McPherson college. McPherson, Kansas. Friday, January 14, 1938 Number fifteen

Eastman Drama Sunday Feature

One-Act Play to be Presented in College Chapel on January 23

Sponsored By C. E.

Mrs. Luther Harshburger Director of Production

"The Doctor Decides", a one-act ploy by Fred Eastman, will be presented in the college chapel on Sunday evening, January 23. This play is being sponsored by the college C. of E. with Mrs. Luther Harshbarger directing. The play will be a special feature of the School of Missions, beginning Friday night at the Brethren church.

"The Doctor Decides” is the story of a young medical missionary in the mountains of the south. His devotion to the noble work he is doing among these mountain folk leads him to face a great problem. On the one hand ho learns that his friends at home have of necessity withdrawn their support of his work as a doctor, and on the other hand these needy people who have become very dear to him, need him and want him to stay.

The cast of characters Includes: Jerry; a neurotic youth of the mountains, Wesley De Coursey; Becky, a girl of the mountains. Mary Elisabeth Hoover; Bostich. a deacon of the mountains. Charles Sheller; Barbara Guthrie, a young writer from New York, Olive Edgecomb: George Goodrich, a community doctor and medical missionary, Bruce Wood; Mother Goodrich, his mother, Ruby Weimer.

Woe be unto all ye fellow students of McPherson college—the three days of judgment are near at hand. Thusly, it is said unto you that, inasmuch as you have not "kept up." do ye therefore begin to burn that traditional midnight oil to “catch up" and cram that forgotten knowledge into the limited area of your mental capacity. Go ye therefore into the inner regions of your rooms, lock ye then the door, open a book, and feast your eyes steadfastly on its pages.

Yes. the end of the semester is but a week off, and obviously the realization that those three days of exams (Thursday. Friday and Saturday) are so close has an Influence on the students.

We hoar such remarks as "I've studied more today than all nine

Tenor Thrills Audience

Santo Di Primo. nationally known concert artist, gave a concert recital before a near-capacity audience last night at the city auditorium.

Di Primo, dramatic tenor, sang a varied and entertaining program, which clearly showed the magnificence of his voice. Mr. Di Primo was first instrumentalist with the Pittsburgh Symphony orchestra, later he took up the study of voice and sang lyric roles, and now is turning to dramatic roles as his voice is developing under advanced training.

Critics of the music world are prophesying Santo Di Primo will be one of the great artists of the future, ranking with Nelson Eddy and others. He came here with the highest recommendations of the Columbia Concert Corporation of New York city.

Beauty Specialist Advises Council

Miss Johnson, Guest Speaker, Discusses “Hair Care” Before Group

Miss Adeline Johnson of the Watkins Beauty Shoppe, was the guest speaker at the Women's Council discussion group. Thursday, January 11. Miss Johnson spoke on "Care of the Hair."

"The correct hair style for the coming year,” said Miss Johnson, “is an accented neck line and curls on the top of the head." She stressed the necessity of an individual knowing her own good points and wearing a hair dress to bring out these good points and one that will cover any outstanding defect. If the beauty operator is to do her best for one's hair she must he told what kind of shampoo has been used.

There are few entirely safe hair-dyes and it is wisest to consult your beauty operator rather than trying to dye your hair yourself. "Dandruff." said Miss Johnson, “is not as a rule contagious." In conclusion it was pointed out that the simplest kind of a hair dress is suitable for college girls and as well as being suitable it is most becoming for school.

Crawford Selects Quartet

Professor Crawford, director of the Choral Club, announced a male quartet after tryouts last Friday. This group will represent the group hereafter.

The quartet is as follows: Wesley De Coursey, first tenor; Ronald Orr, second tenor: Lyle Klotz, baritone: and Raymond Flory, second bass.

N. Y. Police Demand Students

College men who are able to supply abstract knowledge to a concrete problem are in demand at the New York police academy. Three of the 143 rookies let loose from the acad-emy have college degrees and more than 10.per cent have attended col-lege for some length of time.

weeks,” "I'll be glad when this se-mester is over,” ”I wish I had more time.”

It’s the same old story over again. Just before exams we find the library full of industrious, students who have "put it off until the last minute. Text books are opened and an at-tempt is made to learn all in a small space of time that which should have been learned during the previous seventeen weeks. Students begin to stay awake in class in order to absorb some of the material covered in reviews.    

Well, it won’t be long now. And then everyone can relax once more, put books away until that next critical exam week, and hope that the tattle tale grades won’t be too awful to be sent home.

Concert Artist Here

Debate Tourney Draws 54 Teams

Invitation Tournament Here

Won By Hays; McPherson 2 Wins Four

The invitation debate tournament held here on Saturday, January 8, was a great success from every standpoint. There were 14 schools represented and there were actually 54 teams on the campus.

There were only two teams that went through the whole tournament undefeated: Emporia 6, and Hutchinson 4. There were 11 teams with only 1 defeat: Bethany 5. Bethel 2. Bethel 4. Eldorado 2. Hays 1,2,3, Hutchinson 4. McPherson 2. Southwestern 2. and Tonkawa 2. McPher-son 2 was composed of Luther Harsh burger and Donald Newkirk.

Hays received the highest percent-age which was .75. These four schools tied for second place with an score of .600: Alva, Bethel, Eldorado, and Tonkawa. Southwestern had a percentage of .555 while McPherson clime out with a score of .533.

Nearly everyone expressed desire to return next year amt some schools which were not represented this your wish to come also, so look forward to a bigger and better debate tournament next year.

Select Newton Dates

Four Remaining Dates on Newton Concert Series Given

Members of the McPherson Cooperative Concert Association will be interested to learn the dates of the four remaining numbers to be given at Newton by that city’s Association

They are Dec. 1, Panvini-Mayo, an operatic duo; Jan. 31, Dalles Frantz,, talented pianist; Feb. 18. Carols Gi-tana, Spanish dancer; and March 18, the Russian Imperial Singers, in costume.

The McPherson program dates have been entirely determined, the first number being last night. Other artists to appear here will include Miss Rose Bempton. Metropolitan soprano; Malcolm-Godden a du-piano team: .Mildred Dilling. Harpist, and Marcel Hubert, violinist, in a joint recital.

Printed tickets hearing the dates of these presentations have been issued. From now on only those bearing McPherson Cooperative Concert Association tickets will be admitted. Ticket receipts will not be permitted.

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School Mission Service Tonight

Three Weekly Meetings to be Held; Book Review and Picture Included

Brubaker Speaker

Director Of Young People's Work Here Three Days

A School of Mission, sponsored by the Brethren church, will hold its first session Friday evening, January 14, in the church basement. Mr. Leland Brubaker from Elgin, Illinois,

member of the General Mission Board and Director of Young People's Work, will speak of the college folks and adult members of the church.

The second session will be a book review of Mark Dawber's intersting book. “Rebuilding Rural America”. This meeting will he held on Thursday evening, Jan. 20.

On Thursday evening. Jan. 27, a motion picture, “Padre Sahib”, will be shown in the church basement at the third number of the school of missions.

A dinner will be served in connection with each session of the school, to which all college students are invited. Plans have been made for separate divisions of Intermediate. Junior and Primary children. College students and adult members of the church will meet together.

Mr. Brubaker will be on the campus from Thursday till Sunday, Jan. 13-15. Arrangements have been made for Mr. Brubaker to speak in a special World Service meeting; the School of Missions, Friday night at the Brethren church; and church services Sunday.    

McPherson College is very fortu-nate in having Mr. Brubaker on our campus. Because of the shortness of his stay here it will be necessary for those wishing to have special conferences with him to make arrangements with Mr. C. E. Davis as soon as possible.

Bachelor Girls Jokes

Chicago. III.— (ACP)—According to a Loyola University psychologist. Dr. Alexander A. Schneiders, the bachelor girl who tells you that she simply loves her work and wouldn't think of leaving for home or family, is kidding at least 50 per cent of the time.

"It goes back to Freud's theory of the free will," he said. "The girl may have had a frustrated love afair, she may fear that the man she marries . will dominate her or she may have half a dozen other reasons, all in her subconscious mind, and none of which she will admit.

“The chances are that she will say she simply is not interested in men or perhaps that the right man never came along. In her case no man would be the right man."

And after hurling this gauntlet in the face of emancipated women. Dr. Schneiders leaned hack, safely en-sconed behind his psychology books.

individual or group numbers. It's your golden opportunity to exhibit your hidden talent. Don’t bo afraid of the microphone.

This year the committee has given the Senior High School opportunity to submit entries. From these a limited number will be permitted to participate. Then too, the "major" has some surprises, for you.

The committee consists of "Bill” Fry, chairman, Frances Campbell. Opal Hoffman, and Erwin Bentz. The Student council is sponsoring the pro-gram. A small admission fee will be charged to defray expenses. Come and enjoy an evening of comedy and hilarity.

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Cincinnati, Ohio -A professor of experimental medicine at the University of Cincinnati has a now theory for the cause of war. He is Dr. Clarence A. Mills, who has made aft intensive study of the effect of weather on military forces and movements.

Dr. Mills contends that the ease or difficulty by which body heat may be thrown off dominates "the entire existence level of man.” He points out that in areas of moderate temperature, the body can more easily dissipate the heat it generates, this stimulating bodily functions and increasing energy.

In hotter climates, where the warm moisture in the air is high, the body finds difficulty in throwing off its heat, resulting in a lowered vitality.

If 1917 had not been an unusually cool year in America, the United

Washington, D. C.—Compulsory military training in colleges—partic-ulary land grant colleges which receive federal funds— is often the target for criticism by peace organisations. However, the way in which our college students are, in some instances, forced to take military training contrasts strongly with the manner in which young men are trained for war in foreign countries.

In Switzerland, Italy, France. Rumania. Peru, Germany. Algeria and Iraq all young men are compelled to undergo a period of military training. And this is not in conjunction with college work. "They have to serve a year or more in the army, just as do regular soldiers.

Military service in Turkey is regarded as so important that it in prac-tically impossible for a young man to get a Job unless he has completed his military term.

Co-eds are not always omitted in training for the national defense in other nations, for instance the Women’s Home Defense Organization in Estonia trains young women for their part in war through an organization called the Home Guards.

The Boy Scout organizations in some countries have been drafted as military training agencies. Boy Scouts in Brazil, for instance, are financed by the government and re-ceive training for war under the Ministry of War.

Military training is compulsory in Argentina between the ages of 18 and 21. However, all youths are not required to undergo the training. Lots

The Collegiate Review

(Associated Collegiate Press) Fire of undetermined origin totally destroyed the chapel at Park college, Parkville, Missouri, causing an esti-mated 155 thousand dollar damage.

A cross-section of Hunter College students, in a voluntary peace poll sponsored by the World Youth Congress, revealed they believe that in case of armed conflict, the United States should prohibit shipment or munitions to all countries at war. They were divided about half and half on the question of whether they would fight for Democracy against Fascism or fight only in case the country is invaded.

All work and no play is getting an education for a student at Texas Christian University. He is carrying a full freshman course and working at four jobs to pay his expenses.

"Coke dates” during working hours are a privilege of the coeds who work in a shop near the University of Oklahoma campus. That is, as long as the shop is not busy. Their employer thinks they come back to the job more alert and ready for work.

A fountain of death for germs, has been reported by two Stanford University scientists which can kill even small animals. The invention will be used mainly to study bacteria which are torn apart by the vibration from a quartz crystal, connected to high frequency electric wires, and submerged in a harmless liquid which will not conduct electricity.

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A second cousin of Greta Garbo Is n student at Weber Junior College in Ogden, Utah. She scored 142 in a psychological examination at Ohio State and is ranked a "genius.”

A miniature world completely free from germs—the first ever made— has been developed at Notre Dame. Ten years in the making, it shows scientists that health without germs is impossible, and that life as man knows it is unlikely without the aid of germs.

A student at Lebanon Valley College is a member of a song writing team whose newest attempt "Married By the Moon”, will be introduced shortly over the major networks, by Horace Heidt, Raymond Paige, Rudolph Friml, Jr., and Ray Keating.

Patrick O'Shaughnessy Flynn, a goat belonging to a sorority at the University of Minnesota, is leaving for his home in Grinnell, Iowa. It isn't because Patrick doesn't like the

A senior at Union College wanted an organ when he was a freshman but figured it would take him a life-time to save the $25,000 necessary to buy one. He set about building one, and now owns an instrument that has three manuals, a full set of foot pedals and seven ranks of free reeds. He has rebuilt it three times.

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S.C.M. Delegates Report Meeting

Rev. C. E. Davis, Gladys Shank, and Dwight Homer Relate  Experiences

Gladys Shank, Rev. C. E. Davis and Dwight Horner in charge of the general S. C. M. meeting, Tuesday morning. January 11. These people represented McPherson College at the national S. C. M. assembly, held at Oxford. Ohio, during the last week of the holiday vacation. They brought echoes from the national assembly to the local organization.

Dwight Horner opened the meeting with devotionals and introduced the speakers. Gladys Shank told of the outstanding personalities of the assembly, such as; Adile Sweeney and Jack McMichael, chairmen of the assembly; Howard Thurman, nations ally known youth leader; Bishop W. Scarlett of Missouri and Dr. T. Z. Koo, of China.

While at Oxford Gladys attended commission on Student and Cam-pus Living. She reported that McPherson campus has few major problems compared with other colleges. Some of the problems discussed dealt with organization conflicts, conflicts between administration and students, and attitudes of students towards the church.

The morning worship services were told of by Rev.. Davis. These services were conducted every morning by Bishop William Scarlett. In these meetings Bishop Scarlett read a para-phrase from the Sermon on the Mount. His prayers were especially inspirational. Issues of today were stressed with a necessity for unity of mankind. The worship services of the assembly were concluded with an impressive communion service.

Five University of Kansas students, charged with having disfigured property on the Kansas State College campus in violation of an interschool pact, are being tried before the Student Supreme Court.

Telepathy Tests Support Theory

Personality Survival After Death Supported By Dr. J. B. Rhine

Durham, N. C.—Support for the possibility of the survival of person-ality after death is found by Dr. J. B. Rhine in experiments in clairvoyance and telepathy at Duke University.

Second sight Is a scientifically provable fact Dr. Rhine says in a book "New Frontiers of the Mind”, the result of seven years of testa. He calls present inexplicable facts which he has found, extra-sensory perception.

Survival After Death

"What we have so far found in extra-sensory perception research,” he says, "would be at least favorable to the possibility of survival of personality after death. That is, such survival would naturally mean exis-tance with bodily sense organs, nervous system and brain.”

He has been investigating the existence of something which the learned have denied but in which the common man has always believed—-the thing popularly called “sixth sense'’ which explains knowledge of an accident or death of a loved one who may be hundreds of miles away.

Laboratory tests of these experiences arc not possible, but If they are true. Dr. Rhine says, the existence of the strange ability should he demonstrated in simple experiments.

Unseen Card Test

For this, he devised a test of trying to call the faces of unseen cards. In one set of experiments one person looks at the cards in a deck, one after the other, while another person, without seeing the cards, tries to call them correctly ns they are turned. This test is a test of telepathy. That is, whether the person calling the cards reads the mind of the person who sees them.

Telepathy in this, manner has been tested in almost every conceivable way. The two persons, for example, have been separated by as much as 250 miles.

Another type of card calling test is clairvoyance. A person tries to call the cards in order in a pack which lies face downward. The person giving the test has not seen the cards but makes a record of the calls and afterwards checks them against the deck.

Badminton! What is so magic about this word? There certainly is something for three or four years ago it was unheard of on the campus and now look at its popularity. Why even last Saturday night at the girl’s dorm party. One of the things on the scavenger hunt list was a badminton racket. Only magic could work such changes!

And yet to a badminton enthusiast there is nothing so magical about the powers of the game—unless some of

W. A. A. Sport Day Draws 5 Schools

Elimination Volley Tourna- ment Included in Women’s Day Festival

Five college volley ball teams, namely, Bethel, Bethany, Sterling. Kansas Wesleyan, and Southwestern have accepted the invitation of the McPherson college W. A. A. to a Sport Day in volley ball on Saturday. January 29. at the community Building.

The elimination tournament will begin at 9 o'clock in the morning. At noon the visiting teams and our W. A. A. members will have a luncheon at the Brethren church. After the luncheon there will be a free period for relaxation and rest, after which the girls will play more volley ball until the tournament is finished.

Various committees are at work preparing for the occasion. Invitation and Publicity: Audrey Hammann, Pauline Grove and Rilla Hub-hard; Registration: Mary Richards, Kathryn Enns. Helen Cole; Programs and Awards: Lucile Cole. Verda Grove, Gracile Kindig: Entertainment: Opal Hoffman, Olive Edgecomb, Julia Frick, La Vena High; Hostess and Guides: Lenore Shirk, Rosalie Fields, Kathryn Dobbins Vera Heckman: Luncheon; Glee Goughnour, Geraldine Spohn, Doris Donne, Alberta Keller, Jessie Mess-amer. Doris Dresner; Equipment: Marion Washier. Avis Heckman.

Ida Smith and Audrey Hammann were Saturday night guests at Arnold Hall.

Mike Vasquez, a graduate of last spring, visited on the campus last week end.

The election of officers of Arnold Hall for the second semester was held last week, and the results were: President. Ellen Divine; Vice President. LaVena High; Secretary-treasurerr, Genevieve Sandy; Head Procter, Avis Heckman.

Edith Nickey is confined to her room on account of illness.

Students at Columbia University who take the psychology tests find it pays to talk back.

If they're asked to "moo like a cow" they're given a high rating if they nonchalantly moo, toss back some flippant comment. Getting embarrassed gives them a poor mark.

And an occasional “what-the-hell" during the examination rated better than "Yes, sir." The idea is to meas-ure self-confidence, aggressiveness and dominance.

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Grave-digging is the means a student at the University of Ottawa uses to keep himself In college. He is now rated a "six man" by the grave

Chet Johnston (above) captain of the Bulldog team, is the second leading scorer of the Kansas Conference. Great things are expected of Chet this year.