New Members To Personnel

Six Men and Women Replace The Absent Members of Last Year’s Personnel

Highly Commended

Instructors Highly Esteemed By Employers and Teachers

McPherson College opened the (all semester with a half dozen new teachers gathered from various parts of

the United States.

A new teacher in the department of philosophy and religion is Dr. Burton Metzler of Indiana. Dr. Metzler has

bad his training at Manchester College. Bethany Bibical Seminary. Princeton University, and holds his doctor's degree from the Babtist Theological Seminary of Louisville. Kentucky. Mr. Metzler has had a number of years of experience as professor at Bethany Bibical Seminary, and has also hud experience as a pastor.

New Dean of Women For the Dean of Women we have Miss Ida Shockley of Granger, Washington. Miss Shockley is a graduate of Manchester College. and has attended the University of Washington for a year and two summers, and spent a year at the University of Chicago from which university she holds her master’s degree. Miss Shockey taught In the high schools of Washington for several years.

In the English department is Miss Miriam Smyth- She holds her master's degree, and is soon to secure her Ph. D. from the University of Kansas. Miss Smyth has taught a number of years In high schools, and. for the past several years, has been teaching in the University of Kansas.

In commerce Don Paden is teaching. His home is at Iowa City, Iowa. He has his batchelor's and master’s degree from the University of Iowa. Ho has had no teaching experience hut comes very highly recommended by his university teachers.

Teacher In Languages Miss Ruth Koerber is the new teacher in modern languages. Miss Koerber spent ten ears studying in Germany and France. She spent some time In the University of Nebraska and at the University of Chicago. She has practically fulfilled her residence requirements for a doctorate at the University of Chicago. Miss Koerber taught in the University of Nebraska for two or throe years while taking graduate work.     

The new coach and director of men's physical education is Mr. W. Pierce Astle of Kansas City. Mr. Astle is a graduate from Teachers' College at Emporia, and bolds his master's degree in physical education from the University of Iowa. Ho, too. has had several years of experience In high school teaching and coaching; and. for the past several years, has been teaching In the Wyandotte High School In Kansas City, and coaching football and track at the Kansas City Junior College.

Teachers and students welcome this new corps of teachers and pledge them their hourly support and

co-operation.

Faculty Members Address Assembly

President Schwalm Advises Students; Dean Bright and Mohler Talk

McPherson College was officially opened Wednesday. September 8 with the

opening address, "So This Is College! ” by Dr. Schwalm.

“There may have been a number of motives loading us here, differing somewhat In worthiness and nobility, but in every legitimate motive there must appear the desire for self-improvement. "

Continuing, Dr. Schwalm declared. ‘Liberal Arts Colleges have for their major purpose the development of personality. There may he a secondary vocational purpose, but In the true Liberal Arts College the vocational purpose, is decidedly secondary. "

He concluded his address with this emphatic statement. "We want here to blend all of these and attempt to grow men and women with sound, alert, and effective minds, who live in sound, graceful, and well-mastered bodies; men and women who know and practice the social graces, and whose lives reflect the graces of the religion of our Lord Jesus. "

"Can You Take It? " was the sub-ject*of Dr. Bright's talk in chapel-

Dean Bright declared. "Watch what you take! One must choose what he Is to believe. Don’t discard your old Ideas when they are challenged; keep them until you have something on which to build and grow. Modify your outworn thoughts and give vent to new ideas, but what you take! "

Another attractive subject. "Rooms for rent. " was used by Dean Mohler. Rooms which are cluttered up. small, few windows, and little equipment are hard to rent. This illustration was turned into an analogy by the comparison of room with our minds. We have an opportunity to be of service; but. If our minds are cluttered up with petty and undesirable things in life, the desirable motives and thoughts can not find room to stay. We should not be narrow-minded; but, rather, see thing in a perspec-—be broadminded.

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Schwalm Elected Church Moderator

McPherson College President

To High Church Position.

Dr. V. F. Schwalm, president of McPherson college, was elected moderator of the Brethren denomination In the United States at the annual church conference at Nampa, Idaho. The high church position with his presidency of McPherson college as he will continue the two fields of work.

The nomination and election came as a complete surprise to him. He succeeds Dr. Paul Bowman, Bridgewater, Va., who has been moderator during the past year and who prosided at the Nampa conference.

The principal duty of the moderator Is to preside at all conference meetings and all business sessions in connection with the national church program. A standing committee of six or seven men prominent in Brethren work throughout the nation make up the executive committee of the conference and transact the business

of the church.

This year 3, 000 to 4. 000 Brethren people from over the United States attended the conference at Nampa. The 1938 annual conference will be held somewhere In the Middle West because of Its more central location. In the past when the conference has been held In Pennsylvania from 10. 000 to 12. 000 persons have been In attendance. At similar conferences held In the Mid-West crowds ranging from 8, 000 to 10, 000 attended. The city at which the conference will be held next year has not yet been selected.

McPherson Not Large Enough

McPherson. Dr. Schwalm said, is not large enough to handle a several days conference of 8,000 to 10,000 people, mainly. he explained, because there is no auditorium here large enough for such a gathering. The conference city will be selected later by the standing committee of the organization.

Several other people from McPherson who are prominent in the church also'attended the Nampa conference. They included Dr. J. J. Yoder, Dean R. E. Mohler and Dr. C. E. Davis. Mr. Davis was chairman of publicity at the conference.

Dr. Schwaim's election as national moderator of the Brethren church is a great honor It classifies him as an outstanding leader and church man. His new position will take him to many parts of the United States during the next year. McPherson feels honored to have one of its citizens elected to such a high position.

Weird inventions pictured in psuedo-scientific magazines will probably become a reality by the year 2030, explained Earnest L. Foss, of General Motors, to students at the University of Michigan, As an illustration,. Foss described submarine factors which will harvest undersea growths.

the college at a meeting last night. When completed the building will Include a gymnasium, class rooms, first aid rooms, offices for athletic

IMPROVEMENTS ON CAMPUS

The first, second, and third floors of Science Hall were redecorated during the recent month of August- This fact has been noted by returning students and the fresh appearance commented upon by freshmen. This summer

the floors of the second floor of Arnold Hall were refinished.

All tills has been done In addition to the regular summer cleaning and repairing.

Freshmen Lead In Large Enrollment

Sophomores Follow With 58; Juniors With 45.

With 335 students enrolled, this promises to be a big year for McPherson College. Students have come from eighteen states and Canada.

The office records show the following facts: There are forty-three seniors, twenty-six of whom come front Kansas, while the rest come from Idaho, which sends two; Colorado sending two; Iowa, four; Illinois, three; Missouri, three; Nebraska, one: and Minnesota, two.

Forty-five students make up the Junior Class Twenty-nine come from Kansas while the rest are divided thus: Iowa, six; Idaho, two; Nebraska, one; Missouri, one; Louisiana. one; Pennsylvania, one; Minnesota. three; and Ohio. one.

Fifty-eight have joined the Sophomore Class thirty-three of whom are from Kansas. Iowa sends eleven; Idaho, three; Minnesota, one: Florida. one; Nebraska, two; Texas, one; Missouri, three; Oklahoma, one; Massachusetts. one; and Colorado one.

One-hundred- thirty- seven have started in the Freshman Class. Eighty-five Kansas students were supplemented when Idaho sent nine Iowa, sixteen; Colorado, five; Ohio, one; Nebraska, six; Indiana, one; Mississippi, four; North Dakota, one; Oklahoma, two; Louisiana, one; Montana, one: Minnesota, three, and Washington, one.

This Is the way the enrollment runs according to classification: Freshmen, 137; Sophomores, 68; Juniors, 45; Seniors, 43; Specials, 8; and Fine Arts. 44.

Members of the Church of the Brethren predominate, but there are members of 15 other denominations represented: Catholic, Community, Covenant Mission, Lutheran, Evangelical, Christian Science, Nazarene, Baptist. Christian, Mennonite, Episcopal, Congregational. Presbyterian, Methodist sad Brethren in Christ.

Everybody about the campus is

interested In Mr. Leroy "Snowshoes. ” Graham. This chap came to McPherson

from near Calagary, Alberta, Canada Graham. 'Lee' as he prefers to be called, learned of McPherson College through Mr. Bernard Suttle, a McPherson College graduate, who is now the pastor of the First Irrlchana Church of which Lee is a member.

directors, and If enough funds are made available the right wing of the building will house an Indoors swimming pool. The college hopes to be

Plans Complete For Gymnasium

McPherson College To Build Structure Within Next Twelve Months

Board Accepts Plan

Drawings Submitted by A. R. Mann Company, Accepted

Plans for a new gymnasium and physical education building for McPherson college, designed In the latest modernistic trends, were approved by the college executive board at a meeting last night as the college, gets

started on the project that has been planned for sometime.

The board formally employed the A. it. Mann Company. Hutchinson architects, to draw up the final plans and specifications for the new gymnasium.

The drawing submitted by Mann at the board meeting Wednesday was accepted by the board. The design Is along modernistic trends and will be a splendid improvement to the campus. A few minor changes may be made in the plans before actual construction starts, but the general appearance of the building will lie as now planned-

The new building a* it is now planned includes a large gymnasium, shower and locker rooms, offices for athletic directors, class rooms and first aid rooms. If present plans materialize the college hopes to build an Indoors swimming pool at one end of the building. If funds do not permit the swimming pool may not be added at this time but will be built later on as soon as funds are available. The gymnasium will be targe enough for a full sized basketball court.

The structure as proposed, Including the swimming pool, will be 153 feet

long and 102 feet wide. The center section, or the gymnasium, will be two stories high. Class rooms and other departments will be on the ends and front in a one-story section. The swimming pool will be at the right end of the building.

"A good share of the funds for this new building have bean pledged. " Dr. V. F. Schwalm said today. "Most of the pledges rail due within the next 12 months. As soon as sufficient funds are made available to justify It, work will be started. It la hoped that those who have pledged will pay their pledges promptly and that friends of the college who have not yet pledged to the Anniversary Fund will do so now and make this fine new building a reality. "

Only Three Graduates Unemployed

Most of last year’s seniors who applied for positions have been employed. Only three who were seeking employment have failed to find

jobs.

Teaching school is the profession which has been chosen by moat of last year's graduates as twenty-one are now touching. Several have entered other colleges to seed advanced degrees. Business newspaper work and matrimony are other professions which some of the former students have chosen.

able to start construction of the new building sometime within the next 12 months.

Music Groups Prepare Violin Choir and Pep Band Slake Excellent Beginning. Women’s Council Serves Tea Autoists leaving the main high ways in the national forests are required to carry an ax and shovel for fire prevention purposes.

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Duo to past observations we must come to the conclusion one of the big things needed by McPhereon College is a more unified and understanding cooperative spirit.

Through the past years there has been a destructive rather than a constructive element shown on our campus. Persons who have erred have been encouraged and stimulated to larger and greater errors due to the fault of others.

It is hard for anyone to return evil for good, but it is very easy to return evil for evil. Human kind la so constructed. as to his Inner self, that makes It hard for him to ao act that it would hurt or destroy the faith and friendship of one who has always attempted to understand and

reconstruct his life on a higher plane.

The formal statement of our foreign policy by Secretary Hull on July 16 is particularly significant at this time because of Its bearing on the Far Eastern situation. Demands fur military protection of our trade in China, which Is supposed to be threatened by Japan, are appearing in

newspapers that voice the sentiments of big business. Demands for defense of China as the victim of aggression are being made by believers in the doctrine of "collective security. " as that phrase is used today. Demands for a naval alliance with the British Empire to dominate the world in the interest of an Anglo-Saxon peace are heard from a curious variety of

sources.

Peace based on coercion Is popular

In some quarters. The sanctity of treaties Is being proclaimed by the "Haves, " with vague and unconvincing references to the necessity of providing for changes in the status quo. We are ing wooed with 160 flattering persistence by our former allies to Join with them again in

"defending democracy, " this time from fascism Instead of German

militarism.

Address All Correspondence to THE SPECTATOR McPherson, Kansas

Harold Larsen Rilla Hubbard Raymond Coopedge Russel Kingsley

Some persons are not satisfied in seeing a person slip, but they seem to enjoy encouraging him to slip further and ruin his future attempts to make good. They do not seek ways to encourage him but do everything possible to discourage him and to cause him to be revengeful, due to the narrowmindedness of others.

We are all beginning a new year. Let us become a united cooperative community, that will strive to encourage every member to raise his standard

to a much higher level. Let us all broaden ourselves Into a sympathetic, kindly, unified spirit. Through everyone's utmost cooperation we can make this the most successful and enjoyable year In the history of McPherson College. Let everyone cooperate.

The Editor.

.COLLEGE DAZE

Well, here we are back in school to finish up the job. and there are so many old friends back. When you see one, you feel a warm place toward him, clear across the campus.

There are so many new and promising faces on the campus (his fall: I wonder If any of them can ho

as dumb as I was. This makes the seventh time I have gone through all the agonies of enrollment, and they seem to have decided after all these years at hat to let me have one base. When Fries saw me coming, that hopeless look came Into his eyes, and he signed my cards with only a little hesitation. Dr. Schwalm had quite a struggle with me once or twice in times past to get me to stay, hut he seems to know now there is no getting rid of me until I finish the Job I be

Two of the familiar college music organizations, the Violin Choir and the Pep Band, are making preparations for successful seasons.

Including eleven members as a nucleus, the Violin Choir will have its first rehearsal next Tuesday night. Prof. Crawford has listed the following  members: Frances Campbell and Vera Flory. first violin; Marjorie Fairchild and Ramona Fries, second violin; Margaret Fry. Dorothy Steinbeck, and Russell Kingsley, third violin;

Dorothy Ledbetter, Eugene Crabb. and Clarence Russell, fourth violin; and Jack Du Bots. piano.

Prof. Crawford invites other violinists

to see him if interested In the Choir. After rehearsals every week, the Violin Choir will present a formal concert In March, followed by other public appearances. Frances

Campbell will be concert master.

With Eugene Crabb. capable freshman musician, at the helm, the new Pep Baud Is swinging along at a rapid pace. New books with. numbers appropriate for games and pep sessions will be used. Crabb wants other musicians to join the group, which is preparing for their first appearance. the Kearney, Nebraska. Teachers football game next Thursday night.

One of the social affairs, the opening week of school, was in the form of a tea given by the Women’s Council, Thursday afternoon, Sept. 9., In the Student Union Room.

Appropriate violin and piano background music for the afternoon was furnished by Margaret Fry, Frances

Campbell and Gladys Shank.

Dean R. E. Mohler Presented Award

State Science Academy Gives Honor For Scientific Work In Biological Field

Dean R. E. Mohler of the McPher-,on college faculty and curator of the college museum, was elected to receive the annual honor award from the Kansas Academy of Science for his work In some scientific field.

The award includes a check for $25 from the Academy of Science for use In furthering his work In the field of scientific research.

During the last few years Dean Mohler has been achieving a great deal of success in excavating the bones of prehistoric animals, creatures that roamed the plains of the Middle West thousands and possibly millions of years ago. Already be has assembled a rather large collection of bones from the prehistoric period and these bones are new either on display in the college museum or In preparation for the museum.

Last month Doan Mohler led a party of students and others on a two weeks field study and search for the bones of prehistoric animals. The expedition covered several states, Including Colorado. Nebraska, South Dakota and Western Kansas.

Dean Mohler says he believes he will use the $25 In preparing specimens he hopes to bo able to add to his collection In the college museum. He said ho believed that In this way he will receive the most good from the award.

The 1937 award to a McPherson scientist is not the first award of its kind received by a local scientist. A few years ago Dr. J. W. Hershey, head of the chemistry department of McPherson college, received the yearly

award and used it in his research In rare air atmospheres.

Receives State Award

Dean Robert E. Mohler (above) was awarded the annual honor award of the Kansas Academy of Science, for his work in the scientific field. Dean Mohler, as curator of the college museum has brought fame to himself and McPherson College through his study and research in the field of Biology.

Teachers To Face New Regulations

Student With Two Years Work Must Take Special Study

A now ruling has been made by the elate hoard of education. Dr. V. F. Schwalm. McPherson, member of the board, announced today, which makes it possible for a student to secure a certificate to tench in the elementary schools of Kansas on the basis of 30 semester hours (one year) of work in any college. All of this college work must ho normal work especially designed to help the prospective teacher.

Heretofore, excepting the teacher's colleges, a student could only secure a certificate on the basis of 60 hours (two year) of college work. It is now

required that the student take special work, largely designated by the state board of education, designed to be helpful to the elementary teachers, but the student can. if he or she desires, secure a certificate bn the basis of this work at the end of one year of training

Certificates granted on the basis of the 30 hours of work will be valid for two years. Dr. Schwalm explained, and renewable thereafter on the basis of 15 hours of additional normal training.

"By June of 1042. all new certificates granted by the state hoard will he on the basis of CO semester hours of special training for teachers.” Dr. Schwalm said. "This is a definite step in the direction of a more professionally trained group of elementary teachers in Kansas and will tend to raise the rank of Kansas in an educational way above the low place this state hold recently.”

Numerous other regulations

regarding the renewal of county

certificates have been made and

announced by the state board of

education and Information on these

regulations may he obtained from the

state department of education or

perhaps the county superintendent

somewhat later.

Hershey Makes Largest Gems

A real one-thirtieth carat diamond made from gum arabic, the starch of the tropical arabic plant, a new source which makes bigger diamonds than the sugar with which science had experimented since 1879 was shown to the American Association for the Advancement of Science at Denver. June 24.

The stone Is as big as one of the chip diamonds that Mud wedding rings. It is one of 25 "starch” diamonds made recently by Dr. J. Willard Hershey, of McPherson college.

He also has some pink diamonds, stones unlike those In nature, made from starch with aid of the manganese steel which is an artificial production  of metallurgy.

Dr. Hershey has been making diamonds 12 years and produced 25 little "sugar” diamonds before switching to starch. His purpose Is to discover how nature makes them and to get big ones.

He said he now believes it will be possible to make larger diamonds. His switch from sugar to starch answers one part of the diamond puzzle

It is the carbon In either sugar or starch which turns into diamond, but the starch of the gum arabic plant has more atoms of carbon per molecule

than the sugar. This makes It look as if the amount of carbon available is a factor In size of diamonds.

The large starch diamond was made by dissolving the carbon in the starch in molten Iron. Its contents heated to 5400 to 7400 degrees Fahrenheit by an electric current of 120 volts and 65 amperes.

The hot Iron was chilled with brine. Breaking it open, sometimes at many as six starch diamonds were found, and sometimes none.

Dr. Hershey tried other "solvents”

than Iron. When he dissolved his 'Starch in manganese steel he got four pink diamonds. Each was about the also of a pin head. The manganese which tints steel mill smoke pink gave the stones their color,  He tried other "solvents.” One  was the blue earth from diamond fields In South Africa. When his  earth was melted in the electric cup.

and suddenly cooled. It formed a mass as hard as concrete. But there were no diamonds.

   Dr. Hershey said however the ex

periment indicates the natural diamonds

may be formed In blue earth when it is far down in the ground under enormous pressures.

Ho also dissolved his starch carbons In copper, silver, nickel, tungsten. lead and aluminum.

Instead of starch, Dr. Hershey has dissolved coal, wood charcoal, coke  and several other carbon-containing substances in iron. But none yielded diamonds.

To determine whether or not negroes are discriminated against at Ohio State University four campus organizations are conducting an in- vestigation.

Hershey Again Honored

Dr. J. Willard Hershey, head of the McPherson College Chemistry department again receives world-wide recognition for his work in the re search field. Dr. Hershey Is not only known for his work in producing

synthetic diamonds, but is also a well-known authority on the effects of rare gases.

PARADES

I cannot watch parades go by Nor hoar the proud drums beat But I recall a soldier song And tramp of marching feet. Remembering bow flags were hung • Like courage in our street.

And when the shining bands blare out

A soldier’s lullabies

Above the lusty shouts of boys,

Above the children's cries,

I have to turn my head against The ghosts in women's eyes.

—Gertrude Callaghan. In The New York Times

Announce Achievements At U. S. Science Meeting At Denver, June 24.

Excluding his photograph, most insistent requests made on Robert Taylor by his fans are for articles of his clothing.

Competition In college athletics was raised to a higher piano when the University of South California aviators  flew against the Stanford Indians in their first novel air-meet.

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