Swarthmorean 1929 September 27

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Vol. 1,    No. 38
Swarthmore, Pa., September 27, 1929
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[COMMITTEE HEADS
OF WOMAN'S CLUB
PLAN FALL EVENTS
|Urg2 Members to Attend County
Meeting   Next  Week;  First
Meeting Here Oct. 8
|SEEK   UNUSUAL   SPEAKERS
With the program of the Annual Fall
I flower Show as the first event on the
calendar of the Swarthmore Woman's
Club, Mrs. Jesse H. Holmes, president
Lf the club, and the committee heads
I are busy planning for the regular pro-
Igram to start early next month.
Monday afternoon, Mrs. Holmes and
I committee heads met at the Woman's
Club to discuss the early fall program.
About fifteen women were present and
I made plans to make this year's program
I the most successful in the club's his-
I tory.
The first stated meeting of the club
kill be held October 8. A business
Imeeting will precede an interesting pro-
Igrani. The first fall meeting of the
I Delaware County Federation of Women's Clubs will be held next week at
Media. The members of the Swarth-
|morc Club are urged to attend.
The plans for this year include
I among other things, a series of meetings which will be addressed by prominent lecturers and readers. It is also
planned to hold more evening meetings
with an appeal to both men and
| women.
The officers of the club for this
[year are: Mrs. Jesse H. Holmes, president; Mrs. W. Carson Ryan, first vice
president; Mrs. Frank E. Williams, recording secretary; Mrs. John A. Detlef-
sen, corresponding secretary, and Mrs.
I J. Horace Walter, treasurer.
The  directors  are   Mrs.   Sewell  W.
I Hodge,   Mrs.   Walter   J.   Fritz,   Mrs.
Harold   R.   Calvert,   Mrs.   Roland   L.
j Eaton,   Mrs.   William   A.   Clarke,   and
| Mrs. Lovett Frescoln.
Thc chairmen of committees for this
| year are as follows: Admission Committee, Mrs. Edward M. Boyd; American Citizenship Committee, Mrs. W.
Carson Ryan; American Home Department, Mrs. Daniel Goodwyn; Drama
Section, Mrs. Roland L. Eaton; Art
Section, Mrs. Arthur E. Bye; Garden
Section, Mrs. George W. Zimmer;
House Committee, Mrs. Frank E. Williams; Hospitality Committee, Mrs.
Walter J. Fritz; Library Committee,
Mrs. Sewell W. Hodge; Literature
Committee, Mrs. J. V. S. Bishop; Penal
Affairs Committee, Mrs. Edwin A.
Yarnall; International Relations Committee, Mrs. J. Russell Smith; Press
and Publicity, Mrs. Robbert E. Sharpies; Program Committee, Mrs. William A. Clarke; Reciprocity Committee;
Mrs. John A. Detlefsen; Music Section, Mrs. Harold Calvert; Needlework
Guild, Mrs. Thomas S. Safford; and a
new committee, the Education Committee, Mrs. William T. Johnson.
UNDERPASS HEARING IN
PHILADELPHIA POSTPONED
The hearing called by the Public
Service Commission of Pennsylvania
for discussion of the underpass beneath
the Pennsylvania R. R. at Chester
road was postponed ot the last minute
from yesterday to the middle of October. The reason given was the illness of
one of the important participants.
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JOHN ROGERI HOME
FROM HOSPITAL SOON
John Rogeri, Chief of Police of
Swarthmore, has been confined at the
Taylor Hospital, Ridley Park, for the
past two weeks following an operation.
His condition is said to be improved
and it is expected he will return to his
home early next week. John has been
missed by a great number of Swarthmore people who will be glad to see
him back on the job again. During his
absence, the other boys on the force
have been taking good care of the
town.
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LEAGUE FASHION SHOW
AND CARD PARTY
An interesting coming event is a
Fashion Show and Card Party to be
given for the benefit of the Delaware
County League of Women Voters at
the Woman's Club of Swarthmore, on
Wednesday  afternoon,   October  16
The Fashion Revue will be put on
by Lane Bryant, of Philadelphia, and
is scheduled for two o'clock, promptly.
The latest fall fashions in Misses' and
womens' wear will be posed by local
models, including a former President
of the club, and other well known
Swarthmore women. .
At 3.30 the floor will be cleared for
cards. Those taking tables are requested to bring cards and tallies.
The tickets, which will soon be on
sale, are of necessity limited to the
capacity of the club house and reservations should be made as early as
possible and will be honored in the
order of their receipt.
A committee of the county and the
local league is cooperating in the sale
of tickets and in the local arrangements. Requests for reservation may
be phoned to Mrs. J. Passmore Cheyney, Swarthmore 590 R, or to Mrs. E.
A. Yarnall, Swarthmore 143 W.
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Auto  Club Head
Should
Says  Work
Start  On Triangle
That preliminary work can be started this fall and completed in the
spring is the thought of J. Borton
Weeks, president of the Keystone Automobile Club, regarding the memorial to be built by the club on the
triangle on the Baltimore pike north
of the borough.
The property for the memorial was
purchased several years ago and has
been idle because the auto club and
Swarthmore borough could not agree
upon the methods  of procedure.
Last week the Swarthmorean quoted
a member of council, who said he could
not speak for the entire body, as stating
that council did not feel justified in
spending five or six thousand dollars
for sidewalks and curbing around the
piece of property until it was certain
that the rest of the improvement would
be completed by the Keystone Automobile Club.
Replying to these remarks, Mr.
Weeks, stated a few days ago:
"I do not feel that any useful purpose or any real progress will be made
by a running fire newspaper discussion
on the question of the improvement
of the triangular plot at the entrance
to Swarthinore Borough on the Baltimore Pike, especially when the only
member of council who is quoted apparently makes his statement anonymously.
"The Keystone Automobile Club now
is and always has been ready to go
ahead and do its part. It never agreed
or intimated, as this anonymously
quoted member of council says, that
it would erect a $50,000 or $60,000 me
morial. What the Club has been willing to do for several years, and is now
willing to do as soon as Swarthmore
Borough will agree to take care of
the necessary sidewalks and curbs, is
to regrade the property and convert
it into a beautiful little park, properly
prepared to receive the monument to
be ultimately placed on it. It is our
plan to put in shrubbery, lay out flower
beds, build the inside walks, and make
the plot a beauty spot as soon as the
borough is ready to co-operate. We
have had more than ample funds specifically set aside for that purpose for
several years.
"The marble or granite monument
which will ultimately be placed on the
ground, will occupy but a very small
space, and the arranging for that, or
the financing of its purchase, has nothing to do with the general improvement of the property. Both the Club
and the Borough should do their respective shares.
"If an agreement can be promptly
worked out with council, there is no
reason why the preliminary work
should not be done this Fall and completed in the Spring, so that next
summer the plot will present an appearance in keeping with the beautiful borough at whose gateway it stands.
"Representatives of the Club have
been repeatedly before Swarthmore
Council, but have never been able to
get very far. As soon as council indicates a desire to open up negotiations
with a view to getting down to real
business, we will be more than pleased
again to confer with them."
MANY VETERANS
ON 1929 GARNET
FOOTBALL SQUAD
Prospects Bright With Only Two
Veterans  Lost by  Graduation Last Year
OPENING GAME TOMORROW
Coach Mercer
SELECT TWO TEACHERS;
MORE ROOMS NEEDED
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Bauhaus-Benson
Announcement has been made of the
ItiariMge of Miss Alice Benson to Mr.
Albert Bauhaus, on Wednesday morn-
ln8 «M 9 o'clock in Philadelphia. Mr.
and Mrs. Bauhaus are now enjoying a
noiuynioon trip by auto through West
vir^.tiia. Upon their return they will
fesid- at the Sheldrake Apartments,
™'h and Spruce streets, Philadelphia.
Mr. i5auhaus was business manager for
the Swarthmore Tribune and is now
Cf>ni!jcted with Hannum & Waite.
|p- & W. C TRACTION CO.
ANNOUNCES TRANSFERS
The Philadelphia and West Chester
'/action Company announces on an in-
s'de i>age 0f tj,js paper important news
Regarding transfers from one section of
J!* line to another. Although the Trac-
'°n    Company    line    does    not    run
through the heart of Swarthmore, the
'Proul  road stop  is  used  by  a great
J^ny people living north of the R. R.,
.J1'hl,t people living south of the R. R.
I rc«juently  take  the  Yale  avenue   car
° Morton and transfer by bus to the
°°dland   avenue   station   in   Spring-
eid. With  proper public opinion  be-
.'n(t the movement it may eventually
^ Possible to get the Philadelphia and
est Chester Company to work out a
[ ysteni of transferring from the Sproui
i °ad station by bus to the center of
arUimore as is done now in Morton.
The two teaching positions, recently
authorized, were filled at a meeting
of the school board, Tuesday evening,
September 17. Miss Carolyn Forstner,
a graduate of Swarthmore College in
1929, was elected to the first grade in
the College avenue building. Miss
Forstner acted as assistant to Miss
Margaret Price and Miss Lillian
Hewes in the Yaie Avenue building
during her student career. She will be
in charge of the afternoon section of
the first grade, and will work under the
direction of Miss Celeste Belford, the
teacher of the morning section.
Miss Dorothy Wilson, of Lansdowne,
a graduate of the kindergarten course
at Goucher College, was elected to the
kindergarten position at College avenue.
The school board devoted the greater
part of its session to consideration of
the problem of providing additional
classrooms. The new high school addition has entered upon its third year
of service, and in this three year period
the school enrollment has increased
approximately 100 pupils, the capacity
of four classrooms. When it is remembered that five years elapsed between
the authorization of a bond issue in
1922 and the completion of the building
in 1927, and that for this reason the
new high school addition was filled to
capacity in its first year, the need for
additional classrooms at this time can
be appreciated.
The board realizes that immediate
steps must be taken to meet the situation. It is the aim of the present
board to have a tentative program of
action ready for the consideration of
the two new members, when the board
reorganizes  in  December.
Mr. and Mrs. William E. Witham,
of Mt. Alvcrno Road, with Dorothy,
Robert, Clayton and Philip, recently
returned from an automobile tour extending through Pennsylvania, West
Virginia, Ohio, Michigan, Canada and
New York, including a trip on the
Great Lakes.
COLLEGE MEMORIAL
WELL UNDER WAY
Foundations Laid for Half Million Dollar Auditorium
West of Parrish
SEATING     CAPACITY     1200
Students returning to Swarthmore after the absence of the summer season
were agreeably surprised to find that
active work had begun on the new
Clothier Memorial Auditorium. In place
of the sloping green lawn and traditional walks, just west of Parrish Hall,
one now finds a huge yawning cavern,
filled with hundreds of men, laying the
foundations of the newest beauty spot
of the Swarthinore campus. Large and
imposing barriers prohibit the entrance
of inquisitive students into the territory, where "men are at work."'
On the present site of the Sproui Observatory, this beautiful cloistered Memorial, erected in honor of Isaac Hallowell
Clothier, one of Swarthmore's truest
friends, will rise. This building ^ which
will include a memorial auditorium, a
large tower and administrative^ offices,
will be a good example of architectural
beauty. The architects, Karcher and
Smith of Philadelphia, have expended a
great deal of time in producing an architectural work which will ably exemplify
Friendly simplicity. As a result this
Memorial, built of a type, of stone similar to that used in Worth Hall, and facing toward the Asphaltum, will enormously increase the natural beauty of the
college campus and will be a fitting remembrance to one of Swarthmore's best
citizens and to one of her staunchest
friends.
The most distinguishing feature of the
Memorial will be the stone tower, which
will rise near the little grove of trees on
the west side of Parrish. Simplicity as
well as grandeur will be the object of
thc builders for this tower. As a result
the tower will rank with the Harkness
tower of Yale and the tower at Princeton
as examples of architectural beauty. The
tower will stand one hundred forty feet
in height and will be equipped with
chimes.
Upon the return of President Frank
Aydelotte, this summer, a tour of inspection of the work was made by President Aydelotte, Dean Walters, Comptroller Pittenger, Resident Engineer Simpson and Professor Valentine.
ANNUAL MEETING
OFW.C.T.U.HELD
County Workers Meet at Methodist Church; Hear President's
Plea for Enforcement
NAT.   SECRETARY   PRESENT
The Foty-fifth Annual Convention of
the Delaware County W. C. T. U. was
held in the Swarthmore Methodist
Church on Thursday September 12. All
sessions were well attended and the president of the county organization, Mrs.
George L. Pennock presided.
Mrs. George VanAlen, president of
Swarthmore Union, with her committees, had ihe church, in which the convention was held, beautifully decorated
with baskets of flowers. A number of
pastors were in evidence.
Mrs. Lloyd Stevens, the wife of thc
pastor of the entertaining church, was
chairman of the Supper Committee.
Dr. Stevens conducted the opening devotional service of the morning; Dr.
Wellburn that of the afternoon, and Dr.
Tuttle, of the Swarthmore Presbyterian
Church, that of the evening.
Mrs. George L. Pennock, in her annual
address, gives credit to many groups in
Delaware county that hold visions of better things and better enforcement.    She
deplored the fact that "instruction in the | Hjghj  Hudson,' McCracken, and  Meek
schools on prohibition was construed as j [Jng are also showing up well
propaganda,"   since   the    Eighteenth I /vwHmri mON**
Amendment is a part of the constitution; jMORE CONTRIBUTIONS)
and that opposition was given to the plan
of Miss Sutter, of thc National Educa-
When the Swarthmore college football
team meets Drexel tomorrow in
the opening game
of the 1929 season, Coach "Doc"
Mercer will put on
. the field the most
1 experienced team
i to represent the
} Garnet in recent
j years. The only
two regulars who
are lost by graduation are Captain
McFeely at center
and Tommy Hallowell at guard.
During the past ten days a large squad
of almost sixty candidates has been
rounding into shape through lengthy signal drills and conditioning exercises. The
daily program for this week, however,
calls for stiff scrimmage workouts between the varsity and second squads.
Crowl, substitute center last year appears
slated for the pivot position, with Brown
as his understudy.
For the open guard position, Christian, a letterman last season, seems to have
the edge on the other candidates.
Wright, Sunderland, and Lippincott are
the contenders for the other guard positions.
Jack Moore, a former Villanova college star, will act as assistant to Coach
Mercer, succeeding Bill Ward as .line
coach. He attended Knute Rockne's
football school this summer and doubtless many new plays and formations will
appear during the games this year. The
three first string ends; Captain Benny
Haviland, Heward, and Dellmuth, will all
see plenty of action before the final game
at Thanksgiving. Parrish may also tie
used to complete two pairs of varsity
wingmen.
The two favored at present for the
two tackle positions are Keefer, and
Hicks, the 220 pound freshman letter-
man with Sullivan and Burton as their
understudies. Bob Booth is playing exceptionally well this year and will retain
his old guard berth.
All four of last years varsity back-
field men are back in action this fall.
Bob Testwuide, regular quarter last
year, will again bark the signals. Two
senior lettermen, Redman and McDiar-
mid, will probably retain their old back-
field positions, but such lettermen as Sinclair, Atkiss, Biddle, and Wagner are
dangerous contenders. One of the best
kickers in this part of the East last year,
Joe Atkinson, is scheduled at fullback
again to complete the lineup.
The Frosh football material consists
of a number of promising men with good
prep school records. Outstanding amoung
these are six George School varsity men;
Hicks, Leber, and Dresden on the line
and Sipler, Willis, and Walker from the
backfield; Schembs from Barringer
High;    Newark,   Davies   from   Camden
FOR PLAYGROUND
BIRTHS
On Friday, September 20, in the Wilmington Hospital, a son, Henry Morris
Paschall, 3rd, was born to Mr. and
Mrs. H. M. Paschall, Jr., of Hollyoak,
Delaware. Mrs. Paschall was Miss
Mary Sproui Lees, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. A. V. Lees, of Harvard avenue, before her marriage. She is a
graduate of Swarthmore College and
thc happy parents are receiving many
congratulations.
tion Association, to further instruction
in the schools on prohibition. "She listed as benefits of prohibition that this
nation has had $21,000,000,000 to spend,
and increased." "We of the W. C. T.
U. know that prohibition even at its
worst is a success."
Mrs.   Sarah   H.   Hoge,  corresponding! Committee
secretary of thc National W. C. T. U.   _ From an
and president of West Virginia, gave two
inspiring   addresses.    Some   points   for
W. C. T. U. workers were:
"We must be convinced ourselves before we can convince others." "We must
believe in prohibition, ourselves, or the W.
C. T. U. could not be successful. One
of her mottoes for W. C. T. U. was
"Pray, Pay and Peg Away." "There arc
'Shirkers.' 'Jcrkers' and 'Workers' in the
W. C. T. U. work, but 'peg away' and
get the 'shirkers' and the 'jerkers' to become workers, „—"Keep on, keep on,
keep on.". "Don't stay home from meetings because of company."
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Mrs.   R.   Vansant   returned   to   her
Since the announcement last week
that a total of $86 had been raised to
meet the $119 deficit of the Swarthmore
Public Playground committee, several
contributions have come in which reduce the amount that will have to be
met by the members of the Playground
home with her daughter, Mrs. Frank
Bruner, of Riverview road, after a
month's visit with her son in Newark,
Delaware.
an out of town friend of the
Playground project comes a check for
ten dollars. This donor has asked that
his name be undisclosed because he is
teased so much about his Scotch ancestors.
"Just put down a 'Close' or Scotch
friend," he says in thc letter accompanying the check. However it will not
be mentioning any names to say that
Swarthmore's "close" friend is also
Lansdowne's "close" friend as far as
playgrounds arc concerned and he is
known as the "playground daddy of
Lansdowne."
Two other contributions this week,
one of five dollars from Louis Cole Emmons, and one of two dollars from Mrs.
Morris Lee, make the total amount
raised, $103. This leaves a balance of
$16 to be paid by the playground committee.