Bethany College - Bethanian Yearbook (Bethany, WV)

Text from Pages 1 - 158 of the 1941 volume:

.. XXXI 1 No. 1 OCTOBER, 1940 1 THIS ISSUE The Bison Grows New Horns Pacifism . . . An Assault on War New Faculty, Poll, Victory Song i j(iJs mMM EXTRA DISTANCE IN HIS DRIVES- EXTRAS IN HIS CIGARETTE YES, LARRUPING LAWSON LITTLE — NATIONAL OPEN CHAMPION -PREFERS THE CIGARETTE THAT GIVES THE EXTRAS - SLOWER-BURNING CAMELS I ' upvi ivllt, run K .1 It-Vflnlil- T ll-.nln Will lOII-Slll.r, N (_■ WATCH OUT, PAR— here conies Little! No. Lawson Little is never content unless he can better par ... in his golf ... in his cigarette. I want all the mild- ness 1 can get in my cigarette, he says. Camels burn slower and give me extra mildness. And Camels also give me something else I never found before — flavor that doesn ' t tire my taste. Yes, Camels give all the qualities you want plus an extra measure of each. The extra flavor of costlier tobaccos preserved by slower burning. The natural mildness and coolness of costlier tobaccos plus freedom from the irritating qualities of too-fast burning. And on top of extra p em zie — Ciimch give extra value (see panel at ri bt). GETTHE ' EXTRASlWITH SLOWER-BURNING CAMELS THE CIGARETTE OF COSTLIER TOBACCOS YOU WATCH that ball go scream- ing off the tee and you shake your head. Hou does he do it.- ' Form, tim- ing, power, wrist action, control... he has them all — but Lawson L ittle has that extra nieastiye of each which makes the difference between a good golfer and a champion. Just as the ( ' . 7r in his cigarette . . . Camel . . . make the difference between smoking and smoking pleasure at its best. EXTRA MIWNESS EXTRA COOLNESS EXTRA AvoR In recent laboratory tests. CAMELS burned 25 doiver than the average of the 15 other of the largest-selling brands tested— slower than any of them. That means, on the average, a smoking pins equal to 5 EXTRA SMOKES PER PACK! OCTOBER. J 940 One MinutQ ectute out6e The only thing you haic to do to be original is to be honest. Be- cause eieryone is different from everyone else. — May Sarton, Amer- ican poet who spent several days on the Bethany campus. Bantu women in Africa are not allowed to eat leopard meat because men of the tribe say that the wom- en are fierce enough without it. — Mariah Smith, teUing one of Pro- fessor Booth ' s classes about primi- tive rehgion. The only thing I see on the table is indigestion. — Jesse Simp- son, looking over the Phillips Hall cafeteria table on a blue morning. The director of a play that is still in production should be the embodiment of the still absent audi- ence. — Elissa Landi, actress on the lecture course. Education that causes us to doubt everything but our own emptiness is a failure. — Mr. Stev- enson, speaking in chapel. There are pink slifys in educa- tional institutions as well as in in- dustrial plants. — President Cram- blet in first convocation of 100th session of college. MOVIES . November 1 — Saturday ' s Children November 8 — An Angel From Texas November 15 — They Drive By Night November 22 — River ' s End November 29 — Flight Angels December 6 — Sea Hawk December 13 — Money and the Woman THIS MONTH ' S PICTURES Before giving credit for its pic- tures, Bethanian this month must give much credit to Mr. John C. Jack Stafford, father of freshman Betty Lou Stafford. For many years a police photographer at Steuben- ville, O., Mr. Stafford knows photo- graphs, photographer ' s problems. His loan of a 5. 7 Eastman view camera has aided equipment-poor Bethanian no end. On the cover: Epitome of the spirit that a winning football team can bnng to a college campus is at- tractive Jennie Umbel, first drum majorette in Bethany ' s history. For three and one half years Jennie strutted for prize winning Connellsville, Pa. High School band. Now she struts for Bethany. Page two: Top, George Larrimore. Middle, Fred Swearingen. Bottom, George Larrimore. Page three: Top, Irv Shlansky. Bottom, unknown. Page four: Top, Dave Huntsberger. Bottom, Don Brinkworth. Page seven: Bethanian. Page eight: All photos by Dave Huntsberger. Page nine: Stanley Brown. Page ten: John Costanza. Page eleven: Top, George Kossuth. Center, Dave Huntsberger. Page twelve: Top, Dave Hunts- berger. Bottom, left, George Lar- rimore; right, Betty Lou Stafford. Page fifteen: Stanley Brown. Page seventeen: Cartoon by William Loper. Content 5 One Minute Lecture Course 3 Coming Movies 3 Pacifism . . . An Assault On War 4 The Bison Grows New Horns 5 News Perspective: Bethany is Primarily . . 8 Athletic Fronts 10 Theater 11 Publications 11 Visitors on the Campus 12 Greekdom 13 Board of Governors 14 Opmion on the Campus 16 Features: Interesting Bethanian 13 Dusting Bethany ' s Files 18 Poetry: Victory Song 15 Reunion in Phantasy 18 Cartoon 18 Editorial 19 EDITOR: John Costanza ' 42 BUSINESS MANAGER: Wayne Burdue ' 41 EDITORIAL BOARD: Bert Decker ' 41, William Rutter ' 41, Myfan- wy Strain ' 41. CONTRIBUTORS: Jean Berggren ' 43, Lewis Deer ' 43, Marjorie Finney ' 42, Betsy Ann Plank 44, May Sarton. Sanford Steinman ' 43, John Topping ' 42. BUSLNESS ASSISTANTS: George Sitok ' 43, Jack Baum Garter ' 44. Bcthaniitn, a magazine of features and photographs, pub- lished each month from October through May by the Student Board of Publications of Bethany College- Entered as second class matter on January 14. 1920. at the Post Office at Bethany, W- Va-. under the Act of March 1. 1879- Subscription price: Four dollars the year- Volume XXXII, Number I. PAGE THREE OCTOBER. 1940 PACIFISM . An Assault on Not an objector to the present war only but an objector to the whole military system and theory of life now prevailing in the world is Dwight E. Stevenson, minister of the Beth- any Memorial Church and instructor in phil- osophy at the college. It is generally conceded that war is evil, says Mr. Stevenson, and it seems obvious to me that nations will never repudiate war un- til individuals do so. That repudiation of war is something more than idly sitting by while others fight Mr. Stevenson well realizes. Pacifism should never be confused with passivism, he points out. Pacifism does not make a claim that there is never a cause for resistance. Nor am I of the ' peace at any price ' opinion. My stand is that war as a means of resistance is obsolete and useless, and I think history will bear me out. As a pacifist I believe in an of- fensive of love. The life of Christ is an ex- ample of this offensive put into everyday liv- ing. His sermon on the Mount is His state- ment of the principle. When a man does turn the other cheek, walk the second mile, or give his cloak when only his coat is asked, he seizes moral control of the situation. One of the fundamental beliefs necessary to be a true pacifist, in Mr. Stevenson ' s opin- ion, is the unswerving belief in the ultimate victory of moral forces over physical forces. Without a religious foundation that is firm enough to enable him to pay the price of his convictions — with his life if necessary — no person can be a real conscientous objector. Realizing that his stand is viewed by some as unpatriotic, Mr. Stevenson pointedly says: I see no reason why the militarists should have a monopoly when it comes to defining patriotism. I too love America. My definition of patriotism includes the idea that those things that contribute to the good, the ad- vancement, or the stabilization of my country are patriotic, while those things that contri- bute to its insecurity or downfall are unpat- riotic. Since war causes the death of my fel- low citizens, loss of property and wealth, and leads to economic and moral chaos, I believe it is my patriotic duty to dissociate myself from the war system. PAGE FOUR War STEVENSON PRESENTS A STRONG CASE FOR NON-VIOLENCE IN INTERVIEW WITH LEWIS DEER Having been an active pacifist , for ten years, Mr. Stevenson, who dislikes the term pacifist , is prepared to show cases in history where non-violent, non-militaristic defense was successful. In 1867 a Catholic landowner named Francis Deak led the Hungarians in such a campaign aganist the invasion of the Austrian Emperor Franz-Josef. By refusing to pay taxes, take seats in the legislature, buy Austrian products, or in any way cooperating with the Austrian invader, the people of Hungary made it economically impossible for Franz-Josef to maintain his domination of their country. Mr. Stevenson believes that by such methods any of the small countries of Europe could have resisted the German inva- sion. In their case, he says, military resist- ance was suicide, whereas non-violent resist- ance could have saved them. Another example of the success of the non- violent resister is that of India, where under the leadership of Gandhi, the common people have forced the British officials to acknow- ledge their rights. Non-military and non-co- operative, Gandhi ' s resistance to British con- trol has won surprising victories. Mr. Stevenson points out that Gandhi has formulated two rules which must govern the lives of all persons who attempt to use the pacifist method of resistance. The rules are: 1. Never permit yourself to anger or fear. 2. Tell the absolute truth at all times. The militarist adopts the second part of the first rule and instills in the soldiers the rule of never showing fear. The second rule is in contrast to the militarist rule of favorable propaganda during war times. The whole plan of pacifism as Mr. Stevenson explains it hinges on the belief that every man will react favorably to an appeal to his better nature. If men can now be taught to hate the enemy by pointing out that the enemy hates him, it should be possible to teach men to love each other because they are loveo. I believe in Christianity, concludes Mr. Stevenson, and to my way of thinking, at least, the principles of Christ must certainly repudiate war and point to a better way. OCTOBER. 1940 The Bison Grows New Horns By Saiifonl Sti ' iuwan In the early ' 20 ' s Bethany College boasted a football team capable of standing up to the best in the country. The Bisons of that day had a hard fighting, enthusiastic bunch of athletes who played--and mayhap were paid-- to win. With a spirited student body behind them, the Bison trampled such teams as Ohio U., Detroit U., Rutgers, and Carnegie Tech. Even Army, Navy, and Georgetown clashed with the Bison. The gridders had everything required for a smooth, well-oiled machine. Yet year after year, no matter how spotless the record might be, one flaw blotted it. Bethany College football teams were unable to take the measure of Washington and Jeff- erson. Not since 1910 had the Bisons gored the Presidents. It was then that Bud Bishop, from Wellsburg, drop kicked a field goal at Washington to give Bethany a slim 3-0 vic- tory. In the following years, the Bisons were tough, for in 1921 W. and J. went on to the Rose Bowl, after defeating Bethany only 14-0. But the Bisons were not tough enough. By 1924 the lean years set in, and along (vith the perennial failure to beat W. and J. the Bisons began to slip into gridiron oblivion. Large enrollment colleges began to put out the topnotch teams, and with the decline of the Bison record, the bottom fell from beneath student moral support. Attendance at games slumped drastically, any attempt at a rally was a fiasco, and the average student was in- different to Bethany ' s gridiron efforts. Apa- thy shriveled up the teams, and where only larger schools once beat Bethany, the Bison became a pushover for Marshall, Grove City, Thiel, and West Virginia Wesleyan. A de- horned Bison, like its Wild West prototype, seemed on the way out. Top: hi the Gletnille opener Hart drives through hole made by Myers, on ground, and Kuhns, at right- Middle: Left to right, Hesser, Gordon, White, Donics, and Cicco ready to battle W- . Bottom: Stitt auay for a long run against Salem- TS . PAGE FIVE OCTOBER. 1940 Ajlcrnidth: Prfsiilci: Crumhlft ami Grvcil anil While hailj lead tittor ttarailc along Main strctt. When the 1939 season rolled around, and the team started out by beating Westminster, a few students — freshmen — blinked their eyes and almost became excited. At the homecoming game against W. and J., the players showed plenty of pep, and were rewarded by a good turnout at the gate. But the Bison was not quite ready. W. and J. was outfought, but in two momentary Bison lapses the Presidents scored to win, 12-0. Worst effect of this game was that it tucked in the already sleeping student body. When the Bison finished the season with a .500 aver- age, public opinion felt that this was pretty good — for a Bethany team. This year there is a new spirit on the cam- pus. It is as admirable as it is surprising. And a new team of Knightmen has hit its stride. Currently, the Bethany squad is a veteran one. On the ends of the line are two seniors, Walter Bud Kuhns and Chet Gordon. Newcomers George Brady and Jack Cicco are waiting to jump into the regular end shoes. At the tackle positions, which caused Coach John Knight considerable worry last year, are two big men, John Tiny Morrill, and Walter Dode Myers. Both weigh 230 pounds, as does reserve tackle Dick Roberts. Freshman Clayton Pletz is developing into a workmanlike tackle. Little need be said about Alan Dowler and Bill Wells, senior guards. Both are experienced battlers. Center, supposedly the weakest spot in pre-season analyses, has developed into a stronghold manned by Jim Duif and Frank Donics, with Martin Reiter and Don Kramer awaiting the call. Returned for their last season with the Green and White are Tom CuUison and Dick Jackson. Cullison, one of the smartest players in the conference will be sporting his fourth grid letter this year. Other veterans are Archie Conn, steady blocker, tough Ed Har- ris, and knee action Stan Stitt. Best of the new backs is Chuck Hart, burly triple threat who has blasted student apathy with an ox- Hanging in the troj ' hy room in hi ' in Gynrnasinni is this pic- tnrr of the only of ny Bison JurJ to heat W ■ . The player who kicked the fndd goal that gate Bethany the 3-0 lietory three decades ago was Bishop ' sixth from the left in t te second row- This early team, coached by one ■ M- Tounsend , is remembered for two other things: the niinihcr ■ f loll score games played, and the accidental death of a West Virginia player in -Bethany ' s second game with W-VV- thai year- Scores that year included Gen.-ia 8. Bethany 0; W- Si. ]■ 0. Bethany 3; W- ' -U- 0. Betli- imy 0; West Virginia Wesleyan II. Bethany 0: W V U ■ 8. Beth- any 0. Mccby Wens ShuFHlewsrkh Riws Umfcenhower 2 lGsrJTOb ' Rudy Bowers Henley . Bishop Saundermdn E.Harmon t Ei-retfc SmJtA Bradfbrd Rltte Merryman J. chapman Wdtson Konp T Stanley r. GE SIX OCTOBER. 1940 back; Sifgt ' lhaitnif giiartl; Jackson, back; Gorilon, ciiJ; A- Dowley, giuinl; Hart, back; Wells, guard; Donics, center; Cicco, end; Hcrrick. tackle- Second row. Sinieral, back; Knbns, end; Harris, back; Albrecht, guard; Shrlner, back; Stitt, back; CullisoN, back; Duff, center; W. Dou ' ler. guard; White, guard; K:..,;:,.. .. - - , , . t. .. c ■■ v,;.,s ' -- . i row; As- sistant Coach Stunijil); Re ter, center; Brady, end; Myers, tackle; Hesser, hack; Roberts, tackle; Pletz, tackle; Morrill, tackle; Barnes, tackle; Conn, back; Erbc, tackle; Ponierance, back; Wilson, manager. like drive and an educated toe. Slightly less of a powerhouse is Freshman Jack Hesser. Now half finished, the Bison season started off happily, with a 14-7 win over Glenville State, who humiliated us 30-7 last year. Then came the sweet 14-0 victory over W. and J., after 30 years of yearning. Then the Bison trampled Salem, 3 3-0 and beat Westminster. The spirit, not the one of Bibical times, but the spirit that people always ask for at pep meetings, has descended on the Bethany cam- pus. The rally and torchlight parade follow- ing the W. and J. game was without preced- ent in modern Bethany history. Zest may even overflow and invade the classrooms. But win, lose, or draw from now on, the team knows that the students are behind them. As yet there has not been a slackening of spirit. Why should there be? For has not the Bison regained his horns? Part of the W- : ■ strife uas a kicking duel. This l anarain shous a Bison buck boutuig one Joun the fuld- PAGE SEVEN OCTOBER. 1940 ' Ii th am 15 X tintatUu THE DEAN LOOKS AHEAD DtAN F. H. KIRKPATRICK Hliniaiiitiii must not he siihiiicrf,cil h scitnct- Before deserting Bethan y for . sabb.itlcal leave that has been ham- strung by the war in Europe, Dean F. H. Kirkpatrick planked down before students the results of much thinking about the nation ' s defense plans and their probable effect on Bethany College. Dean Kirkpatrick, whose long laid plans to study Industrial psy- chology at the University of Lon- don have been stymied, spoke with good authority. Along with half a hundred prominent educators he was called to Washington this sum- mer to help coordinate education with the national defense program. Briefly, the Dean ' s conclusion ' s were: 1. Intercollegiate athletics should be curtailed or abolished and an extension of the physical education program to all students should be made Immediately. 2. Curriculum should be stud- ied, with a view toward introduc- ing new courses (perhaps one called Pre-Mllitary ), and eli- minating some non-essential courses. But, warned Dean Kirkpatrick, the humanities must not be submerged by sci- ences and social studies. He also PAGE EIGHT recommended more courses in in- ternational relations, foreign lan- guages, and problems of democ- racy. 3. Colleges must educate the emotions and emphasize mental hygiene. 4. In preparation for the severe financial adjustments that always follow a war, Bethany must plan for careful business management. Here Dean Kirkpatrick recom- mended sale of non-producing capital investments, reduction of Bethany ' s Indebtedness and ad- mmistratlve costs, and vigorous campaign for new endowment. 5. Students must fight to pre- vent their patriotism from being molded into standardized forms dictated by pressure groups. 6. American youth, accustomed to discuss, to Investigate, to de- bate, to question, and to have plenty of margin for self-expres- sion and personal expression, will find these mental habits being up- set by the discipline and obedi- ence demanded In mllltar - train- ing. 7. Colleges must help students examine criticall) ' and objectively the background, issues, and social psychology related to the war. Students must be made to realize that the war is only a symtom of a profound cultural change. 8. Bethany must demonstrate, by precept and example, that de- mocracy can still satisfy the basic, living demands of people living In the twentieth centurv. ONLY ONE SENIOR FELLOW THIS YEAR Only senior fellow appointed this year is Miss Mlmi Strain, in the En- glish department. Ordinarily several seniors are awarded fellowships, by the committee on honors, after de- partment heads have nominated the student. iMiml (actually Myfanwy) has compiled an enviable academic re- cord since she graduated from FoU- ansbee, W. Va., high school in 1937. She spent her first college year at Bethany, but transferred to Riverside Junior College, Riverside, Cal., for her sophomore year. On the coast she was graduated with honors. Back to Bethany for her junior year, Mimi was named out- standing junior woman by the Pittsburgh-Bethany Alumnae club. Now comes the fellowship. BUT MANY ASSISTANTS Because professors get tired of correcting papers, and answering the same questions over and over again, colleges have long plucked the most alert students out of the classrooms, given them the title of assistants , and put them to work in their maj- or field as aides to the professors. No exception to this practice is Bethany, where more than two score of the better students are this year boosting their academic prestige and income by doing routine work in the departments of instruction. Largest group of assistants are in chemistry, where Professor Dawson and Mr. Reynard need much help in the large laboratories. Assistants for this year are Edward Harris; Roy Hoffman, James Huntsberger, Peter Johnson, Frank Long, Irvan Roche, Jack Ryan, Hilda Sarver, Harold Siegelbaum, Jack Slmeral and Ray Sheline. Second largest group slated to be listed as assistants in the college cat- alog next spring are librarians Sue Beth Archer, Jean Berggren, Mar- garet Ehlnger, Betty Mclntyre, Rosemary Roberts, Betty Schuller, Mary Jean Weir, and Elizabeth White. Current blohigy department assis- tants are Joseph Callgulri, Irving Glassman, Esther Mackey, Martin Reiter, and Dorothy Reynolds. Limbering student muscles in ph)slcal education are Janice Evans, Margaret Hallock, Betty Narrigan, and Ray Thompson. Two departments, admissions and personnel and English, have three assistants each. In the first are George Albee, Gladys Armor, and Louise Gettys. In the latter are William Rutter, Robert Showman, and Norris Whltock. Young experts in motion and en- ergy studies are William Callendlne and Robert Fritz, of the physics de- partment. In history are Edward (Continued on Page 17) OCTOBER. 1940 FRESHMEN ON THE STAFF Hesitating to rove an analytical eye over the six newest members of the college staff, BethaniiUi this early in the year contents itself with thumbnail sketches of the freshmen On the faculty. Cassius W. Gould, instructor in music, has the degree of B. Mus. from Oberlin College, 193 3, and M. sylvania, for a M.B.A. earlier this year. Worked in New York City brokerage office and in accountan- cy at Cooper-Bessemer Corporation in Grove City. In college he was on interfraternity coucil, sang with glee club. % MISS MARY C- i ' i.i;i MR. CASSIUS i ' . GOULD A. from Oberlin in 1934. He also attended Northwestern University. Mr. Gould formerly taught at Con- necticut State College and Millers- burg Military Academy. He shares conducti ng the Green and White Band with Dean Weimer, teaches theory, piano, and organ, and is planning to mold new instrumental groups. Edward R. Bowden, instructor in business administration, was gradu- ated from Grove City College in 1937 with B. S. degree. Thence to noted Wharton Graduate School of Finance at the University of Penn- Miss Mary C. Van Pelt, R.N., college nurse and supervisor of the infirmary, graduated from Norton Memorial Infirman ' , Louisville, Ky. Then, like Nightingale, off to the East, where she was supervisor of a hospital in Kuwait, Arabia, from 1920 until 1940. James W. Alexander, instructor in English, graduated from Univers- ity of Georgia in 1934 with A.B. The next year he took his M.A. there. Later in Europe, he studied in .MR. EDWARD R. BOWDEN DR. JAMES W. ALEXANDER Perugia and Padua in Italy, in Grenoble in France, these on an ex- change fellowship. Back in America, he completed work at University of DK- JOHX W. R11. . KD Virginia, won Ph. D. there. He is an excellent pianist, knows Latin and Greek, having once taught the latter at Georgia. John W. Reynard, instructor in chemistry, graduated from Musk- ingum College in 193 5 with A.B. Then to Ohio State University, where he took M.A. in 193 8, Ph. D. in 1940. Because he was a good stu- dent and circulation manager of the college newspaper, was inducted in- to an honorary journalism fraterni- ty, is still looking for someone who belongs to it. MR. WILLIAM H. SPRAGEXS William H. Spr.igens, instructor in mathematics, graduated from University of Kentucky with A.B. in 1935. ' In 1938 took his M.S. there. His wife graduated from the Universitv of Illinois, where he has completed residence work for his Ph. D. Second semester, when Dr. Allen takes his sabbatic leave, Mr. Sprag- ens will also teach physics. PAGE NINE OCTOBER. 1940 tkletic Ttonti HARRIERS CROSSED UP Although the Bison harriers suf- fered their first defeat in three years against Westminister, a touch of humor flavored the upset. More than one factor interferrcd with the cross-country runners. The New Wilmington course is only two-thirds the length of the Bethany course, making the race a relative middle distance run for the Green and Whites. After striking out into the woods the Bisons lost the trail. Boy Scouts who were stationed along the trail gave garbled directions, sending the Bisons struggling over barbed wire and rail fences. The Bison squad held second and fourth places among the first five at the finish line, with Morgan and McCord at the pav wmdows. Ed- wards, of Westminster, led the field. Coach Boettcher explained the blot on cross country ' s escutcheon by saying, If we had been pressing Edwards as closely as we should have been, we wouldn ' t have lost the trail. BEES IN PLASTIC BONNETS Plastic football helmets, like the ones that were tried out by Univer- sity of Minnesota and Northwest- ern University, are unsatisfactory because they make too much noise when players crack heads at each other, says Coach John Knight. Coach Knight should know, for as early as last spring he examined the lightweight, translucent head- gear. He even considered equipping the Bisons with the Flash Gordon headgear. But when plavers com- plain that sound echoed in the hel- mets like shouting in a barrel. Coach turned thumbs down. NEW FIELDS TO CONQUER Bethany is beginning to make use of the 1000 acres of land mentioned so prominently in catalogs and bul- letins. Of major importance among the new recreational facilities is a five mile cross country and bridle trail which opens up several hundred acres of woodland adjacent to the new Rine Athletic Fields. Starting on Rine Field, the trail rapidlv PAGE TEN drops off the east, down to the banks of Buffalo Creek. Here it turns south, following the creek through beautiful woodland. After following the winding creek for a mile, the trail, which is ten feet wide at the narrowest place, turns west. Several hundred yards later it turns abruptly north to climb a hill directly south of Rine Field. A person walking or riding the ridge of this hill for three quarters of a mile can see the sur- rounding country for miles. From the ridge the trail drops gradually away to the southeast, following the slope along thick woods which it skirts for a mile. Back again in the valley of the Buffalo the trail turns west, swings easily to the south, then east, and finally north in a wide circle that ends again on Rine Field. Important addition to the equip- ment of a college that stresses indi- vidual recreation is the new auxili- ary game field being completed ad- jacent to the gymnasium. Special, hard surface on the new field will bring outdoors such sports as hand- ball, volle ball, captain ball, and other related games, heretofore only playable in Irvin Gymnasium. Eventually the field will contain a smooth roller-skating rink that can be flooded and frozen for ice skating in the winter. Plans call for the equipping of all of this area with electric lights, so that the entire area can be used for night recrea- tion. ARCHERY LEADS TO W.A.A. Most popular of sports with freshmen coeds headed for member- ship in Women ' s Athletic Associa- tion is archery. Arrows fly almost daily toward targets tripoded behind Oglebay Hall, as the girls count up points, trying to amass 100 points re- quired for entrance into W.A.A., then 1000 points required to win a letter. While regular class activity does not count toward point totals, girls have plenty of opportunity, because points are given in tennis, swim- ming, ping-pong, aerial dartst bad- minton, cycling, hiking, skatmg. If as much interest is shown in other sports as in archery, President Janice Evans would have little rea- son to doubt that this year will be W.A.A. ' s best. Ettch hull ' i eyr counts ouarti vn ' mhvnlnjt in W ' l- fur Jennie Umbel, Evelyn Baxter, Shirley Wcalhcruax, lean Goe, and Etelyu Van Strien- OCTOBER. 1940 TALKIES LEARN TO TALK operator Date HittitUwrgcr luijiisis new motion pii iirr projector- Bethanians who for 14 years groaned in their Friday night movie seats because they could not under- stand half of what the leading man was whispering to the leading lady, have now begun to ease back m their seats, partially convmced that Com- mencement Hall does contain new motion picture equipment. Musicals, once taboo because the old rebuilt projectors and wheezy sound system could not reproduce high notes, bass notes, or the flow of overtones in a full orchestra, can now be booked with the assurance that they will be at least listenable. But don ' t expect wonders, warns House Manager Strasser, because Commencement Hall ' s high Gothic walls and low balcony were not designed to throw electrically creat- ed sound waves clearly. Built for a commercial theater seating 1,800, the equipment is more than adequate for the Hall, where an audience of only 600 would bring out the SRO signs. Complete RCA sound equipment, with double amplifiers, an attach- ment for playing phonograph re- cords, and four large speakers, were in the purchase. So large are the conical black plywood speakers that only two need be used to direct the sound from behind the new screen. The speakers can be wired either singly or in a series. Conceivably, one of the speakers might be mount- ed in Phillips Hall lounge, another in Cochran Hall lounge, a third in the gymnasium, and Bethanians in each of the three places could dance to records played in the projection booth. Other items in the purchase that rejuvenated movie-going on the campus are two Simplex projectors with lOYz inch reflectors in the lamp housings, 30 ampere rectifiers and two four-inch lenses. FIRST PLAY TO BE COMEDY Docs the selection of You Can ' t Take It With You , as the first stage play of the year indicate an- other gala year for Bethany thea- ter-goers? Last year. Miss Marian Hendrick, then an enthusiastic newcomer to Bethany, wore thin the boards on Commencement Hall ' s stage with a succession of plays that included Night of January 16th , Personal Appearance , Death Takes a Holi- day , and a dozen one act plays or excerpts from plays. A Bethespian production, You Can ' t Take It With You depicts the absurd, almost slapstick, situa- tions into which a joyously eccentric family of New Yorkers allows itself to drift. No matter how well cast the play will be, upperclassmen are sure to miss actor Thomas Jones, who this year is studying his drama at Car- negie Tech. As well as other Alpha Psi Omega ' s Ruth Braem and Lillian Henkle, transferred and gradu.-.ted, respectively. The cast contains Joanne Schott as Penelope Sycamore, Rita Cleary as Essie, Mimi Strain as Rheba, Ro- bert Fulmer as Paul Sycamore, Jack Baumgartner as Mr. De Pinna, Ger- ald Ferguson as Ed, Delivan Barn- hart as Martin Vanderhof, Mar ' Louise Sessler as Alice, Roy Heckel as Henderson, Jim Huntsberger as Tony Kirby, Charles Bell as Kolen- kov, Jane Edmunds as Gay Welling- ton, George Davis as Mr. Kirby, Jane Campbell as Mrs. Kirby, Sara Gelof as Olga. Peggy Geyer is assist- ant director. X ' ulfLica.tloni DEBT BURDENS MAGAZINE Publications, which at Bethany means the Bcfbaiiian, has a bother- some dog nipping at its heels. The dog is labeled debt. Loosed on the magazine by two previous Bethan- ians, the mutt became a real threat a month ago when Bursar Newton W. Evans said that Debt must be appeased. On the college ledger, Bcthauiau ' s account, in red, amounts to more than $45 0.00. And Bursar Evans rightfully claims that publications has reached its debt limit, must now stop adding to the debt and start slicing it down. Faced with these red figures, Betluuiiau, like any sensible corpora- tion, decided to cut expenses and in- crease revenue during 1940-41, ap- plying part of the savings to the debt. Money spent by the Bcfhaniaii goes almost entirely to four places: cover company, photographer, engraver, and printer. Contracts this year give the money respectively to S. K. Smith Co., Chicago; Zamsky Stu- dios, Philadelphia; Robert Raws- thorne Co., Pittsburgh; Carnegie Union Printing Co., Carnegie, Pa. First step toward financial stabil- ity, cutting expenses, meant merely spending less at several or all of the companies producing the magazine. Largest savmg is being made on covers, which had taken too high a percentage of the total budget in 193 8 and 1939. Cover-binders cost approximately 72c apiece last year, while Bi ' hanian for this year limit- ed itself to 46c apiece for covers. Contracts for the three major serv- ices were all substantially lower than either of two previous years. Second step toward financial stability, increasing revenue, came with nearly a 100 percent increase in extra subscriptions over 1939. This was the result of a planned direct mail campaign. Advertising, other major source of income, will amount to at least $700.00 or else Business Manager Wayne Burdue gets no full schol- arship. This new idea was submitted to the SBOG by the business man- ager himself. (Continued on Page 17) PAGE ELEVEN OCTOBER. 1940 l bitot5 on tke 0(impu5 . . QUEST FOR VERSE LECTURER A BETTER ACTRESS ' liL-n Miss Elissa L.indi made a short visit to Bethany ' s campus Oc- tober 3 to lecture she did not give the impression of being a snooty stage or motion picture star. Neither was she a moody playwright. She could easily have been either as she has played in some thirty film pro- ductions, many stage presentations, and has also written two plays and five books. through the crowd with a pen and autograph book. Asked if an actress can ever get away from acting. Miss Landi re- pl.ed, A true actress, yes; a ham, no. She went on to explain that those who act all the time are mere- ly fulfilling a desire to show off— leaking at the seams, she called it — ,ind if thev would get inti. some activity that would satisfy Ac riiS i iisJ UiuU jijjH.ri i Hir u for Miriam Co mhi Bn ),.A:ir Miss Landi ' s audience was amused at her arithmetic when she esti- mated the distance between the rear row and the stage of an ancient Greek theater but more than for- gave her when she illustrated a f)oint by recreating a scene between herself and a Russian woman just learning to speak English. At a short informal reception al- ter the lecture, Miss Landi sat and answered questions for a group of admiring students who clustered around her. When asked what ques- tion she was asked the most she said, What do you like the best, stage or screen? then lisping into baby-talk added, May I have your autograph. Miss Landi? Two min- utes later a newspaperman from Wheeling asked her the first ques- tion just as a little girl pushed that desire they would not be put- ting on an act all the time. Miss Landi also tried to be help- ful to students interested in writ- ing. When asked How do you go about writing a play? What idea comes first, the plot, the theme, or the characters? she did not hesi- tate. Oh, the characters, of course, she said, and then went in- to detail. A writer should always be looking for things that show character in people, some little characteristic or incident that tells just what sort of a person he or she might be, how he or she would re- act to certain situations. Imagina- tion begins to weave those situa- ations into a plot, suspense is weaved into scenes to give drama, a theme may slide in, and there you are with a story. POET MAY SARTON ' Wrote a Victory Sovg for Bethany (Sec page 1!) When Miss May Sarton, young American poet, came to Bethany to visit and lecture, she soon made it obvious that her trip was no com- mercial matter but an adventure. Although her father is a distin- guished professor teaching the His- tory of Science at Harvard, Miss Sarton, never attended an Ameri- can college, having lived half her life abroad, and considers her tour a chance to get an unbiased view of American college life. He lectures are merely to provoke discussion, to draw out poems and plans for poems, to talk over creative prob- lems with students and teachers of poetry. Her big aim seems to stim- ulate college students to write poetry. Claiming that a poem is the per- fect fusion of an emotional experi- ence and a mastery of technique. Miss Sarton gave much advice to writers: study the best in the older poets, do not try to publish immedi- ately, do not let rejections discour- age you, write on subject you really know intimately, search for the right image for your idea, look long and intently at your subject, make subject demand the form, not the form the subject. Miss Sarton ' s Bethany audience enjoyed her four poems which she read to them Sunday evening, Octo- ber 13, especially the last one which had no political significance. The first three did, and were, by her own admission, not her best. The audi- ence differed however concerning her ability as a poetry critic. I ' AGF TWELVE OCTOBER, 1940 llllllll FRATERNITIES PLEDGE After a hectic Rush X ' eek of many dinners, Uttle sleep, a few tears, and much satisfaction, Beth- any ' s five fraternities and four sororities added the following to their rolls as pledges: Alpha Xi Delta: Eleanor Achter- man, Ellajane Bishop, Jane Camp- bell, Susan Carnahan, Betty Elder, Jean Goe, Mary Jane Heifer, Mar- jorie Hunter, Dorothy Ralston, Miriam Reno, Betty Shadle, Betty Shaffer, Gwendolyn Taylor, Shir- ley Tidwell, Suzanne Wood. Kappa Delta: Gloria Broderson, Virginia Downes, Betty Field, Mar- jorie Haines, Betty Lou Hood, Eve- lyn Jones, Betty Salmon, Betty Lou Stafford, Nina Jean Stone, Frances Thomas, Gertrude Whitney, Blanche Peters. Phi Mu: Margaret Abel, Gloria Bass, Margaret Blanck, Mar - Lou Dcmres, Eleanor Gilmore, Jean Mac- Leod, Ruth Rutherford, Mary Louise Smith, Martha Stuart. Zeta Tau Alpha: Betty Mae Ad- dleman, Jean Belknap, Mary Vir- ginia Bolton, Marjorie Campbell, Miriam Cox, Margaret Flatley, Jean Goodwin, Patricia Harvey, Elinore Hetherington, Ruth Hutton, Mar- tha Kittle, Jacqueline Knobloch, Jane Land, Jane Linn, Lois Linn, Betty Grace Love, Barbara Noel, Jane Mayers, Ruth Rial, Rosemary Stewart, Jeanne Styer, Eleanor Throckmorton, Jennie Umbel, Peg- INTERESTING BETHANIAN ROBERTS AN EDUCATIONAL EXPERIMENT Dick Roberts is a feller who writes like this here about feetsball and sich. In spite of his classical background (ahem!) — five years of Latin to keep him from turning out journalese — quite enjoys talking down to the rest of us farmers. Besides being Prof Roberts ' little son, he is also his pappy ' s walking experi- mental education laboratory. Why does Dick, a journalism major, take such killers as ph ' sics and math? Because then when he grows up he will have his brain all exercised without learning the names and addresses of all the people in the telephone book. Dick is interesting not onlv to his father, but also to us as a note of color on the campus. Though he writes like Mortimer Snerd, fresh from the country with the hay still in his hair, Dick is quite the boy in such organizations as the football team (understatement, we hear the team is the organization.) For his whizzy work in the game against W. J. Dick was given French fried potatoes, a bucket of milk, and Ivory soap, his favorite food. UICK ROBERTS gy Wallace, Jane Walls, Shirley Weatherwax, Mary Jane Weir. Alpha Kappa Pi: Dean Cousel- man, Joseph Ducoeur, Franz Rohr. Beta Theata Pi: Donald Brink- worth, Donald Boyd, Jack Baum- gartner, Arthur Beard, Robert Ful- mer, William Halley, Roy Heckel, Byron Henderson, Ted Herrick, John Weimer, William Yauch, Wil- liam Young. Kappa Alpha: Fred Albrecht, William Dowler, James Drum, Ro- bert Frontz, Orion Keylor, Thomas Peterson, Robert Stealey, Donald Young. Phi Kappa Tau: George Bartram, Bruce Beck, Albert Cerveris, Jack Cicco, Dick Colan, William Culli- son, Frank Donics, James Duff, Charles Ford, Robert Husband, Sam McCutcheon, Edward Shriner, Jjck Wright. Sigma Nu: Robert Alexander, James Barnes, Charles Browne, Ro- bert Craig, Richard Glass, Robert Golbey, Charles Foy, Raymond Le- Strange, Creighton Murphy, Harry Murphy, Steve Nunn, James Sem- bower, Thomas Willoughbv. Left: Three freshnuit coeJs Jress up for ranhelleuic Tej Jnring Rush XCeek- Right: Signtit Nit Cowmavder Edward Ehas er jots douit smoker apfioiittmerlfs uhile Stophel looks on. PAGE THIRTEEN OCTOBER. 1940 Soatd o QoitQtnoti $3,800 BUDGET PASSED W ' itli a surprising Lick of argu- ment. Student Bonrd of Governors, divided up its income from the stu- dent activities fee into six m.ijor approprl.itions .it the Board meet- ing of October 16. Bo.ird members who s.it through List year ' s tempestuous budget ses- sions, when argument Listed for weeks, could scarcely believe their ears when representatives ayed mo- tion after motion after only scatter- ed comments. The budget is very similar to the one adopted last year. Only excitement came when Social Committee Chairman Don Rosensteele complained that S75 was not enough to enable the com- mittee to adequatelv fill 16 dates alloted it for all-college functions. The S7 5 was the amount suggest- ed for the Social Committee in the proposed budget submitted bv Vice President George Davis. Promptly, Bcflninuiii Business Manager i ' ayne Burdue, present though not a board member, sug- gested that S5U be deducted from the Bcfhaniaii appropriation and transferred to the Social Committee. Then came another suggestion that ■s50 more be given the Social Com- mittee from the $70 offered to de- bate but unaccepted. Both sugges- tions were moved and approved by the SBOG, giving Social Committee S850 to work with, most in manv years. 1939-1940 1940-41 Publications S2400 $2250 Social Com. 750 850 SBOG 275 275 Orchestra 75 75 Band 200 200 Interest groups 200 130 Totals 3900 3800 In 1939-40 the band w.is alloted $200 in the budget, but an addi- tional $50 was given it later in the year, the money coming from the Interest Group Fund. The SI 30 appropriated for the Interest Groups this year is divided as follows: Bethespian Club, i5 0; Interna- tional Relations Club, S3 5; Radio Club, S30; Ministerial Association S15. Included in the appropriations for Publications each year is $400 giv- en to the Board by the college. For many vears this money has been used by the Board to provide scholar- ships for the editor and business manager of the college publication. Since any unused appropriation reverts to the college at the end of the year, except in Publications, where the account is open and runs from one year to the next, the Board decided to require each organization receiving an appropriation to report any balance in the spring. Then, the Board hinted it would applv these balances toward improvements, to the Student Activities Office and elsewhere, rather than allow the money to revert to the general funds of th e college. HOW SBOG SPENDS ITS SHARE Student Board has spent SI 16.50 of the S295 allotted it for the cur- rent years, according to SBOG Presi- dent Lyle Mayne. Major part of the expenditures went for Sodbusters, first all-coll- ege social function of the year, which is always sponsored b) ' SBOG. Most of the remainder went for the W. J. Victory Dance, which SBOG would gladly pay for ever ' year if it could. Total expense account of Sod- busters was $78, S60 for Niles Carp ' s Orchestra, $18 for minor ex- penses. Cost of the extremely in- formal Victory Hop was $30 for band and S2 for incidentals. Other SBOG expenses so far have included $4.5 for supplies and S2 for secretarial work. W. J. COUNCIL TO VISIT SBOG As an aftermath of the paint smearing episode at Washington and Jefferson, SBOG President Mayne invited the W. J. Student Coun- cil to come to Bethany for a joint session with the Bethany Student Board. While no definite date for the meeting has been set, a reception committee composed of William Wells, chairman; and Betty Murphy, Frances Dvorak, and Jack Pryor, is planning for the event. Conn Band Instvument.s Steinway Pianos Hammond Organs C. A. HOUSE CO. WHEELIXG, W. VA. Ziegenfelder ' s Ice Cream Different from Others Served at THE COLLEGE INN Compliments of TRAUBERT BAKERY STRASSER BOWLING ALLEYS BETHANY, W. VA. Visit us — Betty Coed and Joe College KEYSTONE SHOE STORE 98 7th St., Wellsburgr, W. Va. Phillips Hall Uses FORT HENRY MEATS Supplied by THE WEIMER PACKING COMPANY W HEELIXG, W. VA. PAGE FOURTEEN OCTOBER. 1940 mill ' iiiiiiiii VICTORY SONG BETHANY BEATS W. AND J. AT FOOTBALL Bring on the band, boy, beat on the big drum, Blow on the brasses, boys, here they come; The beautiful, the energetic, the strong, The jazz babies, the fighters, the supremely young. Heady to rock the world, the darlings, the champs. Eyes burning like thousand-watt lamps. Hands clapping, feet beating with furious joy, Throats ready to yell it — Here she comes. Boy! Watch the girl in the green and white sweater. The style of her, the line of her — Get her! Watch the Dean lead the band, the vim of him. Watch the President holding that pigskin. Sainted brown relic that helped the team win, Watch the smiting coach yelled off his feet. Warn, There ' s another game coming but well, this was sweet. Yes, Victory was sweet and loud in Bethany today, O victory came in with cows and buffalos, O victory was everywhere in the air today. Vibrant in hands and spines, electric in toes. Reeling out of the gold mouths of the brasses. Beating and bursting out of the grand big drums. And the air was charged with stories of forward passes. Victory, victory is here. Yes sir! here it comes Marching up the aisle, dancing down the hall, what a proud day, ivhat a grand day, what a story WLwn the college stopped and nothing was done at all But victory was done, yes victory was well done that day of glory! Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, the light ami the dark, 1 give you Victory. I give you this immortal spark, But let me before I leave you for more dejected places Ask you one question, you of the triumphant faces — What ivoidd happen to the world, would kingdom come If this energy, this vita lity, this power, this big drum. This clan, this thousand-watt lamp of yours were fhtng Into a great world-beating America-making song? What would happen if for once you suddenly gave Victory to the defeated, the poor, the sick, the brave. If ivith that teani-u ' ork, that gusto, that da)! that savoir-faire That style you uent out and cleaned up a mess here or there. Re-built a town, had an idea, wrote a poem or play, Would the college, tell me, declare another holiday. If you all went out u ' ith the Dean at the head And worked another kind of miracle instead? Believe me, America is in your hands like that pigskin To be cherished and fought for and, only maybe win. Gentlemen, life is in your hands, a tough sweet game Permit a poet to hope that you will make victory its name. But Victory for the many and Victory to giie and share With t he defeated, the down hearted, the backs against the wall, everywhere! October 8, 1940 Hill MAY SARTON lllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll ROBERT RAWSTHORNE COMPANY Bethanian Engravers Heeren Bldg. Pittsburgh, Pa. See .JAKE and DICK at THE VALLEY PRESS Home of Good Printing — Phone 6401 — WELLSBURG, W. VA. L. BRUCE ROBERTS PLUMBING and HEATING 64.5 Main Street Wellsburg W. Va, Dial 21971 HENDERSON ' S RESTAURANT opposite postofflce 12th Chapline — Wheeling Breakfast Lunch Dinner Complete fountain service Sandwiches, Home-Made Pies Enjoy our fine drinking water Compliments of WELLSBURG BANKING AND TRUST COMPANY WHEN YOU BUILD SEE ROBERT SCOTT LUMBER COMPANY WELLSBURG, W. VA. WHITEHEAD ' S 740 Charles Street Wellsburg, W. Va. SANDWICHES, SOFT DRINKS PAGE FIFTEEN OCTOBER. 1940 Cyjainion on tne ampui DRAFT THEM! SAY THE GIRLS Women at Bcth.in College are more in favor of peace time con- scription than are the men, accord- ing to a personal interview sui ey made by Mr. Bowden ' s class in sta- tistics. Sampling men and women in each of the four classes, the interviewers got answers to four questions. The present crisis? Nearly everyone agrees about this question. Where 107 said, No fighting on foreign soil! , only 20 did not seem to care whether we went abroad or not to die. Third question: Shall we aid Eng- land by all means short of sending men across? The answer here was three to one in favor of sending all aid to Eng- S«ri,-v -.hoiuJ that Bclhan-, ituJaiti jaiu, )ij, ,■ ; „■ ,„,;., ri ) u« murh 1 to 1. Ahm ,■ tiiiturv riconls sianifnunt Uctohcr 16, when !7 Bethany College men. mchulins, nine staff members. rexistcreJ unJer the Selective Service Act- Shown arounj the near table are Mr. Barlow and Mr. Hettler. who aiJeJ in registering. Mr. RexroaJ, local high school principal i« charge of registration, ami Bclhanians Jack Ciccu and Lyie Maync. number of students in each class questioned was determined by the size of the cass in rcation to the total enrollment of the college. First question: If Germany wins the war, will she invade North America? Twenty-eight said within ten years. Sixty-four said never. Thirty-five said after ten years. Women are afraid the invasion will come soon. For every man who said the invasion will come within ten years, there were four women who agreed with him. Second question: Are you opposed to our fighting on foreign soil in the PAGE SIXTEEN land except men. Men and women agreed on this answer almost perfectly. For every three men who said, Send all aid short of men, there was one man who said, Send little aid. This ratio was the same among women who were questioned. In asking each of the four ques- tions, interviewers found some stu- dents who were undecided about what to say. In every case, however, these fence-sitters were only a small minority of the total polled. Students who made this survey were George Brady, Chester Gordon, Ralph Pr ' or, Morrison Ratcliffe, Betty Schuller, William Weaver, and Elizabeth White. WE WANT WILLKIE BUT WON ' T GET HIM, SURVEY SHOWS In the last few years journalist- statisticians have developed methods of gauging the public pulse with near certainty. Apeing the profes- sional press, Bctlian.ati tried scientific sampling on the Roosevelt-Willkie front. The results were very similar to the results of the Roosevelt-Will- kie election held in chapel recently. While this does not prove the ac- curacy of Bctbauian ' s survey, it does show which candidate is favored, and how heavily, which is really what we want to know. Certainly the chapel vote and the mazagine survey both were not wrong. Chapel results gave Willkie 2 52 votes, Roosevelt 92. In percentages this gave Wendell 73 percent, F.D. R. 27. The Bcthanian survey, entire- ly by personal interview, gave Will- kie 74 percent, Roosevelt 17, and undecided 9 percent. Of the students questioned by Bcthaiiiaii, only 39 percent will act- ually vote next week. Despite the overwhelming sup- port for Willkie among Bethany students, a majority of them think that Roosevelt will win anyway. Asked, Do you think Roosevelt will win? 52 percent of students replied, Yes. Thirty-five percent said Willkie will win. Thirteen per- cent were unable to guess which candidate would be elected. WHY DON ' T THEY Well, why don ' t they? The American magazine wonders about it, and frequently Bethanians do. For one thing, Dr. Leitch wonders why they don ' t conduct a tour dur- ing Freshman Week through the college buildings and the village. It would forever do away with the up- perclassman who had not been in the tower or out to the Campbell Man- sion. Consider the tale of a Junior girl I know. It became so easy for her to follow her nose from class- room to classroom in her own de- partment that she had her first visit just the other day to the typing room. She has still no idea how to get to Prof. Knight ' s office. Why don ' t they allow students to use typewriters in examinations? After writing rapidly for two hours — some do — the student ' s arm is (Continued on Page 17) OCTOBER. 1940 (Continued from Page 16) capable of little more than waggling a weak wave at acquaintances. Then, too, think of the relief for profes- sors in having tyf ewritten exams to read. I insist it could be arranged. Why don ' t they have an open forum or question box in the Bethanian} It would furnish a place more far reaching than bull sessions for students to air their wonders and complaints. There ' d be poor opinions mixed with intelligent ones, but that doesn ' t make the plan prohibi- tive, does it? Why don ' t we take a lesson from a nearby college which has an an- nual book drive? The librarian com- piles a list of reference or recreation- al books which the library needs. Organizations or individual students contribute, and the name of the donor is recorded on a bookplate in the front of the book. Why don ' t the members of Inter- fraternity and Panhellenic Councils really live up to their avowed pur- pose of promoting inter-fraternity good feeling? Wouldn ' t round tables on chapter scholarship, making pledges study, student-alumni rela- tionships etc. be helpful. (Continued from Page Eight) Elsasser and Gordon Seidel. Lone assistants in their respective departments are Lewis Deer, in Bib- lical literature; Florence Nicholas, modern languages; Milton Parker, education; Barbara Schutt, student health service; Ray Simmons, econo- mics, and Margaret Stein, orienta- tion. ALUMNI BULLETIN REVAMPED Several thousand alumni a week ago received through the mail the first issue of a thoroughly revamped Alumni Bulletin. First issue publish- ed since April last, the new Bulletin should do much to make former students conscious of their experi- ences on the hill. Under the direction of Mr. Hett- ler, alumni secretary, Bill Rutter, senior English assistant and peren- nial experimenter in campus publi- cations, redesigned the format of the eight page magazine. Articles by class secretaries and Professor Roberts appear in the current issue. We Believe in BETHANY COLLEGE Manufacturers of EAGLE OILERS WELLSBURG, W. VA. Laundry — Dry Cleaning Deliveries Twice Weekly BUTTES LAUNDRY CO. STEUBENVILLE Headquarters for Florsheim Shoes WEISBERGER ' S WELLSBURG, W. VA. THE OWL PRINT SHOP the best is none too good for you Stationery Dance Programs MARKET ST. WHEELING Electrical Wiring Supplies Lig ' hting- Fixtures — Appliances Tools — Lamps — Radios SANDS ELECTRIC CO. 52 Eighteenth Street Phone 146 WHEELING, W. VA. •UBLI«HIB« Of CABHCCIf Iz-.U CARNEGIE UNION PRINTING CARNEGIE, PENNA. COMPANY Headquarters for SMARTER COLLEGE WARDROBES g tnn? $c ®Ifntttaa West Virginia ' s Largest Department Store MAIN STREET WH EELING, W. VA. 11 PAGE SEVENTEEN OCTOBER. 1940 DUSTING BETHANY ' S FILES Freshmen, who this year are unhampered by fresh- man customs, might be interested in some of the quaint rules and regulations prescribed by the faculty of Bethany College at the opening of the first session in November, 1841. Among the by-laws were the following: No student shall introduce, keep or use within the precincts of the college, weapons or arms of any kind, or gun-[X)wder, or keep a servant, horse, or dog. No student shall f ermit any disturbing noises in his room, or introduce, keep or use any spirituous or vin- ous liquors, or any cards, dice or implements of gam- ing. Smoking cigars, or any other use of tobacco, is at all times strictly forbidden within the college precincts. The use of musical instruments is interdicted before dinner, after ten o ' clock at night, and on Lord ' s days. The bells shall be rung every morning throughout the collegiate year at dawn. The students shall rise at this signal. The dress of the students shall be uniform and plain, a dark gray or black color, at a price not exceeding six dollars a yard. It is recommended by the trustees that Kentucky jeans be selected as the cloth for common wearing apparel. The steward is charged with responsibility for the cleanliness of the inn (the Steward ' s Inn, where many students lived) and grounds, and the practice of keep- ing or raising hogs within the precincts is forbidden. IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIW REUNION IN PHANTASY anticipation I saw her on the farthest hill I leaped five roaring chasms, She led me farther still. 1 trampled forests, Recaried a lake, Brushed aside t} piled cloud ; Then, gained her side, Spoke of my love. But she lanished — without a sound. — Balmord. KULTUR With all our barbaric tendencies there is still a sign in the field of culture that the world is not quite so bad as it was during the last war. One of the first results of the feel- ing between the United States and Germany during World War I was the dropping of the teaching of Ger- man from the curriculum of high schools and college The three modern languages taught at Bethany are Spanish, French and German. Comparing this year ' s enrollment against last year ' s we find that the number studying French has declined sharply while enrollment in Spanish has increased heavily, in German slightly. SEE US when in need of Wallpapers. Paints, Artists Supplies and Display Material. THE SHERWIN-WILLIAMS PAINT COMPANY 1018-20 Market Street Phone 4044 Wheeling W. L. CHAMBERS Furnishes Food for Your Table Hi-Ya. Pal, Dniil u r jji, a smulicr Jul,- uith oii, chnn PAGE EIGHTEEN OCTOBER. 1940 Martin Senour Paints BUILDERS HARDWARE W. A. WILSON SONS, INC. llOD-ini and 1421 Main St. WHEELING, W. VA. FRATERNITY and SORORITY FASHION CENTER Compliments of KENNEDY HARDWARE WHEELING, W. VA. ZAMSKY STUDIOS Tlie BETHANIAN PHOTOGRAPHER Portraits of Distinction STANDARD PRINTING PUBLISHING CO. Everything for the Office PRINTING - ENGRAVING Lithographing - Office Furniture Machines, Equipment Supplies 910-914 Fifth Avenue HUNTINGTON, W. VA. The Student ' s Store L. S. GOOD CO. WHEELING, W. VA. dltotlal Beth.iny College — all American colleges — have a new r esponsibility toward students. It should be carv- ed over the main entrances on every campus, Learning is more import- ant than any war. Where a few years ago realists screamed that colleges were cloisters, and college students were campus provincials, now the college stud-nt is in danger of being warped mto a person of predjudices by the clamor o{ headlines. The contemporary world-chaos is beginning to fog up intellectual vistas on the campus. The jingoism of a stupid press and stupid politics is conditioning bias so that it passes off for opinion. Many students reallv believe that the United States must fight a war. They are not certain whether we must fight Germany, Japan or Rus- sia. But we must fight someone. It !s inevitable. It is the fashion — the world-spirit! Just what the colleges must do to head off this fatalism is not clear. But certainly they should continue to go about their business of educa- tion with full energy. And the col- lege should also be realistic. Stu- dents should be counseled to go a- head with their academic training, they should be warned against self- appointed distributors of Ameri- canism who are running loose these days. There may be need for patriotic service, but there is no need to get excited about it. In the meantime, we should be resolved to give our first attention to the develop- ment of strong manhood and wom- anhood — strong in bodv, mind, and character. Bethanians should remember President Cramblet ' s advice: You Have a Job To Do. There is no need for a blackout of intellectual and moral ideals. GEO. E. STIFEL CO. Wheeling ' s Friendly Store Drink . . . ( IN BOTTLES Try JEM-POLISH .JEM-WAX And don ' t forget We do Long Distance Moving J. E. MILLER TRANSFER AND STORAGE CO. WHEELING. W. VA. PHOTO ENGRAVERS LITHOGRAPHERS JOB PRINTING WHEELING NEWS LITHOGRAPHING CO. l. ' ith at Main Street WHEELING, W. VA. BETHANY COLLEGE BOOK STORE for your COLLEGE BOOKS and SUPPLIES Lower Corridor Try it — BLAKE ' S ICE CREAM 96 Sixteenth Street Phone 1746 WHEELING. W. VA. FOR WONDERFUL FOOD ACKER ' S In Wheeling- 1220 Market Street PAGE NINETEEX rH£ WAY TO mor£ ' -MOKI ( ' ' ' [ASURt, Make your ioday, more than ever, people are taking to Chesterfield because Chesterfield concentrates on the important things in smoking. Yon smoke Chesterfields and find them cool and pleasant. You light one after another, and they really taste bet- ter. You buy pack after pack, and find them definitely milder. For comp efe %mo f. nq satisfaction you can ' t buy a better cigarette t.H£ST£RF ELD Copyrighi 1910. Liccirrr Myers Tobacco Co. THIS ISSUE Sadie Hawkins Day History Tells Us Bison Basketball Schedule VOVEMUER, 1940 One Minute Jlectute (?outie A liaprr should be like a woman ' s dress, loit) enough to cover the siib- jicf, and short enough to be inter- estiir . Professor Green quoting an- other professor in reply to a stud- ent ' s question, How Icng a paper do vou want? By the time yon are finished with this course, the nalmna! debt will hciie reached 70 billion. It is 45 billion now. Professor Cro- baugh, lecturing to class on Princi- ples of Economics which will end next May. 7 uere she. I wonld be afraid the catch iconldn ' t uur ;. Dorothy Reynolds, commenting on a fellow who put his pin out for the third time. Thanks; rinii needs to be re- cired, not by an act of Con ress, but by a recital of spirit in all of us. Reverend Stevenson, speaking in chapel day before Thanksgiving. Literature is not escajie. It is life. Rabbi George B. Lieberman, Eoff Street Temple, Wheeling, dur- ing an excellent chapel talk Novem- ber 6. It is a characteristic of the era of science that a skel ticisni skefitica! of ecerythini but its own skeptic- ism niccs uay before the dominant mode of tLwunItt of the time. Dr. Roscoe Pound, Harvard, speaking on presentation of Phi Beta Kappa charter to Northern W. Va. Alumni Association. Watch Your Minutes Expert Watch and Clock Repairing. Will call for and deliver PHILIP R. BAUM Phone Bethany 2031 after (;:00 P. M. THIS MONTH ' S PICTURES THIS MONTH ' S COVER On the cover this month we have a picture which suggests the parallel between the present state of affairs in Europe and a game of chess. Cer- t. ' in subtleties will be apparent to the chess player, wh ' ch may be over- looked by the uninitiated. Credit for the cover picture is divided as follows: Idea, John Topping Chessmen, Pete Johnson Map, Bill Rutter Dave Huntsberger made the photograph. Page five: All photos by Stanley Brown. Page ten: All photos by Dewey Varndell, Jr., Uniontown, Pa. Page seven: Delivan Barnhart Page eight: John Costanza Page twelve: Dave Huntsberger. Page eleven: Stanle)- Brcwn Page thirteen: Irv Shlansky Page fourteen: All photos bv Irv Shlansky Page eighteen: Cartoon by Mary Lou Sessler. After all is said, tin- individual is tl e real bastian a ' ainst any or- ; anization whose purpose is to sup- press the individual. Charles Mc- Camic, president cf Northern W. Va. Alumni Associatoin of Phi Beta Kappa chapter, in charter accept- ance speech in Commencement Hall. A man unwilling to train him- self for a job does not deserve to Ikiie one. Joseph Guin, chapel speaker for National Forum organi- zation, reminding Bethanians how great the United States is. Content 5 One Minute Lecture Course 2 This Month ' s Pictures 2 Fur on the Face 3 History Tells Us 4 Sadie Hawkms Day 5 Blackout 6 News Perspective Bethany is Primarily . . . 7 Athletic Fronts 8 Theatre 10 Music 11 Science 12 Campus Visitor . 13 Opinion on the Campus 14 Features Interesting Bethanian 11 Dusting Bethany ' s Files 16 Editor ' s Letters 18 Poetry Ameboid Motion 13 Conversation 17 Metal Crossroads 1 8 Cartoon 18 Editorial 19 EDITOR: John Costanza ' 42 BUSINESS MANAGER: Wayne Burdue ' 41 EDITORIAL BOARD: Bert Decker ' 41, William Rutter ' 41, Myfan- wv Strain ' 41 CONTRIBUTORS: Lewis Deer ' 43, Marjorie Finney ' 42, Sanford Steinman ' 43, John Topping ' 42, Phyllis Hcndrickscn ' 44, Irene Jasscn ' 44, Bernice Monczynski ' 44, Arthur Beard ' 44, William Young ' 44 BUSINESS ASSISTANTS: George Sitock ' 43, Jack Baumgartner ' 44 Evelyn Baxter ' 43, Marjorie Hunter ' 44 Bfll)inii ii. a niag.i inc of tc.iturcs .ind photugraph . pub- lished each month from October through M.iy by the Student Board of Publications of Bethany College Entered a ; second class matter on January 14. 1920. at the Post Office at Betliany. W- Va-. under the Act of March I. 1879. Subscription price: Four dollars the year- Volume XXXII. Number 2. PAGE T O NOVEMBER. 1940 Fur on the Face A. Beard Takes a Tweak at Mustaches Adds Oomph to osculation Sleek old Tom twiddled the glossy black hairs about his mouth to a sharp point and idled up to the she cat. With a moist, loving glow in his eyes he gently, hesitantly, made advances with his soft pink tongue. It touch- ed her warm damp nose, her soft, furry ears — Spat! (A scratch.) Me-owww-- Damn your whiskers, Tom. I ' m ticklish. Tom learned the hard way. They call him Scarface now. Those strands of hair on upper lips have caused many unhappy moments, even in hu- man lives. Do you know why we were never married? she prattled. It was his fault. He always got chewing gum stuck on his mustache. One day my transformation stuck to some gum. Then he knew I was bald. I ' ll die an old maid. If I only had had hair on my head and he had none on his upper lip. I have heard many descriptive names for whiskers in general and to be a little more specific, mustaches. They have been called misplaced eyebrows, pump-handles, soup- strainers, tooth-brushes and everything else. I ' ll concede that a mustache may resemble anything. That gives me the privilege to say it looks like a horse ' s tail (the brushy part). The man that wears one therefore appears horsey. This does not mean he goes in for polo, either. (That last crack was to keep you on the tail or trail.) Why do you have a mustache? is a question I have asked scores of men. The slick college sport with a waxed upper lip told me it added oomph to his osculation. Hmmm- maybe. But who likes a mouthful of wax? asks the coed. Siil ' cs food from contamination Fills in space- A prof with no lantern jaw remarked that a mustache filled in the space under his nose a little bit. He needs it. It cuts down the amount of wide open space in the mouth. The negro cook at a fraternity house has sinus trouble and hates handkerchiefs. He says, Boss, dat fuzz sho has saved manya ' deesh from contamination. He may be right, but at this point I can hear a loud scream for the sanitary commission. One student who eats at the Eta Iota Lambda fraternity and is consequently undernourished, chews his mus- tache for calories. I have been considering sending him some old socks to make a stew, though this would be pulling the wool over his teeth, something I don ' t approve of. Mustaches aren ' t the least bit new. So the novelty of them can ' t be the attraction. You can change each to match your attire as you can a tie. They make a young person old, an old person decrepit — and a corpse a holy sight. Have they any material value? No. They are not large enough to stuff a mattress. They -HI) can ' t be sold for junk. Then what Can be chcucJ for nourishment • i i i i in — o h w e I 1 ! What ' s the use? You tell me. Have they artistic value? A lady on a bill- board seems to need something. What is it? More sex appeal? Perhaps she needs a frilly collar on her dress. Or maybe a rose in her hair. No, that ' s not it. Step back a few steps. Ah — add a mustache. Something was lacking, but now — . That ' s the answer to my queries. Put a mustache where something is lacking. Now maybe we know why some men wear mustaches. PAGE THREE NOVEMBER. 1940 HISTORY TELLS US A HISTORY MAJOR CHRONICLES AN EXPANSION TO SOCIALISM By Bert Decker No form of government has been static. Even if legislative bodies do fail to pass new- laws for any length of time, the interpreta- tions of existing laws usually change over a period of years. The development of man- kind, industrially, agriculturally, commer- cially, economically, has been followed by a corresponding development in the legal regu- lations of man in those fields. History reveals that we have tried many kinds of social con- trol from tribal communism to the forms of government today. Government has grown better. Tribal dic- tators maintained their authority by sheer physical prowess; present dictators are forced to convince with ideas and ideals as well as force. Present day democracies are more de- mocratic than Athenian democracy. Athens was really one-third slaves, one-third foreign residents without a vote, while the Athenian vote was controlled to some extent by rich, influential cliques. One reason for better gov- ernments is the spread of authority — the placing of sovereign power in the hands of a bigger percentage of the people. The abolition of slavery, the Magna Carta, nineteenth cen- tury industrial liberalism, woman suffrage — are all indications of that spread. Reason has ruled. This despite the fact psychologists have tried to tell us mind has become a mere survival product enabling men to obtain desired ends. They say our sub- conscious mind supplies us with good reasons for doing that which we desire, and that we rationalize bad desires. But we still have the ability to recognize these rationalizations, to distinguish fact from illusion, to reason to a happy and secure life, and to prefer the values that exalt the rational and humane qualities of man. Man with his lusts, his brutalities, his craving for power, has remained man. But his laws, his conventions for controlling those PAGE FOUR desires, his governments, grow continually better. Another changing force in history is the spread of loyalties. The Greek was loyal to his small city-state, rarely to Greece as a nation. The vassal pledged himself to his lord before his king. Many of our American revolution- ists believed in states rights as stronger than federal sovereignty. Now we have a stronger feeling of loyalty to our nation than we do to our city or our state. Still another expansion is the growth of ed- ucation. While only the feudal lord and clergy had enough leisure to educate himself, the development of industry and commerce gave the newly rich middle class leisure and wealth to edify itself and its children. Time saving machines have brought high standards of liv- ing to the masses. With education comes a broader realization of the rule of reason. More men realize that individual behavior is the de- terminant of the resulting society. More citi- zens are determined to aid themselves by bet- tering society. We are still expanding. Can we logically deny that we are not? Can we fail to see the continuous spread of authority, the influence of the working masses, the power of the labor unions throughout the world in their respec- tive governments? Can we fail to see that the labor laws passed by the United States gov- ernment are but one more step in the spread of authority? Can we not see how the consum- er ' s unions are themselves whittling a big stick to exert pressure on the lawmakers? Was there ever so great a trend towards inter- nationalism, the last step in the spread of loy- alties before interplanet transportation? It is obvious that we are slowly but surely evolv- ing to a new social order, to some form of in- ternational socialism. NOVEMBER. 1940 adle tfCLurkini au Dog Patchers Bring High Jinks to Campus Poinporis Mayor of Dogpatch (Proftisor-Mayor Sumpy himself) n-uil the proclamation, whereas, whereas, and therefore be it knouii. that open season on Do patch men nou hes ins. While the Bison football team teas defeating Heidelberf- College uay 01 er in Tiffin, Ohio, on Not ember 2. beJuteon Daisy Mae of Doxpatch {Irene Hntelnson) lustfully uaiteJ iniJenieatI) the niajile tree until — Dogpatch gals caught Dogpatch fellous, and Marrying Sam ' s hitched couples for a swig of cider. But what happened to wistful Daisy Mae? Why she chased handsome Li ' l Abner (Red Neumann) and ketched him good and tight- That night Bethany Dogpatchers ended their first Sadie Hawkins Day by caiorting in Iriin Gymnasium- PAGE FIVE NOVEMBER. 1940 BLACKOUT By Ruth Brae til EDITOR ' S NOTE: For many urcks ihv author of Black- out was iinkiiouir The play, uith tuo others cihlcntly written hy the lame person, lay unclaimed in the wire basket on Professor Roberts ' ilesk- Finally, Joe While recognized the plays as ones written by Miss Braem- Professor Roberts then recalled that the author, who is now studying radio acting and writing at Emerson College, Boston, mailed him the plays for criticsm this summer. At that time Miss Braem had been awarded a schilarshp at the Radio Drama Workshop Milwaukee- She spent two years at Bethany, entering in the fall of 19.58. Scene: — As curtain rises a siren is heard- — A lonely business street can be barely distinguished as all lights are suddenly turned out. A young girl instead ot seeking the nearest air shelter walks the street feeling her way by the touch of the rough brick and scone of the buildings against her hands and body- There is also another one who dares to remain in the dark. — a brusque young man who is in haste to get to his destination. He thaugh is clumsily going about it for he ' s lost. He barely knows his way about in th!s district at ordinary times let alone in black- ness. In a restless hesitant manner he rounds a corner to collide into the young girl- He — 1 beg your pardon, Sir, it ' s so confoundingly d.irk. She — It isn ' t .i Sir — Sir, that you bumped. He — Why don ' t tell me. It ' s a young lady. Will you accept my apologies again. But may I ask why you happen to be out? It ' s dangerous you know. She — If I may be so impertinent, Sir, I think perhaps I should ask what you are doing out. I seem to be managing a little better than you. He — (laughs) — So you are — Say you couldn ' t help me find my way could you? To be truthful I don ' t only run into lovely young ladies, but I ' m lost. She — I should be glad to lead you to where you are go- ing. Name your destination. Sir. He — You really can? Miracles, I guess, will never cease. I ' m h-ading for Waterloo Station. She — Very well — follow me. You ' re an American are you not? A foreign correspondent? (Start walking) He — An American — yes. I guess that ' s obvious but what makes you think I ' m a reporter? She — Just plain surmising. For what other reason would an American be here now? PAGE SIX He — For many reasons I would say. You see I was merely posing as a reporter — . She — Posing — ? At least I am close. He — Yes, I had to get into England somehow but I ' m afraid it was all in vain, because the authorities have discovered my real identity. Tonight I must leave and I haven ' t accomplished what I came over to do. She — You must feel very discouraged. He — If my mission had succeeded someone would have been made very happy. If I could only find but why should I bother you with my troubles? Why here I ' ve been talking to you and I don ' t even know who you are. She — And I don ' t know you but let ' s keep it that way. It seems to fit in with the situation. He — Say, I hadn ' t thought of it that way. Superficial things such as names don ' t count. In the dark just the substantial things seem to count. She — Yes, I should know (cynical manner), but here you are, just walk straight down. He — Thank you so much. But I would like to know who you are. She — Just memcmber me as the Girl in the Blackout. Good-night. He — Good-night. Amazing how she ' s going in such a hurry. (He turns into the station as lights go on, while we see the girl walking the other direction and we realize she is blind. Altho her hearing and feeling senses are extra keen she failed to hear the cablegram the young man sent off as soon as he arrived at the Waterloo station.) His voice — To Mr. Wallace, Hamp- field. New York, New York. Could not locate your blind niece. Must come home at once. Sorry, Clinton Claybrook (Curtain closes with sound of siren.) netnanu li timatilu WHO ' S WHO Each year since 1934 several thousand outstanding students in American colleges and universities have been sketched in Who ' s Who among Students in American Uni- versities and Colleges. Demanding no fees or dues for membership, the volume recom- mends to the business world promi- nent upperclassmen from more than 5 50 colleges. Supposedly one of the highest honors a student can obtain, its invitation signifies scholarship and leadership in all phases of col- lege life. Because no complete list of colle- gians invited to Who ' s Who is available until the book itself comes WHY DO WE DROP OUT? Not enough students accepted for admission at Bethany continue until graduation, according to figures compiled by the Admissions and Personnel office. Why they do not continue is important to the college. In the main, these reasons are: 1. Financial reasons. 2. Lack of industry or capacity for vigorous academic work. 3. Some want only a two-year course. 4. Some find environs or educa- tional resources unattractive. BETHANY ENROLLMENT SINCE 1936 Oct. 2 Oct. 10 Oct. 10 Oct. 2 1936 1937 1938 1939 Seniors 39 61 55 56 Juniors 67 61 70 44 Sophomores 95 104 82 119 Freshmen - 161 127 171 168 Unclassified, P.G. 11 6 10 9 Early Withdrawals 4 5 12 377 364 389 398 Sept. 2 8 1940 31 72 109 153 10 1 376 NOVEMBER, 1940 UNACADEMIC HOMECOMERS Because old grads usually recall more of the frivolities than the aca- demic experiences of their college years, Homecomings are notorious for the amount of celebrating that goes on between the lines of the offi- cial program. Thus while a football game was scheduled for November 9, Beth- any ' s first Homecoming in her sec- ond century, no plans had been made for the Bobcat or Bison gridders to start slapping each other ' s muddy faces, nor had Athletic Director Knight planned to have the specta- tors take part in the game. While the town slept, Moo Moo, Moo hung a twenty foot sign from the Tower, another unofficial event. Despite such added attractions. Executive Secretary Hettler did greet scores of alumni at othcial Point Breeze headquarters. And af- ter brunette Joanne Schott was crowned Queen Beth Ann II, a packed house tittered at the Hend- rick show, You Can ' t Take It With You. After the play. Club Bison, with no cover, packed in customers. Next day, Sunday, Reverend Stevenson restored dignity with the united worship service at the church .md in the afternoon President and Mrs. Cramblet welcomed many Homecomers at the Heights. off the press early next year, Bcth- anian ' s roster of invitees may be in- complete. But here they are: Jane Edmunds, Hilda Sarver, Jean Short, Mimi Strain, John Cos- tanza, Tom Cullison, Lyle Mayne. PROFESSORS ON WAR CALL In case of war or other national emergency, four Bethany professors may be called into government ser- vice of some kind. Along with thou- sands of other American chemists, physicists, engineers, and psycholog- ists, they have been asked to file credentials with the National Roster of Scientific and Specialized Person- nel, which will be jointly administ- ered by the National Resources Planning Board and the Civil Serv- ice Commission. The Bethany specialists are Dr. Allen, Professor Dawson, Dean Kirkpatrick, Dr. Leitch. Joanne Schott as Homecoming Queen Beth Ann II PAGE SEVEN NOVF.MBFR. 1 ' 40 ■flt iietic 7tonii HARRIERS END SEASON Jinxcd by their brand new cross- councry course, the Bison harriers finished the 1940 season bihind Westminster and Slippery Rock runners in the Tri-State Conference Run November 23. Jim Edwards, Westminster runner, beat out Bison John Morgan, just as he did earlier this season when Beth- any ran at New Wilmington. (See October Bcthauiaii) Edwards ran the four miles in 22:12, setting a new record for the course. Westminster ' s 31 points gave her the race. Slippery Rock harriers, in- cluding men who placed fourth and fifth, piled up 3 5 points. The Bi- sons had 54. Thiel College ' s lone runner came in sixteenth, hence did not f.gure in the scoring. Before the climatic intercollegiate championships, Boettcher ' s runners had lost to Westminster, 23 to 32, to Ohio University, 18 to 36. In the next two meets, Bethany nosed out H.ram, 26 to 29 and continued with a string of victones over Carnegie Tech, winning 2 3 to 32. Morgan, v ho has never placed worse than second this year, won both of the races. HOWKNIGHTMENCARVED BEST GRID RECORD Bethany College finished its best football season under Coach John J. Knight, winning six games and los- ing two. In 1936 Bethany had a simi- lar record, but the season wasn ' t marked by such outstanding victor- ies. Coach Knight has completed his e.eventh and most satisfying year at Bethany. Every campus fan has his reason of why Bethany won but here is how they won. An underdog Bison eleven pulled a surprise in upsetting a supposedly strong Glenville State team, 14-7, to start the season o n its way. In the next game Bethany per- formed a stunt that hasn ' t been done by a Bethany team since 1910. Need it be said that W. J. was de- feated 14-0? Along came Salem and the Tigers were tamed 3 3-0. In this game Chuck Hart missed his first attempted conversion in six tries but later in the game added his sev- enth successful p.acement. The following wee!;, Bethany weathered the year ' s first snow and froze out Westminster 9-0, and then added Geneva to its list of victims by a hairbreath score of 14-13. By beating Geneva for its seventh straight win (including the final two games of last year) Bethany tied the longest winning streak ever held by a Bison squad, and sports writers began to wonder how much longer the herd would continue its stampede. With the pressure on, the Bison came from behind to topple Heidel- berg from the ranks of the nation ' s undefeated, winning 13-7. This game broke all existing winning streaks at Bethany. Sports writers ' wonderings were brought to an end, when West Vir- ginia Wesleyan won the Homecom- ing game 19-7. The largest crowd, since way back when, was on hand to witness Bethany ' s first defeat. Bethany lead for three quarters but withered in the last period, yielding two touchdowns. Despite the close score and Bethany ' s thrilling goal- hue stands, there apparently wasn ' t enough excitement for the crowd. When several Bethany and Wesleyan players got into a tangle, part of the crowd poured out on the field, delaying the game. A badly crippled and lackadaisical Bison e.even went on to close the season by dropping its second game, losing to inspired Fairmont State, 6-0. Bethany was unable to weather the snow this time and was shutout for the first time this season. Bethany had one of the state ' s leading scorers in big Chuck Hart, who scored 63 points. Season results showed: Won 6. Lost 2. Scored 104 points to opponents ' 52. Additional Sports on Pages 9 and 18 Pari of the sl.,r i„x l,„n,l for the Bethany-Ohio Stale cro.,. country run. Lcf,,„ r„h,-H rry Murphy. Starter Leroy Siraner. ,n u„t. W,b Cramblet. Ohio runner. Tom Committe. PAGE EIGHT ]ohn ctmer. Craun of Ohio, who won the race, fohn Mc- Cord, umdentified runner. Max Luikart, Ohio runner. John Morgan, who placed second. Jim Stoner. Leo Shlickerman. NOVEMBER, 1940 PRESIDENT COOKS WORLD SERIES DINNER Enthusiastic National League baseball fan, President Cramblet has had little reason to be happy when World Series time rolled around in recent years. But this year he was much pleased when the Cincinnati Reds of the National League beat the Detroit Tigers four to three. So on October 22 the President, along with Professors Booth and Sumpstine, cooked for the fourteen- th annual faculty World Series din- ner at the town Masonic Hall. Inaugurated 14 years ago, by eight men, the dinners now attract as many as 60 men, though atten- dance was slightly off this year. Theoretically, the supporters of the losing World Series team should Pri-.vj cooks ,il Worlil Scries dinner- cook the dinner, serve it, and clean up afterward. But culinary-skilled Dr. Cramblet cooks every year, win or lose. Incidentally, each fan pays for his own series dinner. EIGHT LETTERMEN DON COURT TOGS With the conclusion of a highly successful football season the sport- light is now focused upon Bethany ' s basketeers. Despite last year ' s drab record, the future looks anything but dismal for the Bisons. The team is a veteran one sprinkled with just enough new blood to give it that necessary extra drive. Returning lettermen are Dick Jackson, Harold Taylor, Norm Fair, Jack Pryor, Bud Kuhns, Tom Cullison, George Callendine, and Bill Neuman. A good part of the last season was spent in experimentation, and al- though Coach Knight refuses to make any pre-season statements, the hope of another successful season in a major sport should spur him to considerable effort. The team will probably follow the typical Beth- any pattern of speedy ball handling and a fast break. Several changes are being con- templated in this year ' s schedule, RIFLE CLUB FORMED Organized primarily to provide instruction for students in the use and care of fu-earms, Bethany ' s new Rifle Club also will enable men and women to compete equally in the same sport. Already using the recently com- pleted range in the ravine in the rear of Irvin Gymnasium, the Rifle Club is negotiating for matches with Pennsylvania State College, West Virginia University, and Ohio University. Some of the matches will be by telegraph, some will be shoulder-to-shoulder. Although independent at present, the club will soon be affiliated with the National Rifle Association, and will be eligible for competition in the Hearst National Rifle Tourna- ment. Sponsored by Physical Educa- tion Professor Boettcher, who long hoped for a rifle range for the col- lege, the club has enrolled some 5 enthusiasts. Aware that the average gun own- er often gets careless with his fire- arm, the Rifle Club is insisting on the strictest application of safety rules for members. Officers of the Rifle Club are John Weimer, president; Fred Swcaringen, vice president; Julia Wakefield, secretary; Stewart Moore treasurer; Dave Huntsberger, pub- licity manager. Instruction in handling and shoot- ing technique will be directed by Boettcher, form er U. S. Army in- structor and coach of Reserve Offi- cers Training Corps team at Lafay- ette College. Assisting him will be Roy Hoffman, experienced in Citi- zens Military Training Camp, Fort Hoyle, Md., Bob Fritz, graduate of Linsly Military Academy, Wheel- ing, and John Weimer, winner of a Turkey Shoot held annually on Big Wheeling Creek. Before anyone can use the rifle BASKETBALL SCHEDULE Dec. 14 — Hiram at Hiram, O. Dec. 17 — Mt. Union at Alliance, O. Dec. 20 — Capital U. at Bethany Jan. 6 — Salem at Bethany J.m. 8— W. J. at Washington, Pa. Jan. I 1 — Glenville at Bethany Jan. 14 — Geneva at Bethany Jan. 17 — Westminster at Bethany Jan. 27 — Alderson-Broaddus at Phi- lippi, W. Va. Jan. 2 8— Davis Elkins at Elkins, W. Va. Jan. 29 — Fairmont at Fairmont, W. Va. Feb. 6— W. Va. Wesleyan at Beth- any. Feb. 8 — Alderson-Broaddus at Beth- any Feb. 10 — Geneva at Beaver Falls, Pa. Feb. 13 — Davis Elkins at Bethany Feb. 20— Salem at Salem, W. Va. Feb. 21— W. Va. Wesleyan at Buchhannon Feb. 22— Glenville at Glenville, W. Va. Feb. 2 6 — Fairmont at Bethany Mar. 1 — Westminster at New Wil- mington, Pa. Mar. 5— W. J. at Bethany. range, one of the following range guards must be on duty: Fritz, Hoffman, Betty Narrigan, Swearingen, Rav Thompson, Wake- field. RIFLE RANGE RULES 1. When off firing line no bolts in rifles. 2. Always point guns front. 3. Load only one shell in your gun at a time. 4. Shooting will be conducted only when Range Guard is on duty. 5. Guns must be empty at all times except when firing. 6. In carrying guns to and from range, bolts must be out or guns broken. 7. It not on firing line, you must stay in the ready seats. 8. Keep serious at all times. 9. Courtesy must be extended at all times to other members of the club and to others who are shooting. 10. Obedience is needed. 11. Shoot only at target section. 12. Be careful in approaching range. 13. Blanket permission for shooting exists. 14. Until further notice any calibre gun is permitted but no pistols. PAGE NINE NOVEMBER. 1940 ' YCTIWY OKEH Tuny Kirhy ijijn Hiintsbcri cr) loia But Alice is afraid that Tony couhl nci cr fit ball family and friends — . Homecoming, May 9, brought with it the annual B ethespian Homecoming show, this year, You Can ' t Take It With You. The show was directed by Miss M-rian Hcndrick assisted by Peggy Geyer. Delivan Barnhart, as Grandpa Vandtrhof, deserved a big round of applause. He played the part so sin- cerely that one could almost hear the creak of his aged bones and he made one think of him as Vander- hof and not as the Barney we all know. Charles Bell, freshman and new comer to the Bethany stage, did a good job of his interpretation of the Russian ballet impresario. He was lict ' Xandvrhof — ■ ;; « 7 jfr scrcu- Which includes Olga (Sara Gelof) Bell). funny without being ridiculous. Gerry Ferguson and Rita Clary gaye a delightful portrayal of the naive, inadequate young printer and his ballerina wife. They were con- stantly in character and added , a spot of color to the show with their piano paying and dancing. Mary Louise Sessler and Jim Huntsberger were natural and real as the beleagued young lovers. Joanne Schott was quite convinc- ing as the scatterbrained mother; Bob Fulmer and Jack Baumgartner equally so as the father and perpetu- al guest. Jane Campbell and George Davis were just aristocratic and arrogant enough to create the illusion of the such good hearted eccentrics as Dutchess and Kolonkoi . the dancini master {Charles wealthy, snobbish parents who ob- jected to their sons marriage for social reasons. The supporting members of the cast deserve special mention for the fine way they handled minor roles and got the most out of them. Mimi Strain and Wilbur Cramblet were excellent as the young colored cou- ple and came close to stealing many of the scenes in which they appeared. Jane Edmunds was hilarious as the drunken actress. Roy Heckel, an- other freshman, did all he could with the part of the income tax col- lector and did it well. Tom Poston, Bob Golbey, and Bob Vierhusen had walk-ons as department of justice men. Tony ' s aloof motlier {jane Can:plhll) and .d);ctr father (George Dai is) can not appreciate the Vandcrhof brand of hafip-ness. But philosophical Grandpa Vanderhof (Del Barn- PAGE TEN jaiJj brings the clashing factions, and of course Tony and AUce, together. An then he thanks God in his Now, I ' ll tell you. Sir. style. NOVEMBER. 1940 BETHANY GETS A MARCH When I came to Bethany, I thought that this school ought to have its own original college mar- ches, adapted to its own character- istics and needs, stated Mr. Cassius Gould when explaining what in- spired him to write his new com- position, the Bethany Centennial which will be ready for the public at the next band concert. The piece, for which he com- posed the words as well as the music, is written somewhat after the plan of Goldman ' s On the Mall . The first part is strictly for the band alone while the trio is to be sung. It is of customary march length. Band members were quite alarm- ed when they were first introduced to the Bethany Centennial in the ominous key of six flats. However, due to difficulties caused by this keying, Mr. Gould has revised it in- to the concert key of only one flat. Only five hours were needed by the composer to write the march, but he estmiated that forty hours were required to arrange it for in- strumentation. When asked her opinion of the piece, June Fiess, senior member of the band, said, The Centennial ' is a beautiful march and rather unus- ual, but it has a difficult clarinet part. (June is a clarinet player) . Another senior member, trumpet- er Don Rosensteeie, said that he liked the number because, unlike most band pieces, Centennial had a chorus that could be sung as well as played. The words, written by Mr. Gould to be sung to the trio section of the march, are as follows: Come friends and give a cheer for Bethany, Best in the land — Always we will love her As in brotherhood we stand. Our hearts united in one destiny Service to do — Loyal and allegiant In the lives we pledge to you. ' INTERESTING BETHANIAN EDMUNDS PROFILED AS A SHOE Once there was an old shoe. It was a happy shoe because it had spent many days dancing in the Inn and many fine nights sleeping — under the bed. But unfor- tunately the old shoe had to stand up under the strain of much fluff. Definition: All that is not sleeping and dancing. On Tuesday nights it was president of the Alpha Xi Delta ' s. On Saturday nights it was — well, it was in You Can ' t Take It With You . It changed its name and sang hymns on Sunday JANE EDMUNDS morning. But all this is fluff. This is an allegory. The old shoe is Spike Edmunds, who does a good job of her three activities — sleeping, dancing, and fluffing — even if she did get in on a pass. The old shoe was plenty sharp — sharp enough to take life with a grain of salt, so that everything was always happy, and the whole world was always darn smooth. All the chum shoes of our friend liked to gather round to listen while it expounded in its inimitable style about life and love and stuff. The small chums felt real happy then, because the old shoe had a great and optimistic sole. WAGNER, STRAUSS AND CARUSO Because the social committee was thoughtful last spring, Bethany now has the nucleus of a fine phono- graph record library. In the hope of building such a record collection, the committee spent the last of its funds for 14 recordings of classical compositions and songs by famous artists, and for 2 S popular dance re- cords. Available to any organization or individual on the campus, the musi- cal disks are now being cared for by Professor Carter. Classical selections, formulated by Mary Jane South ' 40, include Tristan and Isolde , by Wagner; the The Firebird Suite , by Stra- vinsky; Egmont Overture , by Beethoven; Bolero , by Ravel; Overture to Orpheus and the Un- derworld , by Offenbach; Claire de Lune , by Debussey. There are also two Strauss waltzes, two songs by Kirsten Flagstead, two by Caru- llil so and two songs recorded by the Vienna Boys Choir. From these new records, and oth- ers owned by the college and by Pro- fessor Carter, Phillips Hall girls, aided by Barbara Schutt, house pres- ident, choose a concert each Wed- nesday evenmg. Next month the stock of popu- lar records will be doubled when several dozen more dance records will be purchased. MORE EARS FOR CLASSICAL MUSIC All Bethanians who enjoy and appreciate good music now have an opportunity to hear it regularly. The Concert Club, a new organiza- tion on the campus, resulted after much planning by Sara Gelof and Professor Carter. During the first program on No- vember 6, about 2 5 students listen- ed to recordings from Scheheraz- ade by Rimsky-Korsakoff at the Continued on Page 17 PAGE ELEVEN NO ' I 1B1 R. 19-10 _ ? cience SPECTROGRAPH Bctluny loses the convenient use of one ot its most valuable pieces of scientific apparatus in a few weeks. The expensive Hilgor E-1 spectro- graph, which has been an important part of physics laboratory equip- ment since h ' ollansbee Bros. Steel Co. loaned it to the college in 1936, is to be returned to the steel mill. The steel company is installing its own laboratories for the analysis of metals, and will need the spectro- grr.ph regularly. So that the steel company will get efficient use of the instrument, Mr. John Ball, Jr., chief metallurgist of Follansbee Bros., has been studying spectro- graphic technique with Dr. Allen ' s class in spectrographic analysis, catalogued as Physics 67. The spectrograph leaves just as students are beginning to master this most modern means of analysis. The steel company has offered stud- ents the use of the instrument in Follansbee, but Dr. Allen fears that it will be too inconvenient for stud- ents to accomplish much. While the spectrograph is still here, students Frank Belluardo, Jo- seph Caliguiri, William Callendine, David Huntsberger, Peter Johnson, Irvan Roche, Dick Wallace and John Whitehill are learning all they can about it. So wide spread is the application of the spectrograph becoming that it is alie.- ' .dy much used by madern crime detection experts. What the spectro- graph does is to photograph the spectra given off by elements and their compounds. Each element has its own characteristic spectrum map, different from that of every other element. As Dr. Allen says, Each element writes its signature on the photographic plate, and there is never any forgery in spectros copy. By using sp ectrographic analysis. New England police discovered which automobile out of hundreds had struck and killed a man. The scientific officers analyzed a speck of paint found on the coat of the dead man, and then found the au- tomobile with paint exactly like the speck. In another case, spectrographic analysis of coffee a woman prepared PAGE TWELVE for her husband showed traces of lead, antimony, and sulfuric acid. The woman then confessed that she had put battery juice in her mate ' s coffee. And at Bethany the spectro- graph has done interesting things. At the request of Alumnus Dr. Mit- chell, class 1915, who believes that variations in the change of the con- tent of the blood may be connected with changes in the condition of the blood, the Bethany spectrograph has been used to analyze blood samples. And last year the spectrograph proved that small quantities of metals from the foil wrappers on cheese penetrate the cheese. Another time traces of gold were found in dirt taken from the little stream behind the gymnasium. Amount of gold present was small, but it did actually exist. Dr. Allen is hopeful that the college will be able to purchase a small spectrograph of its own some- time in the near future. MOORE GETS FIRST LICENSE So stringent are the new regula- tions on amateur radio broadcasting that Stewart Moore, Radio Club president, had to wait 16 weeks af- ter taking his final tests before the Federal Communications Commis- sion sent him his license. Moore, who is now the first Beth- any student to get an amateur ' s ticket while in college, has just re- ceived a federal license to operate station W8VHG, at his home on North Front street. Wheeling. He took his last tests in July. Earlier this fall a new federal rul- ing demanded that all amateurs be fingerprinted, and file a birth certi- ficate, absolute proof of citizenship, and a passport photograph, at the F.C.C. office in Washington. This information had to be collected from each of the 5 6,000 amateurs already registered before the F.C.C. would consider any new applicants for licenses. Tliat is why it took so long for Stewart to get his license, he explains. Moore first became interested in short wave radio when he came to Bethany as a freshman last fall. Fie joined the Radio Club and immedi- ately began to consider qualifying as an operator. He learned to send and receive code at 65 characters a minute, the receiving being the most difficult. It takes the average person 1 5 min- utes a day for six months to work up this required speed. John Whitehill fuses a piece of clay to see if its spectrum uill reieal any rare metals- NOVEMBER. 1940 HOW MANY HORSEPOWER HAVE YOU? Did you ever wonder whether or not you had any power? And if so, did you ever pause to speculate as to what your muscular potentialities might be in terms of horses? Beth- any ' s physics department has a meth- od of finding personal horsepower, applicable to all students. The met- hod is this, and the department as- sumes no responsibility whatsoever for injuries or liabilities incurred during the process. First, take your little ruler and mer-sure the height of the steps in Freshman Alley, paying no attention whatsoever to the appropriate re- marks cast by unapprcciative passers by, and grinning timorously at scowling profs who wonder why. Then, eat dinner and weigh your- self, as weight is important to the magnitude of your horsepower. The next step is all important; secure a stop watch, and bribe someone to stand at the head of the steps and clock your ascent. Back off to about the flag pole, take a deep breath, and race madly up the stairs three times, taking the average as rhe time. The physics equation states that the power in foot pounds per second may be calculated by dividing your weight times the height of the stairs by the time in seconds it takes you to run up the stairs. To get horse power, simply divide this figure by 550. RESEARCHERS HONORED Professor H. D. Dawson, head of the chemistry department, and Dr. J. W. Reynard, instructor in chem- istry, have both been elected to membership in the Ohio State Uni- versity chapter of Sigma Xi, nation- al honorary fraternity of natural sciences. Past research and indications of future accomplishments are the main bases used by the fraternity in se- lecting members. Professor Dawson has done extensive research on the catalytic oxidation of carbon, hav- ing prepared his doctorate thesis on this subject. Formal initiation of Professor Dawson and Dr. Reynard into Sig- ma Xi in December will give Beth- any five members in the science fraternity. Already enrolled in Sig- ma Xi are Dr. Allen, Professor Sumpstine and Dean Weimer. GOVERNMENT OUTWEIGHS BUSINESS Bethany students, in Mr. Bow- den ' s public finance class, are of the opinion that such governmental re- gulation is good. On the question, Is private enterprise more effici- ent than governmental enterprise? they said, No. The decision was reached after a debate on the sub- ject. In concluding their argument the negative side offered the fohowing opinion: the value of the innumer- able services offered by government enterprise far outweighs the profit motive of private enterprise. Members of the teams were; neg- ative, Paul Bowers and Scott Kaler; affirmative, Richard Jackson and Harold Blank. Acting as judges were Jean Short, Ralph Pryor, Mor- rison Ratchffe, Raymond Simmons and Mr. Bowden. THE AMEBA Ameba, Oh yuit funny thing, You living mass of jelly, I do not see how you can eat Because you have no belly. How can you xvalk, Ob little one? You. have no legs to stand on For all I see are funny bumps All gathered on at random. I see you flow, with greatest ease Across your little ocean; You seem to do it perfectly, Though slightly in sloiv motion. Some people too, are just like you; They have no leg to stand on, And when they see, a problem come. They ' ve nothing to lay hand on. Tune Yankee Doodle. Chorus Laboratory, keep it up. Science is just dandy; See how life is carried on. While all the word is handy. VITAMINS AND FROGS The effects of a vitamin ' E ' deficiency on frog tadpoles is the subject of the rt!:earch prob ' em on which Mrs. Williams Spragens, wife of Bethany ' s new mathematics in- structor, is pl.inning to work this year. Mrs. Spragens has a room in the biology department in which she will conduct her experiments. Our lady scientist, who recentlv obtained her Ph. D. degree from the University cf Illinois, is also prepar- ing her thesis, which is on the same topic as her research, for publica- tion. DEAN ROSCOE POUND Fitshwiiiihlf modes of thoiif bl . . . Unheeded by most Bethanians was the appearance on October 19 of Dr. Roscoe Pound, retired dean of Harvard Law School and one of Amcr ca ' s foremost authorities on jurisprudence. De;n Pound came to Bethany for the presentation of the charter of Phi Beta Kappa to the North;rn West Virginia Alumni Association of the fraternity. Speaking on Philosophy and L:fe , Dean Pound lectured with an abstruseness that would have smoth- ered a classroom of Bethany stud- ents. He told how the meaning of philosophy varied through the cen- turies. To the Era of Authority in the twelfth to sixteenth centuries It was logic; to the Era of Reason in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries it v as following the boundless fai ' h in reason that came in at the Renaissance, and a like boundless belief in the individual man as a moral, econom ' c, and polit- ical unit which cam; in with the Reformation and the discovery of the New World. To the Era of His- tory, the nineteenth century, it was meraphvrics, as demonstrated bv the idea wh ' ch was unfolded or realizing in evolut ' on. Later he ;ai d, The fash ' onable modes of thought of the moment are Neo-Kant-. .n relativism, Marxian economic determinism, Freudian psychological realism, and Einstein- ian relativist phenomenalism. PAGE THIRTEEN NOVEMBER. 1940 uilh Willkic hoos cr jaiii Short at Bocttcbir ' i nniiiuv polit cat open Imitsc h.-jurc election. ,v, ' if ' ' ' 1 ' ' ' ' 1° ' ' ■ ' ■■ • ' ' ■ ' I I ' crt W. Traubcrl, caml.datc for sheriff, fames W. PauH.canJ.date for state senator and Dean B. R. Wehner. candidate for school hoard, at Democrats rally at Masonic Temple Cielnber yn. All were elected. Bottom — Election night uatch part-, at the Heit;hts. PAGE FOURTEEN SURVEY ANALYZING OUR POLITICAL MOODS In an attempt to gain some sort of a cross section of student know- ledge and opinion on political mat- ters, Dr. Woolery ' s political science class has set up a program of ques- tionnaires designed to allow the student to express himself and yet keep the results specific enough to be tabulated. Indicating that the idea of such a questionnaire is of value, it is interesting to note that Dr. Woolery has received numerous requests not only for the results of the questionnaires, but also for the questionnaires themselves from numerous professors in this field in other colleges. If such a survey could be carried out in a great num- ber of colleges and the results tabu- lated, they would be a fine index of college student ' s awareness and con- ception of the political life of the United States. These inquiries, nine in number, will be circulated among the stud- ent body from time to time through- out the school year. To date, two have already been presented, on The President and The Con- gress. Upon tallying the inquiries it was found that, while in one or two cases there was an overwhelm- ing yes or no answer, as a gen- eral rule there was a rather close di- vision of opinion indicating diver- sity of opinion and also that the in- quiries would need to be carried out on a much larger scale to show any definite conclusions. Further topics to be considered and placed before the student body are Democracy, Rights of the People, The Constitution, Suff- rage, Government and Business, Government and Labor and Totalitarianism. Each topic is assigned to a committee of two to draw up the original propositions. It is then passed to a committee of four for revision and addition or omission and finally is presented to the class for the final draft. The cooperation of the student body, to the extent of treating these inquir- ies seriously, will result in data in- valuable to workers in the political science field with resulting benefits to students themselves. Almost forgotten in the last presi- dential campaign was the question of governmental efficiency in regu- lating and controlling private busi- ness. NOVEMBER. 1940 I.R.C. DELEGATES PESSIMISTIC Milton Parker, Donald Regier and Bert Decker, Bethany ' s delegates to the International Relations Clubs convention held at Murray College, Murray, Kentucky, November 16 and 17, were impressed by the awareness of the rest of the dele- gates to the trend of the times. The trio got the impression of Young America not only vitally interest- ed and concerned with what was happening to their world, but eager to serve and save their democracy. Delegates, from a score of colleges in Kentucky, Ohio and West Vir- ginia, grimly admitted being aware of forces that are dragging us to war. Mournfully they discussed the suppression of civil liberties, and th e crumbling of our principles of de- mocracy. They could see no reason for the United States going to war, were convinced that Hitier could not invade us, and realized that for the YanKs to go over there to save democracy would mean taking democracy away from us here. The delegates discussed the failure of democracy in Europe after the first world war and came to the conclu- sion that we could not force demo- cracy down Europe ' s throat even if we did go over and defeat Hitler. When Mr. Clyde Eagleton of New York spoke to the delegates, telling them Hitler did not need to invade us, that he could ruin us economically, one of the delegates declared that our foreign trade which is only eight percent of our entire trade is not worth the b.Uions of dollars and the millions of lives it would take to retain it by war- fare. Home at Bethany, the three dele- gates reported that little can be done to keep United States out of war. But depression that will follow war and the social indignation caused by the depression may provoke re- forms that will forever eliminate war. This is the third year Bethany has sent delegates to a national con- ference, which is sponsored by the Carnegie Endowment for Interna- tional Peace. Eight years ago Dr. Woolery, head of the political sci- ence department, brought I.R.C. to the campus. Since then its influ- ence has spread. With the books that the club receives from the Car- Continued on Page 18 Visit us — Betty Coed and Joe College KEYSTONE SHOE STORE 98 7th St., Wellsburg, W. Va. SEE US when in need of Wallpapers, Paints, Artists Sup- plies and Display Material THE SHERW IN-WILLIAMS PAINT COMPANY 1018-20 Market Street Phone 4044 Wheeling W. L. CHAMBERS Furnishes Food for Your Table See JAKE and DICK at THE VALLEY PRESS Home of Good Printing — Phone 6401 — WELLSBURG, W. VA. WHEN YOU BUILD SEE ROBERT SCOTT LUMBER COMPANY WELLSBURG, W. VA. Conn Band Instruments Steinway Pianos Hammond Organs C. A. HOUSE CO. WHEELING, W. VA. Ziegent ' elder ' s Ice Cream Different from Others Served at THE COLLEGE INN Compliments of TRAUBERT BAKERY Dance Programs Announcements Stationery Representatives on the Campus John Costanza Wayne Burdue CARNEGIE UNION PRINTING COMPANY CARNEGIE, PENNA. Headquarters for SMARTER COLLEGE WARDROBES tnu Sc Shnmas West Virginia ' s Largest Department Store MAIN STREET WHEELING, W. VA. PAGE FIFTEEN NOVEMBER. 1940 giiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiminiiiiiiiiiiiiinmiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiim iiiiiiiinniiiiiiiiii I DUSTING BETHANY ' S FILES | I BETHANY ' S MUCH LOVED PRESIDENT | E Perhaps the best loved of all presidents of Bethany | g College was Archibald McLean, fourth president. Mr. J M McLean had attended Bethany as a student and after 1 B graduating with honors he became the minister of the | M Christian Church of Mt. Healthy, a suburb of Cincin- J I nati. After a successful ministry of ten years, he ac- M M cepted a position as corresponding secretary of the J m Foreign Christian Missionary Society. B M In his new work, as secretary Mr. McLean traveled g I extensively, visiting colleges and churches, preaching to ( g them the missionary message. At various times he M = visited Bethany as a chapel speaker and as a visiting a B minister at the Bethany Church. Always he was re- M m ceived with acclaim by the students. Once a Bethanian M g always a Bethanian was the motto Mr. McLean lived M ■ by. At a banquet once in refering to Queen Elizabeth ' s | M declaration that if her heart were opened, Calais B J would be found written in its center, he said, If my B m own heart were opened, ' Bethany ' would be found g ■ there. H m Mr. McLean had served as a trustee of the college for g g several years, when President W. H. Woolery contacted J g typhoid fever and died within a few days. When asked g B to take the presidency, Mr. McLean did so to meet the B g emergency. However, he did not resign the secretary- B B ship of the Missionary Society as he planned to return a B to it as soon as the trustees of the college should appoint B = another man to the presidency. So pleased were the = I trustees with Mr. McLean ' s executive ability and his m I spontaneous popularity with the students that they jjer- m B suaded him to remain on as the administrative officer. B B So he did for two years. From contacts with him in re- ■ I gular chapel services and classroom lectures, the student B g body came to look to him as the leader, the captain B B whom they would follow. B I In two years the weight of the presidency and the B B secretaryship became too much for Mr. McLean so he I B felt bound to resign one of his positions. After much 1 I consideration, and over the vehement protests of the 1 B students he resigned from his college position. B I So great was the students ' love and devotion to Mr. ■ I McLean that when he came back to visit Bethany a few 1 J years later, they declared a holiday. They rounded up 1 I the horses in the surrounding community and rode 1 I down the Bethany pike — a mounted escort — to greet 1 m their ex-president. B I This is the greatest display of respect and loyalty and | J devotion ever recorded of a Bethany student body 1 B towards one of its leaders. B I THE OWL PRINT SHOP The best is none too good for you. Stationery Dance Programs MARKET ST. WHEELING Electrical Wiring Supplies Lighting Fixtures — Appliances Tools — Lamps — Radios SANDS ELECTRIC CO. 52 Eighteenth Street Phone 146 WHEELING, W. VA. WEISBERGER ' S WELLSBURG, W. VA. [Ill Eliassen, after serving as chairman of the Visual Section at the state convention in Huntington early this head the important Visual Educa- month, was elected president. tlon Section of the West Virginia Also at the state meet were Dean State Educational Association. Dr. Weimer and Miss Sparks. PAGE SIXTEEN ELIASSEN HEADS VISUAL EDUCATION For the next year Dr. Eliassen wl Laundry — Dry Cleaning Deliveries Twice Weekly BUTTES LAUNDRY CO. STEUBENVILLE ROBERT RAWSTHORNE COMPANY Bethanian Engravers Heeren Bldg. Pittsburgh, Pa. We Believe in BETHANY COLLEGE Manufacturers of Eagle Oilers Eagle Manufacturing Co. WELLSBURG, W. VA. NOVEMBER, 1940 ANOTHER PLAY CAST From the light comedy of YCTI- WY, Bethespians creep over into the shady realm of mystery when they present Elizabeth McFadden ' s three act Double Door December 7. In the cast of this second major production this year are Tom Com- mitte, Rip Van Bret; Anna Laura Burke, Louise, the maid; EUnore Hetherington, Anne Darrow; Jan- ice Purdum, Victoria Van Bret; Morrison Ratcliffe, Mr. Chase; Don Rosensteele, Dr. John Sully; Dale Sowers, Telson, the butler; Eleanor Waterhouse, Caroline Van Bret; Jane Williamson, Avery, housekeep- er. CONVERSATION I Jo not care what you prefer For breakfast, lunch, or dinner, Or what the various diets were, That made you stout or thinner; Nor, speaking frankly — do 1 care — What is your rising hour, Nor what you weigh in tinderiiear. Or if you take a shower; And sometimes, ofte?t, I opine This line of talk I spill you About the habits that are mine Does not exactly thrill you. Were all this personal blither cut — ■ A major operation — - Life would be much less boring. But — We ' d hare no conversation. — Jane Campbell Bethanian Covers Furnished by The S. K. Smith Company Chicago, 111. MORE EARS FOR CLASSICAL MUSIC Continued from Page 1 1 home of Professor Rush Carter. Informality of this Concert Club may be illustrated by its floating membership and its lack of officers. Every musically-minded Bethanian is considered a member. The plans for the future, as they were worked out by the executive committee of Jane Douglass, Mar- jorie Finney, and Tom Grimm, in- ciude listening to the Saturday af- ternoon opera on the radio, attend- ing as many of the concerts in Wheeling, Pittsburgh, and other nearby cities as possible, taking charge of some of the Sunday even- ing recitals at Phillips Hall, and presenting more recorded programs at Phillips Hall, Gateway, and oth- er campus residences. Interest shown in this type of music by the new club may be an md, cation of a gradual drop in pop- ularity of swing and jazz music. FUNK ' S FLOWERS HOME GROWN ' Your favorite My specialty Corsages Cut Flowers Plants Gifts Flowers telegraphed Phone Wells ' burg 24311 . Phillips Hall Uses FORT HENRY MEATS Supplied by THE WEIMER PACKING COMPANY WHEELING, W. VA. SIGNS anfi TABI.KTS RUBBER STAMPS. SEAI..S STENCILS BADGES TIME STAMPS tvt ' WHEELING STAMP k STENCIL CO. 37-nTHST. WHEELING. W.VA. Photograph Supplies RAV LING ' S OPTICIANS, INC. 62 Twelfth Street WHEELING, W. VA. GEO. R. TAYLOR CO. WHEELING, W. VA. Fashions for Juniors Misses and Women Trimble Lutz Supply Co. Distributors of Plumbing, Heating, Industrial and Janitor Supplies for Home, Office, School annd Factory Wheeling, W. Va. Whg. 5060 Importing the Best for Bethany Wheeling Coffee and Spice Co. WHEELING, W. VA. Compliments of WELLSBURG BANKING AND TRUST COMPANY PAGE SEVENTEEN NOVEMBER. 1940 ditoti Jleiteti Dear Editor: The Bcthanian is particularly pleasing to mc because of its departmentalized make-up and its Timcsquc ' writing. One of our troubles with the Bcthanian in the past h.is been its lack of flexibility and organization of material. You have overcome that diffi- culty nicely. Your pictures are good except for :1 - posed one on page 12- Any one kntwj that a photographer would never happen on a nice girl like Miriam Cox sitting with a guy iike Decker. And as for Miss Landi looking so interested in him. all I can say is we must remember - he is an actress of some ability. I am glad to see Bethany is going in for poetry and May Sarton- Speaking of writers. I thought I was going to take a course here from Sinclair Lewis, but he got tired of playing professor and quit- From his one lecture I heard I would say he probably r.in out of lecture material and decided it was easier to write a novel on the shallowness of American colleges- Sincerely yours. Kenneth Under wood- Notv. Ahoii- connntiit on the Octulnr issue of BETHANIAN comes from Uadt- son, Wise, uhcrc Mr. IJndcruooil is study- ing on a scholarship in the School of Jour- nalism of U- of Wisconsin. Ken edited the BETIIANhW uhcn if metamorphosed from an annual into a monthly magazine iiio years ago- Dear Editor: I wish to speak as a reader, not as the Journalism major that I am. or as any other type of person- I would like to suggest that you change the policy of your magazine- I realize that this is a drastic step, an unprecedented step, but I feel that this would be for the good of the student body, the faculty, and all readers of the Bcthan- ian- I want to suggest that the editor change the policy to one of humor- Humor! HUMOR! In this troubled and morbid world of to- day, we need humor, and more humor- Pick up a newspaper and what do you see? WAR! MURDER! KIDNAPPING! Why not give us a change? We don ' t want seri- ous articles, we don ' t need them. What we want and do need is HUMOR! Signed, Dear Editor; I would like to renew a suggestion I made some time ago when you were connected with the Bethany Beacon, concerning the establishment of Sunday evening musical programs- Perhaps the students and the music department could offer us a Sunday evening concert of light music- Surely there is enough talent on the campus so that a weekly informal gathering in the chapel would not overburden merely a select few. and certainly the presence of musical talent in our faculty members should not blush unseen. These gather- ings would preferably be not examples nor attempts to demonstrate outstanding musical ability but rather just meetings of those who enjoy music for its own sake- Yours truly. Martin Reiter IRC. DELEGATES PESSIMISTIC ( Continued from page fifteen) negie Institute, a shelf has been started in the hbrary. Here can be found reports from the Foreign Policy Association, Summary of In- ternational Events, and books like Bisson ' s Policy in the Far East. On the first and third Mondays of the month the I.R.C. meets at Cochran Hall at V-AS to quibble over current happenings. Pleased with the largest membership in re- cent years. President William Laird says: With a kirge percentage of social science majors from the two upper classes enrolled in I.R.C. and the usual number of freshmen and Sophomores interested in foreign affairs, the club hopes to present an instructive, educational, and practi- cal program this year. INTERMURALS REGROUPED Outstanding feature of the new professional league intermural basketball groupings is that the set- up preserves the competitive spirit, yet it cuts down the bitter feeling that occasslonally arises between in- dividual players during interfrater- nity games. Inaugurated to extend the inter- mural program, the league consists of teams of men playing together because they have the same academic majors. Thus is provided an oppor- tunity for students with common mterests to play side by side, where previously acquaintanceship had been kept on a casual basis by the closely knit fraternity groupings. Site of the games is the new out- door basketball court. Together with the present interfraternity system, intermural basketball will have both an indoor and outdoor league. Success of the profession teams lies entirely in the wilLngness of the players to rechannel competitive spirit away from fraternities and still getting satisfaction from the game. MENTAL CROSSROADS Thh h only a little crossroads, There are only three ways to go, Yet I stand undecided. If this were the hub of a thousand crossroads, What chance would I have to know? — Balmord D. M. Barnharc What! No polo? PAGE EIGHTEEN NOVf;Miii;R. 94i) Compliments of B. 0. CRESAP SONS Building Materials WELLSBURG, W. VA. FRATERNITY and SORORITY FASHION CENTER WHITE WET WASH LAUNDRY J. L. Halter, Prop. dltotlal ZAMSKY STUDIOS The BETHANIAN PHOTOGRAPHER Portraits of Distinction STANDARD PRINTING PUBLISHING CO. Everything for the Office PRINTING - ENGRAVING Lithographing - Office Furniture Machines, Equipment Supplies 910-914 Fifth Avenue HUNTINGTON, W. VA. The Student ' s Store L. S. GOOD CO. WHEELING, W. VA. On the first day of November Lyle Mayne, president of the Stud- ent Board of Governors, spoke on the problems of student governing at Bethany. He spoke of the lack of true administration cooperation brought . ' ibout in part by the stud- ent refusal or inability to participate with responsibility in student gov- ernment. Mayne ' s speech was an effective one, and it was unusually well re- ceived by the students. The present SBOG president is not a defeatist, certainly, and intends to extend the provinces of student government as far as it is reasonable. But what are these provinces? And what does the SBOG define as its peculiar duties? There are several loyalties facing the students. One is to themselves — the student body; the other is to the whole college. Those two loyalties are often hard to reconcile, but they are both important. With a governing board consist- ing of students elected each year, there is a quick turn-over of per- sonnel. With such a quick turn- over and with the large percentage of new members each year, the board has been unable to c o much of real constructive work. The board seems to have been limited in its perspective to budget problems. The constitution of the board has also been limited in its concept, for it is concerned mainly with a mech- anical construction of a working board and has not dealt with the social significances of the SBOG. The constitution does not say what the board is to do beyond discuss- mg problems. Yet we can only conjecture on wh ' the board is not a dynamic force of leadership in the student body. Part of the reason may be as Mayne says, the lack of responsi- bility on the part of the students. But after all, the students cannot act as a unit — that is why they elect a board. What the board is de- termined to do, we feel it can do. With Lyle publicly stating his be- lief in the potentialities of the SBOG as a true democratic force in the college, we watch the actions of the board with interest. GEO. E. STIFEL CO. Wheeling ' s Friendly Store Drink IN BOTTLES Try JEM-POLISH .JEM-WAX And don ' t forget We do Long Distance Moving J. E. MILLER TRANSFER AND STORAGE CO. WHEELING. W. VA. PHOTO ENGRAVERS LITHOGRAPHERS JOB PRINTING WHEELING NEWS LITHOGRAPHING CO. 1.5th at Main Street WHEELING, W. VA. BETHANY COLLEGE BOOK STORE for your COLLEGE BOOKS and SUPPLIES Lower Corridor Try it— BLAKE ' S ICE CREAM Unexcelled 96 Sixteenth Street Phone 1746 WHEELING, W. VA. ' FOR WONDERFUL FOOD ' ACKER ' S In Wheeling- 1220 Market Street PAGE NINETEEN HIS ISSUE ' :k«(WB)JSiC«g S lK. ' SSS Saii att i Mi-f J( I!2i a£ «i %. i i DECEMBER. 1940 One Atinuie Jlectuta outie Any itiiJciit ulth two yean of cullcgc Spanhh should hair no trouble gctthig aloiin in Latin American countries. Dr. Graham explaining the practicality of Span- ish courses. The time iiill come uhen bal- ancinj!, the luid}:.et will he as impor- tant as hiilancini; a tea cup. Pro- fessor Roberts, lecturing to Fresh- man Orientation class. stone sphinx could think, I uonder what they would think of the speeding mechanized caraians fighting across the Egyptian Des- ert. Dr. Gray, commenting on the British roue of the Italian forces in North Africa. Son:e people are so hroadminded that they arc flat. Dr. Leitch lec- turins to Freshman Orientation class. The present war is betxceen rival empires, not between democracy and dictatorship. Dr. Woolery, tossing current history at chapel- goers. Democracy in France lay gagg- ed and bound long before the war u th German) broke. Pierre Van P. ' assen, speaking on Crisis in Western Civilization, at Wheel- ing, November 2 5. Wat L-h Your Minutes Expei ■t Watcli and Clock Repairing-. Will call for and deliver PHILIP R. BAUM Phone Bethany 6:00 P. 2031 after M. THIS MONTH ' S PICTURES ON THE COVER Hopeful that a Christmas snow will blanket the campus by the tmic the December issue reaches readers, Bethanian catches winter fluffy and white, on the branches of the ever- greens at the right of the entrance to Main Building. Page three — Bethanian Page four — All photos by Dave Huntsberger Page five and 6 — All photos by Dave Huntsberger Page seven — Illustration by John Topping Page ten and eleven — All photos by Stanlcv Brown Page twelve — Stanley Brown Page fourteen — Dave Huntsberger and Irwin Shlansky Page fifteen — Stanley Brown (on location) . Page fifteen — Irwin Shlansky ( Horton ) Page sixteen — Irwin Shlansky Page seventeen — Bethanian MOVIES January 10 — City of Conquest January 17 — Knute Rockne January 24 — Dispatch from Reut- ers Januar) ' 31 — Tugboat Annie Sails Again When any student can out hol- ler me at a basketball game, I will stop talking about the greatness of Alexander Campbell. Professor Green when twitted about his loud cheering spirit. Content 5 One Minute Lecture ( Course 2 ) Movies 2 Woman ' s Medical School 3 Co-eds Have Charms 4 Behind the Scenes 5 Pulp Story 7 Why College 9 Sorority of the Month , . 10 News Perspective Bethany is Primarily . . . 12 Athletic Fronts 13 Theatre 1 Visitors on the Campus 1 5 Publications 16 Opinions on the Campus 17 Features Interesting Bethanian 16 Dusting Bethany ' s Files 19 Editor ' s Letters 20 Poetry Come On, Sucker! 16 Sund.iy Walk 18 Abnormal People 19 Hildegarde 21 Editorial 21 EDITOR; John Costanza ' 42 BUSINESS MANAGER: Wayne Burdue ' 41 EDITORIAL BOARD: Bert Decker ' 41, William Rutter ' 41, Myfan- wy Strain ' 41 CONTRIBUTORS: Lewis Deer ' 43, Marjorie Finney ' 42, Sanford Steinman ' 43, John Topping ' 42, Phvllis Hendrickscn ' 44, Irene Jassen ' 44, Bernice Monczynski ' 44, Arthur Beard ' 44, William Young ' 44, Dean Counselman ' 44, Betsy Ann Plank ' 44 BUSINESS ASSISTANTS: George Sitock ' 43, Jack Baumgartner ' 44 Evelyn Baxter ' 43, Marjorie Hunter ' 44, Mariah Smith ' 43 Bctl:)autuii. a magazine of features and photographs, pub- class matter on January 14. 1920. at the Post OfSce at Bethany, lished each month from October through May by the Student W- Va-. under the Act of March 1. 1879- Subscription price: Board of Publications of Bethany College- Entered as second Four dollars the year- Volume XXXII. Number 2- PAGE TWO DECEMBER. 1940 Woman ' s Medical School By Car(Ahic Butchlw EDITOR ' S NOTE: Miss Caroline Biitcbko. whu gradualcJ from Bi-thany last sliriiig, is now stuilying mcJiciiu- on a siholar- ship at Woman ' s Medical College, PhilaJelfhia. During her junior year at B.tl-any Miss Butchko was named the outstanding junior woman In our class at Woman ' s Medical College of Pennsylvania, which was the first college in the world regularly organized for the medical education of women, there are forty-one young women intent on becoming physicians. In the school are one hundred sixteen girls who have come to Philadelphia from many parts of the United States and other parts of the world as Japan, Puerto Rico, Hawaii, and Germany. Our first year of work, as that of all medical schools of which I know, is de- signed to make the h u m a n body as under- standable as possible, trans- parent , as the head of our an- atomy depart- ment. Dr. Hartwig Kuhl- enbeck, expressed it. To this end, we study anatomy in as many ways as possible; first, ac- cording to the curriculum, we have gross ana- tomy. Here, by actual dissection, we see as much anatomy as our skill, theoretical prepar- ation, the assistance of three excellent instruct- ors, and two hundred sixty laboratory hours, will permit. We have regular lectures as we go along in which the essential features of the part we are dissecting are enumerated and sig- nificant developments and applications are dis- cussed. Then, we also have microscopic anatomy so that we can find out what this muscle or that nerve we saw durmg dissection really is or once was, for in this category we study embryology as well as histology. Later in the year we will delve into some neuro-anatomy. However, I do not want to give the impression that we skip from one course to another. The import- ant point is that we do study anatomy and I MISS CAROLINK BUTCHKO have not yet ceased to marvel at the excellent correlation and perspective which exists throughout the department. I might mention that in our study of em- bryology we use Arey ' s Developmental Ana- tomy , which was our text for that course at Bethany so that I find my college background especially illuminating in this respect. I should say something about our bone study. This is always a source of great amuse- ment to the upperclassmen for on the first day or perhaps the next of anatomy lab, each freshman or a pair in some cases, get a box of bones from the lab. Each week thereafter for a while and sometimes twice a week until about Christmas vacation the Freshman medical student is answerable with the other three of her dissection group during a fifteen minute practical for the significant features of the bones assigned. So to all pre-meds, I say heartily, When Dr. Weimer passes a vertebra or perhaps a right femur your way in comparative class, really look at it, for you will undoubtedly meet one again. But so much for anatomy except that all this has meaning only as each of us is able to bridge the deep gap from the inert to the living and apply always what we see and study to our growing conception of a living person. To further help us do this and understand what the body really is, how it functions, and how things affect it, we study physiological chemistry for two trimesters and start physio- logy the last trimester. In the former, with which e have already had experience, a firm background in chemistry is invaluable for the field is so vast and so increasingly important and the course so comprehensive that i t is real- ly a hindrance to have to stop to check upon fundamentals which should have been master- ed in previous days. I might include a bit of wisdom or such that I have accumulated during my months at med- ical school. By simulating the profundity of the Chinese, I could formulate a proverb that might express it: Thorough background in basic pre- med courses makes happy and fruitful the freshman year in medical school! I do not think this can be stressed enough (Continued on Page 19) PAGE THREE DECEMBER. 1940 Co-eds Have Charms By jane WiUiamion W akf i ii ' Ul ' s jt ' uclry i tiiil t rifle ciir rulfiiS, Mtiyfu i Siititly , iiovy ilfp hirr i. Bitty Slwdlc ' s safety pnn. Bethany co-eds manage to dig up e)dd pieces little shops around the corner that you can of jewelr) ' that would bring a gleam of intoxi- never fmd. cation into the eyes of an ancient medicine Unusual bracelet and necklace set is the „ c i:  u JUL one which Judy Wakefield wears. She made it man. bome or the curios are made by the j- ■ i i n i . , _ ,. , . out or cartridge shells — empty ones, we hope, girls, borne are discovered in pawn shops (you t • a c t.- t i ' It IS a wondertul thing it you can make your can even find fraternity pins there) or in those (Continued on Page 20) Annilhic Riwriu ha- a ma,7 -sl,jnxl,-J x„l,l , l.urm horn Euroj c AInr Dailuh ca„ fill l„r ring uilh pohoii. The author like Sflter fi h on a chain. PAGE FOUR Behind the LENSMAN HUNTSBERGER INVESTIGATES COLLEGE MACHINERY If she ' d a let go, there wouldn ' t ' ave been a window left in Bethany and I wouldn ' t be telling you about it now, said Mr. Bob Buchannon reminiscing about his experiences working in the heating plant that keeps all the students comfortably warm during the winter months. He was referring to the time, several years back, when during a very cold season the steam pressure was up around a hundred pounds and someone turned off the valve on the hill causing all of the pressure to back up in the boil- ers. They were shakin ' like they were going to tear themselves loose and I had to go up on top to let off the safety valve, he continued. But see this chain, well we can let her off from down here now. Some 5 5-60 thousand bushels of coal are used every season, or 150 to 600 tons a month depending on the weather. The boilers, two of them, deliver 3 50 horse- power apiece, hold 3 5 00 gallon of water. Every day 2,000 gallons are lost on the hill, a great percentage in escaping steam. 1,000,000 gallons of water every four days passes through the pumps at the pumping station, to make that water us- able and safe it requires an addition of 12 pounds of liquid chlorine, 380 pounds of soda ash, and 210 pounds of filter alum. The plant is almost entirely auto- matic, the operator is needed only for daily tests of the water and to see that everything is functioning smoothly. The chemicals added to the water serve three purposes: Chlorine has a Top — Coal goes into the stoker to heat the eolle, e- MiJille — Th:s powerful pump drives steam through the pipes. Bottom — SoJa ash helps purify the water. DECEMBER. 1940 Behind the Scenes (Continued from Page 5) During the winter it is not used unless the weather is particularly cold. Then it helps to heat the hall. It ' s greatest activity is during spring and fall. germicid.il effect, soda ash softens the water and controls its acidity. The alum removes mud that may be suspended as tiny particles in the water. The filter tank contains sand which removes the bacteria as the water seeps through. For added safety, the filter is washed every day. Almost lost among the myriad pipes and valves of the steam room across the hall from Professor Carter ' s studio is Old faithful , the motor generator set that is on a pension since the advent of the new motion picture equip- ment, since the new machines supply their own direct current. Old Faithful need now do nothing more than light an occasional spot- light for the stage or supply a little juice for the physics labs. With the approaching loss of the Hilger El spectrograph, the demand will be even less, however if need be the old five kilowatt generator can still give out. Tlie girls in Phillips Hall take the machines for granted, never giving them a thought, but if they were to go bad the co-eds would soon feel the effects. Machines keep the milk cold, preserve the food, give ice water, and even dry dresses and this and that. The ice plant, located in the hall, has several functions. It cools the drinking water for resi- dents, controls the temperature of three large storage rooms and manufactures ice used in the kitchen and in the organic chemistry lab- oratories. The plant uses liquid ammonia as a cooling agent and forces the vapors through the pipes at a pressure of about 150 pound. In actual ice production amounts to about half a ton a day. The hall also contains a small steam plant of it ' s own upon which the kitchen must rely when the heating plant is not in operation. Tot ' — ' ' ' ' hack roiiiid h a fil ir Ijiik- The luli c controls the llou- in the jnpc leading into the tank- Middle — Mr. Hauley ibiits off the lahe in the sliecial Phillifis Hall steam plant- Bottom — This motor-nencrator can supply cnrrent for the physics labora- tories. PAGE SIX DECEMBER. 1946 !Pufp of the Tlfonth A PRESENT for T. N. T. By Hare Huntibergcr Nick Thompson looked out upon a grey void of thick, clinging fog and hoped that it would get thicker, thick enough to make visibility zero, but he knew it wouldn ' t. Hadn ' t Terhill, the meterologist, said the skies would be clear before midnight, and wasn ' t the old boy al- ways right? Thompson glanced at his watch, then returned his eyes to the fog. It was 10:30, should be clearing up soon; yes, it was. Even as he watched it thinned. The rising wind was whipping the fog to shreds, anoth- er half hour and it would be clear. Somewhere outside a starter whined shril- ly, a motor coughed, sputtered, sprang into roaring life, another, still another. The room was throbbing with their roar; the staccato purr of fighters, the heavy deep-throated rumble of bombers; the call of machines to men who could unleash their power and send them hurtling through space like silver com- ets. The machines were ready and eager. Thompson turned and surveyed the men in the room with him. Tense, pale faces, strain- ed in the shaded lights, stared back at him. He knew what went on behind those pale masks and burning eyes, knew too well what they were thinking. Well, come on Nick Thompson, tough Nick Thompson, they were thinking, this is your Christmas party, let ' s get started, let ' s deliver your Christmas presents and get it over with. That was the hell of it. They blamed him, because he was the squadron leader, blamed him for orders he relayed from higher up. This wasn ' t his idea of a pleasant way to spend Christmas Eve, but H.Q. had said to de- liver, so deliver he must. Presents for across the water. God, what gifts. He could see them now, nesting under the wings of the planes, could see them dropping off and down, bring- ing not happiness or even tears to the recip- ients — only oblivion. Smile , he said, don ' t tell them you hate it as much as they do. You can ' t tell them that Tough Nick would rather let the people sit around the fire by a lighted tree and laugh and be happy, than crouch huddled together, tight lipped, waiting for blasting death in steel containers. You can ' t let them know you have a heart. Nick smiled, a crooked, hard, humorless smile O.K., boys, he growled, let ' s go. He turned and stepped into the cold night air. As he strolled down the line of waiting planes, young Tommy Milford, his bomber- gunner, fell into step with him. Young Tom- my should be at the university, laughing, be- ing a young fool, but here he was growing pre- maturely old, fighting, killing. They reached the plane. Tommy started to mount the wing but turned back abruptly: Damn it. Captain, he rasped, don ' t send us over tonight. It ' s hard enough any night but Christmas Eve . Shut up kid, Nick snapped, We ' ve got our orders and we ' ll carry them out or die in the attempt. This is war, not a Sunday Social. It ' s no place for softies. Get in that crate. Orders, orders, the kid shrilled, a hyster- cial note creeping into his voice, always or- ders. Go out and kill. Blow them to bits. You don ' t care, you love it, you damned butcher, you . Insane laughter bubbled in his throat, but it never came out. He reeled PAGE SEVEN DECEMBER. 1940 against the side of the plane, his face stinging from a quick, sharp slap. Get into that plane or I ' ll pound you to bits. Tommy, pale, angry, but with his senses returned, crawled silently into the rear cock- pit. Nick stepped in forward, closed the cover, adjusted the phones and microphone of his two way radio. All set? he barked. Ready , came the reply from each plane on the line. Let ' em go. Down the runway they went, one after the other springing into the air, circling once, then darting eastward. High in the cold, clear, night air, engines purring smoothly, swiftly winging his way over the wind tossed channel, Nick flew auto- matically. Thoughts chased one another and played leap frog in his brain. Thirty minutes more they would be over the little town nest- ling under the hills. A little town, with little people, not soldiers, but laborers, women, children, w hose only crime was working in or living near, his objective, the armament plant. Sure, the plant was his objective but you can ' t tell a bomb to hit where you want it to. You just let ' em go and they fall where they will. The kid probably hated him, all the men did. He was tough Nick Thompson, the heart- less killler, who killed for pleasure. He de- served it. By all standards he was tough. He ran his outfit with an iron hand literally and figuratively. He didn ' t drink to keep his nerves up, he didn ' t have nerves, that ' s what they thought. They heard that he had joined the R.A.F. because a man he ' d fought with in the states had died. The man had died, but who would believe that it was a weak heart and not Nick Thompson ' s strong arm that did It? No one. He had done a lot of fighting over here and had a lot of medals to show for it. He had fought against odds and won, because he was tough. Christmas Eve, how he wished that he had a family to spend it with, someone to give a present to. How would it feel to receive a present from someone. He had forgotten it was such a long time. ' A blast rocked the plane. He snapped off his thoughts and became a machine, part of the plane. They were over the continent now and anti-aircraft units were cutting loose. Lights weaved across the sky searching for the plane. Shell  burst filled the air but he gave them no thought, merely began to weave back and forth across the sky, his squadron follow- ing. The battery was left behind, but there would be more many more. Sometimes they got a ship; more often they didn ' t. The ene- mys pursuits were more to be feared. They were fast and deadly and there would be a lot of them. Some of the boys wouldn ' t be at mess tomorrow. They would eat Christmas dinner in Hell. By God, they won ' t, Nick shouted. He graibbed his mike. Turn back, he said, still shouting, we ' re not messing up any parties tonight and if H.Q. doesn ' t like it they can lay their own eggs. Turning swiftly the flight sped back the way it had come. When the plane stopped rolling Nick just sat. He saw the men waiting and was afraid to face them. But, blast it, he couldn ' t sit there all night. Slowly he climbed down and turned to meet them. He could read many things in their faces, and it embarassed him. He had to say something but his tongue wouldn ' t function. He turned on his heel and strode to his quarters. Not long after Tommy entered without knocking. He was ill at ease but Nick couldn ' t bring himself to help him out. Both stared silently at the other. Nick, blurted Tommy, the fellows asked me to thank you and to tell you that if you get in trouble with H.Q. they ' ll back any rea- son you give and they want me to ask if you ' ll come to a little party over in the barracks and they want me to give you this. He thrust a small package into Nick ' s hand and bolted out the door. Slowly, with trembling fingers Nick untied the package. It held a wrist watch but more, it held a card. He held it to the light. For T.N.T., the softest tough guy in the world, from his boys. By damn, I ' ll show ' em whether I ' m tough or not. But he waited till his eyes were dry. PAGE EIGHT DECEMBER. 1940 Why College? A Parent of a Bethany College Student Here Tells What He Hopes a College Education Will Give His Children ' Hector, with the premonition that the day would witness his death, stood by the walls of Troy, raised his son in his arms and prayed to the only gods he knew, May men say, ' He is a greater man than his father was. ' Marjorie K. Rawlings in The Yearling put this age- old parent wish in a somewhat different and more homely form. In the last chapter of her recent best-seller, the father, broken in health and impoverished, tells his young son, in effect, A man don ' t want to see his kids git their guts tore out like his was. This wish on the part of parents, that their children may have greater opportunities, more ease and comfort, more happiness than they themselves enjoyed, has perhaps been one of the greatest factors in the steady increase in college enrollment in America. To make any statement as to the attitude of a parent toward the college, or as to his desires or expectations, would lead to a generalization which might be far from fact in individual cases. The educational background and exper- ience of the parent, his financial standing, his social attitude, the amount of sacrifice, if any, necessary to provide the college experience for his children are all conditioning factors. It is no doubt true that the most obvious reason for providing a college experience for a boy or girl is to better equip them for earn- ing a livelihood and to aid them in attaining financial success. Consciously or subconscious- ly the parent realizes that financial success should be translated into a higher standard of living. Again consciously or subconsciously, the parent realizes that man does not live by bread alone. Every physical side of life has its limitations. A man ' s physical stature is a thing over which he has little, if any, control. He can wear only one suit of clothes at a time. There are phy- sical limits to the gustatory delights of the epicure or gourmet. The parent expects or hopes that the college experience will provide the incentive and the ability to grow in other directions — mentally and spiritually. That along with the ability to earn a livelihood, there will be the ability to experience and ap- preciate those things which go to make up the cultural side of life. At a risk of too much generalization one might say that the parent hopes that the boy or the girl will be able and happy to know and appreciate the art of Raphael, Da Vinci, Goya, El Greco; of Verdi, Wagner, Bizet; of Mase- field, Keats or Sandburg; to be able, like the individual who, when asked, How can you live in Goshen? can reply, I do not live in Goshen. I eat there, I sleep there, sometimes I work there, but I live in Athens, where Plato taught, where Phidias carved, and Epictetus wrote. Each parent hopes that the college or uni- versity will help equip the boy or the girl to fill a position of responsibility and honor, or even more, to make a contribution to the bet- terment or welfare of mankind. CHRISTMAS SEALS Help fo Protect Your Home from Tuberculosis PAGE NINE DECKMBKR. I94CI ototltu o tke Montk ZETA TAU ALPHA PRl-X-i .)(_)A M; bLHOl 1 Tlieta Chapter of Zct.i T.iu w.is installed at Bethan ' College March 9, 1905. Since that time it has carried out on Bethany ' s campus the purpose of Zeta Tau Alpha which is the intensifying of friendship, the fostering of the spirit of love, the creating of such sentiments, the f erforming of such deeds, and the moulding of such opinions as will conduce to the building up of nobler and purer womanhood. The fraternity became a member of the National Panhellenic Congress in 1909, being the l.Uh to be admitted. At the present time there are 7 chapters in Zeta Tau Alpha. Active in administra- tive positions on the campus are Jean Short, president of the Associa- tion of Women Stu- dents, and Kate Anne Drake, Betty Murph -, Jane Land, and Esther Mackey on the board. Jean Short and Betty Murphy are representatives on the Student Board of Governors. Joanne Schott is a member of the Y. W. C. A. cabinet in the capacity of vespers chairman and Jane Lmn and Eleanor Throckmorton are freshman represen- tatives on the cabinet. Judy Wakefield is secretary of the Rifle Club and Jane Douglass is president of the Concert Club. Jane Land was recenth ' elected vice-president of the fresh- man class and Jennie Umbel was elected secretary. Faith Eidjmiller is the social chairman of Phillips Hall, and is also a representative on the Panhellenic Council. Zetas have been active in the drama groups on the campus thus far this year with Mary Louise Sesler and Joanne Schott as the female leads in the Homecoming Play You Can ' t Take k With You and Elinore Heth- erington in a leading role in the Bethespian plav Double D(X)r. There are various members of Zeta who belong to Bethespian and Virginia Wood is a member of Alpha Psi Omega honorary dramatic fraternity. Peggy Wallace writes the weekly column on Bethany campus life which appears in the Wheeling Sunday paper. Joanne Schott was elected Homecoming Queen in the fall. Dorothy Winfield is a member of Panhellenic Council and Joanne Schott is treasurer of the Council. Active supporters of the Bison football team were Zetas Jennie Umbel, first Bethany College drum majorette PAGE TEN ' Cherrie Armor, head cheerleader, and cheerleaders Irene Hutchison, Ruth Rial, Lois Linn, Bette Grace Love, Jane Walls, and Shirley Weatherwax. In the college choir are Zetas Kate Anna Drake, Betty Mclntyre, Jeanne Goodwin, Ruth Hutton, Jane Doug- lass, Peggy Flatley, Martha Kittle and Jane Mayers. Betty Murphy and Mary Louise Sesler had special honors conferred upon them by the Women ' s Association for outstanding scholarship. Jean Short recently received a special honor when she was named to Who ' s Who in American Colleges and Universities recently. Alumna Marybelle Carman is hostess at the Zeta house. Miss Carman contributes much to the lives of the girls and helps make Theta chapter a happier and more closely united organization. One of Theta ' s aims for the coming year is to live up to its ideals and to help create a closer intersorority feel- ing on the campus. Officers are: Joanne Schott, president; Grace Henkle, vice-president; Betty Murphy, treasurer; Margaret Stein, secretary; Betty Mclntyre, guard; Gladys Armor, social chairman; Dorothy Winfield, rushing chairman; Vir- ginia Wood, house manager; Kate Anna Drake, scholar- ship chairman; Jane Douglass, historian; Gwendolyn Borden, librarian; Irene Hutchison, song leader. ' Ida ofjiccrs .Mki ) )!. Sleiu. Scho I ,,n,l Uciiklc ,„iiu,l,r uciahty problftus. SINGERS AT TWILIGHT Sii!} to mc at twilight, O ye singers, Si}?g mc to sleep with your songs. Let we reiel in your songs, O singers. Let we forget nil  y wrongs. Giie we rest from sadness, O ye singers, Giie me the rest I desire, Bring mc peace and rest and sleep, O Singers, Sooth all my sorrow and ire. — Florence Nicholas CHRISTMAS SEALS Help to Protect Your Home from Tuberculosis DECEMBKR. 1940 ACTIVES Seniors Dorothy Win field Betty Jane Joliffc Jean Short Virginia Wood Juniors Sue Beth Archer Gladys Armor Gwendolyn Borden Ruth Halter Grace Henkle Betty Murphy Joanne Schott Margaret Stein Judy Wakefield Sophomores Marjorie Black more Betty Jo Burgess Jane Douglass Peggy Deibel Kate Anna Drake Faith Eidemiller Irene Hutchison Esther Mackey Betty Mclntyrc Dorothy Minor PLEDGES Gay Addleman Jean Belknap Grace Benedict Mary Virginia Bolton Marjorie Campbell Miriam Cox Peggy Flatley Jeanne Goodwin Patricia Harvey Elinore Hetherington Ruth Hutton Martha Kittle Jacqueline Knoblach Jane Land Jane Linn Lois Linn Jane Mayers Bette Grace Love Barbara Noel Ruth Rial Mary Louise Sesler Rosemary Stewart Eleanor Throckmorton Jeanne Styer Jennie Umbel Peggy Wallace Shirley Weatherwax Mary Jane Weir Jane Walls Nellie McIIvain MOTTO Seek the Noblest COLORS Turquoise blue and steel gray FLOWER White violet PUBLICATION Themis Top — SongleaJer Irene Ilutchnon draws melody uith ZTA Sweetheart song. Middle — This is how the Zetas respond to Hutch ' s direction. Bottom — Zeias gather informally around Joanne ' s desk- PAGE ELEVEN DECEMBER. 194U ' Sctk am b J timatllu ARE COLLEGE STUDENTS CRITICAL THINKERS? Tlic first report from tlie Coop- erative Experiment being conducted by twenty-one educational institu- tions of which Bethany is one, has reached the Bethany campus. Dr. l.ouis M. Hcil of Chicaijo Universi- IJR- LtiUls l. Hill ty gave three lectures to the Beth- any faculty, two on December 3, and one on December 4. Dr. Heil ' s reports were the results of the criti- cal thinking tests given last sprmg to the students of the twenty-one colleges. In the first lecture on Tuesda - Dr. Heil gave the aims and pur- poses of the tests, and stated that the tests were given in an attempt to determine where the students fell down in critic.il thinking, and how to correct their failings. He divided thinking into the three usual meth- ods; inductive critical thinking, de- ductive critical thinking, and criti- cal thinking in analyzing argument. From the test results. Dr. Heil claimed that most students go be- yond the data and judge a thing true or false without having suffi- cient evidence that it is either. He also said that they are apt to gener- alize too often from one detail. The techniques of constructing the tests were discussed in the second lecture by Dr. Hcil. In discussing this aspect of the testing Dr. Heil admitted that although the experi- menters had tried to be as scientific as possible, the principles upon which they based the tests were per- haps none too valid, that perhaps they too did not have sufficient data to judge critical thinking, that per- haps they, like the students, were fumbling in the dark. In the third lecture Dr. Heil dis- cussed the grading of the tests, and the faculty tried to compare their opinions of certain students ' critical thinking — or lack of it — with the results of those students ' tests. On asking members of the facul- t - for statements concerning the tests, the Bcthanian found many di- verse opinions. Some Professors thought it was good stuff . One professor said that mere knowledge of how to think critically was not enough, and that a method had to be devised to make critical thinking a habit with the student, It is a long way ' round to get at a little problem, remarked another profes- sor, It is difficult to teach students to think, but more difficut to find out if you did teach them to think, but good students learn to think critically in spite of our educational svstem, while bad ones do not no matter what we do. Another professor claimed that some students might do badly in the tests because they ai ' e not familiar with the terms. He went on to ex- plain how a farmer lad would most likely know more about the rotation of crops than a city boy would. Still another faculty member said, Too many variables, meaning that the tests could not be judged any too accurately as they were set up m merely the best way known. Another member of the faculty thought that the reports of Dr. Heil hinted that colleges have a tendency to teach tot) many facts and not enough techniques. Still another professor thought that the whole cooperative experiment was a waste of money. Two thousand dollars IS a lot of money to search for better te.iching methods, he said, when there are plenty of professors on Bethany ' s campus who know how, and who would improve their teach- ing methods if they only had finan- cial backing to improve them. He was refuted by a student who claim- ed that nothing ventured, nothing gained, and Bethany should be will- ing to sacrifice with the rest of the colleges in a persistant search for the truth. GERMAN TRANSLATORS The use of languages to a major in the field of chemistry is well shown by the work in translation from German to English that is be- ing done by three Bethany chem majors. The three, Hilda Sarver, Pete Johnson, and Irving Roche are enrolled in Professor McKenzie ' s advanced German course, where scientific German is studied. As a part of the course each student is required to do study of one subject completely. That is each must read a series of articles on different phases of the subject under consid- eration. Since all three are chem majors it is quite natural that Dr. Reynard should become interested in this study. So through his efforts Mr. (Continued on Page 20) COMPREHENSIVE EXAMS GOOD, SAY GRADS A definite majority of Bethany alumni who have graduated within the past seven years think that the senior comprehensive exammations are worthwhile and should be con- tinued. Out of 325 graduates sent questionaires on this subject, 142 have replied. Facts gained from this survey form a basis for an article by Dean Weimer, which appears in the November issue of the Association of American Colleges Bulletin. One hundred and thirty-five of the graduates spent an average of 6.3 hours per day reading during the two week reading period which prececds the examination. Ninety- five of the group replying said they spent 2.9 hours on completing term papers while 122 averaged 3.8 hours per day on recreational activities. As to the type of examinations given, 30 favored the objective ex- amination and 67 the essay type. Twenty-two answers indicated that the examination should be a combi- nation of both types. The comprehensive examinations were introduced to Bethany stu- dents in 193 3 after an extensive stu- dy, by the faculty, of the college curriculum. It was pointed out that a senior comprehensive examination should prompt students to scan more carefully their various courses and trv to correlate them. It was also felt that the examination would serve as a evaluation of, the effec- tiveness of the college and its pro- gram. PAGE TWELVE DECEMBER. 1940 ■(itkUtlc 7tont6 The season opened with a 5 0-18 win over Hiram College on December 14. uune as last year. Bisnn fans ho(ie that the remainder of the season will not be like last yearns, when the Bisons lost 19 ;; a roie- Shown at practice are top left; centers Bob Alexander and Don Wolf: top center, leteran Tommy Cnllison; top ri ht manager Bill Neumann; bottom left, George Callendinc; Wells {note the feet). botton center, Charles Scaty Hiihn; bottom right. Dick. PAGE THIRTEEN NOVFMBKR. 1940 ' DOUBLE DOOR REVIEWED Liil — .Suiiirs as Nfff. Rij-bt — Rip Van Bret (Tom Commiltc) is happy with h:s inu- hriJc {Elinorc Helhcriiig on) ■ while Carolyn (Eleanor Watcrhousc) looks on- hi the iiiaJ Hcne. Vieloru Van Bret ( laince Viir.lum) frightens her house staff. One of the smallest Bethany audi- ences ever known was thrilled and chilled at the first ail-Bethespian Club play, Double Door Satur- day night, December 7. After working for only two weeks under adverse conditions, the entire cast came through with a PAGE FOURTEEN very entertaining f erformance, al- though not a finished one. The play progressed through two mediocre acts with the audience well aware of small slip-ups. In the first act, a hand was seen com- mg from the empty secret vault to receive a box of pearls from Vic- toria Van Bret (Janice Purdum). In another scene when John Sully (Don Rosensteele) refused to kiss his newly-married former sweet- heart, Ann Van Bret (Elinore Hetherington) an enthusiastic bal- cony fan gave forth with Kiss the girl, you fool. Although there were other slips, all due to a too-short rehearsal per- iod, one of the greatest compli- ments was paid Janice Purdum, who played the part of a tyranical cold, cruel, austere patriarch of the Van Bret family. At practically every one of her entrances on the stage after the play really began, she was hissed . The personality of her character was interpreted so well that the majority of the audi- ence would have enjoyed shooting her. Her final hysterical scene w hen she went insane was enough to chill the blood of the stoutest males. The best performance of the evening was given by Eleanor Waterhouse as Caroline Van Bret, who was under the iron rule of her sister, Victoria, until the final act, when she broke down in a hys- terical scene and disclosed her sist- ers cruelty and the secret of the Double door . Elinore Hetherington, a new- comer to the Bethany stage, caught the hearts of the audience with her m.irvelous playing of the part of Ann Van Bret, former nurse who married into the family during the play. Her love scenes were tender, while her scenes wherein she fought the domineering Victoria, were very strong and showed splendid transition of character. The part of Rip Van Bret, weak brother of Victoria who finally be- comes strong, was played by Tom Committe. His character was weak until in the second act he took a de- termined stand against his sister and his whole ancestry, claiming, his right to live his own life. From there until the final curtain he was stronger, and his acting was never more sincere. Don Rosensteele, as Dr. John Sully, added to the tempo of the play in his fast lines, quick cues, while Dale Sowers as Kent, Vic- toria ' s attorney, added his part as the conservative balance wheel of the play. Jane Williamson, as Avery the housekeeper, gave a very sincere (Continued on Page 17) DECEMBIK. IV40 JOE COLLEGE MOVIE Joe College come to life in a new interpretation Thursday night, De- cember 12 when the Bethespians re- leased their first full length movie of the year appropriately titled Joe College. It was the first feature length picture ever released by any group on the campus and is anoth- er precedent setter of the year. A full length picture was filmed last year but was never released be- cause of the fact that the camera was out of focus during the film- ing of the entire production. Written, filmed, and edited by Delivan Barnhart and under the di- rection of Miss Marian Hendrick, Joe College deals with the arrival at college of a typical country hick and his actions, always wrong, after his entrance. His troubles start with his roommate, a wealthy, so- phisticated football star who belongs to the snootiest fraternity on the campus. Joe tries to join the foot- ball team but can ' t; he tries to join a fraternity but none of them will have him; then he falls for a beau- tiful co-ed, but his roommate wins her from him. Finally Joe gets his chance when a rival school tries to kidnap Bill before the big game and Joe proves to be the hero by saving his roommate. Of course this leads to a happy ending with the hick (Continued on Page 18) l i5itot6 on tne am.pu.5 FOUR-ENCORE TENOR You ' sat on your hands too much, ' or I would have sung an- other song. To the puzzled students that gathered around tenor soloist Rus- sell Horton on December 5, he ex- PIANIST CORLIN. TENOR HOKION ' plained that sitting on one ' s hands means not applauding enough, even though Bethany ' s audience got four encores for his concert. For all their handholding however, he enjoys presenting programs to college stu- dents, for they express America ' s growing interest and appreciation of good music. Asked if his naval costume num- ber from Madame Butterfly Cami-rman Del Barnhart ou location ' for a scene in Joe College wasn ' t listed under fern. nine audi- ence appeal ' , the concertist smiled, said he always included the costume in his evening program of foreign, folk, and well-known songs. For his opinion on current musi- cal events, Mr. Horton seemed to feel that music ' s great need is good English translations of foreign operas, for wider appreciation of Wagner and other masters. Togeth- er with more plausible dramatic in- terpretation, these ' rennovated ' operas might become accepted box office for motion pictures. At least, his experience in movies and Holly- wood made him think so. Entirely trained in America, the tenor naturally felt that musical education has no great loss in this recent war. As a result of the con- flict however, American singers will be more demanded and encour- aged. Today one steps from college music departments, to training schools, to the Metropolitan. This is great opportunity. Professor Carter then valeted the gentleman into his coat and led him away to a ham and egg supper. Mr. Russell was a very hungry man. THE MAGICIAN ' S DAUGHTER Outstanding on the list of Beth- any alumni in the field of enter- tainment is Mr. Wallace, the magi- cian who entertained in chapel on December 6. A master of the now- you-see-it, now-you-don ' t art, Mr. Wallace also showed unique abilities with his prestidigitations with a walking stick, to say nothing of the display of these same abilities with playing cards. (See Albee or Addle- man for particulars.) Much as the audience liked to be tooled, the hit of the show was not Mr. Wallace ' s display of magic but rather his display of his most charming daughter and her wond- erful memory. The daughter is a student at the Wellsburg High School and most certainly should have no trouble remembering as- signments of lessons. Blindfolded, she sat on the platform while three girls (Jean Berggren, Grace Bene- dict, Evelyn Barrett) thought of (Continued on Page 16) PAGE FIFTEEN DECEMBER. 1940 COME ON, SUCKER! Come on, Siicki-r, rab a un! The busies are too in ' , the drums have hegiiti. We ' ll paddle across and bayonet a Hun And urn this uar . . . As before. Some of us, sure, uill fall b the side But some uill be heroes, and i ees! What a rule ' . What ' s college, a job, or eten a bride To winning a uar . . . As before. The Senate u-ill lote us all a new gat And urge us to kill eicry Fascistic rat And Morgan uill buy a new silk foj) hat And win this war . . . As before. This short of war method is just about through You can ' t slug a guy and not get slugged too If you help in a fight you ' re soon in the stew And winning this uar . . . As before. American Sucker, each minute you ' re born A poor little lamb u th fleece to be shorn Mislead by the rams, atrailing the horn To win this war . . . As before. Ameruan millions must sail o ' er the sea. Both dollars and men until we are free. Read all the papers! Are you blind? Can ' t you see, We must win this war . . . As before? Oh, some of us sure are bound to get back, ' Tho some uill be warped or a leg they uill lack. And some will remain, bloody bones in a sack. But we ' ll win this uar . . . As before. Sure the graces will fill up, but hell, this is war. If you want to have profits, you got to hare gore, So loicer the coffins, we ' ll sell all the more. And win this war . . . As before. We ' ll uin, if is certain, a one-sided bet, But we ' ll also win a mal a la tefe IIIIIIIIUIIIIII I INTERESTING BETHANIAN i chuck Bell thinks he 1 would like to be a politician 1 someday, but he seems to do 1 all right for himself with- 1 out politics. Not so long ago B he was elected president ot 1 the Freshman Class. Now 1 he spends a good deal of H time wondering just what I can be done with the office m — he calls for action. No B figurehead is Bell! As chief g enthuser of what is general- = ly thought to be the most B enthusiastic class in the col- M lege, Chuck wants to do I things — and he does. He B yelled himself hoarse leading B the cheers this fall, especial- B ly at the victory march att- B er the W. J. game; he B turned into a Russian for B Homecoming week-end in I You Can ' t Take It With You B and wit. B B Food — just any kind of food — interests Chuck. But especially does m B he like Clark Bars. m B Along with being a politician. Chuck will probably go into indus- B B trial chemistry, but heaven help the laboratory if he forgets an d starts p B cheering for dear old W. J. (oops, Bethany) or tries his ballet im- B B pressario act right in the middle of a small experiment with nitric B B acid and g ' ycerine. Hm! Fifth columnist! B CHUCK BELL B And all with the good old Bell vigor B depressions and sorrow, it ' s piti- ful, yet We ' ll win this war . . . As before. Oh, biggest of suckers, thy name is Yank You ' ll leaie your remains in a shot- lorn tank But don ' t expect pay from a British bank For winning this tear . . . As before. —Decker Did Dis MAGICIAN ' S DAUGHTER (Continued from Page 15) twenty-five different objects which Mr. Wallace wrote on the black board, each with a number. When all twenty-five had been called, Miss Wallace, still blindfolded, gave the name of each object as its num- ber was called. That done she then lllllllllllllllllillllllllllllllllllllllllll ELEVEN NEW MAGAZINES Eleven new magazines are now available to Bethanians at the Car- negie library. Through the Carnegie Foundation in New York City, Bethany, together with several other colleges, received the gift subscrip- tions. With the gift went two stipula- tions. First, the library must not decrease the number of magazines it subscribes to. This is so that the gift will mean an increase in the number of magazines arriving at the library. Second point was that the library must report on the use of the magazines at the end of the year. The new periodicals: American Scandinai ' ian Review, Journal of Adult Education, Ken- yon Rev ' cw, Mcnorah fournal, Oc- began at the top and named each cupafions, Opportunity, Poetry, object in order and finally she be- South Atlantic Omrterly, Southern gan at the end and named each ob- Revieiv, Vital Speeches, American ject in reverse order. Mercury. PAGE SIXTEEN DECEMBER. 1940 Cyplnion on tne amv2u5 WHAT WOOLERY BELIEVES DR. C ' . K. WOOLERY Rather pessimistic in his inter- pretation of the current world sit- uation in a chapel talk December 4, Dr. W. K. Woolery made sure that students understood that his gloomy predictions were merely his own opinion. In the first place, he said, the present war is between rival em- pires, not between democracy and dictatorship. He explained that England and the United States are hated by many nations not because they are democratic, but because they are plutocratic. Few days lat- er, Adolph Hitler, haranguing the whole world, condemned the U.S. and Great Britain as plutocratic. Secondly, Dr Woolery thought that we are witnessing a world re- volution, one that has far less to do with government ideologies than with standards of living. In the third place. Dr. Woolery insisted, unless one of two things happen soon, the United States will be in the war. Two possibilities of halting this march are an upswing in American public opinion against war or the collapse of England within three to six months. The latter of these is most likely to hap- pen, he said. As a fourth opinion. Dr. Wool- ery stated that the U. S. must be- gin to adjust itself to a new world order, whether we like it or not. Merely crushing the axis powers will not solve the problems, he added. Once the provost said that we must push rearmament until we are far ahead of anyone else in the world. FOR ALL BUT SENIORS This is a plea for our seniors here in school. I doubt if their I.Q. ' s are any higher than Freshmen ' s, their innate ability any greater, their en- thusiasm any more spontaneous, but by cracky! they are SENIORS! They have been in school four years, have worked hard, have participat- ed in activities, have gone through all the stages of the first three years. Perhaps ihey don ' t care who leaves chapel first, but I am certain th;;y would feel honored, and per- haps a little more like living up to that honor, if underclassmen re- spected upperclass priority and let them be first. All over the campus are rebelli- ous little group of students, asking for their rights, demanding that their opinions be recognized, want- ing more voice. It would be a plea- sure to know that such student opinions and rights would someday be recognized. That time could be our senior year. But it will not be so unless underclassmen begin to (Continued on Page 18) DOUBLE DOOR (Continued from P.Tge 14) performance under very good make-up Clarance Joy, as Telson, the but- ler was comparable to the famous Jeeves although an unapprecia- tive audience tittered every time he made an appearance on the stage. Anna Laura Burke and Morrison Ratcliffe as walk-ons gave sin- cere performances, as did Bob Gol- bey, taking the part of a detective. On the whole, Double Door was very entertaining, considering the short rehearsal period, and adverse rehearsal conditions. — D.B. Laundry — Dry Cleaning Deliveries Twice Weekly BUTTES LAUNDRY CO. STEUBENVILLE SEE US when in need of Wallpaper.s, Paint.s, Arti.sts Sup- plies and Display Material THE SHERWIN-WILLIAMS PAINT COMPANY 1018-20 Market Street Phone 4044 Wheeling See JAKE and DICK at THE VALLEY PRESS Home of Good Printing — Phone 6401 — WELLSBURG, W. VA. WHEN YOU BUILD SEE ROBERT SCOTT LUMBER COMPANY WELLSBURG, W. VA. Conn Band Instruments Steinway Pianos Hammond Organs C. A. HOUSE CO. WHEELING, W. VA. Ziegenfelder ' s Ice Cream Different from Others Served at THE COLLEGE INN Compliments of TRAUBERT BAKERY Compliments o, WELLSBURG BANKING AND TRUST COMPANY P. GE SEVENTEEN DF.CFMBER. 1940 Cypinii inion (Continued from P.ige 17) give such recognition to those who now deserve it. As everything now stands, there is more satisfaction in being a Httle Freshie, and receiving the attention of student guides, faculty counsel- lors, personnel office, and deans, than in being a high and mighty Senior, last out of chapel. AVERAGE COLLEGIAN AGAINST CUTTING Nation wide survey of college campus opinion shows that a good majority (62 per cent) of students attend all their classes in a typical week. The remainder of the stu- dents interviewed (38 per cent) de- clared that they had cut at least once. But over half of these missed class only one time during the week. Thus Student Opinion Surveys of America reported recently after asking about cutting classes on cam- puses all over the United States. Here are the national tabulations: Cut on classes during week 62 % Cut one class 20% Cut two classes 10% Cut three classes 4 % Cut four or more classes ' [ ' ( TOWN MEETING A group of national-minded stu- dents have been gathering every Thursday night in Phillips Hall lounge to listen to the 9:30 p. m. Town Meeting broadcast from Town Hall, New York. Broadcast IS of the speech and forum variety, in which nationally-known citizens cuss and discuss international and national problems such as What Are We Preparing to Defend? After the broadcast the Bethany students discuss the question in an open forum lead by Dr. Woolery. This group of students gather every Thursday night for the broadcast in spite of rain, Friday ' s classes, or Joe College movies. Why not get a date and join them? An intelligent date. PAGE EIGHTEEN SUNDAY WALK Soft clay in a car track, Time flics and it ' s far hack To uhcrc uc started iinknouini U ' hcrc ICC went. Red furze on a high hill, The wind blows and I fill Vi ' ith elation, knowing you see and fill too. Blue rents in the cloud ' s gray, Gold crests on the hills say The sun is sitting, regretting his curtain. Long road and the cold night. Cruel ache with only sight Of you beside mc making it possible. Soft couch and the warm fire All part of my desire To hare and know all things uith you foreier. — Jean Short. JOE COLLEGE (Continued from Page IS) getting the girl. Bill ' s friendship and fraternity membership. Included with the feature pic- ture was a newsreel of campus ac- tivities since the beginning of the year. Together the two last about one and a half hours. The photo- grapher shot about 1,000 feet of film for both the picture and the newsreel. Joe College Podgkins, the in- nocent freshman, is interpreted bv Ray Tliompson. Bob Smythe, his dashing roommate is Bill White. Betty Raleigh, the beautiful femi- nmc love angle is Joan Cramblett. Mrs. Podgkins is acted by Betsy Ann Plank. Wally Mayer is her husband. Jane Campbell is Bob Smythe ' s mother. Also included in the cast are Professors Rush Carter and John Reynard, Charles Bell, James Duff and according to Author Barnhart, A cast of thousands . (One scene is taken at the home-coming game, at which the crowd was estimated at 4,000). Bob Fulmer narrated the story. When Home for the Holidays Stop in at BERNHARDT ' S 1225 Market Street Wheeling ' s Largest Men ' s Store CLOTHING FURNISHINGS JEBANAS Are the best bananas money can buy. Look for the blue and white label. JEBBIA-METZ CO. 1916 Main St., Wheeling, W.Va. U T L ' X ' rfe SIGNS fl K itV T.ABi.KTS RUBBER STAMPS. SEAt.S STENCILS BADGES TIME STAMPS WHEELING STAMP STENCIL CO. 37-IIthST WH EELING, W.VA. MADER SLEEP SHOP 1012 Market Street WHEELING, W. VA. GRIEST CUT RATE DRUG STORES 112.5 Market 1406 Market WHEELING, W. VA. other stores WELLSBURG, MOUNDSVILLE Compliments of KENNEDY HARDWARE WHEELING, W. VA. DECEMBER. 1940 iiiiiiiiiiiPi DUSTING BETHANY ' S FILES PRESIDENT PENDLETON A SPIRITED LAD— When William K. Pendleton, second president of Beth- any College was a schoolboy in Virginia, he got into a fist fight with a boy taller than himself. Young Pendle- ton was holding his own when several older boys stopped the fight. The next day, convinced that his opponent was a coward. Will decided to fire a pistol over his opponent ' s head, just to see him run. So he brought an old, rusty pis- tol to school and had two friends load it with powder. During recess, Pendleton fired the pistol over the head of the youth who had insulted him. The frightened boy dashed away, shouting, I am shot! Just as the teacher asked, Where? , one of the boys who loaded Pendleton ' s pistol came up and explained that the shot had been made with powder only. This explanation seemed to satisfy the teacher, but the next mornmg he posted a new school re- gulation on the bulletin board: All the boys are positively forbidden from bring- ing firearms to this school. f;iiiiiii« uiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii WOMEN ' S MED. COLLEGE (Continued from Page 3) especially to students of Bethany where an excellent background Is really available. (I keep remember- ing days that Professor Dawson lec- tured on the importance of azo compounds and things which Dr. Miller stressed and wish I had exert- ed more energy in mastering them right then.) But so much for all this. However, for the benefit of Bethany physiology students, I can- not resist a remark to the effect that we do a much better job of di- gesting that ham sandwich in chem- istry here than we used to do on fin- al exams for Dr. Welmer. The whole process becomes more com- plicated as one goes along but that ham sandwich at least gets more simple. So far, the first year at Woman ' s Medical College seems to be devoted to anatomy and chemistry with one trimester of physiology and a run- ning course of one hour a week un- til Christmas in the pioneer field of preventive medicine. Needless to say, this proves intensely absorbing, and challenging. I think all clocks at medical schools must be geared to a faster tempo. At any rate, time flies and there are always week ends, vaca- tions, and a fraction of extra-curri- cular activities to restore one ' s nat- ural perspective, not to mention the world events which are certainly astounding enough to draw anyone out of a cloistered world or school. Before I ramble off entirely, I should like to mention a remark made early in the year by Dr. Mar- ion Fay, head of our physiology chemistry department. She expressed the hope that we were here not merely to become doctors but really to study medicine . There is a difference, and one which pre- meds might seriously meditate upon while they go about consciously gaining that broad general back- ground and the specific preparation which a good liberal arts college like Bethany has to offer and which the medical schools need. ABNORMAL PEOPLE At first I laughed, and then I pitied The wind abnormal, quite, Lest I, myself, a richer heir. Might loose my right and share rfs plight. The sane mind may abnormal be The abnormal may be sane; Tn mc the Holy Scriptures Make this parados quite plain. For last is first and first is last, And thus the journey ends; What right haie 1, as mortal, judge A man whom God defends? ■ p THE OWL PRINT SHOP The best is none too good for you. Stationery Dance Program.s MARKET ST. WHEELING Electrical Wiring Supplies Lighting Fixtures — Appliances Tools — Lamps — Radios SANDS ELECTRIC CO. 52 Eighteenth Street Phone 146 WHEELING, W. VA. We Believe in BETHANY COLLEGE Manufacturers of Eagle Oilers Eagle Manufacturing Co. WELLSBURG, W. VA. ROBERT RAWSTHORNE COMPANY Bethanian Engravers Heeren Bldg. Pittsburgh, Pa. Visit us — Betty Coed and Joe College KEYSTONE SHOE STORE 98 Tth St., Wellsburg, W. Va. -Joseph White W. L. CHAMBERS Furnishes Food for Your Table PAGE NINETEEN nitTMBrR. 1940 £ditot5 Jletteti Dear I-diu.r: On the niglu of November Z7. the plant. laboratories, and stor.i);c facilities of the or- ganization were devastcd by fire, resulting in a total loss of all the above named facilities- A few ncgitives were in the hands of outside retouching facilities at the time of the fire, which represents the only work in progress which was saved- An inventory is being compiled at pres- ent time to determine just how this loss affects each individual school. However, we cannot be optimistic enough to hope that this is going to be of any consequence- Plans and work on the construction of a new plant were in progress 12 hours after this catastrophe took place- Therefore. ploa e be assured that in the end no school handled by this organization and no indi- vidu.il client will suffer any loss whatso- ever, other than the inconvenience necessi- tated now thru the loss of time- We can do but little at this time except to beg your kind indulgence in this un- avoidable catastrophe. VC ' e ask that you assise us only by remaining calm and patient for a few days until we have the opportunity to organize our opcrations- A preliminary survey indicates that the Bethany College sittings, are a total loss, necessitating rephotographing all of the students, without additional cost to them, of course- Please instruct the students to re- tain their proofs and present them to the operator for a rcsitting- Vcry sincere!) ' yours. Zamsky Studios- GERMAN TRANSLATORS (Contiiiiicd from P.ii;e 12) F. W. Adams, Senior Industrial Fellow for the Pittsburgh Pl.itc Glass Co., at the Mellon Industrial Research Institution, was contact- ed. An interview with Mr. Adams brought about his sending to Dr. Reynard a topic for study that needed translation from the Ger- man. The study deals with the Chemistry of paints, and will be of great value to Mr. Adams in his work when it is completed. The students receive credit for the study in their German course. Also they will learn some additional chemistry. And as Dr. Reynard pomts out the notation translated monograph for Mellon Institute on an application for employment won ' t do anyone any harm. Trimble Lutz Supply Co. Distributors of Plumbinsr, Heating, Industrial and Janitor Supplies for Home, Office, Schnol annd Factory Wheeling, W. Va. Whg. .5060 CO-EDS HAVE CHARMS (Continued from Page 4) own jewelrv, though m this case it would help if you had a rifle, or had a friend who had a rifle. Among her trinkets from Africa Mariah Smith has a necklace made jf ivory elephants, had carved. It is a long necklace because the na- tives do not know how to make ;lasps. So they make the necklaces large enough to be slipped on over the head. Be Prepared is a good motto and even the costume designers have adopted it now. One of the most unique necklace and bracelet sets to be seen is the one made of large safe- ty pins and worn by Betty Shadle. Just plain, ordinary safety pins, strung on a chain The wearer does- n ' t have to worrv about anvthing slipping. From Italy comes a good luck charm for babies, sent to Angie Bonessi years ago by her grandmoth- er. The ornament is a little circle of gold with the number 13 in it. From this circle hangs 13 chains, each with a good luck charm. It might be useful to have around — especially if you wanted to pass an exam. Alice Daniels wears a very unus- ual ring— a poison one — no less. The ring is made of carved silver which came from the Holy Land. The top opens up on a hinge, re- vealing a cavity inside the ring, where poison could be placed. But Alice does not have anyone to poi- son so she just wears the ring. Alice also has two Chinese charms, a tiny wheelbarrow and a tiny pagoda. And even I have my piece of jew- elry. And I will even admit that I am superstitous enough to believe that it will bring me luck. It is a little silver fish that came from India. Hand made, it is hinged so that it moves like a real fish. Phillips Hall Uses FORT HENRY MEATS Supplied by THE WEIMER PACKING COMPANY WHEELING, W. VA. Headquarters for SMARTER COLLEGE WARDROBES West Virginia ' s Largest Department Store MAIN STREET WHEELING, W. VA. P. GE TVC ' ENTY DECEMBER, 1940 WEISBERGER ' S WELLSBURG, W. VA. FRATERNITY and SORORITY FASHION CENTER £-ditotia.l WHITE WET WASH LAUNDRY J. L. Halter, Prop. ZAMSKY STUDIOS The BETHANIAN PHOTOGRAPHER Portraits of Distinction STANDARD PRINTING PUBLISHING CO. Everything- for the Office PRINTING - ENGRAVING Lithographing - Office Furniture Machines, Equipment Supplies 910-914 Fifth Avenue HUNTIXGTOxNT, W. VA. The Student ' s Store L. S. GOOD CO. WHEELING, W. VA. :•  t- ' We came to college to prepare for life, a life in which we expect to do things. Do most of us learn how to do those things? No! We Ic. ' .rn facts. We learn how Beawulf b ed, instead of being drilled, drilled, drilled in how to write. We commit to m e m o r y all the biological terms of the body instead of being trained how not to mistreat our carcasses. We learn how many titles the Roman Emper- ors had, what Son of Ben wrote Gather Your Rosebuds While You May, who wore Talliths and Why, that Tutenkhaton had his name changed to Tutenklamon, instead of learning how to adjust our lives by studying the adjustments of the ancients. We learn facts, commit them to memory just long enough to be able to pour them back to our professors via the most wasteful cf wastes, the written exam. We admit that education should be a happy medium between facts and techniques, that we need facts to teach us techniques and techni- ques to teach us facts. We admit we should cover certain facts, un- derstand them, interpret them, use them, know how and where to find them again if we need them; but why spend tedious ambition-killing hours with the seat of our panta- loons sweated to an non-resisting oak chair tucking those flighty facts into the folds of our grey matter so we can unfold them in a few hours, pour them out of a pen into a blue-book, then forget them? We are beginning to understand why people say we will never learn anything until we get out of col- lege. Here we are too busy memor- izing facts to learn technics. Please, professors, teach us techniques. We want to know how to do things. HILDEGARDE I can sec her, standing there With the sunlight on her hair, Singing songs of gladness, Bringing death to sadness, Driiing inc to madness, With her happy laughter. — Florence Nic x las GEO. E. STIFEL CO. Wheeling ' s Friendly Store Drink fi IN BOTTLES Try JEM-POLISH JEM-WAX And don ' t forget We do Long Distance Moving J. E. MILLER TRANSFER AND STORAGE CO. WHEELING, W. VA. PHOTO ENGRAVERS LITHOGRAPHERS JOB PRINTING WHEELING NEWS LITHOGRAPHING CO. 15th at Main Street WHEELING, W. VA. BETHANY COLLEGE BOOK STORE for your COLLEGE BOOKS and SUPPLIES Lower Corridor Try it — BLAKE ' S ICE CREAM Unexcelled 96 Sixteenth Street Phone 1746 WHEELING, W. VA. ••FOR WONDERFUL FOOD ACKER ' S In Wheeling 12 20 Market Street PAGE T -ENTY-ONE The attractive Gift Carton that says Copyrighi 19-10. Liggett . Mvers Tobacco Co :xxii No. 4 JANUARY, 1941 fU i CO OP-S ' mis ISSUE You Gotta ' Fall in Love Exam Week Pictures Phi Mu Sorority JANUARY. 1941 OnQ Atinuie JlactutQ (?outie   • My generation has foiimbt, and is jiy htin a ain. Yours may fight. But in any case, you will haic to do tin- rebuilding. Dr. John Cl.irk Archer, spciklnj; in ch.ipel. can tell by be rings under your eyes tl.nit ynu ' t e all bad good vacations. Mr. Bowdcn, greeting .1 cl.iss on morning of January 6. Mr. Goodnight may linow how to run a college, but he doesn ' t l;now how to get to it. Dr. Crani- blet, retelHng the story of a farmer ulio commented on the routing the late President Goodnight gave to friends coming to Bethany. MOVIES Februar ' 7 — lour Mothers February 14 — River ' s End February 21 — The Letter February 28 — East of the River March 7 — The Lady with Red Hair Marcli 14 — Honeymoon for Three March 21 — South of Suez March 2 8 — High Sierra April IS — Santa Fe Trail Watch Your Minutes Expert Watch and Clock Repairing. Will call for and deliver PHILIP R. BAUM rhone Bethany 20.31 after 6:00 P. M. THIS MONTH ' S PICTURES ON THE COVER With the C.A.A. pilot training in full swing, Bethany ' s fledglings will soon be winging over the Tower. As soon as pilot training was assured for Bethany, Bethanian sent photo- grapher Irv Shlansky to Glendale Airport to snap air enthusiasts Irene Hutchison and Wilbur Cramblct listening to licensed pilot Bill Cress, former Bethany student, tell how to spin a prop. Visibility was so low that afternoon that Shlansky had to rescrt to flash bulbs to get the cov- er picture. Page ten — Irv Shlansky Page eleven — Irv Shlansky Page twelve — Irv Shlansky Page thirteen — Irv Shlansky Page fourteen — Allen - Betl.nmUin; Dawson-Dawson Page fifteen — Hart-Betty Lou Staf- ford; Taylor-Irv Shlansky; Bot- tom, Irv Shlansky Page sixteen — Archer - Archer; Wendt-Colston Leigh, Inc. Page seventeen — Weimer-Irv Shlan- sky; Sarver-Vantine. MY SYMPHONY By Dean Kirkpafrick To appropriate the riches or serv- ice ancf to free myself from the squalid poverty of selfishness; to seek the elegance and refinements of good life rather than fashions and luxuries; to be genuinely worthy of trust, not just socially respect- able; to be contented with small means but discontented with small ideas; to stand for principles and ideals that will lift and warm hu- man experience; to judge life by its few golden moments of high quality and not by its years of seeming emptiness; to let radiance, joy, and kindness be a daih ' gift to my com- panions; to love freely and deeply, and to fear only bitterness, ignor- ance, and conceit; to work hard, pla easih ' , think quietly, act sin- cerel) ' , and live hopefully. May this be my Symphony for the new year! (Content 5 iOne Minute Lecture Course 2 Movies 2 You Gotta ' Fall in Love 3 Hope of America 4 The Rustic Type 6 How to Cure a Cold 9 A New Librarian 13 Science and Health 14 On Other Campuses 18 News Perspective Opinions on the Campus S Bethany is Primarily ... 12 Athletic Fronts 15 Visitors on the Campus 16 17 Theatre . .. 19 Features Dusting Bethany ' s Files 7 Interesting Bethanian 17 Editor ' s Letters 19 Poetry Two Verse Pictures 16 Tomorrow 20 Editorial 21 i EDITOR: John Costanza ' 42 BUSINESS MANAGER: Wayne Burdue ' 41 EDITORIAL BOARD: Bert Decker ' 41, William Rutter ' 41, Myfan- wy Strain ' 41 CONTRIBUTORS: Lewis Deer ' 43, Marjorie Finney ' 42, Sanford Steinman ' 43, John Topping ' 42, Ph llis Hendrickscn ' 44, Irene Jassen ' 44, Bernice Monczynski ' 44, Arthur Beard ' 44, William Young ' 44, Dean Counselman ' 44, Betsy Ann Plank ' 44 BUSINESS ASSISTANTS: George Sitock ' 43, Jack Baumgartner ' 44 Evelyn Baxter ' 43, Marjorie Hunter ' 44, Mariah Smith ' 43 Bct jduitiii, a magazine of features and photographs, pub- lished each month from October through May by the Student Board 1)1 Publications of Bethany College- Entered as second class matter on January 14. 1920. at the Post Office at Bethany. W. Va-. under the Act of March 1. 1879- Subscription price: Four dollars the year- Volume XXXU. Number 2- PAGE TWO JANUARY. I!)4I You Gotta Fall in Love fiv Held Class Although every college catalogue omits it, there is an iron-bound requirement for gradu- ation for a girl going to a co-educational col- lege. You gotta ' fall in love. If you don ' t have someone to moon over, you ' re just not in; so begin now to practice that come hither look. In the heart of every invading female, whether she be a green freshie or a grey sen- ior, burns desire to do and die for her man. Quite often she can ' t decide just which man she burns to do and die for; and sometimes she just burns. Regardless, every college girl is de- finitely in love. A sad case of campus love is the girl separat- ed from her lover. The separation rends her heart, frequently she shrieks, Oh, I can ' t live another minute without him. Having shrieked, she throws herself across the bed, across the desk, or across the chair. If none of these is handy, she just throws herself. (Note: some practice in throwing yourself may save you some broken bones. However, all modern colleges employ a full-time physician, and hospitals.) Even sadder, is the fact that girl- separated-from-lover cannot cry for then she would not look devastating on her date with Rudolph Ringlets, the current stand-in for the far, far away lover. Still sadder is girl-crossed-in love. Like girl-separated-from-lover, she shrieks at in- tervals, Oh, I can ' t live another minute with- out him, and she tears her hair and beats her breast with one hand (usually the left) while checking a list of male eligibles with the other (usually the right), repeating all the while be- tween tearless sobes, I can ' t live, I can ' t live without him. But the really sad case, is girl-with-love- back-home. She says very firmly, I ' d rather die than date anyone but my boy, Johnny. Then eyes glassy, she shrieks, Oh, I can ' t live another minute without him. Then she be- gins throwing herself aimlessly about. If she sheds real tears, it ' s a cinch that she loves some- one back home. If she weeps dry-eyed or care- lessly upsets the dear, dear picture it ' s not quite so much of a cinch. (Note: Never come to college without at least one picture that can be displayed. If you just don ' t happen to get a date, you fall automatically into the class labelled girl-with-lover-back-home. Leave behind your satin slippers, or your dotted swiss slip, but never, never forget that picture, neatly framed and slushily autographed. If worst comes to worst, you autograph it your- self.) The most radiant sight in the world is the lovelight in the eyes of a girl who has just cap- tured a little jewelled fraternity emblem. Johnny is my all, smirks girl-with-fra- ternity-pin, at the same time counting all the pearls in the pin and wishing they were dia- monds and planning exactly whose white robe she will borrow for her serenade. The very, very saddest cases of all is little- miss-in-love-with-many. Is it Joe Two-Car Brown, or Paul Million-Bucks White or George Social Green? I know it ' s Paul Million-Bucks, but Joe Two-Car certainly has something, and as for George Social he dances divinely. She really is in love with them all. (Note: this sounds impossible, but understand it isn ' t im- possible. Why, every day, millions of girls are falling in love with two or three fellows at a time — it ' s just being done.) Of course, in the end little-miss-in-love-with-many realizes she has been in love with Bill or Bob all the time and not Paul, or Joe, or George at all. Yes, you gotta ' fall in love — and it ' s a great life, if you don ' t weaken and marry the guy. PAGE THREE JANUARY. 1941 News bulletins of the war had been coming in all the day I climbed the steps of the old m brownstone on West f J Side New York y - the apart- ment of the two people who had but a few months before fled from that nightmare of horror and hell, the far away rumblings of which were now reaching across the miles to strike terror in the heart of America. I found them a young Austrian Jewish cou- ple, he a brilliant musician from the conserva- tory in Vienna and she, I later discovered, a trained nurse. They received me warmly, thanked me for greetings I brought from a childhood friend, and made me promise to re- turn the following Sunday for brunch . Both were working long hours every day. With her nursing background she had obtained a posi- tion caring for a child in a wealthy Queens home while he did accompaniments and coach- ing. Sunday brunch was the only meal they could really have together. Coffee had been served and the cigarettes lighted. We talked of music and the opera, plays, and America in which so many people had found liberty. They told me about Aus- tria, recalling memories of childhood and fam- ily life, friends, and school. In my mnid ' s eye I could see the narrow streets and quaint houses, the never ending struggle for the necessities of daily life, and the happiness of an occasion- al luxury. They told me how Hitler ' s terror struck, how life became a veritable hell of ter- ror and anxiety, of standing in line hour after hour in the middle of the night to obtain pass- ports which ran out before passage on the ships, filled months in advance, could be ob- tained, of weeks of anxious waiting to see if an acquaintance in America would go bond for their keep should they need assistance, a protection for the relief rolls. They finally succeeded in getting away, leaving behind their loved ones and all prop- erty. They arrived in the New World with eight dollars — the largest amount any are per- PAGE FOUR mitted to take out of the country — to start life over again. Their lives had been torn violently from their roots in native soil and thrown mto a strange world that brought them face to face with a desperate struggle to survive. Yet they have kept free from bitterness and resentment. It must be forgotten, they say, for it is so long ago ... the ties to our old home are broken .... our home no longer exists. ... we want to be Ameri- to become part of the life here, to repay the debt we owe to liber- ty and justice, to show our cans. o v appreciation. Do we who call ourselves Amer- icans have the stuff to meet life like this?. . We shall soon find out. For the world is in the midst of a upheaval that is reshap- ing the world we have known. It is futile for Americans to hope that they can escape the maelstorm. We are afraid of this change. We fear the loss of our social and economic system. We fear to replace it and cope with something new. We are frantic to preserve the status quo. We think there is only one thing to do— fight, destroy the monster with its weapons. Take up the sword. We are told that this is our only hope, and many believe it is so. Yet violence is not a part of justice. The presence of the sword behind the scales is evi- dence of degeneration and disease. It is the beginning of questioning Right because of a lack of sensitiveness to what it right. The Hope of America cannot be the sword. The methods of war, the arousal of hatreds through lies and propaganda, the bitterness and chaos it creates, makes it impossible to attain a true and just peace when an armistice is de- clared. The sword is not our hope. But there is an alternative, powerful but not violent. Gerald Heard describes this force in his The Source of Civilization. Too long we have conceived of man achiev- ing progress by struggle and violence and na- tural selection according to the survival of the fittest. We have thought violence to be the force behind evolution. But men of prophetic vision are beginning to see that this is not true. Violence is not natural in life and does not promote advance but interrupts it. When vio- lence comes in advance ceases, decadence sets in, and the creature degenerates into suspicion, ill-will, and death. Mutationism has shown that the energizing force behind evolution is not the violence of natural selection. Progress comes from inher- ent powers within the cell and out of the many possibilities it takes one direction. The prin- ciple that works here is sensitiveness, or awareness. Whenever in the progress of evolution a species has reached a stage where success and perfect adaptation came to it, there the species stopped and became specialized to getting the most out of the immediate. It lived without consciousness or awareness with which to meet change and new conditions. When conditions changed, the species, unable to adjust to the new environment, perished. Heard tells us that: The creature which ascends is a creature which somehow chooses sensitiveness, aware- ness, a constantly widening focus and new ex- perience which it cannot master, rather than preparedness, narrowed purposiveness, an outlook which only sees what it can use ... There is a great temptation to seek safety and securi- ty, comfort and insensitiveness. Too many men yield and turn their life energies into specia ized abilities, hoping thus to gain security. But they succeed only for the day. When the page of life turns, they are no more. Man is the evolved result of life that dared retain its undifferentiated form, and remain sensitive and aware. This sensitiveness which made possible man ' s ascent is the basis of his values of love, truth, and beauty — his ability to feel for the whole of human life and see in it and the universe the JANUARY. 1941 T vo people, readjusting their lives in a new wcrld, give meaning to a new concept of progress. By Date Sowers fectly aware of beauty and harmony. The young refugees have met life victor- iously because they have remained sensitive and aware of life ' s values, rather than sacrifice them for security, ease, and comfort. They have a creative faith based on awareness of life ' s guiding principles. I asked them frankly if they thought Amer- icans could make the adjustment and face life as they had. Their answer? There is in Americans the heritage of those who dared to pioneer at the cost of suffering, those who rejected comfort and security for the ideal they sensed. Through their faith they obtained a knowledge of life that was true, noble, and beautiful. It is part of the very core of American thinking that sanctions for making truth and justice effective, so that they will sustain a just social order, are a necessity. We have thought in the past that there is just one real sanction — the sword. We believed that by the sword only could men become free. We believed that only the sword could remove the tangles of eviron- ment that kept the spirit of man subdued. For examples of his attitude look at the Rev- olutionary and Civil Wars. And did not the boys save democracy and liberty in 1917, too? Now once again we are being told that they are being threatened. And what is our reaction? Take up the sword. Hack the other systems down. Use force. Then truth and justice will be restored. Heard says the whole degenerative process is inevitable if you allow the initial assumption of sanctions. If justice has no in- herent basis then it will melt away if put to rest on violence as a lump of put to rest on a stove. There are men of know- ledge and authority who are convinced that if we take up the sword now we evidence of a mind like his own which is per- cannot escape bankruptcy and dictatorship. PAGE FIVE JANUARY. I ' i41 kott Skott tottf THE RUSTIC TYPE Br Lylc Mayiie When we say Ham Williams walk into the Inn on Sunday night with Betty Jo, we nearly forgot to drink our cokes. Their first appearance Friday had been sufficient to make us surprised; their second appearance on Sat- urday had been somewhat of a jolt, but this — this made the third consecutive date. Unless you ' ve attended a small college, you won ' t understand the system. Well, it ' s this; when a bub and a bimb date twice in a row, it means an invitation to slam; and on the third date — all the guys and gals just figure, might as well scratch their names off the list — they ' re tied. We fellows at the frat house turned our heavy artillery on Ham, but he could take it as well as dish it out. He just continued to go about his business, seemingly pleased as punch that he was dating Betty Jo. Not that anyone could blame him for feelmg that way. Betty Jo is one of the sweetest gals on the campus — looks, brains, personality, and a considerable amount of money to her credit. And she is one of the few who doesn ' t let the bulk of her pocketbook increase her hat size. What we couldn ' t figure out was why she dated Ham . Not that there is anything the matter with him, understand. Why Ham Williams is my best friend. But the girls just didn ' t seem to go for him. He didn ' t have money, nor a car, nor a lot of those things girls go for. And Betty Jo could have dated any of the big shots on the campus — including my- self. She and I always got along. We ' d had a cou- ple of dates together, but never on consecutive nights. Nobody ever dated Betty Jo twice in a row — except Ham . Our relationship (that IS, Betty Jo ' s and mine) was the brother-sister kind — entirely on her part, I assure you. Well, since Sunday night clinched the clos- ed door policy, I decided that I might as well use my big brother ' s prerogative, and try to figure some of this out. I saw Betty Jo in the Inn on Tuesday morning. PAGF SIX Say, kitten, I whispered in her ear with my usual finesse, What ' s ' Ham ' Williams got that the rest of us lack? Oh, it isn ' t so much what he has, but what he doesn ' t have, that 1 like, she confided, I ' m just tired of fellows with a line so smooth that you can slide on it, and with money enough to buy anything they want — I ' m going to try the rustic type. I gave her a little lecture (in my big broth- er ' s capacity, you understand) how hard it would be for them to make a go of it — with Ham needing all the time and money that he had, and Betty Jo being tied down to one person. I told her that she might like the rustic type for a awhile, but that with her good for- tune, she wasn ' t exactly used to being rusti- cated. When I left the Inn, I felt as though I had been lecturing in an empty hall — a fellow does something to help out his friends, then he isn ' t appreciated. I realized then, how friendly that I felt toward Betty Jo — I was really interest- ed in her welfare. I didn ' t need to worry about that, however. Or maybe I did. Anyway, they hit it off swell together. Ham always had done pretty fair in his work in class, but never really dug in like he could have. Betty Jo seemed to think that it was her job to see that he produced — and he did. Ham wasn ' t spending much money either. Betty Jo insisted on going Dutch , and would have paid his way, too, if Ham would have let her, but he wouldn ' t. He ' s got pride. They had a good time together all year. Some expected Ham to pin her, but it seemed as though he ' d lost his pin someplace. Ham couldn ' t afford a new pin, so at the end of the school year, it looked as though they would separate without anything concrete to hold them together. We always have a co-ed dinner at the house during the last week of school. It was a great affair, and after the desserts had been finished, JANUARY. 1941 it was time for me, as prexy, to make the an- aouncements. The first one was concerning the award. I explained that a friend of the fra- ternity had given a sum of money, fifty dollars, to be awarded to the man with the highest scholastic average for the year. The award had been kept a secret so that it would go to the man who worked best without undue incen- tive. The winner was Ham Williams. I ques- tioned the undue incentive part, but kept still about it. Betty Jo bubbled over with joy. Ham himself seemed pleased as punch, and we were glad because he needed the money more than any of us. On the last day of school, I met Betty Jo in the Inn. She was wearing a shining fraternity pin! She pulled me to one side — Steve, it worked. ' Ham ' cares enough about me that he bought me this pin rather than any- thing else. I ' m so happy that I could cry. She ooked as though she meant it. But if you tell myone that I was the friend who gave that noney, I ' ll brain you. She looked like she neant that, too. ECSTACY Never lias there singing, Never sueb a ringing, hi human heart before; Never bliss, Such as this, Was felt in Jays of yore. Neier was there lover Maiden ' s lips eoiilJ cover With asses like to thine; Never joy. Sans alloy, CoiilJ equal this of mine. Bv Florence Nicholas Dusting Bethany ' s Files Alexander Campbell ' s 1810 Courtship Retold in a 1941 Tempo By Del Barnhart Few of our modern, sophisticattd girls can say There ' s the man I ' m going to marry, and end up with the object of their boast parking his feet in front of their fireplaces. Yet this happened in our quiet little town of Bethany, then Buffaloe, Virginia, over a century and a iuarter ago. The story goes like this. The girl was Mar- garet Brown, daughter of John Brown; the boy, Alexander Campbell, son of Thomas Campbell; the time, let ' s say spring. John Brown, wealthy farmer and cabinet maker living with his family in what is now the Campbell Mansion, one day mentioned to his daughter, Margaret, that he was expecting a visit from the young son of Thomas Campbell, from over in Washington, Pa. At the mention of a young man, Margaret immediately perked up her ears, as would any normal young girl in those days, and in this God-forsaken country. (Men in those days too, were rare around Bethany.) As the story goes, Margaret, a tall, slender, well-stacked brunette, sat down on her little stool by the window of the. Brown residence and waited patiently, kept company by her stepsist- er, Jane Glass. Eventually her patience was re- warded. As she looked through some of the first real window glass in this part of the frontier she saw, astride a stallion, Alexander Camp- bell, dressed in his Sunday-go-to-meeting clothes, and looking every inch a gentleman, through all of his husky six foot frame. With a determined gleam in her eye. Miss Margaret Brown turned from the window to her stepsister and quoth her famous boast, There ' s the man I ' m going to marry. Legend says that all this happened in ISIO before Alexander Campbell became wrapped up in founding Bethany College. Alexander, then 22 years old, and Margaret, 18, kept company until March 12, 1811, when Margaret made good her boast in what is now the southwest corner of the parlor of the Campbell Mansion, with Reverend Hughes, pastor of the Presbyterian Church over in West Liberty, saying the I now pronounce you man and wife. PAGE SEVEN JANUARY. 1941 O. ■p inion on tka (?c am ipu.5 ON THE STUDENT UNION While President Cramblet looks to the day when workmen begin to set in the foundation for the proposed Commons Building, students wonder what the plan will do to fraternities on the campus. And though architect Lauren Thayer of New Castle, Pa., has already sketched plans for a new one story building, the first unit of the proposed Gothic Commons, Dr. Cramblet re- minds that we arc not committed to any one plan. We want the Commons to be what stu- dents want. Shortly after President Cramblet announced to students in chapel that he would submit the Commons plan to the board of trustees on Feb- ruar - 1, he took a trip through Ohio, turning a critical eye on college Commons buildings at Kenyon, Wittenberg, Miami, and Ohio State. The structure that the president hopes to sec rise on the lower corner of the grassy, sloping square opposite Cochran Hall will probably bj one story of gray stone, with seven buttresses spaced along the front and rising to the flat roof. But this structure, which the president would like to have ready for use at the begin- ning of the next freshman week, will be only the first unit of the Commons. It will contain a main dining hall and several private dining rooms, seating about 240 men. To this one story building would be added a second stor) ' , rather low, and containing rooms and offices. The third story would probably be high, with a Gothic ceiling similar to the one in Com- mencement Hall. The two upper stories, which would be built at the same time, wotdci be rough red brick, to harmonize with the main college buildings on the hill. Calhoun College, at Yale University, is built in such a style. When the second and third stories are added to the gray stone unit the huge refectory type third floor will become the dining hall. Here 300 men, the maximum number desired by the college, will be able to dine comfortably. When the dining hall is moved to the third floor, the first floor will become the student union PACU; EIGHT rooms, for recreation and perhaps services and shops. In discussing the building plan, President Cramblet points out that three years ago the student body recommended a common dining hall for men of the college. Though fraternities fear that a college operated dining hall for men v ill sound their death knell. President Cram- blet says that most of the financial problems that fraternity treasurers struggle with arise from the operation of the dining room. At Kenyon College and at Duke University, where men eat together in large Commons buildings, and where there are no fraternity houses, some of the strongest chapters of na- tional fraternities exist, says President Cram- blet. A fraternity has no place on the campus if it is merely a boarding club, the president adds. Naturally enough, everyone does not feel the same about the worth of the proposed Commons. While President Cramblet com- pares Architects Thayer ' s drawing with photo- graphs of other American college commons buildings, the plan is ayed and nayed in whole and in part across the campus. Here Bcthaiiiaii records a cross-section of opinion on the dining hall-student union-commons proposal. Dean Kirkpatrick, away from the campus en sabbatical leave most of the first semester, said he was not prepared to give an unqualified opinion on the proposed building plan. But the Dean, who believes that the hope of Bethany College is to become a high grade, re- sidental college, even slightly aristocratic in taste, has repeatedly advocated a student union for Bethany in his annual reports. Edward Elsasser, commander of Sigma Nu and president of Interfraternity Council: The Student Union is a good thing but al freshmen should not be required to eat there This will call for a revision of the rushing sys- tem, which is good or bad according to the wa you look at it. And it may affect the numbei of fraternities on the campus. It seems to hav( been an administration policy to maintain fiv( JANUARY, 1941 fraternities. The union is a contradiction of this pohcy. Wilham Siemon, treasurer of Alpha Kappa Pi: I beheve that a great deal of fraternalism is the result of fellowship gained at the fraterni- ty dining table. The student union plan will deal this a hard blow. It will also deprive men of experience that can be gained by managing a dining room. Harold Blank, corresponding secretary of Kappa Alpha: Building a college dining hall for men will be unfair to freshmen because the probably in- creased board rate will raise their expenses. Robert Smudski, president Independent men: Too many freshman men rush into pledging because they need a place to eat. If Bethany fraternities are any more than glorified eating houses, the student union and dining hall will bring out those better qualities. Don Rosensteele, Beta Theta Pi: The student Union as a whole is all right, but the rule that makes it compulsory for freshman men to eat there will make it a glori- fied boarding house. Jean Short, president of Women ' s Associa- tion: As a student union, the plan is all right. And there is no denying that there is a problem of boarding for men. Dr. Reynard, who for first semester was fac- ulty resident at men ' s dormitory: It will be a boon to the college. Joe Caliguiri, Phi Kappa Tau treasurer: If it will be compulsory for freshman men to eat at the dining commons, the frater- nities will suffer from the loss of revenue from their dining rooms, as the majority of fraterni- ty boarders are freshmen. June Fiess, treasurer of Kappa Delta: All of us at Kappa Delta are in favor of it. We hope the new building will contain a small- ball room that groups could rent for a small fee, without a lot of red tape. Allan Dowler, treasurer of Kappa Alpha: Will be troublesome to fraternities, but the idea in completion including a gathering place for social functions, is all right. Robb Henry, lieutenant-commander Sigma Nu: A distinct advantage to nonfraternity and ADVICE ON COLDS By Norris Whitlock If you contract a cold, probably due to your own indiscretions, do not accept it quietly. Make a fuss. Wlien you cough give the impression that your lungs are being ripped apart. Put your hand on your chest and gasp. Contort your face into an expression of agony. When you sniffle and sneeze, do it noisily. Announce that unless you get relief, you are afraid you will smother. If you are in bed, toss from side to side and gi-oan. Let the world know that it is impossible to find a comfortable position. Assume the attitude that the cold is a grave injustice, that you are be ' ng punished for a crime you never committed. Demand in a loud voice why you should have been singled out for this brutal form of persecution. Show your impatience with those who attempt to sympathize. Snter at the remedies they offer. Explain that your ailment is far too deep seated to be cured by nostrms. Refuse to see a doctor, assert that doctors know no more about curing colds than you do. In this way you will save yourself from having to take some vile and ob- noxious doses. Announce that you have no appetite; that nothing tempts you. Perhaps by this means you might obtain a squab or sweetbreads or other delicacies seldom enjoyed. Complain of your nerves; describe how, in your condition, every noise is accentuated. Have the whole household walking- about tiptoe and whispEring Sh-h-h! By pui-suing this course you will put all of your critics on the defensive. You will have them feeling sorry for you, trying to think of ways to assuage your suffering. On the other hand, acceipt a cold patiently and you run tlie risk of being upbraided for keeping people awake, rebuked for catching the cold, and accused of the deliberate intention of giving your cold to everybody else. to those men undecided about pledging the first semester. It would help hold freshman men in college. Betty Schuller, president Phi Mu: Someplace for men and women to meet in the afternoon would be all right. Sometimes I wonder whether they do these new things for the students or for the prospective students. William Wells, president Beta Theta Pi: Only two fraternities will probably be able to maintain tables, but it will delay pledging until the second semester, which is better. PAGE NINE jANUAKY. I ' 41 You can ' t miss the Phi Mus on the campus. Last year ' s crop of initiated cardigans are thin- ning out, but alphabet soup pins and nig.cfr toe necklaces now make it impossible to mis- take one of us. You ' ll remember us too, if you ' ve ever been to the house and been fed hot tamales, for we ' re the group that has gone Mexican. We start out our year by a colorful Mexican rush party and keep up the pace all year with southwestern decorations at the house and sizzling feeds. Despite our foreign leanings and our geo- graphical location, we ' re a true Southern fra- ternity. Phi Mu was founded in Macon, Georgia, on March 4, 18 52. Since then it has expanded to sixty-one chapters. Although national- ly we are very old, in fact, the second oldest sorority, our chapter is only in its second year. The name our newly in- stalled chapter re- ceived last year — Beta Nu — is quite appropriate, w e think, for Bethany. Heading Beta Nu, blond President Bet- ty Jeanne Schuller capably keeps things in line. Petite Anna Laura Burke as vice pre,, dent is advisor for the twelve Phi Mu pledges. Mimi Strain is secretary and reporter, while Dot Jackson manages the finances. When pledges and actives gather around the piano on Sunday afternoons, song leader, Mary Lou Domres, sets the pitch. Another pledge in the limelight is Eleanor Gilmore, president of the group. Our desire for individuality rules again in our aim for the year. Why are things always done the same way, we wondered? Trying to break away from useless traditions, then, we began holding chapter meetings at 7:30 on PAGi; ti;n Di-fhlhlin ml uhcrc ni la ' l. Biuizrl nil iinkliHfi) arc Mimi SI Ult ' ksilll, Cinriil J vx. , ;, , fi(ri !,,,( esi- P H I M U By M. Strain and Phyllis Hendricksoii Tuesdays instead of the customary 9:30. It has proved a beneficial plan, with fewer sleepy actives at chapter meeting and more study possible afterwards. Another change is our re- placing of the conventional overworked social chairman for a social committee, appointed new each month. This seems to bring original- ity and pep into parties. Our benefit tea for the Red Cross was a venture in a new line, and we hope to try other ideas during the year. Nor do Phi Mu activities stop with the end of the school year. Last summer found the chapter in a cottage at Billow Beach near Gen- eva-on-the Lake. We had such fun and got such beautiful tans that we want to do it every year, and are already making plans for this sum- mer. In other words, summer and winter, all through the year — We ' re standing by our colors, rose and white. And Phi Mu, our fraternity. Facts of interest; Phi Mu is the second oldest secret organ- ization for women in the United States. Jefferson Davis, Stonewall Jack- son, and Robert E. Lee were honorary members of Phi Mu, and the only male mem- bers. The first Phi Mu pin was made from a $20 gold piece and was about three times larger than the pin used today. Phi Mu sponsors three philanthropies; a library for Kentucky mountaineers, a mutri- tion service for babies, medical service for needy children and adults suffering from tuberculosis in Georgia. Phi Mu loans thousands of dollars each year to help members continue their college career. v i,,, hunu-ltc Phi Mm (no ,- „ iiiii. Aiiiin- l.aiirii- Binkc. Dnrnlln DniiiYt- . JAN ' Uy KY. 194 1 PHI MU SENIORS Dorothy Jacksoi. Betty Jeanne Schuller M!mi Strain JUNIORS Dorothy Reynolds SOPHOMORES Irene Armstrong AngeUnc Bonessi Anna Laura Burke Jean Fraim Eleanor Gilmore Betty Narrigan FRESHMEN Margaret Abel Gloria Bass Margaret Blanck Mary Lou Domres Phyllis Hendrickson Jean MacLeod Ruth Rutherford Timmy Simpson Mary Elizabeth Smith Martha Stuart Open Motto — Les Soeures Fidcles Colors — Rose and White Flower — Enchantress Carnation Publication — Aglaia A Satire in Pictiiri-i. At top — How to Make an A , being enacted left to right by Jean McLeod, Betty Blank, Timmie Simpson, Eleanor Gil- more, Ruth Rutherford. Middle, gathered around the onija board, pantomiming Hon ' To Make a Date , are Irene Armstrong, Phyllis Hendrickson, Betty Narrigan, Mary Elizabeth Smith, Jean Fraim. Bottom, now showing, is a little skit that the girls call How to Lose Ten Pounds , with Martha Stewart, Dorothy Reynolds, Betty Schuller, and Angle Bonessi running through the pan- try supply. PAGE ELEVEN JANUARY. 1941 Estkanu li X ' tlm.atUu . . . EXAM WEEK (July film- of year ii hu Dciii Kirkjia rick ' s iJcolux ' iiil tlcurili- tioil of Bethany iivcth no proof is csaniination time. During week of faiiiiary 20. itiiJeii s liieJ primarily for ilinly aiiJ examinations. Reeoriling these brain exercises, photographer foinni KA, prexy Teil Golden stntlyiiiji. hut not alone. Note tiio photos of his inspiration. an ex-Bethany coetl, on desk. At Hcluig Hall, nubelieiahl tieat for such a hectic week, Ruth Moser and Dorothy Amey (back to camera) hooked for last day exams. Determined to maintain high grades that brought him to Bethany on a schol.irshilK freshman Bob Stealey works in Cochran Hall. People 111- ; used the library to study in- Beloii I ranees Thomas and Harry Miir ihy try a coofteratice exjteriment in education. The Clirricnlnni oierflowed into the Inn, iil)ere T.i a Delle Ati .Sir. «rr. Phyllis Balch. I.enore ' eil lr a quick relieii- All the booking led to examinations, mass testing in Room 34, indiiidnal quizzing like comparatiie anatomy, uherc Frank Long Inoics to Assistant Martin Reiler that he does know what ' s inside a e.il. PACK TWIXVE JANUARY. 1941 ' Saik am li P ' 1 1 mat I ■L WINGS OVER BETHANY Man of vision that he was, found- er Alexander Campbell probably never imagined that his beloved Bethany College would one day teach its students to fly through the skies as well as to leat through the Bible. But today, 100 years later, when men have discoverL=d that both their busmess and wars can be speeded up and made more efficient by airplanes, Bethany, with the U.S. Civil Aero- nautics Authority, plans to launch its first civilian pilot training pro- gram. With the coming of the second semester the ten landlubbers who arc accepted will find themselves spend- ing the days traveling from ground school at the college to flight school at the new Wheeling-Ohio County airport. Fledglings in the Civilian Pilot Training course will have to make it their major interest, for by June they will need to complete 72 hours of ground school work, and 3 5 to 5 hours flying instruction, depending on how apt they are at handling the 5 H. P. Cubs. The ground course, or theoretical part of the CPT, will be open to all students, whether they take the flight training or not Subjects for study in ground school, which will be taught by a CAA instructor and a Bethany faculty man, are: History of Flight, Theory of Flight, Civil Air Regulations, Nav- igation, Meteorology, Parachutes, Radio and Engines. As each subject is finished, the students take a written examination on that subject and the whole class moves On to the next one This part of the course should be finished by May 1, when the trainees will have worked off many of the 2 1 1 2 hours of dual flying and 1 3 Vii hours of solo flying required. Airminded President Cramblet, who for many months had hoped to make CPT available to Bethanians, advised prospective trainees not to carry more than 12 hours of other college work. But trainees, besides learning to fly, will receive three hours credit from the college for completing the primary course. Before the trainees receive their private pilot license, they must pass a written examination on the ground school courses. But they must also know how to fly. Not merely how to take-off and land, but funda- mentals like: Climbs and glides, stalls, spins, steep turns, figure eights, 180 degree approach, slips, and forced landings. And these Bethanians with wings will learn how to taxi a plane. They will learn how to taxi into the wind, taxi down wind, taxi cross wind, and taxi gusty air. Once they get their private pilot license, they may fly their own ship or a rented one, may take passengers (but not for pay), and may contin- ue to fly on that license, if they do so legally, as long as they are phv- s.cally and mentally competent. Because the federal government is paying for most of the CPT pro- gram, approximately $37,500,000 by July 1, 1941, Bethanians who take the course will have only $40 added to their bill from the bursar. Those who take the ground school only will have to pay out $30. When Bethany ' s ten trainees com- plete the CPT course Lite next spring or early in the summer, they will be part of the reservoir of 45,- 000 private pilots trained by CPT. Though enrollment in the CPT program does not commit the Beth- anian trainees to service in the army or navy, records show that about two out of every ten CPT trainees go on into military air service. Anxious to start earning their wings, the following Bethanians have been asking Dr. S. Sprigg Jacob whether they are physically fit, in- cluding 20-20, or normal vision, and have told President Cramblet that they want to fly: Irvin Charnock, Wilbur Cramb- let, Milton Esty, Robert Fritz, Rich- ard Glass, Dave Huntsberger, Irene Hutchison, Bill Loper, Betty Jane Narrigan, Bill Neimiann, Sanford Steinman, Stan Stitt, John Topping, Harry Wilson. NEW BOOKMAN Former librarian at Cotner Col- lege in Nebraska and bibliographer for the U. S. Department of Agri- culture regional office at Lincoln, Nebraska, Mr. Ernest W. Lundeen has bsen temporarily named overseer for Bethany ' s Carnegie bookstacks. At the University of Nebraska, where Mr. Lundeen graduated, he compiled hours as well as bibliogra- phies, earning majors in political science, sociology, and history. Continuing his education, he studied at the University of Illinois MR. ERNEST LUNDEEN library school, then on to graduate school at the University of Chicago. More than books does Mr. Lun- deen know. He has done publicity work and once taught journalism and news writing. He has been rec- ognized for his work in these fields, being elected to membership in Al- pha Phi Gamma honorarv journal- ism fraternitv, and Writers Guild of Nebraska. He also belongs to Pi Gamma Nu, honorary social science fraternitv which springs into life periodically on Bethanv ' s campus. For some time now Mr. Lundeen has been compiling a complete bib- liographv of all Disciple of Christ literature since the days of founder Alexander Campbell. When com- pleted. Disciple scholars will have at their fingertips a brief resume of all such articles, together with the name of the author. Miss Mary Cutlip, for s everal years assistant librarian, is now at her new position in the librarv at Universitv of North Carolina. PAGE THIRTEEN JANUARY. 1941 Si cience an d ealtk ALLEN TO SMASH ATOMS Choosini; to work on the cyclo- tron during sabbatical leave from Bethany Dr. John Allen, head of the physics department, is now at Ohio State University in Columbus, Un- DR. J. S. V. ALLKN der Dr. Marion L. Pool, Dr. Allen will delve into the use of the cyclo- tron and artifical radioactivity. Often referred to as the atom smasher , the cyclotron does just that by hurling the atomic particles against a target with such velocity that the nucleus of the atom shat- ters and causes radioactivity. The amount of force used to do this is shown in the following ana- logy given by Dr. Allen, If one saw a small boy laying a hickory nut on a railroad track so that the weight of a 200 ton engine would crack the nut one might think the boy was overdoing it. The physcist seems still more foolish because he uses a 200 ton engine to crack some- thing that weighs less than a ten thousand billion billionth of the weight of the nut. Dr. Allen further stated that with the cyclotron it may some day be possible to release enough energy from small quantities of pure uran- ium to drive a large ship for many months. He hopes for a f eaceful use of the new discoveries and abhors PAGF FOURTEEN the thought of their use in the de- struction of humanity. Well qualified in his field. Dr. Allen has been active in amateur radio and astronomy at Bethany. His summers have been spent in study at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Chicago. He is the author of several papers appearing in the West Vir- ginia Academy of Science publica- tion and an article in QST, the offi- cial publicaton of the American Radio Relay League. DAWSON A DOCTOR Hours of research on carbons went into the thesis that Professor H. D. Dawson wrote for his Doc- tor ' s degree in chemistry, granted by Ohio State University, Colum- bus, just before the new year. Title of Professor Dawson ' s thesis was DR. H. D. DAWSON Catalytic Oxidation of Activated and Non-activated Carbon. From Ohio State Dr. Dawson also received his M.A. His undergraduate work, taken at Dennison University, was interrupted by World War I, when he worked at the plants of Canadian Explosives, Ltd., in Que- bec. Returning from Canada after the war, Dr Dawson was for a while principal of the high school in his hometown of Haskins, O. Later he was superintendent of schools in Monclova, O. He came to Bethany in 1930. FLU DOWNS 117 Bethany College safely emerged from an epidemic of influenza which for two weeks riddled class attendance and confined a total of one hundred seventeen students to their beds The epidemic, which has been moving eastward from Honolulu across the continent at the rate of 5 miles a day for many months, hit Bethany College on the weekend of January 4 and 5, and then moved on. The two college nurses and the college doctor were among the first to be nipped with the disease, and college authorities were forced to se- cure the temporary services of ar. as- sistant nurse for several days until the regular staff recovered and were able to assume their regular duties once more. The first two days found the col- lege infirmary filled to capacity and quarantined; ensuing cases were con- fined to their own rooms, and fra- ternity and sorority houses took on the aspect of hospitals, with as many as twenty cases reported in a single fraternity house at one time. The total list of sick reached one hundred seventeen, as was stated by Miss Van Pelt, head nurse at the col- lege infirmary. Highest number of confinements on any one day was sixty-one. Strangely enough for such an epi- demic, only one ear complication was reported, and no cases of lung complication were reported. So un- common was this total absence of major complications arising from the influenza, that neighboring health authorities have expressed their acknowledgment of the man- ner in which the seige was treated at Bethany. Few schools or institutions have a more closely associated group of students than on the campus of Bethany, which makes all the more unusual the moderate student mor- tality rate. An interesting feature of the epi- demic was the fact that, while oth- er schools around here were closing their doors for the duration of the seige, Bethany did not, even though she did have a much larger percent- age of the total student body ill than did those other institutions that closed temporarily. Washington and Jefferson, Marshall, and Ohio State (Continued on P.ige 20) ■QtkUtlc 7tont6 FOUR MAN TEAM Result of driving Bethany ' s Bison to its most successful year since John J. Knight became head coach 1 1 years ago, Charles Chuck Hart can find his name listed on four All-something teams for the past gridiron season. Most evident honor in this section of the country was Chuck ' s being FULLBACK HART named on Pat Beacom ' s thirteenth annual All-West Virginia confer- ence team. Beacom, past president of the W. Va. Football Officials As- sociation, each year looks over the state ' s gridsters, culls out his best 12 (one extra for utility man), and pub ' icizes his boys far and wide. On this same team with Hart were Jackie Hunt, nation ' s leadmg scorer from Marshall College; Mar- chio, Glenville; Tatta, Fairmont; Jones, Wesleyan. Last two named teams were only ones to beat Bisons. On Beacom ' s second team was Bill Wells. On third team were Tom Cullison, Bud Kuhns. Stitt made honorable mention. When coaches of the W. Va. Athletic Conference picked their dream team, Hart and Hunt were again on the first team, Kuhns on second team. When Associated Press picked a Little All-America squad from small colleges all over U. S., Hunt hung on to a first team slot while Chuck made honorable mention. Beta Theta Pi fraternity, corral- ling an All-Beta team from football players in all the chapters, dared not overlook Bethany ' s 200 pound p ' unger, so put him on the first team, Morrill on the second All- Beta. THE LAST OF THE UNIONTOWN GANG Way back in the fall of 193 2, three cocky, fast-shooting kids were burning up the floor of the North Union high school in Uniontown, Pa. They were only on the freshman court squad, but knew damned well that next year they would be break- ing into the regular varsity lineup. But they didn ' t. With the nation choking from the depression stran- JANUARY. 1941 glehold, Uniontown schcjol officials cut out varsity basketball to save money. So Walter Kuhns, George Petroff, and Horace Taylor played only small time ball, Intermural stuff, in their sophomore year. But basketball came back to North Union high the next year. So the gang played together — on the varsity. In their senior year, they were champs. They worked right into the semi-finals of the Western (Continued on Page 18) BATTERED BISON Bethany ' s Bison are experiencing a near disasterous basketball season this year. With the season half over, Bethany has won two games and lost nine, dropping the last eight contests. Tommy Cullison is pacing the Bi- son scorers with 95 points. Trailing Cullison are Bob Alexander, 75 ponts; Dick Jackson, 60 points; Don Wolf, 5 7 points; Harold Tay- lor, 5 points; Jack Pryor, 45 points; and Norman Fair, 5 6 points. Following is a resume of scores of games played before February 6: Score Opponent Opp. Score 5 Hiram 18 31 Mt. Union 5 8 4 5 Capital 39 3 8 Salem 50 3 3 Wash Jeff. 52 19 ■ Glenville 76 46 Geneva 56 27 Westminster 54 3 8 Alderson-Broaddus 48 43 Davis Elklns 46 4 5 Fairmont 54 LAST NLAX TAYLOR 425 Totals 551 Coiiclj Knight talks to a sqn.tj ih-pli ' fed by cwiniiiutioii ttcck uorrics- PAGE FIFTEEN JANUARY. 1941 l i5ttot5 on tke ampu5 EXPERT ON FAITHS On Bethany ' s cimpus for only two days. Dr. John Clark Archer, Hoober Professor of Comparative Religion at Yale University, made DR. JOHN CLARK ARCHER two major addresses, one informal t. ' .lk, and attended a reception at the Heights. But more than this, he scattered some of his vast knowledge of re- ligion in the world, increasing Beth- any ' s awareness of Hinduism one evening, and telling how he felt about democracy and Christianity the next day in chapel. Author of many works, including Faiths Men Live By , now used at Bethany as a textbook. Dr. Archer advanced the novel idea that the different religious groups of the world would get along better if they exchanged official ambassadors as na- tions do, instead of trying to con- vert the followers. Striking against dictatorship. Dr. Archer said that the only kind of totalitarianism that we need is an enlightened view of the individual in relation to the whole. In his convocation talk. Dr. Arch- er said that our ideas and institu- tions are undergoing a serious test, and he recommended that the people must find ways of bettering the in- dividual man, so that the race will improve. Most of Dr. Archer ' s chapel talks skipped around on the relation of PAGE SIXTEEN Ciiristianit) ' and democracy. If each person would develop an intelligent and sacrificial sympathy, he thinks, the democratic state would become so unified that it would have little to fear from the regimented nations. Democracy recognizes that each individual has a varying worth. It is this fact that, paradoxically, gives the democratic system both its strength and weakness, according to Dr. Archer. There are flaws in Christianity Dr. Archer admits. It would help if Christianity were to take an apprai- sal of the non-Christian religions, and discover some of the worthwhile elements in those other religions. For instance, he drew on his vast knowledge to point out how demo- cratic Mohammedanism is within its own realm. This is an element that other religions might investi- gate, he inferred. Most like a travelogue was Dr. Archer ' s first talk, made in the eve-- ning at Commencement Hall. Con- fining himself entirel - to Hinduism, of all of India ' s religions. Dr. Arch- er said that Mahatma Gandhi is the most typical Hindu of recent years. Gandhi will have enough influence to keep India ' s 23 5,000 000 Hindus from making trouble for England, Dr. Archer believes. Hinduism sustains the individual better than any other religion, claims Dr. Archer, who served with the British army in World War I. And it is the so-called caste system that has sustained Hinduism so long and will sustain it. SCIENCE AHEAD Atter the present European war IS over aeroplanes will become as common as automobiles because aeroplane production will be geared to such mass production, so pre- dicted Dr. Gerald Wendt, former dean of science at Penn State. As- serting that we must educate for the future. Dr. Wendt spoke to one of the largest lecture course audiences of the present season. Well worthy of their attendance was his carefully combined mixture of science and sociology. Dr. Wendt opened his lecture by re affirming the oft repeated state- ment from science that mankind is yet socially unable to adapt it- self to the rapid advances of science. He predicted a golden age of living about 2,000 A.D. He believes that sixty or seventy years from now such advances will have been so great that our present living condi- tions will be considered unthink- able. A series of sterescopic slides were presented to the audience after Dr. Wendt had explained how the three demensinal projector operated. The projected immages assumed, to the delight of the audience, their reput- ed life like appearance. Each picture was accompanied by a brief explan- ation of its subjects The subjects in- cluded electrical, chemical and bi- ological laboratories, and views of America the beautiful. Following his lecture Dr. Wendt explained many synthetic products which, he predicted, may replace the natural sources soon. Impregnable, raincoats, Nylon, artificial velvet, perfumes and poison gasses were shown to those desiring an encore. Dr. Wendt, himself, is an author- ity on almost any field of science he DR. GERALD WENDT might choose to speak on. After his deanship at Penn State he accepted the task of planning and arranging for the science exhibits at the New York World ' s Fair. These exhibits included both the natural and phy- sical fields. During the fair he was director of education. At present he is touring the country speaking before colleges, universities and pri- vate groups. JANUARY. 1941 u licationi BETTER OR VERSE? Quite different from his first book, the thick, fact-filled Gener- al Biology , is Dean Bernal R. Wei- mer ' s second publication, Nature Smiles in Verse. The result of many years interest in humorous verse on biological topics, the new, thin, red-bound volume contains whimsical poems from such notable scriveners as Ge- lett Burgess, Arthur Guiterman, Strickland Gillilan, and even Bret Harte and old Jonathon Swift. Printed at the Waverly Press in B.iltimore, the Dean ' s venture into light literature is described as a sprightly and enjoyable collection indeed with some good ones that were unknown to me by Professor Richard Armour, Wells College, Aurora, N. Y. Typical of the anthology is the little piece tabbed Paramecium. Picked by one commentator as the cleverest verse in the book, it was written by Bethany graduate Bobby Murray, class of 1940, who did the illustrations. First two verses of Miss Murray ' s poem go like this: Oh, lovvlv Paramecium snnple, Is that a vacuole or dimple? Alack — I find no oral grooves — Therefore to study, it me behoves. I INTERESTING BETHANIAN g All great people have their I hobbies. The Duke of Wind- P sor knits, Pres. Roosevelt col- H lects stamps and Hilda Sar- = vcr collects rogue ' s gal- g lery. Only pictures eligible H for this collection are those % of ex-men. These are men g out of any woman ' s past % which she has either ditch- I ed or been ditched by and % whose pictures she has been = too sentimental to throw I away. Hilda plans to exhibit % the collection in the hobby J show and will welcome any 1 contributions. She will even I hold open her files until five % minutes before exhibiting I them in case of any last I mmute fights. H In her freshman year Hilda I made straight A ' s and had to ■ P take constitutional government to fill up her time. In her sophomore % I year she became secretary to the chemistry department, president of 1 I the Kappa Deltas and also president of the Panhellenic Association. In 1 m those two years she also executed on the board of the Woman ' s Asso- 1 I ciation. In her junior year she made Who ' s Who in American Col- 1 I leges. That is Hilda up to date — there ' s no telling what she ' ll make 1 B in her senior year. g J When biing interviewed Hilda stressed two things. I hate par- 1 I snips, and I am against war. These sound like merelv negative B H statements, but they must be the secrets of Hilda ' s success. | HILDA SARVER DEAN BERNAI. R- WEIMER Com l iirt-s new hook with ovigiitiil Murray sketches- .llllllllllllilll Oh, slipper-shaped Infusoria classic, Why are your movements so elastic? You rest not still beneath my lens. Your cilia fill me with suspcns(e). Dean Weimer, who is spending much of his current sabbatical leave bringing out a revised edition of his textbook, even has several of his own pieces in his book of bi- illogical verse. Concerning Insect Insense the good Dean says: How happy is the lowly skunk Who never burns mosquito punk; Whose perfume pungent keeps at bay All insect pests which come his way. OLD BETHANY IN A NEW BOOK The natural setting of Bethany College appealed over-poweringly to the young student from the West as it would to anvbodv. In the foot- hills of the Allcghenies, real moun- tains in fact, where three states meet, Ohio, Pennsylvania and i. ' ' est Virginia, it looked down upon the valley of ' la belle riviere ' , the beau- tiful River, the Ohio where the stream for the most part flowed blue, clear, unspoiled except for oc- casional factories. So begins the college chapter in Where My Caravans Have Rested latest book by Burris Jenkins, class 1891. Jenkins, was Commencement speaker for the class of 1940, last spring. He is a prominent Kansas City, Missouri, minister, and form- er editor of the Dcuicr Post. In this story of his life he men- tions arriving at Bethany where one wing of the great structure (old Society--Halls, where Oglebav Hall now stands) was in ruins, fire had gutted it, monev could not be found to rebuild it, and ivy had grown over the standing walls. In- deed, everybody spoke of this wing as the ruins. PAGE SEVENTEEN J.WL ' ARV. 194 1 On Otket (?c am. ipu5e5 Up .u HARVARD UNIVERSI- ternity, revived Our Town, TY, ornithologists are chasing sea- Thornton Wilder ' s 193 8 Pulitzer gulls by airplane in an attempt to Prize play, this month, gather information on the excep- So successful were the collegians tional homing-instinct of these when they did the play last summer birds. that people wanted to see it again. UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTI- CUT, at Storrs (Mr. Gould once taught there) , reports a decline in both French and German courses, but more than 100 per cent increase in Spanish course enrollments. University officials say increased interest in Spanish has come because students believed U.S. -Latin-Ameri- can relations will be much closer in the future. (See October Bcthauian, p. 18, for shift in Bethany language interest.) From campus of INDIANA STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE, Tcrre Haute, Dr. G. Isaac, philoso- phy head reports college students are more disturbed by family troubles than by any other worries, including their own love affairs. Grades of many good students dropped when parents at hom e were breaking up. Dr. Isaac found. Students bothered with family affairs are difficult to reason with. Dr. Isaac found. One good common sense discussion usually solves trou- bles of collegians jittery over love affairs, which are the second biggest cause of low grades. Third biggest worry of collegians IS over money matters. Dr. Isaac found. YALE UNIVERSITY, at New Haven, Conn., beginning its 240th year, has opened Silliman College, completing its group of 10 under- graduate colleges as planned. Planned for 2 50 students, the new college was named for Benjamin Silliman of the class of 1796, pioneer in scientific education and professor of chemistry and geology at Yale from 1802 to 18 J8. Filmer S. C. Northrop, long-time professor of philosophy at Yale, has been named master of Silliman Col- lege. The CONCORD STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE, Athens, W. Va., chapter of Alpha Psi Ome- ga, national honorary dramatic fra- PAGE EIGHTEEN At the UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN, at Ann Arbor, Dr. Walter B. PiUsbury, psychologist, says that the father ' s I.Q. could be used for the son ' s college entrance examination. The psychologist found in a sta- tistical study that the difference be- tween the father ' s grades and his son ' s is comparable to the relative scholastic achievements of the son in high school and in college. One of his conclusions in the stu- dy was that the government should give financial aid to intelligent cou- ples so that they might produce in- telligent offspring. At SALEM COLLEGE, Salem, W. Va., a major is now open for those who have artistic inclinations. Beginning in 1942, graduates will be able to obtain the degree of bachelor of arts with a major in art. THE LAST OF THE UNIONTOWN GANG (Continued from Page 15) Pennsylvania high school tourna- ment. When the gang graduated from high school, it looked as though it was going to break up. That fall Horse stayed home while Bud and Petie came to Bethany Col- lege. By fall of 1937, Petroff had convinced Taylor to come to Beth- any. But still the gang wasn ' t to- gether, because Kuhns had broken a hand playing football and stayed out of college. Together again in 1938-39, ' Bud and ' ' Petie at forward, and Horse alternating at center and forward, the Bisons had their last tolerable season. The Uniontown gang had hit its pace. Came spring, came love and graduation for Petroff. Came fall, but Bud had lost varsity-or-noth- ing spirit. Horse marks the end of a little era. FOR THE COMPLEXION Do you want a clear radiant complexion — A smooth, velvety skin? Try LILY CREAM It affords protection against all weathers. Use it daily to keep that fresh, healthy look. Ask your Druggist for LILY CREAM CLARK PAPER CO. ■WHEELING, W. VA. ' A paper for every purpose Compliments of B. O. CRESAP SONS Building Materials WELLSBURG, W. VA. GEO. R. TAYLOR CO. WHEELING, W. VA. Fashions for Juniors Misses and Women Visit us — - Betty Coed and Joe College KEYSTONE SHOE STORE 98 7th St., Wellsburg, W. Va. I Aeatet LONG LIVE SHAKESPEARE! Come February 22 and Com- mencement Hall stage will feel the tread of real buskins as Alpha Psi Omega, national honorary dramatic fraternity, attempts to do justice to the Bard of Avon ' s Twelfth Night. First dramatic production of the new year, and supposedly the best collegian offering. Alpha Psi ' s piece will be the first Shakespeare done at Bethany since spring of 1937, when Taming of the Shrew was enacted. Quarter of a century ago, Shakespeare was not so neglected here. At that time Professor Anna Ruth Bourne, now emerita, had hundreds of persons traveling to Bethany in the spring to witness Shakespeare played on an outdoor stage between Oglebay Hall and Pendleton Heights. Rehearsals for Twelfth Night , which will be the third major dra- matic production of the year, began shortly after vacation, after fra- ternity members haggled indecisive- ly on the choice of a play. Under consideration at one time or an- other were Passing of the Third Floor Back , Pygmalion , Win- terset , Barclay Square , Arms and the Man , and Hotel Uni- verse. IN TIME OF SORROW As a ti ' iiid-tosscd reed To the morning sun Uplifts its bead, So I to solitude Tor healing, turn. By Florence Nicholas LETTER TO THE EDITOR Dear liditor: Beneath the seemingly gay and carefree attitude, of the students on our campus there is a realization that the time in col- lege is a period of preparation- The chief worry as I recall, am I taking the right courses; am I studying the important sub- jects or studying the ones wc do select correctly- I speak not of those gifted indi- viduals who arc able to step directly from the campus to a place in the field for which he prepared, but of those who must take what ere chance might offer- What then, if a college education does not prepare us for a professional career, might we expect from it? College should awaken us to the surrounding world; it should deepen our sympathies, extend our appreciative senses, enable us to meet on the plane the intellectuals of all ages; enable us to live creatively, to be socially alive, to be tolerant in a world of passion and in- tolerance- When we leave the college community, we too often enter a community where we do not have a common interest or means of expression. We quit punning for a pun is not recognized or the phrasing is not known to our hearers We are met in a depressing number of mstances with envy or dislike. In attempting to learn a job. it is made difficult because our fellow workers who have been on the job for a longer period of time, refuse to give us needed information. They seem to feel that being a college graduate, we should have all knowledge at our command- This attitude I feel is due to a miscon- ception of a college in the mind of the out- sider- They seem to think that a college is lome mystic place where knowledge and facts comes to the student by his mere presence- The departmentalization, the specializa- tion of knowledge, the ditficulties of presen- tation and retention have no place for con- sideration in the mind of the adverage non -college individual- I did not have the intention of being pessimistic, but have attempted to record for you something of the attitude of the industrial workers toward the college grad- uate. With the following bit of advice to all who leave the campus. I must close- Realize that the man who has been on the job three, five or ten years knows what he is doing or at least knows how it is to be Phillips Hall Uses FORT HENRY MEATS Supplied by THE WEIMER PACKING COMPANY WHEELING, W. VA. JANUARY. 1941 done Ask his advice in such a manner as to play on his ego. Do not attempt to im- press your fellow workmen- They have methods of putting you in your place and so many times theory has little or no rela- tion — ship [o the practical application- Respect fully yours. William D- Murray- TAILURE Reaching up. Straining every muscle. Eager, stretching, wishing, reaching, Yet unable to attain. Wondering, daunted, doubting. Slipping just a little Sinking down and backwards. Into cjuicscence. Bv Mimi Strain L THE OWL PRINT SHOP The best is none too good for you. Stationery Dance Programs MARKET ST. WHEELLXG Compliments of WELLSBURG BANKING AND TRUST COMPANY Photograph Supplies RAWLING ' S OPTICIANS, INC. 62 Twelfth Street WHEELING. W. VA. ROBERT RAWSTHORNE COMPANY Bethanian Engravers Heeren Bldg. Pittsburgh, Pa. JEBANAS Are the best bananas money can buy. Look for the blue and white label. JEBBIA-METZ CO. une Main St. Wheelincr, W.Va. P. GE XIXETEEX I WUARY. I ' MI TOMORROW— In tomorrow of the future As our thoufrhts leap back, We will make vindictive jest And many a subtle crack. Soothinjj: time will only soften, Not erase our chaff, But the things that rankle now Will only make us lauprh. Petty profs with petty problems, Giving F ' s to fit the curve; Snooty snips with silly snickers Ego, smugness, nerve. Beefing Bursar, bales of bills; Doubtful doctor, peddling pills; Princely Prexy, wielding whip; Doleful Deans, lashing lips; Clinging couples, checking clocks; Many matrons, latching locks. And yet, my pet — As we look back in memory At the tower against the sky We ' ll have a soft spot In our hearts For Beth ' ny ' Till we die. By Decker and the boys. FLU DOWNS 117 (Continued from Pjgc 14) were among the institutions that suspended school activities. Postponement of several college functions, a lecture course, and eve- ning Church services marked the epidemic. TWO VERSE PICTURES By Ruth Swartz TREASURE . . . S niighf anil nifblcss, the tortoise comb Uiitiimblcs the tangled uaics, Till the hair lies like a sheaf of gold On the ivory of her face. EIRST SNOW . . . Faces like rose-petals crumpled, Wild hair, a dark tangled mass, Suddenly quiet, the children Watch the first snow through the glass. SILENCE So many wonders are achieied in silence. The daicn drifts quietly from nights long arm. The rose breaks into blossoming thru silence. The stars come from tlie dark with- out alarm. The beautiful and good are wrought in silence. Perhaps we icould do well to culti- late This mood of Nature, knowing that in silence We may augment our strength, and dream, and wait. N.H.W. HinSTAK eZ WAV FIRST CLASS TRAVEL RATES Pittsburgh - Steubenville - Wheeling - Columbus Charter Bus Service — Anywhere, Anytime Union Bus Depot, 16th Market St., Wheeling, Phone 624 General Office: St. Clairsville, Ohio — Phone 113 Conn Band Instruments Steinway Pianos Hammond Organs C. A. HOUSE CO. WHEELING, W. VA. 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Everything for the Office PRINTING - ENGRAVING Lithographing - Office Furniture Machines, Equipment Supplies 910-914 Fifth Avenue HUNTINGTON, W. VA. The Student ' s Store L. S. GOOD CO. WHEELING, W. VA. On the state armory at my home town there is a bronze plaque that reads: Roll of Honor In Memory of those Loyal Men who gave their lives in the World War Then follows a list of names in neat, raised letters. The United States of America is at war. Congress has not declared v ar. No army or navy casuality lists are being printed in the newspapers But the United States is at war with the Axis. The formal declaration will come later, after a number of Amer- ican ships have been sunk with car- goes of munitions for Englnad. Some time last fall, Mr. Roose- velt promised that he would do all in his power to keep the United States out of war. More recently, he prom- ised that, by aiding the Allies to de- feat the Axis, the people of these United States would have none of the fighting to do. History runs in cycles. It doesn ' t run in twenty year cycles. It runs in century-long cycles. Yet there is a parallel between Mr. Roosevelt ' s re-election and that of Mr Wilson. The He kept us out of war slogan helped Mr. Wilson no end when he applied for a second term. Although the neutrality law is still in effect, the United States gov- ernment has definitely violated it by equipping belligerant vessels of war. One advantage of keeping the law in effect is that the government will have a monopoly on the sale of war materials to the Allies. But is it wise for the United States government, under the guise of expediency , to violate one of the laws passed by Congress? If citizens violated laws and then pleaded expediency , they would be prosecuted. During World War I citizens fought, died to make the world safe for democracy and to save civilization. Are the essentials fac- tor of this war any different? Would we accomplish anything by giving our lives to defeat Fascism? How soon will there be another bronze plaque on that armory, read- ing: Roll of Honor In memory of those Loyal Men who gave their lives in World War 11 ? GEO. E. STIFEL CO. Wheeling ' s Friendly Store Drink . . . cm IN BOTTLES Try JEM-POLISH .JEM-WAX And don ' t forget We do Long Distance Moving J. E. MILLER TRANSFER AND STORAGE CO. WHEELING, W. VA. PHOTO ENGRAVERS LITHOGRAPHERS JOB PRINTING WHEELING NEWS LITHOGRAPHING CO. 1.5th at Main Street WHEELING, W. VA. BETHANY COLLEGE BOOK STORE for your COLLEGE BOOKS and SUPPLIES Lower Corridor Try it — BLAKE ' S ICE CREAM Unexcelled 96 Sixteenth Street Phone 1746 WHEELLVG, W. VA. FOR WONDERFUL FOOD ACKER ' S In Wheeling 1220 Market Street PAGE T k-EXri ' -OXE MARION HUTTON in Glenn Miller ' s Moonlight Serenade, broadcasts . . . Copynght 1911, Licgett Mvers Tobacco Co- Ihere ' s a greater demand than ever for Chesterfields. Smokers who have tried them are asking for them again and again, and for the best of reasons... Chesterfields are cooler, better-tasting and definitely milder. Chesterfields are made for smokers like yourself ... so tune in now for your 1941 smoking pleasure. XXXII No. 5 FEBRUARY, 1941 THIS ISSUE Swamping in Africa Freshman Class Pictures If Please You Mast FEBRUARY. I ' M 1 One Minute JlectutQ outie «■ ! ' (} Iiatc is nil Id Hiidrrstiiml and (il liou; i Cliiiui is old, her iir criis arc mil v ' hiird. Two drops of wisdom from the l.ind of Confucius, as spoken tluring lecture course b - I.id journ.dist Helena Gin-Chiu Kou. Tl ' crr is mil) one any li insure a satisfaclory life, no mailer whal may come, ami thai is to become a thinker. Professor E. E. Roberts in his annual psychology-tinted Chapel talk. Elnninale tolerance, and free- dom of lh iu;j,l]l, ediicalion, religion and home life, and ll-ie word ' democ- racy ' becomes a mere sljihholelli. We arc in the Darl: Ai es Aii ain. Dean Weimer, addressing an Amer- ican Legion Auxihar ' banquet. By l jc year 2000, which is only 60 years away, pcolilc will consider (iiir way of life imfwssiblc. Scientist Gerald Wendt, on a recent lecture course. It ' s a story y in mi;J.il read will) a little more care, or a study you mii lit read. Dr. Alexander to one of his freshman English classes aft- er a discussion on an assigned short story. Watch Your Minutes Expert Watch and Clock Repairing. Will call for and deliver PHILIP R. BAUM Phone Bethany 2031 after 6;00 P. M. THIS MONTH ' S PICTURES ON THE COVER With the approach of spring and days of bright sunshine, light and shadow will inlay striking patterns on the Corridor. Such natural chia- rascuro, dear to the heart of every photographer, was caught on this month ' s cover by Mr. George Massey, a Bethany graduate from Beaver Falls, Pa. Page three — Janet Johnston Page eight — Zamsky Studios Page nine — Zamsky Studios Page ten — Irv Shlansky Page eleven — Irv Shlansky Page twelve — News Bureau Page thirteen — Dave Huntsberger Page fourteen — Peter Johnson Page fifteen — Top, Irv Shlansky; center, Irv Shlansky; bottom, Dave Eluntsberger Page sixteen — All photos by Irv Shlansky. MOVIES March 7 — Babes in Arms March 14 — Honeymoon for Three March 21 — South of Suez March 26 — Northwest Passage April 4 — Another Thin Man April 1 8 — Shop Around the Corner April 2 5— Balalaika May 2 — Young Tom Edison May 9 — New Moon Ma)- 16 — Edison The Man May 2 3 — Andy Hardy Meets Debu- tante May 30 — Bittersweet Jime 6 — Boom Town Content 5 One Minute Lecture Course 2 Movies 2 Swamping in Africa 3 If Please You Must 5 Red Ink (Short Short Story) 6 Freshmen Portraits 8-9 Short Features Rain 4 Fooey (Satire) 7 Interesting Bethanian 14 News Perspective Bethany is Primarily . . . 12 Religion 13 Publications 14 Visitors on the Campus 15 Social Whirl 16 On Other Campuses 17 Music 18 Editorial 21 EDITOR: John Costanza ' 42 BUSINESS MANAGER: Wayne Burdue ' 41 EDITORIAL BOARD: Bert Decker ' 41, William Rutter ' 41, Myfan- wy Strain ' 41 MANAGING EDITORS: Lewis Deer ' 43, David Huntsberger ' 43 CONTRIBUTORS: Archie Conn ' 43, Stanley Brown ' 44, Phyllis Hendrickson ' 44, Irene Jassen Bernicc Monczynski ' 44, Nellie Mcllvain ' 43, Betsy Ann Plank ' 44, Robert Runk ' 44, William Young ' 44. BUSINESS ASSISTANTS: George Sitock ' 43, Jack Baumgartner ' 44 Evelyn Baxter ' 43, Marjorie Hunter ' 44, Mariah Smith ' 43 Brflmnitni, a ni3t;a .ine of features and photographs, pub- class matter on January 14. 1920. at the Post Office at Bethany, lished each month from October through May by the Student W. Va-. under the Act of March 1. 1879- Subscription price: Board of Publications of Bethany College- lintered as second Four dollars the year. Volume XXXII. Number 2. PAGE TWO FEBRUARY. 1941 Swamping in Africa By I a lie I jo jinton Splosh! Oh dear, now look at me! 1 moaned as I picked myself up from the big puddle of mud- dy water and stood gazing ruefully at my wet shirt and breeches, clean only that morning. The missionary nurse and the three native boys who were with us hastened to me, inquir- ing if I were hurt; but when they found that my pride was more injured than my bones, they laughed long and heartily at the bedraggled spectacle I made. The amusement of the others was contagious and I soon co uld laugh at myself; resigned meanwhile that since I had to fall in the mud it was cer- tainly much more interesting to fall i n African mud than any other. The next thing was to find some clean wa- ter t o wash the worst of it off with, for African mud is no exception and is dirty. That I soon accomplished. We were standing in the shadows of an Afri- can swamp, deep in the interior of the Belgian Congo and about a hundred and fifty miles from our mission station. Around us pressed the tall trees, the bushes, and the tangled vines which make up a typical forest; but this was more than a forest. It was partly swamp and we had been wading through mud and water since eight that morning. It was now around noon, but so tightly in- terwoven were the tree tops that it seemed more nearly like evening. The vines not only clambered up, down, and between the trees, but also hung down in our path, slapping us provokingly in the face at times as we slopped along through the mire. I voiced the fact that it was time to eat, whereon we chose a particularly nice log to sit T jc on and opened our wicker lunch basket be- tween us. In a few minutes we were all munch- ing sandwiches that were the best I had ever eaten, even if they were slightly mudd) ' in flavor. I hadn ' t minded crossing the river that morning in a tiny canoe which sank into the water so far that the water was only a little lower than an inch from the top, and from which the water had to be scooped con- stantly because of two bad leaks; or wading mud and water for four hours immediately upon reaching the other side. That had been adventure de luxe, and rather fun. But falling on my face in several inches of slime was anything but thrilling especi- ally when I was very hungrv, wet, and chilly. ' As though that were not enough excitement for one day, that afternoon I near- ly received another and more dangerous dunk- ing. For several hours we had been walking steadily on a pole bridge, when suddenly we came to the end. Ahead of us were several yards of dirty water, debris floating about on the surface. Then came the main river, over which were suspended shakily two poles and a vine. There being nothing else for us to do if we were to cross that day, we dropped off the edge of the good bridge into the water. Down, down, my feet kept going, and not until the water was high around my shoulders did my feet touch bottom. It took my breath away for a minute. We waded through the floating twigs to the other make-shift bridge. The nurse insisted that I cross first, so I hoisted myself onto the two poles in a kneeling position, and grasped the vine with one hand and the slippery poles (Continued on P.ige 4) PAGE THREE uhiih litre siiipiiiJcd s nikih t ' lo jtola jiiJ j ihi, very FEBRUARY. 1941 RAIN B orrh Wbitlock Rain sometimes comes down in bucketfuls. That is a good thinj;, because then there is no question that it is raining. But all too often it comes down a drop at a time, as though it could not make up its mind. Tliat is a bad thing, be- cause it prevents you from making up your mind. Most people are notorious cowards in making up their minds whether it is raining or not. They feel what they think are raindrops, and go around asking other people whether they have felt raindrops. And the people who are asked make guarded replies. They don ' t want to be reproached for giving misleading information. So while the rain is making up its mind you have to wait to make up your mind whether to take an umbrella, raincoat and rubbers, or whether to call up and say that it is so threat- ening you think you had better not come, or whether to risk yourself, unprotected, against the elements. You might, of course, trust neither your friends or yourself and seek official information from the weather bureau. But nobody knows what was done with the newspaper, and if you turn on the radio, you are quite likely to get a military band or an engagement ring on the de- fended payment plan, rather than the weather bulletin. And even should you get the weather report you don ' t feel like trusting it. If you are optimistic, you may shortly find yourself soaked to the skin. If you are pessimis- tic, you may find yourself lugging umbrella, raincoat and rubbers and likewise soaked to the skin — with perspiration and probably leaving them in places where they will never be recov- ered. And so, as you hold out the palm of your hand in the air and wait to see if it feels damp, you are likely to express the wish that you could place some reliance in the old proverb which declares, without valid reason, that, It never rains, but it pours. Illlllllllillllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllillllllllllllllllllllilllllllllll ahead of me with tlie other, I crawled half way over safely. Then I very foolishly looked down at the inadly whirling waters and almost lost my hold. There I was, less than a foot above deep swift currents, and with only two wet poles under me and one very unsubstantial vine to hold onto. If I had slipped just a little, I would have plunged into that flood to go swirhng away forever like a large stick that just float- ed by. I shut my eyes to close out those dizzy, foamy water. I became conscious that our men were calling to me to keep moving; so I began my crawl forward once more, to reach the oth- er side with untold relief. To our joy everyone piiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiy I crossed safely, and we continued through the 1 swamp. I For three more hours we labored through 1 that swamp; and as we plodded along we were 1 too intent on watching the winding trail ahead I of us to carry on much conversation. I could 1 not help but compare that p articular swamp I to others we had crossed on former trips 1 through the country back of our mission sta- I tion. 1 Like most of the swamps in the region, this 1 one was not a single one but one of a chain. All = the swamps were alike in that they consisted i of one main stream. The land surrounding it 1 would be at times covered with water, and at 1 times merely soggy. Across the main streams 1 we usually found very good bridges made of 1 many small poles tied side by side with vines 1 and laid across larger poles which were elevat- I ed several feet above the water. Through the 1 surrounding swamp, the bridges were, for the = most part, merely several parallel logs laid end 1 to end, and occasionally covered with packed 1 ant-hill clay for safer travel. 1 The ease with which any of them were tra- 1 versed depended on the season of the year, ■ whether it were rainy or dry, and on the ambi- I tion of the villagers and how well they kept J the bridges in repair. 1 The worst swamps I have ever experienced i were along the Njwi river, one of the narrow- I est, deepest, and swiftest in Central Africa. I Even in the dry season, the river spreads out i deep into the forest; but during the rainy i weather, the water rises so high that it washes I out the bridges and makes the river almost im- 1 passible. When we crossed we were the last to do so at that point for a number of weeks, be- cause the rainy season had just begun. This trip and two others that I made through the back country with the nurse will always afford me pleasant memories, even when I am old and gray. And wherever I may be, the native word, hofcviihoji, will call up be- fore my eyes many familiar pictures. I will see native men swinging boxes of can- ned food, camp cots, and our other equipment between them on poles from their shoulders, and singing out their stories as they jog along. I will see the men who acted as our bike boys and carried us, as well as the bikes, over many bad spots. I will recall hot, dirty, one-street villages with the children and dogs who would (Continued on P.Tge 20) I ' . ' XCt. FOLK FEBRUARY. 1941 If Please You Must By I II nice We women are conforming creatures. We are out more or less, to please the Males, our Masters, but we have a Motive. We conform to please merely to be able to wrap them around our itty bitty fingers so they will con- form. The males try the same thing. Vicious circle, n ' est-ce pas? The editor desired to give us girls a break so he sent me out on a survey to find out just what the males desire in the Bethany coed. Read and take heed, girls, and get your man. I found it very surprising but the male sex IS just as interested in a girl ' s appearance as the girls themselves. In fact, in spite of the con- troversy concerning the subject, the Pi Kappa Tau boys seem to know what they like and dis- like pertaining to the wearing apparel of the average Bethany coed. So here goes, girls — and please, be able to take it. Eugene Keckley may be a ministerial student but that does not mean that he is blind, or does not notice what is or isn ' t par excellence in sports costumes. He prefers plain shirts with a sweater of a blending shade such as red and grey, beige and green or yellow and brown. He likes plain sweater-necks, and sometimes white collars but never necklaces with saddle shoes and anklets. And before I forget — he likes clcciii saddle shoes with clcmi shoe-laces, (par- don me while I clean my shoes.) He likes both stockings and high heel shoes, and saddles and anklets with skirts and sweaters. The mannish suits also have a place — a good place in his esti- mation. Brightly colored Ski suits look nice against the snow while plaid jackets and jod- phurs look nice on a horse. (He means on a girl on a horse.) Shorts are preferred for tennis and other outdoor sports. Incidently, most of the Phi Tau ' s like red — and just what male doesn ' t? Tony Pinto burst forth with his version of what a well-dressed college girl should be. For him, all coeds are well-dressed for dates, even- ing and Sunday, if they appear in silk stock- ings and high-heels. (And a dress, of course) He prefers brunettes to wear white, and blondes to dress in the dark shades. (Editor ' s note: How about redheads?) He likes a white blouse with a dubonnet or a black velveteen skirt. He doesn ' t care much for hats especially Cooper the new fads. After seeing the girls dressed all week in sport outfits and saddle shoes, he likes to view his date a little more dressed up. He considers a wool dress or perhaps a jersey or silk, nice. It is nice to see Bethany on Sunday with the girls dressed for dinner and the boys dressed for church — even if they didn ' t make it! said Tony chuckling. Remember Tony is a New Yorker. Thank you. Phi Tau ' s. We will t ry our best to meet the expectations. Stopping on the Sigma Nu doorstep I en- countered two of the boys , Harry Lammert and Norris Whitlock. We discussed personal- ity. Harry proceeded to outline his dream- girl . First of all, it does not matter if she is light or dark, blonde or brunette. That is good news because now we all have a chance. The outdoor type is preferred but he would rath- er she be outdoors in summer and indoors in winter. She should be sweet but not to sweet. She must be full of life and pep. Then too, he likes those who date for fun — for a good time. The serious type and the pin element are out. A good conversationalist is necessary — especi- ally in Bethany. If anyone wishes to date for the reasons given, just call Harry Lammert — Bethany 2391. Naturally Norris Witlock is a little preju- diced right now, but then he did have his ideal in his mind. Now it seems to be an actuality. He too likes a good conversationalist with lots of pep and vitality but she must be sensible. She should have her serious side. As Norris says It is fun to have fun, yet there are times when a boy needs a friend Vi ' ho will sympathize and understand, and be there when needed the most. As a whole, the coeds are happy-go- lucky, yet when needed their entire personal- ity changes. Now we know why the white star shines so brightly. Have you ever sat in the b.ack of chapel and noticed all the different hair styles ot the girls? everyone is different. I thought that the Kap- pa i lph ' s would find it dilhcult to state their preference, but it was a definite fixture in their minds. D ick Wells likes blondes with a long blonde bob. No short hair cuts for him. He likes it curled up at the ends, not too set or windblown. He looks the second time at natural blondes but not at bleached. Of course (Continued on P.ige 18) PAGE FIVE FFBRUARY. 94 kott Skott StOtlj Red Ink By Bcr Dccki So that is the old duffer that brags that I can ' t forge a check on his bank, huh? asked Jerry Blake as he put out his cigaret and stood up. Uh huh, that ' s im. You ' ll just have to hook him for your rep ' s sake, whispered the waiter from the side of his mouth as he picked up his tip. Thanks, said Jerry and started towards old J. J. Andrews as the rich sportsman sat sip- ping a drink at the club bar. Jerry ' s tweed suit and casual manner seemed to place him in the same class as the elderly banker. My name is Drake, Mr. Andrews, lied Jerry, Larry Drake. I saw your mare. Dapple Diana, run today, and I ' d like to buy her if you are considering selling her. Well, I might if you have a lot of money to waste, grinned J. J. Jerry grinned back at him. What do you consider a lot of money? he drawled, leaning against the bar. Westerner, aren ' t you? assumed J. J. stalling for time. Uh huh. Jerry turned to the bartender. Scotch and soda, he ordered, and turned back to J. J. Join me? he invited. I don ' t mind if I do, accepted J.J. looking the young man over shrewdly, I suppose you have heard that I am trying to get rid of my stable. Certainly, otherwise I would not have approached you. Well, asked J. J., how much will you give for her? Four thousand. She ' s worth six. Which means you ' ll deal for five. O.K.? Jerry grinned at the older man. Andrews stud- ied him over his new drink and suddenly stuck out his hand. It ' s a deal, Pard, he mocked Jerry ' s drawl, Where do I deliver her? If you don ' t mind, I would like to hold off delivery for a few days. J. J. frowned. What ' s the matter, he ask- ed, no money? PACK SIX Oh, sure I have the money right here, Jerry reassured him, pulling his wallet from his pocket, but I am going to buy a carload of nags. Dad thinks we need some new blood in our stock and I thought I would hold up de- livery on them until I bought them all. Give me a receipt, and I will let you know in less than a week where to ship her. O.K.? O.K., agreed J.J. and tore off a sheet from the bartender ' s check-pad. Received of Larry Drake, five thousand dollars, J. J. Andrews. This calls for another drink, he said putting the money in his pocket. He pushed his empty glass across the bar. The same, Sam, all around. Fine, said Jerry, and as the bartender pushed the drinks toward them he tossed a couple of dollars on the bar. Oh no you don ' t, said J.J. shoving the bills aside and signing for the drinks. Oh yes I do, exclaimed Jerry tearing the signed check off the pad and pushing his mo- ney forward, my money is as good as yours even if you do have a couple of million more than I. Anyhow I hooked you a thousand; I would have paid six. He slipped the bar check into his pocket with the receipt. That ' s funny, kidded J.J., I figure I hooked you a thousand; I would have sold for four. They both laughed. An hour later Jerry sat in his hotel room. In front of him lay the receipt and the signed check. He studied the signatures closely. The second J is smaller than the first, he muttered to himself. He started to practice writing the name. Two days later Jerry walked into the First National Bank. I would like to speak to J. J., he said to the president ' s secretary. Tell him it is Larry Drake, and if that doesn ' t register tell him it ' s the man that bought Dapple Diana. J.J. would see him. Jerry walked into the president ' s office with a worried look on his face. Gee, J.J., he mourned, you ' ve got me on the spot. My old man is in a jam, and wired me FF.BRUARY. 1941 to send him every cent I could honestly get my hands on. How much of a beating are you going to give me? Will you give me four thou- sand for that mare? So you ' ve come awhining, eh, pard? J. J. teased him. Jerry just grnined at him. j. J. got serious. Don ' t you have any credit or securities? We might let you have some money. J.J. was all banker. Take too much time, besides we Western- ers like to deal in cash. Yes, I have noticed that. Well, is isn ' t good business but we can ' t let business interfere with horse-dealing between two gentlemen. He reached for a check book and wrote out a check for five thousand. There, he said pushing it across the desk, take your money, you Indian Giver, they will cash that out front for you. I hope your father gets out of his jam. Thank you, Mr. Andrews, I sure appreci- ate this. I ' ll be seeing you. Jerry walked out beaming. He went straight to the cashier ' s cage and pushed the check under the grille. Cash, please. Any identification? The clerk raised his eyes from the check and smiled respectively. Jerry was ready for him. Call J.J. he said. The clerk reached for his phone and dialed a number. He muttered into it, and Jerry smiled to himself as he heard J.J. ' s roar of ap- proval over the phone. The clerk pushed the crisp bills across the counter and apologized. Matter of form, sir, that is quite a sum of money. That ' s your job, smiled Jerry, But I will get more than that out of him, you wait and see. He pocketed the money and walked out. But the next day he wa s back. He was an- nounced and walked into J.J. ' s oflSce. Well, Indian Giver, she will cost you six thousand today, greeted the banker. I can ' t buy her today, explained Jerry, I am hopping a plane for home, but I want to know if you ' ll have her here two weeks from now, ' cause I plan to come back and get her. Times are tough, and if I get my price I ' ll deal; but suckers are hard to find these days so I suppose that she will be here when you get back. But I warn you, the next time you pay six thousand. We ' ll haggle over that when I get back, Fooey On New Fangled Contraptions! By the Editors Something slipped, but not on the ice .skating rink. And it wa.sn ' t skate.s. And it wasn ' t be- cause they didn ' t try to freeze a wide plaza for this most delightful of winter sports. They sprayed the all-sport court. They sprayed the tennis courts so much that they ' ll never have to be wet down in any summer. They sprayed the practice football field. But that would have been too big a rink anyway. They sprayed the lawn between the gym and the Ma.n Building, so that it ' ll be green next summer even if there is a drought. Much to the mislortune of Fresh- men Biology students they drowned every insect hibernating in the ground. Winter came. Everyday common things froze up tight. The Buffalo froze. Two students had their ears frostbitten. Sixteen cases oi m.lk froze up in Phillips Hall. The ten nozzles on the spraying machine froze tight. But did the darned spray made by the spraying macnine freeze? No! Maybe it was the weather ' s fault. But the scientific spraymen have more rational explan- ations. One explanation was that you can ' t spray an ice skating rink unless you have a solid base to spray on. And the ground never froze hard enough to form a solid base. It always soaked up the spray. It was thirsty. You need a solid base to get a good rink. Except in nature. The Buffalo sometimes makes a good rink, but did you ever kick your foot through the ice on the Buffalo and feel the good ice-cold solid base run into your shoe? All this time a swell solid base was going to waste right under the spraymen ' s eyes. They overlooked the Corridor. One hundred and twenty-five feet by ten feet of good solid tile base between the main hallway and Commence- ment Hall. And it all went to waste. Why didn ' t they spray the Corridor and skate between classes. The chief sprayman placed the blame on the black asphalt surface. The black surface ab- sorbed heat, necessitating colder weather to freeze the court. Why didn ' t some one think of splashing- a couple of gallons of white wash on the court to overcome this obstacle? .According to the chief sprayman ' s reasoning blackbirds should fly north in the winter time since they have a protective covering and the white polar bears should hike south. If, as the chief sprayman contends, black surfaces won ' t freeze, the dark continent should exchange places with the North Pole. Then the chief sprayman and his staff of lesser spraymen wouldn ' t have to worry about buck ' ng ' ol man weather , because there wouldn ' t be any skat- ing anjTvay. laughed Jerry, I ' ll get you down to five if I have to buy you another drink to do it, Adios. He started through the door but stopped. J.J. he said with his hand on the doorknob, come here. Why, what? questioned the banker from behind his desk. (Continued on P.ige 12) PAGE SE T ' FEBRUARY. IS41 no HOPEFUL CANDI lol, r„u. Ufl u, n,, , --M r.,;.r.- Abel, Bvlly M.e AJJlcna,,, ;■,,, Mln.-cht. Rohcr, Ah..„Jn: Do,o bx A„n,. .„„., D.,r„cs. G,o, ?c Ii..: :.n„. Glona B.-M. rZ ■ ' j ' riX ' l-U ' rk Daumx.yhnr. Arthur Bc.rd. Bruce Berk. ' „.„„ „ Beck. ]ca„ Belknal,. Ella ]a„e Bishof. Mm-garel Blanck. DonaU BoyJ. fZ , Zl- (, : ' 7 v n « ' . ' •■ •■ ' ■■ G ' BroJeru-n. Stanley Brou,,. Robert BuUarJ. Marjorie Campbell. Jack Cicco. RicharJ Cola,,. Mi, ' ia„, Cc f7,I I ( . ' . Y- - ' Cilhson. Fra„k Do„ics, Virginia Dou„es. ]a„,e . D,„,„, Betty EUer, Elizabeth Field. Margaret Flafley, Charles Ford. W ' 7 ' I, ' ' V rP- t ' ' ' ' ' ' ° ' ' , ? ' ' ' ' ' ™ ' = ' ' ' ' ■- ' ' ■« G -- lcan ' ,e Goodwin. Sara Griffiths. Ma,;oric Hanes. X ' ' jr ' ,u ' ' ' ' ' n T ' ' y ' ' « ' ' •«■ ' ■ Theodore Herriek. Elinore Hetberington. Lou Hood. he.cnih rou. left to r.ghl-John Hndak. Mar,o,;e Hunter. Robert Husband, Irene Jasse,,. Evelyn Jones, Martha Kittle. Jacqueline Knoblock. PAGE EIGHT I KKBRUARY, 1941 DEGREES IN 1944 PAGE XIXE FFBRUARY. 1941 Ttaietnittf o tke Montk SIGMA NU It seems appropriate at this time, national and local conditions being what they are par- ticularly in regards to their effect on the fra- ternity, to look into just what it is that makes a Greek letter society a necessary phase in the college experience of a man. Adherence to the precepts of Sigma Nu gains for the member character development, experience in assum- ing responsibility, an understanding of tellow- men, appreciation of culture, learning self government and incentives for achievement. It is now recognized among colleges in general that in addition to classroom instruction stu- dents must have character, social and self-gov- ernment training if they are to make the best use of that instruction. The fraternity teaches its members honor, integrity, inculcates a de- sire to give as well as receive, and instills in them a sense of their responsibility to larger groups. From the very beginning of his fraternity experience the Sigma Nu pledge here at Beth- any begins assuming and sharing these obliga- tions and benefits of the fraternity. They elect their own officers, Bob Alexander is pledge president, and determine their course in mat- ters affecting themselves. They assume respon- sibility for the annual pledge smoker for pledges of the other fraternities, they experi- ence actual control of fraternity policy on a day set aside on which actives and pledges ex- change places, their scholastic efforts are strengthened by desire for the scholarship key awarded each year to a member of the pledge class and they take an active part in the fra- ternity ' s athletic and social activities. As actives, Sigma Nus reap the full benefits to be derived from participation in the rich- ness of fraternity life. There is a fellowship and companionship evidenced which is not to be equaled. An incentive is offered to take part in college activities as is apparent from the list which might be compiled of Sigma Nu representation in all phases of collegiate activi- ty. George Davis is vice-president of the Stu- dent Board of Governors; Jack Pryor, Bob Alexander, Don Wolf, Jim Sembower and Jim Barnes are important cogs on the basket- ball team; Ed Elsasser is president of the In- terfraternity Council; track and swimming teams find a majority of Sigs in their make- up; and assistantships in the various depart- ments are held by Frank Long, Bob Fritz, Bob Showman, Norris Whitlock, Ray Thompson, and Ed Elsasser. Within the chapter itself dances, smokers, open houses and teas all add to the enjoyment and appreciation of frater- nity life. In addition to contact with fellow students, fraternity men have the added ad- vantage of informal social contact with the faculty through the media of faculty dinner guests, small informal faculty-student get-to- gethers, and the annual Faculty Banquet. The fraternity is a binding tie not only dur- ing the years that a man is in college, but when he assumes the status of an alumnus it is one of the strongest ties which bind him to his school and draw him back to it year after year. That an attachment is formed which lasts is proven by the active interest taken by Sig alumni and the sense of responsibility they feel towards continuing Epsilon in the high posi- tion it has always maintained on this campus. Thus we see that fraternities are needed to fill a certain spot in college life and we feel that Epsilon of Sigma Nu has more than adequate- ly filled this order. imvwvi needed to fill a certain .spol ' ' ' PAGH THX I FEBRUARY. 1941 SENIORS Robert Showman Norris X ' hicIock JUNIORS Wilbur Cramblct. Jr. George Davis Edward Elsasscr Robb Henry Edward Laubershcinicr Wallace Mayor William Neumann Ralph Pryor William Scophel SOPHOMORES Robert Addleman Richard Barker Robert Fritz Richard Glass Fred Haenszel James Hawkins Harry Lammerc Frank Long William Loper Harold Myers Walter Myers Thomas Poston Loren Thompson Richard Umbel William i ' eaver John WhltehiU Don Wolf FRESHMEN Robert Alexander James Barnes Charles Browne Robert BuUard Charles Foy Robert Golbey Robert Hustead Clarence Joy Raymond LeSc range Max Luikart Creighton Murphy Harry Murphy Steve Nunn James Sembower Flower — White Rose Colors— Black. White and Guld Publication — The Delta Faculty — Prof- Wilbur J. Sumpsrine Dr. James W, Alexander At Tup — .Executive Bored: Stophel, Davh. Elunicr, Henry. Lanbersheimer, Pryor. Colter — Beam for Si, niii Nil. Bottom — Don ' t look tit the caincralV Wolf, Alexander. Setnbourr. Niiun, Hiisted. Foy, Fritz. PAGE ELEVEN FEBRUARY. 19m CLUB FOR CAREER GIRLS n s MARGARIT R. SPARKS Future business j;u ' ls and secre- taries here at Bethany had long con- sidered a secretarial training club to be an ideal thing. Now with Miss Sparks as their faculty advisor they have begun just such a club, the first one of its kind in all of Beth- any ' s 100 years. Presiding over the monthly meet- ings we find President Marietta Shore assisted by Vice President Margaret Stein and Secretary-Trea- surer Pauline Gilbert. The name of the club is one of the present points of discussion of the members including the girls who are Bethany alumnae now employed in the var- ious college offices. Membership is determined by the number of hours credit in the secretarial training de- partment and the grades obtained. During the meetings the girls will discuss the problems of their chosen profession and make a sur- vey of the possible positions and how they may be acquired. They plan to have business men as guest speakers on these various subjects. There is a possibility that this or- ganization may someday become affiliated with a national honor so- ciety in this field. The UNIVERSITY OF HEL- SINKI, Finland, has been given $2 5,000 by the Rockefeller Founda- tion in order that it might continue its program of research and teach- ing for the coming year. RED INK (Continued from Page 7) Oh, ccme here, said Jerry as if he had a secret to share. Curiosity overcame the million- aire and he joined the young man in the door way. You beefing that business is bad and look at all the nice cash custom- ers you have this morning. Jerry ' s ' laugh rang cut through the high ceilinged bank. Its customers and clerks turned to see the two men saying goodbye in the doorway as Jerry had planned they would see him. J.J. went back to his desk wond- ering what the hell was so funny about that, while Jerry walked over to the same clerk that had cashed his check the day before. I told you I would get him for more, he said to the clerk pushing a check for twenty-five thousand made out to Larry Drake and sign- ed J. J. Andrews, across the count- er. The clerk smiled and said, Good for you, Mr. Drake. He looked down at the check, gave Jerry a surprised glance, and pushed a but- ton under his desk. Twenty-five thousand, do you want it in cash? Yes, please, answered Jerry but that was all the further he got. A guard walked over to him, and without taking his eyes off him, asked the clerk, What ' s the trouble here? I think this man is trying to pass a forged check on me. Wait until I check with J.J. Jerry looked around. The door was blocked by another guard with pistol in his hand. Never mind checking, he said. I forged it, but how the hell did you know? That signature is per- fect. You must be mentally defici- ent, said the clerk scornfully, didn ' t you notice that the check yesterday was signed in red ink? J. J. signs all his checks in red ink. Jerry shrugged his shoulders and grinned weakly. All traces of his western drawl were gone as he said, Not mentally deficient, pal, but physically. I ' m color-blind. THIS IS AN AGE OF WONDER Thh s an Ai c of Wonder Wondernwi Hopes, and Fears And all the Culture of Mankind Floiiers — or disappears. The cultural lag of the centuries Shortens its ignorant strides. Conscriatiies shudder in horror, While Genius the Future rides. Social Science, the Laggard, Feeling its growing pains. Intriguing youth ' s thoughts with Tomorrow, Is curbed as the Bigot complains. Man in hs puny fumbling. Seeking Eternal Truth, Stumbles, uarped by the aged. And slaughters the innocent youth. Youth U ' ith its Faith in Reason Pro tests the burden it bears. Hoping to toil at creating, But not in destruction take shares. Custom, Convention, Tradition Congealing the blood of the old. New words, new faiths, new stan- dards. Fire the youthful bold. All the Culture of Mankind — Religions, and Science, and Arts — Fanned by a newborn fervor. Brightens the hopeful ' s hearts. All the Spirits of History Reveal that Youth won ' t abide By rules of Dogmatic Dotage But broadens the spirits wide. All the Progress of Mankind Is made by the pioneer ' s path The Rut of Convention deserted. In spite of intolerant wrath. This is an Age of Wonder Wonderous Hopes and Fears And all the Culture of Mankind Flowers — or disappears. As ever, the Hopes of Tomorrow Rest with the Youth of Today. The aged will die by the wayside Young dreamers will labor and pray. By Bert Decker At PENNSYLVANIA STATE COLLEGE, State College, Pa., it has been found that sons don ' t al- ways follow in their fathers ' foot- steps. Only 226 of the 332 farm- ers ' sons are enrolled in the school of agriculture and only 14 of the 162 miners ' sons are studying min- ing engineering. PAGE TWELVE FEBRUARY, 1941 CHURCH REBUILDING BEGINS First step in the planned redecor- ation of the Bethany Memorial Church is nearly completed. This . • j;., ' ■ ' .mrT ' 51 fl mi N t ' ' - M PK ►.€ fe  . jt mti m m x J w ' WiWlMSMK iMi? «■ :  VM Ki R • ■ •••! JS . -j..,% fe f?.3; l fl ' ' ' -- M S ' ' 1 1 1 f l | H J ' % -r; if), ■Si i l NEW MEMORIAL WINDOW the William Pendleton Campbell Prayer Chapel. Situated in what was formerly one of the Church School classrooms, the chapel fol- lows roughly the prayer chapel in Phillips Hall. Presented to the Church and the community by the granddaughters of Founder Alex- ander Campbell, the Chapel is a memorial to their father. Designed by Mr. A. F. Wickes, consulting architect for the general church rebuilding, this small sanc- tuary has been planned to create an attitude of worship. Central fea- ture of this design is the stained glass window. With an outer border of deep ruby and blue pieces, the central section of the window is made up of lightly tinted rose and flesh glass. The chalice centered in the cen- tral panel is gold. The equal armed cross top of the window is in ruby. The dove in flight below the chal- ice is pale green. The opened Bible at the bottom is a tint of yellow. Immediately below the window will be placed an altar, covered with a gold velour cloth, upon which will stand a hand carved minature cross. The walls, will be venitian rose, the ceiling azure blue. Suitable furniture, designed to be a part of this chapel, will comfortably seat six persons. While he is much pleased with the beauty of this redecorated room, Mr. Stevenson is quick to point out that it is not to be used as a show place in the church but rather as a quiet, secluded corner for private meditations and wor- ship. EMPHASIS ON RELIGION Church activities on Bethany ' s campus, aside from the regular Sundav services, are centered in two main programs each year. Best known of these is the Pre-Easter mid-day devotions. The other pro- gram, omitted last year because of the illness of Mr. Stevenson, is Reli- gious Emphasis Week. The two programs are correlated and complementary in that they each present a different approach to religion. While the Pre-Easter serv- ices are built about the plan of wor- ship and devotion as an approach to religion. Religious Emphasis Week is devoted to an intellectual ap- proach to religion. A guest speaker, chapel programs, individual confer- ences, group forums, these are the means used in the presentation. A man known in the field is invited to the campus and about him the program is built up. This year the guest speaker was T. Hassell Bowen, Minister of the Harrodsburg (Ky.) Christian Church, Trustee and Professor of Philosophy of the College of the Bible at Lexington, Kentucky. Dr. Bowen is very well known among the leaders of the EHsciples of Christ, being constantly invited to sp eak before conferences of minist- ers and church leaders. Dr. Bowen ' s schedule consisted of four major addresses, two of them in Chapel, three afternoons of per- sonal and group conferences, lec- tures to the Bible and Philosophy classes, lunch with two of the fra- ternity goups and a special goup of men. IMD YOU KNOW BOX That ten men on the college f.iculty have been ordained as ministers? They are: X ' . H. Cramblet F. R. Gay I. T. Green Osborne Booth E. L. Perry N. W. Evans Andrew Leitch F. H. Kirkpatrick H. N. Miller Dwight E. Stevenson AN ACTIVE Y The Y in general parlance has come to have the connotation of a hotel, a meeting place or a restau- rant. But in Bethany it still means the Young Woman ' s Christian As- sociation. Its many activities are a reminder that it exists and that it serves the purpose for which it was formed. First in line of activities is the McKinleyville Social Service Pro- ject. Under Dorothy Reynolds a group of students goes to McKin- leyville each Saturday afternoon to conduct a Girl Scout Troop, a Boy Scout troop, and directed recreation for the smaller children. At Christ- mas time all of the children there were remembered by a party and a visit from Santa Claus, (Timmv) Simpson. Even Y social events are plan- ned with the idea of service. The week before Christmas the Y. W. members gathered at Phillips Hall for their annual Christmas party. The evening was s[ ent cutting out, sewing, and filling Christmas stock- ings, which were sent to the Chris- tian Children ' s Home in Cleveland, Ohio. Y. W. also sends delegates to conferences. Already one has been sent to an Inter-denominational meeting held during the Christmas vacation. Come spring and several other members will attend the Cab- inet Training Conference at Jack- sons Mills, W. Va. During the summer there will be, as usual, sev- eral delegates at the Eaglesmere Conference at Eaglesmere Lake, Pa. Bi-weekly Vesper services and a monthly Baby Clinic at McKinley- ville are other of the services and activities of these girls. Thus the Y appears to be an organization with a purpose and a strong resolve to carry this purpose through. PAGE THIRTEEN FEBRUARY. 1941 niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiili INTERESTING BETHANIAN JOHNSON HAS LEARNED MUCH OUTSIDE OF BOOKS You know him. He ' s in | the Inn all the time. Dun- 1 garees, pLiid shirt, brogues, J .1 cheery grin that hides a J scientific .ittitude. Pee-ray. § He reads detective stories p during examination week. J He likes bridge so much he p keeps his own cards at the g Inn. We know not when he J studies but he tool; his Com- J prehensive Exam at the end B of his second year at Beth- M any and has already been ac- M cepted at M.I.T. graduate | school. It se;ms he came to g co ' lege educated but has to g get the credits to prove it. | He ' s a mechanical lad. He g knows his radio, motors, and M c.in fix anything that ticks, a (He owns s200 worth of | tools.) H He has seen a good part of the country. His many jobs as truck- p driver, mechanic, shipyards worker, and stationary engineer in NSi ' yom- m ing has given him background and conversational material on any sub- | ject, when he ' s in the mood. He can be scientific about ceramics or M philisophical about politics. He can tell you how they make Carioca H Cooler in St. Louis or the constituents in trinitrotuloene. = He likes cats better than dogs. Being a man ' s man, this may sound g strange, but we all have our likes and dislikes. And besides, Sandy was J an unusually smart cat. Sandy was a cat Pete befriended this past H summer, when Pete was out West, where among other things he P climbed the 13,000 foot peak of the Grand Teton, overlooking Jack- H son Hole game reserve. = II TR.WKLER JOHNSON BOOK STACKS GROW TALLER W ' iien you add about 400 to over .i 3,000 plus the hope for several hundred more, you get the sum (if your mathematics aren ' t too pre- cise) of 34,000 which is the grand total of books Mr. Earnest Lundeen, Bethany ' s new librarian, and his as- sistant. Miss Erances Shaver, expect to have in the library by June. The four-hundred is an order of books in many fields which is now on the way. Some of the best sellers re- cently acquired are For Whom the Bell Tolls by Hemingway, Willa Gather ' s Safari and the Slave Girl , and Nothing But Wodchouse , a collection of the works of that author. I think there should be as little as possible to restrict the use of the library — in fact, more should be done to encourage it. stated Mr. PAGI-; FOURTEJSN Lundeen when asked about his views on library rules. He is anxious for suggestions from students on how to make the librarv svstem more efficient and convenient. The head librarian ' s main interest at the time is to make the periodi- cals more available to readers. He believes that the bound volumes of periodicals should all be taken from the stacks and placed on the shelves of the large room of the upper story of the building. The unbound magazines, however, which need more care, would be systematicallv arranged in the stacks, though still readily accessible. One of the things I ache to do he grinned, is to get them all straightened out. Mr. Lundeen is ilso planning to establish regular hours during which assistants will be stationed upstairs to aid students in locating articles. Making a read- ing room in this part of th: library THREE MORE FACULTY BOOKS Several Bethany faculty members are at present writing, or have at their publishers, books that will be released in the near future. Oft the press soon will be Dr. W. K. Woolery ' s History of Bethany College. Historian Woolery ' s book, containing twelve chapters and over sixty thousand words, shows the de- velopment of the college from its founding through the Civil War years, the decline and rehabilitation of the college to its present strength. Included also are student pranks and faculty eccentricities that show the human quality of the college. The appendix includes the addresses given during the Centen- nial symposium and Commence- ment of May, 1940. The book is part of the Centennial program. Publisher is The Standard Printing and Engraving Co. The price, $2.00. Also at the printer is Dr. N. H. Graham ' s Nonieaux Riiiiges (New Shores) . The book is a French read- er written by Dr. Graham for Beth- any ' s intermediate French Classes and will be used in them during this semester In prepa ration is Prof. E. E. Ro- bert ' s Hoir to Select a College which will be printed in pamphlet form this summer. Prof. Robert ' s book is M attempt to reduce the large percentage of students that enter but do not complete the col- lege experience. The author p oints out the necessit) ' of choosing the right college and hopes that his pamphlet will help high school stu- dents in determining their own elig- ibility for college. Prof. Roberts has been collecting material on the subject for about ten years. He points out the neces- sity for an intelligent selection of colleges by students as well as stu- dents by colleges, thus Out of every one-hundred college freshmen sixty fail to graduate. Only eight of the sixty drop out because of finan- cial difficulties. for those using the periodicals is another aim. Bethany ' s student body has evi- dently made a good impression on this amiable staff ' member for he ex- pressed great satisfaction in the at- titude exhibited in the library. He also thinks the students are a pretty nice lot even when thev aren ' t ab- sorbing knowledge in his domain. FEBRUARY, 1941 l i5itot5 on tke (icmpui BRAINY LOTUS LADY Fascinating her Bethany audience with her deHghtful frankness, ap- pealing message, and personal charm MISS GIN-CHUI KUO Thinks it wroiif to force beliffi. Miss Gin-Chui Kuo, young Chinese journalist and novelist, lectured to eager listeners January 18 on the topic China Will Live . We believe that if we do right, good will come to us, stated Miss Kuo, explaining the optimistic philosophy sustaining the Chinese people through their long war. She went on to say that there are three reasons why her country cannot and will not give up the struggle. First, yielding now would mean a com- plete surrender; second, the invad- ers cannot be appeased, thus sur- render would mean a Far Eastern Munich; and third, the war is being fought not only for China but for democracy against totalitarianism. In one of her picturesque phrases, the guest described China in the war as a soft cushion that resists a bullet without getting out of shape . She also liked to speak of her country in the metaphor of the wise old man in the family of na- tions, who has been growing old successfullv and gracefully. The one-hundred and fifty per- cent sympathy of the American people for China, is the most signi- ficant phenomenon of the United States found by Miss Kuo in her travels. She stressed many times the impression made upon her by the sincere friendliness of the people of this countrv. It is this attitude of the U. S. that has helped China through three and a half years of war, giving cheer and hope and strengthening morale. In regard to the work of the American missionaries in China, the journalist hoped that no feelings would be hurt, but thought it fun- damentally wrong to try to force a belief upon other people. How- ever, she admitted the great good being done by the Christians in building hospitals and giving refuge to the unfortunate. Describing herself as a bit of old China come West, Miss Kuo, whose name in her own country would be Kuo Gin-Chul, made her lecture doubly interesting by giv- ( Continued on Page 17) MATSUMOTO KNOWS U. 5. Food, like the weather, is even a safe topic of conversation, and per- MR. TORU MATSUMOTO Hasn ' t yet harni ' d to Jriic- haps quite a bit more interesting. Mr. Torn Matsumoto, Japanese guest on February 19, seemed sur- prised at two commonplaces in Bethany — the size of West Virginia celery in comparison to that in New York, where, he said, The vegetables must be on relief , and the fact that there an- Americans who don ' t drink coffee. Mr. Matsimioto, the secretary of the Japanese Student Christian As- sociation in North America, was brought to the campus by the Y.W. C.A. to present to Bethanians the (Continued on Page 17) DEBUSSEY AND DUMESNIL Author of two books and called one of the outstanding pianists of the day, Mr. Maurice Dumesnil was presented on the college lecture course Thursday evening, February 20. Sitting on the oldest chair be- longing to the college, the artist gave a program featuring the light works of the modern French com- poser, Claude Debussey, whom the pianist knew. Mr. Dumesnil left France in No- vember, 19. 9 going to South America where he was on a lecture tour until December, 1940. The tall well built Frenchman then came to the United States where he has been on tour since. His first aappearance on Beth- any ' s campus was four years ago. He returned the next year. During the two concerts, Mr. Dumesnil be- came friends with the head of the music cfepartment, Mr. Carter and his wife, a compatriot of the musi- cian. He gave three recitals while stay- ing with the Carters this year. In addition to his concert before the lecture course, he presented pro- grams in Wheeling and a round table recital before some music students on the afternoon of the college concert. He came to Beth- anv from Parksville, Mo. a college near Kansas City and he is going to Marvland after he leaves Bethanv. MR. M.- UR1CE DUMESNIL Sj it: the olJcst chair At the end of his tour in this coun- trv in April, he is leaving for an- other tour in South America. He is a resident of Chile. (Continued on Page 19) PAGE FIFTEEN FEBRUARY. 1941 Social U kltl FEBRUARY EVENTS Junior-Senior Prom, Val- entine Ten, Open House when 12th Night was postponed, February 22 Sor- orities and Fraternities filled the social breach with Open House. Gtu)x« Alhi -Ellj Jane Bhhnp look ihron b snoii at the Alt a X; Dil a (iIcJkc Jaiicc. Sigs open house The quartet sing,i at the Jnnior-Senior Pro Mrs. Crtimhlet entertains freshman girls on Valentine Jay. I) lien House at the Beta ' s. Ouija Boani? Oh. es. Phi Mn. PAGL SIXTEEN (yn Cytket (iampu6e5 The trustees of WASHINGTON and JEFFERSON COLLEGE, in Washington, Pa., have added cour- ses in Spanish to the curriculum because of the wide demand from the student body. Dr. W. E. Vanderbilt, the retir- ing president of the Collegiate In- stitute of Baranquilla, Columbia, S.A., has been appointed as the pro- fessor of Spanish and will begin his duties next fall At NORTHWESTERN UNI- VERSITY, in Evanston, 111., The Daily Northwcitcrn has this to say to students about the C.A.A. Training in colleges, We neither recommend that you sign for the program nor that you shun it ab- solutely. We ask you only to recog- nize that you are, in effect, signing up for training in the military air force of the nation. Be under no delusion that this is simply an easy and cheap way to learn to fly with no strings attached. It isn ' t. On the same subject, at COR- NELL UNIVERSITY, Ithaca, N. Y., the Cornell Daily Sun says: Actually the C.A.A. is not con- cerned with developing military pilots. It is training thousands of civilians who someday may want to own their own planes, or fly just for the pleasure of it. It is very likely that never again will students have an opportunity to learn to fly under such ideal conditions. KANSAS STATE COLLEGE is one of the few in the country to give a course in explosives as part of the engineering training for de- fense. Dean Kirkpatrick recently suggested that such a course in ex- plosives might be added to the chemistry department here. AT CORNELL UNIVERSITY two graduate assistants in the de- partment of physics lived in the Fuertes observatory with a 12-inch telescope as their roommate. Since last June these two fellows have lived there and have many duties concerned with the care of the equipment, including the daily task of winding the sidereal clocks which tell time by the stars. Handwriting is being taught at GLENVILLE STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE, in Glenville, W. Va. It IS the first time that a one-hour course has been given there during the regular school year, although it has been offered during the sum- mer sessions. HARVARD UNIVERSITY has .in endowment of $143,000,000 and is the richest educational insti- tution in America. Bethany ' s en- dowment is $2,286,374. MATSUMOTO KNOWS U. S. (Continued from Page 1 5 ) purpose, plan and need of the World Student Service Fund. When talking with the students Mr. Mat- sumoto revealed a genuine interest in young people and in education. In comparison to American students whose education is an amalgamation of art, science, litertature, recrea- tion, and mechanical training, Mr. Matsumoto feels quite helpless. He explained tha t the training received in such a flexible educa- tion as ours is what is needed in crises, whereas the concentrated schooling of Japan is excellent for already stable countries. He him- self studied English literature for four years in Japan. Mr. Matsumoto has come to the U.S. three times, making six years in all that he has been in this coun- try, and has seen more of the U. S. than many students. He has been speaking English for approximately ten years. As one of the directors of International House he expressed a concern for those foreign, exchange students who now have no country, no consuls in America to guide them, and no money coming from home. Because of conscription the places of the American and English boys in the house are rapidly emp- tying and being filled just as rapid- ly by refugees. Mr. Matsumoto likes America, thinks that New Yorkers struggle rather than live, seldom talks about himself, hasn ' t yet learned to drive a car, finds that women have better college dormitories than men, and is easily at home anywhere. FEBRUARY. 1941 BRAINY LOTUS LADY (Continued from Page 15 j ing a short autobiography. Her fath- er was very open-minded, so unlike most Chinese girls the young Can- tonese was given a good education. She asked her audience to picture her the only girl in a class of twen- ty boys where she resolved not to be beaten scholastlcall) ' . Her curricu- lum contained a great variety of subjects Including many languages and banking. This latter she feels is very Important for women. A graduate in journalism from the University of Shanghai, Miss Kuo wrote her first published arti- cle on Professions for Women . She later become the editor of the woman ' s page of the China Even- ing Neil ' s in Shanghai. After leav- ing China as a refugee the young journalist decided to traved around the world and got to London where she became the first Chinese woman to serve the prominent British pap- per, The London Daily Mail. In this paper she wrote a column in letter form in which she described British life from her own foreign view point. Publishers liked one paragraph of this column so well that she was told to write a book about it. This book, The Peach Path is written for women only and Is based on a Chin- ese legend reve.dlng the way to hap- piness. She is now writing a second book, a novel. During a conversation. Miss Kuo surprised listeners by confessing that she does not want to be a jour- nalist anymore, finding more satis- faction in writing books. The speaker has studied interna- tional English since she was very young and admits finding a great difference in the speech of British- ers and Americans. As she says, American English is too happy for me, while British English is too aristocratic. Attractively attired in a bright red, Oriental styled dress, and bub- bling over with smiles and friendli- ness. Miss Kuo made a lasting im- pression on Bethany. Again an dous not to hurt our feelings, she confid- ed that she prefers to speak to Ro- tary clubs than to college students since the latter are not yet suffici- ently grown up Intellectuallv. However, the charming speaker found a receptive audience that was glad to hear that China is living today, and will live tomorrow. P. GE SEVENTEEN HhRLARV. 1941 BRAVA FOR BARTERED BRIDE Oper.i .11 BL ' tlimx ' , March 10, this year turns to . Bohcmlnn vill- nj ; for its setting. The oper.i. The Bartered Bride, bv Bedrick Smet.in.i. one of the first of the Bohemi.in composers, provides in its feast day setting a good opportunity for the lavish costumes whicli will be de- signed by Mrs. Rush Carter. The setting will be planned and built by John W ' hitehill, who ar- ranged thj elaborate background used in M. ' iiiKiii presented last year. In its peasant characters the opera offers a place for folk dances, al- though Professor Carter does not know as yet whether advantage will be taken of this chance. The Bartered Bride, a comic opera in three acts, reverts to the eternal triangle for its plot Kezal, the mar- rage-broker, played by Gordon Scidel, has arranged the mar- riage of Joan Cramblet, the bride, to Vashek, the simple son of Micha, a wealthy landlord. The marriage is being arranged for the convenience of Krushina, Marie ' s father, who, since he is a poor peasant, wishes the union of his daughter with the son of a weathly landowner. The parts of Micha and Krushina are played by Jack Ryan and Don Hillstrom, respectively. David Rod- efer furnishes the coniedx ' in the role of ' ashck, the fool. Marie upsets the arrangements, however, by falling in love with Jenik, apparently a )0uth employed in the village. Her affection is not unrequitted. Jerry Ferguson plays the part of Jenik. Lenore Neil takes the part of Ludmila, Marie ' s moth- er, and Jane Douglass plays Hata, Micha ' s wife. Jenik ' s true identity as Micha ' s son by a former marriage is revealed at last, and the opera comes to a close when Kezal admits his failure as a marriage-broker . ni bestows his blessing on Marie and Jenik. The curtain falls on a gay, vivacious finale, bringing the- opera to an appropriate end. MAUNDER CANTATA FOR EASTER Oliiet (III Caialrie by Maunder will be presented by the Bethany choir as their Easter cantata on March 2 8. The solos will be render- ed by baritones, Fred Swearingen and David Rodcfer. This cantata, b) ' the same author as Bethlehem, given at Christmas, is typical of Maunder ' s compositions. With a slow solemn movement the cantata moves up to a rich, full climax, telling in a dramatic manner the story of the Passion. Oliiet dii Caialrie is pervaded with a deeply religious spirit, inspiring in its audi- ence a feeling of solemn reverence appropriate to the season. OUT. OUT, DAMNED LIGHT O pestilential i lohc so hrii hf. Yon shine with such a searehiii l, ' -hf; on seek out lovers with your heain And hli- hf their wishes by ■ our gleam. Si ' me night uhen there is none to see, rll take a stone and shatter thee; Then U ' ith the night Our chrysalis, I ' ll claim my lady for a kiss. IF PLEASE YOU MUST (Continued from Page 5) he doesn ' t choose a girl for her hair alone, but it is a contributing factor. For footballers like Alan Dowlar, blondes are definitely the thing . Shoulder length hair, curied in back and on sides. Give him the type that blows in the wind. Oh, well, life is like that. I also asked Chet Gordon what he preferred in hair styles, hoping for a little diversion, but he is the secretive type. It looks like we will have to become blondes for the Kappa Alpha boys. Boys seem to take a personal in- terest in cosmetics worn by the girls. The Alpha Kappa Pi ' s are defi- nitely opinionated. Dick Wallace does not like too much make-up, especially if it rubs off. Some lip- stick, rouge and powder, hut not plastered on. Red heads should wear lipstick with an orange cast while blondes should use the bright reds. Mascara and eye shade arc out. Tom Otto would not appreciate a girl without some make-up. It would make them appear sort of faded but he agrees with his fraternity broth- er that it can be over done. The P. ' VGF. i:iGHTFEX girls should know what shades blend or clash with their complex- ions. There should be as many dif- ferent shades as there are complex- ions. When I don ' t notice a girl ' s make-up. I figure that it must blend with her personality and costume. That is as it should be. Two Betas, Don Roscnsteele and Scott Kaler summari ed the qualities of a datable girl. She ' s a pcach - dancer, and doesn ' t eat much. is their slogan. Easy on both the ejes and the pocketbook. The - like to dance, attend the movies, and drink cokes in the Inn while playing bridge. Frequently chats are in good order. Long hikes are fun too, if it is the right girl. They close their eyes and murmur, Ah spring, a beautiful Bethany girl in a loyel ' spring outfit, her hair blowing in the breeze . . . Mmmm. Everyone has his morals — even college girls — of some sort. Bert Decker seemed a little surprised at the question but when asl.:cd whit he thought the morals of a Bethany- girl should be he did not hesitate. I like a girl that realizes she is a woman, he said, and who may re- gret at times that she is a lady, but she should always-alwa s-be a lad -. Bv that he did not mean she should be a prude, stiff and formal, but she should not encourage the boys to be other than perfect gentlemen. He advised that a girl should be able to relax enough to have good clean fun, but not relax so far as to fall b)- the wayside. When asked what he thought the morals of the Bethany coed should be, Ed Sweeney, a newcomer to the Bethany campus, said, If they are smart, they will keep them high. When asked what he meant bv high he said that he thought the morals of the girls here on Bethany ' s campus seemed to be such. Ed has seen quite a bit of the county and visited other campuses so his judg- ment should be given some consid- eration. The attitude of frankness of the two boys towards this ques- tion is certainly appreciated. Their general attitude seemed to be, keep it clean. That ' s a good tip, girls. There ) ou are girls. This survey may all be in vain, but if you want to keep the boys happy there are some of the ways in which you might try. Now it ' s up to you. fHBRL ' ARY. 1941 DEBUSSEY AND DUMESNIL (Continued from Page 15) The smooth-voice pianist thought very highly of the audience to which he played in Bethany. He also had a good word for his piano. The artist remarlied, The piano is better than the ones of today. It is an older one belonging to the best period of Mason and Hamelin. He also thought highly of the campus. It is beautiful because it is hilly; I don ' t like a campus with- out hills. Mr. Dumesnil is recognized as one of the experts on the life of De- bussey. He knew the composer per- sonally and also knew his problems especialli, ' with his wives. Claude Debussey was a modern classicist and died only in 1918. The biographer-pianist felt that there was no novel revealing book about Debussey; only analytic, ped- agogic works. Wanting to make aji appealing story of Debussey ' s life, he set to work gathering and re- membering what he could about the man. Critics agree that he suc- ceeded in doing so in his book. Mr. Dumesnil refers to Debussey as Claude throughout the book, giv- ing further clue as to the intimacy that existed between the two. Explaining why Debussey ' s first marriage failed, the cosmopolitan interviewee explained that Debus- sey ' s wife was a good housewife but knew nothing of music and was very poor. His second and success- ful marriage was to a very artistic and also verv rich woman. Commenting on modern rear- rangements of classical music Mr. Dumesnil said that some of them were good and some bad. He liked some versions of Eiirhteen Centur ' Drawing Room , Reverie , and oth ers. Reverie is one of Debus- sey ' s works. He said, Some rear- rangings are good and some are bad. They are not really bad. I some- tunes argue about it to myself. When something like a Mozart is played today (in modern form) it can not be hurt because it is too good. He further stated along the same Imes that such modern ver- sions of classics are pleasant to hear but that you can ' t get classics to the masses that way. The unmarried gentleman was very definite about his ideas on American music. He claims that the real spirit of America is that ex- pressed by the Sousa marches just like that of Vienna is expressed in the Strauss waltzes. Taking a strong stand against modern jazz and swing, which he claims Is sav- age, he nevertheless says that he used to like ovir popular music and such songs as Dinah , Mv Blue Heaven and even Hallelujah . However, Mr. Dumesnil believes that American symphonies and philcharnionic orchestras are the best in the world and match any that Europe has produced in recent years. He also takes a stand in favor of the present ASCAP-BMI music war. Quotes the concert artist, It brought back some very lovelv tunes including those of Stephen Collins Foster which like Sousa ' s express the souls of your people. During the first part of the in- terview, Mr. Dumesnil was complet- ing his daily two hour practice. In tune with the questions and in per- fect rhythm with the responses, the prominent pianist played runnmg scales and trills up and down the (Continued on Page 20) Phillips Hall Uses FORT HENRY MEATS Supplied by THE WEIMER PACKING COMPANY WHEELING, V. VA. Conn Band Instruments Steinway Pianos Hammond Organs C. A. HOUSE CO. WHEELIXG, W. VA. See JAKE and DICK at THE VALLEY PRESS Home of Good Printing — Phone 6401 — WELLSBURG, W. VA. 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I will sense cool forests with moss covered earth, tangled undergrowth, tall trees whose high branches formed a canopy over our heads, orchids and ferns growing from rotten logs, and narrow foot-paths badly roughened by exposed roots of trees growing across them. And above all I will remember the swamps, especially the Njwi and the one in which I took so complete a mud bath. DEBUSSEY AND DUMESNIL (Ointinued from Page 19) ivorv- keys every once in a while striking off a chord or an off-key note while thinking of an answer or expressing appreciation of a question. Thus, in resfKinse to the question about the quality of the piano, the artist played a run of the scales in a very light, breezy e.xpression. As his hands, surprisingly rugged for a pianist, tripped up and down the keys, and the piano talked out the answers, one could almost guess what he himself would say. Compliments of B. O. CRESAP SONS Building Materials WELLSBURG, W. VA. WEISBERGER ' S WELLSBURG. V. VA. OLMSTEAD BROS. CO. 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' goxernmcnt censor of news it is but a short step from a Roosevelt desire to a Roosevelt reality, especi- .illy when such a change could be effected by merely setting up an- other bureau. According to the Bill of Rights The Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of the press Certainly one of the gravest dangers that can face a na- tion during times when every move of the government touches the peo- ple is curtailment of the freedom of the press. The editor has the duty of guarding this privilege of the people, through the press. Should the right of censorship be given to the government. Press As- sociations would become merely dis- tributors of mimeographed official bulletins. It would be years before the people would regain confidence in news. At another place in the Consti- tution, in the Fourteenth Amend- ment, the American people have a lurther bulwark against encroach- ment of governmental blue pencils. The Fourteenth Amendment states that no state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States . In the past an alert judiciary has frustated at- tempts to limit these rights. It is up to us to protect these rights to- ckty. The war clouds are piling deep;:r .ind deeper over the hills of the United States. As before any heav)- ' torm, there seems to be some de- gree of calmness. But the minute the rain starts, the strolling Ameri- can public will dash for doorways, only to find that everybody else had the same idea. There will be a panic. Why not print the facts? Per- haps some American will get a us- able idea for strengthening Demo- cracy if he has the proper informa- tion. GEO. E. STIFEL CO. Wheeling ' s Friendly Store Drink C . IN BOTTLES Try .lEM-POLISH JEM-WAX And don ' t forget We do Long Di. tance Moving J. E. MILLER TRANSFER AND STORAGE CO. WHEELING, W. VA. 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Men ivill never redeem the world by sitting as spectators in the bal- cony. Dr. T. Hassell Bowen. my fellow Kentuckians could not shoot any better than these basketball players, they ' d all die of old age. Professor Green, at a par- ticularly bad game. !f «■ When it ' s on the other side it ' s espionage; when it ' s on your side it ' s intelligence. Robert R. Rowan, Lecture Course speaker. A definition of Abnormal Psy- chology? A study of the other fellow. Professor Green. :;- X- .- You hate to learn to do some- thing for nothing at first so that someone will pay you something for doing little, later. Profe ssor Rob- erts to Journalism Class. If ti- if you ' re going to sway people, you have to sway with them. Dean Kirkpatrick, explaining purchase of some new recordings. Watch Your Minutes Expert Watch and Clock Repairing. Will call for and deliver PHILIP R. BAUM Phone Bethany 2031 after 6:00 P. M. THIS MONTH ' S PICTURES THE COVER: This month is the Sophomore issue and in place of the over-used Most Popular Girl of the Sophomore Class idea, our photo- graphic board decided to feature the girl of the class with the most photogenic features. That girl is Mary Lu Smith. Page 3 — Irv Shlansky Page 4- — Gordon Seidel Page 9 — Zamsky Page 10 — Shlansky Page 11 — Shlansky Page 12 — Pictures 1, 6, Seidel; 4, Dave Huntsberger; Others, Shlan- sky. Page 13 — Dave Huntsberger Page 14 — Dave Huntsberger Page 15 — Vantine Page 16— Seidel Page 17 — Rowan, Shlansky; Wake- field, Huntsberger; Bowen, Bow- en. Page 21 — Costanza, Bethany College News Bureau; Geyer, Dave Huntsberger. MOVIES April 4 — Another Thin Man April 1 8 — Shop Around the Corner April 2 5 — Balalaika May 2 — Young Tom Edison May 9 — New Moon May 16 — Edison Tbe Man May 2 3 — Andy Hardy Meets Debu- tante May 3 — Bittersweet June 6 — Boom Town Content 5 One Minute Lecture Course 2 Movies 2 The Last Seven Miles 3 Student Teachers 4 The Answer Was Yes (Short, Short Story) 6 March 15, 1941 (Satire) 8 Sophomore Portraits 9 Alpha Xi , 10 Short Features Friendship 5 Dates 7 Interesting Bethanian 1 5 News Perspective Bethany is Primarily ... 13 Social Whirl 15 Athletic Fronts 16 Visitors on the Campus 17 Greekdom 18 Opinion on the Campus 19 ACTING EDITOR: Lewis Deer ' 43 BUSINESS MANAGER: Wayne Burdue ' 41 EDITORIAL BOARD: Bert Decker ' 41, William Rutter ' 41, Myfan- wy Strain ' 41 MANAGING EDITORS: Lewis Deer ' 43, David Huntsberger ' 43 CONTRIBUTORS: Dave Hunts- berger ' 43, Gordon Seidel ' 42, Archie Conn ' 43, Dick Roberts ' 43, Dwight E. Stevenson, Betsy Ann Plank ' 44, Byron Henderson ' 44, William Young ' 44, Stan Brown ' 44, Jean Fraim ' 43, Phy- liss Hendrickson ' 44. BUSINESS ASSISTANTS: George Sitock ' 43, Jack Baumgartner ' 44 Evelyn Baxter ' 43, Marjorie Hunter ' 44, Mariah Smith ' 43 Bfthauian. a magazine of tcatures and photographs, pub- class matter on January lished each month from October through May by the Stude nt W- Va-. under the Act Board of Publications of Bethany College Entered as second Four dollars the year- 14. 1920. at the Post Office at Bethany, of March 1. 1879- Subscription price: Volume XXXII. Number 2. PAGE TWO I J MARCH, 1941 THE LAST SEVEN MILES By Bill Young Bethany is primarially a secluded institu- tion. despite the exuberant proclamation by the College catalog and the free publicity that, Bethany is a small coeducational institution in the northern panhandle of West Virginia easily accessable by automobile. There should be a footnote by this automobile shot refering the reader to the college rule that students are not allowed to keep cars. The student search for Bethany, after leaving Wellsburg (seemingly the last outpost of civiliza- tion) might be com- pared with Stanley ' s search for Livings- t on, except that it isn ' t necessary to say, President Cramblet, I presume? If your old man works for the rail- road company or if your can afford it, you can get as far as Steubenville or even Wellsburg on some form of public con- vayance. In the good old days they had a street car from which the mod- ern Toonerville Trolley was developed. Time marched on and a bus made daily trips for years. But then the modern era dawned and the present form of thumb riding was devel- oped. (This excludes a few freshmen that had more money than brains and took the $2.50 taxi from Wellsburg). It is that last seven miles that counts, all of which brings forth the comment that Bethan- ians are excellent hitch-hikers. This excludes the few that were Boy Scouts and don ' t mind the cross -country hikes. From Bethany to the outside world it is us- ually easy to get a ride. Towns people, truck drivers, and those connected with the college are all very obliging. Most hitch-hikers agree, however, that the hardest part of the trip to Sliuhiil Bethany is the seven miles from Wellsburg. Along this line they offer a few tips: ( 1 ) Nev- er try to ' bum ' a ride going up a hill where the driver will have to stop; (2) Never try to get a ride on a curve; (3) In cities, traffic lights are the best place to ' thumb ' ; (4) In the coun- try, stand where the driver can see you from a distance and has time to stop. Most hitch-hikers agree that personal ap- pearance is the most important thing to keep in mind when seeking a ride. Fresh- man dinks, college banners on luggage, and even a portable radio, all increase the highway wayfarer ' s chance of being pick- ed up. The better dressed you are; the better your chances are. Many million miles are traveled by Amer- ica ' s hitch - hikers each year; thousands of them by Bethany Students. Their ex- periences add much to many Bethany bull sessions. One devotee of the art tells of be- ing strinded eighty miles from the nearest town in the Allegheny mountains with a drunken driver. The drunk released him from the car only after the rider supposedly signed a note written to the police asserting that the drunk did not mean to steal the car he was driving. The note actually read, Put this soak to bed. Another student, while on a trans-contin- ental tour, was fortunate enough to get a ride from Chicago to Yellowstone National Park with a pencil salesman who let his passenger join the trade and earn thirty dollars. Strange prices are sometimes extracted by drivers as payments for rides. One student tells of being forced by his truck driving host to search a dead autoist for identification papers (Continued on P. ' .ge 20) PAGE THREE ;7y Bcthjny College style. MARCH. 1941 STUDENT TEACHERS By Jiuie Fiess Student teaching is often looked upon as something required by state boards of educa- tion, something which must be endured if one expects to teach. It was formerly called prac- tice teaching but this has given way to the more modern and accurate name of student teaching for one really does not practice on the pupils. In student teaching, it is necessary to spend one semester in observation of classes and di- rected teaching. Ninety hours of observing and teaching is required with not more than forty of the ninety hours required spent in ob- servation. This is required in order to give the student teacher as much practical experience as possible. There is a meeting of all student teachers once during the week in which they discuss problems which they have found and how to act in different situations. Special research is done by each student teacher in some particu- lar phase of teaching in which he is most inter- ested. All findings are reported to the group. Things which will be useful later as well as now are used as topics for research. The first few weeks of the semester are spent observing your critic teacher, noticing meth- ods of teaching, work schedules and learning the names of the pupils. Another important activity is autographing everything from memory books to jackets. This necessitates an mexhaustable supply of verses or maxims and handwriting. A student teacher ' s trials and tribulations begin when one takes over the class and becomes the teacher . He plans the lessons, gives tests, grades papers, disciplines pupils if needed and even sits in the teachers ' section in assembly. During the semester, the student teacher is observed every day by his critic teacher; occas- sionally by the principal of the school, by his major college professor and by the education professor. They criticize your appearance, voice, attitudes, lesson plan, procedure, meth- od of questioning and other details of your teaching. This is usually done at the beginning of your teaching and then again at the end to see if any improvement has been made. Some of our young, handsome male student teachers find that they are subtly being apple- PAGE FOUR polished by their young girl pupils. Their cry might well be the same as Coky ' s of Easy Aces What to do? What to do? Like most teachers, stu- dent teachers find many humerous answers on test papers or in answer to oral JUNE FiESS questions. Like the young boy who wandered where he could find an En- glish translation to Shakespeares plays; the boy who believed the fist ten amendments to the constitution were called the ten command- ments; or the fellow in the study hall when asked why he wasn ' t studying said, I ain ' t got nothin ' to do. EXPENSIVE HABIT The curtain rings down on the Chicago per- formance of Madame La Sorra ' s record-break- ing concert tour. Applause is thundering, and the lovely singer appears again, bowing graciously. Amid the shouts and cheers of thousands Madame La Sorra accepts a bouquet of exquisite roses. She buries her face in their fragrance. The annual Homecoming play at Bethany College has come to a stirring close. The ap- plause is enthusiastic, but the audience is an- xious to go. But wait — usherettes hurry up the aisles, bearing flowers. The curtain goes up, and the chinese cook who had four entrances and two monosyllables receives a huge bouquet of mums. There are flowers for the grand- mother, the juvenile, the sister-in-law, the lead, the director, the prompter. Not a femi- nine member of the cast is neglected. Good or bad performance, the parents came through, and though it squeezed the budget a little, the sororities did not forget their sisters. We all agree it ' s a silly custom — and defi- nitely an expensive one. Yet every cast goes through the little ceremony. Either it has nev- er occurred to them, or they are afraid to break away from the tradition. Well, now it ' s out in the open. What about it Bethespians? MARCH, 19-tI SEEING LIFE There is a most urgent demand in these days for reahsm, or at least what passes for reaHsm, and some kind of an exciting urge in the Hves of certain people to see life in the raw . By seeing life many people mean seeing its sor- didness and its error, its crudities and its taw- driness. It strikes me that life, with all its joy- ous elevations and its exhilirating opportuni- ties, should turn our thinking toward better things most of the time. The truest realism is lift ' at its best. And seeing life is so much more the experience of finding and appropri- ating the good, the true, and the beautiful. We are greatly mistaken when we think of life as a mosaic of perversion, insanity, incest, and open sewers. There is more to New York City than the Bowery and the lower East Side. There is more to each personality than the sum total of his weaknesses and his errors. Life is as much the primrose as the manure. And as for me, I have always entertained a famt and inexplicable preference for primroses to ma- nure! So long as there are sunrises and happy chil- dren, so long as there are sonnets and symphon- ies, so long as there are quiet little towns with smoke curling out of chimneys, so long as there are great cities with greater churches and kneeling multitudes, so long as there are old men who can die serenely, and young men who can live heroically — so long as there are all these things, I shall choose my own pattern for the thing we call realism and I shall try to see Hfe in the uplands. PAGE FH-E MARCH. I -!! kott Skott totif II The Answer Was Yes By Mini! Strain The old lad) ' set the ouija board aside with a grim smile. It was just as she had suspected. The answer was Yes . She rose and moved to the tire. Although not easy, her walk was still regal. From the proud tilt of her head, from the rustle of silk in her garments, from the diamond covered fingers of her hand, one knew that Madeline Pensroy had always been and was still, even m her age, a rich, haughty, and imperious wom- an. As she stared into the flickering flames, her mind returned to the conference of the after- noon. Oh, he had been clever, that nephew of hers. He and the lawyer had been smooth and subtle in their approach. But finally it had come out. Why not transfer your fortune to your nephew ' s name, madam? the lawyer had said, You have no more use for it — so she was finished, eh? — and he can set himself up in business in a real way. You will always be tak- en care of, of course. Indeed she would! She would be taken care of with her oun money until the day she died. She was too shrewd to be wangled out of her fortune now, years before her death. But Gregory Pensroy was shrewd too. He wanted the money badly, and he did not want to wait. She was herself a Pensroy, and she knew that the Pensroys stop at nothing. He was her only heir. That was it! What way was more logical? Murder! Her thoughts had progressed thus far by the conclusion of dinner. She had called then for the ouija board. She asked if she would be mur- dered for her money. The answer was yes. Madeline brushed back a lock of hair with restless impatience. It would be horrible to die so soon. She loved life with a violence and pas- sion. She wanted to live and enjoy her money and to die a peaceful, honored death, to go to sleep surrounded by solicitous doctors and de- voted nurses, and to slip away, easily, without pain, out of life. She was afraid to die! What horrible death might Gregory plan for her? PAGE SIX She thought of him as he was this afternoon, calm, reserved, handsome, and, of course, ami- able. She could see his face now among the flames — the softly curling brown hair, the brown eyes that were not Pensroy eyes, that were those of his father, that odious fortune hunter who had married Madeline ' s sister. How she hated that man, and how she hated Gregory! He was growing like his father. Murder, murder, murder! The word began to beat a sort of rhythm in her mind. Was this to torment her until she died? Must she be at the mercy of a ruthless, money-mad nephew? Must she eat every mouthful at the risk of death agony? What could she do? Call the po- lice? Warn the servants? No! The Pensroys did not take their troubles to outsiders. The door opened softly, and the butler en- tered. She sank back into her chair as though resting. The fire is a little low, Miss Pensroy. Shall I add another log? Oh — yes, she assented, hardly hearing him. The fire tongs in his hands had caught her attention. What a horrible way to die! Someone could slip into the room behind her so easily. She shivered and glanced involuntar- ily back of her chair. But Gregory was so clever. He would not risk finger prints on a weapon. Guns would be too noisy for his purpose. He would never do anything bloody. Poisons! That was the answer, swift, effective, easy to give. He need not be near when she died. Suspicion could eas- ily be thrown on someone else. She rose and moved swiftly to the book- shelves. Her finger ran along the backs of the dusty volumes and stopped on one. This was ie . .an old volume of poisons that her father had been interested in years ago. She hurried back to the fireplace with it. Eagerly she turned the pages. Here and there a paragraph caught her eye. The scant pictures fascinated her. There was one of a man in the morgue. He had taken iodine. MARCH, 1941 llllllllllllllilllllillllllllllllllllllllllilllNIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIH There were formulas for poisons. Here were several pages devoted to arsenic. Arsenic. Her mind settled on it, and re- fused to move on. It was so easy to obtain ar- senic. There was some in the house now that had been bought to kill the rats in the stables. Gregory could slip out enough and no one would ever notice. She read on. A sentence seemed to leap out at her. She read it again. The book slid from her hand as she leaned back in her chair with a long laugh. What a rare joke! What could be more ironical. She would defy Gregory to kill her! There ' s no time to be lost! I ' ll start to- night. Madeline was still laughing as she left the room and walked down the great, dark hall, I ' ll get that arsenic in the kitchen before my dear nephew finds it! What a pity he will have to buy more, and all for nothing! After dinner Gregory had gone to his room. He was to have gone out that evening, but he was too disturbed to dress. As he paced back and forth across the room, he thought of the conference of the afternoon and the coolness at dinner afterward. He did want money now. He needed it dreadfully, and Madeline was none too gener- ous. She was haughty and unapproachable, and Gregory felt she hated him because of his fath- er. And yet he loved her, and he felt sure that she had a soft side somewhere. It had been a long chance, this conference. He had hoped that the lawyer could present the case so well that it would seem reasonable to Madeline. It would mean so much to him to have money now, and he would provide for her so well that she would never know the change in title had been made. But the lawyer had bungled it. The moment he approached the subject in his too domineering manner, Madeline had stiffened. She had been sarcastic and unreasonable; and the lawyer had gone away angry. But the lawyer ' s anger was nothing com- pared to Madeline ' s. At dinner she had glared at Gregory if she looked his way at all, and scarce a word had been spoken between the two. What can I do? he wondered to himself, She has misunderstood the whole issue, and now she mistrusts everything I do. An hour or two passed in restless pacing of (Continued on Page 19) DATES By J. Campbell Some opportunities come once in a lifetime — this may l-je yours. It isn ' t every day in the weeli that you have a chance to know just what the Bethany coed thinks of Bethany dating standards. The following material is a composite of remarks made by a few of the said coed ' s at one of their recent bull sessions, whicli, are less frequent than you suppose. First, the general opinion is; we like to be asked for a date a day, at lest, ahead. These 7:00 phone dates are not too cordially welcom- ed; also, be careful of your approach. None of us appreciate the direct question type, such as, What are you doing Friday night? It really gives a gal no chance of getting out of it in case she doesn ' t Want to go. It isn ' t a bad idea to suggest what you may possibly do so that she may have some idea of how to dre.ss. If you ' d like to have a snow fig-ht — we ' d like to be pre- pared! Don ' t be late for your date. It ' s all right for us to keep you waiting occasionally, but the very night that you turn the tables will be the niglit that we will be ready ahead of time, and we end up in bed with a book and a Do Not Disturb sign on the door. Permanently, as far as .you ' re concerned. A well dressed man is always admired. It ' s the small items that become so very important un- er the female microscopic eye. Before leaving your domicile, check up on such things as whether or not your nails meet specified re- quirements, your shirt is clean, your hair in ord- er, your suit pressed, and don ' t forget to shave. We see you all day in your casual attire, it ' s nice to see a change. Then, too, it prove you can do it. Remembei ' , that you, by asking, for a date liave taken on the responsibility of being atten- tive — help her with her coat — hold the doors open — walk on the outside, or, if you are one of tlie more fortunate who have a car, always help her in first. Be observing, introduce her to your friends, never allow the conveisatiorr to get too far away from things interesting or familiar to her, as it is likely to make her feel left out. If dou- ble dating, be sure that date and friends will be congenial. A little thought on your part may save much embarrassment. When we want to be amused, we look for talent along that line; so don ' t show off. If you are mature enough to date — you are mature enoug ' h to cai ' ry on an intelligent conversation without loud, boisterous talk. Most of us can no longer appreciate the thrill we mav have derived from an over display of your driving technique; all of us have seen a one man circus in the proper setting at the age of six, so — All good things come to an end; so, consider the responsibilities of we who live by rules and must sign the book upon our return. A few moments can make a big difference, so don ' t make up pay for your carelessness in making us late. Admiration and respect are two rather im- portant qualifications in this, our our little world. Strange, how easily they may be ac- quired or destroyed. On the whole, fellows — we think you ' re pretty swell and we hope that these few words will be taken in the spirit in which they were given. mil PAGE SE TN MARCH, 1941 MARCH 15, 1941 Tell us. Uncle Ed, said little Gwendolyn. Tell Hi. Where were you on the night of March H, 1941? Aha, answered Uncle Ed. That was the night of the Famous Homecoming. Wha ' d ' ya mean, ' Famous ' ? said Nephew Alfred, a repulsive infant, with an arsenous twist to his voice. Aha , said Uncle Ed, his eyes goggling at this puzzler. Is thai all ou can say? demanded Gwen. To this. Uncle Ed voiced a weak No , but continued before he could be interrupted again. I repeat. That was the night of the Famous Homecoming. You said that once, spat Phillip, the neigh- bor ' s child. Don ' t interrupt, please, or V l crush your cranium, smiled back Uncle Ed. Pay no attention to the dotards, chimed Alexander, a churlish thing with no hair who came from the other side of the tracks. I repeat, said Uncle Ed, and this time I said ' I repeat ' . It was a great affair, a Gala Oc- casion, as the papers would say, had they said anything. People came from near and far. From all over the county they came. From Wellsburg, and Follansbee and Ghost Hollow and Bethany itself. Why, two or three even came from Pittsburgh. What ' s so wonderful about that? asked little Alfred, who was born there and should know. Why, Pittsburgh was miles and miles and miles away. Are you sure? Alexander threw his fish in the fry. Positive, replied the old coot. Your witness, responded Alex. To continue, continued Uncle Ed, thus provmg hmiself a man of action, it was a high old time, the like of which had never been seen on the Banks of the Old Buffalo, and has never been seen since. Thank God , irreverentlv chorused the group. Amen , answered Uncle Ed. Such a week- end. Things started off with a bang, like that , said he, breaking a leg with a resounding snap! Tirst, there was the Tea. Tea? said little Phillip. Tea , said Uncle Ed. PAGE EIGHT Oh, tea , said little Phillip. It wasn ' t as bad as all that , stoutly defend- ed Uncle Ed. It had lemon and sugar in it. And cookies, too. Ah, a high old time. Sissies , came a Voice From the Adjoining Room. We were not , cried Uncle Ed, weeping now at this unwarranted attack. There wasn ' t a man of us that couldn ' t drink his weight in wildcats. Ever try a Zombie? asked Gwen. Certainly not! They were strictly taboo. Well, said The Voice From the Adjoin- ing Room, you know what Shakespeare said. ' Taboo, or not Taboo ' . At this, everyone, including the canary laughed uproarously and agreed that it was prett) ' weak, even for a voice. To continue, said Uncle Ed, after the Tea, there was the registration. What for? interrogated the Brat Phillip. I don ' t know, answered Uncle Ed. But it was fun to register. And such a spectacle! Just imagine! A line thirty feet long, jostling, shoving, pushing each other — each trying to sign his name first, for there was a prize for whoever signed his name first. Whomever, corrected Phillip, deftly side- stepping Uncle Ed ' s foot. What kind of a prize? sweetly questioned Alexander. Why, come to think of it, I don ' t know, replied Uncle Ed. Nobody ever got it. But there was one, you may be sure. The BiiUctin said so. And then, such noise! Flags waving, bands playing, bugles playing, bystanders cheering those 33 intrepid souls. And the entertainment that night. Gee! The college let the dramatic fraternity present a play Shakespear ' s Twelfth Nii hL I ' ll bet it stank, said Phillip, a Screen ' s Actor ' s Guilder from ' way back. It decidedly did not emphatically defend- ed uncle Ed. It was good. Why, they had a real stage, with curtains and footlights, an or- chestra, and scenery, — and they even had cos- tumes, too, — imported from Columbus. By, or from, Columbus? asked Gwen. Uncle Ed paid no attention to this interrup- tion, but continued. And, then, after the play, came the big surprise. Guess what it was, (Continued on Page 22) f MARCH, 1941 Rol-ert AJdleman, Helen Arensberx, Irene Armstrong, Pauline Bahinc-, William Bannen. Eielyn Baxter, Grace BencJict, Jean Berggren, Marjorie Blackmore. Burke, George Calemline, ]ane Campbell, Coriiine Cashman, Robert Connell, Arc .iie Conn, Janice Cooper. J Wallace. PAGE NINE MARCH. 1941 Sototittf o t te Montk ALPHA XI The year is 1951 . . .The scene is Spike ' s in- ner sanctum sactorum (a la Crobaugh) where she has retired with an odd (?) group of girls. The lights are low and the fire is smoldering, slowh ' drying out. And while seated around the fireside their thoughts drifted ' round to girls, the girls of ' 41 to be exact. Spike was president that year with Sticky , Weezie , Cluss and Midge assisting. The year was a memorable one; for it was in that moment- ous annum that scho- larship was added to the phrase — The House of Charm and Beauty. Yes, we placed first among the Greek letter fra- ternities on the cam- pus. Our girls of ' 41 were prominent in dramatics. Spike go- ing from the ridicu- lously lovable drunk- en actress in You Can ' t Take It With You to the sublime in Shakespeare ' s Twelfth Night. Peggy Geyer as Viola in the same pro- duction was superb, characterizing a boy to a T (or should we say D??). Other Alpha Xi ' s preening their dramatic wings were Rita Cleary, Jane Campbell, Eleanor Waterhouse, Janice Purdum and Jane Williamson. Eleanor Achterman was secretary to the Student Board of Governors, while our regular representatives were Betty Caugherty and Pauline Gilbert. Louise Gettys v as President of the French Club and secretary of the Interna- tional Relations Club. Barbara Schutt was president of Phillips Hall. It was in that year that Spike was elected to Who ' s Who in Amer- ican Colleges. In the world of sports we entered our bas- ketball team into the tournament. It brought about a closer feeling between the pledges and actives, the upper classmen taking the fouls fycudi-nt Ersknic cwcii iiiiig ■; Jcsk. and defeats with a graciousness (?) that set or should set an example for their sorority daugh- ters. Oh well, it was swell while it lasted, we did have fun and no harm done (or was there???). At the first of the year, November 23 to be exact, the actives put forth a noble (it wasn ' t futile) effort and for their work were re- warded by the pledges enjoying themselves at the Black and White Ball. In return the pledges gave the ac- tives an informal Snow Ball (I don ' t know if they inten- tionally planned the pun or not). With the expert guidance of Butch they created falling snow, (on the windows) and an enormous snow man. Our an- nual Rose Dance was in May with both actives and pledges working toward the goal — killarney roses in profusion and happy memories to keep forever. During the year we had a tea for our patronesses and several feeds together at the house. On October 27, 1940 we had our Moon- light Serenade, starting a new vogue for origi- nality in these song fests. But now I find reminiscing growing diffi- cult for The Old Shoe , due to her economic inclinations, is starting to advocate two chick- ens in every pot and three cars in every garage (a la Crobaugh), and since every good thing must come to an end, I ' ll leave the fellow shoes to their fate and stun the critics by ending with a beginning. Delta Chapter is Bethany ' s oldest sorority. The national chapter was founded at Lombard College, Galesburg, 111., on April 17, 1873. Delta chapter was founded June 3, 1903. From the ten members of Alpha chapter the enroll- ment of the sorority has grown to include 54 active chapters. PAGE TEX MARCH. 1941 Alpha X ' s E!ili} W ' iifcr house, WonJ, Ciuii l lyiU . Ciiniuhiiii, Sibtnig ciiiil T id well c Ml III in- Vthvary. GiifhcrcJ ciboiif Mrs. Hhic, housemother arc: Hunter, Actenjun, Shafer, Schutt, Ciishiuau. Berg reu, Clenry, PiirJuw aud Carnahau. JUNIORS Ele.mor Achterm.in Jane Campbell Rita Cleary Jean McCroba Flora Jane Smith Barbara Scliutt Eleanor Waterhouse SENIORS Sandra Abrams Helen Cluss Jane Edmunds Louise Gettys Peggv Geyer Katherine Leitch FLOWER— Pink Killarney Rose FRESHMAN Ellajane Bishop Betty Elder Jean Goe Mary Jane Heifer Marjorie Hunter Dorothy Ralston Miriam Reno Nancy Sebring Betty Shadle Betty Shaffer Shirley Tidwell Evelyn Van Strien Sue Wood Hi lojf. COLORS— Double Blue and Gold SOPHOMORES Helen Arensburg Jean Berggrcn Susan Carnahan Corinne Cashman Janice Cooper Joan Cramblet Pauline Gilbert Libbets Lewis Janice Purdum Marietta Shore Jane Williamson PAGE ELE TN T= MARCH, 1941 EXTRA CURRICULAR LEADERS _)ih — ]ii i r-Xafio iiil Rilufioiis Club ' s Gordon Sciilcl, a History Dclhirfinciif Assistant and a History Major. Two — French and Education Chihs meet and pose Lonin Grttys, French prcxy, . Milton Parker, President of the Education Club, Practice teacher. Three — Bethesfnan Chib chief c ecittiie i }ini Hnntsberger. Fonr — Stewart Moore, Radio Club ' s chief, at his own sending set. Five —Head of tlie new Rifle Club n John Weinnr Freshman. Six— President of the German Club, Mary Ionise Scsler. Seven — Y.W.C. A. leader is Rowmary Roberts. Eight — W.A.A. president is fa nice Evans. Nine — New-comer Foster stepped into the Presidency of the Spanish Club alnnnt as soon as he armed. He learned the Sp inish he throws around while he ii ' as traveling in Cuba. PAGE TWELVE COSTANZA GOES SOUTH Sailing from New Yorl; March 18 headed for Cuba was a boat carrying Bethaniau Editor John Ccstanza headed for Lima, Peru. Once there Costanza ' s plans c:Jl for study and writing. John, a Journahsm Major, receiv- ed the opportunity to study m Lat- in-America on an exchange scholar- ship. His studies there will include History of South America, Econo- mics, Inter-American Relations. John ' s qualifications for the scholarship were two — a speakm.s;, reading knowledge of Spanish, gen- eral good work in his first two years at Bethany. He will be gone one year, returning next February to complete his studies here and gradu- ate come June. Besides studying Costanza plans to gather material and to write arti- cles of general interest about our southern neighbors. The general format and layout of the Bcthanian this year is the idea and plan worked out by John. Many of the columns and the plan of a news, feature, picture magazine are the result of Costanza ' s planning. CHAPEL SPEECH SUMMARY With as good a description of Chapel programs as has ever come down the Pike and through the tun- nels, the Reverend Mr. Hugh Dar- sie, of the Bethany, Hiram and Flat- bush Darsies, capped Brotherhood Week (February 2 3-28) on the Campus. Mr. Darsie was graduated from Bethany in a time strikingly similar to this, in the spring of 1917. A re- cruiting sergeant caught his eye; he became an A.E.F. chaplain for the duration. When the tyrant ' s heel became run-down, he heeded Greelv ' s axiom, accepted the pastor- ate of the Christian Church at But- te, Montana. n a few years, the missionary zeal grew irrestible. So, back he went to the Steubenville MR. HUGH DARSIE felt !ni: ollilf ZCill church he had served as assistant pastor for a few months, this time as the minister. For the past twelve years, he has ministered to and root- ed for Brooklyn at the Flatbush Christian Church, Brooklyn, N. Y. He learned the ministry from the bottom up, beginning as janitor of the Old Bethanv Church, continu- MARCH, 1941 ing as hod-carrier for the present one when it was abuilding. Four years of college and a degree added lo his education. Possessor of a quick smile, a like wit, gobs of anecdotes, agreeable platform manner, come-on person- ality, Mr. Darsie put a shot in the arm of Chapel programs. Most remembered of his addresses was this bit of Stoopnaglian philoso- phy: After four years of Chapel programs at Bethany, I came to the conclusion that thickly settled re- gions of dense population have more people per square mile than thinly settled regions of scattered popula- tion. BETHANIAN FIGURES Figures are seldom interesting unless surrounded by certain facts. Well — here are the facts. The Beth- anian started the 1940-1941 year with a financial deficit of S456.00. President Cramblet suggested that v. ' e cut down the number of issues to reduce the debt. Mr. Evans, Bur- sar, simply said no more debt. John Ccstanza, editor and Wavne Burdue, business manager, went in- to a huddle. Cut down the number of issues? No! The students were paying ■ for a complete book they should get a complete book. There were two logical wavs of approaching the problem. One, the editor would cut down his costs without impairing the quality of the magazine. Two, the business manager would have to sell more ad- vertising. The paid office of circulation manager was done away with. The assistant business manager was put on a commission basis. The business manager put on a circulation cam- paign which resulted in 5 5 paid subscriptions, and with the help of his assistant sold about S 1,000 worth of advertising. Incidentally this is about S300.00 over last year. The figures are surrounded by different facts now. The deficit is paid and the Bethanian shows an indicated profit of about S300.00 for the year. PAGE THIRTEEN ' MARCH, 1941 CLUB SAHARA (.)in- — Bcia hoys play. Tun — Dck Gl.ns aiul frnnJ muiy. Three — fcllou er ami Goodiiin. Fitc — Mr. ami Mrs, St rage)is ami M s Carrigai: look on. ,Si pause for refresbwenl. four — Coke-openers, MoeJf- Mr. ami Mrs. Slnne join the party. Seven — Betty ShaJle taps as part of the floor show. Eight— The six Legf;etles stop the show with eharn: anJ skill. Nine — Only eoke ami the table uenf nnJer. Ten — Heekel ' s Mrs. Rooseiell ueleomeJ ami pleaseil the s uests. For the second year Bethany students had the opportunity of visiting a night club on the campus. Under the general direction of the Social Committee and the personal direction of Bert (Do-you-know- why-it ' s called-Club-Sahara) Decker. Club Sahara reopened for the night with a bar (please, Mr. Cen- sor) in one corner of the room, the band in another, tables were placed along the walls, allowing ring side for the floor show. ' ith entrepenner Decker doubling as master of ceremonies, the show began with a greeting from Eleanor Roosevelt (Roy Hechel) cracked she: Franklin loves to be with the proletarist and is very PAGE FOURTEEN sorry he can ' t be here. I love to be with the pro- letarist. The show continued with soloist Bill (Not-the- Guy) Yauch whose contribution was this Wait, stopping the orchestra as he faltered over the words to his song. I just got these words at six o ' clock to- night, so that ' s why Bethany ' s own Leggettes, six legsome tappers were the hit of the show. If only they knew more than one routine! Billy Shadel came forth with a tap solo and Jane Mayers sang two numbers to round out the floor show. Ooops we foi rot the mention — Get-that-pic- ture-Huntsberger who was a feature in himself. Social IVAitl DIME NIGHT WINNERS Art Beard and Trudie Whitney were chosen by popular vote as the most promising actors, taking part in Freshman Dime Night. Art Beard took the part of an enamored college boy in Aak Father, He Knows. This play, directed by Bob Ful- mer centered around the mutual love of the office president and his secretary while each is unaware of the others affection. Art Beard, the president ' s son, also fancies that he is in love with the red-haired secre- tary, Judy Umbel. The play ends happily when the president, Bill Yauch, finds his portrait carefully concealed in his secretary ' s drawer and, so encouraged, dares to voice his love. This cast acted with some vitality and realism. Trudie Whitney delighted the audience with her portrayal of an Irish cleaning-woman, obviously from Brooklyn, in the play The Missing Clue, This play, coached by Marjorie Blackmore, revealed the felony of Roy Henkle the villainous blackmailer, against Timmy VanStrein, the murderess, and Sue Wood, her accomplice. Mr. Mallen who is shot at the beginning of the play remains realistically dead while Frankie Mayers, the secretary, and Margie Hunter, the woman de- tective, solve the crime from a whiff of Black-Narcissus perfume for Don Brinkworth, a brusque investi- gator. The Missing Clue was vot- ed to be the best liked play. The Way of All Flesh by Har- old Dowler, directed by Betty Field, satirized the female fad, rampant even at Bethany, of dieting. Two couples, Mary Aline Struble, Bill Young, Phyllis Hendrickson, and Dick Collen finally admit their hunger and consent to a practical demonstration of Gay Addleman ' s aluminum-ware on steak and French fries. Little MIDDLESEX UNIVER- SITY, at Waltham, Mass., has start- ed to build a miniature village of 70 Cape Cod cottages, each to contain four rooms, lodging for six students. In each unit of ten bungalows one house will be reserved for a fac- ulty proctor and his family. LETTERS OF A CAMPUS CUTIE TO THE GUY BACK HOME Hello Darlin ' — There certainly was a bunch of for a swingy ride. Franny Dvorak directed the cruise committee (Jan- ice Evans, June Fiess, Hilda Sarver, Ardath Willoschat) and the good ship S. S. Kaydee set sail for parts unknown on March 8, 194L Port officers Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Cro- baugh, Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Sump- stine and Mr. and Mrs. W. K. Wool- ery granted landing permission, and band leader Paul Campbell just set MARCH, 1941 the deck ' ; a-rollin ' . Immigrants trunks at the K.D. dance and that ' s no typographical error! Positively cruise-some. OOps — ' scuse it, — but anyhoo, the Kappa Delta ' s surely hit a cute idea when they hung up those travel ads and took the gang were alumna Ila Warstler, out-of- town Ted Johnson, Jack Miller, and away-for-the-tlme-being Jim Ston- er And remind me to get a hobby! On March 2 I strobbed up to Phil- lips and whattya know? Heaps of the wierdest stuff — and more fun. Phyl Henderson hoards post-cards (Continued on Page 18) M. ' VRjORIE FIN. I:Y INTERESTING BETHANIAN Bethanians that know any- one, know Marge Finney. But everyone did not know that Marge wrote this col- umn until she stopped classes in January. There is some- thing else they didn ' t know. There are two Marge Finneys. One is the wee, itty mousie with the quiet, gray eyes, the Marge that majored in English here on the Bethany ' s campus for two and a half years. They know that Marge as the cute, naive lass that has worked to some ex- tent for the Bethanian ever since the days she helped Underwood carry the Bethanian office around in his pockets. Now they know her as the Bethanian — she will always be a Bethanian — that minbly taps at a typew riter in Barlow ' s office. She has a determined gleam in her eyes when she says that she hopes to finish her education some day when she gets some money. Not that she isn ' t being educated in Barlow ' s office. She means formal education. New that is Marge Finney, the calm, serene Marge that most Bethan- ians know. But there is another Marge. The other Marge is much m ore exciting. Much. She actually got a thrill out of some of her litera- ture courses. Like most co-eds she enjoys this rhythmic hugging called ball-room dancing but she loves classical music and ballet. She goes into raptures over Debussey, and ecstasy over The Afternoon of a Fawn. How a ninety-six pound girl like Marge can get so excited over things like those makes one marvel. The few that know that Marge, that petite quivering bundle of spiritual and intellectual jov, merely consider her a little child of nature, and let it go at that. Few indeed are the Bethanians that see beyond those grey eyes. Few notice the impish gleam in them, few realize the unspoken wit that lies behind them. Sometimes they hear its result, a small lilting laugh. But onlv a few know that Marge. Most Bethanians see the first Marge. The serene, calm one. But there is two there. Look. P. GE FIFTEEN MARCH. 1941 ALEXANDER ' S 21 Earlv season reports of this year ' s basketball team had the usual opto- miscic ring to them. Of course we had no world-beating team, the re- ports stated, but the coach had rea- son to believe that this year ' s team would do much better than last year ' s. Chief among the Coaches reasons for optomism was Freshman Bob Alexander. Bob came to Beth- any as a seasoned player having played four years in high school and been selected on the All-New York High School team in his senior year. No reason for shouting was the season just finished, although the pre-season report was true in a sense for we did better this year than last bv three victories. BOli ALEXANDER tl)c SifffjJ ' s hifih mail No believer in the well advertised Breakfast of Champions, athlete Alexander prefers his sleep to break- fast. Non-breakfast eater Alexander proved to be the mainstay of the team, and the season ' s high scorer of the squad. During the sel on h; amassed the total of 191 points, 21 of them in the Fairmont game and 20 in anoth- er; two records for the Buffalo boy. Bob promises to go great guns next year. (To be the first with a pre- season optomistic report) . Missing from the court next vear will be such familiar figures as Tom Cullison, Dick Jackson, Norm Fair, PAGE SIXTEEN Horse Taylor, and Jim Stoner, all members of the graduating class. PREVIEW OF TRACK SEASON Come April 26 and those green clad speedsters you see dashing around and around the track any afternoon will be formed into a track team and shipped to Ohio U. for the first of the seasons meets. This first meet is to be a tr iangular affair with Oh ' .o U. and Akron U. being the other two teams involved. Coach Boetcher is makig no rash pre-season promises of a victorious year. But he has several veterans of past seasons back v ith him. In the short dashes he has veteran Bill Laird and promising newcomers, Dick Wallace, Ray Rappaport, Stan Stitt, Jack Cicco and Ray Kurtz; In the longer events Coach is depending on these men: Veteran McCord, Morg- an, Barker, Commltte, Otto, Keck- ley and John White; In the hurdles he has: Veteran Norm Fair, Fred Albrecht, Dick Umbel; In the field events Dode Myers, Pete Pletz, Jack Hesser, Dick Jackson and Gordon Seidel. , On May 1, the track team travels to Washington to see if it can do what the football team did but the basketball team failed to do-beat W. J. To Pittsburgh on May 6 go the Bison tracksters to race against the Skibos of Carnegie Tech. The next meet is the Geneva races at Beavtr Falls On May 14. And the final race at Beaver on May 17 when Bethany participates In the Tri-State Annual meet. PROPAGANDA OR EDUCATION? One of the first showings of a public relations film America Looks Ahead failed to rouse much enthusiasm from chapel students who were guinea pigs for the exper- iment on January 31. Both the motion pictvu ' e and the speakers, Robert W. Ewing of the Western Pennsylvania group of the Investment Bankers ' Association of America, and Frederic P. Mullins, a national director of the LB. A., be- lieved that the U. S. must do every- thing to maintain the system of free enterprise that has given its citizens the highest standard of living in the world. LOST MINDS Laying stress on the benefits of such field trips, Miss Bibbee reveal- ed that she was pleased with the re- sults of the observations made by her sociology classes on a visit to Mayview Hospital, near Pittsburgh. Forty-four students who made the trip differed in their reactions to the study of mental deficients at the institution. A sophomore girl found the epileptic ward nause- ating but a boy said it was very Interesting. In this ward was a girl manic-depressive who had been In a body temperature bath for nine hours and even after that time, was still screaming and carrying on. The tour began with an inter- view of several patients by one of the doctors. He reviewed the case history to the students and then Interviewed the patient to try to reveal the patient ' s weakness. The students were shown through the clinics and finally were taken through the entire plant. General opinion of the students was that the hospital was poorly equipped for its size and that a great number of the cases seemed, from both appearance and conversation, to be normal. Most of the cases viewed were mild ones. Some of the more normal patients helped out the regular staff in running this restitution to nor- malcy plant. Most interesting were the indi- vidual cases. The soclalogists saw cases of amentia (those having un- developed minds as idiots, imbeciles, and morons) and dementia (minds that have developed but which are reverting back from normalcy as in an alcholic). They saw the manic- depressives as one who continually plots suicide. One of the most piti- able cases was a person suffering from paresis, the mental deteriora- tion of the last stages of syphilis. There were cases of senile dementia, old people suffering from lack of memory. One negro woman had delusions of persecution. She always felt that someone wanted to do something to her. She was a paranoiac, MARCH, 1941 Mrs. Wakefield vhitoti on tne amy ui SPY AND COUNTER SPY As timely as time itself was the lecture by Richard W. Rowan, Clif- ton Fadiman ' s greatest living au- RTCHARD W. ROWAN Too f.it to hi G ' Mini IN HIS STEPS Touring American Colleges in- terpreting Vachel Lindsay ' s poems as meant to be interpreted, Mrs. Olive Wakefield stimulated Bethany with new slants on her brother ' s prose and poesy philosophy. A guest of the College for the second time in as many years. Sister Olive was wel- comed back by friends and enthus- iasts. No hoodooer herself, Mrs. Wakefield captured her audiences, formal and informal, by interpreta- tions of Yachel Lindsay ' s works, her charming naturalness, her thought - provoking conversations, her utter disregard for formality and staging. Her initial address at Convoca- thority on international secret serv- ice . Too fat to be G-Man, Mr. Rcwan became, instead, author lec- turer, authority, careered as a spy ' s spy, established a creditable espion- age system himself. With fluoroscopic depth, Spy- chiser Rowan uncovered the true state of international espionage and counter-espionage. No mincer of words, he made disclosures, stated facts, left his audience pondering. Beginning his address by citing symptoms of diplomatic chican- ery, he proceeded to the disease itself. Sabotage, propaganda, foreign agent, spy were familiarized to Bethanians, Hercules Powder, Ches- ter Shipyards, Bethlehem Steel ex- emplified. With no love for roman- ticizers, S-Man Pvowan blasted at these fictions, loosened the slime in- habited by professional agents, ex- posed their true nature. Indicting democracies and dictatorships alike, he revealed actual instances of spy- manship in Europe, Asia, America. With his contention that the reason for efficient totalitarian espionage lies in the early activities of their leaders, Mr. Rowan left the impression that Only a spy can catch a spy , and lamented misdirected U. S. svstem, built solely along countering lines. day-School class left Bethany that afternoon; desti nation, another college. T. HASSELL BOWEN Three days this month Dr. T. Hassell Bowen was a visitor on Bethany ' s campus. As guest leader of Religious Emphasis Week, Dr. Bowen addressed Bethany audiences in Chapel and in Evening Church services, as well as in Informal group meetings. Leading off with a chapel address Dr. Bowen spoke on Is Christian- ity a Spent Force citing examples of Christianity ' s survival through many catastrophies, pointed out that Christianity is strongest when it hangs on a cross. The conclusion reached is that Christianity is not a spent force; that it is ilive today and will emerge from the present chaotic world condition stronger than before. But, pointed out our Southern Guest, Christianity must learn to run under its own power, stop apologizing to science, politics, economics and philosophy. Paralleling Bethany ' s Dwight E. Stevenson, Dr Bowen is minister of the Christian Church at Harrods- burg, Kv., Professor of Philosophy at the College of the Bible at Lex- NO HOODOOER HKRSELF tion, cutting the rape of convention, primed Bethany audiences, kept her here for the week ' s remainder. Meet- ing students in groups of increasing numerality, Mrs. Wakefield left an aurora of her brother ' s genius and a glimpse of his personality. Her own life, joined v ith her brother ' s thru common opinions, common deduc- tions, reflects the greatness of the philofopher-poet and the compan- ionship enjoyed and shared by both. Unlike most lecturers, she con- creted her beliefs with these of stu- dents, instigating Quaker-Hke Stu- dent Meditation Groups. Purpose: to seek solutions to problems, per- sonal and otherwise, thru concerted, cooperative thought. Curtain-bowing before a Sun- DR. T. HASSEL BOWEN ington. Minister Bowen stated that he makes 2,000 calls a year in his pastoral work, succinctly stating (Continued on Page 21) PAGE SEN ' ENTEEN MARCH, 1941 Qtaekdi teekCLom The month of March w.is .1 busy one for the fraternities and sororities of the campus if we are to believe the pubHcity chairman of each. Nearly every chapter has held elec- tion of officers for the coming year, each has had an initiation ceremony and all have participated in social affairs of one kind or another. New officers for the comini; year are these: PHI KAPPA TAU: President Eugene Keckley V. Pres Glen Ritchey Treas Robert Husband Cor. Sec. J.ick Wright PHI MU: President V. Pres. Sec. Treas. Jean Fraim Anna Laura Burke Dorothy Reynolds Phvliss Hendrlckson ALPHA XI DELTA: President Mildred Erskine V. Pres. Eleanor Watcrhouse Rec. Sec. Flora Jane Smith Cor Sec. Joan Cramblet Treas Jano Williams ZETA TAU ALPHA: President Betty Murphy . Pres. Marjorle Blackmore Rec Sec. Betty Mclntyre Cor. Sec. Joanne Schott Treas Esther Mackey KAPPA ALPHA: President Harry Wilson V. Pres John Mcdlck Sec Morrison Radcllffe SIGMA NU: Commander Robb Henry Lt. Commander Jack Pryor Treas John Whitehill Sec. Wally Mayor ALPHA KAPPA PI: President Gordon Scidel Sec Richard Wallace V. Pres. William Sicmon BETA THETA FI: President Irvan Roche V. Pres. Alfred Swearingen Cor. Sec Ralph Burbridge Rec. Sec Theodore Herrlck Treas Charles Cluss PAGE EIGHTEEN KAPPA DELTA: President Hilda Sarver V. Pres Ardath Willoschat Sec Phyliss Skilton Treas Anna Zenowitz Recent Initiates: Kappa Alpha: Orion Keylor. Alpha Kappa Pi: Lewis Deer. (Continued on Page 23) LETTERS OF A CAMPUS CUTIE TO A GUY BACK HOME (Continued from Page 15) and has hundreds of them from be- fore-to-after and coast-to-coast. Some fellow In Australia who writes to John McCord up and sent him a boomerang! Why don ' t you ever do cute things? John Topping and Don Regler had some super-dooper art work on display, and you ought to see Joan Schotts shoes. Oh! Deni golden slippers First prize in crea- tive hobbles went to Mr. Frank Lappin for his vurra lovely wood- carvings, and Tim Simpson came In second with some interior decoration plans that really made one go do- mestic in a chromium and leather sort of way. Miss Blanche Burrows ' dance programs brought her first prize in the collecting division, and whatta ya think it was that copped second place for Margaret Abel? Just what you didn ' t think — milk bottle tops, all arranged in the cutest manner — sort of a milky way and did I mention the Mentions? Virginia Stevenson, Jean Schott, John Topping and Peggy Deibel. Mr. Herbert J. Sanborn, Director of Arts and Crafts at Oglebay Insti- tute; Mrs. Neil Graham and Mr. Walter Boettcher made up the com- mittee of judges. All in all, I was inspired. Even considered mounting my fraternit)- pins Managed to sweep all my shoes under my bed and had the room gleaned for Homecoming, Saturday, March 15. And rowdy-dow the plp- ple! Commencement Hall was sag- ging dangerously that night at the play, Turlfth Nighf. Yes, Shakes- sfieare, and they didn ' t leave out the curly wigs, either. Wish you could have seen Roy Heckle draj ed around a mirror as Malvolio, and Peggy Geyer sporting breeches, achully dashing as Viola. Virginia Woods did what ya call a really profesh job in the role of Maria, not to mention the staggering job of Bill White, who played Sir Toby Welch. I could go on all night, but just think of a cast with Jane — you know, Spike-Edmunds, Jim Hunts- berger, Tom Committee, Clarence Joy, Chuck Bell, Don Rosensteele, Sheldon Kohau, Jerry Ferguson, Bob Fulmer, Robert Golbey, Barbara Schutt, Esther Mackey, Ruth Halt- er, Janice Cooper and Bill Yauch. And, foo-face, think of Jake White- hill with increased respect, ' cause he did the scenery for all seven scenes. The power behind the beeg success was director Marian Hendrlck Gee, darlin ' I miss you muchly — just couldn ' t keep my mind off you Saturday nite as I stood watching the penny-pitching at the Alpha Xi ' s booth. Did I tell you about the bazaar we had for the benefit of Homecoming Committee? OOh, you shooda seen it — turt ' e-racing at the Sigma Nu booth, ten-pins at the A.K. Pi ' s, fortune telling by the Independent Women , the Beta Theta Pi ' s gave you a chance to give vent to what ' s pent, with their three for a nickle plate-break- ing, and you could throv. darts at Hitler ' s mustache at the Phi Tau booth. The K.A. ' s had a roulet wheel; the Phi Mu ' s gave out look- sees at baby pictures of the profess- ors; the K.D. ' s sold pop corn balls, the Zeta Tau Alpha ' s sold cokes and peanuts — well, even with my ach- ing heart, it was all verra gay, and a-good-time-was-had-bv-all. Well I always say when one is lonely it ' s wisest to keep dizzy — in the social whirl — but in spite of Our Love, I just can ' t go study! With manya smudge and manya smooch, Beth Ann. HAVERFORD COLLEGE, at Haverford, Pa, has become the ha- ven for 30 prominent European refu- gees, who were swept out of Europe by war and political changes. MARCH, 1941 a inion on tne amy2u.5 OPINION ON THE CAMPUS The big doings down in Wash- ington this month found Uttle re- verberation on Bethany ' s campus. Both students and faculty cither admitted a silent ignorance of the Lease-Lend bill, or based their opin- ion on ever-reliable general prin- ciples . Dr. Shaw merely awaits the con- sequences. Leaning back comfort- ably in his chair, he expounded. I feel that with the signing of the Lease-Lend bill, the United States has entered the war. It is a great gamble. Naturally, he was hope- fully optimistic Mr. Bowden expressed a surpris- ing amount of cynicism. In fact, As to the non-financial aspects of the act, I still have my application for a chauffer ' s job to a cowardly general. He felt, too, that the bill adds to the national headache, and either the standard of living should drop, or inflation and subsequent depression should result. Student views however were more varied and extreme. Omitting the ever-obvious opinion of Bert Decker on problems of this sort, freshman were consulted for the most part, and with the following results. Harry Murphy, propped on a window sill waiting for Franny Thomas, seemed happy about most anything. I look forward to a great boom in employment, which will probably cause college students to drop out of college. After all, though, we were already in the war and this bill makes little difference in our status. Jean Styre and Lois Linn held identical views, quite in harmony with most Bethanians. What is it? Course they were only kidding, mildly, but both students and fac- ulty had the same idea. Visiting the infirmary at the mo- ment. Bob Husband said a lot, but NOT for publication. Generally however, he saw this move as un- necessary and war-like. You may quote me as an Isolationist. (note Dr. Woolery). Mary Lou Smith became unusual- ly serious. With so many friends and re ' atives being English, natural- ly, I ' m glad for the United States ' help, and approve the bill. It does mean war, though. As for effect on college students, they, at least Beth- anians, don ' t know enough about the bill to feel a.i effect. THE ANSWER WAS YES (Continued from Page 7) the room, and still he had come to no conclusion. There seemed to be nothing to do but go down and see Madeline, if she uoiiUl see him, and ask her to forgive his ever having mentioned the affair. Perhaps she would forget it. He knew it meant an end to his dreams for setting up business, but there was no other way. As soon as the decision was made, Gregory felt better. He ran a comb through his hair, straightened his tie and went out. Where would she be? The library most likelv, he decided, and headed for it. Just outside the door, he paused. Tonight, considering her mood, he had better knock. He tapped softly. There was no answer. He knocked a little louder; then again. Still no answer. Well, he would peek in. With the door open a little way, he could see her sitting before the fire, her back towards him. Perhaps she was asleep. But he must see her! He went over quietly and touched her chair. Aunt Madeline — with a gasp he fell back. Her tall straight body was twist- ed in the chair in an attitude of agony. Her beautiful hands were clenched. In one was a bottle of ar- senic. On her lap was an open book, and a finger lay on this sentence: An aiiciciit cmpcrcr of Rome lis a pirciuif oi! against assasina- fions once made himself im- mune fo In ' poison of arsenic hy faking if in small daily doses oier a period of years. Madeline had thwarted Gregory, but she had fooled herself. The ouija had been right. Photograph Supplie.s RAWLING ' S OPTICIANS, INC. 62 Twelfth Street WHEELING, Vv ' . VA. Compliments of B. O. CRESAP SONS Building Materials WELLSBURG, W. VA. FUNK ' S FLOWERS HOME GROWN ' Your favorite My specialty Corsages Cut Flowers Plants Gifts Flowers telegraphed Phone Wellsburg 24311 R. C. DANCER INC. WALL PAPER and PITTSBURGH PAINTS Wheeling and Wellsburg, W. Va. ADVERTISE ef HIBERNATE ' IIIIIIIIIIIIIUIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII PAGE XrXETEEN MARCH, 194 1 MISS ANNA MARY KEMP TIjc following is the obituary of Miss Kemp, late librarian of the college as prepared by Duight E. Steiensoii, Minister of the Bethany Memorial Church. Miss Anna Man ' Kemp, Librarian of Bethany College for the past 18 years, died Thursday morning, March 6, while a patient in the Ohio Valley General Hospital in Wheel- ing. For more than two years she had battled with the progressive stages of a fatal illness. She was born on December 26, 1881, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. O. Kemp, in Crawford County, Iowa, where she was reared. In June of 1906 Miss Kemp re- ceived the A. B. degree from Beth- any College and the following year the Mus. B. degree. She studied libr- ary science in the Chautauqua Sum- mer School for Librarians and at Columbia University. For several years she served as a high scliool teacher and later as librarian of the Public Library in Mansfield, Ohio. In September 1922 she accepted the call of the college to the position in which she served until her death. While a student In the college she became one of the founders of the local chapter of the Alpha Xi Delta sorority. She was a member of the Bethany Memorial Church, attending its services regularly and serving in many capacities, often time as or- ganist. During her long tenure in the college library she served with great devotion to her responsibilities. Under her direction the library re- sources, equipment, and services were greatly expanded. After every official inspection made by an edu- cational authority, there was favor- able comment as to the operation of the library and the sound leadership that she gave. She is survived by an aged aunt and one first cousin now living in California, by an aunt, uncle and nephew in Danbury, Iowa, and by three second cousins in Barnesville, Ohio. THE LAST SEVEN MILES (Continued from Page 3) after the autoist had been discovered in a wrecked car. After finding the papers the student discovered that dead man had no head. Traveling salesmen in new cars are usually sure bets for a ride. They hardly stop and have the car in sec- ond gear to start by the time the Hitch-hiker has one foot on the running board. Truck drivers and other men traveling alone will us- ually stop to pick up one or two riders. A hitch-hiker ' s life does not, however, always represent a thriller magazine or a bed of roses. Many miles have to be traveled on foot. Along this line we might refer you to the Bethany preacher that walks to West Liberty almost every Sun- day to deliver his sermon. Looking at the hitch-hiking pro- blem from the other angle we might consult the automobile driver. One sport with a twelve cylinder job told us that other than ladies in dis- tress he picks up only people he knows. Every assault on their hosts by hitch-hikers is given too much publicity that most motorists think of the screaming headlines of murd- er and stolen cars before they will stop to pick up a passenger. In some states bumming a ride Is illegal and in most localities the driver Is responsible for the safety of his pas- sengers to the extent that he is dis- couraged to give many rides. REFUGEE EDUCATION Refugees are Deing re-edu- cated to Americanism through the efforts of the Friends Committee, Quaker group that has set up three refugee rehabilitation centers in America and Cuba. In the group are lawyers, universi- ty professors, a sculptor, a German poet who translated much American Negro verse, the former headmaster of Vienna ' s largest high school, and a Spanish customs official who taught Spanish to British generals stationed at Gibraltar. Laundry — Dry Cleaning Deliveries Twice Weekly BUTTES LAUNDRY CO. STEUBENVILLE See JAKE and DICK at THE VALLEY PRESS Home of Good Printing — Phone 6401 — WELLSBURG, W. VA. 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From the beginning the sub-plot took entire control of the presenta- tion. The antics of Maria, Sir Toby Belch, Sir Andrew Aguecheek, Fab- ian, the clown, and Malvolio, in- spired most applause, v ' hile the ■Viola-Olivia-Orsino triangle has lost much of its appeal and novelty, a fact fully revealed by the actor ' s interpretation. Peggy Geyer maintained audi- ence interest in Viola by a lovely portrayal. Her boyishness and sense of comedy, particularly in the duel- ing scene ' , deserves praise. However, the play ' s comic element took such possession that Jim Huntsberger ' s Duke Orsino, Don Rosensteele ' s Se- bastian, and Jane Edmund ' s Olivia seemed uninspired, no matter how fine their work. The best scene, considering action and interest, was with the clown and Malvolio in prison. The setting, which placed the clown far down- stage, contributed much to the ar- tistic appeal, but the laurels for the scene, as far the entire production, belong to Roy Heckel for a near- professional characterization of the ever-pompous Malvolio. Jerry Fer- guson ' s clown songs and general acrobatics were entertaining and up- held many weak spots in early scenes. Rivaling Peg Geyer in dramatic ability was Gige Wood ' s Maria, but it was the combined performances of Bill White, Bob Fulmer, and par- ticularly Chuck Bell, that provided the evening ' s entertainment. The scene in Olivia ' s cellar was very good, not a little due to Roy Heckel ' s display of an emaciated calf. The height of comedy how- e V e r , was Malvolio ' s discovery of the forged letter. In this scene Roy drew his ability to its peak, while Sir Toby, Sir Andrew, and Fabian played clever hide-go-seek with potted palms. For the most part, Director Hcn- drick ' s choice in cast was excellent, and except for a few awkward mo- ments, particularly in the last scene the play was another success. Suc- cessful too were the colorful cos- tumes, and these, together with the comedy of play and players made Twelfth Night a worthy project for Bethespian Club production. T. HASSELL BOWEN (Continued from Page 17) that he must, to keep his theology from damning his heart. Speaking informally to the Mm- isterial Association, Pastor Bowen pulled no punches, gave the low down on some of the tactics neces- sary to successfully lead a large southern church. Especially did he emphasize that no minister in a southern pulpit could use a manu- script to preach from. Another ad- monition to the embryonic minist- ers was to consider well the physi- cal, mental and nervous condition of his congregation as he went about striving to bolster their spiritual needs. Sonorous-voiced Dr. Bowen ' s sec- ond Chapel address was built about the thought, The end of an era is not the end of the world. Building On the idea that we are in a chang- ing era of history, he sp oke of the unification of religious faiths, and the facing of realities of the indi- vidual man that is necessary to bring the world through this time. Leaving the platform for the lectern. Professor Bowen conducted the classes in Philosophy of Religion and Old Testament Survey on the last morning of his visit here. Proving no B Uy Sunday or Her- bert Luccock, Dr. Bowen left the campus wondering if Religion had been emphasized. THE OWL PRINT SHOP The best is none too good for you. Stationery Dance Programs MARKET ST. WHEELIXG Compliments of TRAUBERT BAKERY Compliments of WELLSBURG BANKING AND TRUST COMPANY GEO. R. TAYLOR CO. WHEELIXG, W. VA. Fashions for Juniors Misses and Women PAGE TVEXTY-OXE MARCH, 19-4 1 MARCH 15, 1941 (Continued from Page 8) Kiddies? Give up? A carnival! Yes, siree, a real carnival. In the gym. Sofe-drinks, and baseball throws, fortune-tellers, ring toss — even bal- loons and pin-wheels. What, no monkeys? demanded Alfred. Thirt -three of em, proudly answered Uncle Ed. Oh, it was a high old time. Evervbodv drunk, ch, flatly stated Alexander. Certainly not, replied Uncle Ed. This was Homecoming. What happened after the carni- val? questioned Mr. Mendelsohn, who had not said a word all evening, being bored with the entire proceed- ings, as were thirty-three others. Why, we all went down to the Inn for hot chocolate and cookies, said Uncle Ed. Cookies again? incredulously asked little Gwen. My, but weren ' t you the gay old things. And, then, to our little trundle beds, continued Uncle Ed. And was that the Homecom- ing? asked The voice From the Ad- joining Room. It was, stoutly replied Uncle Ed. Why, then, was it the Famous Homecoming? asked little Phillip the ever-everescent, foaming at the mouth. I don ' t know, answered Uncle Ed. But it was a Famous Home- coming. They said it was. t NJ EASIER, WAY TO SOLVE Business rRousi€s IS TO ADVERTISE HERE ,,« o,, Dance Programs Announcements Stationery Xc .  « • Representative on the Campus Wayne Burdue CARNEGIE UNION PRINTING COMPANY CARNEGIE, PENNA. PAGE t (i:nty-tvi o MARCH, 1941 FRATERNITY and SORORITY FASHION CENTER SEE US when in need of Wallpapers, Paints, Artists Sup- plies and Display Material THE SHERWIN-WILLIAMS PAINT COMPANY 1018-20 Market Street Phone 4044 Wheeling WHEN YOU BUILD SEE ROBERT SCOTT LUMBER COMPANY WELLSBURG, W. VA. W. L. CHAMBERS Furnishes Food for Your Table STANDARD PRINTING PUBLISHING CO. Everything for the Office PRINTING - ENGRAVING Lithographing - Office Furniture Machines, Equipment Supplies 910-914 Fifth Avenue HUNTINGTON, W. VA. The Student ' s Store L. S. GOOD CO. WHEELING, W. VA. teekdi. om (Continued from Page 18) Beta Theta PI: Jack Baumgartner, Arthur Beard, Donald Boyd, Donald Brinkworth, Archie Conn, Gerald Ferguson, Robert Fulmer, William Halley, Roy Meckel, Theodore Her- rick, Donald Hillstrom, C. D. Huhn, Fred Swearingcn, John Wei- mer, William Young, other bureau. Alpha Xi Delta: Jean Berggren, Jane Campbell, Corrine Cashman, Betty Elder, Marjorie Hunter, Mary Jane Heifer, Miriam Reno, Dorothy Ralston, Evelyn Van Strien. Zeta Tau Alpha: Patricia Harvey, Jean Land, Marge Campbell, Judy Umbel, Betty Grace Love, Barbara Noel, Jane Walls, Jeanne Styer, Ruth Hulton, Jane Linn, Lois Linn. Phi Kappa Tau: George Bartram, Dick Jackson, Bruce Beck, Robert Husband, Dick Colan, Jack Wright, Al Cerveris, Frank Donics, Sam Mc- Cutcheon. Phi Mu: Margaret Abel, Gloria Bass, Margaret Blanck, Phyliss Hen- drickson, Dorothy Reynolds, Martha Stuart, Jean McLoed, Elinore Gil- more. Kappa Delta: Marjorie Hanes, Anna Zenowitz, Evelyn Jones. Sigma Nu: Charley Foy, Ray- mond Le Strange, Clarence Joy, James Sembower, Robert Golbey, Robert Alexander, Steve Nunn, Walter Myers, Tom Poston, Robert Addleman, James Hawkins. Among the social events there were the K.D. Spring Formal and the Phi Tau Spring Formal, and numer- ous informal house parties, and dm- ners. Two fraternities held dinners for their pin girls. The Beta ' s on March 25, the Phi Tau ' s on the 2 2rd. Founder ' s Day was celebrated by the A.K. Pi ' s the K.A. ' s. GEO. E. STIFEL CO. Wheeling ' s Friendly Store Drink IN BOTTLES Try JEM-POLISH JEM-WAX And don ' t forget We do Long Distance Mo ing J. E. MILLER TRANSFER AND STORAGE CO. WHEELING, W. VA. PHOTO ENGRAVERS LITHOGRAPHERS JOB PRINTING WHEELING NEWS LITHOGRAPHING CO. 15th at Main Street WHEELING, W. VA. BETHANY COLLEGE BOOK STORE for your COLLEGE BOOKS and SUPPLIES Lower Con-idor Try it— BLAKE ' S ICE CREAM Unexcelled 96 Sixteenth Street Phone 1746 WHEELLXG, W. VA. FOR WONDERFUL FOOD ACKER ' S In Wheeling 1220 Market Street PAGE T- TEXTY-THREE ... for Chesterfields are made for smokers like yourself, with the three important things you want in a cigarette... MILDNESS. BETTER TASTE and COOLER SMOKING. Chesterfield ' s right combination of the world ' s best ciga- rette tobaccos has so many things a smoker likes . . . that Chesterfield is just naturally called the smokers cigarette. AeySa jn Copyright 1941. Liccett Mvers Tobacco Co. THIS ISSUE The Inn A Symposium Modern Greek Comedy -sitlBs APRIL, 1941 ike IditotlaL Content 5 Br D. V. Hiinfsberger I held these two columns for my editorial but, you won ' t fmd it here. Originally I had planned a stirring bit in tune with the times but we hear and read so much of that, most of it much more soul stirring than I could possibly turn cut, so — all you ' ll find here arc the ramblings of a nervous editor. I was nervous when I had my first date, I was nervouse when I took my first job, I was almost stiff wdien I contemplated my first solo flight, but all those feelings combined would barely equal what I feel when I offer for your approval, this, my first issue of the Bethanian. I let this whole magazine be my editorial. It reflects my editorial policy that the Bethan- ian should be critical, it should be a medium for the expression of student thought, it should record but it is not, can not, and shou:d not try to be, a news magazine. What I think about Bethany, my attitude toward student problems, my concept of what ou want in your magazine are all contained in the fol- lowing pages. What more can I say here? There is a temptation to explain this magazine, point out it ' s good points, gloss over the bad, but I am letting it speak for itself. About Lyle Mayne ' s article. It is a good article for it is frank and honest. We asked Lyle to write an article for the Bethanian and the article we print here is not sensationalism. It is an article that shows the mental revalua- tion of an attitude toward college and toward life. Despite the title Con- fession this is not his confession: it is analysis of what we all realize but have not had the courage to put down in black and white. Some may call Lyle ' s assertion that he was not the man for giving the SBOG life defeatism. There is no defeatism that carries the hope that this article contains. There is no defeatism that realizes that faults are never single, and weaknesses never cured by a single dose. You may wonder about the feature of the Inn. Perhaps a personal fondness gave rise to the idea of a record of the Inn ' s place in student life. It is possible that within a few years with the rise of the prospective com- mons the Inn will gradually lose it ' s place in Bethany ' s social life. We want a record to remind us. With the arrival of Spring, Bethany begins to hum. Anything can hap- pen. People feel the urge to put out scandal sheets, and do, causing a great but short lived excitement. The Inn becomes continually crowded. Study and Chapel attendance slide off. Hank warms up his plane to see if it will still turn over, causing a bit of commotion. Who knows, if spring gets hold of him he may even try to fly it. No, thanks, I ' ll just watch. I was awakened early one morning by a terrible clatter, thought it was Bill Nauman dashing out of town in Patricia. I was quite surprised to find that the Commons was already in the process . I am very glad to see the students taking such an interest in the work. I guess no one can resist the fascination of a power shovel at work. That ' s one thing you can watch for hours and never think, This is where I came in The Editorial 2 No Man is an Iland } Our Responsibility A Symposium 4 Modern Greek Comedy The Kappa Deltas 6 I Read a Book By Peggy Wallace 8 A Reflection, poem By Florence Nicholas 9 Last Day, by W. Rutter 9 Confessions of the SBOG Prexy By Lyle Mayne 10 The Harvest Moon By D. V. Huntsberger 12 Winged Bison By Richard Glass 14 News Brief 14 The Inn, Picture Feature . 15 This Junior Class The Class Portraits 23 THE COVER PICTURE— Aspiration to a Phd is the title of the wood carving pictured on the front cover this issue. One might take issue with the title and call it Moonlight on the Buffalo or anything else. How- ever we think it ' s nice and there- fore present it for your considera- tion as a piece of local art. CREDITS: All photographs in this issue of the Bethanian taken by Dave Huntsberger. Watch Your Minutes Expert Watch and Clock Repairing. Will call for and deliver PHILIP R. BAUM Phone Bethany 2031 after 6:00 P. M. Editor of this issue: David Huntsberger. Editorial assistants: Marjoric Finney, William Rutter, Richard Glass. Business Manager: Wayne Burdue. Business Assistants: George Sitock, Jack Baumgartner, Evelyn Baxter, Marjorie Hunter. Bethafiiiiu, a magazine ot features and photographs, pub- lished each month from October through May by the Student Board of Publications of Bethany College Kntercd as second class matter on January 14. 1920. at the Post OfEce at Bethany, W. Va.. under the Act of March 1. 1879. Subscription price: Four dollars the year Volume XXXII. Number 2. PAGE TWO AI ' RII., 194 1 illllllllllllllllllllllllliillllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllliH No Man Is An Hand (An interview with one of the Lost Generation for whom the bells tolls. ) No iiniii is nil iLiinl, iiitivc of it sclfc; every man is a peece of tLw Coiilinciit, a part of the iiiaine: If a Clod bee uasbeil away by the Sea, Europe is the lesse, as if a Proiuoiitorie uere; any mail ' s ileath diminishes me, because I am iinolied in Man kinde: In this quotation of John Donne, used by Hemingway in his latest book, is something of what we of the sub-older generation have to say to you. It indicates the need and reason of social consciousness in the world today. Every wave that washes the continent of hu- manity washes each man. My generation failed partly because we did not have this social con- sciousness and partly because we fell unqucs- tioningly for everything we were told. In looking at your generation and in evaluating it I believe I can say that you ' ll not be another lost generation. This generation will not be lost, because you are a little too wise not so taken in with things that will not hold up log- ically and rationally. Perhaps this is because you are so close to the last war. Pacifism has been taught you, but strangely enough the older generation pacifists are turning around. True social consciousness of the Donne quotation means pacifism, at least in part. My view as one of this older generation is that of the necessity of social consciousness. If our world is to be better and finer, you, the young generation, must have this social con- sciousness. Bethany students are not particularly social- ly aware. They do not know of the problems of laboring classes and of the underprivileged. This is not entirely due to the students, but is derived partly from the middle-class conserva- tive environments which form the background of nearly every Bethany student. Another reason for their lack of social consciousness is the lack of truly socially aware instructors. At Bethany there are perhaps four instructors who have taken stock of their world and rea- lize the vast and turbulent movements going on. These instructors feel the undercurrents, and through their excellent teaching are im- parting some of this feeling to their students. What exactly is social consciousness? What does it do for the individual? Social conscious- ness is the Golden Rule without any racial or national prejudice or personal prejudice. Bethany ' s fraternity rule shows some of the student lack of social consciousness in this re- spect. What Christ taught was as much for the happiness of the individual as for the good of society. Students do not realize the importance of social consciousness either to the world or to themselves. What will give students — the younger gen- eration — this social consciousness? I think perhaps only hard experience and an open mind will do this. It took me a long time and many hard experiences to realize that I only .s(( ' back ichat I give every time. Students can practice this if they would. But the} ' probably won ' t because they haven ' t completely found themselves. So many of them want to be dig- nified and academically impartial in the explo- sion of the world around us. And so many don ' t even realize the world is exploding. My generation looks at yours at Bethany through my eyes. I wish my generation could help you, but it has failed. It preached against war but now supports war. Yet we feel we must — our only solution for the world we know is to arm and to resist. Pressure of his- tory has pushed us into this thing; this pres- sure being precedence, routine, hatred. Per- haps your generation will be less influnced by this pressure and more influenced by social consciousness. Your generation to accomplish this must have both ideals and common sense. The idea that man must look out for himself because no one else will is unchristian. Re- member Donne again — no man is an iland. We need Christianity with brains. The atti- tude of your generation at Bethany seems to me to be we have brains but what ' s the use of using them unless it is to hold a good middle class job with not too much responsibility. PAGE THREE APRIL, 1941 Introduction — Feeling that youth is beginning to find some pattern in the world today, the editors invited four college youth to contribute to a symposium on Youth ' s Responsibility in the World. The young men and the voung woman who have contributed to this symposium are contemporary thinkers, aware of the problem of living intelligently and sanely. We have invited students from other colleges to give viewpoints that the article may represent the different influences and qualifications that come from geographical locations and from reg onal environments. We present the article from the Bcth.in ' student as an anonymous article to eli- minate jnv personalitv influences. CHARLES O. PORTER, Harvard What kind of a world are we going to live in? This is the first question for a discussion of this sort. It is clear that however the interna- tional scene may eventually clear up or blow up completely, the outcome is going to be grim. There IS going to be hun- ger and hate in Eu- rope for many, many years. If the Axis h victorious. It will e cntually challenge us di- rectly t h r o u g h South America, through fifth col- umn activities. Or perhaps the Ger- man reign will fall of its own weight and be rent by internal dis- orders. If Great Britain wins, the problem of reconstruction, of maintaining and extending the democratic wa) ' of life, is not going to be easy. Politically, you and I live in a time of great crises. Our foremost responsibility, then, seems to be: To keep alive and lital our sysfeni of law and iiidividital rif bf and representative fiovcrnnn-nf. Without an abiding faith in our way of life, youth can never preserve and im- prove a system which allows the greatest free- dom to the individual. This duty can be divid- ed into several parts: I) The responsibility to participate — this age needs leaders who will stand up and challenge other ways of thinking and defend our way; 2) The responsibility to be informed of our national history and its re- lation to the world; 3) The responsibility to extend our way of life, and this means the de- CHARLI S O, PORT! R O ' ut Q5ponubLLiiu A Symposiuin of Student Opinion on Youth ' s Place in the World Today and Tomorrow. velopment of the ability to sell our democracy on its merits. The world seethes with war and we shall likely be in it before long. Even if we are not in actual warfare, we shall have much to do with its results. We must not become cynical. To do so admits defeat. You know the type — the per- son who argues The world is going to hell. There ' s no sense in believing in anything, in seeking to build a life on solid foundations. His position is not without its justification in light of the war now in progress, but no sensi- ble person will advocate giving up values we prize before we are forced to do so. All this leads up to our other and equally important responsibility: To hold our idcah and strive with all our might to attain them. This duty deals with our personal lives where- as the first responsibility dealt with our social lives. What are these ideals? Principally they are: 1) The ideal of rationality, of calmly bal- ancing interests and working out the solutions to our social problems; 2) The ideal of physi- cal fitness, of building and maintaining vigor- ous bodies; 3) The ideal of the happy family, which is a treasured hope in every heart of our generation — and to the extent that it isn ' t, just so far are we retrograding. Marriage need not, should not, be put off till everything is secure. Youth should dare to work out their problems together; 4) The ideal of primary social groups, by which I refer to the number and variety of friends a person should have. Man is a social animal and functioning as such he has come quite a ways — he should continue to act socially, participate in impolitical activ- ities, in community activities, in cultural activ- ities; 5) Finally, the ideal of God, by which I mean that feeling within that says that the best way to prepare for the hereafter is to do a con- scientious job in the present; the refuge in times of sorrow and despair, the steadying and uplifting influence of worship of that Being who stands above and beyond this world — these are advantages which youth must not P. ' GE FOUR discard in its possibly too hasty disposal of the place of worship in modern life. It ' s a hard world we face, one filled with violence and barbarism. Cynically giving up is more than cowardly — it is damned foolishness. We are not afraid of the bogeys of tomorrow. We shall fight the good fight and we will win, ANONYMOUS, Bethany Whether or not the United States enters the war is unimportant. The war is not youth ' s re- sponsibility — youth had no part in its making — youth will have no part in its ending. Youth will be told of the peace terms and will be ex- pected to make the best of them. Youth ' s responsibility is to itself — befor e, during and after the war. Let there be no lost generation — no race of Hemingways and Huxleys — after this war. Let youth fortify it- self with a knowledge of what has gone before — with a knowledge that the material gain of war is not permanent, for it is falsely based on ever changing realities. To each man and woman belongs a life to be lived for his own pleasure. Youth must learn to value life for itself — for the privilege of being alive to drink in the beauty of the world and forget about its sordidness. Without a faith in life and in beauty, how can man hold life to be worthwhile? For what else can we be glad? It is only through love of beauty that nian will ever rise from the rut in which he despair- ingly finds himself. Man needs to open his eyes — see the world and know that it is beautiful, see the sunlight and know that it is good. If there is no system of government that we can believe in, no economic standard, at least we can see the moon and the stars and the sky and respect them for their eternity. We can believe in the earth, in each blade of grass, In each tree — because they are alive. We can believe in people, in friends. We must believe in people, or there is no sense in living among them, in having a brain that raises us from the dumb to the intelligible. There are love and music and sunsets that we can have every day by merely becoming conscious of them. There is much to despair of in reality, but only in reality can we find anything for which to live. Life is real, not a dream, and we must learn to be happy in the present, not in the wished-for future. JOHN D. BLACK APRIL, 1V41 JOHN D. BLACK, Northwestern I hope someone discusses the responsibility of youth for the elimination of war — certainly a most obvious essential to a better world. I am of a student body of twelve thousand, most of whom are bitterl) ' opposed to partici- pation in the pres- ent conflict. Some of us are against participating in any war. But re- gardless of atti- tudes toward the present crisis, no one can dispute the assertion that the natural and human resources expended on wars are utterly squandered as far as increasing the wealth of the world is con- cerned. I hope likewise that someone will treat of the need for concerted effort toward improv- ing our political and economic systems. When thirty-six thousand families at the top of the income scale receive as much as twelve million at the bottom, when seventy-one percent of the population earns less than $2 500 annually, there is need for change. Equally important and challenging are the problems peculiar to specific fields — medi- cine, education, natural science, law, religion, industr3 psychology, literature, art, music. In many of these areas ground is just being brok- en; in others the changes wrought by an indus- trial civilization barely two generations old demand fundamental reorganization of basic ideas and institutions. Will youth supply what is required? Every generation has faced trying situations; every generation has failed to solve them perfectly, sometimes has muffed them badly. I believe that we will never succeed unless we are able to alter the attitude of a significant portion of American youth toward life itself. It is to this end that the best energies of today ' s college graduates should be devoted. Too many young people view the problems of the world with apathy. They may recognize (Continued on Page 19) PAGE FnT RniiMH Dinik — Ri ' iori i — Rfciiliiif; Between Scenes Kiiil KD-s. Ivii! fuo — i lM. t.,n nhn hl , hi U e iiiuthjt, in liiuis MODERN GREEK COMEDY (Bethanian in this issue reviews A Modern Greek Comedy as the Play of the Month. This play, written by Euripedes X. Sarver and So- phocles J. Dvorak with technical advisor, Phyllis Skilton, is staged at Kappa Delta ' s Theater, Main Street. — Editor ' s Note.) DRAMATIS PERSONAE Supreme Exalted Potentate . . . .Hilda Sarver Supreme Exalted Sub-Potentate Ardath Willoschat Amanuensis Extraordinary . . .Phyllis Skilton Chief Keeper of the Purse Strings Ann Zenowitz Ex-ditto June Feiss Assistant-ditto June Crawford Press Agent Frances Dvorak Talent Scout Janice Evans PAGE SIX Anvil Chorus Pauline Babicz Ruth Moser June Crawford Eva Delia McSeveny Ardath Willoschat Chorus of the Slap-Happy Spirits Gloria Broderson Marjorie Hanes Virginia Downes Betty Lue Hood Betty Field Evelyn Jones Frances Th omas Ann Zcnowitz Critical circles agree that this drama is one of the most interesting and outstanding pro- ductions of the current season. Quoting from the program we print this excerpt from the argument introducing the play: It was a dark and stormy autumn night when Phi Lambda Chi, local, joined the folds of Kappa Delta, national. 18 years later we find this group well established in a quaint ivy covered cottage (morning glories to you). On week-days these girls attend classes at the local college. There was a slight disturbance when the curtain went up, since the Chorus of Slap- Happy Spirits, having forgotten the time of opening were still on the stage practicing. Bet- ty Lou Stafford was off in one corner taking candid shots of the audience. However, with- in a few minutes they were organized and ready to chant their opening line How about a fourth for bridge? These words express the theme of the play and are widely quoted. The action begins briskly as Hood, Downes and Field go off to choir practice, and Hanes, with demoniacal glee, moves up-stage to give an- other crew-hair-cut. Potentate Sarver sweeps onto the stage with five test tubes and a Bun- sen burner under her arm. She is followed by Dvorak, with a microscope and butterfly net, Skilton with five volumes of Browning and an outline of English Literature, Fiess with three saxophones and a bass viol, and Willoschat with a red head. Immediately upon this en- trance echo the strains of the antiphonal chant of the Anvil Chorus: Let ' s play Rus- sian Bank. Thus a conflict arises with the AI ' RIl.. 1941 chorus of Slap-Happy Spirits, who advocate bridge. The entire cast is divided into two fac- tions each in support of their favorite indoor sport. A mass meeting is called, but proves inef- fective, since the two chorus;;s continue to chant back and forth all through the session. Above the tumult Skilton is heard shouting Unfair to de hoi-poloi! In an attempt to quiet the mob, Evans organizes a grand march. (It IS to be noted that throughout the play, when Evans is not majoring in gym, she is majoring in Jim.) During the confusion Crawford and Jones slip off to a Radio Club meeting, and Moser goes out to forge some time slips. Broderson, ring -leader of the Chorus of Slap-Happy Spirits make a late en- trance on horseback. McSeveny and Babicz, malleus and incus of the Anvil Chorus, deliver a violent polemic on the evils of the Culbert- son system. Thomas retaliates in kind, but breaks off suddenly because she has to Harry home. Zenowitz lurks in the background with the account books, but is completely ignored in this crisis. It seems the deadlock cannot be broken, when the messenger, pla) ' ed b) ' Mrs. Good- night, enters and asks Are you all too busy studying to come down and have something to eat? The cast rushes pell-mell from the stage leaving Potentate Sarver alone. She soliloquizes and at length determines a course of action. True to form, she plans to flip a coin to decide the issue — if she can find a coin. As she stalks from the stage, quiet descends, and night falls with a dull thud. Those familiar with the Greek drama will discern obvious instances of plagiarism. The authors have undoubtedly been influenced by Aristophanes ' The Frogs, and have copied from Roget and Webster. However the end justifies the means and we highly recommend this production. The engagement is limited, for the compan ' will go on the road in June, to return in the fall for another season. AI ' RU. 1941 I READ A BOOK By Peggy Wallace One day, while musing through a bookstore which was filled to the brim with old stock books on sale for a song, I ran across one which caught my eye. It was a rather large book, en- closed in a red and black paper cover with the title The Song Murder Mystery glaring across its middle. I took it up and leafed through the pages, the captions of the chapters were equally as enticing as the title itself, so therefore I carried my prize to the cashier ' s desk and after due process, emerged with a neatly wrapped package under my arm. Upon arriving home, I carried my precious parcel to the library, where Daddy and Mother were seated reading, and carefully removed the wrapper. As I held up my book with an air of pride, Mother asked: Where did ) ' ou get that? in a tone ming- led with anything but admiration. Why anyone would want to fill her mind with such trash — began Daddy. I beat a retreat to the front porch, picked an apple from the dish on the table, and sank into the glider. From all appearances, it seemed my family did not appreciate my taste in liter- ature. This, however, did not daunt my noble spirit, and I delved into the first page with gusto. After an hour or so of steady reading I had succeeded in doing away with two men and apparently a woman was to follow shortly. I didn ' t quite accomplish her removal in the first sitting though, for about a page and a half before the crucial act. Mother called me to dinner. I reluctantly marked my place with a chewing gum wrapper I fished from behind a cushion, and laid my masterpiece on the table. The dinner hour proved a very trying experience, for passing the butter seems a tri- vial affair when one is attempting to unravel the mystery of mysteries. After I had finished eating and had fed the dogs and my pet duck, I hurried back to my spot on the glider. Again I sank into its depths and reached out my hand for the book. It was gone! Perhaps some one had knocked it on the floor — but no, it was definitely gone. I hurried P. GE EIGHT into the house and put the question of its dis- appearance before the family. I received an answer. The boy next door had been over and had seen my pride and joy abandoned on the table. It looked rather interesting and he had asked to borrow it. Grandma, not knowing I was reading it, was only to glad to oblige. Ro- bert has a very winning way with parents and grandmothers. I went to bed, not knowing whether Lord Laury had ever succeeded in the removal of Lady Laury. Robert proved to be an exceptionally slow reader and it was three agonizing weeks before The Song Murder Mystery was returned to its eager owner. I again delved into the gory details. During this sitting I finished with Lady Laury and several of her loyal followers and was on the point of stabbmg the villainous Lord Laury with a red hot poker, when a screech from the back of the house almost suc- ceeded in sending me through the roof! I fol- lowed the noise to the kitchen where I discov- ered Doris, our maid, hanging from the top cupboard shelf by her hands, with a collapsed step-ladder beneath her. After rescuring the frightened girl from her doom, I returned once more to the bloody plight. Whether my sudden departure had so startled the hero ' s aim as to make the poker miss its mark or not, I shall never know. But in any case. Lord Laury remained intact. I had scarcely completed two pages, when I was again interrupted. This time I was wanted on the telephone. After a lengthy conversation about nothing, I returned in time to see Daddy walk into the library with my bargain. He had forgotten, by this time, which is no small wonder, that I APRIL. 1941 had bought the book and was reading it. It had appeared to him as something to pass the time, and, indeed, I was rather amused to sec him bothering with such trash . By the end of two days. Daddy had completed all the var- ious and sundry details, and, no doubt, had found them rather entertaining, for he loaned the book to Mr. Togeer in the office. Mr. Tog- eer also read slowly. So did the office boy. By the time ' The Song Murder had made the rounds of the inhabitants of all the offices on the second floor of the Riley Law Building, I had almost forgotten who Lord Laury was. At long last, however, the book was returned. I, again, settled myself upon the glider and, after a hurried resume of the previous chap- ters, resolved that neither fire nor high water would tear me away. Fortunately, we had no ravaging blazes nor floods, and I was permit- ted to accompany the avenger of Lady Laury through the various perils he encountered — and they were numerous — before he finally rid the world of her infamous husband. Lord Laury met his terrible end on a deserted fish- erman ' s wharf at dusk. I finally found the book ' s title to come from the murder of an or- gan grinder who lurked mysteriously in the background through half of the book. A REFLECTION We learn the rules of beauty Hon fo measure it, boii ' define; Discuss abstractly its construction, Consult the learned masters, Speak of Symbolists and Imagists, Study all the complex lore of art- Outside an oriole sings. — Florence Nicholas J a3t Vatj This (lay was his last. He woke with a sudden aleitness, looking at the ceilinK and recognizing the k crack in the wall. He lay there staring at the torn paper, bewildered by this intuition of his. After a few minutes he got up and went to the dresser for his glasses. He put them on and stared in the mirror. He felt a sudden chill and thought of his loss of time — he hadn ' t known minutes and hadn ' t measured hours in this eter- nity. He turned from the mirror to dress. A sud- den blackness swept through him for an instant, and he floated weary and bind, forgetting, hanging to life. He walked carefully down the stairs, watch- ing his feet. They had a fascination for him — the.v didn ' t belong to him; they walked and walked without reason. He had no response and no will. When he looked up, they had carried him onto the street, those legs of his that had their own vitality. Those feet that could take him wherever they wanted, that could keep go- ing on and on — the feet that had carried him from Ireland to France, from France to this terrible emptiness, this gi-eat loneliness — these feet strode along the cement sidewalk, treading on their own shadow. He felt an admiration for their independence, their freedom from his own will. He liked the way they walked with such sureness. And when they stopped, he wondered why they did, what had told them to stop ; and then they were his again. He knew then why they had stopped. Through the window that looked out on the street — a window without shape, a strange half-seen in- terruption in the brick wall which reached thru the ground for endless miles and towered into the sky, a wall with one window, a window with sound — through this single window came the music. It was a music he knew, a music he had never heard. It filled him, it gave him his vis- ions, it made him nothing as he listened to the sound. The sound faded away and he was noth- ing. He looked down the street and from a gi-eat distance he saw a girl coming. She was a small and beautiful girl — her shadow filled the whole street. The shadow flashed along the intermin- able brick wall. She became larger and larger, increasing into a giant figure approaching with overpowering, impersonal steps. He shuddered, shrinking from the towering figure, and he hid his face. Instantly he was free. He wondered vaguely if she had been his daughter — his alive dead daughter. He wondered if he had known her whether or not he would have asked her if she w ' ere his daughter. The sound came through the window again. This time it filled his head with the sound of the Dublin streets, of the mills he had seen grinding forth death, of the life he had lived. And then it made him think of the fresh blue of sailing, of the foam on the breakers, of the swooping swift gulls — he had seen them from his watchtower. and they too had given him visions, just as this music gave him visions. The music gave him will, it touched and stirred him. it tightened his stomach, it hurled his brain through the sky into that blackness with a great prayer. He saw the empty and long street as it cuved into nothing, flying into the horizon. He stepped into the street, into his being. — William Rutter. PAGE NINE . 1 RU. 1941 Confessions of the sbog Prexy Wherein the President of the Student Board of Governors talks to himself and reveals the Stream of Consciousness of a Campus Leader By )lr May lie i ' (i c Ay  ■ lUitLior: (One of the eas.est forms of lit- erature to write ,ind to sell is entitled the Confession Story. People .ire .ilways interested in reading the con- fessions of maladjusted people — dope fiends, sob sisters, fan dancers, mental cases, and college professors. Jan Valtm made his first million by writing Out of the Night. So the author has decided to write a confession yarn in a simple st)le. Some of you might read this, so if you do, ycu will see that what I have written is a resume cf my abstract thoughts during the past year concern- ing the Student Board.) Doggone the luck. Tommy Cullison lost the elections in the Inter-fraternity Council. That means that we don ' t have any of the big cam- pus offices down here at the house. That ' ll be a heck of a note for rushing. We ought to have at leas t one of them; but what can we do? Hummm. The Student Board hasn ' t had its elections yet. There might be a chance there. Let me see. How many seniors? Golly, there aren ' t any who are eligible. That ' s it. We ' ll send one of our seniors up there. We ' ve got a good chance, for each social group is al- lowed only two votes. They won ' t be able to pull anything on us. Say, why don ' t you go up? That ' s it. Turn your name in. Go ahead. Doit. Well, you got on the board. Fancy that. Of course, you only made it by the slight mar- gin of one vote, but ycu made it. And now, for the elections. If you don ' t get president, you can drop off the Board. You should start to study anyhow. What difference dees it make whether you get it or not? What ' s that? Congratulations. Well, I ' ll be darned. You ' re president. Now, how did that happen? Oh, I see. Only one vote — that shows you where you stand, Mayne. Only one vote to put you in, and the other two fellows were only juniors. Well, anyway, you ' re in, and that ' s more than you expected. Now, we ' ll go to work. A letter to every PAGF TEN LYLB jMAYNE freshman boy coming in next fall, welcoming him to Bethany. Some of the dopes will even think that the president of the Student Board of Governors is a big shot. By the time they wise up, it will be too late. They ' ll be through rushing week, and if I work hard this summer, we should have our quota. Heh! It worked. Yes, sir. A letter to every Tom, Dick, and Harry with that big Lyle Mayne up in the corner. President of the Stu- dent Board of Governors. Boy, that looks great. Now then, some of them have answered. Write this letter on Phi Kappa Tau sta- tionery. That ' s the ticket! Write! Write! Write! We ' ve got to get those pledges. Well, we got them. Good boys, too. Glad they ' re in. But what ' s this? You ' re presi- dent of the Student Board. Well, I ' ll re- sign. I don ' t have time for it. Besides they only elected me by one vote. Uh huh! Aren ' t yoii the little fish? What ' s the matter? Can ' t you take it? You owe some- thing to those people who did vote for you — both of them. All right, you ' re got responsi- bility. You ' ve always said that you met your responsibilities to other people — that it was only your responsibilities to yourself that you shirk. Well, come on. Produce. All right, let me see. Why in the heck does- n ' t this Board do something? What has it done in the past? That ' s it. Read all of the minutes for the past seven years. What did you find out? What does the Board do? Let ' s see, now. They spend most of their time on finances. That ' s a waste of time. Run that through in a hurry. Look at these darn fool things that they do. Such petty things. You can ' t waste your time that way. It ' s nonsense. Maybe this whole idea of student government is nonsense. Maybe that ' s the trouble. Sure, look over the constitution. Well, I ' ll be darned. That constitution makes sense. Sure, Discuss all matters pertain- ing to student welfare. Yeah, we need some- APRIL. 1941 body to do that. To control publications. Goodness only knows they need controlling. Athletic Board of Control. Yeah, we ' ll in- vestigate that — it certainly needs it. Well, the constitution is all right. You can ' t blame any- thing on it. It must be the Board itself. Sure, that ' s it. We ' ve got a bunch of dopes on this Board. They ' re just dumb bunnies that are thrown into this thing, and come here to the meetings because it is expected of them. Whoa, there. Wait a minute. Take the S ' s alone — Seidel, Stitt, Short, Smudski, Strain, Schuller — did you say dopes, you dope? Why those kids are the ones on the campus who do things. They ' re big shots. Look at the rest of your Board. Why, you ' ve got the most out- standing kids on the campus. They could select any twenty kids on the campus — and they couldn ' t hold a candle to your Board. They ' re tops. Why, your Board is the most carefully selected group on the campus. Scholastically socially, athletically, every way — they ' re the best. No, it isn ' t the Board ' s fault. I ' ve got it now. It ' s that doggone adminis- tration. They don ' t give us enough power. They don ' t let us do anything but the petty affairs. No wonder we don ' t have any initia- tive. We ' re just tired of playing around.We ' re old enough to think for ourselves. Well, we ' ll show them. We ' ve got a date for chapel. I ' m not afraid of Dr. Cramblet. I ' ll show him that I ' m right. The truth, that ' s it. As long as you speak the truth, you don ' t have to worry what happens to you. Go ahead — shout at him from the plat- form. You ' ve got three months. Get to work. There ' s a good remark on Democracy, copy it down. That ' s it, keep it in your pocket, and when you get a spare moment, think it through. Say, a crumb just fell off the table. That would make a good illustration. That ' s all we ' re doing in the Student Board, cutting up the crumbs that fall from the Administra- tion ' s table. There ' s another one. Copy it down before you forget It. Another one. Copy It down. Another one. Say, you ' ve got fifty cards filled with things that you can use. Boy, it ' s only four days away. Work It out in the remaining time. Throw away your notes, then given them a real talk. What ' s that. Prof. Booth? You want us to have our program today, because your other speaker can ' t come until Friday? Well, I guess we could. All right, I ' ll try it. Darn the luck, I wish I had a few more days to work over this speech to organize it. Well, you know that the minute that you get up on the platform, some- thing will tell you what to say. It always does. Go ahead. Go through with it. Milkshakes. That ' s the idea. We ' ll have milkshakes for the first half-hour, then, we ' ll have the president of the student board of governors. That ' s a well-rounded program. Well, the speech is over. The student body has left the chapel. You ' re tired — you didn ' t really expect any of the students to stay be- hind to talk about your speech, did you? You can ' t blame them. Wonder what Dr. Cramb- let will do? I ' m probably on my way out of this school. Oh! Oh! Who ' s that waiting for you? Dean Weimer and Dr. Cramblet. Well, here it comes now. What ' s that? They ' re shaking your hand. They ' re saying that it was a fine talk. Doc is complimenting you on your speech. He adds one thing that he would have told, but the rest he thought was swell. Can you Imagine that? What ' s that? They ' re leaving now, and they turn to say that if they can help you out in any way, they ' re right behind you. Well, for gosh sakes. Those guys have what it takes. They ' re tough. They took all of that criticism that you threw out and smiled when you were finished. They ' re good sports. They ' ve got lots of guts. Why, those guys are really big men. They ' re big enough to take criticism. There aren ' t very many men that are that way. And they took it from some cocky kid that doesn ' t even know what he Is talking about. Those men are too big to be the fault of the present lethargy in student democracy. They aren ' t the i-eason for the trouble. Well, what Is the reason. Okay, wise guy, admit it. Come o!T, what is the reason? The student body? Sure, they ' re lethargic. Sure, they should be doing a -whole lot more than they are doing. Sure, they ' re passing up opportunities that they should be taking. I ' ll grant you that. They ' re spoiled. They ' ve grown so used to Tiavlng the privileges and ad- vantages of democracy — like a kid with over- generous parents — that they don ' t realize the . brea-ks they are getting. Sure, if we ever get a (Continued on Page 19) PAGE ELEVEN TH b A Short story to end all short stories — and they lived happily ever after Damn, howled Jack Wayne, assistant pro- fessor of English as he savagely crumbled the letter he held and hurled it into the waste basket which he kicked into the corner for emphasis. I say there, what ' s your trouble asked the young sociology professor, Harold Ricker, with whom Jack shared his bachelor quarters. Have you been given the sack. No! shouted the irated Jack, I ' ve been robbed! Okay, okay! You ' ve been robbed. Of what? How? When? Stop shouting and tell me about it. For three years I ' ve been teaching English in this college, began Jack more quietly, and now that old Pendergast is retiring, I naturally expected to be given his plac head of the department. And you didn ' t get it? No, I didn ' t get it. He ' s replaced by a Mrs. Susan Win from some college down so Her husband is an explorer spends so much time in trips that she became a professor to keep herself occupied. Now she ' s to be my boss. I guess it was decided du the summer. President Jam is holding a dinner in her ho Tomorrow evening. Are you going? Don ' t be foolish. I hav go. You know that. Um. I guess you do. Oh well, cheer up might be a good sort. Anyway, you ' re young, plenty of time to be a department h Going to sod busters tonight? Might as well, replied Jack, nothing to do. Might cheer me up. The dance was well under way when the arrived. Both had seen several sodbusters bef They got no particular thrill out of it but it a good chance to get acquainted with the students and let them see that after all the p were human. It was more duty than desire ' made them come, particularly Jack, who feeling a trifle low. Come on, he chided himself, you ' re ing like a spoiled child. Snap out of it. Cut l and enjoy yourself. They joined the stag line and soon had come a part of the general spirit of fun and lowship. For half an hour Jack cut whem a new face came by, and he was surprised to find that he was enjoying himself. Then it happened. He was resting for a moment idly watching the dancers stream by when he s aw l er. She was tall, slender, exq itely moulded. Gleaming blonde hair, aln platinum, hung to her shoulders like a gol headdress, framing an oval face. For the briefest instant, as she glided Jack ' s eyes met hers, but that was enough. You ' re done, old boy, something c inside was saying to him. You said it wc never happen, but here it is at last. One look you ' re done. The next thing he knew he was dancing her, he didn ' t remember cutting in but there RVEST MOON 33 ' Dave Hmihherner as, right in his arms. By some adroit manuver- g he was able to keep clear of the stag line un- the dance was ended. Opportunely the leader the band announced the intermission. Would you care for some refreshments? he Fered. If you don ' t mind, I ' d rather take a walk and have a cigarette, she said moving to- ward the door. You don ' t mind, do you? Of course not. That ' s really what I wanted to do. The} ' left the hall and walked down the little ;e-bordered walk to a stone bench set under a mt elm. They lit their cigarettes and ently absorbing the beauty of the night, ey leaned against the tree. A harvest moon sent questing streams of [uid, silver light through the leaves of the tree d set into motion dancing glints where it ayed in the lovely hair of the girl. Perhaps it was the night, or the moon, but ck had ceased to think. He could only feel, e was conscious of her arms about his neck, e sensed rather than smelled the frangrance her hair. He could feel her warm, velvety )s crushed to his own as his arms tightened out her and she returned his kiss. The tap, tap, tap of approaching footsteps tered into their consciousness and each drew ck breathless. The magic of the moment was ne. High above, Venus, goddess of love, flam- steadily but just a tiny bit less bright for irks of her brilliance lingered in the eyes of man and the woman below who smiled derstandingly at one another. We ' d better go back, she whispered softly, ley might miss us. I guess we ' d better. ' Jack husked. Slowly they strolled back toward the hall, her arm linked through his, her head resting on his shoulder. Darling, said Jack as they neared the 1, as soon as we get in there all the boys will to take you away from me. I shan ' t be able get much of a chance to talk to you. He d the door for her to enter. What about after the dance? You can me then can ' t you? ' You ' ll have to go right upstairs, won ' t u? He was sta rtled by her laughter. ' You silly, I ' m not a student. You flatter me. I I look that young? ' But, then who ' There you are, my dear, I ' ve been looking all over f(jr you. It was the president ' s wife. I want you to meet our faculty resident. Helen, this is Susan Wingate. Susan this is Jack didn ' t wait to hear more. He bolted through the door and disappeared into the night. When Harold returned to the apartment he found a very despondent, pathetic figure. Jack sat huddled in the arm chair, arms and legs asprawl, starring vacantly at a non-existent spot on the floor. Good Lord, man, what ' s happened to you. ' was the surprised interrogation from Harold. I ' m in love, came the reply in a low mono- tone. If you ' re a good example of a man in love, may I be spared such a fate. You don ' t understand. I fell in love so quick I didn ' t have time to learn her name until it was too late. I ' m in love with Susan Wingate. No! you don ' t mean it. Harold laughed. In love with your boss and afraid it won ' t work out. I wouldn ' t care about that, Jack snapped. You forget her full name is Mrs. Susan Win- gate. Gosh, that ' s right. She ' s married and to an explorer and game hunter at that. He ' s probably mighty handy with a gun. Watch vour step. Go to hell! Jack spent the following day behind drawn blinds to avoid meeting Susan but at last he was forced to dress for dinner and present himself at the home of the president. He saw her at once and tried to avoid her, but he was unsuccessful. There you are, she said as she cornered him. I ' ve been trying to find you all day. Why did you run out on me last night and why have you been hiding all day? I haven ' t been hiding, he protested weakly. Then why didn ' t you come out for lunch today. What did I do? You didn ' t do anything, I did. I fell in love with a married woman. Married woman! What do you mean? I mean I didn ' t know you were Mrs. Susan Wingate, wife of the eminent explorer. I made a fool of myself. I guess you did, young man, but not in the way you think. Susan and Jack turned to face the newcomer. I happen to be Mrs. Susan Win- gate, your new department head. This girl is my secretary and niece, and if that gleam in your eye means what I think it does, I ' ll be gaining a nephew. APRIL, 1 94 1 WINGED BISON cion By Richard Glass Since March 1, there has been a book and his definite trend toward higher learn- ing in the minds of eleven Bethany students. It was on that date that the Civilian Pilot Training Program actually got under way on our campus. It is the hope of every student enrolled in the course that by June 1st he will be wearing the silver wings of a CPTP graduate. When he is presented with these cherished wings it indicates that he is a pri- vate pilot, he may fly any plane of the weight and engine classification he is rated for at any time and any place, he may carry anyone he chooses as a passenger as long as there is no charge to the passenger and the pilot is not paid to pilot the plane. Before a student flyer can quali- fy for his license he must have log- ged 3 hours flying time, including several hours of cross country fly- ing on trips of not less than 5 miles. No doubt more than one student trying his wings for the first time on a long distance trip will call back to the airport Hello, Joe, guess where I am. When all the necessary hours have be added to the students log instructor thinks him ready he will be given a flying test by an inspector of the Civil Aero- nautics Administration consisting of various precision maneuvers. There is also a written examina- tion covering the material studied in the 90 hours of ground instruc- which includes Navigation, NEWS BRIEFS True to the President ' s word, excavation for the commons began in March — March 31 to be exact. On Tuesday the Sidewalk Engineer Society was officially founded to di- rect the work with the greater con- fusion. IN MEMORY OF RITA CLEARY Class of 1942 CLARENCE JOY Class of 1944 Meteorology, Civil Air Regulations and Theory of Flight and Aircraft Construction. Enrolled in the course are Nellie Mcllvane, Milton Esty, Paul Bow- ers, Fred Swearingen, Darrell Wolfe, Harry Wilson, Bill Neuman, Wilbur Cramblet, Dave Huntsberger, and Richard Glass. Robert Fritz, due to a mixup at the start is enrolled with the West Liberty group. Bad weather during March kept the ships on the ground a large part of the time, but since true spring has at last arrived these students will be flying nearly every day. At at the time of this writing eight of the students have already soloed and the others are expected to fol- low shortly. Nor are the students the only ones in Bethany interested in avia- tion. It is rumored about that Presi- dent Cramblet will soon be taking flying lessons. It seems Bethany is a flying institution. Sky Pilot Wolfe InUructor Aroncy ind Most fascinating was the bull- dozer, able to push around more dirt in an hour than Finesse could find in a year. Next in popularity was the steam shovel, shown above under the supervision of Prexy. The first meeting of the Sidewalk Engineers Society met in Room 59 on Wednesday following the initial breaking of the sod. Moved and passed was the petition to the col- lege to dig one hole one year and fill it in the next. The society felt that the entertainment provided by the digging activities greatly broad- ened and deepened Bethany ' s extra- curricular activities. Immediately following the exca- vation by the diesel bulldozer and the steam shovel came the masons who laid the foundation of the com- mons. Bethanians have noted the progress made by these sturdy workmen over the Easter vacation. But Bethanlan will say no more this i sue, for this late news, only a month late — is being written even before the holidays. The Inn is the resort of men after hours and when the dance is over. Here they have the evening cup of coffee, talk over their dates, gather for a bull session, and buy cats for an early morning feed. PAGE FOURT£EN F ¥ y -.. - J - . | tt ' - ' «« j H imiMF-rT j BI BBBi r ' ii KL ' ' ■■ H THE COLLEGE INN Important in Bethany student life is the College Inn. The Bethanian, recognizing the integral part Mrs. Gibson ' s student center plays in the college day, has on these pages attempted to show some of the many aspects of the Inn. The Inn phone booth is the real Bethany tel;phonc ex change. By expertly dialing sorority or fraternity houses which now know to ring the Inn back, students avoid the telephone toll when they call for their dates. Estimates are not available, but a good guess would suggest that more dates are made over this phone than any other single Bethany phone. Not only students but faculty alike meet in the Inn for a bite to eat or to congenially gossip with students. The Inn probably encourages more and better student-faculty relationships than any other agency on the campus. On the upper right of page sixteen is seen Professor McKenzie perplexed over seasoning his food and Miss Sparks proper- ly skeptical over his ability to do it right. Behind the scenes of Inn efficiency are four girls: Alma, Flo, Mary Frances and Ethel. Most Inn customers rarely see Ethel, who holds rule over the kitchen. In the lower right hand corner she is seen cooking one of the popular Inn hamburgers. After hours and during slack periods the girls tidy the Inn up a bit. Lower left is Alma shining up the glassware. Top picture on this page shows the most popular Inn sport. Morrison Ratchff, Jack Simeral, Ed Harris and Irv Glassman are having a hand during the afternoon peak. The peak business, incidentally, comes at 1 1 on Mondays, around three every afternoon, after movies, dances and of course at meal times. The next picture down shows Gordon Seidel, Bill Rut- ter, Richard Wallace, Marg Finney and Nory Hethering- t on at lunch. The Inn boards many students and some of the faculty. Its regular boarders are known by their deep appreciation of Ethel ' s cooking. In one corner of the Inn is the juke box. This music machine is the inspiration of half the jitterbugs in school and few students have not dropped their last nickels mto its slots. The third picture on this page shows it givmg forth, and the bottom shows what it inspires on the Inn floor boards. Dancing, talking, cards, dating, eating, loafing, relax- ing — all these are part of the social side of campus liv- ing. Bethanians have long found these at the Inn, un- doubtedly the most popular student gathering place at Bethany, and the Betbatuan pays its tribute to the Inn here. a; rp . I ' Mi It ' s so easy to stay young, healthy and beautiful, if you use your brains and let elec- tricity do your work. MONONGAHELA SYSTEM PAGE EIGHTFPN APRIL. 1941 CONFESSIONS OF THE SBOG PREXY (Continued from Page U) dictatorship over here, those kids will regret the fact that they didn ' t work a little bit harder for free speech , freedom of thought , men free and equal. They ' ll wished that they had precticed democracy when they had a chance. Yeh, but come on, Mayne, what ' s the trouble? That ' s it. Go ahead, admit it. You ' re just a little kid that has opened his eyes for the first time. The world ' s too big, and you ' re just big enough to open your mouth and cry about it, but not big enough to do anything about it. All you can do is shake your finger with ven- geance and yell, That ' s wrong. Sure it ' s wrong, but what ' s right. ' What can you do about it? Give them enough inspiration and they ' ll work. Give them a special program and they ' ll work. Show them what they should do, and they ' ll do it. But, Mayne, come on, confess. You ' re just not big enough, not man enough, not smart enough to be able to give them what they need. You ' ve done your best but you ' re licked. It isn ' t the constitu- tion. It isn ' t the Board, It isn ' t the Administration. It is just the fact that you have been like a big wave that floods over the shore causing a lot of damage and creating a lot of fuss, then fades back into obliv- ion into the ocean without staying long enough to clean the sand. And there the confession ends. There is something lacking here in Bethany. We should have the Stu- dent Board of Governors, especially with Europe, Asia, Africa as it is today, a practical laboratory of de- mocracy. We don ' t have it, and I ' m not big enough to give it to you. The confession of a Student Board Prexy closes with the hope that next year or next year or next year, you will find someone in the stvident body with vision, strength, courage and guts enough to show you what the Student Board of Bethany really lacks. And, brother, learn that les- son well, for you ' re going to need it. FRATERNITY and SORORITY FASHION CENTER OUR RESPONSIBILITY (Continued from Page 5j the existence of these problems, Li:L they do not trouble themeselve , or worse still, they may not even know what the issues are. Many such youth are either non-cooperative in a society from which individualism is necessarily passing, or they arc ig- norant at a time when ignorance cannot be excused. I have talked with dozens of stu- dents on this subject. Most of them are going through college with no other concern than getting a job or a husband when they finish. They want to make a living. How? Any- way — without necessarily injuring others, of course. And in adding that final qualification they inevit- ably feel they are generously ful- filling their obligations to society. When I suggested that we ought to be concerned about helping solve these problems, a college freshman called me naive. Now I cannot see how a better civilization can arise from such an approach. Young people are afraid to be altruistic; it isn ' t sophisticat- ed. But few of them realize that al- truism is not an ascetic self-abnega- tion but simply an active concern for the well-being of all; that it does not consist of denying oneself happiness, but in finding real satis- ( Continued on Page 20) Ziegenfelder ' s Ice Cream Different from Others Served at THE COLLEGE INN WHEN YOU BUILD SEE ROBERT SCOTT LUMBER COMPANY WELLSBURG, W. YA. ZAMSKY STUDIOS The BETHANIAN PHOTOGRAPHER Portraits of Distinction THE OWL PRINT SHOP The best is none too good f cr you. Stationery- Dance Programs MARKET ST. WHEELING The Student ' s Store L. S. GOOD CO. WHEELING, W. VA. BETHANY COLLEGE BOOK STORE for your COLLEGE BOOKS and SUPPLIES Lower Corridor WEISBERGER ' S WELLSBURG. W. YA. CARNEGIE UNION PRINTING COMPANY BETHANIAN PRINTER PAGE NINETEEN APRIL, 1941 OUR RESPONSIBILITY (Continued from Page 19) faction in service of tlie group. This is the attitude which must be re- vived. No one is demanding that we ignore personal pleasure. The m- junciion is that we let ourselves find some of that pleasure in work that will also bring joy to all. It is not an emotional self-sacrifice that we need; it is an intellectual recog- nition of social responsibility, or th. ' moral imperative to co-operation. Devising instrumentalities to form thisattitude in great numbers of youth will require thought and effort. Children will have to be ed- ucated from the kindergarten not m imin iilitah but as members of a group with iHiiitiic responsibilities to that group. Educational philoso- phy has long held this view, and progressive schools are finally begin- ning to apply it. In high school and college there must be more emphasis on social and economic problems. Vocational education must be tem- pered to give everyone a thorough comprehension of social issues. And other means must be found. If the thinking youth of this gen- eration can crush an ideal of individ- ualism that is the relic of a decad- ent order of industrial expansion and can substitute for it an enthu- siastic sense of social responsibility and cooperation, subsequent college men will find the answers to those problems which are forever baffling us. WALTER P. COOMBS, iMontana You ask me what I think of youth and its responsibilities and ideals for the future. As far as I am personally concerned, I am much constrained to be pessimistic both about the chances for vouth to ac- complish the ideals for which they are striving and also for the world around us to accomplish anything constructive. I have participated for many years with young men and women of my generation in seeking to find the answers to our many problems. We have studied, discuss- ed and argued economic, social, and political problems. To our govern- mental leaders we have suggested possible solutions, only to see these solutions disregarded in large mea- sure. America has failed miserably to provide its outh with economic PAGi; TVC ' ENTY stability, let alone give it that vision which is so necessary to the attain- ment of any ideal. Now we are asked to embark on a great foreign war — a war which youth is none too sure will settle the problems facing us, but a war which WALTER P. COOMBS will take its terrible toll from among our ranks. Can we assume for one instant that the better way of life to which we look forward can be brought about by a conflict led by the same leaders who have so consistently failed to provide any workable solution for our domestic affairs? Can we feel for one moment that freedom and justice will be fostered through such a war, or can we imagine that the Peace following any such conflict will be dictated by principles of justice, honesty and sacrifice by the victors? Can we expect our leaders to urge upon the world a system of peaceful exchange with equal access to the raw mater- ial wealth of the world and freedom of world markets? Or will the American and British politicians, urged on by a people filled with hatred, fear .ind revenge, seek to gain as a reward for their endeavors vast colonial empires with huge pop- ulations ready to be exploited? Vouth has the responsibility to- day of seeking to acquaint itself, now more than ever before, with the national and international aims of their government. Youth can serve no better service than that of interpreting vast movements to the people of their community and in seeking to provide for mutual und- erstanding. As a long term policy, I am con- (Continued on Page 21) JEBANAS Are the best bananas money can buy. Look f or the blue and white label. JEBBIA-METZ CO. 1916 Main St., Wheeling, W.Va. STANDARD PRINTING PUBLISHING CO. Everything for the Office PRINTING - ENGRAVING Lithographing - Office Furniture Machines, Equipment Supplies 910-914 Fifth Avenue HUNTI ' GTON, W. VA. SEE US when in need of Wallpapers, Paints, Artists Sup- plies and Display Material THE SHERWIN-V ILLIAMS PAINT COMPANY 1018-20 Market Street Phone 4044 Wheeling NAY ' S COLLEGE SHOES $5.50 to $8.00 WHEELING, W. VA. R. C. DANCER INC. WALL PAPER and PITTSBURGH PAINTS Wheeling and Wellsburg, W. Va. FUNK ' S FLOWERS HOME GROWN Your favorite My specialty Corsages Cut Flowers Plants Gifts Flowers telegraphed Phone Wellsburg 24311 APRIL, 1941 See JAKE and DICK at THE VALLEY PRESS Home of Good Printing — Phone 6401 — WELLSBURG, W. VA. Compliments of WELLSBURG BANKING AND TRUST COMPANY Electrical Wiring Supplies Lighting Fixtures — Appliances Tools — Lamps — Radios SANDS ELECTRIC CO. 52 Eighteenth Street Phone 146 WHEELING, W. VA. W. L. CHAMBERS Furnishes Food for Your Table PHOTO ENGRAVERS LITHOGRAPHERS JOB PRINTING WHEELING NEWS LITHOGRAPHING CO. 15 th at Main Street WHEELLNG, W. VA. OUR RESPONSIBILITY (Continued from Page 21) vinced that we arc necessarily going to take more part in the affairs of our government, whether local or national. In this increased participa- tion will come our only salvation, for it seems to me that the sooner American youth realizes the tremen- dous part It can play in moulding opmion for a better world and a more equitable social and economic system, the sooner those ends will be attained. We, the youth of America, have a glorious heritage of progressive thought and action stemming from the colonist and the pioneer. Here, in Montana, the Frontier region of America, we are just as proud of that birthright of Liberty and Free- dom as any other American. We feel that youth ' s primary job is to help preserve Liberty at home by helping make this land not the arsenal but the exemplification of Democracy. Tl.n- Coiifrihiitors — CHARLES O. PORTER— Enter- ed Harvard College in 1937 on a Freshman scholarship from Eugene, Oregon, where he attended high school. Dean ' s list sophomore and junior years. One of two members of the class of 1941 to enter the law school under the new Landis plan, providing for joint study of legal and liberal subjects. ANONYMOUS — A Bethanian, knows Bethany forward and back- wards and has understanding of contemporary affairs. Her main trouble, she says, smce being a fresh- man has been a tendency to turn every essay into a research paper complete with footnotes, a la Cabell, on How to Watch a Football Game. JOHN D. BLACK— Senior at Northwestern University, interested in teaching as a vocation and a means of keeping in touch with youth. Black entered Northwestern in 1937 on a Freshman Scholarship awarded for excellent work in Me- dill School of Journalism ' s summer high school course. WALTER P. COOMBS-Senior m the University of Montana Law School; president of the Law School Association; member board of edit- ors of Montana Laii ' Rci cu Drink mf] IN BOTTLES Try it— BLAKE ' S ICE CREAM Unexcelled 96 Sixteenth Street Phone 1746 WHEELING, W. VA. FOR WONDERFUL FOOD ACKER ' S In Wheeling 1220 Market Street GEO. E. STIFEL CO. Wheeling ' s Friendly Store Try JEM-POLISH JEM-WAX And don ' t forget We do Long Distance Moving J. E. MILLER TRANSFER AND STORAGE CO. WHEELING, W. VA. Laundry — Dry Cleaning Deliveries Twice Weekly BUTTES LAUNDRY CO. STEUBENVILLE ROBERT RAWSTHORNE COMPANY Bethanian Engravers Heeren Bldg. Pittsburgh. Pa. Compliments of TRAUBERT BAKERY PAGE r« EXTY-OXE THIS JUNIOR CLASS Hon. Gordon Seidel was invited to write an article on his class. After some persuasion and even a spot of coercion, he half-promised to hand an article in. We had a difficult time keeping him from handing in an article on street- cars. Now street cars are interest- ing, there are few things half as interesting as streetcars. You know, life is like a streetcar — man is like a streetcar — my aunt is like a streetcar — and so on. But we seem off our trolley here. We pointed out to Mr. Seidel that if he didn ' t write an article extolling (he virtues of the Junior Class, all these young men and women would get inferiority complexes. The complexes would cut down the efficiency of their work. Thou- s.mds of men and women would be out of work because of the loss of the efficiency of this bril- liant class. People would starve. War would bring greater decad- ence upon the land. There would be one flower left. Bravely look- ing at us through his tears after we pointed out the dependence of the world, and the Bethanian (synonymous terms), F.G.S. said he might have the article for us by Tuesday, April 1. He was to leave this virtual powerhouse at the Inn tor us. Thursday we wandered in- to the Inn, got a coke and asked for the article. There was none. Seidel was in Baltimore. Staring into our coke, we medi- ated upon diabolocal tortures and heinous crimes. We conjectured about how large an obituary the Sun papers would give an erring Seidel. We wept. Bitterly. And we took our candid camera and went out for vengeance upon the Juniors. e Class of 1942 jiyk ,,j„ Shc ' Bc Im Archer, GlaJys Armor, Phyllis BnUh. HarolJ BUiik., Gu cndolyn Borden, Paul Boucrs. Second roil Gforgc Brady, Albert Ccricrh. Rifj CicJry, VTilhiir Cranihlet, George Dai is, trances Dt oriik. Third roll Edward Elsasser, Mildred Erskiiie. Jjiiicc Elans, Eduard Golden, William Griffiths, Ruth Halter. fourth rou Eduard Machamer. 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