1929-10-23

              THE ARGUS
ILLINOIS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY
VOLUME XXXVI
FORENSIC OUTLOOK IS
BRIGHTEST IN [lVE
YEARS, SAYS PRESIDENT
Program Includes Trip to the Pi
Kappa Delta Convention
At Wichita, Kan.
TO DEBATE FLORIDA
The Forensic outlook is the bright-est
in five years, according to Roy F.
Scott, who is the president of the For-ensic
Club and of the Pi Kappa Delta,
and captain of the debate team.
Scott is quite enthusiastic this year
-that is, more so than ever. He was
more than willing to give the vwriter
a forecast of vhat is coming this year.
Scott says that in the last two years
we have had a man at the head of the
department who has had ability and
personality enough to get people in-terested
in forensics, and interested in
his program. This man also has the
ability to give the students the neces-sary
training to make Wesleyan out-standing
in forensics.
He thinks that, to one who is inter-ested
in forensics, and gives it first
place in his loyalty, it seems that Wes-leyan
needs that which forensics can
give it as much as, or more than any
other activity. According to Scott,
one of the things that forensics does,
is to teach people to think, and dis-cuss
intelligently the problems of the
day.
Scott says that the present outlook
is very favorable. "We have left over
from last year," says Scott, "our ora-tor,
Virgil Martin, who missed first
place in the WXisconsin-Illinois Pi
Kappa Delta convention by only one
per-cent. He is also our extempor-aneous
speaker. Five of our best men
in debate are back working for the
squad, besides enough new material to
prevent any of the former debaters
to being sure of a place on the squad.
"We have a very interesting pro-gram
this year, including a trip to the
Pi Kappa Delta convention at XVitch-ita,
Kansas. This trip will include a
schedule of debates throughout the
entire trip. One of the interesting
features of the home program will be
a debate with Florida.
Scott says that one has every rea-son
to lhe optimistic alsotit thse outlook
of the year. "Foreissic cluls." says lye,
"wthich is a laromneter of foreissic ac-tivities,
is enjoyving the msost active
aid fruitful year us its history."
One Fourth of Co-e
BLOOMINGTON, ILLINOIS, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1929
LOST DOG DISTURBS W[S[[YANA [DIJOR AND STUDENT DIRECTORY
QUIET OF LIBRARY WILL SOON BE OUT
Soiled White Poodle Gives Build- BUSINSS MANA[R NAMED Wesleyan Office Takes Charge
ing Once-over BY PUBLICATION COMMIT[[ of Publication
This world is going to the dogs-espe- "Say Bill, do you know where Lorene
cially the library. Students there were Mary Frances Murray is Elected lives I want a date with her for to-seriously
disturbed Thursday morning in Editor; W. G. Ball is New night and haven't been able to see her,
their search for knowledge by the shrill Business Manager now I don't know where she stays or
piercing notes of a child's voice contin- what her telephone number is. How in
tinually calling for "puppy." WILL CHOOSE OWN STAFF the world do you find out where these FFoorr aawt timmee ntthheeu cchhyiilddc coouullndo t not ebr e seeennr MMisissc alMl ary Frances Mu n it-studenupt s Frsatnayk? to Yfinesdt eorduat ym yI Ewngalnitsehd atso-but
hein the puppy did not appear after bur G. Ball have been elected to the signment and no one over at the house
persuasion the owner appeared at sitions of Editor-in-Chief and Business knevswhere he stayed."
the library door to seeWkh en no otus n te f ttahht teset ur upnteadw ayt o. tM~ea nager, respectively, of the 1931 Wes- knov look he s han. D v a a . "No- , l o o h er , F r sh m a.lD o 'tkbhret
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When one of the students attempted to vevana. impatient. We've had a bit of bad luck
return the child's property, he found a The selection 'as made last week by this year. In the past our Y. M. C. A.
dirty little white pup investigating the the Committee on Publications, consist- has published the handiest little book im-bound
periodical shelves as if he were ing of Professor Clarence E. Decker aginable. It was called the Student Di
studying the latest balanced menus for chairman, the editor, and business man- ire aIt aallthe StutDi-undernourished
canines. ager of the previous publication, class rectory, and it gave all the faculty and
The wiggly little animTahle waassi gaa gt yllee gntlghtttthhlee airna diavli ser, and the president of the Student and thea dsdturedsesnetss , atnhde ir tehloempheo ntoew nn, umscbhoerosl
captured and handed out to the woebe- Council. address and telephone number. It was
gone little urchin who had now come The staff which assists the two of fi-just the thing you are looking for. But
as far as the threshold, and who was cers is chosen by them, and the an-still
lustily calling for puppy. Happy nouncenent of its personnel ill be th Weslevan office has decided to take
again at the recovery of the playmate, made in the near future.
child and dog trippecdh idloo wwnan nth thee dologontnrggipi te d Some work, as to signing of contracts up. sTtuheeyn t arcea ns eglleitn go niet abte c1a5ucs es oe vtherayt
flight of concrete steps to be heard and and investigation of past records, is be- svtueduesn.et must to make it a finan-seen
no more. ing (lone now. cinal success. I keep my directories
Miss Murray is a member of Kappa every year and have a complete file of
Valedictory Honors Kappa Gamma sorority and Mr. Ball of every student. You will want one, and
Net Sisters $1,000 Phi Gamma Delta fraternity. be sure and tell everyone to get a di-
As Parental Award Ordinarily, the selection of the two rectory."
The pater would seem to e the per- chief members is made at the close of
Tho "paysr ad ayseaenmd bepty '" school in the spring. However, Miriam Offer New Course in
son who "pays and pays and pays" Platt and Ramond Fiellin chosen in the
with the women on the receiving end Air Transportation at
of the deal in the case of Dolores spring of 1929 have both resigned and a
special election this fall was necessitated.
Swint, who entered the university last , Chicago.A new course dealing pri-hweer
easoitskot e r,s tulMy aryh omeC atehceorninoem icsS mainndt MATH ROUND TABLE nmoamriilcy awspitehc tst heo f caoimr mtrearncisapl oratantdi one coi-s
also. Each girl has deposited to her ELECTS '29 OFFICERS being offered in the school of com-basking
credit $1000, which amounts cmerce of Northwestern University this
are not loans, tuitions, or spurious coin Jessie Howell Re-elected Presi- year. While the new air institute
but desirable rewards for carrying dent of Club planned for Northwestern will consid-away
valedictory honors two years in er the legal phases of air transporta-succession.
Jessie Howell was re-elected presi- tion, this course will deal wish its
Their father, S. A. Swint of Fre- dent of the Mathematics Round Table place in modern industry.
mont, gave the elder daughter, Mary at the second meeting held this semes- The course will cover the history
Catherine, the award for leading her ter on Thursday, October 17th, in Dr. and development of air transportation
class in 1928. The following fall she Hunt's room in Main Hall. aend the economic factors govierning it;
entered the university for a compre- Quallis was elected vice-president and the relation of air transportation to
lheegTnesh iivose f $A1s0tgu0dr0i yc ugliotffut redm.i eatye tihcasa vei n ptuhte idCeoals- fVwHaeerilele n MnHaomaorerredis , tosa encdar, cett aErdyaws aartndhde. tKrpeeraotscguhrruaemmr. cmbouecsnritnd einsresa gtiuoalnnad t iooinfn daouifrs trtayriar; ntstrhpaeon rstp:s ocorgtpaoetv ioearnnn;d-
:n young Dolores head. At any rate committee, air transport in the United States and
tehxea ctlyp leoanseu irye ear ofl aters etehien g fathaenro thhaedr theD rp. raMctoirctaiml earp pslpicoakteio nt o otfh eo nger omupa tho-f foopreeriagtnio n coofu natirri esli:n eso; rgsaafneitzya,t iocno mfoanrtd,1
daughter v alelictorian. If she also ematical equation to the field of plvys- .utility, speed and reliability of air
had an outstretched plan. wsho wsould ical chemistry., transportation; air mail and express
blame hser? She is starting her uni- WVednesday, November 7th. vvas the and air travel; airplane traffic con-versity'
studies of home econonmics this tentative date set for the next meet- trol" investment and insurance, andi
fall. ing. Thse regular time of meeting, the future trend of air transportation.
fall.IU. of I. namely-, 4:.30. may lse changed hecause
___________of the interference of science labora-Ils
Contribute tory wvork to teevenin hour which 14W eslevan Students vswillb ~e definitely announced later.
,.., TAn q7 .*7.. '. O..l.1...l The program committee are busy Enternrises t
NUMBER 4
SENIORS ENJOY ANNUAL
'PIKERS DAY' Al CAMP
[ANT! ON WEDNESDAY
Three-game Series of Cubs and
Athletics Won by the
Steady A.'s
COMPOSE CLASS SONG
Sixty seniors joined in the annual
Piker's Day celebration held at Camp
Lantz on \Vednesday, October 12. A
large van and a number of cars filled
with seniors left Wesleyan at 7:45 for
the camp which is about twenty-three
miles northwest of Bloomington.
President Ahlenius dispatched a tele-gram
,to Dean Wallis explaining the sit-uation
and notifying the juniors that
they vere to be given a trial testing if
they could fill the place of the seniors
in the University. If so the seniors
would not return.
The morning program was featured by
a three-game series between the Cubs
and Athletics. The Cubs took the first
game 9 to 7, following a seventh inning
rally that netted three runs. The Ath-letics
infuriated by the last inning de-feat,
came back strong in the first in-ning
of the second game scoring 15 runs.
The game ended 37 to 7. Repeating their
first inning performance of the second
game the A's again scored 15 runs in the
first frames, and seventeen more in the
second. This margin was more than the
Cubs could overcome and the last ended
41 to 18.
Fisher Stars
Stanley Fisher, pitcher, starred for the
Athletics. He allowed few hits and
pitched the entire series. Blakely's home
runs and Hahn's fielding were the bright
spots of the Athletics attack.
The Cubs had to- use their whole staff.
of pitchers but none of them proved ef-fective.
Smith's two-bagger in the first
game brought in the winning run, and
Ahlenius' errors throughout the series
were the high lights of the Cub per-formance.
During the series several coeds suc-ceeded
in climbing a nearby straw stack.
Besides a sun bath they got an idea of
the view a fan gets when he buys a
bleacher ticket for a World Series game.
Dancing, cards, singing, and explora-tion
of the countryside were diversions
that followsed the game. While explor-ing
the cuintry "Doe" Liggett sustained
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Aid in Camp _
.I tu./I WIL AJJ'L t VVULWI U AJCJiInU Ulwith many plans to make the Mathe-According
to V. A. Markland, a staff tended by 15,411 women, 20 percent was mthaatnic se vRero ubnedf oreT.a ble more interesting t'nNowe sltehyaat n Wesstluedyeannt s pewopillle hbeel pegdl adin aton rveioctlionr . soloCs atfhoerr inthee rePloigwioeluls, s'2e7rv, icepsl ayai
ccooerrde spino ndeevnetr yc ooeff doatuchrie n recDvoeentrtryroi'ebitfu otseNrsae cwotson, t riohbneueri t esp5aatroct8ieahlrelsyrO -c oslelelgf-essu paptoterntidnegd; by an3d5 48i5n 4o9- open to anyone interested in mathe- uAncucsouradli ngc amto p Ruetnht erMpraisyeb autehri,s Csaummpm Pi- Kraft, also a Wesleyan graduate, h
own support while she attends school. ien, 15 percent was self-help students. st heerwas an experiment sponsoredb
The United States Bureau of Educa- matis. Only students who have had
tion has made a study of the situation Earn $5,000,000 five hours of mathematics or are tak- the Presbytery of Bloomington. It vs'as Boys and Girls
and the investigation reveals that many "In 1927-28 there were 33,856 college ing the equivalent now may be admit- under the direction of Janet Stone, an Camp Pioneer is the only camp of
coeds of today are earning their bread women enrolled in 359 institutions of ted into the club as a member. Those experienced director from Philadelphia, kind in the Unted States, open to ho
and butter. This investigation revealed higher education and they earned more interested vvho have not had the re- and the Rev. Frank Breen, general ad boys and girls between the ages of
the fact that one out of every four col- than X5,000,000. f quired qualifications may become as- iser. and 14. An attempt was made to con
lege women earns part or all of her ex- At Illinois \\esleyan University 88 of sociate members. Dr. Hunt acts as Besides Ruth Maybauer, who acted as hue the social, educational and physic
penses while attending classes. 291 girls pay all or part of their way advisor to the club. health education director, other esle
Another interesting fact revealed that hrugh school. In some of the other an people at camp included: Lucille Con Io that a ormal situation would resu]
the smallest percentage of employed co- "Iittle 19" group we find the following: Follow the Team dht. instructor in art; Laurestine Welch, An unusual pro'ram of sports, recre
eds attended the exclusive women's col- at Bradley Polytechnic institute, Peoria, to '29, assistant director of dramatics and tin, crafts, dramatics, art, and worsh
leges vvhere the expenses are highsest ansd (Continued on page e) Millikin Friday! simming" and Helen Wolf, music di sas orked out. One of the most inte
the teacher's colleges w here expenses arees lleIo g ewe. .e .t.. E c=hD o l=sS oi k e V~ e leCy In , nId Z h Ee I N E N T R A D S I E N I S Testablishm tinng efef aateu nitr re ossfn oaff ststhe tetelepmro eogn rt amaa btwouawt s d2st ,1t
lowest. Schools like Wesleyan, and the
sta te c o -e d uc at io n a l un iv e rsitie s e n ro lle d I N V E N T O RakN Db E N T I Se sCI
y far the greatest number of college w o m e Et-h t a e e m loy d ~Ci land E mace possible through the interest of osvn r. T he ch ildren w ere tak e
wome tha areempl.'ed
Illinois Leads
Statistics point out that in the state
of Illinois, New York, California, Penn-sylvania,
Maryland, Minnesota, Ohio;
and Washington the greatest number of
college girls are employed.
Mr. Markland then gave the following
statistics :
"Twenty-six percent of the 206,155
women in 336 co-educational institutions
was employed in 1927-28. In 93 wo-men's
colleges attended by 48,501 wo-men,
15 percent was partially self-sup-porting.
In 64 professional schools spe-cializing
in law, theology, engineering
and pharmacy, attended by 1,045 women,
695 or 67 per cent were partially self-supporting.
In 103 junior colleges at-
On October 21, 1929, the world
celebrated the golden anniversary of
the invention of the incandescent
lamp. A tribute, such as the world
has never known, was paid to the
private citizen who accomplished his
set task of making electricity his
servant of light. The man, Thomas
Alva Edison, was honored for his
work.
Edison, the wizard of science, has
been the leader in the development and
application of inventions that have
revolutionized civilization in the last
century. He has made more than
fourteen hundred inventions, yet after
eighty-two years, he is still vo-'-g
in his laboratories.
Edison's life was not a pleasant
one. He had to work hard and could
not enjoy the opportunities of an edu-cation
that might have been his had lie been rich. The inventive genius
of Edison, the boy, early showed it-self
in his childhood activities. At an
early age ie became interested in
chemistry and performed many ex-periments.
His experiments required money.
This required him to work as a news-boy.
In this he got valuable training
in business management that he found
useful later.
As he grew his interest turned to
telegraphy. Many experiments and a
sound knowledge of everything about
the job brought Edison to like elec-tricity.
This decided his career.
Since then many inventions were
turned out by the mind and hand of
this genius. Notable among his ac-complishments
were the phonograph,
perfections on the telegraph, tele-phone,
typewriter, and tasimeter, the
battery, the dynamo, and finally his
crowning achievement, the incandes-cent
lamp. Later inventions are num-erous,
many of them very important.
The life of Edison is one of work
and thought. Perhaps no other man
has sought after or delved into the
secrets of nature as Edison has. He
is truly the Wizard of Science, as the
world of today knows him.
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into toe woods in wagons in true pioneer
fashion. Cast entirely upon their own
resources they were left to provide for
themselves like the American frontiers-man.
Builds Character
The church is looking toward camp
projects like this to help in building
character. The idea was conceived and
carried out by people who believe that
the church should play with young peo-ple
as well as worship with them. Yet
throughout the entire program Christian
experience entered into all that was done,
and an attempt was made to raise the
'unils' minds and hearts to a deeper con-c.
ciousness of the beauty and value of
life.