The Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 26, No. 7, Ed. 1 Friday, November 1, 1940 Page: 1 of 4
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HOUSTON. TEXAS. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1940
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Number 7
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ice by Lawrence Judd. Tomorrow
morning and afternoon two restricted
seminars will be held, With a great
number of Rice students in attend-
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These r delegates are Hortense
Manning, Jackie Cribbs, Gloria Wood,
Initiation For
Six Planned By
Campus Society
New Phi Beta Kappa
Members To Be
Installed
Six seniors, elected as new members
by the Rice Chapter of the Phi Beta
Kappa Society on October 24, will be
formally initiated Monday evening,
according to Dr. F. S, Lear, chapter
secretary. Beginning at 5 o'clock in
the Faculty Chamber of the Admin-"
istration Building, the ceremony will
usher in the first group of honor
students selected this year.
Sir Honored
Those selected are: Edward Wilson
Fry of Marshall, Texas; Stanley
Stuart Gillis of Reagan High School,
Houston; Margaret Ellen ^chiller of
San Jacinto High School, Houston;
and Albert George Wilson ,<}£ Denver,
Colorado.
Fry, Schiller, and Sullivan are aca-
demic students. Gillis is a Pre-Law
student and Matthews and Wilson
are both engineers. Matthews holds
the Graham Baker Scholarship for the
year 1940-41. Schiller and Sullivan
both received honorable mention for
, this scholarship when it was awarded
Methodist- Church at 8 p.m. He will.,at Commencement last June.
BALBOA, CANAL ZONE — N a v a I
authorities here were investigating
a report Thursday night that an
unidentified submarine had been
sighted in the Gulf of Daripu, near
the Atlantic entrance to the Pan-
ama Canal. Also reported in the re-
gion was the German freighter Heli-
goland, which left Porto Colombia
October 28 without proper clearance
Speaking in Autry House Thursday morning before several papers.
hundred students who discounted constant rainfall, Doctor E. Washington—Work began Thurs-
Stanley Jones declared that science needs religion, and religion
needs science. "I'll show you," said the noted missionary evange-
list, here aa the principal speaker for the National Christian Mis-
sion, "that science and religion work together. Science is the mate-
rial process about us; religion is
the purpose for which material
science is used."
The slight, intense speaker, a na-
tive of India, pleaded with hU youth-
ful audience to have faith above ev-
erything. "Every action," he asserted,
should be based upon faith—faith in
yourself, in others, and in God."
Belief In God
''Keep an open mind," counseled
Doctor Jones, "always foe willing to
believe in something better. I have
found in the past twenty years, how-
ever, that there is nothing better
than belief in God. My faith Is so
that I shall never change."
Speaking on the reportedly irre-
concilable differences between sci-
ence and religion, he said, "who can
believe that physical laws exist by
mere chance? I am intelligent, and
1 like to believe in an intelligence
that planned these things. Science
gives matter; religion gives purpose."
Doctor Jones repeatedly advised
his audience to depend upon faith
above all else in their quest for
fruitful life and inner contentment.
"Science," he declared, "is quantity
of belief, but religion is quality of
belief."
Exerts Strong Influence
The speaker evidently exerted a
' u.Xlx UpCm the «ag|
particularly toward the end of his
l'ifty-minute address. He was intro-
duced -by Philip Hardy, who has taken
a prominent part in plans for the
Youth Mission beginning tonight.
Dr. Harry Holmes of New York
City speaks before a mass meeting
of young people tonight at the First
Method of Election
Members of the Phi Beta Kappa
Society are selected by the Senate
and charter members of the group,
usually from the upper ten per cent
of the senior class. As a rule, the
Senate and char^gr members con-
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Mary Frances Dunnam, Dorothy Jean 0ctober- n-February, and in June,
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ence Judd, and Phillip Hardy. Besides
these Student Association delegates,
nearly forty Rice students will at-
tend these seminars as representa-
tives of various church and youth or-
ganizations of the city.
The Youth Mission will close Sat-
unlay night with an address by/ Doc-
tor Jones, and the Adult Missiot ends
Sunday afternoon with another ad-
dress by the stime speaker.
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Herbert Bollfrass and Franklin
Miller at the Quarterbacks Club.
Both are with Great Southern Life.
They put on a dandy reunion party
for the class of 1930.
There's old timer George Brown of
Brown and Root, paving contractors.
George has been ill but is looking
better now.
Hello, Shirley and Molly Simons!
Did you like that game last Satur-
day? They live in Tyler. Shirley does
most of the architectural work in
that part of the state.
There's Lonnie Thomas, as loyal
a Rice rooter as there ever was. That
first touchdown looked good to Lon-
nie. He nearly went wild over the
second. " • •
Christine Pope Hoover, red head,
really enjoyed the Owl victory over
Texas. Hear they have moved back
to Houston.
And Anna Beth Van de Mark at
the game Saturday. She is prominent
in EBLS alumni circles.
Bill Jenkins, with the Houston
Light and Power Company. Swell
fellow and a demon publicity man
for the Engineer's Reunion.
Dan Lubbock, fire insurance man.
It was a tight fit for you to get
into that QB meeting last wee
Saw your number, Weldon Caba-
nlas. Good luck, p U . , .«J.. „ ....
when the last members for the year
are selected.
In December, 15)29, the Senate of
the United States of Phi Beta Kappa
Continued on page 2
day on the $31,067 inaugural stand
being prepared for ceremonies In
the capital on January 20. 1911.
Meanwhile the magazine "News-
week," after conducting a survey of
the opinion of prominent writers
on the outcome of the presidential
election, reported that 27 had re-
ported victory for Roosevelt, 22 for
Willkie, with one refusing to ex-
press comment, The consensus of
opinion was that the campaign would
be closest since 1916, when returns
from one large county in California
spelled victory for Woodrow Wilson.
BERLIN—The official commuui(|ue
at midnight claimed that Stuka
bombers had destroyed ammunition
dumps in Southern England which
were earlier located by reconnais-
flights over the area. Nazi
also described raids over
RAF flying fields near London and
Birmingham.
CAMDEN, N. J.—Assailing the as-
sociates of the president in a speech
here tonight after he had delivered
an extemporaneous address enroute
at I'lainsboro, N. J., Wendell Will-
kie, declared. "... you cannot
expect our way of life to continue to
exist if tb^he mcAt are returned to
office. In judging the record, judge
not alone the candidate, but the men
he has appointed to office. .... . They
are the secret ballot behind the bal-
lot that the Third Term Candidate
offers to this country November 5.
I know what that ballot will say,"
the Rej-ublicuu itunuacj continued,
expressing confidence in eventual
victory, "I have no doubt the Great
Cause will win — and the future
stretch out before us."
ROME—Italian troops were report-
ed concentrating for a new drive
toward northwest Greece, with in-
fantry units supported by artillery
and aerial units. Count Ciano was
reported to be directing the cam-
paign personally, with the situation
intensely complicated by the pres-
ence of British forces in the Aegean
region.-
LONDON—A 60-mile gale roared out
over the lonely stretches of the
Channel tonight, defying the efforts
of the German air force intent upon
carrying the bombardment of the
English capital into its fifty-sixth
consecutive night. Sporadic raiders
were reported early in the night.
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-teams with Francis (Sacks) A. and I. take* a crack al the Owls
Texas Arts and Industries Brings
Finest Team In Years
To Battle Owls
I By Billy Whitaker
' "Remember Sam Houston Teachers" will fcn> the battle cry
when Coach Jess Neely's rejuvenated Rice Owls take the field
Saturday night, at 8:15 against the Texas A. and 1 Jaw)inns. The
! Javelinas boast one of the finer small college elevens in tlm nation.
and the Owls do not intend to be caught short tomorrow night as
they were a year ago when an inspired Sam' Houston Teachers
—-i—> i———— — team upset tlie favored Rice
squad 0-M with a fieki goal in
(the closing minutes,
•IVw A. ah«l I. has J *f mily ,..« •
fflSjf this yfiir and that, hi the flighty
{Aggies' from College Station In
'eluded in the It-it of Javeluia ti
urnph.- is an iinpie-shi 7-0 win .vv
j San Jose • • Tt?ne-ftet'a,.- undefeated for
two yt'ki'ljV;, Last: Veek: the ; A. jtpij £
uridsters Tmuiu'edl the Dating I ;tkt-
Hillbillies 1 and. the week I• t' • ■ ■
hi/iitiSam U'ini-tfconV llearkal - "
Clarksnn Is Captain
. The Javelina-' have as a line A:
-ifVniejr'iciiii', .WtUdiduU'; Stiuf't f''ai I
.. .... , , , , -"?1. . . iiriil captain <•!' tfi.- i u . .
New (il f icers whu Wer eircteil !>v , . , ... ,
,. ,,, , . . ... • i11 !<• ?i-a.Ml. ( laik.Mili. \ytj|'i i- nu i
70, is ,In!n11 i>n i|>a.ii? dei"' p=-<: ii.'
:i (ii'telly, alert imkii-i. tie i-
i'il tn l. - I iBuil Mct'a'limi • ;tn
swr:' tn jt|h'e vaiiriteil Itiei- rniitiinp at
Uiek: Aii.iIIht .luvel'iia wi'ffi '.vil; Ihmi
watrbiim" is .1 P. Hill::inl, hi'ithi" 1
the ini'mona! Bcihu of I
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To Rebuild Old
Campus Station
Whatley Heads Men
Ready To Revive
Broadcasts
Mattingly as determined little Texas ; tomorrow night.
Witches Brew
the 14id- Radio Club at its first m.$&J
itig of the year last Fiiday are: K.
Whatley, president: .1. H. O'.vfns.
vic-e-prefiident; and .Seal. Heap-, -oe-
retaiy. S. II. Van Watiibeek is '>u-
sponsor of the elub;
To Itebuild Statioiy.j
'I'he mail]., activity of the eluii Ini
this year 15ft i be the rebiiiUliiie ahd|
ujieratiuii o| the HKid-uali S:adiO'
vn -ity
traiisnutU-r nvvned by the hleetWttl': I'i , , , . ,,
L, . , . .... -vlattliudy, ami AC
Eptginetoing ilepartment. J'hi; now i
.? ,, , liice tiansier.
fame. 'l«tifi.^OU"ge' 11 .l_lj.il I
is a fast, il'.isivc 'back. Rl'he'r -l;ilnl
nil- fni \. aii.l I. arc ll;r. Kr.amc
klestcr.-i, li'
Spook Special Charms
OWL Hallowe'en Guests
lernment first uratiteii call letters
W0FWT to Riee for the operation tif
! the transmitter: during1 the liWti en-
gineering show. The license was .re'i
The Owl.-., fresh I'ruin llieir siirpri-
ling victory .iver Texas, intend to be.
ready fur the .lavelinas Saturday
Th«y bnvc worked !.•■ I'd '■!:
neweu Xui t.ie iieio .shuw ias Apii!. ,x"
.week- with aceent on .'pa;--; defetii-i-
aithi.iuprii hampered liy;riiin;.. an,l a
To keep the license it is rieOessary. S||
have an active radio elub.
The Rice elub will also -<ponsoi a
lieen^VfrtStri'n^t.li 1 despite. .the itriiifie
several couples dresseWn Hallowe'en Eaeli of the officers :of tHe^grdufi al-rhave ptaiitied the: i left t;iel;l
costumes approach the do6r, which
slowly opens, A ghost beckons them
to enter, extending u clammy hand
ready has bis;private licepse aitd call
letters. , i
Meetings will !be j held at on
iKf-t.
heavy 8field:;ji
By Mary Petrie . Characters: Owen Winter Literary j class for instruction in the code and1. Injuries At Tackle
Scene: Dilapidated, unpaintud'j 'Soeiety members and dates. ; radio, theory which i- refniin.'d to U'ice wjl) lie ^ com pa ,il \ .1
haunted house at 540 Maplewood in) Story: As the curtain goes up,! l,|,<H'ut'e amateur .radii
the East End. The house is dark—
totally dark; the doors are closed;
every window pane is broken. A
railroad track runs by the house and
during the course of the evening
two trains pass, their .screaming
whistles adding a weird note to the
atmosphere.
Time: Hallowe'en Eve. The night i wa>"
Cuiii iii'ijied. Oil pti^e li1,
of welcome , (a rubber glove filled i Monday,,;.nighty" }>i ro.'.m :;o7
with. ice). It, then, leads the giggling j .Meehnnica! Engineering luiikiin^, All!
guests through several broken win- 'Persons who are ititereste.l in attend- j
dow panes, and up a rickety stair- ||®f the instruction class are ; urged j
. which is totally dark. |\ W;anrbe^k-.oi;'>nif|j|;.'
is dark and .stormy. Rain clouds hover ; stumble and :screani-~4'veryone knows iofficers immediately ,
above no sign of a moon. : that the ,stairs will .collapse ;and the,] The formation of this new group <
— \—[whole house will Cave in.. They cltmi-, miu'ks thl" §!m effort .to ;.;arganiz^;
rj. ... x T\* j. • ber on, atid finally reach the top, tlie campus those,: students who
Student Directories I Where an old Witch is Stimmr a ve-''"«- interested in radiotransmission
! nomotis cOncOction in an old caulifron, l !:"ld 1,1 electrical exfierinjentfition; V
Registered By
■f;TpsaiilSsf rivyO'-t ■ oia 0;i:
Offered By Society ' Chanting hoii; evil; in ovocati.ins. She' Meinners of the- American InstituU ph>^cisis,niaiKi-niavjcia.;
Ipuks up and loer> craftily as they01' Klectrical Kngineer.- expressed i'iuci> of U;,-e ln-litiuu
Thursday a desire to aid the oigani- structi'i -. ami undeiv.: ii.luaw
In the Army
Livy's Eligible Again,
But His Number's Up
Livy Bassett may have received
the shock of his 23 years Tuesday
when his number bobbed up thir-
teenth in a Washington fish bowl,
but followers of Owl footbnll for-
tunes will be even more surprised to
learn that the big eowpuncher turned
guard has another year of eligibility
under conference regulations. Al-
though listed on the programs as a
senior two-year letterman, Bassett
Off ice Requests Aid
lit Locating Owners
The Office of the Bursar has issued
an announcement in regard to in-
quiries concerning lost and found
articles. Special attention is called
to the procedure regarding the re-
covery of such items, because there
are at this time an unusual amount
of articles to which no claims of
ownership have been made. Students
are urged to turn in anything of value
which'is found to the Lost and Pound
Bureau In the offices of the Admin-
istration Building, nnd to make all
inquiries regarding losses there.
Employees of the Office of the
Bursar ask particularly that students
carry marks of identification on hats,
leather jackets, raincoats, sweaters,
and overcoats. Another Simrce of con-
siderable trouble ia the practice of
not carrying identification upon slide
rules, which should be plainly marked
on the outside cover with the name
was held out as a sophomore, and
is thereby entitled to roam the right
side of the Rice line again next Sep-
tember.
But If Livy holds to his guns, the
stands will see his swan song here
December 7 against Southern Meth-
odist.,
"Nine years of football is enough
for me," he said Wednesday night in
his South Hall retreat. "My number
is up and I am ready to fall in with
the rest of them."
Striding around the room with the
bowloggod gait he acquired straddling
a Brettham Hereford before he could
walk, the Owl first-stringer explained
that he was eligible for a degree this
year after having done extra: work
at Texarkanti Junior College. "I'd
better get that B. S. while I ean,"
he continued, "this war i* liable to be
a trifle drawn out."
Livy Bassett was a bit hazy about
his future plans after having drawn
thirteenth place in Tuesday's national
lottery, hut he would like to teach
and coach in some Texas high school.
"How about Robnett," chorused his
roommates, who insist he acquired
his bow legs after contracting scurvy
on a tramp steamer, "what are your
plans for Robnett?"
"I'll give him a regulation Wash-
ington County scrhp," replied Bas-
sett, who meets the Aggie All-Amerl-
can candidate at College Station No-
vember 18, ''the folks back home in
Brenham will want to know about
that one."
Student directories, containing the
names, addresses, and telephone I he young victims are getting weitk
numbers of every student and faculty in the knees " now, for a long dark
member of Rico, and a list of offi- tunhel lies -ahead. Buck up! The worst
eors of each campus organization, will; is yet to t'ome. As they pass through
be on sale in sallyport tomorrow fori the tunnel, fierce-looking pirates
25 cents, 'jump out and frighten thent half to
The directories are published each death, Blackie .Smith, complete with
year by the Owen Wister Literary I'ostume and knife in his mouth, is
Elizabeth Jeady to daily off some fair damsel l0f
station- ill every way possiW
registered ill the Nat tliiil lies to- •
Scientific, and Specialize.! \\. *« .
>t .i i-i j|. t^ie-lionnaiies une -.-i. to ■
Campanile Deadline thl. ,,,!i:iA a, America
Extended By Editor lilities and pi efereill.es fill sei-y';. ,
in any national iimerirem-y '-b..-.'
According to Kenneth Aitbin, edi- .might'at i?e. .md these i|ile->l,..ei a.ie
tor of the 1 '.141 Campanile, the dead- ii<>\v r'tfeose its Hi, archiw- if!;
line for student pictures at the studio National Resources Manning I! , .
Society. Nell Poole and Elizabeth '"eauy to carry.ott some tiur damseP0f Henry Stern has been extended in Washington.
uijtil November 5. Arthur "state^ : i}j. 'KmI |( i: j|If .'I'ly.i.lvut ...f'.t'h,
Potter (tre chairmen of the commit- !ls bis prize.
tee which has compiled the material.; They finally come to the (bilieing
"Only a limited number of direc-: room which is appropriately decorated
tories will be on sale tomorrow," an-, with skeletons, eoristalks and lighted
nounced Miss Poole. "These are the pumpkins. A .skeleton dance is in
first ones-off the, press; however,' progress. Some people are bobbing
the others will be ready by Monday." for apples, and water drips through
Students may buy directories at' the cracks in the floor. The chief at-
the table in sallyport, or from any, traction is the fortune teller, who
OWLS member. j Continued on page 2
Threatens in Dramatic Circles
Thursday that only 050 picture.- ha.r u'lvitccl ,St.a(e>, a .aid iiidfwi t . e
been made late in the week, alter educateil iia-n. valaaMc in,, ifo-
more than 900 persons had secured : National, I'rograivui is i.eiii-
ret'eipts entitling them to a yearbook prepared under thi d.ieHion ,d I.e.,.-.
picture, and urged that, all latecomers l(Mj ra^lnit had" Pi, -jdeii't ol lot,
arrange sittings at the studio'■ ,ijoo,n 'C.yllvge. At the r.eginnincf of tin- war,
as possible. He emphasized that.;.Englaiiiil and tin, , countries of tin
Stern did not require appointments: British Cynij^onweafth formed -mi
a' this late date. ' lut bur,e(uis to cdoulinate e\pei imt'ii!
___ ..... , , _ iiev^ijvppnvii'tf( vital' to their de-
felloe, I ' '1 :;
( hemists Registered
Tlie American Chemical '.Society is
aiding the Nstiional Resources Plan
:rii:n:g Board and the Chemical War
fare Service by conducting the N'a-
Claire Boothe
The Dramatic Club's first effort
is about to expire from a severe
shortage of Myra Stanhopes. That
became apparent Thursday morning
when Virginia Stevens, second cam-
pus ingenue engaged to play the
vitriolic actress in Claim Boothe's
"Kiss the Boys Goodbye" made fa-
mous on Broadway by Helen Claire,
announced that she had withdrawn
from the cast.
Otherwise, Joseph Smith, Jr., the
new director who came here front an
extended engagement with the Hunts-
ville Little Theatre) has things under
control Peggy Bentz, freshman who
learned her «motlng at Lamar High
School, and with the Houston Little
Theatre, will appear as Cindy Lou,
the genuine Southern belle almost
! done out by ^lyra. Miss Bentz ap-
peared last ill the Little Theatre pro-
Iductioh of "Men In White,"
Several vetoi'tins of the thespian
group will be seen in other parts of
the th tee-act comedy, Louie Uirard
is Rand, host at an explosive week-
end in the New Hampshire moun-
: tains. Neal Prince appears as Lloyd
; Lloyd, Hollywood director who has a
; secret agreement 'with the scheming
Miss Stnnhope. Litstie Paul Vincent
j portrays Horner, a West Coast pro-
idueer. Other male parts are token
by Frank Zumwalt, J. P. Miller, Kirhy
Munroe, and John Sandifer.
Smith and other members of the
group seem little discouraged Thurs-
day by their trouble in locating a
permanent Myra. "We're still look-
ing," said Louisette Roser, "There
Is Too Spicy
are several more prospects coming
to rehearsal tonight.'- She mentioned
as possibilities for the part Muigie1
Bogart Barbara Kirkland. and Pran-
ces Dennian.
The director himself wasn't so
happy over the whole affair. He has
a dress rehearsal scheduled in less
than ton days for "Kiss the Hoys
Goodbye," which is supposed to have
It Autry HoUse premiere November
13, 14, and IB.
No Dramatic Club member would
admit yesterday that the slightly
risque Boothe production would be
abandoned, although there were con-
stant rumors that Its spicy dialogue
would either to be diluted or
consigned to the ashenn. They like
the play,
t-ional Census1-6f Chemists and Chemi-
cal Engineers, lihtiergraduate ehem -
ists of marked nihility are being reg-
istered; ;by, its:. Student Affiliate. The
questionnaires W,ere: sent,1 out by the
Society 'to , all 1 its , registered mem
bers, about twenty thousand in all
The queries were divided into two.
general partsf the first, ?t staridard
t'oi'in1 inquiring into general prefer;
enees, abilities, education, and will-
ingness to serve the country; the
second, devoted to the specific branch
of science the individual was most
I'oncerintl with. Suggesting that, the
final development of this national
(w ienee organization will be at least
' national in scope was the question if
! the writer had any reason for not
| wishing to serve out of his state, or
■ out ofi th^ country. All registration
l is voluntary.
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