Vol. 40, No. 82 (!Pbe Batlp iilanionZ-149 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO, TUESDAY, MARCH 26, 1940 Four pages in this issue Price 3 Cents\ Workshop TrysStudent WrittenDrama NextTryouts Today for Wilker-son ’.1 Small Totcn Play,'•‘‘Front Room,**The DA VV’^orkshop tackles its firststudent written play April 16, 17, andIS. when it produces William Wilker-son’s “Front Room” a tragedy ofsmall town people and their politicalpugilistics. Try-outs for this play willbe held today at .'1:30 in the ReynoldsClub Theatre.Casting and directing the play isD.A veteran Dick Himmel. Currently,Himmel is looking for eight goodpeople unknown or otherwise to emotefor l).\’s new adventure in theatricalexperimentation. The play calls forabout live straight parts, a drunkenfather, a hard working mother, andan ailolescent high school boy. DA is.searching eagerly for this adolescentyouth as he plays an important roleill the play DA is giving the come onto all small men who can adole.sce ondemand. Four Year College is no ob¬stacle.Wilkerson has written a play aboutthe life he knows. He came here twoand a half years ago from Charleston,West Virginia, and with this play heseems to have brought his whole townwith him.The play which was first writtenin Frank O’Hara’s Dramatic Writingcourse, is centered about the life of afamily and the eve of election <lay.The family is torn by current i*oliticalviews but mostly upset by petty po¬litical maneuverings by cheap smalltiiwn mugwumps.The author worked for severalyears prior to coming to college forDuPont in their poi.son gas depart¬ment. Paradoxically enough he ma¬jored in Political Science when hecame here. This is the first play hehas ever had produced. His first play,also dealing with election day, is aone act and yet to be presented ontile stage.Conduct SpecialPan-AmericanDay Service.\ city-wide peace celebration willbe held in Rockefeller Chapel at 4 o’¬clock Sunday, April 14, declared “Pan-.‘\merican Day” by special proclama¬tion of President Roosevelt to com¬memorate the fiftieth anniversary ofthe founding of the Pan-AmericanUnion, which was established in 1890.Distinguished speakers will includeColonel Frank Knox, publisher of theChicago Daily News and former re¬publican candidate for vice-president;T. V. Smith, congressman-at-largefrom Illinois; Dean Charles Gilkey, asa Protestant representative; RabbiSchulman of North Shore TempleIsrael, representing the Jewish faith;and a prominent Catholic representa¬tive, not as yet named.Invitations SentInvitations have been sent to civicorganizations of the city, includinglodges, churches, synagogues, andbusiness and educational groups in aneffort to make the meeting complete¬ly city-wide in character. The publicis invited to attend without charge.Music will be furnished by one ormore well-known musical organiza¬tions.The celebration is under the jointsponsorship of the Pan-AmericanCouncil of Chicago and The Pan-A¬merican Good Neighbor Forum ofCentral YMCA College, who state:“Faith in Peace”“The occasion has special signif¬icance for the peoples of the WesternHemisphere at this time. While the(Continued on page two)Johnson Reveals ‘All’ on“Greek Private Life”A new course in “Greek PrivateLife” will be presented by the Uni¬versity department of art during thespring quarter, by Professor FranklinH. Johnson. The course will deal withthe Greeks’ attitude toward life, withemphasis on their views about artand politics.\ Maritain Delivers TwoSpeeches On CampusHutchins DefendsRussell in NeivYork SquabbleAmong the educators who de¬fended Bertrand Rns.'^ell’s right toteach at the City College of NewYork, when the New York clergyraise<l its collective voice in pro¬test against the “immoral” Britishlord’s appointment to the Collegefaculty, was Robert MaynardHutchins.Together with administrativeheads and leading professors ofother universities in the country,Mr. Hutchins objected to the re-Tisal to allow an original andadmittedly brilliant thinker toteach merely because his ideaswere contrary to those of orthodoxreligious and social institutions.However, almost all churchmenin New York registered their pro¬test, as did the city council. Butthe heads of the CCNY turned a:leaf ear to the protests, and LordRu.ssell’s appointment wentthrough.Burpcss, Mc('arii("ontiiiiie TalksOn IMarriaf^eTwo more lectures on marriage willbe held April 2 and 9 at inGraduate E<lucation 126. Dr. E. W.Burgess and Ruth O. McCarn willpreside on the successive occasions,both lectures will be open to all Uni¬versity students.Success or FailureThe lecture by Dr. Burgess willdeal with the major factors in mar¬riage success and failure, taken froma study of several hundred couplesand set forth in a book on marriagestudies by Dr. Burgess and profes.sorCottrell. Some of his findings are: Noted Neo-Thomist toPay Second Visit to Quad¬rangles.Jacques Maritain, w’hom MortimerJ. .A.dler, his disciple on the Univer¬sity Quadrangles, terms a “Christianrevolutionary,” will deliver the firstof his two lectures to student and fac¬ulty audiences tomorrow at 8 in SocialScience 122.M. Maritain, who is generally con¬sidered the leading exponent of Neo-Thomist philosophy of his day, willgive his first lecture on “The Achieve¬ment of Freedom.” His second lecturewill follow in a week, when “HumanEquality” will be «tudied.Holds SeminarsDuring his two weeks stay on theQuadrangles, M. Maritain will alsohold two “lecture-conferences”, oneon “The Diversity of Creeds” and asecond on “Europe After the War.’’Both of the seminar sessions will beon the Thursday following the lec¬tures in Social Science 302 at 4.Marita in’s most recent visit to theQuadrangles was last year, when hedelivered three lectures in French to ILTniversity audiences. His lectures I♦^his year will be given in English. !Last year Maritain roomed in the'men’s dormitories but this year he |plans to stay with friends during his jvisit to the Chicago campus. He has 'not been in France since the war |started, being engaged in presenting ia series of lectures in Canada and theUnited States.Moral, Economic ReformAs a revolutionary who would re¬form the moral order as well as the jeconomic order, Maritain has written |several books, among them “Freedom ■and the Modern World,” “Religionand Culture,” “Art and Scholasti-Jcism,” and “A Christian Looks at the(Continued on page three)G. E. Smith HeadsClassical Societythe best marriages come after a longengagement of one to two years;those model little dears who attendSunday school will in the end catchand hold the best mates; marriagesare happiest when the wife is older,preferably three years.This study was of a relatively se¬lect group of college students in thisarea, and so should apply with a closecorrelation to the problems of collegestudents attending this lecture.On April, Ruth McCain will speakon the Psychology of Marriage Re¬lationships, and will touch specificallyon the problems of: idealization whichrequires adjustment to reality aftermarriage; financial security; mar¬riage while in school; personality andintegration; birth control; when tohave children; and the ever presentquestion of divorce. Dr. Gertrude E. Smith, chairman' of the department of Greek has beenI elected president of the Classical As-I sociation of the Middle West andSouth, the second woman to be sohonored.f)r. Smith was elected Saturday atthe conclusion of the annual meetingof the association in Louisville, Ky.The association embraces classics.scholars of 33 states and Canada.Chairman of the department since1933, Dr. Smith and her predecessor.Dr. Robert J. Bonner, professoremeritus of Greek at the Universityof Chicago, are widely known in thiscountry and in Europe as authoritieson Greek jurisprudence. They arenow working on the third volume of amonumental presentation of “Admin¬istration of Justice from Homer toAristotle.”Harry Gitleoiise Attacks ASUOn Brooklyn College CampusHarry D. Gideonse, formerly an as¬sociate professor at the University,now president of Brooklyn College, isin conflict with some of his studentsover extra-curricular activities. Hewarned his students that unrepresen¬tative “splinter groups” such as theASU are in control of certain organ¬izations, according to New York pap¬ers.In an address to students Gideonsesaid he wanted “truly representativeactivities on campus.” He cited the“Vanguard”, student newspaper, as aspecific instance of unrepresentativepolicy. The President denied censor¬ing the paper. He said the paper mustnot be an ASU house organ, but thathe wouldn’t object to such an organput out openly by the ASU.Representative of Whom?Another point of conflict W'ithGideonse arose when he refused to seea student delegation which came toprotest against the failure to re-hiretwo probationary instructors. Gid¬eonse said the group was not repre¬sentative of the official studeij^t coun¬cil. Spokesmen for both the 'yitudentpaper and the student counciUdeniedGideonse accusations. ( Professor Gideonse was never oneto quietly conduct classes. While atthe University he was one of theleaders of the group that opposedmany of Hutchins’ innovations. 'Therewere rumors that this opposition keptGideonse from receiving promotionshe could reasonably expect.Call For AidThe Daily Maroon has received aletter from the Brooklyn Vanguardstating that Gideonse has oftenpraised the Maroon, and that the Van¬guard would like to exchange copieswith the Maroon. To supply the be¬leaguered “Vanguard” with the re¬quested samples of Gideonsanctionalnews policy the Daily Maroon hasadded the Brooklyn College publica¬tion to its mailing list.BLACKFRIARSThere will be an importantBlackfriars meeting for the Boardof Superiors, the Junior Managers,the Sophomore Managers, and allmembers of the cast and choi’ustomorrow at-7:30 in the ReynoldsClub Theatre... ri' I- -'f -thi rti A. Hutchins Fandango Gives...FREE To Him, $1 To You Cnstomers F un-Council FundsSeniors Use Proceeds ofGaming, Dancing forScholarships.The Fandango, annual high-pres¬sure campus festival sponsored by theSenior Class Council unfolds April 5in Ida Noyes. Proceeds go to theCouncil’s scholai’ship fund.Attractions supplied by various or¬ganizations, fraternities, and clubs,compose a carnival of booths, sideshows, games of chance, and a smat¬tering of innocuous gambling.Maroon TreatsHutchins toFree MealOnce again the Daily Maroon hasdecided to treat the President to din¬ner. For the fifth time the Maroonpresents its Annual Student LeadersBanquet in the President’s honor,April 18 in Hutchinson Commons.Later in the week invitations will besent to approximately 400 outstand¬ing students.I.ast year the President spoke on“The New Plan—in Practice and inTheory.” Another year he simplydiscus.sed “The University.” But thistime the President will make nospeech. The program instead will bean open question and discussion pe¬riod with Mr. Hutchins ready to an¬swer all—off the record of course.The Student Leaders Banquet tradi¬tion was initiated in 1934 by the DailyMaroon for the purpose of giving thestudents an opportunity to hear thePresident speak freely and exclusive¬ly to them, and to answer their ques¬tions—off the record.Only students are invited. Mr.Hutchins himself will be the onlyfaculty member present.In previous years the usual 30 min¬ute question period has proved short.This year with the whole program de¬voted to questioning, curious scholarsshould have an ample chance to findanswers to all that preplexes.Tickets will sell for one dollar.The dinner will begin at 6:30. Ticketsw’ill be available next week at the in¬formation desk. No ChanceChuck Pfeiffer, Chairman of theCouncil, in connection with the gam¬bling devices, said that they were notof the serious nature found in thehorse parlors and saloons of MikeBoyle and company.“Quite to the contrary,” added theChairman as he outlined the plan.“We will have slot machines, chuck-a-luck games, and “26” games. Butwhen you play them, you will buy apackage of gum for a quarter and re¬ceive with the gum five slugs. Strictlylegitimately.“Of course, there is always thechance that the little passes you makein the direction of Dame Fortune willbe rewarded. We stand ready to re¬munerate your losings, such as theymay be.”Bob Reynolds, late head of the So¬cial Committee, comes out with factthat he has secured Carl Schreiberand his band of musicians to supplythe music. Dancing will be held inthe Cloister club while the gym andwhatever additional space is requiredwill house the concessions.Lift Fund to $500The scholarship fund, according toPfeiffer, now has a total of $350 de¬rived from the Fandango of last year.With results corresponding to the ex-pectation^i of the Council, which sees$500 or more in the offing, the cover¬age of the fund may be extendednext year to include more than theone student now being assisted.Others working on the plans areRuss Parson and Jim Anderson incharge of booths, concessions, andother amusement activities, and JanetGieger and Thelma Iselman, cast asco-secretaries and treasurers.Sabotage! Subversive SewerSpecialists Undermine MaroonBy ERNEST LEISERLexington Hall is being under¬mined. Reuters, official British newsagency has accused the agents “ofthe other side.” The DNB and theGerman Foreign office issued simul¬taneous communiques accusing theBritish of wanton destruction of neu¬tral property. The Soviet news organPravda, has released a bulletin claim¬ing that the Finnish reactionaries aredigging in as a part of the DrangNach Osten.However, the Maroon, imperviousby this time to conflicting news bul¬letins, investigated and at 3 o’clockthis morning, three reporters brokeup one of the most astounding sabo¬tage rings in the history of Chicago.Maroon DirtOfficially the digging had been doneto repair a broken sewer, and in of¬ficial quarters it was denied that thedirt dug out ffom underneath Lex¬ington Hall was the result of thirty-odd years of Maroon publication. Noverification came from usually reli¬able, and confidential sources as tothe rumor that the man entering thetunnel dug underneath the Hall wasStudent Forum PlansSpring ActivitiesStudent Forum members will meetto receive speaking engagements andhear a speech by Joe Molkup, Forumpresident, on the program that theorganization will follow during thenew quarter. Molkup invites all Uni¬versity students to attend the meet¬ing, which will be held tomorrow inLexingfton 5 at 3:30.Bob Stierer will present a roundtable on, “Tariffs” before the PlebianForum (Hobo College), 34 S. Peoria,tomorrow at 8.\ Howard Mort, with a stick of dyna¬mite trying to erase competition withTower Topics by swift and efficaciousmeans.However the Maroon investigatedall clues, and discarded them all. Fi¬nally, after 24 hours of solid research,John Stevens, Maroon cub reporter,solved the mystery.When interviewed at press time,Stevens said: “I finally found outwhat it was all about. Johnny Bexwas still looking for the treasure re¬ported buried by the WashingtonProm committee. He reached Lexing¬ton Hall before his air supply gaveout. The rescue crew expects to reachhim tomorrow. But in the meantimeit sure stinks.”For his find, Stevens was promotedto obituary editor.Round Table Prints400,000 TranscriptsThe appearance of the Universityof Chicago Round Table broadcasttranscript of March 24, brought tomore than 400,000 the number ofcopies of the regular Sunday discus¬sions published.The Round Table, oldest education¬al broadcast on the airways, beganpublication of the transcript at thedemand of listeners in March, 1938.Since that time the demand hassteadily increased. Today more thanfour thousand subscribers receive thetranscript each week. In addition, re¬quests for single copies have mountedas high as 25,000 in response to asingle broadcast.The transcript of the broadcastcontains not only the verbatim reportof the spontaneous discussion, butnictographic illustrations as well.Page Two THE DAILY MAROON, TUESDAY, MARCH 26, 1940'2ll|c ^aromtFOUNDED IN 1901MEMBER ASSOCIATED COLLEGIATE PRESSThe Daily Maroon is the official student newspaper of the Uni-rersity of Chicago, published mornings except Saturday, Sunday andMonday during the Autumn, Winter and Spring quarters “y TheDaily Maroon Company, 5831 University avenue. Telephone: HydePark 9222.After 6:30 phone in stories to our printers. The Chief PrintingCompany. 148 West 62nd street. Telephone Wentworth 6123.The University of Chicago assumes no responsibility for anystatements appearing in The Daily Maroon or for any contractentered into by The Daily Maroon.The Daily Maroon expressly reserves the rights of publication ofany material appearing in this paper. Subscription rates: $3 ayear; $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. 1819.rcprebknted FOa national adventisino ovNational Advertising Service, Inc.College Publishers Representaiive420 Madison Ave. New York, N. Y.Chicago * Boston * Loi angilis • San EsanciscoBOARD OF CONTROLEditorialRTTTH RRODY WII..I.IAM H. GRODY^HA^Y CORNELIUS OAVID MARTIN. ChairmanALICE MEYERBusinessHARRY F. TOPPING, Business Mgr.ROLAND I. RICHMAN. Advertising Mgr.BUSINESS ASSOCIATESJohn Bex, Herb Gervin, William Lovell, and Julian LowensteinEDITORIAL ASSOCIATESDemarest Polacheck, William Hankla, Pearl C. Rubins, John Stevens,Hart 'Wurzburg, Marian Castleman, Ernest LeiserNight Editor: Demarest PolacheckAssistant: Margie O’BrienBody or SoulAlmost all the major problems of democracyand education are dragged into the open by thecurrent excitement over Bertrand Russell sappointment to teach mathematics and logic atthe College of the City of New York. That sucha burst of shallow, messy-minded fury could bearoused in this day and age provides us withone of the most dramatic criticisms of Ameri¬can democracy in this country’s history.The affair is dramatic because it involvescharacters representing the highest developedand most richly complex of their type availabletoday. By contemporary philosophers and scien¬tists, Russell is conceded to have the keenestmodern mind as far as problems of mathe¬matics and logic are concerned. Opposed tohim is the Council of the City of New York,representing the votes of the largest and mostsophisticated part of the United States, whichis the best and most liberal democracy in thepresent world. It is a sad indictment indeed ofour “advanced” civilization that this Councilshould presume to declare Russell unfit toteach precisely those subjects in which there isno greater living authority.The affair demonstrates the major problemsof democracy and education because it involvesrelationships between the school and the state;shows strikingly the difference between publicand private educational institutions; and be¬cause it brings up the question of whethercollege students are children still in need ofmoral training or whether they are adultswhose minds are to be educated. It involvesthe difference between practical exhortationswhich urge men to action, and theoretical studywhich investigates what actually is or whatfollows from certain fundamental assumptions.Moreover, it shows the shamefully shallowconceptions of religion and morality prevalenttoday; the ignorance and narrow-mindednesswhich could lead men to presume to pass judg¬ments on things they know nothing about.Over a week ago the City Council, by alarge majority vote, demanded that the Boardof Higher Education cancel Russell’s appoint¬ment. As enemies of democracy will probablygleefully point out to us, the Council’s actionwas not, in the usual sense of the word, un¬democratic. Rather, the action of the Board ofHigher Education in reaffirming Russell’s posi¬tion ran counter to the greater quantity of ex¬pressed popular feeling. The College of theCity of New York is supported by taxes thepeople pay. Representatives of the people,therefore, believe they have a right to decidefor what things these taxes shall be spent. Thisis a problem common to all public schools —they cannot be much better than the societywhich supports them.But even if the City Council did not act “un-democratically” we cannot see that it acted onanything but basely stupid grounds. It bowedto popular prejudice and gross ignorance. Itsargument was simple and absurd in its sim¬plicity. Schools supported by citizens ought toaim at producing good citizens; courses in logicand mathematics taught by Bertrand Russellwill produce bad citizens!If that last proposition were true we couldnot quarrel bitterly with the City Council. But,regardless of whether Russell’s philosophy oflife, which he discusses frankly instead ofsecretly—as decent people do, is moral or im¬moral, we cannot see how that will influencethe subject matter of logic and mathematics.Is two times two going to stop being four ina given system because the third Earl Russellwas once a pacifist? Or are A, assumed to beone thing, and B, assumed to be a similar thing,not going to be alike any longer because Ber¬trand Russell is supposed to believe in freelove? For two quarters last year some of us hadthe privilege of taking a course from Russell.In all that time we never once heard him dis¬prove the existence of God or urge us to prom¬iscuity in sexual relationships. Maybe thatwas because we didn’t always understand whathe was saying. But if we didn’t always knowwhat he was talking about, how could we havecarried out any of his vicious exhortations?“Children will play with poison if we letthem,” one councilman declared. “It is verydangerous to set before the children in CityCollege the moral bankruptcy of a dissolutemind. No doubt the City College studentswould like to play with some of the potions hewould give them.”This is a strange way to speak of a distin¬guished scholar! It is even a stranger way todescribe college students. Are the students atCity College children? If so, they should notbe taking courses in logic and mathematics, nomatter who teaches them. In fact if they areof college age and still children, they shouldn’tbe in college at all. There are other institutionsfor those who grow only chronologically. Godhelp our country if these things are true!It is unfortunate that organized religionshould be identified as leading the attackagainst Russell. This puts religion back on theside of narrow-mindedness and stupid world¬liness ; stultifying the spirit and reducing mor¬ality to the body.The good people of New York have far moreto fear from the effects of the movies and radiothan they have to dread from the influence oftruth on their future citizens. If they carrytheir ridiculous actions against Russell anyfurther they may succeed only in demonstrat¬ing that they are unworthy to carry on democ¬racy, and in making their children likewiseunworthy. What has happened already suf¬ficiently demonstrates their failure. In themeantime, we can snobbishly be thankful thatw’e go to a private school where Russell’s ap¬pointment aroused only pride in the acquisi¬tion of another great scholar, and interest inwhat he had to say. Let us not be too thank¬ful, however; we are in the middle of a fund-raising year.Traveling Bazaarby Dick Himmellid Bit BiteEven though everyone who’s interested in it prob¬ably knows, the Marjorie Kuh-Freddie Hewitt pin mer¬ger is the choicest item of the week. Hewitt, DU andIM track star, is an old friend of the Kuh family. Priorto going with Marge he made the rounds with Betsy.Merriam’s Jane Jungkunz off to Colorado to pickup her education from there... .Jane Wil.son took Loy¬al Tingley’s pin Tribune snapping Pfeiffer, Geiger,Becky Scott, Bond, Reynolds, Bex, Doris Daniels, theHutch twins, Joan Lyding, Jean Peter.son, Rexstrew,Steel, Caroline Grabo, Mary Margaret Mayer, and RuthAhlquist. Some of the pictures will appear in the Sun¬day rotogravure section... .Gail Grassic showing off aFlorida tan to Foster femmes.... Bob Brumbaughstruggling through his PHD in philosophy. He’s thefirst Philosophy student to have English as his relatedfield. On Brumbaugh’s reading list for his exam, helisted “Tarzan of the Apes.” Dean McKcon fooled himand Mr. Brumbaugh received a group of questions onthe famous Tarzan. Not only did Bob have to knowabout the book, but he was asked questions on both themovie versions plus an Aristotleian analysis.The Trianon was full of Phi Delts last week makingthings merry for the patrons. All over the floor wereBob Bigelow and Thelma Isleman, Dick Gentzler andKaki Comstock (it’s a nick name, nothing personal),Warren W’ilner and Dorothy DeYoung, Chet Hand andJackie Horal, Bob Nye and Marilyn Vanderhoff....Florida saw lots of people over vacation. Bob Evans,Dick Salzmann, Roy Stanton, Harry Barnard, FrankEvans, Bob W’einberg, (lots of Psi Us aren’t there?)Bob Meyer, and Greg Huffaker. Jackie Cross is stillthere. Do you think there’s any connection? EdRochlin, so it is said, is haunting Miami night life....Evon Vogt is back from New Orleans, sunburned andcheery... .That joint on Ellis is closed for alterations.How to Change Registration!Are you unhappy in Archaeology 699? Would yoube happier in Archaeology 698? Sure you would, butyou’re just timid about changing your program. Areyou a man or a mouse ? Certainly you are. Changingyour registration is as easy as one, two, six, eight.All you have to do is decide in your own mindwhether or not you feel yourself fitted for Archaeology698. After this mental struggle decide that you are.Then tear over to your adviser to tell him all about it.Well, here you are about to see your adviser. Aline? What’s a little line, after all. Archaeology 698is the thing! Don’t swear in the dean’s office. Afterall you couldn’t tell you were standing in the wrongline. Yes, that’s the right line now. Oh, you don’twant to go to the men’s room. Sorry, old man. No,don’t leave, remember Archaeology 698 iber alles.That’s all right, see that pot at the end of the line.That undoubtedly is your adviser. You see, it wasn’tvery hard. After all you would only have wasted thesehours anyway. It Archaeology 698, Archaeology 698,with a hey nonny nonny and a whoop de doo.Cheer up, old man, yoi^r adviser is talking to you.“Fine thanks, and you?” That there’s a snappyanswer, fellow. “Sure thing.” Don’t be discouragedjust because he doesn’t know your name. After all hehas so many to advise.(To he continued) College AddsThirty-TwoNew CoursesArt, English, History, Ed-ucotian Are Represented.Thirty-two new courses will beamong 779 offered in the curriculumof the University for its students.New branches of study opening tostudents will cover a broad list ofsubjects ranging from a course onEugene O’Neill, foremost Americandramatist, to a new course devotedto research in the life of Jesus.Eighty mid-year freshmen, admit¬ted to the University following theirgraduation from high schools in Feb¬ruary, will begin their first full quar¬ter on the Midway. Begun last yearat the instance of repeated demandsfrom high school seniors, the newmatriculation date enables their en¬trance without being penalized forout-of-season graduation from highschool.Pan-American—(Continued from page one)horrors of war engulf the Old World,we of this hemisphere enjoy the bless¬ings of peace. It is to give recogni¬tion of this fact, and to express re¬newed faith in the spirit of brother¬hood and good will which is the veryesser. of the Pan.4merican idea, thatthis celebration is planned.”The committee in charge of ar¬rangements consists of Mrs. RobertS. Platt and Mr. Robert C. Jones ofthe Pan-.\merican Council, and Dr.Edward J. Sparling and Dr. ErnstSchwarz of the Pan-American GoodNeighbor Forum of Central YMCACollege. Arrangements to broadcastthe program over one of the localstation.s are now under consideration. Today on theQuadranglesDivinity Chapel, Joseph Bond Chap¬el. Dean Colwell, worship leader11:55 A.M.Alumni Foundation meeting, IdaNoyes Library, 7:30.DISC and DESCANTBy FRIEDA WEITZMANMusic and incense. A thousand andone tales told in sensuous, supplemelody. Rimsky-Korsakov’s “Sche¬herazade” as presented by ArthurRodzinski and the Cleveland Orches¬tra (Columbia Album M-398) is por¬trayed with all the languor and Ori¬ental color one could desire, from thevoyage of Sinbad’s Ship to the Festi¬val at Bagdad. A splendid recording.Bruno Walter and the LondonSymphony Orchestra give a sensitiveperformance of the Concerto GrossoOp. 6 No. 8 Corelli, too-rarelyheard 17th ceiitury composer. The“Christmas” Concerto is a symmetri¬cally balanced work, whose intertwin¬ing voices present the beautifullysimple harmonies which character¬ized this period. (Victor Album M-600).When only nineteen, Mozart to.ssedoff the youthful elegant V’iolin Con¬certo No. 4 in D major, which FritzKreisler and the London Philharmon¬ic Orchestra under Malcolm Sargenthave recently recorded (Victor .Al¬bum M-623). The concerto is full ofspontaneity, although hardly as char¬acteristically original as Mozart’.-later works; the conscious grace andpoised sophistication of it easily markit as a product of the composer’syouth. Kreisler’s violin playing pos-.sesses a transparency through whichevery note of the music shines simpleand clear.Meet the Crowd at thePICCAN I N N Y53rd ST. AT BLACKSTONEChicaqos Most Attractive BarbecueSPECIALIZING INDELICIOUS BARBECUED CHICKEN• SPARE RIBS •BEEF. PORK. AND HAMServed with Our Famous "Southern Barbecue Sauce”WAFFLES. STEAKS FOUNTAIN SERVICEWe Deliver FREEHyde Park 5300After 4 p.m.LUNCHEON 35 CENTS DINNERSWe Fill Prescriptions AccuratelyReader's Compus Drug Store61st & Ellis Ave.SPECIAL PRICES TO STUDENTSTHE DAILY MAROON. TUESDAY, MARCH 26, 1940 Page ThreeTots Learn In WorldBuilt Just For ThemUniversity Nursery SchoolHelps Youngsters AdaptSelves to Problems.By EILEEN MURPHY“NURSERY SCHOOL” says theplaque in front of the lonj;, three-story house at 5750 Woodlawn andyou jrljnipsc a playground in back, andk childish face pressed against an up¬stairs window for an instant. You en¬ter, and find yourself in a children’sworld. Miniature furniture, dishesand toys remind the visitor of hisawkward Gulliver proportions. Aknee-high window bench lines thewall of a room on the left, and twolittle tots sit there looking at picturebooks. Down the hall is a Lilliputianwashroom, with child-size wash bas¬ins set about three feet above thefloor, and on each, a cake of soap justthe right size for a three-year old’schubby little hand.“Good Morning”“Good morning”, greets the blonde,attractive young woman who has beenhelping a little fellow in the cornerstring wooden blocks, and you areplea.santly surprised, shudderingly re¬calling your own schooltime memo¬ries, to find that this is the Principalof the Nursery School, Miss MaryElizabeth Keister. Yes, the Nurseryis certainly a different type of"school”. But what is its purpose, youquery. Miss Keister explains, whileshowing you through the classes.“The Nursery offers supervised rec¬reation for children, and furnishes asafe and healthy place in which pre¬school children may play and asso¬ciate with one another. With the smallliving quarters, a limited outdoor playspace and small families of moderncity life, the Nursery’s large familyof children and spacious play yardprovide much that is es.sential towholesome development, and whichmany modern homes can’t readily of¬fer.”Cup of WonderSara Teasdale’s lines about “child¬ren’s faces looking up, holding won¬der like a cup” suddenly come tomind, as you step into a sunny roomwhere an eager little group sits onthe floor, hands clasped around knees,intently listening to the story theirteacher is reading. And realizing howseldom in the modern apartment onefinds busy parents taking time out toread fairy tales to their children, youbegin to understand the part theNursery plays in these little lives. Inthe next room the two-year old classis intently molding colored clay into surrealistic-looking figures, and yougaze admiringly at the green, long,odd-tailed animal proudly exhibited asa “pig”.From upstairs comes a rhythmictintinnabulation as the three-year oldjam sessioners gleefully beat their in¬struments in time to the teacher’spiano playing. But it is 10:30 now,and that means rest time. The playgi'oups stop, the children all relax onmats on the floor, and as the shadesai’e lowered and their teacher plays asoft lullaby at the piano, slowly closetheir eyes. In half an hour they willbe up again, lively and noisy as ever,and begin putting on their wraps foran hour of outdoor play, on the slides,swings, and teeter-totters in the back¬yard.55 ChildrenThere are 65 children now enrolledin the Nursery, all between the agesof 2 and 5, most of them from theUniversity community. About 50 percent are faculty children. Perhaps thisaccounts for Miss Keister’s smilingstatement, “No, we don’t have anyserious behavior problems, even insuch a large group”. The “psycholog¬ical guidance” offered by the Nurseryconsists of wrestling with behaviourdifficulties such as “timidity, specificfears, misapplied aggressiveness, stut¬tering, destructiveness, food-rejec¬tion, too great dependence”, etc., butthe superior home environments ofthese children probably account inlarge part for the noticeable lack ofany of these unpleasant traits.The history of the Nursery beganinformally in 1916, when a group ofmothers in the community worked outa cooperative plan for supervisingtheir children’s play. They met outsidein summer, in Lexington gym in Win¬ter, but when the University neededLexington for other purposes in 1923,they raised funds and purchased thehouse at 5750 Woodlawn for their pur¬pose. In 1929 the adjoining three-story home, at 5740, was left to them,and these two now house the Nursery,which was incorporated in 1923 as theCooperative Nur.sery School and tak¬en over in 1938 by the University it¬self as an integral part of its schoolI system. The Nursery Board, composedof twenty-three women, continues tolend support, but no longer directsthe educational policy or finances.Child DevelopmentIts administration is now in thehands of the Child Development Com¬mittee, headed by Dr. Frank Free¬man. Its three other main adminis-I trative officers are President Hutch¬ ins; Helen Lois Koch, Associate Pro¬fessor of Child Psychology; and MaryElizabeth Keister, Principal. Assist¬ing them are a five-person board of,Consultants, the Faculty of the Nurs¬ery School, and the women of theNursery Board; Most of the membersof the Nursery staff have a master’sdegree, as well as extensive experiencein the guidance of young children.University students working in thefield of Child Development also assistin the Nursery, observe the children,do their apprentice teaching, and car¬ry on research projects.j The funds for financing the schoolaccrue largely from tuition, althoughthey are supplemented by income froma mode.st endowment. Most of thepupils are registered for the morningsession, from 9:00 to 11:45, whichcosts $150 a year. With luncheon atthe Nursery included, the cost is $222a year. A limited number of scholar¬ships are available for needy pupils.Parents pay for their own livery serv¬ice in transporting the children.CurriculumThe Nursery classes are divided in¬to age groups, and the curriculumconsists of such activities as music,rhythms, stories, quiet play, outdoorplay, blocks, painting, carpentry,housekeeping and many others. Thechildren receive a medical inspectioneach morning, and thorough examina¬tions twice a year. Their luncheons,planned by nutritionists, are well-bal¬anced with protein foods, cookedvegetables, whole wheat bread, des¬sert and milk. Special personality ad¬justment and guidance is givenwhere necessary.These are the statistical, cut-and-dried facts about the University ofChicago Nursery. But as you leave,you are remembering little girls play¬ing house, and little boys modelinggreen clay pigs in a sunny room, anda sympathetic teacher reading a fairystory, surrounded by “children’s faceslooking up, holding wonder like acup”.READTHE MAROON Stevens Calls MoreContestants in‘Talent Search’Finding talent is becoming harderand harder for the Stevens hotel, andthey are again inviting Chicago andNorthwestern students to take advan¬tage of their Search for Talent con¬test. Chicago winners so far in theirsearch have been Blackfriars’ andMirror baritone, Ted Fink, MargeGrey Exeter, songstress, Kay Colnon,Mirror dancer, and ‘Jerk’ Jerger,Deke magician. These four havetaken honors from Northwestern sofar, but may not be able to keep it upunless more of the ‘undiscovered’come to help them.This is also an excellent opportun¬ity, as Jerry Gordon student MC hassaid many times, and now repeats forthe benefit of interested but unin¬formed students, for junior Bakers,Ameches and Lamours to show theirstuff. Griff Williams has been re¬turned by popular demand to theStevens to provide music for thedancing and singing.Students with any talent w'hatso-ever and wishing to take advantageof this opportunity to perform, andof an evening on the Stevens, shouldsee J. Gordon at the Maroon office assoon as possible, since the finals ofthe contest will be held in April.Half rate tickets for the rest of thestudent body are available at the Ma¬roon office also.Maritain—(Continued from page one)Jewish Problem.” He has written an¬other book, a compilation of his lec¬tures in the United States last year,which is to be published this springunder the title of “Democracy andScholasticism.”Maritain holds a post as professorof Philosophy at the Catholic Insti¬tute in Paris. In recent years, he haslost some of his academic aloofness,and has expressed a considerable in¬terest in politics. This interest will bedisplayed in his consideration of “Eu¬rope after the War.” \Platt8 Give ViewsOn Latin America“What Now and What Next in Lat¬in America?” is the title of a seriesof illustrated lectures to be given byRobert S. Platt, professor of Geog¬raphy at the University, at the ArtInstitute under the auspices of theUniversity College on successive Fri¬day evenings at 6:45, opening April5.Discussing the South Americancountries from Chile to Mexico, Plattwill be assisted by Mrs. Platt, whowill present exhibits and impersona¬tions in connection with the lectures.All by itself the fine rayoncrepe dress is a charming suc¬cess. And with its stunningwool coat to match it's a tri¬umph of Spring distinction! Atthis modest price for them bothyou'll make a notable saving.Gray, Gold, Blue, Black, Navy.37 H. Wabash Ara. at Washhgtoa1 TEXT BOOKSUSED and NEWFor All University Courses includingLAW - MEDICINE - EDUCATIONFountain Pens, Note Books,Zipper Cases, StationeryLaundry Cases, Brief Bags Largest and Most CompleteLine of TYPEWRITERSFor So/e, Rent or ExchangeWOODWORTH'SBOOK STORE1311 East 57th StreetNear Kimbark Ave. —2 Blocks East Mandel Hall- Open EveningsPhone Dorchester 4800THE DAILY MAROON, TUESDAY, MARCH 26, 1940BfHeadsI-M Icoriiig Chicago RelayArfiburiee NewCourses forIda Noyes Hall Chicago men placed in only oneevent in the Chicago relays, held Sat¬urday at theO International Aniin-theater. The, e.vehtwas a special milerelay with 1^^ft;hwcstem which theMaroon quartet won. The winningteam consisted, of Beatty, Fradkin,Stabenau, ahd'Powell and atoned forthe defeat administered by North¬western Ut a ,r<jcbnt dual meet.Ed Brogmus of the Jailbirds haskept his lead in the individual Intra¬murals so that now he has a fat leadof nearly 50 points over his nearestcompetitor, another Jailbird, SamSweaney. Next in line is Emil Wei^of Phi PS'i, who is followed closely byArmand Bonian of Phi Gam andCorky Wickbem, also of Phi Psi.The complete standings are as fol-I lows :Jailbirds—.141With the opening of the springquarter the physical education de¬partment is offering several new' fea¬tures at Ida Noyes Hall. For thefirst time fencing instruction will beoffered during the spring quarter. Byrequest Alvar Hermanson, fencingcoach, will continue the 2:30 classw'hich beginners may also join.More good news comes with the an¬nouncement that Miss KatherineManning, modern dance instructor,will remain at the University thisquarter to give a short course endingApril 14. A new' elementary classw ill be given at 11 while interme<liateand advanced classes will be con¬tinued.Manning RemainsAnother first timer will be theelementary swimming class to begiven at 7 :.30 on Tuesday and Thurs¬day in the Ida Noyes pool. BillMurphy, tennis star and coach, willteach the individual instructioncourses in intermediate and advancedtennis from 3:30 to 5 on Tuesdayand Thursday.Jumps from Fourth Posi¬tion to Replace Phi Kap- 17, Chicago Thco. Sem.—14018. Burton “506”-t-13919. Burton “600”—12020, Burton “700?’—105.f21. Burton “800??—100* I 22. Judson “400”—9023. University Housing—8024. Aristotelians—70> I25. Burton-Judson Eagles—65^' 26.’ Quadrangle Club—60' i Shleppers—60• 28. Bar .Association—55Hillings—55Geology—55• ■ •Bekeons..^55iphi Kappa Psi, leader in the race | 32. Hitchcock—50I until shortly before the close of Public Adm. Devils—50e Winter Quarter activities, is sec- Sleepers 50id now with .330 V2 counters, fol- ^wed by Phi Delta Theta Avith 320 ®id'Phi Gamma Delta with 316. The Mhite Elephants 50ne independent contenders for I-M X U-High—50urels are the Jailbirds, who slipped 33, Brown’s Bombers—40ightly from their third place rating Dupes 40St fall to the number five position. 1I 40. rreshmen—30The complete standings as relea.sed >;u Beta Epsilon—30 , quiet roor.) for men studentsatijiosphe.,.. very desirflbte, vsonoblo A family of twoE. Brognius,S. Sweaney, Jailbirds—295E. Weis,' Phi Psi—283A. Donian, Gamma Delta—275C. Wickhem, Phi Kappa PsiC. Nohl. Alpha Delta Psi—260C. Banfo, Phi Psi—245A. Green, Phi Psi—243A. Wiseley, Phi Gam—240W. Beatty, Phi Psi—2.30L. Swee, Jailbirds—225F. McCracken, Phi Gam—220L. Weigel, Jailbirds—215A. Rider, Phi Gam—213A. Sarkksian, Phi Gam—210F. Brunner, Phi Gam—205.J. Murray, Alpha DeltE. Caulton. Psi Upsilon—200A. 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