Swarthmorean 1932 June 17

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Vol IV,    No. 24
Swarthmore, Pa., June 17, 1932
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Graduation Exercises Held at High School For Class of Seventy-two Students
BORO MAY BRING
ACTION AGAINST
ELECTRIC COMPANY
Residents   Along   Elm   Avenue
Claim   Trees   Were   Cut
Without Permission
NEW MAGISTRATE
FOR BORO. NAMED
MATTER DISCUSSED BEFORE
A suit against thc Philadelphia Electric Company for trimming trees on
borough property without permission
appeared likely this week and was
scheduled for discussion at last night's
meeting of Borough Council. Thc trees
in question arc located on Elm avenue
and between Cedar lane and Walnut
lane havc long been thc subject of]
controversy between thc public utility
company and thc borough.
Thc Electric Company first expressed
their interest in having these trees
trimmed early tliis spring when they
called at the homes of the property
owners and asked for permission. This
they failed to receive and carried their
request to Borough Council. Residents
along the block attended meetings of
council and protested against the work
being done, claiming that it would ruin
the appearance of the trees. Council
upheld them iu this and partially as a
result of the controversy, the Tree
Committee was created to study the
subject and make recommendations to
council.
Monday night some trouble was reported along thc electric lines on Elm
avenue and after repairing thc breaks
it is understood that the  Philadelphia
Clifford M. Rumsey, of The Swarth^
more apartments, has been notified of his
appointment by Governor Pinchot as a
magistrate for the borough of Swarthmore. His appointment fills the position
made vacant by the resignation of Morris L. Sniith who resigned following his
election last fall. The other magistrate
in thc Irarough is David Ulrich.
Mr. Rumsey's appointment was secured through the efforts of friends of the
present state administration in this vicinity particularly Mrs. Edwin A. Yarnall.
The new magistrate expects to carry on
all the customary activities of a justice
of the peace and will also do notary public work.
PLAYGROUND TO
OPEN MONDAY
ONE KILLED AS
CAR SKIDS ON
SO. CHESTER RD.
Rut In East Shoulder of Road
Thought to Have Caused
Accident .
STATE
IS
CENSURED
William Lee, senior at Swarthmore
College next year, has been employed by
the school board as supervisor of the
Summer playground at tne College avenue building this summer. Mr. Lee is
onc of the best tenuis players in the community and will ^instruct children in this
game. Hc will also supervise tournaments and games in all the athletic activities at thc playground during the summer months.
The playground season will open on
Monday. Work in the Household Arts
and Manuel Training department will
not begin until June 27. This work will
be for boys and girls over 12 years of
age.
The Household Arts work will be under the supervision of Miss Esther N.
Cherry, the regular teacher of that sub
ject, and will include canning, sewing,
preserving, cooking, and Girl Scout
Merit Badge work,
Largest Class In History
of School Given Diplomas
PRESIDENT
Work for the boys under the direction
Electric Company rook matters in their• of  tnc  regular   teacher,   Benjamin   J.
own hands and ordered the trees trim-j
med. without the  property owners' or
council's permission.
Council charges that the company is
subject to a fine of $100 a tree for their
action and since about thirty trees were
trimmed tlie fine might run as high as
$3000.
The Electric Company throughout the
controversy has maintained that their
desire to trim thc trees is only in the
interest of thc general public, since
there is constant danger of a live wire
being broken and falling to the ground.
The officials of thc company also stated
at the hearings early in the year that
the work could bc done by cxpeYt tree
trimmers without injuring thc trees or
their appearance.
Owners of property along the street
however contend that thc trees havc
been trimmed before and that their
appearance is greatly affected. They
havc persistently declared that the Electric Company find some other means
of protecting their wires through the
trees on Elm avenue. Thus far thc
principal suggestions have been that the
wires be placed in onc cable and carried through the trees; that the wires
be run over the tops of the trees; that
thc wires be carried behind the houses;
that the wires be placed underground.
The last suggestion is admittedly thc
best, but would entail great expense to
the borough.
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NEW TEACHER FOR
LOCAL SCHOOLS NAMED
Three new teachers have !>ecn named
by the Swarthniore school board to succeed those resigning: Miss Adeline S.
Straus formerly of Norristown will
teach Latin and French. For the past
year she has been studying and teaching
at Chateau Thiery while working in
connection with tbe Methodist Memorial.
She will succeed Miss Jane Mitchener
who is to l)e married sOon.
Miss Mary F. Deihl, a graduate of
Wilson College who has been teaching
on Long Island, will succeed Marcia
Perry as teacher of English in the ninth
and tenth grades. Miss Perry has also resigned to be married this summer.
Miss Martha McCallin, will be tbe new
teacher of tlie fourth grade at the Rutgers avenue school, to succeed Miss
Eleanor Pusey. Miss Celeste Bel ford,
who has been teacher of thc third grade
at the College avenue building during the
past year will teach the first grade at
Rutgers avenue next year.
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Dr. and Mrs. W. Carson Ryan of
Wash.in$bn,: D.. C, are expected early
next week for a .week's visit with friends
and relatives.
South Chester road just north of the
borough limits was thc scene of another
fatal automobile accident Sunday evening when a car traveling toward
Swarthinore from Chester skidded across
the highway into a tree fatally injuring
onc man and sending four other occupants of the machine including the driver
to the hospital. Last year a car containing several colored peop^ turned over at |
nearly thc same point with one fatality.
The man who died while being removed to the hospital was Ulysses
Payne, 68, ot Pocomoke City, Md. He
was seated on tlie rear seat on the side
that struck tlie tree. The car was owned
and driven by Howard O. Payne of Secane, a nephew of thc dead man. Payne
and thc other occupants in the car were
slightly injured and were removed to the
Chester hospital.
From all appearances the accident followed an effort on the part of the driver
to jerk his car out of a rut on tbe cast
shoulder of the highway. Just before
reaching thc scene of the accident the
road narrows from a three lane to a two
lane highway. Consequently it is necessary for the driver of a car to cut into
the center of the narrow roadway.
When the driver attempted to do this
after running on the shoulder of the
road for a short distance, the car skidded
across the wet pavement into one of the
maple trees on the west side. Ulysses
Payne, the man who was killed was
crushed and lived only a few minutes after tbe accident.
Residents of University Place and
nearby streets who arrived at the scene
first, expressed,, their indignation this
week tliat thQrjiut Jiad been allowed to
exist in the- shoulder of the road and
that there were not adequate signs just
a few feet ahead. .
Borough "officials pointed out that the
responsibility' fbr  keeping  Ciiester   road
in repair rests with the state since it is a
State  Highway.    They explained,  however,  that due to the State's effort   to
economize, the road  is not kept  up  as
I well as  formerly and lwrough workmen
patch  up holes on  Chester  road  which
Mr. and   Mrs.   Paul   F.   Gemmill  are apI)ear to be too dangerous to leave for
leaving on June 20th to visit her mother tjle gtatc cmpioyecs.
in Virginia. (Continued on Page Two)
Riehard Redgrave
200 MEN TAKEN
IN CHESTER RAID
BROUGHT HERE
Magistrate Ulrich Holds All For
Court In Heavy
Bail
Cooke, will be in the shop building and
will include work with metal and wood.
Already more than fifty boys havc enrolled. The program will probably be
held from 8:30 to 12:30 each day.
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Start Auto Trip
Howard Kerr, Morris Hicks and
Howard Johnson, who graduated from
the College this year, started Tuesday
l)3r automobile on a trip to California.
Tlieir car, which was a used model
overhauled by tbe boys, passed through
Swarthmore on Tuesday loaded down
with camping equipment of every kind.
The round trip will consume a period
of two months. Thc boys met their first
mishap before leaving the borough
when they ran out of gasoline.
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MANY
GO
TO
JAIL
Growth of High School
Described By Essayist
An outstanding part of the commencement program at the High school on
Tuesday was the reading of two essays
written by members of the class. One
essay written by Lula Annette Hills was
WROTE ESSAY
Lula Annette Hills
on'the subject of "The Growth of the
Swarthmore High School". It is published herewith.    The other essay on the
history of Swarthmore Borough written
by Richard Griffin will be published next
week.
Miss Hills' essay is as follows:
Forty-one years of development of our
Swarthniore school has been so remarkable it is worthy of a brief review so
that we may all havc a better appreciation of the advancement which has been
made.
Back in 1890, the only school available
for Swartlnnore children was the original Springfield School at "Baltimore Pike
near Chester road. As new homes were
being established on the south side of the
railroad, an appeal was made in 1891, to
the Springfield Township School Committee to provide a scliool nearer these
homes. The Committee acted favorably
and purchased the triangular plot of
ground on which the Yale Avenue building was built at the cost of approximately $20,000. The enrollment of tliis new
school ranged from 32 to 36 pupils.
In 1893, the Borough of Swarthmore
was established, and the first Board of
Education began to function. Charles G.
Ogden was elected President and Ellen
H. E. Price, the grandmother of one of
our graduates, was Secretary. The Primary teacher received only $40.00 per
month that year while during the year
following she received $55.55 per month
and the Principal $800 per year. During
this year Dr. George Hoadley, the father
of one of our graduates, became Director
of the Board.
(Continued on Page Six)
Swarthmore once more was the seat
of justice for nearly 200 men' arrested
Saturday afternoon in a raid on a gambling house in the heart of Chester. The
men were loaded into six large buses
and brought to • the office of Magistrate
Ulrich on Rutgers avenue where .they
were held for court in $500 bail.
The place raided was on Sixth street
near the Pennsylvania R. R. Station and
according to the State Police .Who" were
in charge, a great deal of gambling
equipment was seized. Many of the
men were awaiting results from the
tracks or placing bets on the last race.
When the men could not furnish bail
they were removed to the Media jail
which was soon overcrowded. Bail was
later reduced to $100 and furnished by a
bonding company for all of the men not
released up to that time.
Several men escaped from one of the
buses while awaiting their turn at the
Magistrate's office. The State police expressed the belief that the local police
were at fault in permitting this, but
Chief Rogeri declared that he had been
assured their help would not be needed.
Captain Rogeri declares that the care
of the arrested men was the responsibility of the state troopers and that the
local police attend the hearings only to
maintain order and protect Swarthmore's passersby.
The technical charge entered against
all of the men caught in the raid was
"conspiracy in the violation of gambling
laws." Each of the men will have to
stand trial at the September term of
court, if the September Grand Jury returns true bills against them.
According to the police, the Sixth
street place has betn investigated for
several weeks, right after its recent opening, and the raid was carefully planned.
The raid closely followed the sentencing
at Media on the day previous, of Ralph
Damico, this city, who admitted he was
the proprietor of a gambling place raided
on East Sixth street, a block away, when
185 were arrested and fined. State pcA
lice made that raid, also.
Tlie raid was made shortly after 5 o'clock Saturday afternoon by State troopers led by Sergeant John J. Ughes. The
troopers gained entrance by having two
of their own men inside in plain clothes
to open the doors.
The inmates were rounded up and the
troopers seized evidence, including two
roulette wheels, dice, racing forms and
run down sheets and other paraphernalia.
While this was going on, six motor
buses were pulling up to the place. Into these the men were bundled and taken
to Swarthmore for' arraignment befbre
Justice of the Peace David Ulrich.
There,   much   to  their   surprise,  they
found themselves held in bail- for court
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New   Scholarships   and   Awards
Announced By
Mr. Morey
The largest senior class in the history
of thc High school, consisting of 45
boys and 27 girls, received their diplomas on Tuesday evening. Prizes and
awards were presented as follows:
Home and School Scholarship. Medal
for the highest average over thc four
year course, presented to John D. Detlefsen.
Home and School Association Scholarship amounting to $300 was awarded
to Walter Hickman. Charles Gerner
was named as the alternate, and as
such was given the Faculty Scholarship
amounting to $200. The second Faculty
Scholarship of $125 was given to Mary
Cresson.
The student Scholarship consisting of
$100 offered as a gift of the Senior
class was given to William Taylor.
Hugh Calhoun and William Hickman
were named as alternates.
The Phi Beta Kappa Award consisting of a copy of Seer's "Biography of
Washington," was awarded to Bickley
Stevens.
Four new awards consisting of five
dollar gold pieces were given as follows : Library Association Award in
English, Elsie Pitman; American Legion Award in Social Studies, William
Taylor; Woman's Club award in Languages, Byers Roxby; and Business
Men's Association Award in Mathematics, John Detlefsen.
Richard Doud and Anton Wagner
were awarded a seal for four year's
perfect attendance.
The commencement address was
given by George A. Walton, who used
as a basis for his comments, George
Washington's Farewell address to his
troops. The speaker compared the graduating students to the soldiers of Washington's Army.-going .out.i to fields of
greater independence. He said .that a
person's interest '-and- activity 'bmong
his fSfloVif' ther? was^still as .important
cfo his success in 'life' ''as-' in Washington's  time.
Thc class gift was presented by Richard Redgrave, president of the class.
The awards (and ihonors, wef<fi announced by Frank K. 'Morey, supervising
principal of the local, spools, and's Dr.
Arthur E. * Bassett, president of * the
school board, gave out the diplomas.
Mr.  Morey gave out some interest-
iig facts about thc class, stating that the
youngest   member   was   15   years   and
10 months old and the oldest 22 years
and  11  months. The average age was
18 years,  tiwo  months.  Four  students
were under 17 and three over 21. Forty-
one of the graduates live  in  Swarthmore and 31  live outside the borough
and are tuition pupils. The boys in the
class are particularly tall, declared Mr.
Morey, one third being over six feet.
Ruth Darlington is secretary of the
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NO CHARGE FOR
SUMMER SCHOOL
Summer school will begin at the High
school building June 27 with Charles
Brinton acting as superintendent. No
charge will he made for the courses this
year for pupils whose homes are in
Swarthmore. Pupils from outside the
borough will have to pay $7.50 a course.
No onc will be allowed to take more
than two courses. In previous years- an
extra fee was charged all students regardless of their residence.
Those taking work in the scjhool, which
will last six weeks, may be considered in
three classifications: Students who passed the work this year but would lifte to
review the course in order to,. get- a better understanding of the subject. Students who failed the course and wish to
pass it this summer rather than repeat it
next year. Students who wish to take a
course in advance so that they will have
less difficulty with it next year.
H. & S. Elects
Frank Williams was elected president
of the-Home and School. Association at
the annual nieeting last "Friday evening in
following the student program. Mrs.
David C. Prince was elected vice president, Mrs.-guerdon Jones, secretary, and
Mrs. James Bacon-poUglas,'treasurer.