The Agnes Scott News VOL. XXV Journalist Lectures Here Douglas S. Freeman Talks on Biography As its third speaker in the 193940 series, the Lecture Association will present Douglas Southall Free¬ man, journalist, biographer, and historian, January 25, at 8:30 P. M., in the Bucher Scott gym¬ nasium. Using as his subject "Ad¬ ventures in Biography," he will re¬ count his experiences in writing the life story of Robert E. Lee, a biography which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1935. Mr. Freeman, a native of Lynchburg, Virginia, received his A.B. degree from Richmond Col¬ lege and his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University. He began his newspaper career with the Times- Dispatch in Richmond. In 1911 he became secretary to the Virginia Tax Commission.' He was promoted in 1913 to the asso¬ ciate editorship of the Richmond News-Leader, and in 1915 became editor. He has been professor of journalism at Columbia University since 1936. Mr. Freeman has been awarded four honorary degrees and "The Parchment of Distinction," by the New York Southern Society. His other works include The South to Posterity, a bibliography of Civil War literature, Reports On Virginia Taxation, Virginia— A Gentle Dominion, The Last Parade, and other studies in Vir¬ ginia and Confederate military his¬ tory. In celebration of the fiftieth an¬ niversary of the college, the Lec¬ ture Association invites the public to the lecture without admission charge. Henry Names Committees Ann Henry, president of the junior class, announced Friday the various committees for the junior banquet, which will be held in Rebekah Scott dining room Febru¬ ary 17. The committees are: Decora¬ tions, Nina Broughton, chairman, Dorothy Peteet, Virginia Williams, and Susan Self; Dates, Florence Ellis, chairman, and Val Nielsen; Invitations, Louise Musser, chair¬ man, Molly Oliver, and Ellen Gould; Place Cards, Mary Bon Utterback, chairman, and Anne Mar¬ tin; Seating, Elizabeth Barrett, chairman, and Ida Jane Vaughn; Entertainment, Ethelyn Dyar, chairman, and Louise Sams. The banquet will be followed by a reception in the Murphey Candler Building sponsored by Mortar Board. Neither the decoration scheme nor the orchestra have been definitely Hecided upon. College Musicians Join With Emory As a feature of the University Center plan, the Agnes Scott String Ensemble, under the direc¬ tion of Mr. Christian W. Dieckmann, professor of music, and the Emory Symphony Orchestra will combine this quarter to present a concert. The director of the Emory Sym¬ phony, Dr. Malcolm Dewey, has not yet announced the exact date of the concert. However, the ap¬ proximate date has been set near the end of February or the first of March. Bulletin Boards Furnish Varied Topics By Elaine Stubbs The majority of students prob¬ ably know that numerous bulletin boards are scattered over the cam¬ pus, but how many know what each one contains, and where each is placed? No doubt everyone reads the general bulletin board in Buttrick, changed every morning at 9 o'clock, and surely no hopeful lassie ever passes the maid's office without looking in at the list of specials, telegraphs, and flowers! But there are twelve other bulletin boards in Buttrick, excluding those in the class rooms, and another one in Main. For your information, there are seven bulletin boards on the first floor of Buttrick, two on the sec¬ ond, one on the third, and three in the post office. On first floor, the three boards on the right side of the south wing are overflowing with offers of fellowships and an¬ nouncements of contests open to seniors. The fellowship offers come from such schools as Northwestern, Radcliffe, Vanderbilt, and the Washington University School of Medicine, while the contests vary from fashion stories to essays on "What Insurance Has Done for Me." The two boards on the left side contain lists of faculty offices, a list of every subject, with its re¬ spective room and teacher, try-out rules, the year's radio programs, and, unfortunately, the names of the members of the Christmas Carol choir. The most outstanding alteration in the chain of bulletin boards is the moving of the official bulletin board from the hall in Main to the new board outside the electives committee room. On this board are posted the classification of stu¬ dents, the regulations of cuts and absences, and the ineligible lists. The three boards on the second and third floors are filled with conference schedules for freshman English, while many and varied are the uses of the three boards in the post office. At present the C. A. board is concerned with race relations, while the general bulletin board includes anything from railroad schedules to a letter asking students to join a debtors' union. At this time the bulletin board on first floor Main contains practical¬ ly the same lists that are on the new official board, but gradually, different kinds of announcements will be posted there. AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE. DECATUR. GA.. WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 17. 1940 Entire College Faces Camera Dr. J. R. McCain has asked that the entire college community, in¬ cluding the student body, faculty, and administrative officers, assem¬ ble on the quadrangle immediately after chapel Friday for an all-col¬ lege photograph. He stated that the photographs would be taken principally for a campaign booklet, but added that they would be put on sale for approximately seventy- five cents each. Mr. Roy D. Young, who will take the pictures with a revolving camera, took similar ones in 1937. C.A. Retreats To DiISCUSS Plans Opening with a devotional by Sam Olive Griffin concerning the "Essentials of True Service," Christian Association held its win¬ ter retreat Saturday afternoon and night at the home of Miss Carrie Scandrett, dean of students. Katherine Patton, president, stated that "the rest of the afternoon was spent in evaluating last quarter's program in light of the needs of the campus, and in determining ways of more adequately meeting those needs in the second5 quarter." At night, the cabinet held a more detailed discussion of each ac¬ tivity, especially stressing the more outstanding events of the new quarter. Heading the list of plans were those for religious week, which lasts from February 13-17. The speaker this year is Dr. Roswell C. Long, of Greenwood, South Carolina. When asked to comment on him, Grace Walker, secretary, said, "He's different." The introduction of open forums twice a month comes as a change this quarter, the first one taking place Friday night. The subjects of the discussions will center around the theme, "Forces Which Influence Us Almost Unconscious¬ ly." Mr. S. G. Stukes, registrar, has been asked to lead the discus¬ sion Friday night. The cabinet also discussed new vespers and chapel programs, and made plans to include more girls in social service activities which were begun last quarter, such as: entertainment of the patients at Scottish Rite Hospital on Saturday afternoons, visiting homes in the vicinity of the Moore Memoriall Chapel on Sunday afternoons, and work in the Decatur Welfare Of¬ fice. Baptist Students Attends B.S.U. Social Agnes Scott Baptist students will be among those attending the city-wide B. S. U. social to be held tomorrow night at 7:30 at the First Baptist Church in Atlanta. Representatives from Georgia Tech, Emory, Oglethorpe, the School of Commerce, and other institutions will also be present. The Agnes Scott and Emory councils will also meet together this afternoon on this campus to hear Mr. William Preston, southern B. S. U. secretary. After hjs dis¬ cussion, the students will have dinner in the tea house. HON. HUGH GIBSON Hugh Gibson Speaks at Emory Diplomat Discusses Current Events in Europe Third in the Emory Lecture Series, the Honorable Hugh Gib¬ son, will speak on the subject, "What's Happening in Europe," in the Glenn Memorial Auditorium at 8:30 o'clock tonight. Mr. Gibson has had a long and varied career in the diplomatic field, culminating in the posts of Minister of Poland and Switzer¬ land and Ambassador to Belgium and Brazil. After serving with Herbert Hoover in his war relief work, Mr. Gibson himself became Director of the Commission for Relief in Bel¬ gium. Few men have been so intimate¬ ly connected with the swift flow of world events. During the sum¬ mer of 1939 Mr. Gibson visited every European country of impor¬ tance and interviewed the person¬ alities who control present-day history. At the outbreak of the Second World War he was one of the Americans who broadcast news from London to this country. Radio Program Dramatizes New Building The second step in the history of Agnes Scott's growth will be the subject of the college broadcast this afternoon at 5 o'clock over WSB. Laura Sale, as narrator, will introduce the play, "The New Building." As last week, the cast will include students in the spoken English department at Agnes Scott and members of the Emory Radio Guild. Last week's presentation told of "A School for Decatur." The script, written by Miss Roberta Winter, assistant professor of spoken English, dramatized the founding of the college by Dr. Frank P. Gaines and Mr. George W. Scott. Taking part on the program were Laura Wood Sale, '41, as nar¬ rator; Elizabeth Barrett, Eugenia Bridges, Mary Dean Lott, Jackie Illma Stearns, Barker Bedingfield, Jim Hardin, Bill Hinson, and John Kerman. Clifford Stodghill, presi¬ dent of the Emory Guild, assisted Miss Winter in the direction, and Manning Flaum was in charge of sound effects. Martha Crowe, '27, was the voice of Agnes Scott. Z115 No. 11 Council Forms Plans for New Quarter Committee Initiates Mimeograph Campaign, Stresses Youth Movement New plans for Student Govern¬ ment Association this quarter in¬ clude a campaign for a new mimeo¬ graph machine and a series of chapel programs on youth move¬ ment, it was-announced Friday. In regard to the mimeograph plan, Henrietta Thompson, presi¬ dent, stated: "Since the mimeo¬ graph machine is used by all or¬ ganizations, this is a particularly worthwhile campaign. Pledges from each student will be asked, and all clubs will pledge to the campaign." The youth movement programs will begin with a discussion next week of N. S. F. A., the association ith which Agnes Scott is affiliat¬ ed. These programs will not be given every Thursday, but will be given from time to time during the quarter. President Thompson also said that there would be a student meeting in chapel Friday at which the critical slips taken up last week will be discussed. Student Govern¬ ment is going to tell why some things are as they are and cannot be changed, and also some of the possible remedies. These plans and criticisms will go to the adminis¬ trative committee meeting in Jan¬ uary. Alumna Participation Marks Festival A climax to the semi-centennial celebration, the May Day program this year will be different from the usual festival, with the addition of alumnae to the cast of characters. The afternoon of Saturday, May 4, has been announced as the date for the performance. Boxes for May Queen nomina¬ tions will be placed in Buttrick Hall, January 2 5 and 26. The election will jpe held one week later. Pat Reasoner has been selected business manager for the May Day Committee. Coming This Week Wednesday, 5 P. M.— Radio Program. Wednesday, 8:30 P. M. —Hugh Gibson at Emory. Thursday, 7 P. M.— German Frolic. Friday, 10:30 A. M.— All -College Photograph Taken on Quadrangle. Friday, 3:30 P. M.— Basketball Game. Saturday, 10 A. M.— Phi Beta Kappa An¬ nouncements in Chapel. Saturday, 8:30 P. M.— Kirsten Flagstad in All- Star Concert Series. THE AGNES SCOTT NEWS. WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 17. 1940 Seniors, Sophs Win Opening Games Slack Leads Senior with 13 Goals; Champion Sophs Defeat Frosh 28-12 Two spirited games between the Fisher were responsible for seven juniors and seniors and freshmen goals each, and Dyar, three. and sophomores heralded the open¬ The sophomore-freshman game ing of the 1940 basketball season. showed that the sophomore team The seniors 1 has not lost any of the precision fought the : and teamwork that made it out¬ juniors to a ^ standing last season. The new 42 to 34 vie-. freshman team shows considerable tory, and the V f promise of being a top team with a little more practice, and was able sophomores, ' to score 12 points against the repeating their sophomores' 28. The sophomore of¬ success of last fense, led by Dot Webster, Alta season, swamp¬ Webster, and Mary Olive Thomas, ed a scrappy overcame the opposition of the freshman freshmen. Alta Webster scored squad, 28 to five goals and one free shot, Dot 12. Martin Webster made five goals, Mary The senior-junior game began Olive Thomas made two and one with a scoring spree led by Ruth freeshot, and Jessie MacGuire made Slack, who shot up fourteen one goal. straight points in the first quarter. The line-ups were: freshmen— The combination of Slack, Carson, L. Cummings, A. Eagan, N. Percy, and Milner clicked perfectly, and forwards; C. Rountree, B. Bates, these three forwards made a total M. Dale, guards. of twenty-four points in the first half. The junior forwards, Stubbs, Sophomores: D. Webster, A. Fisher, and Dyar, exhibited excel¬ Webster, M. O. Thomas, forwards; lent passing tactics, and had scored M. D. Lott, B. A. Brooks, D. eighteen points at the end of the Hasty, guards. half. In the second half, both Juniors: E. Stubbs, A. Fisher, E. teams settled down to hard work, Dyar, forwards; S. Wilds, B. Kendand kept close together until the rick, V. Williams, guards. seniors finally got ahead and made Seniors: V. Milner, R. Slack, H. 18 points to defeat the juniors, who Carson, forwards; H. Thompson, made 16 points in the last half. P. Ware, J. Moses, guards. Leading the scoring for the seniors Substitutes: freshmen—A. Frierwas Slack with a total of 13 goals, son, B. Moore; sophomores—G. followed by Milner with five, and Currie, B. Bradfield, J. MacGuire, Carson with three. Stubbs and A. Gellerstedt. Ohio University Educators Cite Students Future Musts Add to Slanguage "The college of tomorrow must insist on the spiritual connotations New Slang Department: These are the latest slang definitions de¬ of education. Educators dare not veloped by Ohio State University think of education as making an students:. appeal to the intellect only, nor Campus glamor boy—male with dare they think of the intellect as $5; campus glamor girl—co-ed something separate and distinct with a late model car; dive—any from the functional needs of man¬ place with a neon sign, an orches¬ kind. The emotional, the volition¬ tra and a college boy; swing—or¬ al, the aesthetic and religious life ganized disorganization; friend— of the individual must be cultivat¬ anybody who will loan you money; ed quite as much as the intellect." acquaintance — anyone who has Dr. H. J. Burgstahler, Ohio Wes- loaned you money; civilization—a leyan University president, puts up collection of modern inconven¬ a guide post on education's road iences.— (ACP) of progress. Ph.D. Not Necessary study must make careful provision for the stimulation of^interest of "It is not at all essential that a permanent rather than passing college teacher should have reached value. It must excite in young the degree of Doctor of Philosophy women an interest in books, so in his university course of study. that their lives will be refreshed by What is essential is that he should good reading; it must encourage have a sound and scholarly com¬ them to cultivate a hobby to which prehension of the subject matter of they can turn when perhaps their that which he is to teach, as well children are grown. It must also as skill and tact in its interpreta¬ give them an intelligent apprecia¬ tion to younger and less developed tion of art and music, not as 'fe¬ minds. The high degree of special¬ male accomplishments' but as vig¬ ization in study to which the doc¬ orous interests of a lifetime." Wil¬ tor of philosophy has become ac¬ son College's Presicjent Paul S. customed is precisely that which is Savens lucidly outlines the aims of to be avoided in college teaching." the woman's college.— (ACP) Nicholas Murray Butler, famed president of Columbia University, asks that professors be teachers as well as scholars. Women Need Hobbies "The institution where women Come to HARRIS PHARMACY 1 NSFA Considers World Crisis Delegates Convene During Xmas Holidays How can U. S. college and uni¬ versity students face the present world crisis? With this question as their para¬ mount problem, 200 National Stu¬ dent Federation of America dele¬ gates from all corners of the nation met at the University of Minneso¬ ta to devote a portion of their holi¬ day vacation to a discussion of their mutual problems. Relegating to second place such usual NSFA convention topics as the honor system and campus elec¬ tion problems, the delegates set to work to reconcile their divergent viewpoints on how to keep Amer¬ ica out of war. Support Neutrality Resolutions passed only after stormy debate called upon the United States to strengthen its neutrality legislation by withhold¬ ing war materials and economic and financial aid from warring na¬ tions. Most hectic parliamentary strug¬ gle of the session was precipitated by a resolution calling upon col¬ leges and universities to divide all student offices into major and minor classifications and to re¬ munerate those students holding major offices. Pay S. G. Officers? Proponents of the measure stated that it was needed to remedy the inequalities of remuneration for student l^jders that exist in most campuses. They pointed out that student body presidents usually do as much work as the college news¬ papers editors, yet the former are seldom paid. An equally determined group insisted that payment of student government officers would foster still more politics in campus elections. When the question was put, the delegates split 5 5-5 5. After a skirmish of motions and amendments that sent NSFA presi¬ dent Mary Jeanne McKay rushing to the organization's constitution, a roll-call of member colleges was taken that resulted in the resolu¬ tion being defeated 65-5 5. Most of the delegates' time was spent in attending 16 round-table discussions on such subjects as "The Structure of Student Gov¬ ernment," "Orientation System," and "Student, Faculty and Admin¬ istrative Relations." Recommenda¬ tions coming out of these confer¬ ences included adoption of the honor system where it is feasible and where the student body has ex¬ pressed a positive desire for its in¬ stallation; the establishment of student-faculty committees to work for increased informal social rela¬ tions between these two campus groups; creation of student corn- All Parents Are Welcome to Stay With Us. HOTEL CANDLER Students Compete For OrcFiestra Parts All Agnes Scott students under 2 5 years of age are eligible to com¬ pete for positions in the 109-piece ail-American youth orchestra which Leopold Stokowski will take on a good-will tour of Central and South America this winter, accord¬ ing to D. B. Lasseter, state admin¬ istrator of the National Youth Ad¬ ministration for Georgia. Students wishing to apply may do so by letter to Mr. Lasseter at the N. Y. A. office, 10 Forsyth Street Building,_ Atlanta. All en¬ tries must be in by February 1. Mr. Stokowski and the N. Y. A. will arrange preliminary auditions in six or eight central cities over the United States. The conductor himself plans to arrange transpor¬ tation to New York or some other central point for those who are recommended. He also states that he may charter a special boat for the trip. All young people will be eligible in this contest, the primary re¬ quirements of which are experience and quality. Glee Club Practices For Spring Operetta The Glee Club held its second quarter try-outs last week, admit¬ ting nine new members. They are Jo Ella Craig, Margery Grfy, Julia Moseley, Elise Nance, Mar¬ garet Ratchford, Nina May Snead, Mabel Stowe, Betty Wade, and Dot Wheeler. This spring the club will present another gay Gilbert and Sullivan operetta, lolantbe or The Veer and the Peri. Practice has already be¬ gun for the performance. mittees on the curriculum to work in cooperation with similar faculty committees; and the standardiza¬ tion of compulsory activity fees to enable student governing groups to effectively plan their activities in advance. To aid small schools in obtaining good speakers, the NSFA was urged to establish a lecture bureau. It was stated that commercial lecture bureaus are only interested in "big names," and that they charge pro¬ hibitive fees.— (ACP) Interviewer Tells Journalists of Gable, Lombard Carole Lombard and Clark (Rhett Butler) Gable happened not to be the only interesting pas¬ sengers aboard the plane that brought the two stars from Nash¬ ville, Tennessee, to Atlanta for the grand premiere of Gone With the Wind. Miss Betty Mathis, Consti¬ tution reporter and former .Agnes Scott student, was selected as one of the three Atlanta press represen¬ tatives to travel via plane with the famed couple. Returning to Agnes Scott to ad¬ dress KUB members, Miss Mathis gave a delightful picture of the two stars. She described Miss Lombard as "far prettier in person than on the screen," and Clark Gable as "greying at the temples, but per¬ fectly charming." She added that both are very miich interested in southern customs, in other people, and incidentally in each other. "Mr. Gable," she continued, "in¬ quired about cotton prices, the negro, and his favorite hobby, hunting." , Miss Lombard, she said, wanted to know if the elaborate parties given during pre-war days still were in vogue. According to Miss Mathis, Clark Gable is extremely modest. "I haven't done anything so wonder¬ ful," she quotes him as saying. "I just did my job, which happens to be acting. And if I did it well, so what? I get paid for it." Dark Woman Visits Frolic Fortune telling by a mysterious dark woman will be only a part of the entertainment offered at the German Frolic Thursday, January 18, at 7 o'clock, in the Murphey Candler Building. The frolic is sponsored by German Club for ben¬ efit of the campus campaign. Ad¬ mission is 10c. Welcome Back Girls DECATUR BEAUTY SALON RICH'S THE AGNES SCOTT NEWS. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 17. 1940 Eloise Lennard checks After Hours It has always been said that the social season is a pre-Christmas af¬ fair. As far as we can see, it's a year-round proposition, with no let-ups. This past week, the SAE's at Emory held the limelight. They gave their annual formal at the Piedmont D miving Club. Lib B arr ett, Charlene Burke, Keeker N ewton, Sara Gray Lennard Hollis, Marian Franklin, Margaret Hamilton, Sara Copeland, Eliza¬ beth Jenkins, Florrie Guy, Val Nielsen, Frances Butt, Betty Waitt, Annie Wilds, Bizelle Roberts, Nina Mae Snead, Martha Dunn, Weezie Sams, Frances Ellis, and Carolyn Alley were among those there. Holding a great deal of attrac¬ tion for the girls this week was the Rainbow Roof at the Ansley. Seen there at various times were Sue Phillips, Helen Jester, Elaine Stujbbs, Betty Jean O'Brien, Dusty Hance, Charlene Burke, Grace Elizabeth Anderson, Anne Martin, Betsy Banks, Annette Franklin, Iddy Boone, Harriet Vaughn, Jean Dennison, Eloise Lennard, and Mar¬ ian Franklin. Lib Barrett had as her guest over the week-end Margaret Roper, from Brenau. Lib also went to the Phi Delta Theta buffet supper Sunday night. Esthete Ogden spent the week¬ end in Cartersville, while Louise Franklin was in Marietta. Cithers off-campus were Nancy Hirsch, Dot Holloran, Helen Hale, and Shirley Gately. In Alabama were Gary Horne and Ellen Stuart. Campus Queen Scene: Pick¬ ing up the 1940 spirit, Evelyn Watson stepped off to town Sat¬ urday in a chartreuse and brown striped dress, with a short leopard jacket. For Quick Service Call— EVER-READY-CA3S Decatur, Ga. DE. 1656 Owned by Decatur Boys A college lor women that is widely recog¬ nized for its standards of work and for the interesting character of its student activities. For further information, address J. R. McCAIN, President Syracuse Plans Curriculum Study Designed to give students a voice in the conduct of their courses and the method of presentation of sub¬ ject matter, a five-man student committee has been appointed by the men's student government of Syracuse University to hear and correlate all suggestions, inquiries, and complaints and present them to the proper administrative au¬ thorities. Suggestions for improvement of subject matter or classroom presen¬ tation and complaints against texts or instructors will be handled by the committee, to be known as the suggestion and inquiry committee. Petty or insincere complaints will be disregarded. Students must sub¬ mit their suggestions or complaints in writing to the committee. All communications must be signed, but the signatures will not be made known to any but the committee. Material will go to the deans of the respective colleges, or to ad¬ ministrative officers, unsigned, ac¬ cording to the plan.— (ACP) Hazel Solomon sifts Exchanges With the beginning of the New Year, college seniors quite natur¬ ally begin to think about the eter¬ nal question: "After June, what then?" They wonder if they will be career girls, and, if so, how they will go about getting jobs. To help seniors face these perplexing prob¬ lems, a number of schools have es¬ tablished vocational advisory serv¬ ice. The service at Alabama Col¬ lege, Montevallo, Alabama, will carry on research to study the "em¬ ployment needs in the state, and . . . the facilities for meeting those needs, and . . . the opportunities for training -to fill the jobs avail¬ ably." This research will be con¬ ducted on a state-wide basis and will keep its information up-todate. This service will bring together the job and the trained woman worker in a socially useful way, tending to reduce unemployment. At Denton, Texas, where Texas State College for Women is located, students attended a vocational ad¬ vice clinic last week. The purpose of the clinic was to help students who "have no idea of the profes¬ sions they want to enter or those who are uncertain of the wisdom of the choice they have already made." THREADGILL PHARMACY Phone DE. 1665 309 E. College Avenue Decatur, Ga. • NOTICE AGNES SCOTT This is your drug store. WELCOME from the NEW PIG'N WHISTLE A Delightful Place to Entertain Your Friends O'Brien takes notes For the Record Well! Well! Happy New Year! There's no need to be trite and ask you all whether you had an enjoy¬ able vacation, for if you did you'd say "Yes," and if you didn't, you'd say "Yes," just to stay ''in the groove" -— so there, too. It seems vacations are something you look forward to rvn" and cry O Brien over until you get some more of. That acute thought must originally have come from Plato or at least Sophocles, don't you? Let's get down to brass tacks. Or carpet tax. Or income tax. Or even let's bring out into the open that senior public skeleton No. 1. Haven't you heard? Mr. Stukes has, and commented in his astuke way, "I know some of you have everything settled for next year, but," he said, and a down¬ hearted and sympathetic expression covered his kindly countenance, "I understand there are -not as many as usual!" "And oh for the sight of a ring not the phone's, And oh for the wedding march thrills!" In the dark recesses of the science hall lurk many deep and hidden secrets, which call forth from the various personalities in the science sanctum sanctorum numerous chortles and chuckles. Mrs. Fox upon urging will tell of the four "unforgivable sins" of laboratory procedure which she carefully wrote on the board, and verbally impressed upon the listen¬ ing students of Chemistry 101, and then one ready,' willing, and mis¬ guided freshman proceeded to care¬ fully and completely violate each and every one! And then there wa.s the time in class when. Mr. Holt asked for an ordinary, every¬ day, familiar example of a solution of a liquid, and Margaret Smith automatically responded with, "Al¬ cohol in water." And was she in a pickle! Our revered instructors are by no means as antiquated and uncon¬ scious as some of the students (?) seem to think. Witness Miss Dex- ter's reference to a slightly grimy infant perambulating over the floor as "an animated mop," and likewise, upon the recent un happy occasion of Miss Albright's setting forth of a pop quiz, when one frustrated freshman handed in her paper with "Oh, nerts" there¬ unto ascribed, the unnonplussed teacher returned the paper with "Misspelling" written upon it . . . DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF NURSING DURHAM, N. C. The Diploma of Graduate Nurse is awarded after three years, and the Degree of Bachelor of Science in Nursing for tw o additional years of approved college work before or after the course in Nursing. The entrance requirements are intelli¬ gence, character and graduationfrom an accredited high school. After 1940 two years of collegework will be required. The annual tuition of $100 covers the cost of uniforms, books, student govern¬ ment fees, etc. Catalogues, appli¬ cation forms and information about college requirements may be ob¬ tained from the Admission Com¬ mittee. Mortar Board Honors Freshmen Chapter Plans Tea For Day Students, Parents A play directed and presented by Alice Cheeseman highlighted the entertainment at the annual Mor¬ tar Board parties for freshman boarding students January 14 and 15. The rest of the program in¬ cluded games and proms. The committees for the par¬ ties were: refreshments, Eleanor Hutchens; invitations, Evelyn Baty, Margaret Hopkins, Sophie Montgomery; entertainment, Katherine Patton, Henrietta Thompson, Carolyn Forman; decorations, Jane Moses; dates, Ruth Slack, Lutie Moore. Mortar Board plans to entertain the freshman day students and their parents at a tea in February. The date lists for the boarder parties, composed of boys from Emory, Georgia Tech, Columbia Seminary, Decatur, and Atlanta in¬ cluded: For Monday night: StanleyHastings, Bobby Kilian, Ed Mar¬ tin, Red O'Neal, Charlie Quillian, Bill Shealey, Charlie Uhl, Jim Whaley, jimmy Wilson, HarryCrider, Ray Miller, Newton Jones, Frank Legg, Bob Barrett, Frank Aldred, Jack Darbey, Arthur Bishop, Fairfield Manget, Pat Sow- ell, Lewis Culver, T. L. Johnson, Billy Alford, Harold Barnwell, Tommy Bixler, Ben Blue, Dan Burge, Steadman Burgess, JimmyCook, A. B. Dennis, John Funke, Finley Garvin, Eddie Gazelle, Frank Hardman, Paul Hartsfield, James Mackay, Jimmie Wilder, Tom Whiting, Jay Cumbaa, Vance Baron, A1 Bixler, Benny Moore, Davis Bornet, A. C. Tweed, Walter Cottingham, Ed Green, Marcellus Steadman, Barnes Sale, Dave Den¬ nison, Leland Mackay, Bill Pindergrass, Joe Carver, Charles Carver, Barton McCrumm, Cecil White, Jim Tilly, Pierce Allgood, Count Gibson, John Loftis, Jimmie Rhodes, Bill McCord, Bill McAndrews, Raleigh Sutton, Franklin Smith, James Todd, John Lewis, Billy Craig, Ashley Byrd, Wade Huie, Bill Lemon, Carrekar Pas¬ chal, Fred Walker, Archie Tolbert, Billy Greer, Doug Hanelime, Henry- Harris, Ben Freeman, and Searcy Slack. And for Tuesday night: Warren Taylor, Jim Harris, Joe Boyer, Billy MacGuire, Vernard Robert¬ son, Joe Beutell, Ned Iverson, Don Bailey, Jan Stalker, Bill Marquess, Bill Owens, Julian Weaver, James Duke, Bobby Schulze, Alf Cross- well, Lynn Shipman, Alec Orman, Charles Sill, Aubrey Taffar, Lauritz Jacobson, Warren McLain, Roy Grizzell, John Birdsali, Paul Birdsall, Erwin Jenkins, Tom Talmadge, Raymond Griffin, Bob Haggart. Jack Bodenhamer, Jim Bodenhamer, Ed Garner, Gene Powell, David Cavan, Bill Tuck, Gordon Bailey, Jim Asher, Lewis Estes, Floyd Sanders, Russell Melbourne, Bob Kruger, Blair Crocker, Elmer Enlow, Bion Enlow, James Nelson, Albert Cox, Josiah Clegg, GeorgeCress, Jack Crown, Lang Elliot, Henderson Traylor, Edward Owen, Jim Scanlon, Leroy Cotting, Al¬ bert Biley, Charles Carter, Joe Aizpurn, Bob Bourough, John Carvey, John Bannister, Herbert Fernandy, Harold Couch, Lacy Arnold, Harry- Bell, Alvin Matson, Norman Drap¬ er, John Spitko, Ian Bell, BobbyGibbs, Durwood Sims, E. L. Scan- berry, Joe Stubbins, Ed Wilkes, H. W. Bronson, Jimmy Malone, Don Leslie, Steve Olen, SearcySlack, Bob Oster, and Bill Stead. For your dearest friends, the most personal of all giftsis your portrait—it's thought¬ ful—it is you. Norton's Studio ROGERS STORE Little Men Protect Interests "The Little Man Who Wasn't There" is here, and here to stay— at least if Shikey Bard has anything to say about it. While busily en¬ gaged in research for a term paper in history at Yeshiva College Bard noticed in the_text which he was using that Napoleon had nothing on him—as far as height is con¬ cerned. Going back to the original sources, Shikey found in a text that not only were he and Napo¬ leon not around when the extra inches were handed out, but neither were John Paul Jones, Chopin, Beethoven, Keats, Milton, nor Michelangelo. Having thus justified the exist¬ ence of his microscopic brethren, Bard has assumed the task of or¬ ganizing these concentrated dyna¬ mos into one organization. The main purpose of this society is to insure the little fellows protection from being trampled underfoot. This "fraternity of the Little Fellow," as it has been named, has for its raison d'etre the fact that the world which has had quantity for its standard must in the near future seek a new norm of quality. And who is a better representative of this new concept than the "Lit¬ tle Fellow," says Bard. The "Little Man Who Wasn't There" has sent a call to colors to all collegians who have stature not exceeding 5 feet 4. Bard hopes that since all "Little Fellows" are close to the ground they will be able to create a saner society, for unlike their long- legged brothers they will create conceptions which are "down to earth." The motto adopted by the mite-y atoms is "By your feats shall ye be judged, not by your feet.":— (ACP) Gallaudet College (Washington, D. C.) is the only college for the deaf in the world. Miami University tests have proven that men have more rhythm than women. On the University of Califor¬ nia's new geological clock, one second represents the passage of 50,000 years. Bring Your Nice Things To GILL CLEANERS Church Street HEARN'S LADIES' and MEN'S READY-TO-WEAR 131 Sycamore Street Decatur, Ga. Agnes Scott College DECATUR, GA. THE AGNES SCOTT NEWS. WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 17. 1940 Campus Camera Feminine Fdgtballer JuAKUTA Mc CRURY OF PARIS (TEXAS) JUNIOR QOUB&E ACTUALLY PLAYS WITH THE COLLEGE FOOTBALL TEAM. JHE SPECIALIZES IN PL/CBKICKJMG AND IS USED FOR CONVERTING EXTRA POINTS, FOR FIELD COAL KKXING. AND AT TIMES HANDLES THE KICKDFF ASSIGNMENT/ SyEMIDJI (MINN.) STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE IS THE COLDEST SCHOOL IN THE COUWTRT. TEAAPERAtURB OFTEN GET EELOW -40° AND -50° IS NOT UNUSUAL/ HERMAN GLANDERs HAS BEEN THE "CAMPUS OOP* AT THE UNIV. OF ^ MINNESOTA Vi) FOR 31 YEARS AND HAS MISSED ONLY ONE FOOTBALL GAME DURING THAT "TIME/ The News publishes another Letter to the Editor In a verv few days the Mortar Board the evening and sometimes succeed. The of Agnes Scott will be host to a group of girl tries too—usually with greater success. boys drawn for the most part from Em¬ But the boy does the inviting, takes ory and Georgia Tech. Each year such the pains of decorating his fraternity parties are given; their purpose is admit¬ house, sees that his car is in good order, tedly that of "meeting the freshmen." plans for the orchestra, food,-special guests, and digs a lot deeper than he For a good many years now I have been should to pay for the special event. extended and have accepted these kind invitations. I have attended; I have in¬ Isn't it about time that Agnes Scott as variably had a good time, for the girls a school had an awakening? Cooperation are dressed in their best (and the best is between men and women should mean plenty good), while there is generally that both sides give as well as take. While planned entertainment during most of the the company of the local high school girls evening. I have always come away with is seldom inspiring—especially if they are the memory of a few hours on your at¬ given opportunities to indulge to the full¬ tractive campus and several new friends est their meagre powers of conversation— among the members of your newest class. they habituidly give dances and parties to which the college boys come as appreciated If this be termed "closer cooperation," and appreciating guests. I'm for it! The Agnes Scott "spirit" provides—or But a little reflection invariably brings such is my impression—for sins of omis¬ out a few deeper feelings on the subject; sion and commission. Is it designed as a the perhaps embarrassing question "why?" barrier to the social education which en¬ enters and becomes associated with the tertaining provides? Make it work for you other theme. rather than, if the answer is affirmative, Blame it on peculiar methods of be¬ against you, for the only path to educa¬ queathing money to the school; dismiss it tion lies not with Saturday classes alone! with the explanation that the school is Divide yourselves on certain lines best dedicated to the altar of learning in its known to you—state groups, dormitory purest form; say that the girls arc neither groups, cultural groups. Organize a little, financially able nor socially creative (two plan a little, and then invite out these palpable falsehoods). Say what you will, fellows who have been doing so much for the fact remains that Agnes Scott has you for so long. If your faculty or trus¬ fallen down on an obligation. tees find anything wrong in such a pro¬ This debt is seen clearly in the invita¬ gram they're more narrow minded than I tion to the freshmen parties through think them. whose good graces several congenial Shakespeare has Hamlet observe to friends are made by each girl starting Horatio that, "There arc more things in social life in this area. The four year heaven and earth than are dreamt of in Agnes Scott girl hopes, I feel sure, to at¬ your' philosophy." tend spring dances, formals, fraternity So likewise may it be said that there house dances; she hopes for hay rides is a whole lot more in this business of (which are more popular wl>en she can "cooperation" than has as yet come to stay off "campus" as a result), for din¬ the surface. ner invitations, for just plain movies—in short, good times with boys. Sincerely yours, Let us say that these things come: the A Graduate Student, boys try to make themselves pleasant for Emory University. The Agnes Scott News Vol. XXV Wednesday, Jan. 17, 1940 No. 11 (Charter )Mem ber) Published weekly, except during holidays and examination periods, by the students of Agnes Scott College. Office on second floor Murphey Candler Building. Entered as second class matter at the Dccatur, Georgia, post office. Subscription price per year, $1.2 5; single copies, five cents. Eleanor Hutchens Editor Evelyn Baty Managing Editor Mary Louise Dobbs Business Manager Dies Committee May be Right When Representative Martin Dies an¬ nounced recently his intention of investi¬ gating-colleges and universities in his search for un-American activities, forty- five student editors protested in their col¬ umns. The chief themes of the forty-five editorials were: 1. Educational institutions are sacred, and should be kept so against intrusion and interference from the outside world. 2. The Dies Committee has proved it¬ self useless and absurd. In answer to the first of these theories, it may be mentioned that educational in¬ stitutions themselves make no effort to shut out the rest of civilization. Student groups labor year in and year out to exert pressure on law-making bodies; America's junior journalists undertake to pass judg¬ ment on every act of those who govern' the world; college and university commun¬ ities have the protection of the law. It is difficult for the pedestrian mind to under¬ stand why education, in its turn, has no responsibility outside its walls. As for the Dies Committee, its efforts have seemed sincere and its achievements such as to justify its existence and con¬ tinuance. Certainly it has opened many an eye to the facts that there are definite¬ ly planned forces working against the present form of government in the United States, and that all red here is not accom¬ panied by white and blue. It stands to reason that no student or¬ ganization would object seriously to being investigated for un-American activities unless such activities were being fostered within it. One of the greatest benefits of the Dies Committee has been to reveal where people stand, through their com¬ ments on the committee. So let the parlor pinks among American students editorialize to their hearts' con¬ tent. The rest of us will be glad to find out who and where they are. Georgia Hunt gathers Campus Quotes "Are we un-American or not?" college stu¬ dents are asking themselves as the Dies Commit¬ tee plans to investigate campus activities. The proposal has aroused fiery comment throughout the country, as college ed¬ itors expand on the dan¬ gers of government inter¬ ference or the need of more supervision. Agnes Scott speaks its mind on the question this week: Mary Jane Auld, '43, says: "If un-Ameri¬ can activities are going on in colleges and universi tiesi we, as American citi¬ zens, should be interested Hunt in their removal. This should be done in a moderate procedure—not a drastic one which would cripple the educational institution." Lila Peck Walker, '42, thinks: ". . . that not enough students realize that un-American activi¬ ties do exist. Everybody on an American campus is entitled to his own opinion, but the Dies Com¬ mittee can be a help in keeping those opinions democratic." Susanne Kaulbach, '42, says: "The investi¬ gation along the Tines the committee proposes would hamper the progress of the institution. I think they are treading on dangerous ground, be¬ cause any investigation which would cause ^any animosity toward the government on the part of students of foreign descent would be very dan¬ gerous. The Dies Committee has not yet done enough constructive work in other cases to make examination of colleges worth while." Laura Sale. '41, thinks: ". . . that it is hard for college students to realize that un-American activities are being carried on because in their close association with activities on the campus they lose the prospective of affairs in general. However, the activities of the Dies Committee have stimulated interest in such matters." Betty Stevenson boils down The Real News Air Raid Signals England and Germany pursue a tit-for-tat policy in air warfare. England bombs the islands of Sylt and Helgoland. Then German planes patrol England's east coast on a series of bright days from Edinburgh to London. Checkmate: the British pa¬ trols fly the distance of the North Atlantic over Bohemia and Austria. The English and German citizen begins to go to bed with soberer thoughts of mass bombings in the near future. Stevenson Court Jester G. B. S. loves to rile the British bourgeoisie, and he has made several digs at British official¬ dom since the war began. Last week, asked what would happen if he ran the propaganda machine, Shaw asserted in his best style: "I could invent news to suit any event. And, what is more, the news I invented would be true. Or it would come true. I am professionally a man of imagination." Strange Bedfellows Italy's political conscience, awakened belatedly, seems working overtime. Mussolini, who was cer¬ tainly no good Samaritan for Poland, is searching almost frantically for ways to get war supplies to the Finns, even as Sweden, Denmark, or France. With his war plane shipments across Germany stopped by Hitler, friend Mussolini calls on friend France to send Italian war material in Spain to Finland. The Duce even counts on British co¬ operation in transporting such goods. Hitler's Headache Hitler is colonizing the hinterlands of his Fatherland, that is, planting Germans in a wide belt between Bohemia and Moravia. And, more¬ over, he has had removed from the hands of the barbaric Slavs their laboratories and research ma¬ terial. The blessings of Teutonic civilization have included not only dead students and shut schools but now, imprisoned teachers and newspapermen, and closed libraries as well. The American Menace Unthinking Japanese are probably as sincere in their fear of the "American menace" as their foolish brothers-under-the-skin along the West Coast are concerning the "yellow menace." But the Japanese government is in a delicate situation. Good relations with the United States are needed for an unworried pursuit of peaceful penetration into China. Yet the United States is allowing its trade treaty with Japan to lapse on January 26th as a mark of disapproval. While the cabinet fails in an effort to pacify the Americans, the Japanese navy protests a 25 per cent increase and new and bigger cruisers for the United States navy, and threatens a naval race. Cave in War relegates nearly all domestic news to ob¬ scurity. It even minimized the worst mine dis¬ aster of the last 10 years. This dreary tragedy of the West Virginia coal fields ends with final pay checks going out to survivors of 92 men. Editorial Notes— Radio Program Revives College Past We print the letter from Emory on this page as a courteous-and-to-the-point sug¬ gestion. A step in the right direction, Athletic Association's "cooperation" party last Saturday night attracted a goodly number from our neighboring institution of learning. Don't let the good work stop with A. A. and Mortar Board. If you don't know who founded Agnes Scott, and when, and where, and what happened thereafter, it's time you listened to the college broadcast on Wednesday aft¬ ernoons at 5 o'clock over WSB. Today's program marks the second in a series of four designed to present in concise and interesting dramatization the history of our college. Another academic procession will be in order Saturday morning as the time comes for the first Phi Beta Kappa announce¬ ment for this year. No official speaker is invited for that morning, but Douglas Southall Freeman, our lecturer for Jan¬ uary 25, will be considered also as Phi Beta speaker. The Agnes Scott News VOL. XXV AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE. DECATUR. GA.. WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 24, 1940 Z115 No. 12 Phi Beta Kappa Elects Miss Muriel Harn, professor of German and secretary of the local chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, announced in chapel Saturday that the fol¬ lowing girls had been named members of Phi Beta Kappa: Evelyn Baty, Birmingham, Alabama; Ruth Eyles, Atlanta;-Eva Ann Pirkle, Atlanta; and Jane Salters, Florence, South Carolina. Glee Clubs Give 'lolanthe' Emory Shares in Singing Of Fanciful Operetta The Emory Little Symphony Orchestra, under the baton of Dr. Malcolm H. Dewey, director of music at Emory University, will be in the pit when the curtain goes up on the Agnes Scott and Emory Glee Club presentation of Gilbert and Sullivan's operetta, "lolanthe." The cast of the operetta, under the direction of Mr. Lewis H. Johnson, teacher of voice at Agnes Scott, is made up of members of the two clubs. Tentative plans have been made to engage a professional sing¬ er experienced in the presentation of Gilbert and Sullivan operettas for the chief comic part, that of the Lord High Chancellor. Two performances, scheduled for the last of March, will be given; one at Agnes Scott and one the following night at Emory. "lolanthe" is a whimsical, tune¬ ful tale of a fairy who falls in love with a mortal and is banished from her place in the fairy queen's court. The plot revolves around her at¬ tempts to regain her lost position, and the story presents many op¬ portunities for the delightful, catchy songs which make Gilbert and Sullivan ever-popular. Students Discuss Campus Problems The chapel meeting on January 2 5 will be taken up with a discus¬ sion of all complaints turned in by members of the student body in response to the request made by Student Government on January 11. The problem of obtaining a new mimeograph machine for Buttrick is still under considera¬ tion. Students are urged to make sug¬ gestions as to topics for the open forum scheduled for February 1. On January 18 the student body voted that all books accumulated in the second hand book store should be disposed of one year after their owners' graduations, if they have not been claimed by them. Banquet Honors New Members of Phi Beta Kappa With Dr. Douglas Southall Freeman and the newly-elected members of Phi Beta Kappa as honor guests, the Agnes Scott chapter of Phi Beta Kappa will en¬ tertain at its annual banquet on Thursday, January 25, at 6 P. M. in the Anna Young Alumnae House. The Agnes Scott chapter, which is Beta chapter of Georgia, has invited all alumnae and faculty members, besides many other dis¬ tinguished guests. Miss Laura Colvin, Miss Catherine Torrance and Miss Mamie Lee Ratliff are in charge of arrangements. The date of the banquet has been changed this year so that Dr. Freeman, who will be here to lec¬ ture on Thursday night, may be the principal speaker. Alumnae Write May Day Script On Progress Students Nominate Queen In Voting This Week; Election Begins February 1 Plans for the 1940 Mky Day festival, under the auspices of the alumnae association this year and has been designed to come as the climax to Agnes Scott's semi-cen¬ tennial celebration, are progressing rapidly as announcement comes from Eloise Leonard, student chair¬ man of the program, that the boxes for nominations of May Queen will be placed in the Gym on January 25 and 26. Election of May Queen will come on February 1 and 2, and the date for tryouts for the May Court, to be definitely an¬ nounced later, will follow the selec¬ tion of the Queen. The scenario for the pageant is being written by a committee of alumnae composed of Miss Mary Ann Kernan, chairman; Miss Hortense Jones, Miss Lita Goss, and Mrs. Frank Sewell. The cast will include fifty other A. S. C. alum¬ nae and students, one representa¬ tive from each year of the school's life, beginning with the days of the Seminary. Costumed to portray the period which each represents, these characters will be used to de¬ velop the theme, dealing with .the progress of women in education. Miss Winter Directs Broadcast "The Agnes Scott Ideal," third in the series of historical sketches commemorating the semi-centen¬ nial year of the college, will fur¬ nish the theme of the weekly broadcast over WSB this afternoon at 5 o'clock. Miss Roberta Winter, assistant professor of speech, will direct the program. Students of speech at Agnes Scott, alumnae, and mem¬ bers of the Emory Radio Guild make up the cast. Joos Ballet Comes to Atlanta A modern ballet, "The Big City," composed by choreograph¬ er-dancer Kurt Joos with music by Alexander Tansman, will be one of the high points in the entirely original program offered by the Joos Ballet at the Erlanger Theatre in Atlanta, January 27, at 8:30 P. M. The Joos Ballet is one of the 1939-40 series of concerts spon¬ sored by the Atlanta Music Club. The ballet is known for its mod¬ ern interpretation of ancient leg¬ ends and fairy tales. "The Seven Heroes," adapted from a fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm, and "The Prodigal Son," based on an old legend, will form part of the program here. Southern Writer Discusses Biography Freeman Centers Talk on Pulitzer Prize-Winning Lee Story Douglas Southall Freeman, historian and journalist, will come to lecture tomorrow evening as one belonging peculiar¬ ly to the South. Born in Virginia, Dr. Freeman has devoted many years to a study of the history and problems of the Southern states, and has recently published a bibliography of Confederate literature. His lecture here, scheduled for 8:30 in the Bucher Scott gymnasium, will center around the "Adventures in Biography" which he found in writing his Pulitzer Prize-winning story of Robert E. Lee. Dr. Freeman received his educa- DOUGLAS S. FREEMAN Dr. M. G. Gutzke Opens C. A. Forum Dr. M. G. Gutzke, professor of theology at Columbia Seminary, will be the leader of Christian As¬ sociation's Open Forum Friday aft¬ ernoon, January 26, from 4:30 to 5:30 in Murphey Candler Building. Dr. Gutzke spoke in chapel Jan¬ uary 9. The interest aroused from his talk on "The Cross in the World of Today" has produced a number of requests that he return to the campus. He plans to de¬ velop his theme further in his ap¬ pearance at Ooen Forum. Coming This Week Thursday, January 21 — Phi Beta Kappa Ban¬ quet, Anna Young Alumnae House at 6.00. Dr. Douglas S. Freeman lectures on Biography in gymnasium at 8:30. Friday, January 27—Bas¬ ketball game in gym at 7:30. Saturday, January 28 — All-day meeting of Girl Scout leaders. Joos Ballet, Erlanger Theatre, at 8:00 P. M. Tuesday, January 31 — Presidents' Council en¬ tertains new students at tea in Murphey Candler Building at 4:30 P. M. tion in the South, graduating from Richmond College in Virginia. He holds a Ph.D. degree from Johns Hopkins and several honorary de¬ grees from outstanding colleges and universities. As editor of the Richmond News Leader, and as professor of journalism at Colum¬ bia University, he has won recog¬ nition for his ability in that field. His interests have included a wide range of national and south¬ ern problems. He is a member and trustee of the Rockefeller Founda¬ tion and General Education Board, a trustee of the Carnegie Endow¬ ment for International Peace, and president of the Southern Histori¬ cal Society. Dr. Freeman has demonstrated his particular inter¬ est in Virginia by his work with the Poetry Society of that state, as a trustee of the Universities of Richmond and Virginia, and as historical consultant for Virginia in the U. S. Department of the In¬ terior. Alabama College for Women at Montevallo found Dr. Freeman of particular interest when he lec¬ tured there last April. Dr." A. W. Vaughan, head of the English de¬ partment at that school, writes: "We found Dr. Freeman a most engaging speaker and delightful guest. The lectures he delivered here would, I do not doubt, be re¬ ceived with great interest by any The Atlanta Journal, in review¬ ing the same book, said: "Mr. Free¬ man's definitive biography of 'R. E. Lee' reveals him as a scholar second to none in his field and this engaging volume has at once au¬ thority and grace." A member of Phi Beta Kappa, Dr. Freeman will be honor guest at a banquet for the initiation of the new members of the Agnes Scott chapter immediately preced¬ ing the lecture. There will, of course, be no admission charge for the lecture itself. Organization Leaders Acquaint Students With Campus Activities In an attempt to help new stu¬ dents choose their extracurricular activities, Presidents' Council has invited all sponsors to bring their sponsorees, including freshmen and transfers, to a tea in the Murphey Candler Building January 30, at 4:30 P. M. The program, of which Louise Sullivan is in charge, will in¬ clude a brief discussion of the work of each organization on the cam¬ pus, and rules regarding the point system will be explained. THE AGNES SCOTT NEWS. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 24, 1940 German Club Undefeated Teams Meet Tries Folk Dance On Court Friday It jvas a gay evening for those who attended the German Frolic in Dot Webster Leads Sophomores the Murphey Candler Bhilding last Thursday from 7:00 until 9:00. As Week's Highest Scorer Mrs. Lapp led the group in sev¬ eral colorful folk dances. Jane Last Friday afternoon the seniors and sophomores re¬ Moses sang Bohm's "Still Wie die peated their previous successes by defeating the freshmen Nacht," Schumann's "Widmung" and juniors in the second basketball games of the season. and as an encore, Grieg's "Ich Liebe The score in the senior-freshman game was 25 to 16, and Dich." Game tables provided the freshmen showed a vast im¬ amusement for many, while a provement since the last game. For mysterious dark woman, who College Leaders the seniors, Virginia Milner scored proved to be none other than Ag¬ five goals and three free shots. View Education nes Scott's own Ruth Kaplan, read Ruth Slack made four goals, and palms and gave promise of elim¬ Helen Carson made two. Ann Ea- Modern School Includes inating all boredom from the lives gan, for the freshmen, shot four Social Science Research of A. S. C. alumnae by predicting goals, Ann Frierson scored three, romance, adventure, and prosperity and Marjorie Wiesman scored one. "The modern university in for all. The program was con¬ The sophomores made a score of democracy ^ must be thought of as cluded by the skit, "Love's Old 46 to the juniors' 30. High scorer Sweet Scorn," or "Gone With the a true lighthouse which illumines for the sophomores was Dot Web¬ Undertaker," with sound effects the path of those who may travel ster, with a total of 22 points. by Alice Cheeseman and Georgia Alta Webster made 10 points; in any land. An outstanding trag¬ Hunt and paper-bag pantomime by Carolyn Dunn, 10, and Annie edy of the years through which Laura Sale and Hat Stimson. Wilds, 4. Ethelyn Dyar scored 16 Coffee was served during the we are now living is the disap¬ points, Anne Fisher scored 8, and evening and home made candy and pearance of the true university in Rowena Barringer 6. cake were on sale. The proceeds countries where it has long been of Next week there will be games went to the campaign fund. most distinguished and well-rec¬ between the seniors and sopho¬ ognized competence." Columbia mores, juniors and freshmen. Line¬ University's President Nicholas Student War Fund ups: Murray Butler mourns the loss of Forwards—Seniors: Slack, Car¬ academic freedom abroad. Aids Stricken son, Milner; freshmen: Eagan, How We Behave Formation of a European Stu¬ Percy, Frierson. dents Service Fund to raise $35,000 Guards — Seniors: Thompson, "Viewed in the large, research in from U. S. college stsdents to al¬ Ware, Moses; freshmen: Cordell, the social sciences has become of leviate the plight of students Dale, Rountree. transcendent importance if we are abroad who are affected by the to know how to guide society into Forwards—Juniors: Dyar, Bar¬ war been The has announced. safer ways. History must come ringer, Fisher; sophomores, A. funds raised by American students first so that we know how we Webster, D. Webster, Dunn. will be administered by a European have behaved and perhaps why." Guards—Juniors: Klugh, Denni-Student Relief Committee in which President Ray Lyman Wilbur, of son, Kendrick; sophomores, Lott, the International Student Service Stanford University, asks historians Hasty, Brooks. and the World Student Christian to chart our past life as a guide to Substitutes — Freshmen: Weis-Federation are cooperating. In this our future activities. man; Sophomores: Thomas; Jun¬ country the drive will be under iors: Wilds. 'Political Strangulation' the joint sponsorship of the Na¬ tional Intercollegiate Christian "We hold that in the battle Swimming Pageant Council and the 1. S. S. The Euro¬ against the super-state, against Beryl Healy, swimming man¬ pean Student Service Fund will state control of thought and poli¬ ager, announces February 19 as the work in cooperation with the Red tical control of education, it is date of the annual swimming Cross and similar relief agencies. valuable to have alongside the pageant. The swimming depart¬ state universities a system of col¬ Its main work will be to provide ment will announce further plans the students with the bare necessi¬ leges not beholden, not subsidized, about this year's theme and lead¬ ties of life, to enable them to con¬ not so quickly amendable to politi¬ ing parts later. cal interference. The day will tinue their studies and to help them prepare themselves for the come when ^he sturdy independ¬ future reconstruction of European ence of endowed colleges may help life. Psychology Students to save the others from political strangulation." President Ralph C. Choose Actress Hutchison, of Washington and Jef¬ Brumby Fetes B.O.Z. ferson College, points to the na¬ Flagstaff, Ariz.— (ACP)—Pris-tion's need for strong endowed B. O. Z. met Friday night at cilla Lane, cinema star, is the ideal colleges. 7:00 in Sabine Brumby's room in mate. That is the unanimous opin¬ Rebekah Scott Hall. Miriam Bed- ion of the 27 male members of Dr. inger, Virginia Williams, and V. J. Weather Man Records John J. Harton's class in psychol¬ Watkins read short stories and an ogy at Arizona State Teachers Col¬ Deepest Snow in History open discussion was held. lege here. Yesterday's snowfall was the The men in the class, after an¬ Massachusetts State College has deepest here since the Atlanta swering detailed questionnaires, the only two-year hotel steward- Weather Bureau was founded in selected entertaining, friendly, ing course in the country. 1879. Measuring 9.3 inches yes¬ beautiful, cheerful, considerate, terday morning, the fall broke the There are approximately 500 helpful, honest, and intelligent (in that order) as the adjectives most January, 1936, record of 8.2 transfer students at Alabama Poly¬ inches. technic Institute this year. applicable to the perfect wife. After choosing the desired traits, it was the decision of the group SENIORS! What Could Be Better Than a that the embodiment of these char¬ FORD acteristics is Miss Lane. For Graduation? Students from five continents A.M. CHANDLER, INC. and 24 foreign countries are en¬ Decatur DE. 2588 rolled at Los Angeles City College. THREADGILL PHARMACY Bowe/i Press Phone DE. 1665 309 E. College Avenue Commercial Printing and StationeryDecatur, Ga. TYPEWRITERS AND RIBBONS Blotters — Note Paper — Poster Paper NOTICE Office Supplies AGNES SCOTT 316 Church St. DE. 3383 Decatur, Ga. This is your drug store. College Invites Theater Head Girls Scout Leaders Visits Here Agnes Scott will play hostess Mrs. Major Explains Saturday, January 27, to the lead¬ Methods of Production ers of the Girl Scouts in Georgia when they meet here for a day of Mrs. Clare Tree Major, founder intensive special training. and director of the Children's The Atlanta Girl Scout Council, Theatre, discussed her methods and under the direction of Mrs. M. aims in producing plays for chil¬ Rogers Noble, an alumna of Agnes dren with a group of students and Scott, is sponsoring the session. visitors in Miss Gooch's studio The program will feature discus¬ Monday morning at 11:30. sion and demonstration of new The English director-dramatist songs, games, and crafts. Luncheon recounted the growth of the proj¬ will be served in the Anna Young ect which she began in this country sixteen years ago. She explained Alumnae House. that she uses colorful stage settings and bright costumes to appeal to children, and that she plans the Pipes Break, action of her plays carefully, avoiding long conversations and College Frolics emotional scenes which might bore or tire young audiences. She stress¬ Weather Note: Education ed the necessity, however, of af¬ took a holiday recently at Con¬ fording more than just amusement nors (Okla.) State Agricultural in children's plays, and cited her college . . . not because it wanted own attempts to approach such to but because it was frozen out of plays from a mature viewpoint house and home. When a sudden with emphasis on morals and ideals. cold wave descended, all water The Children's Theatre now has pipes in the college buildings were six companies out on a six months frozen, students and boilers didn't tour. They are presenting "Rip have water—so classes were dis¬ Van Winkle," and next year they missed until the first thaw. "Thaw, expect to give "Hans Brinker." thaw, stay away," was the stu¬ Each play is rehearsed every day dents' chant for several days. for a month, and the actors give five dress rehearsals before they Color Note: Superstitions leave the Theatre headquarters in come and superstitions go, claims New York City to go on tour. the University of Idaho's Psycholo¬ gist Allan C. Lemon, but one that college students stick with is this: Miss Thomas Resigns Blondes are less trustworthy than brunettes. Infirmary Work Correspondence Note: Be¬ lieved the longest personal tele¬ The new member of the nursing staff of the college infirmary is gram in history, Alabama Poly¬ Miss Helen Belle Chappell, who is technic Institute students dispatch¬ a graduate of the Georgia Baptist ed a 7,000 word wire to Bandman School of Nursing. She will be at Kay Kyser inviting him to play on the infirmary temporarily, succeed¬ their campus. The wire was sign¬ ing Miss Emilie Thomas. Miss ed by every member of the student body.— (ACP) Thomas has discontinued her in¬ firmary work to devote her time to her academic courses. Sister Classes Battle Dr. Florence Swanson, college On Snow-Covered Field physician, accompanied her an¬ nouncement of Miss Chappell's ap¬ A hand -to -hand free -for -all pointment with the statement that ended the senior-sophomore snow¬ "The infirmary staff has been busy ball fight on the hockey field yes¬ lately with numerous cases of in¬ terday afternoon. The result of a fluenza and cold; however, we are challenge by the underclassmen, happy that there has been no seri¬ the battle featured two fort-stormous illness and that the infirmary ings and the customary Thompsonpopulation is decreasing." knee injury. BEAUTIFUL YOU GREAT BEAUTIFUL You'll look good enough to eat, in this darling New Joan Kenley Doll Blouse. Snow-white Batiste with yards of lace and only 2.98! BLOUSE SHOP STREET FLOOR RICH'S THE AGNES SCOTT NEWS. WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 24. 1940 Eloise Lennard checks up on O'Brien takes notes After Working Hours So this is the sunny South! Well, you couldn't prove it by any of the inhabitants. Nevertheless, social events go on in spite of the climate, and Agnes Scott girls do, too. Among those being seen braving zero weather at the Pied¬ mont Driving Club for the ATO formal Friday night were Florence Ellis,,_ Oral Reading Marion) Phillips, Sue Phil¬ Enters Curriculum lips, Lib Russell Sage College is perfect¬ Barrett, ing the oral reading as well as the Rowen a general speech of its students by Barringer, the introduction of choric verse F 1 orrie speaking in all speech classes. Par¬ Guy, Jean ticularly, the classes are aimed to Dennison, improve the speech of freshmen Elta Rob¬ and the foreign born. inson,Al-. To stimulate interest in the en¬ lie Ma-Lennard lone, Iddy Boone, Bizelle Roberts, deavor, a verse choir of 30 mem¬ Boots Moore, Frances Butt, Eloise bers has been organized by George- Lennard, Keeker Newton, and William Smith, professor of speech. Donata Fforne. While the fundamental aims of this activity are educational, its Among the number out to hear entertainment value will be utiliz¬ Artie Shaw's orchestra Friday night were Helen Hale, Harriet ed through the choir's appearance before area alumnae groups, liter¬ Vaughn, and Shirley Gately. And ary clubs and college assemblies. on that same night, at the Delta Sigma dance, were Rebecca Stamp¬ "Much is said today of the poor er, Betty Ann Stewart, and Ann¬ oral reading by the average college ette Franklin. entrant," Professor Smith said. "The speech pattern is distorted Dancing at the Rainbow and the thought is but vaguely Room were Grace Elizabeth An¬ communicated. Rich in its poten¬ derson, Frances Butt, Charlene tialities to remedy just this, choric Burke, Dusty Hance, Sara Cope- verse speaking is rapidly gaining an land, and Lillian Schwencke, while important place in the educative Julia Ann Patch, Hattie Ayres, process." Betty Ann Stewart, Elta Robinson, and Susan Self went to the AKK Although all types of defective house dance. speech are helped by this work, the foreign born and the stutterer per¬ Eugenia Hailey went home for haps receive the most benefit, Pro¬ the week-end, while Lib Barrett fessor Smith pointed out. The for¬ was in Gainesville. Others off eign student or student of foreign campus were Mary Klingensmith, Marjorie Weissmann, Nancy born parents needs to learn and fix the very difficult tune of Eng¬ Hirsch, Martha Dale, Bette Bur lish speech, and the stutterer to es¬ dette, Betty Brougher, and Jane tablish in all expression the neces¬ Coffer. Elizabeth Russell's mother sary kihetic rhythm.— (AGP) was here for the week-end. Sue Phillips, Helen Jester, and Frankie Butt attended a basketball ACP Corrects game at Tech Saturday night. ACP has notified the Grace Elizabeth Anderson and News that the statement Eloise Lennard attended the which appeared in their Fea¬ "Hour of Charm" broadcast ture Service, dated January 7, Sunday night. 1940, to the effect that Sec¬ Campus Queen Scene: Hav¬ retary Joseph Lash and Na¬ ing a wonderful time at the ATO tional Chairman Mollie Yard, formal was Florence Ellis, wear¬ of the American Student Un¬ ing a deep coral taffeta, made with ion, were "ousted" at the con¬ a very full skirt, and off-the vention in Madison was an er¬ ror. Both were nominated for leading offices and both de¬ BAILEY BROTHERS clined. SHOE SHOP shoulder neckline. To top it off, 142 Sycamore St. Florence wore a lovely orchid in her hair. HEARN'S LADIES' and MEN'S READY-TO-WEAR 131 Sycamore Street Decatur, Ga. Agnes Scott College DECATUR, GA. A college for women that is widely recog¬ nized for its standards of work and for the interesting character of its student activities. For the Record Icicles are hanging from everyone's nose and most Hot¬ tentots are singing "Winter, Stay 'Way from My Door." And, furthermore, everyone has either an over-developed case of sniffles, or an under¬ developed case of A. B. Be that as it may, Mr. Dieckmann's chapel prelude is us¬ ually drowned out—hypothetically, of course—by an announcement which re¬ motely re¬ sembles. the ''Anvi 1 Chorus" or "The Rust 1e of Spring Fev¬ er." The cold weath¬ er also is causing O'Brien many girls to fit out in outfits which suggest an Egyptian mummy—and we don't mean maternal parent, as they say in the crossword puzzles. What price streamlines! And to add something to something—girls who spent the night out boy scoutishly took their quilts with them when they went out. Ain't nature wonderful—you might even call it an advanced form of "bundling." Frolic Scenes Seen at the German frolic: Cheeseman and little Runyan fille as a couple arduously attempting to do a folk dance in which little Runyan had to place her hand on Alice's head, while A. C. pirouetted gracefully in the shape of a pret¬ zel. Also Milner innocently grop¬ ing in the grab-bag for at least five minutes, and finally coming up with a bottle of Old English (no adv. intended) lavendar water, which seemed to suit her suspic¬ iously well. On being questioned, she naively replied, "Oh, yes, I just came up with the first thing I touched." The first five minutes delay must have been caused by a mouse trap. Winter Warmers Shriek of the week: Go get Annette Franklin to let you take a look at her ducky footwarmers. They look like something Dopey knit for cold nights, and are complete with curled toes which are fastened to the ankle-band. But they do serve the cardinal pur¬ pose of keeping one's feet warm. Nomination for a medal for in¬ testinal fortitude: The "Emory graduate student" who wrote that heart-rending letter to the editor in last week's A. S. N. Thought for the week: "If win¬ ter comes, can spring be far be¬ hind?" Or can it? WELCOME from the NEW PIG'N WHISTLE A Delightful Place to Entertain Your Friends Author Took two Decades To write "Robert E. Lee" By Anne Enloe To spend nineteen years writing a book seems to most of us to be devoting a life time to the task. But nineteen years is just the amount of time required for the completion of Douglas Southall Freeman's Pulitzer Prize biography, Rob¬ ert E. Lee. He seems to have exhausted every conceivable source of information about the life of the Confederate gen¬ Collegians Pick Dewey for President Keeping pace with the ever-in¬ creasing movements of the Demo¬ cratic Donkey and the Republican Elephant, college and university students are gradually taking a more active part in party political activities. As evidenced by the early organizational activities on many campuses, 1940 promises to be a banner year for student par¬ ticipation in a national election. Soothing Speaker So far as can be determined at the present time, the winter book rankings of the political horses seem to be: Dewey is the favorite, with McNutt (carrying democra¬ tic colors) picked to run second. Hardly a third of the collegians favor a third term for F. D. R., so he seems to be ruled out as a start¬ er at post time. Concerning Thomas Edmund Dewey (Michigan, '23), the Uni¬ versity of Kansas Daily Kansan says: "This is the day of ear-con¬ sciousness and a radiordominated public. To compete with a swing band, a politician has to be pleas¬ ingly vocal. Dewey may or may not write his own speeches, but he can deliver them in a manner to warm a ghost-writer's heart. (He) threatens the Rooseveltian suprem¬ acy as America's Number One political bedtime story teller." But, says the Dartmouth College Daily Dartmouth, "the present campaign wil be fought out on some very specific and important problems, the most important of which is America's policy during a European war, and not the least important of which is what to do with twelve million unemployed. Garner Opposition John Nance Garner's announce¬ ment of his willingness to accept the nomination from the demo¬ crats drew this comment from the University of Iowa Daily lowan: "There will be many who will hesitate before accepting him. It will be remembered that he is an old line southern democrat, a tra¬ ditional 'party man' candidate. He is an expert politician, but his qualities as a statesman have not had an adequate test. The feeling still remains that he lacks youth, the statesmanship and the foresight necessary for the presidency at the most critical time in the history of the U. S."—(ACP) Come to HARRIS PHARMACY eral and to have compiled it in such a way as to create a great monument to a great life. Much of the search for facts centered around Washington and Lee University and its historical li¬ brary. Dr. F. P. Gaines, present president of the college which bears such intimate connection with Lee, was a faithful helper to the biographer. Others on the fac¬ ulty there worked at compiling letters and documents and reading manuscripts. Libraries for Research Other libraries besides the one at Lexington which came into use were the Duke University Library which allowed its valuable collec¬ tion of Lee manuscripts to be cal¬ endared, the United States Military Academy Library at West Point, the Virginia Military Institute Li¬ brary, and the Library of Congress. Staff officers who worked under General Lee during the war and had kept journals or memoranda of their experiences were contacted. Member's of Lee's family who have kept as part of their priceless heri¬ tage papers or verbally handed- down memories of their famous ancestor were an invaluable source of information. Varied Sources Sources that sound amazingly queer to the reader were also delved into. For instance, Major General Sir Robert Hutchison, of the Brit¬ ish army, reviewed for the writer, from his wide experience in the World War, the factor of fatigue in the movements of Jackson's command during the seven days around Richmond. A Baltimore physician studied and wrote a re¬ port of the available information on Lee's illnesses. And, far from the confines of the Confederacy, the State of Wisconsin made the loan of some materials. Enthusiastic Reception The long untiring search seems to have been amply rewarded in the wonderful reception given by the literary public to the four vol¬ ume biography. Stephen Vincent Benet says of it: "Here is the truth about a great man, as far as it can be found"; and another reviewer says: "It seems unlikely that there can ever be need for another life of Lee; not only has Dr. Freeman sought out and marshalled the facts as completely as seems humanly possible, but he has by dehberate restraint made of his critical and stylistic gifts a trans¬ parency through which his hero shines as a harmonious being." Cornell University student and faculty car drivers are required by the student council to buy liability insurance. The brightest of all the third- year University of Minnesota law¬ yers is a blind student. Agnes Scott Meet Emory at THE FROSTED SHOP DECATUR RADIO SHOP For further information, address For a Pig'N Whistle Barbecue and Frosted Professional Radio Service J. R. McCAIN, President Malted and Ice Cream Next to DeKalb Theatre in Decatur We Deliver DE.9165 At Reasonable Charges 155 Sycamore St. DE. 1761 THE AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 24, 1940 Campus Leaders Take Stock This is the dead of winter, when there is seemingly no inspiration, nothing new, nothing productive anywhere. On a col¬ lege campus, classes meet and extra-curri¬ cular pursuits go on in the old deep groove, with nothing but inertia to keep them going. Everyone has learned his duties and formed his habits for the year; there is nothing creative to be done. "The dead of winter"—a truly descriptive term. But in all this sameness, an idea has oc¬ curred to several leaders on the campus. They have become conscious of a fact which escaped them as they took hold of their organizations in the fall, meeting new situations and new problems every day. This fact which has emerged in the lull is that they have been directing their respective activities according to a tradi¬ tion and pattern which they accepted unquestioningly from their predecessors. It is not based on their own thought, nor on their own ideas of the fundamental needs and purposes of the groups which they lead. So now, in the dead of winter, signs of life are transpiring from a few organiza¬ tions. They are meeting and working to re-evaluate toward purposes which the members themselves have set, after dis¬ cussion and consideration of primary prin¬ ciples. This is a suggestion to the leaders of all campus activities. Hazel Solomon sifts the Exchanges For many thousands of students in American colleges and universities, the third or fourth week in January means "Examinations." Editors of several of these college newspapers offer helpful hints for exam week. At T. S. C. W. in Denton, Texas, recommendations for quiet, sleep, and study have been made as the best way to pass exams. Students are cautioned, however, not to use stimulants in order to stay awake. "Spending Saturday nights together is being discouraged; no permission will be given for feasts." The editor of the Furman Hornet wonders if the university students are ready for exams. The editor of the Alabamian cautions readers that "honesty is the best policy." Beyond the Campus— Believed to be the first U. S. college student to fight in the present European war, John C. Baker, a Harvard undergraduate, will soon be sta¬ tioned in the French Maginot line. Reports reaching friends here said that Baker had joined the American division of the French Foreign Legion. While waiting his transfer to the front lines, he is helping his family gas-proof their Paris home. The Agnes Scott News Vol. XXV Wednesday, Jan. 24, 1940 No. 12 Published weekly, except during holidays and examination periods, by the students of Agnes Scott College. Member Associated Collegiate Press. Office on second floor Murphey Candler building. Entered as second class matter at the Decatur, Georgia, postoffice. Subscription price per year, $1.2 5; single copies, five cents. Eleanor Hutchens Editor Evelyn Baty Managing Editor Mary Louise Dobbs Business Manager Vlrtjlnla Glower Jeannette Carroll Elaine Stubbe Alumnae Editor Assistant Editors Susan Self Florence Ellis Cfub Editor Advertising Manager Elolse Lennard Rebecca Drucker Society Editor Copy Editor IJb Barrett Anne Enloe Olivia White Georgia Hunt Anne Frlerson Betty Jean O'Brien Molly Oliver Feeture Editors Betty Sunderland Virginia WUUama Assistant Society Editors Doris Weinkle Ernestine Caas Assistant Feature Editors Circulation Manager Betty Jane Stevenson Lucille Galnea Current History Editor Mary M. Templeton Anne Martin Edith Stover . Sports Editor Polly Ware Hasel Solomon Mary M. Wisdom Exchange Editor Circulation Assistants Beporttn: M. Bedlnger. B. Bradfleld. E. Burruss, J. OaUs, A. ChimblMS. I. Franklin, M. Gray. J. Lannaater, E. McCall. J Oaborne, T. RIptey. M. Seagle. G. Slack. V. Stanley. J. Stearns. C. Stuckey. V. Watklns, C. Willis, J. Wltman. Business Assistants: h. Barrett, M 3 Dlllard, S. Kaulback. W. liCaTltt, M. Ollrer. 8. Phillips, L. Schwencke. M. Simpson, M. Templeton, M. Toomey, P. Ware, M. Watklns, A. Wilds. Betty Stevenson boils down The Real News William E. Borah is dead, in his thirty-third year in the Senate. The colorful Lion of Idaho has been admired not so much for what he did or did not do. Consistency was not in what he did, fighting the monopolies and trusts, preventing the United States from entering the League, demanding lib¬ eralization of the G. O. P., opposing the Roosevelt\ neu¬ trality bill. It was the atti¬ tude of the man that gained him sincere respect. Inde¬ pendence of thought and ac¬ tion is of value in itself. Stevenson Further Adventures of a Snow Cruiser The third Byrd Antarctic Expedition has be¬ gun in traditional style with one near disaster at the unloading stage. The unlucky snow cruiser fell from a ramp leading from ship to ice, and was saved only by its driver, Dr. Thomas C. Poulter. Byrd radioed the Navy Department that "He (Poulter) applied full power." It escaped, "throb¬ bing and roaring,—leaving a wake of splintered debris behind." Fifty Below The conditions of war at 50 below zero sound worse than war itself. The adaptable Finns are using all means to make existence not only pos¬ sible but efficient on their icy northern front. The white uniforms follow the example of the Eskimos: they include two pairs of thick under¬ wear, two pairs of socks, wind-proof fabric outer garments, and last, wool or fur parkas. All rifles and machine guns must be free of oil, which freezes at ten below zero. Post Office A British-American squabble over mail inter¬ ference seems a regular occurrence of every war. Hull threatens to stop the flight of the Clipper ships to Bermuda if censorship at that point is not stopped. The British charge that German sympathizers in American are sending securities, checks, money orders, and industrial diamonds through Ameri¬ can mails to the Reich. Cheer Leader Winston Churchill can outspeak any other pub¬ lic official in England. An occasional speech by "Winnie" must seem to the English a great strengthening of their own sense of righteousness. In the current version, Churchill, with a nice sense of diction, calls upon all neutrals for united action: "Their plight is lamentable and will be¬ come worse. They bow humbly to German threats of violence. . . . Each one hopes that if he feeds the crocodiles enough, the crocodile will eat him last." We Present the South To Southerners In presenting-the third of its birthday- lecturers to the public tomorrow night, the college and Lecture Association have made an appropriate choice. Agnes Scott has always aimed at being a distinctly Southern institution. Its background, its leaders, and most of its students have been part of the pulse of the South. Douglas Southall Freeman has devoted his significant literary life to the South. He has sought to get at its pulse in the past, and at that of its leaders. His most successful work has been the biography of which he will speak tomor¬ row night. His lecture will be a history of a history. Agnes Scott will, through him, give stu¬ dents and public a contact with a South¬ ern leader of the present. He, in turn, will bring them a closer acquaintance with a past leader. This is a fitting service, ren¬ dered by a college which seeks to preserve the best in its community. Campus Camera Georgia Hunt gathers Campus Quotes Which is more important— academic success or promin¬ ence in extra-curricula activ¬ ities ? Annie Wilds, '42, says: "I think you ought to strive for both. Study well and play well. Most of the people who are promin¬ ent in stu¬ dent activ itie s are 'way up yonder' i n the aca¬ demic field." Gay Swag gerty, '41, says: "Ac¬ ademic suc¬ Hunt cess is more important—because, after all, that is what we come to college for. However, I do think activities have their place. I think the ac¬ tivities we choose to participate in should grow out of our academic interests." Miriam Bedinger, '41, thinks: ". . . that neither is more impor¬ tant. While you are in college the main emphasis should be on the academic, but at the same time you should be learning—by practice— how to appropriate your knowl¬ edge in getting along with people." Betty Henderson, '45, thinks: ". . . that activities are more im¬ portant, because the leadership that you will develop from activi¬ ties will be more valuable to you in after college life than just aca¬ demic knowledge." Lavinia Brown, '42, adds: ". . . the ideal situation would be a mixture of both, but most peo¬ ple have to choose between them. I think the pleasure and training one gets from activities will be very valuable in after life, but I think academic training will be equally valuable." Ernestine Cass, '40, concludes: "... I think it depends to a great extent upon what you want to do after college. Some activities give Freeman Reviews Southern Literature By Doris Weinkle Douglas Southall Freeman's The South to Posterity is an almost un¬ believably inspiring and entertain¬ ing answer to the question, "What shall I read next?"-asked so fre¬ quently by those who wish to learn more about the Confederacy. Mar¬ garet Mitchell's Gone With the Wind and Clifford Dowdey's Bugles Blow No More have so aroused interest ^n the Confederate era that Dr. Freeman, author of the Pulitzer Prize biography of Robert E. Lee and an authority on publications dealing with the Con¬ federacy, has been approached by not only Southerners and histor¬ ians, but numerous Northern and Western correspondents who have "caught the spirit of the Confed¬ eracy"—so much so that one "Connecticut lady of abolitionist stock was alleged to have exclaim¬ ed 'Those damn Yankees' as she read Miss Mitchell's description of Sherman's march to the sea." Dr. Freeman explained in the introduction to his The South to Posterity that he was giving an in¬ troduction to those books which "have the most enduring interest and possess those elements of con¬ viction, of sincerity and of human appeal that have brought a new generation of Americans to an un¬ derstanding of the Southern point of view." Dr. Freeman discusses contemporary diaries and letters, "punctured by gunfire," writings from the ashes of reconstruction, official records, the letters of women, the controversies of later years, biographies, and histories. He gives such well-chosen excerpts, and so thrillingly presents the spirit of the books reviewed that one is moved to take his biblio¬ graphy to the nearest library and find at least some of the books he introduces. you practical experience in work you want to do later. But in any event a certain amount of aca¬ demic success is necessary for any kind of work you want to do." J The Agnes ScoH News VOL. XXV AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR, GA., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 31. 1940 Z115 No. 13 Student Leaders Students Vote Hold Conference On Queen In response to an invitation is¬ sued by Jack McMichael, president For May Day of the American Youth Congress, young leaders of Southern work¬ One of Five Candidates ers' organizations, civic forums, Wilf Preside Over churches, and student groups are Unique Pageant making plans to send delegates to the Young Southerners' Confer¬ Student votes will fall among ence in Washington, D. C., Febru¬ five candidates tomorrow in the ary 9-12. election of the May Queen. Top nominees emerging from last Executive Secretary Malcolm Cotton Dobbs has asked Henrietta week's ballot are: Carolyn Alley, Thompson, president of Student Jane Moses, Mary Reins, Ruth Slack, and Grace Ward. • Government, to encourage the sup¬ port of the young leaders in this The May Queen this year will area. Conference officials expect preside over a pageant radically to have at least a half dozen rep¬ different from those of former resentatives from each Southern springs; written by an alumnae- state. student committee, it will trace the history of woman from earliest recorded time to the present day. It will celebrate Agnes Scott's fif¬ Clemson Sends tieth anniversary, centering around the part of the college in the Deputation movement of women toward free¬ dom. A deputation from Clemson Mr. C. W. Dieckmann, professor College will visit the campus Sun¬ of music, will compose the music day, sent jointly to the Georgia which will furnish the back¬ Tech and Agnes Scott Christian ground for the action. Associations. After a discussion with the Tech C. A. Distributes YMCA cabinet, both groups will Religious Questionnaire meet Agnes Scott students for an informal session in the Murphey A questionnaire to determine Candler building at 3:30, from trends and conceptions in religious which they will attend vesper thought on the campus will be is¬ services at 5:30 in the chapel. sued by Christian Association to the student body tomorrow. Pre¬ pared by an Association committee Club Postpones with the help of members of the Harrison Hut Outing psychology department, the ques¬ tionnaire is to be used as a basis for The wiener roast which the religious work on this campus. Episcopal Club planned to have Filled blanks will be collected at Harrison Hut has been postpon¬ Saturday from boxes in Buttrick, ed indefinitely because of the Inman, and Rebekah Scott halls. weather. New Volumes Add Life To Rental Shelf By Jeanne Osborne Philosophical essays, biography, many years a resident in America, and novels are included among the who returns to Nazi Germany on new books which will be placed a business matter, gets into trou¬ this week on the library rental ble with the authorities, is given a shelf, according to Miss Edna Han-secret trial, and condemned to ley, librarian. death. Several people become in¬ volved in her escape. Wind, Sand, and Stars, by Antoine de Saint Exupery, a philoso¬ A novel which has become very phical essay on flights and fliers popular, Christ in Concrete, by from the actual experiences of the Pietro Di Donate, is the expansion French aviator-author, should of a short story of the same title prove especially satisfying to book which appeared in Esquire last lovers. M. Exupery has flown the year. It is the story of the Italian mail over the Sahara, and across bricklayers in America. Paul, the the Patagonian Argentine. He was hero, is twelve when his father is in Spain during the recent war, killed by the collapse of a flimsy and something of his adventures building. With courage beyond his there is presented in the book. Ac¬ years, the boy attempts to follow cording to one critic's report, "The his father's trade in order to sup¬ book is drenched clean of all the port his mother and younger petty, cloying values of the earth." brothers and sisters. Christmas Holiday, by Somerset Sun and Storm, by Unto Sep- Maugham, relates how Charley panen, is a long chronicle novel Mason, a nice young Englishman tracing the fortunes of a Finnish from an ultra-respectable family, peasant's family from about 1870 goes to Paris for his Christmas to about 1920. Love of the soil holiday, and through his friendship and love of country give it inner with an embittered journalist, sees unity. chiefly the underside of life. He Portrait of Jennie, by Robert returns to his comfortable home, Nathan, the author of Winter in but he knows "the bottom has April and Enchanted Voyage, is the dropped out of his world." story of Eben Adams' success be¬ Ethel Vance's Escape is the cause of his casual meeting with story of a German actress, for Jennie. Institute Here Seeks Betterment In Government "Improvement of Local Govern¬ ment in the South" forms the theme for the series of addresses and discussions sponsored jointly by the National Municipal League and the Institute of Citizenship at the Piedmont Hotel Tuesday, Feb¬ ruary 6, through Thursday, Febru¬ ary 8. Ralph McGill, associate edi¬ tor of the Atlanta Constitution will act as toastmaster at the banquet Wednesday night, and Mayor Wil¬ liam B. Hartsfield, of Atlanta, will deliver the principal address, "The Engineer and Politics," at the first evening session, February 6, at 8:00. Speakers and discussion lead¬ ers include outstanding civic heads and sociologists; notable among these are Dr. Reed, who will talk on "Problems of Metro¬ politan Areas" Wednesday after¬ noon, and Miss Mildred Mell, pro¬ fessor of economics and sociology at Agnes Scott, who will preside over the discussion of "County Government" Wednesday morning. College Broadcast Presents Quiz Program Concludes Series Of Hisforical Sketches "Fifty Years of Growth" will be the subject of the Agnes Scott radio program over WSB this aft¬ ernoon at 5 o'clock. This pro¬ gram, the fourth and last in the historical sketches celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the college, will be in the form of a quiz. This entire series of four pro¬ grams is an adaption from the booklet published last year by Dr. J. R. McCain, which was based on an earlier history by the first presi¬ dent of the college, Dr. F. H. Gaines. Last week "The Agnes Scott Ideal" was the subject of the broadcast. The cast included Eliz¬ abeth Barrett as narrator, Eugenia Bridges, Mary Dean Lott, Marjorie Simpson, Jackie Stearns, Mrs. Martha Crowe, Mrs. Florence Ferry, Mrs. Vera LeCraw, Barker Bedingfield, Jim Hardin, and Bill Hinson. Mrs. Caroline McKinney, '27, was the voice of Agnes Scott. DR. DOUGLAS STEERE He Tried to Come Anyway- Robert Frost Postpones Lecture Poet Hopes to Fill Engagement Within Next Few Weeks Robert Frost, scheduled to appear here February 6 as the fourth speaker on the Lecture Association series, has post¬ poned his lecture because of illness. A telegram received early this week by Miss Emma May Laney, faculty chairman of the Association, brought the news that "his physicians are unwilling" to allow the poet to fulfill his engagement next week. The wire, coming at the end of a day-long argument when Mr. Civil Service Board Frost's resolution to lecture as Opens Fields planned was finally broken by his doctors, implied that he would be To College Seniors able to come within the next few Finding interest and response weeks. unusually large when similar ex¬ Twice winner of the Pulitzer aminations were announced last Prize for poetry and acknowledged year, the United States Civil Serv¬ the ranking poet among living ice Commission has reannounced Americans, Mr. Frost holds the examinations in 1940 for junior Ralph Waldo Emerson fellowship professional assistant positions. at Harvard University. His latest "To recruit young college grad¬ volume of poetry—the first since uates for junior professional and scientific positions in the Federal his prize winning "Collected Government," the examinations re¬ Poems," 1930—is "From Snow to quire formal college training but Snow," 193 6. no experience. With hundreds of He will remain on the campus vacancies in the various fields each year, the Commission announces for several days after the lecture,. its intention of holding the exami¬ meeting in. conference with groups nations annually. Twenty-eight interested itj creative writing. optional subjects are offered, in fields ranging from the position of Junior Librarian to that of Junior Biologist (Wildlife). Coming This Week Full announcements of the ex¬ aminations are posted on the back Thursday, February 1—Pi bulletin board in Buttrick Hall. Alpha Phi Tryouts, 7:00 Application blanks may be ob¬ tained at the Decatur postoffice. to 9:00 P. M. Friday, February 2—Bas¬ Dr. Steere ketball game in Gym at Speaks in Chapel 3:30. Dr. Steere leads discussion in Murphey Dr. Douglas Steere, professor of Philosophy at Haverford College, Candler Building, 4:30. will speak in chapel Friday on "Prayer and Worship." Presented Saturday, February 3— by Christian Association, he will A. A. Open House, 7:00, lead a discussion on the same sub¬ in Gym. ject Friday afternoon in the Mur¬ phey Candler building. Monday, February 5—In¬ Dr. Steere is a leader in Chris¬ stitute of Citizenship tian thought and youth work in this country. His book, Prayer opens four day session and Worship, is available in the at Piedmont Hotel. Christian Association room in the Murphey Candler building. THE AGNES SCOTT NEWS. WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 31, 1940 The Press keeps silence as : Susan Self edits Juniors, Sophomores Club Doings Dr. Freeman Out-talks Defeat Sister Classes i "Resolved — that legislation should be enacted providing for News Interviewer conscription of capital in time of Undefeated Seniors Lose 37-22; war" will be the subject of Pi A reporter for the News obtained an interview with Doug¬ Alpha Phi's dual debate with the Junior, Frosh Players Trade Positions las Southall Freeman, southern author and third speaker on University of Georgia February the college lecture series, last week, finding that there is no 15. Ann Hen¬ Last Friday, for the first time this season, the junior team such thing as interviewing Douglas Southall Freeman. That ry and Mar¬ won and the senior team lost a basketball game. In games is, guiding the interview along prearranged lines—asking garet Hopkins refereed by Miss Dorothy Fugitt and Miss Elisabeth Mitch¬ him questions and jotting down will represent ell, the juniors defeated the freshmen and the seniors lost answers. An interview with him the affirma¬ to the sophomores. I consists of being exposed for fif¬ College Talk tive side at During the first half of the; A A Q teen or twenty minutes to what¬ Agnes Scott senior-sophomore game, the senior/ t\m OpOHSOTS ever he happens to be saying. while Mary forwards, Slack, Milner, and Car-; \\mg I Swings to War He met the News interviewer, as Lightfoot El- son, distinguished their playing; Sport Week agreed, in the college chapel be¬ can and Mar- Despite the fact that most of the with some smooth teamwork in j fore the morning service began j o r i e Merlin passing and handling shots. The' war talk on the nation's campuses Athletic Tournaments last Friday. When he came in are at Georgia sophomore guards, Hasty, Geller- Finish With Open House with Dr. McCain, he was talking. is peace talk, there nevertheless is defending the Selfstedt, and Brooks, used a success-, Still talking, he took off his over¬ a growing tendency among colleg¬ negative. The debate here will be ful system of zone guarding. In February 19 begins a week of coat and headed gravely for the ians and their campus superiors to held at the regular meeting of Pi the second period, the sophomores accelerated athletic activity on the radiator, rubbing his hands togeth¬ Alpha Phi at 7 P. M. in the Mur discuss what they believe to be the started a scoring attack that end¬ Agnes Scott campus. Instead of er. There the interviewer stood, phey Candler Building. ed with their score 3 3 and the bad effects of peace movements setting aside one day as Posture notebook in hand, ready to ask seniors' 27. Ruth Slack led indi¬ that make collegians more con¬ Eugenia Bridges, president of Day this year, Athletic Associa¬ questions about the university cen¬ vidual scoring with 17 points, fol¬ tion has chosen the week of Feb¬ cerned with safety first than with Blackfriars. has announced that ter movement. lowed by Dot Webster with IS. Blackfriars will hold Open House ruary 19 through February 24 to Turning reflective blue eyes the fate of their nation. Alta Webster scored 9 points, from 3:30 to 5:30 Sunday after¬ make the campus "sport cons¬ courteously toward her, he smiled First to focus attention on this Dunn scored 9, Milner scored 7, noon, February 11. Guests will be cious." briefly and continued to talk. and Carson 3. particular interpretation of the un¬ members of the Emory Theatre The annual swimming pageant "The greatest mistake of most The juniors, with a combina¬ dergraduate peace movements was Guild, members of the Atlanta will take place Monday night in young writers," he happened to be Theatre Guild, Emory Players, tion of long passes and accurate the Bucher Scott gymnasium pool. saying in his deliberate, eveh way, President-emeritus William Allen Agnes Scott Blackfriars Alumnae, shooting, were able to run up a Wednesday a health contest will "is that they write about their own Neilson, of Smith College, who and members of the casts of recent score of 32 to defeat the freshmen. begin, with the finals on Friday interests instead of those of the said: "For the moment, the atti¬ Blackfriars plays. The junior guards went in as for¬ tude of our academic youth seems night. There will be fencing and public. They should study the wards toward the end of the game, badminton exhibitions in the gym¬ market—see what is in demand. . . . to be so largely self-centered that Miss Emma Lancy, associate and the freshman guards and for¬ nasium Wednesday night. Good morning," he broke off as one doubts whether the form in professor of English and faculty wards swapped positions several Miss Scandrett came in, bearing which pacifism was brought to adviser of Poetry Club, lectured The different basketball teams times. Dyar scored 22 points, and three of his books to be autograph¬ them during these years was the on Robert Frost at an open meet¬ for the dormitories, day students, Fisher made 10. Cundell made ed for an Atlanta bookstore. best for their spiritual health. The ing of the club last Tuesday eve¬ and faculty will participate in the three points for the freshmen, and "I'd better get these done," he young men of today seem to be ning. Brown Jug Tournament at 3:30 Percy, Frierson, and Bates made Friday afternoon. Last year the said apologetically to the inter¬ largely concerned with safety first Dr. Marion M. Hull, head of the one each. viewer. And sitting down in a and the old men with .330 every team from Main was the winner, Atlanta Bible Institution, will be Lineups: Seniors — forwards, and year before last, the day stu¬ chapel seat, he took them up one Thursday. Peace that is not the guest speaker at the regular meet¬ Slack, Milner, Carson; guards, dents won. Saturday night A. A. by one, spelling out his name slow¬ crown of justice and liberty is a ing of Bible Club February 5 at 4 Ware, Moses, Forman. Sophomores: will appropriately close Athletic ly and carefully in small print. peace that cannot last, and it would P. M. in the Murphey Candler forwards, Dunn, A. Webster, D. When the third book was in¬ have been more inspiring if our building. Week by entertaining the college young and women today had Webster; guards, Gellerstedt, scribed and laid neatly on top of men community at an Open House in been more concerned with their Hasty, Brooks. the others, the interviewer opened « the gym. own safety."—(ACP) Juniors—forwards, Dyar, Fisher, her mouth to say something about BAILEY BROTHERS McGarity; guards, Kendrick, the university center movement. "Another thing," he continued stitute for good writing. Oh, yes, SHOE SHOP KJugh, Wilds. Freshmen — for¬ Length of College wards, Bates, Holloran, Frierson; gravely, "is that they fail to anti¬ Dr. McCain, as I was saying . 142 Sycamore St. guards, Rountree, Cundell, Dale. Term Shrinks cipate future developments. For He mounted the steps to Substitutes: Seniors — Salters. instance, the June issue of a maga¬ chapel platform. Juniors—Arbucklc, Williams, Tur¬ A University of Vermont stu¬ zine goes to press on or about April ner. Freshmen—Percy, Crocker, dent of a hundred years ago, in¬ twentieth. Despite the fact, inex¬ Paisley, Cummings. stead of starting to think about perienced writers will send in June coming back to school from two stories on the last of May." weeks of Christmas vacation for a "Yes," said the interviewer, "by Cram Condemns three-month grind of classes, would the way . . just be looking forward to a two-"And take historical biography Cramming month lay-off, starting with the —good morning," he smiled at two first Wednesday of January, 1840. students who drifted into chapelDr. S. Winston Cram believes But if this seems like a lot of through the side door," you have that students should take his name vacation compared to that allowed to reason out what sort of peoplein vain, for he urggs all in his class¬ the students of 1940, the picture will be in demand, and what sort es not to cram for his final exami¬ changes when the 1840 catalogue of stories. Good morning. For in¬ nations. And to add to the effec¬ is consulted again, because it seems stance, if you were starting a book tiveness of his no-cramming edict that this eight-week recess was the now, you should plan on its pub¬ Special at Emporia (Kans.) State Teachers longest of the academic year. lication three years from now. College, Prof. Cram says his stu¬ The only other vacation came That will be about the end of the Purchase! dents may use "ponies" when they after commencement, which was war. So you should write a history write their answers to his quiz the first Wednesday in August, and of a nation—good morning—in problems. consisted of four weeks. College the post-war reconstruction period. Says the professor: "This plan terms were two only, but they were Such as Europe after the Napo¬ serves as an impetus to the student long. The autumnal term lasted leonic wars." to put in a worthwhile review pro¬ through September, October, No¬ "But," he warned as the organ Regular $2.98 gram. He won't have to clutter up vember, and December.— (ACP) prelude began, "there is no sub- his mind with numerous equations Spring Weight which he can't remember. It makes for more constructive review in¬ stead of cramming." HEARN'S So we hereby initiate a movement LADIES' and MEN'S READY-TO-WEAR to create more Crams and less cramming in all collegeland!— 131 Sycamore Street Decatur, Ga. SWEATERS.... $1.98 (ACP) THREADGILL Scoop—Ribbed yarn suit-swearers! Every pastelPHARMACY shade—and plenty of 'em—clear down to the Bowen Press Phone DE. 1665 snappiest definite colors on spring's color chart. They'll breeze out—as you whisper the price! .'109 E. College Avenue Commercial Printing and Stationery Hurry! Decatur, Ga. TYPEWRITERS AND RIBBONS Blotters — Note Paper — Poster Paper Sports Shop—Street Floor NOTICE Office Supplies AGXEi SCOTT 816 Church St. DE. 3383 Deoatur, Ga. This is your drug store. THE AGNES SCOTT NEWS. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 31. 1940 Eloise Lennard checks up on O'Brien takes notes After Working Hours For the Record "Winter sports in the Sunny South." We admit that the sound of that statement is incongruous, but since Atlanta has been snow-bound, sleigh-riding and snow-man building have taken the place. Sara Copeland went to the AKK sleigh ride while Grace Elizabeth,. ^ Annette Frankli n, Frances B u t t Cha rl ene B u r k e , ? and Grace . Ward; went play¬ ing with Dental College boys. Lennard Auburn had its famous mid¬ term dances this week-end. Among those enjoying the music of Hal Kemp and Eddie Duchin were Frances Ellis, Julia Ann Patch, and Eloise Lennard. And, of course, Lib Barrett had an exciting week¬ end at Mardi Gras. Among those dining and danc¬ ing at the Spanish Room at var¬ ious times were Marion and Sue Phillips, Hazel Solomon, Mary Robertson, Edith Dale, and Frances Ellis. There were dances to be taken in here in Atlanta. At the Phi Delta Theta formal were Aline Barron, Ruth Slack, Betty Jftm O'Brien, Marian Franklin, Olivia White, and Bette Burdette. At the Zip dance were Eugenia Hailey, Anne Martin, Annette Franklin, and Grace Elizabeth An ^derson, while Lutie Moore, Boots ' Moore, and Becky Stamper were at the Delta Sig party, and Mae Crumley went to a sorority dance at the Biltmore. Edith Schwartz went home for the week-end. Mary Ann Cochran and Mary Jane Auld had their sis¬ ters as guests; Louise Runge's vis¬ itor was Liddie Dunn. At the SAE house Sunday night were Sara Copeland, Mary BUTTONS' the Suit hit of Spring 1940 1095 Sizes 9 to 15 Slick with its this little spitthree rows of buttons parading across the front! Light weightwool Shetland in lovelySpring pastels. Jr. Deb 'Shop Second Floor Klingensmith, and Annie Wilds. Laura Cummings and Anne Frierson went to the Tech-Georgia basketball game. Betty Henderson went to the Psi Omega House, as did Annette Franklin. Marjorie Boggs, Anne Martin, Betty Waitt, June Boykin, and Martha Dunn went to the Sigma Nu house dance Saturday night. Freeman Looks At Biography By Gene Slack In a delightfully informal lec¬ ture Thursday night, Douglas Southall Freeman, biographer and journalist, discussed recent adven-1 tures in "biography. Stresses Fact Beginning with Lytton Strachey, he summarized the style and com¬ parative worth of several re¬ cent biographers of importance. "Strachey," he declared, "in effect, is a literary craftsman: his English is beautiful, his imagination re¬ markable, his style good; but Strachey misses the fundamental basis of true biography—he places no importance on fact. In his popular biographies. Eminent Vic-j torians, Elizabeth and Essex, he in¬ terprets rather than uncovers truth." Truth vs. Fiction "A true biographer," he con¬ tinued, "lays bare the facts of some cases as he understands it, reading all available source mater¬ ial in order, to be unprejudiced. Strachey could not present truth even if he read all available source material; he is too dramatic. He does not portray characters as they were, but as he imagines they should have been." Smiling whimsically, Dr. Free¬ man repeated a good creed for the biographer: "Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels and have not fact I am become as sounding brass or*a tinkling cym¬ bal." Among contemporary writers, Dr. Freeman selected for discus¬ sion Andre Maurois, who ap¬ proaches biography through fic¬ tion, and Emil Ludwig, who ap¬ Alley Moses Reins One of these five seniors will be elected tomorrow in chapel to reign over the semi-centennial May Day pageant this spring. They ran close together as top nominees in the pre¬ liminary ballot cast last wbek. Flu Epidemic Brings Soup Hater to Prominence By Virginia Williams Sleds, overshoes, and Miss Mildred Hagy have ridden to campus fame on the recent wave of inclement weather which left quite a few sniffles in its wake. Miss Hagy loves cats and canaries, and, hating soup, is resident nurse at the infirmary. proaches biography through drama. Maurois is not a true biographer anv more than is Strachey, accord¬ ing to Dr. Freeman. His Disraeli illustrates his faults. He accepts secondary source material and par¬ ades interpretation as biography. Interpretation should be presented j as such. "Unfortunately (Lord, i how American colleges need to know this)," side-remarked Dr. kj : Freeman, "cleverness is no su tute for thoroughness." He added that the best selling biographies of very recent years are good, long, authoritative works rather than fictionized or drama¬ tized biography—for example. Van Doren's Franklin, Sandburg's ■ Lin¬ coln, and Nevin's Hamilton Fish. Mentioning two popular theories of biographical study, psychography and study of endocrines, Dr. Freeman declared that "neither is justified as yet. It is impossi¬ ble," he continued, "to know at any time what thoughts are pass¬ ing in the minds of others." This psychography is practiced by Bradford. Of endocrines he said merely. SENIORS! What Could Be Better Than a FORD For Graduation? A. M. CHANDLER, INC. Deeatur DE. 2588 Agnes Scott College DECATUR, GA. A college for women that is widely recog¬ nized for its standards of work and for the interesting character of its student activities. This dual disposition of hers developed early. Born in Bristol, Tennessee, she maintained a com¬ paratively dignified existence in her hometown; but when she went to Virginia to spend her summers she became a perfect Tarzan, swinging through trees and bal¬ ancing on the boughs. In fact. j je ier unc gave her the nickname ^ 'Monkev." Miss Hagy was a star baseball | player, and once while playing on Sunday she broke her finger. When not engaged in injuring herself she devoted her time to playing red cross, and bandaged, sometimes by force, all the real or imaginary, injuries of her friends. In high school she played bas¬ ketball, and was an active mem¬ ber of 'French Club, Latin Club, and Girls' Hi-Y. Though she had always planned to be a nurse, Miss Hagy hadn't exactly foreseen herself making a snowman with green eyes for the patients in the infirmary or con¬ vincing an eager interne, who at¬ tempted to invade the infirmary during the flu epidemic, that the situation was well in hand. The ice and snow not only pro¬ duced campus injuries amounting to two thumbs, a knee, and an el¬ bow, but the difficulty in getting to the dining hall necessitated "Man cannot live by endocrines alone." Concluding his lecture with a statement of the purpose and worth of biography, Dr. Freeman pointed out that good biography of great men serves as an inspiration to all posterity." "A life fought with honor," he said, "is a flame for life fraught with strife." WELCOME from the NEW 'Snow use arguing, there's no use talking about it, snow is the gen¬ eral drift of the week, and really flakes the cake! And speaking of cake, it has been the .downfall of many of the great and lesser c harac ters of our cam¬ pus. Take the re¬ nowned Henrietta, if you want O'Brien her . . .that is . .oh,takeher anyway. Well, to slip on with the story, Henrietta, after leading the redoubtable Senior Storm Troops to an overwhelming and unques¬ tioned victory over the Sopho¬ more Strugglers on the Campus Hockiensis, was indulging in a lit¬ tle skirmish with C. Forman. Up¬ on pasting the Hon. V. P. right in the eye with a well-placed and hardened snowball, Miss T. turned to flee lightly away like a gazelle, when her underpinnings became unaccountably impotent and she sat forcibly down in ten inches of snow. But tragedy struck, and so did her knee cap, and the net re¬ sult was that Mile. T. was unable to rise. Despite the valiant at¬ tempt of her comrades to carry her away from the field of battle on her shield (imaginary), she re¬ mained prone where she had fallen. But the age of chivalry is not yet dead, only stunned, and from out of the dim periphery of space there rushed not one, not two, not three, but four completely equip¬ ped men, who lifted the wounded hero up and tenderly carried her up the steps of Inman, to the amazement of the stupefied on¬ lookers . . . and the extreme amusement of Henrietta. And so, like Pepys, to the lec¬ ture. There even more startling events awaited the college audi¬ ence. Dr. Douglas Southall Free¬ man, who might possess, in addi¬ tion to his long list of distinguish¬ ed honors, the title of Quarter¬ master of Quips. His famous if somewhat disconcerting conjecture as to Dr. McCain's thoughts will go down in history as what caused the good Doctor to blush like a bashful boy caught swiping jam. And furthermore. Dr. Freeman's collection of dialects beat Schlepperman all hollow. In fact, he can lecture on our platform any time he wishes. Break of the week: Ask Helen Jester what inhibition she let loose with at the reception after the lec¬ ture. Or just ask anyone, except Dr. McCain. Miss Hagy's eating soup for a whole week in the infirmary. Miss Hagy likes steak, ham, corn bread, music, baseball, eats, and canaries. To this assortment she adds her work. She even ap¬ preciates the artistic snowmen in fish bowls and the impromptu poetry sent to infirmary patients. Come to HARRIS PHARMACY PIG'N WHISTLE Visit PeocRtoee Steie For further information, address A Delightful Place to KING HARDWARE CO. • • OUbCorvba • • Syccnnore Street ^ J. R. McCAIN, President Entertain Your Friends Deccrtur 65963 THE AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 31, 1940 Georgia Hunt gathers To the Editor Dear Editor: Campus Quotes Two virtues which are practically lack¬ ing on our campus are punctuality and Plans are now in progress for dependability. doing away with student aid as Nothing starts on time—club meetings, one feature of the National lectures or entertainments—because no one arrives on time, except perhaps the Youth Administration. Stu¬ poor speaker who then begins his lecture dents on NYA grants in all col¬ ten minutes late and is interrupted for leges will be affected by the the next thirty minutes by late comers. change; ev¬ It seems to be a break from a long standing tradition to arrive on time, es¬ idence o f pecially to chapel or an eight o'clock or interest on one-thirty class. this cam¬ And another thing. It is a doubtful pus is pat¬ policy to be more than forty-five minutes late for a date—or why did you give him ent in this the date anyway? week's Sincerely yours, comments: Sam Ol¬ ive Grif- Colleges Attack fin, '40: "One of Student Frivolity the weak est points nUHt "The most profound comment' in past governments is the little that can be made about youth's in¬ importance attached to education. terest in religion is the simple one The great importance which the present government attaches to it that they ask the same questions is one of its strongest points. To every year, take to the same types do away with NYA student aid of materials, and resent the same would cripple the educational attacks of satire and ridicule. They progress of our country. The gov¬ want, ardently a quick and easy ernment, because it has helped so solution and are impatient with the many worthy young people, philosophy of slowly resolving ideas should not abandon this program." about significant matters." Sarah Billie Davis, '42, thinks that Lawrence College's Kathryn Man". . . doing away with NYA help sell points to today's collegiate would seriously handicap a great view of religion. many students. On the other hand "The bull session is an American colleges would probably furnish institution. To let it slide into more scholarship aid so that the greater disrepute would be a shame. number of deserving students Next time the gang gets together would not be greatly affected." for a talk-fest why not try to do Jane Taylor, '42, suggests:. something constructive, why not ". . . that doing away with student try to reach a definite conclusion, aid will affect the prestige of the why not think through a problem? NYA organization more than the The American student has brains: number of students it may help. the American student must learn Financial aid to students is one of to use them. From the bull session the things that has made the NYA could come something fine and so popular throughout the coun¬ valuable." The University of Iowa try." Daily lowan urges a more serious purpose for those gab-fests that are Helen Jester, '41, says: "I usually not so profound.— (ACP) think that doing away with NYA student aid will not affect college ceiving aid when they really don't attendance, because those students need it, I think giving scholarship receiving this aid could probably aid should not be discontinued." get it from other sources." Sarah Handley, '41, thinks Mary Robertson, '42, con¬ . . that surely the government cludes: "A number of people ought not do away with such aid could not come to college without because it helps so many people this aid. Therefore the govern¬ who could not otherwise come to ment, in the interest of its young college. Even though there are people, should not discontinue this students in some institutions re-service." Campus Camera THE AVERAGE PARADE BAND MEMBER MARCHES 160 MILES IN FORMATION DURING FOXBAU-SEASON/ Harvard has had the MOST RERRESENTATIVES IN THE PRESIDENTIAL CHAIR „ FOUR,BUT THEy HAVE REPRESENTED ONLY TWO FAMILIESADAMS ROOSEVELT/ n The first shot of G THE CIVIL WAR WAS \t. FIRED BY CADETS ^ FROM THE CITADEL, WUTARY COLLEGE OF S.C. Betty Stevenson boils down The Real News Pressure in the Balkans Germany and Russia together are putting the squeeze on Rumania. German penetration into Galicia, supposedly Russian Poland, brings Ger¬ many next door to King Carol's land. If Ru¬ mania must yield to the Nazis' pressure for oil and wheat, the way for quick delivery will be open. One serious difficulty for Flitler, however, is that nearly all these oil wells are operated with French and British capital. Odyssey The Captain of the now famous freighter, City, of Flint, Joseph Gainard, brought his ship home after 113 extraordinary days. He had several vivid pictures of btevenson the unusual trip: German and American captain politely conferring on navigation; machine gun mounted in the chart room; German sailors bristling with pistol and two hand grenades apiece; the American crew begging Gainard for a signal to tear into them; and the port of Mur¬ mansk where he saw the Bremen. Turkey for Germany In spite of assiduous cultivation by the Allied diplomatic corps, Turkey is being drawn again into Germany's orbit in spite of itself. Trade with the Reich is really a matter of necessity to Turkey. Normally the Germans are the Turks' best customers, consuming 60% of their exports. Tall Tale The whimsies of the civilian mind in war time have fostered a luxuriant growth of rumors. A few weeks ago the Allied papers had it that the Germans were training gorillas to storm the Maginot Line. This week a delicious story was spread among German newspapermen in Holland that a new gas would anaesthetize the whole of England for two weeks allowing the German army to move in without any fuss from a conscious pop¬ ulation. New Note for John L. John L. Lewis last week gave the impression of a man who has brooded long on an old bitter¬ ness. He predicted "an ignominious defeat" for a Roosevelt third term. The present mood seems to date from Roosevelt's "plague on both your houses." In the 1936 campaign the mine work¬ ers of the C. 1. O. gave $5 00,000 for Roosevelt's re-election. 1940 Hopefuls Farley in Winston-Salem called for fair play toward business and moderation in solving eco¬ nomic problems and a hint of opposition to a third term. Dewey in Portland, Maine, declared for an ade¬ quate two-ocean navy jnd against the big pub¬ lic debt. Wheeler rather cmbarrassedly accepted an ova¬ tion from the C. 1. O. as it unofficially endorsed his candidacy for the Presidency. The Agnes Scott News Vol. XXV Wednesday, Jan. 31, 1940 No. 13 Published weekly, except during holidays and examination periods, by the students of Agnes Scott College. Member Associated Collegiate Press. Office on second floor Murphey Candler building. Entered as second class matter at the Decatur, Georgia, postoffice. Subscription price per year, $1.2 5; single copies, five cents. Eleanor Hutchens Editor Evelyn Baty Managing Editor Mary Louise Dobbs Business Manager VlrRlnla Clower Jeannette Carroll Elaine Stubbs Alumnae Editor Assistant Editors Susan Self Florence Ellis Ciub Editor Advertising Manager Elolse Lennard Rebecca Drucker Society Editor Copy Editor Lib Barrett Anne Enloe Olivia White Georgia Hunt Anne Frierson Betty Jean O'Brien Molly Oliver Feature Editors Betty Sunderland Virginia Williams Assistant Society Editors I>oris WeJnkle Ernestine Cass Assistant Feature Editors Circulation Manager Betty Jane Stevenson Lucille Galnes Current History Editor Mary M. Templeton Anne Martin Edith Stover Sports Editor Polly Ware Hazel Solomon Mary M. Wisdom Exchange Editor Circulation Assistants Ruporters: M. Bedlnper, B. Bradfield, K. Burruas, J. Gates. A. Chambless. L. Franklin. M. Gray, J. Lanoaster, E. McCall, J. Osborne, T. Rlpley. M. Seaele, G. Slack. V. Stanley, J. Stearna. C. Stuckey, V. Watklns, C. Willis, J. Wltmarr. Business Assistants: L Barrett, M. S. Dlllard, F. Graham, s Kaulhaok. W. Leavltt. M. Oliver, S. Phillips. L. Schwencke, M. Simpson, M. Templeton. M. Toomey, P. Ware. M. Watklns. A. Wilds. C A. Seeks Basis for Work Last week there was an editorial on this page commending several campus organi¬ zations for their efforts toward re-evalu¬ ating their functions. The questionnaire to be distributed tomorrow by Christian Association is a product of the movement. Christian Association has found its fundamental service to be the preserva¬ tion and fostering of religious life among five hundred students. To set about this task with any hope for success, the Asso¬ ciation realizes that it must first know what sort of religious life already exists among those five hundred. The carefully prepared questionnaire seems a simple, di¬ rect, and efficacious means to this end. But only if the five hundred subjects of the questionnaire cooperate in filling it out thoughtfully, can it be used as a sound basis for future Christian Association work. This is a chance to help a major campus organization in its sincere effort toward growth and increased service value. Hazel Solomon sifts the Exchanges Embarrassing moment: Greater Boston's untold thousands of debating fans were foiled a few days ago when they sat down to listen to a Harvard- M. 1. T. word battle broadcast. Reason: Both teams had prepared negative arguments, and no one was ready to uphold the affirma¬ tive side. Result: Strauss waltzes were heard instead of the debate. From the Emory Wheel comes further evidence of the cooperative system between Agnes Scott and Emory. Eight student violinists have joined the Emory Little Symphony Solomon Orchestra in its forthcoming presentation of the Fifth Symphony of Beethoven, Dr. Malcolm Dewey, director, has announced. Some girls keep scrap books during their col¬ lege days in order to preserve the memory of campus and off-campus activity. Others collect autographs of their college friends for the same reason. But a more original way to keep one's souvenirs is being discussed at Ward-Belmont. The Hyphen reports that students may b<; able to buy records of the campus sounds, selected by lists of preferences for possible recording. "The Bells of Ward-Belmont," sung by the students, heads the lists. Second is the rendition of the alma mater on the chimes. New Mexico School Seek Better Life Students here at Eastern New Mexico College, cramped for room in which to study and hold class, have their own way of seeking help. Under a plan just devised, every legislator in New Mexico will hear from one student in his con¬ stituency, respectfully asking that legislator to investigate conditions at the college and to decide tor himself whether the conditions are good. Here are the reasons for this unusual campaign. 1. Over 45 0 of the 700 students at E. N. M. C. are working their way through under the college's plan, which is almost unique in the United States. 2. More than half the student body has to study on the steps, on the grass, in waiting busses, or in the halls of our lone class-room building. The library is so over-crowded at all hours that six or eight sit at a table. 3. With an enrollment far greater than that for any other similar school in New Mexico, the college is receiving only a pittance in money as compared with what these other smaller colleges get. 4. The whole town of Portales helps make E. N. M. C. the startling success that it is. Stu¬ dents get a "month's board in town for $15, and a room for $5 a month, and most of them work for part of that. Students overflow the whole town, working in every conceivable place. Under the plan, a letter will be drawn up to every legislator, and typewritten. Each student then will get a copy of this letter and send it off to the legislator for his particular district.— (ACP) The Agnes Scott News VOL. XXV AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR, GA., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1940 Z115 No. 14 Dr. McCain Heads Forum Offers Mortar Board Dr. Long Conducts College Group Students Sponsors Test Association Seeks Religious Week In an attempt to make the cam¬ Transportation Cooperation of Colleges pus "etiquette-conscious," Mortar 'Integrated Christian Personality' Board is again sponsoring a social Dr. J. R. McCain, president of Speakers, Leaders usage test Wednesday afternoon Include Dr. Thomas Reed, the college, and Dr. Philip David¬ Forms Theme for Series of Talks from 4:00 until 5:30 in 205 But- son, professor of history, returned Miss Mildred Mell rick Hall. The questions are to be Dr. Roswell C. Long, pastor of First Presbyterian Church Saturday from Macon, where Dr. Transportation facilities are be¬ the same as those given last year, of Greenwood, S. C., will be the speaker this year for Reli¬ McCain president ing provided for any Agnes Scott but there will be no charge for tak¬ was elected of gious Emphasis Week, beginning Tuesday, February 13, and the Association of Georgia Col¬ students who are interested in at¬ ing the test; freshmen and new extending through Saturday, February 17. Dr. Long has had leges at the twenty-fourth annual tending discussions of "Improve¬ students are especially urged to experience with similar services on other campuses and also session of that body February 2 ment of Local Government in the take it. Plans are being made to in summer conferences for young people. Throughout his and 3. South", sponsored jointly by the return the corrected tests which ministry, his work with youth has National Municipal League, and were taken last year, if they can The program this year was not been especially recognized. Coming This Week the Institute of Citizenship, at the be found. taken up by a consideration of any Using as his theme "Integrated Piedmont Hotel, Tuesday, Febru¬ specific problems. The members, As further incentive to improve Wednesday, February 7— Christian Personality," Dr. Long ary 6 through Thursday, February heads of the leading colleges, uni¬ campus manners, copies of a will speak in chapel every morning new Social Usage test for 8, according to Dr. Philip David¬ versities and junior colleges of etiquette book, written by mem¬ son, who is in charge of arrange¬ Georgia, discussed a variety of sub¬ freshmen 4:00 P. M.-next week. Each morning address bers of Mortar Board and edited ments for the Institute. jects, one of the highlights being 5:30 P.M., 105 Buttrick. except the one Saturday morning by Evelyn Baty to give pointers on Speakers and forum leaders in¬ a talk on "How Private and Pub¬ will be followed the same after¬ correct behavior, are to be distrib¬ clude some of the best known lic Colleges May Coordinate Their Thursday, February 8— noon or night with a discussion uted to students Friday, free of civic leaders and sociologists in the charge. This booklet, which was Work So As to Make the Greatest Miss Rannells' talk group. Students from Emory and country. Among (them are Dr. Contribution to Society" by Dr. to Psychology Classes, compiled from suggestions made Georgia Tech are being invited to Thomas Reed, originator of the Davidson. by the faculty and students, deals 11:30 A.M. Reed Survey of conditions of local with topics of both general and take part in two of these groups. government, who talks Wednesday Friday, February 9—Bas¬ To help acquaint Dr. Long with campus interest. It includes infor¬ afternoon on "Problems of Metro¬ Personnel Head ketball in gym the problems on this campus, a mation ranging from how to go to game politan Areas," and Miss Mildred Decatur in safety, to how much to at 7:30. group of representative girls has Mell, professor of Economics and Discusses Careers tip the porter on a week-end trip. been picked to discuss them with Sociology at Agnes Scott. Saturday, February 10— Ralph McGill, associate editor Enough copies of the booklet In connection with the program him Monday night, February 12. Sophomore Candy Pull. of the Atlanta Constitution, is act¬ have been printed to give one to of the class in Applied Psychology, In addition to these groups there ing as toastmaster for the banquet each student enrolled this year, which stresses vocational guid¬ Tuesday, February 13— will be an opportunity for per¬ Wednesday night. Mayor William with a surplus intended for next ance, Miss Frances Rannells, head sonal at various times Religious Emphasis conferences B. Hartsfield delivered the princi¬ year's freshmen and transfers. of the Training Division of the during the day. Appointments for Week opens. pal address, "The Engineer and Further publication will be under Personnel Department of Rich's, these may be arranged through Politics," at the opening session the direction of succeeding chap¬ will be in room 102, Buttrick Hall, Jane Moses. February 6, at 8:00. ters of Mortar Board. February 8 at 11:30 to talk on Mardi Gras Spectators Tuesday, February 13, 4:30 "Careers for College Women in Return With Suggestions 5:30, there will be an informal re¬ Retail Stores." Miss Katherine ception for Dr. Long in the Mur- Omwake, assistant professor of Plans for the junior class Mardi Alley Reigns Over May Court phey Candler Building to which Gras, scheduled for April 6, are be¬ Psychology and Education, who is the whole college community is in¬ ing directed by Chairman Martha in charge of the Applied Psychol¬ vited. He will be the guest of the Moody. So far no theme has been ogy class, has issued an invitation college in the dining rooms for selected, but the juniors expect to to all students who are interested both lunch and dinner. Students start work next week, when several in learning about personnel work may make reservations with Jane members of the class return from as a career, and to anyone who may Moses to have him at their tables. be interested in knowing about the a visit to Mardi Gras in New Or¬ various opportunities open to col¬ leans with suggestions for present¬ (A schedule of Dr. Long's visit lege women in a department store. ing the campus production. is on page 4, column 4.) Mumps, Dame Nature Retard Growth of New Building By Bee Bradfield Very few of us realize just how much detail there is to building a structure such as the Presser-Building. Most of us have a vague idea about a few blue prints, a pile of planks, and a few stones being tossed together—result, a Gothic building. It is lather shocking to find there are dozens of blue prints, a certain kind of plank for each structure, and a particular stone for every purpose finished auditorium as most of us have found Dame Nature to be When asked how the "new are. He is just making sure every¬ responsible for the row of fires. building" (as the Presser structure thing is in line, and no delay will The object was to keep the newly has been definitely dubbed) was be caused by a mislaid board. poured concrete from freezing. progressing, Mr. Cunningham ob¬ Trying to avoid delay, the men Unlike most construction jobs, ligingly brought out two dozen had poured it; then the tempera¬ ^the one here had to employ a fire- blue prints and explained what has ture dropped from over 50 to 18 tender—due to inclement weather! been happening over beyond Butt¬ degrees. Naturally, it was danger¬ The reason for these fires aroundrick while we were busy trying to ous, but no one can tell yet wheth¬ our chapel-to-be was discussed pro keep afoot on the ice-covered cam¬ er any damage has been done or and con by ASC's interested and pus. not because the concrete cannot mystified students. The final con¬ The architect, unfortunately, be unwrapped until it has thor¬ clusion of one junior who had giv¬ has a case of good old-fashioned oughly set. And that is the "set¬ en the matter her serious thought mumps, but the man in charge of up" as we see it today. between the library and Rebekah the carpenters is right on the job— automobiles As a whole, however, the prog¬ one night was that up to his knees in galoshes and might run into the new founda-ress on the building has been as other keep-dry apparel. Inciden¬ tions! She was right in the fact constant as weather would permit, tally, when he walks up to the that it is a protective measure, and barring any more freak antics —Photo Courtesy Atlanta Journal. building, then leisurely backs off but just a wee bit mistaken about of the elements, we should be en¬ Carolyn Alley, chosen May Queen last week, will preside over the to a nice sunny spot by Buttrick, WHAT the building was being joying the soundproof (Happy festival May 4. Nominations for the court will be made in chapel Fri¬ guarded against. If she had fol¬ Day!) practice rooms and comfor¬ sticks his hands in his pockets, and day. The program this year, entitled "The Heritage of Woman," was gazes fondly at the rising columns, lowed the motto of the French table auditorium by next Septem¬ written by a committee of alumnae. he is NOT day dreaming of the police, "Cherchez la femme," she'd ber. THE AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1940 Granddaughters Postmistresses Reveal Conduct Radio Program The Granddaughters Club will produce the Agnes Scott radio pro¬ Pet Complaints gram over WSB this afternoon at five o'clock. Through letters of By Virginia Williams Agnes Scott students and their "Using Dr. Davidson as the head of a home-making de¬ mothers who were Agnes Scott partment and acting as a lonely hearts bureau are only parts graduates, the broadcast will show of the job of a postmistress," say Mary Ellen Whetsell and the changes made by the college Mary Rollingsworth. in fifty years. A lonely Citadel freshman wrote his mail of helpful hints to the a pathetic card to "box 408," say¬ housewife is abundant. groan that it's not the letters that ing that he had box 408 at the The postmistresses have numer¬ are the bane of their existence, but Citadel and he wished that box at the notices; that is, tiny notices ous pet complaints. Mary Hol- Agnes Scott would write to him. which" are not arranged alphabeti¬ lingsworth wishes that people Unfortunately, Agnes Scott has cally and which take ten minutes would stop signing "Self" when no box 408. The nearest number to unfold. they get their packages, because to it is on the box of Dr. Hayes. Another problem for the mail that makes Susan Self appear re¬ room is the Smiths. There are three Dr. Philip Davidson gets all the sponsible for practically all the boarder Smiths and three day stu¬ mail pertaining to domestic mat¬ packages which come. dents. "Names do get you," sigh¬ ters. As the head of the non-ex¬ About 150 letters come in each istent home economics department, mail, but Mary Ellen and Mary ed Mary Hollingsworth. "I go to sleep at night saying Willstatter, Wilson, Wisdom, or Woodford, Woolford, Woodall." On Tuesday the mail room is faced with the problem of getting three Netv York Times into Betty Prosnit's box. It is a physical im¬ possibility. Dr. Swanson's samples are another matter to develop the gray hairs of the postmistresses. Among a host of woes—people yelling while they put up mail, not signing for packages—there is one happy possibility for the keepers of the mail.. Sometimes seniors grad¬ uate leaving subscriptions to maga¬ zines. But Mary sheds gloom over even this simple joy by reminding Mary Ellen that Martha Marshall's subscription to Mademoiselle has just expired. Journalist Speaks Here; Debaters Choose Mr. Jim Brumby, advertising manager of the Atlanta Journal, will address KUB at an open meet¬ ing of the club Wednesday after¬ noon at 4:30 in the Murphey Candler Building. Nine new members were admit¬ ted to Pi Alpha Phi as a result of recent tryouts. They are Jeanne Eakin, Bette Burdette, Judith Greenburg, Dot Grumann, Thyra Gwin, Mary Lovelace Moody, Mary Klingensmith, Susan Spurlock, and Mary Ward. Come See Our NEW HATS at WOMAN'S EXCHANGE Miss Imelda Mullens, one of the Singing Mullens Sisters Trio, demonstrates the Felt and Straw Creations correct apparel for a vacation in the West: red silk shirt and matching neckerchief, boots inlaid with miniature steer-heads, riding trousers, and a nail-head-studded belt. for Spring Her advice comes through courtesy of the CBS Fashion Service. You're Always Welcome For Quick Service Call at EVER-READY CABS Owned bv Decatur Bovs ROGERS STORE DE. 1656 Decatur, Ga. HOTEL CANDLER Decatur A Good Place to Eat Agnes Scott College T. J. WOODS. Operator DECATUR, GA. THREADGILL PHARMACY A college for women that is widely recog¬ Phone DE. 1665 nized /or its standards of work and for the 309 E. College Avenue interesting character of its student activities. Decatur, Ga. • NOTICE For further information, address AGNES SCOTT This is your drug store. J. R. McCAIN, President Eloise Lennard checks up on After Working Hours Of course an ideal society column would list every single person who went to certain functions. However, Agnes Scott girls go to so many different affairs, and in such large num¬ bers, that even the most wide-awake staff can't know what everybody does. This fact is es¬ abeth Anderson, Margaret Smith, pecially true when a number of and Eva Ann Pirkle had a wonder¬ .... different ful time. schools and On Saturday night, among those iOr g a nij z a t i o n s going to Interfraternity were i choose the Olivia White, Carolyn Alley, Katsy same week- Blair, Iddy Boone, Lillian Guden¬ en d to rath, Marian Franklin, Barbara Lee (have their Murlin, Eloise Lennard, Pat Flem¬ ; functions. 1 ing, Sara Copeland, Ann Geller¬ To begin stedt, Bette Burdette, Harriet with, Tech Vaughn, Dot Holloran, Jane Mc had three Donough, Mary Matthews, Bizelle days of Roberts, Jessie MacGuire, Margaret Lennard dancing, Hamilton, Ida Jane Vaughn, Nina with music by Eddie Duchin. Broughton, Florrie Guy, Charlene Among those there at one time or Burke, Betty Waitt, and Susan another were Marjorie Wilson, Self. Mary Klingensmith, Marion Phil¬ lips, Dot Holloran, Carolyn Alley, Of course, that group of girls Sue Phillips, Margaret Mary who went home with Lib Barrett for Mardi Gras deserves space in Toomey, June Boykin, Mary Louise this column. They are Margaret Palmour, Edith Dale, Glenwyn Murchison, Flonnie Ellis, Lil¬ Young, Betty Lee Clarkson, Mar¬ lian Schwencke, and Rowena tha Dunn, Hartwell Bishop, Lil¬ Barringer. Also out of town lian Gudenrath, Laura Gumming, were Sara Lee, Pattie Patterson, Margaret Downie, Nancy Hirsch, and Grace Walker, who went to Betty Jean O'Brien, Katsy Blair, dances at Davidson, Gloria Bram- Mary Robertson, Susan Cochran, lette, who went to fancy dress at Pat Perry, Irene Gordon, Kay Wil¬ W. & L., and Mary Robertson, kinson, Grace Ward, Georgia Tate, who attended Sewanee mid-win¬ Frances Abbott, Margaret Hart ters. Susanne Kaulbach also went sook, Anne Gellerstedt, Eugenia to Athens for the KA dance Hailey, Helen McFayden, and Judy there. Greenberg. Friday night the KA's had Faculty Members Attend their formal. Yal Nielson, Ruth University Center Meet Slack, Sara Copeland, Margaret Downie, Sara Gray Hollis, and Dr. Philip Davidson and Dr. Mary McDougall are in Athens at Mary Dean Lott were present there, the University of Georgia for a while at the med dance that same conference connected with the night, Olivia White, Shirley Ann University Center project. Smith, Marjorie Boggs, Grace Eliz- R. E. BURSON Come to 307 East College Avenue Phone DE. 3353 BUY GOOD SHOES HARRIS PHARMACY KEEP THEM REPAIRED THE VARSITY CURB SERVICE 61 North Avenue MAKE IT A HABIT... TO Riding GET VOUR HABITS AT RICH'S THE AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 7. 1940 Students, Faculty Give Varied Definitions By Anne Enloe "She has a wonderful sense of humor!" says Henrietta Thompson, president of Student Government. "But she may be tembly bothered by other peoples' alleged sense of hu¬ mor," adds Miss Muriel Harn. "She is a seeker after the truth, and I don't mean the melo¬ dramatically. I think that is what she really comes to col¬ lege for," insists Ruth Slack, whose nickname should certainly not be "Stupie." New Plan Gives "The virtues I most admire in Credit for Majors her . . . she never gives me a lot of alibis. And when she doesn't know Taken at Emory the answer to a question, she frankly says she doesn't know, and As a part of the cooperative pro¬ doesn't put up a lot of bluff or gram between Agnes Scott and beat around any bushes. She is al¬ Emory, Agnes Scott students who ways honest in that respect." That want to major in journalism or from Miss Thelma Albright, and business administration will be the interviewer asked, "Do you able to take courses in these sub¬ mean 'bulling' when you say jects at Emory next year. 'bluffing'," for Miss Albright is At the present time a few Ag¬ new at Agnes Scott. And she af¬ nes Scott students are taking elec¬ firmed my idea. tive courses at Emory. Under the new plan students from this cam¬ "She is well xounded, but she gives first thought always to the pus are eligible to take courses at Errlory for any of the sixteen Ag¬ actual knowledge that she is gain¬ nes Scott majors. ing, for that is the part of her col¬ According to President J. R. lege life that will stay with her McCain, of Agnes Scott, details of longest. She never makes that ex- the courses will be explained in that her extra-curricular work keeps her from her class new catalogue which comes work." Coming from Miss Carrie out next week. Scandrett this should be seriously come into the mind of any of her considered, for she has seen many friends who read them. Instead successes and failures go away they are attributes that each of the from the sheltering arms. above people would consider the All these testimonials are not property of "the perfect student, given in honor of a certain senior, if there were one." whose name would immediately Whether it is a compliment or a dirty dig, it should be added that every single person interviewed JOSEPH SIEGEL "Dependable Jeweler Since 1908" wanted to know first of all if the DIAMONDS -WATCHES -JEWELRY requirements were for the perfect SILVERWARE student, or the perfect college girl. Watch, Clock and Jewelry Repairing All Work Guaranteed After hearing the answer to the III East Court Square Decatur, Ga. puzzling question, we still wonder Rhone DEarborn 4205 which was meant. Bowet? Press . Commercial Printing and Stationery TYPEWRITERS AND RIBBONS Blotters—-Note Paper —Poster Paper Office Supplies 316 Qturch St. DE. 3383 Deoatur, Ga. CAftTtRIA An Organization Specializing EXCLUSIVELY in the Production and Serving of Wholesome Foods. 189-191 Peachtree St.# Atlanta Seniors, Sophs Repeat Victories Freshmen Lose, 8-22; Seniors Make 43 Points The seniors and sophomores add¬ ed another victory to their records by defeating the juniors and fresh¬ men Friday afternoon. The score in the freshman-sophomore game was 8-22, and in the junior-senior game, 3 5-43. In the freshman-sophomore game, the freshmen showed a marked improvement in their shooting and guarding. The sopho¬ mores missed more balls than usual, but chalked up 11 goals to win. Dunn and D. Webster each made four goals, and A. Webster, A. Wilds, and Thomas shot one apiece. For the freshmen, Moore and Bates divided honors, making four points each. Milner Leads Scoring The juniors and seniors battledl furiously to a close finish. The forwards of both teams scored goal after goal. Milner led both teams in scoring all of 2 5 points, fol¬ lowed by Dyar with 22 points. Slack made twelve points, Stubbs nine, MacGarity four, and Carson made three goals, one of which was a long over-hand shot from a far corner. The lineups were: Seniors: Milner, Carson, Slack, Moses, Ware, Forman. Juniors: Dyar, Stubbs, McGarrity, Klugh, Kendrick, Williams. Sophomores: D. Webster, A. Webster, Dunn, Brooks, Gellerstedt, Lott. Freshmen: Wiesmann, Moore, Bates, Dale, Rountree, Cummings. Substitutes: Bradfield, Long, Currie, MacGuire, Wilds, Thomas. MIDDLETON'S BAKERY Special Cakes for All Occasions Decatur DE. 9229 Agnes Scott Meet Emory at THE FROSTED SHOP FOR A PIG'N WHISTLE BARBECUE AND FROSTED MALTED AND ICE CREAM Next to DeKalb Theatre in Decatur We Deliver DE. 9165 KE/CN SUPREME ON ST, VALENTINE? DAY SEND A PORUAIT TO SNOW YOUR MfECTION! Qo^ort-Worie Georgia Hunt gathers Campus Quotes "Which is more important, so¬ cial activity or extra-curricular ac¬ tivity on the campus in college?" has been a question of vital con¬ cern to today's college student. Here a cross-section of students choose be¬ tween the "social butterf 1y" and the BWOC. Mary Lightfoot Elcan, '42, says:". . . there is one thing — a stu- Hunt dent can't do everything. I think that one of the hardest things a girl has to face is drawing the line between the purely social and the extra¬ curricular activities. But I believe that the experience that a girl gets on the campus will ultimately be pf more value to her." Anne Paisley, '42, says: ". . . that the activities in which a girl engages along the extra-cur¬ ricular line will probably do more to develop her character than just being a 'social butterfly.' I think that if a girl really wants to, she can balance her activities." Bee Bradfield, '42, says: . . neither is more important. You can't leave off your purely so¬ cial life fcfr four years, then start up again all of a sudden. If you have to make a choice, choose the four years of activity on the cam¬ pus." Caroline Smith, '43, feels: that meeting and knowing the people on our own campus through extra-cdrricular activities is more Bring Your Nice Things To GILL CLEANERS Church Street WELCOME from the NEW PIG'N WHISTLE A Delightful Place to Entertain Your Friends Sophomores Entertain With Candy Pull In an effort to repeat last year's success, the sophomore class has planned a candy pull for Saturday night at 7:3 0 in the gym. Besides the candy pull, the sophomores offer a barn dance, a floor show, and a sing for entertainment. Ad¬ mission is ten cents. McDonough Fills Vacancy On Executive Council At the last meeting of the fresh¬ man class, Jane McDonough was elected freshman representative on Student Government to fill the vacancy left by Margaret Gallaher's resignation. Student Government will not hold the regular monthly open forum in chapel February 8. Hen¬ rietta Thompson has announced that the period will be turned over to Christian Association to use in connection with its program dur¬ ing Religious Emphasis Week. valuable. I just don't see how an Agnes Scott girl could get along without knowing all the wonderful people here." Anne Scott, '43, thinks: ". . . that the social activity on the campus should be more impor¬ tant to a college student, because her fellowship can be more mean¬ ingful than that which she would get at dances and other purely so¬ cial activities that are in no way connected with school life." Ruth Allgood, 41, adds: ". . . it depends on what a girl wants to do after she leaves college. If she wants to be a 'social success' she had better begin now. If she wants to be a 'civic leader' she had better begin now. But in either case I think that the contacts that she had off the campus will be good because the environment of only one place may tend to narrow her point of view." Lutie Moore, '40, concludes: ". . .Itwould bebadtohaveto make the choice. To be balanced you have to have both. Extra-cur¬ ricular activities certainly help to develop your leadership and sense of responsibility, but you don't have much of a chance to learn to work with men. After all, half the people in the world are men, you know." Beautiful Photographic VALENTINES 4 ',4x5 Yi, Including Envelopes 3 for $1.00 NORTON'S STUDIO Decatur, Ga. HEARN'S LADIES' and MEN'S READY-TO-WEAR 131 Sycamore Street Decatur, Ga. BALLARD'S Dispensing Opticians Thirty-three Years of Dependable Optical Service Three Locations for Your Convenience Service, Quality Merchandise, Ac¬ curate and Expert Workmanship. All the Same at Each Location. WALTER BALLARD OPTICAL CO. Three Locations 105 Peachtree 382 Peachtree 480 Peachtree Clock Medical Arts W. W. Orr Sign Building Doctor's Bldg. THE AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 7, 1940 Betty Stevenson boils down Campus Camera The Real News Collective Insecurity The importance of the Balkan Entente was negated at the first session. They agreed that each of the four countries (Rumania, Yugoslavia, Greece, and Turkey) must fend for itself in the future. This looks rather bad for Rumania, who had hoped for a binding military alliance. "Economic neutral¬ ity" is in the air, but Greece and Turkey are probably bound too closely to England already for it to function. If Winter Comes The Finnish men behind the barricade of the Manner heim Line never fought bet-e, ter than last week New Stevenson techniques were used by the Russians in the heav¬ iest attack yet: armored sleds to guard a tank advance, planes above, heavy artillery, all at once. Yet President Kallio's offer of an "honor¬ able peace" recalls the menace of overwhelming odds that will exist with the coming of spring. State of a Nation The Japanese people seem far from happy in their war. There are rumors of food and fuel shortages and liberal newspapers whisper disap¬ proval. Words never seem to keep the militarists from pushing through their programs, but at least definite, open criticism was spoken in the Diet. In an argument over a huge new seven year arms program, Takao Saito called on the govern¬ ment openly to withdraw their troops from China. Result: his resignation from the leadership of the strongest political party in Japan. Cactus Jack National events are intervening (purposely?) to shed a brighter light on Georgia's local fight on a preferential primary. The public exchange of letters between Senator George (soliciting) and Vice-President Garner (accepting an invita¬ tion) to place the latter's name on Georgia's hypothetical primary should make the whole af¬ fair more lively. Of course, Governor Rivers, as head of the Democratic Committee in Georgia, may do as he pleases, but the publicity will make it harder for him to resist future pressure. Election Year Economy It's an unusual situation when Congressmen are extravagantly economical. Election year is having the regular effect, only more so. The cuts on next year's farm bill are 50% below this year s appropriation and 20% below the President s budget estimate. The cut alone is equal to the annual cost of the entire maintenance and opera¬ tion of the government of the U. S. before the World War. decorated with "busy" signs and Albert and Thomas Palnaerlee , TWIN ALGEBRA INSTRUCTORS AT THE Negro butlers of the u.of UNIV.OF KANSAS,CONFUSE STUDENTS ALABAMA FRATERNITIES HAVE WITH DUPLICATE FACES AS WELL AS A FRATERNITY OF THEIR OWN ' ' • DUPLICATE PROBLEMS • « --THE SIGMA KING/ Betty Jean O'Brien takes notes For the Record These days you never can tell what's going to happen next. Why look at Scotty Wilds. You wouldn't think of her as being ex¬ actly the vampire type, with sloe eyes and raven locks, that lures men to their destruction. No, because she's a blonde /r, . and Gr»-0 Br,en tlemcn prefer blondes. . . . But wait. . . . The other night when Scotty was plugging away at the switchboard, a masculine voice rang in and inquired whom he was addressing, and Miss Wilds inform¬ ed him with never a thought of the fate she was bringing down on her unsuspecting head. Well, this slug (for he turned out to be no gen¬ tleman, and there's no use in de¬ luding the public) carries on quite a conversation, and declares he is mortally stricken in his left ven¬ tricle by the vocal charms of the young lady and must needs come out and worship at her shrine. She cuts him off like a leaky faucet and thinks no more about it. But that night she returns to the cam¬ pus to find that an ardent suitor has called her w/IUons of times, and finally declared his firm in¬ tentions of visiting Miss "Wars" —a slightly garbled version of the surname aforestated. After throw¬ ing Rebekah into an uproar, the young gentleman finally makes his appearance in a slightly inebriated condition, not in the Main Build¬ ing where "all business is transact¬ ed and visitors are received," but in the lobby of Reb! Oh horrible, horrible, most horrible!! (Apolo¬ gies to Shakespeare and Dr. Hayes.) Such devotion as the above mint be deserved. Moral: If you can't join the l onely Hearts become an Agnes Scott switchboard operator. Professorial Presentations: Dr. Hayes solemnly observed in European classics the following a'nachronism: "Aristotle said in his letter to Sir Walter Raleigh . . Some correspondence. . . . Now we come to the sad story of Mrs. Fox, who stood in line and bought tickets for GWTW, and the day preceding the performance, her husband fell down stairs and broke his arm. She stood in line again and purchased two more, and she came down with the flu the day before. And then, she stood in line again and bought tickets, and every pre¬ caution was taken to prevent any possible mishap, and the street car on which they were to triumphant¬ ly ride to town with twenty-five minutes to spare jumped the track for the first and only time in re¬ cent history, and after all this Foxyssey they didn't get to the show until after the barbecue . . . in the picture. . . . Ain't that fierce? And won't you take a peek at Miss Harn, who caught the Arctic fever and, like a polar bear, but with a different pelt, appeared in a new and gorgeous fur coat. Anonyrni: There was the girl in the infirmary who was struggl¬ ing valiantly to think of Hortense's name, and began shouting "Hosannah" at the top of her voice. Fortunately there were no witnesses to answer "Amen." . . . The nightmare of all g6od A. S. C. girls has come true; the one of get¬ ting stuck in the mud at the end of Fraternity Row at Emory, when you were only just passing by. Three of the girls did that very thing, and wei'e actually stuck in the mud and couldn't get out, un¬ til the heavens opened and SAE's poured out and chivalrously help¬ ed the girls from the Slough of Despond. . . . And they really hadn't gone to see anybody. . . . And of course the freshman who came up to the Student Gov't booth at the President's Council Tea, which booth was profusely CA Announces Dr. Longs Schedule suchlike S. G. impedimenta, and inquired as to whether that was morning AFTERNOON i the Phi Beta Kappa Booth in a brown study. . . . Henri, of course, Feb. 12— who was an inmate, quickly en¬ lightened her . . . Nomination for the Week's Fur-Lined Bathtub: Lutle Informal Recep¬ Moore strolling with what she Feb. 13—"Integrated % Christian tion firmly hoped was a nonchalant air Personality" (4:30-5:30) into her nine o'clock class in her (Chapel) evening dress, etc. . . . Explanation concerns shift of cars and over¬ Discussion on Feb. 14—"Integrated night bag and is irrelevant here . . . Christian "Race" Personality (4:30-5:30) The Agnes Scott News and Race" (Chapel) Vol. XXV No. 14 AVednesday, February 7, 1940 Feb.15—"Integrated Published weekly, except holidays and examination periods, by the stu¬ Feb. If dents of Agnes Scott College. Member Associated Collegiate Press. Office on scond floor Murphey Candler building. Entered as second class matter at the Decatur, Georgia, postoffice. Subscrip¬ tion price per year, $1.25; singlecopies, five cents. Feb. 17 Eleanor Hutchens Editor Evelyn Baty Managing Editor Mary Louise Dobbs Business Manager Religious Week- Take or Leave It Psychologists have found that a change in religious thought occurs in the average individual during college years. Doubt, they say, enters the mind of the normal youth, causing him to think the problem out for himself. Questions rise within him; he has learned to question and rea¬ son in academic work. "And many a knot unravelled by the way. But not the master-knot of human fate." When the annual Religious Emphasis Week opens Tuesday, Christian Associa¬ tion will have brought a man here to help answer these questions. Dr. Long has proved himself valuable in work with young people; he comes to the campus highly recommended. His group discus¬ sions are reputedly stimulating and well- directed. He brings wide experience and specialized thought to the task of working out common problems. Of course, the individual must draw his own conclusions as to religion; the Reli¬ gious Emphasis Week leader comes to tell us not what to think, but how. His purpose is to (1) stimulate and (2) direct. Furthermore, the week is not designed exclusively for ministers' daughters and CA cabinet members; it is for average people who have never let religion bother them particularly. These are the people who make it worth the trouble; and, strange though it seems, they are the ones who will be most interested in the discussions—if they will just step out of character and come to them. Editorial Notes— Etiquette Week Neglects Mail Room "Yes, and the only thing wrong with two cotton stockings is, they're cotton." If this is your reaction to yesterday's chapel talk, you're too busy matching hair-ribbohs and shoestrings. The story was pushed off the news pages; but we feel it our duty to remind you that "No Time for Comedy," with Katharine Cornell, is coming to Atlanta next week. This being Etiquette Week, we are sur¬ prised—though not very—that the mail room at 8:57 has not changed a bit. Personality and AVar" Individual confer¬ (Chapel) ences with Dr. -"Integraled Long may be ar¬ Christian ranged on these Personality and the Eco¬ afternoons. nomic Order" (Chapel) -"IntegratedChristian Personality and All Areas of Living" (Chapel) NIGHT Discussion of Campus problems with representa¬ tive group(7:30-8:30) Discussion group on "Integrated Christian Personality" (7:00-8:00) Discussion with C. A. Cabinets (7:00-8:00) Discussion group with boys on "War" Discussion groupwith boys on 'The Economic Order" (7:00-8:00) ^ The Agnes Scott News Z115 No. 15 VOL. XXV AGNESSCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR, GA., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1940 Dr. McCain Opens Radio Series Dr. J. R. McCain and Mrs. Murdoch Equen, '21, president of the Alumnae Association, will inaugurate a series of four discus¬ sion programs on "The Future De¬ velopment of the College" this aft¬ ernoon at five o'clock over WSB. The program last Wednesday afternoon was under the auspices of the Granddaughters' Club. Those on the program were Gene Slack, Katherine Patton, and Mrs. S. G. Stukes, '24. Laura Sale, '41, was the voice of Agnes Scott. Juniors Plan Fashion Parade Fashions to suit the taste of both the conservative and the super- stylish will be paraded in the jun¬ ior class Fashion Show February 20 at 7:30 in the chapel. Most of the 3 6 to 40 outfits to be shown were selected at Davison-Paxon, and every one was passed on by a number of style experts. Costumes for morning, noon, and night will be modelled by Mar¬ tha Dunn, Jean Dennison, Frances Bourke, Charlene Burke, Martha Moody, Nina Broughton, Weezy Sams, Margaret Murchison, Ethelyn Dyar, Doris Dalton, Ann Fisher, and Rebecca Hogan. |C/ass Cabinets Meet in Retreats In an effort to share their activ¬ ity, the sophomore Christian Asso¬ ciation cabinet have invited the en¬ tire sophomore class to join them in their winter retreat Saturday, February 17, at Harrison Hut, to discuss "Maximum Christianity." Miss Carrie Scandrett, Dean of Students, has been asked to attend and join the discussion. The freshman cabinet held its retreat Saturday afternoon, Febru¬ ary 10, at the home of Miss Scan¬ drett. Miss Bee Miller was invited to help in the interpretation of the theme, "Maximum Christianity." Explorer Lectures At Emory Sir LIubert Wilkins, polar ex¬ plorer, scientist, anj lecturer, is appearing at the Glenn Memorial Auditorium Monday, February 19, at 8:30, to deliver a lecture on "Exploration Over and Under the Polar Regions by Airplane and Submarine," illustrated with his technicolor motion picture. Sir Hubert's story of the achievements in polar exploration is based on his own experience in the Arctic and Antarctic during the past twenty-five years. He was a companion of Stefansson and Shackleton on their history-making expeditions, and has himself com¬ manded seven different expedi¬ tions to the polar regions. General admission is seventy-five cents for adults, twenty-five cents for children. Tickets may be pur¬ chased at the door of the auditor¬ ium from members of the Student Lecture Association of Emory. Dr. Long Discusses Negro Problem Speaker Condemns Antagonism In Integrated Christian Personality "The Negro race constitutes one-tenth of the population of the United States, and it can only reach its proper place in social progress through the mutual cooperation of all groups, and the cordial recognition of the great contributions made by members of this race," said Dr. Roswell C. Long in his discussion of "Integrated Christian Vocation Authority Advises Students As part of the work in voca¬ tional guidance done by the Ap¬ plied Psychology class, Mrs. Eliza¬ beth Gregg MacGibbon, author of "Manners in Business," published by Macmillan Company in 1936, will talk on "Careers for College Women" in 102 Buttrick Hall, Friday, February 16, at 11:30. All students are invited to hear Mrs. MacGibbon's discussion, and to ask her questions about vocations for Institute Urges Public Concern Assembling a large number of prominent authorities on political science and leaders in government from all over the South, the joint conference of the Institute of Citi¬ zenship and the National Munici¬ pal League was held in Atlanta last week, February 6-8. Sponsored by Emory, Agnes Scott, and Georgia Tech, the pur¬ pose of the conference was to pro¬ mote adult education in politics, the subject dealt with being Im¬ provement of Local Government in the Sortth. "The county in relation to the state" was the topic for the first meeting, with Professor Paul Wag¬ er, of the University of North Carolina, as speaker. Citizen organizations and the citizen's part in local government were considered in the Wednesday morning session. Lamenting the average citizen's lack of interest in governmental affairs, J. Thomas Askew, Dean of Armstrong Junior College, said that if we took as much interest in local politics as we do in European affairs, there would be nothing to worry about. The county unit system of Geor¬ gia, defended by Tate Wright, of Athens, and condemned by Lyle R. Chubb, Consultant on Local Gov¬ ernment, Chamber of Commerce of Atlanta, formed the subject for a debate Wednesday afternoon. At the same session, Frank Bane, Executive Director, Council of State Governments, Chicago, up¬ held Social Security as absolutely necessary, and expressed doubt that an acceptable substitute could be devised any time soon. Specific instances in well-run and poorly-run city government plans and individual problems were dis¬ cussed in Open Forum on Thurs¬ day. The conference may be held at Agnes Scott next year. Personality and Racial Antagon¬ ism" in chapel this morning. Remove Barriers Dr. Long proposed that the problem be considered with special emphasis on removing the eco¬ nomic and social barriers between the races by improving the living conditions of the negro. Demon¬ strating what can be done to solve the problem of racial antagonism, he cited a survey of health and housing conditions which, made by a church in a typical negro neigh¬ borhood in a Southern town, re¬ sulted in the cooperations of local churches and civic organizations of the community in building and maintaining a Negro hospital, in establishing classes in home hygiene and care of the sick, and in open¬ ing an agency which acts as a clearing, house for employing Negro servants. Negro Has Place "The Negro has made his own place in the social order," contin¬ ued Dr. Long. "This place has been delineated by such Negro leaders as Booker T. Washington, James Weldon Johnson, and Ezekiel Chappelle as continued coopera¬ tion with the white race, and ac¬ ceptance of opportunities and jobs according to his capacity. Only thosfe people who mean that the Negro has no place still say that there is the problem of keeping the Negro in his place." Source of Prejudice Stating that prejudice springs mainly from two classes, the poor whites who are in economic com¬ petition with the Negro, and the aristocracy which patronizes the race which it considers distinctly Continued on Page 2, Col. 1 Coming This Week— Thursday, February 15— Eta Sigma Phi meeting and banquet, 5:00 until 7:00. Pi Alpha Phi meeting and debate, 7:30. Friday, February 16—Mrs. MacGibbon's talk to Ap¬ plied Psychology class, 102 Buttrick Hall, 11:30. Basketball game in gym. Saturday, February 17— Junior Banquet, 6:00 in Rebekah Scott dining hall. Sunday, February 18-24— A. A. week. Monday, February 19 — Water pageant in gym at 8:30. Tuesday, February 20 — Junior Class fashion show. Arkwright Directs Center Program Alumnae Set $100,000 For Hopkins Hall; College Plans Opening Mr. Preston S. Arkwright, Presi¬ dent of Georgia Power Company, was unanimously chosen chairman of the University Center Move¬ ment at the mass meeting of the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce last week. Mr. Arkwright is well- known for his interest in southern educational, institutions; he was chairman of the campaign of 1915 in which a million dollars was raised to move the site of Emory University from Oxford, Ga., to Atlanta. The objective of the present campaign is $7,500,000 for which Agnes Scott must raise $1,000,000 and Emory $4,000,000 in order to earn the $2,500,000 which the General Education Board of New York has offered to promote the University Center. The Agnes Scott Alumnae As¬ sociation has set $100,000, to be used to erect a new dormitory, Hopkins Hall, as a memorial to Miss Nannette Hopkins. Dr. J. R. McCain and the Alumnae Associa¬ tion hope that the building will be completed by the time scljool opens in 1941. Students Jump to Define Ideal Faculty Member "What is the ideal faculty member?" With this question as bait, the interviewer was stampeded with shouts from all over the campus, from all classes and all types—the P. B. K. and the "inel." "It's Dr. Davidson!" cried one prominent senior athlete, swooning at-the very thought. But when asked please to get away from personalities, the blonde with long tresses who was with her said: "The ideal faculty member is one who Class Appoints Thompson ' Senior Opera Chairman The senior class has elected Hen¬ rietta Thompson chairman of the committee in charge of plans for the annual senior opera, to be pre¬ sented Friday evening, May 3. An¬ nouncement of plot and characters is to be made later. Seniors Prepare For Founder's Day Enloe Heads Program Committee J Skits in White House and Rebe¬ kah Scott dining halls, followed by a holiday banquet and a dance in the gym for the college com¬ munity, will be features of the an¬ nual Founder's Day celebration held in honor of George Washing¬ ton Scott on February 22. Anne Enloe is program chair¬ man, Boots Moore is in charge of decorations, and Barbara Lee Murlin has charge of the costuming. The skits will emphasize colonial events and costumes; the dancing will include a minuet by members of the senior class. , Alumnae celebration of Found¬ er's Day will take the form of a banquet at the Atlanta Athletic Club Thursday night. Scott Candler will be the guest speaker, and one feature of the entertainment will be a group of songs corres¬ ponding in point of time to the de¬ velopment of Agnes Scott College. sees things, from your point of view occasionally and doesn't try to drill all her own conceptions of things into your skull." "He or she is a human being and isn't shy about letting her stu¬ dents know that she is one. AND above all things she has a sense of humor and lets it out to graze even during class hours," says an alumna who is back on the cam¬ pus this year. And her views might be taken as the general campus opinion. "She is as nice in conference as she is in class, or vice versa," is the opinion of one freshman. "She is impersonal in class," says anoth¬ er. "But she is interested in each member of her classes as a person," adds the third. And all the class of 1943 seems to be of one mind in the idea that the perfect prof gives a cut once in a while; it helps the pride when one hasn't any cut¬ ting privileges of her own. Approaching a group of sopho¬ mores, the press gleaned some more mature views. Said one, "The ideal teacher is above all else a student." "And he doesn't use violent meas¬ ures such as desk pounding and shouting at the cringing class," was another idea expressed. "She organizes her lecture so as to per¬ mit the taking of intelligible notes, but she doesn't organize them to the extent of excluding any valu¬ able discussion the class may want to bring up." "But on the other hand," returned another, "I don't think she takes up time with it consequential matters." And a junior pounces on the above soph opinion with, "He makes you think, no matter what method he has to use." Another says, "He is human and all that, but above all he is a scholar and a teacher." A senior BWOC says, "She wel¬ comes student opinion. And she encourages intelligent discussion in her classes instead of scaring peo¬ ple out of their wits. In somewhat the same manner she makes you do your outside work, but makes you do it because you are interested in the course rather than because you are scared not to." That reminds us of the remark made by a certain teacher, who is considered tops herself, to the ef¬ fect that she never wanted a stu¬ dent to cut her classes because she had not read the lesson. "Read it if you possibly can, but don't stay away if you haven't had time to; I'd rather have you here unprepar¬ ed than not have you here at all." Give us more faculty members like that and we'll approach our ideal. THE AGNES SCOTT NEWS. WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 14, 1940 Collegians Oppose Eta Sigma Phi Jarman Talks Sophs, Seniors, Triumph Government Aid U. S. college and university stu¬ In Exciting Games dents do not favor the government as a source of financial aid or as a Juniors Trail All Way; job haven after graduation. This is the assertion of Colum¬ Both Games Feature Razzle-Dazzle bia University's journalistic dean, In the fastest and roughest game of this season, the sopho¬ Carl W. Ackerman; and he cites mores and seniors again defeated the juniors and freshmen figures gained from a special sur¬ Friday night at basketball. These two games afforded more vey of 15 campuses by Professor thrills and excitement than any previous ones. Elmo Roper to prove his point. The sophomores scored one more point in the first half "The real significance, I think, than the juniors did in the whole game. Thomas, Dunn, and .of present student opinion toward Webster, sophomore forwards, shot the financing of education is the one goal after another to run up opposition to government aid," a score of 54 Swimming Club Dean Ackerman said. "Students do points by the not favor a spending-lending pol¬ end of the icy to help them make their way Gives Pageant game. The in the world. Only 7.4 per cent of junior team the students interviewed considered Matthews, Moseley aid by the federal or state govern¬ was unable to Star in Narcissus Myth ments as desirable. This, I think, keep up with may be interpreted as a vote of the razzle-daz¬ The mythological story of Nar¬ confidence in the continuation of zle of its op¬ cissus and Echo will be the theme the student-aid policies of educa¬ ponent, and of the annual swimming pageant tional institutions such as Colum¬ made 16 goals and one free presented by the swimming depart¬ bia University. "Those who have been charging shot. The Martin ment on February 19, at 8:30, in that some of the leading universi¬ sophomore guards kept the for¬ the gym. ties in the United States have be¬ wards from getting close to the Echo, played by Sally Matthews, come centers of socialistic and goal often, and the majority of communistic theories of govern¬ attracts the attention of Juno, goals were long shots by Fisher, Nina Broughton, by her never-ment and economics should study Dyar, and McGarity. Dunn, play¬ ceasing gossip about Jove, Virginia these statistics. University stu¬ ing her best game this year, scored Watkins, who plays with nymphs. dents today are not applying the 24 points for the sophomores. D. prevailing debt theory.— (AGP) To punish her, Juno makes her fall Webster and Dyar each made 18 in love with Narcissus, played by points. Fisher 12, McGarity three, Julia Moseley. Narcissus, the beau¬ Thomas eight. Brooks and Mac- Etiquette Booklet tiful son of the sea nymph Liriope Guire two. and the river god Cephissus, spurns Sins Guards Star Echo's love. Because Narcissus re¬ Lists ''Besetting The seniors defeated the fresh¬ fuses to respond, Juno causes him Articles with such titles as From men by a large margin, 31-7. The to fall in love with his own image Campus to Class, In the Chapel, freshmen played an excellent game, reflected in the water. Narcissus With the Faculty, Gilding the Lily but scored only once in the first goes mad and dies, and Echo is re¬ give tips on behavior for Agnes half, and three times in the second venged. Scott girls in Mortar Board's book¬ half. Their guards, Rountree, Cun- There will be other minor charac¬ let, Campus Code, edited by Eve¬ dell, Cummings, and Dale, held ters, and formations by members lyn Baty and illustrated by Hen¬ the seniors down surprisingly well. of the swimming club, and classes. rietta Thompson. The booklet was In this game, the ball went up and distributed to all students Satur¬ down the court swiftly from end day, and enough copies have been to end, and changed hands num-bers of times before either team printed so that every member of would score. Milner led the sen¬ the new freshman class next year iors in scoring 21 points, followed may have one. by Forman with six and Carson Dr. Long Ignoring "Busy" signs, shouting, with four. For the freshmen, Continued from Page 1 "Telephone, Mary, it's a man!" Moore scored five points, and inferior to itself, Dr. Long made down dormitory halls, and going Frierson two. the plea that "Christian youth to breakfast with that just-out-of- Lineups: coming to maturity in a land bed-and-it's-awful look are listed which wastes much of its material Seniors: Carson, Forman, Mil¬ among the besetting sins on the resource may not further burden ner, Salters, Ware, Moses. campus, while behavior off campus this our land with hate and preju¬ is criticized with reference to con¬ Juniors: McGarity, Dyar, Fish¬ dice, but exercise the Jesus ideal of duct at concerts, in theatres, and er, Arbuckle, Klugh, Wilds. brotherhood as given the parable on street-cars. of the Good Samaritan." Sophomores: D. Webster, Dunn, Dr. Long opened his series of Thomas, Lott, Brooks, Gellerstedt. talks Tuesday morning in chapel KING HARDWARE CO. Freshmen: Frierson, Holloran, with a discussion of "What Is In¬ Moore, Dale, Rountree, Cundell. tegrated Christian Personality?" He defined a wholesome Christian Substitutes: Sophomores—Cur-Sycamore Street personality as one which is oriented rie, MacGuire, Bradfield, Davis; Decatur and has God-control, giving the freshmen—Cummings, Crocker. Headquarters for Agnes Scott Meet Emory at RADIOS—$7.95 and Up THE FROSTED SHOP For a Pig'N Whistle Barbecue and Frosted All Makes Malted Ice Cream PHONOGRAPH Next to DeKalb Theatre in Decatur WeDeliver DE.9165 RECORDS BAME'S, INC. 60 Broad St., N. \V. Agnes Scott CollegeWA. 5776 DECATUR, GA. WELCOME A college for women that is widely recog¬ from the NEW nized for its standards of work and for the interesting character of its student activities. PIG'N WHISTLE A Delightful Place to For further information, address Entertain Your Friends, J. R. McCAIN, President Fetes Neophytes At KUB The Agnes Scott chapter of Eta Journalist Debunks Sigma Phi, national honorary class¬ Popular Idea of Glamour ical fraternity, will entertain at a banquet at the Candler Hotel According to Mr. Rufus Jar- in Decatur Thursday night, honor¬ man, feature writer and news re¬ ing the new members after their porter on the Atlanta Journal initiation at 5:00 on the Agnes staff, there are three stages in the Scott campus. life of the newspaperman: first, Highlights of the banquet will great expectations; second, stern be the presence of Atlanta alum¬ reality; third, resignation. nae, who have been invited this Personal Experience year for the first time, and the presentation of excerpts from one Mr. Jarman painted a picture of of PlautUs' plays instead of an newspaper life based on his own after-dinner speaker. Eva Ann experiences when he addressed Pirkle is president of the local KUB members last Wednesday chapter. afternoon. Reminding local jour¬ nalists that "glamour and money are scarce in the newspaper busi¬ Juniors Announce ness," he said that he covered one good mob scene to every 5,000 Guest List For Banquet chamber of commerce talks, and that he began his newspaper career The junior class has set 6 P. M., on $10.00 a week plus, permission Friday night, February 17, as the to cover banquet assignments. time for the annual class banquet. Dinner will be served in Rebekah Necessary Abilities Scott dining hall with the music A screwy mind, power to en¬ of the Emory Aces as background. dure after-dinner speakers, ability Guests invited for the occasion in¬ to see something tragic or amusing clude: in every situation, and a back¬ Joe Oliver, Charles Schearer, Bill ground of English and economics Chamberlain, Rhame Guyton, Bill Scan —these are essential to the man in ton, Ed Cook, Jr., Herbert St. Goar, Brand Laseter, Tom Kell, Otho Perritt, newspaper work. 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Wear it and SHINE Saturday night! 7.90 the dram at The Perfume Bar RICH'S THE AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1940 Eloise Lennard checks up on After Working Hours No matter how blase or sophisticated a girl may become, she still g'ets a thrill out of getting-flowers. And now that the season for fraternity formals is in full swing, orchids, gardenias, and such have become quite the usual thing for the maid's office in Main. Just this week-end there were several important affairs which come und er the formal heading. The Chi P h i's at Emory gave a very swanky dinner- dance at the Driv¬ ing Club Among ~ those who Lennoro went were Carolyn Alley, Charlene Burke, Barbara Lee Murlin, Eugenia Hailey, Ducky Copeland, Elorrie Guy, and Val Nielsen. At the Dental College, the Alpha Omega fraternity gave its formal. To find out about what a brilliant function it was, just ask Grace Elizabeth Anderson, Elonnie Ellis, Betty Ann Stewart, Becky Stamper, Boots Moore, Mildred Joseph, Betty Henderson, and Mary Lang Gill. Saturday night there were sev¬ eral house dances. Betsy Banks, Edith Dale, Neva Jackson, Eloise Lennard, Charlotte Shepherd, and Nell Pinner went to the Pi KA house, while the SAE affair was attended by Olivia White, Katsy Blair, and Elizabeth Jenkins, and at the Phi Chi house dance were Shirley Ann Smith, Ida Jane Vaughan, and Lucy Bryan. At the Sigma Chi buffet sup¬ per Sunday nighty were Lib Bar¬ rett, Katsy Blair, and Lillian Schwencke. And during the week¬ end, Helen Gilmer went to the DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF NURSING DURHAM, N. C. The Diploma of Graduate Nurse is awarded after three years, and the Degree of Bachelor of Science in Nursing for two additional years of approved college work before or after the course in Nursing. The entrance requirements are intelli¬ gence, character and graduationfrom an accredited high school. After 1940 two years of collegework will be required. The annual tuition of S100 covers the cost of uniforms, books, student govern¬ ment fees, etc. Catalogues, appli¬ cation forms and information about college requirements may be ob¬ tained from the Admission Com¬ mittee. Personnel Head Gives Job Tips "Department store work is in¬ teresting work and does not re¬ quire too much preparation in ad¬ vance," Miss Frances Rannells told the Applied Psychology students in her discussion last Thursday of careers for women in retail stores, i Miss Rannells is head of the Train¬ ing Division of the Personnel De¬ partment of Rich's. She went on to explain that a person interested in such work could go into one of four phases: merchandise, publicity, finance, or service. In merchandise one can work her way up to a buyer or merchan¬ dise manager, according to Miss KA house, and Mary Louise Pal mour was seen at the Phi Delt house. As usual, there was a number of people off-campus over the week¬ end. Anne Frierson and Marjorie Wilson went to Clemson. Laura Cummings, Marian Franklin, Sara Gray Hollis, Frances Abbott, Georgia Tate, and Anne Hillsman all went to their respective homes, as did Marion and Sue Phillips. Charlene Burke took Nina Mae Snead home with her, while Lillian Gudenrath took Hattie Ayres, Vir¬ ginia Stanley, and Carolyn Dunn with her. Others away were Joyce Geist, Bette Burdette, Harriet Vaughn, Shirley Gateley, Bizelle Roberts, Kay Wright, and Phil Peterson. Eva Gary Copeland was the guest of Carrie Gene Ashley and Betsy Banks, while Betty and Mimi Nininger visited Neva Jackson, and Mrs. Schwencke came up to see Lillian on her birthday. 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Mary Frances Guthrie, editor of the Agonistic during the year of 1938-39, initiated the plan last year to give the assistant editors an opportunity to learn from practical experience, and the campus a chance to see the work of the two students. Rannells. Explaining the various duties of members of this depart¬ ment, she pointed out that a buyer is not only the romantic globe¬ trotter as Ave think of her but a hard Worker if she is a success. "Going to market and having doz¬ ens of people pounce on you with merchandise for hours and having to decide which is best is not an easy task," she said, "but it is fasoinating." Publicity Field The publicity department offers an opening for girls who may have a talent for that sort of thing, she said. It includes the advertising, both newspaper and radio, and the display department. She added that women have just recently be¬ come, active in the display depart¬ ment and many jobs are open in this line. "The finance department," con¬ tinued Miss Rannells, "is the larg¬ est single unit of women in the store. People like to deal with women about credit." Fun in Personnel Miss Rannells then discussed her own personnel department, which comes under the general head of Service Department. She said, "There is more big money in mer¬ chandise, but if you want a job that means more to you person¬ ally, perhaps you would rather go into personnel work." Extra in¬ ducement for such work is found in Miss Rannells' statement that there are not enough people to fill the jobs that are opening up in the field, and if a girl is going into per¬ sonnel work she is almost sure to get a good position. Success Story Miss Rannells concluded by summing up the qualities necessary for a successful retail worker as "being interested in people and in serving people, being able to sell yourself, and being willing to start from the bottom and learn the work as you go along." HOTEL CANDLER Decatur A Good Place to Eat T. J. WOODS, Operator Bowen Press DEPOT LUNCH ROOM Commercial Printing and Stationery TYPEWRITERS AND RIBBONS Hats Blotters — Note Paper — Poster Paper • Office Supplies Valentine Cards 316 ChurchSt. DE.3383 Decatur, Ga. MRS. COOPER'S GIFT SHOP Junior Banquets of Past Feature Romance By Virginia Williams Plays suggestive of matrimonial joys, decorations worthy of Cupid, and song-and-dance selections have comprised the entertainment of the junior banquets of the past. Blackfriars did their part toward directing the dates' minds in the right channel by pre cal numbers," including a Spanish senting "Craig's Wife" in 193 5, tango, a tap dance routine, xylo¬ followed in 1936 by a still more phone music, and popular song pointed hint, "Bridal Chorus." selections. The athletic association In 1937 the decorations com¬ orchestra also contributed to the mittee took matters in their hands. program. A 1937 "Aggie" reads: "Red and white streamers will hang from the The 1931 banquet, known as the ceiling to the lights, on each of Junior Prom and sponsored by which will be strung a large red HOASC, was enlivened by a "song and dance routine by the Thomp¬ heart." son Twins." Henri's glow worm -The programs for the banquets have been varied. In 1932 there act could still uphold the Thomp¬ was a program of "dance and musi-son rep. To Ella Carey, the banquet means new dresses and swarms of dates; but as maid she admits that her most vivid memories are of the times there were so many coats that the coat rack fell down, and of the chaos the banquet always leaves in the kitchen. Educator Lauds College Chapels American college chapels are performing a vital service for the cause of religion in being "interdehominational adventures in church unity, prophetic of an in¬ creasing unity among all men and women of religious good will." This is the belief of Harvard University's Dean Willard L. Sperry, chairman of the Board of Preachers, as stated in his annual report. "Churches which are not ready to meet and match, in the conduct of their own affairs, the tolerance and sympathy which mark the col¬ lege chapels, must expect to for¬ feit the enthusiasm of returning graduates and to suffer according¬ ly," he stated. "The college chapels are not, as is so often charged, the centers of denatured religion, shorn of strong convictions and reduced to some lowest common denominator," Dean Sperry said. "They are inter-dendVninational adventures in church unity, con¬ ducted under the conditions nat¬ ural to life of the place. "They are a meeting place for all sorts and conditions of persons —CBS Thoto. more concerned for the Christian This evening gown worn by CBS' Ruth Vorke, is made exclusively of American tex¬ religion in its entirety than for a tiles. It features a flag-blue straight skirt particular sectarian statement of with a slight flare, patriotic red bolero jacket, and a white bodice and hood. that religion. "Thousands of young people go on into life from our American THREADGILL colleges, not merely familiar with, PHARMACY but believing in, the non-sectarian Phone DE. 1665 and interdenominational ''character of the chapels which they have at¬ 309 E. College Avenue tended in student days. If they re¬ Decatur, Ga. turn to the churches from which • they came, they ask of those churches something of the toler¬ NOTICE ance and catholocity which they AGNES SCOTT have found in their chapels."— This is your drug store. (AGP) Try Our Hamburgersand Hot Dogs THE AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1940 Eclecticism Looks Homeward Whether or not the American countries should pursue a policy of isolation has been a big-question of late. We have de¬ bated on trade with Germany, credit io England, aid for Finland, treaty with Ja¬ pan. We have warned each other about the results of unwise action in these mat¬ ters. In most cases, we have acted so as to dig a wide ditch, we think, between us and the war fires of Europe, spreading and' crackling and spreading again in the dry forests of greed and hate. We have tried to keep economically and politically free of entanglements. But we have not cut ourselves off from the good and the vital in those warring countries; we have not shut out ideas. We have tried to listen to all sides, thus to find the answer. We hear Hitler's broad¬ casts; we invite Duff Cooper to lecture; we print Finnish communiques; we inter¬ view the Japanese minister. Ours is an eclectic attitude. We are proud of it, and hope to remain thus. But how about this campus? Do we keep our ears open to ideas from other col¬ leges, with the purpose of combining the best for ourselves? As young people, do we pay attention to what other young peo¬ ple are doing and believing? We do not. We shut ourselves up here, intellectually, and bound our ideas by Candler and McDonough Streets. We hear of youth movements, but are not even curious as to what they are moving to¬ ward. We regard this or that organization with vague disapproval, linking it with a student strike or a Dies investigation, but not knowing what its purposes are. And when we get out of college and teach in a high school, we cannot give pupils open and strong attitudes because we do not know what forces will try to won them in college. We are sticking our heads in the sand. What is the American Youth Congress, now meeting in Washington? What is the American Student Union? How about the Young Communists League? What is the Intercollegiate Council? What is NSFA? And what are Fritz Kuhn's followers doing now? What is the difference between the YWCA and the Christian Front? It is time we found out. Student Government Association thinks so,' too. In a series of chapel programs be¬ ginning soon, Association members will give fundamental information on today's youth movements. This is another organized attempt to broaden our horizon. The dates of these programs will be no times to cut chapel. Betty Jean O'Brien takes notes For the Record Scenes With a Switchboard Operator (Continued) : Barbara Lee Murlin was minding the switchboard and her own business one day last week, when a feminine voice inquired over the wire for "The Most Popular Girl on the Cam¬ pus." Being a modest girl and a day student, B. Lec replied that there was no one with that official title, hence the informa¬ tion was not available. After a whispered confer¬ ence with some higher power the mysterious in¬ quirer asked B. L. what her name was. Upon re¬ ceiving the obvious an¬ swer, she asked sweetly, but not dicely, "Would you like a new pair of O'Brien shoes, which '— Shoe Store would give you, if you would tell ev¬ eryone where they came from?" Barbara Lee an¬ swered with alacrity in the affirmative, natcherly. So now Miss Murlin, like Baby, has a new pair of shoes, and '— has some advertising of which this column is not a part (i. e., we have no sole).... Pot Shots: Overheard in the library, Gene Slack, after reading the last page of a book, "Oh, that's terrible!", gasp, sigh. . . . After silently ac¬ cusing Miss Slack of reading a murder mystery of Betty Stevenson boils down The Real News Cheerful Giving Monetary help for Finland is booming spon¬ taneously in this country. At the moment when Americans would fee] no scruple in sending arma¬ ments to Finland, the Congress is barred effec¬ tively from doing just that. Yet Congress cheerfully ad¬ vances 530,000,000 credit; Herbert Hoover's relief fund swells to S 1,300,000; eleven Broadway shows give bene¬ fits; and the cheers for Paavo Nurmi at Madison Square Garden last week probably foretell more cash. Welles' Tour Looking forward to peace Stevenson and international economic co-operation (it seems eens hence) Cordell Hull is sending his gifted Under Secretary of State, Sumner Welles, on a tour of Europe with stop-offs in Rome, Berlin, Paris, and London. Besides visiting the war cap¬ itals, and more significantly, Welles will sound out opinion in neutral countries. Conundrum An old fear is haunting England—a Russia that threatens India. The Near-East, from Turkey to Afghanistan, is fermenting with rumors. German technicians are dismissed wholesale in Turkey with only 48 hours to leave; Russia concentrates three divisions on the Iran-Afghanistan border, all the region hears stories of a Russo-German drive south to the Persian Gulf or Franco-British attack on the Baku oil fields. In Egypt, the British war chiefs confer with the French, east- Mediterranean commander, General Maxime Weygand. The "Trouble" The English hanged two bomb-throwing ter¬ rorists of the Irish Republican Army. The I. R. A. is an outlawed but active minority. Yet all Irish¬ men from De Valera down feel an ingrained sym¬ pathy for the aims (union of Ulster with Eirie) if not the methods of the 1. R. A. Old bitterness is carrying everything else before it. The result seems, to the uninitiated, all out of proportion to the cause, or excuse; mobs of 10,000 burning the Union Jack in Dublin, De Valera in danger of losing control, Ireland on the brink of civil war. Economics and Embargoes Americans generally realize neither the poten¬ tial weapon they hold in embargo nor the deadly seriousness with which the Japanese regard possi¬ ble application. Japan's trade with the United States, and especially now in wartime, is nothing less than a, life and death matter. Already econo¬ mic difficulties have been anticipated in Parlia¬ ment, with the idea of expulsion of Americans from China. Little Tin God The curious kind of mentality responsible for an anti-Semitic and pro-Nazi leader in the United States was exhibited last week in William Dudley Pelley, head of the Silvershirt Legion. He ar¬ rived at Congress, overdue on a summons, dropped pearls of wisdom to all who might hear, and de¬ parted in unruffled complacency. He apparently cleared Representative Dies of intimacy with the Silvershirts, but blandly gave his blessings to Dies as an adequate substitution for his own or¬ ganization. the third degree in the well-known local abode of the Muses, someone sneaked over to find out it was "La Princesse de Cleves" and Gene was just disappointed because she (the princess) didn't get her man. . . . Miss Jackson, in discussing the Bolshevik revolution recently pigeonholed the Menshiviks (the opposition) by scornfully referring to them as "pinks". . . . Grace Ward re¬ ceived many presents for her recent birthday, some of which were very useful. . . . They ranged all the way from Lux and Kleenex to 22 roses. . . . That's really the gamut of success, isn't it? Award for the Week's Nickel-Plated Cup-Cake: The date for the Junior You-Know- What is rapidly approaching, and excitement is in the air. ... In fact, one of the ardent suitors, who goes with a red-head whose initials are T. G., the second of which stands for a color not red, was so wrought up over the forthcoming event that he arrived this last week-end, instead, and declared himself ready to attend immediately. . . . Maybe she got her dates mixed . . . Campus Camera the univ. of Rochester. HAS A OOLLECDON OF "PHONEY" STOCKS AND Cornell u. has dry pieces of -early BONDS. FACE VALUE IS •AMERICAN FIRE-FIGHTING EQUIPMENT/ *25,000,000-ACTUAL *0.00.' Georgia Hunt polls opinions in Campus Quotes Many colleges follow the pro¬ think that every college student gram of having one week during needs one week of concentration the school year set aside for Reli¬ on religious thought, because so gious Emphasis. Some students often she may forget about things may approve, of that nature in the activities of some may not. her college life. I think that this Students a t period set aside will be helpful as Agnes Scott,, a period of meditation along however, ex¬ thought which we need to con¬ press the fol¬ sider." lowing opin- Margaret Ratchford, '40, thinks: ". . . that having a whole week of religious emphasis is valu¬ JE 1ise able to the campus because it unites Smith, '42, the whole campus in thinking says: "I think about spiritual things. Bringing a that there is a religious leader to the campus and definite need providing time for students to on every cam- Hunt know him is of great value to the pus for a week of religious em- individual." • phasis. My personal experience is that I enjoyed last year's week of Gene Slack, '41, says: "Reli¬ religious emphasis more than any gious Emphasis Week is good be¬ other week of the year. Having cause it gives the whole group an one speaker to direct the thought opportunity to think about things of the campus for one whole week which we might often neglect un¬ is constructive to each student as less they are very forcibly brought well as to the whole group." home to us. I think that this year's Religious Emphasis Week Tade Merrill, '42, thinks ". . will be especially good because we that a religious emphasis week is a have had such fine preparation for fine thing for every campus to it in having Dr. Stceve and Dr. have. I think the most valuable Judd to stimulate our thinking result of having such a college along religious things." program is the stimulation of reli¬ gious thinking among all the peo¬ Susan Self, '41, concludes: "I ple on the campus." think a week of such emphasis is good, but I feel that we ought not Dot Webster, '42, comments: to emphasize oiir religious thinking ". . . that a week of religious em¬ only one week to the exclusion of phasis is helpful to the college and all the other weeks of the college to the individual student. It is year." something, I think, which the whole group looks forward to be¬ cause it gives us an opportunity to The Agnes Scott News think about things which we ordi¬ Vol. XXV No. 15 narily don't have time to think about on the campus.." Wednesday, February 14, 1940 Betty Jean O'Brien, '40, be¬ lieves: ". . . that a week for reli¬ Published weekly, except holidays gious emphasis is both valuable and and examination periods, by the stu¬ necessary because it emphasizes one dents of Agnes Scott College. Member Associated Collegiate Press. Office on part of a student's character which scond floor Murphey Candler building. may so often be neglected in the Entered as second class matter at the run of her college activities." Decatur, Georgia, postoffice. Subscrip¬ Sylvia Cohn, '42, thinks: ". . . tion price per year, $1.25; singleReligious Emphasis Week is very copies, five cents. helpful to those people who are re¬ ligious-minded but not particular¬ Eleanor Hutchens Editor ly helpful to those people who Evelyn Baty Managing Editor aren't." Mary Ivy, '41, says: "... I Mary Louise Dobbs Business Manager 4 CL The Agnes ScoH News VOL. XXV AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE. DECATUR. GA.. WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 21. 1940 Z115 No. 16 College Plans to Offer Miss Dexter > Alumnae Give Course in Journalism Seniors Announce Makes Speech Dr. S. G. Stukes, Dean of the Radio Program Faculty, announces that tentative plans are being made to arrange a Broadcast Features Banquet Performers In Chapel course in Journalism next quarter. The class will meet for one hour, Graduates' Contributions Guest Speakers Discuss five afternoons a week, and will Tech Orchestra Plays for The contributions of the Alum¬ carry five quarter hours credit International Problems nae Association to the college will Founder's Day Dance with it. Students who are interest¬ Facing Students ed in taging Journalism are request¬ be featured on the radio program Skits in White House and Rebekah Scott dining halls, fol¬ An address by Miss Emily Dex¬ ed to sign up in the Registrar's Of¬ this afternoon at five o'clock over lowed by a banquet and dance in the gymnasium, will com¬ fice. ter on "Intellectual Honesty" and WSB. Mrs. C. W. Dieckmann, pose the entertainment for Founder's Day, the celebration talks by guest speakers on the Mrs. Dowse Donaldson, Miss for George Washington Scott, on Thursday, February 22. problems students must face in the Louise McKinney, and Miss Lucile The entertainment will be in the A. A. Selects Ideal world will constitute student gov Alexander, who have been inter¬ form of toasts made by members ernment programs in chapel for ested in the Alumnae Association School Alters of the senior class taking the parts For 'Miss Health' the next several weeks. Louise since its early days, will tell the of colonial characters. The sopho¬ Hughston, of Christian Associa¬ history of the organization and its mores will compose special music Selection of Agnes Scott's "Miss Exam Rules tion, and Grace Ward, of Student Health" will be made from among work in aiding the progress and as replies to the poems of their sis¬ Government, are in chargfe of plan¬ representatives of campus organi¬ prestige of Agnes Scott. ter class. Requirements of the annual ex¬ ning these programs, which will zations in the contest sponsored by Students taking part in the pro¬ Colonial Characters carry out the idea of citizenship Athletic Association in the gym gram are Elizabeth Barrett, Eu¬ aminations for the $700 and $500 The guests will be welcomed by and the social emphasis expressed freshman scholarships have been Friday night at 7:3 0. Contestants genia Bridges, Florence Ellis, and George Washington, whose part during Religious Week. are to be judged on posture, feet, Margaret Hopkins. The voice of completely changed for those en¬ Henrietta Thompson will play in According to Henrietta Thomp¬ carriage and general appearance. Agnes Scott will be Katherine tering the competition held on Rebekah and Virginia Milner in son, president of Student Govern¬ Preliminary inspections were held Printup, '37. March 1 of this year. According White House. The other characters ment, an open forum will be held Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday to Mr. S. G. Stukes, registrar, who are: In Rebekah, as Martha Wash¬ settle problem of this week. Friday to the of ington, Louise Sullivan; as Paul is in charge of the examinations, lengthy conversations over the Those entered in the contest in¬ Council Offers Revere, Betty Jean O'Brien; as telephones. the tests this year will consist of clude: For Christian Association, Daniel Boone, Julia Moseley; as La- Mary Evelyn Francis, president Mardia Hopper; Agnes Scott News, Harrold !Award one general intelligence test and Fayette, Frances Abbott; as Betsy of Day Students, will call a meet¬ Anne Martin; Athletic Association, one general information test. For¬ Ross, Barbara Lee Murlin; as Pat¬ Applicants are now being con¬ ing this week to decide whether Dot Webster; sophomore class, Pat rick Henry, Jane Moses; as Benja¬ merly contestants were required to sidered for the Quennelle Harrold or not the day student organization Reasoner; junior class, Ethelyn test one in min Franklin, Ann Enioe; as Lord take a in English, a Award for graduate study, estab¬ should be abolished. Dyar; senior class, Ruth Slack; Cornwallis, Margaret Hopkins; in foreign language, and one in either Mortar Board, Lutie Moore; Sil¬ lished with a gift of $10,000 by history, mathematics, biology, White House, as Martha Washing¬ Mrs. Thomas Harrold, of Ameri-or houette, Frances Abbott; Black-ton, Ruth Slack; as Paul Revere, chemistry. cus, Ga., in honor of her daughter Tech Exhibits fria^s, Louise Musser; Lecture As¬ Georgia Hunt; as Daniel Boone, sociation, Mary Louise Palmour; who graduated from Agnes Scott Students from any accredited Eleanor Hutchens; as LaFayette, May Day, Jean Dennison; Bible in 1923. The award, about $450, high school are eligible to enter the Katherine Patton; as Betsy Ross, Skill in Fencing Club, Ellen Gould; B. O. Z., Wal¬ which consists of the interest ac¬ competition. Entrants from At¬ Grace Ward; as Patrick Henry, As a part of the program spon¬ lace Lyons; Chi Beta Phi^ Mary cruing from the invested principal, lanta and Decatur schools take the Violet Jane Watkins; as Benjamin sored here this week by Athletic Elizabeth Leavitt; Cotillion Club, is made every other year by the tests in Buttrick Hall; they are th^ Franklin, Ruth Kaplan; as Lord Association, several members of Elizabeth Jenkins; Eta Sigma Phi, Academic Council of Agnes Scott. guests of the college during the Cornwallis, Elizabeth Davis. the varsity Fencing Team at Rebecca Hogan; German Club, Any member of the class of day. Cotillion Dance Georgia Tech are coming to the Nell Pinner; Glee Club, Mabel 1940 is eligible for the award, if Out-of-town contestants will Following the banquet there will gym Wednesday night at 7:30 to Stowe; Granddaughters, Weezie she plans to continue study at an take the tests at their own schools give an exhibition match. Duels Sams; Current History Forum, be dancing in the gym to the music accredited institution in some under the supervision of teachers with foil, saber and epee will be Florrie Guy; K. U. B., Betty Jean major course offered by Agnes of Georgia Tech's Ramblers, spon¬ and principals. Winners of these given, with a brief explanation of O'Brien; Pi Alpha Phi, Jane Tay¬ Scott. Alumnae who have graduat¬ sored by Cotillion Club. An old- scholarships are required to come to fashioned minuet will be led by the each tyoe of weapon used, and the lor; Poetry Club, Neva Jackson; ed within the last four years and Agnes Scott as resident students, Spanish Club, Alta Webster; Day following seniors: As men, Henri¬ differences in the method of hand¬ have not attended any other insti¬ regardless of whether their home is ling each. Students, Gene Slack. etta Thompson, Virginia Milner, tution are also eligible. in the vicinity or out-of-town. Betty Jean O'Brien, Georgia Hunt, Julia Moseley, Frances Abbott, About one hundred and fiftyCourtiers Talk It Over as May Day Approaches girls are expected to enter the com¬ Katherine Patton and Jane Moses; as women, Ruth Slack, Louise Sul¬ petition this year. livan, Grace Ward, Mary Evelyn Frances, Mary Matthews, Barbara Dr. Long Closes Lee Murlin, Carrie Gene Ashley and Betty Alderman. Religious Week Alumnae celebration' will take the form of a banquet at the At¬ Concluding his series of chapel lanta Athletic Club Thursdaytalks on integration of Christian night. Scott Candler will be the personality, Dr. Roswell C. Long guest speaker. Saturday urged young people to "fall in love with some great per¬ son, or some great cause." He Coming This Week said that advice can do little for a person who has no great central Wednesday, February 21 theme in life around which to in¬ —Fencing and Badmin¬ tegrate, and he suggested that ton exhibitions in gym, Jesus is the ideal integration point. 7:30. Friday Dr. Long discussed war Thursday, February 22— as the challenge to youth, and Founder's Day Celebra¬ Thursday he spoke on the economic tion. problem. "From your standpoint Friday, February 23 — as a Christian in the South today," Basketball game in said Dr. Long, "the wasted land caused by years of cotton planting gym, 3:30. and the great tragedy of migration Health contest in gym, of thousands of homeless people 7:30. are the most important problems Emory Glee Club Con¬ you face." cert, Glenn Memorial In a series of discussion groups Auditorium, 8:30. following his chapel talks, Dr. Saturday, February 24— Long led consideration of inte¬ A. A. open house in grated personality in relation to gym, 7:00. problems of youth today. On Members of the recently elected May Court, shown above, include, from left to right: a group February Wednesday, February 14, Monday, 26— Jean Dennison, Val Nielson, Jane Taylor, Grace Ward, Margaret Hamilton, Ruth Slack, of young men from Emory and Non-activity week be¬ Anne Chambless, with Eloise Lennard in the center. Others in the court, not shown, are: Columbia Seminary joined the Ag¬ gins. Martha Dunn, Jane Moses, Betty Moore and Mary Reinz. —Photo Courtesy Atlanta Journal. nes Scott group discussion of war. THE AGNES SCOTT NEWS. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1940 Juniors, Sophs Win In Closing Games Freshmen Bow To Sister Class 25-7; Sophs Overcome Early Senior Lead Friday afternoon the juniors and sophomores were vic¬ torious in the final basketball games of this season. The seniors lost their last game, and the freshmen closed their unsuccessful season with another losos. The juniors defeated the freshman team by the wide mar¬ gin of 25 to 7. The freshmen guards were unable to stop the scoring attack made by Dyar and Fisher, who gained points steadily after the first half. ter the juniors were ahead only two points and at the end of the half led by seven points. The lead shot up 10 points in the third quarter, and the freshmen were eighteen points behind at the final whistle. The host of freshman forwards made many unsuccessful attempts to score, but were unable to shoot very accurately. Moore scored five points and Frierson two. For the juniors, Dyar chalked up ten, Tish- er thirteen, and McGarity two. Webster and Dunn Star The score in the senior-sopho¬ more game was 34 to 23 in favor of the sophomores. The seniors were ahead at the end of the first quarter, but Webster and Dunn settled down to work and kept the sophomores ahead two points for the next two quarters. Milner, with twelve points, and Slack with eleven points, kept up their good records as members of their class team. Ware, Forman, Moses and Salters upheld their class team tra¬ dition by playing a hard, fast game. For the sophomores, who closed their most successful season with this victory, Webster and Dunn to¬ gether scored 30 of the 34 points. Thomas and Ffasty made the other four points. Line-ups: Seniors—Milner, Slack, Forman, Moses, Salters, Ware. Juniors—Dyar, Fisher, McGar¬ ity, Williams, Wilds, ArBuckle. Sophomores — Webster, Dunn, Thomas, Brooks, Lott, Gellerstedt. Freshmen — Holloran, Frierson, Moore, Cundell, Dale, Rountree. Substitutes — Juniors: Kendrick, Barringer; freshmen: Cummings, Bates, Weissman, Crocker; sopho¬ mores: Ffasty. Clubs Have Banquets, Initiations, Outside Guests Virginia Glower, Peggy Stixrud, and Sophie Montgomery will read at the meeting of BOZ on Friday evening at 7:00. Club members will be the guests of Miss Preston. A non-decision debate with three co-eds from the University of Georgia was the highlight of Pi Alpha Phi's meeting February 15. Betty Lee Clarkson, Wallace Lyons, and Julia Means were initiated into Eta Sigma Phi last Thursday prior to the club ban¬ quet. At the end of the first quar¬ Alma Collese Discards Exams Elimination of final examina¬ tions at Alma College as an experi¬ ment for the next two semesters has been announced by Prof. Roy Hamilton, secretary of the faculty. Prof. Hamilton said that the change was being made with a view to stimulating students to keep up on their daily work. Frequent tests will be given, he said. Primary reason for the elimina¬ tion of final semester examinations is the practice of a great many stu¬ dents to neglect their work during the semester, and then stay up late during the last few weeks in an effort to cram for the tests. This system Prof. Hamilton scored as being injurious both to the stu¬ dents' health and to the educational interests of any college. Under this new system of class¬ room examinations based on daily work, all students will be graded three times a semester, as has been the custom for freshmen.— (ACP) This week's issue of the News was edited and made up by Virginia Glower, as¬ sistant editor of the paper. The next issue is to be in charge of Elaine Stubbs, assistant editor. This idea of apprentice issues was originated last year by Mary Frances Guthrie in order to give subordinate members of the staff an opportunity to learn about editing and make-up from practical ex¬ perience. BEAUTIFUL PHOTOGRAPHS 417ix5'/2, Including Envelopes 3 FOR $1.00 NORTON'S STUDIO Decatur, Ga. For the Latest Thing in Hair Style VISIT DECATUR BEAUTY SALON Agnes Scott College , DECATUR, GA. A college for women that is widely recog¬ nized for its standards of work and for the interesting character of its student activities. Emory Glee Club Stages Concert Home from a tour which in¬ cluded seven southern states, the Emory University Glee Club will present its annual Atlanta concert in Glenn Memorial Auditorium Friday night at 8:30. The two-part program will con¬ sist of a panel of compositions by Haydn, Scarlatti, Morley, and Dow- land, followed by a religious group with compositions by Handel, Carissimi, Gaines, and a group of well -known Negro spirituals. After a brief intermission, Grieg's "Olav Trygvason," then a panel of adaptations of nursery rhymes by Hughes and Hutchinson will be followed by Harvey Ender's musi¬ cal setting for Va'chel Lindsay's "Daniel." Students Visit Capital For Discussions Last week-end the capital city saw the largest influx of young people who have ever visited it in the interests of learning more about their government. Washingtonians are used to high school civics classes, student travelers, and there have been large youth pilgrimages in the past. But never before have five thousand young people gath¬ ered together to talk about their mutual problems. The giant audi¬ torium of the Department of La¬ bor could not hold the assembly and the overflow had to be taken care of in smaller rooms connected by an amplifying system. Club Members Visit Art Museum Pen and Brush members enjoyed an exhibition of "Art Through the Ages" at High Museum in Atlanta on Friday afternoon, February 16th. The exhibition included a collection of "Five Centuries of Painting" from the E. T. A. Silberman Galleries, Inc., of Budapest and New York. This may be trite but the main news-of-the-week is about the Jun¬ ior Banquet. . . . And there isn't any definite event of the evening that we are referring to, but just everything in general, like vegeta¬ ble soup. ...Of course, now that the tumult and the shouting has died, we can see a few humorous sit¬ uations i n the thick O'Brien cloud of "Stop, it's wonderful (or was)." For instance, there was the sad case of Marian Phillips, who not only fell down stairs and near¬ ly broke her — word, but also had the misfortune to have a date, who did not arrive until approximately nine because of the excessively in¬ clement weather. . . . Well, that's just adding inquest to injury. . . . Somewhat ludicrous sight was Hutchens Saturday night, leading the Junior B. gourmets across the colonnade to Rebekah in the man¬ ner of leading lambs to the slaugh¬ ter. . . . Faux pas of the banquet may be attributed to Va. Corr's date, who, upon being told that they were all going to the Fox, de¬ clared in no uncertain terms that he "had already seen that picture, and it was lousy . . ." It was only too late that he found out theyj had already bought the tickets. . . . Just to ease your mind, Tine Gray's date showed up this week¬ end again, ready, willing, and able to go to the banquet. In fact, just to make sure there was no question in anybody's mind, she and G. Slack ambled down the aisle of Dec. Pres. Church (now don't get excited and draw the wrong con¬ clusions!) with their dates on one arm and corsages on the other at approximately five minutes after Betty Jean O'Brien takes notes For the Record HEARN'S LADIES' and MEN'S READY-TO-WEAR iSl Sycamore Street Decatur, Ga. nmm WE CAME.. YOU SAW (and ire hope ice conrpiered) Now that you've seen the beautiful clothes in Davison's Fashion Show, come on down to our house and try them on. Joyce Roper, Your Girl Friday and our Stylist, will be de¬ lighted to help you choose. church had commenced. . . . Rank exhibitionism, we calls it . . . Hearts and Flowers . . . Val¬ entine's Day likewise came this week, and called forth several rather odd sentiments. . . . Misses Horne and Pinner conspired to¬ gether and sent a telegram to their gentlemen friends who live in the same house . . . The wire read as follows: "Roses are red, Violets 'are blue, Buddy's a nut, And so are you." Ain't love wonderful? . . . Sev¬ eral girls had the uneasy feeling of going down to the maid's office to find out to whom their alleged loves were sending boxes of candy, flowers, etc. . . . There was one whooping big practical joke which we have been requested not to print (now we know how Winchell feels—brag, brag), but if you, gentle reader, and I do mean you, are interested, just ask Ginny Williams. Imagine How I Felt Depart¬ ment . . . The other morning, Billie Davis was down in the mail room, getting, of all things, her mail, and saw Lucile Gaines parsing by. Being a sociable girl, she called out cheerily, "Hey, Lucile," and to her excessive chagrin observed Miss Lucile Alexander turn around to speak to her, without ever see¬ ing L. Gaines at all. . . . This might serve as an explanation . . . Those fortunate (or curious) souls who happened to peek in the window of R. Scott dining hall after the J. Banquet really got in on a jam session, staged by the Emory Aces and the Agnes Scott Swingsters — otherwise known as the waiters in said dining hall. WELCOME from the NEW PIG'N WHISTLE A Delightful Place to Entertain Your Friends Homing Fell. 2li Ice Skating Floor Show! Featuring America's Finest Ice Skaters You Dance on the Same Floor the Skaters Use! TWO WEEKS ONLY! To Avoid Disappointment Make Reservations Now HOTEL ANSLEY For further information, address I AVI SON -PAXON Atlanta • ■ qlfihated aiith. MAC VS. Jfetu CO. RAINBOW ROOF J. R. McCAIN, President No Cover Charge THE AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1940 Eloise Lennard checks up on After Working Hours First honors in the social whirl of Agnes Scott go this week to the juniors for their lovely banquet. If it weren't for a lack of space, we'd tell all about the beautiful dresses which the girls wore (or perhaps the wonderful men whom they invited!) Anyway, the juniors really are to be con¬ gratulated for their brilliant function. Scads of juniors went places after the banquet. Among the sev¬ eral dozen at the Rainbow Room were: Flonnie Ellis, Lib Barrett, Lillian Schwenke, Rowena Barringer, Marian and Sue'Phillips, Molly Oliver, Florrie Guy, Keeker New¬ ton, and Charlene Burke. In fact, there were so many Agnes Scott girls there, the orchestra honored them with a lead-out all their own. For those in our midst who don't read papers from Birmingham and Montgomery we'd like to say that Betty Flenderson did right well by getting her picture in the Sunday editions of both for leading the S. P. E. dance at Auburn. Also going down for this affair were Mabel Stowe and Kay Wilkinson. There were other important outof- town dances and we find Joyce Geist and Dusty Hance at the Uni¬ versity of Virginia for mid-win¬ ters. Tade Merrill and Sara Copeland were among those at the mid¬ term dances at the University of North Carolina. At the Emory Campus Club dinner dance, Agnes Scott was represented by Marian Franklin, Iddy Boone, and Stewart Arbuckle. Annette Franklin, Frances Ab¬ bot, Mary Lightfoot Elcan, Grace Elizabeth Anderson, and Mildred Joseph went to the Psi Omega house dance Friday night. Other fraternity news shows that Annie Wilds was at the SAE house for their date night." Susanne Kaulbach and Mary Lightfoot Elcan were seen at the KA house, while Alice Inzer alad Mary Louise Palmour went to a Phi Sigma Kappa function. Lillian Gish went to the Henry Grady, while at the Ansley Rain¬ bow Room we find, at one time or another, Val Nielsen, Helen Jester, BAILEY BROTHERS SHOE SHOP 142 Sycamore St. THREADGILL PHARMACY Phone DE. 1665 309 E. College Avenue Decatur, Ga. NOTICE AGNES SCOTT This is your drug store. Executive Urges Sell-Peace Move Sell peace to the United States through a giant advertising pro¬ gram to be financed by asking each citizen to pay a dollar for the campaign'-s expenses. This was the new peace proposal made to Williams College under¬ graduates by Paul Hollister, execu¬ tive vice-president of R. H. Macy & Co., of New York City. "Using the classic technique of modern advertising, let us buy one- fifteenth of the total time and re¬ sources of the advertising people and media owners of the country and mobilize them," said the de¬ partment store executive. "They will prepare and carry on the most educational, dramati# and urgent .campaign of which they are capable, but their product will not be a can of food, a bar of soap, or a motor car or a health examina¬ tion. Their product will be peace —America's active self-interest in keeping at peace. They will duly place this copy before the Ameri¬ can people as they alone best can. "If the product be meritorious, neither you nor I dare say that the response would not be proportion¬ ate to the response to any other ex¬ pert advertising effort. To know securely that our nation was guar¬ anteed to peace for at least a year would certainly be worth a dollar a head. Kay Rhodes, Mary Lou Longino, Elizabeth Jenkins, and Betty Lovett. Isabella Robertson and Jeanette Carroll have as their guest Jack Hawks, while Mary Jane Auld's visitor was Blanche Poole. Among those away for the week-end were Marjorie Weissmann and Jane Coffer. Those going home were Julia Ann Patch, Eloise Lennard, and Claire Purcell. MIDDLETON'S BAKERY Special Cakes for All Occasions Decatur DE. 9229 HOTEL CANDLER Decatur A Good Place to Eat T. J. WOODS, Operator BALLARD'S Dispensing Opticians Thirty-three Years of Dependable Optical Service Three Locations for Your Convenience Service, Quality Merchandise, Ac-^ curate and Expert Workmanship. All the Same at Each Location. WALTER BALLARD OPTICAL CO. Three Locations 105 Peachtree 382 Peachtree 480 Peachtree Clock Medical Arts W. W. Orr Sign Building Doctor's Bldg. Register for Voting The 113 Agnes Scott students who will be old enough to vote in the pres¬ idential election next No¬ vember are urged to reg¬ ister at their home offices during spring vacation. The deadline [ for registra¬ tion in most states is in early May. Writing Committee Plans Senior Opera annual senior opera, on the evening of May 3, are under way with the selection of a writing committee composed of Sophie Montgomery, Ruth Kaplan, Ann Enloe, Betty Jean O'Brien, and Eleanor Hutch- ens. Announcement of the plot and characters will come later. Business Authority Advises Training 'Go Where Diploma Valued' Says Mrs. MacGibbon "I should be telling you to mar¬ ry and have babies and save the country," said Mrs. Elizabeth Gregg MacGibbon in her talk on careers for women Friday, "but nowadays every girl expects to work whether she needs to or not." Talking before Miss Omwake's Applied Psychology class, Mrs. MacGibbon, who is an authority on business openings for women and is author of the book Manners in Busiiiess, discussed the various fields where there is a place for college women. Personnel work is an open field, particularly in department stores and in educational positions. In the other two branches of this work, industrial and office personnel, there is no place at all for a col¬ lege woman. "A girl must realize, however," warned Mrs. MacGib¬ bon, "that she cannot receive her college diploma and immediately set in as a manager or employer of people. Any type of personnel work requires experience, long hard work, and additional train¬ ing." Stenographic work can be very congenial to the university woman if she can get the right kind of job. The happiest stenographers are those who work in professional of¬ fices where education is valued— law firms, doctors' offices, etc. A private secretary is a rare lux¬ ury these days, only a few out¬ lasting the depression. These few, however, have a well-paid and in¬ teresting work. According to Mrs. MacGibbon the scientific field offers little to the college woman, the few places it has to offer being so poorly paid as to be unattractive. School- teaching as a profession is all right but will be on the decline in the near future, due to the alarming decline of the birth-rate. For mathematicians there is a wide field in statistics; there is also an untried field in beauty culture, "where college women are extreme¬ ly rare but very much in demand." Civil Service jobs also offer excel¬ lent opportunities for the alert col¬ lege woman of today. "The college graduate," advised Mrs. MacGibbon in closing, should try to go into work where education is valued. Otherwise she will probably not be happy." Come See Our NEW HATS at WOMAN'S EXCHANGE Felt and Straw Creations for Spring White Rats Loiter, Amaze Psych Students Endymion and Mazie wash too much, sleep too much, and scratch too much, grumble Weezie Sams and Keeker New¬ ton. Weezie and Keeker are two members of the Experi¬ mental Psychology class, which is currently interested in studying the intricacies of learning by teaching white rats to run a complicated maze, then timing the little animals as they follow the right path to the food bax at the other end. It isn't as simple as it sounds. Endy¬ mion, the more unobliging of the two obtuse rodents in the lab here, has taken from fifty-seven minutes to two hours to run the maze. Of course, the two hour period was on a Saturday after¬ noon, and the experimenters con¬ fess that it would ha^e taken long¬ er if they hadn't given up after so long a time. Maybe you can guess how Mazie got his name, but the christening of Endymion was a bit more com¬ plicated. The original Endymion was a lad granted eternal youth and sleep by Zeus. Since the rat possessed, in addition to his won¬ derful capacity for sleep, a strict Paris decrees that the blouse is the thing this spring. As to the kind of blouse, choose them in accordance with the type of suits you have. There will be frilly blouses, lacy blouses and practical, severe blouses like the one CBS' Jone Allison is wearing in this picture. The biblike effect and demure Peter Pan collar make this blouse a universal favorite. conscience about his daily bath his whole name evolved into Endy¬ mion Catharsis. It requires an extra five minutes to prevail upon Endymion and Mazie to drag their tails into the trap after they once get their bod¬ ies in. Imagine being in a hurry and dropping the trap too quickly, only to pinch off the tail of the namesake of a god! Weezie and Keeker agree that he is "clean and sweet even if he does have fleas, but he is also dumb, in spite of the fact that he was ac¬ quired from Emory Med School." Ah, but there was one glorious day when, weary of seeing Endymion stop in his tracks to wash, scratch, and sleep, his exasperated trainers lost their calm, scientific patience and poked and scared him through the maze in two seconds flat. —Cut Courtesy CBS. KING HARDWARE CO. • Sycamore Street Decatur Come to HARRIS PHARMACY Bowen Press Commercial Printing and Stationery TYPEWRITERS AND RIBBONS Blotters — Note Paper — Poster Paper Office Supplies 316 Church St. DE. 3383 Decatur, Ga. THE AGNES SCOTT NEWS. WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 21. 1940 Is it Fair? The question of "Embargo vs. Treaty With Japan" has aroused such a storm of comment on this campus as might well make the supporters of the often-leveled accusation, that college students are too sheltered to feel a vital interest in outside affairs, take notice. Recently we had a dynamic and attractive speaker, Dr. Wal¬ ter Judd, medical missionary to China, on fire with a great purpose: to put an end to the Japanese occupation of China. He spoke with great feeling of the ruth¬ less bombing of Chinese civilian popula¬ tions by Japanese airplanes made in the United States by American engineers and manufacturers, burning American gaso¬ line, and armed with American munitions. Dr. Judd left behind him a wake of moral indignation and intellectual deter¬ mination. The student body expressed it, self heatedly in open forum—Japan was convicted, China commiserated, and a res¬ olution was passed to put the students of Agnes Scott on record as standing square¬ ly behind the embargo on shipping arms to Japan. A committee was appointed to compile a list of leaders influential in poli¬ tics and industry, and individuals were en¬ couraged to write to these people and to their senators and congressmen, express¬ ing an opinion in an attempt to influence legislation. It was a characteristically democratic method of procedure, carried out in the surety of producing results. Yet, how can we, as intelligent and fair- minded citizens of one of the most pow¬ erful nations on the globe, be so blinded by one viewpoint as to flatly condemn shipping arms to Japan for economic gain, and at the same time disregard the fact that there is another war being waged in the world today; a war no less devastating than the one in the Orient; a war in which we are taking an active participation by shipping arms? How many of us feel the same thrill of moral indignation when we reflect that the United States is sending supplies to England and France, enabling them to carry on war with Germany, that we get when we think of American prod¬ ucts being used to destroy Chinese prop¬ erty and lives? Yet the principle is the same. In our consideration of the facts, let us not be so swayed by emotion as to disavow this principle. It can make no difference that our sympathies are naturally allied with the democracies in Europe, as they are with China. Our participation in any foreign war is a real menace to peace and prosperity at home, and our embargo on sending armament to belligerent nations should be all-inclusive. Hazel Solomon sifts the Exchanges Similarities in the News: It has been said that there is nothing new under the sun—and the duplications one finds in reading college papers certainly prove this statement. For instance, Amhcrst and Mount Holyoke re¬ cently cooperated to produce Gilbert and Sullivan's lolanthc. One is reminded that F.mory and Agnes Scott are working together to give this same light opera. Campus holidays are also a point in common. The Vcrhcopc of Shorter College reports that classes were sus¬ pended for one day after the Solomon exam period. Agnes Scott Hottentots will have a holiday February 22 in celebration of Founder's Day. Hollins' Founder's Day is February 21. Marriage courses are legion. Among those colleges offering courses or lectures on marriage and the familv are Ward-Belmont, Hollins Col¬ lege, and Agnes Scott. MacMurray College student*, in Jacksonville, Illinois, recently conducted a survey on nail polish. About 93 per cent of the students an¬ swered "Yes" to the question "Do you wear nail polish?" About 63 per cent of the seniors wear it, but choose medium polish. Freshmen wear Betty Stevenson boils down The Real News Fifty to One By sheer force of numbers, by sending wave after wave of living men over dead, the Russians have advanced on the Mannerheim Line. The Finns face their worst period. On the front, ar¬ tillery pounds with a higher concentration than ever in the World War. On the diplomatic front, the government learns that Sweden refuses direct mili¬ tary aid. President Kallio speaks: "We really hope our cause might stir onlookers abroad. . . . We would still carry on our fight, if it must be alone ... we have no choice but to fight to the last man." Stevenson Rescue Pirate fashion, the British destroyer, Cossack, boarded the German steamer and prison ship, Alt- mark, and removed 326 British prisoners. They had been locked in a filthy hold and ignored by a Norwegian inspection. No one is happy about the affair but the British. The Norwegians pro¬ test the hand-to-hand fight in their territorial waters; the Germans call the killing of the Ger¬ man seamen "swinish" and threaten undeclared sea war. John Buchan People who know a literate thriller when they read it, those who appreciate first rate biography and history are sorrier for the death of John Buchan than for that of Lord Tweedsmuir. This Scottish writer had an amazing career: from of¬ ficer in the Intelligence Service in the World War to Peer and Canadian Governor General. Fishing in Troubled Waters President Roosevelt teased reporters by telling them his mysterious destination was the Cheruble Islands (of Edward Lear's fancy). The fishing has assumed a secondary importance on the cruise. It has led first to the Panama Canal where the President inspected new defense fortifications. Rumors persist, not officially discouraged, of naval conferences atsea. / Girding for Battle The political temperature is rising. All the pro¬ fessional party men feel the time for supreme ac¬ tion approaching. The Republicans meet in con¬ vention June 24 in Philadelphia, and the Demo¬ crats three weeks later in Chicago, July 15. The indifferent will be ignored and unlucky as the country gets involved in its campaign. Alcatraz The new Attorney General, Robert H. Jackson, has dropped any plan for transforming Alcatraz. Frank Murphy described the island prison for incorrigibles as an American Devil's Island and a blight on the Pacific coast. He planned a substi¬ tute inland farm prison. Nothing will come of this plan now, under Jackson. bright polish, and about 28 per cent of their class choose "Wicked Woman" shades. {The MacMur¬ ray College Greetings.) The Agnes Scott News Vol. XXV Wednesday, February 21, 1940 No. 16 Published weekly, except during holidays and examination periods, by the students of Agnes Scott College. Member Associated Collegiate Press. Office on second floor Murphey Candler building. Pntered as second class matter at the Decatur, Georgia, postoffice. Subscription price per year, $1.2 5; single copies, five cents. Eleanor Hutchens__ Editor Evelyn Baty .-Managing; Editor Marv Louise Dobbs_ -Uusiness Manager Virginia ("Tower Jcannette Carroll Elaine Stubbs Alumnae Editor Assistant Editors Susan Self Florence Ellis Club Editor Advertising Manager Klolse Lennard Rebecca Drucker Society Editor Copy Editor Lib Barrett Anne Enloe Olivia White Georgia Hunt Anne Frierson Betty Jean O'Brien Molly Oliver Feature Editors Betty Sunderland Virginia WiUlams Assistant Society Editors Doris Welnkle Ernestine Case Assistant Feature Editors Circulation Manager Betty Jane Stevenson Lucille Gaines Current History Editor Mary M. Templeton Anne Martin Edith Stover Sports Editor Polly Ware Hazel Solomon Mary M. Wisdom Exchange Editor Campus Camera N THE I840'S OBERUN COLLEGE GO-EDS SCRUBBED FLOORS. CLEANS) ROOMS, WASHED AND MENDED THE YOUNG MEN'S CLOTHES. IN PAYMENT THEY RECEIVED AN HOUR/ Ohio statu u. CELEBRATES AN ANNUM. MISTLETOE DAY BY HANGING MISTLETOE ONALL OFTHE CAMPUS BUILDINGS / PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT WAS FLUNKED IN ONE OF HIS LAW COURSES AT COLUMBIA BV HARLAN F. STONE. NOW A SUBREME COURT .'OUSTICE ' a Georgia Hunt polls opinions in Campus Quotes The Gallup Polls indicate that vide for an embargo on war ma¬ the American public is concerned terials only." * Theodosia Ripley, '42, believes about the Sino-Japanese situation. that America's financing of Japan's Similar polls among college groups war is particularly bad from a hu¬ show that stu¬ manitarian viewpoint. Of course, dents, too, are it is rather hopeless to urge an em¬ vitally inter¬ bargo on shipping arms to Japan ested in this by stressing that and ignoring eco¬ international nomic gain, but we should certain¬ problem. Stu¬ ly consider it." dents of Ag¬ Mary Dean Lott, '42, how¬ nes Scott ex¬ ever, says: "Putting an embargo press the fol¬ on the sale of munitions to Japan lowing opin¬ won't help curb aggression. Japan ions about the can get her war supplies from situation: other countries." Guy Currie, '42, Nancy Hirsch, '43, concludes: thinks: ". .. Hunt "L favor an absolute embargo on that the U. S. ought to put an ab¬ all goods to Japan. We are cer¬ solute embargo on goods to Japan, tainly responsible in great measure because we have no right to sup¬ for the situation in China today port another country's war. But because we have been helping the above all I believe that it is wrong Japanese financially to carry on for a country to support financial¬ their war. We have no right to ly a cause which it morally con¬ put an embargo on all goods to demns." Japan!" Mickey Jones, '43, says: . • it is the duty of the U. S. to use Edilorial Notes— its financial support on the side of China to curb Japanese aggression. Busy Spring Quarter I really feel that the U. S. should do something about the situation Comes in View and I think the best way is to sup¬ port the defensive nation finan¬ This is the last issue of the News cially." until after examinations and spring Lillie Belle Drake, '40, would holidays. We can look beyond those like ". . . to see the U. S. put an to a short spring quarter which embargo on the sale of war ma¬ must, somehow, include elections, terials to Japan. I don't feel that Senior Opera, May Day, final ex¬ this participation would necessarily ams and graduation. And we can involve the U. S. in the war. I feel still hope for Robert Frost. that it is the duty of the U. S. to yield its support in the curbing of We wonder who thought of put¬ Japanese aggression. We have been ting up a poster in Buttrick, dur¬ entirely too negative toward the ing the recent epidemic of bad whole problem." colds and flu, reminding us to be Mary Ann Faw, '42, feels careful of ourselves and others? ". . that the U. S. should do its . It's still a good idea—particularly part in the stopping of Japanese now when the variable weather is aggression by putting an embargo making sniffles common again. on all goods to Japan. I feel that an absolute embargo would be the The Founder's Day celebration only effective weapon to use." comes tomorrow as a welcome lull Carolyn Forman, '40, sug¬ before the last minute gathcringgests ". • . that the U. S. ought to up-tag-ends of non-activity week. renew its trade treaty with Japan. Cotillion Club's dance in the gymT (nrJ\ rLlc is a gay climax to a holiday. ji.' ! /oc iT 1 • 1 1 illtlLlUH U-L At UlLo tiilLl CHLitli. 1 1ICaration of fruits and cereals. TheI he girls worst tault is their tak-1 • -n • r , ,J , , ,, r , Dining rtoom Committee of a head mg the light bulbs out or the waiter and three assistants finishlamps. Even the boys are more setting the table, check the dishescareful of the parlors than they and attend to the general order ofused to be. the dining room. The head waiter More alarming to Ella than dis¬ has another important job—he order in the parlors is the fact that starts the water heating for the BOZ met at the home of Wal¬ the boys waiting for dates have a coffee. The store room boy brings lace Lyons last Friday night. Mir¬ tendency to sit on the table in the out the cream and tests it in hot iam Bedinger, Pattie Patterson, and Cornelia Willis read original stories after which Mr. Lyons entertained hall. three time. She has seen as many as of them on it at the same The flowers have come to be coffee, brings out the cook's sup¬ plies, and checks the supplies for the day. the club with readings from a col¬ lection of George W. Harris' short stories. put there more to protect the frail table than to appeal to the taste of visitors. The one disillusioning point of the military order in the kitchen while the majority of Agnes Scott Jane Salters attended the Inter¬ national Relations Club confer¬ The Presbyterians are in high favor with Ella now because dur¬ is still fuzzy with sleep is the ar¬ rival of the milkman. Contrary to ence at the University of North Carolina March 21 through March 23. Blackfriars' spring try-outs will be held on April 1st. Student Government, C. A. Arrange Joint Programs Louise Hughston, of Christian Association, and Grace Ward, of Student Government, are working together to arrange a series of joint C. A. and Student Government programs this spring. Polly Heaslett, student recorder, announces that a number of revi¬ sions in the point system will be brought out in the new hand book. Revisions in the budget system are under consideration now; a com¬ mittee is reapportioning the money with plans to give the Glee Club and Athletic Association a larger percentage. Operetta (CoittinucJ from Page 1) lolan/hc will be produced Friday evening, March 29, 8:15 P. M., at Agnes Scott, and Saturday evening, March 30, 8:15 P. M., at Emory University. Admission is fifty cents. The story concerns the mar¬ riage of a fairy, lolanthe, to a mor¬ tal, her banishment from the fairy queen's court, and the love affair of her son, Strephon, with a shep¬ herdess, Phvll is. Phone I)K. 1183 DECATUR CYCLE & KEY CO. Bicycles -Supplies -Repairing Keys .Made -Radio Repairs 155 Sycamore Street Constitution Staff Photo—Pete Roton. "B ow, b' w. thou wintor ,/ind—" Thou seemest more unkindIn Southern latitudes . . . The Easter Sunday chitl meant nothing to Jane Taylor and Mary Lightfoot Elcan, caught above in spring foliage. New Dictionary IncludesFreshmen Sponsor Collegiate Slang Jitterbug Contest Dictionary Dope: The newest The freshman class is sponsoring volume of the Dictionary of Am¬ its second anunal Jitterbug Con¬ erican English being published bytest in the Murphey Candler build¬ the University of Chicago is hand¬ing Tuesday, April 2, at 4:00. Prizes of a pair of saddle oxfords, ing down to posterity many words donated by Thompson, Boland, and phrases dear to the hearts of Lee, and a spoon pin, given by slang-minded collegians. Freeman Jewelry Company, will be For instance, "flunk" is definedawarded to the best pair of jitter¬ as "complete failure in a course,bugs. Last year's winner, Anne Martin, is among the entrants al¬ examination, or an etcetera." "Gas" ready registered. is unpretentious talk, especially of An exhibition by two guests will j a political kind.— (AGP) be a feature of the program. Punch I will be served to contestants and I Microfilms of dailv newspapers spectators. Tickets are ten cents | are being made at the University of and may be purchased from any | Michigan library in order to con¬ member of the freshman class. 1 serve storage space BALLAKIFS Dispensing Opticians Thirty-three Years of Dependable Optical Service Three Locations for Your Convenience Service, Quality Merchandise, Ac¬ curate and Expert Workmanship. All the Same at Each Location. WALTER BALLARD OPTICAL CO. -Three Locationsing the recent conference they all tradition he arrives not by the didn't mess up the parlors and dawn's early light but in true mod¬ were careful where they put their ern fashion, at 11:30 A. M. chewing gum wrappers. Capital University has an annualEven before Ella and Gladys ar¬ Liquidation Day on which all stu¬rive there is activity on the cam¬ dents are expected to settle theirpus. Mr. Jones doesn't go off duty indebtedness and pay their bills.until around six and from twelve to six he makes a round of the More than 600 high school stu¬ campus every hour. dents participated in a mock Re¬ About five-thirty Mr. Osborn, publican national convention at who is fireman at the steam plant Temple University, nominated from twelve P. M. until nine Vandenberg for the presidency. HOW TO WIN BOY-FRIENDS AND INFLUENCE STAG-LINES By Dalea Dorothy Clix Dear Miss Clix: Please help me decide! Two men from R University (near our school) have fallen in love with me. Both are Seniors, brilliant, all intellect. One, an entomologist, wants me, he says, to be "his life partner in his chosen life work"—studying the boll weevil. The other is a paleontologist, who dreams of spending his whole life in the Gobi Desert. But, Miss Clix, I love life, laughter, gaiety, dancing, sophisticated people! What shall I do? 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READ THE NEXT colors, duha-clos.s is only ten Clock Medical Arts W. W. Orr cents a bottle! At cosmetic coun¬ BICYCLES RENTED Sign Building Doctor's Bldg. COLUMN CAREFULLYI ters everywhere. THE AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY. MARCH 27. 1940 Eloise Lennard checks up on Reins States Theme Emory Presents Students Of Christian Exchange Julien Bryan After Working Hours The problem of relating indivi¬ Name Officers dual religion to the international All the Agnes Scott girls can, Ann Smith, Elizabeth Jenkins, War Correspondent Following is the list of popular crisis forms the theme for the sec¬ Eloise Lennard, Lib Davis, Pat Rea- like the Little Fox, sing "Yanh, and committee nominations for of¬ ond edition of the Christian Ex¬ Shows Uncensored Films soner, Margaret Smith, and Mar yanh, yanh" to any of those ficers of the various campus or¬ change, edited by Mary Reins, jorie Simpson. Julien Bryan, war correspondent skeptical folks who thought that ganizations. Elections are to be which appears April 2. and photographer, is appearing at being away for Spring Plolidays Atlanta was the spot chosen for held in chapel Thursday and Fri¬ the Southeastern Interfratern-The publication incorporates vol¬ day of this week. Students are Glenn Memorial Auditorium on might give their staunch sup¬ untary student opinion on the ity Council Conference. At the asked to bring this list with them Thursday, April 4, at 8:30, pre¬ porters a chance to stray off and dinner-dance given for the visitors to facilitate voting. theme, which was suggested by senting an illustrated lecture on the were Lillian Schwencke, Jane Still-Dr. Judd's chapel talk on the Far seek new fields. But the girls re¬ STUDENT GOVERNMENTsiege and fall of Warsaw. Mr. turned to find faithful swains with well, Grace Elizabeth Anderson, Popular Norn. Committee Norn. Eastern situation. Discussions in¬ President Bryan's film isi the only uncensored activities already planned for their Weezie Sams, and Frances Bourke. Frances Breg Frances Breg clude a consideration of the Chris¬ Jean Dennison record of the German invasion of entertainment this past week. As usual, the Rainbow Room Betsy Kendrick tian's attitude toward shipping Poland; the motion picture and the Vice-President arms to warring nations, and an Among the outstanding events, attracted many of the Agnes Scott Betsy Kendrick Betsy Kendrick colored lantern slides offer the Frances Breg article on the individual's return to girls, and some of those who were complete story of the ruthless de¬ the formal given by the Delta Jean Dennison the fundamental values of religion. there during the week-end were Martha Boone struction of Warsaw. Sigs from the Dental College, cre¬ House President of Rebekah Ruth Slack, Marjorie Gray, Frances Betsy Kendrick Helen Hardie This edition also includes a re¬ bit of favorable com¬ The lecture will open with three ated quite a Ann Henry Bourke, Kay Rhodes, Frances Ellis, port of the denominational activi¬ ment. Present at this dance were Martha Boone reels of Poland before the war, and Stewart Arbuckle. House President of Main ties on the campus and a summary Grace Elizabeth Anderson, Sara taken by Mr. Bryan in 1937, giv¬ Martha Boone of the work of the freshman and Copeland, Helen Gilmer, Nina And still more dancing was done Martha Boone ing the audience an idea of the sort Betsy Kendrick sophomore cabinets. Mae Snead, Eloise McCall, Mary by Alice Clements and Clara Roun-Tine Gray of civilization the Poles had de- Ida Jane Vaughan James tree at the Decatur Military velopei during their twenty years Seagle, Annette Franklin, Anne Fisher Betty Lovett, Gary Horne, Ellen Ball, while Mary Ellen Whetsell House President of Inman as an independent nation. These Tine Gray Tine Gray U. S. Seeks Stuart, Mary Lang Gill, Rebecca and Helen Jester chose to be in¬ Martha Boone will be followed by the exclusive Stamper, and Boots Moore. formal and went on a picnic to Betsy Kendrick pictures of the bombardment and Pattie Patterson Stone Mountain. Ann Henry New Employees surrounding of Warsaw. Also attracting much social at¬ Secretary With the Greeks ... At the Betty Ann Brooks Virginia Mont¬ Tickets may be purchased at the tention was the dance given by Virginia Mont¬ gomery Chi Phi House at one time or The nation's collegiate job-hunt¬ door of the auditorium on the eve¬ those med students who belong to gomery another, Ann Hilsman, Georgia Jane Taylor ers can take heart—there are at ning of the lecture. The prices are the Phi Rho Sigma fraternity. Treasurer Tare, Nell Pinner, Helen Hale, Bet¬ Jane Tayior Jane Taylor least 2 51,000 jobs "going begging" seventy cents for adults and twen¬ Among those who attended this af¬ Virginia Montgomery in the nation! That fact has been ty-five cents for children. fair were Elta Robinson, Shirley ty Wade, Harriet Vaughn, and Betty Ann Brooks \ Carolyn Alley . . . with the Sigma Student Treasurer revealed by the University of Wis¬ Betsy Kendrick Cornelia Willis University of Pittsburgh's place¬ The average freshman male at Nu's for Sunday night supper Freda Copeland consin's Dr. A. H. Edgerton, who ment bureau finds jobs for four the University of Toledo is six were Martha Dunn, June Boy-Student Recorder Cornelia Willis has just completed an exhaustive out of every ten men who grad¬ inches taller and 20 pounds heavier kin, and Marjorie Simpson . . . Martha Boone Ann Henry survey of the employment situation Jean Dennison uate. Average starting salary is than his average feminine class¬ at the Sigma Chi wiener roast Ann Henry in 29 states. Day Student Representative $130 per month. mate. and picnic Saturday night, Ade¬ Jean Dennison Frances Spratlin "Amidst the scarcity of work laide Gregory, Martha Dunn, Ann Gay Swaggerty opportunity last year, more than Gene Slack 251,000 good jobs were discovered Bumstead, Ethlyn Dyar, and Martha Dunn Katsy Blair . . . and at the Frances Spratlin going begging in 29 states," Dr. CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION HEARN'S Sigma Pi house for supper Sun¬ President Edggrton said the survey showed. Scotty Wilds Scotty Wilds day night were Nell Pinner and Grace Walker "These 2 51,000 jobs were uncov- LADIES' and MEN'S READY-TO-WEAR Betsy Banks . . . while Tuesday Tine Gray ered in the 12-month period ending 131 Sycamore Street Decatur, Ga. Betty Kyle night found Olivia White and Mar¬ Louise Musser December 20, 1939. There may be Vice-President ian Franklin with the Phi Delta Scotty Wilds more today, for somewhat improv¬ Grace Walker Grace Walker ed business conditions have increas¬ Phi's. Tine Gray ed demands for workers trained to Away for the Week-end . . . Betty Kyle Louise Musser fill the better positions." Ann Martin and Marjorie Boggs to Secretary Clemson . . . Keeker Newton to a Biliie Davis Anne Chambless Two words—"adequately train¬ DOROTHY GRAY Anne Chambless ed''—were blamed by Dr. Edgerton Sea Island house party . . . Mary Mary Dean Lott Doris Hasty for the unfilled jobs, and they Klingensmith, Dot Holloran, Treasurer Anne Chambless Doris Hasty spelled the difference'between Laura Cummings, Phyllis Peterson, em¬ Biliie Davis Mary Dean Lott ployment and unemployment for and Pat Perry off-campus for vari¬ Doris Hasty at least a quarter million men and ous reasons . . . Hazel Solomon vis¬ Wallace Lyons ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION ' women, he said. This does not mean iting at Brenau . . . and the great' Prseident merely that they must be skilled in number who felt that Eastertime Ann Fisher Ann Fisher Ida Jane Vaughan technical processes of occupation, is the time to go home included Ethelyn Dyar Berly Healy he explained, but it does mean that Tine Gray, Eugenia Hailey, Sally Frances Spratlin they must possess the fundamental Hollis, Charlotte Shepherd, Mar¬ Vice-President Ida Jane Vaughan Ida Jane Vaughan knowledge on which those pro¬ jorie Wilson, Nancy Thomason, Ann Fisher Ethelyn Dyar cesses are built, and that "they Mickey Jones, Charlotte Gardner, Frances Spratlin must to adjust and Louise Runge, Susan Cochran, Hat Berly Healy be able adapt Anne Martin themselves to changing condi¬ Stimson, Jessie MacGuire, Jane Secretary Dot Webster Gay Currie tions."— (AGP) Coffer, Margafet Shaw, Maria Fel- Margaret Hamilton ber, Val Nielsen, who took Mar¬ Betty Ann Brooks Assistant Editor Doris Hasty garet Murchison with her, Marian Atta Webster Edith Dale Jeanne Osborne Neva Jackson Ann Gellerstedt and Sue Phillips, who took Row-Gay Currie Isabel Miller Business Manager ena Barringer and Connie Watson Treasurer Dot Webster Betty Ann Brooks Florrie Guy Lib Barrett with them, and Virginia Stanley, Margaret Hamilton Mary Madison Wisdom Lib Barrett Doris Hasty who took Lillian Gudenrath, Caro¬ Val Neilsen Gay Currie Lucille Gaines lyn Dunn, and Ruth Biggs with Ann Gellerstedt Cosmetic Color Cue Alta Webster Helen Klugh Contains her. Betty Ann Brooks Betty Waitt Florence Ellis SILHOUETTE LIPSTICK—FULL-SIZE Among the miscellaneous activ¬ Editor-in-Chief Molly Oliver AGNES SCOTT NEWS Gene Slack Gene Slack NEW-FORMULA NAIL POLISH ities were the dinner parties given Mary Madison Wisdom Editor Elaine Stubbs Virginia Glower by Louise Sullivan and Betty Jean Ann Martin HARMONIZED FACE POWDER Virginia Glower Lucille Gaines O'Brien, which included Sally Mat¬ Beatrice Shamos Susan Self Gene Slack Assistant Editor thews, Gene Slack, and Sophie Lib Barrett Mary Ann Faw Mary Ann Faw Managing Editor Montgomery. Then, too, Mary Mc-Elise Nance Virginia Glower Elaine Stubbs Mary Louise Palmour Quown served as a bridesmaid in a Business Manager Elaine Stubbs Virginia Williams Helen Klugh Helen Klugh friond's wedding. Anne Martin Betty Waitt Assistant Editors (2) Val Neilsen A clever new cosmetic Bee Bradfield Bee Bradfield Florrie Guy Advertising Manager Jeanne Osborne Theodosia Ripley set designed to bring Theodosia Ripley DUKE UNIVERSITY Mary Louise Palmour Mary Louise Mary Robertson Palmour Margie Gray your make-up into per¬ Betty Sunderland AURORA SCHOOL OF NURSING Olivia White Editor-in-Chief fect harmony! Full size Business Manager Sabine Brumby Sabine Brumby DURHAM, N. C. Pattie Patterson Florence Ellis Florence Ellis Dorothy Gray creamy Betty Jane Stevenson Mary Madison Wisdom The Diploma of raduate Nurse is Lib Barrett lipstick, matching nail Lucille Gaines awarded after three years, and the Lillian Schwencke polish in a new formula Degree of Bachelor of Science in And, to close, we'd like to Molly Oliver Total Value S2.30 Nursing for two additional years of say (if the editor will allow) Advertising Manager "syrupy" lacquer . . . approved college work before or Suzanne Kaulback Suzanne Kaulback that it's been fun keeping' up Annie Wilds and related shade of after the course in Nursing. The Martha Sue Diliard $1.00 with Agnes Scott social activ¬ entrance requirements are intelli¬ Margaret Mary Toomey Dorothy Gray face gence, character and graduation ities. Best of luck to next LECTURE ASSOCIATION COMPLETE President powder. All for 1.00! from an accredited high school. year's society staff! Betty Waitt Betty WaittAfter 1940 two years of college Florrie Guy work will be required. The annual Frances Spratlin Treasurer tuition of $100 covers the cost of Florrie Guy Pattie Patterson uniforms, books, student govern¬ Frances Spratlin COSMETIC SHOP ment fees, etc. Catalogues, appli¬ Come to Betty Waitt Pattie Patterson cation forms and information about STREET FLOOR MAY DAY college requirements may be ob¬ Chairman RICH'S tained from the Admission Com¬ GLENN'S PHARMACY Jean Dennison Sarah Rainey mittee. Sarah Rainey Sabine Brumby Betty Waitt THE AGNES SCOTT NEWS. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 27, 1940 O'Brien takes notes For the Record " 'Tis the last 'For the Record' Left blooming (<) alone For the old staff is leaving All withered and gone." In order to leave an indelible impression of informedness on the pore benighted readers of this rag, this week will be one solid mass of juicy bits gleaned from our far- flung network of news gatherers. The holidays seemed to have caused quite a thick fog, otherwise known as spring fever, to settle on the alleged minds of Hottentots; e. g., Ginny Williams, with bated breath and flying feet, stormed the heights of Buttrick shortly—very shortly—before 8 A. M. on Mon¬ day, March 18. For Ginny was all set to begin the third quarter one day early. The same Miss Williams, with her tongue in her cheek, left a nickel placed ostentatiously on her dresser during vacation. Pur¬ pose: To test the honesty—or temptability of the Scotch Presby¬ terians who attended the conven¬ tion. Val Nielsen had a birthday dur¬ ing the same fateful period and, as a birthday present to end all birth¬ day presents, her best friends pool¬ ed their resources and purchased her the removal of one wart, pre¬ paid! Concluding Goldfish Episode: Not even the finny tribe 0# the Alumnae Garden is safe any more —for Judith Greenberg was over¬ come the other day by the lure of the "cool green depths" and gently but firmly plumped herself in— Deus Ex Machina: The great mind-of "Little Stupie" has come to the rescue again—much chagrin has resulted from the practically ringless state of the class of-1940, which is re¬ lieved only by two or three bright and shining exceptions. Hence the exultation when Miss Slack bril¬ liantly and with verisimilitude lays this formerly sad state to the loft¬ iness of the "high ideals" of the class. Wheel The prelude was progressing rap¬ idly last Wednesday, when the somnolent student body woke up to the fact that there was a great absence of conductor on the stage. Upon the vehement frantic urgings of her cohorts on the first row, Jane Moses leaped heroically into the breach and extemporaneously conducted chapel. Upon conclu¬ sion (somewhat abrupt) of the benediction, Jane retired. To everyoncs' amazement, Mr. Dieckmann got meekly up and read a long list of announcements. Finally the sad fact seeped through the assembled gray matter that Mr. Dieckmann had been in charge of chapel all along, and the breach was non-existant. Hun Mot of the Week: 1 his expression should be put in the handbook along with the en¬ trance requirements: "A term paper is a hectic con¬ glomeration of hasty inaccuracies." —Dr. J. T. Gillespie. Recently by some strange twist of fate two members of our fac¬ ulty were mentioned in connection with Heaven. At an open air meeting of the News staff. HOTEL CANDLER Decatur A Good Place to Eat T. J. WOODS, Operator -Photo Courtesy Atlanta Constitution. Look Out, Bunny Coming 'round the Round House are patrons of the Chi Beta Phi Easter egg hunt which flourished west of Rebekah Friday afternoon. Mary Dean is leading the race with a Lott of enthusiasm; and Betty- Ann, for once, Brooks some interference in the game. The sophomores are not alone in the race, however; V. J. is just Watkins and waiting. wherein Hutchens the Hectic was delivering her "Ave Atque Vale" speech, Miss Laney chanced to pass by and quite reasonably in¬ quired whether this was a revival. Whereupon Hutchens turned around and, in her most sepulchral voice, replied, "Yes, and are you saved?" Miss Jackson is the heroine of the other paradisical episode. After considerable urging she broke down in class and narrated an apocryphal story told on her by one of her friends. It seems Miss J. was in Heaven, but was unhappy, just playing the harp, and was also very lonely. St. Peter, upon notic¬ ing her dissatisfaction, asked what was the matter. She explained that she was lonesome for some of her fellow A. A. U. W. workers. Upon hearing that she was a laborer in that organization, St. Peter ex¬ claimed. "Why child, this is no place for you. You belong in Sev¬ enth Heaven!" In closing, let me state (pardon for dropping the editorial "we") that I appreciate most heartily that willing band of workers who have so heartily cooperated with me in discovering the interesting sayings and doings of the campus. In fu¬ ture I beg to remain—"For the Record." Your Obedient Servant, Betty Jean O'Brien. BAILEY BROTHERS SHOE SHOP 142 Svcamore St. THREADGILL PHARMACY Phone DE. 1665 309 E. College Avenue Decatur, Ga. NOTICE AGNES SCOTT This is your drug store. Raps, Thrills Mark Job of Feature Editor By Anne Enloe The feature editor is always to blame. If the paper's a great success this week, the editor will thank the feature writers, and if the paper flops, she'll give them more or less figurative kicks in the teeth according to the degree of flop. But the feature editor really reaps the thrills of the business, even if her life does have its em¬ barrassing moments. She has all the fun of interview¬ ing the celebrities, she lunches with the Alfred Duff Coopers, so as to get a load of their Manners, Diana and otherwise. Then she gets to sit by and blot while Andre Maurois autographs books and ask him any questions that she can find cour¬ age enough to think up. Another time she has the fun of hearing the inside dope on all Evelyn Hanna's college day pranks. But at times trials and troubles feature her life. Dr. Hayes flatly states that he does not want to be a campus celebrity this week, so she goes off in despair and inter¬ views Henri Thompson, who promptly gets so tickled in recall¬ ing her childhood that she cannot utter a coherent sentence. Or per¬ haps the day that Miss Omwake disliked the idea of being a co-cele¬ brity in a sort of double feature was even worse. Then there are the times when the poor feature writer's assign¬ ments are so vague sfte has to pull material out of the air and go delv¬ ing into the construction plans of the new building or make news herself. (Moral: Don't get stuck in front of a fraternity house; it works too well!) And consider how red your face would be if you asked an austere faculty member what her impres¬ sions were when she made Phi Beta Kappa, only to hear the answer: "I am not a member of that organi¬ zation." Or the fatal day she asked a professor if she had spent the summer working toward a degree and found herself squelched to a pulp with: "I have all the degrees." Motion pictures are being taken of student orchestra conductors at Northwest Missouri State Teachers College so that they may study their faults. Largest employers of student help at the University of Florida have signed a code governing wages and labor conditions. Agnes Scott College DECATUR, GA. A college lor women that is widely recog¬ nized for its standards of work and for the interesting character of its student activities. For further information, address J. R. McCAIN, President News Holds Tryouts Tryouts for reporters on the News are being held the week of April 1. A paper will be posted on the back bulletin board Mon¬ day; anyone interested in trying out should sign up by Wednesday noon. As¬ signments will be given im¬ mediately, and should be put in the box in the News room by Friday at 5:30. Educator Praises College Youth "The youth of America comes to the doors of our colleges with hope and vision. Their spirit is the spirit of adventure. Their urge is the urge of growth. Their prin¬ ciple qualification for admission is curiosity. Their most valued rec¬ ommendation is the desire for bet¬ ter things. Their finest equipment is courage and determination to succeed in a world of opportunity. They are endowed with the talents of normal human beings and are burdened with the frailties com¬ mon to all men. This is the mater¬ ial with which the college works and no finer task may be found in all time than to create from this material a product that can be rec¬ ognized as a gentleman and a scholar." Rutgers University's Dr. Fraser Metzger aptly describes the "raw material" of higher educa¬ tion.—(ACP) Mozart's comic opera, "Abduc¬ tion from the Harem," will be pre¬ sented in its entirety for the first time in the U. S. by the music de¬ partment of the University of Michigan. The dateline "Thursday, Febru¬ ary 29" won't appear on newspa¬ pers again until 1968. The University of South Caro¬ lina extension division conducts a safety school for truck and bus drivers. A new protective device to ward off dangerous radium rays has been invented by a Reed College sopho- HOSIERY MIRACLE OF THE DECADE! The One, the Only, the Original CREPTEX HOSE $ 1 Formerly 1.25! Now at last, you too can wear these flattering hose that look sheerer, but wear longer because the price has been reduced to bring Crepetex hose with¬ in the high school girl's budget! The hose you've probably been green-eyed with envy over but felt like you'd have to go without your lunch to af¬ ford! Hosiery, Street Floor DAVISCN-PAXCN CO. ATLAWT* •'q/JUiattd Vilh MACYI.J&W THE AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 27, 1940 Queens College Sends Dean Moody Names April 6 For Mardi Gras Movie Titles Furnish Theme; Organizations Plan Floats, Elect Rulers With iloats, costumes, music, and royalty, Agnes Scott's annual Mardi Gras is coming to the campus with all the gaiety and excitement of the New Orleans festival. The day for the celebration announced by Martha Moody, chairman, is April 6. Plans for events leading up to the big night are under way now under the direction of the junior class. On Tuesday, April 2, the kings and queens chosen by each class will be presented and voted on. It is customary for the royal couple receiving the largest number of votes to rule over the Court of Kings at Mardi Gras. The identity of the class representatives will be kept secret until Tuesday when they are officially presented in skits. The theme for floats this year, timely because of the local fad for playing the game, is Movie Titles. Every organization on the campus enters a float in the parade which precedes Mardi Gras entertainment. Blue ribbons are awarded the floats judged most original and most beautiful. At the Mardi Gras celebration proper, held in the gymnasium, the King and Queen for a night will rule supreme, supported by their court. There will be a lively program of entertainment, Chair¬ man Moody revealed. Heads of the various committees of work as named by Chairman Moody are as follows: Program, Ann Fisher; Publicity, Helen Hardie; Floats, Sarah Rainey; Skits, Sabine Brumby; Finances, Scotty Wilds; Refreshments, Freda Copeland; Decorations, Louise Musser; Seating, Florrie Guy. Mardi Gras is given each year for the benefit of the junior class. The college community is urged to come in costume. Delicate as Spring itself is the misty-gray sheer crepe teagown worn by Mary Shipp, CBS radio actress. Among its features are a flattering fullness radiating toward the V-neck, the "peg-top" effect of large cord-embroidered pockets, and the tiny, tiny waist. (You'll need your foundation with this dress.) There's also a little bolero jacket to wear with the dress if you're too fragile for those early Spring breezes. To Study S. G. A. Miss Shirley Black, Dean of Stu¬ dents at Queens College, Charlotte, North Carolina, will be guest on the campus from, Monday to Wednesday next week. The object of her visit is to study the laws and workings of the college Student "Government in order to get new ideas for Queens. She plans to speak in chapel on one of the days of her visit. -Photo Courtesy CBS. Gettysburg Finds a New Way "The chaos of modern civiliza¬ tion can scarcely be attributed to acts of God. The structure of hu¬ man society is not, rotten but sound. It is the defective utiliza¬ tion of human culture that lies at the bottom of oug present trouble: The most exigent task in education today is the appraisal of the biolo¬ gical and consequent social capac¬ ity of the individual so that his r f proper niche—if any—can be PALS! found and he can be stuffed into it." Harvard University's anthro¬ BLOUSE-SKIRT pologist, Dr. Ernest M. Hooten, AS TAILORED as your boy oresents his own blueprint for friend's shirt, this silky-soft Utopia.— (ACP) rayon pique blouse, so fresh and white! 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GILL BROTHERS Two-Hour Odorless Dry Cleaning Service Also 3 Garments for $1.00 3-Day Service DE. 4476 412 Church St. Press Commercial Printing and Stationery TYPEWRITERS AND RIBBONS Blotters ■ Note Paper — Poster Paper reocFtbtee Stme Office Supplies • • OJJUunXa ■■ 316 Church St. DE. 3383 Decatur, Ga. Florida Sunshine Lures Spring Vacationists By Bee Bradfield A scraping of chairs—then momentary silence as amaze¬ ment set in on the Rebekah Scott Commentary, which func¬ tions faithfully each day from 12:30 to 1:15. Several of its members reached up to see if perhaps they had forgotten to remove their dark glasses, and thus were getting that tinted effect of the people leaving lunch—others glanced hastily at the windows to be sure shadows were not creating those two- toned complexions on otherwise normal looking students—-and the more inactive, thoughtful observers merely folded their hands and com¬ mented that it did seem as if the water should have cleared up in the pipes by NOW! But before the procession under the discussion had reached the door, word was spreading that it was not a group of afflicted people at all, but just a few of the Hottentots who had spent their spring vacation in Flor¬ ida and were back again with that healthy, dark look about them. Considering the number of Ag¬ nes Scotters who packed bathing suits and traveled south to recover from exams, one might suspect an attractive travel agent of circulat¬ ing folders, or the DeKalb of show¬ ing extra-good travelogues. But whate'er the cause—and we ain't saying—the middle of March found seniors, juniors, sophs, and frosh alike enjoying California'sgreatest- competitor from its high¬ est point down to its lowest grain of sand. Lost Luggage And when we say enjoy—we do mean enjoy! Lost luggage did not daunt the sophs who found them¬ selves in Daytona with only their purses as reinforcement. They simply grabbed their chaperon by the arm 'and stalked out on the beach in their traveling clothes, as if they had just arrived and were looking the place over. However, they were mighty happy chillun when they could relax in proper ap¬ parel, put the sand back in its proper place, and, above all, dis¬ miss those suspicious looks from the bejch'-lollers who were not so sure they were new arrivals the third time they passed by! It seems that the Super-Streamlined was just a bit ahead of the Decatur Special and connections were missed. Sophs Economize Yes, and true to form, this same crew of sophs lived in luxury dur¬ ing their trip—not by virtue of a raised allowance, but by applying their liberal arts (as offered by ASC). When they found that the reservations for their ^sumptuous 6-woman-l-room apartment had not been regarded, they, in unison, raised their eyebrows (saved for just such an emergency) and be¬ fore the ocean could wave again they were established in a three- room apartment with a sea breeze! Who said one got no practical knowledge here? But even in Florida it is the sen¬ iors who show supreme intelligence, and make these traditional south¬ ern jaunts college history and not mere campus chatter. One would hardly expect a senior to spend her week lying in the sun, enjoying life WELCOME from the NEW PIG'N WHISTLE A Delightful Place to Entertain Your Friends lazily, when she could be enjoying it and developing her mind simul¬ taneously. It is suspected that this conservation of time is a hangover from time-schedule years, but whatever the cause, some potential "Phi Bait" material definitely came to light when this group went through the fruit groves. There an intelligent discussion was held about the waste of raising oranges on trees instead of raising them in crates where they belong. Anyone who dares take a juicy subject like that and treat it intelligently cer¬ tainly deserves to receive the shock of her life and risk swallowing her Adam's apple when a Phi Beta Kappa official reads her name out in chapel! Reunion in Daytona Natives of the state were a bit amazed, no doubt, when fifteen people appeared on Daytona in sev¬ eral separate groups, apparently un¬ aware of each other, then suddenly began screaming and yelling, "Where did you come from? Well, fancy meeting you here!" and other conventional screeches of surprise. We hear that there was a dash for the life boats because they were trying to drown each other out, but no harm was done, and once again the world was proved to be a small place. Still another tale of a happy re¬ union remains to be told. A small group of interested tour¬ ists was quietly listening to a guide who was explaining the surround¬ ings of the Fountain of Youth. Suddenly, from the direction of the Fountain itself were heard loud "Helios" and "Look!" Shortly five girls came dashing in, single file, to greet their friends in a loving man¬ ner, and give detailed accounts of their five-day tour in five minutes. Meanwhile the guide droned on to an audience which was temporarily wondering if everyone who drank from the Fountain came back be¬ having as jovially as this quintet. So far, far into printed space could one recount the highlights of the experiences of the traveling Hottentots. The new motto seems to be "Go South, young woman, and vote for re-peel!" Blackfriars Rent Costumes In answer to constant demands for costumes for stunts and skits, Blackfriars has opened a Costume Rental Bureau to students. "Al¬ most any kind of costume may be rented," said Sarah Rainey, in charge of the bureau. She also an¬ nounced that the cost of renting would be very small, ranging from five to fifteen cents. THE AGNES SCOTT NEWS. WEDNESDAY. MARCH 27, 1940 Campus Camera IF YOU'RE AM AVERAGE COLLEGE CO-ED YOU vSPEND l!76 HOURS OR 49 DAYS BEFORE A MIRROR. DURING YOUR 4 COLLEGE YEARS/ AND IF YOU'RE AN AVERAGE COL¬ LEGE MAN YOU NOW KNOW WE REASON FOR "mOSE "LONG WAITS*. Georgia Hunt polls opinions in Campus Quotes The tradition, honored system of committee nominations on the campus is getting its spring "airing out" and students here express the following opinions as to whether such a system is a help or a hin¬ drance in student elections: Annette Franklin, '40, says: "I think the committee nominations are a definite help in student elec¬ tions because the majority of stu¬ dents do not know which people on the campus are best qualified to fill the offices. The committee nomi¬ nations represent the careful and thoughtful opinion of the people who really know." Florence Graham, '40, thinks: . . that our present system of committee nominations is not en¬ tirely democratic because it intimi¬ dates students from expressing their own opinions to the fullest ex¬ tent." Cornelia Willis, '41, believes: . . that the committee nomina¬ tions are both a help and a hin¬ drance in student elections—a help to the freshmen and new students because they may lead them in the right selections, but a hindrance to the majority of other students because they tend to make voters not think for themselves. If some other method of acquainting new students with people in office could be devised I would say do away with the committee system." Julia Lancaster, '41, consid¬ ers: ". . . the system of committee nominations helps in student elec¬ tions because it furnishes a guide for students who do not know the people best suited for office. The system is democratic because it al¬ lows each student to vote as she chooses and at the same time it of¬ fers thoughtful suggestions as to who is best qualified." Hetty Sunderland, '41, com¬ ments: . . that many students do vote as the committee suggests but they do it because they want the thoughtful opinion of people who can really say who is best qualified for a certain position. I'm afraid," she continues, "if students voted haphazardly without a thoughtful guide our elections might end up with a group of in¬ efficient people in office." Isabel Miller, '42, thinks: ". .. that the opinion of the nominating committee is to be trusted. Such a system is a help in student elec¬ tions because it suggests the best qualified students for office to people who don't know. The dem¬ ocratic spirit of such a system should not be questioned because it offers to every voter the right to make his own personal choice." Virginia Lambeth, '43, adds: ". . . that the system of commit¬ tee nominations is a help especially to freshmen who do not know the people best suited for an office. It should be, I believe, a help to up¬ per classmen in choosing the best suited people for office because it represents the thoughtful opinion of the group who can best submit nominations." Clara Rountree, '43, con¬ cludes: ". . . that the committee system is good for students who don't know those best qualified for office but, on the other hand, it sways the choice of other students." The Agnes Scott News Vol. XXV No. 17 Wednesday, March 27, 1940 Published weekly, except holidays and examination periods, by the stu¬ dents of Agnes Scott College. Member Associated Collegiate Press. Office on scond floor Murphey Candler building. Entered as second class matter at the Decatur, Georgia, postoffice. Subscrip¬ _ tion price per year, copies, five cents. $1.25; single Eleanor Hutchens Editor Evelyn Baty Managing Editor Mary Louise Dobbs Business Manager VirRlnla Clower Betty Jane Stevenson Elaine Stubbs Current History Assistant Editors Editor Klorenro Kilts Anne Martin Advertising Manager Sports Editor Rebecca Drucker Copy Editor Hazel Solomon Exchange Editor Anne Enloe livorpta Hunt Jeannette Carroll Betty Jean O'Brien Alumnae Editor Feature Editors .. Susan Self Virginia Williams Club Editor Doris Weinkb- Assistant Feature Eloise Lennard Editors Society Editor Betty Stevenson boils down The Real News Reynaud for Daladier A new face decorates the news stories from France. It may be supplanted soon. The new cab¬ inet of Paul Reynaud seems shaky. He broadened the base of the government, letting in three So¬ cialists, excluded by Daladier-But the rightists are rumored to be demanding a military dictator¬ ship under General Gamelin. Applause in the Chamber of Deputies was mild on Reynaud's first appearance, and he got only a one vote majority in a vote of confidence. Retaliation The seven hour mass bombing of the German fortified island of Sylt was the first big air at¬ tack of War No. 1 in Europe. American corres¬ pondents found little damage there. The British may or may not be right that the Germans lead the American newsmen on a special (restricted) propaganda tour. Public morale in Britain has had an upswing since this raid. Chamberlain is stronger than ever. It seems to them an answer to the last German raid on Scapa Flow. ' Debut James H. Cromwell's career as diplomat be¬ gan less than auspiciously. His maiden speech, un¬ authorized and strongly pro-Ally, drew a public rebuke by telegram from Secretary Hull. Can this be part of the State Department's inner strug¬ gle over career vs. society diplomats? Hat in the Ring There will be at least one skilled party man in the race for the Democratic nomination. Farley stated unequivocally that he does choose to run. He said to newspapermen "To clear up any mis¬ understanding, let me say that my name will be presented to the Democratic National (Convention at Chicago, and that's that. I am sure that any¬ one who has known me during my political car¬ eer will know that I make this statement frankly and without reserve." High Finances Money-minded citizens watch with breathless interest the United States public debt mount near to the ultimate $45,000,000,000 limit. Morganthau's attitude is nonchalant. The Secretary of the Treasury believes a legalized $50,000,000,000 limit should cause no alarm. The need for Con¬ gressional action is closer since the Senate passed the new farm bill—$1,000,000,000 worth. Home Sweet Home Georgia was once synonymous for the rest of the United States with cracker, Sherman, and GWTW. The news of the last few weeks gives crackerland a more sinister complexion: floggings, arrested governors, and suspect Congressmen may come to mean more than magnolias and "you-all." Assistant Attorney-General Rogge is eyeing Geor¬ gia as fair ground for federal investigation in the style of the recent New Orleans probe. Let Blank Slates At Least Be Clean The annual job-hunting-season is open¬ ing this month. Seniors are adding up their major hours, writing letters, and having interviews. Upperclassmen are thinking of summer jobs. And everybody is asking for recommendations. This is the time when seniors look back over their four-year records and wish they had something to write under "Academic Honors" or "Extra-curricular Activities" on the application blanks. Struggling to remember every petty office they have held since freshman year, they long for something really impressive—say Phi Beta Kappa—to enter on the records as proof of accomplishment. And they finish by hoping that the people whose names they give for reference will be kind. Most of us do not realize how close a check the college officials keep on us, and how carefully they weigh the evidence be¬ fore writing recommendations. Every¬ thing indicative of character, however trivial, is considered. A long-unpaid hill at the tea house, for instance, or scholar¬ ship duty done poorly. It is well for each of us to look over her personal situation before asking to be recommended by the college. We cannot go back and make Phi Beta Kappa; but we can tie up whatever loose ends are still Hnnrrlirur We Look Before and After Growth is difficult to measure. When the very new, very ignorant, and very hopeful News staff began its work last spring, it set up for itself the goal of pro¬ moting growth on our campus. Now that the same staff, older, somewhat less ig¬ norant, but equally hopeful, looks back over its efforts, it can attempt no evaluat¬ ing nor interpretation of its work. It re¬ mains for those who follow, with their greater perspective, to give to each step its proper place in the building of Greater Agnes Scott. * There are, of course, the obvious changes. Continuing the "streamlining" policy begun last year, the staff has en¬ deavored to make the News grow into a more easily readable paper; larger papers have furnished ideas, headline types have been simplified, and assistant editors have struggled to keep a verb in eveiy head. National advertising has appeared, and made possible the six-page and eight-page editions. The campus, we think, has grown too. Through editorials and Campus Quotes the staff has wished to keep alive the self- searching and constructive criticism that is the basis of all real progress. Our thoughts have not lingered too much on the relative values of Latin and Religious Emphasis Week; they have sought also an understanding of that world outside our busy, self-sufficient walls—through world famous lecturers, through discussions on Finland's struggle, through resumes of in¬ ternational happenings, and through news from other colleges. No one organization can establish on the campus the desire for growth, nor can it effect miraculous progress. Its only hope lies in stimulating the individual stu¬ dent to deeper thinking, wider interest, more integrated action. "If Heaven would make me such another world . . Heaven has no intentions of giving the seniors "such another world" as this one—young, earnest, and growing. We leave that world to you who remain; make of it what you will.—(E. B.) Hazel Solomon sifts the Exchanges The political pot has begun to boil on every campus from Maine to California, now that spring has brought back-slapping, scheming, promise making and breaking, and voting for next year's officers. Cleaner Politics To prepare the various student bodies for elec¬ tion, editors of college newspapers have written editorials about the true democratic spirit which should prevail at election time. The editor of the Hollins Student Life has made a plea for honesty in selecting candidates. The student government association of T. S. C. W. at Denton, Texas, re¬ cently held a general house cleaning preparatory to the elections, and the functions of student gov¬ ernment were explained. Improvements Several colleges and universities are seeking im¬ provements in the electoral systems while others want to create new positions or renovate existing ones. Emory University students are working to rejuvenate their Student Activity Council. They claim that the present council does not represent the entire campus. Under the proposed system of more representative government, each member would represent a definite group of students from the campus, and class spirit would be developed. The new system would "effect a better organized, more representative, stronger, and more active Student Government which would stimulate gen¬ eral interest in the university and in student af¬ fairs. At Furman, campus leaders arc attempting to eliminate the legislature and student body officials as such, while adding to the prestige of the Stu¬ dent Council. At F. S. C. W. at Tallahassee, Florida, selection of candidates by holding a pri¬ mary election will replace nomination by a com¬ mittee. The nominating committee still functions at Converse, Mt. Holyoke, Alabama College at Montevallo, at the Georgia Teachers College at Collegeboro, Georgia. ' Lecture Committee Climaxes Anniversary Or: Cable Bores Again Coming as perhaps the most eagerly awaited lecturer of the year, Dr. Glark Cable arrives on the campus today for a week's stay. He is to be totally at the mercy of the young ladies during his visit, and will be willing to have private five minute conferences throughout the day and until eleven forty-five at night. Students wishing to arrange for appoint¬ ments are requested to contact the Lecture Committee through one of their temporary of¬ fice force in the specially con¬ structed office on the lot between Buttrick Hall and South McDonough Street. Dr. Cable, whose visit has been postponed several times because of his need for extensive preparation, is well known in this section as an exponent of Southern charm, sugar and spice and everything nice. His greatest work, "Goo Woo thoo Woo," is fast climbing as a best seller and is expected to do rather well as a thumb nail sketch of the Civil War. Dr. Cable is also peculiarly well- fitted to lecture on the subject chosen for him, "Nudism As a Hobby," or "Do Clothes Make the Man?" This subject brings to mind current events in natural phenomena involving apparent loss of control in the law of gravy and the dangerous aspect of spots on the vest. In being asked to comment on present conditions of the west coast stellar system, Dr. Cable tersely stated, "Frankly, Mrs. But¬ ler, I don't give a damn!" As a special attraction, to help swell what is feared would be an otherwise puny crowd, this lecture is being presented absolutely free of charge. This is being done in collaboration with the Government in celebration of the 450th (cirea) anniversary of the discovery of America. Jane Moses conducted chapel. Wake Up The Editor Dearest Editor: I wish to complain of the exces¬ sive heat in the library. How can one work in such a stifling, sultry atmosphere? Even chewing gum is too much of an exertion. Were it not for the Ovaltine served at four every afternoon to ward off insom¬ nia, the situation would be unbear¬ able. I'm sure you will cooperate in giving us the cold shoulder. Love and kisses, May B. Wright. P. S.—Jane Moses conducted chapel. Fearless Reporter Exposes Spy Ring Disguised Termites Plot Devestation of Woodwork Through the untiring efforts and clever deductions of a reporter of this daily, a spy ring comparable to the famous Kuku Klan has been exposed on the campus this week. Plan¬ ning to undermine the chief buildings of the campus with a carefully-trained and fully equipped army of termites, and to betray the secrets of the notorious beer-cellar putsch, the ring when captured was almost at the culmination of its deadly plot. According to our intrepid in¬ vestigator, whose name is being withheld for obvious reasons, the diabolical scheme was to have re¬ sulted in the complete devestation of the woodwork in Buttrick Hall, Main Building, and the Library sometime this week. Plans for im¬ porting two thousand trained Dashhounds to undermine the foundations of other key buildings on the campus were also disclosed in a search under the left-over Shakespeare books on the book store shelves. The plot was first suspected when the News reporter became suspicious of a buzzing noise in an adjoining room and, picking up a convenient sledge hammer, burst into the room to find the termites: Other occupants of the room are being held pending investigation, though they declare their inno¬ cence of any duplicity. "We didn't know they were termites," explained Henri de Thompson, who was found underneath a bed. "We thought they were fruit flies escap¬ ed from Genetics lab." Campus leaders were shocked at Chief evidence for the prosecution is reproduced above in the sudden disclosure. Ruth Smoke the News' exclusive picture of the detailed map of the cam¬ Stack, president of the Society for pus found in the possession of spy ring uncovered this week. the Prevention of Walking on the The incriminating numbers plainly indicate plans to destroy Grass, announced that her organi¬ the principal buildings in order. The photograph at the bot¬ zation would encourage any prose¬ tom shows two suspects swapping alibis before being taken cution of the offenders. "Termites before Motor Board for questioning. are the worst enemies of grass," she Leader Continues Plug for High Ideals The rain may have ruined the hopes of Easter paraders from Maine to California, but it didn't slacken the spirit of one Agnes Scotter. When asked to give the secret of her success in always snatching a place in the leadout, as she is here shown triumphantly conducting an Emory march, she said t-Ruthfully and earnestly, "The answer can be found in two words—High Ideals." She is plan¬ ning to make an extended tour soon to all women's colleges to teach the students how to win friends and lower marriage percen¬ tages with these same ideals. Who Wants to Get Married Anyway? A jolly time was had by all members of the senior class Satur¬ day night when, under the chaperonage of Mr. Stukes, the girls hiked into Atlanta on a field trip. The purpose of the jaunt was to see the motion picture, "Too Many Hus¬ bands," which was reported to be of considerable instructional value. Jane Moses conducted chapel. said. "Why, an army of termites can trample down a lawn in no time." Dr. McCain declined to com¬ ment on the situation beyond stat¬ ing that Jane Moses conducted chapel. No Comment E. Hutchi laps up The Wrong News Georgia got her biggest boost since WTWG last week when an advocate of the Incubator Clean Politics Bill designated the state as a model to be followed by others in organizing political machines. "Georgia," thundered the white-haired crusader for honest government, "has never sustained a smirch against her fair name as an efficient state, efficiently and smoothly governed. Her execu¬ tive and judiciary departments are particularly praiseworthy for their harmony of operation." Jane Moses conducted chapel. Scientists and research men at Georgia Hech, turning from their outstanding work in graphing the gradients and comparative extent of the ap¬ proximate pulsitude of Ann Sheridan, announced this week a new advance in man's search for truth. It is a "Please" sign radiating a green glow over its surroundings, causing the passerby to think there is really grass there and therefore to stay on the sidewalk. Con Wallback, editor of the Hechsqueak, gal¬ lantly dedicated the find to the purposes of the Agnes Scott grounds committee this morning. Adolf Hitler yesterday took the initiative in a drive for cordial relations among different Euro¬ pean nationalities which have not felt as close recently as in former days. "What we need," said Der Phooerer in a sober speech to the Reichdoe, "is race relations. Interests outside the ivy-covered Westwall, beyond our narrow little Aryan horizon. I suggest informal social gatherings, where we may mix in whole¬ some contact with others. Race relations, that's what we need." Amid the applause of his audience, Hitler stood silent for a moment, the Berlin breeze whistling through his lebensraum. Concluding in a firm, ringing voice, he quoted in English, "Come and trip it as you go On the light fantastic toe . . . Come on chillun, y'es dance!" Appropriate to this festive season come echoes from hither and yon. That interesting little col¬ lege up in the foothills of Jawja, U. B. E. T., sends "A merry, merry Christmas from all of us- all to all of you-all." The twenty-five students at O. O. O. Univer¬ sity have voted against having a Yuletide vaca¬ tion. "We cannot waste time at home," says Ed¬ itor (name censored). "Duty calls and we must surrender ourselves to its lovely voice." Editor speaks for the whole student body, who were locked in the li¬ brary and therefore not reachable for comment. "Christmas? What's that?" roared the Florida Rhinoccras. "Yes, Thanksgiving is a very nice season," added the Alabama Pink and White. "Yes, indeed," insisted A. A. U. W. We wanted to ask some more, but there weren't any. Schools all closed up. So sorry. Jane Moses conducted chapel. "Over 10% of modern college grad¬ uates get jobs," Dr. A. B. Castinezzie (right), of Penquin College, encourages ambitious students with these startling statistics. (Photo Courtesy Emory Heel.) This well-known artist and alum¬ na, will return to the campus to take a leading role in the May Day pro¬ duction May 4. Here she is shown as she appeared in her first major tri¬ umph, "Only Angels Have Wings." Let Your Dirty Slates At Least Be Blank As we approach the solemn time of graduation and the last mad scramble for enough Merit Hours to get by the Advanced Standing Committee, let us think of the records we leave behind us. It is too late now to join every club on the campus in a final attempt to blend a little extra-curricular activity with our over-emphasis on dates, trips to Dec in the afternoon, and going to the library to read Esquire—besides, the point system stymies you there—but it is never too late to gather up loose ends. Have you ever thought of the effect of loose ends? The faculty keeps such close check on you that you hardly know when your past will cloud your future. Remember that a recommendation from the college is necessary for you to get a job. Start gathering up your loose ends now; pay that bill for cigarette holes burned in the date parlor carpet; resolve to pick no more flowers from the alumnae garden. We appeal to you as Females and Seminarians— Gather up your loose ends. Think of your pres¬ ent; think of your future; think of your knitting! Never forget—Jane Moses did conduct chapel. Mr. Shapley doubtless does not realize Har lowe he brought the student body by putting a frost on them with his mention of galaxies. My stars, Har vard into space does he want to go? ^ muT M€N/ It has always been said that*spring is the time for romance, the time that hearts go in leaps and bounds, and the hopes of the social buterflies fly high. But as far as we can see not even the Tech spring formulas nor Emory's brawls have been able to lure the hard-working seniors and bedraggled Rick Racket Meets a Foe Of interest to Hottentots and any available faculty (of mind or administration) was the novel con¬ test held recently between Rick Racket and Nary-Tary Taylor. As a matter of astonishment, Rick is one of the recently imported coo-eds from Emory and Nary- Tary is our own champion of the newly introduced game of Goodmitten— so called because of its lack of resemblance to the English Badminton. Incidentally, to cause confusion, we might say here that Nary-Tary got her nickname from her quaint ability to trip on the light fantastic in Agnes Scott's an¬ nual spring spree, held in bare feet and the May Day Dell and presided over by the queen of May-Not- Court. Naturally, students who failed to see the game will know quite as much about it as those who did, but to be sure they did not miss anything. We will break newspaper tradition and get specific in a sports column. Goodmitten is play¬ ed on a court, rather like the an¬ cient tennis court, except that it has lines to make the astigmatic player feel at home, and the net has been eliminated because people complained of its getting in the way. Instead of racquets, light wood frames are used to give the resonance necessary for the encour¬ agement of science students, and and absence of strings makes the game a perfect pastime for the people who used to spend all their time in tennis trying to make con¬ tact between string and ball, and thus had not time left to play the game. The game was originated on a Phi Beta Kappa retreat, and they promise to furnish an object for the frantic frustrations of the par¬ ticipants as soon as they finish their present project, which is a revision of tiddly-winks for tiny tots. Mount Mitchell refereed the aerial part of the game, and her only comment was that she might have gotten balled up except there was no ball. The Little Man Who Wasn't There was to have been lineman, but, according to the lat¬ est report, he was lost in a vacuum looking for an article on cleaner sports, and has not been located as yet. And, to close, we'd like to say (if the editor will allow) that Jane Moses conducted chapel. am not a tee totaler, but we must think of the milk man. Every glass of gin would take bread out of the mouths of his little children. We, the privileged, must think of them. Hottentots from their thorny path of learning. The outstanding event of this week was the TURKEY DINNER given by the PiKA's. Lib Barrett and Flonnie Ellis were extremely elated over not being invited, and only bemoaned the fact that they were forced inappropriately to eat Easter eggs, plain, otherwise, or mixed with peanut butter spread instead. TOMMY DORSEY at the RAINBOW ROOF caused Miss Hanley great concern about how she could handle the overflow in the library. The higher intellect of the Decatur Female Seminary wom¬ en looked askance at the popularity of the pinks and withdrew further into their shells of learning. Notable by her absence at the DENTAL COLLEGE dance was Mary Lang Gill. Campus Royalty Scene: Picking up the spirit of simplicity in in¬ formal dress was Hat Stimson, seen walking from Rebekah to Buttrick in a campus slip. Vying for honors with her was roommate Kat, whose garb showed the true spirit of slop pistication. Sage Saws Students air opinions on whether to be or not to be or whether li¬ quors, before, with, or after meals would be a boon to the scholars of Agnes Scott. Katherine Patton, '40: "I def¬ initely know liquors to be a fine physic, unsurpassed stimulant, and the basis of good fellowship. I have no doubts that it would create a broader understanding on the cam¬ pus between students and faculty. It would promote neatness on the campus and decrease the number of cigarette stubs on the floors be¬ cause the girls and boys could drop them in the empty glasses." Gay Curry, '42: "I really don't know! Maybe a good stiff drink would put some pep into the sophomore class. A little beer might serve the purpose, or perhaps hot buttered rum." V. J. Watkins, '40: "I hate dastardly intoxicants. I shall re¬ sign my place as an alumnae if the vile smelling stuff flows in our stately halls. If it comes to a choice between Miss Agnes and the Woman's Temperance Union there can be no vascillation. My decision is made. Violet Jane must do her part to keep sober industry alive." Cornelia Willis, '41: "I favor whiskey strongly as a new disguise for eggs. Good bye to yellow goo. Long live egg nog." Lois Hughston, '40: "No! The Agnes ScoH News VOL. XXV AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE. DECATUR, GA.. WEDNESDAY. APRIL 24, 1940 Z115 No. 18 DebaterNews Attains Lost: One Hour's Sleep Moses, Hutchens Atlantians will lose one Ail-American hour of sleep Saturday at midnight when daylight Honor Rating saving time is officially in¬ Sing Opera Leads augurated for 1940. In or¬ Associated College Press der to prevent any compli¬ Seniors Give Costume Ball cation.. such as oversleep¬ Awards High Grading ing and arriving late at On Eve of Performance Te Georgia Publications church, students are re¬ minded to set back their With Jane Moses and Eleanor Hutchens singing the lead¬ The Agnes Scott Neivs, edited clocks exactly one hour.-ing roles of Ruby O'Horror and Rhatt Butler, the senior by Eleanor Hutchens, with Evelyn class will present a completely modernized version of the tra¬ Baty as managing editor, received ditional Senior Opera, when the curtain rises on "Give Him All-American honor rating in a Metropolitan Gives the Aria, or Gone With the Draft;" Friday, May 3, at 8:30 P. M. in the Bucher Scott gymnasium. nation-wide survey of college 1 Tannhauser' Georgia Hunt as Ghastly, Jean- newspapers, according to the Asso¬ nette Carroll as Felonie, Rocky ciated College Press grading receiv¬ The Metropolitan Opera will Educators Kaplan as Mammy, Evelyn Baty ed last week. present Richard Wagner's "Tann-—Photo Courtesy Atlanta Journal. hauser" in Atlanta tonight with and Katherine Patton as Horti and Reports from the Associated MARGARET HOPKINS Visit College Lauritz Melchior, Lotte Lehmann, Agi, the Culture Twins, Carolyn College Press in Minneapolis show Forman as Dr. Open Forum, and and Kerstin Thorberg in the lead¬ that 406 institutions in 43 states Agnes Scott will be host May 9 ing roles. Erich Leinsdorf will Hopkins Receives Elizabeth Davis as Belle Waddling were represented in the survey. to important members of the Gen¬ will complete the cast of charac¬ conduct, with a supporting cast in¬ Of the other colleges in the eral Education Board, who are to Debating Honor ters. cluding Norman Cordon, Maxine United States with enrollment of make an inspection tour of all the Stellman, John Carter, and Arnold less than 500, only three weeklies Winning honors unprecedented schools to be included in the new Scene of Action Gabor. in Agnes Scott debate history, Mar¬ received All-American honors. Six $7,500,000 University Center. The Most of the action takes place The story of the opera is that of garet Hopkins received the debate publications in the country were visiting group will include Dr. at O'Horrison Hut, where the fif¬ cup for the third consecutive year Tannhause-, a knight who returns named "pacemaker," the pick of from Dr. George P. Hayes, profes¬ Raymond D. Fosdick, president of tieth anniversary of its construc¬ to earth after his revels with Venus the Ail-Americans. The Daily sor of English, in chapel this morn¬ the Board; Dr. A. R. Mann, vice-tion is being celebrated. Among and falls in love with Elisabeth. Texan, of the University of Texas, ing. In presenting the cup, Dr. president, as well as chairman of the several groups and choruses are When she discovers his former pro¬ was the only southern newspaper Hayes pointed out that Margaret the Rockefeller Foundation; Dr. the 1. Q. Clucks Clan and Faces on fane love, she spurns him. Refused is the first student who has ever to attain this honor. W. W. Stewart and Dr. Jackson the Cutting Room Floor. the cup for three years. pardon by the Pope, Tannhauser won Davis, head of the Southern De¬ The Mercer Cluster was the only This year Margaret participated Chairman Henrietta Thompson prepares to return to the Hill of other Georgia paper to receive All-in the English debate here, the partment. Agnes Scott, Georgia announced today that the Senior- Venus, but a miracle astonishes the Florida debate here, and in the de¬ Tech, Emory, and the University of American rating, while the Watch-politan Opera Company would pre¬ Pope and persuades him to grant bate tournament at Chattanooga, Georgia will all be stops on their tower of Wesleyan and the Colon¬ cede the world premiere of "Gone pardon to the penitent sinner. Tenn., where the Agnes Scott tour. nade of G. S. C. W. received first With the Draft" with a ball This opera will be the last of a teams placed third. class honors. Second class honors The cup, filled with names, will Elect McCain Thursday evening, May 2, in the series presented by the Metropoli¬ Murphey Candler Building. The went to Oelethorpe's Stormy go into retirement. tan Opera Company in its first ap¬ Dr. J. R. McCain has just been cast will lead out at 9 o'clock in Agnes Scott debaters have this Petrel and the University of Geor¬ gia's Red and Black. pearance in Atlanta after an ab¬ year participated in three tourna¬ elected a member of the board, suc¬ the costumes they will wear for the performance. Admission to the sence of ten years. April 22 the ments at G. S. C. W. in Milledge-ceeding John D. Rockefeller, Jr., Last year the Agonistic, edited ball is ten cents. company presented Guiseppi Ver¬ ville Ga., at Rock Hill, S. C., and who served on the board continu¬ by Mary Frances Guthrie, received at Chattanooga, Tenn. di's "La Traviata" and on April Chairmen first class honors, while the 1937-ously from its establishment in They have opposed Southwest 193 8 publication made second class 23, Giacomo Puccini's "La 1902 until his retirement in April, Missouri, the winner of the tourna¬ Committee chairmen working rating. ' Boheme." ment in Rock Hill; the University 1940. Agnes Scott's president takes with Henrietta Thompson, Opera of Miami, the University of Flor¬ his place among a distinguished head, include: Sophie Montgomery, ida, the University of Georgia, and writing; Polly Heaslett, programs group of educational leaders, as Junior High Students an English debating team. and librettos; Evelyn Baty, pub¬ the board numbers among its trus¬ licity; Louise Sullivan, tickets; tees the presidents of Princeton, Nell Pinner, advertisements; Betty Bewilder Seniors Eta Sigma Phi Elects Massachusetts Institute of Tech¬ Alderman, costumes; Mary Reins, scenery; Elizabeth Davis, proper¬ Pedagogy isn't what it's "cracked up to be," according to Harriette Cochran nology, the University of Califor¬ ties; Eugenia Bridges and Margaret a group of seniors who did practice teaching on March 29 at nia, and Leland Stanford. Its Harriette Cochran was elected Hopkins, directing assistants; Penn Murphy Junior High School while some of the teachers at¬ national treasurer of Eta Sigma chairman, Dr. Ernest M. Hopkins, Hammond, lighting; and Eloise tended a convention. Louise, the children staunchly Phi at the annual convention held is president of Dartmouth. McCall and Widdy Leavitt, dances. Hurling spitballs, tearing Os¬ vowed they had never had the in New Orleans April 11, 12, 13. car's heart out, and shooting pins Douglas S. Freeman, a famous Eloise Leonard and Boots Moore arithmetic problems on the board, Eta Sigma Phi, a national honorary at little girls were student practices biographer, who visited the campus will furnish the music. although it was supposedly a re¬ classical fraternity, has chapters at with which the harassed teachers universities and colleges through¬ this year, is a member representing view lesson. had to cope. Ruth Eyles' class info'rmed her out the nation. the Richmond News-Leader, of When Ruth Slack authoritative¬ that she and Carolyn Forman The fraternity is active in pro¬ which he is editor. Coming This Week ly stepped up to the front of her looked exactly alike. But this re¬ moting appreciation of Latin and ninth grade class and started call¬ John D. Rockefeller, III, and mark about resemblances was by Greek. Representatives of the lo¬ Wednesday, April 24 — ing the roll, a little girl rushed up, no means Harold H. Swift, chairman of the most startling event cal chapter at the convention Metropolitan Opera, snatched the book from her hand, of the day. Imagine, if you can, Harriette Cochran, Eva Ann Swift & Co., are also on the board were and said, "I do this every morn¬ "Tannhauser," 8:30 dignified Jane Salters calling the Pirkle, Louise Sams and Rebekah roster. ing." Miss Slack retreated, suffi¬ P. M. roll of her class. Everything was Hogan. ciently abashed. apparently in order until she came Hold Drive Thursday, Friday, April In biology class some of the boys to a name that gave familiar no Youngest Runyon Reveals A drive to raise Agnes Scott's 25, 26—May Day prac¬ wanted to play with Oscar, a bio¬ "Here." Just as she was marking $1,000,000 pledge for the Univer¬ tices, 7 P. M. logical model whose members could him absent, a snicker gave High I. Q. On Test warn¬ be taken apart. After assuring sity Center fund begins April 29. Friday, April 26—Chris¬ ing that something was amiss. Jane Recently Miss Dexter was giving Ruth that their teacher permitted looked up just in time to see the If this sum is collected promptly, tian Association Open Phyllis Runyon an intelligence the practice, they rushed off to "absentee" crawling from under the college will be able to share in Forum, 4:30 P. M. test. She was asking the child ques¬ find him. A few minutes later his desk, where he had been hiding, tions, and showing her cards to the $2,500,000 endowment with Ruth came them Saturday, April 27—A. A. upon battling for reasons still unknown! suggest answers. The teacher held Emory, and greatly improve its fiercely over poor Oscar's heart The age and wisdom of the Open House in gymna¬ up a picture and asked, "Phyllis, educational facilities. after having already crbshed one teachers must have been apparent sium, 7:30 P. M. where do we get milk?" lung. at the very beginning of the excur¬ The women'swomen s division of the Dr. Runyon's youngest gift to Monday, April 29—Atlan¬ During Eva Ann Pirkle's classes, sion. Upon calling a taxi and the population looked quite puz¬ campaign contains six groups, ta Campaign for Uni¬ attention was divided between the stating Murphy Junior High as zled, then replied, "There's not any marshaling thirty-eight active At¬ versity Center Project teacher in the front and Louise their destination, Eva Ann Pirkle, milk bottle on this card!" lanta matrons, under the leader¬ Opens. Sullivan sitting in the back. In Jane Salters, and Louise Sullivan When asked what she would do ship of Mrs. J. N. McEachern, Sr., fact, Louise attracted so much at¬ were much chagrined by the some¬ if it were cold, the child promptly Tuesday, April 30—May who has as her co-chairmen Mes tention that one inquisitive young¬ what forward driver, who remark¬ said, "Freeze to death." Day dress rehearsal, 4 ster asked her how old she was and ed, "You girls look old enough to Thus comes the truth from the dames Preston S. Arkwright and P. M. if she were married. According to be out of high school." mouths of babes. S. M. Inman. THE AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24, 1940 Tennis, Golf, Horses Keep Athletes Busy Even with A. A. Presidents Ann Fisher and Virginia Milner at the National Collegiate Athletic Convention at the University of West Virginia, the tennis doubles tournament, the golf tournament, plans for Open House on April 27th, and for the Horse Show on May 11th have kept Agnes Scott ath¬ letes concentrating. Practice has already begun for the Gymkhana, the horse show to be held at Georgiana Stables Sat¬ urday, May 11th, from 2 to 4. Highlights are a Beginner's Three Gait Class, Advanced Three Gait Class, Bareback Class, a Paired Class of Walk, Trot and Canter, Musical Chairs, Saddling and Bridling Race, a Bending Race in which two horses canter at once around posts in double figure "8," and the javelin throw through hoops from cantering horses. Class captains for the show are Marna McGarraugh, freshman; Olivia White, sophomore; Margaret Murchison, junior; and Hazel Solomon, senior. Tennis Doubles April showers did their part to halt progress in the tennis doubles tournament, and the first round, due to be played off by May 13, remains with only three of the eight matches completed. Carson and Taylor, 1939 cham¬ pions, won their first match from Nix and Merrill, 6-4, 6-0. O'Nan and Willis took Prosnit and Geist, 6-0, 6-0. The Websters, Dot and Alta, transferred their talent from basketball to tennis court, and won from Ann Frierson and V. Mont¬ gomery in straight sets, 6-0, 6-0. Other pairings show Slack and Forman vs. Gellerstedt and Nance, Butt and Eakin vs. Ailsman and Weismann, Patterson and Ivy vs. Palmour and Gaines, Robertson and Thomas vs. Stuart and Boggs, and last year's runners-up, Fisher and Dyar, slated to meet Stuckey and Brooks. Golf Tournament In the first bracket of golf com¬ petition, Jeanne Davidowitz, de¬ fending her title for the second time, out-putted Sophomore Mary Olive Thomas to win her match 2 and 1 after both had drawn byes in the first pairing. Crocker downed Strozier 2 and 1. Gudenrath won her match from Ayres and defaulted to Crocker. Wisdom outplayed Kaulbach, 3 and 2, while Spratlin won from Davis. Spratlin took her match with Wisdom, 1 up. Carson and Utterback met after having drawn byes for the first round. Carson took the match, 4 and 3. NSFA Sponsors Open Road Tours Mary Ellen Whetsell, NSFA of¬ ficial, has recently received word that the Open Road, a membership organization which has as its ob ject the promotion of inter-re gional and international under standing, will conduct tours for students through Mexico and through New York state this sum mer. Fhe Mexican program svill in¬ In the second bracket, Klugh, Guthrie, Florence, Vaughan, Patch, and Fisher drew byes for the first round. Hollis lost to Dyar, 4 and 2. Forman defeated Tine Gray. A. A. Vice-President Ida Jane Vaughan announces plans for Open House at the gym Saturday night, April 27, from 8 to 10. Bowling, ping-pong, badminton, darts, and shuffle board will be offered. Clubs Elect Leaders For 'AO-A"] B. O. Z. At the regular meet¬ ing of B. O. Z. Virginia Williams, Betty Kyle, and Cornelia Stuckey read. The time limit for tryouts to be submitted has been extended to May 1. Bible Club. The last meeting of the Bible Club was a supper hike to Harrison Hut. Margaret Ratchford led the devotional. The new officers will be elected Wednesday, April 23. French Club. The French Club program consisted of a musi¬ cal program of selections from fa¬ mous French composers. Tryouts were held Thursday and Friday. The new members will be an¬ nounced this week. Poetry Club. The Poetry Club tryouts may still be handed in. The new members will be admitted in time for the next meeting, which will be held with Miss Emma Mae Laney, the club sponsor, at her home. Special Chorus. Last week the Special Chorus sang on the pro¬ gram of the Southern Association of College and Secondary Schools, which met in Atlanta. Thursday, May 6, the chorus will sing to the Rotary Club of Atlanta. Spanish Club. Thursday night the Spanish Club had a supper hike at Harrison Hut. The new officers elected were: president, Charlene Burke; vice -president, Fletcher Mann; secretary, Dorothy Travis; treasurer, Alta Webster; music chairman, Lillian Gish; and social chairman, Carolyn Long. Plans were discussed for a cake walk to be held in May. Eta Sigma Phi. Dr. Alexan¬ der, archaeologist, gave an illus¬ trated lecture to Eta Sigma Phi at the last meeting. Dr. Alexander studied at Emory University, later 3-£2 News Sponors Straw Ballot Students to Nominate Presidential Candidates In order to give students a chance to show their interest in the choice of the chief executive of the United States, and to acquaint them with next term's presidential timber, the Agnes Scott News will conduct a straw ballot. The pri¬ maries will be conducted according to form, and in chapel tomorrow morning each girl will receive a ballot with places for her Demo¬ crat, Republican, and personal choices. Nominees Posted The list of presidential possibili¬ ties has been posted on the bulletin board in the reserve room of the library to remind students of the coming election. As rated by the leading newspapers in the country, the Democrats listed on the ballot will be: Hull, Secretary of State; Garner, Vice-President; Roosevelt, President; Wheeler, Senator from Montana; McNutt, Governor of Pennsylvania; Byrd, Senator from Virginia; Jackson, Attorney Gen¬ eral; Farley, Postmaster General; Clark, Senator from Missouri; Grass, Senator from Virginia. Republicans Listed The leading Republicans on the ballot will include: Vandenburg,' Senator from Michigan; Dewey, District Attorney for New York City; Taft, Senator from Ohio; Hoover, former President; Gan¬ nett, newspaper publisher; Bricher, Governor of Ohio; Martin, Repre¬ sentative from Massachusetts; Wilkie, business man; Bartin, Rep¬ resentative from New York State; Landon, former Governor of Kan¬ sas; and LaGuardia, Mayor of New York City. November Elections The actual elections will be held next November under the guid¬ ance of Miss Florence Smith, asso¬ ciate professor of history. The campus will witness a presidential campaign and election exactly like the national ones. There will be campaign speeches, registration, and polls for voting. A box for votes will be placed in the lobby of Buttrick. going to Johns Hopkins Univer sity. He has just returned from northern Greece where he investi¬ gated ruins. As a part of the meet¬ ing, officers for the coming year were elected. They are: president, Harriet Cochran; vice-president, Betty Medlock; treasurer, Dale Drennan; recording secretary, Wal¬ lace Lyons; and corresponding sec¬ retary, Dorothy Travis. — Photo Courtesy Atlanta Constitution. Pictured above is John Guerney, who will sing the role of Reinwar in Richard Wagner's "Tannhauser" tomorrow night. The MetropolitanOpera star is shown with Mrs. Charles Kullman. Wisconsin Survey Reveals Active Life for Average Co-ed AND INFLUENCE STAG-LINES By Dalea Dorothy Clix Dear Miss Clix: Pity the girl—that's me!—who goes on a blind date—and then falls in love! My roommate took me to a fra¬ ternity dance over at X College (near our school) and I met the captain of the basketball team. Once he started to hold my hand and then he suddenly said—"any man who had you for a sister would be lucky." Oh, Miss Clix, what can I do to make him think of me ... not as a sister? HEARTSICK CAFETERIA ; j \ ' Celebrating Our '• ! 12th Anniversary clude not only sight-seeing, but a . April 29th Through May 4th few lectures by authorities on the i history, economics, and govern-! There are over 3,000 co-eds at Wisconsin. In a typical year the average girl would have quite a round of activities to cover. She would have 210 quarts of "coke"' to imbibe, and 20 pounds of candy to ruin her complexion with, not to men¬ tion 20 feet of gum to chew. Preparing for her 80 days of dates, she would sleep 11J days for beauty, spend three days put¬ ting her hair up, and 16 combing it, bathe 90 hours, and zip 1,000 zippers. HOW TO She would also turn down 125 dates, receive five declarations of tender sentiments, and be the ob-. ject of 500 kisses (these statistics included several "steadies"), which transaction would speed the yearly consumption of six inches of lip¬ stick. Besides these pursuits, she would spend 13 days clinging to a tele¬ phone. In the chase f»r the oppo¬ site sex she would annihilate 50 pairs of stockings, absorb two pounds of cold cream, and buy a quart of "My Sin" or "Moonlight Madness" perfume.— (ACP) WIN BOY-FRIENDS Dear Heartsick: Your plight is not hopeless. After all, supposing he wouldn't even want you for a sister! However, you gave me one very significant clue. Why did he make that remark after holding your hand? How do your hands look- like a day laborer's? Be honest, now—were your nails beautifully groomed, impeccably manicured and tinted? That is a good way to begin climbing out of the blind date class, isn't it? AND HERE'S WHAT YOU CAN DO ABOUT BEAUTIFUL NAILS / Thousands ofcol¬ lege women have found how they can havethe most beautiful fingernails in the world! They are switching to DURA-GLOSS, the nail polish that's different. Goes on smoothly, levels out to a beauti¬ ful lustre — and best of all, it lasts ment of the country, and social ! AND NOW, DEAR, 2$ longer! Only ten and hospitable features such as ' cents, at all cosmetic counters— Special Features Every Day This Week READ THE NEXT you can have six shades (for parties in Mexican homes, excur¬ different costumes) for what sions, picnics, and dances. COLUMN CAREFULLY! Jimmy Beers At the Organ Each Evening 5:00 to 8:00 you often paid for one bottle. All who are interested should see Start using dura-gloss, today! Marv Ellen for information. THE AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24, 1940 Audience Misses Main Performance By Gloria Bramlette "I'll Leave It To You" was really a doubleheader perform¬ ance. The audience in front enjoyed an entertaining-comedy; the ones behind the back drop saw a good show themselves. Laura Sale. Billy Hinson, and Lib Barrett find themselves penniless in the Blackfriars' production of "I'll Leave It To You," given Saturday night in the gymnasium. Decatur Floral Company Flowers for All Occasions CORSAGES CUT FLOWERS 800 Avery St. DE. 1354 DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF NURSING DURHAM, N. C. The Diploma of raduate Nurse is awarded after three years, and the Degree of Bachelor of Science in Nursing for two additional years of approved college work before or after the course in Nursing. The entrance requirements are intelli¬ gence, character and graduationfrom an accredited high school. After 1940 two years of collegework will be required. The annual tuition of §100 covers the cost of uniforms, books, student govern¬ ment fees, etc. Catalogues, appli¬ cation forms and information about college requirements may be ob¬ tained from the Admission Com¬ mittee. Dewey Leads in MacMurray Voting "Dewey is our presidential fav¬ orite," proclaimed students of Mac- Murray College in a recent straw vote. Thomas Dewey led the vote with seven times as many support¬ ers as his closest opponent, Frank¬ lin Roosevelt; Vandenberg and Hull followed in preference. The girls at MacMurray showed their opposition to the President's run¬ ning for a third term when 79% of the girls voted against "four more years." First of all, of course, there were the preliminary preparations. The "property girls" were running around wildly, getting last minute necessities. Ida came in a little late, looking rather haggard. It seems she had been looking everywhere for an English water pitcher; fin¬ ally, after a long and arduous search, she had located one, only to find that Miss Gooch had decided not to use it. The makeup com¬ mittee was busy putting on faces with rosy powder and a black pen¬ cil — glamorizing the former Hunchback of Notre Dame, and literally making Louise Musser old before her time. The performers themselves with shaking fingers were dressing, looking quite mod¬ est wearing a big red rag to pro¬ tect Nature's aids. Actor Goes Astray And then suddenly, with the help of several pairs of hands, the curtain reluctantly parted, and the real play was in progress. This.did not deter the impromptu perform¬ ance in the rear, however. Between the nervous treks to the water pitcher for a last swallow and the agonized "shoo" of Miss Winter as somebody lightly stomped behind the scenery from one side to the other, the actors themselves had no small amount of fun. They shriek¬ ed once—a little heartlessly, per¬ haps—at one of their fellow play¬ ers who turned left instead of right as he made his exit, and came to a dead end. There he was—no way to get out and he couldn't go back, for the audience would certainly see him. Is it any wonder he was ^tearing his hair until someone watching recovered enough to gasp out instructions about how he could crawl through on his hands and knees, and be ready for his next entrance. Towel Saves Day Miss Winter's little monologue, however, was the climax. In the middle of the play she suddenly tip-toed to a screen leaning against the wall. After arranging it until it suited her, she began to glance around as if looking for something. She had just triumphantly spied a knitting bag and was starting off with it, when she was waylaid by one of the property girls. It seems she was walking off with one of their most valuable possessions. Undaunted, she next picked up THREADGILL PHARMACY Phone DE. 1665 309 E. College Avenue Decatur, Ga. • NOTICE AGNES SCOTT This is your drug store. WELCOME from the NEW PIG'N WHISTLE A Delightful Place to Entertain Your Friends someone's coat and went behind the screen, only to return a few seconds later to declare it "too good." The same thing happened several times, nothing seeming to "just suit," until she located an old towel which appealed to her. With this she retired, quite satisfied. Un¬ able to repress his curiosity longer, someone asked, "What is Miss Win¬ ter doing?" "Oh, she's muffling the horn!" was the reply. That realistically distant "hee-ooo-gat" of Uncle Danny's car was behind the screen under a rag ! "Thank goodness that worked," laughed Miss Winter as she came out of her seclusion. Then, soon after, the play was over, and the audience crowding up to give well-earned congratula¬ tions to the cast and the directors, not knowing they had missed one half of the performance. What a shame they could not have seen it all! Phi Beta Kappa Elects Alumnae Mrs. Archie Maclnnes Palmer, ';2 5, and Miss Margery Speake, '25, have recently been elected to the Beta Chapter of Phi Beta Kap¬ pa at Agnes Scott. Mrs. Palmer (Elizabeth Cheatham) and Miss Speake played prominent parts in campus activities while they were students at Agnes Scott. Both were members of Hoasc, the honor so¬ ciety preceding Mortar Board. After her graduation from Agnes Scott, Mrs. Palmer did grad¬ uate work at Cornell, in France. Miss Speake received her Mas¬ ter's Degree from Columbia Uni¬ versity. She was later sent to China by the Board of American Colleges. The newly elected officers of the Beta Chapter of Phi Beta Kap¬ pa have been announced as fol¬ lows: president, Miss Emma May Laney, associate professor of Eng¬ lish; vice-president, Miss Florence E. Smith, associate professor of history; secretary, Miss Muriel Harn, professor of German and Spanish; and treasurer, Dr. Ernest H. Runyon, associate professor of botany. Mr. Samuel Guerry Stukes, dean of faculty and professor of philosophy and education, is a member of the new executive com¬ mittee. News Adds to Staff The following students have been added to the Agnes Scott News staff as report¬ ers: Gloria Bramlette, Mar¬ tha Dale, Rebekah Hogan, Dot Holloran, Alice Inzer, Frances Kaiser, Ruth Line- back, Mary Estill Martin, and Mary Wolford. BAILEY BROTHERS SHOE SHOP 142 Sycamore St. MIDDLETON'S BAKERY Special Cakes for All Occasions Decatur DE. 9229 Play For Third Shoe Center Street Floor Shoes Quarter Work ♦98 1 They'll take you flying across the campus to those 8 o'clocks this spring quarter! They'll whirl you down the stairs in time for Wednesday night dinner and show off that new cotton evening dress to best advantage! They'll be the shoe of the Quadrangle in white, multicolor, blue and white, caramel. Spool heeled; 3-9; narrow, medium. RICH'S THE AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24, 1940 Mrs. ChristianShunsMath; Likes Teaching/ Sewing By Virginia Williams Now that Dr. Christian has a fellowship with the General Education Board, Mrs. Schuyler Christian is back in the biology department with the additional responsibility of keeping house and managing two daughters, aged five and three. She taught at Agnes Scott three years before her marriage but, because two members of the same family can¬ not be on the faculty, she gave up her position when she married. Mrs. Christian hates math, has never studied physics, and discusses May Day Cast with equal vividness the art of shoeing mules, the flavor of but¬ Rehearses termilk pie, and the making of hominy. The gym department announces the following schedule for May Summer School Romance Day rehearsals: Episode I practices Born in Atlanta, one of eleven in the gym Thursday, April 25, children, she attended Girls' High, from 7:15 to 7:45, and Episode II Agnes Scott, and Emory. It was rehearses Friday, April 26. The en¬ tire cast is to rehearse in costume at Emory that she met Dr. Chris¬ on Tuesday, April 30, and Thurs¬ tian. He was teaching organic day, May 2, at 4:00-6:00. chemistry in summer school. At Episode I includes the following: first she "didn't take him serious¬ 1. Narrator 2. Woman and Evil Forces ly." Because he had ideas about in¬ 3. Evil Power and Women in structors not going with students Bondage 4. Muses, Graces, Memory they didn't have a date all summer. 5. Primitive Peoples He did take her home several times, 6. Woman (pantomime) 7. Narrator however. After that she saw quite Classical Age a bit of him and there were "ups a. Sappho and Greek Maid¬ ens and downs" through the mail with b. Greek Games evident results. c. Spartan Women d. Socrates, Xantippe, Greek Mrs. Christian loves to teach Men and hadn't realized how much she e. Woman (pantomime) f. Vestal Virgins of Rome missed it. "But," she insisted, "I'm 9. Narrator sure I study much harder than any 10. Middle Ages a. Fishwives, Wash Wom¬ of my students. I've forgotten so en, Merchant, Appren¬ much." She finds her French and tices b. Lady of Fashion, Com¬ Qerman especially hard to remem¬ panions, Minstrel ber. c. Nuns Episode II includes these: 1. Narrator 2. Renaissance a. Two Men and a Woman b. Women, Page, Jesters, Men Scholars, Da Feltra 3. Narrator 4. Modern (1850) a. Boy, Tutor b. Little Girl c. Girls d. Children and Mammies e. Father 5. Daisy Chain (1890-1940) 6. Professions 7. Narrator 8. Woman and Evil Forces 9. Evil Power and Women in Bondage 10. Liberal Arts and Agnes Scott 11. Memory, Woman, Muses, Graces 12. Exit all. American Service Group Sponsors Work Camps Desirous of extending the work camp idea flourished in the enthu¬ siasm of students and working youth of European countries as well as in the United States through the American Friends Service Committee, an organiza¬ tion known as "Work Camps for America" has announced five camps for this summer, each un¬ dertaking specific work projects. It is extremely important for youth to understand the character of their country; understanding lies in living next to insecurity and waste, and in association with men and women who meet these problems daily—understanding is not found simply in the words "social security," "collective bar¬ gaining," "soil conservation." The campers will be college, la¬ bor and farm youth, church and union leaders, young people of dif¬ ferent religions and backgrounds with a desire to discover a life bal¬ anced with work, study, service to others and recreation with friends. Scientific Curiosity During the interview, her daughter, Sarah, was too absorbed in her own interests to take notice of what her mother was discussing. She was playing with something that looked like a test tube, but her mother assured us that it was only a tooth brush holder and that Sarah was, as yet, unable even to recognize a cat without its skin. Her only promise of a scientific mind just now is a very, very in¬ quisitive nature. Mrs. Christian plays with paints a bit and loves her flowers. Her flowers she finds rather discourag¬ ing. She plants them and then has to go away in the summer and no¬ body waters them. For the past summers. Dr. Christian has been working in the chemistry lab at Harvard, but last summer he be¬ gan his new work with his fellow¬ ship. ' Mrs. Christian Still optimis¬ tically plants flowers. They moved into a new home in February and she has already begun planting, even though she is leaving the mid¬ dle of May to join her husband. Sarah Tells on Mother Sarah Christian was at this point busily imitating Pinocchio but she interrupted herself long enough to volunteer information about her mother, "I know she likes cake." Mrs. Christian admit¬ ted that she loves sweets. Another favorite of hers is hominy (not grits, lye hominy) with ham gravy. She might even like to cook if someone else would clean up. As for books, she loves to read so well that she doesn't dare begin reading while busy. Dr. Christian likes Alice in Wonderland and has already read it to the children, but his wife always preferred such books as Uncle Remus and Brer Rabbit stories. Biologists Attend Southeastern Meet Dr. Ernest Runyon Reads Scientific Paper Representing Agnes Scott at the Southeastern Biologists' Conven¬ tion at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn., April 19 and 20, were Dr. Mary MacDougall, pro¬ fessor of biology; Dr. Ernest Run¬ yon, assistant professor of botany; Miss Blanche Miller and Miss Frances McCalla, instructors in biology; and Miss Mary Ellen Whetsell, fellow in biology. Delegates from southeastern states met as guests of Vanderbilt to read papers on biological sub¬ ject. Dr. Runyon contributed a paper entitled "The Problems of Intercellular Influences in Dictyosteliaceae." This organization of biologists was started at the University of Georgia and is now in its fourth year. Miss MacDougall is a mem¬ ber of the executive committee. Dr. Blonguit, professor of botany CBS model shows mermaid silhouette curves in a new silk-knit sweater with zipper at Duke University, is president. running from neck-line to waist. —Courtesy CBS Fashion Service. Class; Kathleen Huck, Negro Girl Girls High Editor Plans Retreat Scout Troop; Fletcher Mann, Negro Mission. Wins Scholarship At Harrison Hut Some chapel programs have been As editor of the Girls' High Hoping to complete the plans planned in cooperation with stu¬ Times, which recently won first place in the Emory-Journal South¬ for this year's program, the Cabi¬ dent government. Thursday, May 5, Judge Watkins will speak on eastern High School Newspaper net of Christian Association will "Juvenile Delinquency." Dr. Da¬ Contest, Mary Eloise Henry will go on its spring retreat at Harri¬ vidson will talk on "Foreign Pol¬ receive a $200 scholarship to Ag¬ son Hut April 27. icy" May 30. Jerome Jones will nes Scott. The trophy, offered Among the projects already speak May 5. May 9, Scotty Wilds jointly by the Atlanta Journal and planned are on the will report on the National Con¬ the journalism department of Em¬ two discussions vention of the Y. W. C. A., which ory, was awarded as a permanent general subject, "Authorities Other she attended. possession to the Girls' High Than God," scheduled for April Times. 26 and May 10. A leader has not The Journal and Emory give yet been chosen for the first dis¬ Dies Committee scholarships to the editors of the cussion, but the second will be led five winning papers. Mary Eloise Investigates Books by Miss Celestine Smith, national Henry will take her scholarship at secretary of the Atlanta Y. W. Agnes Scott since Emory does not A new and particularly ominous C. A. receive women students. The win¬ note was sounded by the Dies Com¬ ning editor has been on the staff Suzanne Kaulbach, on the sub-mittee the other day when they an¬ of the Girls' High paper for three council of C. A., will represent the nounced that they would soon turn ^ears, serving as freshman editor, Cabinet on the Intercollegiate to investigating textbooks for "sub¬ columnist, and editor. Council. Ruth Lineback, also on versive" material. This kind of The Girls' High Times rolled up the sub-council, will be in charge censorship is an old game which a total of 92 5 points out of a pos¬ of the bulletin board in the mail has long plagued institutions of sible 1,000 in the score sheet of the room and a new one in the library. free learning. Students who have contest. Ruth Allgood will keep the cam¬ not already read Mother Goose's pus in touch with the Industrial Nursery Rhymes should hasten to Group of the Atlanta Y. W. C. A. do so. Judging from past criteria Dr. Duggan The other officers chosen in¬ established by Dies as to subver clude: Betty Sunderland, social siveness, it is not certain that even Discusses War service work in the Decatur Fam¬ these times will escape. After all, On Campus ily Welfare Office; Annie Wilds, what about Little "Red" Riding mission playground; Matilda Cart-Hood?—(NSFA) In an article entitled "The War ledge, Christmas party; Elizabeth and the Campus," appearing in Russell, Scottish Rite Hospital; March News Bulletin of the Insti¬ Mary Jane Auld, Carolina Smith, tute of International Education, and Louise Musser, recreation; TWO YEARS OF LAW Dr. Stephen Duggan says: "Con¬ Martha Dale, assistant on Christian sider the effects of the opening of Exchange; Ann Frierson, Morning Leading to the LL.B. war upon the college campus. Watch; Mamie Sue Barker, discus¬ Degree Young men are conscripted into sion group, "Religious Resources"; the war. They are cheated of their Dale Drennan, the chapel; Mary CUMBERLAND just due, their fullest self-develop-Blakemore, Maids' Sunday School UNIVERSITY ment. It will be conceded, I am sure, that the years spent in the Certainly they are better off than Lebanon, Tennessee trenches are lost years, lost forever. the others. But they must often The future careers of these college pursue their studies in a desiccated A School With A Great conscripts or volunteers are fre¬ environment with ma¬ inadequate quently ruined, for they are the History terials and resources, with changed years planned to provide the ele¬ curricula and shortened courses. ments of knowledge necessary in 1842-1940 It may be that their best teachers the competition among men for have been called away in the serv¬ place in their chosen field. These Courses of study include ice of Mars—like themselves." "legionnaires" return from the both text books and case trenches to a disrupted, sometimes books. Extensive Moot a ruined world. They return often HOTEL CANDLER ill, sometimes disillusioned and dis¬ Decatur Court practice. Instruction couraged, frequently with diffi¬ given by trained Lawyers A Good Place to Eat culty making a new orientation. And what of those left behind on T. J. WOODS, Operator and Judges. the campus, the unconscripted? For Catalogue, Address Cumberland University HEARN'S Law School LADIES' and MEN'S READY-TO-WEAR Lebanon, Tennessee 131 Sycamore Street Decatur, Ga. THE AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24, 1940 Virginia Clower takes notes For the Record Not to give anybody ideas, but it seems that the latest thrill on the campus is being locked in the library at ten o'clock. The report is that during the past three weeks no less than four people have been rescued from the stacks after the sanctum was duly locked for the evening. We can't vouch for the others, but one first-hand account comes from Virginia Collier. Virginia had sought the nethermost regions of the lower stacks and was so deeply immersed in a lather of differential equations that she first floor. was overlooked when the stack The library was the villian in lights were turned off. She re¬ another thumbnail drama last turned from her fifth dimension of week. Barbara Lee Murlin had left concentration only when the lights her large and varied collection of went out in the carrels, and her textbooks on one of the tables shout of dismay brought nary a downstairs while she went upstairs flicker of response. Making a head¬ to use the card catalogue. Imagine long dash into several shelves of her chagrin to come back half an assorted journals and abstracts, she hour later and, after a flustered clutched madly at the nearest door search, find her books riding one knob, only to find that the door of those little carts, while a be¬ was locked fast! Further explora¬ wildered student assistant tried to tion showed that the windows were decide on just which shelf to put bolted. Virginia claims she wasn't them. scared, but she does admit to yell¬ Natural History Note ing then, experimentally first, then Did you know that Agnes Scott two or three good screams which is harboring a confirmed-er—not should have stretched the arches in icthyologist, that's a fishy expert— the building by inches. It didn't herptologist? (Translation: Au¬ do any good, however; our heroine thority on snakes. No, little Aud¬ had just about decided that she rey, I don't mean a snake charmer.) would have to spend the night in Of course, it wouldn't be discreet the chilly clutch of the abode of to mention names, especially since learning, and was casting about the aforesaid expert's neighbors for the best place to sleep, wonder¬ don't realize that they are living ing a little about the finesse of right under the same roof with a Aida, that lady of operatic fame charming little green snake about who managed to be entombed six inches long. We just wanted to alive, yet look calm and sing in warn you that if you find such a such an unruffled fashion. reptile in your bed some night, it Free—At Last! probably isn't what you think it is. Well, it makes a better story to Dorg't reach for the aspirin, just stop right here, but editorial ac¬ insert an ad in the classified col¬ curacy forces us to admit that Vir¬ umn, and the owner will claim her ginia discovered she had been property. P. S. She absolutely re¬ struggling with the wrong door fuses to be held responsible for any knob in the darkness, and that she lavender dragons with yellow polka finally escaped from the lower re¬ dotted tails. gions to the comparative comfort S'prise— of Miss Handley's office, whence Margaret Hopkins was genuine¬ she telephoned the Dean's office. ly surprised when she was awarded Chance visitors to that center were the debate cup this morning; she intrigued by hearing Miss Wilson hadn't the faintest idea she'd get it gasp into the phone, "No, don't again. In fact, she was so sure she climb out the window; I'll send wouldn't that even her best Mr. Jones right over with the key," friends were almost convinced. then wave her hands agitatedly One of these friends, on being told and rush out. In due time Miss the secret in strictest confidence, Collier was liberated. Now she only was so surprised she had to -avoid goes to the library in broad day¬ Margaret for the next day in or¬ light, and she confines her area of der to keep from "spilling the activity to the big dictionary on beans." THE VARSITY CURB SERVICE 61 North Avenue Agnes Scott College DECATUR, GA. A college for women that is widely recog¬ nized for its standards of work and for the interesting character of its student activities. Molly Oliver checks up on Tech, Agnes Scott After Working Hours Receive Delegates Going-the weatherman one better seems to have been the Students from fourteen states pastime this last week. Every time that ominous note of selected Atlanta, with Georgia Tech and Agnes Scott as hosts, as warning crept into his voice, another flowered bonnet bloomed in gay colors or another fraternity offered a "cov¬ the site of the next meeting of the Southeastern Federation of College ered hayride." Student Government and Publica¬ At the SPE Formal Friday Dr. A. F. Raper Sees tions Representatives, to be held in night Frankie Butt, Anne April, 1941. The selection was Tenancy Problems Bumstead, Marjorie Simpson, Eliza¬ made at the closing luncheon of beth Steadman, Mary Anne Atkins, this year's convention in New Or¬ "If we have any intention of leans, Louisiana. Martha Sue Dillard, Adelaide Greg¬ safeguarding democracy, we will ory, Anne Hillsman, Eugenia The New Orleans convention have to think in terms of the rural took most of Agnes Scott's organi¬ folk, the farm tenants," declared Hailey, Jane Stillwell, and Eloise zation heads off-campus for an ac¬ Dr. Arthur F. Raper in a talk to McCall. tive three days spent in discussing the student body Friday morning At the Tea Dance Friday at problems of student government, at 10 o'clock. "We will have to the press, and yearbooks. work in terms of health, education, Emory we noted Anne Bumstead, voting, and housing, and speed Frances Ellis, Frankie Butt, and Frances Breg, president, and must be our keyword." Eloise McCall. Betsy Kendrick, vice-president, Applying the farm tenant ques¬ represented student government. The Emory Spring Dances tion to Agnes Scott students, as Elaine Stubbs, editor; Virginia Saturday afternoon and night at¬ Southerners, Dr. Raper stated that Clower, managing editor; and tracted Martha Dunn, Marjorie the "South land farmer epitomizes Florence Ellis, business manager, Simpson, Allie Malone, Jacqueline the problem to which we want to appeared in behalf of the Agnes Smith, Ailene Barron, Margaret turn ourselves if we want to save Scott News, while Gene Slack rep¬ Smith, Sue Heldman, Jane Still- democracy. Statistics show that resented the Silhouette. well, Frankie Butt, Caroline Alley, there are upward of 10,000,000 Mar)' Ellen Whetsell, chairman Sara Copeland, Betty Waitt, Grace people living on land and owning of the Southeastern section of Walker, Dot Holloran, Mary Klin not a pint of dirt." Making a N. S. F. A., led one of the group gensmith, Nancy Hirsch, Kay startling statement, he called at¬ sessions at the convention, discuss¬ Wright, Iddy Boone, Bette Bur tention to the fact that the poorest ing the subject, "Where do student dette, Anne Frierson, Jane Mac- people in Georgia lived on the rich¬ governments fail? What are some Donough, Stewart Arbuckle, and est land. "These people," he con¬ ways and means of stimulation?" Ida Jane Vaughan. tinued, "don't vote, eat poorly, are illiterate, live in the poorest houses, Sharing the spotlight Saturday and on the richest lands, and it night at the Sigma Nu Supper Collegiate Press doesn't make sense." were Allie Malone, Marjorie Simp¬ son, and Martha Dunn. "College students," he said, Comments on Census "must get facts before they are Over at the same house Sunday . The nation's college press, al¬ overwhelmed by propaganda. Since night was Margaret Smith. ways ready to choose up sides for the amount of cotton produced in The Delta Sigma Lodge a healthy editorial slugfest, is in the United States grows smaller Thursday evening entertained virtually unanimous agreement this every year, soon the people living ^ilyree Wells, Betty Medlock, and week on one topic that has stirred on lands will move." Virginia McWhorter. bitter debate in other quarters. '*What makes the situation the The past week-end also found most terrifying," he added, "is (that The national census, those who Mary Lou Longino in Newnan, this is the group that says things guide the student publications be¬ Elta Robinson up at Washington aren't working out right, though lieve, is not taking undue liberties and Lee, and Betty Lovett enjoying they're willing to try. This is the by prying into private lives. Stu¬ herself at the University of Vir¬ group that will start a Nazi rebel¬ dents in the nation's colleges and ginia, while Helen Hale amused lion." universities are being advised to co¬ herself at the Spanish Room in the operate fully in the decennial nose-Telling us that we must prepare Henry Grady. Kay Wilkinson went count. And they're being remind¬ to act, he concluded: "Choose ye to Auburn, and Taps at Clemson ed that statistics available only this day, not tomorrow, which drew Marjorie Wilson. through the census are vitally choice you will make." Campus Queen Scene: Grace needed in solution of the nation's Dr. Raper was professor of so¬ Ward takes a bow this week in a ills. ciology at Agnes Scott last year. smart redingote of contrasting The census bureau, it is pointed blues, very chic, and definitely be¬ out by the Glenville, W. Va., coming. the country, will pay dividends in Teachers College Mercury, "needs a number of ways." in two ways the help of students in Pointing out that revealing of the gigantic task of assembling Tarleton Collier financial secrets in income tax re¬ facts about 132 million Americans: Discusses Criminology turns has stirred no storm of dis¬ First, by making sure that their approval, The Daily lowan at the parents will report them to the Defining criminology as a field University of Iowa observes that a census enumerator, and second, by "embodying knowledge and use of more universal survey occuring supplying their parents with cer¬ everything from glands and diges¬ only once every ten years should tain information they will need in tion to the Sermon on the Mount" not jneet with any resentment. order to report on them accurately. in his talk in chapel Tuesday morn¬ More important than the mere ac¬ ing, Tarleton Collier deplored the The University of Kansas Daily cumulation of figures is the neces¬ lack of trained criminologists in Kansan, while conceding that "the sity for full data for use in a long- list of questions Uncle Sam has the Georgia penal system. needed attack on the unemploy prepared, for his Q-Men to ask are "Over half the nearly ten thou ment problem. personal and intimate as well as samj prisoners in Georgia state in¬ multitudinous," adds that "co-op¬ "Two things," believes the Uni¬ stitutions today are there for eration with the 1940 census takers versity of Minnesota Daily, crimes relating to theft," declared "should keep the census above poli¬ in every way, by every person in Mr. Collier. "These people are vic¬ tical taint. In the first place, the tims of a social order which denies questions for the new census are them education, equality of privi¬ GLENN'S PHARMACY not the product of a Tew bureau¬ lege, and proper environment. Is the Store To Go For crats, but have been prepared over They need the guidance of trained Your Needs a fairly long period with the aid of experts to help them find a place Masonic Temple Bldg. suggestions from private citizens in the world to which they re¬ Decatur, Ga. and organizations. turn." (AGP.) . To remedy conditions, Mr. Col¬ lier suggested that the state camps be enlarged to accommodate pris¬ oners who are now farmed out to Bowen Press counties, and that prisoners be taught trades and trained for goodCommercial Printing and Stationery citizenship. TYPEWRITERS AND RIBBONS Blotters — Note Paper — Poster Paper For further information, address Officev Supplies J. R. McCAIN, President 316 Church St. DE. 3383 Deoatur, Ga. THE AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24, 1940 Campus Camera The News Takes Forward Aim With this issue of the Agnes Scott News, a new staff takes the reins. Our page is blank. Looking at this vacuity, the question arises: With what shall we fill the pages, what will be our aims, our policies? We answer the question first by a brief review of the Agnes Scott News of the past. Three years ago the Agonistic re¬ ceived second class rating. Last year's Agonistic climbed one more rung to first class. This past year the News reached a new height, a station coveted by every col¬ lege staff—All-American honor rating. Gleaning one truth from these facts, it is clear that the path of the News lies in one direction: toward growth, progress, development, and change where it may be profitable. More specifically, the aims of the news¬ paper are threefold. First, we wish to act as a mouthpiece of information for all coming, current, and past events of inter¬ est to the campus. By recounting these events we wish not only to inform the campus, but to ^set down the history of Agnes Scott for a permanent record. Our second aim is to act as an organ of student opinion on all matters which are constructive and which may be of service to the college. We shall encourage and welcome all letters to the editor; however, we take this chance to state that all un¬ signed student opinion will go no farther than the editor's hands. We hope through our student opinion columns in some way to unify and bring closer to a head the ideals and objectives of the institution it¬ self. As a definite editorial policy, we adopt the stimulation of interest in national and world affairs. Today, necessarily, our in¬ terest is centered on Europe, on each re¬ action of the nation's bigwigs to each change in Europe. Through a current his¬ tory column, student opinions on current events, and editorials, it is our hope that we may arouse, express, and to some slight degreie direct ideas along the line of intercollegiate and world affairs. , We are hopeful. We pledge our support to any project which may reflect the best on the campus. In all our work, we real¬ ize our dependence on the students and faculty, the value of their suggestions and criticisms. It is up to the reader to advise us, to criticize us, and to support us. This is what we ask in return for our efforts. Anne Chambless gathers Campus Quotes Along with the choosing of courses for next year, students have been discussing recently the "pros" and "cons" of five-hour courses and three- hour courses. Some current opinions on the sub¬ ject follow: Grace Walker, '41: "I prefer the five-hour courses. Although they seem to be harder than the three-hour courses, I like the condensed, in¬ tensive study." Cornelia Willis, '41: "I like the three-hour courses better because you have time to catch your breath in between classes and can better grasp the material. I think, however, that it is better to have all courses the same." Betty Jean O'Brien, '40: "The five-hour classes are all right over short periods of time, but don't think that one course should last more than one quarter." Gay Swagerty, '41: "I think the five-hour courses are a fine change, but the schedule with the three-hour classes will have to be worked out to be more satisfactory for the students." Claire Wilson, '40: "I like the three-hour courses better because they are spread out more than the five-hour classes. If a person has more than one or two classes meeting every day, her preparation for them is too heavy." Mary Lang Gill, '40: "I don't think that a person learns as much in five-hour courses as in three-hour courses. Psychologists say that it is better to learn over a rather extended period of time and I agree with them." Boots Moore, '40: "I don't like five-hour Betty Stevenson boils down The Real News War in Norway News in the last week has pieced together a picture of the speed and success of the German initiative in Nor¬ way. Repeated practice on their own coastal towns as¬ sured a flawless technique in the attack. Waves of trans¬ port planes more than sup¬ plemented warships trans¬ porting troops through the British mine fields. False orders of surrender were sent to Norwegian generals; guns were spiked; fifth column" treachery aided in handing over all important ports to the Germans the first day. The present situation finds the Germans en¬ trenched in all the west coast port towns. The status of Narvik in the North is uncertain. In the South the Nazis hold Oslo and are fanning out in all directions. The Germans hold one west- east railroad cutting Norway in two near the center of the country. The allies' situation is difficult but hopeful. Britisk and French troops have landed at several points on the west coast. The point to watch is Trondheim. Allied troops have landed at Namso above and Molde below; an encircling attack is expected to a west to east drive .north of Oslo. The British are making an effort now also to cut off the German supplies from the air. Trojan Horses Certain tourists sauntering the squares of Bel¬ grade, merchants, and cabaret performers in Tur¬ key, experienced a bad week. When it is under¬ stood that these harmless-seeming cathedral-gaz¬ ers and industrious workers have all recently come in to the Balkans and are all pronounced Teutons, the actions of the Balkan governments seem less whimsical. All this surface flurry is only an indication of the absolute lack of security in every small coun¬ try in Europe. For instance, in Budapest, a sud¬ den panic drove French and British residents away one night while uneasy searchlights swept the sky above the city and below in the ' dark streets prowled the air raid patrols. Tightrope Artist In' Italy—uneasy lies the head—not of a king, but of a dictator, a man growing older than his ardor. Mussolini is not happy in this war. Italy cannot fight without ruin. Yet, all his reign, Caesar Mussolini has preached the joy and purification of war. Disorder in the Balkans may prove more of a temptation to the acquisitive in¬ stinct than a warning of danger. The South Adriatic port of Bari has been closed—for gunnery practice. It was from Bari that Italian soldiers sailed to take over Albania. Keep Off the Grass The Netherlands gratefully thanked Cordell Hull for warning all whose envious eyes were straying to the girdle of the rich Dutch East In¬ dies. The Dutch have arranged for independent government there in case. Japanese statesmen answered smoothly that Japan was equally concerned for the protection of the status quo in the Indies. They went so far as to claim the idea as original with them. Strong Language The most sensational charges against any em¬ ployer in an NLRB case were made recently in connection with labor troubles in the Dallas plant of the Ford Motor Company. Robert N. Denham, a Labor Board examiner, asserted that "Senior of¬ ficials of the Ford Motor Company in Dearborn knew of, helped plan, and subsequently approved the program of terrorism." Denham specified that the strong arm squad had made use of "blackjacks, loaded hose, cat-o'nine tails made of rubber stripping and electric light wire" in intimidating union sympathizers. courses, because I get too tired of studying so much of one thing every day. Five-hour course^ which have been made over from three three-hour courses are too hard for students." Jo Gates, '41: "I think that it is hard to keep up with your work in five-hour courses, but the material that you study stays more fresh in your mind than it does when there is an interval be¬ tween classes." Betty Kyle, '41: "I think that a person gets ' more done in five-hour courses, and it seems that one gets through the courses faster that way. I don't think, however, that the study for these classes can be as thorough as for three-hour Editorial Notes Letter to Editor Opens Discussion Although not timely for this year's Mardi Gras, the letter to the editor this week comes into wel¬ coming hands. Since the junior class will undoubtedly continue to sponsor this spring festival, we would like to receive more campus opinion on the suggested change of Many thanks to the laundry for the new folding tabs. The innova¬ tion not only saves wear and tear on socks, but also time and finger¬ nails. Debate attendance is a good standard measure for divining the amount of college interest in na¬ tional and international affairs. We cannot judge the intelligence of the community concerning current events by the words of the inter¬ ested, informed, and trained par¬ ticipants. The size of the audience tells us more. The size has been deplorably small. The Agnes LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Dear Editor: I am writing not to complain of the spirit, but the name of "Mardi Gras" at this time. As we all know, Mardi Gras is French for "Fat Tuesday" and is really Shrove Tuesday before Ash Wednesday, the first day of Lent. In New Orleans, it ends the carnival season preceding Lent. Having the Mardi Gras now is like decorating the tables for George Washington's birthday with Thanksgiving pumpkins. It's out of season. Of course, the spirit of our Mardi Gras is never out of season. But we can have loads of fup with¬ out calling it Mardi Gras. As Shakespeare said, "What's in a name, That which we call a rose By any ether name would smell as sweet." Why don't we call our festival "Spring Frolics" or "Comus' De¬ light," and leave Mardi Gras in its conventional place, Shrove Tues¬ day? Virginia Watkins. Scott News Vol. XXV Wednesday, April 24, 1940 No. 18 Published weekly, except during holidays and examination periods, by the students of Agnes Scott College. Office on second floor Murphey Candler Building. Entered as second class matter at the Decatur, Georgia, post office. Subscription price per year, $1.2 5; single copies, five cents. Elaine Stubbs Virginia Clower Florence Ellis . . Bee Bradfleld Theodosla Rlpley Assistant Editors Suzanne Kaulback Advertising Manager Carolyn Rtrozler Copy Editor Virginia Williams Feature Editor Matilda Cartledge Jeanne Osborne Assistant Feature Editors Betty Jane Stevenson Current History Editor Susan Self Sports Editor Edwina Burniss Exchange Editor Cornelia Stuckey Club Editor Molly Oliver Society Editor Editor Managing Editor Business Manager Lib Barrett Anne Frierson Betty Sunderland Olivia White Assistant Society Editors Lucile Oalnes Circulation Manager Mary Ivy Bennye Llnzy Mary Madison Wisdom Anita Woolfolk Circulation Assistants Reporters: G. Brarolette, J. Cates. M. Dale. L. Franklin, M. Gray, R. Hogan, D. Holloran, A. Inzer. F. Kaiser. J. Lancaster. R. Llneback, M. E. Martin, M. Beagle, V. Stanley, J. Stearns, V. Watkins, C. Willis, M. Wolford. Business Assistants: M. Barker, L. Boone, B. Brougher, A. BumMead, A. Clements, J. Craig, M. Dtllard, D. Hopkins. B. Moore, M. Toomey. The Agnes Scott News VOL. XXV AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR, GA., WEDNESDAY, MAY 1, 1940 Z115 No. 19 Pageant Shows News Wakes Up When the Agnes Scott Woman's Part News Staff held its private session in church last Sun¬ In Education day, long after time-wise worshipers had left, they Martha Skeen Narrates realized they should not al¬ ways believe literally what Alumnae Story they read in their publica¬ Saturday in Dell tion. Let it not be said that Carolyn Alley, as Memory, will the Staff does not recog¬ reign over the annual May Day nize its errors. If Daylight celebration Saturday in the May Saving Time snuck up on Day Dell at 5 P. M., in the presen¬ you, too, in the dark of tation, "The Heritage of Woman," night, it is suggested that written by an alumnae committee you turn your clocks UP. which includes Mary Anne Kernan, '3 8, chairman; Margaret J. A. Nixon Takes Bland Sewell, '20; Hortense Jones, '3 8, and Lita Goss, '36. Fingerprints Martha Skeen, '34, will narrate the story. The principal characters Cooperating in the nation-wide include Mary Matthews as Woman, effort to obtain fingerprints of all Hazel Solomon as Evil Power, United States citizens, Current Helen M. Regenstein, '39, and Mary Anne Kernan, '3 8, as Sappho History Forum and the Agnes Scott and Socrates, respectively, and News will ^sponsor a fingerprint Betty Jean O'Brien as Xantippe. taking project the week after May "The Heritage of Woman" is a Day, under the direction of Mr. presentation showing the growth John A. Nixon, member of the At¬ and development of woman from lanta Junior Chamber of Com¬ the primitive ages to the present time. Woman, who, after failing merce and employee of the South¬ in her attempt to free a group of ern Life Insurance Company. women from the spell of Evil A committee of ten students, Power, receives comfort from taught how to take fingerprints, Memory and her nine Muses and three Graces. will station themselves at tables in In order to give Woman the mail room at appointed hours strength to bear her sorrow, Mem¬ to take the prints. They will be ory calls up the past. The primi¬ able to attend to approximately tive women give Woman much fifty students an hour. pleasure by quickly resuming their tasks which had been interrupted Mr. Nixon announced that the when their-husbands wished to fingerprints taken are for the file move on to new hunting grounds. of civilian fingerprints in Wash¬ In the Greek Classical Age ington, and have nothing to do (Continued on Page 2) with crime. Roman Women Dance in Pageant Orchestra, Singer Give Concerts Atlanta Hears Symphony and Anderson Agnes Scott students will hear two musical presentations this week, the Philadelphia Symphony orchestra, under the direction of Eugene Ormandy, at 8:30 in the City Auditorium, and the Marian Anderson Concert on Saturday, May 4. The Philadelphia orchestra will play the Cesar Franck symphony in D minor, and as opening num¬ bers, two Bach choral preludes. Other selections on the progi'am include: the Ballet Suite, "The Machine Man," by Zador, "Bol¬ ero," by Ravel, and the "Emperor Waltz," by Strauss. Marian Anderson will offer many German lieders on her pro¬ gram. Kosti Vehanem will accom¬ pany the singer. The numbers on the program are: "When I Am Laid in Earth," Purcell; "A Pas¬ toral," Verachini; "Plaisir d'Amour," Martini; "Die Rose," "Auf Dem Wasser Zu Singin," Der Doppelanger, and "Erlkonig," Schu¬ bert; the card scene from "Car¬ men," Bizet; "The South Wind," Parker; "Thoughts of Home," Bed¬ ford; "Songs to the Dark Virgin," Price; and "I Hear An Army," Barber. She will also sing the following Negro spirituals: "Steal Away," "Peter, Go Ring Dem Bells," ar¬ ranged by Burleigh; "Crucifixion," arranged by Payne; and "Didn't My Lord Deliver Daniel it" ar¬ ranged by Brown. Julie Ann Patch, Lillian Gish, Beth Paris, Patricia Fleming, and, take the part of Roman warriors in the May Day production Saturday. —Photo Courtesy Constitution. in the background, Leona Leavitt, Alumnae Reveal Homecoming Plans Dr. Caldwell, Dr. Boggs Deliver Commencement Addresses Dr. Harmon W. Caldwell, president of the University of Georgia, and Dr. Wade H. Boggs, pastor of the First Presby¬ terian Church of Shreveport, Louisiana, have accepted invi¬ tations to speak at the commencement and baccalaureate services June 4 and June 2, respectively, Dr. J. R. McCain announced this week. Dr. Caldwell has not announced Kendrick Lists the subject of his address, but he has been asked to speak on some phase of the University of Georgia, Sponsors in order to better acquaint Agnes Scott students with one of the sis¬ Betsy Kendrick, vice-president ter schools of the University Cen¬ of Student Government, has an¬ ter project. nounced the appointment of eighty Native of Georgia A native of Meriwether County, sponsors, taken from the junior Georgia, Dr. Caldwell was grad¬ and senior classes, who will be in uated from the University of Geor¬ charge of the orientation of new gia, and did graduate work at students in the fall. Harvard, Mercer, and Emory Uni¬ versities. From 1924 to 1926 he The list includes: Ruth Allgood, was assistant professor of law at Mary Stuart Arbuckle, Bee Brad- the University of Georgia. Since field, Betty Brock, Nina Brough 193 5 he has been the president of ton, Sabine Brumby, Edwina Bur- that institution. russ, Matilda Cartledge, Anne Dr. Boggs is the father of Mar- Chambless, Harriette Cochran, Su¬ jorie Boggs, a member of the grad¬ san Cochrane, Sarah Copeland, uating class. Before transferring Dorothy Gremin, Mae Crumbley, to Shreveport, he was pastor of the Betsy Culver, Gay Currie, Edith Druid Hills Presbyterian Church Dale, Billie Davis, Martha Sue Dil in Atlanta. lard, Dale Drenrtan, Ethelyn Dyar, / Schedule of Week Mary Lightfoot Elcan, Peggy Falkenberg, Mary Ann Faw, Lucile Other activities for commence¬ Gaines, Lillian Gish, Margery ment week-end, beginning Friday, Gray, Sarah Hanley, Margaret May 31, and continuing until Hartsook, Doris Hasty, Beryl Tuesday, June 4, scheduled by the Healy, Rebekah Hogan, Alice In¬ administration offices and the zer, Beth Irby, Mary Ivy, Neva Alumnae Association, include: May 3 1: Decatur Club's party Jackson, Aileen Kasper, Suzanne for children of former graduates at Kaulbach, May King, Betty Kyle, 4 P. M. Fletcher Mann, Marcia Mansfield, June 1: Trustees' Luncheon in Anne Martin, Sarah Massey, Judy Rebekah Scott Dining Hall at 1 Means, Betty Medlock, Margaret P. M., followed by a meeting of Murchison, Louise Musser, Elise the Alumnae Association to elect Nance, Louise Newton, Molly Oliver, Jeanne^Osborne, Julia Ann new officers. Phi Beta Kappa banquet and initiation, 6:30 P. M., Patch, Pattie Patterson, Claire in the Alumnae House. Black- Purcell, Mary Robertson, Elta friars' production of Noel Cow¬ Robinson, Elizabeth Ruprecht, ard's "I'll Leave It To You," 8:3 0 Elizabeth Rmssell, Laura Sale, Hel¬ en Schukraft, Lillian Schwencke, P. M., in the Bucher Scott Gym¬ nasium. Beatrice Shamos, Elise Smith, Shir¬ June 2: Baccalaureate Service, ley Ann Smith, Rebecca Stamper, 11 A. M., in Bucher Scott Gym¬ Carolyn Strozier, Cornelia Stuckey, nasium. Senior Class Vespers at 6 P-osalyn Sugarman, Betty Sunder- P. M., in Gaines Chapel. Alumnae land, Gay Swagerty, Mary Olive Open House for graduates and vis¬ Thomas, Margaret Mary Toomey, itors, 6:30 P. M., in Alumnae Gar¬ Ida Jane Vaughan, Lila Peck Wal¬ den. ker, Virginia Watkins, Alta Web¬ June 3: Class Reunion Lunch¬ ster, Dorothy Webster, Myree eons, 1 P. M., Alumnae House. Wells, Virginia Williams, and Class Day, 4 P. M., in May Day GJenwyn Young. Dell. 1939 Reunion Dinner, 6:30 P. M. Concert sponsored by Music Department, 8:3 0 P. M., in Gaines Chapel. Coming This Week June 4: Commencement Exer¬ Wednesday, May 1—All-Star cises, 10 A. M., Bucher Scott Gym- Philadelphia Svmphonv, 8 P. M. Thursday, May 2—May Day Lecture Association Dress Rehearsal, 4:30 P. M. "Gone With Draft" cos¬ Elects New Members tume ball, 9 P. M., Murphey Lecture Association has chosen Candler Building. its new members for next year, ac¬ Friday, May 3—Senior Opera, cording to Betty Waitt, president 8:30 P. M., Bucher Scott of the organization. The members Gymnasium. are: Jane McDonough, sophomoreSaturday, May 4—May Day representative; Julia Ann Patch, Festival, 5 P. M., May Day junior representative; Mary Bon Dell. Utterback, senior representativeMarian Anderson Concert, and social chairman; Theodosia 8:30 P. M. Ripley, publicity; Ruth Lineback, Monday, May 6—Daughters posters; and June Boykin and of Rolarians' Luncheon. Frances Spratlin, day student rep¬ resentatives. THE AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY, MAY 1, 1940 Costume Ball, Opera Stars Attract Students Ann Fisher Announces A romantic segment of ante¬ bellum Atlanta will be revived Thursday night when the senior Board Members class entertains with a "Gone With the Draft" ball at 9:00 P. M. in the Murphey Candler Building. Tennis Tournament Enters Second Week Features of the gala affair, As Competition Grows which heralds Seniorpolitan Opera Company's Friday night presenta¬ Ann Fisher, recently elected president of Athletic Associa¬ tion, will be the grand march of tion, announced today a list of new A. A. Board members. the entire cast in the costumes They are Ida Jane Vaughan, vice-president; Gay Currie, sec¬ they wear n the opera, and "mint retary; Ann Gellerstedt, treasurer; Dot Webster, hockey juleps" (lemonade disguised with manager; Betty Brock, archery sprigs of mint) for refreshment. manager; Mary Olive Thomas, ten¬ nis manager; Ann Frierson, basket¬ Golf Lesson ball manager; and Martha Dale, so¬ cial chairman. Competition grew keener as Ag¬ nes Scott netters entered the second week of tournament play, and re¬ sults show three of the matches go¬ ing into three sets. The sophomore team of Robertson and Thomas, after meeting with some difficulty in eliminating Stuart and Boggs, 4-6, 6-4, 2-6, lost to Alta and Dot Webster, 6-4, 4-6, 6-1. Slack and Forman took their match with Nance and Gellerstedt, 4-6, 6-3, 6-3. Fisher and Dyar, among the favorites in this year's tourney, found little trouble in defeating Stuckey and Brooks, 6-3, 6-1. Butt and Eakin won from Hilsman and Weissman, 6-0, 6-3. Out at Forest Hills Frances Spratlin advanced to the quarter finals in the golf tournament by defeating "Mighty Midget" Helen Carson, 1 up. Charity Crocker will meet twice champion Jeanne Davidowitz this week in the other first bracket match. Progress in the second bracket has been slow. Patch defaulted to Fisher, and Florence ceded her match to Vaughan. Forman, by virtue of her win over Gray, will meet Klugh in the second round of tournament play. May Day (Continued from Page 1) Woman sees the peaceful, joyful dances of Sappho and her women, and the vigorous gymnastics of the Spartan women. However, she is again grieved by the shrewdish Xantippe, who discovers her hus¬ band, Socrates, with a group of young men. She routs the men and drives the dejected Socrates home. In the Roman Classical Age, Wom¬ an sees the Vestal Virgins, worship¬ ing before the ceremonial altar and replenishing the sacred and ever¬ burning fire. The Middle Ages contrast the frivolity of a lady of' fashion and the diligence of the nuns. While the disdainful lady tosses a rose to a serenading minstrel, the nuns quietly take out their books to study. The advancement of the Renais¬ sance encourages Woman. She sees one man satisfied with a girl using a spindle and a distaff, but the second man tosses the spindle aside and gives her a book, showing that j she is capable of receiving a liter-i ary education. Woman also sees a : group of girls, encouraged by Vir-( torina dc Feltra, tlv: humanist scholar, join a discussion group composed of boys. Woman gains strength from the picture presented by the Modern Age. She also sees a group of women representing the fifty years of Agnes Scott College. HOTEL CANDLER Decatur A Good Place to Eat T. J. WOODS. Operator —Photo Courtesy Constitution. Mr. Harold Sargent, Atlanta golf professional, shows Mary Bon Utterback how to improve her grip in a recent lesson on the hockey field. Gene Slack Announces For Gifts On All Occasions / Annual Staff See Gene Slack, editor of the Sil¬ MRS. COOPER'S GIFT houette, announced the new mem¬ SHOP bers of the 1940-41 staff this week. They include: Mary Ann Faw, assistant editor; Mary Madison WELCOME Wisdom, kodak editor; Mary Lightfoot Elcan, club editor; Julia from the NEW Ann Patch, organization editor; Lucile Gaines, photograph editor; Betty Henderson, sports editor; PIG'N WHISTLE Jean Tucker, class editor; Elta Robinson, feature editor; Beatrice A Delightful Place to Shamos, art editor; Evelyn Saye, assistant kodak editor; and Ruth Entertain Your Friends Lineback, assistant art editor. Agnes Scott College DECATUR, GA. A college for women that is widely recog¬ nized for its standards of work and for the interesting character of its student activities. For further information, address J. R. McCAIN, President Student Body Names Roosevelt Most Popular Candidate A largely Democratic student body thinks that Franklin D. Roosevelt should be the next President of the United States, it was revealed by a straw ballot sponsored by the News last week. According to the ballot, Roosevelt should win 5 to 1 in a race against Thomas E. Dewey, district attor¬ ney of New York City. Campus opinion also favors Cordell Hull, Secretary of State, over Dewey, 24 percent to 9 percent. Roosevelt received 45 percent of the votes. The straw ballot, to which 3 5 percent of the student body re¬ sponded, asked for the voters' per¬ sonal choices for president, and their choices for Democratic and Republican nominees. McNutt Second Democrat McNutt, ex-high com¬ missioner of the Philippines, fol¬ lowed Dewey with 6 percent of the votes, while Glass, Taft, Far¬ ley, Vandenburg, Wilkie, Garner, Landon, Bricher, Hoover, and Starke trailed far behind the favor¬ ites with no appreciable vote. The vote for Democratic and Republican nominees showed choices for the Democratic candi¬ date divided between Roosevelt and Hull, while Dewey carried the Republican side by a wide major¬ ity. The statistics reveal, too, that a majority of the Republicans pre¬ fer Hull as the Democratic oppo¬ nent, while Democratic preference among the Republican presidential possibilities runs to Dewey, with a great scattering among the others. The Republicans are definitely against Roosevelt. The question¬ naire did not show whether divi¬ sion of the Democratic choice was due to a feeling against a third term or opposition to Roosevelt. Hull Follows Roosevelt Roosevelt, however, led the Democrats with 45 percent of the votes, followed by Hull with 34 percent. McNutt carried 8 per¬ cent, and Carter Glass, Senator from Virginia, 4 percent. Students prophesy that Farley, Garner, Byrd, and Clark will be among the "also-rans." Among possible Republican can¬ didates, the straw vote Dewey a majority, with 49 per¬ cent. Vandenburg, Senator from Michigan, and Taft, Senator from Ohio, each carry 13 percent of the votes. Democratic votes for Re¬ publican candidates give Fiorello LaGuardia, Mayor of New York City, 6 percent. The ballot showed Landon and Wilkie to be ahead of Former President Hoover, and Bricher, Governor of Ohio. Hoover retains very little support among the student body. Some of the ballots were re¬ turned with comments, both seri¬ ous and not serious. One loyal Democrat left the statement, "Re¬ publican possibilities—all weak," while another not-so-particular stu¬ dent said, "Anybody but Hoover." Several votes went to Gracie Allen. One student wrote on the back of her ballot, "How"does Landon have the nerve to run again?" And the answer to the question by the student next to her was: "Why shouldn't he? What did he do?" Brumby Names Aurora Staff Assistants The new Aurora staff, headed by Sabine Brumby, editor, and Pattie Patterson, associate editor, have announced plans for a more systematic organization next year. They intend to have an office in which to meet and organize ma¬ terial in an> orderly filing system. Assisting Sabine and Pattie on the staff are: Jeanne Osborne, as¬ sistant editor; Betty Jane Steven¬ son, feature editor; Edith Dale, make-up editor; Isabel Miller, freshman work editor; and Beatrice Shamos and Ruth Lineback, art editors. HEARN'S LADIES' and MEN'S READY-TO-WEAR 131 Sycamore Street Decatur, Ga. Dresses of Delight May brings "cloudless climes and starry skies" AND Commencement Dances! You'll want to look the best ever whether you go in for froth and light or floating chiffon! Dresses you'll want to re¬ member the Senior leadout by. . . . Dresses lovely enough to recall a glorious evening . . . and you'll find them galore in Rich's Debutante Shop! RICH'S Debutante Shoj) Third Floor THE AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY, MAY 1. 1940 Molly Oliver checks up on Virginia Glower takes notes After Working Hours At long last the Spring has been released, and the great outdoors is definitely alluring. What with the white flurries of dogwood, the enchanting songs of birds, and the new crop of kid parties, everybody flings worry to the skies and plays. The Buttermilk Ball at the kinS) Frances Ellis> A]ice clementS) Venetian Club entertained Theo- Margaret Mary Toomey, Frankie dosia Ripley Butt, Stewart Arbuckle, Ida Jane and Esthere Vaughn, and Ducky Copeland. Ogden. The Med students took a little Over at the time off Saturday night and the Phi Delta Theta Kappa Psi Dance was fun Theta House for Margaret Smith and June Boy- Dinner and kin. Dance eating At the Delta Sig Hobo Party were Betty Anne Stewart and and dancing were Becky Stamper. Mary The SAE's were popular this Louise Pal- week with their smooth house mour, Katsy Blair, Olivia White, dance at which were Julia Anne Betty Henderson, Imogene King, Patch, Annie Wilds, Ducky Cope- Betty Brougher, and Jane Stillwell. land, Elizabeth Jenkins, and Olivia On their hay ride the Phi Delts White. also entertained Clara Rountree, Jack Teagarden played es¬ Betty Henderson, Margaret Dow pecially for Hattie Ayres and Mar¬ nie, Mary Louise Palmour, Hart garet Hartsook. well Bishop, Katsy Blair, Edith Up at Furman for the SAE Dale, and Mary Robertson. dances and house party was Anne Speaking of hay rides we might Frierson, while Helen McFayden, mention the Delta Tau Delta Joella Craig, Marjorie Wilson, and function — Margaret Shaw and Mary Craig Roberts had a marve¬ Jean Tucker. lous time at Davidson and their Also the Sigma Chi affair— dances. Pattie Patterson, Mary Ward, Tony The Scabbard and Blade Newland, Ailene Barron, and Ade¬ saluted Beth Irby and Grace Ward. laide Gregory. Tech diverted with a real Old Fashioned Barbecue Sunday Fo rums Sponsorafternoon—Judy Greenburg, An¬ nette Franklin, and Betsy Banks. National Youth Week The Biltmore was the scene of The Georgia Public Forums is one of the Emory ATO dances sponsoring a series of seven pro-, dances this week at which Were grams in observance of National Dot Holloran, Betty Burdette, Youth Week, April 2 8-May 4. Bizelle Roberts, and Elta Robinson. The Sigma Nu's attracted the Mary Ellen Whetsell, southeast¬ following with a dance Friday ern regional chairman of the Na¬ night: Margaret Downie, Gloria tional Student Federation of Amer¬ Bramlette, Ann Hilsman, Shirley ica, and Eliza King, associate edu¬ Gately, Betty Wade, Louise Runge, cational co-ordinator of NYA, Harriet Vaughn, Rebecca Andrews, took part on the first program last Marjorie Simpson, Mary Anne At-Sunday. The girls, both Agnes Scott alumnae, gave their opinions on the topic, "Is Youth Doing Its the Share?" A forum, to be conducted by Dr. M. Ashby Jones, will be held NEW YORK'S MOST EXCLUSIVE HOTEL tomorrow at Wrens, Georgia, on RESIDENCE FOR YOUNG WOMEN "The Church's Place in the Present Crisis." Tuesday, Boisfeuillet Jones will conduct forums at Sparta, Georgia, and at Greenville, Geor¬ gia. The groups will discuss "Geor¬ gia Fact-Finding Committee Re¬ port of Commerce and Industry." TWO YEARS OF LAW Hone of College Clubs Leading to the LL.B. Degree in New York The Barbizon is the home of college CUMBERLAND clubs in New York. Why? Perhaps UNIVERSITY it's because the Barbizon offers so many more of the smart interestingthings that appeal to college girls. Lebanon, Tennessee Daily it presents a harmonious med¬ ley of cultural and physical activi¬ A School With A Great ties . . . musicales ... art lectures . . . dramatics ... a fine library.. .. History swimming pool . . . sun deck . . . squash courts. Another reason why 1842-1940college girls prefer living in The Barbizon Manner is its location . . . Courses of study include in the midst of New York's most fashionable residential section, yet both text books and case convenient to important business books. Extensive Moot centers, art galleries, museums, theatres and schools. Court practice. Instruction given by trained Lawyers 700 rooms, each with a radio Tariff: from $2.50 per day and Judges. from $12 per week For Catalogue, Address Write for descriptive booklet "C" Cumberland University Law School Lebanon, Tennessee 'Gone With the Draft' For the Record Climaxes Opera Season Everybody knows about the cat that went to look at a king, but it By Jeanne Osborne took Evelyn Baty to escort a pair of goldfish to a party. Evelyn was True, the Metropolitan Company has left Atlanta, but not supervising decorations for Laura so the opera arias nor the artistic ability of singing stars. Sale's' birthday party Memorial Agnes Scott will unofficially open and close its Grand Opera Day, but she forgot that the stores season this week-end with "Gone With the Draft," and re¬ would be closed half a day and ports have it that the action runs was left at the last minute without pitch congenial with the nervous pretty fast—and the sophomore or¬ a centerpiece for the table. She system. chestra a little faster! spied the goldfish bowl, containing Henry and (the second one As the Seniorpolitan Opera Innocent Henri Company goes into seclusion for When Anne Enloe suggested that hasn't been named; can you think of a name its last week of hair-tearing re¬ mint juleps in old Southern style fit for the companion hearsals, we find Milner's antics, be served at the ball, Henrietta of the mighty Henry?) just as she was about to despair of concocting Rockie's alarming screams, and Thompson brightly suggested that anything suitable, and presto-manifestations of Henri's ignor¬ green color be added to make them Henry and the nameless wonder ance among the disturbing inci¬ look real. At this manifestation of turned up at the party, right in dents taking place behind closed Henri's ignorance concerning mint doors. juleps, Eleanor Hutchens almost the middle of the table. The editor swooned. Now one member of the of Camfms Code admitted that she Milner Obliges opera committee is posted at each felt sorry for the poor fish; after Since several deaths are called rehearsal to explain and clarify all all, they lead a somewhat restricted life, and never get to go to parties. for in the libretto, Virginia Milner obscurities to Henri. very kindly offered to demonstrate The cast, practicing in Mr. The Purloined Letter the proper way to die. As the re¬ Dieckmann's studio, became quite If you've ever wanted to fall sult of her graceful, corkscrew¬ chagrined because he had to chase right through the floor, you'll like contortions, she reports num¬ them out so many times in order to sympathize with Helen Klugh. She erous black and blue spots. How¬ hold his classes. One day when meandered nonchalantly into the they espied Mr. Dieckmann ap¬ ever, the cast can now die grace¬ day students' room one day last fully. proaching, they snatched their week and put her hand into her books, passed from the room, and Rockie Kaplan's role of Mammy mail box. Surprisingly enough, be¬ ducked into another room. Mr. required a piercing scream. Dur¬ sides a notice from the library and Dieckmann came in, did nothing ing the first rehearsal, Rockie four newspapers left over from the but get his hat, and walk out, un¬ played her part so well that the preceding week, there was a letter conscious of the furor his approach cast jumped out of their skins as in the box. Helen snatched it out had created. her shrill scream was wafted on and ripped it open without even the breezes. Efforts at subsequent Sally Hides Secret looking at the address. Well, you rehearsals have centered around • When the subject of the opera can conjure up for yourself the toning down Rockie's scream to a was still a dark mystery, Sally Mat¬ mingled emotions with which she thews was discussing the opera saw the salutation: "Dear Aileen." 1 with another senior in Murphey Hele nwas standing there with her Candler when she heard someone in mouth wide open in shock, won¬ the building. In a loud voice she dering frantically whether she confided to her friend that she should just stick the purloined thought Jane Moses would be a missive back in the box and fade lovely Gretel. Betty Ann Brooks, away, or whether she ought to try the intruder, said, "Oh, I know, to explain her mistake, when in the opera's going to be Hansel and walked Aileen Kasper, the rightful Gretel." However, she kindly owner. Aileen rescued her prop¬ promised not to tell anyone. erty and left. The scene closes on Helen still speechless, slowly curl¬ ing up around the edges. Clubs Conclude "May I Present " Spring Elections It's just too bad for one junior Bible Club: The Bible Club day student that we acquired two has selected its new officers as fol¬ Miss W's on the faculty within lows: president, Louise Sams; vice- such a short time. That probably president, Harriette Cochran; re¬ explains why this mercifully anony¬ cording secretary, Fletcher Mann; mous culprit introduced Miss corresponding secretary, Dale Willis as "Miss Winter" to a vis¬ Drennan; and treasurer, Flora itor at coffee Sunday. On being Campbell. stared at, she realized her mistake, French Club: As a result of but became so confused she recent tryouts, the French Club has couldn't think of "Willis" a£ all, taken in Mary Robertson, Julia forced stand and was to by in Ann Patch, Dorothy Wheeler, tongue-tied embarrassment while Margaret Shaw, Frances Hinton, someone else performed the intro¬ Frances Tucker, Martha Buffalo, duction correctly. Margery Gray, Mae Crumbley, and Elisabeth Ruprecht as new mem¬ bers. Inquiry Probes Pi Alpha Phi: The new offi¬ Regulations for Cuts cers of Pi Alpha Phi are: president, Mary Lightfoot Elcan; vice-presi¬ Although college and university dent, Mary Madison Wisdom; sec¬ cut regulations vary in length and retary, Mary Olive Thomas; treas¬ complexity, the general tendency urer, Mary Ward; social chairman, in most is to make the subject of Martha Moody; and parliamentar¬ unexcused class absences increas¬ ian, Suzanne Kaulbach. ingly a discretionary matter be¬ German Club: The German tween students and officials of the Club's new officers include: presi¬ institution. CBS' Agnes Moorehead liked it dent, Nancy Willstatter; vice-pres¬ This is the finding of Haverford for its regal, flowing lines, and the ident, Marion Williams; secretary, College's Dean H. Tatnall Brown attractive white-crepe lined hood Margaret Smith; and treasurer, in questionnaires returned by 16 which keeps the wind from muss-Anne Martin. New members have institutions. ing your formal coiffure. also been elected. They are Lib Ruprecht, Wanda Hamby, Marion E. Philips, Dorothy Cremin, Betty Moore, Edwina Burruss, Louise Meiere, Helen Hale, Bizelle Rob¬ Bowen Press erts, Anne Martin, Carolyn Strozier, and Lillian Schwencke. Commercial Printing and Stationery TYPEWRITERS AND RIBBONS GLENN'S PHARMACY Blotters — Note .Paper — Poster Paper Is the Store To Go For Your Needs Office Supplies Masonic Temple Bldg. 316 ChurchSt. DE.3383 Deoatur, Ga. Decatur, Ga. THE AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY, MAY 1. 1940 Voting Creates Problem The lack of response to the straw ballot this week reveals a low rate of student in¬ terest in the final outcome of the presi¬ dential election in November. Working on the theory that action is more effective than occasional reform editorials and stu¬ dent opinion columns, the News hoped to arouse interest by giving the student body a chance to participate in a project of off-campus interest. On ballots that were mimeographed and put into students' hands as they entered chapel, only 35 percent of the student body cast votes. The blame goes partly to the News staff for lack of publicity; it goes primarily to the students for lack of interest. If only 35 percent of the student body responded to a voting procedure compara¬ tively simple, we can safely prophesy that an even smaller percentage of students able to vote will go through the red tape of registration and absentee voting for the elections in November. And our vote is needed. College, instead of stimulating our in¬ terest in national affairs, so far removes us from community life that we are apt to feel distant from it. We feel that we have no part in the affairs of the democ¬ racy. Far from feeling this way, we should consider our responsibility to our nation in proportion to our privilege of educa¬ tion. Our higher education undoubtedly teaches us HOW to be better citizens, but our education will become completely valueless if we keep the benefits we de¬ rive from it to ourselves. t Therefore it behooves Agnes Scott stu¬ dents to register either for absentee votes, or to plan to take the sometimes easier method of going home to the polls. Though the absentee voting situation is deplor¬ able, there is nothing we can do but pas¬ sively accept it. We can actively accept our responsibility as citizens, though, and register at the Court House by May 4. Matilda Cartledge gathers Campus Quotes The letter to the editor in last week's paper seems to have cleared the path for a number of ideas concerning the appropriateness of the name of Mardi Gras celebration. And it looks as if the general opinion is. in favor of change. Miss Gaylord: "I'm decidedly for changing the name of Mardi Gras. The words mean "Fat Tues¬ day," and to apply them to a celebration which invari¬ ably occurs on Saturday makes it appear that we can't translate the two simple French words. We might as well observe Ash Wednesday on Friday." Wallace Lyons, '42: "I Cartledgethink a name more closely identified with Agnes Scott would be better. I don't think it's as much a question of the literal meaning of the words as it is of the individuality of a more distinctive name." Ann Paisley, '43: "It seems to me that the name of Mardi Gras should be changed. In the first place, it is on the wrong day and at the wrong season. But more than that, it is one of the traditions of Agnes Scott, and its name should connect it more closely with the school." Edith Schwartz, '42: "I think the name should remain as it is. The name Mardi Gras in connection with these festivities is just as much a part of the tradition as the celebration itself. And it certainly connotes the real spirit and char¬ acter of the event." Miriam Bedinger, '41: "I think that the name of our Spring Festival should be changed because of the inappropriateness of the name for the day and the season in which it is given. The name in itself is not important enough to retain if it will create a false impression or offend." Edith Henegar, '41: "I think that the spirit of Mardi Gras is the most important element. It is the character of the festival rather than the name that is so much a part of the tradition, and, since it really is inappropriate, I believe that it Campus Camera Parade of Opinion "America's problem of keeping out of the European war grows in¬ creasingly difficult," warns the University of Texas Daily Texan. "Allied propaganda that at the be¬ ginning of the conflict had little influence oh public opinion in Am¬ erica rapidly grows in potency. "As it reviews the long list of President Roosevelt's protests to powerful nations against conquest and rule by force, the pubic grows impatient and begins to ask if this is all we are going to do about it." "But," concludes the Texan, "if American opinion can be brought around to Congressman Fish's opinion that our actual participa¬ tion in the war would mean 'the blackout of American liberty and the establishment in the U. S. of a dictatorship as bad as the Nazis',' there is not much danger of Am¬ erica's entering the war even if the Allies should suffer a crushing de¬ feat." "No one, probably not even ITitler himself, knows how far this (Scandinavian) campaign will go," says the Daily at the University of Oklahoma. "Cannons continue to belch smoke and death, and babies still cry for daddies who will never come home. War, as the man said, is indeed hell." "England is rocked and fright¬ ened to its very foundations," says the Daily Cardinal at the Univer¬ sity of Wisconsin. "Chamberlain," continues the Cardinal, "is finally forced to prove himself and the British forces. Power politics has given way to the military and naval action that spells the final score."—(AGP) The Agnes OuBDUt:? CHARTER STIPULATES' THAT THERE BE ON THE BOARD OF REGENTS "ONE FARMER,ONE WOMAN, AND ONE PERSON OF GOOD MORAL CHARACTER". ABSENT-MINDED PROFESSOR. WHO FORGOT TO WRITE A 43.53 TEXTBOOK TO SELL TO HIS CLASS/ #=ND YOUR "HERO OFTHE WEEK*' OR OTHER SUITABLE MATERIAL FOR THESE CARTOONS TO '• NORM LEA-323 FAWKES BUILDING, MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA. Burruss sifts the Exchanges With the May queen represent¬ ing Grace and Beauty and the king portraying Thought and Wisdom, the Alabama State College for Women will hold their May Day festival. Their paper, The Alabamian, re¬ ports: "The 'Rebirth of Peace' will be the general theme of the program; a re¬ birth which BurrilSS results from the strife and conquest of war and misunder¬ standing by grace, thought and wisdom, an interpretation arranged and presented by the dance group. "Following the conquest and confusion, Grace, the May Queen, with her attendants, and Wisdom, accompanied by the honor group, will appear to rule over the re¬ mainder of the festival." According to the Mount Holyoke News: "The Mount Holyoke and Amherst Dramatic Clubs are now formulating plans for the production of 'Spring Dance,' which is to be presented to an au¬ dience here on the night of the May Day pageant." The Blue Stocking of P. C. reports: "Margaret Mitchell's epic of the south, 'Gone With the Wind,' is still popular reading ma¬ terial with Presbyterian College students, according to library sta¬ tistics recently released. The his¬ tory-making best seller ranked first among the fiction in popularity with P. C. students and faculty. Scott News Vol. XXV Wednesday, May 1, 1940 No. 19 Published weekly, except during holidays and examination periods, by the students of Agnes Scott College. Office on second floor Murphey^ Candler Building. Entered as second class matter at the Decatur, Georgia, post office. Subscription price per year, $1.2 5; single copies, five cents. Elaine Stubbs Editor Virginia Glower Managing Editor Betty Stevenson boils down The Real News Advance The Germans have used surprise tactics against the Allies again. New motorized units have gained as much as fifty miles in twenty- four hours. In an effort to fight the Nazi ad¬ vance indirectly Allied planes have bombed a principal air base outside Oslo. The Ger¬ man puppet government is putting Norwegian civilians to forced labor repairing and enlarging this flying field. Words, Words, Words Norway provoked the war. Flow? By resisting Germany. Germany saved Norway. Flow? By arriving in the nick of time to forestall the British invasion. Or so Ribbentrop claims. He is very positive over the fact that Germany discovered documen¬ tary plans of the British invasion, left carelessly in Norway. Sir Samuel Hoare answered the charge for the benefit of outraged British opinion: "We know this man. He is a dangerous adventurer ... I need only say it is a despicable lie . . .'" Special Correspondent It seems incredible to think that Peter Fleming is dead at 30, killed in an air raid in Norway. Someone once called him a misplaced Elizabethan. He endured the burden of post war disillusion lightly. He deprecated and debunked all heroism. His sophisticated understatement of danger was all the more hair-raising in Brazilian Adventure, One's Company, and News from Tartary. One of the few stylists who wrote travel books, Fleming was always skipping off nonchalantly upon the most appalling trips. He seems indestructible. Feud While the cat's away . . . With Roosevelt in Georgia the opposition in the House of Repre¬ sentatives has been busily drawing up amend¬ ments to the wage-hour law. One of the advo¬ cates of a great many exemptions is Cox of Geor¬ gia. He and his colleague, Ramspeck, are pitted against each other, even vocally. Said Ramspeck: "I am one of those from the South who believes the time has come when the South cannot live in a different strata from the rest of the country." Dark Horse Everybody, even his worst enemies, admires Wendell Wilkie. No one believes he will be nom¬ inated. The New Republic calls him an opponent worth fighting. After a meeting of the Ameri¬ can Newspaper Publishers' Association, where Wilkie spoke, Raymond Clapper wrote regret¬ fully, "It would be a pity if the Republicans nom¬ inated Wendell Wilkie for the presidency, because then he would have to stop talking blunt horse sense and confine himself to drooling the phrases of the campaign ghost writers." A Republican, of the inner circle, admitted they wouldn't touch him "with a ten foot pole." Laying Up for a Rainy Day John L. Lewis, disgusted out loud with every¬ body, seems looking forward to 1944. He appealed last week to the National Negro Congress to join in a working affiliation with Labor's Non Partisan League. This was in the same hall where he talked to the Youth Congress. Editorial Notes B. O. Z. Song Contest Inspires Originality Honors of the week go to B. 0. Z. for launching the new song-writing contest. The too-familiar strains of "I'd Rather Be a Hottentot" in the chapel skit Friday re¬ minded all of us that campus originality and creative ability are much in demand. And we shouldn't have to ask Fred War- ing's help, either. The announcement that the list of spon¬ sors again includes both juniors and sen¬ iors proves that last year's change in the system was successful. The increase in membership from sixty-one to eighty promises to be a forward step, since the alteration will insure more attention for each new student. When we listen to the music for May Day, we should remember that the com¬ should be changed." Florence Ellis Business Manager plete score was written by Mr. Dieckmann. iJ \ The Agnes Scott News VOL. XXV THE AGNES SCOTT NEWS. WEDNESDAY, MAY 8, 1940 Z115 No. 20 Robert Frost Concludes Lecture Series Poet Comes Here May 16 To Fulfill Engagement Postponed by Illness Robert Frost, who has been called the most rewarding and most richly integrated poet of his generation, comes to the campus Thursday night, May 16, as perhaps the best-known and most popular speaker to appear here in the series of outstanding lectur¬ ers presented to the public by Lecture Association as its contribution to the semi-cen¬ tennial celebration of the school. Mr. Frost visited Agnes Scott in the fall of 1935 on one of his rare and eagerly welcomed lecture tours. His talks are characterized by the combination of philosophy and practical wisdom which is so cherished in his poetry, and his sensitive feeling for nature, inten¬ sity of emotion, and ability to take an audience through all varieties of feeling, have endeared him to the public. He speaks informally, interspers¬ ing his lecture with humorous and quietly dramatic illustrations, keeping his scholarship in the background, yet coloring his words with a depth of rich knowledge and understanding. This poet who, though born in San Francisco, has become famous through his presentation of typi¬ cal New England, never fails to reward his listeners with the human touch and local color which per¬ meates his verse. His genius in creating photographic effects verb¬ ally by the use of that imagery and after-imagery which he him¬ self has defined as "about all there is in poetry" not only won him the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 193 0, but has made him one of the most memorable speakers ever to appear on American lecture platforms. Sister Class Sponsors Senior Luncheon v With decorations and programs carrying out the old-fashioned idea for the semi-centennial cele¬ bration, the sophomores will en¬ tertain the seniors with a luncheon at the Druid Hills Golf Club May 18. The committees for the lunch¬ eon include: Transportation, Mae Crumbly, chairman; Dot Webster, Ann Gellerstedt, Sue Heldman. Seating, Billie Davis and Elizabeth Russell. Arrangements, Mary Louise Palmour, chairman; Frances Ellis, Suzanne Kaulbach, Theodosia Ripley. Decorations, Patsy Flemming and Betty Medlock, chair¬ men; Anne Chambless, Dale Drennan, Mary Anne Faw, Alice Inzer, Evelyn Saye, Becky Stamper, Mary Robertson. Entertainment, Betty Sunderland, chairman; Betty Ann Brooks, Matilda Cartledge, Grace Harbour, Neva Jackson, Jessie MacGuire, Virginia Montgomery, Helen Schukraft, and Jackie Stearns. New England Poet Lectures Rockefeller, Fosdick Head Delegation Of Board Members Education Board Arrives Tomorrow To Inspect Campus for Study of University Center Dr. Raymond B. Fosdick, president of the Rockefeller Foundation and the General Education Board, will visit here tomorrow morning to inspect the campus in connection with a study of all the schools included in the new University Center. Three other eminent members of the board will accompany him, and Emma McMullen the entire party is to have lunch¬ eon at the college with Dr. J. R. Talks on Broadcast McCain, president. The visitors, besides Dr. Fosdick, are: Dr. Wal¬ This afternoon at 4:15 o'clock ter W. Stewart, chairman of the the college broadcast over WSB Rockefeller Foundation; Dr. A. R. will add another program to their Mann, vice-president of the board long list when Emma McMullen, and director for southern educa¬ graduate of the class of '39, is in¬ tion; and Dr. Jackson Davis, asso¬ terviewed on her position as floor ciate director of the General Edu¬ manager at Rich's department cation Board. store. The purpose of the series being Arrived Today presented now is to show the prac¬ John D. Rockefeller III paid a tical value of the liberal arts edu¬ short call here today, during the cation. few hours that he was in Atlanta The Amplifier will give news of from the time of his arrival last interest about other graduates. The night with Dr. McCain until his voice of Agnes Scott will be Mamie departure early this afternoon. Sue Barker. Dr. Fosdick, author of five Miss Roberta Winter, assistant books, was an overseas civilian aide professor in the speech depart¬ to General Pershing in 1919, and ment, has asked that the student an under-secretary general of the body be reminded of the time League of Nations from 1919 to change from 5 p. m. to 4:15 p. m. 1920. He is a commander of the Legion of Honor, and holds a Dis¬ tinguished Service Medal. He has Sophomore Adds Color made many studies of police sys¬ To Night Life in Main tems in both Europe and America. A flash of red disappeared around Economic Adviser the corner—and the two students Dr. Stewart is a native of Mis¬ who were braving the creaky floors souri, where he taught economics and musty rooms of fourth Main for many years. From 1928-30 he to find peace and quiet suddenly was an economic adviser to the decided that perhaps the room¬ Bank of England. In 1931 he was mate's chatter was quite conducive the American member of a special to concentration, after all. How¬ committee of the Bank of Interna¬ ever, being true Hottentots and tional Settlements, which investi¬ having the proverbial feminine gated Germany's ability to pay her curiosity, the girls quieted shaking war debts under the Young Plan. knees as best they could, and sup¬ Dr. Mann, vice-president of the ported each other down the hall in Board since 1937, is a graduate of the direction the figure had taken. Cornell's New York State College Mr. Jones soon made his appear¬ of Agriculture, where he was Dean ance from regions below, and made for many years. He has won in¬ an effort to quiet the agitated ternational recognition (honors sophs by making an unsuccessful from Finland, Belgium and Czecho¬ manhunt through dust which had slovakia) for his work in agricul¬ not been disturbed since Hal¬ tural education, and was a member lowe'en. As he was leaving, a door of the President's Committee on on third opened to reveal Ann Gel¬ Farm Tenancy in 1936-37. lerstedt clad in red pajamas. The Davis, Field Agent playful prowler calmly explained Dr. Davis, prominent Virginiathat SHE had been the subject of educator, was a general field agent the lively discussion! Knowing her of the General Education Board as pals were right behind her, she had early as 1915. He has been secre¬ climbed out the window, done a tary of the International Board Hunchback-of-Notre-Dame act on since 1923. the ledge, ducked in another win¬ Following their tour of the col¬ dow, and so to her room. lege, the visitors are to go to Em¬ ory University, where they will Student Government Makes make a similar inspection of its campus, and will be given an in¬ Boone Representative formal reception. They will dine Martha Boone will serve as sen¬ at the home of Mr. Thomas K. ior representative to the Adminis¬ Glenn, Atlanta banker, in the eve¬ trative Committee next year, hav¬ ning, and leave for Tennessee Fri¬ ing been elected by the executive day morning, accompanied by Dr. committee of student government, McCain. Frances Breg, president, announced Yesterday the party was in Ath¬ this week. The Administrative ens, at the University of Georgia, Committee, composed of represen¬ and the morning of May 8 they tatives from the faculty and stu¬ visited Atlanta University and dents, decides upon major changes other Negro institutions of higher affecting the school. education. University Center Spurs Drive Atlanta Campaign Group Reports Total of $3,100,100 Reaching a total of $3,100,100, the University Center Campaign continues its drive for a goal of $7,500,000. Today, the Atlanta campaign group meets at the Ansley Hotel for the third report luncheon. At the last luncheon on Friday, May 1, Mrs. Murdoch Equen, president of the Agnes Scott Alumnae Association, pre¬ sided, announcing the additional contribution of $278,444 by the Special Alumnae campaign group. Speakers for the Friday luncheon were Samuel C. Dobbs, who recent¬ ly contributed $1,000,000 to the College of Arts and Sciences at Emory University, and Preston S. Arkwright, general campaign chair¬ man. The reports made by the various divisions of the Atlanta campaign are as follows: Initial Gifts Committee, Thomas K. Glenn, Charles Havard Candler, and Robert W. Woodruff, co- chairmen, a total of $684,700; Advance Gifts Committee, George Winship, chairman, a total of $75,975. Educational Division, Dr. Willis A. Sutton, chairman, a total of $15,713; Men's Division, Harrison Jones, chairman, a total of $2 3,434; Women's Division, Mrs. J. M. McEachern, Jr., chairman, a total of $17,043. Coming This Week Wednesday, May 8—College Broadcast, 4:15 p. m. Mortar Board Treasure Hunt, 5 p. m. Thursday, May 9—Visit of the General Education Board. Sponsor's Meeting, 4:30 p. m. Friday, May 10—Open For¬ um, 4:30-5:30 p. m., Murphev Candler Building. Spanish Club Cake Walk, 7 p. m., Gymnasium. Saturday, May 11 — Horse Show, 2-4 p. m., Georgiana Stables. A. A. Open House, 8 p. m., Bucher Scott Gymnasium. -Photo Courtesy Aurora. Jane Moses Announces Recital Program Singing five groups of songs, Jane Moses, contralto, will give a recital Wednesday, May 22, at 8:3 0 in the Gaines Chapel, assisted by Jeannette Carroll, soprano. Jane's program is made up of five groups of songs, German, Italian, French, and English numbers. The first group of selections on the program includes "He Shall Feed His Flock," an aria from Handel's "Messiah," and "My Heart at Thy Sweet Voice," from "Samson and Delilah," by Saint Saens. In the second group Jane will offer "O Del Mio Dolce Ardor," by Gluck, and "L'Heure Exquise," by Reynald'o Hakn. The third group of numbers is German, consisting of "Allerseelen," by Richard Strauss; "Gute Nacht," by Dvorak, and "Er der Flerrlichte von Allen." The remainder of the recital will be in English, the fourth group in¬ cluding "Through the Years," by Vincent Youmans; "Lift Thine Eyes," by Logan; "Into the Night," by Clara Edwards, and "Dawn," by Ernest Charles. Jane will conclude the program with "Secrecy," by Hugo Wolf; "Do Not Go, My Love," by Rich¬ ard Hageman, and "The Snow Song," by Roy Newman. Jeannette will offer selections after the second and fourth groups. Mortar Board Honors Outgoing Members Newly-elected members of Mor¬ tar Board will entertain the out¬ going chapter and faculty advisers with a treasure hunt and supper this afternoon at 5 p. m. Clues will lead the seekers from the college to the destination in a round-about way through Decatur. Committees for the entertain¬ ment include Ann Henry and Gene Slack, clues; Elaine Stubbs1 and Frances Breg, food; Sabine Brumby, invitations; and Jean Dennison, transportation. THE AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY, MAY 8, 1940 Gyml WATCH. lieve, are worthy of your consider¬ ation. If these attitudes and ideals putting the proper ideals and atti¬ are yours, they will influence your tudes into the stream of thought that flows through the minds of thoughts and actions throughout our people. the years to come and the thinking There was a time—and it has not of those with whom you come in been so long ago—when women contact will be appreciably af¬ had no opportunities to go to col¬ fected. lege, when the average'woman was Opportunity little more than a domestic drudge. I have called your attention to It was the fashion for women to these attitudes because, as educat¬ marry early and die young. A cen¬ ed women, you will have far better tury ago there prevailed even in opportunities than others for mak¬ America a philosophy similar to ing them effective. Indeed, upon that of Schopenhauer, who said: educated women has devolved a "She (woman) is not called to large share of the responsibility for great things. Girls should be by, Jean Dennison, Ann Henry, Betsy Kendrick, Gene Slack, Elaine Stubbs, Ida Jane Vaugtian, and Grace Walker as new members. April 4—Marriage classes for seniors begin. April 20—Blackfriars chalks up another successful perform¬ ance with "I'll Leave It To You." April 24—Margaret Hopkins wins debate cup for third time. April 29—University Center Campaign to raise a million dol¬ lars opens to the public. May 2—Seniors entertain senior opera stars in authentic cos¬ tumes at "Gone With Draft Ball." May 3—The Seniorpolitan Opera Company presents its orig¬ inal performance, "Gone With Draft," starring Jane Moses and Eleanor Hutchens as Ruby O'Horror and Rhatt. May 4—Semi-Centennial May Day festival gives "Heritage of Woman." May 8—John D. Rockefeller and the General Education Board honor the college with a visit. May 11—Horseback riders perform in Gymkhana. May 16—Lecture Association proudly presents Mr. Robert Frost, America's foremost living poet, who spent three days on the campus. May 18—Giving a view of Agnes Scott fifty years ago, the sophomores entertained the seniors with a luncheon at Druid Hills. May 22—Jane Moses gives voice recital, including German, Italian, French and English songs. May 26—Excited students stop everything to pour over the pages of the 1940 Silhouette. May 31—Phi Beta Kappa recognizes Betty Alderman, Mary Evelyn Francis, Margaret Hopkins, Mary Matthews, and Violet Jane Watkins. June 1—Trustees luncheon at Rebekah Scott. Alumnae elect new officers. June 2—Dr. Wade H. Boggs delivers baccalaureate sermon. Sophs return weary from picking daisies. June 3—Seniors take the sophomores to breakfast. O'Brien, Enloe, Hutchens, Matthews read at Class Day exemlses. June 4—Dr. Harmon W. Caldwell speaks at Commencement as the 1940 class members receive their degrees, and Agnes Scott sends out another group of alumnae. The Agnes Scott News Vol. 25 Tuesday, June 7, 1940 No. 21 Published weeJcly, except during holidays and examination periods, by the students of Agnes Scott College. Office on second floor Murphey Candler Building. Filtered as second class matter at the Decatur, Georgia, post office. Subscription price per year, $1.2 5; single copies, five cents. Elaine Stubbs Editor Virginia Glower Managing Editor Florence Ellis Business Manager brought up to the ^abits of domes¬ ticity and servility." This philoso¬ phy regarding woman's place in the world is being revived today in the totalitarian states. The current doctrine in Germany is to the ef¬ fect that woman's sphere of work is in the kitchen, cellar, nursery, schoolroom, and church. A hun¬ dred years ago it was doubted even in America that women had the in¬ tellectual capacity to receive a col¬ lege education. The first college in the United States for men was established in 1636 but two hun¬ dred years passed before the first woman's college was established. Position in Future Today the situation is quite dif¬ ferent in America. Women have the same opportunities for educa¬ tion as men have and they have demonstrated their ability to hold their own with men, not only in college but also in the business and professional world. Women occu¬ py positions of power and influence in practically every field of human endeavor. Those tasks to which American women set themselves with determination, they accom¬ plish. It is apparent even to the casual observer that to an ever greater extent women are becom¬ ing the dreamers of the race; that they are assuming more and more of the responsibility for fashioning the ideals of our people; that they conceive and execute plans of po¬ litical and social reform; that they demand and get better educational opportunities for their children; that they lay out the lines which our cultural development shall fol¬ low; that they determine how civi¬ lization shall Uvelop and what its ultimate g shall be. Young women, your capabilities and your position in the modern world make you potent influences in shaping the world of tomorrow. Your ideals and your attitudes will have much to do with the future of our peo¬ ple and civilization. Allow me again to congratulate you on the fact that you are now graduates of Agnes Scott College and that you are going out into the world at a time when woman's powers and opportunities are great¬ er than at any previous time in history. Our prayer is that you will be able in your homes, your schools, and your communities to realize fully the high ambitions and purposes which have been instilled into you by this grand old institu¬ tion. May our fondest hopes for your success and happiness be ful¬ filled! * READ THE READ THE Freshman Edition BULLETIN BOARDS BULLETIN BOARDS The Agnes Scott News VOL. XXVI AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR, GA., WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 18, 1940 NO. 1 College Plans Dedication of Presser Hall Building Contains Two Chapels, Practice Rooms, Studios The last of November will find students, new and old alike, turn¬ ing their steps to the west side of the campus for their daily chapel services; for Presser Hall (the much discussed "new building") will be completely finished. Dedi¬ cation exercises are planned for November 3 0, but pupils will be enjoying the class facilities long before that. Collegiate Gothic Resembling the Library and Buttrick in architecture, the new building is Gothic in style and spa¬ ciously constructed. In addition to a large and small chapel, Presser Hall has fifteen practice rooms and six studios. The large Gaines Memorial Chapel has a seating capacity of 1,100 persons and will contain a new four-manual organ and two pianos. It will be used not only as a chapel for religious services, but also as a theater. A modern stage, lighting, dressing rooms, and set props make it ideal for dramatic productions, while a portable pul¬ pit insures a religious atmosphere for more serious occasions. McLean Chapel The smaller Joseph McLean Chapel, which seats 300 people, will be used for recitals and musicales. The organ that has been in the Gaines Chapel in Rebekah is being moved to the McLean Chapel, which will also contain a piano. Offices will be provided for all faculty members of the music de¬ partment. Miss Frances K. Gooch, professor of speech; Miss Roberta Winter, her assistant, and Hugh Hodgson, head of the music de¬ partment of the University of Georgia, will also have offices in Presser Hall. Fisher Anticipates Sports Contests Welcome, 44! We know you are busy getting settled and learning your way around but we do want to take a little of your time to give you a welcome from the Athletic As¬ sociation. The A. A. Board is ready to help you; so please feel free to call on usat any time. Fisher Competition in sports will begin soon, so hurry and get your class team together. We know you have plenty of pep and class spirit and C. A. Head Offers Aid in Orientation Welcome, Freshmen! You've at least begun to know the general outline of Agnes Scott life. You may feel pretty orient¬ ed after two days o seeing ; very body from Mr. Tart in the t rea s ure r's office to Betsy Kendrick with her name tags, but there's still Wilds lots to be learned. After the first rush is over, we all want to know you new Agnes Scottcrs better, and we hope you eel the same way about us! You'll also get more acquainted with the organizations on the cam¬ pus as you become more acquaint¬ ed with the people. During Chris¬ tian Association Week (October 1-6) you will have an opportunity to find out more about our purpose on the campus and the opportuni¬ ties that there are for you to serve. There's nothing like asking ques¬ tions to find out about what you want to know—so if you want to .now about the way we live and tave fun here, just ask and come lelp join in the fun and the work! Scotty Wilds, President, Christian Association. we're anxious to work and play with you. You're off to a grand year, so put all you have into it. We'll be looking for big results! We're glad you are here, and we hope your four years at Agnes Scott will be happy ones. Sincerely, Ann Fisher, President, Athletic Association. Spratlin Asks Day Students To Speak Up' Flowdy, Freshmen! Make yourselves at home, be¬ cause you are most welcome to Agnes Scott. We, the d a y stu¬ dents, stand ready to be loving sis- t e rs and helpful snoopers, the Junior Chamber of C ommerce, and Shop [A y Flound. We will tell Spratlin you where he largest chocolate milks are peddled and the cutest dates are met. Just ask us—we'll be wells of information for boarders as well as new day students, full of direc¬ tions for sightseeing and shopping in Decatur and Atlanta. Loyal Atlantans, we'll be delighted to take you on a Sunday tour of our "Dog¬ wood City." The day students, you will say, pend only twelve out of the tweny- four hours with Agnes Scott; but they are waking, constructive hours, so we like to think we feel that Agnes Scott belongs just as much to us as to anyone. It is therefore with pride that we hand over to you our first year thrills and struggles along with our sec¬ ond-hand books. We are standing by full of ready advice and with a helping hand— be it to turn up a hem or interpret those notes in the margin. Speak up, we are listening. Frances Spratlin, President, Day Students. Faculty, Business Staff Gain New Members List Includes New Physician, Five 1940 Graduates Eleven new members will be added to the faculty and administration this year, it was announced by the president'soffice. Five of these members are last year's graduates. Dr. Eug-enia Cuvillier Jones,_ member of the medical staff at the Children's Hospital, Wash¬ ington, D. C, last year, will fill Breg Asks the position of resident physician left vacant by Dr. Florence Swan- Freshmen son. Dr. Swanson is now resident For Cooperation psychiatrist at the New York Training School for Boys at War¬ Welcome to Agnes Scott! wick, New York. All of the old students have been Instructor Returns excited for some time over your coming. We are glad that you are Miss Martha Crowe will return here at last. from a leave of absence of four Our college years to resume her work as in¬ structor in French. Miss Helen is a won¬ Carlson, who acted as professor derful one during her absence, is now at Co¬ and I know lumbia University with a Rocke¬ that you feller Foundation Fellowship. will be Miss Margaret Weir, June grad¬ proud of it. uate of the library school of Em¬ Just now ory University, will act as assist¬ you are per¬ ant in the library. haps a bit Mrs. Roff Sims, professor of so¬ confused by ciology part of the time last year, the rush of will return to the campus for one opening quarter to teach History 101. days but Breg' Miss Margaret Allen Shatswell, you will soon adjust to a more graduate of Radcliffe College at normal routine. We are looking ahead through Cambridge, Massachusetts, will the year. All of us want it to be a manage the tea room this year. splendid one. You can have a share Hodgson Visits in making it an interesting and sig¬ Dr. Hugh Hodgson, head of the nificant year. You will soon be¬ music department at the Univer¬ come a full-fledged member of our sity of Georgia, will act as visiting student government association. It faculty member to teach a course is your own association and it needs in opera. He will also give organ your cooperation and helpfulness. recitals every Friday night. All through the year there will be Included in the five who grad¬ ways for you to share in its ideals uated from Agnes Scott last year and program. Remember, student are Miss Evelyn Baty, fellow in government association is your own English; Miss Carolyn Forman, fel¬ organization. It needs your interest low in Biology; Miss Eleanor and assistance. Hutchens, assistant to Mr. Stukes; Sincerely, Miss Jane Moses, assistant secretary Frances Breg, President, to the dean; and Miss Grace Ward, Student Government. book store manager. Coming This Week September 19 (Thursday) lowed by dancing 8:00-10:00 A.M.—Schedule Com¬ in the Gym. mittee. September 22 (Sunday) 10:00 A.M.—Chapel exercises fol¬ 9:15 A.M. -President M c C a i n's lowed by Dr. McCain's Bible Class for Fresh¬ talk to New Students. men. 11:00-12:00 A.M.—Schedule Com¬ 3:00 P.M. ■Tour of Atlanta. mittee. 5:30 P.M. -Vespers. 2:00-4:00P.M.—Schedule Com¬ 7:00 P.M.—;Sing on steps of Main. mittee. September 23 (Monday) 6:45 P.M.—Vespers in the Chapel. 4:00 P.M.—■Handbook class for 7:00 P.M.—Sing on the steps of Day Students in But- Main. trick Hall. 7:30 P.M.—Dancing-in the Mur-4:30 P.M.-■Handbook class for p h e y Candler Build¬ Freshman Boarders in ing. Buttrick Hall. September 20 (Friday) 4:30 P.M.—Handbook class for 8:00 A.M.—Classes begin. Transfer Students in 10:00 A.M.—Chapel exercises. Buttrick Hall. 2:30 P.M.—Library class for 6:45 P.M.—-Vespers in Chapel. Boarders (A-N). September 24 (Tuesday) 3:00 P.M.—Library class for 4:00 P.M.—:Handbook class for Boarders (O-Z). Day Students in But¬ 6:45 P.M.—Vespers in Chapel. trick Hall. 7:00 P.M.—Meeting of Freshmen 4:30 P.M.-Handbook class for Boarders in I n m a n Freshman Boarders in Lobby. Buttrick Hall. September 21 (Saturday) 4:30 P.M.—:■Handbook class for 10:00 A.M.—Chapel exercises. Transfer Students in 8:00-9:00 P.M.—Reception on the Buttrick Hall. Quadrangle f o 1 -6:45 P.M.—iSing on steps of Main. 65964 Rich's of Atlanta brings to its customers all over the South a host of new services in the expanded new Store. • 100,000 additional square feet of space. • Complete New Store for Men. • 6 new selling floors. • Fluorescent lighting throughout. • New receiving and alteration rooms on the floors they serve. • New shipping department across Forsyth Street. • Streamlined modern interiors. • Aisles broadened, new ones added. 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Wednesday, October 2, 1940. Miss Cilley Makes Underclassmen Miss Preston Timely Mistake Nominate Sets Date Inside, the hum of voices filled the Sunday School rooms; outside, Stunt Heads the lazy atmosphere of subdued For Award Bippy Gribble, Freshman, Sunday activities prompted pass- Competition for the Louise Mc- Jane McDonough, Soph, ersby to walk more slowly. One Kinney Book Award, a prize of Lead Competition tor Cat of these pedestrians, with a rather twenty-five dollars given each year strained look on her face, turned Under the leadership of Bippy at commencement to the girl who into the walk of the Decatur First Gribble, stunt chairman, and Nell shows the most discrimination in Presbyterian Church. She cau¬ Turner and Mary Louise Duffee, tiously entered the vestibule and collecting a personal library, is cheer leaders, the freshmen will was rather surprised to find none now open to students who wish to renew old rivalries with the so¬ other than B. A. Brooks seated on enter by October 15, according to phomores, led by Jane McDon¬ the bench there, apparently wait¬ Miss Janef Preston, assistant pro¬ ough, stunt chairman, and Yllis Lee ing for Fate to command her next fessor of English. and Caroline Smith, cheer leaders, move. in competition for the coveted The lady said, "Well, Betty Ann, Rules for this contest are as fol¬ black cat award on stunt night, to I am glad to see you. Are they lows: the collection must consist be held October 12, at 8 o'clock, having some sort of special serv¬ of at least fifteen books acquired in the Bucher Scott Gymnasium. ice in the Sunday School here to¬ between May, 1940, and May, Freshman committees making day? Aren't they having church? 1941; there is no limit as to the plans for the presentation are: I just came from the Baptist kind of books selected, but it is ad¬ scenery, Zena Harris, chairman, Church and they are not having visable to include a variety of Barbara Connally, Moran Smith, services either." types, not all fiction, or poetry, or Laurice Louper, Nancy Driskill, B. A. explained that it was al¬ drama; they may be gifts, if theyHarriet Kuniansky, Martha Nim-most an hour before church time, represent the taste of the contest¬ mons, and Mary Bloxton; proper¬ but had a little difficulty in per¬ ant, and they need not be expen¬ ties, Trillie Bond, chairman, Agnes suading Miss J^illey (the Spanish sive; the contestant must show her Burdette, Betty Bowman, Hennie professor and aiPh D, incidentally) intellectual possession of the books Rukman, and Ann Crowley. that her watch was not running in her collection by discussing them Costumes committee, Ann Bry, an hour ahead of schedule, but ole informally before a committee chairman, Martha Rhodes, Hazel Father Time had pulled, not a fast from the English department. Taylor, Gabe Temple, Bobbie Pow¬ trick, but a slow one, when he The present award is the contin¬ ell, and Lois Martin; gym decora¬ changed back to CST from DST uation of a prize which Miss Lou¬ tions, Peggy Sunderland, chairman, during the night. ise McKinney herself, Profes¬ now Rose Jordan, Frances Craig, Caro¬ We are still wondering why the sor Emeritus of English, offered to line Tumlin, Elsie Tilghman, and illustrious junior was there an the student who made the most in¬ Miriam Walker; gym decorations hour early, too. teresting collection of books. She in charge of parade costumes, Car¬ also helped foster a true apprecia¬ olyn McSween, chairman. tion of books by securing for the Jane McDonough has announced Sophs Give library enjoyable books which it the heads of the sophomore com¬ was unable to provide. mittees. The members of com-Shipwreck Party Miss McKinney explains the or¬ " mittees will be announced after igin of her idea for a book award tryouts. Chairman of the writing Using a nautical theme, the so¬ as follows: "Edward Newton, the committee is Mickey Jones. Mem¬ phomores will entertain the fresh¬ great book collector in Philadel¬ bers are Caroline Smith, Joella men at the annual pre-stunt party phia, was asked by a young Eng¬ Craig, Joyce Geist, Jean Tucker, Saturday at 8 P. M. in the Bucher lish teacher at Bryn Mawr if he Margaret Downie, and Charlotte Scott Gymnasium, it was an¬ could bring his students (seniors) Gardiner. nounced by Charity Crocker, to see his collection, one of the Heads of other committees are: chairman of arrangements. The greatest in the country. Mr. New¬ Judy Greenberg, stage; Marian gymnasium will be decorated as a ton, a collector of first editions Brittingham, programs; Anne desert island with fruit hanging and other rare books, at first was Frierson, music; Alice Clements, from the ceiling to give a back¬ reluctant. Then, struck by the in- dance; Kay Wright, decorations; ground for the freshmen and their tellgent questions of the students, Marjorie Wilson, costumes; and sophomore dates in the costumes of he offered a prize of $50 for the Jeanne Eakin, budget. ship-wrecked sailors. best collection of books." Hodgson Inspects New Building With the nearly completed Presser Building looming behind them, Dr. McCain, Mr. Stukes, and Mr. Hodgson inspect floor plans of the music wing and confer on the location of music and art studios. No. 2. Hodgson Opens Recital Series Outstanding Georgia Musician Makes Single Personal Appearance Bringing to his audience the skill of twenty-five years as a concert pianist as well as the renown of a lifetime's devo¬ tion to the fine arts, Mr. Hugh Hodgson will open the col¬ lege's 1940 Music Appreciation concerts Friday at 8 P. M. with a personal recital in the chapel of Rebekah Scott Hall, the only personal performance he will give during the Fall Concert Series at the college. Mr. Hodgson's program Friday Breg Stresses night, divided into five parts, in¬ cludes: Social Rules I. Classical Music: R a m e a u -MacDowell, Sara- Frances Breg, president of stu¬ bande. dent government, announcing new Bach-Bauer Chorale, Jesu, Joy social regulations for all classes, of Man's Desiring. has asked that students clip the Bach-Bridge Chorale, Come, following list to keep for refer¬ Sweet Death. ence: Mendelssohn, Prelude in E Mi¬ Seniors: nor. 1. The time limit after a Fri¬ II. Beethoven, Sonata, Opus 31, day night dance is thirty minutes No. 2 (Recitative) . after the dance is over, with two- thirty as the latest hour for return¬ III. Chopin, 6 Preludes, Nocturne, ing to the campus. For example, Mazurka, 2 Etudes. if a dance is over at one o'clock, IV. Modern Music: the student must return by one-Scriabin, Etude. thirty. Individual planning must Mompou, Three Magical Songs be made with the Dean's office for Tscherepnin, Six Bagatelles. each dance. This privilege is for Poulenc, Perpetual Motion. Friday night only, and is for plan¬ V. Hodgson's Own Compositions: ned dances. Seniors may have the Ichuaway Dance (inspired byprivilege of the Friday night dance a negro dance he witnessed on rule. the Ichuaway River in South 2. Five or seniors may go more Georgia). to big Decatur to the movies at Polha-Dots, an etude in the night. They must return to the most modern style, in which campus by 9:45. one hand plays only white Juniors: keys, while the other plays only 1. Juniors have the same Fri¬ black keys. day night dance rule as seniors. 2. Third year students still Pioneer classified as sophomores may have Mr. Hodgson is well known to the same social privileges as jun¬ Georgia music lovers for the out¬ iors after consultation with the standing work he has done here dean's offrce. The number of so¬ since 1928 to bring music, as well cial engagements, however, is lim¬ as all the fine arts, to the public ited. in general. It was in that year Sophomores: that he inaugurated a Thursday 1. After consultation with the Evening Music Appreciation Hour dean's office, two sophomore board¬ in Athens, which, continuing to ers may double-date. Boarders this day, was the pioneer of many can not use this privilege with day later programs of its kind now es¬ students or girls in town. They tablished throughout the state. must return to the college by 11:45. He is the Director of the Fine 2. Sophomores may have the Arts Division of the new Univer¬ privilege of the Friday night time-sity Center, which in itself is an limit for dances, but must be ac¬ outgrowth of these first Music Ap¬ companied by senior chaperons, or preciation evenings. other chaperons approved by the Childhood school. 3. Second year students still Mr. Hodgson, bom in Athens, classified as freshmen may have Georgia, began the study of the the same social privileges as so¬ piano at the age of four. An older phomores, but are limited in the sister, Mabel, was his only teacher number of social engagements. until he was fourteen years old, Freshmen: and, since all six of the children Freshmen may use the Friday in the family had been trained in night late limit privilege if they music, they wrote and acted in are properly chaperoned. their own plays, musicales, and operas throughout his childhood. Coming This Week After four years' work in Eu¬ rope with celebrated teachers, he Thursday, 4:30 P. M. — Tea he returned to Athens and entered for Episcopal students in the University of Georgia, where Anna Young Alumnae he was a member of the Southern House. championship tennis team, and Friday, 8 P. M.—Musicale by manager of the baseball team. He Hugh Hodgson. Reception in Murphey Candler Build¬ was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. ing. Since his graduation from the Saturday, 7:30 P. M.—Sopho¬ University in 1915, Mr. Hodgson more Party for Freshmen has done graduate work in higher in Gym. mathematics at Columbia Univer¬ Saturday, 8 P. M. — Faculty sity, and has made special studies Bacon Bat at Harrison Hut. {Continued on Page 2, Col. 2) Page 2 Ace Sophomore Golfer Wins July Medal Vaughan Reaches Tennis Finals; Field Hockey Ass#n Vies With Varsity Things have happened for Agnes Scott athletes since va¬ cation began last June. Down South America way, Charity Crocker, ace Sophomore golfer, won the July Medal and a Helen Wilson Cup for her driving and putting at Gavea Golf Club in Rio de Janeiro. And here in Atlanta, Geven Hill, freshman, Honor Roll Lists reached the semi-finals in Twenty Three the Chandler Twenty-three students of the Park Golf senior, junior, and sophomore Tourney. Ida classes attained honor roll ratingJane Vaugh¬ for academic work last year, it an, A.A. Vice was announced by Dr. J. R. Mc¬ P r e s i d ent, Cain, president of the College, Sat¬ urday. went as far as Members of the senior class are: the finals in Sabine Brumby, Freda Copeland, the Emory Self Beryl Healy, Rebekah Hogan, Girls' Tennis Marjorie Merlin, Bee Shamos, Bet¬ Tournament—and she never even ty Jane Stevenson, Mary Bon Utterback, Ida Jane Vaughan, told us she played! and Doris Weinkle. Miss Wilburn, in the meantime, Junior class members include: was making arrangements for the Lavinia Brown, Billie Davis, Sue- one big event on our Athletic Cal¬ nette Dyer, Margery Gray, Jeanne Osborne, Julia Ann Patch, Theo ender—the coming of The United dosia Ripley, and Frances Tucker. States Field Hockey Association's Sophomores who attained the Touring Team to Agnes Scott on rating are: Charity Crocker, Mar¬ November 13 and 14. The team tha Dale, Jane Elliott, Dot Hollo will be on our hockey field to show ran, Ruth Lineback, and Jane Mc us how, and to meet our varsity in Donough. what should be a game par excel¬ lence. Putting on Campus Hodgson Through the co-operation of (Continued from Page 1) Mary Ann Smith's father, Mr. Sam com¬ of the organ and of modern Smith, Agnes Scott golfers will be position. able to practice their putting on Besides his many posts as a pro¬ the campus. Mr. Smith has built an moter of cultural education in excellent green at the end of the Georgia, he is organist and choir hockey field. director of St. Luke's Church, in Tenn Manager, Mary Olive Atlanta, founder of the annual Thomas, announces a full program Georgia music festivals, and head their year with the Singles Tour¬ of the Fine Arts Division of the nament starting this week, the University Center for Georgia, Doubles Tournament coming in which he conceived and put into the spring, and mixed doubles existence through the cooperation matches throughout the year as the of the State University System and big attractions. And for you who Agnes Scott College. play the game, don't forget to sign From 1934-36 he was Director for the Single Tournament by to¬ of the Atlanta Conservatory of morrow, October 3. Music, and he was soloist with the Defense Program Atlanta Symphony Orchestra each year of its existence. ' While bombs fell and anti-air¬ craft fired in London last Thurs¬ The Appreciation Hour, a week¬ day, Agnes Scott Athletic Associa¬ ly feature scheduled for the entire tion pulled its own little defense fall quarter, is but one phase of program. It was Army Day and the activities being promoted by Fort Scott registered a full 200 re¬ Mr. Hodgson in his post as Direc¬ cruits. Bucher Scott was equipped tor of the Fine Arts Division of with army tents and mess hall, dis¬ the University Center. Besides pensary and first aid. General Ann this program at Agnes Scott, the Fisher donned a Dahlonega uni¬ division has established four oth¬ form and led her Athletic Board, ers to be held once a week in States- dressed also in R.O.T.C., in a pa¬ boro, Valdosta, Milledgeville, and rade. Alta Webster and Ann Gel-Athens, each on a different night lerstedt walked guard duty. There of the week. were suit case races and potato re¬ Each succeeding week he will ap¬ lays, tests for flat feet and fallen pear merely as master of ceremonies arches. Army brat, Polly Frink, at programs which he has directed, led the military minded juniors in but which other artists will pre¬ a formation drill. Their costumes sent. Once a month there will be were blue and white suits with red a distinctly Agnes Scott program, military hats. A nickelodeon offer¬ directed by C. W. Dieckmann, pro¬ ed anything from "No Name Jive" fessor of music. to "God Bless America." HOTEL CANDLER Convenient to Agnes Scott HE ARN'S T. J. Woods, Operator Ladies' and Men's THE AGNES SCOTT NEWS CA Leaders Summarize Work Week of Chapel Programs Includes Guest Speakers Chapel services this week, con¬ ducted by Christian Association, will continue to center around the theme of the year, "Thou shalt love," and around the explanation of the work carried on by Chris¬ tian Association. Anne Chambless will explain the budget tomorrow, and Fri¬ day Betty Medlock will speak on church membership. Saturday's chapel will be a Christian Associ¬ ation membership service, and the week will end with a reconsecration service Sunday afternoon at 3:30 in the chapel. Plans for carrying out the theme through the year, by emphasizing both God's love to man and man's love to God and his fellows, have been worked out. October 13, Dr. W. A. Smart, of the Emory Theo¬ logical School, will speak, discuss¬ ing "The Love of God to Man." October 29, Dr. Leroy Loemker, professor of philosophy at Emory, will speak on "God's Love for Man Through the Ages." The worship services held each Wednesday by C. A. will continue the same idea. The Agnes Scott News will hold tryouts for the editorial staff October 4-11. All those interested are asked to sign up on the Bulletin Board in But- trick. Freshmen are not eligible. Marcus Bartlett Aids Radio Committee Mr. Marcus Bartlett, from WSB, and B^ll Hinson, president of the Emory Radio Guild, will meet with the Alumnae Radio commit¬ tee Monday at 7 P. M. in the Mac- Lean Chapel of the Presser Build¬ ing to discuss plans for the year's activity that will follow. All stu- Working in cooperation with the Emory Radio Guild, a commit¬ tee soon to be organized will write scripts for this year's new series of college radio programs. Because WSB has reorganized its own programs, wider subjects than those of interest primarily to alum¬ nae are desired, and will include science, current events, personages, music, opinions, and dramatiza¬ tions. Miss Roberta Winter, assistant in speech, urges everyone interest¬ ed in writing scripts and produc¬ ing shows to become a member of the committee. Where Friends Meet Friends And Part More Friendly GLENN'S PHARMACY Masonic Temple Bldg. DE. 3322-3 War in Europe Molds Campus Trends By Virginia Williams The European war is showing its influence on the campus with an increase in the Spanish department, knitting, war maps, and patriotic jewelry. The number of students in elementary Spanish classes have increased from thirty-eight last year to sixty-one this year, according to Miss Melissa Cilley. A large part of this increase, she says, is doubtless due to "sen¬ Faculty Sponsors timental reasons"; but there would have been some increase if there had been no "unusual reasons", be¬ Annual Bacon Bat cause the interest in the Spanish Faculty members and families, language has increased with our interest in the affairs of the Span¬ husbands, wives, children, and ish-speaking countries. dogs, will gather at Harrison Hut Patriotic Knitting Saturday at 8 P. M. for the an¬ nual Bacon Bat given by the sec¬ Student sympathies for the un¬ ond-year faculty members to new¬ fortunates of the war may take comers into the group. the form of sweaters, scarfs, and Miss Thelma Albright, chair¬ socks for the soldiers. Knitting in man of the committee, has an¬ co-operation with the Red Cross nounced that this year's bat will is going to become a campus proj be given in honor of Dr. Hugh ject under the direction of Ellen Hodgson, visiting professor of mu¬ Gould. Henceforth such colors sic, Dr. Eugenia Jones, resi¬ as chartreuse or lavender in your dent physician, Miss Margaret knitting bag will mark you as a Weir, assistant in the library, Miss person who is lacking in patriot¬ Martha Crowe, instructor in ism. French, and last year's graduates, Dr. Davidson approves only if Miss Evelyn Baty, Miss Carolyn "knitting in class doesn't become Forman, Miss Eleanor Hutchens, a patriotic duty". Grace Walker Miss lane Moses, and Miss Grace announces that she supposes that Ward. she will have to knit for the Ger¬ The name "bacon bat" is last mans "to keep the campus neu¬ generation's steak-fry, and is held tral". over as tradition in this case. Front Page News Cooperative Committees Further evidence of the aware¬ ness of the student body of the Aid Student Government conflict in Europe is that the front page of the papers in the library With the theme of combining is more worn than the comic sec¬ the relationship of the student tion. You find war maps even government experience to individ¬ used as wall decorations in some ual development, Student Govern¬ of the rooms of the dormitory. ment Association has formed sev¬ And have you seen the tiny lit¬ eral new committees this year. tle flag pins that Tine Gray's The committees are: Library, mother gave Tine and Mary Bon Hazel Scruggs, Margaret McGari this fall? Also, I wonder if all ty, Margaret Mary Toomey, Joella seen the campus the red coats on Craig, Aileen Still, and Martha could be signs of British sympathy. Ann Smith, who help maintain a Certainly there's no mistaking the quiet atmosphere in the library; jolly old English custom of tea at Food, Martha Boone, Helen Har four which is being revived at the die and Tine Gray, who serve as tea house. connecting links between the stu¬ If you need further evidence dents' wishes and the dietitians' that the campus is militant, we plans; and tea house, Gay Swag- refer you to the A. A. rally. erty and Marian Brittingham. Boive/i Press Commercial Printing and Stationery TYPEWRITERS AND RIBBONS ^Blotters — Note Paper — Poster Paper Office Supplies 316 ChurchSt. DE.3383 Decatur, Ga. Agnes Scott College DECATUR, GA. A college for women that is widely recog¬ nized for its standards of work and for the interesting character of its student activities. READY-TO-WEAR For Quick Service Call EVER-READY CABS For further information, address 131 Sycamore St. Owned by Decatur Boys J. R. McCAIN, President DE. 1656 Decatur, Ga. THE AGNES SCOTT NEWS Page 3 Moilie Oliver Checks Up On Clower Takes Notes Freshman Twins Bring After Working H ours For the Record Confusion To Campus Well, within these gates of learning, classes are clicking Virginia Tuggle real freshman with qualifies as a a faux pas she By Virginia Williams smoothly along with almost a Hitlerite precision; but believ¬ ing that the old truth about all work and no play is still true, Jill has taken not only time off to brush up on her technique, but also the Eugenia Hailey, Lillian Gish, Rowena spotlight in Barringer, Shirley A. Smith, Elta Robinson, Helen (illmer, and Olivia White. entertaining SIGMA NU: Elta Robinson, Kathryn Hill, Rose Jor¬ the rushees. dan, Mary Jeter, Arabell Boyer, Julia A. PHI DELTA Florence, Georgine Castagnet, Anne Cham- THETA rush bless. parties at PI KA: EMORY at¬ Helen Summerour, Aileen Still, Mary tracted : Louise Duffee, Betty Ashcraft, Julia A. Agnes Doug¬ Florence, a®d Flake Patman. las, Nell Tur-SPE: n e r , Mary Mary Zellars, Mary Anne Atkins, LIbby Louise Duffee, Steadman, Marjorie Simpson, and Laverne Kleaoor Aber- Sturmer. nathy, Mary Louise Pal mour, Susan Campus Queen Scene: We Self, Lillian Oliver G 1 s h , Claire bow to Helen Hardie this week, Purcell, Neva caught wearing "a good little black Jackson, Cor-delia B a 11 e, Marion Phillips, Edith Dale, Julia Ann Patch, dress," its only but outstanding Olivia White, Mary Robertson, Ida Jane Vaughn, Sue Phillips, Mary Anne Cochran, ornament one of Vogue's latest gad¬ Betty Henderson, Joella Craig, Clara Round- tree, Jane McDonough, Kathryn Johnson, gets, a shining question mark in Frankie Butt, Caroline Smith, and Mary gold metal, with a small locket as Jane Auld. its dot. Helping with SIGMA CHI rush parties at EMORY were: Aileen Still, Betty Jackson, Alice Clem¬ ents, Ann Bumstead, Mary Frances Walker, Sue Phillips, Elaine Stubbs, Anne Martin, Clubs Organize Lib Barrett, Nina Broughton, Julia Ann Patch, Frances Ellis, Frances Fleming, Jane Sugg, Edith Dale, Mary Robertson, Matilda Try Outs Cartledge, Lib Beasley, Quincy Mills, Nell Turner, Mary Louise Duffee, Marcia Mar- land, Barbara Connally, Evelyn Coggins, The clubs are being organized Flake Patman, Tine Gray, Laura Looper, Shirley Gately, and Marjorie Wilson. now and many have already made And at KA rush parties were: plans for the coming year. Florrle Guy, Lillian Schwencke, Marion Phillips, Sue Phillips, Sara Copeland, and Pi Alpha Phi will hold try- Helen Gilmer. Duck Copeland and Polly Frink went to outs Monday night, October 7, in the ATO FORMAL at TECH, and Sarah the chapel. These tryouts are open Gray Hollls was seen at PHI DELTA THE¬ TA there. only to sophomores, juniors and ALPHA TAU OMEGA at EMORY drew: seniors. Instructions can be found Betty Jackson, Anne Bumstead, Georgine Castagnet, Betty Bond, Duck Copeland, on the back bulletin board in But- Marion Phillips, Polly Frink, Shirley Gate¬ trick. ly, Bette Burdett, Lib Turner, Nell Turner, Betty Bacon, Eleanor Abernathy, Betty Sul¬ livan, Flake Patman, Arabelle Boyer, Susan Pen and Brush Club announ¬ Montgomery, and Mary Jeter. ces three-fold plan for the com¬ Seen at the CHI PHI rush parties at a EMORY were : ing year. During the year, the Duck Copeland, Polly Frink, Charlene club will hear talks by experts in Burke, Rowena Barrlnger, Frankie Butt, Keeker Newton, Helen Jester, Lucile Galnes, various fields of art. There will Beryl Healey, and Betty Jackson. Other fraternity and rush parties include: also be special sketch classes. As SIGMA ALPHA EPSILON: a climax to these classes, the club Marjorie Wilson, Annie Wilds, Jessie will sponsor a student art exhibit MacGuire, Mary Dean Lott, Betty Waitt, Nina Mae Snead, Susan Self, Becky Stam¬ in the spring. per, Claire Bennett, Frances Fleming, Su¬ san Montgomery, Julia Florence, and Pat The Cotillion Club has an¬ XI PSI PHI: nounced its tryouts. The appli¬ Stokes. Annie Wilds, Jessie MacGuire, Mary Dean Lott, Nina Mae Snead. and Bizelle Roberts. cants are to be judged on appear¬ DELTA SIGMA: ance and posture as well as danc¬ Mary James Seagle and Rebecca Stamper. PSI OMEGA: ing ability. Top Off the Evening Top off the evening and the outfit with a shimmering separate . . . blouse or jacket . . . sequin studded for starry nights . . . Prism-colored blouses that believe in topping off evenings with something beau¬ tiful. Give these but one long glance and so will you! Flannel or crepe with sequins . . . many styles in many colors . . . $5.98-$10 Separate Shop Street Floor RICH'S somehow managed last week. She The Comedy of Errors as a double feature has become a met up with Miss Willis, whom she reality on our campus with the arrival of Miriam and Maslin knew only as a fellow student in German Ol, House, of New York, and Elizabeth and Julia Harvard, of in the book Atlanta. store one day. Mir and Mas can be recognized, Falling into if worse comes to worst, by their c o n v ersation Office Lists hair. Mir parts her hair lower with the sup¬ than Mas and has been known to posed "upper wear pigtails, and, according to Senior c 1assman," the abashed Mir, Mas rolls up Virginia found her hair more often. The Harvard that her com¬ Chaperons twins are a little more consider¬ panion was al¬ so waiting to ate of their public since Julia is a Fifty Senior Boarders Clower buy a German little taller than Elizabeth. Unfor¬ Accept Privilege of book. Seizing the opportunity to tunately, this helps only when you Chaperoning Underclassmen run an errand, she handed Miss have them together. Willis a bill, explaining "You have The dean's office has completed an honest face; why don't you just the list of senior chaperones. The No Bad Mixups Yet buy me a book when your turn girls who have accepted are: comes? And don't forget the Mir House says of the teachers: Ruth Allgood, Mary Stuart change!" "They haven't gotten us mixed up Arbuckle, Elizabeth Barrett, Mir¬ We don't know what the reply iam Bedinger, Martha Boone, Fran¬ yet; they just can't tell us apart. was—but, Virginia has her book. ces Breg, Nina Broughton, Sabine And, as for the roommates of the Add Secretary's Joys Brumby, Hariette Cochran, Freda House twins, "they just take it for Fancy Lou Pate's secretarial Copeland, Ann Fisher, Lucile granted which one is which." chagrin to find that she had typed, Gaines, Ellen Gould, Sarah Hand- Both sets of twins wear identi¬ at Mr. Stukes' dictation: "Dear ley, Helen Hardie, Beryl Healy, cal clothing, but Julia Harvard Sir: Your daughter has been re¬ Ann Henry, Beth Irby, Betsy Ken- likes yellow, while Elizabeth pre¬ ceived and looked over with inter¬ drick, Betty Kyle, Anne Martin, fers blue. You do learn to com¬ est." Martha Moody, Margaret Murchi promise when you are two. At first it seemed funny when son, Louise Musser, Moilie Oliver, The House twins not only have half a dozen freshmen asked cu¬ Martha O'Nan, Pattie Patterson, everything alike, but they also like riously if "Junior Chocolates" Marian Phillips, Sue Phillips, Etta the same things, even the same were little tiny pieces of candy, but Robinson, Elizabeth Ruprecht, boy—last year. There are a few Grace Ward confessed that she Laura Sale, Louise Sams, Hazel minor differences, however, such spent most of her freshman year Scruggs, Susan Self, Gene Slack, as Mas' liking mixed nuts and thinking the same thing, and didn't Nina May Snead, Carolyn Strozier, Miriam's liking potato chips. Mir dare ask. Elaine Stubbs, Mary Bon Utter- is taking hockey this quarter, but back, Ida Jane Vaughan, Betty Street Car Blues Mas is taking swimming. Waitts, Grace Walker, Connie Maybe student government will Miriam couldn't remember any Watson, Sc'ottie Wilds, Virginia get up a petition about the Deca-other differences, unless one were Williams, Cornelia Willis, Mary tur street cars now. Betsy Kend-Maslin's being so "lady-like" when Madison Wisdom, Margaret rick will support it anyway, since she was little. "She isn't like that Threadhead and Anita Woolfolk. one day last week, on a particu¬ any more," said Mir. "I mean she larly rough ride to town, she grab¬ isn't delicate anymore." bed at the side of the seat to keep Miss Hanley Twins Differ from being spilled into the aisle, and found herself clinging to the Acts as Adviser The Harvard twins don't think shin bone of a much bewildered that they are as much alike as the Acting as consultant to the ar¬ gentleman seated behind her. even if the teachers House twins, chitect in remodeling and adding do "just look hard" and say "Good Lovesick Seniors to the Connecticut College Library, morning, Miss Harvard." Miss Edna Hanley, Agnes Scott Nobody could imagine why librarian, will spend the month of Julia loves watermelon while Elaine Stubbs was so upset last October in New London, Connec¬ Elizabeth adores asparagus. Do week about losing a nickel. She ticut, where the college is situat¬ they like the same movies? Julia searched the campus high and low, ed. It has an enrollment of ap¬ answers, "I have never seen a show and mystified everybody with her proximately 750 students. that I didn't like." concern. The solution finally She plans to spend the latter part Of course, there are lots of mix- came to light when the missing of the month visiting the libraries ups but neither Miriam House or nickel was discovered in the book of Vassar, Wellesley and Mt. Julia Harvard could remember store cash register, its distinguish¬ Hoiyoke. any. "If only Mas were here we ing characteristic being the sig¬ could think," mourned Mir in true nificant inscription of "Elaine" on Siamese fashion. one side, with "—." "—." on the Mortar Board Entertains other. Mas Alias Mir transfer students Saturday night Mortar Board will entertain the There was the time in high Compliments of at 8 P. M. at Harrison Hut. school when Miriam had to stay Ann Henry and Gene Slack make CLAIRMONT after school in three subjects. Mas up the entertainment committee, BEAUTY SALON finally said she would do one of while Elaine Stubbs and Frances them for her. The trouble didn't DE. 8011 Breg are on the invitations com¬ develop until the teacher said in mittee. perfect innocence, "You may go now, Miriam." Mas felt so bad that she confessed and Mir had to Your Nearest and Most H & W CAFETERIA do it all over again. Complete Drug Store The confused had their revenge the other night. One of the twins Decatur's Own Cooking Meet Your Friends Here spent hours trying to persuade a pledge to join a certain fraternity, Reasonable Prices only to find that the supposed THREADGILL'S pledge was the president of the fra¬ THE PRESCRIPTION STORE Breakfast 7:00-9:00 ternity. Phone DE. 1665 309 E. College Ave. Decatur, Ga. DinnerSupper 11:00-2:00 5:30-8:00 In conclusion, if you are still confused, look at the bracelets of the House twins, or just ask the Harvards about which is which. Bowl for Health's Sake DeKALB LAUNDRY 113 W. Ponce de Leon Ave. DE. 2516-2517 DECATUR BOWLING ALLE DECATUR, GA. Bowling 10c—Any Time Page 4 THE AGNES SCOTT NEWS The Group Shall Make Us Free Student Government's theme of the year, the relationship of the government as a whole to the individual, as announced by Frances Breg in chapel last week, strikes us as being an excellent one in its pertinence to the problems of government and individual freedom in the world today. The one-man domination of European powers who were once free reminds us constantly that a government by groups made up of individuals who can assert themselves without fear is the only gov¬ ernment to give individual freedom. We are free as long as we are working togeth¬ er; but when we fail to work together, then we become dominated by a few, and a government of coercion begins. Just as in our student government the individual must take responsibility toward the group, so it is in a democracy; and as our sense of responsibility increases, so will our privileges. But if we, as individu¬ als, cannot give up small, selfish, personal liberties to help further the broader free¬ dom of the group and thus the broader freedom of those making up the group, then we have to give up true freedom. We can begin here in our small democ¬ racy to develop ourselves individually in regard to the group, and to learn coopera¬ tion with others. Thus student govern¬ ment aids us in preparing ourselves to help retain in our country the freedom that has been so recently lost in others. Committee Appeals To Radio Enthusiasts The days of Agnes Scott's radio pub¬ licity are over if students fail to answer the appeal for aid issued by the Alumnae Radio Committee this week. As announced by Miss Roberta Winter, Director of the Wednesday afternoon pro¬ grams last year, WSB's new policy does not allot schools time for Alumnae broad¬ casts. But the Agnes Scott radio publicity black-out is not complete. WSB has offer¬ ed us a spark of opportunity that can be fanned into an ambitious light by the en¬ ergies of interested students. It has offer¬ ed to accept, and is actually clamoring for, any adult educational material pre¬ sented in an entertaining manner; and it has suggested preference for Pan-Ameri¬ can material. The programs may not even be presented by Agnes Scott students, but the station will give the school and author credit, if not pay, for the scripts. This arrangement seems to offer not only a chance for more interesting and varied programs, but also a challenge to the originality of those interested in pro¬ ducing the programs. And to those in¬ terested persons, the Alumnae Radio Com¬ mittee sends out an invitation and appeal to meet with them Monday to discuss plans for continuing the radio publicity so obvi¬ ously beneficial to the school. California Students Volunteer as Guinea Pigs In Vitamin A Test Students at the University of California agri¬ cultural college are undergoing a unique "vitamin A" test to see if they are getting a properly bal¬ anced diet. Three hundred students were asked to volun¬ teer in the series of tests conducted by the home economics department. Eyes of the respondents are measured under a "regenometer" which measures adaptation of the eye to darkened vision. Behind the test is the theory of "visual purple" —a fluid substance living around the outside of the retina which adjusts the vision to darkness. Inadequacy of "visual purple" causes "night blindness," a factor which highway safety engin¬ eers say causes many traffic accidents. (ACP) Betty Stevenson boils down The Real News Cause and Effect A neat little sequence worked itself out in Europe, Asia, and America last week. For weeks rumors of American use of Singapore as a naval base persist. Then, in a nearby corner of Asia, soldiers of the Rising Sun march into Indo-China. In Washington, Secretary Hull announces a loan to China and a long-delayed embargo on scrap ison to Japan. Then, undes Hitles's eye in Berlin, Japan with Italy and Ger¬ many, signs a ten-year treaty aimed in threat against tne United States. Back in Washington, Congress de¬ cides not to adjourn just yet. Stevenson Time Bomb The new alliance is the big news and the big headache of the week. It has significance in many regions of the earth. The Russians are restive: Will they be the unwilling silent part¬ ner of the concern? China, cut off by the Brit¬ ish from the Burma Road and by the Japanese in Indo-Cnina, faces worse conditions. England fears American intimidation, but sees nopefully a way to distract attention from Germany's tardy timetable of fall sports. America is given a nasty jolt, an appreciable lessening of remoteness from war. The situation is explosive. The bomb has been located, but not made harmless. Self Deception The loan to China of $2 5,000,000 is a gesture. It is as if we, across the water, shouted encour¬ agement to somebody already drowning. We have banned scrap iron from Japan, and. there¬ fore, we pat ourselves on the back as non-appeasers. But the essential facts are disillusioning: that sales to Japan have increased steadily in the last three years until in some vital war lines they exceed those to England and Australia; that Ja¬ pan already has enough scrap iron from this coun¬ try to last a long time; that scrap iron is only one material on a long list of goods still helping Japan. Checkmate The Dakar episode had nothing clean or decis¬ ive of glorious in it. It was a fiasco, humiliat¬ ing and harmful to England. As an exhibition of weakness that the British could not afford, it was bad enough. But Churchill and his army and navy staffs know that they had an actual strategic need of the West African colony. And the tragi-comic DeGaulle in his position as rally¬ ing point for French resistance has lost prestige. Life Underground The gallantry of the Cockney and West Enders in London is the unconscious gallantry of the innocent bystander, the little inoffensive man of the Wellsian fable. He must put up with death and bomb craters in parlor, bedroom, and bath; but it seems a shame to observers for misery to be his lot as well in the huge vaults of the public air raid shelters. Apparently criticism heard in high places may have effect. The wretched ac¬ commodations in air raid shelters seem to have a good chance of being bettered soon. Harmony The people to the south of the United States have been conditioned too long to think of us as "gringo" to be convinced of the good neighbor policy without action. A conviction of Ameri¬ can sincerity may spread since the new treaty between the United States and the Dominican Republic. This paper signed by Cordell Hull and Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, an ex-president and special envoy of the Dominican Republic, has put an end to a thirty-five year control of the customs of the republic. The Agnes Scott News Vol. XXVI Wendesday, Del. 2. IIMO No. 2 Published weekly, except during holidays and examination periods, by the students of AKnes Scott ColleKe. Office on second floor Murphey Candler Bulldlne. Knterod as uecond •'lass matter at the Decatur, Georgia, post office. Subscription price per year, $1.25; single copies, five cents. Klaine Stubbs Editor Virginia Clower Managing Editor Florence Ellis Business Manager Campus Camera ONIVERSITY OF WlfCONSlN CO-EDS' USE ENOUGH LIPSTICK. ANNUALLY TO PAINT GEORGE WASHINGTON FOUR GOOD STZED BARNS'/ THE AVERAGE RECEIVED" OMLY ONE COLLEGE OD-ED COVERS-9.68 SQ. FEET OF LIP-T DEGREE --AN LIB. FROM > WASMINGTOU COLLEGE, MD. Colleges View Conscription Peacetime military conscription of the nation's young men for the purpose of bolstering the national defense is about to become a fact. Whether college men 21 and over like the prospect or not, they now face compulsory registration which for some will lead to service in the nation's armed forces. As is to be expected, campus support throughout the country for the Burke-Wadsworth bill has lagged considerably behind the support given the measure by the population as a whole. A recent tabulation of press polls showed that 66 per cent of America's adult voting population favored con¬ scription. Unfortunately, collegi¬ ate opinion up to now has not been sounded as extensively as that of the general public. But it is a safe bet that an objective sampling, following the methods of Dr. Gal- lup's Institute of Public Opinion, would find college students voting considerably less than two-thirds in favor of compulsory military training. Student Favor Grows Nevertheless there have been straws in the wind these last few weeks indicating that even among students there is growing senti¬ ment that America must call its manpower to the alert. Under¬ graduate and faculty groups and individuals in increasing numbers have conceded that some sort of a draft is necessary. In Philadelphia, Lawson Robert¬ son, 57-year-old Penn and Olym¬ pic track coach, declared for com¬ pulsory military training to toughen American youths for pos¬ sible defense of their country. "I don't think the young fellows of today are ready for a war," assert¬ ed Robertson, celebrating his twen¬ ty-fifth anniversary at Penn. "They have the initiative, but not the endurance for fighting." Wheeler Objects A m c r i c a's college millions watched closely as the conscription bill bounced over a rocky path through the houses of congress. Among the principal senate oppon¬ ents was Montana's isolationist • • INAYEAR • • • Matilda Cartledge Gathers Campus Quotes The question of the Japanese Embargo is before us again. Last year the problem, was disiussed heatedly, and the iampus was quite upset over the indiscriminate ship¬ ping of arms and sirap iron to Ja¬ pan. Now that the United States has actually passed an act prohib¬ iting the sale of scrap iron and oil to Japan, let us see what is the general consensus of opinion. Gay Currie, '42: It's a fine thing, but I'm afraid that it has come too late. We have no idea how much reserve Japan may have after her years of col¬ lecting scrap iron. And anyway, I wonder if it can possibly be en¬ forced strictly enough to do very much good. Dorothy Wheeler, '43: The Japanese Embargo is not strict enough, I'm afraid. There are loop holes, especially in the oil clause that will prohibit practical enforcement of the embargo. It's a good plan, but should be made watertight to be practicable. Julia Lancaster, '42: The Japanese Embargo is the best way of putting an end to Ja¬ pan's increasing military strength. But I think that it should have come before international relations became so strained. It could now be considered as an act of war, so to speak. Laura Sale, '41: I believe that the embargo is the best move that could be made to chec k Japan's power, especially since America now is the most im¬ portant source of available scrap iron. Patty Patterson, '41: I think that the Japanese Em¬ bargo is a good move on our part, and though it will naturally an¬ tagonize Japan, I don't believe that she can retaliate effectively on us. Burton K. Wheeler, whose objec¬ tions, based on two personal con¬ victions, struck a responsive chord in many student minds: 1, that conscription would destroy democ¬ racy in the United States; 2, that Hitler has no military designs on the U. S. (ACP). The Agnes News Vol. 26. AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1940. No. 3. Surprise Speaker Dr. Harmon W. Caldwell, pres¬ ident of the University of Geor¬ gia, introduced Dr. Hugh Hodg¬ son Friday night at the opening concert of the Music Appreciation Hour series. Hodgson Presides Over Musicale The second in the series of con¬ certs presented by the Fine Arts Division of the University Cen¬ ter, "An Evening With Bach," a musicale entirely devoted to Bach music, will be presented under the direction of Hugh Hodgson Fri¬ day night at 8 o'clock in the Bucher Scott Gymnasium. •Atlanta and Agnes Scott musi¬ cians will take parts on the pro¬ gram. The numbers are as fol¬ lows: 1. Prelude and Fugue—C. W. Dieckmann. 2. Illustrations from the Two and Three Part Inventions—Billy Schatten, Irene Leftwich Harris, J. T. Pittman, Hugh Hodgson. 3. Prelude and Fugue from the Well-Tempered Clavichord—Hugh Hodgson. 4. Ave Maria as arranged by Gounod—Minna Hecker, Hazel Rood Weems, Hugh Hodgson. 5. Air for G String—Mrs. Weems. 6. Toccato and Fugue in G Mi¬ nor—Hugh Hodgson. Atlanta Colleges Train Armistice Day Speakers In order to train speakers to ap¬ pear in 40, grammar and high schools in Atlanta on Armistice Day, Agnes Scott Christian Asso¬ ciation, Emory, and Tech, will hold a meeting here on October 13 to discuss "Christian Interpre¬ tation of Americanism," which is to be the subject of the Armistice Day speeches. Training for presenting these talks will take the form of three separate meetings on this campus, the subjects being "Individual and Minority Rights," "Preserving De¬ mocracy in America," and "De¬ mocracy at Work in the World." Following this training, about twenty-five from each school will meet to discuss how to present the November 11 program. Suzanne Kaulbach will lead the work at Agnes Scott, and people interest¬ ed in speaking are urged to get in touch with her about joining the group. McDonald Sells Series Tickets On Campus All Star Concerts Include Operas, Symphony In Outstanding Lists Mr. Marvin McDonald, of the Atlanta Music Club, will speak in chapel Friday morning on this year's Ail-Star Concert series. Monday he will begin the sale of tickets in the lobby of Buttrick. An opera by the Metropolitan Opera Company, recitals by six vocalists, two pianists, a master violinist, and a. symphony orches¬ tra will compose the program of concerts to be presented this year by the All-Star Concert Series at the Municipal Auditorium in At¬ lanta. A quartet of famous singers will open the concert series Friday, Oc¬ tober 25. Three of these singers are from the Metropolitan Opera Company, and the fourth is Igor Gorin, of motion picture and Vic¬ tor Record fame. The second artist of the series will be Yehudi Menuhin, violin genius, who will be heard Friday, November 22. The pianist-com¬ poser, Serge Rachmaninoff, will play in Atlanta December 9. Jussi Bjoerling, the new tenor star of the Metropolitan, will ap¬ pear Saturday, January 18. Law¬ rence Tibbett, famous baritone, is scheduled to sing on Wednesday, February 26. On Tuesday, March 25, Vladi¬ mir Golschmann will conduct the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra in a program on which the pianist will be featured. Gounod's opera "Faust" will be the final attraction on April 29. It has been announced that Helen Jepson will play the role of "Mar¬ guerite." -There will be no seats available for this opera except those not taken by subscribers to the All-Star Concert Series. Rivalry Grows As Stunt Night Nears Emory Announces Lecture Series Famous Biographer to Speak on England, France The Student Lecture Associa¬ tion of Emory University has an¬ nounced a brilliant lecture series for the 1940-1941 series, headed by Andre Maurois and Thomas Mann. The program also includes an American admiral, a choir and an English historian. First speaker will be Andre Maurois, who will speak October 17 on the subject, "England and France: Can They be Friends Again?" Mr. Maurois, who spoke at Agnes Scott year before last, is known as France's foremost biog¬ rapher and essayist." December 7, Admiral H. E. Yarnell, former commander-inchief of the United States Asiatic Fleet, will speak on "The Far East." Admiral Yarnell holds the distinguished service medal for outstanding service to America in handling problems brought up by the Japanese invasion of China. The Westminster Choir, directed by Dr. John Finley Williamson, will give a program of both relig¬ ious and secular music February 8. "The World Today" will be the subject of an address by Philip Guedalla, English historian and essayist. April 3, 1941, Thomas Mann, sometimes called "The greatest living man in letters," will speak on "The Problem of Freedom." Dr. Mann, a Nobel prize winner, has recently become an American citizen. Price of tickets will vary from seventy-five cents to a dollar. Coming This Week Friday, 3:30 P. M.—Hockey Games. Friday, 8 P. M.—Musicale in Gym. Saturday, 8 P. M.—Black Cat Stunt in Gym. Monday — Sale of All-Star Concert Series tickets. By Jessie MacGuire October comes around again, and the Agnes Scott underclass¬ men are full of thoughts, dreams, hopes, and what have you, in an¬ ticipation of the Black Cat Stunt. Speaking from the viewpoint of outsiders looking in, and finding the plans of the two classes sur¬ rounded by impregnable walls of secrecy, we might say that these stunts have us almost as curious as the seniors did last year before they finally published the theme of their Senior Opera. Bippy Cribble, that go-getter from Texas, confided to her class that the freshmen had a head start on the sophomores, to which boast the sophomores retaliated, "We may be cooling our heels, but our brains are getting warmer in the process"—or words to that effect. Competition runs high, and no doubt by the time this is printed, there will be more positive proof of it—as was shown last year when the daring frosh class executed an effigy of the sophs, hanging it in cold blood to the tree by the gym. Neither of the stunt chairmen will even give a hint as to the theme of their stunt, but each is sure hers is the best, no matter what the other'may be. It is ru¬ mored that hilarious sounds, and squeals of delight, may be heard from the composing room in Main at all hours of the day and night, and that much geniality and flow of spirits is enjoyed by the writers within. Seems to resemble Ben Jonson's merry wine parties, with¬ out the wine—just the spirits. Likewise Bippy would tell no secrets, but spoke of the stunt with utmost pride and unbounded en¬ thusiasm, as though it were a thing fearfully and wonderfully made— as it probably is. If that cat would speak, we wonder what it would say. It seems, almost alive at times, and we venture to say that no living cat has had so much rivalry spent over its ownership as our little black kitty! Dr. McCain Speaks At Georgia Synod President Reports Expansion Plans To Recent Presbyterian Meeting Laying the groundwork of a new campaign for more widespread Christian education in the Southeast, Dr. J. R. McCain, president of the College, today made a report on the activities of Agnes Scott during the past year to the Eighty-first Annual Presbyterian Synod, now being held in Washington, Georgia. The official purpose of his address was to give the particulars now under way at the col¬ lege through its connection with the University Center; but, cou¬ pled with the address of Dr. J. M. Richards, of the Columbia Theo- History Forum Leads Meeting At Emory As its outstanding activity for the year, Current History .Forum will conduct a two-day Interna¬ tional Relations Conference at Em¬ ory University on October 25 and 26, to which delegates will come from all Georgia colleges. Ten or fifteen girls will spend the night on the Agnes Scott campus. Delegates to a one-day meeting of International Relations Clubs of Georgia Colleges last spring at G. S. C. W., planned this year's conferences. Agnes Scott was in¬ vited to last year's conference but was unable to attend. This year, anyone from Current History Forum may be a delegate to the conference, according to Betty Ste¬ venson, president. Current History Forum has in¬ vited guest speakers to conduct programs for the year. Glenn Rainey, professor of English at Georgia Tech, will speak on "Com¬ munism" on November 12. Leroy Loemker, professor of philosophy at Emory, will discuss the "Background of Nazism," using information obtained on a recent trip to Germany. A1 Staton, foreign representative of the Coca-Cola Company, will tell about' some country he has vis¬ ited recently. Miss Melissa Cilley, professor of Spanish, will report on her South American travels. Current His¬ tory Forum is also tentatively planning some joint meetings with Pi Alpha Phi. On the program for October 22, Virginia Williams will conduct a forum on the election. On De¬ cember 10, there will be another forum on "Ways of Helping Eng¬ land." Yesterday, at the first meeting, Miss Muriel Harn, professor of Ger¬ man, spoke on "Nationalities and Foods.'' Mr. Stukes Tells Freshmen How to Study Mr. S. G. Stukes, registrar, will talk to the freshman class Monday, October 14, at 4:30 P. M., on "How to Study." On the days fol¬ lowing the talk, Miss Charlotte Hunter, assistant dean of stu¬ dents, will work with them on their time schedules. of the expansion program logical Seminary, his talk rfiarked the inauguration of a plan to pro¬ mote similar expansion of all Pres¬ byterian colleges in Georgia. Adopt New Goal The energies of the Georgia Synod in recent years have been directed towards establishing a ministers' annuity .fund. Now that this goal has been reached, the Synod is turning its attention to¬ wards the young people, in hopes of solving some of the problems of youth in gaining an education. To enlist the support of the en¬ tire Southeast in this program, Dr. McCain will formally address the Florida Synod when it convenes in Tallahassee on and around Octo¬ ber 16.» While Agnes Scott will not itself be interested in the fundraising part of the campaign, Dr. McCain says that it will throw the full strength of its support behind circulation of literature during the three-year period assigned to the placing of greater emphasis on Christian education. Chairman Sweets The plan originated almost spontaneously a year ago during a committee discussion of education¬ al problems. Dr. Henry H. Sweets, of Louisville, Kentucky, is at pres¬ ent the general chairman of activi¬ ties. Library Adds Many New Books Many new books haye been add¬ ed to the library during the sum¬ mer months and are now on the shelves ready for use. Among the new fiction volumes are Mr. Ske0ngton, a novel by Elizabeth, the author of The Enchantefl April, and Dorothy Sayers' Busman's Honeymoon, a love story with detective interruptions. Several new books on current history are: Stuart Chase's The Economy of Abundance, Raymond Leslie Buell's Isolated America, Fe¬ lix Frankfurter's Law and Politics, and Harold and Margaret Sprout's Rise of American Naval Power. To the literary collection have been added: The American Songbag by Carl Sandburg, Charles Lamb and His Contemporaries by Edmund Blunden, and Jean Racine by A. F. B. Clark. Among the new economic and sociological books are: E. Franklin Frazier's The Negro Family in the U. S., Race, Class and Party by Paul Lewinson, and Albig's Public Opinion. New books on religion are I Have Seen God Do It by Sherwood Eddy, and The Idea of a Christian Society, by T. S. Eliot. t Page 2 THE AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1940. Vogue Offers French Student Tells Class Games Introduce Contest Fall Hockey Season Archers Place Fifth in Tournament; Musser, Milner, Thompson Make B Scores By Susan Self On Friday afternoon at 3:30, Agnes Scott opens another hockey season. The freshmen meet the sophomores in a black cat preliminary, while the senior class faces junior com¬ petition. Right now, the junior class, with twenty-five seasoned candidates and a hockey cham¬ pionship to brag about, looks like the team to beat. Dot and Alta Webster, Doris Hasty, Mary Dean Lott, Gay Currie, and Billie Da¬ vis were all listed on last year's varsity, and Marjorie Gray, Jessie MacGuire, and Annie Wilds plac¬ ed on the sub-varsity team. But while watching the juniors for superb quality, just look at the freshman team for an idea of mass production. Anything looking like Atlanta during the G. W. T. W. parade will be freshman hock¬ ey practice. And they didn't learn all of their hockey in America. Ruth Farrior played for her school in Shanghai, and Zena Harris will be around to show us how the Brit¬ ish do it. Experienced Seniors The senior team represents a nice group of polished players, with three varsity and one sub-varsity member included. All of the four¬ teen candidates are experienced. Dusty Hance, winner of the sopho¬ more hockey stick, will be back to strengthen the offensive. The sophomores have two good teams and should be an even match for the seniors. Clara Rountree and Dot Holloran should be watched. Archery Victories News that Agnes Scott's first team placed fifth among southern schools in the Women's Eleventh Annual Intercollegiate Telegraphic Archery Tournament came last week. Three Agnes Scott archers —Louise Musser ('41), Virginia Milner ('40), and Henrietta Thompson ('40), made Class B scores. We are proud of that record, especially when we re¬ member last May's persistent rains. Clubs Open Regular Programs Bible Club Louise Sams, president, has an¬ nounced that the theme for the coming year will be, "The Bible and the World Today," Instead of having speakers on various sub¬ jects come before the club, there will be discussion groups within the club. The club plans to co¬ operate with Christian Association in its work with the chapel and other welfare organizations. Poetry Club Sunday afternoon, the Poetry Club met at the home of Dr. W. F. Melton, of Atlanta. Mr. Mel¬ ton is interested in poetry and in¬ vited Mr. Byron Herbert Recce, the "Mountain Poet," to read some of his selections. JEFFARES DRUG STORE Come in between Sunday School and Church. R. E. Burson Shoe Shop GENERAL SHOE REPAIBING QUICK DELIVERIES 307 E. College Ave. DE. 3353 Decatur, Get. Archery Lesson Mabel Stowe practices target- shooting as Nancy Hirsch looks on in an archery class on the hockey field. Survey Reveals 'Cola' As Coca-Cola The word "cola" means "Coca- Cola" in collegiate language, ac¬ cording to a survey held recently. Of 2,400 students at ten colleges, including Agnes Scott and Em¬ ory, 89 percent of the students gave the answer. Dr. Floyd Ruch, psychology professor at the University of Southern California, now on leave of absence, came to the Agnes Scott campus, and held a "freeassociation" test involving 26 cards with single words* the stu¬ dent giving the first word he thought of in response. Just last week the purpose of the test was revealed when the re¬ sults of the test were used as tes¬ timony at Wilmington, Delaware, in the trial of action brought by the Coca-Cola Company against the Nehi Corporation. Announcing The Arrival of GUY de LEYER Internationally famous hair stylist . . . who will be in Allen's Beauty Salon Oct. 14 through 26. Let ,1/r. Guy create a new Fall coiffure just for you! Call now for an appointment. WA. 6211 Mm Pins to the wall without mar¬ ring or scarring. New features keep this lovely Pin-It-Up Lampfrom slipping on the wall, and prevent shade from tipping. It's just the light you may need over the stove; in dark corners; over the bed as a reading light. Ivory or brown finish. With 100-watt bulb. Buy Your Lamps And Bulbs From Any Power Company Employe GEORGIA POWER COMPANY Magazine Seeks New Talent Among College Students The Sixth Prix de Paris, Vogue's annual career contest for college seniors, was announced today by Edna Woolman Chase, editor of Vogue magazine. "Our purpose in sponsoring the Prix de Paris contest," said Mrs. Chase, "is to discover college girls who have the ability to write and a flair for fashion." Seven Awards This year, Vogue's Prix de Paris contest offers seven major awards. First prize is a year's position on Vogue's fashion staff. Formerly, this prize included six months in Vogue's Paris office, but now, due to world conditions, the winner will spend the full period of her award in Vogue's New York of¬ fice. Second prize—a special Vanity Fair award—is six months as a feature writer on Vogue's staff. In addition, five cash prizes will be awarded for the best contest theses. Honorable Mention Besides the seven major prizes, "Honourable Mentions" will be awarded to contestants whose pa¬ pers show unusual merit. These awards carry with them the pos¬ sibility of jobs in a wide variety of fields. Honorable Mention winners will be interviewed for jobs by stores, advertising agen¬ cies, and publications. Of the 60 leading entrants in the five pre¬ vious contests, 40 are today fol¬ lowing careers in a variety of fields. A. A. Groups Hold Annual Tryouts Whether your preference be ten¬ nis, golf or swimming, you're sure to get a chance at member¬ ship in one of A. A.'s coveted clubs this week. Tomorrow is the deadline for entrance into tennis and swimming clubs, so hurry down to the gym between 2 and S for tennis, and between 4:30 and 5 for swimming. Charity Crocker has already an¬ nounced plans for the organization of a golf club this month. If you shoot in the 40's you're welcomed, if in the 50's you're eligible, and if your score wavers around the early 60's you might be considered for membership. At any rate, be sure to give your three lowest score cards to Miss Wilburn before Oc¬ tober 31st. PIN-IT-UP LAMP RAILLEY NO. 3202 99 CASH OR 30-DAY CHARGE Tale or Submarine Attack Two submarines at four o'clock in the morning, and for¬ ty-five minutes in a lifeboat didn't make Josanne McDaniels' trip from Europe much of what we would call a bon voyage. "I didn't realize . . she said, discussing the encounter that the U. S. S. Washington had with the enemy submarine, "I thought it was only a drill. We had been told that we would have a boat drill the next day." Josanne's description of what actually took place was brief. "The sirens sounded at four- thirty in the morning. We had less than ten minutes to get our valuables and get in the boats. I had time only to put on my socks and a coat. There were thirty people in my boat when it swung out into the water. We could see the blinkers of the submarines. One submarine was a mile away, the other was only half a mile away and all under water but its peri¬ scope. Life Boats Manned "There weren't enough lifeboats. No men could get on the boats. About sixty children were under the care of one nurse. She couldn't care for them all, and get them on the boats. I felt so sorry for them crying and frightened. I took two of them under my wing. It was awful. Everyone was looking out for himself." The boats stayed in the water until the submarine signaled that they had made a mistake and to go ahead. At this sign the lifeboats were swung up, and the Washing¬ ton started on its way with the people still in the boats. Josanne made a motion with her hands as if swinging in a lifeboat wasn't to be counted among life's most choice experiences. Left in June The U. S. S. Washington left Portugal in June. Josanne's moth¬ er had driven her from France through Spain to Portugal. The people on the ship didn't want to go by Ireland to pick up'more ref¬ ugees, said Josanne, because they thought it was too dangerous and the ship was already crowded. Josanne shared a room with four old ladies. That's why she couldn't find her shoes when they were or¬ dered to the lifeboats. Her shoes were under one of the other beds because she had to climb over the four other beds to get to her cot. After that first fright the trip was uneventful, but the passengers were in continual fear of a simi¬ lar occurrence. Family in Europe Josanne's mother is still in France and Josanne didn't want to leave, but her father insisted that it was best. If she had re¬ mained in France she would have studied voice this year. Her per¬ fect English comes from "studying hard in school with teachers from Oxford." Another reason for it may be that "There we have more conversation in learning a lan¬ guage." Josanne's father is an American who volunteered in the last war and married in France. Josanne came over two years ago to meet her father's people, but she stayed only a month. She is very, very French and calls the map of Eu¬ rope over her bed "My country". Writer Advises How to Read American colleges and universi¬ ties should abolish textbooks and substitute the study of 100 of the world's greatest books, according to Dr. Mortimer J. Adler, author of "How to Read a Book." As a model for such a move he suggested St. John's at Annapolis, where the teachers lead discussions on the great thinkers like Homer, Plato, Galen, Hegel, Marx and Freud. (ACP) Agnes Scott College DECATUR, GA. A college for women that is widely recog¬ nized for its standards of work and for the interesting character of its student activities. For further information, address J. R. McCAIN, President THE AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1940. Page 3 Mollie Oliver Checks Busy Alumnae Jangling Bells After Working Hours Hold Variety of Posts By Rebekah Hogan From all reports, most of the gest number of the graduates of members of the class of 1940 have 1940 have entered is teaching. all found something profitable and Carolyn Alley is teaching near her interesting to occupy their time. home town, Dalton, and Carrie Some of them have decided to con¬ Gene Ashley is also teaching in her tinue studying. Ruth Eyles is home town of Ellenton. Elizabeth taking her Quenelle Harrold Fel¬ Davis is teaching the fifth and lowship work in bio-chemistry at sixth grades at Roswell. Lillie the University of Michigan in Ann Belle Drake has the fifth grade in Arbor, and Mary Elizabeth Leavitt a Fulton County School. Frances also hap a fellowship in bio-chem-Woodall is the seventh grade teach¬ istry at Emory. er in a school about 10 miles from Betsy Banks will go to the Wash¬ her home. ington School for Secretaries after High School Jobs Christmas, while Marion Franklin Many of last year's seniors are is also learning secretarial work at teaching in high schools. Ruth the Katherine Gibbs School in New Ann Byerly is teaching French and York. Emily Underwood is stay¬ Latin at Chamlee, Georgia, while ing in Atlanta and taking a busi¬ Mary Elizabeth Chalmers has so¬ ness course at Crichton's. cial science classes in the high school Working for M.A. at Alma, Ga. Florence Graham is a substitute teacher in her home Jane Knapp is getting her Mas¬ town, Crews, Va., and is also tak¬ ter in Household Arts and Sci¬ ing a business course. Eloise Mcences at Columbia in New York, Call is teaching in Jefferson, S. C.; and Mary Mac Templeton is work¬ and Mary McPhaul in Ochlochnee, ing toward her M. A. in Math at Ga. Margaret Ratchford is teach¬ ing Latin and English in Lancas¬ the University of North Carolina. ter, S. C. Mary Matthews and Nell Pinner is taking graduate Eva Ann Pirkle are teaching to¬ work at Columbia in Religious gether at the Fitzhugh Lee High Education, and Hazel Soloman is School in Smyrna, Ga. Mary is continuing her study of French, teaching English and Biology, and Eva Ann, Math and Chemistry. Spanish, and German at Chapel Georgia Hunt is doing cadet Hill, N. C. Violet Jane Watkins work in Atlanta before being as¬ is doing graduate work in History signed a regular place to teach. at Vanderbilt University. Rockie Kaplan is doing the same Ruth Slack is studying Social thing in Savannah. Medicine at Simmons College in Jane Salters is teaching French Boston. and English at St. David's Acad¬ Betty Jean O'Brien is attending emy in Society Hill, S. C. Jane the Emory Library School. Witman is teaching History and Teaching Civics at the Central Night The profession which the lar-School in Atlanta. N. Y.A. Mary Reins and Betty Alder¬ Where Friends Meet Friends man both have N. Y. A. jobs. Mary is stationed at Madison, and Betty And Part More Friendly at Toccoa, Ga. Eugenia Bridges and Beth Paris are the only ones who have already become members of a college fac¬ ulty. Eugenia is coaching Dra¬ GLENN'S PHARMACY matics at the University of Geor¬ gia Evening College, and Beth is Masonic Temple Bldg. DE. 3322-3 teaching Physical Education at Fassifern School for Girls in Hendersonville, N. C. 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Indian this adage, I do not refer to those female artists who trip on summer is drifting into early fall. the light fantastic every time a jazz orchestra tunes up, It is on days such as these that nor do I mean those frantic fe the mere fact of being alive is ex¬ their objections, but took the males who trip on any-and-every citing news. "Shucks, we can do worse than thing in their mad dashes down the that" attitude, and turned their At the Chi Phi House dance, hall to the telephone booth. It is Emory, Saturday night: L. Barrett, not to these members of our own radios up to full blast. Just to Leila Holmes, Nell Turner, Val make matters more effective, (or chosen group that I refer, but to ineffective, depending Neilson, and Helen Jester. our inanimate pals that are always on opinion) they covered their heads with At the Sigma Nu House dance, hanging around on the walls in books, hoping to gain a twofold re¬ Tech, Friday night: Cathie Hill, the most unattainable places, and sult by absorbing their lessons while Smiley Williams and Mary Bon Ut-who have made the phrase, "Before they relieved the tune being played terback. Mary Dean Lott was en¬ I was so rudely interrupted—," on their ear drums. But the most tertained at one of their buffet practically a byword of dormitory successful method of all seemed to suppers. life. As you Phi Beta Kappa ma¬ be a combination of having "I'll On the Campus Club hayride, terial have already guessed, no Never Smile Again" poured into Emory, Friday night: Susan Mont¬ doubt, I am just before giving a one's ears as loud as possible, and gomery, Eleanor Abernathy, Mar-bell by bell description of what to sing "I'm a Rambling Wreck" jorie Tippins, Arabelle Boyer, happens when a bell system decides at top vocal power. And people Miriam House, Maslin House, to take things into its own hands. a wonder why the freshmen get Leila Matthews, and Claire Bennett. It strikingly resembles three-ring worn out!! circus, or a three-bell picture, if At the Pi K A house one night: you get what I mean, and I think Broom Wielders Betty Ashcraft and Julia Scott. you do! At the Naval Reserve Dance In Rebekah, upper classmen used at Tech Saturday night was Geor-Hysterical Hottentots more scientific methods of sooth¬ gine Castagnet. ing jarred nerves. A twin act is If you asked the question, reported by one of the inmates. It The Psi Omega dance attract¬ "Where were you on the night of seems that a senior on third, and ed Rowena Barringer, Lillian October 3?" most of the Hotten¬ a junior just below her on second, Gudenrath, Helen Gilmer, Shirley tots would respond by turning decided to give the bells what ma¬ Ann Smith, Charlene Burke, Betty glassy eyes toward you, slowly re¬ ma gave the kitchen floor, so they Bates, Eugenia Hailey, and Olivia ducing permanents to windblown took brooms in hand to sweep the White. bobs, laughing hysterically, and bells into submission, and clean the The Xi Psi Phi dance drew Jo-flipping book pages with quiver¬ matter up. When last heard from, sanne McDaniels, Mary Brock, Lil¬ ing fingers—for they would be re¬ these wielders of the household in¬ lian Gudenrath, Bizelle Roberts, calling the shrill, horrible ringing struments were dangling over the Shirley Gately, Anne Martin, and of the bells when they gave up bannisters of their respective floors, Olivia White. their staid ringing at regular inter¬ screaming for some one to bring vals and became jitter-bells that The Delta Sig dance entertain¬ them a piece of paper, hoping to jangle on and on, seemingly taking ed Marion Phillips, Neva Jackson, stick it into the vital point of the revenge on all those people who Mary James Seagle, and Val Neil- bell, and so restore peace to their dare ignore them when they be¬ son. happy home. have in an hourly manner. ■ The Xi Psi Phi Hayride was So if you see several people jump attended by Mary Ivy, Margaret Ineffectual Books under a Jur-lined bath tub the next Nix, Pat Poole, Anne Martin, Nina In White House on that fateful time the bells ring, don't think Mae Snead and Olivia White. night, one could have seen a des¬ we are in for an air raid. They To Lakemont for the week¬ perate telephone converser, help¬ are merely suffering from bell shock end went Florrie Guy, Lillian lessly holding the Sustainer-of-a-inflicted when our mechanism of Schwenke, Flonnie Ellis and Sue College Girl's-Life in her hand, automatic control went on a spree Phillips. while the boy on the other end was recently. wondering, no doubt, who had Sara Copeland went home to turned in the fire alarm—not Digest Opens Snapshot Dalton to be in her sister's wed¬ knowing whether to hang up and ding. Contest to Students run, or whether to listen 'for fur¬ Frankie Butt traveled down to ther details, if any. Meanwhile, Collegiate Digest, the national New Orleans for the Auburn-Tu with true Agnes Scott fervor, the roto supplement for college papers, lane game. now frantic glamour girl rolled up is looking for timely, human-inter¬ Seen at the Spanish Room her pajama legs, picked up the lately have been Mary Bon Utter-est pictures of events that happen telephone book with her free bach, June Shugg, Mary j Anne If you're a shut- hand, took a few steps back, and on our campus. Breuler, and Betty Bacon, while heaved the pride and joy of the terbug, here's an easy way to pickHal Kemp has been drawing the telephone company straight at the up some spending money. crowds over at the Rainbow jeering bell. However, she forgot 1. Mail your pictures to Editor, Roof. Ask Betty Quincy Mills, that the bells are wearing iron College Digest, 323 Fawkes Build¬ Bacon, Cathy Steinback, Lucille armor this season, just in case Gaines, Marion Phillips, Rowena and so the nu¬ ing, Minneapolis, Minnesota. things get stuck, Barringer, Val Neilson, or' Elta 2. Payment of $3 for each pho¬ merical guide fell ineffectively to Robinson. the floor. Even ye ole faithful sad¬ to used will be made upon accep¬ dle shoes had no effect on the noise, tance. nor did an English 211 book from Mary's Mending Shop 3. Pictures should be at least a nearby door—and if English 211 4" x 6" in size. Has Enjoyed Serving Agnes Scott has no effect, nothing will! 4. Good quality gloss prints are This Year and Looks Forward to Frosh Compete Over Inman way, 'tis said that essential. Only pictures that are Next Year the frosh were not so active1 in sharp in detail and have good tone quality will be acceptable. Action or candid pictures are preferred. J. N. KALISH & W. N. AINSWORTH, JR. 5. All photos must be properly PRESCRIPTION OPTICIANS captioned with full details. 6. Unused pictures will be re¬ 380 Peachtree St. Atlanta turned to sender. Welcome Back, Girls Your Nearest and Most For Quick Service Call Come to See Us Complete Drug Store DECATURCAKE BOX EVER-READY CABS Meet Your Friends Here THREADGILL'S Owned by Decatur Boys LAWLER & UPCHURCH THE PRESCRIPTION STORE STORAGE COMPANY Phone DE. 1665 DE. 1656 Decatur, Ga. 309 E. College Ave. Decatur, Ga. Let Us Serve You Page 4 THE AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1940. All This Is Here For Us to Find "At college, if you have lived right, you. have found enough learning to make you humble, enough friendship to make your hearts large and warm, enough cul¬ ture to teach you the refinement of sim¬ plicity, enough wisdom to keep you sweet in poverty and temperate in wealth. Here you have learned to see great and small in their true relation, to look at both sides of a question, to respect the point of view that differs most widely from your own. Here you have found the democracy that excludes neither rich nor poor, and the quick sympathy that listens to all, and helps by the very listening. Here, too, it may be at the end of a long struggle, you have seen if only in transient glimpses, that after doubt comes reverence, after anxiety peace, after faintness courage, and that out of weakness we are made strong. Suffer these glimpses to become an abiding vision, and you have the su¬ preme joy of life." We won't attempt to add anything to these words of LeBaron Russel Briggs, long-time professor at Harvard. If you don't know why you came to col¬ lege, perhaps you can find an answer here. Music Hour Stimulates Enjoyment We liked everything about the Hugh Hodgson concert last Friday night. We liked the artist, not only for his abil¬ ity and attractive personality, but also be¬ cause he is furthering the development of Fine Arts throughout Georgia. We liked the atmosphere of informality, because it brought us closer to the artist, and therefore seemingly closer to the mu¬ sic itself. The description of the works in almost non-technical language present¬ ed ideas that stimulated our responses to the music. We liked the surprise guest, Dr. Harmon Caldwell, president of the University of Georgia, because his being here showed the interest of other members of the Uni¬ versity Center in Music Appreciation Hour Concerts, and brought us a sense of greater cooperation between the colleges of the Center. We particularly liked the audience, be¬ cause it was composed of many Atlanta and Decatur people as well as college stu¬ dents, and we feel a constant need of closer contact with the community. In fact, we like the plan of the concerts as a whole, because they will make "good" music more intelligible to us, and therefore more stimulating and enjoyable. Few of us are inclined to study music very deeply, but there are few of us who would not like to know it well enough to respond in some manner to its intellectual, spiritual, and emotional significance. The Agnes Scott News Vol. XXVI. Wednesday, Oct. 9, 1940. No. 3 Elaine Stubbs . Editor Virginia Glower Managing Editor Florence Ellis Business Manager Bee Bradfield Cornelia Stuckey Jeanne Osbome Club Editor Assistant Editors Mollie Oliver Suzanne Kaulback Society Editor Advertising Manager Lib Barrett Carolyn Strozier Anne Frierson Copy Editor Jackie Stearns Virginia Williams Olivia White Feature Editor Asst. Society Editors Matilda Cartledge Lucile Gaines Jessie MacGuire Circulation Manager Asst. Feature Editors Mary Ivy Betty Jane Stevenson Bennye Linzy Current History Editor Mary Madison Wisdom Susan Self Anita Woolfolk Sports Editor Circulation Assistants Reporters: Edwina Burruss. M. Dale, L. Frank¬ lin, M. Gray, R. Hogan, D. Holloran, F. Kaiser, J. Lancaster, M. E. Martin, M. Seagle, V. Watkins, C. Willis, M. Wolford. Business Assistants: M. Barker, L. Boone, B. Brougher, A. Bumstead, A. Clements, J. Craig, M. Dillard, M. A. Hannah, D. Hopkins, B. Moore, M. Toomey. Betty Stevenson boils down The Real News The Conspirators Meet One from the south, one from the north, two little men sped to meet at the mountain pass. How these dictators must enjoy the spectacle of swift movement and bright display. The actions were on view, their persons were guarded, their presences saluted with ceremony. On the surface, all was splendid, and grave and world shaking. But we would like to know what kind of a collision of personality there is in a small private room when these two men get together. Only spec¬ ulation has resulted so far from the meeting at the Stevenson Brenner Pass, speculation of a comfortable sort emanating from Berlin and Rome. A Change in the Wind Josef Stalin is a non-committal grahite-slab-ofa- man smoking his pipe in the Kremlin. More and more his motives are unfathomable. But it is possible to guess at times. He must feel now as if "they" are closing in around him. Russia's borders are scattered far, but they are uneasy now. The Russian press has in reaction to too trium¬ phant friends burst into almost violent praise of British defenses, discipline, morale, living condi¬ tions, behavior of officers to men, and the fact that most soldiers are trades union members. Pressure Rising The Japanese are awfully impatient with the United States. They show it more and more through a veneer of courtesy. Their Foreign Minister, Yosuke Matsuoka, educated in Oregon, seems to have been schooled in an occidental rude¬ ness of manner. He struck out in an unprece¬ dented speech last week; the empire is impatient, it wants to move, it cannot bear opposition from "the most unprogressive nation in the world . . . etc." Through him, Japan says that war will be the result if the United States joins in the Euro¬ pean conflict or insists on the status quo in the Pacific. The Good Neighbor—and His Money Washington is a good place for rumors, but a recent one seems to be accepted as a fact. South America is to be given loans for building a whole series of naval and air bases. The present dearth of such bases is appalling. There are only two of sufficient size and quality for the use of the U. S. Navy. But two countries, Chile (at Val¬ paraiso) and Uruguay (at Punta del Este) are beginning construction work. Conversations with Washington about finances are now going on. Passing of the Old School Tie The old man and his umbrella have gone, and nobody seemed to notice as they went. Everyone is too busy. But an era has gone. The cabinet must seem different to the old regime. That brilliant old pirate, Churchill, is in the high seat, those unmannerly socialists, Mor¬ rison and Bevin, are his right-hand men, and that newspaperman, Beaverbrook, is making airplanes night and day. The retention of Sir Kingsley Wood seems like an oversight, but it is in fact a sop to the Con¬ servative Party. Willkie and Labor Wendell Willkie follows along with Roosevelt in his labor policy. Last week the Republican candidate listed seven aims. Two concerned the decentralization of labor law administration, and one concerned widening of social security. He also made a good deal of an increased use of the Federal Conciliation Service. University President Forms War-Time Rules President K. C. Lecbrick of Kent State uni¬ versity has given students seven rules for govern¬ ing their thoughts and actions during the war: Don't believe everything you hear. Don't be inadvertently a "fifth columnist." Don't be a war gossipcr. Be careful of your criticism. Remember that propaganda is more effective at this time than at any time in history, and you can be "taken in" even if you are an intelligent college student. Think of the situation as it has happened and not as you read it in the papers or hear it on the radio alone. Don't be too hasty to judge what's going on until you have full information. (ACP) Campus Camera •St marts (caue) griddersMU5T TRAVEL OVER 30 MILES' OF LAND, 20 MILES OF WATER AND PASS THRPUGH THREE COUNTIES AND METROPOLITAN CITIES IN ORDER TO REACH THEIR "HOME' FIELD. KEZAR STADIUM, SAN FRAHCISCO/ At harvard inthe early days MEALS USUALLY CONSISTED OF: BREAKFAST-BREAD AND BEER DINNER-1 LB. MEAT SUPPER-BREAD, MILK/ Collegiate Press Favors Bill The pulse of America's colleg¬ ians is quickening. It will be an interesting study, when things have returned to a more normal state, to analyze the swing in col¬ legiate opinion during the months when congress was debating and passing the conscription bill. Comment of the Daily Athen¬ aeum at West Virginia university is typical: "Strangely enough, the consensus on the campus has changed considerably since last spring. Many who were then op¬ posed to conscription are now in favor of the draft." The Athen¬ aeum also observes that American youth has no argument with peo¬ ples of any land and would rath¬ er spend its energy in friendly rivalry of sports—BUT YOUTH IS READY." At Louisiana State university, the Daily Reveille urges "a vote of confidence to our congression¬ al leaders who finally secured pass¬ age of the conscription bill. Why should we not have selective serv¬ ice when the imminent black clouds of war are shadowing every phase of liberty designed by peace-loving peoples?" At East Texas State Teachers college, the East Texan believes that the munitions makers are now satisfied, and that "they smile as they run their jiand in their pocket to feel the place that will hold those fat, juicy profits." But the Tex¬ an adds that "from past demon¬ strations of patriotism on the campus, it is evident that all stu¬ dents will answer the call and that they will be glad to defend their country." While admitting it is "natural enough" that some college men should not favor the draft law, the College Exponent at Mayville (N. D.) State Teachers college warns the public not to "get the wrong opinion of this college youth. The majority believe in military train¬ ing for tne defense of our country. No class of youth is more patriotic or loyal to these United States." "Conscription should be hated," declared the Brown University Daily Herald, "but it should not be shunned. We should use it in the same way we use a dangerous and distasteful medicine. (ACP) iOLLEGES HAVE MORE DOLLARS IN ENDOWMENTS THAN BOOKS IN THEIR LIBRARIES/ Matilda Cartledge Gathers CampusQuotes Now that we have gotten into the swing of things and have set¬ tled down to work, the big ques¬ tion of joining some of the vari¬ ous clubs and organizations con¬ fronts us. It is a problem of vital import¬ ance. Here is what some of the Mortar Board mem¬ bers, who are among the leaders in cam¬ Cartledge pus activities, have to say on subject: Ann Henry, '41: I don't believe freshmen should be too ready to join just anything when the chance comes. And I think everyone should more or less specialize in one or two activities of especial interest. * Grace Walker, '41: There are three major points to be considered in joining a club or organization: how much leisure time we can afford to give to it; how big a part it will play in our personal development, and how great a chance for service on the campus it offers. Also we should concentrate on one or two activi¬ ties of special interest, not neces¬ sarily one of the major organiza¬ tions, to be able to givfc one's best to them and to receive the most benefit from them. Sabine Brumby, '41: We should investigate thorough¬ ly the clubs we want to join. It is a good idea to belong to more in the first two or three years and to gradually weed them out until, in our senior year, we can give most of our time to one or two of special interest. Ida Jane Vaughan, '41: It's a good idea to wait till you find out how much time you can afford to give up before joining any club or organization. They play a big part in campus life, but should be of secondary importance, and should not be allowed to in¬ terfere with studies. The Agnes Scott News AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1940. No. 4. Vol. 26. SilhouetteWins Highest Rating In Georgia Scholastic Association Ranks Annual Ail-American Third Consecutive Year The only yearbook published by a Georgia school to win highest honor, The Silhouette received ail- American rating, the National Scholastic Press Association an¬ nounced Friday. This is the third consecutive year The Silhouette has received all-American rating. The 1940 annual was edited by Lutie Moore with Nell Pinner as business man¬ ager. Adelaide Benson was editor in 1939, Virginia Watson in 1938. The Silhouette has been a pioneer in the field of color photography, using it for the second time last year. Thirteen yearbooks published by Georgia high schools and colleges received honor ratings, while Ag¬ nes Scott was the only one to re¬ ceive all-American r^tingn. The association announced the awards from Minneapolis after a study of 852 publications submit¬ ted from all sections of the coun¬ try. Georgia college publications rat¬ ing as first-class were: Bubbles, Brenau College, Gainesville; Veterropt, Wesleyan College, Macon. Dramatic ClubsPlan Joint Productions With Emory and Agnes Scott dramatic organizations cooperat¬ ing for the first time, the Emory Players and Blackfriars held a joint meeting last week at which Blackfriars presented the modern version of a sixteenth-century miracle play, "The Voice of the Snake." The Emory Players pre¬ sented a play entitled "The Lost Silk Hat." This year the two organizations will help each other in stage pro¬ ductions and* will have joint meet¬ ings from time to time. Characters in "The Voice of the Snake" were played by Lib Bar¬ rett, Neva Jackson, and Helen Hardie. Scenery was arranged to resemble the wagons used in the middle ages. Members of the cast of "The Lost Silk Hat" were: J. R. Atkins, Reed Dasher, and Justus Gower. Laura Sale, president of Black¬ friars, announces that tryouts will be held as soon as the auditorium in the new Presser Building is com¬ pleted. Coming This Week Thursday, 8:30 P. M.—An¬ dre Maurois Lecture at Emory University. Friday, 3:30 P. M.—Hockey Game. Friday, 8 P. M.—Concert in Gym. Saturday, 8 P. M.'— A. A. Open House in Gym. * Monday, 7 P. M. — Pi Alpha Phi Debate in Chapel. Tuesday — Freshman Meet¬ ing with Grace Walker. Eye-Witness ANDRE MAUROIS Noted Biographer Takes Platform Andre Maurois Lectures On Relationship in Europe Andre Maurois, France's fore¬ most biographer and essayist, will speak at Glenn Memorial Audito¬ rium tomorrow, at 8:30 P. M., at Emory on the subject, "England and France: Can They Be Friends Again," As a recent "official eye-wit¬ ness" attached to the British Gen¬ eral Staff during the Battles of Flanders and France, M. Maurois has written articles in recent Col¬ lier's magazines on "What Hap¬ pened to France." His forthcom¬ ing book, "Tragedy in France," has aroused much attention and interest. Tickets may be purchased at the book store. Season tickets will be sold to Agnes Scott students for $1.50. Freshmen Join Service Groups Following a special meeting to be held after chapel, Tuesday, Oc¬ tober 22, freshmen will have an opportunity to join one of the groups sponsored by Christian As¬ sociation for service on and off the campus. These groups are designed to meet the different interests of the freshmen. The book group, this year to be led by Miss Emma May Laney, associate professor of Eng¬ lish, will feature discussions of contemporary plays, books, and poetry. The dramatic group, led by Laura Sale, will present a play on Thanksgiving and Easter. In ad¬ dition, make-up and staging will be taught. There will also be a social serv¬ ice group. On Saturday after¬ noons members will entertain chil¬ dren at the Scottish Rite Hospital or direct organized games at the playground for Atlanta slum chil¬ dren. Athletic Association Holds First Open House With Ida Jane Vaughan, vice- president, in charge, Athletic As¬ sociation will hold its first open house in the Bucher Scott Gym¬ nasium Saturday at 8 P. M. Following the custom of past open houses, every member of the college community and her date is invited. Dates asked by the As¬ sociation will come this week from Emory. The entertainment will feature ping-pong, bowling, badminton, darts, and other games. Students Carry on In Technique Lab Silence hung over the technique laboratory on third floor Science Hall. Two students, Mary Ann Hannah and Stuart Arbuckle, were working earnestly on their prepa¬ rations of a certain killing solu¬ tion for the annihilation of grass¬ hoppers and such. Hannah, in her helpful man¬ ner, turned to her fellow sufferer and said, "Now, Stuart, remem¬ ber that this solution has to be raised to 37.7 degrees before it will be effective." Stuart, apparently deep in her work, nodded and proceeded to jiggle her thermometer around in the liquid in question. Silence again hung its head over the work¬ ers. Suddenly, Stuart raised a puzzled and rather disgusted face to Han¬ nah and pleaded, "Please come look at this thermometer. I have been trying to read it for fifteen minutes, and I just don't seem to be able to read the lines." In less than a minute the chem¬ istry students on second floor were wondering what was bringing forth such hilarity from the re¬ gions above. Had they been able to peek into technique lab, they'd have seen a thoroughly chagrined, and rather healthily pink, Miss Arbuckle trying to explain to laughing Hannah how she had mis¬ taken a glass stirring rod for a thermometer. Perhaps, after all, there is some truth in those stories they tell about the queer effects that major¬ ing science has on one! Colleges Hold Dual Debate Pi Alpha Phi will hold its first dual debate with Emory October 21 at 7 P. M. on the subject: "Re¬ solved, Wendell WiUkie should be the next President of the United States." Jane Taylor and Suzanne Kaulback will defend the affirmative side of the resolution here in the Gaines Chapel. At the same time, Ann Henry and Marjorie Merlin will defend the negative at Em¬ ory. This debate will present the plat¬ forms of the Democratic and Re¬ publican parties to the campus in preparation for the presidential straw ballot to be held November 5. Under the direction of Helen Hardie, election chairman, and Student Government representa¬ tive, plans for the balloting are well under way. Pi Alpha Phi will be in charge of the balloting; Cur¬ rent History Forum will take care of the registration; the Agnes Scott News will serve as publicity agent; and the class on parties and politics will carry on the campaign¬ ing. All students and faculty mem¬ bers are urged to take part. A nominal poll tax will be assessed to cover partially the cost of the election, which will follow the same procedure as the real election. Similar votes were held on the cam¬ pus in 1928, 1932, and 1936. Miss Florence E. Smith, associate pro¬ fessor of history, is advising the va¬ rious organizations who are coop¬ erating to make the voting possible this year. C. A. Reveals Colwell As Religious Speaker Eminent Dean of School of Religion States Interest in Discussions As the speaker for Religious Emphasis Week, February 11-15, Christian Association has selected Dr. Ernest Cad- man Colwell, Dean of the School of Religion at the University of Chicago, who spoke at the 1938 Agnes Scott graduation exercises. In his correspondence with Dr. McCain, Dr. Colwell has expressed his interest in the discussion groups, which will be part of the program for the week. Educators Meet In Memphis Conference As a member of the executive committee, Dr. J. R. McCain, president, will attend the sixth an¬ nual meeting of the Southern Uni¬ versity Conference in Memphis, Tennessee, October 21 and 22. The theme for this year's con¬ ference, "Improving the Quality of College Education," will be out¬ lined in addresses by three well- known college presidents: J. B. Conant, of Harvard; Isaiah Bow¬ man, of Johns Hopkins, and Dixon Ryan Fox, of Union College. An important problem to be considered by the conference is the fact that a teacher's certificate is¬ sued by one state is not good in any other state. For several years Mr. S. G. Stukes, registrar, has been very active in trying to change this rule and, according to Dr. McCain, some progress has been made. Another vital problem is that of Negro education in the South. Be¬ cause of a recent ruling of the Supreme Court, all states must of¬ fer equal opportunities to white and Negro students; that is, they must provide special training in such subjects as medicine, law, technology, agriculture, and jour¬ nalism for Negroes as well as white students. Last year Agnes Scott was host to the Southern University Con¬ ference Conference when it met in Atlanta. The theme was "Co¬ operative Opportunities for Edu¬ cation," with the president of the University of Toronto as the out¬ standing speaker. Third Recital Features Selections by Piano Duo Featuring two-piano selections by Mr. C. W. Dieckmann and Miss Eda E. Bartholomew, Hugh Hodgson will present the third in a series of concerts presented by the Fine Arts Division of the Uni¬ versity Center, Friday, at 8 P. M., in the Bucher Scott Gymnasium. The program is as follows: 1. Variations on a Theme by Bee¬ thoven—Saint-Saens. 2. "Presto" movement from a So¬ nata for two pianos—Wilhelm Friedeman Bach. 3. The Harmonious Blacksmith, Variations—Handel. 4. Le Matin, Op. 79, No. 1— Chaminade. 5. Le Soir, Op. 79, No. 2—Chami¬ nade. Attends Emory Dr. Colwell, now 39 years of age, was born in Pennsylvania. He received his A. B. degree and his religious training at Emory Uni¬ versity where he taught before go¬ ing as a professor to the University of Chicago. He received rapid pro¬ motion there and at present holds the position of Dean of the School of Religiop. Dr. Colwell married Annette Carter, an Agnes Scott alumna of 1925. Both continued their edu¬ cation and graduated in 1927. They have two children, Betty Ann, 12, and Charles, 8. Mrs. Colwell and the children have been invited to accompany Dr. Colwell on his visit to Agnes Scott. Fcynous Author Dr. Colwell is a' well-known author of religious books and a fre¬ quent contributor to religious jour¬ nals. He and his family spend the winter quarter in Anna Maria, Fla., where he devotes his entire time to writing. Some of his well- known books are How to Study the Bible, The Gospel of John, and The Four Gospels of the Karahis sar. College Choir Adds Sixty New Members To Its Ranks Representing over 20 per cent of the student enrollment, the College Choir has added 60 new members to its ranks this year, making a total of 120 members. The new members are: Ellen Ar¬ nold, Betty Bacon, Virginia Barr, Zelda Barnett, Mamie Sue Barker, Mary Jane Banham, Betty Bow¬ man, Arabelle Boyer, Georgine Castagnet, Evelyn Cheek, Elizabeth Coffee, Ethelyn Coggin, Laura Gumming, Harriet Cunningham, Carolyn Damee, Billie Davis, Mar¬ garet Downie, Mary Duffee, Eliz¬ abeth Edwards, Polly Frink, Elma Griannon, Martha Jane Gray, Elizabeth Gribble, Betty Lou Hall, Betty Henderson, Cathryn Hill, Margaret Hartsook, Mary Jeter, Rose Jordan, Ruth Kalthoff, Jane Lanier, Martha Ray Lasseter, Eleanor Manley, Leila Michaelcve, Quincey Mills, Aurie Montgom¬ ery, Elizabeth Moore, Josanne McDaniel, Susanna McWhorter, Mar¬ tha Nimmons, Martha O'Nan, Christine Paris, Shirley Pohn, Nancy Quayle, Martha Rhodes, Henrietta Rubmann, Mary Shep¬ herd, Jane Shugg, Susan Spurlock, Catherine Steinbach, Martha Stone, Gabie Temple, Marjorie Tiffins, Cornelia Watson, Winifred Wilkins, Alice Willis, Bette Williams, Margaret Williams, Margaret Woodhead, and Anita Woolfolk. The choir is planning as its most important event the Christ¬ mas carol service, which will be presented this year in the new audi¬ torium. Page 2 THE AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1940. Lower House Colorful Decorations Frosh, Juniors Urges Action Enliven Dormitory Life Win Opening Tilts Day Student Committee Assumes Responsibility Seniors Fail to Score; Urging that active steps be Freshmen Trail Sophmores at Half taken to stop the blocking of crosswalks by parked cars, Frances By Susan Self Breg, president of Student Gov¬ Two hockey teams learned that an extra year of experi¬ ernment, appointed a committee of ence won't win a ball game when sophomores lost to fresh¬ lower house members, headed by men, 1-2, and seniors bowed to juniors in Friday's big open¬ Frances Spratlin, day student rep¬ ers, 0-3. resentative, to take steps to pre¬ The juniors took the field first vent further trouble. against the seniors and played deep At the last open executive Clubs Announce in senior territory during the meeting on October 7, messages were sent to the student body as a greater part Dates for Tryouts whole. Organizations were re¬ of the first minded that their mimeograph ma¬ half. Dot Pen and Brush chine representatives must go to W e b s t e r the Dean's office to sign for the Betty Medlock, president, an¬ use of the new machine in the chalked up the nounces that time limit for tryouts sewing room of Main and to ob¬ season's first will be October 26. Any kind of tain the key to the sewing room, art work is acceptable and more foal on a long while the representatives are "re¬ than one is welcomed. drive down minded that they are personally re¬ field. It re-K. U. B. sponsible for any damage done to Virginia Watkins, president, an¬ the mimeograph while it is signed mained for Self nounces the program for the com¬ for by their organization. Jessie Mac ing year. The theme is, "What is The second message dealt with Guire to drive in two more points Propaganda?" The members will the Open Forum scheduled for after her team had advanced into try to distinguish between real some time in October. Students the scoring circle through little in¬ news and propaganda. The stu¬ were urged to jot down questions terference. Doris Hasty played dents will also work toward im-they want discussed, and to give provmg their journalistic style. these suggestions to members of her usual steady game at center Tryouts will be held from Oc¬ the Executive Committee or to half, and Gay Currie proved that tober 21 to October 28. Those leave them in the opinion box in she had mastered the art of drib¬ the Student Government room. trying out must hand in one news bling. The complete roster of lower article and one feature story. Each The seniors tightened their de¬ participant may pick her own sub¬ house representatives, in its final fense at the half-way point and ject. form, includes: held the juniors' famed forward I. Boarders: Eta Sigma Phi wall scoreless during the remain¬ Inman—Alice Willis, Clare Bed¬ der of the game. The members of Eta Sigma Phi inger, Harriett Cunningham, Mar- The freshman team, trailing 1-0 will present an old miracle play in cia Marland, Martha Nimmons, at the half, responded to Team Latin during the first week of the and Carolyn McSween. Manager Zena Harris' pep talk at new quarter in December. The Main—Betty Pegram, lyllis Lee, intermission and scored twice in play will be presented in the new Joella Craig, and Nancy Thomisthe last half to win, 2-1. The two building. The title is "Christus ton. teams were quite well matched, and Parvulus." Rebekah—Fletcher Mann, Mary battled back and forth between the Cotillion Club Davis, Virginia Corr, Beth Irby, twenty-five yard lines during Marjorie Gray, and Carolyn Stroz- The new members of Cotillion most of the playing time. club are Claire Johnson, Betty ier. For the Cottages are: White Bond, G. Hill, Harris, and Far-Ashcraft, Elizabeth Moore, Sally House, Susan Dyer; Boyd, Martha rior managed their sticks with ac¬ Knight, Martha Liddell, Shirley Arant; ^ Lupton, Mary Blakemore, curacy. Gately, Mary Estill Martin, Mickey and Gaines, Evelyn Cheek. Jones, Pat Perry, Polly Frink, Dar¬ The lineups: II. Day Students: ken Daniellson, Ruth Biggs, Lil¬ Elizabeth Edwards, Frances Kais¬ Freshman Sophomore lian Gudenrath, Nita Woolfolk, er, Wallace Lyons, Betsy Culver, Martha Dunn, Mary Ivy, and Nina Jacob CF Roundtree and Betty Pope Scott. Mae Snead. Duffie RI Dale B.0. Z. Bond LI Holloran G. Hill RW Bumstead At the meeting held Friday A.A.U.W. Official Walker CH Radford night, Sabine Brumby, Miriam Earrior RH Lancaster Bedinger, Dot Wheeler, and Vir¬ Visits on Campus Holmes LH R. Smith ginia Williams, read stories. Dillon RE Paisley This week-end, Miss Elizabeth Harris LF Hopper Dr. McCain Addresses Jackson, Professor of History, will K. Hill G C. Smith Florida Synod have as her guest, Dr. Lucile Delano, Freshman Subs: White, Mier, head of the department of romance Bry, Bruer. Continuing his work on the new languages at Queens College, Char¬ campaign for more widespread lotte, N. C. Dr. Delano is secre¬ Sophomore subs: Hopper, Hirsch, Christian education, Dr. J. R. Mc¬ tary of the South Atlantic Section Moore, Lineback, Wilds. Cain left today by plane for Talla¬ of the A. A. U. W. and will sjaeak Junior Senior hassee, Florida, where he will ad¬ at the Georgia Division board dress the Florida Synod. While meeting Saturday, October 19, at A. Wilds CF Vaughan there he will help appoint special the Georgian Terrace Hotel. D. Webster RI Willstatter commissions for advertising and Dr. Delano is a former fellow of MacGuire LI Breg campaigning. the A. A. U. W. and did her study¬ A. Webster R W Butt Members of the Agnes Scott ing in Spain. She is now state Gray LW Stubbs Board of Trustees from Florida chairman for scholarships for North Hasty CH Kyle who have shown interest in the Carolina. Lott RH Patterson program are: Dr. E. D. Brownley, Miss Thelma Albright, who Brooks LH Walker Sanford; Dr. J. A. McClure, St. came to Agnes Scott from .Queens Gellcrstedt RF Lancaster Petersburg; Mr. T. M. Holt, Jack¬ last year, will entertain for Dr. Gurrie LF S. Wilds sonville, and Mr. G. W. Woodruff, Delano at the Alumnae House Sat¬ Davis G O'Nan Daytona Beach. urday evening. Junior Subs: Stuckey, Thomas, Bradfield, Copeland. Senior Subs: Musser, Henry. Team Managers are: Freshman, Bower? Press Zena Harris; Sophomore, Margaret Downie; Junior, Annie Wilds; and Commercial Printing and Stationery Senior, Pattie Patterson. TYPEWRITERS AND RIBBONS MIDDLETON'S BAKERY Blotters — Note Paper — Poster Paper 121 E. Ponce de Leon Office Supplies DE. 9229 SPECIALIZING IN PARTY 316 Church St. DE. 3383 Decatur, Ga. CAKES & COOKIES By Jessie MacGuire Taking a bird's-eye view, as from the top of the pine tree in the middle of the quadrangle, and looking down on the dormitories, you would see various types of rooms dot¬ ting the landscape—or floorscape—including those inspired by patriotism to those inspired by sheer artistry. Their motive is doubtful, but —maybe Shakespeare for pleasure, whether to impress the upperclass and not for analysis. men or to give vent to their emo¬ tions, some freshmen chose a red, Intellectual Study white, and blue pattern that would A one-word description of put Betsy Ross to shame. The Judy's and Joyce's study is "intel¬ royal blue spreads and the crimson lectual." On the walls are paint¬ drapes, completed by the white ac¬ ings by Van-Gogh, and good books cessories, simply stand up and cheer are on the table. The tables are for our country. And, since this by the window overlooking the is election year, tangible evidence front of Main, where "les spec- of honest confessions is shown by tateurs" may observe human na¬ the pins and banners pro-Willkie ture. and pro-Roosevelt. A clever and The charms of home here repre¬ subtle way of stating one's plat¬ sented are rivaled in interest by form is to hang a pet elephant on the charm of novelty. Practicality the wall in some out-of-the-way combined with beauty equals func¬ place so as to convey the idea of tional art, and the Hottentots from hanging—the way a certain party the jungles are surprisingly well up would wish for G. O. P. to hang. on the latest modern art. A dress¬ We won't go into the balancing er made of two boxes painted statistics, or party prejudices; suf¬ green, with a glass length for a fice it to say that the feminine pop¬ top catches the eye of any Scotch ulation as represented by the fair soul; the oriental looking table maidens at Agnes Scott, are defi¬ cloths used for bedspreads are a nitely "America conscious" in perfect camouflage no matter how their interior decorating. you take it; the wire baskets looked Domestic Talent purely ornamental until upon fur¬ ther investigation a ladies' "toilet- Although home economics is not trie" was discovered; those little offered as a credit course, evidences mail-boxes on the front doors sym¬ of natural talent for home-making bolize the old southern hospitality can be seen on display; and credit and serve as business devices also. should be given to the future homemakers of the purple and the Gracious Welcome white. Nicole Girard's room has a Expressing the gracious hostesses' distinctive Parisian air, which sentiments, one little verse runs: seems only natural. The pale green "Knock gently, friend, whate'er be¬ background of the bedspreads tide, blends with the green background The kettle's on, so come inside." of the flowered draw curtains— Although the unique never fails and they actually draw. to attract, the simplicity and na¬ Every institution should have turalness of home has its own its blue-room, and Agnes Scott is charm and never fails to please. no exception. For sheer beauty Thus the personalities of the take the homey room on second Hottentots are reflected in their Rebekah, with its blue ruffled choice and arrangement of room curtains and matching dresser decorations. 'Twould seem that lamps. The Early American chair, a future American homes are to be remnant of the alumnae, inherited most attractive, if big house dec¬ from Mary Wells McNeil, calls for orators from little room fixers apples, a fireplace, and a good book grow. HOW TO WIN BOY-FRIENDS AND INFLUENCE STAG-LINES By Dalea Dorothy Clix Dear Miss Clix: How can I impress our drama teacher that I ought to get the part of Juliet when our school does "Romeo and Juliet" this year? The teacher comes from New York, is handsome, worldly and mature (around 35), but he's as aloof as a Greek god on Mt. Olympus. I feel like a babe in arms in his presence. How can I get the role? ASPIRING Dear "Aspiring": I don't want to poach on any of WHAT YOU CAN DO Mr. Freud's preserves, but you sound as though your TO HAVE MORE mind aspires toward the BEAUTIFUL NAILS drama teacher more than toward the drama. How¬ Let the brilliant, gem- ever, Juliet was only four¬ hard lustre of DURA- teen, so maybe feeling like GLOSS give your fin¬ a babe in arms (even his gernails that marvel¬ attraction and arms) might help, psycho¬ ous allure that men ad¬ logically. Beyond that, re¬ mire! DURA-GLOSS is member that an actrfess the amazing new nail must express deepemotions polish that's differ¬ with her hands. Make yours ent! DURA-GLOSS beautiful —and remember, flows on more smooth¬ civilized New Yorkers ex¬ ly, keeps its brilliant pect a woman's fingernails beauty of color long¬ er, resists tacking to be beautifully colored. and chipping better! Have the most beautiful fingernails AND NOW, DEAR,5f in the world—buy dura-gloss! READ THE NEXT A NEW FORMULA BY LORR |O0 COLUMN CAREFULLY! Lorr Laboratories, PaUrson, N. J. Page 3 THE AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1940. Mollie Oliver Checks Virginia Clower Takes Notes For the Record The radiance on the campus itiation into a fraternity, encoun¬ since Saturday night isn't all tered Jane Moses on the path from the Tea Elouse. Doffing his rat bright autumn sunshine (which cap (we hope) he explained his er¬ is giving everybody spring fever, rand to Jane, and asked her to add incidentally). A large part of it to the collection. The poor boy is emanating from the seniors, probably never will get over what happened. Jane drew herself up who managed to catch the Black and clipped out, with chilling dig¬ Cat by the tail as it went by for nity: t "Sir, are you aware that I the last time. Of course, the so¬ am a member of the faculty?" phomores really won the stunt, but Add Statistics the seniors are relaxing in the Now when the freshman would- be biologists are wandering about warmth of baby sister's reflected with nets and chasing all visible glory. The victory came just in insects, it isn't unusual to hear time, too. The class of '41 had al¬ conversations such as the follow¬ ready resigned itself to going ing: down in history as a class of eco¬ First Frosh: "Look, there's one, nomic royalists, since the campaign two, three together on the quad¬ rangle, and another on the steps." was the only thing they ever won. Second Frosh: "And there's two (P. S.—But DO keep your eye on more on the path by Science Hall, the marriage percentage ratio this and, oh, look, here's another be¬ year!) hind that bush." But it was all very misleading, Chastened Yellow Jacket for instead of grasshoppers, they A Tech freshman who ventured were counting—well, as one of far afield to collect prints of kiss-them said, "I saw many never so able lips—on a sheet of paper, we unattached men on our campus at hasten to add—as part of his in¬ one time." tailored and monogrammed just for you Topsy Slip by Miss Swank* 1.98 A classic, a "must" . . . by the half-dozen! This is the slip that's straight- plus-bias, alternating panels to fit as though made to your order. We put on the three-letter monogram gratis . nice personalized note for yourself or for giv¬ ing to friends. In sturdy stitched soft rayon sat in or crepe, tea-rose white, black or navy Sizes 32 to 44, medium length, 31% to 37%, shorter women. Rich's Lingerie Shop Third Floor •Reg. U. S. Pat. Off. RICH'S Campus Physician After Working Hours The subject of football is run¬ Rates as Rifle Expert ning that of Britain's latest air raid a close second these days, as By Virginia Williams well it may, for the very air car¬ If you want to know more about Greek gods, exams, or ries a hint of the wine-flavored go to Jones, our rifles, why don't you see Dr. Eugenia C. days to follow. The quiet, sad campus resident physician? drift of tarnished leaves and the "I am thirty-one years old and was bom in Washington, D. C.," Dr. Jones volunteered at once. With clean smell of wood fires herald a a little urging she went further to tell that she had received her B. A. and season that promises forward M. D. from George Washington passes as exciting as Tech's 90-yard College and her D. S. C. from Johns run at South Bend, and as color¬ Publication Surveys Hopkins. After receiving her ful as a yellow-burnished chrysan¬ B. A. from George Washington, themum. Paging the record we Sorority Girl she worked with the Department find: of Agriculture for three years be¬ The ATO's A fairly comprehensive picture fore studying for her D. S. C. Dur¬ e n t e r t ained of the average sorority girl on the ing this time she did research on Marion Phil¬ Washington University campus at parasitology. ips and Jo-St. Louis is contained in a survey Bookworm sanne McDan-in Student Life, campus publica¬ In exploring her childhood, she iel this week. tion. says frankly, "I didn't like games The SAE Some of the conclusions follow: when I was a child. I used to sit Dance and "She comes in assorted heights, in a corner and read books about Greek gods and heroes." She con¬ Steak fry drew dressed and shaped according to tinued to love those stories of the Mary Dean latest fashion. Her well-curled Greeks until she met the wrath of Oliver Lott, Ruth hair is becoming, and she will sel the gods in the seventh grade. She Allgood, Mar dom cover it with a hat; but just came very close to flunking ancient jorie Wilson, Elise Nance, Jessie MacGuire, Annie Wilds, Betty let a suspicion of rain appear and history. Not until she began studying classical drama in college Ashcraft, Nina Mae Snead, Sue she wads it up under a bandana did she resume friendly relations Phillips, Oneida Woolford, Anita and looks like someone who should with the Greeks. Woolfolk, and Betty Waitt. be slaving in Russian wheat fields. Dr. Jones seems quite as able an While the KA's were hosts to "In spite of her 12-hour study addition to the Agnes Scott defense Lillian Schwencke, Sue Phillips, average weekly she keeps her unit as she is to the medical corps. Florrie Guy, Duck Copeland, Bet¬ grades well above the campus lev¬ For four years in high school and ty Burdett, Mary Dean Lott, An¬ el, makes more B's than C's, and four in college she was a member nie Wilds, Mary Davis, Ida Jane inspires all kinds of tales of apple- Vaughn, and Ann Flowers at a of the rifle team. Her other mil¬ polishing by the less successful dance. itaristic tendency is her love for male. horseback riding. The Old Guard Dance at Tech "She thinks about men almost as attracted Claire Purcell and Jeanne Unique Talent much as they like to think she Osburne Thursday night. does, but her thoughts are not al¬ Her real talent, however, lies in Betty Lee Clarkson was seen ways to their credit. Rather often her ability to pass exams. over at the Phi Delta House at she has more dates than she wants, "I really have a knack for it," Emory Sunday eve, and Frankie because that's the only way she can she says. "In physics class I Butt in the Spanish Room at the be sure to have the ones she really couldn't do the math problems Henry Grady, while Flonnie Ellis does want. with pencil and paper, and I went out to Lakemont as did Mary "Two or three nights a week she couldn't do them with a slide rule. Louise Palmour. At home this has a more or less formal asked-for-But I could tell how it ought to week-end was Shirley Anne Smith. in -advance, definite -destination be done. Every day the professor Susan Self had su'pper Sunday with date. In between times she may would hand the same problems the Sigma Nu's. lunch or go for rides or have boys back to me to be done over. Final¬ To the swank Ansley Supper drop in. Certainly she spends ly he gave up and passed me." Club went Sara Gray Hollis, hours on end "jellying," which she Dr. Jones loves crabs, strawber¬ Mary Lightfoot Elcan, Helen Gil-may or may not consider a great ries, lima beans, poetry, and music. mer, Beth Irby, Keeker Newton, waste of time. (Jellying—A cam¬ "How could I live with my hus¬ Marion Phillips, Pat Poole, and Pat pus term meaning an inexpensive band if I didn't?" she asked, and Reasoner. date, usually several hours sitting in went on to explain, "He sings." Scenes: restaurant over a soda or dish of Campus Queen a Her worse dislike is cabbage. Vogue's sixth Prix de Paris contest ice cream.) Med Student should draw a fair number of sen¬ "She has an allowance and usual¬ iors this year from our own campus ly buys her own lunch at the school She didn't find it hard to be a girl and study medicine. There for the prevailing clothes-conscious¬ cafeteria or an off-campus restaur¬ ness seems to grow keener. We not¬ ant. were ten other girls in her class and about eighty boys. She kept ed with interest Margaret Murchi-"She may look frivolous, but son's two-colored collar contrast¬ there's a fifty-fifty chance she has very quiet about having had any ing with her navy dress, Louise held down a paying job at some graduate work, and her knack for or She even passing was big help. Musser's black-knitted sleeves time other. may be exams a touching off a beige costume, and the one girl in a hundred who's Here she finds that students Elta Robinson's striking use of working her way through college have a tendency to ask her, "What class do you have this period?" Kelly green. with a full-time job. (AGP) For Quick Service Call J. N. Kalish & EVER-READY CABS Owned by Decatur Boys W. N. Ainsworth, Jr. DE. 1656 Decatur, Go. 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Not in many years have problems outside the campus been so close to us and so vital. We find ourselves particularly saying, when someone asks us what we plan to do, "Oh, I don't know—it seems foolish to plan anything when it may all be changed over night anyway," or "We'll let Hitler decide that for us." Needless to say, this attitude is wrong and demoraliz¬ ing. We heartily agree with Thomas S. Gates, president of the University of Pennsylvania, who cautioned his students against false prophets as follows: "At a time of great emotional appeal such as that which now prevails, one will do well to concentrate upon one's work more than ever and to be unswayed by speculations or vague commentaries filled with fore¬ boding for the future." One of the most important phases of national defense now is to put the right worker in the right place. As college stu¬ dents, we should be deciding where we will be best fitted and where we can be of most benefit, and choose subjects that will have bearing on the occupations we hope to have. We feel safe in saying that many of us do not get proper preparation in college for the very reason that we have no clear idea of what job we should look for. Few of us have talked to anybody about jobs except in chatty conversations that often lead to false impressions. We haven't enough information even to talk about pos¬ sibilities of a job to prospective employ¬ ers. As a remedy for this situation, we sug¬ gest that we have seminars led by people who really know what they are talking about, and have them open for those in , terested in the specific fields. Vocational guidance tests have their place, but it is impossible to take a test and find out exactly what to do. The real object of the seminars would be to suggest possible fields to students and give them specific information. We must begin to think about our vo¬ cations now not only for our personal good, but for the good of the nation. More than ever, the country must have things running smoothly, and it is the unemploy¬ ed and dissatisfied group that will turn most quickly to another form of govern¬ ment. Editorial Notes Students Lend Support To Parking Campaign The boarders didn't appreciate the day students' problem about parking in front of Buttrick until they had to walk in the street the other day. A desperate day stu¬ dent had been forced to park on the side¬ walk to make a nine o'clock class. The campaign launched in chapel Thursday by Frances Spratlin has our full backing. At the stunt, we welcomed the songs set to "Tell Me Why" and "I'll Never Smile Again" with their softness and harmony as a relief from all the old songs yelled in one (?) key. And speaking of the stunt, we bet the seniors are happy, too. ' We'll have our share of men on the cam¬ pus within this coming week, with Ath¬ letic Association's open house Saturday and Mortar Board's parties next Wednes¬ day and Thursday. A. A. will concentrate on Emory men this week, while Mortar Board's come from all sources. And the entertainment will be good, too. Betty Stevenson boils down The Real News Seepage The setting is Bucharest. But the swastika flies from the best hotels where good rooms are filled with Nordic aviators, staff officers, and "technicians." The people speak Rumanian, but the bayonets flashing in the sun are German, the planes in the air, which pa¬ trol the city, are German, too. The river is the Dan¬ ube, yet barges of German ammunition float south. Danger Ahead In Rumania, the Germans watch the oil fields and set up anti-aircraft along the railroads, but the trouble is* not localized. The whole of the Balkans has become a fil jfevenson ter through which Germans are slipping southward. They are reported in Hungary and Bulgaria. These people are not known for haphazard arrangements. To the south and east lie Greece, the Dardanelles, and (why not?) Egypt. Uneasy Lies the Head The mediocre, the ambitious, the crooked; all the puppet rulers of China must have grown un¬ easy last week. There are corners of Shanghai that are plotting further death. Already four officials have been killed in two weeks. And the Japanese search from house to house for the man (fanatic, murderer, patriot) who killed in his bed, Fu Hsiao-en, Mayor of that queer city, Shanghai. Suspense A frail barrier of men is building itself across Africa. In the valleys of the Belgian Congo, the French Congo, in the Cameroons, by lost Lake Chad, in Oubangi and Chari, in all these places with the exotic names, the "free French" are en¬ trenching themselves. From Nigeria to Kenya, they are blocking a possible Italian drive to the south. There were two significant arrivals in Africa last week: DeGaulle in the Cameroons, and Weygand in French West Africa. One was hailed with flowers in the street and a ride to the gov¬ ernor's palace. Different from the guns and ig¬ nominy off Dakar. Behind Dakar and the other ports of French West Africa, blockaded by the Royal Fleet are other French vjho saw Weygand arrive to defend them. Sense and Sentiment The scales are balancing delicately. American and British interests are being adjusted through necessity. Both John Bull and Uncle Sam find sentiment an easy ally these days in trying to please the other. We like it that the Burma Road is open again, and we are shocked when a bomb strikes through the roof of St. Paul's to smash the altar. The American public, as well as the British, is a natural for the grave and childlike tones of Princes Elizabeth in her first radio talk. What is more important, our newspapers like each other. And our state departments act as halves of a unit. A New Day Wednesday, the sixteenth of October, is a holi¬ day for the public school children. That is fun for them. Yet it is a more momentous holiday than any they will have all year. One-fourth of the male population will go to the schools and will be registered by the teachers in our first peace¬ time conscription. The men will fill out cards and will take home questionnaires. In due time, the first portion will be called for a year's serv¬ ice. For good or bad, something different and irre¬ vocable for the United States begins in those 12 5,000 registration places. The Agnes Scott News Vol. XXVI. Wednesday, Oct. 16, 1940. No. 4 1940 Member 1941 Flssocided Golleftide Press Published weekly, except during holidays and examination periods, by the students of Agnes Scott College. Office on second floor Murphey Candler Building. Entered as second .-lass matter at the Decatur, Georgia, post office. SubscripUon price per year. J1.25; single copies, five cents. Elaine Stubbs Editor Virginia Glower Managing Editor Florence Ellis Business Manager Matilda Cartledge Gathers Campus Quotes The length of chapel programs comes in for its share of discus¬ sion this week. The main consid¬ eration seems to be whether the programs should be short, allow¬ ing time for complete re¬ laxation afterwards, or should fill the whole of the allotted time. The opinions Cartledge seem to be very varied. Jessie MacGuire, '42: We should have a short chapel program of about fifteen minutes, and it should be wholly devoted to worship. Once a week we could have a full-length period in which to discuss business. But we do need some respite between classes in the morning, some relax¬ ation that we can get in the fif¬ teen minutes between chapel and classes. Louise Musser, '41 : I think that the chapel program should very nearly fill the half- hour allotted to it. The program is a change from the atmosphere of classes, and it seems to me is a relaxation in itself. Mary Jane Banham, '42: I think we should have short, concise chapel programs, though the length could be made flexible in the case of speakers. We do, however, need some time for com¬ plete physical and mental relax¬ ation to break the routine of classes. Flora Campbell, '43: I'd say that the full length chapel program was more desirable. Chapel isn't compulsory and those who do go, enjoy it; and the half hour is a period of relaxation for them. When we do have extra time, anyway, we usually spend it studying for the next class. Frances Tucker, '43: I think chapel programs should be allowed the entire half hour, to give time, particularly, for fre¬ quent speakers, both students and outsiders. I don't believe that a period of relaxation is necessary. We get through Mondays without any particular strain. Colleges Support Pan-Americanism America's collegians are enthusi¬ astic sponsors of the rise of Pan- Americanism. The trend toward solidifying relationships between the United States and her sister nations of the New World is evi¬ dent in developments on hundreds of campuses. Importance of education's role in this field is noted by the New York Times, which points out that in recent months the republics to the south have been subjected to a quiet but nevertheless intense "pen¬ etration," the invasion of Ameri¬ can school teachers. "Even more significant," says the Times, "were the visits of whole groups of teach¬ ers and undergraduates who went south on serious study tours. The invasion undoubtedly will have beneficial repercussions on both continents." On the other side of the picture, the University of Iowa Daily lowan notes that student enroll¬ ments in Spanish language classes at American colleges and universi¬ ties are showing substantial in¬ creases over 1939. "This trend, the lowan observes, "holds one of the strongest hopes for real im¬ provement in understanding be¬ tween the United States and its neighbor nations to the south." A practical application to the subject is given by the Louisiana State university Daily Reveille, which cautions that "more than 200 students on this campus are not getting the cooperation that they should. These are Latin- Americans." Charging that "the student body reneges in doing its part by mildly 'snubbing' our Lat¬ in-American friends," the LSU publication comments that "the welfare of the United States in pro¬ tecting its democracy and its peo¬ ple depends as much upon solidari¬ ty with its neighboring countries to the south as it does on its army and navy." Similar in tone is an editorial in the Harvard Crimson. "As the United States peers out into the fu¬ ture," observes the Crimson, "its leaders attempt to find security not only in rearmament and conscrip¬ tion, but in carefully cultivated friendship with Latin-America. (ACP). The Agnes Scoff News Vol. 26. AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATETR, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1940. No. S Miss Louise Hale Coming This Week Players Stage Students Preview Addresses Seniors Wednesday, Thursday, 8 "Brief Music" P. M.—Mortar Board Par¬ Investiture Takes Place ties for Sophomores in With Girl Cast In New Auditorium ' Presidential Situation Murphey Candler Build¬ ing. New Character Comedy Miss Louise Hale, class advisor, will make the address to the senior Friday, 10 A. M. — Chapel Presents Growth, Reactions For Straw Ballot class at the annual Investiture ser¬ program conducted by Of Seven College Students vice Saturday, November 2, at A. A. 11:30 in the Gaines chapel of the Blackfriars will stage its first big Friday, 3:30 P. M.—Hockey Hardie Directs Campaign Program; Presser Fine Arts Building. production of the year, a play, en¬ new titled Brief Music, by Emmet La-Miss Hale, associate professor of Games. Taylor and Merlin Present very, on November 16 or 23, in French, received her A. B. degree Friday, 8:30 P. M.—Concert the Bucher Scott Gymnasium, with from Smith College and her Political Platforms October 29 of Columbia Quartet, All an all-girl cast, according to Laura master's degree from the Universi¬ Star Concert Series, in At¬ Sale, president. ty of Chicago. Last year Miss With the purpose of acquainting students with the vot¬ Helen Carlson, acting professor,of lanta Municipal Audi¬ ing process, four campus organizations will combine efforts This play, a new type, is a char¬ French, gave the address. torium. during the coming three weeks to make possible / Agnes acter comedy which presents ana¬ Scott's regular presidential straw ballot on national election The class mascot, Penelope Bar lytically the growth of seven girls Monday, 8:15 P. M. — Lec¬ day, November 5. during two years of college. The nett, will be present at the exer¬ William ture by Lyon The campaign program, as now arranged, will include girls are of seven distinct types. cises. Penelope is the five-year- The play follows the way in which old daughter of the national presi¬ Phelps at Georgia Tech these events: dent of the Alumnae Association. Auditorium. On October 29, a special chapel each reacts toward the others and Phelps Addresses toward life in general. Mrs. Barnett, the former Penelope program will be conducted by the Brown, of the class of 1932, was Agnes Scott campaign chairmen Tech Students The plot of the play concerns outstanding in student activities. Would-Be Soldier of the presidential nominees. Helen the love of two girls, roommates, For two years after her graduation, Dr. William Lyon Phelps, pro¬ Hardie, representative of the Na¬ for the instructor of play produc¬ she was field secretary for the col¬ Invades Campus fessor emeritus of English litera¬ tional Student Federation Associa¬ tion. Each hides her love, while lege. ture at Yale and distinguished au¬ tion, the primary sponsor of the suspecting the other. Agnes Scott was the first college As she hustled to answer the thor, will speak at the Georgia Tech straw ballot, will be master of cere¬ According to Miss Gooch, asso¬ in the world which had the custom ring of the front doorbell, Ella auditorium next Monday at 8:15 monies, and will make a brief ad¬ ciate professor of English and di¬ of Investiture. It was instituted wondered who could be calling at p. m. on "The Romance of Sci¬ dress at the beginning of the pro¬ rector of Blackfriars, "this play in 1906 when Agnes Scott first such an early hour. Opening the ence and the Truth of Fiction." gram, discussing the important fac¬ will be appealing to the campus be¬ became a college and was able to door, she was surprised to find a tors at stake in this election. Jane Dr. Phelps is brought to At¬ cause it is sophisticated, and the grant bachelor of arts degrees. Ac¬ rather rough looking individual, Taylor will uphold the Willkie lanta by the local chapter of the idea will be interesting to the col¬ cording to Dr. McCain, "Investi¬ who was definitely not the "kind principles, and Marjorie Merlin will American Association of Univer¬ lege." especially pleasing the of young gent'mun that usually present the Roosevelt platform. ture is to calls." Standing cautiously with sity Women. Mrs. Seth Snyder, Brief Music has just recently administration because we can ac¬ Buttons and stickers for the vari¬ 133 3 North Highland avenue, is one foot in the door, the maid ask¬ come off the press. Mr. Lavery, knowledge the attainment of our ous candidates are to be distributed in charge of all arrangements of ed the man what he wanted. the author, sent Miss Gooch a girls and still have them for the to students at the end of the meet¬ the lecture. In a gruff, foreign accent the ing. manuscript copy. Mr. Lavery has rest of the year." recently worked on the Federal caller said, "Is this where I reg¬ Dr. Phelps, who is 75, has been The class of 1940 is the first Register in Buttrick ister? Is this where I sign up for professor emeritus at Yale since Theater Project with Miss Hallie class to be invested in the newly the army?" 1933. Always prominent among For three days, beginning Octo¬ Flanagan, director at Vassar Col¬ constructed Presser Fine Arts literary circles, he has written 23 ber 30, students will register in the lege. Here he got the ideas for Building. At the service the sopho¬ Ella quite positively answered books, the latest and most famous lobby of Buttrick Hall, in order his play. His most noted play is mores, clad in white, will precede him that this was not the place he of which is his Autobiography with to be eligible to vote. Registra¬ The First Legion, which played on their sister class and form wanted, and that registration was will a Letters, published last year. a Broadway and has since been trans¬ double line through which the sen¬ being done at the Decatur schools. tion will consist of paying one- lated into many languages. iors will pass. But the man had evidently been Mrs. Snyder said that there cent poll tax and of filling out a told the same thing several times registration blank slightly modi¬ would be no reception after the fied from the ones used in national before, for he stubbornly refused lecture, but that Dr. Phelps would elections. Proceeds of the poll tax to accept the answer, and insisted be glad to autograph copies of his College Still Remembers on seeing some one in authority. Autobiography with Letters im¬ will pay for the printing of special ballots, since the college voters will Such doubt raised Ella's ire to mediately after the lecture. need only part of the official bal¬ the head-tossing point, and she left lot used by the United States Gov¬ Last World War the stranger cooling his heels while ernment. That part of the ballot she went in "to ask Miss Dick if Columbia Quartet which the college will use, how¬ By Virginia Williams we were registering people this ever, is identical with the official morning." Opens Series form in all respects. An ex-aviator, a reserve officer, and veterans of the last Five minutes later, Miss Scand war are all a part of this college community. Sounds like The Columbia Quartet, also rett heard the front door click, Vote November 5 a miniature army, doesn't it? billed as the All-Star Quartet and then heard the bolt slide into place. the Metropohtan Opera Quartet, November 5, with the polls open Those who remembered the last war, namely Mrs. Syden- Waylaying Ella on her return down will open the All-Star Concert from early morning until 4 p. m., stricker, Mrs. Cunningham, and the hall, she asked if the man had Ella Carey are hazy on a good many Davenport, Mr. King, and Mr. Series in Atlanta Friday night, Oc¬ every registered voter of the col¬ gone. Jones had to register. Dr. Chris¬ tober 25, at the City Auditorium. lege community will vote for his details. But all of them remember tian came in and announced to "Yes, mam," Ella answered, "and presidential choice. Regular re¬ one thing and that is that Mr. The quartet will include: Jos¬ I'm keeping that front do' locked his class the other day: "My chil¬ turns will be posted throughout Stukes went away to war. Mrs. ephine Antoine, soprano; Igor dren are weather stripping, be¬ fo' the rest of the day." the day, while full results of the Sydenstricker remembers that she Gorin, baritone; Charles Kullman, cause they keep me out of the voting will be published in a spec¬ came to the college in 1917 and tenor, and Kathryn Meisle, con¬ draft." ial extra of The Agnes Scott News had to teach Mr. Stukes' psychol¬ Special Chorus Offers tralto. During the program the Robinson in Reserves brought out by dinner time the ogy classes. Mr. Cunningham artists will present solos, duets, , Program at Woman's Club sarne contributes the fact that Mr. Dr. Robinson is a reserve offi¬ trios, and quartets. There will be | day. ^Votes will^ be tabulated so as to show which candidates Stukes was an aviator. And Ella cer, and although he doesn't have Special chorus, under the direc¬ numbers from "Martha," "Car carried the various states represent¬ Carey says, "Everybody missed Mr. to register, is willing to serve if men," "Faust," "The Barber of tion of Mr. Lewis Johnson, pro¬ ed on the campus. Stukes." needed. Seville," as well as other selec¬ fessor of voice, will offer two A large number of the kitchen tions. Give Publicity Ella Reminisces groups of songs at an illustrated boys and waiters signed up Wed¬ At the student meeting Thurs¬ Miss Florence Smith, faculty nesday and four of the seven jani¬ lecture at the Atlanta Woman's day in chapel, Agnes Scott stu¬ The condition of Agnes Scott sponsor, is busy arranging the main tors and house men. One janitor, Cub's Auditorium at 8 P. M. to¬ dents again selected to go to the during the first World War is pic¬ features of the program, while Russell Byrd, signed up at six-thir¬ concerts this year by way of buss¬ tured by Ella. "We didn't have night. The lecture will be given Eleanor Hutchens is responsible for ty in the morning before he came es. no men hardly; they had them all. by Miss Caroline Hood, whose off-campus publicity. The Cur¬ to work. He has served three years Some of the men teachers were rent History Forum, under the di¬ uncle, the late Raymond M. Hood, with the coast guard, keeping offi¬ gone and about half the kitchen Miss Torrance rection of Betty Stevenson, is to cers' quarters and cooking. was one of the architects of Rock¬ boys and waiters. There was even Assumes New Duties conduct registration, while Miss Willie Real Veteran efeller Center. one woman cook in the kitchen of Smith's "Parties and Politics" class, White House." In the first World War none of The first group will be sung Miss Catherine Torrance, pro¬ headed by Marjorie Merlin, is ar¬ the faculty saw overseas service. by a triple trio from last year's fessor of Greek, has assumed her ranging the details of the chapel When the armistice was signed But Willie King, the head waiter special chorus, according to Mr. duties as vice president for Georgia program. Pi Alpha Phi, headed by the girls all joined hands and went in Rebekah Scott dining hall, is a of the Classical Association of the Johnson. Then the twenty voices Mary Lightfoot Elcan, will be in all over Decatur. real veteran. of new chorus will Middle West and South. the special charge of the polls on election day. "They took a holiday and acted It would seem that the present sing the second group, which in¬ Miss Torrance was elected at a The Agnes Scott News will co¬ like it was New Year's," says Ella. threat of Hitler toward Agnes cludes "Sylvia," by Oley Speaks; meeting last spring. Her duties operate with all the organizations This present war has begun to Scott is no nightwatchman, no "The Immigrant's Song," by Rep-include making contacts with all to bring the college community the show resemblances to the other. electrician, and no one to boil the per, and "The Slumber Song," by Latin teachers in Georgia, both in latest campaign news from theIn the registration Wednesday, Mr. eggs. Gretchaninoff. the high schools and colleges. present time through election day. Page 2 THE AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1940. Roland Hayes Great-Granddaughter Competition Rises Sings in Atlanta In Hockey Contests A singer of world-wide repu¬ tation, Roland Hayes, tenor, will As Sticks Cross in Exciting Games present a concert tomorrow night, October 24, at the Wheat Street Sophs win. Juniors Down Frosh Baptist Church at 8:30 P. M. Born in Calhoun, Georgia, Ro¬ By Susan Self land Hayes has attained a world¬ After battling through a scoreless first half, the sopho¬ wide reputation as a singer, per¬ mores came across with one goal to down the seniors, 1-0; forming for the King and Queen and the juniors scored twice in the second frame to beat a of England. He has traveled a spirited freshman team, 2-0, in last Friday's double-header. great deal and has been to Atlanta Pattie Patterson's accurate driving and fine defensive a concert star. play, the work of Hopper at left The lineups: full and of Junior Freshman Dale at right Hance C.F. Harris Organizations List inner, the pen-Wagnor R.I. Duffie a 11 y corners Purcell L.I. Hill, G. called against Thomas R.W. Bond New Members Stuckey L.W. Tuggle the seniors— Pi Alpha Phi: Gillerstedt C.H. Noir those are what Mary Lightfoot Elcan,'president, Harry R.H. Farrior made the so¬ Walker L.H. Brewer announces the new members. They phomore -Sen- Copeland R. F. Dillon are Elise Smith, Margaret Erwin, i o r game Montgomery _ L.F. Hill, K. Mary Jane Bonham, Sarah Massey, memorable. Davies G. Bry Pat Reasoner, Margaret Mary Betty Bates Self Junior subs: Smith, Davis, scored the sophomores' lone goal Bradfield, Wilds, Smith, Mac¬ Toomey, and Mamie Hallman. after Bumstead and Holloran had Guire, Gray, Montgomery, Brooks, Spanish Club: passed downfield. Martha O'Nan, Currie, Dale, Walker, Lott, D. At the last meeting of the Span¬ guarding the senior goal, kept so¬ Webster, A. Webster. ish Club, the club's constitution phomore scoring down and stop¬ Sophomore Senior ped Downie twice after she had Rountree C.F. Vaughan was amended to fit the present dribbled her way into the scoring Dale R.I. Musser conditions. New members are circle. ' Holloran L.I. Kyle Sue Phillips, Marion Phillips, Bumstead R.W. Dennison Keeker Newton, Helen Gilmer, Freshmen Improve Downie L.W. Stubbs Frankie Butt, Katherine Johnson, Radford C.H. Henry With most of its regulars watch¬ Elta Robinson, May King, and McFadyen R.H. Patterson ing the game from the sidelines P. Lancaster-L.H. McGarity Mary Davis. during the first half, the junior Paisley ! R.F. Wilds team found well-matched competi¬ Eta Sigma Phi: Hopper L.F. _ J. Lancaster tion in an improved freshman Harriette Cochrane, president, Percy G. O'Nan eleven. Speedy Zena Harris led, announces the newly-elected mem¬ Sophomore subs: Cochran, and her team advanced into the Bates, Moore, Smith, Weismann. bers of Eta Sigma Phi. They are scoring circle time and again dur¬ Martha O'Nan, Polly Lyndon, ing the first half. Club Takes Swimmers Mary Ann Faw, Miriam Bedin- Annie Wilds, Jessie MacGuire, Alta Webster, swimming mana¬ Betty Ann Brooks, Gay Currie, ger, announces fourteen new mem¬ ger, Mardia Hopper, Anne Paisley, Mary Dean Lott, and Alta and Dot bers in swimming club including Rosalie Sturdavant, Louise Wood, Webster entered the game early in seven freshmen, three sophomores, Ann Flowers, Julia Ann Patch, the second half and combined their three juniors, one senior, and a pair and Susan Guthrie. strength to break through and of twins. They are Mary Jane score twice for the juniors before Bonham, Frances Alston, Jean Chi Beta Phi: the whistle. Dot Webster scored Beutell, Edwina Burrus, Martha The new members of Chi Beta twice, first on a pass from Mac¬ Ann Smith, Marna McGarraugh, Phi are Stuart Arbuckle, BettyGuire and again on a pass from Agnes Douglas, Maslin House, Pat Ann Brooks, Virginia Corr, Mar¬ Wilds. Freshman Bry pulled a Stokes, Caroline Tumlin, Julia garet Eiseman, Pat Reasoner, Eliz¬ goal-guarding feat worth writing Harvard, Elizabeth Harvard, Ro abeth Ruprecht, Elizabeth Russell home about when she batted a ben Taylor, and Mary Maxwell. and Margaret Wade. hard high drive from the air to stop the junior blitzkrieg. Predicts Juniors Next week the juniors meet the Agnes Scott College sophomores, and the freshmen match sticks with the seniors. Our belief is that the juniors will main¬ tain present pace; that the fresh¬ DECATUR, GA. man-senior game will be far too close even to guess a winner. J. N. Kolish & W. N. Ainsworth, Jr. Prescription Opticians A college lor women that is widely recog¬ nized for its standards of work and for the 380 Peachtree St. Atlanta interesting character of its student activities. GASPAR-WARE STUDIO PHOTOGRAPHERS For further information, address J. R. McCAIN, President 30 5th St. N. W. Matriculates This Year Although types remain universal and personalities of individuals are for all time, from Chaucer's prioress to the lady of the day, the change in Agnes Scott from the days of 1892 to 1940 compares with evolution in history in com¬ plications and importance. Though steeped in tradition, after biding its time for 51 years, "I like sophisticated evening Agnes Scott has waited until 1940 dresses—no frills and ruffles for to see its first great-granddaugh me," Zoe stated simply. Her beige sport coat spoke further for Zoe When Leila Glover registered at in emphasis of her point. In con¬ Agnes Scott in 1892, three years trast to her slight touch of sophis¬ after the Institute was founded, tication, which results from a sim¬ she encountered a different sort ple desire to be natural and frank, of school from the one in which Zoe'3 red hair-ribbon gave away her granddaughter, Zoe Drake, has her old-fashioned girlishness at met with in 1940. As seen through which Leila Glover would have Zoe's eyes, the subjects at Agnes smiled with definite approval. Ag¬ Scott are taken with a view to may change the nes Scott with some future job, while Grand¬ times, in its external appearances mother Glover took spelling, com¬ and adopted contemporary conven¬ position, Bible and Arithmetic, tions, but girls will be girls, and seemingly with an eye to matri¬ grandmother and granddaughter mony. have their ways in common. "I like to study," said Zoe, and Miss Louise McKinney, one of looked as though she really meant the first professors at Agnes Scott, it. "I had rather study while I'm said: "I probably taught Leila on the campus than do anything rhetoric or composition; and if her else—my major is going to be parents were anything like the gen¬ chemistry and I would like to be eral run of parents, they objected a lab technician," she closed the violently when I boldly assigned subject with a practical glint in her my classes novels to read in the eye. 'Tis rumored by all who know English class. To tell the truth, Zoe, however, that the telephone it was a bit liberal, because I some¬ holds a peculiar fascination for her, times got pretty deeply involved and possibly Leila's forward look myself in some of the novels I se¬ to the altar is secretly harbored by lected." Zoe. "As much as I like it on the If we could borrow Miss McKincampus, I find that my week-end ney's mind for a while, close it trips give me an entirely new per¬ with ourselves in a private corner, spective on things. Agnes Scott is and look through her eyes into the like a little world set apart." While present, past, and future of Agnes Leila Glover was satisfied with the Scott, we might be able to express simple diversions of pop-corn pop¬ that feeling which, in all sincerity, ping, a stiff game of whist, or a would embody the intangible spirit daring midnight feast, Zoe's world¬ that makes Agnes Scott eternally ly opportunities to attend fraterni¬ the same. But, we can only offer ty hayrides or the K. A. formal the simple adage slightly altered, on the week-end are indicative of "Like grandmother, like grand¬ the progressive results in Agnes daughter, as shown through Leila Scott's evolution. Glover and Zoe Glover Drake." THE WEEK-END SPECIAL Are you ready for those special dates?, MANGEL'S is simply full of just the right kind of coats for tljem. In fact there you will find coats smart for hardy campus wear and ideal for trips to town or country. They are all made to flatter even the most perfect figures and priced to snit the most counted budget. Even an agnostic will have to admit that there is something mighty big behind all this. flllMGU'S 185 Peachtree—60 Whitehall ATLANTA. GA. THE AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1940. Page 3 Sophomores Attend Social Mortar Board Plans Affair in Hallowe'en Motif Sophomores will lay aside their books tonight and tomorrow night and take up prom cards for the Mortar Board parties to be held in Murphey Candler Building at eight o'clock. The motif for the parties will be Hallowe'en. Grace Walker and Jean Dennison are in charge of decorations; Gene Slack and Ann Henry, enter¬ tainment; Sabine Brumby and Frances Breg, food; Elaine Stubbs, proms; Betsy Kendrick, invita¬ tions; and Ida Jane Vaughan, dates. The boys invited for Wednesday night are: Fred Walker, Fairfield Manget, Lonnie Thomas, Russell Melbourne, "Snick" Bishop, Bill Marquess, Steve McGargee, Billy Gardner, Jack Crown, George Cress, Charlie Anderson, Gene Powell, Sidney Underwood, Bob Cruger, Bob Thibedeau, Lyman Goodwin, Lindsay Holland, Billy Hodges, Jim Ed Fain, Bill Keith, Paul Stoney, R. C. Tweed, Emmet Robinson, Grady Gallant, Harlon Sisk, Dexter Clay¬ ton, Ernest Lunsford, Clark Case, Carl Weinmaster, Layton Trimble, Wyman Sloan, Charles Middlebrooks, John Lewis, Billy King, Phil Adams, David Hamilton, Jimmy Tharpe, Joe Beutell, Bill Moody, Jim Fair, Ed Scott, Tom Hill, Bob Bar¬ rett, Lewis Estes, Ed Demere, Jack Pow¬ ell, Bill Hutchinson, Porter Warren, Le land MacKay, Jimmy Rhodes, Tom Whit¬ ing, Jim Moore, Bud Nelson, Roy Walton, Walter Beckham, Tom Addison, Archie Tolbert, Bob Battle, Stewart Brown, Mil¬ ton Edgerton, Valdemar Gude, Ralph Porch, Alex Kidd, Ed Tucker, Jack Mat thers, Charlie Johnson, Walter Pittman, Your Nearest and Most Complete Drug Store Meet Your Friends Here THREADGILL'S THE PRESCRIPTION STORE Phone DE. 1665 309 E. College Ave. Decatur, Go. Go to dinner all covered up with a touch of sequin glam¬ our, say* Vogue. For gala evenings, remove the jacket. Blush ro*e or ice blue rayon taffeta. 14.95 JUNIOR-DEB SHOP SECOND FLOOR Virginia Glower Takes Notes For the Record Football games seem to be the most popular distraction of our socially inclined Hottentots these days. The sen¬ ior section of the Tech stands at the Vandy game looked like an Agnes Scott ra 1ly , with some of the best -looking sports outfits decorated with gold and white Barnes Sale, Jim Howell, Bill McKinney, Bobby Kilian, Ned McMillan, Billy Rain¬ water, Ben McAndrew, Clinton Horton, Franklin Smith, Arthur Wood, Charles Allen, Erie Phillips, Raleigh Sutton, Ran¬ dall Goldthwaite, Clyde McCarver, Bob Worland, A. B. Dennis, Jordan Galloway, Bert Herndon, Bob Morris, George Bates, Ben St. Clair, Manual Cooper, Rothwell Polk, James Allred, Bill Elkin. Upton Clarey, Ben Banks, Alvis Waitte, Bill Hin son. Crip Holland, Jason Shirah, Irwin Jennings, Mort Doogan, Rhett Gunter, Buddy Brock, Van Hunt, Frank Sherman, Doc Raadolph, Tom Herndon, Arthur Ev¬ ans, Willie Wilson, Bob Belcher, Ray Bald¬ win, Doug Clark, Guerrard Spratt, Bill Hansell, Reynolds Hudson, Dave Boy, Charles Carver, Steadman Burgess, and Bobby Gibbs. Those for Thursday night are: Warren McLain, James Nelson, Ned In verson, Charlie Bixler, Wayne Potter, Bones Woodward, Davidson Phillips, Ar¬ thur Moore, Jr., Bob Warnock, Bill Thomp¬ son, Bob Rush, Bill Brooks, Newman Lo zier. Bill Stubbs, Charles Carruth, Mere¬ dith Yoe, Haywood Pearce, Henley Stur gess, Tom Jackson, John Adams, John Youmans, Stokes Tolbert, Steve Pace, Charles Golson, Harry Willson, Dudley Hunt, Dickie Boyd, Ed Pollard, Luten Teate, Powers McLeod, Cliff Harbour, Randy Macon, Joe Brannen, Wade Huie, Alvin Ratliff, Jack McLaughlin, Kennion Edwards, Bert Ausley, Wilbur Shepherd, Charles Butsch, Willis Mozley, Wiley Branan, Tommy McPherson, Bud White, Ivan Bennett, Bob Powell, Bob Jackson, Walker McElheny, Bill Cumbaa, Jack Kay, John Taylor, Harold Wright, T. L. John¬ son, Cecil White, Enon Hopkins, Mike Kossek, Coleman T. King, Bill Gignillat, Bob Barton, Walter Bundy, Marion Lan gerquist, Sam Wise, Wade Atkenson, George Roach, Doug Read, Thad Morri¬ son, Ray Huxford, David Chewning, Da¬ vid Dennison, Harry Hutchins, Billy Peeples, Gene Howe, Tommy Barnes, George Holsenbeck, Harold Johnston, Cliff Walton, Walter Cottingham, Bill Ballenger, Tommy Hicks, David King, Jay Moore, Ben Smith, Dick Westbrook, John Zimmerman, Hugh Chapman, Arthur An¬ derson, Lynn Higgenbottham, George Mi zzell. Bill Allsup, Bill McLees, Hick Har vin, Ben Martin, Morris Erlick, George Smith, Frank Phinney, Bud Cottrell, Tom Collins, Horace Massey, Albert Martin, Bill King, Raymond Edwards, Frank Atwater, Billy Richards, Beb Blanc, Doug Kelso, Tom Reid, Lin Flanagen, Ed Van Vor hess, Charlie Green, Jack McGowan, Claude Duteil, Earl Cook, Hugh Gilpin, Bill Aycock, Howard, Jr., H. L. Burpo, Jr., Bill Maynard, Don Newman, Bob Weatherford and Bobby Dodd. chrysanthemums. Absent Minded Senior Maybe she was thinking about the concerts, or maybe she was just in a hurry for the week to go by, but anyway, Virginia Collier arrived at dinner Tuesday evening, late, completely out of breath, and resplendent in evening dress. "An Apple a Day—" One of the House twins (don't ask which one) evidently sub¬ scribes to several familiar adages. She certainly was applying "Pre¬ paredness," "Safety First," "First Impressions Count Most," and maybe even "An apple a day keeps the doctor away," when she arriv¬ ed at her first English theme con¬ ference with Miss Allbright, bring¬ ing teacher a bright red apple. Speaking of Doctors One of the first encounters Dr. Jones had with the new freshmen was having a girl come into her office and stop short, saying in a rather rueful tone, "Why, I thought you were a man." We Wonder— Why Miss Allbright wants to take swan-diving and flit . . . Why Miss Harn wears her watch upside down and backwards; it's terribly confusing . . . Miss Om- wake claims that Miss Harn has worn her watch that way so long, she can't reid it right side up! Bartlett Addresses College Radio Guild At the last meeting of the Ra¬ dio Guild, at which Marcus Bart¬ lett, official of W. S. B., spoke, members elected Lib Barrett presi¬ dent, Cornelia Stuckey vice presi¬ dent, and Molly Oliver secretary- treasurer of the organization. Mr. Bartlett told the members that the type of scripts his station was interested in are those con¬ cerning the lives of Spanish ex¬ plorers and dealing with typical Georgia characteristics. Plans were made to meet twice a month, once with Emory. Pro¬ grams will include historical sketches, biographies, and dramat¬ ic episodes. These will be recorded on the new recording machine almost since its founding. Sowen Press Commercial Printing and Stationery TYPEWRITERS AND RIBBONS Blotters — Note Paper — Poster Paper Office Supplies 316 ChurchSt. DE.3383 Deoatur, Ga. BALLARD'S Dispensing Opticians Thirty-five Years of Dependable Optical Service Three Locations for Your Convenience Service, Quality Merchandise, Accurate and Expert L. B. Barrett Checks After Working Hours You really do have to take off your hat to the girls this week. There were more than the usual number of social activities, at each of which Agnes Scott was well represented—plus all the "trips out of town." The first Med Dance of the year was given Friday night, with the Phi Ghi's as hosts. Those add¬ ing to the fun were Gentry Burks, Carolyn Dunn, Mary Lightfoot Elcan, Pat Reasoner, Laura Gum¬ ming, Iddy Boone, Nancy Mays, Helen Jester, Beryl Healy, Rowena Barringer, Mary Olive Thom¬ as, and Sarah Copeland. The Baptist Student Union had a social Friday night which, ac¬ cording to Jeanne Lee, Louise Pruitt, Ann Fisher, Elise Nance, and Eugenia Mason, was a lovely party. The Columbia Seminary en¬ tertained Virginia Montgomery, Carolyn Newbold, Martha Arant, Jane Taylor, Doris Hasty, Mary Jane Bonham, Ann Flowers, Anne Ward, Jean Chester, Bippy Gribble, and Neva Jackson. Vanderbilt descended upon us and drew a crowd of supporters for the game Saturday. Among them were Lib Barrett, Gentry Burks, Rowena Barringer, Eugenia Hailey, Frances Butt, Betsy Ken¬ drick, Patricia Poole, Polly Frink, Sarah Copeland, Clara Rountree, Charity Crocker, Marion Phillips, Jean Tucker, Carolyn Daniel, Sally Knight, Sis King, Dot Holloran, Martha Liddell, and Lois Martin. The fraternities kept up the good work of playing hosts to many Agnes Scott girls. The Pi K A's entertained Evelyn Cheek, Julia Scott, and Clara Rountree; Ann Flowers went to the K A House; A T O's enter¬ tained Eugenia Hailey, Gentry Burks, Lib Barrett, Rowena Bar¬ ringer, and Florence Ellis. Perhaps one of the biggest events of the week-end was the dance held at the Tech Armory. Those at¬ tending this grand affair were Flake Patman, Julia Scott, Betty Burruss, Josanne McDaniel, Julia Ann Florence, and Carolyn Dan¬ iel. Even with all the excitement in town, some of our belles sought entertainment elsewhere. For in¬ stance, Louise Newton went to Birmingham for the Tennessee- Alabama game. Others missed on the campus were Joella Craig, who went to Walhalla, S. C.; Katie Arnall, Frances Cook, Susan Mont¬ gomery, and Betty Bacon, who Where Friends Meet Friends And Part More Friendly GLENN'S PHARMACY Masonic Temple Bldg. DE. 3322-3 Blackfriars, Emory Produce Drama In conjunction with the Emory Players, Blackfriars will produce a Lucy Stone play on October 29, at 7:3 0 P. M., in Miss Gooch's studio, and will stage a repeat per¬ formance for the League of Wom¬ en Voters in Atlanta. Characters are Lucy Stone, play¬ ed by Jeanne Flynt; Antoinette Brown, Stuart Arbuckle; George Washington Watts, Reid Sessions; and Mrs. Mayhan, Elise Smith. College Reports War's Influences War's influences are every¬ where, and not the least of them are noted in America's colleges. Here are four typical reports: At Florida-State College, Dr. Anna Forbes Liddell, head of the department of philosophy and re¬ ligion, declares that an increase in registrations for Bible courses re¬ flects upset world conditions. Looking for "basic values to which they can hold," college stu¬ dents over the entire country have evidenced increased interest in Bible courses for the last year or more, she says. At the College of Our Lady of Good Counsel in White Plains, N. Y., a girls' school, increased inter¬ est in science courses has necessi¬ tated a 20 per cent enlargement in laboratory facilities. The college attributes mounting interest in biology, chemistry and physics to new opportunities ' in medical and scientific work open¬ ed up for women by America's pre¬ paredness program. Smith College, Northampton, Mass., because of events abroad which prohibit foreign study and threaten to eclipse European arts, has started a new course, "The Arts in America." went to Newnan, Georgia. Mar¬ garet Powell went to Thomasville, as did Lillian Schwencke; and Martha Stone went to Louisville. Caroline Tumlin went to Milledgeville, Betty Sullivan went to An¬ derson, S. C.; Sue Mitchell and Catherine Kolloch went to Neel's Gap; and Jessie McGuire and Mary Bon Utterback went to Ham¬ ilton to visit Virginia Williams. Campus Queen Scene: Honors this week go to Susan Montgomery who, along with oth¬ er freshmen, seems to be trying to show the upper classmen what the "well-dressed college girl" wears. Susan appeared this week in a two- piece dress—the skirt of which was blue and wine plaid wool, with pleats all around, while the jacket was of wine velveteen, with collar and .piping of the same plaid as the skirt. Marching up the front of the jacket was a row of silver beetles acting as buttons. With this outfit Susan wore wine suede, wedge shoes, and a perky hat, made of plaid to match the skirt. If we had a hat like THAT, Susan, we wouldn't take it off. But since we haven't, our hat's off to you, freshman!ireshman: Workmanship. All the Same at Each Location. wu 8 ncver"l!L p^00 Cali?s CTft WALTER BALLARD OPTICAL CO. Medical Arts Bldg. 105 Peachtree W. W. On Doctor's Bldg. J ft N B Page 4 THE AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1940. Let There Be Thought The dual debate Monday night, offering the first organized campus reaction to the presidential election, turned out to be a heated opener for campaign activities leading to the straw ballot November 5. An Emory man concluded the debate, saying: "After all, it makes very little dif¬ ference who we vote for; the fact that we vote at all is the thing which is important. What we want is a president elected by the people." We see an element of truth in this state¬ ment, but we feel that it needs amending. What we want is not merely voting, but thoughtful voting. We see no point in voting for the sake of voting. An action without an end in view is purely wasteful, and worse than no action at all. It makes very little difference to us which candidate a person votes for, provided he bases his vote on thought. We respect any well- founded opinions, whether they be on the side of Mr. Willkie or Mr. Roosevelt. The fact that persons do not agree after they have thought a matter through is merely the result of individual differences. The straw ballot here on the campus will give us an opportunity to exercise thoughtful voting. The election will fol¬ low the national procedure as closely as possible. We will have speeches, registra¬ tion, a poll tax, and voting in booths. Al¬ though ballots will include only the presi¬ dent and vice-president, omitting the elec¬ tors, the part included will be an exact replica of the true ballot. Heretofore, few of us have really had to think why we would want to vote a certain ticket, because few of us have been able to vote. We have either been for Roosevelt or against Roosevelt without knowing why. If we take active part in the campaign preceding the ballot we will have to stop being theoretical and vague, and begin to offer specific reasons for our beliefs. And when we go to the polls, we will want to be sure of our choice. Let us hope when the ballots are count¬ ed that each vote will represent a definite opinion based on facts and thought—the opinion of a thinking student. American Youth Responds to Challenge "The Youth Movement," quips a paragrapher in the University of Texas Daily Texan, "is most inactive when someone wants the lawn mowed." To some degree, American youth is on the de¬ fensive. Not a few persons in high places have been outspoken in their criticism. "Recently," observes the Los Angeles Collegian, "we, the youth of the United States, have been the victims of a campaign calling us 'a bunch of cowards' ... a disgrace to the old families of trail-blazers." The Collegian continues that youth has "no desire to go over to Europe and be involved in another one of Europe's muddles. We are afraid of having to fight someone else's fight . . . But we are not afraid to fight our own fight." Citing the rush of youth to volunteer for serv¬ ice in the armed forces, the Louisiana State Uni¬ versity Reveille notes that "very often American youth is condemned for talking intelligently and thinking shallowly. "We wonder," asks the Reveille, "if these 'condemners' would take the time to sit and consider the action of America's youth, with the world and his life before him, who sets aside his personal plans and ideas in order that he may serve his country—would they so hastily shout 'shallow'?" A challenge to youth is voiced by the Santa Clara publication at the University of Santa Clara, Calif. "Recently," it says, "in a letter to a national magazine, a woman accused Ameri¬ can young men of doing nothing but 'living off their parents and the government, riding around in jalopies, and exercising an immoral attitude toward women'." The Santa Clara believes "the immediate reaction of the subjects of such attacks is laughter or contempt. It is an unfortunate truth, however, that the last person to recognize a fault is the subject of that fault. It is the duty of college men to exhibit in themselves such in¬ dustry, patriotism and adherence to Christian principles that in times of national crises scurri¬ lous attacks upon 'American Youth' will be made impossible." (ACP) Matilda Cartledge Gathers Campus Quotes The May Day Committee has asked the use of our column this week in order to gather student suggestions for this year's program. Mary Robertson, '42: I think the May Day program should be managed completely by the students. It is one of the major campus activities and I do think the students should write as well as pro¬ duce it. Jo Cates, '41: I like the May Day programs given at night. The lighting is so effective. And I like the strangeness and fantasy of an old theme rather than a Cartledge modern one. Anna Branch Black, '43: I like the May Day given in the late afternoon. The shadows then are beautiful and effective. Alia Webster, '42: I like real beauty in the May Day programs, classical rather than mod¬ ern. And I do think that it should have a well- constructed plot. Laura Sale, '41: I think that setting in such a classic rather than a modem theme is more appropriate for the setting that we have. Carolyn Strozier, '41: I think that the May Day programs are most attractive given at night. The colored lights are very effective and usually, during the afternoon programs, it gets too dark to see well toward the end of the per¬ formance. Bee Bradfield, '42: "Whether the theme is classical or not, May Day should be simple enough to understand without having to look at the program all the time. I think the students ought to write the script, if they are going to perform the program." Julia Ann Patch, '42: I'd like to see a modernistic May Day production this year. Clas¬ sical and old-fashioned themes are common May Day material, and something modernistic would be different and more original. Jeanne Osborne, '42: "I like the idea of having May Day at night. I think it would be nice to have a modern theme as a change from the classic one. It would give a greater opportunity for originality to the students who write it." Tine Gray, '41 : I think that the Greek theme for May Day has been overworked. What¬ ever the theme is, it shouldn't be too remote. And if the May Court is to represent the beauties of the campus, I do think that their costumes should be becoming. Virginia Clower, '41: "I think that the costumes of the court should be in keeping with the general theme of the play, rather than adher¬ ing so strictly to the Grecian tradition. The clas¬ sical costumes are beautiful, but not becoming to everyone. After all, there have been attractive styles since the Greeks." The Agnes Scott News Vol. XXVI. Wednesday, Oct. 23, 1940. No. S 1940 Member 1941 CJssociafed Gotle&iate Press Published weekly, except during holidays and examiaation periods, by the students of Agnes Scott College. Office on second floor Murphey Candler Building. Entered as second class matter at the Decatur, Georgia, post office. Subscription price per year, $1.25; single copies, five cents. Elaine Stubbs Editor Virginia Clower Managing Editor Florence Ellis Business Manager T>J y-, i. «. , 0 Bee Bradfield Cornelia Stuckey Jeanne Osborne Club Editor Assistant Editors Mollie Oliver Suzanne Kaulback Society Editor Advertising Manager Lib Barrett Carolyn Strozier Anne FriersonCopy Editor Jackie Steams Virginia Williams Olivia White Feature Editor Asst. Society Editors Matilda Cartledge Lucile Gaines Jessie MacGuire Circulation Manager Asst. Feature Editors Mary IvyBetty Jane Stevenson Bennye LinzyCurrent History Editor Mary Madison Wisdom Susan Self Anita Woolfolk Sports Editor Circulation Assistants Reporters: Edwina Burruss, M. Dale, L. Frank¬ lin, M. Gray, R. Hogan, D. Holloran, F. Kaiser, J. Lancaster, M. E. Martin, M. Seagle, V. Watkins, C. Willis, M. Wolford. Business Assistants: M. Barker, L. Boone, B. Brougher, A. Bumstead, A. Clements, J. Craig, M. Dillard, M. A. Hannah, D. Hopkins, B. Moore, M. Toomey. Betty Stevenson boils down The Real News Then There Were None Don't Let Your It is too easy to be bored as LeftHand . . . "they" knock over decent little Inconsistency has eaten into the countries like ten pins. First there best of causes. Last June, Eng¬ were Austria and Czechoslovakia, land was ready to fight to the last and now there are none; then ditch for her liberty; Brittania was there were Poland and Belgium, heroic at home, but timid in the East and closed the Burma Road. and Holland, Now that Churchill and England and Norway, have come through the autumn andnow ... undaunted, they proudly renounce Once there the embarrassing compromise and was France, reopen the Burma Road. and now there The beautiful picture is spoiled by a deal in the East Indies. Two is none. One oil companies there, one American can get used and one British, have agreed to to anything. supply Japan in the future with It's almost 40 percent of all the oil she needs. Stevenson a surprise — This, when England and America are talking big! why Greece -is it still there? Probably not for long. An ul¬ Enemies of the State timatum has been reported and de¬ France might be a void for all nied. As a long-time observer of the news that comes out. When it disappearing nations, we diagnose comes out, you had rather not have that as a bad sign. Signor Gayda heard it. It keeps on being a story has warned of a "day of reckon¬ of sickening concession to an ene¬ ing," practicallv a post mortem. my who holds the stick of terror. Calm Before the Storm It is so typical that it is frightful; Turkey has been scurrying about the French, too, have set up re¬ busily for a safe berth in the storm strictions against Jews and have to come. The sight is admirable defined a medieval status for wom¬ and pitiable; no sign of panic, ju¬ en. dicious talk with Russians and Brit¬ In This Corner ons and Greeks. The man stays in there, slugging President Ismet Inonu is believed when all the odds are against him. to have talked strategy with the His worst enemies are beginning to Soviet ambassador and his own grudge him and his unending mid- chief of staff. And there are per¬ western drawl the virtue of not sistent reports of key British em¬ pire men smoothing relations, knowing when to give up. The figures (courtesy of Gallup) show building up confidence, even new swing to Willkie in the last promising things. a weeks, particularly in the midwest. Shifty Joe We wonder what Stalin thinks Precautionary Measures of Hitler's war display in the Bal¬ The announcement made last kans. Will he, can he, dare to risk night that all dependents of Unit¬ war there? In any case, the Rus¬ ed States Naval Officers in the sian fleet in the Black Sea has Orient are to be sent back home moved southwestward, and only a at government expense, may fur¬ river separates German and Rus¬ nish food for some serious thought, sian troops in that adaptable coun¬ try, Rumania. not only to Americans, but also Russian publicity is almost pro-to the Japanese who are prowling British. And the loyal Red work¬ about the Pacific. er must veer with the wind and With our national defense pro¬ admire British resistance—for the gram well under way, the Navy is moment. Anyway, we detect preparing to strengthen its theo¬ somebody's loss of temper in the retical mastery of the Pacific, and Russian press's denial of proper the recent shake-up in Army per¬ notification of the German ad¬ sonnel has paved the way for a vance into Rumania. firmer grip on the Philippines. Campus Camera BUCKSHOT MICHIGAN'S1 RAN 210 FAMED YARDS FOR. A WILLIE HE5T0N TOUCHDOWN „ .SCORED LEH1GH V LAFAYETTE CVER. 110 HE-RAN IN THE TOUCHDOWNS' WRONG DIRECTION FROM 1901 CIRCLED THE. GOAL¬ TO 1905/ POSTS', AND RAN EWCK. AGAIN THE LENGTH OF THE FIELD/ SKIVY' DAVIS, OKLAHOMA UNlVERSrTY. KICKED 23 GOALS AFTER TOUCHDOWN? IN ONE GAME, SEPT. 29,1917. cott News The Vol. 26. AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 3 0, 1940. No. 6 Librarian Vincent Sheean Georgia Sponsors Exhibit in Librar>' Interprets Art Display Demonstrates Current News Fourteen Reproductions Famed Writer Offers Fourteen famous reproductions of paintings by the masters, sent Views on Personal Opinion by the University of Georgia to In Lecture November 13 Agnes Scott as a part of the Uni¬ versity Center program for the in¬ Vincent Sheean, noted war creased enjoyment fine arts correspondent and author of throughout the state, are on exhi¬ (the recent Book-of-the bition in the Art Exhibit room on Month) selection, Not Peace the third floor of the Library. They But a Sword, will open Agnes will be on exhibit for three weeks, Scott's 1940-41 lecture series Miss Agnes Reagan, assistant in the of November 13 with a lecture on Library, said. "Personal Opinion." The paintings on exhibition are: In this lecture, Mr. Sheean, who Ryder's "Moonlit Cove," Bellows' has been at the-scenes of the "The Sand-Cart," Homer's "Skat¬ MISS EDNA HANLEY world's most important events of ing at Central Park," Donalley's the last ten years, will give his per¬ "Valhalla Bridge," Marin's "Sun¬ sonal interpretation of the news of set," Rembrandt's "Old Man with the day. He will offer his own Helmet," Durer's "Offering to the experienced point of view on the New King," Lippi's "Madonna ever-changing panorama of events Returns to Campus Adoring Child," Weber's "Sum¬ in Europe, Asia, and North and South America. mer," Botticelli's "Madonna of the Saturday Miss Edna Hanley, li¬ Easter Lilies," Rubens' "Christ, St. brarian, returned to Agnes Scott It has been said that in another John, and the Angels," Renoir's after spending a month at Con¬ age Vincent Sheean would probably "Breakfast," Rafael's "Madonna of necticut College, New London, have been an epic poet or a revered prophet. In twentieth-century the Chair," and Brueghal's "The Connecticut, where she was form¬ Peasant Wedding." More paint¬ ulating the program for the ad¬ America, however, he is considered one of the most "glamorous jour¬ ings are expected later. dition to their old library. While there, Miss Flanley conferred with nalists and brightest literary lumi¬ the president, faculty, students, naries." ' Publication Editors and architects. She also repre¬ Born at Pana, Illinois, and edu¬ sented Agnes Scott at Connecticut cated at the University of Chi¬ Attend Convention College's 2 5th anniversary. cago, he soon became familiar -to During her stay, Miss Hanley readers as foreign correspondent for Elaine Stubbs, editor of the visited numerous New England the Chicago Tribune and various Agnes Scott News, Florence Ellis, colleges, including Vassar, Welles- news syndicates. business manager of the Agnes ley, Amherst, Yale, College of New He was married in 193 5 to Scott News, Gene Slack, editor of Rochelle, and the University of Diana Forbes-Robertson, daughter the Silhouette, and Helen Klugh, Connecticut. She also made a visit of the famous British actor, Sir business manager of the Silhouette, to New York for conferences with Johnston Forbes-Robertson, and will attend the National Collegi¬ the architects. settled down to write fiction in ate Press Convention to be held in Miss Hanley, head librarian, was Dover. Soon, war excitement Detroit, November 7, 8, and 9. graduated from Bluffton College flamed, and he again began to view The convention is held every and received her B.A., L.S. and history at first-hand. He covered year and attracts representatives of M.A.L.S. from the University of the Nazi's march into Sudetenland, leading colleges over the United Michigan. After she received her watched the persecution of the States. Its purpose is to discuss degrees, she became interested in Jews in Germany, and witnessed publications and to exchange new the architcture of library build¬ the fall of Catalonia. His broad¬ ideas. Publications with an Ail-ings. Her interest in this line has cast from Prague, challenging the American rating, which both the made her an expert, and she is fre¬ right of certain of Hitler's claims Silhouette and the News have, will quently consulted by architects created a national sensation. be on display. and librarians. Roosevelt-Willkie Campaign Issue Jolts Serenity of Student Life By Martha Dale Life used to be serene and happy—just two or three classes a day, a little studying, hockey or swimming on the side, and a date or two a week. But then, November 5 was announced as election day for Agnes Scott. Even classes have been affected. For perfect harmony, one should wear a Roosevelt button to Dr. Hayes' class, then change to no-third term before going to Miss Jackson's history. Murphey Candler Building has bird flooded the campus trees with Roosevelt button to Miss Wilburn. gone political. Now, you may be¬ Willkie propaganda Saturday? May¬ A. A. President Ann Fisher was hold there huge portraits of Roose¬ be it Was Suzanne Kaulback, Fran¬ already wearing one. Besides Gay, velt on one side and of Willkie on ces Breg, or Billie Davis. Marjorie Merlin has the following the other. Murphey Candler has chief assistants: Mary Louise Domestic Trouble become dual headquarters, the Duffie, Nell Turner, Bee Shamos, Incidentally, Billie Davis is hav¬ scene of numerous political battles Betty Medlock, Marjorie Simpson, ing temporary domestic trouble. waged under the watchful eye of Clara Rountree, Anne Frierson, Roommate Gay Currie is a leading the chief contenders themselves. and Ann Henry. figure in the Roosevelt campaign Both parties display tables full of and may be seen almost any time Campaign Speeches voluminous written documents so engaged in heated argument with The campaign speeches Tuesday that, according to Marjorie Merlin, some Willkie Democrat such as certainly had some surprise ele¬ campaign chairman for Roosevelt, Ann Gellerstedt or Doris Hasty. ments. Willkie supporters appear¬ those who are "on the fence" may Politics have invaded the sports ed in chapel all decked out with read intelligent Roosevelt litera¬ world, too. Junior hockey prac¬ red, white, and blue balloons, ture and be converted. tice Thursday might easily have screaming Willkie songs to the ac¬ Willkie Propaganda become a "free-for-all fight." The companiment of an elaborate band, Willkie leaders have been un¬ junior team declared itself 100 per courtesy of Ann Gellerstedt. Then usually active. Whence came the cent for Roosevelt. They claimed came the third term supporters little "Think!" signs posted con¬ to have "that Roosevelt energy" marching in several divisions, wav¬ spicuously in the dormitories? And that it takes to win; and apparent¬ ing banners, and singing a special "the moral issue" that came ly they have. Gay took this aus¬ song composedly Bee Shamos. through the mail? What early picious occasion for presenting a That must be politics! Dean Caps Seniors At Investiture Class Chooses Miss Hale, nsor, as Speaker for Service One hundred and one seniors will receive their caps from Miss Carrie Scandrett, dean of students, Saturday at 11:30 A. M., at the annual investiture ceremony, to be held for the first time in the auditorium of the new Presser Buildiiig. Miss Louise Hale, associate professor of French and sponsor of the senior class, has been selected to make the address. The sophomores, clad in white, will lead their sister class in the Fine Arts Center procession from Inman Hall and will form a -double line through Sponsors Evening which the seniors will pass. With Beethoven Little Penelope Barnett, daugh¬ ter of Mrs. Crawford Barnett, The Music Department of the president of the Alumnae Associ¬ Fine Arts Center for Georgia, under ation, and mascot of the class of the direction of Hugh Hodgson, 1941, will be present at the cere¬ will present An Evening of Beet¬ mony. hoven, Friday at 8 P. M., in the Rompers and Bows Bucher Scott Gymnasium. The Last year at investiture, Miss program includes: Helen Carlson, assistant professor Thirty-two Variation^ on a of French, made the annual ad¬ Theme in C Minor—Hugh Hodg¬ dress, and the year before, Miss son, Irene Lcftwich Harris, Mar¬ Charlotte Hunter, assistant dean, guerite Taylor, J. T. Pittman. talked. Sonata, Opus 13 (Pathetique) — Preceding the investiture serv¬ Grave—Molto allegro con brio; ice, the seniors will don their romp¬ Adagio cantabile; Rondo — Mr. ers and hair bows for a last child¬ Hodgson. hood fling on Friday to celebrate Sonata in A for Cello and Pi¬ Little Girls' Day before formally ano—Rudolf Kratina, Mr. Hodg¬ becoming seniors. son. Agnes Scott was the first col¬ Sonata, Opus 27, No. 2 (Moon¬ lege to inaugurate the custom of light) Adagio sostenuto — Mr. investiture in the year 1908, when Hodgson. Miss Nannette Hopkins placed the Sonata, Opus 31, No. 3—Mr. caps on the seniors after the fash¬ Hodgson—Menuetto—moderato e ion of the medieval accolade. As grazioso. the college grew, the custom be¬ ■ Trio for Cello, Violin, and Pi¬ came more important to the mem¬ ano, Opus 87—Mr. Kratina, Rob¬ bers of each succeeding class, and ert Harrison, Mr. Hodgson. the ceremony increased in beauty Concerto in C Minor — Mr. and impressiveness. Flodgson. Mrs. Harris at second Innovations piano. Turkish March from "Ruins of Few innovations have been Athens"—Mr. Hodgson, Mrs. Har¬ made. Up until 1921 the seniors ris. met at Dr. Gaines' home, now , The concert will be open gratis Gaines Cottage, where Mrs. Gaines to the public. Miss Edna Whit-put on their academic robes before mcre and her Girls' High students the procession was formed. have been especially invited by Mr. In 1937 the ceremony was held Hodgson. in the Gymnasium instead of Gaines Chapel for the first time, Dr. Henry A. Robinson and Miss Carrie Scandrett put on the caps instead of Miss Hopkins. Addresses Pi Mu Epsilon Dr. Henry A. Robinson, profes¬ Discussion of Every Phase sor of mathematics, will go to Ath¬ ens, Georgia, tomorrow to address Of Student Government the University of Georgia chapter Replaces Honor Week of Pi Mu Epsilon on "Mathemati¬ A week of programs, Novem¬ cal Problems Essential for Military ber 12-15, emphasizing the place and Naval Science." of student government in the af¬ Pi Mu Epsilon is a national hon¬ fairs of the college, will replace orary society for mathematics. Honor Week this year, according Dr. Robinson, interested in mil¬ to an announcement by members itary mathematics, has been a re¬ of the council. Frances Breg, pres¬ ident of student government, ex¬ serve officer for seventeen years and is now a captain in the 317th plained: "The relationship of hon¬ Observation Battalion. or to student government will be emphasized, but a full week will not be devoted to just the honor sys¬ Coming This Week tem. Rather, all phases of student government will be stressed." Wednesday, 8 P, M.—Swim¬ All speakers will be members of ming meet in Gym. the college community. One of Friday—Little Girls' Day. the programs includes a discussion of the theory of student govern¬ Friday, 3:30 P. M.—Hockey ment and why we have it on our game on hockey field. campus. Another program will Friday, 8 P. M.—Musicale in bring out the practical application of student government here at Bucher Scott Gymnasium. Agnes Scott, while a model meet¬ Saturday, 11:30 A. M.—In¬ ing of student government repre¬ vestiture in Auditorium of sentatives will be the feature of a Presser Building. third program. Page 2 THE AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1940. Swim Teams Sister Classes Take Stage Meet Hockey Honors Club Features Contests In Races, Form Swimming Frosh Overthrow Seniors; Tonight at 8 o'clock Agnes Scott Aqua Belles will don tank suits, take to the water, and swim until Juniors Romp on Sophs in Th ird Victory the best team wins. The meet, open to swimming club and swim¬ The juniors won their third straight hockey game when ming class members, offers Agnes they beat the sophomores, 4-1, and then cheered their fresh¬ Scott's finest and should uncover man sisters on to a 2-0 victory over the seniors last Friday. quite a bit of freshman talent. Both games were hard fought. Both uncovered some spark¬ Events included are a 20-yard dash, ling bits of individual play. form swimming, diving, a 40-yard The seniors, with Patterson, Henry, and' O'Nan to dash free style, and a relay race strengthen the defense, held two Senior sub: Breg. with side stroke, breast stroke, freshman teams scoreless until late back and front crawls. A stunt in the second half. The freshmen Freshman subs: Farrior, Brewer, scored first on a pass from Duffee K. Hill, Duffee, Bond, Tuggle, will close the show. Misses Wilburn, Mitchell, and to Tuggle /to Bond and again on a Nair. drive, by K. Hill after a sweeping Forman will do the judging while This week the seniors will face Misses Gaylord and Pate keep run by Tuggle at left wing. Martha O'Nan was a real menace through¬ their A-l arch rivals, the juniors, score. Mrs. Lapp is clerk. New swimming managers are out the game, and turned fresh¬ and the freshmen will have anoth¬ man shots away time and again. er chance to claw at their black Mary Maxwell, freshman; Char¬ lotte Gardner, sophomore; Lila Juniors Fight cat opponents. Right now the jun¬ Peck Walker, junior; and Jo The all-powerful junior team iors and freshmen look like the Gates, senior. continued to win, but met with teams to win. more trouble in making their four ars markers than the score would indi¬ cate. Annie Wilds drove in two Tourney Reaches Cast for of her team's goals, first on a pass from MacGuire after a twenty-The following characters, chos¬ five yard bully, and later on a drive en at tryouts last week, will play Second Round ' downfield. Alta Webster can be the leading roles in Blackfriars' big credited with two more scores, her The singles tennis tournament production of the year, "Brief Mu¬ second one coming late in the pairings show most of the matches sic," to be presented November 16 game on a beautiful angle shot. In advanced into the second round. or Bucher fact, it was the team of Webster 23 in the Scott Gym¬ and Webster that showed specta¬ In the upper bracket McDon-nasium. tors just how hockey should be ough defeated Hance 6-1, 6-2; In order of appearance, they played when more than once they Lott defeated A. Willis, 6-1, 6-3; are: Spiff, Laura Sale, a clever col¬ advanced into sophomore territory with their triangle passes. The so¬ C. Willis defeated Gellerstedt, 6-0, lege' Amazon; Lovey, Florence El¬ phomore team scored in a general 4-6, 6-4; Brooks defeated Coch-lis, beauty of the school; Drizzle, scramble before the goal. Mardia ran, 6-3, 6-4; Fisher, a favored Mary Blakemore, poet on the wing, Hopper, at left fullback for the so¬ candidate, defeated Brewer, 6-0, always half-way between genius phomores, turned in the defensive 6-4; and Eagan defeated Irby, 6-0, and suicide; Minnie, Neva Jackson, performance of the day. 6-3. / a college smoothie, but not silly; The lineups: Maggie, Martha Sue Dillard, with Junior Sophomore In the lower berth, Patterson a dynamic personality; Rosey, Lib has advanced into the quarter fin¬ A. Wilds C.F. Rountree Barrett, daughter of an intellectu¬ McWhorter _ R.L. Dale als by virtue of her win over al and conscious of it; and Jinx, MacGuire L.I. Bates lyllis Lee, 6-0, 6-0. A. Wilds won Ila Belle Levie, an eternal straggler A. Webster R.W. Bumstead from Robertson, 6-3, 4-6, 6-3. Stuckey L.W. Downie with a southern drawl. Charity Crocker defeated Huie, Lott C.H. Radford According to Laura Sale, presi¬ 6-2, 9-7. Thomas defeated E. Brooks R.H. MacFadyn dent of Blackfriars, "This is the Huck L.H. C. Smith Slater, 6-4, 14-12 and advanced best play we've given since 'Stage Currie R.F. Paisley another round when Radford for¬ Door', and sometimes I think it's Gellerstedt — L.F. Hopper feited. G. Hill defeated Long, 6-4, Davis G. Percy better. It has so much real feel¬ 9-7. ing in it." Sophomore sub: Hirsh. Junior subs: D. Webster, Brad-Tennis Manager Mary Olive "Brief Music" was first given in field, Thomas, Walker, Gray. the Pasadena Play House in 193 6, Thomas insists that the matches and the first college production Senior Freshman be played off as soon as possible. was at Mills College, California. Vaughan C.F. B. White Willstatter R.I. E. Harvard Kyle L.I. M. F. Walker J. N. KALISH & W. N. AINSWORTH, JR. Musser R.W. _ J. Harvard Walker L.W. Henny PRESCRIPTION OPTICIANS Henry C.H. __ B. Walker 380 Peachtree St. Atlanta Patterson R.H. Riddell McGarrity L. H. Holmes Fisher : R.F. Harris Lancaster L.F. — Abcrnathy O'Nan G. Brv Agnes Scott College BAILEY'S SHOE SHOP DECATUR, GA. 142 Sycamore St. DE. 0172 Decatur. Ga. A college for women that is widely recog¬ Your Nearest and Most nized for its standards of work and for the Complete Drug Store interesting character of its student activities. Meet Your Friends Here THREADGILL'S THE PRESCRIPTION STORE For further information, address Phone DE. 16B5 J. R. McCAIN, President 309 E. College Ave. Decatur, Ga. Faculty Rooms Disclose Interests of Owners By Virginia Williams Any lover of color, antiques, or books would love the rooms of the faculty. If you would like to see Spanish lamps of the sixteenth century, Dutch tiles, pot plants, or a picture of Willkie, you should go calling. These assorted objects may be found in the rooms of Miss Albright, Miss Cilley, Miss Hutchens, and Miss Winter. in the dark blue piece of knitting Naturally enough, the Spanish which could be only a scarf. influence will be found in the Miss Albright's other interest be¬ household of Miss Cilley. If you sides England seems to be pot ignore the lack of an oriental plants. There are no less than touch, one might say that Miss twelve in her room. Her books Cilley lives in a cosmopolitan at¬ were divided into two groups. Her mosphere. There are traces of al¬ school books were in one stack and most all of the 36 countries in her novels in another. which she has traveled. Assorted Taste The Egyptian influence is seen no such Miss Winter has sharpin her hassock and pillows. The division. Miss Winter's taste seems hassock is appliqued with vivid to center in scores of books of all pictures of Pharaoh's daughter types. Fundameutah of Speech while Egyptian slave drivers and dwells happily with The Way of sacred beetles vie for honors on All Flesh. Around the room are the pillows. an antique brazier, a pair of blown Cilley Likes Antiques glass vases, a plate "For a good child," Dutch tiles, and scrap Miss Cilley's real pride and joy, however, is her Spanish antique. books. This big brass lamp once belonged On the wall is a map of Georgia to Charles V of the Empire and in 1779 with the location of Agnes Charles I of Spain. She got it from Scott labeled, "These parts are lit¬ an old castle in Madrid. The lamp tle known." has four wicks and burns olive oil. Miss Winter seems to have a du¬ al nature. On the wall in plain With it on little chains are scis¬ sors to trim the wick, if you know view is a quiet water color scene how. of Southampton. But behind the door are lusty costume prints. The Guateamalean textile pieces are figures are barbarians wearing only on her walls, Spanish linen and the artist knows what. At least Spanish crockery on her table, and the costume is colorful and seems Italian water colors hang in the a to resemble a doughnut or a pretzel. dining room. In her bedroom is Miss Winter admits that they clash map of her "second love," Portu¬ with the rest of the room, but says gal. Among all these unique arti¬ she loves color. Her blue, green, cles one would never guess that and red pillows would bear out this Miss Cilley had a coat of arms un¬ statement. less one happened to look behind Hutchens, a member of the the door. "Faculty without faculties," has English Atmosphere neither watercolors nor antiques. Going from Miss Cilley's home Her pride is the huge picture of to Miss Albright's is like going Willkie over her mantle. Her from Spain to England. There are books do not lack variety. The three pictures of English scenes on Floiisc at Pooh Corner is in the same her walls, and a mug adorned with group with Shakespeare and Pascal. the pictures of King George V and Hutchens says of the maid serv¬ Queen Elizabeth. Under the pic¬ ice given the faculty: "You may tures are the words "Long may quote me as saying 'It's wonder¬ they reign". Further evidence of ful. She cleans up, hangs up, pro-British sentiment may be seen makes up, and everything'." HOW TO WIN BOY-FRIENDS AND INFLUENCE STAG-LINES By Dalea Dorothy Clix Dear Miss Clix: My brother, a sophomore at X College, is an absolute lamb about bringing his boy friends over to our school and introducing them to me. But oh, Miss Clix, they never come back of their own accord! I ask my brother why, but he just poo-poos me evasively. I'm so upset that I bite my fingernails! What can I do? AGONIZED Dear "Agonized": Say listen,youngwoman! Don't you realize what's wrong? 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READ THE NEXT A NEW FORMULA BY LORR 100 COLUMN CAREFULLY! Loir laboratories, Paterson, N. J. THE AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 3 0, 1940. Page 3 Mollie Oliver checks up on May Day Committee Mr. Jones gathers Stardust as Opens Scenario Contest After Working Hours Sarah Gray Rainey, chairman of the May Day Watchman Finds This past week-end has been not only full, but also inter¬ esting, highlighted by the dash of five girls for West Point and Princeton; the disastrous Tech-Auburn game; and the numerous 'possum hunts and hay-rides. The current question these days is: "Who Killed Aunt Maggie?" lowe'en Dance enjoying them¬ Elise Nance, Louise Newton, selves were: Mary Louise Palmour, Nina Mae Snead, and Carolyn Sue Phillips, Shirley Gately, Frank¬ Dunn were at The Premiere Tea ie Butt, Ida Jane Yaughan, Mary while Aileen Kaspar attended The Louise Duffee. Premiere Thursday night. On the SAE 'Possum Hunt Eve 1ynr were: Annie Wilds, Mary Dean Cheek was ; Lott, Edith Dale, Betty Waitt, entertained at; Mary Ivey, Anita Woolfolk, luncheon at the Weezie Sams, Susan Self, Nina Mae A T 0 House Sneed, Betty Henderson, Clara Friday at Em-l Rountree, Margaret Downie. ory. Home, or off for the week¬ At the] end went Dot Holloran to Lynch- Tech-Auburn burg; Marjorie Wilson, Mary Jane game Saturday Cochran, Harriet Yaughan to Greenville; Flake Patman to Mil- were found: ledgeville; Margaret McGarity to Mary Olive Oliver Scarritt College, in Nashville; Thomas, Kay Wilkinson, Julia Ann Patch, Ducky Copeland, to Scarritt College, in Nashville; Margaret Woodhead to Clemson, Olivia White, Annie Wilds, Flora Campbell, Mardia Hopper, Lucile S. C. game; Louise Franklin to Marietta; Connie Watson spent Gaines, Lillian Schwenke, Mary the week-end in Washington, D. James Seagle, Helen Jester, Mar¬ C.; Yal Neilson was entertained at garet Mary Toomey, Betty Moore, West Point On-the-Hudson; while Barbara Wilbur, Dot Hopkins, Kay Rowena Barringer, Margaret Mur- Greene, Frankie Cundell, Jane Stillwell, Myree Wells, Frances Ellis, chison, and Florrie Guy dashed up Carolyn Dunn, Jane Taylor, Mary to the Princeton-Rutgers game at Princeton, New Jersey. Lightfoot Elkin, Mary Louise Duffee, Bizzelle Roberts, Elta Robin¬ "Campus Queen Scene: Al¬ though the costumes at the Bow¬ son, Eloise McCall, Frankie Butt, ery Brawl were startling in ap¬ Charity Crocker, Jane McDon ough (5 guests from Auburn, too), pearance, we feel that our salutes really must go to Susan Self. This Margaret Downie, Dusty Hance, week we caught Susan wearing one and Sue Heldmann. of the season's most becoming At the Chi Phi Tea Dance styles—the new side draped effect, were noted: Frances Ellis, Myree in this case. The shade was 'nutric' Wells, Jane Stillwell, Josanne Mc brown, and drawn in graceful folds Daniel, Kay Thompson, Dottie to one side. We also liked Miss Nash, Ducky Copeland, Darleen Scandrett's be-jeweled clip, and Danielson, and Mary Beth Daniel- Nina Broughton's simple but 'sure¬ son. fire' red dress with its initialed Ovver at the Sigma Chi Hal¬ ornament. Bowen Press Commercial Printing and Stationery TYPEWRITERS AND RIBBONS Blotters — Note Paper — Poster Paper Office Supplies 316 ChurchSt. DE.3383 Decatur, Ga. If you want Roosevelt. . . Vote for Roosevelt! If you want Democracy . . . Vote for Willkie! WENDELL L. WILLKIE For President (Paid Political Advertisement) committee, announces to students the opening of a contest for the May Day Material for Book scenario. Deadline for the scripts has been set for the By Virginia Williams last of November. The committee has suggested From stars in the sky to the playing stars of Atlanta's the theme of an English bright stage of society, Mr. Jones may select his entertain¬ fair, but contestants will be ment for the evening. i free to choose whatever Between the hours of five in the afternoon to five in the theme they wish. morning, broken by a midnight lect 5 00 would not be thwarted. feast in the college dining room, If an intruder were to come, he'd night life on the Agnes Scott cam¬ Matilda Cartledge Gathers be as safe as a mouse in the wake pus presents scenes which should of a number of frenzied cats. be looked at by all. "Oh, the gifte Mike (Martie's Mike, and in case Campus Quotes God would gie us to see ourselves you haven't heard, ask any junior) as others see us." gave Mr. Jones a carton of Luckies Now that six weeks tests are Mr. Jones says, in answer to ac¬ at the end of the year—not as abehind us, we are beginning al¬ cusations that he might think the bribe, it is certain, but out of sheer ready to "live for Christmas," and girls silly, "No, I don't think they appreciation, just in case Mr. thoughts of the holidays are upper¬ are silly; they are just young and Jones had something to do with his most in our minds. We've tried alive." (Moving example: Two finding his wife among these quad¬ figures creeping across the colon-rangles. to find out this week what the ade roof, clad in pajamas, resem¬ "Just lively and young," says general feeling would be towards a bling the Dodge Sisters as they Mr. Jones in remarking on the wild change in the dates of Christmas tried to escape the night watch¬ net and brocade into the dash of vacatios—toward the possibility of man's eagle eye. Note: You didn't, front door of Main at 1:29 on changing the holiday so that class¬ girls!) Friday night, or the straw-covered No Bribes girls with newly-acquired wind¬ es would begin January 3 instead "No, boys never bribe me." He blown bobs who make it in the of January 2 as it stands now. It continued, "and they've never at¬ door from the truck in one leap. sebms that the idea meets with tempted to. I think the record Wonder what the Tri-Force, name¬ pretty widespread approval though speaks well for Atlanta boys." ly Miss Scandrett, Miss Hunter, there is some dissension. He agreed that Emory boys and Ella, would quote on this same know how to sympathize with a subject. Arabella Boyer, '44: night watchman since they have False Alarms I'd much rather have the extra had first-hand training as such on "Sometimes I get a lot of false day before Christmas. We always their own campus. You ought to alarms. They're funnier than they give us a try at it, Mr. Jones; it's a dash so, as it is, those first few days, are disconcerting," says our watch¬ fair wager that the fate of the se and I think'we really need the ex¬ er of the night. tra day at the beginning to at Upon investigating the hilarious tance will have to leave New screams issuing from Rebekah the least start to settle down. It Year's eve—and that means miss¬ other night, Mr. Jones found three would mean more than after ing half the fun of the holidays! or four girls, armed with brooms, Christmas when that first mad dash Mary Olive Thomas, '42: chasing a defenseless bat up the is over. I really think that we should back steps of the building. He Neva Jackson, '42: have an extra day at the end of lent his aid, whether to the bat or Christmas vacation. If we had the girls is still the qufestion, but I think it would be wonderful to be back January 2, many peo¬ he restored peace at any rate. if we could have the extra day at ple would have to miss New Year's the end, especially if you are driv¬ Thus Mr. Jones, as he makes his Eve, and that is the one evening a rounds each night, encountering ing back. There is always such when all the "old gang" gets to¬ the high spots of drama and the great quantity of holiday traffic on gether. low spots of mischief's master¬ New Year's Day, and if we had Frances Breg, '41: pieces, has an excellent opportunity to be back for classes on the sec¬ I think that we should be able to gather material for that book of ond we would have to drive in thaf traffic. I think that there to have the extra day in January. poetry we hear he is going to write If classes do have to start the 2nd, when he retires from active service. are a lot of people who would many girls may be very dissatis¬ dread the thought of it. fied, having to leave New Year's Democracy Gives Jeanne Davidowifz, '41: Eve or New Year's Day. I think I think very definitely that we the attitude of the students to¬ should have an extra day at the ward returning will be better and Topic for Forum end of the holidays. Anyone that happier on the whole if we could Continuing the series of prepara¬ has to come from any great dis-I return the third of January. tory forums for those students who volunteered to address Atlanta schools on Armistice Day, (he Tech-Emory-Agnes Scott Joint Committee of Christian Associa¬ tion will sponsor a forum this eve¬ ning in the old Y room in Main, on the subject, "Preserving Democra¬ cy in America." This is the third in a series of four forums designed to give the members of the study group the necessary ground material for their Armistice Day speeches. Sixteen Agnes Scott students have joined the study group of sixty since its formation early in the school year. Of these, Scottie Wilds, Mary Dean Lott, and BALLAMITS Suzanne Kaulbach are members of the executive committee, while Dispensing Opticians Suzanne Kaulbach is its chairman. Thirty-five Years of Dependable Optical Service GASPAR-WARE Three Locations for Your Convenience Service, Quality Merchandise, Accurate and Expert STUDIO Workmanship. All the Same at Each Location. PHOTOGRAPHERS WALTER BALLARD OPTICAL CO. 30 5th St., N. W. W. W. Orr Medical Arts Bldg. 105 Peachtree Doctor's Bldg. Page 4 THE AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1940. Marjorie Merlin Defends Franklin D. Roosevelt Too much has already been written and said in this cam¬ paign. There has been too much accusation and too much counter-defense. But most of all, there has been too much quibbling. The main issues have been forgotten in the split¬ ting of hairs over relatively unimportant matters. It is for this reason that I want to point out what seem to me to be the really vital problems involved in the selection of a presi¬ dent for the next term, and to give my reasons for unqualified support of Presi¬ dent Roosevelt. I shall discuss only domes¬ tic problems, since lack of space prevents my delving into foreign policy.. There is, of course, some virtue in fer¬ reting out rights and wrongs of the admin¬ istration's actions in the past two terms. There is value in proving that the public debt is no greater than it was in 1920. It is of importance to realize that the national income is higher now than in 1929, the height of prosperity. It is necessary for the nation to know that the nine million who have gotten employment in pri¬ vate business since 1933 probably constitute the total of those unemployed by the depression and that those still un¬ employed are victims of technological unemployment, a trend that can not be reversed by any restoration to "nor¬ malcy." This problem, brought about by increasing machine labor, existed in the 1920's, and its solution is not to be found in a return to the level of those years. Again, it should be realized that the Roosevelt administration felt long ago the need for rearming, and has increased expenditures for na¬ tional defense yearly since 1936, with the result that we are now better prepared than we have ever been in peace time and are daily becoming increasingly well prepared. All these arguments are of great importance and should be discussed, but the controversies arising from them have tended to hide the really significant issues of the campaign. This is not a struggle of legislative acts, of administrative practices, or of statistics. It is the struggle of two directly opposite ideologies; it is a struggle of principles. It is on the basis of the principles involved that I have chosen to support President Roosevelt for another term. Our concept of government has changed greatly since the time of Jefferson. Fortunately, the makers of our Constitu¬ tion prepared for such changes. Slowly, gradually, we came to realize that laissez-faire was not a fair basis for govern¬ ment. Our realization of this was shown in our anti-trust legislation, our regulation of interstate commerce, and our income-tax laws. All this came about in the early 1900's, after a period of unbridled "keeping the Government out of business." President Roosevelt stands for progress in this direction. He realizes that not only has each citizen a duty toward his country, but also that the state has a very defi¬ nite duty towards its citizens. His stabilization of this fact is proved by the trend of the legislation of his administra¬ tions. Laws enacted have been in the direction of protecting the people. Giving workers the right to bargain collectively, giving them a fair return for work done and a greater num¬ ber of hours for living their own lives, giving every person security—in old age and in unemployment, protecting chil¬ dren from the horrors of child labor, protecting investors from unscrupulousness on the stdck exchange, protecting depositors in banks, protecting the rights of those who work the land—all these laws reveal the ideology of the New Deal theory—that the Government must fulfill its obligations to its people. The Republicans, on the other hand, are for turning the clock back. They are interested in reverting our Govern¬ ment back to the "golden" age of the 20's, when the struggle for existence ended, as we saw, in the economic survival of a very few. They opposed government "interference," ob¬ jecting to the view that the government has the right, even the duty, to interfere in the protection of all Americans. All the legislation enacted for this type of protection was sup¬ ported by Roosevelt's party, opposed by Willkie's. This fact has more significance, I think, than all the political argu¬ ments we have heard in the past three months. It seems to me that this is the basis of the controversy betvyeen Roosevelt and Willkie, and that it should be realized behind all the words of all the campaigners. Of course, Roosevelt has made mistakes. Could any human fail to make mistakes in seven years of such dreadful responsibil¬ ity? I contend, however, that his wrong moves, and cer¬ tainly his right moves have been in the direction of progress. The Agnes Scott News Vol. XXVI. Wednesday, October 30, 1940. No. 6 1940 Member 1941 Plssocided Golle&de Press Elaine Stubbs Editor \ irginia Glower :_Managing Editor Florence Ellis Business Manager Published weekly, except durinjr holidays and examination periods, by the students of Agnes Scott College. Office on second floor Mur phey Candler Building. Entered as second class matter at the Decatur, Georgia, post office. Subscription price per year, $1.25; single copies, five cents. Betty Stevenson boils down The Real News New War The Greek soil, too, now feels the thud of bombs. The Italian warplane casts its shadow upon the Parthenon. Greece, also, is in an unprovoked war. The Premier, John Metaxas, was given only three early morning hours to accept or reject an ultimatum. His answer could have had no effect on Mus¬ solini's troops; "no" was as good an answer as "yes." British help has been pledged. How can it be effective in time? Intestinal Fortitude In London, an unsentimental Dutch Queen has fought on for her flatland. In the Netherlands, the stubborn Dutch "orangemen" have also expressed a proud indi¬ viduality. Last Sunday, every Protestant minister in the land de¬ livered a protest against a recent anti-Semitic decree of the Nazi overlords. Such moral stamina was last seen in Germany when it put Parson Niemoeller in a con¬ centration camp and made his name a danger to Hitler's bully boys. The New France The new, unpalatable status of France was brewed last week. Its terms could be imagined; the use of naval and air bases in Syria and Africa and unoccupied France. President Roosevelt and King George both tried to avert the sur¬ render of a tenuous "independence" by messages to the old Marshal Petain. The world outside caught a glimpse of the struggle within, when the censor obligingly passed the news that Foreign Minister Baudoin had resigned (in protest) before denying jthe report the next day. The very names of the two conferees, Hitler and Laval (re¬ cently "the unspeakable Laval" to one radio commentator) suggest the distasteful and humiliating agreement that will be forced up¬ on the helpless French. Washington Headache A period of anxiety for the western hemisphere has set in as a result of closer cooperation be¬ tween France and Germany. Sev¬ eral French possessions in the Caribbean (Martinique, Guadaloupe, French Guiana) and Dakar in French West Africa, are a po¬ tential threat to this half of the world. It is reasonably certain that all semblance of French inde¬ pendence will soon disappear. The Western republics may face the possibility of transfer of colonies from one European power to an¬ other. For just such an emergency, the Act of Havana empowered the Pan-American nations to take over such territories. A fourteen- nation commission to supervise such action is in existence. The United States would most certain¬ ly be the agent in this case. Such an action is entirely probable. The event is not one of the distant fu¬ ture, but of the present: its gravity must be faced now. Pineapple State? The idea of forty-nine stars up¬ on the flag is almost sacriligious, it is so unexpected. But the peo¬ ple of the territory of Hawaii earnestly wish for this numerical change. Hawaiian inhabitants will express the desire for statehood on election day as the United States chooses between Willkie and Roose¬ velt. Although the question has been agitated for years, this vote will be regarded as the first formal ap¬ peal of the people. It can have no legal result, but its purpose is to influence Congress to enact the necessary legislation. Jane Taylor Speaks for Wendell L. Willkie Jane Shannon Taylor v As the forthcoming election is of such great importance to all who are interested in the future of our American democ¬ racy, let us consider for a moment the issues involved. If the American people elect Mr. Roosevelt November 5, they will illustrate conclusively their belief in a one-man govern¬ ment as the most efficient form of admin¬ istration for our country. Those of us who support Mr. Willkie are doing so because we firmly believe that such autocracy as Mr. Roosevelt has exercised during his ad¬ ministration is utterly incompatible with the survival of our American way of life, that a change is therefore necessary, and that Wendell L. Willkie is quite capable of leading our country in the next four years toward the preservation of true American ' democracy and national unity. First of all, Mr. Roosevelt's failure to bring about econ¬ omic recovery does not deserve a third term. Instead of re¬ ducing federal expenditures as he promised to do, he tripled them, piling bureau on bureau at the expense of the tax¬ payer. He doubled the number of federal employees until there are over a million today. He promised to balance our national budget eleven times, but he never made any attempt to do this; he doubled our national debt instead. Instead of searching for some lasting solution to our economic _ prob¬ lems, Mr. Roosevelt pursued the "easy money" policy of spending ourselves back into prosperity, with a resulting $50,000,000,000 debt. With all of this spending, the New Deal failed utterly to restore prosperity, as shown by the fact that there are ten million unemployed today. Mr. Roosevelt hasn't seemed to realize that our people want jobs—not relief, and that it is industry which makes jobs.* Mr. Roosevelt's forced renomination for a third term, con¬ trary to all precedent by his own powerful political machine, was the culminating offense against the spirit of democracy. Then, having obtained his own renomination, he forced a rebellious convention to nominate for Vice-President a man whom nobody really wanted. It has been seen in Louisiana, Chicago, New Jersey, how strong political machines have gained such power that they cannot be defeated. Mr. Roose¬ velt is supported by such figures as Boss Frank Hague, of Jersey City, labor's Number One enemy; Boss Ed Kelly, of the filthy Chicago machine, and Boss Ed Flynn, of the Bronx. Their man is indispensable, they say. If he is indispensable now, four and eight years from now, he will be that much more indispensable, that much more strengthened and em¬ powered by an unbreakable machine. Unlimited tenure of office leads to dictatorship. Can we afford to risk losing our democracy when others about us are falling ? Opposed to this third term nomination is Wendell L. Will¬ kie, a lawyer and business man, the surprise nominee of an unbossed convention. Mr. Willkie has had a typically Ameri¬ can career, rising from small beginnings to a position of suc¬ cessful leadership. He proposes to reduce the cost of govern¬ ment by abolishing a great many of the emergency bureaus and doing away with a great many of the unnecessary bu¬ reaus and doing away with a great deal of the waste involved in our government expenditures, thus reducing our overbur¬ dening taxes. With a successful business career behind him, he is far better equipped than is Mr. Roosevelt to organize our country's resources into a vast national defense. He has the confidence of the business men in this country, who will rally to him for an expensive defense program, as they will not to Mr. Roosevelt, who has constantly harried business. More than this, he understands the dynamic character of our industrial setup, and is ready to give business to expand and put our unemployed back to work, while yet regulating the forces of free enterprise and opposing monopolies. Mr. Willkie stands for relief for all whom private industry cannot support, but he proposes, by expanding production and creating jobs, to give our workers self-respecting jobs rather than doles. He -was a worker himself, and won his first lawsuit defending labor's right to picket. He believes in collective bargaining by the representatives of labor's own free choice in the maintenance of minimum standards for wages and maximum standards for hours. Moreover, Mr. Willkie proposes to bring together expert representatives of -industry, agriculture, labor, and the con¬ sumer, and to set them to work to find a way of adjusting and co-ordinating these economic groups so that their group interests may function for the well-being of the whole nation, rather than for the advantage of one to the disadvantage of another. No, our candidate is not the seasoned, smooth politician that is Mr. Roosevelt, but he stands on his own feet, and those who know him prefer his candor, frankness, and hon¬ esty to the suavity of the politicians. Surely those charac¬ teristics would not be amiss in our President. He is willing to rely on the judgment of our experts in the fields of defense preparation and international affairs, and to give them power to act. He does not want a one-man government, but. a dem¬ ocratic government—of, by, and for the people. The election of Mr. Willkie on November 5 is indispensable to the survival of our American way of life. We ask for your votes on this ground. The Agnes Scott News AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1940. No. 7 Vol. 26. Eight Seniors Win Notice In Who's Who Biographies of Leaders Appear in Only Publication For Recognition of Students Eight seniors among the out¬ standing campus leaders received notice this week that their biog¬ raphies will appear in the 194041 issue of Who's Who Among Students in American Colleges and Universities. Students who will be listed in this volume are: Frances Breg, president of Student Government; Sabine Brumby, editor of the Ajirora; Jean Dennison, president of Mortar Board; Ann Fisher, pres¬ ident of athletic association; Gene Slack, editor of the Silhouette; Elaine Stubbs, editor of the Agnes Scott News; Ida Jane Vaughan, vice-president of athletic .associa¬ tion; and Scotty Wilds, president of Christian Association. This publication is published through the cooperation of over 500 American colleges and univer¬ sities. It is the only means of national recognition for graduates which is devoid of politics, fees, and dues. Several students from accredited colleges are selected each year, by an unprejudiced commit¬ tee, for their biographies to appear in this publication. The purpose of Who's Who is to serve as an incentive for students to get the most out of their col¬ lege careers; as a means of com¬ pensation to students for what they have already done; as a recommen¬ dation to the business world; and as a standard of measurement for students. Hodgson Plays 'Liebestraum' At Appreciation Hour Of Fine Arts Center Under the direction of Hugh Hodgson, the Music Department of the Fine Arts Center of the University of Georgia will sponsor a concert in the new Gaines Chapel of Presser Hall Friday evening at 8 o'clock. The program includes: Prelude in C Sharp Minor, Rachmaninoff; Liebestraum No. 3 (Nocturne), Liszt; Barcarolle, Godard; En Courante, Godard— Hugh Hodgson. Romance, Wieniawski; La Gitana, Kreisler—Hazel Rood Weems, Mr. Elodgson at the piano. Claire de Lune, Debussy; Malaguena, Lecuona—Mr. Hodgson. Gilda's Aria from Rigoletto, Ver¬ di; Waltz Song from Romeo and Juliet, Gounod—Minna Hecker. Second Hungarian Rhapsody, Liszt—Mr. Hodgson and Irene Leftwich Harris. Coming This Week Wednesday, 7 P. M.—Senior Fashion Show in old Gaines Chapel. Friday, 3:30 P. M.—Hockey Games. Friday, 8 P. M.—Musicale in new Gaines Chapel of Presser Hall. Monday, 4:30 P. M.—Dr. Leroy Loemker's talk to Bible Club in Murphey Candler Building. Who's Who Lists Breg Slack Brumby Fisher Dennison Vaughn .Stubbs Committee Plans Drive For Fund The newly-organized Committee on Student Relief of Christian As¬ sociation, consisting of representa¬ tives from every organization on the campus, made plans for a campus-wide campaign for contri¬ butions to the World Students' Ser¬ vice Fund, at its meeting last Mon¬ day, at 4:30 p. m. Mr. Claude Nelson, who has re¬ cently returned from Italy and who has worked with European students for the past ten years, made the address. The World Students' Service Fund has a two-fold purpose: first, to give material aid to students in Europe and China, and second, to carry on the education of students in war prisons or in universities and colleges which have been forced to leave their campuses and move in¬ land, as in China. The fund will be administered by the International Students' Ser¬ vice. During the last World War, the 1. S. S., the only organization which aids students exclusively, did relief work. The national goal of 1. S. S. $100,000. The Committee on Student Re¬ lief includes the following mem¬ bers: Gay Currie, chairman; Lavinia Brown, Betty Stevenson, and Mickey Jones. Grace Walker, vice-president of Christian Association, expressing her belief that this campaign would arouse the interest and cooperation of the college community, said, "We students who are more for¬ tunate will help those who are less fortunate." Wilds Library Holds Display During Annual Book Week To encoutage among students the collection of personal libraries, an exhibit of art, fiction, poetry, and drama books is scheduled for display in the Library durirjg Book Week, November 21-30. During this time, students may place or¬ ders for any books in the display which they would like for private collections, and the Library will make complete arrangements for delivery. In connection with the Book Week plans, Miss Janef Preston, assistant professor of English, re¬ minds all students that they may still submit lists of their personal libraries for the Louise McKinney Book award. Although a full list of the dis¬ play books is not yet available, Miss Edna Hanley, Librarian, announces that she is ordering art books of Rembrandt, Cezane, and Michel¬ angelo, as well as a group of the classics reprinted in cheap editions. In the fiction, special attention will be given to a recent publication by an Agnes Scott alumna: The City on the Hill, by Marion Mc- Camy Sims. Besides this, there will be the usual biographies, collec¬ tions of poetry, and children's books. Opening on Thanksgiving Day, the exhibit will continue through alumnae week-end, November 30. Complete plans for the observance of Book Week are to be announced within a few days. Lecture Association Admits Students Free Faculty Secures Reduced Rates; Book Store Offers Season Tickets Completing plans for the lecture series this year, opening November 13 at 8:00 o'clock with Vincent Sheean's analysis of the current international situation, Miss Emma May Laney, faculty chairman of Lecture Association, this week announces that students may obtain their free season tickets from the book store, from Friday, November 6 until closing time on Wednesday, November 13. Staff Heads Meet in Detroit Publication Leaders Leave Today for Conclave Gene Slack, editor of the Sil¬ houette; Helen Klugh, business manager of the Silhouette; Elaine Stubbs, editor of the Agnes Scott News; and Florence Ellis, business manager of the Agnes Scott News, left today for Detroit, Michigan, to attend the 1940 convention of Associated Collegiate Press which will take place November 7-9. The purpose of the convention is to give representatives a chance to exchange information about col¬ lege newspapers and annuals. Over five hundred students are expected to attend. Feature of the convention will be roundtable discussions in which editorial and business problems of the newspaper, yearbook, and mag¬ azine will receive exhaustive atten¬ tion. Friday night, November 8, General Motors Corporation will entertain at a banquet for the del¬ egates. The principal speakers will be Charles F. Kettering and B. D. Kunkle, vice-presidents of Gener¬ al Motors. Mr. Kettering is active in many scientific and learned so¬ cieties and has been awarded many honorary degrees. Mr. Kunkle has recently returned from France, where he worked with the French government in a survey of the ar¬ mament situation. His talk will include information about the in¬ ternational situation. At the closing meeting, W. W. Fodor, United Press foreign cor¬ respondent who covered the Ger¬ man and Russian revolutions and was in Belgium and Holland when these countries were invaded, will speak on the topic History in the Making. Annual Style Parade Stresses Evening Dresses Giving especial emphasis to eve¬ ning dresses, the senior class will present a fashion show Wednesday night, November 6, in the Gaines Chapel. Davison-Paxon Co. will furnish the clothes to be modeled. Miss Joyce Roper, of Davison's, alumna of the college, will be present to comment on the clothes. The ad¬ mission price is fifteen cents. The student budget provides for free admission to students, but no one will be admitted to lectures without a ticket, and students must obtain their season tickets from the book store before the opening lecture next Wednesday night. Faculty tickets are offered at reduced rates and may be ob¬ tained from the book store at the price of fifty cents per lecture. Translator Vincent Sheean, who will in¬ augurate the current lecture pro¬ gram, first sprang into the spot¬ light of international interest last year with the publication of his best-selling autobiographical novel, Not Peace But a Sword. He is well known in this country for his recent eye-witness accounts of the Battle of Britain, and for his Eng¬ lish translation of Eve Curie's prize-winning biography of her mother, Marie Curie. His talk here, entitled Personal Opinion, will be a critical survey of the fast-moving events of the past year in Europe. Mr. Sheean has been working as war correspondent, and had the opportunity to observe first-hand the effects of Hitler's progress across the continent. Student Committee The student lecture committee in charge of arrangements consists of Betty Waitt, chairman; Pattie Patterson, treasurer; June Boykin and Frances Spratlin, advertisement; Julia Ann Patch, junior rep¬ resentative; Jane McDonough, sophomoye representative; Margaret Hartsook, posters. Junior Forgets Her Deities Thek juniors came through again when Eugenia Hailey re¬ cently strained her brain cells to the point of exertion in Greek Mythology, and pulled the best boner of recent note. After receiving several unsatis¬ factory answers to her question about which Greek god the Roman Vulcan corresponded to, Miss Torrance directed her query at Eugenia. Gazing slap-happily out of the window, no doubt dreaming of her own private Elysian fields— gridirons at this season of the year —Eugenia was forced to admit that she had "not understood the question." Simplifying the point, Miss Torrance asked, "What does Vul¬ can make you think of?" This called for further pensive inactivity on the part of the stu¬ dent, but she finally raised her head triumphantly, and said, "Oh, of course, a bird!" Page 2 THE AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1940. Hockey Stars Play Here Experts Meet Student Team In Exhibition Game Wednesday, November 13, the United States Field Hockey Asso¬ ciation's touring team will stop at Agnes Scott for a two-day visit. On Wednesday afternoon the team gives an exhibition game, and on Thursday it meets a team of Agnes Scott's best players. This 1940 touring team, composed of some of America's greatest women ex¬ perts, includes the following mem¬ bers: Jane Cox, Philadelphia, 1939 British Guiana Touring Team, Germantown Cricket Club team; Connie Currie, New York City, Southeast 1st and 2nd teams, Vir¬ ginia team; Jacqueline Fehling, Philadelphia, Pa., Philadelphia 4th team, All School team; Valentine Edgar, Long Island, N. Y., North¬ east Reserve, Long Island 1st team; Lois Fernley, Philadelphia, Phila¬ delphia All School team, Sweetbriar Varsity; Betty Frazier, St. Louis, Mo., Sweetbriar Varsity, Virginia Reserve, St. Louis 1st; Martha French, Philadelphia, All American Reserve, Southeast 2nd team, Middle Atlantic 1st team; Mrs. Frank Hartung, Detroit, Mich., Great Lakes team; Mary Judd, Rochester, Minn., Virginia 1st, Southeast Reserve, Sweetbriar Varsity; Jane Kenworthy, Phila¬ delphia, Pa., Philadelphia 3rd team, British Guiana touring team; Nancy Peck, Providence, R. L, Providence Hockey team; Frances Pierce, Flint, Michigan, All Am¬ erican 1st and 2nd many times, British Guiana touring team, 1936 International; Sue Cross, Philadel¬ phia, All American Reserve, Southeast Reserve, Southern tour, Australian tour; Marjorie Morse, Boston, Mass., manager. War Presents Difficulties To Librarians Europe's war is posing a difficult problem for American college li¬ braries. Robert Bingham Downs, direc¬ tor of the New York University libraries, declares it is extremely hard to keep highly necessary col¬ lections of foreign periodicals and books up to date. "With the coming of the war foreign currencies have fluctuated in value, insurance and carriage have steadily increased in cost, and deliveries are slower and more un¬ certain," says Mr. Downs. Advance payments have been required on serial subscriptions, with no assur¬ ance that publication would not be suspended before the subscription expiration date. The workings of the British embargo have not al¬ ways been predictable, though the interference has been less notice¬ able perhaps than during the World war." (AGP) Welcome, Freshmen CLAIRMONT BEAUTY SALON 111 Clairmont Avenue DEarborn 8011 Where Friends Meet Friends And Part More Friendly GLENN'S PHARMACY Masonic Tempi© Bldg. DE. 3322-3 Ardent Campaigners Excitement ruled as Agnes Scott's own campaign progressed. In the picture above Pat Poole and Val Nielsen support Roosevelt, while Doris Hasty and Maslin House uphold Willkie's banner. Wellesley Head Blackfriars Presents Visits Campus Play For League In honor of Miss Mildred Mc¬ Blackfriars will present a play Afee, president of Wellesley Col¬ at the banquet given by the At¬ lege and visitor to the campus next week, Dr. J. R. McCain will en¬ lanta League of Women Voters for tertain at a luncheon at the Alum¬ the biennial celebration of Woman nae Tea House Tuesday, Novem¬ Suffrage on November 12, at the ber 12. Ansley Hotel. The play will con¬ Other guests will include Miss sist of a series of episodes in the Carrie Scandrett, dean of students; Miss Charlotte Hunter, assistant life of Lucey Stone, one of the dean of students; Miss Elizabeth earliest workers for Woman Suf¬ Jackson, associate professor of his¬ frage. tory; Mr. and Mrs. S. G. Stukes, Jeanne Flynt, '39, will play the and Miss Emma Catherine Ander¬ part of Lucey Stone, supported by son, of Marietta, who attended eight Agnes Scott players and four Agnes Scott for two years and then graduated at Wellesley. After the Emory players. Helen Hardin will luncheon the faculty is invited to be Mrs. Stone; Mary Stuart Ar- coffee at the tea house to meet Miss buckle, Antoinette Brown; Elise McAfee. Smith, Mrs. Mahan; Lillian Miss McAfee will be in Atlanta Schwenke, Miss Emory; Molly for a meeting of the Wellesley Lightfoot Elcan, Susan B. An¬ Alumnae in the South and will thony; Jackie Stearns, Mrs. Widg-stop for two days on her way from erly; and Marjorie Simpson, Mrs. Charteston, South Carolina, to William Lloyd Garrison. Birmingham, Alabama. w 25 , .... Paces UP purnl hed v^wr'k.ooFV CO. CENIS iuck n*#! IN COIN Agnes Scott College DECATUR, GA. • A college for women that is widely recog¬ nized for its standards of work and for the interesting character of its student activities. • For further information, address J. R. McCAIN, President Seniors Defy Rain To Frolic as Little Girls By Jessie McGuire What are little girls made of? There are a thousand answers to the question stated, but no one answer is adequate. In a negative and evasive way, the query may find its answer in the statement that grown ladies are just little girls with a few modifications in man¬ ners, forms, and fashions. This strange paradox had a tan¬ way, there was a heated debate on gible proof on the Agnes Scott the subject: campus Friday morning when, lit¬ "You have!" tle-girl like, the venerable class of "I haven't!" etc., ending with, '41 rose in its entirety at the un¬ "Well, don't you wish you had godly hour of 6 A. M., jumped one?" quickly into pinafores and panta¬ Stubbs, have you got a sweet¬ loons, snatched pet animals and heart? dolls from the chairs, and skipped gaily down the steps and out to The snake dance through and play. They could only gaze with among the tables unveiled a varilonging eyes at the pouring rain, ble array of costumes, from Ginny but philosophically, the class as a Williams' old-fashioned blue- group accepted Fate's trick and checked dress, from under which turned to quieter games indoors. peeped white ruffled pantaloons, to the chic blue sailor dresses, trim¬ After an energetic hour of rope- med with white buttons and col¬ jumping, last tag, and bannister lars, with a dash of red ribbon to sliding, breakfast was called, and portray timely patriotism, diplo¬ the customary salute to the under¬ matic in ones so young as Betsy classmen was sounded to the tune Kendrick, Ida Jane Vaughan, and of "Shoo fly, don't bother me," Martha Boone. Pattie Patterson and a defiartt, "I'm going to be reverted to her very earliest years invested." • To avoid partiality, a and presented a babyish appear¬ salute was given to the faculty ta¬ ance in a long, white, lace-inserted ble in Rebekah, when the girls de¬ baby dress, and an exquisite lace manded standing recognition and baby cap, not to mention the milk- bows from the teachers. bottle filled with pure cream. And breakfast itself was not Like Oliver Wendell Holmes' without excitement. Frances "Boys," the women of '41 cast Breg, in middy blouse and navy aside the shackles of dignity for a skirt, recited "Mary had a little day, and under the guise of little lamb" amidst much applause from girls played the game of make-be¬ the audience. Elaine Stubbs was lieve with as much zest as they found under the table at one point had played at being grown up of the game, whether because of when they were little. Little Girls' an absent-minded whim of her Day is just a happy prelude to In¬ own, or because of embarrassment vestiture, and though the contrast when the blue-checked Grace seems striking, each will be remem¬ Walker accused her of having a bered in its own way as a part of sweetheart, we don't know. Any¬ education and Agnes Scott. YEARNING FOR SOMETHING WITH MORE UMPH? MANGEL'S leaps into the breach with enchanting dance frocks or velvet frocks in street or dinner lengths. Here are the frocks that will "politic" you for a house- party success. They will carry you into enchanting moments and make the most of all your good points. See the collection now specially priced at $9.98 they have everything that it takes. mnncELS 185 Peachtree—60 Whitehall ATLANTA, GA. THE AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1940. Page 3 Mollie Oliver checks up on Hale Names Foreign Girls Cite After Working Hours Scholarship Although the political campaign has been pretty hot around the campus for the past week, quite a few girls sac¬ rificed (or did they?) for dates, a few hours of campaigning, no matter WHICH side they were. Anyway, Roosevelt or Willkie, the dance must go on! Emory was host this past Week¬ end to a great number of Agnes Scott girls at the Inter-Frater¬ nity Council dance. Among them were: Annie Wilds, Sue : "1 Phillips, Mary j Dean Lott, Rowena Barringer, V a 1 Nielson, Betty Sullivan, Sarah Copeland, Frankie Butt, Martha Dunn, Helen Jester, Oliver Beryl Healy, Nancy Willstater, Eu¬ genia Hailey, Mary Louise Palmour, Claire Purcell, Imogene King, Jeanne Eakin, Margaret Downie, Dot Holloran, Betty Burdette, Iddy Boone, Marjorie Wilson, Stu¬ art Arbuckle, Harriet Vaughn, Elta Robinson, Ruth Kuniansky, Suzanne Kaulbach, G 1 e n w y n Young, Margaret Eiseman, Alice Clements, June Lanier, Margaret Cathcart, Betty Sullivan, Bettye Ashcraft, Evelyn Cheek, Bobby Powell, Jane Stillwell. Helen Gilmer, Nina Mae Snead, and Marian Phillips were on the At the Sigma Nu house for supper Sunday night were June Boykin and Jane Stillwell. Helen Gilmer, Nina Mae Snead, and Marian Phillips were on the Psi Omega hay ride and house dance Saturday night, while spook¬ ing around at the Delta Sigma Hallowe'en party were Mary James Seogle; Rebecca Stamper, Anita Woolfolk, Margaret Nix, Gentry Burks, Susan Spurlock, and Anne Martin. lyllis Lee, Mickey Jones, and Marian Brittingham stepped out to the Officers' Club dance at Fort McPherson. The banquet and dance held by the junior members of All Saints' Episcopal Church provided a provided a world of fun for Jean Beutell, Mary Robertsbn, Pat Per¬ ry, Nina Broughton, Molly Oli¬ ver, Cathy Steinbach, Bee Brad- field, Laura Gumming, Lib Beasley, Quincy Mills, June Shugg, and Sabine Brumby. At home for the weekend were Kathryn Johnson at .Fort Benning, Lillian Gudenrath in Lafay¬ ette, Ila Belle Levie at Montezuma, Jessie MacGuire in Montgomery, and Nell Turner, who took with her Mary Louise Duffee, in Co¬ lumbus. Dusty Hance went to the Tech- Duke game in Durham, and Joella Craig, Gay Currie, Ann Paisley, and Mardia Hopper attended Homecoming at Davidson Col¬ lege. Louise Newton and Carolyn Dunn went to Columbus; Louise to cheer for Auburn, Carolyn for Georgia. Campus Queen Scene: Annie Wilds, in her evening gown of sky blue taffeta quilted in gold with two gold clips at the square neck. Dorothy Hopkins also was stun ning in a coat of soldier blue plaid, trimmed with grey fur. MAIN 5634 Piedmont Reweavers 97 Forsyth St., N. W. Atlanta, Ga. Offers ONE DAY Service on BEFORE Reweaving MOTH HOLES. TEARS, BURNS Any Damaged Material Rewoven to Look Like New Complete Tailoring Service MODERN METHODS. QUICKER SERVICE. LOWER COST bsf SS CATETERIA 189-191 Peachtree St. An Organization Specializing EXCLUSIVELY in the Preparation and Serving of Wholesome Food. GOOD FOOD IS GOOD HEALTH! As First Aim "An education must be based on a philosophic concept, and the only concept that this school could have is one that accepts man and God, God in man, but man sepa¬ rate from God," Miss Louise Hale, associate professor of French, stat¬ ed in a talk at Investiture Satur¬ day morning, while describing her conception of the ideal college. Miss Hale pointed out that, throughout the nation, the status of education is quite low. She cited reading and comprehension tests made in New York and Penn¬ sylvania showing that the aver¬ age high school seniors attain to about the six or eight grade level. Their reading is the very lightest fiction, particularly magazine sto¬ ries. Reviews Ideals In contrast, Miss Hale told of the Agnes Scott ideal, which is quoted in the Story of Agnes Scott by Dr. J. R. McCain. She listed the six ideals thus: "That Agnes Scott shall furnish a liberal cur riculum fully abreast of the best institutions in this country; shall have the Bible as a textbook; shall be staffed by a capable and Chris¬ tian faculty; it shall maintain a high standard of scholarship and every influence shall bear on it; and the chief end is the glory of God." Dr. Gaines, she said, felt that Agnes Scott College was suc¬ cessful in fulfilling its ideal. "In 1940," asked Miss Hale, "can we say the same? Yes, we do have' a glimpse of the real con¬ ception." Self-Discipline In order to continue to uphold such a high standard as her philos¬ ophy implies, Miss Hale said that self-discipline is necessary, so that one may know "what is perma¬ nent and God-like." "I would have taught at Agnes Scott," she continued, "a concep¬ tion of life . . . with all the corre¬ lated subjects, that each and every one of us would be making a daily effort to discipline ourselves to that end." "I would keep the B. A. degree for only those subjects that would definitely attain those ideals." Miss Hale affirmed that the purpose (as she saw it) of a college was to develop the intellect of the stu¬ dents. Therefore, she would not like to see outside activities become the major function of a college, nor would she like to see a B. A. degree given in a department of domestic science. WOMAN'S EXCHANGE Come in and see our Rytex Christmas Cards Dating Problems By Virginia Williams Agnes Scott really seems the land of the free to some of the inhabitants of Inman. Having to walk a block ahead of the boy, having your mother and father take you to a dance, and being continually chaperoned are some of the dating difficulties which Aurie Montgomery, Meg Bless, and Geor gine Castagnet have experienced. Georgine says of the chaperones, "They really aren't so bad." She has been riding with an American boy unchaperoned, but you must have a chaperone to ride in a car with a Cuban boy or your reputa¬ tion immediately becomes tar¬ nished. Double Dates "Almost everybody double dates," says Georgine, "and you dance or go to the beach. In Cuba they live to dance." As to the respective merits of the American and the Cuban boy, Georgine thinks that, on the whole, Cuban boys are better looking and she knows that they are better dancers. The Cuban boys are more formal, too. By formal she means that "they pull out chairs and ev¬ erything." The American boys do this, too, but not so much." She has found the American boys, colder and "more impersonal". They talk about impersonal sub¬ jects more than the Cubans. "It's really so hard to say", said Geor¬ gine, wrinkling her nose. "I have¬ n't thought about it before." Boys Walk Behind Aurie Montgomery declares that she doesn't know much about hav¬ ing dates in China. They lived far into the interior where social reg¬ ulations among the Chinese are very strict. The nearest boys liv¬ ed ten miles away and there were only two of them. Since Sophie and Ginger were older, they had the advantage. Aurie remembers that when the boys did come they had to walk about a block behind the girls so that the Chinese would approve of their conduct. "It isn't like that in Shanghai, though," Aurie hastened to add. "New China is much more modern. But in old China, women don't even walk with their husbands." Parents Chaperone Meg Bless doesn't know about all of France, but in the southern part where she lived, "If a boy comes near you you are engaged. Boys come to your house only if they are friends of your family. You may meet your date at the show, however." J. N. KALISH & W. N. AINSWORTH, JR. PRESCRIPTION OPTICIANS 380 Peachtree St. Atlanta Bowen Press Commercial Printing and Stationery TYPEWRITERS AND RIBBONS Blotters — Note Paper — Poster Paper Office Supplies 316 Church St. DE. 3383 Decatur, Ga. Your mother and father take you to dances. And even at a casino the girl sits at the table with her parent, and when each dance is ended, the boy brings her back to the table." These customs of dating should be carefully considered by the Ag¬ nes Scott student who might be considering the idea of going abroad to sow her wild oats. Freshman Team Swims to Victory With Mary Maxwell setting the pace, the freshman team scored 32 points to prove its swimming su¬ premacy last Wednesday night down at Bucher Scott Gymnasium. The juniors came in second with 27 points, the sophomores a close third with 25, and the seniors fourth with a total of 19. Alta Webster and Mary Maxwell won individual honors with 14 and 13 points respectively. The events of the meet and participants were as follows: I. Twenty yard dash, back crawl: Maxwell, freshman; Huck, junior; A. Webster, junior. II. Form swimming, side stroke: Slack, senior; R. Taylor, freshman; Gates, senior; Bonham, junior. Front crawl: A. Webster, junior; M. A. Smith, sophomore; Harvard, freshman;'Bonham, junior. Back crawl: Dale, sophomore; Stokes, sophomore; A. Webster, junior; Burruss, junior. III. 40 yard dash, free style: Nevelle Gumming, freshman; Max¬ well, freshman; Dale, sophomore; McGarrough, sophomore. IV. One dive and one option¬ al: Patterson, senior; Maxwell, freshman; Lassiter, freshman.-2 dives and 1 optional: Huck, jun¬ ior; Gumming, freshman; A. Webster, junior; Slack, senior. V. Relay: Sophomores, fresh¬ men, seniors, junior disqualified. We still are placing our bet on juniors and freshmen in the jun¬ ior -senior, freshman -sophomore doubleheader on Friday. Rain pre¬ vented the games last week. Seniors Open Worship Programs The Senior Class led the first in a series of four worship services, last Sunday, on the topic, "Jesus At Home With Mary and Martha," in the McLean chapel. Other vesper services will be: juniors, "Jesus With the Woman of Samaria"; sophomores, "Jesus and the Rich Young Ruler"; fresh¬ men, a Thanksgiving Worship ser¬ vice. THREADGILL PHARMACY Phone DE. 1665 309 E. College Avenue Decatur, Ga. NOTICE AGNES SCOTT This is your drug store. Page 4 THE AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1940. Campus Camera We Hear A Lover or Truth Vincent Sheean has meant a great deal to this generation in America. He has been more than an able and courageous newspaperman. He has been more than the artist, the craftsman of words, who has sought the world and its troubles in¬ stead of the immunity of the ivory tower. To some of us, this man has been the representative of the best in us which has been puzzled and doubtful and unhappy in an alien world. He has not been satisfied with half truths or shams. His voice has been painfully and compellingly sincere. Vincent Sheean has tried, to our great benefit, to find out the truth of things where it is most necessary and most diffi¬ cult. He has been a sort of burning glass of truth upon which all the mingled forces of Europe and Asia have played and been concentrated. In his books we have the projection of a sensitive mind, an interpre¬ tation of the events of the times. In him the personal has become the universal. Sheean has illuminated all on which he has written. He might seem a newspaperman by ac¬ cident if we did not know that he has been one by choice. His novels, Sanfelice and A Day of Battle, and his volume of short stories, The Pieces of a Fan, show a restrained and witty elegance. They are a delight to those who appreciate proper words in proper places and an en¬ lightening use of history in fiction. But the great force of Sheean is in his autobiographical works. Personal History is an unforgettable book, the odyssey of a man through space and time and thought. The author in his wanderings through twentieth century Europe and Asia is the type of all men hunting a rea¬ son for things in the years between the wars. Not Peace But a Sword tells the strange story of that unreal year, 1938. In this second autobiographical book Sheean has recorded again his passionate reactiohs to disastrous acts of little men in high places. The cleansing anger of satire is there. And compassion is there for all those little men in low places in England and Spain and Czechoslovakia in that dreadful year. Vincent Sheean has recently returned from another newspaper assignment. He has been in England for months covering the story of England at war: it is a sig¬ nificant story, particularly for Americans. He is one of the men best qualified to tell it. We have had glimpses of this England in 1940 from Sheean's broadcasts and his stories for the North American Newspa¬ per Alliance. These despatches show the insight of the reporter, the skill of the artist, and the understanding of the man. It is superfluous to say that Vincent Sheean's lecture in Presser Hall, Novem¬ ber 13, will be the most significant and exciting talk of several years. The whole region of Atlanta and Decatur will be eager to be present at one of his few lec¬ tures. (B. S.) The Agnes Scott News Vol. XXVI. Wednesday, Nov. 6, 1940. No. 7 1940 Member 1941 Phsocided Colle6icite Press Published weekly, except during holidays and examination periods, by the atudents of Agnes Scott College. Office on second floor Murphey Candler Building. Nntered as second class matter at the Decatur, Georgia, post office. Subscription price per year. $1.25; single copies, five cents. Elaine Stubbs Editor Virginia Glower Managing Editor Florence Ellis Business Manager Betty Stevenson boils down The Real News Tuesday After the First Monday The ragged end of the election campaign wore upon all nerves last week. Each candidate said what was expected. Adherents of Willkie and ad¬ herents of Roosevelt promised ruin in the election of either the Ellwood Hoosier or the Crum Elbow By the time this paper is out, the frenzy of the last days will be over. One or the other will be irrevocably president for the next four years. Each reader is invited to add his own appropriate comment on the choice. When Is a Blitzkrieg Not Mussolini has all the will Stevenson in the world. Only the skill and necessary organization are forever absent from Italy to keep him from duplicating Herr Hitler's quick astounding victories. Napoloni (see The Great Dictator) would like to pick a ripe Greece as Hitler picked Czechoslovakia without the effort of war. For a week the Italians claimed the fall of lanina and still it was not taken. Also, the air war has been slight. At least, the breathing spell has given the British the chance to mine the narrow Greek gulfs and set up RAF squadrons on Greek soil. And the mountaineers of Albania snipe from behind the line. Open Secret The newspapers have had a nice little story in the "mysterious movements" of the U. S. Navy in the Carribbean area. The state department is probably well pleased. They would like the mys¬ tery to be transparently clear to Germany and France. The sea patrol which vanished from its base at Key West is available now for a less neb¬ ulous purpose than the neutrality patrol: Mar¬ tinique, Guadaloupe, and French Guiana are the words that fill out the puzzle. "My Country and My People" The fragile, scholarly Lin Yutang, who means China to a great many American readers, went back to his home land this year. Like the other inhabitants of Chungking, he crouched against the cliff face as the Japanese smashed the city with bombs. The tone of this humorous unassertive writer has come to mean the indefinable strength of China to Americans. Last week, as the Japanese were retreating in South China, leaving behind in Kwangsi Province 65 percent of their men dead, Lin Yutang gently and firmly stated that the Japanese haven't a "Chinaman's chance." For Whom the Bell Tolls Americans have an intense, almost morbid cu¬ riosity, about living conditions in a city in siege. How people, much like us, in London live in air raid shelters, in subway tunnels, how they get to work over bomb-pitted pavement, how they put out fires, what they eat, what they sing, what jokes they make are all details which bring us closer to the Londoners. They mean more than daily communiques, or the number of planes shot down or ships lost or what places in Germany were bombed, whether Essen or Hamburg or Berlin. We get a glimpse of this life through the news stories in our daily papers and in the broadcasts from London on our radios. The New Yorker Letter from London is good. And a movie short, London Can Take If, just released in this country, is excellent. At Agnes Scott we shall have the "Personal Opinion" of Vincent Sheean. Nehru The Indian Congress is not a Congress. It is the co-ordinating center for all Indian nationalist feeling. However much the English have bun¬ gled, they have tried in their awkward way to im¬ prove India. But the Indians have failed to ap¬ preciate kindness. They have remembered past and present abuse, and unobligingly become more self possessed and more self conscious of various rights. The war has had no power to halt this trend. Ghandi has only braked the movement: on his account there is a limited rather than a complete program of civil disobedience in effect. Nehru, who now leads the opposition, was arrested re¬ cently for making pacifist speeches. UNWERSTTY OF CHATTANOOGA ■ JTUDENTS" HOLD A CONTEST . EACH YEAR TO SELECT THE BACHEIXR 0* UGLINESS Matilda Cartledge Gathers Campus Quotes The question of the length of Christmas holidays is still of ma¬ jor importance in campus dis¬ cussions and this week we have probed even deeper among the students. The res ults still seem to be highly in fa¬ vor of an extra Cartledge day in January. Mary McQuown, '42: If it is a question of shortening our time before Christmas in order to add a day in January, I'd rather have the extra time in the begin¬ ning. So many of us day students work in the stores before Christ¬ mas, and every extra day counts. Fletcher Mann, '42: I would be one of those who would have to leave early New Year's morning; so, if I had my choice, I'd say to add the extra day in January. It's so hard to leave all the New Year's festivi¬ ties. Virginia Collier, '41: If we have a choice of one day at beginning or end of the holi¬ days, I'd take it before. The an¬ ticipation of Christmas is half of the fun. I'd rather have an extra day at home before Christmas to get into the spirit of things. I'm really ready to start work again soon after Christmas, anyway. Billie Davis, '42: I would rather have an extra day in January. It is a shame to have to leave New Year's Day as so many would have to do. Kay Wilkinson, '43: I'd rather have an extra day at the end. Nearly all the other schools go back later than the sec¬ ond of January and we sec so little of our friends if we leave then. TklS CAMPO? 5TATUE BEART THE INSCRIPTION, "JOHN HARVARD, FOUNDER, IfeSB! All OF THESE STATEMENTS' ARE FALSE, FOR JOHN HARVARD DID NOT FOUND THE C0U-E6E-, IT WAS FOUNDED IN 1636, AND IT IS NOT A STATUE OF HARVARD BECAUSE NOBODY KNOWS WHAT HE LOOKED LIKE > StudentsParticipate In Defense Plans The nation's college students are not being permitted to forget that the United States is straining every effort toward strengthening the national defense. Men within the draft ages of 21 through 3 5 who are now register¬ ed in college have been automatic¬ ally deferred from compulsory mil¬ itary training, at least until July of next year, although they were required to register October 16 with all other men of those ages. At the same time men and wom¬ en of college age have been urged by President Roosevelt to continue their college educations. Nevertheless, the nation's col¬ legians are being made to realize they are an important link in pre¬ paredness plans. Typical of defense messages to students at scores of colleges was that presented by Dean Virginia C. Gildersleeve of Bernard College, New York. It is more important, said she, for students to continue their college educations until need¬ ed than to participate actively in helping their country. Dean Gi(dersleeve explained that should the stream of students stop, the country would find itself short of trained and educated citizens. "Women are especially needed," she continued, "because now their brothers are going to be occupied in sterner aspects of national de¬ fense." (ACP) "Iddy" Boone, '43: I'm all in favor of an extra day in January. The traffic is so bad on New Year's, and then, too, it seems almost criminal to have to leave that soon and miss the New Year's celebration. Edna Slater, '43: I'm just one of those who would have to be traveling New Year's Eve; and if we would get an extra day in January it would be so much better. Ruth Kolthoff, '44: I'm all for an extra day in Jan¬ uary. It would be simply heart¬ breaking to have to leave on New Year's Eve. The Agnes Scott News Vol. 26. AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1940. No. 8 Book Week Offers Alligator Visits Mortar Board Vincent Sheean Modern Works Buttrick Mailroom Recognizes By Mistake Exhibit Includes Members Numerous Literary Types Many a queer parcel has pass¬ Opens Lecture Series ed through the hands of our fair Dr. Schuyler Christian The Book Week exhibit, open all postmistresses, but the box that Reception for Noted Author day from November 21 to 30, and Comments on Service from 2 until 5 P. M., on Thanks¬ arrived one afternoon last week As Ideal of Mortar Board Follows Talk on international Crisis giving and Sunday, will display takes the prize for being the most Clare Boothe's Europe in the Spring, A service of recognition for the unusual. Author and War Correspondent Vincent Sheean opens Robert Nathan's A Winter Tide, members of Mortar Board will take Agnes Scott's 1940-41 lecture series tonight at 8:30, appear¬ About 4:10 P. M., Corrie came and Newman Ivey White's Shelley ing as the first speaker in the new Presser Hall. His lecture, place in the new Gaines Chapel, as the outstanding works of fiction in, half pushing, half carrying a entitled "Personal Opinion", is a commentary from the dis¬ Saturday, November 16. At this and biography. queer, oblong box with a perfor¬ tinguished writer's own point of view on the panorama ofservice Dr. Schuyler Christian, Clare Boothe, author also of Kiss ated top. With a final shove he world events in Europe. professor of physics and astronomy, the Boys Goodbye, is the wife of abandoned the "thing" at "Miss Sheean, of whom Dorothy will speak Service, of the Henry Luce, editor of Life Maga¬ on one Thompson said, "If he had been Grace's" feet, telling her that it zine. Robert Nathan's Portrait of ideals for which Mortar Board born in another age he would have Jenny is in the rental collection of had from the Decatur P. O. stands. come probably been an epic poet, or per¬ the library now. Gracie, not being the Amazon haps, in a still earlier age, a much The recognition of Mortar Board Professor White, of Duke Uni¬ type, began touring the 2x4 box, venerated prophet," stayed in is a service which is held annually versity, author of Shelley, is per¬ being careful not to get close Germany from the time of the not only to honor Mortar Board but haps the most pminent living Shel¬ Munich settlement until after the enough to discover the source of ley scholar. About the book, Al¬ to impress everybody with its shooting of Vom Rath at the fred A. Knopf, publisher, says: the scraping noise coming from high ideals of Scholarship, Leader¬ German embassy in Paris precipi¬ "Here is simply a human being— within. tated the Jewish persecutions in ship, and Service. The service will complex and subtle, but thorough¬ It seemed rather queer that Germany. He covered the Nazi's open with an academic procession ly comprehended and thoroughly march into the Sudetenland, and anyone should be sending a pet of many faculty members and revealed. Here is Shelley, a poet his broadcast from Prague at that man." to a student; yet, if it was for the alumnae who belonged to Mortar and a time, challenging the validity of Besides outstanding current nov¬ Science Hall, why had it not come Board, as well as the present mem¬ certain of Hitler's claims, was an els and biographies, there will be by express? Perhaps, one of the international sensation. bers. children's books, books on flowers, perpetual you'd-better-have-o n e The members of Mortar Board science, religion, travel stories, and Anti-Fascist books dealing with current world for-me people was trying to assure Though the journalist's per¬ are: Frances Breg, president of affairs as Joseph Goldsmith's prompter mail serviie. sonal inclination is anti-Fascist, he Student Government; S a b i n e^ What's Democracy to You? is conversant with the principles Finally, woman's curiosity won Brumby, editor of the Aurora; Ann VINCENT SHEEAN of the several ideologies influenc¬ over lady's timidity, and the heck¬ Henry, student recorder; Betsy ing contemporary history. As Kendrick, vice-president of Stu¬ College Adds Holiday led postmistress approached the foreign correspondent for the Chi¬ A.S.C. Community According to an an¬ mystery. cago Tribune, he was present at dent Government; Gene Slack, ed¬ nouncement by Miss Carrie the Rif Rebellion, the outbreak of itor of the Silhouette; Elaine Inside she found—not a mon¬ Scandrett, dean of students, ster—but a harmless baby alliga¬ Directs Musical Arab-Jewish hostilities in Jerusa¬ Stubbs, editor of the Agnes Scott in chapel last week, the du¬ lem in 192 8, and later at the Ruhr Neivs; Grace Walker, vice-presi¬ its way to Decatur citi¬ ration of Christmas holi¬ tor, on a Continuing the Friday night occupation, the Fascist march on dent of Christian Association; Ida days has been changed to zen. The postman had gotten ex¬ music appreciation series, Mr. C. Rome, and the overthrow of theJane Vaughan, vice-president of extend from December 17 cited, or confused, or in a hurry, W. of mu¬ Spanish monarchy. He spent some Dieckmann, professor Athletic Association; and Jean at noon to January 3 at 8 and sent it to Agnes Scott by mis¬ time in Spain during the civil war Dennison, president of Mortar sic, will lead the string ensemble A. M. there, and followed Hitler's army Board. take. and Mr. Lewis Johnson, professor as the Nazis took control of Aus¬ of voice, will direct a special cho¬ tria and Czechoslovakia. rus from the Glee Club in several Best Seller Service, Scholarship, Leadership vocal numbers at 8 o'clock in the Sheean's meteoric rise in popu¬ new Gaines Chapel, in a program larity, following the publication of his "Personal History," was cli¬ presented entirely by the college maxed last year when "Not Peace community. But a Sword" became an interna¬ Mr. Lewis Johnson's chorus will tional best seller. His other pub¬ sing: "Sylvia," by Speaks; "A lished works include "San Felice" and a collection of short stories," Snow Legend," Clokey; "Slumber "Pieces of a Fan." He had dis¬ Song," Gretchaninoff, and "It continued his activity as a news¬ Cannot be a Strange Country" paperman and settled down to (Song of the Emigrant), Repper. wnte fiction until the increasing¬ Mr. Johnson will also direct the col¬ ly tense European situation again lege choir in two selections: "Good attracted his attention. News From Heaven," J. S. Bach, Reception Follows and "O Jesu So Sweet," a tradition¬ A reception in the Murphey al carol arranged by J. S. Bach. Candler Building will follow Mr. The string ensemble's part of Sheean's lecture. The receiving the program will consist of four line will include, in addition to compositions by Handel, "Vivace," Mr. Sheean, Dr. J. R. McCain, from a Concerto Grosso in B-flat; president of the college; Miss "Aria" from the 10th Organ Con¬ Emma May Laney, faculty advisor certo, "Hornpipe" from Concerto of Lecture Association, and Miss Grosso No. 7, and "Largo". The Betty Waitt, student chairman of string ensemble will also play "Je- Lecture Association. All those at¬ sus, Joy of Man's Desiring" and tending the lecture are cordially "Come, Sweet Death" by Bach; invited to meet Mr. Sheean. "The Swan" by St. Saens, and "Lon¬ donderry Air." Coming This Week Thursday, 3:30 P. M—Hock¬ Mortar Board Entertains ey Exhibition on Hockev Parents at Tea Field. J Friday, 10 A. M.—Rabbi Ju- Mortar Board will entertain the hus Mark's address in parents of the day students at a Chapel. tea in Murphey Candler, Novem¬ Friday, 8 P. M—Music Ap ber 17, from 3:30 until 5 P. M. preciation Hour in new The hostesses will conduct their Gaines Chapel. guests on a tour through the Sunday, 3:30-5 P. M—Mor¬ Members of Mortar Board, who will take part in the Recognition Service Saturday are, left to right, buildings on the Agnes Scott cam¬ tar Board for parents of top row: Ida Jane Vaughan, Ann Henry; middle row, Elaine Stubbs, Gene Slack, Sabine Brumby; and pus. Parents will also meet the day students in Murpheybottom row, Grace Walker, Frances Breg, Betsy Kendrick, and Jean Dennison. faculty. Candler Building. Page 2 THE AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1940 chapel Speaker Juniors Spurt To Fourth Victory Zena Harris, Ruth Farrior Star In Frosh-Soph Hockey Tie By Susan Self The juniors won their fourth straight hockey game when they pulled a scoring spurt in the last half of their game against the seniors to win, 6-1, last Friday. The freshmen and sophomores found each too good for the other and tied their game, 1 up. the second swimming meet of the The junior-senior game remain¬ season on.November 19, and for ed scoreless during the best part of the first horse show of the yearthe first half. Pattie Patterson this Friday afternoon at Georcame across with the first score of gianna stables. the game and the seniors' first score Golf Club Members of the season when she sent a long, Charity Crocker and Miss Wil- JULIUS MARK hard angular drive into the pen burn put their heads together to after her teammates had advanced select members for the Golf Club into scoring territory. A minute from cards turned in last week. Rabbi Sees later D. Webster intercepted a pass Cummings, Hamby, Brewer, G. and dribbled down the field to Hill, Shufelt, Dennison, David- Jews' Status score for the juniors and knot the owitz, Thomas, and Crocker all count. qualified. Jewish Leader Going into the second half with Mary Olive Thomas announces Speaks in Chapel Friday the score at 1-all, the juniors com¬ that two players were admitted to bined their strength in an ava¬ Tennis Club via the try-out meth¬ Rabbi Julius Mark, leader of the lanche of goals. D. Webster scor¬ od. They are Virginia Tuggle Vine Street Temple in Nashville ed again early in the second half and Josanne McDaniels. Mary and honorary vice-president of theand Dusty Hance and Annie Wilds Olive is hoping to increase club United Jewish Appeal, will address contributed two points each to the membership again in spring try- total. the college community on the outs. subject, "The Jew in the World Even Match Today" in chapel Friday. The freshman-sophomore game Visting Team Clashes was as evenly matched as the score Dr. Mark, a native of Cincin¬ indicates, and most of playing time With School PI ayers nati, is also president of the Nash¬ was spent battling between the 25 ville Jewish Welfare Federation yard stripes. Zena Harris was Tomorrow afternoon at 3:3 0, and Nashville Council of Commu¬ again the nucleus on the freshman the United States Field Hockey nity Agencies. He is on the Board eleven, playing a steady game Association's Touring Team will throughout, and scoring the fresh¬ meet a team of Agnes Scott's of Managers of the Synagogue and man's only goal. Ruth Farrior at prospective varsity stars in what School Extension Division of the right half broke up sophomore drib¬ promises to be the biggest hockey Union of American Hebrew Con¬ bles more than once and converted game played in these parts. The gregations and chairman of the them into accurate passes. touring team, on a two-day visit Committee on Religious work in Clara Rountree evened the score with Agnes Scott, boasts some of the Universities for the Central in the second half when her drive the finest women hockey players Conference of American Rabbis. hit Bry's leg and bounced into the in the United States, all of whom Dr. Mark has made four trips goal. have played on various all-star abroad, including Palestine, and has The lineups: teams, many of whom have made written and lectured extensively. the All-American eleven. Freshman Sophomore The Agnes Scott hockey team Rabbi Mark has lectured at Van- K. Hill C.F. Rountree chosen to meet the touring team derbilt University's School of Reli¬ Elarris R.I. Holloran consists of: gion and has spoken widely for M. F. Walker, L.I. Bates Center forward: Ida Jane the National Conference of Chris¬ Turner R.W. Bumstead Vaughan, Annie Wilds. tians-and Jews, the United Jewish Rhodes L.W. Downie Right inner: Dot Webster. Appeal, the Ant i-Defamation M. E. Walker, C.H. Radford Right wing: Alta Webster. League, the Zionist Organization Farrior R.H. McFadyen Left inner: Dusty Hance, Jessie of America and the Jewish Chau- Brewer L.H. Lancaster MacGuire. tauqua Society. In 193 8 he deliv¬ Abernathy R.F. Paisley Left wing: Carolyn Forman, ered the Jubilee sermon before the Liddell L.F. Hopper Margery Gray. Rabbinical Conference in Wash¬ Bry G. Percy Center half: Doris Hasty, Fran¬ ington. Freshman subs: G. Hill, Duffee, ces Radford. Dr. Mark is a graduate of the Bond, Tuggle, Nair. Right half: Ruth Farrior, Ann Sophomore sub: Weismann. University of Cincinnati and the Henry. Hebrew Union College. He receiv¬ Junior Senior Left half: Pattie Patterson, Mary ed an honorary LL.D. degree from A. Wilds C.F. Vaughan Dean Lott. Cumberland University in 1936. D. Webster R.I. Willstatter Right fullback: Mardia Hopper, Kyle MacGuire L.I. Gay Currie. Clara Rountree, Dot Holloran, A. Webster _ R.W. Musser Left fullback: Zena Harris, Given Hill, Louise Musser, Mar¬ Stuckey L.W. Butt Anne Paisley. garet Downie, Ann Gellerstedt, Hasty C.M. Henry Goalkeeper: Billie Davis, Martha Scottie Wilds, Lila Peck Walker, Gellerstedt R.H. Patterson O'Nan. Page Lancaster, Martha Dale, Bet¬ Lott L.H. McGarrity Other members of the squad are ty Bond, and Virginia Tuggle. Walker R.F. S. Wilds Currie L.F. Fisher Davis G. O'Nan i J. N. KALISH & W. N. AINSWORTH, JR. Junior subs: Copeland, Hance. PRESCRIPTION OPTICIANS Senior sub: Lancaster. All told, November looks like 380 Peachtree St Atlanta the big month on our athletic cal¬ endar. Plans are under way for THREADGILL PHARMACY Boivea Press Phone DE. 1665 Commercial Printing and Stationery 309 E. College Avenue Decatur, Ga. TYPEWRITERS AND RIBBONS Blotters — Note Paper — Poster Paper Office Supplies NOTICE AGNES SCOTT 316 Church St. DE. 3383 Decatur, Ga. This is your drug store. Bible Ranks as Favorite Desert Island Companion By Jessie McGuire A good book, a lazy day, and an isolated island sound unique to say the least; but such a situation for any length of time ceases to present a picture of delight to the majority of girls at Agnes Scott. In spite of all urging that the in¬ quirer was not being deadly serious, and did not intend to transport the victims to the island have to at any immediate or distantly fu¬ er time study the other books she brought along. ture time, a look of apprehension closely akin to horror crept into Moody Wants Radio the faces of most of those ques¬ tioned about the matter. Martha Moody insisted on bring¬ ing her radio in place of a book— The question posed is: If you means of keeping in touch with had to live on an isolated island, elections, etc., and a way to mark completely alone, what three books time. Mary Dean Lott considers would you take with you? the Encyclopaedia a valuable col¬ A general survey indicated that lection to take along. "Practical", out of every 25 persons, all types she says. And you would certainly included 'on this cosmopolitan need something practical in a situ¬ campus, 24 persons would take the ation like that! Bible. Motives were varied for this choice. Some said: Lively table discussion on the subject yielded a good deal of ar¬ "I've never read it all before, gument as to the merits of litera¬ and I'd have time then to do it ture. In contrast to the practical properly." element, the more ethereal-minded "I never get tired of reading it selected Anthologies of poetry. over and over," said those more re¬ Annie Wilds and Miss Hunter, not ligiously inclined. wishing to miss any worthwhile poetry, wanted a book including "It has a variety unsurpassed by both American and English poetry. any other book," said the intellec¬ Shakespeare was conceded by most tuals. to have included the broadest scope Best Seller of literary types and characters in ins writings, from the comic Fal- However, whatever the reason, staff to the philosophical Hamlet. the vote for popularity goes to the The latter seems to hold a peculiar world's best seller—the Bible. fascination for the ladies, anyway. Passing from the sublime to the Time for Browning ridiculous, other opinions revealed such heterogeneous combinations Grace Ward adds to Shakes¬ as a cook book, Shakespeare, Win-, peare and the Bible, Browning, nie the Pooh, Miss Minerva, Irving whom most say requires the time S. Cobb, Webster's Dictionary, An and concentration offered by soli¬ Opera Book, and A Scout Manual. tary confinement on an island un¬ Study those combinations and psy¬ attainable by road, sea, or air. If choanalyze the people who chose only God and Browning knew— them, if you can. how are we to know? 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READ THE NEXT A NEW FORMULA BY LORR 100 COLUMN CAREFULLY! Lorr Laboratories, Paterson, N. J. THE AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1940 Page 3 Mollie Oliver checks up on Players Name After Working Hours Committees Agnes Scott is still attracting the stag line up at West Blackfriars has announced the Point these days, with Julia Ann Patch attending one of the committees of the production staff famous Hudson Hops. Also in the season's rush is Val Niel¬ for its first big play of the year, sen, leading the dances over at Auburn this week-end. Brief Music, to be presented No¬ Others at Auburn for the The old "Dipsy Doodler," dances were Mary Ann Cochran, vember 23, in the new Gaines Larry Clinton, is playing smooth Jane McDonough, Katherine Wil¬ Chapel in Presser Hall, at 8:30 music over on the Ansley Roof kinson, Margaret Downie, Mar¬ these nights. Listening and danc¬ P. M. garet Hartsook, Frances Ellis, Sue ing this week were lyllis Lee, Gay Swaggerty will act as stage Heldmann, and Eleanor Manley. Mickey Jones, Mir and Mas manager. The stage crew consists Homecoming up at Davidson House, Claire Purcell, Mary Jane of the following members: Marna attracted Gay Currie, Anne Pas-Bonham, Helen Hardie, Mary McGarrough, chairman; Dot Hop¬ ley, Mardia Hopper, and Shirley James Seagle, Betty Waitt, and Gately. Mary Robertson. kins, Margaret Hartsook, and Vir¬ Prominent at Sigma ginia Collier, sound effects. the Nu Another interesting highlight, Dance this week were Elta Rob¬ and significant of the city's grow¬ Properties committee: Molly Oli¬ inson, Stuart Arbuckle, Anne ing enthusiasm for the theater was ver, chairman, and Margaret Nix. Frierson, Margaret Downie, and the two-day engagement of Ger¬ Costumes committee: Beth Irby, Beckie Andrews, who will also trude Lawrence, capable com¬ chairman; Stuart Arbuckle, and sponsor the Delta Tau Delta's. edienne of the N. Y. stage, who played in the production "Sky¬ Elise Smith. Dot Webster and Gay Currie lark" Erlanger. were on the Decatur Presbyter¬ at the Aileen Nancy Willstater is in charge of Kasper, Dot Petite, Laura Sale, ian Hayride Saturday night, lighting; Martha Sue Dillard, Anne Martin, Elta Robinson, and while Anne Upchurch, Pattie Pat¬ chairman, and May King are han¬ Rowena Barringer, attended one of terson, Beth Irby, Virginia Glower, dling publicity. the performances. Mary Ann Faw, and Margaret Members program Mary Toomey attended the Off for the weekend were oi the com¬ mittee Jessie hayride given by the Tech Fenc¬ Elizabeth Russell in Augusta; are: MacGuire, chairman; Wallace Lyons, Sarah ing Club Friday night. Betty Lou Hall in Lafayette; Copeland, Sarah Gray Raihey, and Louise Pruitt and Elise Nance in The SAE Dance drew a crowd Marjorie Simpson. Chattanooga; Eugenia Hailey to including Alice Clements, Betty Hartwell; Matilda Cartledge to Waitt, Susan Self, Nell Turner, Blackfriars is constructing a new Annie Wilds, Betty Ashcraft, Montgomery; Bee Bradfield to Sa¬ set for their production, and for vannah; Jane Taylor up to Clin¬ Susan Montgomery, and Martha the first time a ceiling will be used, Dunn. Marjorie Tipping was ton, S. C.; Anne Flowers to Thom-according to Laura Sale, president. asville; Sarah Rainey was in Mo¬ present at one of the Campus bile; Anne Upchurch in Brenau; Club Dances this week. Another Frankie Butt in Columbus; Keeker Chi Beta Phi Initiates event was the ATO Dance, at Newton and Helen Gilmer in For- which were Rowena Barringer, New Members at Banquet syth; Gene Slack, Flonnie Ellis, Marion Phillips, Betty Burdette, Claire Johnson, and Elta Robinson. Elaine Stubbs and Helen Klugh Humorous speeches by the eight Another hayride was the Semi¬ were representing the News and new members will highlight the Silhouette at the convention held annual banquet and initiation of nary party which was enlivened in Detroit. At home also were Chi Beta Phi Thursday evening at by Jeanne Lee and Virginia Mont¬ Shirley Ann Smith, Margaret Nix, the Ansley Hotel. gomery. Carolyn Strozier, Ducky Cope- An interesting event of the The formal initiation will take land, Mary Davis, May King, Lib- place at the college preceding the week was the Fashion Show by Steadman, Grace Harbour, for¬ banquet; the procedure at the ho¬ put on by the seniors and Joyce mer student from Memphis, visit¬ tel will be informal. of Davison's. Prominent among ed Mary Lightfoot Elcan, while All members of Chi Beta Phi the models was Miss Charlotte Laura Cummings had four guests and the science faculty are invited Hunter. from Griffin. to attend the banquet. ' was the number of hours the raid lasted; 4 was the number of public air raid shelters hit; and 1 was the number of irreplaceable fourteenth century cathedrals de¬ stroyed. Hotels, theatres, banks, stores, blocks ' of houses (no one wanted to count) were all gone. A city, a community where human beings live together most con¬ veniently and most happily, has been made the ruin of it¬ self by other human beings. But the necessities of war it¬ self can never explain to any reasonable human mind the contrast between Coventry btevenson thg afternoon of Novcniber 14 and Coventry the morning of November 15. Enter Two Villains The ambassadors arrive, the ambassadors de¬ part: Berlin under The Propagandist's direction, puts on a show. It seemed all facade with no solidity behind the front this week. Purposely Molotov's visit has been staged to build up sus¬ pense and a nasty expectation. The two bad air raids over Coventry and Lon¬ don were planned to convey a growing sense of horror to. Britain. Action is indicated in the near future, Mediterranean action. But the stage ef¬ fects, however dreadful to the innocent bystander, have not frightened them away. On the Move Another group of refugees is on the move on Hitler's continent. The Nazis can afford to hurl them extravagantly over the European earth. In trainloads they leave the land which they and their parents and grandparents have known as home. This time the erratic and powerful whim of the Brown Shirt government has picked out the French of Lorraine to share the fate of the Jews of Vienna and the Czechs of Sudetenland. On short notice, 800,000 men, women, and children must leave their land, their destination— unoccupied France (if they are lucky)—or Po¬ land. Another people is enduring forced migra¬ tion. Brittania Rules The British fleet is mighty, but the oceans of the world are wide, and its patrols have been dif¬ ficult. The Mediterranean has been swept regu¬ larly from Egypt to Gibraltar by the Royal Navy. But Italy has learned to judge the safe interval in which to slip through with supplies for North Africa. Now Churchill has been able to announce in Commons the disabling of a good half of the Ital¬ ian fleet at Taranto. The British will patrol, more ea'sily, the invaluable Mediterranean, which can¬ not, for a long time, be Mare Nostrum to the Italians. Consequences Two illustrations of our particular defense dif¬ ficulties made the front pages this week. With¬ out making any effort to judge particular mer¬ its, anyone can see the delicate care necessary in disposing of strikers and conscientious objectors in a war-geared nation. Common sense and ab¬ stract justice often seem in conflict in a period like this. If the people of the United States could just realize that the violations of democracy should at least be taken with our eyes open. Every citizen of the U. S. should look at the strike at the Vultee Aircraft Corporation and at the jailing of the New York theological students and face all the implications. We cannot go into a defense program blindly. We must understand how cruel its sacrifices will be and how well worth while. Know Before You Give Out of your dollar given to the World Student Service Fund, ninety-seven cents go straight to needy students. Three cents go to defray admin¬ istration expenses. American students are behind the Service Fund: Vassar girls gave $5,000 last year. No money goes to Germany. All money is han¬ dled by Fund secretaries; no government can touch it. Thus, it cannot he used to prolong war. The Agnes Scott News Vol. 26. AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1940. No. .10 Eta Sigma Phi Introduces Holiday Spirit Latin Students Produce Mystery, Christus Parvulus; Dieckman Plays Organ Ushering in the spirit of the sea¬ son in appropriate manner. Eta Sigma Phi will present its first Christmas play since 193 5, Cljrisfus Pan ulus, in the MacLean Audi¬ torium, at 4:30 P. M., Thursday, December 12. Mr. C. W. Dieckmann, pro¬ fessor of music, will accom¬ pany the production at the organ with the Pastoral Symphony from Handel's "Messiah," while a spec¬ ial chorus of nine students, direct¬ ed by Mary Ann Faw and Jane Moses, will sing several famous old Latin Christmas hymns during other portions of the program. The entire audience will join in singing Adeste Fideles in its original Latin at the end of the play. Moses Heads Cast The cast of twenty-two is head¬ ed by Jane Moses as Maria, Louise Sams as Joseph, Susan Dyer as the prophet Isaias, and Dale Drennan as Gahriel. Jo Gates, Rosalie Sturtevant, and Olivia White will appear as the Magi, while Carolyn Fdrraan, Polly Lyndon, Martha 'O'Nan, and Dorothy Travis will take the part of shepherds. Mardia Hopper will play the role of Zacharias. / Music lovers will be interested in the choice of hymns to be sung during the play by the chorus angelorum. -It includes one written by Prudentius as early as A. D. 392, another by* Sedulius in the fifth century, and a third by Gregory the Great in the sixth century. The music of all these hymns is of later date than the words. The chorus angclorum which will sing them is composed of Mary Ann Faw, Julia Lancaster, Betty Lee Clarkson, Ann Paisley, Ehse Nance, Mabel Stowe, Harriett Cunningham, Ruth Kolt hoff, Ann Flowers, and Louise Pruitt. Result of Pleas Latin Christmas plays were' pre¬ sented regularly at Agnes Scott until the quarter system was adopted a few years ago. Since that time the proximity of examina¬ tions to the Christmas holidays made it almost impossible to or¬ ganize such extra-curricular pro¬ grams. This year's Christus Parvulus is the direct result of pleas received from Atlanta Latin students and teachers, who have always been afnxious to attend any classical plays given at Agnes Scott. Christus Parvulus is directed by Miss Catherine Torrance, professor of Greek, while Miss Frances K. Gooch, associate professor of Eng¬ lish, and Mr. C. W. Dieckmann, professor of music, assist in dra¬ matics and music. Any Old Books? Dr. Henry A. Robinson has announced that there is a great need for maga¬ zines and books at the Re¬ ception Center at Fort Mc Pherson. Anyone who wish¬ es to contribute old copies may place them on the first table in 307 Buttrick. Christmas Carolers —Courtesy Atlanta Journal Louise Newton, Mary Dean Lott, and Betty Kyle practice Christ¬ mas carols for the annual Christmas Service in Gaines Chapel Sunday. General Board Convenes McCain Attends Meeting At Williamsburg, Virginia The General Education Board of the Rockefeller Foundation con! vened for its thirty-eighth annual meeting on December 5, at Wil¬ liamsburg, Virginia, with Dr. J. R. McCain and some seventeen other board members from all paxts of the United States attending. The meeting was devoted entire¬ ly to consideration of applications for endowments, sent in on the av¬ erage of 1,500 per year from Am¬ erican colleges and universities. Dr. Raymond B. Fosdick, visitor to Ag¬ nes Scott campus last May in con¬ nection with the board's (endow¬ ment of the new University Cen¬ ter, presided over the meeting. Originally the sole function of the board was to irtsure the effi¬ cient allotment of the board funds. In recent years, however, more at¬ tention has been focused on esti¬ mating the importance of various college needs. The General Education Board itself is merely the executive board of a va4t endowment system, hav¬ ing departments and workers in all parts of the country. Since its establishment in 1902, it has donat¬ ed over $300,000,000 to American educational institutions. Music Department Buys Hammond Electric Organ For Teaching, Practicing Established as a new part of the music department, the electrical Hammond organ recently purchas¬ ed for $2,160, will go into use soon for teaching and practicing as well as for worship services. Notable features about the or¬ gan are the standard pedal key¬ board with expression pedals for each manual, and the piston type of stop controL The tone cabinet is important for its reverberation fea¬ ture. "We want all the organ students to become familiar with the Ham¬ mond organ," stated Mr. C. W. Diekmann, professor of music. According to Dr. J. R. McCain, "Along with other important insti¬ tutions, we felt the need of this type of instrument in our musical department." Musicale Features Handel Music Hodgson Directs Pre-Christmas Program An Evening with Handel will form the program of the last Fri¬ day evening musicale before Christ¬ mas, to be presented under the di¬ rection of Hugh Hodgson, Decem¬ ber 13, at 8 P. M. in the Presser Building. The pfogram includes: 1. Largo. Mr. Dieckmann. Sonata for Violin and Piano. Hazel Rood Weems and Irene Leftwich Harris. 2. Theme and Variations from "The Harmonious Blacksmith," Hugh Hodgson. 3. Sonata for Cello and Piano, Rudolph Kratina. •4. "Comfort Ye," from "The Messiah"; "O Sleep, why dost thou leave me," and "Where'er Ye Walk," from Semele," sung by Frank Sale. 5. Concerte Grosse No. 7. Select¬ ed members of the string section of the University of Georgia Little Symphony Orchestra. Hepburn Plays At Erlanger The Erlanger Theater announces the following advance schedule of stage productions which will play in Atlanta during the winter: January 24-25—Katherine Hep¬ burn in "The Philadelphia Story." February 7-8—"The Man Who Came to Dinner." February 14-15—Tallulah Bank- head in "The Little Foxes." March 31, April 1-2—"Hellzapoppin." Complete details concerning casts and sale of tickets will be announced later. Raymond Gram Swing Lectures at Spelman Raymond Gram Swing, interna¬ tional news commentator, will speak on the foreign situation in the Sisters Chapel of Spelman Col¬ lege tomorrow morning at 11 A. M. There will be no admission charge. Anyone who is interested in go¬ ing and has no way to get there, is asked to sign a list on the back bulletin board in Buttrick. College Choir Sings Festal Music Program Includes Foreign Carols, Selections From Messiah on Organ The Agnes Scott Choir and Mr. C. W. Dieckmann, pro¬ fessor of music, will introduce the spirit of the Christmas season with their annual Christmas Service in Gaines Chapel Sunday, December 15, at 4:30 P. M. and 8 P. M. The pro¬ gram will include: Colleges Entertain Alumni Conference Agnes Scott, Emory University, University of Georgia, and the Georgia School of Technology will be hosts to the American Alumni Council,'District III Conference in Atlanta Monday and Tuesday, De¬ cember 16-17, at the Biltmore Ho¬ tel. 1 Delegates of the 39 member col¬ leges will attend while delegates from 63 non-member colleges have been invited. The III District in¬ cludes Virginia, Nftrth Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida and Alabama. The Council, which is a train¬ ing school for alumni secretaries, will open Monday with a luncheon. Dr. Archie Palmer, president of the University of Chattanooga, will speak on "Trends in Alumni Fund Raising." The main address will be deliv¬ ered at a luncheon on the mezza¬ nine of the Biltmore Hotel Tues¬ day, by Mr. Glen Stewart, Michi¬ gan State, secretary of the Board of Directors of the American Alumni Council. The topic of his speech will be, "The College and the Alumni—a New Partnership." Other speakers include: Dr. J. R. McCain, Agnes Scott, "The Plan of the University Center"; Dr. Harvey Cox, president of Em¬ ory University, "Cooperation in Higher Education"; Mr. J. Maryon Saunders, University of North Car¬ olina, "Organization of Local Clubs." Committees include: Chairman of District III, Mrs. R. J. Lehman, Rollins College; registration. Miss Mamie Lee Ratliffe, Agnes Scott College; and Mrs. Elizabeth Dun¬ can, ErAory University; local ar¬ rangements, Robert F. Whitaker, Emory University; program chair¬ man, Mrs. William Schley How¬ ard, Agnes Scott College. Coming This Week Thursday, 4:30 P. M.—Eta Sigma Phi Christmas Play in MacLean Auditorium. Friday, 3:30 P. M.—Faculty- Student Hockey Game on Hockey Field. Friday, 8 P. M.—Musicale in New Gaines Chapel. Saturday, 3 P. M.—Christian Association Party for Un¬ derprivileged Children of Decatur in the Gym. Sunday, 4:30 P. M. and 8 P. M. —Annual Christmas Serv¬ ice of the Agnes Scott Choir in New Gaines Chapel. 1. Organ— Overture, The Messiah, Handel. 2. Carols— God Rest You, Merry Gentlemen, Traditional. O Jesu So Sweet. Good News from Heaven, Bach. The Sleep of the Child Jesus, Gerhert. When the Crimson Sun Has Set. 3. Traditional Czech Carols—^-Ar¬ ranged by Kricha. Hark to Me, Mother Dear. Strangers Say a King Is Born. Gloria in Excelsis. Sleep, Baby, Sleep. 4. Organ— Pastoral Symphony (The Mes¬ siah), Handel. Jesu Bambino, Yon. 5. Traditional Polish Carols—Arr. By Geer. When the Saviour Christ Is Born. Hark! in the Darkness, Christine Paris and Nina May Snead, soloists. Hark! Bethlehem. Sleep, Thou, My Jewel. 6.^ Carols— The Virgin at the Crib, Montani. Solo, Elizabeth Kyle. Violin Obligate. Here a Torch, Jeanette, Isabella, Provencal Noel. i Shepherd's Christmas Song, Aus¬ tralian Folk Song. Solo, Louise fNewton. Silent Night, Gruber. Singers The members in the choir in¬ clude: First Sopranos: Ellen Arnold, Elizabeth Beasley, Martha Buffalow, Josephine Gates, Georgirife Castagnet, Barbara Connally, Freda Copeland, Joella Craig, Harriett Cun¬ ningham, Ann Fisher, Margery Gray, Margaret Hartsook, Mardia Hopper, Rose Jordan, Martha Lasseter, Helen McFadyen, Molly Oli¬ ver, Christine Paris, Elise Smith, Nina May Snead, Carolyn Strozier, Gay Swaggerty, Betty Wade, Cor¬ nelia Watson, Annie Wilds, Anita Woolfolk. Second Sopranos: Virginia Barr, Mamie Barker, Margaret Bless, Virginia Corr, Laura Cummings, Billie Davis, Margaret Downie, Pa¬ tricia Evans, Polly Frink, Lillian Gish, Elma Giannoni, Betty Lou Hall, Dorothy Hopkins, Julia Lan¬ caster, Page Lancaster, Anne Mar¬ tin, Louise Musser, Martha Nimmons, Martha O'Nan, Ann Paisley, Elizabeth Russell, Louise Sams, Gabie Temple, Marjorie Tippins, Dot Wheeler, Alta Webster, Winifred Wilkins, Alice Willis, Betty Wil¬ liams, Margaret Williams. First Contraltos: Gay Currie, Mary Ann Faw, Margaret Hodg¬ son, Sally Knight, Ruth Kolthoff, Elizabeth Kyle, Louise Newton, Susanna McWhorter, Gene Slack, Martha Stone, Mary Scott Wilds. Second Contraltos: Arabella (Continued on Page 2) Page 2 THE AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1940 Faculty, Students Vie in Hockey Admission Charge to Closing Game Buys Ambulance for British Relief By Susan Self On Friday at 3:30 such hockey veterans as Dr. McCain, Dr. Hayes, Dr. Runyon, and Miss McCalla will shake off the old austerity to. match hockey sticks with a student team in the annual Faculty-Student game. There will be an ad mission charge, and proceeds will go to the Amrican Field Hockey Association to help pur¬ chase an ambulance for the British war cause. This game will close the hockey season. A season benefited by some well-nigh perfect weather and by a visit from the famous United States Field Hockey Association's Touring Team. The Yankees suc¬ ceeded in swamping our own team 7-0 in a twenty-five minute play¬ ing period, but they left behind lessons in the game that will not be forgotten soon. One of last year's sports column headlines read: "Prophecies for next year's hockey victors favors present sophomore class." That prophecy hit the proverbial nail on the head. This year's jun¬ ior class won four games and lost once to the sophomores. The fresh¬ men and sophomores broke even in games won and lost. The seniors came out on the losing end* of a 5-0 games-lost-and-won. Team Lineups The varsity team beat the sub- varsity 6-1. The lineups follow: Varsity Sub Varsity Downie L.W. _ V. Tuggle Hance (3) L.I. -.... (1) Bond A. Wilds (2) C.F. MacGuire D. Webster __ R.I. . Holloran Vaughan (l)-R.W. Gray Patterson L.H. P. Lancaster Hasty C.H. Radford Farrior R.FI. . Gellerstedt Harris —L.B. -S. Wijds Hopper R.B Currie Percy _ __ G. O'Nan Varsity substitutions: A. Web ster. Sub Varsity substitutions: G. Hill, Paisley. Basketball Season Agnes Scott athletes exchange hockey sticks for basketballs wl^en gym classes are Resumed this week. 1940 basketball varsity members Dyar, Dunn, Rountree, Dale, Brooks, and D. Webster will all be back and only Mary Dean Lott will be missing from last year's sub-varsity which included Geller¬ stedt, Thomas, Lott, Fisher, Hasty, J. N. KALISH and W. N. AINSWORTH. JR. A Personalized Optical Service You Will Appreciate New Location 380 PEACHTHEE STREET (Two doors from Medical Arts Bldq.) PRESCRIPTION OPTICIANS Your Nearest and Most Complete Drug Store Meet Your Friends Here THREADGILL'S THE PRESCRIPTION STORE Phone DE. 1665 309 E. College Are. Decatur, Ga. and Stubbs. All of which means that there will be talent abundant when the whistle blows to open the season after Christmas holidays. McGarity, Breg, Afbuckle, Dennison, Dyar, Williams, Barringer, Fisher, Stubbs, and S. )Vilds should be around to make up a good senior team. Fisher, Dyar, and Stubbs have forwarded together for three years, and they present a shooting combination par excellence. The juniors have a fair chance of going through their second un¬ defeated season unless the freshmen pr6duce a phenomenal team. D. (for dynamite) Webster, Gay Cur¬ rie, Bradfield, Gellerstedt, A. Web¬ ster, Hasty, Brooks, A. Wilds, Mac¬ Guire and Thomas will transfer their talefit from the hockey field, and Carolyn Dunn,"of varsity fame, will be around just in case. Rountree, Cundell, Moon, Dale, Fricrson, Cummings, Weissman, Holloran, Bates and Eagan will compose the sophomore team. Fresh¬ man taent has not yet been uncov¬ ered. Girls Solve Problems Of Blind Dating Students at two girls' schools in College Park, Maryland, have seem¬ ingly worked out a solution to the blind-date question. Whenever a dance is being given and more es¬ corts are needed, a notice is sent to Maryland University. There it is posted and the speculative males sign up, taking their chances in re¬ spective order. (ACP) HOW TO Oxford Carries On Students Divide Time Between Classes and Drill Only two thousand students, half the normal peacetime number, are enrolled at Oxford this winter, ac¬ cording to Shaker Watt, an old Oxonian and now a Canadian news¬ paper man. Watt described war¬ time. Oxford in a recent CBS broad¬ cast from London. Oxford professors are very grate¬ ful to .Yale University, which is playing host to their ■ wives and children in New Haven, Connec¬ ticut, "for the duration." Mean¬ while, the dons carry on in their Gothic buildings, decorated now with signs pointing toward the air¬ raid shelters, sandbags and ma- chine-gun emplacements. Evacu¬ ated government offices fill some of the lecture halls. Oxford's reg¬ ular routine, Watt said, continues under difficulties. The students, all of them under twenty and too young for the fight¬ ing forces, split their time between classes and military training drills. Even the most staid professors, in their gowns and mortarboards, keep an ear cocked during their lectures for the air-raid siren. They must be ready to scamper for the anti-aircraft machine guns. "Old gentlemen," says Watt, "complain bitterly that Oxford is going to the dogs because the Slade School of Art has moved down from London, and its students, in¬ vincibly Bohemian in dress and manner, mingle with Oxford un¬ dergraduates in the .street." (CPS) (Continued from Page 1) College Choir Boyer, Betty Bowman, Ethlyn Cog- gins, Susan Dyer, Florence Ellis, Ann Gellerstedt, Elizabeth Gribble, Wanda Hamby, Kathryn Hill, June Lanier, Jeanne Lee, Jane Moses, Aurie Montgomery, Elise Nance, Pattie Patterson, Nancy Quayle, Henrietta Ruhmann, Mabel Stowe, Margaret Woodhead. WIN BOY-FRIENDS AND INFLUENCE STAG-LINES By Dalea Dorothy Clix Dear Miss Clix: I'm going to ask you to look into my very soul, because I need all the help your wisdom can give me. I am considered the "wholesome" type, because I'm a good basket¬ ball player, mix well with people, and made Phi Beta in my Junior year. But oh, Miss Clix, I'd rather be a "femme fatale," and to hell with that "wholesome" stuff! How can I make the world—men, that is—realize I'm just a Daughter of Eve? How does one begin? Dear iiYearning',: Let me tell you right from the horse's mouth, "femmes -fatales" are born, not made. If I were you, I'd give up the idea. Also, by the time you've learned all the femme fatale tricks, it'll be time to teach 'em to your grand-daughter. Better idea: make yourself physi¬ cally attractive in ways anybody can learn. You play basket-ball. Well, have you got "basket-ball hands" ? Start there—make your hands, your finger¬ nails, well-groomed, attrac¬ tive, alluring! 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T THE AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1940 Page 3 CA Plans Party For Children Christian Association will con¬ tinue its Christmas charity work this year with the annual party for the underprivileged children of Decatur, Saturday afternoon, Decem¬ ber 14, in the gym. According to Scottie Wilds, pres¬ ident, those who wish to give pres¬ ents to the children may sign on the list posted on the back bulletin board in Buttrick, which contains the names of the children. Every¬ one is invited to come to the party and to help entertain the children. Annual Staff Urges Entries Into Snapshot Contest According to Gene Slack, editor of The Silhouette, the annual staff urges everyone on the campus to submit snapshots for the Snapshot Contest, ending March 1. Pictures may be of any event that happens or any feature of col¬ lege life. Whether a picture wins one of the prizes or not, it will probably be used. First prize is five dollars, second, two dollars, and third, one dollar. Mary Madi¬ son Wisdom will take all tryouts. Physical Average Of Students Declines The average freshman this year is younger, lighter and shorter than the average member of the class of '43, Recording to studies by Prof. Allison Marsh of Amherst College', who compiled statistics on the in¬ coming freshman class this fall. This year's average is 18.31 years old, as compared with 18.3 8; he weighs 147, a drop of four pounds; and his height is 69.8 inches, as against 70.01. One man out of five in both classes is six feet tall. The drop in height and weight is a reversal of trend, Professor Marsh points out, for "compared syith bygone averages the present student is on the whole heavier, till¬ er and younger than the giants of yesteryear." Improved environment, more medical care and more ex¬ tensive physical education pro¬ grams in high schools are factors in changing youth's features, he points out. Surveys made at other schools are in accord with Professor Marsh's findings. Not only the modern man but the modern woman is bigger ahd healthier than ever be¬ fore. (ACP). and Rich's... suggest A Special Gift For a Special Friend From 16 to 60, women all love perfume. So take our broad hint and give a present from Elizabeth Arden's Glamour Tree. From Grandmother to baby sis, they'll love you for it. Blue Grass Flower Mist Cologne, to sgray the air with fragrance 1.25 Blue Grass Cologne Riding, a spirited Kentucky steed flashing pink and blue feathers! 3.50 Blue Grass Dusting Powder, to whirl on in clouds of sweetness 1.50 Blue Grass Perfume, giftly boxed for a Merry Christmas! A mere 2.00 Toiletries Street Floor RICH'S 1 Organist Atlanta Stores Attract Christmas Shoppers By Jessie MacGuire The Christmas decorations in the Atlanta stores bring to mind sudh things as the jingle of sleigh bells, a cozy- winter evening by the fireside in the glow of candlelights, or the vision of a New Year's Ball with the lilting strains of Auld Lange Syne exciting a spirit of good-will and friend¬ liness. romance to the imaginative person, In order to keep sharp the edge whether the spicy type of person of husbandry, however, such tempt¬ or the sweet young modern who ing places as the counters of At¬ likes individuality as well as the lanta Vanity Fair's should be enchanting fragrance. In keeping avoided. On the other hand, if a with the atmosphere of beauty and practical gift is desired, almost any exclusiveness, the sweaters and cryptic advertising phrase will set sports clothes department at both your mind at ease concerning the of these stores tempts the most usefulness of such in the shape of stoic of all Scotchmen. Keep your a pink rabbit, or a propagandist checkbook handy for a weak mo¬ Virgil Fox celebrated the first pamphlet on "How To Get Your ment, and you'll never regret it Man and Hold Him." use of the new four-manual pipe later. Soft-toned shades of exquis¬ organ in the new Gaines Chapel in For the Men ite angora sweaters for the lady-like an organ recital last night. Mr. If you are buying for Dad or girl; sturdy weaves of conservative Fox is head of the organ depart¬ Brother, or the one you love, try sporty shades or of bright reds, in ment at the Peabody Conservatory those casual smoking jackets at Da-corduroy or covert cloth make up in Baltimore, Maryland, and is also vison's and Rich's. Their price is into perfect jackets and blouses for organist for Brown Memorial Pres¬ surprisingly low. If he doesn't the active college girl or our litSe byterian Church in that city. smoke, be sensible and give him a high school sister. good-looking silk muffler from Accent on Femininity Spelman, Morehouse Give Muse's, or perhaps, for a college Or, what girl doesn't like the Joint Carol Program boy, some of his favorite records lacey lingerie you can find at Man¬ At 8 P. M., December 13 and from Davison's or Rich's. gel's or My Shop? If you're will¬ 14, the chorus of Spellman College For the girls, young and old ing to splurge a little for a member and Morehouse College, as well as alike, there is nothing more appeal¬ of the family, try making someone the glee clubs of the two colleges, ing than the cosmetics counter at happy with the glamorous eveningwill present a program of English Allen's and Regenstein's. These wraps here also. and French Christmas carols and stores have an air of exclusiveness Although most of the gifts sug¬ Negro spirituals in the Sisters' and of feminine finery which al¬ gested seem to imply that perhaps Chapel at Spellman College. There most hypnotizes the lovers of the women are more adapted to receiv¬ is no admission charge, and every¬ beautiful. Although the contain¬ ing than the men are, you can find one is invited. Free tickets must ers for creams, powders, or per¬ numbers of things that would make be secured, however, for the Fri¬ fumes are buys within themselves, perfect gifts for both. The book day night performance. the fragradce of all tells a tale of counters at Davison's and Rich's hold a golden treasury of wisdom and peace for the reader, whether Solve Your Gift Problems with Photographs be or he philosophically inclined, whether the comics of Munro Leaf From your SILHOUETTE negatives make him (or her) chuckle to him¬ self. Phone Your Order This Week Though the range of gifts is wide, and the foregoing suggestions For Delivery Before Christmas are only representative examples of a countless supply,-even a glance at the Christmas windows will sug¬ Gaspar-Ware Studios gest the very gift for any problem 30 Fifth St., N. W. VErnon 0931 person in .mind, besides bringing a feeling of Christmas joy to the prospective buyer. Dr. Davidson Announces Completion of Book Agnes Scott College Dr. Philip Davidson revealed this week that his new book, Propa-J gattda and the American Revolu¬ tion, will be ready for publication DECATUR, GA. February 15, 1940. The University of North Carolina Press is print¬ ing the book, which will be released by Jenkins of Richmond, Virginia. HOTEL CANDLER Canvenient to Agnes Scott T. J. Woods, Operator A college fot women that is widely recog¬ nized for its standards of work and for the DeLUXE CAB CO. Under New Management interesting character of its student activities. 24-Hour Service DE. 1656 GLENN'S PHARMACY "Where friends meet friends, and part more friendly." For further information, address Beautiful Gifts for Christmas J. R. McCAIN, President Masonic Temple Bldg. DE. 3322-3 Page 4 THE AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1940 Appendicitis Victims Tell Of Steaks, Internes By Virginia Williams The steaks and the internes are the picest things about Emory hospital. This seems to be the opinion of eight of the nine Agnes Scott victims of appendicitis. The ninth was unavailable for comment. Mary Estill Martin had the hon¬ or of inaugurating the latest cam¬ pus custom, when she went under the knife on October 3. Strangely enough, Miss Gaylord remarked at the time, "I guess she'll start the ball rolling." Mary says the ex¬ perience had unpleasant spots, such as coming out from under the ether and thinking that she was an atom. This momentary mix-up has been compensated for, however; she has acquired a dog named "Pendy," she was eating steak on the third day, and she got to ride in the faculty elevator. Squee Among First Squee Woolford may not have been the first victim, but she claims to be the best authority even on internes and steak. Didn't she stay out there twenty-two days and have steak twice a day? And didn't the interne come to Agnes Scott and have dinner with her one day? Squee feels that if she does nothing more in her college career she, nevertheless, should be recognized. Dr. foncs had to carry Miss Woolford to the hospital, so the hygiene class had a cut. "I went down to the infirmary to see if I had chickenpox. I had just a little pain in my side," said Betsy Kcndrick. "When I had to go to the hospitil Ann was much more scared than I." The funniest incident was that the ambulance driver thought the call was an emergency one.and came from At¬ lanta to Dccatur in five minutes with his siren blowing all the way. The vice president of student gov¬ ernment wasn't" exactly discreet in naming the things she considered most fun. "I loved going under the ether, and I liked walking aft¬ erwards. I felt like I was drunk." Leila Inquisitive Leila Holmes doesn't remember anything exciting but the internes. When she went under ether she felt like she was "hitting planets." After the operation, all the nurse did for three days was to answer yes and no to her questions. The nurses had to quiet down Mary Dean Lott's room all the time, so many of her friends at Emory came to see her. Of course, it hurt her to laugh, but what would you do if an interne turned a big bottle of your perfume over on him? The biggest problem Mary Dean has to face at present is to figure out a way to get all over the campus by a downhill path, because she can't go up steps. Practical Helen! i "An unusual case is best," says i Helen Hardie, "because that way you get to see more doctors. A ■ case near Christmas is good, too,: because that way you may get to j leave school a few days earlier." Helen is still in the stage of raving over the steak and brownies in the hospital. Merry Christmas — Happy New Year DECATUR CAKE BOX DE. 4922 Marjorie Wilson is one-up on all the victims. The day she sat up, her father sent her an orchid. By the way, her whole room looks like a florist shop. Dr. Jones was "taken by sur¬ prise," but she wasted little time in recovering. In less than two weeks she went to town and bought a new dress, and in two weeks she went to Columbus to .spend the week-end. The day before her at¬ tack she had been hunting, and someone suggests that she might have eaten buckshot. College Women Spend More The co-ed spends more than the mere male at Indiana university, a survey has revealed. The average student last year spent $643.22. The women spent an average of $682.70 and the men $621.07. Lowest average for any group was $511.3 8, the average for un¬ organized freshmen men. The highest, $876.82, was that of jun¬ ior sorority members. Organized women spent $210.74 I more than unorganized women, and in the case of the men the differ¬ ence was $293.30. (ACP). DuQuesne Scientists Develop Plastic Cover Duquesne university's biology department reports an important- contribution to scientific study through development of a plastic microscope /cover. Science heretofore has used plas¬ tics in ash trays, lamp bases, auto¬ mobile dashboards and scores of other products, but not until now have plastics been employed to ad¬ vance microscopic study. Discovery that there was an im¬ minent shortage of the original glass covers, previously produced in Germany, launched Dr. Robert T. Hance and two of his students on a year's research that has re¬ sulted in the new type cover. With¬ out the covers it is impossible to study a specimen. Seeking a thin, transparent sub¬ stance with all the qualities of glass, the researchers developed two substitutes which make use of plas¬ tic material. It is claimed the new covers are considerably cheaper to manufacture than those of glass and that they make possible clearer observation of plant and animal tis¬ sue under the microscope. Breg, Montgomery Attend Meeting _NSFA and the International Stu¬ dent Service have consolidated their plans for Christmastime con¬ ventions, and both are now to meet at the New Jersey College for Women at New Brunswick, N. J. Virginia Montgomery and Frances Breg, Agnes Scott delegates, will meet in Washington and proceed to the joint convention together. NSFA's theme, The Role of Stu¬ dent Government, and the theme of the International Student Serv¬ ice, How Youth Can Serve Democ¬ racy, will be taken up in individual meetings of the organizations, and also in joint sessions concerning academic freedom, the international situation, and youth's philosophy for democracy. Cunningham Becpmes President of Davidson Dr. John Rood Cunningham, fa¬ ther of Harriett Cunningham, an Agnes Scott freshman, has accept¬ ed the presidency of Davidson Col¬ lege, Dr. J. McDowell Richards, of Decatur, Ga., chairman of the Board of Directors of the College, announced recently. Dr. Cunningham will succeed Dr. Walter L. Lingle, president for the past 11 years. His presidency will begin January 27, 1941, at the beginning of the new semester. Before he accepted this position, Dr. Cunningham had served for the past four years as pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in Winston- Salem, North Carolina. Be¬ fore that, he filled several promi¬ nent places, serving as Army Y. M. C. A. secretary in 1917-18 and a member of the War Work Council of the Presbyterian Church in 191819. He filled several pastorates be¬ fore he was elected president of Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary where he remained until he accepted the call to Winston- Salem. JRadio Guild Performs At B. O. Z. Meeting B. O. Z. will have a meeting Thursday night. The Radio Guild will give a play at the meeting. K. U. B. is having a meeting Wednesday afternoon. Propaganda will be discussed and bits of propa¬ ganda analyzed. Pi Alpha Phi will meet Thurs¬ day night and there will be a de¬ bate. L. D. Adams & Son Dry Goods, Shoes Dress Goods, Hosiery The Store of Quality BALLARD'S Dispensing Opticians Thirty-five Years of Dependable Optical Service Three Locations for Your Convenience Service, Quality Merchandise, Accurate and Expert Workmanship. All the Same at Each Location. WALTER BALLARD OPTICAL CO. W. W. Orr Medical Arts Bldq. 105 Peachtree Doctor's Bldg. Bee Bradfield looks through the year as Christmas Holidays GiveTime for Thought Classes come and classes go; but always freshmen are- freshmen, sophomores are superior, juniors are being stooges for the higher-ups, and seniors are going through the endless "last times." With Christmas holidays only a few paper dolls away, minds are turning toward home, and those days pass so swiftly that you are slire Father Time pulled a fast one and cut the days to less than twen¬ ty-four hours. Among the inevitable events is the time when the entire family gathers, and Aunt Susie-Q comes smilingly over to your chair, pats you on the head, and says, "My, my, Geraldine, how you've grown! You look just like your mother! What grade are you in now?" Whereupon you grit your teeth, grin, and reply: "I'm in college now." And while the older folks discuss Granny's rheumatism and Grandpa's wild desire to wear red ties (at HIS age!), you sink into Junior Class Publishes Annual Campus Directory With Addresses, Birthdays Resuming the project begun last year, the Junior Class will publish a Campus Directory, containing both the Christmas and summer ad¬ dresses of all students and faculty members on the campus. In addi¬ tion, the directory of 1940-41 will contain the birthdays of the stu¬ dents. Elise Nance is in charge of sell¬ ing the directories, which are twenty-five cents a copy. The money will be used to help pay the campaign pledge of the class. Mrs. Sims Opens Current News, Discussions With the purpose of giving a complete survey of the week's news, Mrs. Roff Sims, of the his¬ tory department, is holding discus¬ sion groups every Monday after¬ noon at thre«-thirty. Mrs. Sims will give a survey, and then open the meetings for volunteer discus¬ sions or questions. These group meetings are open to all who are interested in attend¬ ance. They are held in Room 104, Buttrick Hall. a state which psychology has taught you to term wishful thinking. If a freshman, this retrospection probably means utter confusion. After a wonderful summer, during which you gloried in the tempo¬ rary prestige of a high school grad¬ uate, you came to Agnes Scott. Being a freshman is fun, but a bit strenuous, you think. People were awfully nice, then suddenly classes invaded the opening social whirl and you found the scholastic qucs-, tion was "To be a Hottentot, or not to be a Hottentot." You frown as you remember how six weeks' tests meant giving up your after-meal jam sessions—but time passed, as time always will, and soon (about October 1, some say!) you were looking forward to Christmas. And here you are. If a sophomore, you probably re¬ lax, even close your eyes if you dare, and give up thinking as an occupation for those more actively inclined. For now, as a second year student, you are recovering from being a freshman, and your frivol¬ ous days of agility are behind you. Dignity is doing its best to capture you, and, after all, the frosh fnust be shown, in a nice way, of course, that \ you have been here a whole year, and can give the advice of a prophet! If a junior, you will, no doubt, relax; then suddenly sit up straight and frown contemplative¬ ly. The thought just tjame that you did not progress from sopho¬ more to junior, but from sophomore to example. But it is fun having a sister class, and nice to help after being helped for two years. If a senior, your thoughts prob¬ ably wander to senior privileges. The final decision is usually that the best thing about these intangi¬ ble affairs is the anticipation of them which you enjoyed as a jun¬ ior. By then your mind is turning to June, graduation, and the ques¬ tion mark which looms ahead makes you shiver, and decide the conver¬ sation at hand is better than trying to solve the unsolvable! /E77) S/C^?/9 /=>/// TKU/fS., D£TC. /JZ /vaa/T-Ort/CA) THE AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1940 Page 5 Mollie Oliver checks up on After Working Hours A general sigh of relief went up all over the catfipus to¬ ward the end of this last week, for with exams behind us, thoughts of the gay Christmas season ahead of us, of the whirl of parties, progressive dinners, afternoon coffees, high teas, sleighing in New England, Interffaternity: Matilda Cart- swimming in the Gulf, Morsvian ledge, Edith Dale, Betty Waitt, Lil¬ services in the lian Gudenrath, Flake Patman, Bob¬ Caro 1inas, by Powell, Bippy Gribble, Nell Times Square Turner, Mary Louise Duffee, Lib in New York, Barrett, Josanne McDaniels, Ann Egg Nog Flowers, Louise Hankins,' Annie in Atlanta, Wilds, Dot Holloran, Margaret and of holiday Downie, Frankie Butt, Martha cheer, are ex¬ Dunn. citing ones. At the liA Barn Dance: Jes¬ Our Christmas sie MacGuire, Flake Patman, Iddy wish is shared Boone, Ann Friarson, Sue Phillips, throughout the. Oliver Helen Gilmer; at the SAE House nation: that our British Dance: Annie Wilds, Susan Self, Betty Waitt, Sally Knight, Martha cousins might share our happiness Stone, Susan Montgomery, Julia and luck. Ann Florence, Bettye Ashcraft, Social life proceeded at the usual Flake Patman. pace this past week. Beginning Parties this week were: The with Tuesday on campus we noted SAE Party—Clara Rountree and the: Pat Stokes were entertained. The Mississippi Dinner given for Dr. ATO Reception at which were and Mrs. Davidson, Mrs. Syden prominent: Marion Phillips, Elta stricker, Miss Winter, Miss Laney, Robinson, Rowena Barringer, Sue Beth Irby, Martha Arant, Elta Rob¬ Phillips. Navy Night at Tech inson, Janice Taylor, Susan Mont¬ included a dance, at which were gomery, Claire Bennett, Mary Ivy, Mary Louise Palmour, Margaret Leila Matthews, Frances Tucker, Hartsook, Marjorie Tippins, Gene Sis King, Kay Johnson, Mary Lou¬ Slack, Jeanne Osborne, Virginia ise Duffee, 'and Miss Mamie Lee Clowef. The Sigma Chi Steak Ratliff. Fry drew Claire Bennett, Shirley Listening to the sweet swing of Gately, Stuart Arbuckle, Susan Self, Jan Savitt were: Jean Beutell and and Ida Jane Vaughn, while the Charlotte Shepard, while the Span¬ Emory Players-Steak Fry had: ish Room attracted Kay Johnson, Carolyn Dunn, Bettye Ashcraft, Charity Crocker, and Joella Craig. Ann Flowers, Julia Ann Florence. Betty Henderson was seen at The The Phi Delta Open House Rainbow Roof. included: Duck Copeland, Sara Gray Hollis. Dances this week were, Emory ^Med Dance, attended by: Elta Campus Queen Scene: Robinson, Stuart Arbuckle, Jo- Colours were rampant this week, sanne McDaniels, Lib Barrett, Duck what with Betty Bates' dress of Copeland, Claire Purcell, Mary Da¬ vis, Gene Slack, Mary Lightfoot El-forest green, Betty Waitt's pure can, Mamie Hallman, Carolyn white satin, Margaret Murchison's Dunn, Martha Arant, Charlene use of grey, red and black, and Burke, Florrie Guy, Mary James Mary Louise Palmour's lavender Seagle. and deep-purple sweater and skirt Attention Designing Students! Enter the 'Glamour' Swansdown AMERICAN FASHION DESIGN CONTEST A grand opportunity for amateur designers! Prizes for the four best original designs of coats, suits and topcoats for Spring. If you are between the ages of 17 and 30—YOU are eligible! Prizes: $250, $100, $50, $25 Entries must be in the mail by midnight, December 31st. Obtain an Entry Blank, Now From 'Judy' at MEN i Dedicated to Pursuit of Fine Arts The dedication of Presser Hall November 3 0 marked the first great step in Agnes Scott's expan¬ sion program. Guest speakers for the occasion were two eminent American scholars, Dr. James Francis Cooke, president of the Presser Foundation, and Dr. John Louis Haney, secretary. ^ Virginia Clower Reviews McCain Flies to Meeting Cornell Of Phi Beta Kappa Senate 'For Whom Dr. "J. R. McCain, president of Unites Arts Agnes Scott, will fly to New York The Bell Tolls' City December 10, for a one-day Three professors at Cornell col¬ meeting of the Phi Beta Kappa lege have combined three classes Ernest Hemingway's newest Senate. into one and are conducting a new book, "For Whom the Bell Tolls" The first woman president of the organization, Miss Marjorie course in related arts, covering the is clearly the product of an author Hope Nicolson, professor of Eng¬ fields of art, literature and music. who saw and experienced much of lish at Columbia University and for¬ The idea came when the three the barbarity and futile cruelty of mer dean of Smith College, will were asked to lecture in their fields the Spanish Civil War, but one preside. The Carnegie Corpora¬ to an education class two years who is several degrees cooler than tion will entertain the Senate while ago. A simultaneous view of the the white heat of that first pas¬ it is there. three arts seemed such a natural sionate participation. It shows the because he must kill men to up¬ integration to them that they pre¬ tempering effect of consideration, hold the Republic, and bewildered sented their plan for the course to and is much less vitriolic than the Maria, the "cropped-haired "one" the curriculum committee, which violent and bitter stories Heming¬ whom Jordan loved "suddenly and very much." approved it. way sent out of Spain during his Though told from the viewpoint If! the classes, if the students are stay there as a war correspondent of an American sympathetic to the examining modern America, for in¬ with the Loyalist forces. Loyalist element in Spain, the story stance, they may read Paul Engle's The story itself is of Robert Jor¬ is almost lacking in prejudice, and "Break the Heart's Anger/' listen dan, erstwhile professor of Spanish Hemingway's pronounced Commu¬ to "Ballad for Americans" by John at a western university, who went nistic sympathies are little more Latouche and Earl Robinson as to Spain to study the people and than indicated. The characters are sung by Paul Robeson, and view their customs and stayed to join strongly drawn, and even-the minor Thomas Hart Benton's "Holly¬ the Loyalist army as explosion en¬ ones, such as the yjung Fascist lieu¬ wood," keeping them all in mind, gineer, preceding the troops to tenant, are memorable. The lan¬ watching for similarities and dis¬ forestall counter attacks by de¬ guage is violent, even repelling in similarities in the same trend. stroying bridges and railroads. Jor¬ places, but the charm of the Span¬ dan's first move was always to en¬ ish phrasing is captured by what Students afe encouraged to do list the aid of the guerilla forces seems to be almost literal transla¬ some creative work. This may de¬ which clumped together in small tion of idiomatic dialogue. velop into anything from a group project such as an opera to an in¬ groups all over Spain and fought The time span is very brief, cov¬ sporadically with the Fascist revo¬ ering only three days, but in the dividually-created tone poem, pic¬ ture, or short story. lutionists. On such a mission, to account of an unimportant cog in blow up a key bridge, Robert Jor¬ the war machine, sent to perform The program has proved so pop¬ dan met the band' of Pablo, and a duty useless even as it was as¬ ular that it may be repeated as an the reader is introduced to. unfor¬ signed, we can see the whole trag¬ evening course to Accommodate gettable Pilar—the "mujer de Pab¬ edy of the bloody Civil War. Hem¬ townspeople. (ACP) lo,"—gentle old Anselmo who cried ingway shows the Spanish peas¬ us antry and middle class, struggling NOTICE TO FRESHMEN to gain its rights, but overshad¬ RECORDS — owed and frustrated by the web Beauty Awaits at the of international politics and foreign Clairmont Beauty Salon PHILCO RADIOS intervention in the revolution. DC. 8011 The powerful result is surhmar — REPAIRS ized in the most appropriate title to come off the press in many LEON WEEKES CO. months—John Donne's ". . . look Make the not to see for whom the bell tolls, DE. 4131 Decatur Woman's Exchange for it tolls for thee" might well be Your Headquarters for 531 N. McDonough St. taken as the keynote of all wars, in which men destroy themselves in Christmas Shopping "Next to DeKalb Theatre" destroying each other. Bowling is fun. Bowling is good for you in many ways. Bowen Press Bowling creates good fellow¬ ship. Commercial Printing and Stationery TYPEWRITERS AND RIBBONS MIDDLETON'S BAKERY Blotters — Note Paper — Poster Paper Specializing in Party Cakes Office Supplies of All Kinds, and in 316 ChurchSt. 1>E.3383 Deoatur, Ga. Home Made Fruit Cakes DE. 9229 Page € THE AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1940 T. B. Fighters Ask For Help "The battle ^gainst tuberculosis is not a doctor's affair; it belongs to the entire public," said Dr. William Osier, M. D., one of the world's foremost teachers of mod¬ ern medicine. Against some attacks man is helpless; against others, defenses can be built or the attack can be warded off. There is no reason CHRISTMAS why mankind should per¬ SEALS mit tuberculosis, the greatest killer among communicable diseases, to go on. Thirty years ago, tu¬ berculosis was at the head of the list of the Help to Protect causes of death in the Your Home from United States; now it has Tuberculosis been pushed down to seventh place. But. it is still first in the age group 15 to 45. Even now, one out of every, four young women who die between the ages of 20 and 25, dies from tuberculosis; 60,000 people died from tuberculosis in 1939; and about 500,000 people are suffering from the disease. The decrease in death rate has been brought about by work in the laboratory, by education, and by cooperation of the public. And .the first two are impossible without the last. Probably we cannot make discoveries f in the laboratory for the war. against tu¬ berculosis, but we can make a laboratory campaign against the germ by purchasing Christmas seals, the receipts from which help to finance the medical research, pro¬ gram. The Christmas Seal sale money is also spent for popular and medical education. Education in tuberculosis work means giv¬ ing people the facts that will help to pro¬ tect them, and giving leaders the inform¬ ation that will help to eradicate tuberculo¬ sis in their community. The individual has to be taught his personal health needs; the leaders must know the community health needs. We have often heard that patients es¬ cape death through the "will to win" or the "will to live." This will is causing more people each year to win out in the conflict against tuberculosis. Not so many years ago, tuberculosis struck, but did not conquer, Noel Coward, Manuel Quezon, Eugene O'Neill, H. G. Wells, Will Irwin, and Somerset Maugham. The contribution which these men are making to present- day life might not have ^een if these men had not had the will to win. The will to win is great among the per¬ sons who have tuberculosis. It is this spir¬ it, too, which is the driving force behind the tuberculosis association in their year- round activities aimed to hasten the eradi¬ cation of the disease. Public-spirited men and women in buying and using Christmas seals show that the will to win is present among all. With such a spirit prevailing, victory is in sight. The Christmas seals which will be on sale in the lobby of Buttrick are there for each of us. The funds will be sown where they will bear fruit. The Agnes Scott News Vol. XXVI. Wednesday, Dec. 11, 1940. No. 10 1940 Member 1941 Ptssocided Golle6iate Press Published weekly, except during holidays and examination periods, by the students of Agnes Scott College. Office on second floor Murphey Candler Building. Entered as second slass matter at the Decatur. Georgia, post office. Subscription price per year, $1.25; single copies, five cents. Elaine Stubbs Editor Virginia Glower Managing Editor Florence Ellis Business Manager Matilda Cartiedge Gathers Campus Quotes • Last year the question arose concerning the name for our celebration, Mardi Gras. There were numerous arguments both for and against the name. Now the problem has arisen again , and we've been trying to find out more opinions on the sub¬ ject. Sylvia Cohn, '42: I think the name should re¬ main as it is. We have the same type of celebration as the real Mardi Gras. The at¬ mosphere is the same with the floats and king and queen. I Cartiedge don't think that it should be changed. Charlotte Davis, '42: I think the name should be changed. We should have something more original, something that pertains more particularly to Agnes Scott. Betty Sunderland, '42: I think the name is all right, but I do think we could think of something more original. And besides it isn't given on the regular day for Mardi Gras. Betty Kyle, '41: I think that Mardi Gras is one of the Agnes Scott traditions and should be kept. It means something to Agnes Scott students, and if the name' were changed it just wouldn't be the same. Claire Purcell, '42: I think the name should be changed because the celebration here isn't the same as that in New Orleans, and it gives a false impression. If they do keep the name it should be given more nearly on the same day as the real Mardi Gras. Martha Buffalow, '42: If someone could think of a more suitable and original name,' I think it would be a good idea to change it. Frances Tucker, '42: Why not have a contest to find a name more suited to the time of year in which Mardi Gras is given? ^Carolyn Long, '42: I don't think that the name should be changed, because the name is as much a part of the affair as the celebration itself. College Editors Discuss Probable Duration of Greek Resistance Can the battling Greeks, seemingly repulsing the Fascist "invaders" at every point, possibly keep their standard aloft in the weeks to come?. America's youth, as 'reflected in the collegiate press, is watching the Greek-Italian conflict close¬ ly. And undergraduate editorialr'sts are voicing quiet hope and many words of caution in their discussions. "The effect of the Greek resistance on the mo¬ rale of both the democracies and the totalitarian countries will probably be inestimable," says the Wisconsin Daily Cardinal. "It will certainly hearten the British and the 'Free Frenchmen' as well as the subversive groups within the boundaries of Germany and Italy. It means a tremendous loss of prestige to Italy and to Mussolini, who appar¬ ently thought he could march down to the Peleponnese with no more trouble than he encountered in Albania. To the German people it demonstrates that the might of the bully nations isn't invin¬ cible. The Achaeans of 1940, the lineal descend¬ ants of the defenders of Thermopylae, of Mara¬ thon, of Salamis, may once again save the West for civilization." At Syracuse, the Daily Orange declares that "with Britain's recent material admission of ex¬ tended aid to struggling Greece, the world wonders no longer about the validity of John Bull's prom¬ ise of assistance to the staunch Balkan country's resistance to the yet unproved legions of Musso¬ lini. Wiith the failure of the Fascist military machine to crush the comparatively weak Greek forces, it is no wonder that the latter country is being termed the 'Finland of the Balkans.' Even¬ tually the Italians will probably subdue the Greeks, but the surprising opposition that they are encoun¬ tering has amazed the world." (ACP) Campus Camera fLIBERTY POPLAR FAMOUS IN AMERICAN HISI&W' SINCE 1652, IS LOCATED ON TUE CAMPUS OF St JOHNS COLLEGE, ANNAPOLIS. MARYLAND. ODD NAME CORNER, Hale Wellmet is a STUDENT AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN. Betty Stevenson boils down The Real News London in Washington besides rumor, gos¬ It has been said before. London sip, and scandal. Unfortunately can, and must, take it. It must for newspapermen, it is just beyond take more and more of a ghastly their hearing. The tantalizing fig¬ punishment. The worst raid of the ure of Sir Frederick Phillips, a solid, war came secretly. Planes glided staid enough person, vanishes into the TreasuTy Building. There he down silently, and the Secretary of the Treasury, motors shut Henry Morgenthau, may be talkingoff, over a city unimaginable things, and no report¬ that was un¬ er to hear! warned. The British and American financial bombs were • experts are blandly secretive. Ru¬ mor is again invaluable for a good dropping this story with a Washington by-line. time before Rumor, as they say, has it that only the siren could the preliminaries of an American sound. loan are being talked: England's And we in Stevenson resources and the cost of supplies America are intheU. S. content to let those people stand between us and the bombs. We The Voice of the Future live in a fools' paradise. ^he Time was May, 1940; the "Forty Saints" audience, high Nazi officials; all Seventeen years ago the new sworn to a flattering secrecy; the Fascist rulers . fought their first speaker, Richard Darre, Minister of gang battle. The Italians shelled Agriculture. The leadership of Corfu, and the Greeks had to be Germany had seen fit to lay bare humble and pay the expenses. the alluring futuri. Now the shoe is on the other foot. Darre disposed of old Europe and And it's pinching, too. Nothing built up a new' one (an Aryan seems able to stop the Greeks world) -in pedantic tones. France, moving north in rocky, mountain¬ Holland, Belgium were to fall; then ous Albaniji. They have taken England, full of "babbling Church- Porto Edda and made it the city ills, servile Chamberlains, and idi¬ of "forty saints" again. They are otic Edcns and Atlecs." north past Argirocastro and crying The speaker was easily scornful "Tirqna by Christmas." of a "demoralized America" which And yet the Greeks may be in would be properly punished by eco¬ as futile a fight as the Finns' cold nomic pressure after the war. winter struggle. The balancing act Then, the new world would be between Germany and Russia will functioning well: with slaves, ac¬ decide their fate. tual slaves, working for a new Ger¬ Italian Toe Dance man aristocracy, in all the lands of Charlie Chaplin danced a mar¬ Europe and Africa. The confident velous bit with the globe fn The voice spoke on nightmarishly. Great Dictator. His wistful dis¬ The story, if true, is a revela¬ appointment at not possessing the tion of the way the Nazi mind world must be felt, less attractive¬ works. It was a scoop, printed ex¬ ly, by Mussolini this week. clusively by N. A. N. A. and JJfe, Resignations have startled the who are concealing the source. world. Badoglio, chief of the arm¬ ed forces, is out, the governor of Cooperation by Decree the Dodecanese Islands is out, the The hard-headed, literate farm¬ Under Secretary of the Navy is out. ers of France are to be regimented. All three have been replaced by No more blackouts, no more strikes; good party men, favorable to Ger¬ this comes by order from higher up. many. They call them "blitzkrieg They are all (landowners and la¬ experts" inItaly. ' borers alike) to join in one big Secrets corporate organization, and be ,hap- A great deal of talk is going on Py (by compulsory decree!).