat¬urday Evening Post, and by JackRoston are also included in the is¬sue.College Night atStevens FridayThe Stevens Hotel presents itssecond University of Chicago collegenight in the Continental room Fridaynight. Billed as a preview of Mirror,the floor show will contain some ofthis year’s Mirror stars. Alreadyscheduled to appear are Ruth Weh-lan, blonde singer, Paine and Himmelcomedy song team, and Recker andFarwell piano players. Tariff is onedollar minimum per person. The Column—(Continued from page four)You cite figures to show that Chi¬cago should be able to compete withits Big Ten rivals on more equalterms. Today’s editorial of the DailyMaroon uses the same figures butpresents them in a much less biasedand much more significant manner.Finally, though I myself do notapprove of the abolition of football,I must admit that President Hutch-in’s arguments are exceedingly moreconvincing than those presented inyour column.William H. Grody,Sports Editor.Big Ten—(Continued from page four)tion to break up the Chicago zone de¬fense by playing catch between them¬selves. This they did, and with thehome five returning to a man-to-mandefense, the game was no contest. Inspite of, or because of the rough playof the Iowa five (evidenced by theseventeen fouls called against them)the Maroon team was outclassed afterten minutes of the opening period,and went down to the dressing roomwith a six point deficit.PLEDGE NOTICEBeta Theta Pi announces thepledging of Edwin H. 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Michigan Ave., Chicago, Handolph 4247A word to the wise is suificientQuality-wise and price-wisepeople buy Klein'sFiner MeatsKlein'sFiner Meats1030 East 55th St.SPECIAL ATTENTION GIVEN TO"PHONE ORDERS"FOR PROMPT DELIVERY—'PHONE FAIRFAX 0354-5"Serves the CampusConununity"(Continued from page one)undergraduate life at the Universityis so lively that I don’t see how youget any studying done,” and in ath¬letics the University “has had thelargest program in the Western Con¬ference.”Football and ChainFinally to clinch the argumentHutchins gave a lasting damnationto the whole of intercollegiate foot¬ball. Said he: “The greatest obstacleto the development of a universityin this country is the popular mis¬conceptions of what a university is.The two most popular of these arethat it is kindergarten and that it isa country club. Football has done asmuch as any single thing to originate,disseminate, and confirm these mis¬conceptions. By getting rid of foot¬ball, by presenting the spectacle ofa university that can be great with¬out football, the University of Chi¬cago may perform a signal serviceto higher education throughout theland.”Deltho Goes Off CampusBetty Lou Lindberg, president,and the other officers of the DelthoClub, notified the office of theDean of Students on January 12that the Club is withdrawing as acampus organization. The reasonfor this action is as yet unknown. 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Northwestern,Dear Mr. Ward,I was one of the 2,000 students wholistened attentively while PresidentRobert M. Hutchins delivered his ad¬dress before the undergraduates of ithe University of Chicago. I was alsoone of those who read your column,In the Wake of the Neivs yesterdaymorning.Mr. Ward, I wish that you, instead ,of me, had heard Hutchins’ speech.In your column and your verbal at¬tack upon the President and the Uni¬versity of Chicago you failed to re¬cord several obvious facts. For ex¬ample you claim that Hutchins de¬clared football was a major handicapto education but that he failed tosupport this conclusion. May I quotefrom Mr. Hutchins. “The presidentof a state university which hadchampionship teams once told methat all the people in his state wereinterested in was the football teamand that, if it ever lost, his appropri¬ations would be cut in half.” Need Isay more.You say that “it is shocking to findthat Chicago, of all places, over-em-phasizes victory.” You score Hutch¬ins for saying “if you win, you mustkeep on winning.”May I also quote Hutchins who inturn quoted an article written inyour own paper, believe it or not. In itPresident Wells of Indiana Univer¬sity said, “Football unquestionablyhad an effect on the spirit of the in¬stitution, provided it is winning foot¬ball.”You compare our nosedive withthat of Michigan and enlighten thepublic with the fact that Michigandidn’t give up—they climbed back tothe top.How can you compare Chicagowith the Wolverines? Even in theirworst days the Wolverines never suf¬fered the season that Chicago hasjust endured. Furthermore, it is un¬fair to compare Chicago with aschool where 50 per cent of the foot¬ball men are enrolled in a physicaleducation school, where the enroll¬ment of men students is greater,where the percentage of transferstudents is lower, where the wordsubsidization is more frequentlyheard and employedTom Harmon, for example, ap¬plied for admission to the Universityof Chicago but he was denied admit¬tance because he was in the lowerhalf of his high-school class. Todayhe is the star of Michigan.You say that “football is no sportfor the fainthearted.” Frankly, Mr.Ward I believe that it takes moreguts and courage to face a power¬house from Michigan or Ohio State,knowing full well beforehand that youare going far down in defeat beforethe afternoon is over.(Continued on page three) Chicago B F PI Iowa B F PStampf. ..{ 1 5 21 Wheeler, f ..4 0 1Zimmerman, f..O 0 0 Siegal, f ..3 3 3Stanley, f 1 0 21 Lind, f ..2 0 2Lounsbury, C....I 1 2| Hohenhorst, g.. ..0 0 1Jorgenson, K....0 3 l| Knight, f ..0 1 0Richardson, g..4 0 21 Evans, c. ..2 2 3Charlton, g 0 0 01 Bastien, c ..1 0 1Wagenberg, g..l 2 01 Fountain, c ..0 0 1Prasse, g 1 2Harsha, g ,..o 0 0Soderquist, g.... ..2 0 3Siglin, g ...0 0 08 11 9 17 7 17The weekend’s basketball activity,in which the Maroon team bow'ed toNorthwestern at Patten Gym Satur¬day 42 to 27, and Iowa at the Field-house last night 41 to 27, saw theMidway five take over undisputedpossession of the cellar position in theconference race. In addition the no¬tion that the Chicago team is astrong defensive outfit took just ascruel a licking as did Coach Norgen’sboys.In both contests, the home forcesplayed with apparent lack of theknowledge of what to do next, as theyencountered teams which took com¬mand of the game by their ability tocontrol the rebounds off the back-boards. In the Saturday night game,the purple team continually con¬founded the Chicago defense by slip¬ping a man free right inside thedefense ad directly underneath thegoal. Captain A1 Vance and DonKruger scored repeatedly with thisformula.Last night the Iowa team combineda fast break which accounted for anearly lead and stubborn determina-(Continued on page three)Fencers DefeatPurple OpponentsThe perennial championship Ma¬roon Fencing team opened its fifthconsecutive defense of the Big Tentitle last Saturday afternoon with avictory over their closest rivals.Northwestern University, by a scoreof 15 to 11. The Midway forces cameout on the short end of two of thethree events, losing five to four inFoil and five to three in Epee, withone bout tie. Their winning marginwas provided in the Sabre eventwhich they virtually swept, takingeight of the nine contests.The Chicago team was led by DonMcDonald and Paul Seiver, who wentthrough their three bouts without aloss, and Captain Alex George, whotook two out of three, dropping aclose decision to the Purple’s CliffGroh.Leading Northwestern’s team wasCliff Groh, number two foil man whowas the only undefeated Purpleswordsman, and Captain Gordon Ros-berg, who won two of his three Epeetilts, drawing the third with NortonGinsburg.The Daily MaroonGives YouNewsFeaturesPictures...even the Traveling Bazaar“Just to Lead You Into War” Gymnastic TeamScores VictoryIn their first meet of the season thegymnastics team defeated MilwaukeeA. C. in Bartlett gym Saturday by ascore of 521.75 to 418. Of the fiveevents Chicago lost only on the hor¬izontal bars, winning on the sidehorse, flying rings, parallel bars, andin tumbling.Although he took no first places,Courtney Shanken scored the mostpoints of any of the team. BesidesCourtney, Glenn Pierre, captain, EarlShanken, and A1 Robertson took partin the meet. Stvimmers DefeatGeorge WilliamsRepeating last year’s performance,the swimming team swamped GeorgeWilliams University Friday in theBartlett pool, 56 to 10. Chicago tookfirst and second places in every eventexcept diving in which they took sec¬ond and third.Ralph McCollum, Jim Anderson,John Argali, Jack Bernhardt, andLeo Luckhardt all took first places asdid the two medley teams. Art Bethke,Jerry Markoff, and Argali compose<lthe 120-yard team, and Bill Leach, Wells, Teaque, and Joe Stearns madeup the 160-yard team.Wrestlers Win, TieIn Two MatchesRetaining their undefeated record,the wrestling team defeated BradleyTech, 26-8, Saturday afternoon andthen tied Normal, 16 to 16, in theevening. The others defeated wereMorton Tech and Wheaton College.Only three of the team were ableto win in both meets: Carroll Pyle128-pounder, Captain Tim Thomas inthe 145-pound class, and RalphMoore in the 175-pound class.For more pleasure at the movies seoParamount's Feature AttractionTHE GREAT VICTOR HERBERTstarring ALLAN JONES andMARY AAARTINFor more smoking pleasure enjoyCHESTERFIELD'S Feature Attroctions«.REAL MILDNESS ond BEHER TASTE. ALLANJONESand Better Tasteare Chesterfield’s Feature AttractionsThe Right Combination ofthe world’s best cigarette tobaccos inChesterfield gives you two featuresyou can get in no other cigarette...Real Mildness and Better Taste.On top of that. 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