Swarthmorean 1938 September 30

              ?■.-;•' •■.•;
L
REGISTER
BY
OCTOBER 0
SWARTHMOUE      I3*
SEP
30^»
THE
SWARTHMOKi.
COLLKGK
LFBRARY
VOL. X, No. 39
SWARTHMORE, PA., SEPTEMBER 30, 1938
$2.50 PER YEAR
"ADULT NIGHT AT
SCHOOL" BEGINS
RED CROSS AU) REQUIRED,
MEETING MONDAY
Registration Meeting to be Held
Monday, October lOth, in the
High School Auditorium
Swarthmore's Adult Educational venture, "Adult Night at School," is scheduled to get under way Monday evening, October 10th, with a Registration
Mass Meeting in the High School Auditorium at 8 o'clock.
Plans have been completed and instructors have already been obtained
for presenting a series of eleven inspiring study and hobby classes, to be held
each Monday evening up to and including December 12.
The one thing uppermost in the
minds of the Committee, in shaping-up
"Adult Night at School," has been to
provide a wide variety of subjects that
will appeal to the varied tastes and
interests of Swarthmore residents. That
this end has been accomplished will
readily be seen from the following list
of courses just announced:
Danger Zones of International Relations. This course is designed to portray more intimately the swiftly changing course of events throughout the
world. It will be divided into nine weekly subjects, including the Central European Crisis; Inside Germany; Spain;
Italy, the Mediterranean and North
Africa; Palestine and the Arab World;
Far Eastern Conflict; Latin America.
Each of these subjects will be in charge
of an outstanding authority who has
made first hand observations and studies of conditions in these various parts
of the world.
Behind The Current Economic Headlines. This course will include a study
of Wage and Hour Laws; Taxation;
Social Insurance; the Present Monopoly Investigation; Anti-Chain Store
Laws; L«ai»ui u«:uiu and a«.u. i,. r.
H, • Gcv*>rmncnt' ^CDt aiiti Monetary
ro'ncy; T. V. A. , and the South. Discussion periods will follow all these
lectures.
Horticulture and Gardening. This will
include such interesting subjects as:
Landscaping the Suburban Home;
Controlling Garden Insects; Lawn
Care; Garden Diseases; Annuals for
Spring and Fall Bloom.
Healthy Play for Women will consist chiefly of Folk Dancing, while the
Men's Gym Class will include Basketball, Wrestling, Boxing, Indoor Baseball, Cage Ball, and Calisthenic Drills.
Menus—Ordinary and Extraordinary
will contain many interesting helps to
the homemaker in planning Dinners,
Teas, and Luncheons for the family and
for entertaining. The course will be
supplemented with actual demonstrations of food preparation.
Contract Bridge will be one of the
popular courses, and will give comprehensive instruction on Partnership Psychology, Opening Bids, Defense, Over-
calls and Artificial Doubling, and many
other fine points of the game.
Art Appreciation will give ample opportunity for "dabbling," yet no participant will be stigmatized as a would-be
artist, nor will their efforts be exhibited. The instructor of this course
believes that the actual use of hand
and eye, however crude, is the surest
road to a real understanding of works
of art. Illustrated lectures and discussion periods will be included in the
course.
Photography course is designed for
the snap shooter who wonders why the
last three pictures on the roll "didn't
turn out." Purely fundamentals presented in an easily understood, nontechnical manner.
Child Psychology and Public Speak-
in* will also be included in "Adult
Night at School." Further details on
these two subjects will be announced
later.
In addition to these eleven courses
will be the regular Shop and Typing
courses conducted by the Board of
Education and held on Tuesday and
Thursday evenings.
It is pointed out by the Executive
Committee that "Adult Night at
school" is an entirely self-supporting
'°cal enterprise without Federal or
other outside financial assistance. Because of the unusually low tuition, the
success of the experiment will depend
entirely on the acceptance given it by
the community. Every one is invited
and urged to join in this community
activity. Announcement of complete
retails will be made at the Registration
Mass Meeting Monday evening, October 10.
A meeting of the Swarthmore branch,
American Red Cross will be held at
the home of Mrs. James Bacon Douglas, North Chester road and Swarthmore avenue, at 10 o'clock Monday
morning, October 3.
Residents of the Borough are asked
to leave contributions at the Swarthmore National Bank, The Swarthmorean omce or with Mrs. Joseph J. Geer,
of 7i>0 Harvard avenue, that the ten
thousand dollars allotted to this charter
territory may be raised and the forty
thousand men, women and children
completely dependent on the Red Cross
for temporary food, clothing, shelter
and medical care after the hurricane
and floods in New England may receive succor.
PRAY FOR PEACE
COMMUNITY SERVICE OF
MEDITATION AND PRAYER
Tonight, Friday, at 7:30 o'clock
in    Trinity    Episcopal    Church
under the auspices of the local
Churches and Friends' Meeting.
4»»
REPUBLICAN WOMEN
TO HOLD RALLY
Republican women of Delaware
County will have an opportunity to
near William S. Livengood, candidate
for Secretary of Internal Affairs, who
has been called the Silver Tongued
Urator of the 1938 Campaign, when
they rally October 6, at Henri's Restaurant at 69th Street.
Mrs. John Y. Huber, Jr., vice-chairman of the Republican State Committee will also speak and County Candidates will be present to be presented
to the women, probably for the last
time before the November election.
The program is being planned for
all Republican women of the County,
with luncheon tickets procurable from
Mrs. Alexander Ewing, Dartmouth avenue. Reservations must be made before
October 3. Special music will be in
charge of the Adelphia Quartette.
Final arragnements for the affair
were completed when the Board of
Directors of the Women's Republican
Club of Delaware County met at the
home  of  the  President,   Mrs. Joseph
Hinkson. Hosi"*4*1***" »»»—»«•••»••»*» wiU
!-.<• i" chare.^rirMva-. K. L. Badger who
will be assisted by several women. Mrs.
Robert Patterson will act as General
chairman. Mrs. H. H. Kynett will plan
the decorations. Mrs. Earl Winnie will
have charge of the distribution of tickets. Mrs. J. Passmore Cheyney will be
in charge of the program and Mrs.
C. E. Uhler publicity. Others who were
present at the meeting of the Board
were Mrs. Anna R. Pendleton, Mrs.
Wm. C. Alexander, Mrs. R. H. Ivy,
Mrs. L. M. Greenway, Mrs. J. Kerna-
han, Mrs. J. C. Raibley, Mrs. Alexander Ewing, Mrs. Wm. Wohnus, Mrs.
W. Yarnall, Mrs. William E. Mingin
and Mrs. Mercer Hayes.
♦ »»
Young Republicans to Hold
Meeting Tuesday
The Young Republicans will hold
their opening meeting of the season on
Tuesday night, October 4, at the Strath
Haven Inn, at 8 P. M.
Plans will be made for a pre-election
drive for membership and registration,
the membership committee, Frank
Lawrence, chairman, has held preliminary meetings during the past week.
■» ■»
Republican Party Nominates
Men of Marked Ability to Be
Legislative Representatives
To the State Assembly at Harrisburg, the calibre of men that the Republican Party of Delaware County
sends as Representatives throughout
the years has been of such high type as
to make them leaders in the Senate and
lower House.
First to be elected this Fall is T. El-
wood Turner, lawyer and an orator
whom the State and National party
committees delegate to serve the Republican party on the rostrum, a man
who has been to the front a goodly
number of years at Harrisburg, and
who is the recognized leader in the
House of Assembly.
From Radnor Township or the upper
end of Delaware County, the Republican party has named Benjamin F.
James, known as an independent Republican, another orator who has been
heard in various campaigns, and who as
a representative business man can more
particularly speak for the industrial interests at Harrisburg.
Two other leading members of the
Bar in Delaware County add to the
pride of the Republican party in its
Representative part of the ticket this
Fall —Arthur P. Bretherick, of Darby
Borough, and Thomas Curran, of the
Chester first district, both of whom will
be heard in the State Legislature.
OPENING TEA AT
WOMAN'S CLUB
Gala Event Will Open Season of
Regular Tuesday
Programs
The Swarthmore Woman's Club
season opens next Tuesday, October 4
with its annual tea at the Park avenue
club house from 3 until 5 o'clock.
Past presidents of the club will preside at the tea table and the club
officers will be in the receiving line.
Each member is invited to bring a
guest.
Mrs. John E. Michael and her committee will be in charge of hospitality.
Mrs. H. A. Peirsol and the members of
her garden committee will decorate
the club for the occasion with autumn
flowers.
Chairmen Meet
At a meeting of chairmen called by
the president, Mrs. Roland L. Eaton,
last Monday morning, Mrs. Jesse H.
Holmes and Mrs. Clifford R. Buck, co-
chairmen of program announced that
the theme for many of the years meetings would be "Ourselves and Our
World," while others would add a generous sprinkling of fun and entertainment.
The committee on new members,
Mrs. Harold G. Griffin, chairman, reported large number of new members
who will contribute to the Club's versatility.
Represent Club
**« Roland L. Eaton, Mrs. Joseph
H. Perkips, Mrs.R. (VTVifllnwiy Mr\
W. Henry Linton, Mrs. Henry W.
Jones, Mrs. A. S. Johnson, Mrs. Harold G. Griffin and Mrs. Jesse H. Holmes
represented the Swarthmore Club at
the Southeastern District Meeting at
West Chester last Tuesday and brought
back enthusiastic reports of Barclay
Acheson's address.
Miss Leanore Perkins, Chairman of
publicity for the Junior Section and
Mrs. Peter E. Told attended the annual
Delaware County Press School conducted by Mrs. Robert L. Coates of
Harvard avenue at the Chester Times
Thursday October 22.
♦ «»
Cyril Gardner to Exhibit
A small group of paintings and pastels by Cyril Gardner will be on exhibition at the Woman's Club of
Swarthmore from Wednesday, October
5, to* Monday, October 17. The public
is cordially invited to see this exhibition and the club house will be open
from 10 A. M. to 5 P. M. on all week
days excepting Tuesday and Wednesday, October 11 and 12.
Mr. Gardner, who is a resident of
Ogden avenue, Swarthmore, studied
painting at the Pennsylvania Academy
of the Fine Arts.
W. I. L. RUMMAGE SALE
The Women's International League
for Peace and Freedom will hold a
rummage sale in the vacant A and P
store, 3 Park avenue, on Thursday, October 6 from 9 A. M. to 5 P. M. Mrs.
William T. Johnson and her committee
hopes for a large response from all both
in goods to be sold and in customers.
League Friends are urged to do their
bit to help by leaving any salable article at the Real Estate Office of E. C.
Noyes, now and until October 5.
If you want rummage called for telephone Mrs. R. C. Disque, Swarthmore
122-M; Mrs. P. H. Jewett, Swarthmore
934, or Miss Olive Cleaves, Swarthmore
2015-W.
FIRST JUNIOR PLAY
IN REHEARSAL
The production of Sleeping Beauty
which is to open the season of the Junior Plays Committee of the_ Swarthmore Players Club on Otcober 29 is
already in rehearsal.
The cast will include Helen K. Warren in the roll of the Queen, Walter
C. Crouch as the King, Dorecn Mitchell
in the stellar role of Beauty, Laura P.
Williams as Nannie, Grant Windsor as
Bumps, John Longwell as Rupert, Howard Turner as Prince Delmar, John R.
Brownell as Tuffy, and Henry McCone
as the caretaker.
A group of nine dancing fairies is
rehearsing under the direction of Alix
Field Whitaker. The cast will also include a group of peasant children in a
delightful folk dance which Mrs. Whitaker will direct.
+ *•»
NEEDLEWORK GUILD
DIRECTORS MEET
The annual meeting of the directors
of the Swarthmore branch, Needlework
Guild of America was held in the
Swarthmore Woman's Chib House on
Park avenue Wednesday afternoon at
2 o'clock. Nominations were made preparatory to the annual election of officers which will be held the day of
the fall ingathering Wednesday, October 26.
Mrs. William Thatcher will replace
Louise Archer Clyde as a director;
Mrs. William H. Watson will replace
Mrs. Alfred Gary White; Mrs. James
B. Douglas will replace Mrs. Thomas
W. Andrew; and Mrs. George Ewing
and Mrs. Ellis Ridgway, Jr., have been
named as new directors. Mrs. S. S.
Farley who has resigned after many
years of service will be replaced in the
near future.
»>»
FRIENDS CONFER
ON PEACE HERE
Old Typewriter Desired
The Family Service, of Borough Hall, is anxious to secure a
second-hand typewriter for a
young man, twenty-five years old,
who was crippled for life by a
hit-and-run driver and desires to
learn typing to increase his earning power on odd jobs. The condition of the machine matters
little as the young man will be
glad to occupy himself fixing it
for use, if necessary.
Saturday Sessions Open to Interested Public; Dr. Inman to be
Evening Speaker
A peace conference to which the
public is invited, there being no admission charge, will be held at the
Friends Meeting House, on the Swarthmore College Campus, Swarthmore,
Saturday, October 1, at 3:30 and 7:30
P. M.
At the afternoon session, the following subjects will be presented: "A
Citizen's Duty in Election Year" by
Jesse MacKnight, of the National
Council for Prevention of War; "The
National Peace Conference" by Arthur D. Reeve, Jr.; "A Program for
Friend's Meetings for the Coming
Year" by Richard R. Wood, executive
secretary of the Friends Peace Committee of Philadelphia; and "America
and the Far East" by T. A. Bisson, of
the Foreign Policy Association. Mr.
Bisson lived in China from 1924 to 1928,
and spent 1937 in the Orient. He was
in >Tokio during the critical period
when the Hirota cabinet was overthrown and the Hayashi cabinet was
formed. In Peiping, during the fall and
early winter of 1937, he watched the
march of Japanese conquest and the
evolution of a puppet regime in North
China. He is thus able to describe authoritatively the whole course of Sino-
Japanese relations since the conquest
of Manchuria.
The evening speaker will be Dr. Samuel Guy Inman, well known author and
authority on Latin America, who will
speak on "The Good Neighbor Technique."
The program is the sixth annual conference of the Peace Committee of the
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting. The local
branch of the Women's International
League for Peace and Freedom is cooperating with the committee.
ROOSEVELT CLUB MEETS
The Swarthmore Roosevelt Club held
a meeting at the home of Mrs. Louis
Cole Emmons, Meadow lane, Swarthmore, last Wednesday afternoon.
Plans were discussed for the coming
political campaign. At the close of the
business meeting the temporary chair
man, Mrs. Lovett Frescoln, presented
Dr. Jeanette Paddock Nichols, nationally known historian, author and eminent Swarthmorean, who gave a short
talk on "Know Your Grandmothers, or
the Preservation of Women's Archives."
Dr. Nichols spoke in the interest of a
world's center for women's archives.
RIVERVIEW FARM
TO BE DEVELOPED
Borough Will Benefit by Million
Dollar Increase of Real
Estate Valuation
Good news for all Swarthmore taxpayers comes in the announcement that
the Riverview Farms Estate of the
late Louis Cole Emmons will be improved with a highly restricted residential development. For it is conservatively estimated that this will increase
the Borough's real estate valuation well
over $1,000,000. And that, eventually, will
result in lower taxes for alL
This ideal residential tract of nearly
fifty acres, lying between Swarthmore
avenue and Riverview road, is just
about as perfect as nature could make,
it. Real estate men assert that no
other Philadelphia suburb has anything
to equal it. Yet, in its present state,
as just so much vacant land, the assessable valuation is a mere fraction
of that anticipated when new streets
are opened—at the sole expense of the
developer—and many substantial homes
are erected.
Under present conditions, of course,
it may take some time for this improvement to make an appreciable dent
in the Borough tax rate. But, with
increasing confidence shown in real
estate by the great insurance companies and the conviction of economists
and far-sighted investors that homes
are gilt-edged security, the final outcome is assured.
The Swarthmorean learns that the
natural beauty of Riverview Farms will
be conserved and the modern ideals
will be followed with winding roads
and "tucked in" lanes, bordered with
flowering trees, and following the present contours of the land. Through traffic will be eliminated and safe pathways
for school children laid out, while a
generous area will . be reserved for
park-land and recreation. It is expected
that the swimming pool will be perfected and provided with purified water.
The only question remaining is that
of a significant Name I So many suggestions have been offered that the
developer was forced to appoint a
"more or less" qualified committee to
make the final selection. Their announcement is promised shortly. In the meantime, The Swarthmorean will undertake to recommend any other names
received. Here may be your opportunity for lasting . . . fame?
+ •»
L. W. V. Plans Pre-Election
Meeting
A non-partisan pre-election meeting
will be held in the Woman's Club Tuesday night, October 25, at 8 o'clock under the auspices of the Swarthmore
League of Women Voters. Invitations
have been sent to the Republican, Democratic and Socialist parties to participate in the meeting by the committee
in charge of arrangements, Mrs. Weston E. Fuller, Mrs. Juliet C. Kent, and
Mrs. J. Paul Brown.
The League of Women Voters is the
only non-partisan organization which
is actively engaged in political affairs
through its different party affiliations
and in citizenship education.
♦ *»
Badminton Nights Begin Next
Week
The Swarthmore Badminton Club
will recommence regular Tuesday and
Thursday evening play in the Swarthmore High School gymnasium next
Tuesday, October 4.
Last year around 150 residents and
friends enjoyed the healthful recreation the Club sponsors. Anyone over
eighteen interested in playing badminton is invited to join by attending any
Tuesday or Thursday evening, from 8
until 10 o'clock, or by telephoning Lee
Blundin, Swarthmore 2070 or 274-J.
»«»
Pendle Hill Fall Term Opens
Friends of Pendle Hill are invited
to the tea which opens the fall term,
at 3:30 on Sunday afternoon, October
second.- Howard H. Brinton and Anna
C. Brinton, the directors of Pendle
Hill, will speak briefly on the work
of the school. There will also be brief
addresses by D. Robert Yarnall and
Elizabeth B. Yarnall, of Germantown,
recently returned from a summer of
service with the American Friends
* Service Committee in Vienna.