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THE CAMPUS CHAT, DENTON, TKXAS, THURSDAY. MAY 12, 19S8
The Campus Chat w*ar' Ckair
Published weekly during the college year by the
•tudenU of the North Texas State Teacher* Collect'
Entered as second-class mail at the post office at
Denton, Texas, December 8, 1916.
SUBSCRIPTION KATKS, DKLIVKRKD BY MA11
One col lege year $1 00
Advertising rates furnished on application. Right
to decline any advertisement is reserved.
Office Manual Arts 107
Telephone 1242
if KM B Kit OF TKXAS INTKRt Ol I KOI ATE
PRESS ASSOCIATION
EDITOR IN-CH1KF
ASSOCIATE EDITOR
ASSOCIATE EDITOR
RE-WRITE EDITOR
BOOK EDITOR
Alonso Jamison, Jr.
Clyde Heath
Nancy Met lure
Maxine Burnett
William Parker
REPORTERS: Maxine Burnett, Happy Demere,
Hazel Mason, Virgil Lipscomb, Durwood Hayes,
R. L. Chapman, Peggy Grace Bay less, Dave
Threadgill, M. F. Carroll, Ray Edwards, Ruth
Boyd, Virginia Keeper. Jerry Boren, Nolia Tram-
mel, Joe Smith, Spurgeon McDougal. Eugene
Fry, Byron Curtis,
SPORTS EDITOR J i.y D. Gaulden
REPORTERS: Joe Johnston, Silas Johnson, James
McCary, Charles Reeves, and Lee Hinton.
SOCIKTY EDITOR Venola Morgan
REPORTERS: Era May Lain, Margaret Turner,
Marion Sharp, C.a.a McSween, Frances Taylor,
Nancy McClure, Edna Earl Williams, Jerry
Mitchell, ar d Jean Watson
COLUMNISTS- Lee Hinton, William Parker, Clyde
Heath, Ellis Martin, and Frances Hamlett.
Faculty Sponsors J. D. Hall, Jr., and C. E. Shuford
Business Manager D. W. Bailey
1937 Member 1938
Pfcsociatod GoUcOiak? Press
THURSDAY, MAY 12. 1988
Testing for Fascist Tendencies
FOURTH ESTATE . .
Alvin R. Irby, editor and publisher of the (Cop-
peras Cove Crony, "the only paper in the world
that cares u thing in the world about Copperas
Cove," is the author of a front-page article in
the April issue of the Texas Press News Irby edited
the Campus Chat in 1935-86. was elected to edit
the paper the following summer session, but re-
signed this post to take over the management of the
Crony, one of Central Texas' best small-town week-
ly papers Irby's story in the Texas Press News
tells of an unusual feature of his paper, a depart-
ment which appears weekly under the heading of
"First and Second tirade News." Such items as
"Tommic l.ec is the proud possessot of a new little
red wan"n" are written every week by pupils in
the first and second grades of the Copperas Cove
school, and Irby prints these "articles" just as they
are written. Irby hazai is a guess that this de-
partment perhaps has more readers than any other
feature "f his paper--"parents read it because their
children's names are in it; other grown-ups read
it because of the childish incidents recounted and
the unique point of view from which they are
written; youngsters read it because their names, the
names of their playmates, and things of interest
to them are found in it."
We think Irby has something there that other
and bigger papers might find helpful as a cir-
culation and interest builder.
AS FINALS APPROACH . . .
A readei of the The Chat submits the following
poem, clipped from the Grade Teacher:
"D's"
t With apologie> te the author of the noble poem,
"T rees")
I think that I shall never see
A gruile so woeful us a "D."
A "D" whose spiteful face looks
Out and puts my week-end plans to rout
A "D" that may in fall or spring
Be such a hateful, dreadful thimr.
V\ hose aspect fills me with despair
And plagues my weary heart with care.
All other folks get "A" or "B"
But oh! Alas, I get a "D."
Texas Esperanto Dolls Still Serving Peace
As Nations Observe Good-Will Day May 18
Bookorner
"With a cheer we boys and girls
of Wales oncc again greet you,
the boys and girls of Europe, Asia.
Africa, America and of the great
lands of the South Seas
"We believe in Good-Will Day
ami resolve to dedicate ourselves,
mind, heart, and hand from this
day forward to securing greut tri-
umphs still to come."
In part, this is the wireless mes-
sage broadcast for several years
by the Youth of Wales to the Youth
of the World on May 18, Inter-
nationa! Good-Will Day.
Undoubtedly this world peace
movement had it? beginning with
The Hague Tribunal, established
on May 18, 1899. From that mem-
orable occasion some form of ob-
servance has steadily popularized
the idea. But the simple exchange
of dolls between children of peace-
ful nations has done much to un
cover a universal friendliness by
reaching the hearts of tomorrow's
generation.
In 1926, it is recorded, American
children through The Committee
on World Friendship Among Child-
ren, 287 Fourth Ave., New York
City, sent thirteen thousand dolls
to children of Japan. Two-million
Japanese children made a recip-
rocal gesture with fifty-eight dolls
of their own making.
This exchange inspired Gustine
Cnurson Weaver of M''Kinney,
Texas, widely known as Texas'
Doll Lady anil collector of more
than four-hundred dolls.
"Warships converted into car-
riers of dolls." she said in advo-
cating furtherance of this move-
ment, "might indeed prove a
worthy investment."
Mis> Caroline Bahr, secretary of
the Committee on World Friend-
ship. accepted the challenge by
suggesting that Mrs. Weaver cre-
ate a group of dolls having univer-
sal appeal, dolls that could be
dressed in any costume and to be
used as a traveling exhibit before
women's organisations, club meet-
ings and church circles throughout
the 1'. S Thus the Esperanto Dolls
were originated.
Eleven pairs of these Interna-
tional Dolls, symbolizing thi uni-
versal language, were all cut from
the same pattern and stuffed with
cotton Adopted in li>.'U us "trav-
eling emissaries" by the Commit-
tee. they were exhibited from coast
to coast.
On Qood-Will Day, 1982, Mrs.
Weaver presented nine of her or-
iginal Esperanto Dolls to the child-
ren of Canada and received a sim-
ilar gift from fifteen different
Canadian schools. Two more
groups were sent to the children
of Wales and Belgium in lOH.'l,
bringing a return gift of over fif-
ty unusual dolls from all over the
world. In Wales the dolls were
placed in the children's room of
the museum in Cardiff, while the
other set, under the direction of
Mr*. Alice Vanderbilt Morris, wife
of the former Ambassador to Bel-
gium. was permanently exhibited
in a children's center in Brussels.
Mrs. Weaver's latest gesture
was the recent gift of another
group to the British author and
worker for world peace. Vera Brit
tain. These will be formally dedi-
cated this year by Miss Brittain
to a London child, en's center of her
selection.
An interesting note is the fact
that the unit used by The Com-
mittee on World Friendship was
first exhibited before a group of
Jewish women in Seattle, and later
before n gathering of Catholics.
Only last week they were reported
still traveling. . . Amid current
world dissension.
New Book Tells of Tragic
Arctic Voyage of Jeanette
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By Bil l. PARKER
Dawson Orchestra
Plans Bookings on
Northern Circuit
)'u' dot Something
There," Wichitan
Says of T. C. Hand
Midland Schools.
►ICE OF KXPKR1KNCK
If you desire ;o grow up to be a fascist or an
anti-socially minded person, you had better leave
Teachers College at once.
The results of tests suggested by the publishers
of "Propaganda Analysis," a monthly letUi cir-
culated privately to educators, students, minis-
ters, and other public minded persons, definitely
show that the further a student advances in the
College the more liberal and socially-minded he
becomes.
A few radicals are always screaming that col-
lege is the breeding place of Fascism, but in Teach-
ers College, at least, training in economics, gov-
ernmental affairs, and other courses tends to move
students toward what has come to be known as
the liberal point of view. In other words, they
cannot pull the wool over our eyes in a cellophane
age.
The poll suggested by the Institute for Propa-
ganda Analysis was taken by several classes in
economics. It was found that the more advanced
the course was, the less Fascism and anti-social
inclinations there were among the students.
These tests consisted of two sets of questions,
and each set contained seven statements to be voted
upon. One set was constructed to detect whether
or not the student was socially minded, and the **"""•
other set was to determine what percentage of
the students had Fascist ideas.
Douglas Mcador of the Matador Tribune writes
in the Texas Press News
"Publishing a country newspaper is optional with
me. I can either publish The Tribune or quit eating
and at times it seems that I will accomplish both
■ rids with a single effort."
Imitations of Verse
BLACKMAIL
To get to the top
Is a rough go.
Some say it depends
On what you know-
Others say it's
Just who you know.
Others say it's
Neither what you know
Nor who you Know-
But what you know
On whom you know.
Ray Edwards
to America for
personal appearance. Sounds
CHARl.KS LAUGHTON recently abdicated the
role of Louis XYI in "Marie Antoinette," Norma
In
class in Economics 132 the statements bearer's comeback opus; the reason: Unele Sam
were voted on. and there were 161 answers reveal-
ing that the students were socially minded and
fi«. answers connoting anti-social ideas. The same
class voted on the statements concerning Fascism,
and there were 133 votes for Fascism principles
and 98 for anti-Fascism.
A remurkable improvement was shown by ob-
serving the same answers submitted in a class in
Economics &<2. In the social questions the ballot-
ing was almost exactly reversed with 108 votes
indicating a social-mindednes* and only 6'i anti-
socially inclined. In the Fascism poll in the 232
class every vote cast was anti-Fascist. In other
words the 132 class voted 133 for Fascism and
and the 232 class did not cast a vote for Fascism.
The tests reveal that college students are more
able to detect false propaganda and see through
the smoke screens that are thrown before them.
The propaganda analysis letters are mailed to
a few members of the faculty each month, and they
demands too big a slice of the payroll he would
receive from M. G. M. . . GRACK NOLL CRO-
WKLL, Texas' own poet, gave an interesting ad-
dress to the Nation's Mothers on Mother's day. Se-
lections from Mrs. CroweU's own works were read by
MARY I'D KFORD. . . PUBLICITY fizzle of th.
week is the intimate relations of STOKOWSK1
and GARBO as recorded in the newspapers. . . .
ROBKRT TAYLOR'S sudden decrease in popu-
larity came as fast as did his sudden rise to the'
top. . . Kl KANOR POWKLL has discovered a new
dance never before seen by a white person, which
is to be used in her next picture. It is called "La-
Conga Blister"—sounds hot. . . MAE WEST is to
write, produce, direct, and star in, her own "pro-
ductions" from now on. It's wonderful to be able to
know that your pictures are all lousy.
COM PC NCTl" A LITIKS:
RAINY DAYS: It is good to have a litany of
shining names to say over to yourself when it rains.
Mini runs like this: a cockrow, a mist of den de-
arc used in some of the classes in an attempt to
educate students to detect the real purposes of hons. a thrush in the deep wo.kIs. moving pines, and
propaganda.—R. E.
Orchids on tho Drag
By Joe Cecil Smith
a lake surrounded by trees. These are words which
always start a ripple in my mind, sending out cir-
cles of vibrating thoughts and memories until the
gloom of the day seems to shine mystically.
SPRING: Since this is the time of romance—
love -etc., we will relate what we consider an in-
fallible barometer of love. The first sympton is
a tendency to confide in the absent one and it is
IDOLWOODITIES ... It was ten years ago
that ELINOR GLYN wrote "Three Weeks," and high time to take notice when a man discovers him-
when a movie actress was needed to play the lead- "alf talking to a woman who isn t there . . .
ing role in her book "It." Miss Glyn chose Clara The board of Regents at the University of Texas
Bow who subsequently became famous as America's art' SBid to be considering Mayor LaGuardia for
"It" girl . . . One of the most startling innovations the post of president of the I nivorsity—howsabout
we believe the cinema has ever offered is a short Major Bowes, folks?
subject recently released by M. (J. M., titled "An GERTRUDE S'l KIN has announced the reason
Optical Poem." Briefly, it is a visual symphony she wrote the play "Four Saints in Three Acts."
interpreting Franc Liszt's Second Hungarian Rhap- To quote the Stein: "I did Four Saints in Three
aody by means of color and abstract form. It is Acts and they did nothing and that was everything
heralded as the beginning of a new art which is but a really good saint does something.
to the eye what music is to thi ear. The surrealist N KRV K I he new "mag for the ultra-ultra,
(••metrical designs are wonderfully synchronised published in this country by the publishers of
movement with the strains of Franz Liszt's KSyl IRK. \ KR\ K is going over exce<«dingly well
Mtapaody. . . We had the pleasure of meeting and even though the price be $2..>0. We understand the
talking to the starlet, OLYMPK BRADNA. while reproductions of the masters are worth well over
iIm wee in Texas recently. She impressed us great- 'en dollars alone. Having seen both of the copies
Ip, In spite of the fact that she l«mks like a mere is-ued to date, we ale of the opinion that VERVE
high achoo! girl and acts like a society matron on should be classed with the magazine "Fortune as
a Wage. We understand that Miss Bradna is being both „re fizzles as fai as being worth the money
Iftlit away from all the cinema personages and is asked for same.
tMdlag a Hfe envied only by Garbo. . . DAVE AP- ——
POLON confidential I) told us, while his unit was Hollywood cameras are clicking on the Virginia
la fort Worth, tiiat he would attempt to bring the Military Institute campus these days getting "ioeal
■tar of the much discussed and cussed ECSTASY I color" foi the film version of "Brother Rat."
Bill Dawson's orchestra under
♦ he promotion of Bill Smith is
making plnns for n summer ap-
pearance. The orchestra is con-
nected with the "Amusement Rerv
ice of America," Omaha, Neb., and
will travel on a circuit in the
north. They have bookings for the
Black Hills in South Dakota. The
boys plan to leave at the close of
the semester, playing one-night
stands along their route.
Three of the members of the
orchestra have belonged to musi-
cal organizations in various south
ern universities before enrolling in
T. C. Con Smith, trumpet, comes
from the S. M U. band, Pat Gar-
nett, trumpet, Texas University,
and Gus Rayford. piano. Universi-
ty of Oklahoma Other members
are Bill Smith, trombone; Bill Daw-
son. sax and squak-stick; Almuth
Martin, first sax; Jack Hogue, sax
and clarinet; Bill Marrs, drum and
vocal.
Con Smith and Almuth Martin
make the arrangements for the
band, specializing in a moderate
swing tempo. Con Smith is take-
off man with the trumpet.
McCracken
Continued From Page 1
step-child kind of a library in a
classroom one of the finest library
buildings in the state of Tevas
has grown. The creator of that
library as it now stands and its
guiityrig light during these 3<> years
of its growth is energetic, tire-
less Pearl C. McCracken.
In May, 1937, many newspapers
in Texas carried items about the
formal opening of the huge two-
story library building erected on
the campus of the North Texas
State Teachers College at Denton
at a cost of $270,000. Some of them
mentioned the librarian, Mrs. Mc-
Cracken, and her corps of 24
trained assistants and student help-
ers, but the whole story was not
given. Perhaps none of them knew
that the high priestess of the oc-
casion was really Mrs. McCracken,
who saw in the marvelous equipped
structure the fulfilment of a brave-
ly-executed dream, conceived in
1902.
It happened this way:
Mr. J. S. Kendall, president of
the Denton Normal at that time,
was casting about in his mind for
a suitable person to take charge
of the five hundred or so books,
and catalog and arrange them in-
to serviceable form for the use of
his five hundred students. The
person chosen must love hooks and
value their uses, and help him
realize his dream of a great li-
brary. The outcome wus that he
invited Mrs. McCracken to be-
come a member of the faculty and
undertake the work.
It was in February. 1902, that
Mrs. McCracken stepped from the
train which had borne her from
home in Kentucky to Denton,
where she was met by Mr. Kendall.
President Kendall's injunction was
"Take charge of the few books
we have and build up a library;
but in the meantime you are to do
some teaching in English and
mathematics."
To Mrs. McCracken that charge
became something of a trust. Try-
ing to put aside any misgivings
she may have fait, she looked
around that tiny room with its
scattered books and said as Paul
had said, "This one thing I do."
The words meant a dedication of
mind, heart and life; and with
these words she started in a
sense, on the magnificent library
opened in May, 1937.
Mrs. McCracken was well-fitted
for the accomplishment of this
task. Only one with a painstaking,
I methodical and systematic manner
"The members of the group,
under the leadership of Mr. Mar-
quis, scored a 'touch down' in the
heart- of every West Texan, not
only with their music hut with
their thorough-going sportsman-
ship." Wilbtirn Page, manager of
t'i. Wichita Falls Chamber of Com-
merce, said in a letter last week to
I're? ident W. J. McConnell com-
mending the performance of the
North Texas State Teachers Col-
lege Stage Hand at the recnt
annual meeting of the West Texas
i hamber of Commerce at Wichita
Falls.
"Indeed, the success of the Oil
Festival Revue is attributed to the
participation of this fine group
of talented, affable performers.
To paraphrase our convention
slogan. 'You've Got Something
Thwri Mr. Page wrote. "We of
Wichita Falls are proud to have
furnished the locale for so many
representative West Texans to
have seen and heard this famous
band."
of working could have hoped for
such success. Her mind acted like
a huge filing cabinet, in which
things were never lost but always
correctly dated and logically
placed.
And the College was fortunate
in having president who had a
vision and who abetted and en
couraged her in her library work.
President Kendall, Dr. Bruce, Dr.
Marquis and Dr. McConnell, whose
efforts and interest secured the
appropriations for books and build-
ings, all have had a certain zeal
and library consciousness.
During that first year little
was done with the books. There
was lack of space as well as time;
for, besides her classes, Mrs. Mc-
Cracken had the care of the text
books, no small task in itself.
In 1904 the new building was
completed ami a room in it was set
apart for library work, the first
definite step forward. More books
were added. Dr. Bruce took up
the presidency and the library
dream went on with his wise and
untiring assistance.
By 1012 the one room was out-
grown and a new library building
was opened. With every passing
year the library, its care, growth
and well being became more and
more the center of Mrs. McCrack-
en's life. In 1914 she was relieved
of the care of the text books, and
the same year she was given a
regular, paid assistant.
In 1921 books at a cost of $3,-
000 were added to the shelves.
Funds were also provided for sub-
scriptions to papers and magi-
zines. Three years later a reference
room was opened with two assis-
tant to care for its work.
The building put up in 1912
housed a flourishing and expand-
ing growth. Reference and reading
rooms worked to capacity. The
library was opened to night study
in 1930. All of this kept Mrs.
McCracken and her assistants very
busy and very happy.
"Your library is excellent and ex-
cellently conducted," people told
her. "This is one of the very best
small libraries in the state," others
said.
Mrs. McCracken smiled. "We
need space," she said, "Books must
be repaired. Books must lie ordered.
We need rooms for these activities.
We need a building to Ik* used for
library purposes alone."
Well, in 1937, that need for
space was satisfied with the build-
ing which had long been the dream
of Mrs. McCracken and which was
the accomplishment of tin* united
efforts of head librarian and pres-
idents of the College down through
Students Present
Program of Plays
Twelve students of the College
and the Demonstration School pre-
sented a program of plays and
novelty numbers to the students
of North Side High School, Fort
Worth, in an assembly program
Tuesday afternoon.
The group of students were ac-
companied to Fort Worth by Mrs.
Olive M. Johnson of the speech
department faculty, who directed
the plays and skits p-esented.
The program given was: playlet.
"My Mexican Rose," by Bil1 Kvans,
Willie Ramsey, Bertha L .Stanley.
Billy Johnson, all Demonstration
students; Cockney Version of "Ro-
meo and Juliet," by Madelle Zorn;
The Ant Annihilntor Agent, by
Billy Renfro; Melodramatic skit,
"Little Nell." by Ruth Pruitt, Billy
Renfro, Madelle Zorn, and A. D
Surles; female impersonations by
A. D. Surles; one-act play "Remote
Control," by John Chapman. Stan-
ley Kucharski, and Larry McCloud.
HELL ON ICK by Commander
Howard Ellsberg, U. S. N, 421p
$2.7!), Dodd, Mead, & Co.
In 1879 reckless, imaginative
James Gordon Bennett of the New
York Herald who sent Henry M
Stanley to Africa with the single
order "Find Livingstone" and who
had launched national Imlloon races
for circulation' sa..e, was looking-
for new worlds to conquer in the
interest of journalism. George
Washington Del.ong, of the United
States Navy, was looking for a
backer for an Arctic expedition,
and after meeting Bennett lie
easily persuaded the publisher to
back his plan. R> a series of ma-
chinations, unknown to this day,
Bennett secured Navy sponsorship
for his entire project.
On July 8 of that year the Jea
nette, a reconditioned yacht fitted
for Arctic service by a sheathing
of heavy timbers, chugged slowly
out of San Francisco Bay With
her engines, the .Lunette could
make four knots. With her sails
in a good breeze she made six.
Aboard her was a crew of thirty-
one iind a great amount of scien-
tific equipment. The expedition's
plan was to enter the Arctic, pus!
into the ice ami drift across the
North Pole, possibly steaming
through open lanes of water, the
result of the branching north of
the black tide of "Kuro Si Wo,"
the Japanese "Gulf Stream " That
this theory was falueious, the ex-
pedition found to their misfortune
and ultimate disaster.
Nosing past Unulaska to the
Aleutian Islands, then"" to St
Michaels and to Norton Sound,
through the Bering Sen to St
Lawrence Bay on the coast of Si
beria, the Jeanette was frozen in
Septemlier ♦>. 1879, at
south from the pole,
of waters regularly
whalers.
The expedition soon
these frozen wastes
silent and inert a«
posed. Submerged
steadily against the
and terrific ice pres
timbers crack with
a point far
south even
visited by
found that
were not us
had been sup-
floes smashed
reinforced hull
sure made the
sounds like
rifle shots. Huge mountains of ice
would pile up and threaten to
bear down on the boat.
Tin summer of 1880 passed and
the ice did not break. Arctic winter
oon followed and the Jeanette was
frozen faster than ever, drifting
northward slowly. Next year, how-
ever. the ice did break and the
badly leaking Jeanette broke free.
But not for long. Another ice pack
seized the ill-fated craft, crushed
her hull like a nutcracker, then
divided to let her plunge to the
bottom.
Loading their three boats,
sledges, and food, the crew started
for Siberia, 1)00 miles south. In
the first eight days they made 5
1-2 mile In the meantime the ice
which they were on drifted twen
ty-fivc miles northward.
Three months later the survi-
vors, some blind, some mad, landed
where the Lena flows into the
Arctic. One party -tarved almost
within reach of help, another was
lost in a storm. Only a handful
lived to tell their awful tale.
The fate of the Jeanette ex-
pedition was a sensation. Two con-
gressional committees investigated
the ship's log and the captain's
journal. Charges of inefficiency
and breaches of discipline were
uncovered The whole thing was
ineffectively shushed.
Commander Howard Ellsberg,
author of "On the Bottom" and
"Pigboats," ha dug into the half-
suppressed records of the expedi-
tion and produced a tiet ionized ver-
sion of the story which makes
splendid reading. I' is well written,
realistic, and best of all, true. He
depicts admirably the psycholog-
ical setting, eight officers cooped
in a tiny cabin with the atmosphere
so strained that the most casual
remark sounds like a sneer, where
making puns i- a murderous ad-
venture. Outside is a weird, un-
known world submerged in con-
stant night. The bitterness, the
quarrels, the misunderstandings
lire not glossed over. \et the book
is not written as an expose. It is
the story of a situation which
showed each man foi what he was,
and for most of them it is a story
of pride and honor and courage.
Show Case Exhibit
Features Central
A nd South .4 merica
In a newly acquired show case
of the foreign language department
on the third floor of the adminis-
tration building, nn exhibit from
Honduras. Columbia. Brazil, and
Mexico is being displayed this
week.
Modern, filigree Jewelry, hand-
hammered silver vases and trinkets,
brass candle holders, woven tex-
tiles, and native cooking utensils
are being shown. Of special in-
terest is a very old indian chief
tan's necklace made of turquoise
and bone. There is also a brass
stirrup which was used by the con-
quisadores.
These exhibits are arranged for
by the various Spanish clas-es of
the department with the help of
Dr. Ruby Smith. Rudolph Fuchs,
Kenneth Hunt, and J. R. Swenson
are responsible for this week's
exhibit.
They Stand Out . . .
"Con" Smith, Here Only One
Semester, Is A Stand-Outer
By FRANCES HAMLETT
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Smiley Reviews
"House of Guise"
For Dallas News
Joseph Smiley of the foreign
language faculty is the author of
a review of Henry Dwight Sedit
wick's "The House of tiuise" which
appeared on the book page of the
liallas Morning News May I.
Mr. Smiley speaks of the hook
'as being well documented and of
Mr. Sedge wick's "style and intell-
igence which have breathed life
into the story of the Guises," an
important family in the religious
wars in France during the six-
teenth century. Mr. Smiley recom-
mends the biography to students
of history, to students of French
civilization, and to "the general
reader who enjoys biography told
as an intimate living story."
"It just goes to show" a few-
people can become well known on
the campus and know the campus
well in only one semester. That's
what (ieorge Conwcll "Con" Smith
has done. About four months ago,
he left S. M. C By May, at T C. ,
he has made an "A" in chemistry
and joined Hill I law son' orches-
tra, in which he is take off man on
the trumpet, "filler inner" with the
sax, and in a pinch, can play the
piano, and even act as conductor,
no doubt. Also, lie makes the ar-
rangements for the orchestra.
He's a brown eyed blond, lucky
fellow, who, more luck, doesn't
have Clark Gable ears lie's clever
and witty and ba a decided weak-
ness for T. S. C \V\, espei ally the
tall, dark, sprightly ones. H has
been said that he frequents the
place quite often. Saturday night
formats being Ins hobby. In chem
istry, he's much better than fair,
and intends to be a doctor some-
day, eiiteritiK the field of surgery.
As a gridster, that is a different
story! Foi the past week, ('on has
I'eop
been working out for track with
practice .prints around Normal
Avenue The resulting crick in
his back has sorta slowed him
down a bit. but he expects to lie ill
good condition by next week.
His pet habits are "slinging the
lingo" with a British accent, sing
ing over bis lab experiments, puff
nig an empty pipe, and telling
that the, are ignorant. He
that the bad traits he has col-
lected are fickleness, and a temper
inent which is inclined to be moody
lie is allergic to Shep Fields and
(iardenia perfume, mostly Gai
denia perfume, which makes him
deathly sick. On the other hand, he
likes Hal Kemp, Tommy Dorsey,
the buy.in' of new clothes, and tin
smell of moth balls.
Con's home town is Kaufman,
Texas. Here he played with the
high school band, was a mcmbei
of the football squad, and partici-
pated in dramatics.
N'exi year, he will enter the Cm
versity of Texas to continue hi
pre-medical work.
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PARTIES WITHOUT
CHAPERONES O. K.
DENVER, COLO.—(ACP) —
Here's a new one for your private
book of collegiantics:
Denver University co-eds have
requested university authorities to
provide chapcrones for their fra-
ternity and sorority house parties.
But they have been told that eti-
quette says such functions are
perfectly proper without benefit
of chaperonage.
the years.
A step-child kind of a library
hack in 1002. A book home equaled
by few in Texas in lO.'IH, The trans
formation was due to IKi years and
a dream and a pledge.
Students Endorse
Right of Labor to
Organize, Rargain
ITHACA, N Y (ACP A Col-
legian's program for righting
many of the ills of the nuti<>11 was
formulated by Cornell, Dartmouth
and I'liiversity of Pennsylvania
students in confeieme here to dis
cuss ways and means of "Making
Democracy Work."
After consideration discussion,
the delegates favored:
Government endorsement of la
hor's right to organize and bar-
gain collectively and endorsed the
National Labor Relation) Act prin
ciples;
Economic nnction against air
gressors of democratic nations;
For local governments, the elim
illation of unnecessary office., con
solidation of duties and consolida-
tion ol unneces arily mall govern-
mental units;
• ontrol of competition for <mie
industries, and removal of nmnop
olies for other- and governmental
regulation of utilit ltd.
rile delegates voted down ev
tension of government control of
| the press.
Recitals (liven
For Music Week
Observing locally National Mu
sic Week, the music department
sponsored a series of student re
dials last, week under the dine
tion of Miss Mary Anderson, Mi
Gladys Kelso, and Miss Lillian Pur
rill.
Jane Reese McElroy and Rose
dell Helm were presented in piai
and voice numbers Wedncsda<
Miss Helm was recently soprnn>
soloist in the College Choru rcn
dition of the oratorio, "St. Paul
Miss Kelso presented the clll'
dreri's department In solo and tw>
piano numbers Thursday evenim
Voice and piano students of 1
College were presented in a reciti*
Friday evening by the music I
partment.
On May 20 the voice class of tin
College will given program at H.I
in Kemlnll Hall. This program w
be open to the public.
Oregon State College ha a coin
plete course to train radio ciigt
neers.
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