The Decaturian, 1925-11-12

              THE
RIAN
Volume XXIII—No. 9
Decatur, Illinois, Thursday, November 13, 1925
Price $2.00 a Year
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Brown Debate Teams Selected Tuesday
Furman, English, Kenney, McClelland,
Seago and Austin Survive
Final Tryouts
Try-outs for the Brown Debate were held last Tuesday afternoon in the old Philomathean Literary Society room on the third floor of the Liberal Arts Building. Prof. Mills and Dr. Searles, who were the judges, listened to each of the ten men who tried for places, and the teams announced by Professor W. E. Young are the result of their recommendations.
Lindsey English, Victor Furman, and Charles M. Kenney are the mem¬ bers of one team, while the other is composed of Royal McClelland, Erwin Seago, and J. B. Austin. Herman Pritchett and Robert Taylor, each of whom has previously won first prize in a Brown Debate, are to be the coaches for this year's teams.
The subject for debate is: Resolved: That This House Pities Its Grand¬ children. The team composed of Eng¬ lish, Furman and Kenny will be al¬ lowed to choose the side of the ques¬ tion that it prefers. The tentative date for the debate has been set as Tues¬ day evening December the first. The discussion will be held in Kauper Hall.
Directory Corrections
' The time for the making of cor¬ rections in the student directory has been extended to next Saturday.
A good many slips have been placed in the Decaturian box but it is believed that there are mistakes which have not as yet been reported. The Decaturian expects to rely upon the directory for the spelling of names and is anxious to have even the smallest mistakes corrected. A complete list of the slips turned in will be carried in next week's Dec¬ aturian. All slips, however, must be signed by the person desiring the correction.
Conservatory Offers $250 Scliolarship
For  Students  Who  Intend to Teach
Music—Philadelphia Donor
Withholds Name
Blue and White Ties In Swimming Match
Illinois  College and  Millikin Wallow
in Sea of Mud and Water
for 2-2 Score
MiUikin Students in Role of Rescuers
Carp, Darkin, Fields and Sutter Extri¬ cate Four Injured Motorists from Beneath Wrecked Car
Joe Carp, Max Darkin, Otto Sutter and Charles Fields were returning from the Illinois College game last Satur¬ day when they saw a west-bound auto skid around and go into the ditch about a quarter of a mile ahead of them on the hard road just east of Buflfalo. The Millikinites pulled up alongside of the overturned Studebaker roadster and got out to aid the unfortunate occu¬ pants of the totally wrecked machine, who were completely hidden beneath it. The four students were unable to budge the roadster, but they finally succeeded in opening one of the doors. It was difficult to extricate the two hysterical young ladies and the two young men through the opening thus eflfected, but the four victims of ill- fortune were soon carried up onto the road and rushed back to Buflfalo for medical attention.
One of the young women had a broken nose and her face was badly cut by flying glass, and one of the two men was suffering from a sprained back, but the other two escaped with¬ out injury. The injured ones were taken in to one of the Springfield hos¬ pitals, and the wrecked roadster was set upright by the rest of the football squad when they came along in the bus a short time after the accident.
Announcement was made by Presi dent Mark E. Penney in chapel Tues¬ day morning of a scholarship of two hundred and fifty dollars made avail¬ able by the gift of a Philadelphian whose name was withheld in accord¬ ance with the terms of the award. The terms stipulate that the funds are to go to one or more students of music who intend to teach that subject after graduation and who are taking at least six hours of academic work in the uni¬ versity in addition to their studies at the conservatory.
There are no restrictions as to the music courses to be pursued—only the requirements that six hours of regular college work be taken at the same time. This scholarship was awarded last year, so it is not new to Millikin, but the money arrived too late this fall to be available at the time of registration. No immediate selection was made pending the applications of all who I might try for the award.
"I endorse and highly approve of the award," Dr. Penney said. "I believe that whether or not this scholarship remains at Millikin depends on how we use it. If there are two students eli¬ gible under the rules of the award we want to distribute the fund to the two of them."
Frosh's Dodge Coupe Becomes Acrobatic
Slick  Street and Dark Corner Cause Auto to Slide into Curb and Over¬ turn—Occupants Uninjured
Howard Stephany Wins Trip to Augustana Game
Eli says: "Hope for the best—then insure it" written on the back of a postal card one hundred and fifty times won for Howard Stephany, Freshman, a trip to Rock Island and a ticket to the Augustana-MilHkin football game next Saturday. Stephany hails from Rock Island and will be able not only to see the football game but to get a free trip to his home town. The award was oflfered by the Equitable Life In¬ surance Co.
Last Friday night, Russell Hale, and Walter Jump attempted to make the turn into Pine street from West Prairie when the Dodge coupe in which the young people were riding suddenly seemed possessed of playful tendencies. It leaped into the air and alighted on its right side, only to bound upright once more. But the damage was already done, the two right wheels were smashed. There were no casualties except to Mr. Jump's pocketbook. for he did not have any in¬ surance of the sort that would have covered that type of accident.
Millikin University and Illinois Col¬ lege wallowed in Jacksonville mud Saturday afternoon, and as a result the natatorial contest will enter the con¬ ference record books as a 2-2 tie.
This Little 19 Conference game was no dififerent than hundreds of other farcical exhibitions throughout the country, which no doubt were predeter¬ mined by J. Pluvius. Anyway, the old man turned many gridirons into swim¬ ming tanks, and the field on which the Blue fought Saturday was no excep¬ tion. The few chilled fans that braved the weather to watch the two teams play, witnessed the closest water bas¬ ketball game of the present conference football season, with neither team of swimmers able to make much progress, due to no fault of their own.
A meager safety eked out by each team, both coming in the first quarter, were the only counters which kept the final score from having no numerical value whatsoever. Early in the first period Bill Bishop found himself forced to punt from behind Millikin's own goal line, where he was tackled by an opponent after receiving a badly passed slippery oval from center. This gave the Illinois Collegians their two points Soon after, during an exchange of I punts, strong defensive work by the Blue resulted in throwing Bowman and •Cusic, Illinois College backs, for sev- leral severe losses. Backed to his own I goal hue. Bowman attempted a punt, which Captain "Joe" blocked, the ball being downed behind the Illinois Col ¦ lege goal line, which gave Millikin the necessary points to tie the score. Dur ing the final three periods, both teams I played conservatively, all that was pos I sible considering the playing condi- , tions, and neither seriously threatened. I Bostic and Cusic engaged in a punt¬ ing duel with most of the boots averag- |ing between 10 and 20 yards. The Blue line played a strong defensive game I in the third quarter, when Iliinois Col¬ lege made its most serious threat to score. The Jacksonville team carried the ball well into Millikin's end of the natatorium in this period, but the J. M. U. line finally braced and Bishop punted out of danger.
Millikin tried desperately to score in the final period, but the mud-caked backs could make no progress in the slimy mud with the slippery ball. Both elevens resorted to a ten man line of scrimmage, as there was little danger of any sort of a passing attack.
It is hard to enumerate the best swimmers, as the muddy waters were disastrous to distinguished eflforts. However, Captain Carp's dives for Illi¬ nois College legs were particularly suc¬ cessful, and Bishop and Bostic swam through the Collegian line with a de¬ cided kick and a nicely developed stroke. Cusic and Bowman divided honors in Illinois College's contribu¬ tion to the meet.
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Millidek Pictures
Students who desire their pictures in the Millidek must have them taken at once. The staflf has a con¬ tract with the Rembrant studio for this work and only pictures taken at this studio will be used in this year's book. Seniors are not to wear their caps and gowns and should have their pictures taken immediately.
The group pictures of The Deca¬ turian staflf, the Millidek staflf, and the Student Council will be taken in front of the Liberal Arts Hall at twelve twenty-five tomorrow. Every member of these three groups must be present. The success of the Millidek depends upon the' coopera¬ tion of all Millikin students.
Financial Campaign Proving Sucicessful
Nearly Half of Amount Subscribed on
Last Tuesday—Prospects for Many
Gifts Before Week Is Over
MiUikin Valued at Million Each Year
University   and   Students   Contribute
Large Siun to Decatur Business
—Student Estimate Low
Millikin University means $1,000,000 annually to business in Decatur accord¬ ing to a statement by Fred S. Pettit of the endowment campaign organization which was quoted in the Decatur Her¬ ald of November the eighth. This es¬ timate was compiled after conferences with members of the Board of Trustees of the Millikin estate and is based on the annual budget of the University, the expenditures of students, and other factors counted in by college oflficials in determining the value of educational institutions throughout the country.
The annual budget of the James Mill¬ ikin University, amounts to $250,000 and most of it is spent in Decatur. The second item, involving the annual stu¬ dent expenditures in this city, is even larger. A national organization of college officials, Mr. Pettit states, has recently estimated the average stu¬ dent's local expenditures at $500. In¬ asmuch as one thousand young men and women attend Millikin during a year, he points out that their presence means $500,000 for Decatur business. The remaining quarter of a million dol¬ lars is estimated on the expenditures of families who have been attracted to Decatur because of its advanced edu¬ cational facilities.
Another item mentioned in the state¬ ment was the financial benefit to the community of the saving eflfected by local families in not being forced to send their children away to college. It is also believed that Millikin students spend considerably more than $500 a! year while in Decatur, for that figure is an estimate of necessaries and does not include the sums spent at theaters, confectioneries, and similar places.
At the beginning of the second and last week of the Decatur campaign for funds to match the $100,000 challenge of the Millikin estate, Decatur had sub¬ scribed $24, 827 for the Millikin en¬ dowment. This was the report turned in by campaign solicitors Monday night.
The total campaign fund, figuring the dollar for dollar agreement of the Mill¬ ikin estate, is $49,654.
As this is the last week of the cam¬ paign, Dr. A. R. Wright, who is in charge of the campaign, says that there will be intensive solicitation in order to reach all the prospects whose names have been furnished him. This takes much time and hard work and every worker is making a desperate eflfort to wind up this campaign successfully.
The campaign in Decatur calls for $100,000 of the $650,000 which is Milli¬ kin's share of the $3,000,000 for which a state wide drive is being made by the Presbyterian church for all the Presbyterian colleges in the state.
The McDonald $4,000 scholarship fund, which is being established for the aid of students in honor of Rev. J. W. McDonald, formerly pastor of the Westminster Presbyterian church who is now in Kansas City, has now reached a total of $2,000, according to a report from Rev. R. R. Gyles, of the campaign field force.
Although it was announced that stu¬ dents and faculty of the university are not expected to give towards the en¬ dowment fund, it has been reported that the faculty is subscribing one hundred per cent, and that some of the fraternities also are donating to the fund. President Penney has no definite report on the amounts as yet.
English Club Members Hold Meeting and Program
Club Is Combining Social Affairs with
Valuable Discussion—WiU Meet
Once a Month
Jolah Brundage Gives
Program in Speech Arts
Friday afternoon a tea was held, in the Conservatory library for Miss Jolah Brundage, who is an advanced student in the Speech Arts Depart¬ ment. A delightful program was given consisting of both musical numbers and serious and humorous readings. The most attractive number on the program was Miss Brundage's own arrangement (Continued on Page 7, Col. 2)
Conservatory Organizes
Orchestra for Oratorio
Select Members of Publications Board
Student Council Votes to Extend Term
of  Office of  Members—Juniors
Elect Elizabeth Hartman
The Conservatory is organizing an orchestra which will play for the De¬ catur Oratorio next month. However, this is not to be the only appearance of the organization. Any university students who play orchestral instru¬ ments and wish to become members may inquire at the Conservatory office or see Miss Macdonald. The first meeting of the orchestra will be held Tuesday evening at seven-thirty at the Conservatory.
The Student Council voted last Thursday night to make the length of office of members of the publications board two years in place of one. This was done in compliance with a request of the board that it be made more per¬ manent. Under the plan one member is elected by the Junior class and one Junior is elected by the Student Coun- cit. These members hold office during their Junior and Senior years. This means that the Senior members of the board for this year will be Viola Hus¬ band and John Miller. The Junior class has selected Elizabeth Hartman as its representative. The Student Council will no doubt make its choice at regular meeting this evening.
Members of the English club met Tuesday evening at the Theta Gamma house. Evolution for John Doe was the subject of discussion. Miss Adelia Metzger reviewed the book, "Evolu¬ tion" by Jrofessor Henshaw Ward, which exposed some of the fallacies held on that subject by the ordinary citizen, Doe. Miss Marie Horton sang "The Road to Mandalay." Unusual news and gossip of the scientific world were presented by Blanche Garrett and Talbot  Hood.
Members of the house were hostesses to the group. Light refreshments were served.
Postpone Program of
Claire John Thomas
The recital that was to be given November 16 by Mr. Thomas has been postponed indefinitely. The date will be published in the Decaturian as soon as it has been decided upon. This was to be the first of the series of pro¬ grams given by members of the Con¬ servatory faculty. At present Miss Macdonald and Mr. Provensen are at work on programs to be given in the near future.