VOL. XIV

McPherson college, McPherson. Kansas, Wednesday, oct. 29, 1930

NUMBER 8

NININGER TO POSITION IN THE COLORADO

MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY IN DENVER

Will Be Curator Of Meteorites—Collection To Rank Fourth In United States—Valued At $15, 000— Will Have    |

Laboratories At Denver And Palmer Lake

COMING EVENTS

Thurs., Oct. 30, St. Mary's game here.

Fri., Oct. 31. Halloween party, 8:30 p. m.

Wed., Nov. 5, student Recital.

HARNLY DEEDS TEXAS LAND TO THE COLLEGE

THAT HAS A TOTAL VALUATION OF $10, 000

Faculty Gives Nearly $20, 000 According To First Reports Of The Endowment Campaign—Goal Is $150, 000

TO CONTINUE RESEARCH

Completed Four Major Expeditions While At McPherson College

Prof. H. H. Nininger, formerly head of the biological department of the college, has accepted a position as curator of meteorites in the Col-orado Museum of natural history at Denver and will soon move with his family to the Colorado capital,

In his new work he will not only have charge of the meteorites but will also act as a field man in invest-gation and research work in all phases of natural science. The meteorites belonging to Professor Nininger will be exhibited in the Denver museum, and combined with the somewhat smaller collection there, will constitute the largest collection of meteorites west of Chi-cago and ranking in fourth the United States. The Colorado museum of natural history is generally recogniz-ed as being one of the finest in the country.

Professor Nininger will also con-tinue in his work in his Palmer Lake laboratory which is furnished with the best equipment for cutting met-eorites. In choosing the Colorado museum for his place of work he was influenced by the desirable lo-cation, the presence of ample support for his scientific research, and his friendship with Prof. J. D. Figgins, well known scientist of the Museum. Nininger states that there will be numerous scientific instruments available for use in his two labora-tories that will enable him to con-tinue his research studies more effi-ciently.

For ten years Professor Nininger was head of the biology department and curator of the museum at Mc-Pherson college, having come to this city in 1920. During these years he has completed four major scientific expeditions and carried on an exten-sive research work, especially in the study of meteorites. He is well known in this particular field of science and McPherson loses a pop-ular instructor.

Since coming to teach Professor Nininger has been busy with expedi-tions and experiments besides his teaching work. The College mu-

seum has been created largely through his efforts and contributions. The discovery of thirty new species of insects can be credited to he and his work , with Warren Knaus, a local newspaper man who is nation-ally known for his work with beetles, The Paragould meteorite, the largest stony specimen in the world, was recovered under his direction in Ar-kansas last winter. He has publish-ed a book on Kansas birds and a paper on "Meteorites of North America."

Professor Nininger was graduated from the College in 1914 and was (Continued on Page Three)

LOCAL CONTEST IS

FIRST OF FEBRUARY

College Anti-Tobacco Elimina-tion Contest Interesting Five Students

Each year a local anti-tobacco oratorical contest is sponsored by the college. This year the contest will be held about the first of February.

In previous years local prizes were given and no doubt will be again this year. The state contest is to be here at McPherson college this year. The date is set for March 13th. There are three state prizes offered; $35, $25, and $15 for first, second and third places. There are some new books and articles in the library that will be available to any one interested. Already David Bowers, Lucille Crabb, Grace Heck-man, Franklin Phiebe and Phillip Lauver have signed their intentions of giving orations. It is hoped that still others will enter the con-test. If you are at all interested see Prof. Maurice A. Hess, and get particulars.

FORMER STUDENT DIES

Fri., Oct. 25—Miss Edna Showalt-er of Castleton, Kan., died at the Grace hospital in Hutchinson today after a lingering illness of many weeks. Miss Showalter was a stu-dent in the summer school of the College during the past summer.

HE WILL WIN WHO WILL

Find Your Talent And Interest, Says Hershey, Then Stick To It.

Mon., Oct,. 20-—"He will win who wills lo do so if he is willing to pay the cost, ” was the statement made by Dr. J. Willard Hershey in chapel this morning. Each one should have a noble calling to follow through life. The difficulty is not finding our calling but in following it. In deciding consider the service you render and not of the money value alone. Choose something that interests you: what ever you are by nature, keep to it.

Make the greatest possible pre-paration for your calling. If you were to live only ten years nine of those years should be spent in pre-paration. The price of preparation is hard work. Christ called to those that were willing to work.

HALLOWE’EN PARTY IS ELABORATELY PUNNED

MINNICK SPEAKS ON

Call OF MISSIONS:

Everything In The Line Of Ghosts Will Be Seen, Felt And Heard During The Evening

FRIDAY NIGHT AT 8:30

Prize To Be Given For The Best And Most Unique Costume-Pump kin And Cider

Everything a Bulldog can think of in connection with Halloween will be seen, felt and heard at the all-school party Friday night. Mas-querade, plenty: ghosts and witches, sure: fortune tellers, a joy house, animal shows, witches dancing, of course, all in one night at the same party.

The party is being sponsored by the student council with John "Jack" Lehman in charge. There will be a grand march, with everyone in full masquerade. A prize will be given for the cleverest costume. Several side shows will be open. A well known fortune teller is to be on the scene, telling the past, present, and future of any ghost, witch or clown desiring such information.

The Joy house is one of the shows which will be well patronized. There will be exhibited a swift runner, and the heat swimmer—??

Another side show of interest will be the animal show. The famous pig skin tamer, Marland Cox, will exhibit his ability in another line, that of taming wild animals. A program has been planned consisting of a short play in charge of Fred Andrews. The witch will Frolic on their best broomsticks for the group. Lucille Crabb will give a reading. Two musical numbers will be given, one of the ladies quartet and the other by the men's glee club,

Last, but not least, a regular Hal-lowe'en lunch will be servved, pump-kin pie with whipped cream and plenty of cider.

Plans Made For Students To Share In Africa Mission Work

Tue., Oct. 21- The World Service group was favored at its regular meeting tonight by a talk from H. Spencer Minnick, secretary of the Brethren General Mission board. Mr. Minnick gave a talk on "The Mission Call," to the twenty members of this group.

Plans were made to offer the col-lege students opportunity to contri-bute to the "Sharing in Africa Fund." Last year the World Service group sponsored a drive for funds to help Frank Crumpacker who is the Col-lege's missionary to China. This year they have selected the African field, represented by Rev. A. D. Helner who sails for Africa November 11. Reverend Helner recently spoke in the college chapel.

TEN NEW MEMBERS ARE TO BE TAKEN IN CLUB

Great Deal Of Talent Among The New Members—Nearly Twenty Try Out

Mon., Oct. 27—-Ten students were successful in the Thespian, dramatic organization on the campus, tryouts this afternoon held in the chapel. Nearly twenty candidates tried out for membership.

New members for the club are: Nellie Collins, Mose Stucky, Wilbur McElroy, Harry Bernard, Beth Hend-rickson, Eber Tice, Ada Brunk, Blanche Holgerson, Viola De Vilbis, and Fern Heckman.

The judges stated that the com-petition was very keen and that a number of the candidates were very close. They also stated that there was some outstanding talent among the new members. The three judges were Mrs. Lawrence Gates, Mrs. J. Daniel Bright and Leland Lindell.

HAVE ADDED $25,000

Schwalm, Yoder And Sargent Are In

The Field-May Take Year

Or Two

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Dr. J. H. Harnly, Professor at the College for the last 38 years, in showing his faith in McPherson col-lege, has deeded land in Texas val-ued at $10,000 to the College to

represent a gift from him and his wife. This gift is a part of the

campaign being waged by the ad-

ministrative board to increase the endowment by $150,000.

According to the first reports from the administrative board at least $25,000 of additional endow-

ment has already been subscribed. Of this total nearly $20,000 has been given by members of the faculty.

Thirty-eight years ago Dr. Harnly came to McPherson as instructor in natural science and has helped and witnessed the growth of the College. He has helped in the building up of the science department to the point that it is now one of the leading in the state.

"The association and friendship with young people who are interest-ed in Christian education has been an inspiration to me. I have also seen the science department grow from virtually nothing until it is one of the best equipped science depart-ments in the state." Dr. Harnly has

stated.

The endowment campaign is stead-ily advancing under the guidance of

Dr. V. F. Schwalm, Dr. J. J. Yoder, and F. H. Sargent of Chicago. It

is altogether probable that the ef-forts to raise the desired amount may require a year or two. Be-cause of the widespread depression throughout the United States the the campaign is not being pushed as ra-pidly as otherwise but a steady effort is being made to continuously add to the present endowment. All three of these men are in the field and from time to time The Spectator will re-port the increases in endowment.

PLAYS FOR THE RED CROSS

ORCHESTRA IN CHAPEL

Tues., Oct. 21-Viola DeVilbis

sophomore, accompanied by Mary

Swain, entertained with a selection of violin numbers at the luncheon of the American Red Cross regional conference held at the Congregation-al church today.

"Married life isn't so bad”.

"Oh, it's alright after you get to

be a trusty".

Fri., Oct. 24—The chapel program consisted entirely of music this morn-ing. The orchestra played two Hun-garain selections followed by a march of probably American composition. Mrs. Tate sang, "The fool has said there is no God," by O'Harn. As

an encore she sang, "Singing Waters," by Lorantz. Students welcome these programs and hope for many more.

MARRIED LIFE AS I SEE IT

Mrs. W, R. Grabeel

(Formerly Miss Chester Carter, '30.)

Rose Hill, Virginia, Oct. 27.

Mr. Editor this is a hand assign-ment as you would know. In the first place one should not speak with authority on such an important sub-ject without first having sufficient background of experience from which to speak and as I have only been the state of imbecility known as marriage for four weeks I can only ramble along with bramides and trite generatitus material.

Marriage (as I learn in the course called "Family") is the state in which the man voluntarily takes on the responsibilities and bills of the woman who has succeeded in landing the unsuspecting and innocent lamb which ambles graciously to the slaughter little knowing of the ills which may beset him when he left home and mother. Marriage as far as I am concerned means a perma-nent date with all the walks after breakfast, dinner, supper, trips to library, Saturday nights, Sunday afternoons, "Ad building" rushes at 10:30 p.m., car trouble, stopped watches, sprained ankles and what more excuses have you? Throw en

Now I know what makes the vesti-bule so important and after supper especially when trying to use the telephone as Miss Heckethorn will testify. The back parlor discloses its importance as shown in examples on the campus such as Velma and Fred, Jessie and Rosie, Walker and Nellie, Irene and Wray, etc. The "Ad" building has its running also Let me say devoutly as a devoted

alumni let there be a bigger and better Y. W. room, to make more matches to supply M. C. with more students.

Incidently the old bromide of "Two living cheaply as one" is just a fairy tale like Santa Claus. It takes twice as much especially when

the better half (meaning me) has a tremendous appetite and with breakfast bacon at forty cents per sixteen ounces then let me rise up in all due wrath and scathingly tear such a statement to shreds.

You bear the statement "Live on love and kisses"—well, that's just a pipe dream because it has been my experience that the dearly beloved calls just as regularly for the "good old three squares" a day or more so than before. Now take a hint girls—"The way to a man's heart is through his stomach"—No truer words were ever spoken. When the dear man is well fed he purrs and is as admirably as a Persian Kitten but just feed him with half cooked food and there by hangs a tale—of woe. Its no more than right either for you to take pains to prepare the food tastefully after he goes to the trouble to supply it.

As to the best way to get along with a man and they are all alike in this respect--keep him pleased with himself and he'll be pleased with you in plain college slang—flatter him

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TEAM RETURNS FROM

SOUTHEAST KANSAS

Mon., Oct. 27---The deputation team which has been touring south-

east Kansas returned about midnight last night. Twelve churches were visited- Verdigris, Scott Valley, oMut Ida. Paint Crock, Hollow, Ok-lahoma, McCune, Galesburg, Parson, Independence, Fredonia, East and West Wichita. The district meeting of the southeast Kansas was in ses-sion at Fredonia while the team was there. Secular programs were given in the Galesburg rural high school and the Parsons municipal senior high school. A program was also given in the M, K. &T. railway shops at Parsons. The team was made up of Helen Eberly, Pauline Dell, Ethel Sherfy, Charles Austin and Vernon Rhoades. Approximately 1800 peo-

ple heard the team.

SHOULD HAVE PURPOSE

Minnick Says We Think Too Much In Dollars And Cents

Wed., Oct 22- Spenser Minnick said in chapel this morning that we should have a purpose in going to school other than the financial re-turn. We do an injustice by pictur-ing to youth how it pays in dollars and cents to go to school. Some

people fail to see the purpose of life or the creation. Our purpose should be rooted in love for hu-manity.

Are we willing to pay the price of refusal to that which is not good? Mr. Minnick told of the poor man who was asked to sell his vote for money; of the man who was tempted to work in a shop that put out second grade material. In deciding what we are to do we should choose something that will not hurt our conscience.

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"Father" , said the small boy,

"What is a scientist"?

"A scientist, my son, is a man who tells you something you already know in such long words that you fail to recognize it".

IT IS YOUR PRIVILEGE TO VOTE

It is the privilege of every citizen of the state of Kansas of a voting age to go to the polls November 4 and select his choice of political leader. Voting should not be a right as so many erroneously assert but should be a privilege, or a duty, a chance for us to show a bit of self confidence in ourselves in selecting the people we wish to run our governmental

affairs.

Students of a voting age should honor this privilege of casting their ballot for their choice. Too many of us are continuously harping against certain phases of governmental action and the men that "we" have placed at the helm of our ship of state. We do not realize that we are responsible for the men that gain office and that it is up to us to place men in positions for which they are qualified.

The rabbit pie we had last week reminds me of a story of the good old times. A certain author was delighted with the cooking skill of his Chinese servant. Chow, whose services he had recently engaged.

Chow's greatest achievement was his tasty rabbit pie. Each day for

the first week brought fine rabbit pies. On the eighth day the author had company whom he wishes to en-tertain. He rang Chow and said, "We'll have an early tea, Chow, and another rabbit pie."

Chow was distressed. "No can have the rabbit pie. Last week, seven puppies: this week, no puppy tail No can have the rabbit pie."

Men are what women mary. They have two hands, two feet and some-times two wives, but never more

than one idea and onecollar at a

time.

If the spires of Oxford dream nowadays, their dreams must be night-mares.—John Buchan.

WHAT SHOULD A SENIOR KNOW?

And that reminds me of the girl I used to have. She did not know much about cars for she asked if I cooled the car by stripping gears. She loved all kinds of sports, espec-ially if they had plenty of money, I might have married the girl, but somehow, I lost her telephone num-

SEEN ON THE CAMPUS HEARD IN THE DORM.

The kind, quantity and quality of knowledge possessed by college seniors varies enormously in relation to nation ability, background, curri-culum and other factors. But there are a few simple, homely truths which all seniors should know. The following are ago-old examples:

1. Work is excellent medicine. When all other methods of obtain-ing happiness have failed, work usually is effective. Usually a person who is engaged honestly and intelligently in honest work needs no other method.

2. A self-respecting person is neither ashamed nor proud to be seen performing manual labor, nor to be seen at play if he plays without neg-lecting his responsibilities, nor to engage in sincere religious devotion,

3. No intelligent person will hold cheaply his promises or his signat-ure. An intelligent person's word is "as good as his bond." He fulfills his contracts, regardless of the losses he may suffer in so doing, for he knows that when his good name is gone he has nothing left.

4. The more one knows the more modest one is, for newly acquired fuels open new vistas of the unknown and help us to see how ignorant we are.

5. For a college graduate to be a good speller is not specially cred-itable and for him to be a poor speller is somewhat disgraceful. The same kind of thing can be said truthfully of being honest and of being dis-honest, of being industrious and being shiftless, and of many other con-trasting qualities and accomplishments.

6. Few things worth having can be obtained without effort. The true value of many things are closely related to the effort required to obtain them.

7. If one wishes to see beauty one has only to look about. When in doubt, or when the immediate surroundings seem unattractive, one can look at the sky.

8. Most of us talk too much. Very few of us talk too little. There are too many speeches and most of them are too long. There is too

little careful listening.

9. No matter how extensively modern conveniences may soften him and relieve him of effort, man continues to be a good deal of an animal; he still needs fresh air, sunshine, simple food, vigorous physical out-door activity and regular sleep. If he is deprived of any of these, he is less a man than he should be.    

10. Many of the facts we learn at college are soon forgotten or out-moded, but the benefits derived from the effort of learning them persist for years and years after graduation.    

11. There is plenty of evil in the world, but there is much more of good than of evil, for otherwise mankind could not have survived. There is nothing to be afraid of except one's own imperfections; and to combat these can be made interesting and stimulating.

12. It is well to have the approval of one's friends and of the pub-lic, but the really important thing is to have honest approval of one's own heart.

Like all statements of age-old truisms, each of the above is liable to be grossly misconstrued, especially by people wishing to rationalize their own errors.

—F. D. Farrell, president K. S. A. C.

This is our prayer when we retire on October 31st:

"From Ghosties and Ghoalies And long-legged beasties    

And things that go 'bump'-The Good Lord deliver us,’’ "Nineteen hundred"

NININGER GIVES HIS FAREWELL IN CHAPEL

Tells Of Findng The World’s

Largest Stony Meteorite

Miss Viola DeVilbiss spent the week end at her home in Ottawa.

Misses Blanche Pyle, Naomi Wit-more, Mary Harnly, and Mrs. Glenn Strickler took supper at the dormi-tory last Thursday evening.

Miss Margaret Stegeman visited her parents near Hope this week end.

Mrs. Earl Kinzie visited her sister Viola DeVilbiss last Thursday.

Mr. Duane Northup spent Sunday in McPherson.

Mr. Harold Crist visited with friends on the campus this week end.

Mr. Guy Hayes and his mother called at the domitory Sunday even-nig.

Mr. and Mrs. Rallph Bowers were in McPherson this week end.

Miss Opal Bowers spent the week and at Hope, Kansas, with her aunt.

Mr. Elmer Crumpacker was at home this week end.

Miss Lois Dell who is teaching at Windom, Kansas, visited friends in the dormitory Saturday and Sun-day.

Miss Lena Beaver called at the dormitory Friday evening. She is teaching at Cawker City, Kansas.

Ruth, Pauline, and Albert Miller and Miss Fern Gilbert of Carleton, Nebraska, visited at the dormitory this week end.

Mr. Glenn Seitz and John Black-well of Larned were at the dormi-tory Saturday and Sunday.

Elizabeth, Robert and Rueben Bowman and Miss Alberta Hovis spent Saturday and Sunday at Quin-ter, Kansas.

Miss Mildred Ballard visited her parents near Lovewell, Kansas, this week end.

Miss Floy Brown called at the dormitory Sunday evening.

Miss Abeidt was at home near

Hope this week end.

Wilbur and Alberta Yoder spent

Sunday with their cousins Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Cline at Monitor. Wonder why Hope Nickel, Edna Kaufman, and Vernon Flaming al-

ways go home over Sunday?

Born to Mr. and Mrs. Garma Daron a baby boy October 25. Mrs. Daron will be remembered as Miss Ruth Hoover. Mr. and Mrs. Daron are both alumni of McPherson col-lege. They are in Chicago where he is attending medical school.

— HOT SHOTS —

From The Day's Weekly

— NEWS —

From the looks of things just now

the country won't be really crime ridden until machine guns come in

colors.

When you catch yourself wishing you were somewhere else just think of how foolish it would be if you were there wishing you were where you are.

There is one thing that we can say in favor of reckless driving, and that is when one runs off the road he almost always tears down a bill-board.

We heard a good one on the cheer leaders the other day that is really worth telling again:

"Is your daughter taking vocal lessons in the parlor over there?"

"Well, I engaged a vocal teacher, but I believe, judging by her lung power, he is really an instructor in college yells."

A motion picture camera has been invented which will make 5,000 ex-posures a second, and this is almost as fast as some professors can grade their papers.

In women intelligence, unlike beauty, grows steadily hotter with age.—William Lyon Phelps.

NININGER THE SCIENTIST

Prof. H. H. Nininger's announcement of his connection with the Colo-rado museum is heard with both satisfaction and disappointment. After a decade of eminent service for his Alma Mater he leaves McPherson expect-ing to continue his scientific studies on a wider scale. Besides his teaching in the College he was constantly busy conducting field trips or working in the museum and laboratory. That so busy a man could find time to carry on original research, and draft scientific paper, shows Professor Nininger's capacity.

In accepting the office of curator of meteorites in the Colorado mu-seum, our scientist states that he will have ample time to pursue his studies and experiments in the meteorite field. With his natural tendency for research and capacity for hard work, we may confidently expect some great contributions to his fields of science in the future.

Few students ever have the opportunity of studying under the guid-

ance of a scientist of his caliber. People accompaning him on his evepi-tions remain fast friends and admirers of Professor Nininger. Recognition accorded him by the various science societies is evidence of his worth.

His name and history is listed in the volume "American Men of Science".

Students and faculty of McPherson college regret Professor Nininger's departure as a great loss to the school, but unanimously join in bidding him farewell, and congratulate him on his new and freer career.

—H. E.

Mon., Oct, 27—Prof. H. H. Nining-er, former member of the faculty spoke in chapel this morning. He said that having been here as a stu-dent and later as a member of the faculty made it hard to leave, but he believed he would be just as hap-py or a little happier in his new work. He thinks joys without sor-rows wouldn't amount to much. Take as it comes without worrying.

For several years Prof, Nininger has been interested in meteorites, be-cause of the mystery connected with their origin and their miraculous falling to the earth, and also they may be very valuable to science in the future.

The experience of finding the large stone that weighed over 500 pounds was very interestingly told by Prof. Nininger. He said it was the larg-est known to fall on the earth. How-ever he stated that we need not be afraid of being hit by a falling me-teorite as such a thing happens in Kansas only every 11,000 years.

Dr. Harnly expressed his appreci-ation of Prof. Nininger as a colleague in the science department and con-gratulated him on the splendid work which he has done for the College and for the field of science in gen-eral.

NICK O'TEEN TO BE TRIED FOR BUSINESS FRAUDS

Nick O'Teen, indicted by a grand jury of false advertising and illegal business will be tried by the supreme court of the College in the chapel at 6:30 o’clock Friday evening, Novem-ber 7.

Judge Ralph Wellington Keedy will preside over the court and the prosecuting attorney will be W. Ray-mond Williams.

According to recent statements by the defending attorney, Mr, O'Teen will plead not guilty and if such is the case be will be tried before a jury. The chapel court room will be open to the public as long as order is kept supreme.