Swarthmorean 1931 November 6

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Vol. Ill,    No. 44
"ERSTWHILE SUSAN"
AT PLAYERS' CLUB
Swarthmore, Pa., November 6, 1931
$2^0 Per Year
Pinal   Production    in    Woman's
Clubhouse Before Occupying
Own Theatre
JOHN    DOLMAN    DIRECTOR
Suggests Oldest Resident Should
Cut Ribbon Opening Underpass
The Players' Club made its final ap-
pearance this week at the Woman's Clubhouse, the building which has been the
club's home for more than twenty years.
With the presentation of "Erstwhile
Susan" directed by John Dolman, Jr., the
Club started the year in a way which succeeding directors will find difficult to
excell even in the club's own playhouse.
"Erstwhile Susan," an American comedy against the background of the Pennsylvania Dutch settlements of Lancaster
County, has been unusually well received all week. The presentation was
well done, characters intelligently cast,
etc., but the play itself seems to meet
what the majority of Swarthmoreans de-
rriand as the most desirable type of play
for; the club.
The Pennsylvania Dutch atmosphere
so necessary for the successful portrayal
of the characters was excellently maintained. The dialect in most of the
• characters seemed natural.- and those in
the audience whose own conversation includes an occasional Dutch phrase were
loudest in the praise of the entire piece.
Mr. Dolman as usual was outstanding
in his'-own role and made a living character out of Barnaby Dreary. His family name was further honored by the
work of his daughter Barbara taking her
first important role in a Players' Club
production.
So appealing was Miss Dolman's portrayal of the abused daughter that she
has been suggested as the desirable person to open the underpass by cutting the
ribbon next Saturday.
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HALLOWE'EN PARADE     --
'—-PLEASES CHILDREN
Swarthmoreans have sent in numerous suggestions this week in answer to
last week's question: Who shall have
the honor of cutting the ribbon at the
official opening of the underpass Nov
14?
The answers are varied although several made the same suggestion. The
most popular idea was that the person
who has lived in Swarthmore the longest should be given the honor of cutting the ribbon across the entrance to
the underpass.
"Beauty or sex in my opinion does
not enter into the question," says one
advocate of this selection.
Another reader of The Swarthmorean
suggested that the R. R. crossing tenders should be given the honor because
"they have been very faithful to their
jobs, especially during the building of
the underpass, and their job is of great
service to everyone."
Another reader suggested Mrs. Edward A. Stockton, whose husband was
JUNIOR ASSEMBLY
DANCES SCHEDULED
comptroller of the Pennsylvania R. R.
and lived here for many years.
E. Clayton Walton was suggested
since ^he is a well known citizen of the
borough and has lived here many years.
Mrs. Edward B. Temple was also suggested because her husband is prominent in the engineering department of
thc R. R. because he is a Swarthmorean
and active at the college.
Mrs; William Earl Kistler, president
of the Woman's Club was nominated as
Was Mildred Bond, president of the
Junior Club.
Other suggestions were Miss Jean
Doctor, director of Religious Education
at the Swarthmore Presbyterian Church,
Elizabeth Hessenbruch, daughter of
Councilman T. E. Hessenbruch, Eleanor
Olmes, because she is "attractive, delightful, and beautiful," and Lucy Black,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles
Black and a freshman at the college
this year.
The first of the winter's series of junior dancing classes is to be held in the
Woman's Clubhouse Saturday, Nov. 7.
The elementary class begins at 4 in the
afternoon with Mrs. A. Bryant Reavis
and Mrs. William Ward as hostess.
The intermediate and junior assembly
classes in the evening begin at 7 and 8:30
respectively. The two latter classes have
a much larger enrollment than last year
which will tax the capacity of the clubhouse.
The committee in charge feels obliged
to ask parents not to attend these evening classes for with visitors present the
children cannot find seats between dances.
The hosts and hostesses for the evening
will be Mr. and Mrs. Gurdon B. Jones,
Mr. and Mrs. Addison S. Wickham,
Mr. and Mrs. John Marshall and
Mr. and Mrs. T. E. Hessenbruch, and
Mr. and Mrs. Walter R. Shoemaker.
R. C. DISQUE WINS
SIX VEAR TERM
OPEN UNDERPASS
NEXT SATURDAY
Addresses and Parade to Feature
Exercises Beginning at
3 O'clock
STORES TO 6E DECORATED
RED CROSS DRIVE
BEGINS NOV. 11
Armistice  Day Marks Beginning
of Campaign for
Memberships
UNITED CAMPAIGN
FOR $9,000,000 BEGINS
Ellwood Chapman Heads Drive
in This  Community
Again
MRS.    YERKES    CHAIRMAN
NAME COMMITTEE WORKERS
Swarthmore's first Hallowe'en parade
last Saturday evening attracted nearly
350 children in masks and costumes.
Many were accompanied by their parents who expressed enthusiasm over the
affair.
The procession started from the parking space in front of the bank at the south
end of the underpass and proceeded north
on Chester road to Park avenue then
down Park avenue to Borough hall and
back to the place of beginning. At Park
avenue and Chester road a reviewing
stand had been erected and here the
judges, Frank R. Morey, supervising
principal of schools, Mrs. Roy Delaplaine, head of the Children's Story
Hour, and Charles A. Smith, endeavored
to pick out the best costumes in the three
classifications.
As the parade started, each child was
presented with a horn, balloon, or noise-
making devise. These, however, failed
to bring about the noise expected since
the children were handicapped by their
masks and costumes.
In each division, Comic, Fancy, and
Unusual, there were approximately a
hundred children and the variety and
originality of the costumes presented the
judges with a very difficult task.
Prizes were finally awarded as follows:
Fancy dress division, Grace and Dorothy Dodd dressed as Hula girls; Leonard Peck dressed as a girl of 1890; and
Margaret Sheppard, dressed as an ac-
cordian player.
In the comic division, Charlotte Louise
Moss, who was dressed in a Mickey
Mouse costume, Morris Bassett as an
Old Hag; and Bob Thorpe as a Tramp,
were the winners.
In the original costume division the
three prizes went to Morgan Smith
dressed as a Corn Shock; Billy Thompson, dressed as a Knight; and Jim Smith
dressed as a Scarecrow.
Prizes were also given Ernie Hauger
for a very complete Red Cross float, and
to Mary and Edna Vargues for a float of
the underpass.
The parade was managed and financed
by the Swarthmore Business Men's Association. Special credit for aiding in the
work is due Jacob Meschter, president
°f the Association, Howard B. Green,
Elric S. Sproat, Jerry Martel, Lloyd
Lebegern who secured the souvenirs and
Prizes, E. M. Buchner, Walter Suplee,
and Robert Sharpies.
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Mr. and Mrs. Robert B. Arnold, of
Wallingford, entertained at a dinner on
Saturday evening, before the meeting
°f the Saturday Evening-Supper Club
at the Bellevue-Stratford.
Swarthmore's Annual Red Cross
membership drive begins on Armistice
Day, next Wednesday. This year the
campaign will be under the direction of
Mrs. Earl P. Yerkes, Chairman of the
Swarthmore    Branch.   Workers    have
been appointed and an intensive campaign will be conducted.
In a statement to The Swarthmorean i
yesterday, Mrs. Yerkes said:
"The Red Cross Roll Call means more
to Swarthmore this year than ever before. As was the case in previous years,
50 cents of each membership, whether
of the $1, $5, $10 or $25 class, is used
by the national organization, but the
remainder, instead of being divided
equally between Philadelphia and the
local branch, will this year bc split 20%
to Philadelphia and 80% to Swarthmore
and surrounding communities. This increase in the local portion will, it is
hoped, permit an enlargement of the
local staff of workers. Prior to a few
months ago, thc staff included four
nurses, but it was necessary to drop
one in order to engage a social worker
.o care for conditions arising from the
unemployment situation.
"Conditions right now are such that
the extra nurse is needed, and before
winter is far advanced, they are certain
to be worse. Swarthmore has within its
grasp the opportunity of engaging an
additional nurse to insure adequate care
for its sick and needy during 1932,
through the increased portion of Roll
Call net receipts made available for
local work, but the opportunity will
'pass by on the othcr side,' unless our
people respond whole-heartedly to the
Roll Call. Many are under the impression that $1 covers each one's membership obligation to the Red Cross, but a
goodly share of contributing memberships at $5, sustaining ones at $10, and
supporting ones at $25 will be needed
to make certain the appointment of another nurse.
"Thc Red Cross exists solely by indi-1 meeti
vidua!    memberships.    Without    these1 s
memberships it would be unable to
function. The carrying out of its extensive program would be impossible
without the public's support. Such humanitarian service must not be slackened by failure of the people to respond
quickly and generously.
"The Roll Call begins November 11,
Armistice Day, and ends November 25,
Thanksgiving eve. The Fiftieth Anniversary of the Red Cross offers an exceptional duty and privilege to every
resident of Swarthmore to help emet
the gravest crisis which has confronted
thc local branch for years."
Dernctcra'tic Nominee Breaks Republican Slate to Win Post
oh" School Board
NO       OTHER       UPSETS
The urgency of the United Campaign
for $9,000,000 which begins on Monday
was described by Welfare workers at a
dinner at the Strath Haven Inn Monday
evening. The meeting was presided
over by Frank Aydelotte, president of
Swarthmore College and was attended
by a large number of Swarthmoreans.
EHwood' B. Chapman has been "appointed chairman of the drive irt Swarthmore
again this year and will be assisted by
a number of workers divided into teams
to cover every section of the borough.
They will begin work on Monday.
The three organizations cooperating
in the drive are the Committee for Unemployment Relief, the Welfare Federation of Philadelphia, and the Federation of Jewish charities.
Dr. Aydelotte in addressing the gathering said: "This is not a time for criticism, nor for awaiting legislation, nor
for research by scientists. These all
must come later. When 33,000 families
are in need in Philadelphia, everybody
must lend a hand. The demand upon
each individual is as great as during the
war years. No crisis, since then has
been so overwhelming."
John Dennis Mahoney, another speaker
said: "This is not a drive so much as an
enterprise into which we should all joyfully enter. In Delaware County alone
there is great suffering. Each day brings
new reports of need and new applicants
for. work."
Benjamin H. Ludlow impressed upon
all those who are enlisted to solicit the
$9,000,000, not to approach their neighbors and friends with apologies but
rather in the sense of sharing in a great
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LITERATURE SECTION
OF CLUB MEETS
For the first time in as long as can
be remembered the voters of Swarthmore
repudiated the results of the Primary
election Sept. 15 and elected a nominee
of the Democratic party to one of the
six year terms on the school board.
Although Democrats have been elected
to office in borough council and the
school board as Republican nominees,
this is the first time that the Republican
voters have changed their minds after
the Primary elections and supported the
Democratic nominee.
The winning ^ candidate in the only
fight which featured the election in
S^arfliniore was R. C. Distpie, <an incumbent who was appointed to the board
last year and has been serving as treasurer since- his appointment.
Mr. Disque polled a total of 435 votes
to 376 tor William Craemer, the losing
Republican. Craemer won over Disque
only in the Eastern precinct.
Roland L. Eaton, Republican, led the
ticket for the two six year terms polling
a total of 462 votes to 203 by Dorothy
Day Jones, the other Democratic nominee.
George Corse, Republican, led his
Democratic opponent, Carl De Moll, by
523 votes to 201. Elizabeth A. Lueders
was unopposed for the two year term.
The vote for school directors by precincts was as follows:
The official opening of the Chester
road underpass at the Pennsylvania R.
R. crossing will take place next Saturday, November 14. A program of addresses and music beginning at 3 o'clock
will be followed by the cut'ting of a ribbon across the entrance to the underpass and a parade of motor cars over
the new road. ■'■".'
Places of business irt the borough are
already being decorated for the occasion and it is hoped that by next Saturday the town will look as~if-something were really going to happen. A
speaker's platform will be erected at
the south end of the underpass and
seats will be reserved for more than a
hundred special guests who are being
invited.
Every resident of the borough is; also
urged to be present at the exercises
next Saturday artd to enter his car in
the procession which will move' over the
new road at the conclusion of the program.
Although Governor Pinchot and State
Secretary of Highways Samuel Lefris
have sent their regrttif/?the?'GdVefnbr
will be represented, by Clyde B. King,
Secretary   of   Revenue,   who   lives   in
Delaware County. A number of important state and county officials have accepted the invitation to say a few words
and an interested program is expected.
The   presentation   of   the   underpass
will bc made with an appropriate address by Edward B. Temple, Chief engineer of the Eastern Division of the
Pennsylvania R. R., and the acceptance
speech on the part of the borough Will
be made^ by-Frank S. Reitzel, president"
of borough council.
Those who attend will be directed to
park their cars facing the south entrance of the underpass either along
South Chester road or Rutgers avenue.
After the cars of the speakers have
entered the new roadway the other
cars will follow.
The band from the Elwyn Training
School, just west of Media, has been
secured to furnish music for the celebration.
Eaton
Craemer
Jones
Disque
(R)
(R)
(D)
(D)
West
179
132
77
163
East
142
125
35
121
North
141
119
91
151
376
203
435
The  Literature section of the Wom-|
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Mrs. Joseph S. Bates of Haverford
avenue and Miss Margaret S. Tuttle of
the Manse, Harvard avenue, drove by
auto to Bridgeport, Conn., last Monday,
where they spent this week as the guests
of Mrs. Bates' parents, Colonel and Mrs.
Roessler. \j
an's Club got under way Tuesday when
their chairman, Mrs. Jessie Herman
Holmes called the first meeting. A study
class is to be organized and their first
will be Thursday morning between ten and eleven and at that time a
definite program will be outlined. All
members are invited.
Mrs. Holmes then introduced her husband, Dr. Jessie H. Holmes of the Philosophy Department of Swarthmore College. His topic was "The Poets and the
Way". He read paragraphs giving an
outline of the Epicurean Philosophy,
contratsing it with the philosophy of the
followers of Stoic, also a Greek, who
he'd that "Men should be free from
passion and unmoved by joy or grief".
The Epicureans .were just the opposite,
believing that 'the thing that gave the
most pleasure was right and as Dr.
Holmes pointed out, most often leading
to Sadness. They believed in clutivating
friendship. Illustrating this philosophy
Dr. Holmes cited Omar Khayyam's
works, also Walt Whitman. On the
other hand the Stoics sought pain to
practice will power.   Alter this talk none
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In the election of three members of
council the Republican nominees were
swept in with the usual Republican majorities. J. Archer Turner led with a
total of 624 votes, Hessenbruch secured
591 votes and Gensemer.582 votes. The
Democratic nominees received: Bogardus, 190 votes; Emmons, 160 votes,
and Brock, 132 votes.
The Republican nominees for county
office polled large votes. MacCarter,
Republican nominee for district attorney,
was the hardest hit. MacCarter polled
549 votes to 225 for the Democratic
nominee, Rhodes.
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HOPl INDIANS TO
DANCE AT H. S.
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NEEDLEWORK GUILD
ENDS BANNER YEAR
The Needlework Guild season ending
with the collection, exhibition and distribution of garments on Wednesday,
Oct. 28, was a banner year for the
organization. Warm 'garments were distributed to the number of 2766. Also,
$78.25 was contributed by money members. With five additional directors
even greater results are expected next
year.
The card party and cake sale Oct 14
netted the Guild $150.
"Next Tuesday afternoon in the auti-
torium of the High School, the pupils of
the High School and grades will have an
opportunity of seeing a small group of
Hopi Indians in ceremonial dances and
activities of these cliff-dwelling American Indians.
The program will consist of Esoteric
Dances of the Hopi, featuring the Secret
Snake Dances and Ceremonies as held
within the Kiva, and the re-enacting of
one of the Hopi Legends, shooting of
bows and arrows and Hopi Sports.
There will also be an elaborate display of Historic and Industrial objects,
together with crafts exhibits of basket
work, bead work, silversmith's work,
pottery, etc., and a demonstration of
work upon the hand loom.
This group of Indians, under the direction of Mr. Billingsley, was with the
Swarthmore Chautauqua several years,
ago and achieved a very favorable reputation for their work. Through the
songs and stories of Chief Caupolican of
the Philadelphia Opera Company, Who
recently sang before the School, there is
a considerable interest in' viewing these
Indians and their work. A small charge
will have to be made to defray the expenses of the prgram.
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RECITAL BY PUPIL
OF MR. KNEEDLER
Soloist
Mildrid Spencer, pianist, was soloist
last night at the concert of the Chester
Symphony Society in Masonic Hall,
Chester. Miss Spencer.;played the
Bach-Tausig Toccata and Fugue in D
minor and two Debussy numbers-^-
present will ever again think of an epi-1 Reflets dans l*eau -arid La-Cathedralc
curean as solely pertaining to food. engloutie.
Mr. Kneedler, organist and choirmaster of the Swarthmore Presbyterian
Church, takes great pleasure in presenting his artist pupil Mr. Walter Baker in
a recital on the William Plumer Pofter
organ in the church, on Friday eVe'ning,
November 13th at 8:15 o'clock.
Mr, Baker's entire recital will be
played from memory and includes Works
by Bach, Mendelssohn, Farnam Jantes,
Dupre and Bonnet.
'  The second recital of this series will
be played by Mr. Kneedler ori Friday
evening,   December   11th.    Everyone   is'
cordially Invited id fitttfid *H& may SS
hour of beautiful organ music.
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