Swarthmorean 1933 June 2

              The Alumni Association of the College does not exaggerate when its president announces that the presentation of
addresses by Dr. Aydelotte of Swarthmore and Walter B. Pitkin of Columbia
University, from the same platform at
the same meeting on Saturday morning,
represents an extraordinarily interesting
program.
Dr. Aydelotte speaks interestingly and
authoritatively on any subject but he is at
his best when telling friends of Swarthmore about his plans for the future of
that institution and his hopes for education in. general.
During the past few years, Dr. Aydelotte has lifted his own name and the
name of Swarthmore College to the very
heights in the field of pure education. He
visualized his institution not as a training
school for haberdashers, grocery clerks,
travelling salesmen or bookkeepers, but as
a place of learning for those who are to
go to the very heights in the professions>
commerce and industry. All honor to
him that he has stuck to his ideals regardless of the Swarthmore alumni who have
been forced to choose between being
haberdashers, grocery clerks, travelling
men or being out of employment altogether since 1929.
Dr. Aydelotte has aimed Swarthmore's
educational program at the exceptional
student who is interested in the very best
education that he can secure for the sake
of enlightening his own mind as well as
of a foundation for an ambitious career.
At the annual banquet of the Philadelphia Alumni Association this year his
plea was not for more funds, more buildings, or greater alumni interest in undergraduate activities, but for better students.
While other College presidents were
explaining shrinking funds and unpaid
faculties, what a contrast that Swarthmore's president should arise and say:
Swarthmore is better able to help the
needy but deserving student now than
.ever before. Send us better candidates
for intellectual  improvement"
With Swarthmore so definitely established as an institution of cultural education and gaining new recognition each
year, it is a bit puzzling just why the
alumni would bring to their meeting one
of the most popular leaders of mass education in the country; a man whose educational ideas mean practically nothing to
Swarthmore College as it now exists.
If the name of Walter B. Pitkin ever
meant anything to the students of
Swarthmore College, it ceased to do so
about the same time that the American
Magazine and the Woman's Home Companion disappeared from the dormitory
reading tables.
Mr. Pitkin has probably made as great
a business success of education as any
man alive. He is professor of Journalism at Columbia University, is a popular
lecturer writes for periodicals and newspapers, is said to be more astute at
analysing the whys and wherefores of a
newspaper or periodical with falling circulation than any man alive, helps complete the Encyclopedia Britannica and
during his spare time has written such
intriguing volumns as "Lite Begins At
Forty," 1932; "Short Introduction to the
History of Human Stupidity," 1932;
"How We Learn," 1931; "The Art of
Learning," 1931; "Vocational Studies in
Journalism," 1931; "The Psychology of
Achievement," 1930; "The Art of Sound
Pictures," (with William Marston) 1930;
"The Young Citizen," 1929; and "The
Psychology of Happiness," 1929.
With two such emminent men on the
program, one representing pure education
for the many, can anyone deny that the
program tomorrow morning at 11 o'clock
to which the public is invited, should
prove interesting?
The Swarthmorean
vol. V—NO. 22
SWARTHMORE, PA., JUNE 2, 1933
$2.50 PER YEAR
WHOSE GOING ON THIS TRIP THIS SUMMER?
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Here are the boys that Dr. Terman took on his adventure tour to the West last
summer. A similar trip to the Chicago World Fair and into Canada is offered
as a first prize in the Swarthmorean popularity contest.
SWARTHMORE YOUNGSTERS READY TO
FIGHT FOR VACATION CONTEST PRIZES
What a field—35 entries to date in
The Swarthmorean's Summer Adventure Contest.
Who will get the trip to the Chicago
World's Fair with Dr. E. L. Terman's
group? Or will some young lady get the
greatest, number of votes and chose a
new bicycle or two weeks at camp?
Who will be the runners up and secure the pup tent, bathing suit, tennis
racquet, and other prizes?
No one has really started to work
in earnest yet but with the publication
this week of the entries, the battle for
votes will begin in earnest.
All you have to do is to ask for your
coupon worth 100 votes whenever you
make a purchase of $1 at any of the
Swarthmore stores that advertise in
The Swarthmorean.
Then place the coupon with your
name on it or the name of your favorite candidate in the red box in front
of The" Swarthmorean Office, at 419
Dartmouth avenue.
Ask your friends to turn their votes
over to you. Don't let your parents
make a purchase without securing their
votes!
What boy wouldn't get out and work
for that trip to Chicago with Dr. Terman's Westward-Ho group?
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PREPARE FOR EXHIBIT
OF SCHOOL PROJECTS
Good Catch
Seventy-two croakers and two drum
fish were caught on a fishing trip at Reed
Beach last Saturday. The party consisted
of eleven men including Arthur Hughes
of HI Columbia avenue and his son Norman, ten years of age.
Norman hooked the first of the two
drum fish which weighed 43 pounds. He
needed help to land the big fellow arid
only a short time later his father caught
the second drum fish which weighed 46
pounds. This drum fought for forty-five
minutes before it was landed.
The party wound up the day by getting
a good . drenching in a terifhc thunder
storm which caught the fishermen just as
they were landing.
The annual exhibit of the work of
the schools will be held on Wednesday
and Thursday of next week, June 7th
and 8th. The rooms will be open in the
afternoon until 4:30 and in the evening from 7:00 to 9:30.
The exhibits this year in the grades
will include the materials made by the
boys and girls in carrying out the creative phases of the units of study connected with their social studies program. This program is in a large measure an integration of social studies with
art and handcraft work. Each grade
has studied a number of these units
during the year.
In the first grade they have been
working on the home unit, the farm life
unit, and nature study work. In second
grade, they have studied the American
Indian, the Eskimo," and Holland and
the Dutch. The third grade has studied
primitive life and a new and original
unit on Mexico and one on Japan. The
fourth grade "units were ancient civilizations, including Egypt, Babylonia and
Assyria, Syria, China, Persia, and
Greece. The fifth grade has made a
special study of Roman civilizations,
the Middle Ages, and the Renaissance,
with special attention to knighthood.
In the sixth grade the program included early explorers and Colonial life.
In the junior-senior high school, the
exhibits of the various departments will
be given. In Shop and Mechanical
Drawing, the work of the boys completed during the year will be on display, as will also be true in the sewing
department, where the students will
stage a fashion show during the evening. The Art department will have a
special display of the best of the art
work completed during the year, in
charcoal, pastel, figure work and design.
The public is cordially invited to inspect these exhibits. Pupils will be on
hand to serve as guides and to explain
thc methods of developing the various
activity  units.
FINAL STORY HOUR
HELD AT CLUBHOUSE
S. P. C. A. PROSECUTES
FOR NEGLECTING HORSE
Charged with neglecting to provide
medical attention and proper shelter
for a disabled horse, which had contracted pneumonia from exposure due
to being allowed to remain on an open
field, Elwood Dickens, a farmer near
Concordville, was fined by Justice of
the Peace David M. Ulrich of Swarthmore last Saturday. The case was conducted by the S. P. C A. through its
superintendent, C. U. Hayward. A plea
of guilt was entered.
The last Story Hour of the year was
given Wednesday afternoon at the Woman's Clubhouse in tt.'« form of a May.
Festival. This program brought to a
close one of the most active seasons which
the Story Hour has ever arranged. Mrs.
Laurence Stabler was in charge.
Betty Hays was crowned Queen of thc
May by her maid of Honor, Nancy Fawcett, with Doris Berlieu, Alice Redgrave,
Evelyn Wherry, and Joan Thatcher as
ladies-in-waiting.
William Price of Rose Valley as Robin
Hood acted as master of ceremonies and
introduced a group of Girl Scouts who
danced English dances and a group of
sixth grade boys who did gymnastic
stunts to amuse the Queen. The flower
girls were Margaret Sheppard, Pnyliss
Rhodes, Joanna Dickson, Florence Whit-
sit, Theo. Hulme, Libby Garrett, Joan
Thatcher, Patsy Patterson, and Ruth
Prince.
Pages were Nancy Hoot and Delorah
Drew. The jester was John Naisby and
the bugler, Leroy Evans.
Music was furnished by Mrs. Philip
Davis, Mrs. Swann, and Mrs. Lumsden.
Costumes were made by Mrs. Alex
Lackey and Mrs. Milton Bryant.
The sophomore class of thc high school
enjoyed a picnic on Wednesday at the
home of Miss Betty Passmore, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Norman Passmore, of
Chester Heights.
Mr. and Mrs. William Main, of Cedar
Lane, will entertain in honor of their
daughter, Elizabeth Main, at a dance on
June 10.
LOCAL SCHOOL BOARD REFUSES TO
EXONERATE 127 TAX DELINQUENTS
Commencement Plans
at Swarthmore College
Friday, June 2
11.00 A.M. Class Day Exercises.
1.00 P.M. College Luncheon.
2.30 P.M. Meeting   of   the   Board   of
Managers.
3.30 P.M. Annual Business Meeting of
the Swarthmore Chapter of
Phi    Beta    Kappa,    Bond
Memorial.
6.00 P.M. College Dinner.
6.45 P.M. Ivy   Planting.   Thomas    B.
Sattcrwhite,  Ivy Orator.
8.30 P.M. Commencement Play, "Dear
Brutus," Clothier Memorial.
Saturday, June 3
Alumni  Day
Master of Ceremonies
J.   Franklin  Gaskill,  '10
President of Alumni Association
Registration  upon  arrival, at  the   Bureau of  Information  in the  Reception
Parlor, Parrish Hall. Special Reunions
of 73, 78, *83, '88, '93, *98, '03, '08, '13,
'18, '23, 28, '31.
11.00 A.M. Annual     Meeting    of    the
Alumni  Association,  Clothier  Memorial.
Alumni Luncheon.
12.45-2.00
P.M.
2.30 P.M
Alumni   Parade   of   Classes
to the Alumni Field.
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'THE HOTTENTOT
WINS AUDIENCE
"The Hottentot", produced by Charles
D. Mitchell for the benefit of the unemployment fund of the Harold Ainsworth
Post, American Legion, galloped into
favor as a sure winner at the Players'
Club last evening.
For the Hottentot, be it known, is the
name of the most mettlesome horse in a
fashionable hunting community near New
York. Into this community, the'day oe-
fore fKe"u)s,e'as6n's big steeple-chase, is
suddenly catapulted one Sam Harrington, owner of the same name as that of a
famous rider, but himself a man who
never had much skill in a saddle and who
is now deathly afraid of horses due to a
serilous accident six years before.
The farcical situations arising from this
mistaken identity (an identity that Harrington may not straighten out if he is
to gain the girl he has come to win) and
his strategy in trying to avoid participation in the steeple-chase, especially on the
Hottentot's back, kept the audience last
evening in a gale of laughter.
It can easily be seen that this is the type
of farce which Mr. Mitchell handles so
deftly. His role of Sam Harrington is
one that keeps him on the stage much of
the time and hands him situations and
lines from which he can squeeze the last
drop of comedy. From his first convulsive entrance, bruised and torn after a
sudden descent from the Hottentot's back
to the final curtain his work was a pleasure to watch.
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RUTLEDGE FLOWER
SHOW THIS WEEK
Aydelotte and
Pitkin to Speak
Those in charge of Class Day
ixercises of Commencement Week
at the College are desirous that
a large number of alumni and
friends attend the program at 11
o'clock in Clothier Memorial on
Saturday, June 3.
At this meeting President Aydelotte will speak on "Modern
Trends in Education," and Walter B. Pitkin, popular psychologist and professor of journalism
at Columbia University, will
speak on "The New Deal in Education."
Since President Aydelotte and
Dr. Pitkin represent different
schools of thought in education,
the former emphasizing the cultural side and the latter the
practical angle, a very interesting
discussion is expected.
County pride should be demonstrated
by all residents of Delaware county by
exhibiting flowers, or at least visiting
the flower show Friday and Saturday
in the auditorium and in a large tent
on the grounds of the Rutledge fire-
house. The show is under the Joint
Auspices of the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society and the Rutledge Horticultural Society.
The Rutledge Society, with its mem-
May Publish List of Those not
Paid By Next Week
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The school board at an adjourned meeting Wednesday night refused to exonerate 127 persons who have not yet paid
their per capita tax. Such action was
taken in order that the tax duplicate
might be settled by June 1 as is required
by the school code.
Clara L. Taylor, tax collector, submitted to the board two lists of persons
whose $3 per capita taxes had not yet
been paid. One list consisted of 244
names of persons for whom exoneration
was asked by the tax collector. Of this
list the board agreed to exonerate all but
nine providing the tax collector signed an
affadavit that they were indigents, deceased or non-residents. The second list
consisted of 118 names of persons for
whom the tax collector asked an extention
of time. However, since the solicitor of the
board stated that this was impossible because of the ruling that thc tax duplicate
must be settled June 1, the tax collector
was refused exoneration on this list which
plus the nine persons on the other list
make a total of 127 for whom the board
refuses to grant exoneration.
This means that the school board will
attempt to collect either from the tax collector or from the bonding company, the
$381 represented by the 127 delinquents.
"We believe that it is unfair to the
great majority of the residents of
Swarthmore who , have paid their $3
school tax, to waive payment by these remaining 127 delinquents," declared Roland L. Eaton chairman of the Finance
Committee. "The Board has granted the
tax collector exoneration for 235 persons
and we feel that this list covers all those
who can be exempted with justice to
those who have made personal sacrifices
to pay their taxes earlier in the year."
Mrs. Taylor believes that the board is
being unnecessarily severe in their refusal to exonerate a greater number of
the delinquents.
"This is the first time in the history of
the school district that such action has
been taken. In former years exonerations were made in wholesale quantities,"
declares the only woman tax collector in
the county. "The board has no authority
to take the approximately $400 represented by these delinquencies out of my
salary and I shall fight any attempt to do
so."
Mrs. Taylor says that in only one district in Delaware County has a higher,
percentage of per capita taxes been collected for 1933. This is in Radnor township. She docs not believe that the total
of 362 persons who have not paid their $3
per capita tax out of a total of 1970 taxables is a bad record.
"I shall of course continue in my efforts to collect from the 127 delinquents
for whom exoneration was refused," declared Mrs. Taylor. "In instances where
I feel that an effort is being made to
evade payment I shall use every means at
my disposal to collect. But in instances
where I feel that the individuals are sincerely unable to pay I shall cooperate to
the fullest extent."
Mrs. Taylor says that one of the first
steps which she contemplates in order to
encourage payment by those who have repeatedly made promises, is to publish a
list of the delinquents as legal advertising
in The Swarthmorean. This may be done
next week.
Benefit Lawn Party
Mrs. H. Bardwell Lincoln, Jr., of Ogden   Avenue,   is   arranging   a   Benefit
j.ne ivuiicuge oocieiy, wun us mem-1 r-"   "~" »   "~ -    -
bership of over-400, the second largest | taw,\Party at ^r re«den,ce on Tues-
societv in the state, is narticnlarlv hnn- I day afternoon, June 6th, from 3 until
society in the state, is particularly hon
ored by the State Society and it is
hoped that every Delaware county
flower lover will attend.
Admission is free. Exhibits-entered
free on Friday 9 a. m., to 1 p. m., and
the show is open to the public, 5 p. m.
to 10 p. m., on Friday and from 10 a. m.
to 9 p. m. on Saturday. Silver cups,
medals, cash and other prizes amounting to several hundreds of dollars are
offered. The judges are nationally
known flower authorities.
Delaware county is indebted to
George L. Farnum, of Media, for this
joint show. Mr. Farnum is the most
prominent amateur grower and authority on dahlias.
Show catalogs will be mailed to all
interested by William A. Whitaker,
Rutledge, Pa., the secretary of the Rutledge Horticultural Society.
6 o'clock. A silver offering will be taken.
The Episcopal Diocese, thru the generosity of a member, provides sewing
material free and pays for the work
done in making various garments.
These, in turn, are given to charitable
institutions and to needy individuals.
There is plenty of material left but the
funds for paying the workers, who are
the sole support of families where "the
wage-earner is out of work, have been
exhausted. To supply' such wages the
Lawn Party is being arranged and a
cordial invitation is extended to everyone.    "
Mrs. C. F. Wikoff, who has been visiting her son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and
Mrs. William Hanny, of Yale avenue, is
in the Wills Eye Hospital, convalescing
from an operation.