Swarthmorean 1932 July 8

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THE
Vol IV,    No. 27
Swarthmore, Pa., July 8, 1932
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JULY 4TH PROGRAM
HELD IN RAIN
Children     Have     Parade    And
Games In Methodist
Church
CANCEL     BASEBALL     GAME
Rain failed to dampen the ardor of
Swarthmore's Fourth of July enthusiasts and every event in the day's program was held in spite of the downpour
with the exception of the baseball game.
The rainy weather in the morning however, did cut down both thc usual number
of spectators and tlie number of participants.
The program for the children beginning at 9 o'clock was held in the recreation room of the Methodist Church under the supervision of Mrs. William Earl
Kistler, Mrs. Elliot Richardson and Mrs.
Harold Griffin. The judges were Dr.
Wm. Middleton Fine, Mrs. Ralph V.
Little and Rev. Lloyd S. Stevens.
The Hornaday twins, Alice and James
won first prize for the best float. The
twins were dressed as George and
Martha Washington and the coach in
which they rode was pushed by an older
sister and Jean Fischer as negro mammies.
Mary Kistler won first prize for the
best decorated girls' bicycle, while
prizes were also awarded for the best
decorated boys' bicycle and the best
decorated scooter bike. Carolyn Sinclair
won first prize for the most original
costume and Patricia Thorn for the prettiest costume. Troop five won first prize
for the best,Scout troop and received a
case of ginger ale given by the A. and
P. store. Scout Morell of the troop
won a prize as te best individual Scout.
Richard Keppler won first prize, a box
of candy donated by Victor D. Shirer,
for the most unique float.
Following the parade around the recreation room, a number of games and
races were held. Prizes for the winners
of these races consisted of double decker
ice cream cones. The races included balloon races, sack races, lolly-pop race,
peanut scramble, hobble race, etc. The
winners included: Dorothy Jones, Dick
Sanford, Bobby Hall, Emily MeCurdy,
Evelyn Morgan, Mary Davis, William
Pollock, James Kaufman, Preston Buck-
man, John Craemer, Betty Landon,
Nancy Price, Ruth Murrel, Leroy Evans,
Stanley Hill, and Morgan Sniith.
The program for adults this year was
participated in by a large crowd of men
ami women in the recreation room of thc
Methodist Church. The first event was
a balloon fight which was won by Norton
Landon who managed to keep his balloon
to the end. He was given a watermel-
lon offered by Martel Bros, for his
trouble.
This event was followed by an obstacle race for men. The contestants
were required to carry a quart bottle of
water from the starting point, run about
four yards and pare two potatoes, andh
finally thread a needle. In the obstacle
race for women, hammering nails in a
• board was substituted for threading a
needle. The winners of these races received honey dew melons donated by
Martel Bros.
The final event was a match box contest which consisted of passing an empty
match box from one person to another by
means of each person's nose.    The win-
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TREE COMMITTEE
COMPLETES SURVEY
Quoits Prize Is
Only a Memory
One of the most unfortunate
winners in the community's
Fourth of July prograni was
Victor Allison. "Vic" was a member of the winning quoits team.
His prize was a box containing
hair tonic offered by Adolph's
Barber Shop. Too intent upon
reading the directions on the box
thc bottle slipped out and in a
moment the quoits prize was only
a barber shop odor on the cement
pavement.
Governor Investigating Hearing
of Chester Gambling Cases Here
BOWLS POPULAR
LOCAL PASTIME
Enthusiasts Prepare For Match
With Visiting English Lord
Next Month
GREENS    ARE    WELL   KEPT
One of Swarthmore's big social and
sporting events of the summer is
scheduled to take place early in August, when Lord Ashly Borwick, who
owns a large estate in Northern Scotland will visit Swarthmore during a
brief sojourn in America, and will meet
either Herbert or Arthur Bassett in a
championship determining game of
bowls.
The game will bc played on the
beautiful green just north of Whittier
House, which is said to be one Of the
finest greenswards in the East for
playing the old British game of bowls.
Herbert and Arthur Bassett havc been
pitting themselves against each other
all summer and the winner of the preliminary matches now being played
will meet Lord Borwick when -he' arrives in August.
Dr. Bassett, who is to entertain the
Lord during his visit here says that
the match will be in the nature of a
return engagement since he met Lord
Borwick in Scotland several years ago
and went down to defeat at the Lord's
hands on his own bowling greens. At
this time Dr. Bassett said that if Lord
Borwick ever came to America he
would like a return engagement.
The game of bowls which is the object of so much interest among residents living near Whittier House is
played with weighted balls which roll
on a bias unless skillfully handled. The
balls arc rolled down a level greensward and the player who brings his
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Thc controversy ovcr whether or not
men arrested in Chester gambling
headquarters should bc brought to
Swarthinore for hearing before a local
magistrate quieted down this week.
Communications have already been sent
to Governor Pinchot protesting the
practice of thc past and the Governor
has replied that he will study the situation.
One more communicant to The
Swarthmorean declares that it is this
community's duty to encourage the
hearings in this locality and that there
is no justification of complaints as to
the noise and undcsirability of thc hearings at Magistrate Ulrich's office on
Rutgers avenue.
Burgess William R. Landis refused
to comment on the letter of Charles A.
Smith in last week's Swarthmorean
asking why local police business was
not given to one of Swarthmore's magistrates instead of being taken out of
the borough to Magistrate William
Morgan on the Baltimore pike. Mr.
Landis" position is well known, however, since he has often stated that thc
difficulty of finding Magistrate Ulrich
necessitated taking cases to Magistrate
Morgan, who resides at his office and
may always be found there.
Magistrate Morgan is also highly
thought of by police officials throughout the entire county because of the
dispatch with which he handles cases.
brought to his office and he is capable
of deciding all legal points at a moment's notice. His location at -the edge
of Swarthmore is looked upon as a
great convenience for the local police.
Burgess Landis when interviewed
yesterday said that he still retains his
original feeling in regard to cases
brought here from Chester by the State
police and believes that they should
either be taken before a Chester magistrate or to thc county seat.
Thc communication from Charles E.
Bronson, expressing a contrary opinion
is as follows:
121 Rutgers Ave., Swarthniore, Pa.,
June 30, 1932.
Editor of Swarthmorean :—
Dear Sir:—Permit me to call attention to reference in the issue of June
24 of the so-called objection to the
part our local Magistrate is attempting
to help the worthy cause—concerted
attack on gambling and other evils in
our neighboring locality of Chester. No
lover of good government can condone
thc evils which caused these raids and
every Swarthmorean should be proud
of the fact that Swarthmore is given
a chance to help mete out justice and
every Swarthmorean should give all
the encouragement possible to thc attempts to clean out very apparent evils
and not discourage those attempts by
forcing the State police to try to find
some other court of justice. Mr. Landis
RUBBISH DISPOSAL
PROBLEM GROWING
College Closes Dump At End of
Yale Avenue; Residents
In  Quandry
NEW        DUMP
ESSENTIAL
Practically all of the State Police cases I must know very well just why Swarth-
originating on the Baltimore pike are (Continued on Page Six)
SEEK FUNDS FOR
NEEDLEWORK GUILD
The means of raising money for thc
Swarthniore branch of the Needlework
Guild will be varied this year and instead of holding a card party cake
sale, every director will be expected to
earn $2 and bring it to the meeting
this fall. Here she will be expected to
tell how she earned her $2.
This fund will be used as heretofore
to buy underclothes and bed linens to
stock day nurseries and small hospitals.
' Thc need has never been so urgent",
declared Mrs. J. V. S. Bishop, secretary, "let us get our shoulders under
the load and lift."
MRS. W. W. TURNER
NAMED BY PINCHOT
Mrs. Wm. W. Turner of Harvard
avenue was recently appointed a member of the  Board of Trustees  of  the
Where arc the people of Swarthmore to havc their rubbish dumped?
This is the question which is causing
considerable consternation among residents of the community since thc College forbade thc continued dumping of
refuse on thc low ground at thc end of
Yale avenue near Crum creek.
Now all rubbish from Swarthmore
homes must be hauled cither to dumps
in Springfield Township or to Ridley
township. Both of these dumping places
require extra fees, so that residents of
the community are being forced to pay
two charges for getting their rubbish
hauled away, one for the hauling and
the other for permission to have their
rubbish dumped.
For many years the rubbish collected
iu the borough was dumped down by
little Crum Creek near the end of Harvard avenue. Later land at the end of
Riverview avenue at the railroad was
used as a dump. Now all of these places -
are closed and a strict watch is being
kept to prohibit dumping at the most
recent dump near the end of Yale avenue.
Country roads in this vicinity have
long been used by rubbish haulers, who
have driven their carts a few feet off
the highway and dumped the contents
before anyone could stop them. However, property owners are putting a
stop to this so that duly authorized
dumps in other parts of the county
are now all that remain.
Thc present condition with the addi-
Mothers' Assistance Fund by Governor  ,jonai  expense  of  paying for permis
TiiVchAt. Fb1i6\vitfg'the June meeting of  sion to dump> is bringing up once mon
the Board she was elected secretary.
Reports were made on family cases
Mrs. Calvin W. Brice of Park avenue entertained at luncheon on Wednesday July 6. Those present were Mrs.
Wflliam Ward, Jr., wife of the Mayor
of Chester; Mrs. C. P. Nycc and her
mother, Mrs. Goodall, Mrs. Martin B.
Young, of Swarthmore, and Mrs.
Thomas Galloway of Chester.
Interesting  Story Translated
By   Swarthmore   Resident
Swarthmore's Tree Committee completed a survey of Swarthmore's trees
last week and will soon make known
their recommendations for planting new
trees and replacing old ones along the
borough's streets. The committee also
studied street intersections where
shrubbery grown out to the corners
create a danger for motorists. As a
result of this second study it is likely
that an ordinance will be passed prohibiting the planting of shrubs within
a certain number of feet from a street
intersection.
The four trees that havc died within
the past few months in front of the
Woinan's Clubhouse will receive the
attention of the Tree Committee and
thc cause of their condition will be
determined.
Ellwood B. Chapman, chairman of
the committee, says that the need for
the committee is apparently the number of letters and complaints received.
He says however that the committee is
powerless to keep cherries from falling
onto sidewalks and making a' mess.
Among Swarthmore's most widely
known citizens in the engineering world
is J. W. Ledoux of Walnut lane. While
Mr. Ledoux is one of the country's foremost atuhorities on water works antl
water power plants, he also finds time
occasionally to read unscientific works
and recently sent to The Swarthmorean
the following translation which he made
from a Spanish story.
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Don Ventura! Don Ventura! It's
quarter past nine!
A hoarse voice from within, I am getting up, you devilish Ramona, I am getting up.
It's more than an hour that you were
getting up. Don't you know that you
have an examination—and that the chocolate   is  cold.    Several  seconds  passed,
fellow lacked grey matter, and forgot the
subject matter of his studies as fast as he
learned them, so that with many tiresome
failures up to the last chance, he saw
that it was impossible to graduate. For
this he had been preparing for the last
four years. His efforts were useless.
The note "Suspended" was the qualification with which the Examining Tribunal
recompensed his application and efforts,
and he, in spite of the many defeats, kept
on resolving to be a doctor at all cost.
At his side had filed by four or five generations of students, who more apt or
fortunate than he, succeeded in finishing
the course with relative facility, and the
poor Ventura saw them arrive and afterwards depart never to return, while he
remained futilely striving for the cursed
degree.   The professors treated him with
and action taken to cancel the grants
of several families and to make reductions in others, due to the cut in
the appropriations made to the Mothers' Assistance Fund following Attorney General Schnader's ruling on the
Talbot Relief Bill. The cut makes it
necessary for thc Delaware County
Trustees to reduce the June pensions
more than $2300.00.
In making the cut the Trustees tried
.o bc very careful and considered families who are in relatively better positions to meet their own needs; those
whose needs seemed primarily due to
unemployment; the one-child family,
where thc mother now has but one
child under sixteen years and has been
on thc pension list for some years; and
thc family who has recently been granted assistance. The Trustees are referring the cases di%nisscd to the Directors of the Poor who are administering
the Talbot Relief Fund in Delaware
County.
The members of the Board of Trustees are: Mrs. Alexander B. Geary,
president; Mrs. Stoddard P. .Gray, lst
vice-president; Mrs. Seymour Eaton,
2d vice-president; Mrs. William W.
Turner, secretary; Mrs. William R.
Landis, treasurer; Mrs. Charles H.
Howson, assistant secretary; Miss
Elizabeth  Keating, assistant  treasurer.
more
.he question of the need for municipal
collection of rubbish and the establishment of a borough owned dumping
ground.
Such a system is in operation in
many communities thc size of Swarthmore and there is no doubt now that
private individuals are paying more
than if the borough contracted with
one person to remove everyone's rubbish in much the same way that garbage' is collected by the borough.
The garbage collection costs about
$125 a month and rubbish collection
could probably be installed for about
the same amount. There would be the
necessity, however, of purchasing or
securing some low ground to bc filled
in with the collected rubbish.
It is said that the problem will probably come before council in the near
future and will be discussed relative to
next year's budget.
FALL FLOWER SHOW
TO BE HELD SEPT. 13
SUMMER SCHOOL
ENROLLMENT LARGE
more friendliness than an alumnus, and
and Ramona seeing that no one answeS' the many porters treated him familiarly
left grumbling. ! as an equal.
A little later Don Ventura came outj    This  day,  Don Ventura was  making
of   his   room   with   swollen  eyes,  loose one last desperate effort,
necktie and hair in disorder. I    If it goes badly, he had said with mis-
Ramona! ery to  Ramona, don't expect to see me
Are  you  going,   asked  the   landlady return, for I will certainly kill myself;—
from the kitchen. j but in his heart, he expected to return ^Z^^r,TZ^a^r7XnTn7^
..      T ... _ .    e I.    r.    ,     ,      ., ^u_ki«  u„ l„j  entire   course   at   regular   school   next
Yes, I am going; if any one asks for jm September if, as was probable, he hadl
me tell him I have gone to the examina- the bad luck to fail.
tion.   I go, good-bye I
Good-bye and good luck!
Don Ventura  Sanchez was the most
The enrollment in the Swarthmore
Summer High School is unusually large
this year. 77 individual pupils are enrolled in the various courses, 58 from
Swarthmore and 19 from outside of
Swarthmore. The 58 Swarthmore pupils
arc pursuing 87 courses and the 19 non-
Swarthmore pupils, 31 courses, a total
of 118 courses. Of the 87 courses pursued by local pupils, 36 are taken because of previous failure in subjects.
Passing summer session courses will
remove the necessity of repeating the
Tuesday,   September   13th   has   been
chosen by thc Flower Committee of the
Woman's Club for the fall flower show.
It will be  held in the  Womans'  Club
House   as   usual.   During  the   summer
children arc urged to make bird boxes
to exhibit at that time, wren, robin, or
any kind they choose, and label them
as such; awards of merit will be given
for  flowers of their  own  raising,  but
not for vegetables this year. Everyone
is urged to  have  the  flower  show in
mind as they plant and care for their
flowers during the summer. Mr. David
Rust of Philadelphia and a representative from the Penna. Horticultural Society will act as judges.
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NEW CARS ON
W. C. SHORT LINE
Arriving at the college one of the orderlies said to him, "Hello, Ventura, you
are to go at once to the office of the
unfortunate student in the medical course, j Rector who is awaiting you." This news
At this time he was about forty, and had I could not be more unexpected. What
for more than twenty-five years pursued coujd the Rector want of him? Could
the same career, without success in ob- it j,e to sUspen<i him without an examina-
taining a degree of medicine. It must tion? Ventura hurried to the office of
not be understood that he was lazy or!tj,e illustrious Rector and announced
shiftless. On the contrary he was as ■ himself,
studious  as any  one  else;  but the poorj (Continued on Page Six)
year.
The attendance in the Household
Arts department is about 40 girls daily.
The attendance at the playgrounds continues very good with considerable interest being shown in the tennis competition.
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Mrs. Buckman Wilson, of. Fairview
road is entertaining Mrs. Harold Drew,
of Plainfield, N. J., as her guest this
week.
New type cars will be placed in service between 69th Street Terminal and
West Chester on' Sunday, July 10th,
1932.
Each car has four 50 H. P. motors,
automatic safety feature, high speed
trucks, low step, sixty-one individual
seats, etc., and with the extensive use
of aluminum the weight is 30 per cent,
less than  the  present  type.
All local stops will be made, thereby
eliminating the express feature between 69th Street Terminal and Llan-
erch.
Cars leave 69th Street Terminal and
West Chester on the hour and half
hour.