Battp ifflairoonVol. 40, No. 62 Z-149 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 31, 1940 Price Three CentsMaroons TopBig Ten InFinancial Aid Admit Kappa Alpha Psi ToThe Interbaternity CouncilGive Over $30,000 InScholarships to Ath¬letes.By JOHN STEVENSMaroon athletes received more fi¬nancial aid during the last two yearsthan did the athletes of any otherConference school, according to fig-ures released by Big Ten Commission¬er, Major John L. Griffith. Chicago’sfigure of $75,943 is over $14,000 high¬er than the second place figure, thatof Northwestern, but the manner inwhich athletes received the moneyvaries from school to school.Over half the aid received by Ma¬roons was in the form of scholarships,whereas this is not true of any of theother schools. The value of this schol¬arship aid was almost four times asgreat as that of the second placeschool, Iowa.Tuition HigherThe reasons for the exceptionallylarge amount of aid given to athletesat Chicago are obvious. In the firstplace the tuition is much higher thanit is at state schools, consequently asmaller proportion of students benefitfrom the same amount of money.In the second place Chicago is aheavily endowed institution which of¬fers an exceptionally large number ofscholarships to the entire studentbody.The number of students receivingscholarship aid is approximately 30per cent of the enrollment, while thenumber of athletes receiving scholar¬ship aid is approximately 30 per centof the undergraduate athletes. Conse-(|uently no preference is accorded toathletes, and any charge of subsidiza¬tion would be absurd.Northwestern LoansIn the case of Northwestern, forexample, the case is quite different.There over half of the aid is receivedby athletes in the form of studentloans. Who pays off these studentloans is not specified, nor is the pro¬portion of money loaned to athletescompared to the proportion loaned tonon-athletes. Therefore it is pos-.sible that subsidization exists atNorthwestern..Another form of financial aid list¬ed is campus jobs. Here Chicagoranks near the top, but no preference(Continued on page two) The Negro fraternity Kappa Alpha Psi has again applied foradmission to the Interfraternity Council. Their position is ex¬plained in a letter to the Council printed elsewhere in this issue.In the main, their reason for asking admission is this: The Ne¬groes have had, and still do have, a long difficult struggle to at¬tain the freedom and equal opportunity which is their right asAmerican citizens. Recognition on a basis of equality in the In¬terfraternity Council for them would be an important step in thisdirection.(wirls^ Clubs toSin^ at ReynoldsClub DanceDon’t look now, but there’s going) be another Basketball Dance at theeynolds Club next Saturday night.iO ordinary dance, this, for Howard[ort whose fertile brain is everrobing for new attractions has comep with a real crowd-pleaser thisme.Several girls clubs have been in-ited to participate in a mock Inter-ub Sing with Sigma, Esoteric, andi Delta Phi already scheduled toi?rform. They won’t collaborate; eachub will sing by itself.Norm Foster’s “Esquires” will be1 hand again to provide the all im-jrtant “Swing”.Encouraged by the response of vis¬ing DePaul fans at the last dance,r. Mort has invited Loyola rooters' come and enjoy themselves afterle game. Single admissions to thoseho haven’t bought season ticketsill be 35 cents. Kappa Alpha Psi is able and willing fully to support the pro¬gram of the Council; it will bear its share of the expenses andobserve the Interfratemity rushing rules.It is interesting to note that the last two times the fraterni¬ties voted on this question, a majority of them favored admit¬ting the Negro fraternity. Why then was this not done? Longlong ago when the constitution of the Council was drawn, it wasprovided that a fraternity's admission to the Council was contin¬gent on recognition by the University and the ownership of achapter house. Restrictive property-owners’ agreements preventany Negro group from owning a house in the University area. Andto date Kappa Alpha Psi has failed to make the three-quartersvote necessary to amend the Constitution so that it could enterthe Council without a house. The House ownership rule was de¬signed to eliminate weak fraternities when they no longer couldbe an asset to the system, which obviously has no bearing on thecase of the Negro fraternity.Amending the constitution of the Council of course immedi¬ately raises the question of Sigma Alpha Epsilon, which usesthe dormitory facilities instead of a chapter house, and is like¬wise not recognized by the Council. But these two issues mustnot be confused. Kappa Alpha Psi could support a house if itwere possible to get one. SAE presumably could not. One case isa question of whether a fraternity should be excluded from theInterfraternity Council because its members are Negroes; theother a question of whether dormitory fraternities are desirableand should be encouraged. Sooner or later these two issues aregoing to have to be faced on their own merits; they cannot for¬ever be dismissed by clinging to a legal technicality.As far as the legal aspect is concerned, it would be easyenough to frame an amendment to the Council’s constitution thatwould do away with the house-ownership restriction and stilladmit either, both, or neither of the two fraternities in question.(Continued on page two) Kappa Alpha Psi AgainPetitions I-F CouncilPoll StudentsOn AbolitionOf FootballBy DAN MEZLAYOver a thousand votes are expectedto be cast in the Daily Maroon foot¬ball poll today when students voicetheir opinions in regard to the aboli¬tion of Maroon . football. Poliingplaces are in Mandel corridor andCobb Hall.The poll will answer, among otherthings, the following points:1. Did Hutchins sell his ideas onthe abolishment of football to thestudents?2. Do students favor the abolish¬ment of Maroon football?3. Is there a great divei^ence ofopinion between men and women inregard to the above questions?4. Do students want Chicago to re¬main in the Big Ten in sports otherthan football?Check Pulse Poll Discuss Amendment toInterfraternity Constitu¬tion Tonight.Dramatize ‘Useless’ ExperimentsLeading to Invention of RadioHow education, by engaging in ap¬parently impractical research, hasbenefitted civilization by producinghundreds of practical discoveries isthe theme of the first program in thenew series of The Human Adventure,produced by the University in col¬laboration with the Columbia Broad¬casting System.The Human Adventure, presentedexperimentally for eight weeks lastsummer, returns on the air Saturdayfor 13 weekly half hour broadcasts.Radio and 606The two episodes in the openingbroadcast in the new series of TheHuman Adventure dramatize the ap¬parently useless experiments of Pro¬fessor Hans Oerstead, Dr. MichaelFaraday, Professor James Maxwell,and Dr. Heinrich Hertz, whose worklaid the background for ProfessorGuglielmo Marconi’s invention of ra¬dio; and the years of “useless” re¬search with dyes and stains whichpreceded Paul Ehrlich’s discovery of“606,” treatment for syphilis. ture describes the dramatic story be¬hind Paul Ehrlich’s accidental discov¬ery of the cure of syphilis in 1910.Fascinated as a boy with colors andpainting, Ehrlich later experimentedwith the effect of dyes on animal tis¬sues. Finding that certain dyes killedgerms in animals, Ehrlich, after 606attempts, found the dye that attacksthe syphilis germ.From the laboratory of Oersted,the great Danish scientist, more thana century ago, the program takes thelistener through each of the stages ofscientific study of electrical phenom¬ena, concluding with the experimentsof Marconi in 1901.Towey Plays forFaw School Dance Dye and SyphilisIn the second episode of the half-hour broadcast The Human Adven-The Law School’s annual dance willbe held February 17, from 9:30 to 1in the Cloister Club in Ida Noyes.Leonard Hoffman, chairman of thedance committee for the lawyers, an¬nounced that the University of Chi¬cago Bar Association had obtainedChuck Towey and his brunette song¬stress Margie Grey Exeter for thedance. Both have appeared at moredances on the campus than any othercombination, and Hoffman says thatthe quality of this dance will comparevery favorably with those of the past.The dance will not be formal, but nostags will be admitted. Bids are $1n couple. Economist GivesView on LaivsProfessor Jacob Viner will presentan economist’s attitude toward legis¬lation in a public lecture today spon¬sored by the law school. His lectureis entitled, “Economic Criteria inLegislation.” Professor Viner hasserved as an assistant of Secretary ofI Treasury Morgenthau and has atother times been associated with theI Federal government. Recently he re-i turned to his post here as professor! of Economics after spending lastquarter in Washington working oni war economics problems. Emphasizing the accidental natureof the original discoveries whichmade possible the scientific achieve¬ments of Ehrlich and Marconi, TheHuman Adventure explains the needfor the thousands of research proj¬ects conducted in universities every¬where, where students and scholarsspend years in search of facts andformulae. Last month, Pulse, which publishedthe issue that stunk yesterday, con¬ducted a football poll which recordedthe students as being in favor of themaintenance of football at Chicago.The poll also showed that studentswere in favor of subsidizing footballplayers scholastically admissible tothe University, and that they object¬ed to improvising a lighter schedulewith smaller schools.Through editorial idiosyncracies,Pulse did not even publish the pollin the next issue, but the Maroonand the metropolitan newspapers did.The Maroon, however, will publishthe results of the Maroon poll to¬morrow and in such a way that thereader will obtain all of the facts,with which he can formulate con¬clusions for himself, and in addition,an opinion of the poll by the Ma¬roon.Hutchins Talk “Paradoxically enough, the IotaChapter 'of Kappa Alpha Psi fra-teanity is again petitioning the Inter¬fraternity Council for admission toits ranks.” This excerpt from a letterrecently sent to John Culp, IF head,by the active chapter of the only Ne¬gro fraternity connected with theUniversity states its latest bid to bepermitted entrance to the fold ofrecognized Chicago Greek letterhouses.Tonight the Interfraternity Coun¬cil will meet with the aim of discus¬sing an amendment to the organiza¬tion’s constitution which would cir¬cumvent the housing clause. Theclause, which paraphrased reads inpart that a member fraternity musthave a permanent residence on cam¬pus, has in the past been the chiefimpediment to Kappa Alpha Psi.An agreement of property ownersin this district prevents Kappa Al¬pha Psi’s maintaining a chapterhouse here.Two years ago, when the samequestion was put up to the fraterni¬ties for consideration, a majority of10 houses as opposed to a minorityof 5 voted in favor of the addition.The housing qualification alone keptthem out of the Council.Several questions of the poll will becompared with the Pulse poll to seeif there has been a drastic change ofstudent opinion in regard to the banon football since Hutchins gave hieaddress in Mandel.It is probably true that those whovote today may be the ones who areinterested in student activities andthus most likely to disapprove of theaction of the Board of Trustees, butsince the same reasoning could be ap¬plied to the Pulse pdl, this factor canprobably be greatly dissipated bymaking comparisons of the Maroonpoll with the Pulse poll.Brewster Morgan, well-known Co¬lumbia Broadcasting System direc¬tor, supervises dramatic productionof the program, and music is underthe direction of Howard Barlow.YW Plans Old-Time CarnivalAt Ida NoyesSide-show barkers, melodramas.Punch and Judy shows and fortune¬tellers, will shatter the dignity of IdaNoyes on the night of February 16as the YWCA Carnival o’er-runs the second and third floors withits open house free-for-all, everybodyinvited. Guy Reed^ Banker^Gives First LectureFor Job CouncilMr. Guy E. Reed will give the firstof a series of lectures being spon¬sored by the Senior Job Council nextMonday afternoon at three o’clock inthe Oriental Institute. Mr. Reed isVice-president of the Harris Trustand Savings Bank, and also Execu¬tive Vice-president of the ChicagoAssociation of Commerce. The As¬sociation with the Rotary Club ofChicago, is organizing groups knownas “Golden Key Clubs” for the pur¬pose of helping young people to getvocational and exploratory experi¬ence.Business OutlookEloise Proctor is head of the Car¬nival planners, is assisted by Mar¬jorie Kuh, publicity; Eva DeVol, per¬sonnel and property; Janet Hoekje,tickets; Marjorie Woodrich, 'food;Phyllis Richards, melodrama; Vir¬ginia Brown, fortune-telling; SelmaRenstrom, decorations; Virginia Al¬len, games; and Evelyn Browne andMarilyn Buck as sideshow overseers.Last year Bob Jernberg, Psi U,won the grand prize for having thelargest total of points during the eve¬ning in games and contests, forwhich social success his name hasgone down in the annals of the Y. The present business outloo'K anda comparison of business opportuni¬ties in different vocational fields willbe Mr. Reed’s topic for discussion.He is interested in the problem of vo¬cational guidance and placement forcollege men, and is, at this writing,in New York in order to aid Amer¬ican Legion representatives in or¬ganizing a program for assisting un¬employed men.Mr. Reed has interviewed over 10,-000 boys in the 25 years that he hasbeen working on this problem. Hemaintains that “boys should be veryactive in getting jobs long beforethey graduate”, and he frequentlystarts them out early in their Junioryear.Senior Job CouncilThe Senior Job Council, which is(Continued on page two) At its meeting tonight the Councilwill be presented with one or moreamendments designed to eliminatethe housing clause. Following discus¬sion there, the one decided upon willbe referred back to the individualchapters for vote. If three-fourths ofthe fraternities pass the amendment.Kappa Alpha Psi will officially beconsidered a member of the Inter¬fraternity Council.Oliver W. Crawford, head of thechapter and possessor of a minor let¬ter won as a reserve football playerin ’38, pointed out in the letter thatthe fraternity is now entering its22nd year as a national society. Ithas, he says, houses on several otherBig Ten campuses and large schoolsthroughout the country.The full text of Kappa Alpha Psi’sletter to the Interfraternity Councilfollows.Mr. John F. Culp III,Dear Sir:Entering now upon the 22nd yearof its existence on The University ofChicago campus. Iota chapter ofKappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, para¬doxically enough, is again petitioningthe Inter-Fraternity Council for ad-(Continued on page two)Hold MarriageProblems LecturesIn spite of the University’s empha¬sis on theoretical rather than prac¬tical problems, no student need worryabout getting an education in thepractical problems of marriage. In itsmeeting yesterday, the all-campuscommittee to discuss marriage prob¬lems, decided to have three lecturesthis quarter on “Looking Forward toMarriage”, “Problems of Courtshipand Engagement” and “Psychologyof the Marriage Relationships”. Allstudents are invited to attend the lec¬tures and work with the committee.The dates for the lectures and thenames of the speakers will be an¬nounced in the near future.[ Webb Fiser was elected permanentchairman of the committee.attention SENIORSAll appointments for Cap andGown senior section pictures mustbe made by Friday with CarlosPhotographers at Ida Noyes Hall,3rd floor. The photographers willbe on campus only one week long¬er. The $2 fee is payable at thetime of sitting..A. lrliliiillMlilitiillr lifj i If I iiiiiiitti 1Page Two(i i .arooitFOUNDED INMEMBER associatedPRESS 1901COLLEGIATETb<> r »iJy Maroon is tlie official studentnewsyapei of the University of Chicago,published mornings except Saturday, Sun¬day and Monday luring the Autumn, |Winter and Spring quaiters by The DailyMaroon Company, 5831 University avenue.Telephones: Hyde Park M21 and 9222.A'ter 6:30 phone in stories to ourprinters. The Chief Printing Company,148 West 62nd street. Telephone Went¬worth 6123.The University of Chicago aasames noresponsibility for any statements appear¬ing in The Daily Maroon or for any con¬tract entered into by The Daily Maroon.■■eecscNTCo eon national AOVERTiaiNa ovNational Advertising Service, Inc.College Publishers RepreMutative420 Madison Ave. NewYork. N. Y.CMICASO ■ BOSTOS ■ Lot AROtLtt - SAN FNANCISCOThe Daily Maroon expressly reserverthe rights of publication of any materialappearing in this paper. Subscriptionrates: $3 a year; $4 by mail. Singlecopies: three cents.Entered as second class matter March18, 1908, at the post office at ChicagoIllinois, under the act of March 8, 1879Board of ControlRUTH BRODYHARRY CORNEl.IUSWILLIAM H. GRODYDAVID MARTIN. ChairmanALICP: MEYERBusinessHARRY F. TOPPING, Business Mgr.ROLAND I. RICHMAN, Advertising Mgr.EDITORIAL ASSOCIATESDemarest Polacheck, William Hankla,Pearl C. Rubins, Hart Wuntburg, MarianCastleman. John Stevens, Ernest LeiserNight Editor: Dan WinogradKappa Alpha—(Continued from page one)The question arises, whyshould anyone mind Kappa Al¬pha Psi’s admission to the Coun¬cil? A number of “practical”reasons are frequently advanc¬ed by those who object to thismove, but they all boil down tothe fact that some people justdon’t want to associate withNegroes.Now it would be easy to pointout that if these particularpeople would take the trouble toknow the members of KappaAlpha Psi as individuals ratherthan simply as members of agroup, they would soon discoverthat these Negroes are just asintelligent and as cultivated asthey are—in short, that they’rea damn fine bunch of fellows!But all this is irrelevant. Forthere is absolutely no possibilitythat the admission of KappaAlpha Psi to the InterfraternityCouncil would force anybody to iassociate with Negroes who didnot care to do so. True, therewould be Negro representativeson the Interfraternity Council.But how would that differ fromattending the same classes withthem? True, Negroes would at¬tend the Interfraternity Ball.But they already attend the IWashington Prom, for example,!where they have always be¬haved with the utmost decorum.The fear on the part of somefraternity men that Negroeswould care to cut in on a girlwhom they did not know andwho might not wish to dance iwith them w’hen they have their 'own friends to dance with is Isimply beyond understanding tothe members of Kappa Alpha!Psi. IBut over and above the fact |that the fraternities have noth-'- ing to lose by admitting the jNegro fraternity to the Council, Ithey have something very defi- jnite, though perhaps of minor ]importance, to gain. There is,an anti-fraternity group among ithe independent students, the jfaculty, and the administration!that is too large and too influen- jtial to be disregarded. And the |admission of Kappa Alpha Psi tothe I-F Council w^ould removeone of their main talking points.In short, the case for admit- jting Kappa Alpha Psi to the In¬terfraternity Council rests onthese grounds: (1) It means agreat deal to the members ofthat fraternity as a step towardstheir goal of equal status notonly for themselves but fortheir whole race socially, eco¬nomically, and politically. (2)It not only will have no disad¬vantages for other fraternitymen, but will be of actual bene- THE DAILY MAROON. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 31, 1940fit to the fraternity system. (3)It is the only action that stu¬dents who believe in equal op¬portunity for all, regardless ofrace or religion, can take.—H.C.TravelingBazaarBy DICK HIMMEL. , . Adams, no RexstrewThe Stigma of SigmaThe Si^ma party was Friday nightand it was just like the Mortar Boardparty only there were different peoplethere. Ruth Steel was the most ex¬otic looking woman I have ever seenoff the screen. Jane Moran was themost cut-in woman I have ever seen... .Chi Psi pledge Bob Lawson cuttingin like mad on Dorthy Dieckmann,pink with black lace...Janet Geigerand Chuck Pfeiffer hostess and host¬ing.... Ruth Ahlquist with her friendRoy Stanton from Psi U again. I likeit fine.., .Troy Parker well and happyon this night, not only at the party,which ought to give her little friendssomething to talk or wonder about....Punky Johnson with Bob Bigelow...Kay Chittenden in white with no top(to a degree) and Doc Jampolis. EdRachlin inquiring from “Doc” whetherKay was dated for the next night.Answered “Doc,” “I ain’t got a datewith her, but that don’t mean nothing.She’s probably got one anyway”Jean Skeels hot stuff in red...BillReynolds leading the orchestra....Everyone leading his date downstairsto the soda fountain. All stags try¬ing to lead somebody else’s date to thesoda fountain.... The soda fountainleading a busy existence... .GrantAdams chatting with Charlotte Rex¬strew who smells a whole lot betterthan Pulse... .Polly Kivlan who can’tunderstand why she took me either,putting her turkey away for an aftermidnight snack.. .Like La Florian andRuml La Kivlan ean’t understandwhy she took me. I can understandwhy not one took Florian and Ruml.. .Bob Evans’ little brother having agood time... .Fraternal tonsils airedin the soda fountain. .Dillon’s Jim At¬kins starts a Beta song. During anawkward pause, uncomfortable stareswere directed my way. NostalgicallyI joined in the song. I was the onlyone who really knew the words...Anunidentified couple enjoying the coldmoonlight on the pier. I suppose theonly way to identify them is to lookfor Sigmas with colds.. .Achoo. .Ga-zundtheit... .Phi Psis and Psi Us pre¬dominating... .John Stevens celebrat¬ing the cracking of his avuncular vir¬ginity, “Aunt” Betty Ann Evans help¬ing him along... .Cap and Gown pho-togs taking illicit pictures at thefountain.... Sanderson waking mefrom a deep sleep by exploding aflash bulb in my face.. .Bill Reynoldsstill leading the orchestra. If theyhad played “Careless” once more Iwould have pitched in and helped...Chaperones Mr. and Missus Evans(mimi’s) fine chaperons.. .Papa Evansjoining the boys and La Kivlan insome locker room harmonizing. Hedidn’t get in on the locker room si-monizing.. .By this you can see itwas a fine party and the banana splitswere oh so wonderful.Pulse Stinks Dept.There would be two reasons whyPulse would want to put perfume intheir ink. One, to gild the lily (Rex¬strew), the other to cover up its nor¬mal odor. Obviously Rexstrew doesn’t. (Continued on page three) Today on theQuadrangles“Listening”; Edwin E. Aubrey, pro¬fessor of Christian Theology andEthics. Bond Chapel, 11:55.“Economic Criteria in Legislation”;Jacob Viner, professor of Economics,Law North, 3:30.“Local and Generalized DefenseReactions”; Dr. William Bloom, as¬sociate professor of Anatomy, Zool¬ogy 14, at 4:30Carillon Recital; Frederick L. Mar-riot, organist, 4:30.“The Caribbean Danger Zone; TheEstablishment and Release of TheProtectorates”, Fred J. Rippy, pro¬fessor of American History, Art In¬stitute, at 6:45; Admission.Alden-Tuthill Lecture; “In TheMinister’s Workshop, The Preacher’sResources in Literature”, ProfessorLuccock, Mandel Hall, 8.Child Development Club; “The. Community Approach to Child De-I velopment”, 'Henry J. Otto, consul-I tant in education for the W. K. Kel-Ilogg Foundation, Grad. Ed. CommonRoom, 8.Kappa Alpha—(Continued from page one)mission into its ranks. Feeling thatthe general sentiment of the majorityof the students is that this conditionshould no longer exist, and encour¬aged by. their genuine spirit of lib¬erality and further by our faith thatit is the sincere desire of every trueAmerican, that the “democratic wayof life” be made a reality, we, at thistime, request admission into the I-FCouncil.In order to clarify some of the ex-I pressed misconceptions about the1 status of Kappa Alpha Psi as a po-j tential member of the I-F Council,we wish to make the following state¬ments: That Kappa Alpha Psi as anational organization contributes tothe social and cultural developmentof America is evidenced by its pro¬gram of the Guide Right Movementwhich has served as a model for vo¬cational guidance programs for otherorganizations, both civic and frater¬nal. Moreover our Scholarship-LoanFund and Research Foundation havebeen of inestimable value to scholar¬ship and to the advancement of racialamity. An examination of our finan¬cial record would show that we havehouses on several “Big Ten” cam¬puses, to say nothing of houses o.icampuses of other leading institii-tions of higher learning throughoutthe country.It is obvious that our applicationfor membership in the Council wouldnecessitate our ready conformity tothe laws of the Council. Furthermore,our application affords an opportu¬nity for the Council to exemplify theliberal attitudes in social relationsprofessed by our University. KappaAlpha Psi has no fear of having tobear the stigma of a “weak member”of the I-F Council. In conclusion, wefeel that our application for member¬ship into the I-F Council, if consid¬ered in the light of its real meritsand in the true temper of The Uni¬versity of Chicago must be accepted.Respectfully yours,Oliver W. Crawford, PolemarchFaburn E. DeFrantz Jr.,Keeper of Records.Job Council—(Continued from page one)sponsoring this lecture series, is anorganization of Senior men workingindependently of the Board of Voca¬tional Guidance for the placement ofSenior men. Women may attend thelectures, but the Council emphasizesthat it is primarily concerned withthe needs of the male graduates. Mr.George Hayes, secretary of the As¬sociation of Commerce, has been help¬ing the Council in procufing theirspeakers. Political UnionParties ConferTo Form PlanksMembers of Political Union meettomorrow on the third floor of Cobbat 3:30. Each of the political partieswill then form caucuse’s and adjournto separate rooms. The purpose ofthe caucus is to formulate party plat¬forms in order that the objectives ofthe parties will be be better definedfor voters in the coming campus elec¬tion.The election will be held to deter¬mine party quotas. At present theLiberals are in the majority, followedby the Conservatives, who have onethird fewer members than the Liber¬als. The radicals are in the minority.It is possible, with the formulation ofparty platforms, and the consistentlychanging trend of current politicalevents, that the present party quotasmay be drastically changed in thecoming election, the date of whichhas not yet been announced. .Listeners TellRound Table WhatTo Talk About“If you were on the Round Tablenext Sunday, what one importantquestion would you have the speaker.sanswer on the topic to be discussed?”Every week this question lands inthe mail box of an unselected groupof radio listeners who have subscrib¬ed to the University of ChicagoRound Table broadcast transcripts.With nearly a one hundred per centreturn on this listener survey, theradio director frames a list of ques¬tions which the speakers consider inplanning the Round Table broadca.st.The carefully written, intelligent,and helpful letters which listeners re¬turn to the radio office at the Uni¬versity testify to their interest inthe program.Read theMaroonpi|||M||||||iM|||||»M|||||»M|||||iM||||PM|||||lM|||||lM|||||M|^^^ Try Our Special Steak Dinner — 55c ^I MIRA-MAR CAFE j^ 6212 Woodlawn Avenue ^— Breokidsts, 15c up MISS HAZEL HARRELL, MGR. ^^ Luncheons, 25c up Telephone: =^ Dinners, 40c up Plaza 1100iiiii.iiiiiii.iiiiiii.iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii.iiiiiiiiiiiiiii.iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii.iiiiiilannounces theassociation ofJOHNNY BEXPhi DcluTheuCampus Representativeat theUniversity of ChicagoSUITS • OVERCOATS • TOPCOATSFULL DRESS • TUXEDOalso hats, shoes, shirts, tics, etc.•19 East jackson Boulevard, Chicago ISENIORSIt's Your Last ChanceFor CAP and GOWN PicturesCarlos Leaves in ONE WeekFriday, FEBRUARY 2nd, is last day to makeSENIOR PICTURE APPOINTMENTS.Make appointments atCARLOS PHOTOSIDA NOYES HALL — THIRD FLOOR$2.00 Payable at Time of SittingTHE DAILY MAROON, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 31, 1940 Page ThreeItHappenedThenBy HART WURZBURGFreedom of SpeechIn the course of its history, theUniversity has been attacked for amultitude of reasons. Probably thefirst attack of note upon the Univer¬sity was partially made by and re¬ported in the press of the country forthe alleged denial of free speech at“Chicago University”. Professor E.\V. Bemis was dismissed from the fac-culty in 1895, and as reported in oneof the eastern papers of the time—“It is openly alleged that ProfessorBemis’ discharge is due to the factthat he has taken a strong standagainst monopolists, and that his ac¬tion is resented by the principal man¬ager of the Standard Oil Trust whois also the chief promoter of the Uni¬versity of Chicago. The question atC hicago is whether the university isat liberty to teach the truth freelyupon vital subjects, or is under limi¬tations imposed by its principal ben¬efactor.”The University’s side was reported— “The real ground for ProfessorBemis’ removal was that the univer¬sity extension work, in which he wasengaged fell off so as to be unprofita¬ble, and it is alleged, that this wasdue to Professor Bemis’ incom¬petency as a lecturer.”The last word in the matter was—as could be expected—had by a Chica¬go Daily whose very judicious wordson the subject are hereby quoted.This statement was made after sev¬eral men on the faculty made publicdifferent personal opinions upon theposition .of the United States in itsVenezuelan contention (1895).“It is gratifying to note that achange in the policy of the ChicagoUniversity has been made since Pro¬fessor E. W. Bemis was summarilyh«>unced for expressing personal eco¬nomic opinions outside the classroom>«hich were not oleaginous enough tosuit the Standard Oil Company.”* FYC Opens ScholarshipDrive to Whole CampusProvide Carfare, Money,Books, Clothing for Han¬nah C.The Four-Year College has beencarrying on a Scholarship Drive forthe past week and a half. The drivewill be opened to the entire campustomorrow and Friday. Tags will besold at a ten cent minimum.The drive is sponsored by the Girl’sClub Service Committee in connectionwith The Children’s ScholarshipLeague. The money will provide car¬fare, schoolbooks, lunch money, cloth¬ing and other necessities for HannahC., a worthy high school student.Hannah goes to a public high schooland without financial aid she couldnot continue her secondary education.Hannah C.Although a friendly girl, Hannahhas a somewhat shy, timid manner.This is partly due to the fact that shewas seriously ill with double pneu¬monia and was very frail as a child.She is still underweight and has beenreferred to a clinic for medical care.No doubt the scholarship, whichwill enable her to have more adequatefood, will help build up her physicalcondition. A high school educationwith the social contacts it will bring,it is believed, will help her to developmore self-assurance and poise.A Superior StudentHannah is the third oldest in afamily of nine children. She is inneed of help because of a meagerfamily income, consisting of the smallearnings of her father, a laborer ona WPA project, and those of the old¬est daughter. The total income forthe family is only $80 a month, aninadequate amount to meet even theirminimum living expenses.Starr QuipsMany men on the faculty of theUniversity have gained wide presscomment, but few men have been ac¬credited with more “Press Catching”statements then anthropology Pro¬fessor Frederick Starr. The news¬papers throughout the nation fre¬quently reported witticisms aroundthe first decade of the 20th century. I Hannah is a superior student andI her grades show that she is worthyof scholarship aid. She is taking thefour-year commercial course at Mc¬Kinley High School. Her enthusiasmand interest in school indicate thatshe will make good use of this op¬portunity, that her future would cer¬tainly be nearly hopeless without it.Daiches, LightfootSpeak for Society Air Round TableTalks Over WWAEEvery WednesdayStudent forum directors A1 Pitcherand Jacob Ochstein announced yester¬day that Forum members will pre¬sent Round Table discussions overWWAE every Wednesday eveningfrom 10 to 10:30 beginning February13. Negotiations also have been madefor scheduling the same time overWHIP.In order to prepare Forum mem¬bers for radio work, a discussion ofthe proper discussion over a radioRound Table, will be the theme ofthe regular meeting of the StudentForum today in Lexington 5 at 4.Joe Molkup, Margaret Zimmer, Jos¬hua Jacobs and two others as yet un¬named, will lead the group. Afterthey finish, the model Round Tablewill be open for audience discussion.Bazaar—( Continued from page two)need any gilding. When I caught awhiff of Pulse yesterday fnorning itreminded me of someone I knew com¬fortably. When I read it I knew whoit was.Subsidize Beauties?With football gone, there seems tobe nothing left to subsidize butbeauty. When Northwestern spreadpulchritude all over the papers lastweek, I began to think, we’ve gotgoodlooking women too. Then mymother, very practical woman, she re¬minded me there weren’t enough ofthem. If we can import a freshmanclass next year with double! theamounts of Morans, Prices, Chitten-dens etc. what fun we would have. Ithink I’ll write a letter to the trustees.Maybe we could have a bathing beautycontest in Stagg field. A guy has todo something with his Saturday after¬noons. .BullQuotations here attributed to Pro¬fessor Starr are taken from thepress. His conclusion regarding wom¬en after studies of American Life:“Civilized woman is a barbarian anda savage.” He prophesied that Theo-flore Roosevelt would never returnalive from Africa. Starr was an ex¬ponent of the fine art of “kiss throw¬ing”, and said, “Young men of thiscountry do not know how to throw akiss gracefully. It lakes a youngMexican to perform the act graceful¬ly." j David Daiches tonight and Claudej Lightfoot tomorrow afternoon consti-I tute two offerings of the Science and: Society Group for the present week.! Daiches will lead a discussion on 20thcentury European Literature which'will center about the theme “William! Butler Yeats— as he fits his times”,j The meeting w'ill be held in IdaI Noyes and there will be an admission1 charge of ten cents. Mr. Lightfoot,who is from the Chicago workersSchool, will speak on “The problemsof colonial people and national mi¬norities” in Cobb 316 at 3:30 tomor- Yesterday afternoon a busy BetsyKuh, a poised Kay Chittenden, andan energetic Sarah Jane Peters madea mid-year class look rather dull...Oh, well maybe they will follow in onegood intellectual tradition. .The Set¬tlement show the night of Inter-Clubought to be good..the ballet will bearound and the Kuhs and friends willbe in a melodramer...wait till youget a load of Ruth Ahlquist as Maizie.. .You think I’m a director for noth¬ing 'Patronize OurAdvertisers For YourCOLLEGENIGHTENJOYMENTEVERY FRIDAYProfessional Floor ShowsGay College ShowDancing with Ted WeemsGet Half Rate Student Tickets atPress Building or Maroon OfficeEDGEWATERBEACH HOTEL5300 Block Sheridan RoadRead the Daily MaroonOffer Sergei PrizeOf $500 to AuthorOf Best Radio PlavTo the author of the best radioplay the directors of the Charles H.Sergei playwriting contest willaward their annual prize of $500.Manuscripts must be submitted be¬fore June 1, 1940.The play should take betweentwenty and twenty-five minutes ofbroadcast time, and must be original,and must not have been broadcast or ,,published previously. The contest is !open to any resident of the United 'States, and contestants may reserveall rights of publication.To Encourage WritingThe purpose of the contest, estab¬lished by Annie Meyers Sergei inmemory of Charles H. Sergei, is toencourage various forms of dramaticwriting, and this year radio play¬writing. Judges have not been an¬nounced, but in the past have in¬cluded John Barrymore, Loyd Lewis,Frank O’Hara, Cecil Smith, andThornton Wilder. Manuscripts shouldbe addressed to the Charles H. SergeiPlay Contest, The University of Chi¬cago, Chicago, Illinois. Further de¬tails may be obtained from the Eng¬lish Office in Ingleside 304. ALWAYS A LEADER!The Daily MaroonStudent Newspaper of The University of ChicagoFurnishes, to the utmost of its powers, an accuratepicture of Student Life at the University and presentsthe problems which every student must face.Read The Daily Maroonand then Think^ * <iPage Four THE DAILY MAROON, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 31, 1940THE DAILY MAROON SPORTSNon-Intellectual BetasDrub Phi Psis 16-7Howie Isaacson ScoresSix Points for Win¬ners.The I-M dope bucket went for an¬other sprawl last night when rejuv¬enated Beta Theta Pi drubbed thePhi Psi’s 16-7. Howie Isaacson ledthe non-intellectuals with six points.Beatty tallied five for the vanquishedWoodlawn greenshirts.The results of last night’s gamesare as follows:Beta 16; Phi Psi 7Phi Sigma Delta 27; Sigma Chi 13Psi U 27; Pi Lambda Phi 25Phi Gamma Delta 30; DU 11Phi Delta Theta 44; Chi Psi 6Alpha Delta Phi 44; ZBT 7Psi U “B” 45; ZBT “B” 1Phi Delt “B” 18; Psi U “C” 0Phi Sig “B” 19; Phi Psi “B” 10Alpha Delt “B” 35; Deke “B” 10Perhaps the most significant as¬pect of the defeat of Phi Kappa Psi isthe effect that the basketball leaguemay have on the total point stand¬ings of the various organizations.Most exciting of the ten games onlast night’s I-M calendar was thedouble overtime battle between PiLam and Psi U. Reynolds became thejoy boys’ hero with a dime novel bas¬ket in the last 15 seconds of the sec¬ond overtime period to win the game.Vanderhoof was instrumental in ef¬fecting a late rally which knotted thecount at the end of the regular gameand necessitated the overtimes. Phi Gamma Delta, one of the threeteams which Wally Hebert looks tocome through in the I-M cage cir¬cuit, (the other two are CTS andADPhi) handed Delta Upsilon a 30-11 shellacking. Norling, who reallybelongs over in the Fieldhouse withNorg’s battered Maroons scored fivetimes from the field for ten points tolead the Phi Gam onslaught.Phi Delta Theta served notice thatthey are at least a dark horse in thebasketball league with a 44-6 winover Chi Psi. The scoring was quiteevenly divided among Anderson,Brown, Wilcox, and Williams.In the “B” leagues, Psi U and Al¬pha Delt are seemingly the two mostlikely contenders for the top honors.Psi U nearly whitewashed ZBT “B”,and ADPhi ran over the Deke sec¬onds.Phi Psi “B” fared no better thantheir big brothers, as they took it onthe chin 19-10 from the Phi Sigs.Cagers BattleAlumni TonightAt FieldhouseChicagoStampf fStanley fLounsbury eRichardson gJorgenson g AlumniMullins fGillerlain fPeterson cRossin gPalmer gReynolds ClubTourney BeginsSix matches have already beenplayed in the Reynolds Club billiardtourney. Winners to date Sniegow-sky, Colmer, Liebler, Tropp, Preskill,Polacheck, and Levin, all of whomwill proceed toward the finals in thehope of bagging one of the pipes orpouches being offered as prizes.First round losers continue in thehope of coming out with either thepipe or cigarettes being offered asconsolation prizes. Registration forthis match totals 64 participants, oneof the largest fields in many years. The Maroon cage squad will playthe second of their two informal prac¬tice tilts against the Alumni tonightin the Fieldhouse at 8. The first ofthe series, which was played lastThursday evening, resulted in a 32-15 win for the varsity team.The game promises to be closertonight, since the veterans hope toadd the Murphy twins. Bob Meyer,and Red Rossin to their roster. If thisadded strength shows up, the presentfive will have quite a struggle ontheir hands.The Alumni squad is headed by BillGillerlain, former Maroon footballplayer, and the series of two gamesform a part of Coach Norgen’s prac¬tice schedule for the Loyola game thisSaturday night.Timings Balance^ Co-ordinationNeeded for Gymnastic WorkIt is difficult to understand whysuch a spectacular sport as g;ymnas-tics is so ignored by the student body.It is true that very few people be¬sides gymnasts know much about thesport, but, unlike fencing, a knowl¬edge of gymnastics is not essentialto the appreciation of it.To watch these well-muscled ath¬letes swing smoothly through theirexercises on the various pieces of ap¬paratus is a revelation in rhythm andharmony. These two words are in¬deed the keynote of the sport.Born GymnnastsWhile the average male can bemade into a fair football player withtwo or three months of training, veryfew can be made into a fair gym¬nast with any amount of training.The reason for this is that a gymnastneeds acute senses of timing, balance,and co-ordination. Contrary to pop¬ular belief, more than averagestrength is not needed, but withoutthese three essentials, even Herculescould not make a gymnast.It is only when one of these threequalities is not functioning properlythat someone is hurt. For example,while doing an exercise on the paral¬lel bars, Glenn Pierre’s timing wasoff just a fraction of a second. As aresult, he fell and fractured a bonein his wrist.Five EventsThere are five different events ina meet — the parallel bars, horizon¬tal bar, flying rings, side horse, andtumbling. In all of these, the per¬former does an exercise, usually con¬sisting of 10 or 11 different move¬ments. Each of these movementsmu.«t be blended together to form aharmoiiious v'hole in order to havean effective exercise. Continuity isstressed very greatly 4n the judgingof these exercises.The suggestion of gymnastics topeople brings back unpleasant mem¬ories of crude stunts which their highschool gym instructor made them do.Nothing could be fi rther apart than these two. Gymnastics is a thrillingsport. At the recent meet with Min¬nesota the gyrations of the athletesevoked several gasps from the girlsin the audience. A man will seem¬ingly be swinging off the rings ontothe hard floor when, with a quickmovement, he will proceed to snapback and perform a very intricateand difficult stunt.Since the C-book admits one tothese meets, it seems strange that theaudiences at Bartlett gym are sosparse.The next meet is with Iowa at IowaCity Saturday, February 10. Inas¬much as Captain Pierre will still beunable to compete due to his injuredwrist, Chicago will have a hard timeof it. The return of Jim Degan tothe fold gives them another capablering man should he be able to get incondition soon enough. A1 Robertsonis always good for a high place intumbling. Courtney and Earl Shan-kens work all-around and take partin all events, as does Pierre.Ross Favored toWin in Ping-PongIn an effort to determine mythicalping pong champion of the Univer¬sity, the Reynolds Club has begun an¬other tournament. Ernest Wilkins,winner of the last tournament, failedto sign up in time which makesBarney Ross, runner up of the lasttournament, the favorite togetherwith Dick Finn, Earl Jurma, andMorris Tish.Of the 20 matches scheduled onlytwo have been played. In thosematches Wisely beat Sorenson andGutt won over Ed Fohrman. Fresh¬man favorites slated to put up a goodfight for the mythical championshipare Lanny Jons and Myles Anderson.Winners of both the final cham¬pionship matches and final consola¬tion matches will receive bookends,ash trays, ping pong paddles, andkey chains. Big Ten Aid to Athletes1937-1938University— Scholarships. Loans. < Campus jobs.' * ToUl.Chicago $23,347.50 $8a31.50 $14,914.40 $41,393.40Northwestern 4,630.00 17,660.00 8,133.40 30,423.40Iowa 7,172.00 3,396.00 12,408.81 22,976.81Indiana 457.00 775.00 16,626.61 17,858.61Michigan 2,283.00 4,659.00 7,015.25 13,957.25Purdue 870.00 1,235.00 9,438.79 11,543.79Wisconsin 4,419.00 1,277.25 5,638.25 11,334.50Illinois 2,500.00 1,755.00 6,485.09 10,740.09Minnesota 358.00 6,591.01 6,949.01Ohio State 269.00 5,412.05 5,681.051938-1939Chicago 17,891.60 2,937.99 13,720.91 34,550.50Northwestern 5,525.00 15,065.00 10,683.40 31,273.40Iowa 5,286.06 2,950.00 16,665.41 24,901.47Michigan 2,633.00 5,620.00 15,940.10 24,193.10Illinois 3,515.00 3,360.52 10,786.89 17,662.41Wisconsin 8,914.68 701.00 7,992.08 17,607.76Indiana 455.00 620.00 16,114.65 17,189.65Purdue 2,220.00 1,805.00 9,441.00 13,466.00Ohio State 45.00 7,699.33 7,744.33Minnesota 436.75 5,471.92 5,908.67^Campus jobs include NYA assignments and concessions jobs whenlisted as under the department. Water Polo Meet‘ Chicago, last year's Big Ten waterpolo champs, meets the I.A.C. waterpolo team, the A.A.U. champs, at theIllinois Atheltic Club tonight. Al-though Chicago will probably proveeasy meat for the A.A.U. champs, theteam will be afforded some good prac¬tice with a top-notch team.ClassifiedFOR RENT — Room 42.-S.W. corner FoetrrHall. Sec MUo Etnire at UaireraityHonsinr Barean or Phone Franklin 7834Russel Leads InBowling LeagueAfter two weeks of competition inthe newly formed bowling league theteams of the Hustlers and the TimberTopplers are tied for first place, whilethe Alley Rats follow close behind.Carol Russel who stars for the Hust¬lers also leads the entire league inaverage high score.Other leaders have been Iris Miller,Dick Strahl and Wayne Arnold, whilemany of the usually top players havegone hay wire under the strain ofcompetition. The entire bowling clubhas been enthusiastically turning outto watch the games on Mondays.Bridge ClassAnyone interested in joining theFriday evening class in beginnersbridge may still do so this week.The series of five lessons whichbegan last week when thirty-fivepeople turned out are given byHarry Harmon at Ida Noyes HallInstruction lasts from 7:15 until7:45 after which there is a playperiod with individual instructionwhich intermediate players mayalso join. Register at Ida NoyesHall. Big Ten—(Continued from page one)is given to athletes. The number ofathletes who have jobs as comparedwith the number of non-athletes whohave jobs is in direct ratio.Subsidization?Because other Big Ten schools giveless aid to athletes than does Chicago,is not an indication of less subsidiza¬tion. Financial aid can be given inseveral forms that are not recordedwith the Conference. Examples ofsuch aid are employment in fratern¬ity houses, off-campus employment,and direct financial assistance byalumni.The fignires released by the Con¬ference would be more pertinent to adiscussion of subsidization if they in¬cluded a comparison of aid to ath¬letes with aid to non-athletes.As they are drawn up at present,the figures are important only in thatthey emphasize the exceptionallylarge amount of financial assistancewhich all Chicago students receiveas compared with students of otherBig Ten schools.Let's Meet AtBLUE CIRCLE GRILLFOUNTAIN SERVICE1320 East 57 St.Home Cooking • Tasty Food Winter ServiceCheck List□ Gas□ Oil□ ANTI-FREEZESOLUTION□ Chassis Lubrication□ Transmission□ Differentiai□ Battery□ TiresSEE US TODAY FORCOMPLETE SERVICEWALDROM’SSTANDARDSERVICEDorchester 10046Gist & ELLIS☆☆☆ ☆☆☆Reynolds ClubDance★THE ESQUIRESINTER-CLUB SINGSaturday Night February 3☆☆☆ ☆☆☆reVlr/e^1^^e^1r<'e^1^/e^hye^1r4^^iy8drlrgd^y8drirsdr/Sdlysdl^r^edri>tllri^t?iiYl^^^^^^^1 / If V / <|K J u