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Vote
Tuesday
Nov. 8th
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Nov.  8th
VOLUME 27—NfJMBER 44
SWARTHMORE, FRIDAY, November 4, 1955
$3.50 PER YEAR
Clubwomen to Present
Ann Dodge Trio Tues.
Needlework Guild Exhibit
to Be on View at 2 P.M.
Meeting
A program of semi-classical
music will be presented before
the Swarthmore Woman's Club
next Tuesday afternoon by the
Ann Dodge Trio from the Matinee
Musical Club, following the stated
meeting with the president, Mrs.
Judson R. Hoover, Jr., presiding.
Mrs. Gladys H. Lecron, chairman, of the music department, will
introduce the musicians which
compose the piano, violin and
cello trio.
Directly after the concert, Mrs.
John E. Michael, president of the
County Federation of Woman's
Clubs and a past president of the
Swarthmore Club will report on
her trip to Europe last summer
with the General Federation.
Ingathering Display
Also featured during the afternoon program will be the Needlework Guild's display in the
lounge, in observance of the annual Ingathering Day. Mrs. A.
Sidney Johnson, Jr., general
chairman, expects this year's ingathering to exceed last year's
total of 3600 articles. Mrs. Charles
Thatcher will be in charge of the
tea to follow the program.
Hostesses for the day will be
Mrs. Morris H. Fussell and Mrs.
Clifford Banta, with Mrs. Philip
M. Alden and Mrs. Harry B.
Lockett presiding at the tea table.
Junior Wwten
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At Candlelight
Service
Officers of the Swarthmore Junior Woman's Club conducted a
candlelight installation service for
new members at the club house on
Tuesday at 9 pan. The bright glow
of four long tapers signifying
character, leadership, service, and
friendship, exemplified thef basic
principles on which the club is
founded.
Mrs. Francis Forsythe, senior
advisor to me Junior Club, pinned an autumn corsage of golden
chrysanthemums and amber color,
ed leaves to each hew member as
she accepted a small lighted taper
indicating her desire to join the
club.
Mrs. James Steele, president of
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Local Teachers Receive
Recognition of Service
Harry E. Oppenlander of Benjamin West avenue and Elizabeth
Barten of Media, both teachers at
Swarthmore High School, were
the recipients last Thursday evening of citations from the Drexel
Institute of Technology. Presented
at the Science Convocation dedication of the Drexel Basic Science
Center, the awards were in recognition of their 25 years of service
in the teaching of the basic sciences.
Several residents of the Borough also received recognition.
They include Katherine B. Bel-
field of Michigan avenue and
Florence Brooks of Benjamin West
avenue, both- of whom teach at
Overbrook High School, and S.
Milton Bryant of South Chester
road who teaches at Central High
SchooL
I5 the Cause Strong Enough?
There is, on Tuesday, November 8, a general election.
In Swartfimore, there are three seats on Borough Council
contested by three candidates from each party; a vacancy
for magistrate contested by a Republican and a Democrat;
and a vacancy for constable, also contested by Republican
and Democrat. In the county, there are competitions between
the parties for nine row offices: three County Commissioners,
District Attorney, Recorder of Deeds, Prothonotary, County
Surveyor, Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, and Judge
of the Orphans Court.
There is, we repeat, an election on Tuesday. And Borough Democrats have flung down a gauntlet. "Even Swarthmore," they say, "needs a strong two-party system." Their
statement bears consideration.
Republicans in Swarthmore outregister the Democrats by three or more to one. Should it be said that they
win by sheer numbers? Perhaps the Republican party of
Swarthmore, looking over the smaller group of its Democratic neighbors, sees.no point in working—the Republicans
have the greater number—of course they'll win, But, it was
the tortoise who won over the hare; even dear old Maine
has, in its time, gone Democratic. Republicans probably will
win here, yet it is entirely possible that the Democrats could.
In the olden days a handful of Greeks fought against
the armies of Xerxes at Thermopylae and stemmed the tide.
Three defended the bridge at Rome against the Etruscans
ahd won. And it has been said that while the battles of yore
are more dramatic, and been asked what fight at the polls
has stirred the souls of men. But no one yet will be quoted
as saying, "Don't bother to fight at all."
The Swarthmorean, by no happenstance, and with good
reason, is a Republican paper, and is proud of it. It sincerely
hppes that Swarthmore will go Republican and that the county will go Republican. But whoever you are, and whether in
Swarthmore or the state of Washington} go out and vote!
Who wants to win a hockey game 10 to 0, or aifootball game
66 to 3; a-chest game over a brilliant sdenttrt: who neuer
played the game before, or a political contest because there
simply wasn'b number enough? Win or lose, who wants indifference?
Swarthmoreans are reminded that our Borough Hall
was made possible by five, lonely votes. Republicans everywhere are loathe to remember that the election of 1948 may
have been lost by smugness. .
Whether you are Republican or Democrat, don't sit home
next Tuesday—#0 out' and vote, \v*ho wants to win, not because the cause, wasn't good enough—but because the competition wasn't strong enough?
Lecture-Demonstrator
At Rotary Club Today
Mrs. George C. Franck
Mrs. George C. Franck, mother
of Mr. Clarence C. Franck of Cornell avenue, died suddenly early
Tuesday morning of a heart attack at her home in. Baltimore,
Md.
Besides Mr. Franck, survivors
include two grandsons, Clarence,
Jr., and George Martin Franck,
both of Cornell avenue.
Services will be held Friday
afternoon in Baltimore and interment will follow, also in Baltimore.
Mrs. Franck, a frequent visitor
to Swarthmore, had spent a long
weekend with her son and. his
family at Buck Hill last week. She
returned from a two month tour
of Europe shortly before that.
Reminder to Needlework
Guild Members, Directors
Needlework Guild members are
reminded that contributions of
garments or money should be
turned in to directors promptly.
Directors, in their turn, will be
expected to bring all garments to
the Ingathering at the Woman's
Club next Tuesday morning between 9 and 10 ajn.
A tea for members Of the guild
and their friends will follow the
Ann Dodge Trio of the Matinee
Musical that afternoon.
SWARTHMOREAN DEADLINE
The Swarthmorean deadline
for the issue of November 11, „
has been moved up to'Tuesday,
November 8, at 12 o'clock noon.
The date has been chanced because there will be no mall delivery on Friday, November 11,
Veterans Day. The Swarthmorean will' be delivered on
Thursday, November 10.
Polls Are
Open
Tuesday, Nov. 8th
from
7:00 A.M. to 8:00 P.M.
College Avenue School
EASTON PRECINCT
Borough Hal
WESTON PRECINCT
Rutgers Avenue School
LOUIS P. SHANNON
Louis P. Shannon, speaker on
industrial and chemical developments, will present a lecture-
demonstration, "Let's Look at Tomorrow," at Swarthmore Rotary
Club's weekly luncheon today at
12:10 in the Ingleneuk..
Displaying some chemical developments which are so new as
to be still in the experimental and
evaluation stage, he will give an
inside view of how they were
achieved, and indicate their influence on the future. An analysis
of the .unique factors affecting
American progress will be made.
r
Mr. Shannon is.manager of the
extension division of the DuPont
Company with headquarters at
Wilmington, Del. He has traveled
extensively, and addressed more
'thaafiT 800 groups bv the last
years.
Mr. Shannon has been with
DuPont since 1942. Before Joining
the extension division, he was engaged in personnel training and
industrial engineering Work at a
number of plants, including
atomic energy plants DuPont built
and operated for the government.
Previously, he had gained board
experience as an educator and as
a school administrator.
Busy Week Planned
For Mothers' Club
Bake Sale Tues. at Polls;
Dr. Pote to Speak at
8 Thursday
Swarthmore Mothers Club looks
forward to a full schedule of activities during the next two
weeks.
On Tuesday, November 8, the
club will conduct two bake sales
during the polling hours at the
College and Rutgers Avenue
Schools. Doughnuts will be available for school children and
breakfast voters, earlier in the
morning, and throughout the day
exercisers of the franchise may be
rewarded with the sight, and taste,
if they so desire—of culinary
goodies fresh from the mothers*
kitchens.
Chairman of the all-day events,
Mrs. Edward B. Cornelius, will be
assisted'by Mrs. Richard Ecken-
roth, Mrs. Ralph Hancock, Mrs.
William Loftus and Mrs. Joseph
Schubert. Committee members include Mrs. Bernard Halpern, Mrs.
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Holiday Decor Topic of
Trinity Fair lecturer
Blanche Scarlett Phelps, flower
arranger and lecturer, will divulge
her favorite ideas about Cm-istmas
arrangements on Thursday, November 17, at 10:80 a.m. in the
Cleaves room at Trinity Church:
This will take place during the
second day of the Holiday Fair
and is one of the main attractions
for anyone interested in holiday
decor. Mrs. Phelps has an innate
flair with dry materials as {her
artistic wreaths, Madonnas, and
roses will prove.
Among her many accomplishments, Mrs. Phelps has represented the State of Pennsylvania in
Helen Van Pelt Wilson's book
**The Joy in Flower Arrangement.'' She has lectured many
times on flower arranging at Penn
State University's "Garden Days."
Her magazine articles have been
published in "Popular Gardening"
and "Flower Grower." Pictures
of her arrangements have appeared in the Federation Calendar
and her period arrangement in, a
Chinese style won last year's
prize.
Swarthmore Players
Dial "M" For Murder
Club's November Show
Opens Monday
Night
"Dial M For Murder," Frederick
tt's thrul-chiller which has
long runs in London and
Vorkiwlli be the November
presentation at the Players Club
of Swarthmore opening Monday,
the seventh, for a six night run.
Eight-twenty performances Wfll
find a cast of five tip-toeing
through the three-act mystery cuV
rected by J. David Narbeth, with"'
the assistance of Richard Hook.
The five are:
Sally LeRoy as Margot Wen-
dice, and Richard S. Burgess as
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Streeter Receives
Journalism Award
Carroll P. Streeter, of Columbia
avenue, was one of seven journalists awarded a citation "for distinguished service to journalism"
by Iowa State College last week.
The occasion was the fiftieth anniversary celebration of the founding of the school of technical
journalism at the college.
Mr. Streeter is editor of "The
Farm Journal" in Philadelphia
and the''Town Journal" in Washington, companion magazines wijth
a total circulation of more than
five and a half million^ readers in.
non-metropolitan. America^ .
Iowa State is the alma mater
of both Mr. and Mrs.' Streeter.
Both attended Homecoming there
last week.
EMERGENCY PHONES
Requests for blood shosjld be
made threufh Mrs. Leslie A.
Wettanfer, SWatttmere f-127t,
chairman ef Blssfl Service far
METHODIST BAZAAR.
DINNER l#BCT WEEK
The ladies of the Methodist
Church will hold their annual bazaar and turkey dinner next
Thursday, November 10. The
theme is to' be Bazaar of The
Seasons.     •;
Mrs. John' Hamilton is chairman of the spring season while
Mrs. Theodore Purnell will head
the summer season. Mrs. Lemuel
Holt is in charge of fan and Mrs.
George Dunn is chairman for
winter.
m The hours for tiie bazaar are
from 2 to 8 pjn. Dinner wfll be
served at 330 and 7*0.
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