Swarthmorean 1938 September 9

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VOL. X, No. 36
SWARTHMORE, PA., SEPTEMBER 9, 1938
RINCLIFFE NEW
COUNCILMAN
Appointed   Wednesday  Evening
to Fill Unexpired Term of
Alben Eavenson
•2.50 PER YEAR
GIVES UP COUNCIL JOB
In regular session Wednesday evening Council by resolution appointed
Roy George Rincliffe, of 633 Strath
Haven avenue, to the Borough governing body following the resignation and removal from the community
of Alben T. Eavenson, director of public safety.
A well known resident of the Borough, Mr. Rincliffe is purchasing agent
for the Philadelphia Electric Company,
having been with the Company since
September    1923.    He    has    lived    in
Swarthmore   for   ten   years  and  is  a
Republican.   Graduated   from   Culver,
Yale University and Massachusetts Institute  of Technology, he is a member of Alpha Chi Rho and of the Masonic Order. He attends the Swarthmore Presbyterian Church. A well remembered evidence of Mr, Rincliffe's
community spirit is the annual erection
of the lighted Santa Claus on the chimney of his home at South Chester road
and Strath Haven avenue. This effective part of the  Borough's  Christmas
season festivity is greatly admired by
through   traffic   on   Chester   road   as
well as by local residents.
Council decided Wednesday evening
to apply for WPA funds for construction of sewer along Michigan avenue
and along Park avenue at the corner
of Park and Michigan to connect with
the present Park avenue sewer. It
also authorized repair of sidewalk on
Yale avenue between Kenyon and Cornell avenues.
FLOWER SHOW
PLANS FINISHED
SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
TO RESUME REHEARSALS
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AUTUMN EXHIBITION AT
RUTLEDGE 17th AND 18th
The Eighteenth Annual Autumn Exhibition of the Rutledge Horticultural
Society will be open to the public
Saturday, September 17, from 6 to 9:30
P. M. and Sunday, September 18, from
3 until 5 P. M. in the auditorium of the
Rutledge Fire Halt
All residents of Delaware County are
invited to send exhibits which must be
delivered at the hall between 1 and 3
P. M. Saturday. Admission is also free.
With three hundred and three classes
ranging through eight sections including roses, dahlias, gladiolus, garden
flowers, artistic arrangement, fruit and
children's section, some restricted to
amateur gardeners and others open to
all, this is by far the largest show the
Society stages.
Harry Wood, of Cornell avenue,
Swarthmore, a member of the board of
directors, will be among the judges
of the event. Mrs. A. R. O. Redgrave,
of Vassar avenue, whose husband is a
vice-president of the Society; and Mrs.
Henry A. Peirsol, of Lafayette avenue,
are members of the exhibition committee and, with Harry Liebeck, of
Park avenue, are on the list of those
who have contributed prizes for this
year's shows.
A post card showing exhibitor's
name and address and classes entered
or the printed entry blank, must be
received by Mr. J. A. Borneman, Jr.,
126 West Garfield avenue, Norwood, before the Friday preceding the show.
At the close of the shows flowers will
be collected for the "Flowers for' the
Flowerless." -
After serving two years as chairman of the Public Safety Committee
for Swarthmore Borough Council, Alben T. Eavenson, tendered his resignation Wednesday evening following his
removal to Norristown on Monday with
his wife and two sons, John Lewis, fifteen, and Alben, eleven. Pressure of
business required his leaving the home
he built on Strath Haven avenue, here
soon after his marriage. He leaves one
year of a four-year term on Council
unserved.
During their approximate twenty
year residence here the Eavensons took
an active interest in community life.
Mr. Eavenson served as Commander of
the Harold Ainsworth Post, American
Legion, 1936-37; and was a member
of the house committee of the Players
Club of Swarthmore several years. Mrs.
Eavenson served two terms, 1935-36
and 1936-37, as president of the Legion
Auxiliary and was a member of the
Swarthmore Woman's Club.
The Eavensons attended Friends
Meeting here, Mr. Eavenson teaching
in the First Day School.
Discusses Vocational Training
Programs- of Classes Issued This
Week to Woman's Club Mem-
bers; Show Open to All
Even the most amateur of local gardeners will be able to muster enough
fall blooms from his garden to enter
at least one of the seventy-four classes
of the Swarthmore Woman's Club
Thirteenth Annual Fall Flower Show
to be held in the Park avenue club
house Tuesday and Wednesday, September 20 and 21, from 3:20 to 9:30
P. M. Exhibits will be received from 9
A. M. until noon.
Harry Wood, of Swarthmore College,
and Mrs. J. C. Garwood, of Calico Cottage, will be the Swarthmore authorities on the judges list.
Section A consists of seven classes
for dahlias; Section B—eight classes
of roses; Section C—thirty-three varied
classes of garden flowers; Section D—
fifteen classes of special vases and arrangements including an arrangement
of garden flowers in a wooden container, for men only.
Those wishing to enter class 73—
Breakfast tray, arranged for one (no
flat silver or food) should notify Mrs.
J. Warren Paxson before September
19. This class is limited to twelve entries as is class 74—Occasional table,
mid-Victorian with flower arrangement.
Class 74 entrants should be registered
with Mrs. Charles Parker by September 19.
All residents of Swarthmore and vicinity are invited to send exhibits to
the show.
Complete classes are listed in catalogues which are available at The
Swarthmorean office.
The Swarthmore Symphony Orchestra, tinder the conductorship of Dr.
William F. G. Swann, will resume its
weekly rehearsals on Wednesday evening, September 21, at 8 P. M. in' the
library of the Bartol Research Foundation, on the Swarthmore College campus.
The Orchestra is composed of non-
paid members. Practically all the sections of a full symphony orchestra are
represented and attention is devoted
chiefly to the rehearsal of the larger
symphonic works.
Opportunity is also afforded for
members of the Orchestra to perform
concertos with orchestral accompaniment in rehearsal, and occasionally in
concerts.
There are a few vacancies in the
string sections, including the place for
First Viola. There are also vacancies
for French Horns and certain other instruments in the wind sections. Those
interested in becoming members of the
Orchestra should write to Swarthmore
Symphony Orchestra, Bartol Research
Foundation, Whittier Place, Swarthmore, Pa.
POLICE COPE
WITH IMBIBERS
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To Enter Lake Forest College
Laurence Kent, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Russell H. Kent, of Riverview road,
plans to be among the approximate
four hundred men and women who will
register at Lake Forest College, Lake
Forest, 111., on September 20 and 21.
Kent, a member of Kappa Sigma fraternity, will be a sophomore.
LOCAL LADS COLLECT AND TREAT
SPECIMENS FOR ACADEMY
Walter Jones and Bob White Commended Upon Quality of Small
Mammals They Brought From Lake Country of
Northern Wisconsin This Summer
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NEWS NOTES
Dr. A. P. Whitaker returned to his
home on Elm avenue this week from
Knoxville, Tenn., where he attended
the funeral services for his father,.the
Rev. W. C. Whitaker, who died suddenly Thursday, September 1.
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Mrs. J. H. G. McConechy and daughter, Miss Doreen McConechy, of North
Chester road, have returned home after
a two weeks' motor trip to Hamilton
and Toronto, Canada, returning by way
of Albany, N. Y. and visiting Mr. and
Mrs. Calvin Huntoon, former residents
of Swarthmore. While in Toronto Mrs.
McConechy and her daughter visited
the Toronto Exhibition.
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Mr. and Mrs. I. L. Nickerson and
tamily returned Tuesday to their home
a* Park and Harvard avenues after
spending the month of August at Brant
Beach, N. J.
Their daughter, Miss Connie Nickerson, is in Boston, Mass. where the show
she is playing "What a Life" opened
°" the Sth.
"If you feel you are drifting in your
school, college or in business life, don't
wait until it is too late to change your
course.  Seek counsel now."
That is the friendly warning which
all vocational guidance specialists would
like to give young and not-so-young
people. And that is the warning Willard Tomlinson, director of the Strathmore Guidance Bureau of Philadelphia
and  Swarthmore.
"When people are physically ill they
think immediately of a doctor and go
to one or have one come to them,"' Mr.
Tomlinson said. "Yet the same persons
will flounder for years in a work in
which they are most discontented and
feel that their whole lives are distorted
without ever seeking the help that
would straighten them out.
"Through such discontented, almost aimless drifting, an individual becomes hopeless. He is like the man in
business who loses both his capital and
his contacts. To rebuild a business at
that stage js well nigh impossible. But
if the individual with his private capital of health, ability and education will
take himself in hand early enough, he
can prevent bankruptcy."
Willard Tomlinson pointed out that
vocational guidance does not in every
instance shift an individual from one
vocation to another, but often stimulates him to better efforts in the very
vocation he has already sought. Yet
he has handled many instances of
definite change and tells the story of
one man who had been an accountant
up to the age of 40 yet was hopelessly
unhappy and unsuccessful at it. He
was advised to get into photography
and has proved a most successful
photographer with a new lease on happiness and life.
As a Counselor, Willard Tomlinson
seeks to establish the proper co-relationship between all eight basic factors
which go to make a well-balanced individual. Or rather he shows the individual how to become more nearly
balanced. These basic factors are physical, mental, spiritual, recreational, vocational, aesthetic/emotional and social.
The "right mental attitude" was something that Willard Tomlinson stressed
as he talked. And he believes, too, that
most individuals need not only a vocational guidance plan, although he considers that fundamental since so much
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The summer vacation of Walter,
Jones, son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry W.
Jones, of Haverford avenue, and Robert White, son of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred
Gary White, of College avenue, was
filled with far more interesting and important accomplishment than either of
the seventeen-year-old boys at first anticipated.
Dr. Francis Harper, zoologist, of
South Chester road, learning that Walter, a Swarthmore High School senior,
seemingly born with a zoological interest, and Bob, who graduated from the
local high school last June and will
major in zoology at Dartmouth this
fall, planned to spend six weeks in the
west, suggested they attempt to secure
some scientific specimens for the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia.
Perceiving the amusement and educational experience of such work the lads,
after a trip to the Academy to witness
methods of skinning and preparing
specimens, loaded up the offered supplies of special cotton and wires, arsenic and other preservative and mounting necessities, and bought some museum special mouse traps.
On July 6 the boys left Swarthmore
and were driven to Wisconsin by the
Jones family who returned after a several-day stay. Arriving July 9 in
Oneida County about three miles from
the town, Three Lakes, Jones and
White pitched camp in the deep forest
on one of the Eagle chain of twenty-
seven lakes. Slightly delayed in getting
started by the non-arrival of their traps
which put in an appearance two weeks
late the boys had ample opportunity to
study and enjoy their surroundings and
made up for lost time as soon as the
tardy traps showed up. The traps used
were very similar to the ordinary kind,
working on the same mechanical prin
ciple, but slightly different in shape.
Jones had already had several years'
experience trapping skunks, oppossums,
foxes, weasels and muskrats near his
home and selling the furs.
Mrs. White and other members of
her family arrived toward the end of
July and had a cottage with relatives
on a nearby lake.
Finding the red squirrels most difficult to discouraging from setting up
an incessant many-voiced chattering in
the tree tops above their tent at 4:30
every morning-and then throwing pine
cones down at them, the campers were
usually about their chosen work while
the day. was young. Chipmunks were
very common in the section, one becoming so tame he regularly approached
the tent and picked up scraps at the
boys' feet. The trappers brought home
eight of these animals, seven of one
species and one of another. The two
white footed mice and eight red backed
mice which they succeeded in catching
were the only members of the mouse
family the boys saw. A masked shrew
completed their contribution of skins
and skulls for the Academy, making
nineteen specimens in all. In addition
they preserved a. dozen frogs including
Three Arrests in Five Days Result of Intoxication
Charges
Accidents were conspicuously absent
from Swarthmore Police records since
July 23 until Robert Clagon, colored
resident of Chester, came along Chester road at 1:30 A. M. last Sunday and
struck two telephone poles on the east
side of the thoroughfare south of Yale
avenue, breaking off one, snapping the
telephone cable of the other and cutting off service to four or five families
along the street. Examined by Dr. Harold Roxby, of Cornell avenue, he was
pronounced under the influence of intoxicating liquor. At a hearing on the
5th he pleaded guilty, to be sentenced
at Media this week. Although the
automobile was completly demolished
the only injury reported was a slight
bruise of the arm 'of one of the two
other occupants of the car.
Arrested on Park avenue at 7:50
P.M. Wednesday, the 31st of August,
Emile Van Goidtson, of 323 Park avenue, Swarthmore, was held under $500
bail to appear in court on charges of
operating a car while under the influence of intoxicating liquor.
A. M. Cook, of Upper Darby, was
arrested at 4 o'clock Sunday morning on North Chester road, and paid
a $10 fine for drunk and disorderly conduct upon appearing for hearing on
the 6th.
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World Youth Conferences
Delegate
Miss Yoko Matsuoka, a former
Cleveland High School student and now
a member of the Class of '39 at Swarthmore College, represented Japan at the
World Youth Conference held in New
York City. Miss Matsouka is pictured
in this week's Life magazine along with
the conference delegates representing
other Countries.
This young Japanese girl is majoring in economics at the College. Besides being the backbone of the International Relations Club, she is a member of the American Student  Union.
Miss Matsouka now makes her home
in Shaker Heights, Ohio.
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Bridge Club Notes
After a pleasant and successful summer the Swarthmore Bridge Club is
looking forward to an enjoyable winter.
The play is duplicate contract and
the Club's membership and guest privileges are open to anyone in Swarthmore, or vicinity, who is interested.
E.   R.   Linnard   won   the    August
I monthly prize with John A Murphy
a couple of wood frogs, a leopard frog and Arthur S. Robinson in second and
„„a +u~ ~ *~-a  t— r»_ u    third positions, respectively.
Harold  Tomlinson   and  Andrew  F.
and the common toad, for Dr. Harper.
Quite a few white-tailed deer were
seen near the camp and at a deer sanctuary in a lake closeby. The boys were
deeply interested 'in five Albino deer
they saw in the herd, the owner of the
sanctuary having transported a number of white animals.
The boys expect to receive the skull
of a black bear which they discovered,
one of two shot by the game warden
who was called in after the animals
had broken into cottages and caused a
general nervousness among the human
inhabitants. Disappointed that the process of decomposition had progressed
to such a degree when they came
across the animal that they could not
provide themselves with a nice bearskin,
the boys found a friend who promised
to send the skull when old Bruin is
sufficiently decomposed.
A family of loons on the lake gave a
fine chance to study their strange, weird
calls to each other.
Varying their activities, White, veteran of one previous excursion into the
ether, and Jones, making his initial trip
aloft, surveyed the country from a
friend's seaplane.
A memorable four-day. canoe trip
was an outstanding part of the summer's jaunt. Paddling through most of
the lake chain the first day they continued down the Wisconsin river, into
which the chain empties. A very heavy
rain the first night caused the river,
always high at that time of year, to
rise three feet more and enabled the
canoers to make short cuts over fields
and through forests on the flooded lowlands.
Arriving home August 18 Jones pronounced that "the mosquitoes here don't
amount to a thing." "Out there they
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Robinson were tops last Wednesday
evening, one and a half match points
ahead of Mrs. J. Rankin, William Mac-
Aleer and Mr. and Mrs. Arthur S.
Robinson were in third position.
New Play at Hedgerow
The Hedgerow Theatre, Moylan-
Rose Valley, will open its 129th production, a modern comedy, "The First
Mrs. Fraser," by St. John Ervine, next
Monday. Two other plays by the same
author were produced at Hedgerow
several years ago—"Mary, Mary, Quite
Contrary" and "The Ship." The author's
latest play "Robert's Wife" is being
produced in London and contemplated
for New York this winter.
"The First Mrs. Fraser" scored two
years' successful run in London with
Marie Tempest in the title role and
was seen in this country with Grace
George.
The Hedgerow production is directed
by Helen Schoeni, guest director, with
a cast including Adele Bradley as the
first Mrs. Fraser, Carol Marsh as the
second Mrs. Fraser, and Peter Engle
as the husband and past husband of
the two Mrs. Frasers—also George
Eberling, David Metcalf, Audrey Ward,
Joseph Graham and Helen Alexander.
There will be performances of "The
First Mrs. Fraser" Monday, Tuesday
and Saturday of next week.
On Wednesday Eugene O'Neill's
"The Emperor—Jones" with Arthur
Rich and Jasper Deeter is scheduled.
Thursday "The Simpleton of the
Unexpected Isles,'* the newest Shaw
play at Hedgerow, is the bill.
On Friday "Too True To Be Good"
with Cele McLaughlin, Mary Esherick,
Ferd Nofer and Harry Sheppard will
bring Shaw to the boards again.