McPherson college, McPherson, Kansas, Wednesday, oct, 22, 1930

CATES TO DIRECT

Club Membership Open To Everyone Except The Freshmen-To Have Tryouts

The Thespian club, honorary dramatic organization on the campus, has selected the play "The Patsy," a three-act comedy by Barry Conners, to be presented sometime the first of December in Convention Hall down town, however, the exact date has not as yet been made.

The play will be directed by Mrs. Lawrence L. Gates who last year pro-duced the organizations play, "The Queen's Husband." Last year Mrs. Gates was head of the dramatic de-partment of the College but this year is not connected with the College in any way, the College having done away with the dramatic department.

"The Patsy" is one of the prettiest and most popular plays of the past few years. Clarborne Foster has popularized this play all over the country. The story concerns Pat-

ricia Harrington, a girl who "runs second" to her older sister. She is the Patsy who is blamed whenever anything goes wrong, and is forced to remain in the background in order that her sister may be presented to advantage. Her, father, a travel-ing man, is on her side, and fin-ally declares his independence by putting Ma in her proper place. This brings about Patsy's ultimate triumph and needless to say, affords her happiness as the bride of the man she loves.    

As a recent meeting of the organi-zation it was voted to have member-ship limited to seniors, juniors, and sophomores, excluding all the fresh-men. This move was taken to keep

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STRONG PARTY SPIRIT MANIFESTEDD AT RALLY

Veteran Debater Gives Talk— Lehman Chairman Of The Rally

Thurs., Oct. 16--A strong party spirit was manifested here tonight In a big rally hold In the chapel of the College by the college Republican club at which time three main political addresses were mode, John Lehman, chairman of the organiza- tion. presided at the rally.

The meeting opened with the sing ing of the "Star Spangled Banner. after which the first address. "Why Vote for Haucke" was given by Ralph Keedy, Philip Lauver. a budding young politician, spoke on the "Demorits of the Democratic Party. ” and Keith Hayes, a veteran college debater, gave the closing appeal and placing Brinkley as an Issue speak-on "Why Brinkley Cannot Become Governor, " The rally closed with the singing of "America. "

In a certain class in the College last week the question of education and the number of children to each family was discussed and as a result some amazing statistics have been compiled to show that out of a class where 32 families were represented the average number of children to the family was 5,1. The statistics also show that in cases when both the parents are either high school or college graduates the average num-ber of children to the family is con-siderably lower, which goes to show that the greater amount of educa-tion the smaller the families.

The statistics show that in 12 cases out of the 33 families both the father and mother received only a grade school education. To these 12 families were born 67 children or an average of 5.5 to the family.

COMING EVENTS

Wed., Oct. 22—Find Intramural B. B. game, 6: 30. Wed., Oct. 22 —-Orchestra practice at 7: 00.

Thurs., Oct. 33—Chemistry so-ciety, 4: 30.

Fri. Oct. 24—The Baker here.

Tues., Oct. 28—Y. M. and T. Y.

Thurs., Oct 30—St. Mary's game, here.

Fri. Oct. 31—Halloween.

Intra-mural basketball teams have

been chosen and play is to start this week. Enough players have been mustered to constitute eight teams. The tournament is to consist of a single round-robin schedule and must have all games completed by Thanksgiving.

Football men are excluded from taking part in the tourney but are eligible to referee or officiate.

Coach Melvin J. Binford chose the eight captains who in turn chose their men by the line up method and then later by the grab method in or-der to get the required number.

The captains and their team col-ors are: Jamison, "Scarlet": Gott-man, "White": Rump, "Orange": Lerew, "Yellow": Bartles, "Mar-

oon": Fleming, "Green"; Austin,

"Blue": and Shackelford, "Black".

One rule the captain of each team must see that is obeyed and that is that every member on his squad has passing grades in 12 hours of work.

The round-robin schedule:

Scarlet vs. Orange, 6:30 p.m., Wed., Nov. 22.

Green vs. Blue, 6:30 p. m., Thurs. Nov. 23.

Maroon vs. White, 4:00 p. m., Fri., Nov. 24.

Black vs. Yellow, 5:00 p. m., Fri., Nov. 24.

PROF. BOONE TO TOPEKA

To Address State Teachers Conven-tion In November

Prof. G. N. Boone, instructor of the industrial education department

of the College, has been invited to attend and contribute to the program of the state teacher's convention to be held at Topeka, November 7. He will address teachers of industrial and vocational arts on the subject; "The General Shop as A Finding Course Procedure."

HERSHEY TO WICHITA

CLUB DRAWS INTEREST

Two Daily Newspapers Carry Stories Of The College Republican Club

Two well known daily newspapers, the Wichita Eagle and the Topeka Daily Capital seem to be taking an interest in the Republican club of McPherson college. When the club was organized two weeks ago both

papers carried stories about the or-ganization and last Saturday long

articles about the big rally the young Republicans at the College last Thurs day night.

BLAIR ADDRESSED THE

COLLEGE C. E. SUNDAY

Professors Speaks Of The "Modern

Challenge" For The Students

BULLDOGS ARE READY FOR BAKER WILDCATS

Conference Leaders Have Been “Running Wild”—Have Won Two Games

HERE FRIDAY NIGHT

McPherson Has Had Two Weeks Of

Hard Workouts—Lines Are

   About Even

When the Bulldogs meet the Baker Wildcats here Friday night they will face the Kansas conference leaders who have been running wild this season and it seems that no team is able to hold them. Their ferocity has been made manifest by the way they trounced the powerful Kansas Wes-

leyan Coyotes by a score of 19-0. They were running wild when they played the Swedes and handed them a defeat of 61-6.

Although the Baker line averages only 172 pounds they seem to possess a special faculty for drive and speed. The Wildcats will depend upon Lango to do their passing. Stock and Cook-son comprise a pair of fast shifty half backs that are hard to stop. It is around this trio that the Wildcats place their hopes of victory Friday night.

Despite the coming battle the Bull-dogs with a rest last Friday, will be ready for whatever the Baker Wild-cats have to offer. Together with the new material and some good hard scrimmages these last two weeks the Binford men are in top form to give the Wildcats a real battle. Since Baker's average weight does not sur-pass that of McPherson so very far, this should enable the Bulldog line to check the Baker offense.

VIRGIL REMEMBERED IN CHAPEL BY HESS

2,000th Anniversary Of Writer Is Observed By College Professor

Wed. Oct. 15- - "To-day is the 2000th anniversary of the birth of Virgil. ” stated Prof, Hess in chapel this morning. He told of the life of Virgil and the greatness of his works A very interesting review of "Aeneid" was given. This is a very wonderful poem in spite of the fact that It was never completed.

In his work. Virgil searched for

perfection    He felt the necessity.

of doing one thing well. We should try to do one thing well enough that years later our birthday will be as universally celebrated.

A NEW AMENDMENT IS

RATIFIED BY W. A. A.

Organization To Assess Members Dues —Next Sport To Be Volley Ball

Mon. Oct. 20-- An amendment to the constitution of the W. A. A. was passed in the regular meeting the-evening that provided that dues may be assessed in the organziation. It is to be decided later what the does will be for each member. The president, Ethel Jamison, announced that the soccer finals will be played eith-er this week or next, if the weather permits. The next sport to be taken up Is Volley ball.

JUST LIKE A..

If every man were taken at his own value there wouldn't be enough halos to go around.

One of the reasons you can't put a million dollars in jail is that by the time all the appeals have been heard the legal gentleman have most of

WHAT THE NEWSPAPERS DO

There is a mistaken idea current with a certain type of reformer that newspapers carry the functions of creators and censors of the public taste. They complain of the general contents of the daily papers because they contain news and feature stories that offend the reformer's notion of what the people ought to read.

Newspapers are, in a way, guardians of the public morale within the terms of the law and the canons of common decency. They are published as a rule by men of clean character, habits and taste, as jealous of the good morals of their own families as is any reformer in the land. They print newspapers that pass through the mails without offense to the laws which protect against indecency and immorality and that are welcomed by the most correct and intelligent people of the country.

The objective of the newspaper is to report to its readers as fully and reliably as possible the news of human current transactions and the events of nature. The pages are kept sensitive to the demands of the reading public. They are photographic plates of the day and the public watches and searches them as the astronomer does his plates of the night to catch the phases of the heavens and possibly discover a new planet.

The popular pages of the newspaper reflect very accurately the phase of public taste, created otherwise than by the newspapers. The new columns are the study of a section of the public, the society columns are most important to another section, the sports pages to yet another, the market pages to another, and so on through the make-up of the daily issue. But the public at large wants "all the news that is fit to print", by the common standards of public interest and curiosity, so that the run of the readers are the proper censors of the press and not the fervid re-formers who are monomaniacs on particular phases of popular life.

Every living thing is related through a common descent to all the rest of life—H. G. Wells.    

HOW FAST ARE WE LIVING?

Always are we waging a war against time. Time and space are being eliminated by the efficiency of progress and the terminating desire to coup with finance and business. The science of progress is the science of de-feating time. The world is taking on a “hurry, hurry” aspect that is fluttering the mighty winds that govern our atmosphere.

Last year the Graff Zeppelin spanned the 5,500 miles between Toyko and the Golden Gate in one hour less than three days. Hawks recently ate breakfast in San Diego and that evening dined in New York City. Recently a news-reel photographer in Chicago took news pictures of a well known actress as she was descending from a train and three hours later the same film was flashed on the screen before an astonished crowd in New York—television.    You can read daily New York newspapers in

London the morning they are issued in New York. And what is more— we ask —is there anything ahead? Some say that they are not satisfied yet. The science of progress now dreams, and it won't be long, when one can write a letter in his office and it will be instantly received in facsimile by the person to whom it is addressed—wherever he may be.

The peace and solitude of a century ago is giving way to things of greater away. We have been endowed with a cosmic desire for speed. We are getting it. We want things that are new—things that are alive—and things that terminate our personal desires. One can but realize the rhelm of activity in which we are living and we can only be thankful that we are alive and are living in the age of "war against time."

It's foolish to kick against things you can't help. But you don't know you can't help them until you have kicked.

REFLECTIONS OF RAYMOND THE RAMBLER

There are many customs around this man's college: some good, some bad, and some adolescent. There is one that has been a sort of sore thumb to some people. It isn't one that is tangible or anything like that, but it is pretty hard to fight just the same. There have been those who attempted to break over it and got rather promptly sat on. There are those who object to it but don't do anything about it. This custom in essence is: a couple have once publicly dated and have thereby estab-lished unique claim upon one another. By the time of the second date it has assumed almost the proportions of possession and by the third it is conceded to be all over but the announcements—anyhow, it is that bad.

What we need to meet the crisis is a number of devoted, sacrificial young men who will whole heartedly throw themselves into the cause and date a different girl each night for fourteen successive nights until we have crushed this dire custom which is threatening the social well being of M.C.

—W. R. W.

Minnich is the Educational Scere-tary of General Missions of the Brethren.

When Christ came to this world he shared truths with the people in the darkness thus bringing light to many. Through these revelations we are able to know the truths and it is our duty to take them to those who do not. In addition to the thoughts given by Minnich this morn-ing he is scheduled to talk further along this same line this evening. Irwin Rump led devotionals.

Sunday's Dinner Menu, October 19

Sweet Potatoes

Stewed Chicken, a la miniature Chicken Gravy Cranberry Sauce  White Bread     Pork and Beans

White Cherries in Red Juice Cake with Nuts in Caramel Icing Now I guess a lot of people who live in the dorm will be sorry they went home this weekend.

The Science of Worrying

We have discovered that it is best to worry about a number of things at the same time instead of concen-trating on some worry. We have the blues when we think about no-thing execpt our dates and life seems hardly worth living when we worry about nothing except our lessons. We almost become ill when we do all our worrying over the thought that out money is gone. Worrying about any one of these things is terrible, but it isn't had when we worry about it all at the same time. When we put dates, lessons and money togeth-er and worry about them in a lump, there is so much of it that we are un-equal to the task of worrying suffi-ciently, so we cheer up.

It is possible for a bald-headed man to be a failure although he has come out on top.

Melvin Miller, former Bulldog ath-lete, visited on the campus one day last week. Mr. Miller is playing on an independent football team in Wichita where he is employed by the

Phillips Petroleum corporation.

Ellen Steinberg spent the week end at Lorraine, Kan., with her par- ents.

Velma Butterbaugh visited her parents at Geneva, Nebr., Saturday and Sunday.

Grace Early, Alma Morrison, Vel-ma Keller, Mary Weddle, John Leh-man and Philip Lauver were among the students that attended the dis-

RUTH ANDERSON IS

SERIOUSLY INJURED

Former Student In Car Wreck Northeast Of Hutchinson On Way To School

Not more than a week before the daring robbery of the Lamar bank young Crist was working in a field near his home when ‘'Jake”, driving the car later found boxed and hid in a barn on their farm, stopped and in a neighboring manner chatted with Ted. There was nothing unusual about their conversation to warrant Crist suspecting that "Jake" was making plans for a big bank robbery. The Flengles had always been good neighbors but were not good mixers in the community. They were what one might call strictly home folks. They never attended any social af-fairs in the neighborhood and the only place they ever went to was Garden City and Friend.

Mrs. Fleagle, mother of the notor-ious "Jake'', was a member of the church and it is said she was an active worker, "I don't know of church and they say she was an a church worker as Mrs. Fleagle", Ted has remarked. But a few years before the Lamar robbery she began to drop her church work and grad-ually left it altogether. Ted's fath-er was pastor of the church. Neither "Jake” or his father or any of the other boys ever went to church.

"Jake” lived with his parents as long as he was in western Kansas on the farm. The Fleagles were not farmers but were great horse raisers and this seems to be their only source of income besides the banditry of the boys. It has been suspected that they bootlegged but no one was ever able to find that they did such and it is a question if they ever did sell liquor. In former days the Fleagles were good horsemen and usually carried off the prizes at the rodeos, and they are still riding and raising horses for an income.

It has never been known that the Flegle boys ever took anything from their neighbors and their neighbors were never any more suspicious of them as they were of any of the oth-ers.

Now "Jake'' is dead, his brother Ralph has been hanged in Colorado, Walter is in jail serving out a sen-tence, and Fred is in the courts on a charge of tax evasion.

RANKIN ENTERTAINS

COLLEGE STUDENTS

Eight College Girls Enjoy House Party Given Last Friday Night

Fri. Oct. 17—Miss Constance Rankin, sophomore, was hostess at a house party given at her home this evening. At 7 o'clock a very tasty

FORENSIC CLUB MEETS

First Regular Two Weeks Meeting—Speeches Are Given—-Hess la Sponsor

Mon., Oct. 20— The first regular meeting of the Forensic club was held tonight in the College chapel. Lilburn Gottman, president of the or-ganization, presided over the meet-ing and gave an introductory speech on the purposes and benefits of the Forensic group.

The program consisted of short talks by Keith Hayes on "The Rela-tion of Freshmen to Upperclassmen". and Ward Williams on the "History of Forensics at McPherson College". A reading was given by Lucille

It was decided that the club would meet every other Monday night. Prof. Maurice A. Hess is sponsor of the organization.

FORMER STUDENT "KILLED

Glade Fisher Mistaken For Deer In Idaho And Is Accidentally Shot By His Companion

Fruitland, Idaho, Oct. '17 — Glade Fisher, a graduate of McPherson college was accidentally killed today | while hunting deer in the hills near here. Fisher and a companion were hunting deer when they became separated from each other and Fisher

was mistaken for a deer. Mr. Fisher was a well known, student on the McPherson college campus and played several years on the Bulldog football team. He was married in the spring.

FIND A SMALL BOA

Snake Is Found In Bananas— Now In Biology Laboratory

Mon., Oct. 20—A small boa con-strictor nearly two feet in length, was brought to the biology laboratory this morning by Vernon Gustafson after it had been found in a bunch of bananas. The snake was found wrapped around the stalk of the bananas in the Alliance Exchange store and was not discovered until a clerk cut away some bananas.

JUNIOR PICTURES THIS

WEEK FOR QUADRANGLE

Urged To Have Their Pictures Taken As Soon As Possible

The Quadrangle staff says that be-ginning today the juniors are to have their pictures taken at either Walker’s or Ostlind’s Studio. They will be given a week In which to have their portraits taken and the staff is urging that they take this matter up Immediately.

It costs the city of New York $930,000 a day to operate its public school system, and the figure is ex-pected to reach a million dollars daily in the near future.

Every person in the United States is on the average $2. 32 poorer than he was a year ago.

Last year there were more college students in the United States than in all the rest of the World combined. There were 1, 237, 000 students enrolled In colleges and universities in this country.

The first book from the Hunter College Press, just established, Is a Latin test book for adults.

Thespians to give

THE PLAY “THE PATSY”

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up the high standard of the organiza-tion. The present membership Includes five men end five women and it has been voted to limit the membership to twenty. Tryouts for new members will be held next week at which time prospective members will he given dramatic cuts in read before a group oF Judges composed of the coach the club adviser, and probably the president of the club.

Tryouts for "The Patsy" will be held within the organization and it is hoped that rehearsals may be underway by November 1. The club membership now Includes ten and

and ten new members will be taken into the club. Those who are now members are Lillian Horning. Helen Hudson, Mildred Doyle, Lucille Crabb, Ethle Sherfy. Orville Voran. Verie Ohmart. John Lehman. Leland Landell, and Philip Lauver,

BAKER BEATS THE SWEDES VERY BADLY

Phillips U. Trims St, Mary's In Hard Fought Game At Enid, Oklahoma *

BAKER 61 - BETHANY 6

Kansas Wesleyan Goes To Missouri For Intra-State

— DRIPPINGS —

from

THE DOPE BUCKET

The Bulldogs are to face the high-ly touted Baker Wildcats Friday night on the local gridiron. The odds greatly favor the Baker eleven ac-cording to dope, but the Bulldogs have some new men that will put a little more beef in the line.    

The Baker machine gave the Swedes an exhibition of a track meet last Friday and snowed then under, but the Swedes slipped over a long pass in the final quarter for their lone tally.

St. Mary's lost to Phillips univer-sity at Euid. This makes our chances with St. Mary's look considerable brighter.

Win or lose, Bulldogs, the school is still backing you and always will. Let us all turn out for the Baker game Friday night and raise the roof of the grandstand for the Bulldogs.

Seventy per cent of the English speaking people of the world live on the North American continent, and 60 per cent of them in the United

States.

A new danger confronts the earn-est seeker after literature, now that popular books are going on sale in cigar stores. He might, in his efforts to get more books, get the punchboard habit.

New York City has l, 200, 000 School children.

GAMES THIS WEEK

Among Conference Schools

OCTOBER 24

Bethany vs. Sterling at Sterling.

St. Mary's Vs. Kansas Wesley-an at Salina.

OCTOBER 25

McPherson vs. Baker at Mc-Pherson.

RESULTS

of Last Weeks Games

Baker 61. Bethany 6.

Phillip 16. St Mary's 7.

K-Wesleyan 14. Springfield 17.

CONFERENCE STANDINGS

THESPIAN TRYOUTS TO BE HELD MONDAY

Prospective Members To Give Cuttings From Some Dramatic Production

HAVE ELECTED ADVISER

Tues., Oct. 21 — Arrangements

were made tonight for tryouts for the Thespian club that will be held Monday afternoon from 1: 30 until 5:30 o'clock, October 27, Cuttings

from certain plays or dramatic pro-ductions will be given by prospective members.

Any student in the sophomore. Junior, and senior class are eligible to become members if they receive the unanimous vote of the three Judges. Prospective members - arc required to give a cutting from some play or dramatic production not to exceed three of four minutes

in length. It is not required that each student memorizes his cutting be-cause some other person will read the opposite part for them. The fu-ture members will also be given Home cutting they are unfamiliar with to read to give the Judges an Idea of the manner in which they are able to

interpret the cutting. It is probable that a pantomine of some kind may

also be required, however, nothing definite has been decided upon this matter.

The three judges for the tryouts will consist of Mrs. Lawrence Gates, who will direct the production, Mrs. J. Daniel Bright, who was recently elected faculty adviser for the or-ganization, and the president, Leland Lindell.

Dr. Schwalm Tells Teachers Of The Government Of Italy

Macksville, Kan., Oct. 18—Dr. V. F. Schwalm, president of McPherson college, spoke before the teachers of the county association here today. His talk dealt with the government of Italy and the manner in which Mussolini governed his people. Mr Frank Sargent of the College accom-pained Dr. Schwalm here.

DEPUTATION TEAM IS

IN SOUTHEASTERN KANSAS

A deputation team of the College is now in southeast Kansas where they are giving programs, including music, talks, and reading, in both

high schools and church. The team left last Friday afternoon and will be gone ten days, returning-Oct. 27. Those on the team are Ethel Sherfy, Helen Eberly, Pauline Dell, Charles Austin, and Vernon Rhoades.

WRITES FOR ARTICLE

Scientific American Asks Dr. Hershey

For Science Story

That science is realizing something of great value in Dr. J. Willard Her-shey's experiments in synthetic at-mosphere is shown in the fact that the Scientific American, monthly sci-ence magazine, has written to him and asked him to spend them an ar-ticle on his experiments with rare atmospheres. The article will ap-pear in an early issue.