THE HOUSEIS ON FIRE!By MILTON MAYER‘But when the house is on fire—**Excerpt from the Swelling Chorus of Statesmen, Journalistsand University Presidents. Vol. 41. No. 101 Z-149 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO. WEDNESDAY. APRIL 30. 1941 Three CentsYour house is on fire, and you are pouring water on the fiames, ruiningthe draperies and the petitpoint but maybe saving the Liberty bonds that yousewed inside the mattress. People gather on the street, with or without theintention of assisting you, and they say, “Look—Jones is trying to put out thefire.” Socrates, disguised as a person on the street, steps up to them and says,“What is Jones trying to do?” And they reply, “Why, you old fool, he is tryingto put out the fire.”At the moment everybody is excited, and Socrates seems to be askingfoolish questions, as usual. But when the fire is put out, or the house is burneddown, Socrates comes up to you and says, “Come on over to my place, Jones,and the little woman will make a cup of hot coffee; you’re cold and wet, andyou’re all in.”You and Socrates sit down in the kitchen of his one-room flat, and Xan-tippe brews the coffee. Socrates asks you what you were trying to do outthere at the fire. You tell him you were trying to put out the fire, and he asksyou why, and when you tell him it was because you wanted to go on living inthe house, Socrates says that is what he suspected all along.He pours you another cup of coffee and asks you if putting out the firewasn’t only a means to an end. When you say, “Sure” Socrates says he guessesthat if everybody hadn’t been so excited when he asked what Jones was tryingto do, everybody would have said, “Jones to trying to do something that willenable him to go on living in his house.”Now that sounds reasonable, and Socrates scratches his whiskers awhile. “Let’s see where we are,” he says. “We agree that you weren’t tryingto put out the fire just to put out the fire.”“That’s right,” you say, “I was trying to put out the fire so that I couldgo on living in the house.”“There is something else,” says Socrates, pouring his coffee into thesaucer to cool it. “Let me ask you, Jones, whether you would go to the botherof fighting that fire and catching your death of cold and then rebuilding thehouse if you knew it was going to bum down again next week?”“Why, no,” you say, “do you think I’m a fool?”“That would be foolish,” says Socrates, “wouldn’t it?”“Jones,” says the old philosopher wiping his chin on the sleeve of histunic, “I heard the firemen say that the fire was started by the spontaneouscombustion of a pile of oily rags in the basement.”And you say, “Well, come to think of it, there was a pile of oily rags inthe basement.”And Socrates says, “Jones, didn’t you have a fire in that house a littlewhile ago?”And you say, “I certainly did, and it almost burned the house down, and,confound it, I didn’t even get a chance to rebuild it before it caught fire again.”Socrates says, “Jones, what caused the first fire in your house?”(Continued on page three)Publicity Board PicksNext Yearns Members Earl CarrollNantes MoranBeauty Queen Best Campus DatesSign Away WeekendSFAC Plays Guardian Angelto 100 University Women.Sophomores and Juniors to work onnext year’s Student Publicity Boardwere chosen yesterday by the Seniorswho will head the Board next year.Freshmen for the Board will be ap¬pointed next fall from the incomingFreshman class.The new Board will meet Mondayin the Office of Admissions at 3 todiscuss future plans. They have an¬nounced that applications for thosewho wish to occupy positions will beaccepted.Purpose of BoardThe purpose of the Student Public¬ity Board is to interest high schoolseniors in the University, and to en¬courage them to come here. The Boardbrought 700 high school seniors toRIackfriars, supper, and a dance lastSaturday.Chairman of the new board is ArtBethke; Vice Chairman is Mary LuPrice. Other Seniors are Virginia Al¬len, Ray Oakley, and Dorothy Teberg.Appoint JuniorsNext year’s Junior Board will be:Bob Stierer, Shirlee Smith, Jane Mor¬an, Libby McKee, Frank Evans, JohnLeggitt, Ray Randall, David Ellbogen,George Drake, Bob Dodd.Those who will continue as Soph¬omores are: Mary Guild, Craig Le-Discuss War'sEconomic EffectThe effect of war upon the economicorder of belligerent nations will bediscussed by experts this Sunday onthe University Round Table broad¬cast.Herman Finer, visiting professor ofpolitical science from the LondonSchool of Economics, will participatein the Round Table discussion withTheodore 0. Yntema, professor ofstatistics, and William H. Spencer,dean of the Business School.Professor Finer will present a first¬hand account of changes made in theBritish economy to meet war condi¬tions. He arrived recently from Brit¬ain aboard a thrice-bombed convoyedmerchant ship. Professor Yntema willdiscuss adjustments in the Americaneconomy under the impact of the de¬fense program. man, Mary Rowland, Betty Rosen¬heim, Marion Nebel, Rosemary Mc¬Carthy, Dick Reynolds, Bob Oakley,Peggy Williams, Jim Frankel, Marsh¬all Barnard, Nancy Jean Newnan,Betty Fanning.Dorm Women TakeTheir RightfulPlaces in the SunBy SHIRLEE SMITHThe sun has strange powers overthe women residents of the dormito¬ries. Modesty complexes are being dis¬carded for a more appealing sun-tancomplexion.The fii'e-escapes have become litter¬ed with stray mattresses, dowdy look¬ing blankets, pillow-case-less pillows,cigarette butts, coke bottles, jars oflotions and grease and stray articlesof clothing rather seldom seen so ar¬rayed in public.Discard BooksOf course this list excludes suchremnants of educational intent, sel¬dom in use, but there nevertheless,such as books, syllabi, and dilapidatednote-books.The lawn in front of Kelly has late¬ly taken on the appearance of a semi¬nudist colony on an all day picnic out¬ing. This local hot-spot used for gath¬ering any extra vitamin D the sunwishes to offer is not in the least pri¬vate but preferable to those whoknow. If you have never tried reclin¬ing on a grilled fire-escape beneath abroiling sun—well you have nevertried. Question: Is the rosy appear¬ance one presents to the world on oneside, enough compensation for thestriped effect one will undoubtedly ac¬quire on the other? But then ’tis said,you should always keep the sunny-sideup.Man Creates PanicThe appearance of the annual hur¬dy-gurdy man and his no less batteredmonk, created quite a panic among thesun-nymphs yesterday afternoon.However, order was again establishedafter the little man had been disposedof with a few kind words and fewercontributions for his bewidered part¬ner. Jane Moran was selected Cap andGown Beauty Queen by Earl Carroll,famed pulchritude surveyor, and JoanLyding, Ann Haight,Punky Johnson,Louise Eation andMary Toft were)icked as her courtj )f honor. Carrolllicked the beauties’ r o m photographshat were sent toiiim in Hollywood.Miss Moran, who will be among thecollege beauties pictured in a forth¬coming issue of Look magazine, is aSigma and was oneof the court of honorin the recent Vien-esse Ball. She wasone of the freshmanbeauty queens oflast year.Joan Lyding, Mor¬tar Board, is a form¬er Cap and Gownqueen, as well as Haithtwinner of many other beauty contests.She is a professional model. Quad’sLou Eaton was recently Empress ofthe Vienesse Ball. This is anotherbeauty contest winning for Esoteric’sAnn Haight. “Punky” Johnson, a Sig¬ma, was another freshman beautyqueen last year. Mary Toft is a Wy-vem winner.Fifty ActivitiesIn a Rut; Only110 Show Life—Only 110 of an alleged 160 studentorganizations on the Quadranglesshow any signs of life, a Maroon sur¬vey revealed today. Arbitrary criteriafor livelihood was some sign of ameeting or other function within thepast six weeks.Of the unaccounted-for fifty, manyare quasiactive. Many probably fallinto a class with Poetry club, whichunbeknown to most of the campus,meets regularly in Classics. Others ofthis nature are the Literary Societyand Music Appreciation Club.Literati Dine DailyThe former dines daily as a groupin Hutchinson Commons, discourseson such “literary” topics as Universitywomen and the war in lower China.And Music Appreciation club, reportsone of its members, is solely engagedin the occupation of advancing theunderstanding of music.Many other little known organiza¬tions, registered and unregistered,may conveniently be grrouped with theFreshman council. They are, for allpractical purposes, defunct.Social Groups ImportantIncluded among the 110 activegroups are first and foremost theclubs and fraternities. There are thir-(Continued on page three)Students Learn toStudy for ExamsSponsored by Alpha Phi Omega, na¬tional service fraternity. AssistantProfessor Ralph Buchsbaum, and Dr.Leo Nedelsky will discuss the correctmethods of review for the Biologicaland Phyiscal Science survey compre¬hensive examinations in Kent Amphi¬theatre at 3:30.Dr. Ralph W. Tyler, Chief Examin¬er of the University will speak on theobjectives involved in the making ofthe comprehensives.Yesterday, Associate ProfessorWalter Laves and Instructor ArthurFriedman informed worried studentson Social Science and Humanities. Dr.William S. Gray of the Education De¬partment will preside over the meet-ing.«i. Wee Blaze BringsOut Five EnginesFive pieces of Chicago Fire Depart¬ment apparatus responded to analarm yesterday afternoon for a firein Billings Hospital. Two gallons ofchemical were used to put the fire out.The fire was on the second fioor inthe Dental Exhibit room and occurredwhen some Zilo, an inflammible com¬pound, was ignited by a Bunsen burn¬er. After the firemen caught theirbreath, the thousand gallon Ahrens-Fox rotary pump, 85 foot AmericanLaFrance ladder, the squad car, in¬surance patrol, and Battalion Chief’scar returned to their quarters.Bridge TourneyLists Close FridayWinding up its preparations for thethird annual spring Bridge Tourna¬ment, the Reynolds Club council hasannounced that registration will closeat the Reynolds Club desk, Friday.Fraternities, clubs, residence halls,independents, and some professionalschools are organizing teams for thecontest, which occurs May 6, 7, and 8from 7 to 11 P.M. Any g;roup may en¬ter for the price of $1 per table.Prizes consist of individual cupsawarded to the winning foursome andUniversity Seal Bridge Decks to thesecond team. Reynolds Club officialsexpect about fifteen tables each eve¬ning. Those in charge of the event areJack Brown, Chairman; KennethCornwall; and Harold Steffee.Starting Tuesday, the Daily Maroonwill appear twice a week, 'Tuesdaysand Fridays, to the end of the springquarter. There will be no Maroon to¬morrow.Using the Aristotelian methodthroughout his talk, Mr. Hutchins in alecture recently given at LousianaState University, declared that if wereally want the good life and the goodstate as a means as such, we becomemetaphysicians in spite of ourselves.“Certain persons,” he said, “findmetaphysics a series of balloons,floating far above the surface of theearth, which could be pulled down byvicious or weak-minded people whenthey wanted to win an argument.”Claims Wisdom End“Wisdom and goodness are the endof life”, he said, and went on to pointout that one must consider metaphys¬ics, “for how can we talk about pre¬paring men for life unless we knowwhat the end of life may be?”.Saying however, that our universitygraduates have far more informationand far less understanding than inColonial times, the President declaredthat we will not get anywhere unlesswe unite on rational principles to iightsuch evils as prejudice, selfishness and One hundred University women arepreparing to sign away the week-endof May 9 for the glory of the StudentFiftieth Anniversary Committee.These women will be picked by theSFAC committee in charge of theweek end, as the “100 most dateablewomen on campus,” will sign pledgecards stating that they will only datemen who will take them to the fea¬tures of the week-end which includethe University Players’ production of“Our Town” on Friday night, the“Show of Shows,” and the “Dance ofQueens” which will follow it, on Sat¬urday night.From these women one will be se¬lected by the campus males as themost dateable woman on campus. Shewill be announced at the dance Sat¬urday night. Any man holding a ticketfor the complete week-end is eligibleto vote in this election.List RequirementsMeanwhile Joe Molkup who headsthe organization and his committee,Bro Crane and Don Leverage, saidthat the standards on which the girlswill be picked are a “minimum ofattractiveness, enough worldliness andintelligence, congeniality, sufficientemotional response, and especiallyemotional synchronization.”Bro Crane, who heads the organiza¬tion of the “Show of Shows” extrava¬ganza, is rounding up Mirror, Black-friar, DA, and unsung talent to packon Mandel Hall stage in what is ex¬pected to be the brightest campus af¬fair since the highly successful Home¬coming celebration this fall.Produce “Our Town”The production of “Our Town” isthe second production of the newlyorganized University Players. Theyrecently completed a run of OscarWilde’s “Importance of Being Ear¬nest” in the new intimate theatre tech¬nique in the Reynolds Club Lounge.“Our Town” is the Pulitzer prize win¬ning play by Thornton Wilder, whoreturns to the University faculty nextquarter.Tickets for the entire week-end ofthree events are now on sale at $1.75.In keeping with its policy, theDaily Maroon reserves the right towithhold letters to the editorswhich bear fictitious names. TheBoard of Control, therefore, asksthat “Bob Smith” and “FredJones” either get in touch person¬ally with Board members or sendtheir real names to the Maroon of¬fice.greed. “The endless task of educa¬tion”, he said, “is to make rationalanimals more truly rational, to sub¬due the passions and appetites to therule of reason, and to extend the do¬main of the intellect.”Study Goes to PiecesThe course of university study hasgone to pieces, he added, because ofacademic muddling. “Triviality, medi¬ocrity, and vocationalism take it overbecause we have no standards *bywhich to judge them. We have noth¬ing to offer as a substitute for a soundcurriculum except talk of personality,‘character’, and great teachers, theslogans of educational futilitarian-ism.”Education ImpossibleHow can a university develop a so¬cial consciousness and a social con¬science in its students? Mr. Hutchinsasked this and said that the educationwhich made for these was impossiblebecause of the insidious propagationof the cults of skepticism, immediacy,scientism and anti-intellectualism.Let’s Be Metaphysical InSpite Of Ourselves—R.M,H.Page Two THE DAILY MAROON. WEDNESDAY. APRIL 30. 1941%£ IhiLcj Hh/iocnFOUNDED IN 1902The Daily Maroon is the official student newspaper of the Uni¬versity of Chicago, published mornings except Saturday, Sunday,and Monday during the Autumn, Winter, and Spring quarters byThe Daily Maroon Company, 6881 University avenue. Telephones:Hyde Park 9222. ^After 6:30 phone in stories to our printers. The Chief PrintingCompany, 148 West 62nd street. Telephones: Wentworth 6128 and6124.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: 83 a year$4 by mail. Single copies: three cents.Entered as second class matter March 18, 1908, at the poet officeat Chicago, Illinois, under the act of March 8, 1879.MemberAssociated Collegiate PressDistributor ofCollegiate DigestBOARD OF CONTROLEditorialWILLIAM HANKLA PEARL C. RUBINSERNEST S. LEISER JOHN P. STEVENS, Chairman, BUSINESSROBERT P. O’DONNELL, Bus. Mgr.ROBERT HIGHMAN, Adv, Mgr,EDITORIAL ASSOCIATESJames Burtle, Mark Fisher, Richard Himmel, Robert Lawson,Daniel Mexlay, Richard Philbrick, Robert D. F. Reynolds, andDaniel Winograd.BUSINESS ASSOCIATESCHESTER SMITH, CirculationELLEN TUTTLE. Office Mgr.Richard Bolks, Wm. Van Horn, Myles Jarrow, Robert Pregler,Edward L. RachlinNight Editors: Chloe Roth and Jim BurtleThe Consequences of AidWe face one of the most dismal periods inhuman history.When the United States enters the war onthe side of Great Britain, what will be the effectof such aid?There are many alternatives as to what willhappen as the result of this aid. Some of themore important alternatives are,1. Suppose that the Allies win. It would bequite reasonable to assume that to insure thatthe victory will be a lasting one, it will haveto be almost as dictatorial as one that an in¬dividual like Hitler would make. It can also beassumed in this case that the most appropriatemanner of gaining such a victory, which wouldhave to eliminate the possibility of anotherVersailles blunder, would be to overrun Europe.Overrun Europe AgainTo overrun the continent involves severalimportant problems. Where can the Allies landtroops on European soil? How will they main¬tain them once they have landed? In addition,what will Russia and Japan do if the UnitedStates enters the conflict ? From present indica¬tions, it seems as though these two countries,especially Japan, would side with the Axis pow¬ers if this country entered the war.What if the Allies did achieve complete vic¬tory? Then it seems plausible that the UnitedStates and Great Britain would become thepolice force of the world. At least, the Allieswould have to keep a very close watch over thetotalitarian powers to prevent World War III,since conquered people always maintain a ha¬tred for their conquerers, even for many gen¬erations.The Allies in Defeat2. Suppose that the Allies lose. Those whoare familiar with Hitler's methods know thata Hitler peace would include the spiritual an¬nihilation and complete subjugation of the con¬quered nations.3. Suppose that a stalemate develops. Thiswould probably take a long time to consumateand its effect would constitute the most deleteri¬ous effect upon peaceful human relationshipsthat has ever occurred.4. Suppose that a compromise occurs. TheHitler method is to compromise until it is ex¬pedient to completely dictate “agreements."5. Suppose a revolution occurs. This wouldsimply spread the area of conflict and throwmore wood into the fire.The questions herewith mentioned certainlydo not include all of the possible alternativesduring this crisis but it cannot be denied thatthese are among the more important ones.Devastating ResultsRegardless of whether the Allies achievecomplete victory, or whether they lose, orwhether a stalemate or compromise develops,or whether a revolution occurs, or whether someother alternative enters the problem, the re¬sults of this war will be the most devastatingthat mankind has ever experienced. Such dev¬astation would include the lowering of thesocial, economic, psychological, and moral statusof all belligerents.Thus, when this country enters the conflict,the people should condition themselves for theworst.It is generally conceded that man is rational,but such a view should contain one very im¬portant qualification—that man also has thecapacity for being irrational.Dan Mezlay{The views expressed in this editorial arenot necessarily those of the Board of Control.) The Traveling BazaarBy LOREN FLINTAn Evening at the Ellis Co-op. . . as social as any shindig in a fraternity bouse andjust as chummy is the Ellis Co-op. Joe Rysan has beenniec enough to scribble a little job about what happensat the Co-op. He reports that at six o’clock the exodusfrom the stacks and labs begin and everybody looksweary with toil except Bob Landry who always justcomes in from napping at a lecture.. . . At seven the honorable (that’s what Rysan says)Allen Garfinkle, that strange combination of Ben Frank¬lin and Shylock (Rysan again), puts aside his booksand his “Cream of Kentucky” to collect Co-Op bills andprepare for spring . .. Bob Geocaris just goes out in theevening breezes and prepares for spring. (OK, Bob,kill Rysan, not me.). . . At 7:30 Martin Greer races to the telephone andmakes eyes like Harpo Marx with a blonde in view. Bythis time the Persian werewolf, Fred Pera, closes hisHavelock Ellis and paces back and forth in his roomreminding himself of a tiger. (Some tiger.) Whichreminds me, have you seen the werewolf in LincolnPark? It’s nobody you know, but you ought to see hisplumage. (I don’t get it but Joe Rysan does. It’s hisgag.)... At nine the UT standbys, Chartrand, Reining andGinsburg (sounds like a law firm) whip out of theirroom to pick up Glaeser, Fiser, and Minsky (Soundslike a burlesque team) and start the trek to the UT.. . . From then on, the boys come and go out just likethey’ve been doing all night. Quite an evening, wasn’tit? All right, Smeeth, just because we didn’t mentionJampolis.Dave Wiedeman hashung his Phi Psi pin onPat Wolfehope. The an¬nouncement was no sur¬prise to his brothers whohave been expecting itfor months. Miriam Pet¬ty, attractive Wyvernfreshman, has acceptedBob Murray’s Psi U pin.She is a sister of DavePetty, Phi Psi sopho¬more.The Pi Lambs. . . are giving an Iglooparty the last night ofBlackfriars. Just whatan Igloo party is wewouldn’t know, but itsaftermath sounds inter¬esting. The idea is themen take their dateshome at 2 and return to. . . we weren’t surprised drink beer and eat tillthe dawn. Then the girls call for the men and take themhome.While recording the day’s drivel we might just aswell take care of another small matter that has beenbothering us for some time. There is a very pleasant,lank, lad in the Law School named Don Petrie who hasbeen boring his friends of late with the boast that hehas never been mentioned in this column. We trust thiswill make him a more agreeable companion.WolfhopeJazz Comes of AgeBy BEATA MUELLERBoogie-woogie began in the nineties, and was redis¬covered in 1938, according to the impeccable Oxfordvoice of Peter Randon.Peter (“Everyone knows and loves Peter,” saidone discerning freshman) was holding forth on Amer¬ican Negro Jazz at the regular Monday night musicsession at International House.The emotional tension in jazz excites you and makesyour blood pressure go up. Learned white-coated scien¬tists, like in yeast ads, have proved that your bloodpressure rises after hearing hot music in either theNew Orleans style or the Chicago style.To prove this last statement, Mr. Randon playedrecords in both styles. “This,” he said, “shows the con¬nected phrasing and lyrical style from New Orleans.”A clerical looking gentleman in a black suit noddedrhythmically in his corner, and looked more placidthan apoplectic. “And this,” said Mr. Randon, “is thesharp, dry, declamatory Chicago style.” This recordsounded remarkably like the one before, but the clergy¬man gave no sign, continuing to nod in time to themusic.A long-haired man in a riding habit peeked aroundthe edge of the door. He lurched shyly in like evolu¬tionary evidence from a Bi Sci movie, and he was justin time. Peter Randon put on a new record, and an¬nounced with a look of reverence, “This is ‘The MeanOld Bedbug Blues.’ It is surrealist delirium of moonshinewoes.” The man in the riding habit sat down under theg^rand piano, smiling in anticipation, and was justified.The record was indeed a surrealist delirium of moon¬shine woes. AnnounceEnglishBooksThe English Office announced yes¬terday the books to be read for sum¬mer quarter examinations in that field.Those taking the comprehensives forthe Bachelors Degree will read 1.) forcriticism: Jane Austen’s MansfieldPark, and 2.) for analysis of ideas:Mathew Arnold’s Essays on Gray,Wordsworth and Keats (Essays inCriticism 2nd series, Macmillan 1924.)For the Masters Degree Chaucer’sMerchant’s Tale will be read forcriticism, and John Stewart Mill’sRepresentative Government for analy¬sis of ideas.Those taking the qualifying exam¬ination for the Ph. D. will read 1.)criticism: John Webster’s The WhiteDevil, The Duchess of Malfi, and TheDevil’s Law Case. 2) analysis of ideas:Hamilton, Madison, etc.. The Federal¬ist. 3. History; this test will consistof problems of a historical naturecontained in the two preceding exam¬inations.It is assumed that candidates willmake themselves thoroughly familiarwith not only the texts set for thisexamination but also with the mostimportant scholarly contributions tothe study of those texts.Collegium PresentsBeethoven ProgramAn all Beethoven program is instore at the next concert of the Col¬legium Musicum, to take place Sun¬day at 8:30 in Mandel Hall. Includedwill be orchestral, vocal, and chamberworks.Jean Williams, who has been heardwith the Illinois Symphony Orchestraand in recital here, will play Beethov¬en’s first Piano Concerto. The accom¬panying orchestra, under the directionof Siegmund Levarie, will be morelike the sort of orchestra Beethovenwrote for than most large present daygroups.ClassifiedTO SELL—Flowers, pipes and tobacco, andhotel entertainment duebills at slashedprices to liquidate accumulated assets. SeeEllen Tuttle, Office Managrer, Daily Ma¬roon business office—Lexington Hall.SPECIAL — Edgewater Beach Daebills 20%off. President Clayton Traeger an¬nounces that Iron Mask holds itsinitiation tonight in the NorthLounge of the Reynolds Club. Allinitiates and members are request¬ed to be there at 7:45.BY DICK HIMMELWhen a bright sun bringswomen from Beecher, Kelly andFoster out on their lawns andfirescapes for a browning to gowith spring formals, it's time forsmart men to start looking attheir own wardrobes. For in¬stance, have you ever noticedhow these warmish wet days willmelt a crease out of a pair ofordinary pants until they looklike soggy mailing tubes/ It'simportant, because a poll ofcampus women (3) disclosed thattwo out of three don't mindcasual sports coats, but they in¬sist that their man's pants havecreases in them, if only so they/ can tell which way^ you're walking. Thethird ''woman''turned out to beI Biackfriar's leadFrank Etherton, andwe don't think he'squalified to vote.All of which brings us aroundto noting that there's nothinglike a pair of gabardine or flan¬nel slacks to keep an edge onyour appearance. It's a distinctadvantage when you have knob¬by knees. And now the Hubcomes to the rescue with regularoutfits, consisting of Sports coatsof Tweed or Shetland and con¬trasting slacks in Gabardine orFlannel. SPORT-DUOS they callthem and you can have yourpick of any combination youwant at only $24.45. And ifyou've hit any daily doubles re¬cently you can spend up to $65.In any case, this isn't any massproduction sale. You can buy incontentment and not in fearyou'll find every third man in theC. Shoppe wearing the samething.the I HubState anil Juihiion, CHIC'ACiOIITHE DAILY MAROON. WEDNESDAY. APRIL 30. 1941 Page ThreeTHE HOUSE IS ON FIRE!(Continued from page one)You say, “Well, the firemen said itwas spontaneous combustion of a pileof oily rags in the basement.”“Was it?” says Socrates.“Well,” you say, “there was a pileof oily rags in the basement.”"But when the house is on fire—”“Jones,” says Socrates, “What areyou going to do about those oilyrags?“Well,” you say, “I guess I’ve gotto do something, but I wish youwouldn’t bother me about them now,because I’m exhausted and tired andcold and wet and I need all mystrength to start rebuilding the house.”“And what about the oily rags?”says Socrates.“Oh, I’ve got to remember to getrid of them some time,” you say,“but it’s so hard to remember thingslike that when you’ve got to spendall your time putting out fires and re¬building the house.”Wise Man and FoolSocrates thought you were a wiseman when you told him you wereputting out the fire as a means togoing on living in the house, but hethinks you’re a fool when you admitthat the same thing that caused thelast fire caused this one and it soundsto him as if you won’t get around todoing anything about those oily ragsbefore the next fire. So he thinks youare a wise man and a fool, wise inyour calm and considered choice ofends, foolish in your red-eyed ab¬sorption with means and your conse¬quent neglect of the ends you havechosen, and he figures that if youcontinue to be wise and foolish, youwill continue to spend your lifequenching and rebuilding, withoutever a house to live in very long.“Have another cup of coffee,” saysSocrates.“No,” you .say, “thank you justthe same, but I’ve got to rush off andstart rebuilding my house. I’m nophilosopher, you know; I can’t live ina hovel like yours. I believe in tak¬ing advantage of progress. I’ve justinstalled air - conditioning, and thehouse is wonderful in the summermonths. You must come over.”“I will,” says Socrates, “if minebums down.”Roosevelt One Of The JonesesNow some of us are thinking andtalking like Jones in this matter ofwar aims. I don’t accept the simplifica¬tion that some of us are bad and somegood. Jones was good, in the sensethat he chose the right end; he wasfoolish, in the sense that he let themeans obscure the end. And I can’t seewhere he was bad at all. Socrates, onthe other hand, was no better thanTENNIS RACKETS*1“ to M7“Raclatf of all loading manufacturors.Balls, Prestos, and all accotsoriot.Shorts, Sox, Shirts, Shoos, etc.COMPLETE RESTRINOING SERVICEWOODWORTH'S tSSI1311 E. 57th St. Open EveningsNear Kimbark Avo. DORchester 4800 Jones; he was wiser. And Socrateswould be the first to admit that it isbetter to be good than wise, if youhave to choose. He would say, ofcourse, that, if you only keep yourshirt on, and your blood pressuredown, and your eye on the ball, youdon’t have to choose.No, it looks to me as if the Jonesesare pretty good people. It looks to meas if there’s some Jones in the Roose¬velt family, and there may even be aJones or two in the Churchill geneal¬ogy somewhere. Let’s give them thebenefit of the doubt, anyway. Let’s as¬sume that they’re really serious aboutgetting rid of those oily rags, es¬pecially since the second fire started.Fight For, Not AgainstBut they’re talking like Jones thered-eyed, who got so excited that hethought he was putting out the firein order to put out the fire. Socrates,who may be a good neighbor, and whomay be a real estate shark who hopesto distract them from the fire so thatthe house will burn down, is sayingto Churchill, “What are we fightingfor?” and to Roosevelt, “What arewe defending?” Churchill says, “We’refighting to beat Hitler,” and Rooseveltsays, “We’re defending ourselvesagainst Hitler.”Now this is a bad tactic, it seemsto me, apart from goodness and wis¬dom, because it is negative. Men fighthappily, eagerly, tirelessly, when theyare fighting for something; whenthey’re fighting against something,they fight fiercely or not so fiercely,depending on how much or how littlethey’ve got to lose, but they don’tfight joyously or recklessly. They fightas the expression goes, doggedly. Sothe men who are fighting for some¬thing, good or bad, usually have anedge on the men who are fightingagainst!Churchill Misses PointBut apart from tactics, what willhappen to the good ends we ascribeto Churchill and Roosevelt if we allowChurchill and Roosevelt to lose trackof them ? Obviously it makes nosense, as Socrates demonstrated inhis conversation with Jones, to putout the fire and leave the rags in thebasement. Even Jones, after he’dcooled off a little, saw the point there.But when Churchill says he is fightingto beat Hitler, he is missing the pointthat Jones saw, and that you see, andthat I see. And that goes for Roose¬velt, too.We want to beat Hitler in order todo something Hitler won’t let us doif he beats us. What is it that we wantto do ? Not, I hope, conquer the world,or oppress the German people, or seizethe wealth and exploit the natives ofSouth America, Asia and Africa. No,our aims must be different from Hit¬ler’s. I take it that what we want todo is to live like human beings, peace¬fully, democratically, even religiously,in the brotherhood of man. Am Iright ?0. K., then. We don’t want to beatHitler just to beat Hitler, becausethat doesn’t make any sense; that’slike putting out the fire in order toput out the fire, and the next week thehouse is on fire again. Nor do wewant to beat Hitler in order to dowhat Hitler wants to do, because wearen’t like Hitler. We want to beatHitler in order to live like humanbeings, peacefully, democratically. even religiously, in the brotherhoodof man.Fighting For WhatNow, don’t say, “Yes, but we’ve gotto beat Hitler in order to keep whatlittle we’ve got.” Half of us, over onCabrini Street, down in Harlem, andout Tobacco Road, can’t see that we’vegot enough to justify our killing our¬selves keeping it. And half of us, whohave got a lot that we’d like to keep,are beginning to get the idea thatwhat we’ve got includes the pile ofoily rags that started this fire andthe last one and will some day starta fire that, as sure as God made U-235and Professor Dempster discovered it,will burn the house down, draperiesand petit-point. Liberty bonds andmattress, baby, cradle, and all.Churchill and Roosevelt have re¬fused—not just neglected, but refused—to state their war aims and theirdefense aims respectively. Let’s saythat, in Roosevelt’s case, the refusalis simply a matter of not having gotaround to formulating them definitelyenough to state them. Let’s say thatnobody has demanded them; HarryHopkins, according to the ChicagoDaily News, told Churchill that thedemand for a statement of war aimsin America was confined to half adozen intellectuals. That* leaves outJones. But the Joneses in Englandhave been hollering their heads off fortwo years, hollering, “What are wefighting for?” hollering in the papers,in parliament, in the pulpit, in thepub. And Churchill says, “Beat Hitlerfirst.”“Beat Hitler First”Well, we’re getting somewhere.Churchill says, “Beat Hitler first.”Apparently there’s something to bedone second, and the first is to thesecond as a means to an end. Let’sassume that Churchill refuses to stateEngland’s war aims because he as¬sumes that everybody knows whatthey are. But Jones doesn’t know whatthey are. Jones wants to know wheth¬er England’s war aims, after Hitler isbeaten, are to establish socialism, fas¬cism, good old imperialism, or democ¬racy, or to preserve the shifting com¬bination of all these orders that Jonessaw in England before the war. AndJones had better want to know, be¬cause, if he loses sight of them, hewill spend the rest of his, and hischildren’s, and his grandchildren’slives alternately pouring water on thefire and rebuilding the house, withoutever a house to live in very long.And some fine day—and not sucha fine day, either—Jones or his chil¬dren or his grandchildren are going tosay, “What’s the percentage in goingon like this? What’s there in it forus? Where do we get off at?” Andthey will go berserk, or maybe giveup and lie down, and, either way, itwill be the end of Jones.Is there a pile of oily rags in thebasement? Is there something rottenin the state of Denmark, and in Hol¬land and Belgium and Norway andPoland and France and England andAmerica? Is there something wrongwith the world besides Hitler, some¬thing that sets up Hitlers faster thanwe can knock them down ? If there is,there is no point in beating Hitler, inshedding all the blood and tears andsweat, in order to rebuild the houseActivities—(Continued from page one)THE STEVENS teen and sixteen of these respectively.With them go the IF and IC councils.There are four student publications,and stage organizations account foranother four active groups.The various and sundry organiza¬tions of the Chapel account for an¬other thirteen. The semi-studentBoard of Social Service and Religionmakes a fourteenth, all of which ac¬cording to the Chapel secretary, areactive in varying degrees.Wide Range of ActivitiesThe fifty-eight remaining societiesare of all nature and description. Theyrange from the Billings Boys club andChild Development group to the Bad¬minton club and the G.A.A. Their onecommon characteristic is some degreeof activity within the past six weeks.The sources of information of or¬ganizations’ activities used were roombookings listed in Cobb hall, and an¬nouncements of meetings on bulletin around the pile of oily rags in thebasement.Does this make sense? Or does itsound like impractical idealism. (This article was taken from theUniversity of Chicago Alumni Maga¬zine. 'The Maroon welcomes letters onthis subject limited to 400 words.)FIFTY-THIRD STREET AT THE LAKECHICAGOIn the springtime and in the summer the Root GardenBallroom of the Sherry with its outdoor promenade andbalcony overlooking the lake and the park is just aboutthe most delightful spot in town for Luncheons, Tea-Parties,Dinners, Dances, Receptions, Weddings, Coming OutParties, Club, Sorority and Fraternity affairs.The food is excellent andthe prices are reasonable •HOTEL SHERRY FAIRFAX 1000r nEVERY THURSDAYAT 12:30presents a series of threeLUNCHEONFASHIONSHOWSstudent staged, studentmodelledIN THE SKY ROOMOF THE SHERRY HOTELSpecial Complete Luncheon45cBEVERLEY WARD. CommentatorMusic, JIM RICHARDSSPECIAL ARRANGEMENTSTHE DAILY MAROON200 NORTH MICHIGAN AVENUE-AT LAKE STREET.JPage Four THE DAILY MAROON. WEDNESDAY. APRIL 30. 1941Daly Wins FirstString Net PostFacing unremitting competition aspersonified by Jimmy McClure, RalphJohanson and Dave Martin, yesterdayjGrover Daly, a “B” team perennial,earned the Number Six spot on CoachW. Hebert’s varsity and a trip toIowa over the week-end. The four menplayed off for the varsity berth inround-robin elimination fashion, underHebert’s surveillance in yesterday’sfine tennis weather.Daly will probably team with BillSelf, the sophomore Number Threeman, in the doubles division againstthe hapless Hawkeyes. He fills out asix-man traveling squad consisting ofCaptain Cal Sawyier, who can boastof a perfect record in individual BigTen play this season, Wally Kemetickand Bill Self, both sophomores. BudLifton, Jim Hill and the newly induct¬ed Daly.Organize FreshmenGolf TeamFor the first time in many years theAthletic Department has sponsored afreshman golf team. Numerals will beawarded to successful candidates atthe close of the season.Members of the team are: WernerBaum, Stanley Zemer, Norm Barker,Bill McNichols, John Culp, VytoldYasus, Ralph Ettlinger, John Dryden,Bob Oakley, and Paul Paulson.'The team is scheduled to competewith the varsity and will be permittedfree use of the new Stagg Field Driv¬ing Range. Kyle Anderson and SpyrosVorres are handling the aggregation.mini WhipsMaroon GolfersThe Illinois Golf team, last year’sBig Ten Champions, administered a26% - % beating to the Maroons onMonday. Arnold Goldberg was respon¬sible for the Chicago points. The Ma¬roon squad meets Wisconsin on Fri¬day, May 2.The men who participated in theIllinois meet are as follows: AlfredWisely, Alfred Schmus, Robert Carter,Arnold Goldberg, Edward Rachlin,and Frank Brunner.The boys have been handicapped bylack of time in which to practice, buthope to give Wisconsin a battle whenthey meet on Friday.DU, Alpha DeltsWin in IM SoftballDelta U ran up a 20 run margin asthey defeated the Deke Cs 24-4 topace I-M scoring yesterday afternoon.They tallied in every inning exceptthe sixth and splurged in the secondinning, when they nudged home nineruns.Although the Alpha Delt B teamran up a 5-0 lead in the first frame,the Phi Psis came back with four inthe second inning, and eleven in thethird, to put the game away.'The Sigma Chis made more in thethree innings in which they scoredthan the Phi Sigs did in their two run-producing frames, and consequentlytook the game, 10-3. The Sigma boyscame through with six in the thirdinning, for their best scoring effortof the day.RAYMAN & CO. Inc.TENNIS SPECIALS- ALL SPORTING GOODS -. RADIO TUBES -Special Discounts to StudentsHyde Park 5583 6601 Cottage Grove As I Was Saying ~~Bob LawsonThe Western Conference prides it¬self on the excellence of the athleticteams it numbers among its mem¬bers. In most sports this pride ismore than justifiable.In basketball Big Ten teams havewon the National Collegiate titleevery year since the tournament wasinaugurated three years ago — OhioState, Indiana, and Wisconsin eachwinning once. Illinois won the Na¬tional Collegiate gymnastics title thisyear for the second consecutive time.Football TopsMinnesota was generally acknowl¬edged as the topnotch football teamin the nation last season, and thewinners of the Conference footballchampionship are generally rankedwell up in the lists of the country’sbest. Michigan’s swimming team hasdominated the aquatic world for sometime now with Ohio State and Yaleaffording most of the opposition.Track, fencing, and golf are all in thistradition.There is one sport, however, inwhich the Big Ten is not very strong—baseball. A cursory examination ofthe box scores of the games playedlast week-end are sufficient to instillmuch doubt as to the quality of base¬ball as played in the league.73 ErrorsIn the 10 games played the 10 teamsmanaged to commit the amazing totalof 73 errors! Any loop which averages7.3 misplays per game can hardlybe called one which presents goodbaseball. And when a team can com¬mit nine errors and still win a gameagainst supposedly good competition,as Wisconsin did in downing OhioStudent RightsCouncil FormedBetty Farrow was elected yesterdayas permanent chairman and SylviaGordon, secretary, of the newly or¬ganized permanent Council for Stu¬dent Rights, formed from the tempo¬rary council. Regular meetings are tobe held on Thursdays at 3:30.'Three committees were establishedby the council, namely education andpublicity, research, and finance. Mem¬bers of the various committees are asfollows: research—Jerry Kraus, JesseWhelan, Muriel Robinson, UlyssesLee, Bill Starke, and Caroline Burr;education and publicity—Wylie Smith,Josephine Baptiste, Doris Fisher, JohnAntel, and Bob Richmond; finance—Lincoln Wolfenstein.Protect Student RightsThe Council aims to protect allrights of all students, including mino¬rity political groups and negro stu¬dents. As St. Claire Drake said yes¬terday in his address to the group,“The council will also strive to pro¬tect the right of any group to saywhat they want to about the presentwar situation, whether we agree withthem or not.’’Name Three StepsIn their program, the organizationhas three definite steps in plan. Mainpoints are: the investigation of specialcases of discrimination and violationof student rights on the campus andthe obtaining of statements of policyfrom the University on the terms ofthe investigation and the policy ofeducation.Yellow BontamRental Library1460 E. 57th St. (Shop in Lobby)Open to 9 P. M.New Mysteries. Novels, etc. State Friday, there is something piti¬ful about the spectacle.It is not only the errors of com¬mission that effect the caliber of playbut also the errors of omission. Tosee a Big Ten team which plays smartbaseball is the decided exception rath¬er than the rule. The players throwto the wrong bases, run the basespoorly, and, in general, look like ateam of Babe Hermans. Knowledge ofsuch fundamentals as bunting andsliding is also sadly lacking.Not Only SinnersIt is perhaps wrong to single outthe Western Conference teams as thesole collegiate nines that play suchbad baseball. There is a vast differencebetween professional baseball and col¬legiate baseball. But there is alsoquite a difference between Big Tenteams and such southern teams asDuke.Quite a bit of this difference can beaccounted for by the difference inclimate. Middle Western weather isnotoriously variable in April andMay, making it difficult for most ofthe teams to work out of doors forany lengfth of time before the seasonstarts unless they take Southern trips.This quite naturally affects their playduring the early part of the schedule.College baseball as a whole is severelyhandicapped by its season which isended just as good baseball weatherbegins.Taking all these factors into con¬sideration, however, the Western Con¬ference still plays bad baseball.HOMEY, ROOMY, AIRY FUR¬NISHED COTTAGE—attractivelylocated on wooded knoll borderinggolf course and 300 yds. from LakeMichigan. All utilities: double gar¬age; commuting distance fromcampus. Bargain—Rent or Sale. In¬quire P.O. Grand Beach, Mich. Lopatka EligibleFor Army ServiceMajor John L. Griffith, the directorof athletics for the Western CJonfer-ence, has recently enumerated the val¬uable service Big Ten athletes gaveto their country in the first world war,and the sacrifices they are making tothe armed forces at present. Griffithis correct.No less than the baseball majors ofthe nation, where Hank Greenbergfinally gave himself up to patriotismand Hugh Mulcaghy escaped from thePhillies to the army, the major col¬leges are losing many of their finestathletes. On the local scene. North¬western will undoubtedly lose GeorgeBenson, the Wildcat fullback, and ahost of lesser men.Chicago has been hit least of all, forthere are few renowned athletes herefor the taking. The most famous Ma¬roon to be called to the colors will beArthur Lopatka, the slightly humor¬ous baseball captain. Big Arthur,pitcher, outfielder, clean-up man, andmartyr to the Chicago baseball for¬tunes this year, will leave for serviceafter graduation, which guaranteesthe Maroons their white hope for theentire summer.Arthur takes his proposed armycareer philosophically, just as he hastaken his experiences on the diamondthis season.Looking back to the sorry seasonthe Maroons had last year, and turn¬ ing a bright eye toward the future,Lopatka claims that—“this season isgoing to be different.. .we don’t playPurdue.” Purdue supplied the loneChicago victory last spring.I-M SoftballDelta Upsilon, 24; Deke "C’, 4Phi Psi, 19; Alpha Delt “B”, 7Sigma Chi, 10; Phi Sig, 3Planning TourVACATION?Then you will need the help ofthese books.DUNCAN HINESADVEHTURES IKGOOD EATINGNEW EDITION 1941, $1.50LODGING FOR THENIGHTNEW EDITION 1941, $1.50MEW 1941RAND McHALLYROAD MAP 75cIJ. of C. 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