%MVol. 40. No. 35 Wk Batlp inaroonZ-149 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1939 Price Three CentsInsideStoryRICHARD C. MASSELLPEARL C. RUBINSChicago students and faculty whoexpect that the University's bestknown empiricist, Albert EustaceHaydon, will be succeeded by anotherempiricist when he retires as Chair¬man of the Department of Compara¬tive Religion are due for for a bigsurprise.As Haydon faces the last half dec¬ade of service to the school, the ques¬tion naturally arises, who will thisman whose name has been the wholedepartment for twenty years recom¬mend as his successor, or more im¬portant than that—who is Hutchinsgoing to appoint? There are manyof Haydon’s students scattered inuniversities all over the world, andthere are a few other people who for(me reason or another might be giventne position. Napoleon Nullified FrenchRevolution Gains-GottschalkCorsicans Civil Code Ex-erted Fundamental In¬fluence,Several scholars who have receiveddegrees under Haydon stand out ashis possible successors. Among theseare Oswald Grabger, Chairman of theDivision of Social Studies at Lynche-burg College; Harold Buschman, Pro¬fessor at the University of Kansas;Norman Johnson, Professor of Com¬parative Religion at Knox; and MissMargaret Boell, Haydon's present re¬search assistant.Should they choose to pass up aUniversity graduate, a logical choicemight be Herbert W. Scheider, of thedepartment of Philosophy, at Colum¬bia, an outstanding authority in thefield of Comparative Religion.Hutchins, if he wanted to, couldabolish the department, the brain¬child of the University’s first pres¬ident, William Rainey Harper. For 34years it has been the only departmentof its kind in the United States, be¬ing an outgrowth of the EuropeanmovemeivT'wbTcTi followed Tfaf^ih to 'explain the evolution of religions.* * *But it is more likely that the de¬partment will remain, and that noneof the men mentioned will be appoint¬ed, because the next Chairman of theDepartment of Comparative Religionwill be none other than the arch-en¬emy of all that Haydon’s empiricismstands for, Mortimer J. Adler. Forthe past decade Hutchins has beenbothered by the problem of where toput Adler, having tried him in bothphilosophy and law; now he has thechance to give him a department ofhis own, and finally solve the problem.• (Continued on page four) By JUDY PETERSONNapoleon Bonaparte glorified toooften as either the son or the testa¬mentary executor of the French Rev¬olution, in actual fact was largelyresponsible for eliminating many ofthe gains which it had made. Thiswas the theme which Louis R. Gotts¬chalk, professor of modern historyand chairman of the department, de¬veloped yesterday afternoon in theeighth lecture of the Law School se¬ries.Napoleon as a ReactionaryBy ties of blood and marriage, andby virtue of many of his ow'n beliefs,Napoleon was also literally and spirit¬ually a nephew of the Old Regime,and the influence he exerted on thesocial history of 19th century Francewas in the main reactionary. Be¬cause the Napoleonic Civil Code,adopted in 1804, forms the focal pointfor French history of that century.Professor Gottschalk chose to viewthe legal history of the time throughits provisions. Generally regardedas significant because it summarizedand corrected the Revolution, theCode also embodied many importantfeatures of the Old Regime.Status of the FamilyThe family, sometimes consideredthe most important institution of theOld Regime, was affected by four setsof laws, all of which welded it evermore tightly into a unit. The Romanlaw of Northern France, customarylaw of the South, the Royal decrees,and canonical law all frowned on di¬vorce, and granted extreme family •control to fathers and husbands.By diminishing paternal power, j'IHiTiTltmng and shnplifying divorce, jadopting a much more liberal attitude |toward illegitimate children, and rec¬ognizing the equality of women inmanaging their own property and af¬fairs, the Revolution, from 1789 to1799, tended to destroy this unity.But Napoleon’s feeling for the fam¬ily of the Old Regime, particularlyregarding the status of a wife, wasvery strong. The Civil Code rein¬stituted most of the provisions whichthe Revolution had done away withand the position of women and chil¬dren was even more subordinatedthan in pre-Revolutionary days. Al¬though more liberal laws have super¬seded most of these provisions of the(Continued on page three) Peace CouncilHears LaboriteSpeak on WarHerbert March has been invited toaddress today’s meeting of the bi¬weekly Peace Council discussion groupbecause the C.I.O. is now trying to or¬ganize all workers on “the basis ofa united labor front to keep the Unit¬ed States out of the war.” His speechon “An Industrial Unionist Looks atThe War,” will be given in Eckhart202 at 3:30. A question and discussionperiod will follow March’s talk.March is most widely known as thenumber three man on the PackingHouse Worker’s Organizing Commit¬tee which recently won the Armourelection in Chicago. They are now try¬ing to organize all the packing plantson a national basis. Since, accordingto a C.I.O. spokesman, the C.I.O. nowrepresents a majority of all the work¬ers, their adoption of the plank—towage an unrelenting struggle to keepthe United States cut of war in theirrecent convention was a very definitestep towards peace.The Dies Committe held an investi¬gation in Chicago just before the elec¬tion in the Armour Plant at whichtime Communist charges were madeagainst March and the rest of the or¬ganizing committee. March believesthat Dies is trying to divide Americanlabor and thus pave the way to war.Therefore, says the C.I.O., it is tryingto organize the whole of Americanlabor to present a united front.Tell How Modern Websters WriteDietionary of American EnglishBy BILL HANKLADoubtless there is no one who atone time in his life has not scannedthe pages of an unabridged dictionarywith a certain feeling of awe-struckwonderment. Who are the people whospend their lifetimes in the mustystudy of words? How do they goabout compiling these monstrous vol¬umes ? Why don’t they make more er¬rors, more omissions? These arequestions which come to mind.Unobtrusively and quietly sevenfolk on the fourth floor of Wiebolthave actually been accomplishing thetitanic task of writing a dictionary.“A Dictionary of American EnglishOn Historical Principles” a monumen¬tal work in five volumes, the second ofwhich is gradually approaching completion, is the subject of the ener¬gies they have been expending for thelast fifteen years. Sir William Craigie,co-author of the Oxford English Dic¬tionary and James R. Hulbert, Profes¬sor of English at the University arethe editors. Its publication is beinghandled by the University of ChicagoPress.“The aim of ‘A Dictionary of Amer¬ican English on Historical Principles’is to exhibit clearly those word mean¬ings by which the English of the Unit- jed States is distinguished from that 1of the rest of the English-speakingworld. Every word or phrase clearlyAmerican has been annotated as wellas every imported word denotingsomething which has a real connec¬tion with the development of the coun¬try and the history of its people. The treatment is historical, with datedquotations,” according to the publish¬ers.Work is now in the eighth part, andwhen interviewed yesterday afternoonMiltford M. Mathews, Associate Edi¬tor, was working on the “L’s” and hadjust finished up the word “light.”On the basis of the first volume,the work has been applauded by crit¬ics, scholars, and reviewers in publi¬cations all over the world, and whenone talks to the editors he is struckwith the thought that he must be talk¬ing with the Websters of tomorrow.But these modern Websters seem on¬ly mortal, pleasant, soft-spoken, hum¬an beings, and although the averageman could not even conceive of read¬ing a dictionary, writing one is not theimpossible task it might seem to be.The first ten year’s work were de¬voted solely ic the collecting of ma¬terial. That is, an exhaustive field ofmatter ranging from Chicago Trib¬unes to “Poor Richard’s Almanac”was read, and words in their contextcopied on card.s. No manuscript is pre¬pared for the printer, instead, thesecards, arranged alphabetically, aremerely copied directly by the linotyp-ist. The first illustration gives theearliest evidence found of a word’susage, later selections show changesin meaning or convey interesting in¬formation. (Americanisms, which isalso slang, are included only whencontinued u.suage through an extendedperiod of time has incorporated theminto the permanent American lan¬guage.) Pilot TrainingOnCampus?PUDebates IssueFor the first time. Political Unionwill di.scuss a problem immediatelyfacing its student members when itvotes this afternoon at 3:30 in LawNorth on whether a unit of the CivilAeronautics Authority should be es¬tablished on the campus.Party lines have been split againby this issue. The Conservative at¬titude is dissimilar to that of theradical groups, while the Liberalsstand divided on both sides of thepolitical fence.A change in procedure has beenmade to entice more visitors, and tospeed up the debate. The listenerswill have a chance to throw questionsto the four five-minute speakers rightafter they fininsh declaiming, and be¬fore the regular three-minutespeeches.The Liberals, who will speak proand con on the issue respectively, areGeorge Hand and Jim Burtle. TheConservative who thinks that theCAA on campus is a wise politicalmove is Rob Roy Buckingham, andthe Communist who thinHs that it’sthe first step towards war is SamuelWolfenstein.The issue will be an especially in¬teresting one, since several of the(Continued on page three)Research EconomistAddresses CongressMr. Melchoir Palyi, onetime eco¬nomic adviser to the Deutsche Bank ofBerlin and now research economist forthe University, will be the featuredspeaker today at the second annualChicago Sales Congress at the Con¬gress Hotel. His subject will be“What Effect Will the European Sit¬uation Have on 1940 Business?”Dr. Palyi will open the afternoonsession of the congress at 4 o’clock.The evening session, a dinner meet¬ing, will get under way at 6:30.Other speakers on the program are:George S. Jones, Jr., vice-presidentand general sales manager, Servel,Inc.; Burton Bigelow, consulting SalesManager, Buffalo, N.Y.; and RichardC. Borden, director of sales promotion,Borden Company, New York; Themeeting will conclude with the show¬ing of a sales-training film. Martin Promises WowOf An Xmas CarnivalTickets on SaleForWorkshop’s^Uncle Vanya^Tickets go on sale today in MandelCorridor for the DA Workshop’s pro¬duction of Chekhov’s “Uncle Vanya”to be given Tuesday, Wednesday andThursday night in the Reynolds’ ClubTheatre.The plays of Chekhov are distin¬guished by their constant minimiza¬tion of plot and their treatment ofcharacter. His particular type of char¬acterization has been called “centri¬fugal” for it does not treat the char¬acters primarily in relation to plot buteach character is drawn individuallyand independently. The lines of char¬acter may converge but they alwaysretain their individuality.Chekhov was born in 1860 in south¬ern Russia, the son of a provisionmerchant and the grandson of a serf.He entered the medical school of theUniversity of Russia where he sup¬ported himself by writing short sto¬ries and sketches. He began his careeras a playwright in 1885. The futilis-tic outlook presented in all his worksreflects the frustrated life of the con¬temporary middle-class Russian, andhis own melancholy and hopelessness.Millet has found the key to “UncleVanya” in the speech of Astroff’s, “Nosooner did you arrive here with yourhusband than every one who youfound busy and actively creatingsomething was forced to drop hiswork and give himself' up for thewhole summer to your husband’s goutand yourself.” The whole plays resultsin an increased feeling of frustrationon the part of Vanya (Pierce Atwa¬ter), Sonia (Marian Castleman), Hel¬ena (Ruth Ahlquist) and Astroff(Jack Campbell).The play was first performed inMoscow, November 1899 and the firstAmerican performance was given in1922 for the Artists’s Guild of St.Louis under the direction of GregoryZilboorg. Running Bazaar WillWrite Gossip As It Hap¬pens.Planning to make the Maroon Christ¬mas Carnival on December 8 the mostspectacular and entertaining of the in¬formal dances in the Social-C year,Dave Martin, Maroon Board chairman,yesterday pulled a few rabbits outof his hat with more facts about thedance.All of Ida Noyes will be open ex¬cept the pool. This move is designedto protect Bazaar writer Dick Him-mel. Detail will be stressed with cari¬catures by ace cartoonist Johnny Pat¬rick on every ping-pong ball.Bazaar RunsThere are door prizes planned, andthere will be a running Bazaar writtenas the evening progressed. As an in¬ducement to people to reveal the in¬nermost secrets of their best friendsor worst enemies, every contributorto the column will receive a lolli-pop.The gymnasium will be decoratedmore elaborately than at any previousC-dances. With banners on the walls,and with an immense gossip columnwith everyone and sundry’s nameslapped on another wall, the dancewill attempt to be a pageant of Uni¬versity news.Stuff and ThingsTo make life more interesting therewill be a ballot stuffing contest. TheDaily Maroon will decide who Cap andGown’s beauty queens for 1940 are.Nominees so far are Dorothy Parker,Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, and LilianLuter. Students are invited to nametheir own winners, and vote as manytimes as their fancy dictates—thewinner will be the one who gets themost signatures written in the samehandwriting and will get her picturein Pulse.There will be billiards, pool, andbowling. The price has been set at30 cents per person, to lure Univer¬sity paupers and hermits from theirlairs. And to make the music of ChuckTowey more clarion, the sponsors ofthe dance plan to spit on their col¬lective hands, and hew out a platformfor Towey and his lads to play from.The dance is designed to act as acounter-irritant to examination cram¬ming. Martin says, if nothing else, itwill be different.Courtier and Leiser TellHow to Live and{Reprinted with changes by ErnestLeiser—courtesy of the Courtier)Are you having any fun? If youhaven’t been doing a reasonable num¬ber of these things you are a socialoutcast, a misogquist, a misfit, shouldleave the dorms, and move into theCo-op.Studies, have you...□ missed nine out of every tenclasses ?□ read Freud’s “Three Contribu¬tions to the Theory of Sex?”□ slept with a club girl ? Married toher, of course!□ gone without sleep for a week?Senior Class CouncilElection Ends TodayToday is the last day of the SeniorClass council election. Promptly at 3o’clock this afternoon, the ballots willbe counted by Chuck Pfeiffer, head ofthe organizing committee, and his as-I sistants.The twelve candidates for the fivepositions are Jim Anderson, Bob Big¬elow, Ruth Brody, Johnny Culp, JanetGeiger, Thelma Iselman, FrederickLinden, David Martin, Jerry Moberg,Russ Parsons, Chuck Pfeiffer, andBob Reynolds.SHOW SNOW WHITESnow White and The Seven Dwarfs,Walt Disney’s first full-length fea¬ture, will be shown at InternationalHouse at matinee and evening per¬formances today. The showingsare sponsored by the Southern Wom¬en’s Educational Alliance, and theproceeds will be used to aid in the vo¬cational guidance of rural youth. Be Happy□ read an analysis of the Republic?□ got an F on every test in PhysicalScience ?Campus, have you...□ thrown President Hutchins intothe Botany Pond?□ Used the footbaths in Judson?□ Listened to the phonograph con¬certs in Social Science?□ Been to Mabry’s, the cigar storeon 55th and Woodlawn, Massell’s,the Empire Room, or Tsen Tsen’slaundry, (one point each)□ paid 44 cents for getting a bookin two minutes late?□ Thrown bricks through the Ma¬roon office window?Cultural, have you□ kicked in an Entry Head?□ Seen “My Dear Children”?□ read more than the headlines inthe Courtier?□ fed the squirrels in the Circle?Fed the squirrels in the Libraries ?Fed Himmel?n Seen ninety-six operas not count¬ing Wagner?Amorous, have you...□ been introduced to Lilian Luter,Myra Koven (n(;e Itkonnen),Jackie Cross, P C Rubins, Mrs.Jim Peterson, Elsa Teller, or MaeWest? ((4 point each)□ Been to the I-F Brawl?n been drunk? •□ been married ?□ had a date with a Beta?□ been kissed goodnight at the en¬trance of Hitchcock?If your score is good, you are virileand can work on the Courtier. If yourscore is bad, you are Ira Glick and canwork on Pulse. If you are in between,you’re in a rut. So go to the Maroondance.Page Two THE DAILY MAROON, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1939©atlg (^aroonFOUNDED IN 1901MEMBER ASSOCIATED COLLEGIATE PRESSThe Daily Maroon is the official student newspaper of the Uni¬versity of Chicago, published mornings except Saturday Sunday andMonday during the Autumn, Winter and Spring dufters by TheDaily Maroon Company, 5831 University avenue. Telephone: HydePark 9222. ...After 6:30 phone in stories to our printers. The Chief PrintingCompany, 148 West 62nd street. Telephone Wentworth 6123.The University of Chicago assumes no responsibility for anystatements appearing in The Daily Maroon or for any contractentered into by The Daily Maroon.The Daily Maroon expressly reserves the rights of publication ofany material appearing in this paper. Subscription rates: 53 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. 18(9.RKPRKSKNTKD FOU national ADVINTIBINO BYNational Advertising Service, Inc.V College Publishers Representaiive420 Madison Ave. New York, N. Y.Chicaso • BosToa • Loi AseiLis • Sas faahciicoBOARD OF CONTROLEditorialRTTTH BRODY WILLIAM H. GRODYHARRY CORNELIUS DAVID MARTIN. ChairmanALICE MEYERBusinessHARRY F. TOPPING, Business Mgr.ROLAND I. RICHMAN, Advertising Mgr.BUSINESS ASSOCIATESJohn Bex, Herb Gervin, William Lovell, and Julian LowensteinEDITORIAL ASSOCIATESMarion Gerson, William Hankla, Pearl C. Rubins,Hart Wurzburg. Marian Castleman, Ernest John Stevens,LeiserNight Editor: Demarest PolacheckEpithets and ArgumentsOne purpose of the ASU meeting Tuesdaywas to “refute some of the half-baked and con¬tradictory criticisms of student action groupsin general that have been made on this campuslately.” Since the Daily Maroon has recentlyquestioned the value of such action groups, itlooked forward with some interest to havingits problems straightened out. Also it wantedto .learn just why and how its criticisms de¬served the adjectives “half-baked and contra¬dictory.”Instead, the Maroon heard that the tradi¬tion of student action can keep democracyalive; that according to European academictheory students, as possessors of a certainamount of theoretical knowledge, should beamong the first groups to take political action;that the tradition of student action has neverbeen challenged. While these statements areinteresting and may be pretty largely true, itis difficult to see how they refute any criticismsthis paper has offered.A few weeks ago the Maroon suggestedthat some student action groups waste toomuch time for the returns thgy give. It raisedthe theoretical question of the appropriatenessof these political action groups to the Univer¬sity. Schools, it pointed out, exist to impartknowledge to those who don’t have enough ofit already. If they had all the theoreticallearning they needed for effective action therewould be little sense in their continuing to paytuition and to their remaining college students.In this democratic country where education isuniversal and required by law there is not thesame need for students to be political leadersas there is in less fortunate states where themasses of people are uninformed and ignorant.Moreover, the Maroon maintained that thisUniversity is ideally a place where people pur¬sue truth. Such pursuits often leave little timefor effective political action. Too often, usuallybecause students find schoolwork interferingwith politics, action gets taken over by peoplewho are working for causes—and these causesare not necessarily “the cause of either theoret¬ical or practical truth.”But the Maroon has not said that studentaction groups should not exist, nor has itclaimed that the University is in actuality whatit is ideally. For intelligent performance ofthe duties of a citizen in a democracy, partici¬pation in such student organizations might begood practical experience. It still, however, isnot the most important kind of experience stu¬dents can get at this particular University.Very few people here spend all their timestudying. Working in a campus political groupmight very well be an interesting and instruc¬tive spare-time activity. But whether all suchorganizations at this school actually are as val¬uable as they should be is still another matter.It is entirely possible that these criticismsmay be half-baked and contradictory. If so,it is the business of the people who think theyare to prove it reasonably. Or better yet, it isthe business of the action groups to set aboutactually demonstrating their value to studentsand society, and thereby shame all criticism.But they only lay themselves open to furtherattack when they call names.Must We Appeal To God?Though the University may be expected tobe a place where the glittering light of man’sintellect forges ever ahead to penetrate thegloom of those few obscure spots left in theuniverse, there is still too much darknessaround here. One of the most shadowy spots on campus after sundown is the steep stonestairway leading from the Law Library. Thelaw librarians, however, who are getting intothe habit of turning off the stair lights whenthe library closes, don’t seem to know aboutthis.But the shining beams of human intelli¬gence aren’t sufficient to insure that scholarswill be able to grope their ways down in safetywithout the aid of electric lights. The incan¬descent lamp is one of the triumphs of man’singenuity anyway.We shall pray the librarians find this outbefore intellect takes a bone-breaking tumbledown the steps some evening.Traveling BazaarBy BOB REYNOLDSNothing so amuses as the sudden stop in the senior’sdepreciatory jeering at the futility of the FreshmanCouncil now that the upperclassmen are trumping upa Council for themselves.* ♦ ♦People with nice sisters in high school: Bob Mc-Namee’s Dorothy, Ned Rosenheim’s Betty, and AI Van-derhoff’s Marilyn,*You can discredit these rumors: 1) that Paul Flor-ian was voted out as president of the Mortar BoardAuxiliary. The gals don’t mind his trepidations enoughto lose the Coffee Shop’s best bridge fourth.2) That the management of the Chicago BeachHotel called up the DKE house after their Saturdaynight gurgle fest and asked what should be done withthe two bodies found under the tables.Incidentally, the same hostelry offered to reduce therental charges next time of the Dekes guarantee theliquor consumption will be as great.* >•> >FJohnny Stevens and the Iron Mask boys came out onthe short end of their financial bout with Bob Reynoldsand the Student Social Comittee. Dean Randall refereedthe bout over percentages on returns from the IronMask Homecoming dance which the two organizationscombined to sponsor. The juniors are now mutteringadmonitions to their little brothers in Skull and Cres¬cent to steer clear of the Social Committee.* * *Betty Jane Nelson and Pat Lyding wandered downto the Loop last Friday for a show and cocktail butreturned with jobs. They will handle the Young Miss’Shop at Marshall Field’s Saturday afternoons. Thevagaries surrounding the manner in which they got thework smacks of the fine hand of happy fortune.Speaking of dresses, Margaret Peacock, anotherMarshall Fields hireling gave out fashion notes duringthe IF ball to reporters while in a competitor’s clothes.<l> * (AThose almost exotic color photographs of Sigmapledge Ruth Alquist and O.I.W. Marian Castleman inMandel corridor publicizing the D.A. production “UncleVanya’’ hold a story: When time came for the advancepublicity shots to be taken, the costumes were not there.So Photographer Bob Kronemeyer improvised with ma¬terials at hand and draped a prop curtain over Ruth,pinned some roses on her bosom, and shot the picture.Marian’s costume took nothing more Parisian thanan Aide’s black robe and a yard of petticoat lacewound around her neck and draped down the front.if Sf SfGoing through his hell week paces, Psi U pledgeDick Boks travelled out to Naperville, Ill., last night,to map the home of brother AI Schmus. He arrivedthere at 3 just after a burglary had been committed inthe same neighborhood.While prowling around the house, noting in whichdirection the chimney leaned, the names of iron dogson the lawn, and the number of shingles on the roof,the town’s one police car pulled up and ordered him in.They drove Dick over to the home of the robbed foridentification, where a sleep happy hick stumbledaround for 30 minutes before finally saying he did notknow what the thief looked like.By way of compensation the police took him overto the station house for a couple of hours’ sleep andoffered to drive him back to the city.The Night AndThe LadyBy DICK HIMMELAll about MaudeIn a little studio over a garage works an artist.She isn’t just any artist; she is Maude Phelps Hutchins,wife and friend to Robert Maynard Hutchins. Maudepaints pictures. The other day Maude’s secretary calledup Peg Hutchinson, Mortar Board and Mirror president,and asked if any of the girls in the Mirror chorus wouldbe interested in posing for the University’s first lady.Hutchinson with her eye out for MB and Mirror pub¬licity said, “Sure,” thinking here was a chance for hergirls to get a break. After all arrangements were com¬plete, the secretary added, “In the nude, you know.”Peg gulped and said, “Sure.” Then sat down andthought about it.On unsuspecting little friends and pledges. Pegpulled her wheeze. Friends fell hard. Using Maude’ssecretary’s technique her parting words to the girlswere, “In the nude, you know.” Marion Jerberg is stillblushing. With the aid of pulchritude surveyor Wil¬liam Randall, Peg compiled a list for Mrs. Hutchins.If you see anyone who looks like your club sister atMaude Phelps Hutchins’ one man art show next month,run like hell, it might be you! Today on theQuadranglesDivinity Chapel, Professor Haydon,Worship Leader, Joseph Bond Chapel.11:55. POETRYConsidering at great length all thewonders that I have seenThe one thing that will always givenight editors a pain in the Bean,Is to be confronted with 1^/4 columninches of voidAnd not have any short juicy itemsto fill; it makes me annoyed!“The Renaissance Philosophy inRaphael’s Frescos. The Concordanceof Justice and Love.” Dr. Wind. Clas¬sics 10. 4:30.Psychology Club “DepartmentalReminiscences.” Professor EmeritusCarr. Psychology lA. 4:30.“Snow White and the SevenDwarfs.” Movie. International House.Matinee 4—Evening 8:30.Christian Youth League. OpenMeeting. Charles Baptista, speaker.Ida Noyes, Room A. 7:30.Hillel League. Ida Noyes Library. 4.Folk Dance Club. Ida Noyes Thea¬ter. 8.SSA Club. Ida Noyes Library. 7:30.Congregational Student Group. IdaNoyes, YWCA Room. 7.YWCA Settlement Group. IdaNoyes, Alumnae Room. 12:30.Religious Problems Council. ChapelBasement. 4:30.Horne EconomicsHns Annual DinnerThe Home Economics Departmenthoilds its annual banquet tomorrow atIda Noyes. Rayna De Costa is chair¬man of the committee of senior girlswho have planned the dinner; work¬ing with her are Esther Seijo, Jean¬nette De Vin, Charlotte Krevitsky andWinnifred Jesseman. Tickets to thedinner, which begins at 6:30, can bepurchased from any of the committeeor from the Home Economics office.Dr. and Mrs. Harvey have been in¬vited to be guests of honor. Movieswill be shown after the dinner. Allinterested students as well as mem¬bers of the faculty of the departmentare invited to attend. You'll FeelSuccessfulWhen YouWearQuality ClothesREXFORDSClothes for Men28 E. Jackson Blvd.2nd floorPARKER PEHS, 52.75 TO $10 • PEN AND PENCIL SETS. $3.95 TO $15Non-StopContinuousfood Pencil including the genuineGuaranteed - for - Life ^"HirLer'^^VACUMATIC-!^&^To encourage ‘‘Early Bird” aboppingWe offer FkiS ENGRAVINGof owner’s name on any Parker Vacumatic Penor Pen and Pencil Set purchased before Christmas.Oiva us time to engrave Gifts to be sent longdistances by coming in now for your selections. ILUE^DIAMONDmarkmeansGuaranteedfor LifeU. of C. BOOKSTORE5802 Ellis AvenueCOME TO THEANNUAL FOOTBALLBANQUETHutchinson Commons, Tuesday, Dec. 5th, 6:30 P.M.Find Out The WhyAnd Wherefore OfCHICAGO FootballDisc andDescant* * *By FRIEDA WEITZMANAll of the delicacy and grace that isMozart is presented in the Diverti¬mento No. 17 (Columbia Album M-379) as played by the Lener StringQuartet with Aubrey and DennisBrain, Horns. The exceedingly lighttouch which none but Mozart has evermanaged to attain is displayed charm¬ingly in this informal little musical.suite; one of the most famous of allthe Mozart minuets makes up thethird movement. The light and fanci¬ful character of Mozart’s Serenadesand Divertimenti is a perfect answerto those who consider good music tobe a solemn business. THE DAILY MAROON. THURSDAY. NOVEMBKR 30, 1939Alphabet MakesUnique ^Monickers^^ Friday Is CollegeNight at Stevens Page ThreeNew Student DirectoryAppears With Only TwoJohn Smiths,And now, a deep breath; for thisnext is, in my opinion, one of the bestrecordings which Victor has releasedso far in the fall season. It’s theBrahms Piano Quintet in F. Minor,Op. 34, as played by the Busch Quar¬tet and the incomparable Rudolf Ser-kin (Victor Album M-607). This sure¬ly is one of Brahms’ loveliest works inchamber music, and a mere descrip¬tion in words cannot possibly do jus¬tice to it. This was, incidentally, oneof the selections played at last Fri¬day’s recording concert at Interna¬tional House, and it met with a warmreception. The Bu.sch Quartet ranksamong the world’s best string ensem¬bles, and this added to the superb mu¬sicianship of Serkin could produce lit¬tle el.se but a masterpiece, which thisundoubtedly is. Again, it is necessaryto mention the technical excellence ofthe reproduction; the recording hasthe gratifying clarity and deepwarmth of the actual performance.BullSessionThe Civil Aeronautics Authority isa bad part of a bad program. That itis included in the present administra¬tion’s armament policy is reasonenough for oppo.«ing it.If the Roosevelt “rearmament”program continues, it is almost cer¬tain to have psychological effects thatwill get us into the war in Europemuch sooner than we would ordinarilybecome involved. A small child is morelikely to feel “brave” when he has aclub in his hand. In much the sameway, if we are prepared for war, weare more likely to decide that it isour duty to go out and fight for“democracy” or some other prettysounding intangible.* * *In regard to “invasions” of conti-nentjil United States, I would say thatthe danger of our losing our libertiesthrough a foreign conquest is muchless than the danger of our takingaway our own liberties through en¬gaging in a foreign war.President Hutchins in the “HigherLearning in America” informs us thateducation in a university should con¬sist in studying the fundamental prob¬lems of metaphysics, natural science,and social science without those “el¬ements of disorder”, vocationalismand empiricism. While many of us donot agree with Hutchins, it seemsrather queer that the school which hasavoided corrupting its curriculumwith such practical arts as engineer¬ing, journalism, and speech shouldsuddenly go in for aviation. Perhapsthe flying properties of airplanes havea metaphysical significance that qual¬ifies them for a place in the higherlearning in America.If the government were really anx¬ious to train our students to operateairplanes for non-military purposes,this training should be given throughsome other institution which is betteradapted for it, or better still theCAA money might be appropriated tosome other project of more social sig¬nificance. By DAN MEZLAYEvery year the assignment editorrequests some fagged out reporter toturn out a feature on unusual namesin the Student Directory and this yearis no exception.Most unique names that could bedug up in 30 minutes are, Ruth Bel-locchio. Col; Marythel Bell, SSA; Mie-cislaus Bielawski, GPS (see abbrevia¬tions, page 4); Alfred Bjorkland, Col;Leo Chiodini, Bus, of Eveleth, Minne¬sota (the rabid hockey town. Pleasenotice. Coach Hoffer); Neva Dell 'Os¬sa, SSA; Peter Giovacchini, UPS;Royal Ihrke, Med; Lenora Koos, UH;Masa Oho, Col; Zdenka Pojeta, Col;Frank Pojeta, Col; Albert Schy, UPS;Yolanda Siniscalchi, Col; Mrs. HeraStadnichenko, GBS; and Mrs. JuliaYlvisaker, SSA.Only two John Smiths are listed.One is in the Business School and theother in the college. The first nameis Grant Aadnesen, Law, from SaltLake City, Utah and the last one isTheodore Swolanek, Col., from Chica¬go. Mr. Mehmet Ongun, SSA, hailsfrom the Central Department of Sta¬tistics, Ankara, Istanbul, and CarlCompton, GSS, comes from AntoliaCollege, Thessaloniki, Greece.In addition to Ruth Brody of Ma¬roon fame, another Brody is listedwho.se first name is Nanette. She is inthe SSA department and lives at 4255N. Spaulding Ave., and her phonenumber is Keystone 1632.By careful calculation, and withoutthe use of a formula, the name thatis in the very middle of the directoryis Janis, Irving L.; GSS; 26 FordhamDr. Buffalo, N. Y.; 6100 KenwoodAve PLA 5001.For charm, personality, and an ex¬ceptional lenience to a gentleman’sfinancial standing, call Dorchester0685 and get acquainted with a per¬son who will be a good date at anysocial gathering. A clew—the afore¬mentioned person is listed correctlyin the Student Directory and thereare only 7000 names to eliminate. Gottschalk—(Continued from page one)Code, France is still unique amongnations in the authority which afather exerts over his family.Attitude Toward LaborIn its attitude toward labor, theNapoleonic system again repre¬sented a reaction toward the Old Re¬gime. Workers’ organizations wereprohibited. The Penal Code of 1810father provided that any cessation ofwork in national factories, such asmunitions works, was tantamount tosedition, and punishable by death. Butillegal workers’ organizations contin¬ued to grow, and in 1864 they becameno longer illegal. With the formationof the CGT labor union in 1895 be¬gan a steady development of the labormovement in France.Position of the ChurchThe church before the Revolutionhad held an immensely privilegedposition. It was almost a partner ofthe state politically, and equallystrong economically. Almost all edu¬cation, as well as charity, was underits control. The Revolution confis¬cated church porperty, and for thefirst time succeeded in separatingchurch and state completely. Al¬though Napoleon could not restorethe church entirely to its old posi¬tion, he very nearly succeeded in do¬ing so, and there was once more aunion of church and state.Not until a series of law’s was pass¬ed between 1881 and 1886 did ed¬ucation became free, compulsory, andsecular. And only by laws passed in1904 was the church reduced againto its status during the Revolutionaryperiod. With Griff Williams, an all Chicagofloor show, and a special minimum ofone dollar per couple to Chicago stu¬dents, the Stevens Hotel holds its firstUniversity of Chicago College Night,Friday in the Continental Room.Griff Williams and his band are oneof the newer top orchestras, and theirdance music is aired nightly overWGN. The all Chicago Floor Showfeatures the much publicized and tal¬ented magician-hypnotist, Wilbur Jer-ger, doing the unusual in legerdemain,singer Marjorie Grey Exeter, Mirrortap dancer Virginia Clark and Black-friars’s wiggle dancer Chuck Compton.A newcomer will be added to the ros¬ter of student entertainers when themysterious “Mr. X” makes his firstappearance to campus celebrants.Naturally, all University studentsand their friends are invited to thefestivities. The affair is the initial onein a series of college nights whichhas proven popular with campusitesin past years. ClassifiedCorrespondence, thesis, statistical typing,essays, manuscripts; also take dictation andshorthand.Atlantic 5400 Room 432BERNARD IDDINGSBELLAlumnus of the Universityof ChicaKo, sometime Warden of St.Stephen’s Collese and Professor of Religionin Columbia Uniyersity, a preacher wellknown both in America and England, theauthor of twelve books, and of many maga¬zine articles in The Atlantic Monthly,Scribner’s, The Criterion, etc.will conduct aTEACHING MISSIONat theCHURCH OF THEREDEEMERDecember 3 to 10. Every eveningbut Saturday8 to 9:20 o’clock56th & BLACKSTONE AVENUEFlorris Beauty ShopWhere you will meet your best friends "The shop where beauty work is anArt. not just a job."PHONE FAIRFAX 0309 5523 KENWOODSENSIBLE PRICES ALL WE ASK IS A TRIALYWCAThe YWCA recognition Service willbe held in the chancel of the Rockefeller Memorial Chapel today at4:30”...an expression of our fellow¬ship with one another in our associa¬tion and with other YWCAs thruoutthe world..,,” Ruth Nuendorffer saidin her letter to the members. “...through participation in the candlelighting ceremony we feel we canbest express this fellowship.” Par¬ticipating members are requested tosign up in the YWCA office.MUSIC BY GRIFF WILLIAMS!AN ALL-CHICAGO FLOOR SHOW!EVERYBODY'S COMING!ONE BUCK MINIMUM PERFriday, December 1st!CONTINENTAL ROOMSTEVENS HOTELOPEN ALL NIGHTTHE DOG HOUSE GRILL1145 E. 55th St., Near University Ave.Meet Me at The Dog House WHY WAIT?CHRISTMAS Is OnlyZVi Weeks Away!And we specialize in Christmas cords. You willbe pleased with our selection of over 2000designs to choose from... They are "Christ-masy/' with character and quality for dis¬criminating people. The special Chicagoartists and our own exclusive cardsare still available.Priced $5.00 to $50.00 per 100including your name on each cardAlso "Economy" cards 50 for $1.00WOODWORTH'SBOOK STORE1311 E. 57 th St. Open EveningsPV-(Continued from page one)members of the Union plan to jointhe new Corps when it starts, at theend of this quarter.As an added inducement, all of themembers of the Union and its guestshave been invited to the Law Schooltea afterwards. The tea will beginat 5, which means that the meetingcan only last an hour and a half. THROW DARTS AT HIMMELI!COMETOTHEMAROON & ChristmasCarnivalDECEMBER 8HIMMELPage Four THE DAILY MAROON, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1939THE DAILY MAROON SPORTSTeammates Vote Bob WasemMost Valuable Player AwardCo-Captain Wasem. . . first score of seasonMixture of Vets and New MenMakes Cage Outlook BrightHampered by Injuries,“Was” an All-AroundStar for Three Years.One of the annual features of thedinner given in honor of the footballteam by the 55th Street Business¬men’s Association is the election ofthe most valuable player on the Ma¬roon squad. This year the playerschose Bob Wasem, star end of the1937 and 1938 campaigns and half¬back for the current season.Wasem is a member of Alpha Del¬ta Phi and Owl and Serpent. In hissophomore year, he won a Major “C”in football and was awarded an OldEnglish letter in track. He has wonMajor awards in both these sports ineach subsequent campaign.InjuriesInjuries have impaired his efficiencysomewhat for the past two years onthe gridiron; last year he wastroubled with a broken finger andwas forced to play with a cast onhis hand. Nevertheless, he managedto snag several of Captain Lew Ham-ity’s touchdown passes and made themajority of the Chicago scores in the1938 .‘season. “Was” got off on thewrong foot again this year when heinjured his hip quite seriously in theBeloit game. Since then he has hadto wear rib pads in order to preventa recurrence of the injury. Conse¬quently his pass-catching ability hasbeen somewhat impaired this season.At the beginning of the seasonWasem was slated for one of the endpositions, but Coach Clark Shaugh-nessy found that he was a “markedman” there; so he moved “Was” in¬to the backfield.Indoor SportsUse FieldhouseFor PracticeWith football out of the way foranother season, the Fieldhouse has |been taken over pretty thoroughly byother sports, and with the opening ofthe Winter quarter even more sportswill be represented on the schedule.The tennis courts are open to gen¬eral playing from 10:30 in the morn¬ing until 1:45. From then until 3:45varsity and freshman net men takeover.Varsity, freshmen, and four yearcollege track men use the track from3:45 until 6:00, and then the tenniscourts are open for general play againuntil 10. On Sundays the courts areopen from 9 in the morning until 4 inthe afternoon.Meanwhile on the basketball court,the freshman squad practices from 2till 4 when the varsity takes over tocontinue until dinner time.A baseball class will be conductedwhen the Winter quarter opens. Any¬one interested can participate from12:15 to 1:45. During this session thefundamentals of the game will betaught, and the varsity men will be¬gin getting into condition. Naturally,this will cut the time used for gen¬eral tennis.Frolic TheaterHolds “Book-Night”Introducing an educational featureto accompany their regular screen en¬tertainment, the Warner Bros. FrolicTheater is now holding “Book-Night”with the intention of placing a mod¬ern encyclopedia at the disposal of allof its patrons.To acquaint the public with this of¬fer, the theatre will hold an introduc¬tory period which will be in progressuntil December 5th. During this timethe first volume of the StandardAmerican Encyclopedia will be avail¬able to all adult patrons. In the forth¬coming period of fifteen weeks, how¬ever, the disposal of the volumes willbe restricted to Wednesday andThursday evenings.Chosen because of its authoritativeup-to-date information, this valuablereference set should prove to be a wel¬come addition to the collection of anyconstant movie-goer. Maroon basketballers are out to re¬fute, to the Big Ten and the world atlarge, the statement that Chicago isthe number one athletic soft touch ofthe country. What’s more they standa good chance of doing it. Advanceindications point toward an improve¬ment over last year’s team which, me¬diocre though it was, had a conferencerecord that equaled the performanceof two Big Ten opponents and bet¬tered that of a third.Chicago has withstood the inroadsof graduation and ineligibility moresuccessfully than several of its rivals.The skyscraper trio of Lounsbury,Richardson, and Stampf is still in¬tact. 'These three have plenty ofj height to spare—six feet, four inchesof it. Lounsbury and Stampf placedamong the first twenty scorers in theBig 'Ten last year, to boot. Mean¬while Ohio State, Illinois, and Iowahave lost last year’s key men and topscorers by graduation. Also backfrom last season and figured to playa part this year at Chicago are Allen,Stanley, and Jorgensen.The Maroons have in addition man¬aged to bring infusion of new bloodinto the squad. Fons and Zimmermanproved their worth on the freshmansquad last year and have stepped upinto big time competition. Both play-Inside Story—(Continued from page one)The plan will certainly meet no op¬position from Adler’s close friend,Richard McKeon who now heads theHumanities Division, into which thelittle department falls. As the discipleof St. Thomas, Adler may write thereligious synthesis of today whichwill correspond with the synthesisthat St. Thomas made of Christianityand the science of his time.Haydon, as the world’s outstandingauthority on religions, a naturalistichumanist and a proponent of the sci¬entific method in the study of reli¬gions, is not going to like this ap¬pointment. While he has not yet beenconsulted by the President’s office,and has refused to discuss the ques¬tion of his successor, Haydon’s ser¬mons in chapel and his lectures inclass would easily stamp him as anoutspoken opponent of all that Mor¬timer Adler stands for. ers rate as snappy ball handlers. Adeptat keeping the other fellow' from scor- iing are Charlton and Wagenberg,both of whom are newcomers to thevarsity. Potential big-timer is Nor-ling, a member of the skyscraperclass who has shown ability in thepre-season practices held during thefootball season.Basketball ScheduleDec. 6—Chicago Teachers College,at ChicagoDec. 9—North Central at ChicagoDec. 16—Armour Institute, at Chi¬cagoJan. 1—Utah, at ChicagoJan. 6—Wisconsin, at ChicagoJan. 8—Illinois, at UrbanaJan. 13—Northwestern, at Evan¬stonJan. 15—Iowa, at ChicagoJan. 20—DePaul, at ChicagoFeb, 3—Loyola, at ChicagoFeb, 7—Marquette, at MilwaukeePeb. 10—Ohio State, at ChicagoFeb. 12—Purdue, at ChicagoFeb. 17—Michigan, at Ann ArborFeb. 19—Minnesota, at MinneapolisFeb. 24—Indiana, at Bloomin^onFeb. 26—Illinois, at ChicagoMar. 2—Minnesota, at ChicagoMar. 4—Wisconsin, at MadisonMICHELSON’SGHOST-WRITERSSERVICEHELPS STUDENTSin preparing and editing theses,essays, speeches, etc.Expert - Reasonable7023 Clyde Ave. Chcago, Ill.Dor. 7644A word to the wise is sufficientQuality-wise and price-wisepeople buy Klein'sFiner MeatsKlein'sFiner Meats1030 East 55th St.SPECIAL ATTENTION GIVEN TO"PHONE ORDERS"FOR PROMPT DELIVERY—'PHONE FAIRFAX 0354-5"Serves the CampusCommunity" 1!I [Disgruntled AlumniFlock to BanquetDissatisfied or disgruntled alumniare expected to flock to the AnnualFootball Banquet, given by the Chi¬cago Alumni Club in conjunction withthe University, in honor of the Ma¬roon football warriors. The tenor ofalumni opinion seems to indicate thatthey feel that this year’s squad isdeserving of much praise for “stay¬ing in there” despite the fact thatthey were totally outclassed in manyof their tilts.At the same time, the graduatesfeel that something must be doneabout the football crisis which hasarisen this year. They don’t mind los¬ing, but 85-0 Is quite a Plow. Badminton ClubMeets H P YWCAThe University Badminton Club andthe Hyde Park YWCA Badmintonteam meet this Sunday in competitionat Ida Noyes Hall. Following thematches from 3 to 6 in singles anddoubles for both men and women, andmixed doubles there will be a tea. Theentire campus is invited to view thegames and partake of refreshments.Outstanding Badminton club memberswho will take part include GertrudePolcar, Ray Smiley, John Newland,Eleanor Coambs, Bob Ralston, JulesRudolph, Patricia Weeks, and RobertGlaser.It's Worth Walking a Mile to Eat at the HuddleSTONY/SLAMD AW. d^SQ'ST.Stedibs *Chops-Barbecue* Read the Daily MaroonCOLLEGENIGHTWithBILLB ARDOand His Orchestra★College and ProfessionalFLOORSHOWSEveryFRIDAY★ComingDecember 2RAY HERBECKandHis Music of RomanceMarine RoomEDGEWATEBBEACH HOTEL★Get Half-Rate Student TicketsMaroon Office and Press Bldg.