Swarthmorean 1929 October 4

              THE
Vol. 1,    No. 39
Swarthmore,  Pa.,  October 4,  1929
$2.50 Per Yeai
[LAST YEAR'S HIGH
SCHOOL GRADUATE
TAKEN BY DEATH
Nicholas McKenna, One of Most
Popular Boys in Class of '29,
Dies After Operation
WAS      SCHOOL      ATHLETE
Nicholas V. McKenna, son of Mr. and ]
[Mrs.  John' McKenna   of  the   Baltimore
Like and   Riverview   avenue,    died   last
Thursday, following an operation at the
Chester Hospital.   He was a meinher of
last   year's   graduating    class    of    the
Swarthmore  High   School   and  his   un-
j timely death came as a great shock to
his school mates and to the older people
of Swarthmore who knew him.
One of the  most  active  members of
j last year's graduating class, "Nick," as he
j was known by everyone, was extremely
popular   with   his  class   mates   and  his
| teachers.
"He was one of those smiling Irish
[lads who made friends easily and was
welcome wherever he went," said Dr. A.
\V. Ferguson, superintendent of schools
in commenting on his death. "A nuniber
of his teachers have spoken to me in the
past few days and have said that "Nick"
was the type of student who made teach-
| ing a joyful task."
His activities during his four years at
High School included: Member of the
Student Association, member of the foot-
[ ball team in his third 'and fourth years;
member of the baseball team in his second, third and fourth years; member of
the track team during his third and
fourth years; member of the Senior
Play;, member of the Glee Club, and a
participant in the Glee Club Operetta in
| both his third and fourth years.
Word of his death was received at the j
! High School about noon on Thursday
and the usual assembly was turned into
a brief service in his memory. It included
i a reading of an appropriate passage of
scripture, a few remarks by Superintendent Ferguson and a few mement.s of
[silent prayer.
"Nick" was eighteen year.s old the first
[of august. He was born on Dartmouth
avenue, Swarthmore and later moved
with his parents to their present home.
He attended thc Oakdale school on the
Baltimore pike before entering the College avenue school in Swarthmore.
Since his graduation, "Nick" had work-
led in Philadelphia and .thereby kept his
(contacts with members of his class and
I friends about the borough. His very
I brief period of illness which was scarcely
more than a week added to thc shock of
| the news of his death.
Hundreds of young people called at
the McKenna home over the week-end,
and the Catholic Church in Springfield
where the funeral services were held on
Monday was crowded with school friends.
Sunday evening a group of forty boys
met down town and along with "Frank"
[ and a number of other business men
[ called at the McKenna home to pay their
'ast respects to "Nick."
The pallbearers at the service were all
|do.«e friends of "Nick's" and about his
I aSe:  Robert  Allison,  Stanley  Hami'ton,
Michael McKenna,  William  Bird, Kenneth Stewart and Philip Barrow.
"Nick" was the next to the oldest
child in the McKenna family and is survived by his parents and four brothers
an<l three sisters.
More Funds Needed by Welfare
Federation for Health  Center
icholas McKenna>--l5iember of the
High • SchooJ^frdfluating class of 1929,
wtTUse SU^den death was a shock to the
young people of  Swarthmore.
FIRST MEETING
OF WOMAN'S CLUB
Business  Discussion and Musical
Program Will Open Fall
Season Next Tuesday
COMMITTEE    HEADS    MEET
A stated meeting of the Swarthmore
Woman's Club will open the fall activities of that organization next Tuesday,
October, 8. The meeting will be held at
thc Clubhouse at 2:30 o'clock. The past
presidents of the Swarthmore Woinan's
Club will be the guests. Each past president will tell some of the highlights of
her administration.
One of the speakers will be Mrs.
Charles Jeffries, of Woodlyn, who was
president of the club when thc building
was erected. Mrs. Jeffries will tell of
the experiences of thc club during the
building program.
Mrs. Leonard Ashton who has so
often entertained the club members will
play several piano solos. Tea will be
served with Mrs. J. V. S. Bishop as
hostess at the tea table.
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A meeting of the Corporation Board
wi'l be held Monday at 10 a. m.
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The House committee will meet at thc
clubhouse this afternoon. Mrs. Frank
Williams is chairman of this committee.
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The Drama committee of which Mrs.
Roland  I,
An increase of at least $3,000 over the
amount given last year will be sought in
Swarthmore this year by the Welfare
Federation whose ninth annual campaign
opens October 21 and continues until
November 4. Last year approximately
$10,000 was raised in Swarthmore.
Swarthmore workers in charge of the
Federation's campaign in this community
are anxious to see at least $3,000 raised
over last year's amount in order to meet
the growing needs of the Community
Health Society of Central Delaware
County.
The Community Health Society with
headquarters in Borough Hall is perhaps
more directly related to the people of
Swarthmore than any of the other half-
dozen agencies of the Federation in Delaware County. These other charities include: the Association Charities of Eastern Delaware County, the Visiting Nurse
Society of Eastern Delaware County, the
Community Center at Media, The Orphan
Society of Wallingford, the Temporary
Shelter at Upland, the Convalescent
Hospital at Broomall, Branches of the
Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts, Branches
of the Children's Aid Society and the
Branch of the Babies' Hospital at Llan-
erch.
The increase appropriation sought for
next  year  by   the  local  Health   Center
amounts to $3,142 most of which will go
towards employing a third staff nurse
and buying a car and other equipment
for her work. This means that the budget sought for 1930 is $11,607 as compared with $8,465 for the past year.
In the report of the Health Center to
the Federation   asking for an increased
appropriation to meet the growing work
of the local organization, Mrs. T. Jed-
dson   Meyers,  vice-president,  points  out
the following improvements needed:
Five  growing Health Centers are
now held   only once a month.   There
is a demand for bi-monthly meetings,
looking  toward  weekly conferences.
A great  need   for  follow-up and home
|    visiting by nurses, now being left to
I    district committees.
Requests   for classes for  Scouts, young
mothers' groups, talks to women's organizations.
The district is rural and covers fourteen square miles. Calls are necessarily far apart.
The nurses are requested to give im-
mergency relief as this district is covered by no social worker.
At several periods during the past year,
the work was  so  heavy that  nurses
having night calls were compelled to
come on duty the following morning.
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NO OPPOSITION TO
$55,000 BOND ISSUE
FOR R. R. UNDERPASS
SWARTHMORE MAN
AT SENATE PROBE
Drew Pearson Important Witness
At    Shearer    Investigation;
Has Made Name for Self
!S     WELL     KNOWN     HERE
Scarcely a week passes that the
name of some Swarthinore man or woman does not figure in the important
news of the East and often of the
entire country. Next week will probably be George Earnshaw's week, but
Swarthmore is proud to point out
Drew Pearson as the "Man of the
Week"  for  the  past   seven  days.
Drew Pearson has been writing history ever since he graduated from
Swarthmore    College    and   decided   to
work his way around the world instead
Eaton is chairman,  has sec- j of taking post graduate work .at Har
urcd  Mr.   Elmer  Kenyon  as  a  speaker j vard.    But  for the  past  week  he has
for the meeting on Tuesday, October 29. j been making history as one of the mos^
important witnesses at the  Senate Investigation of William B. Shearer.
Mr. Pearson was one of thc few witnesses who told without hesitancy just
how  Shearer  had worked  at thc Ge-
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DR. FREDERICK UBBY
TO SPEAK HERE SUNDAY
Everyone who has heard Mr. Frede-
r,ck J. Libby will be pleased to know that
"e will be in Swarthmore this coming
Sunday, October 6.   Mr.  Libby is Ex-
i WMivc Secretary of the National Council
•or Prevention of War, and owing to
hls many contacts in Washington and
aJs<> in many other parts of the world,
a,ways gives the most up-to-date mes-
^Re regarding Peace.
Mr. Libby will speak at the Chester
j^'ends Meeting Centenary at twenty-
,0urth and Chestnut streets, on Saturday
Zoning, October 5, on "A Notable Month
m the World's History."
On Sunday morning, October 6, at 10
?c><*k in thc Friends Meeting House,
* will address the Adult Class at its
opening session and will also attend the
luting atill o'clock.
lev     cordial   invitation    is   extended
p'fy interested Swarthmorean.
Mr. Kenyon of the Art Alliance will
speak on the five plays which the Theatre Guild will present in Philadelphia this
winter. Mr. Kenyon was formerly president of the Drama League of Pittsburgh j nc va Naval Limitations conference. He
and is now connected with the Phila- j not only told of Shearer's influence
delphia Art Alliance. i with the newspaper correspondents at
This program will replace the pageant {the conference, but also named certain
which  was  to have been given on this
date by thc League of Women Voters.
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It is time to enroll in thc classes in
rhythm which Miss Kraft will commence
Monday,   October   14.   The   adult   class
FALL ACTIVITIES
TO START SOON
Women's  Club Begins Fall Activities Next Week; Home
and School Meeting
THE  PLAYERS'   CLUB  BUSY
naval   officers  who   had    been    overly
friendly with Shearer.
Mr.   Pearson's   testimony    not    only
verified  what   had   already   been  said,
but it consisted of new facts, and most
important   of   all,  it   showed  that  the j
should  not  be limited to j
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TRINITY P. E. CHURCH
HAS SUPPLY SPEAKERS
to
will begin at 2 p. m. and the children's ! investigation
class at 3 p. m. Members and non-mem- j Shearer, but should include all the cir-
bers of the club are invited to enroll in j cumstances of the Naval Conference,
these classes which promise to be inter- i as well as lobbying for other projects
esting and beneficial.   Those wishing to j at Washington.
join or desiring additional information I Drew Pearson's career has been .fol-
may call Mrs. Daniel R. Goodwin, phone | lowed by a great many Swarthmore
Swarthmore 55. j people.   He was started on his career
by Swarthmore people who told him
that he could already write and should
travel in order to find something to
write about, instead of going to Harvard for more training in writing.
It was the privilege of the editor of
this paper to interview Mr. Pearson
for the College Phoenix when he returned from his first trip around the
world. This trip was made under thc
most trying circumstances and with
practically no funds except for the
money he secured for articles written
and sent back to America.
However, before thc trip was over,
his ability was recognized . by United
States editors and he was sent to interview the most powerful men of Europe
and Asia, including Clcmenccau, Mussi-
lini, Lloyd George, Von Hindenburg
and others.
Upon his return he taught at the
University of Pennsylvania and later
finished some work at Columbia University. He was sent by a group of
newspapers to China to investigate the
civil strife which was starting there at
that time. Completing this work he
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Oct. sees Swarthmore's many organizations resume the weekly or monthly
meetings which are discontinued during
the summer months.
Foremost among these organizations is
the Women's Club the first gathering
which will be stated business meeting
followed by a brief program next Tuesday. Regular weekly meetings with the
customary one meeting a month of the
League of Women Voters will then continue.
Home and School
The first fall meeting of the Home
and School Association will be held on
Monday Oct. 14 at the College avenue
Building. The meeting will be in the
form of a reception for the teachers and
will mark the initial appearance of the
new officers elected last spring. The
president of the Association for 1929-30
is Dr. J. S. Heberling and the other officers are: Arthur W. Ferguson, vice-
president; Mrs. Raymond Walters, secretary and James B. Douglass, treasurer.
Business and Civic Association
H. Roger Coleman, president of the
Swarthmore Business and Civic Association, announces that the first fall meeting of that organization will be held Oct.
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LEAGUE FASHION SHOW
TO BE READY OCT. 16
Council and Civic Leaders Think
No Campaign Necessary to
Pass Bond Issue
AGREE       ON       TERMS
On next Sunday morning the sacrc-
ment of Holy Communion wiii be administered at 11 a. m. Thc Rev. J. J. Guen-
ther will officiate and preach the sermon.
The Vestry have arranged for able
supplies each Sunday until a Rector is
secured, and a cordial invitation is extended to all to worship here.
Activities for the fall began with a
meeting of the Women's Auxiliary on
Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock, followed by a meeting of thc Woman's
Guild at 3 o'clock. On Wednesday evening thc Girls' Trinity Guild met at 7:30.
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LEGION GIVING
TICKETS TO SCOUTS
The Harold Ainsworth Post of thc
American Legion and thc University of
Pennsylvania are cooperating in giving
tickets for the Swarthmore-Penn game
to the local Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts
who participated in thc Decoration Day
Parade held in Swarthmore last spring.
Work is progressing on the colorful
and interesting fashion show and card
party which the Delaware County League
of Women Voters is sponsoring, to be
held at the Swarthmore Woman's Club
House, Wednesday, October 16, 1929.
At 2 p. m. Lane Bryant, of Philadelphia, will put on a fashion show,
featuring the latest fall styles in woman's
and misses' wear, posed by local models,
all well known women, one of them a
former President of the Swarthmore
Woman's Club.
At 3:30 p^ m. the floor will be cleared
for cards. Those taking tables are requested to bring cards and tallies.
The tickets, which are one dollar each,
include both thc fashion show and card
party.
This event promises to be so unusual
that many women, who appreciate an opportunity to do unusual entertaining are
reserving tables, arranging for their own
prizes, and inviting their friends to share
the pleasure of this distinctive affair.
The number of tickets to be sold must
of necessity be limited to the capacity
of the club house. Reservations should
be made promptly and will be honored
in the order of there receipt.
Requests for reservations may be
phoned to Mrs. E. A. Yarnall, Swarthmore 143 W, or to Mrs. J. Passmore
Cheyney, Swarthmore 590 R.
No campaign will be necessary to secure the approval of the bond issue of
$55,000 to meet the borough's share of
the cost of eliminating the P. R. R.
grade crossing at Chester road. With
the general election still a month ahead,
this is the general opinion held by members of borough council and civic leaders
who for many years have looked towards the replacing of the present grade
crossing by an underpass.
The allocation of the cost of the improvement was agreed upon at a meeting
of representatives of the Pennsylvania
Railroad, the Public Service Commission,
the Delaware County Board of Commissioners, Swarthmore College, the State
Highway Department, and Swarthmore
Borough Council, held at Borough Hall
July 30.
At this meeting Edward B. Temple,
chief engineer of the Pennsylvania Railroad reported that the actual cost of the
underpass would be about $315,000.
After considerable discussion the following allocation was accepted by all those
present:
Pennsylvania R. R., 45 per cent; Delaware County, 25 per cent; Swarthmore
Borough, 15 per cent, but not to exceed
$55,000; State, 12 per cent but not to exceed $38,000. The remaining three per
cent unaccounted for may be made up by
the Public Service Commission out of a
contingent fund in their hands.
The meeting at which these apportionments were to be definitely accepted was
to have been held before the Public Service Commission last Thursday but due to
the illness of one of the members, the
meeting was postponed until the middle
of this month. Definite settlement of
the 3 per cent will also be made at this
meeting with the commission.
The above allocation is based on the
estimate cost of $315,000 plus $20,000 to
be paid to thc college, or a total cost of
$335,000.
The $20,000 to be paid to the college
is in settlement for land taken and incidental damages in the building of the
underpass. The complete understanding
with the college is that the college will
convey to the railroad 23,000 square feet
of ground on the north side of the railroad east of Chester road and the railroad will convey to the college 10,500
square feet of land on the west side of
Chester road. This exchange of property north of the R. R. and east and west
of Chester road is to allow for the removal of the present waiting station and
parking area from the west side to the
east side of Chester road.
The college also agrees to dedicate 32,-
000 square feet of land on the south side
of the R. R. In addition to the settlement
of $20,000 the college asks that earth
taken from the excavations be placed on
college property as designated by them;
that shrubs and trees be moved where-
ever possible; that an iron fence be put
up between the hockey field and the new
parking ground on the east side of Chester road; and that the college have the
right to connect with the drain from the
tunnel for use of surface water only.
No allowance has been made for damages to properties on the east side of
Chester road south of the railroad since
it is the opinion of those meeting the
costs that these property owners could
not successfully maintain a claim for
damages.
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OPENING STORY HOUR
NEXT THURSDAY, OCT. 10
Until January 1 the Story Hour for
the boys and girls of Swarthmore will
be on Thursday afternoons at 3 o'clock
at the Woman's Clubhouse.
It is the plan of the present committee
to make this year's program an 'International Year" of story telling.
The first program will be Thursday,
October 10, at 3 o'clock at the Women's
clubhouse. "An Hour in Italy where
Columbus was born" will be the subject
which will be appropriated for all ages.