THE SOONER MAGAZINE OKLAHOMA ALUMNI NEWS

A News Magazine for University of Oklahoma graduates and under the act of March 3, 1879. Established 1928 . Advertising former students, published monthly except August and Septem- rates on application to the Business Manager, Oklahoma Union ber, by the University of Oklahoma Association, Oklahoma Euilding . Address all editorial matter to Frank S. Cleckler, Union Building, Norman, Oklahoma . Chester H. Westfall, '16 Secretary-Treasurer, Oklahoma Union Building, Norman, Okla- journ., Ponca City, president ; Frank S. Cleckler, '21bus., Nor- homa . The Magazine is published the twentieth of the month man, secretary-treasurer . Membership dues : Annual $3, of preceding date of publication . Information designed for the which $2 is for THE SOONER MAGAZINE; life $60, of which Magazine should be in the hands of the Editor not later than $40 is for THE SOONER MAGAZINE. Life Membership is the sixth of any month Joseph A. Brandt, '21journ ., editor; payable in quarterly instalments. Entered as second-class mat- Ernie Hill, '32journ ., assistant editor; George McElroy, '341aw, ter October 13, 1928, at the postoffice at Norman, Oklahoma, business manager

Oklahomans at home and abroad

Soonerland in Brief Vanderbilt University is reported quite interest being manifested by some other The national radio chains have been pleased with the attendance at the colleges having radio stations is indic- giving the Sooners quite a hand this Vandy-Oklahoma game and not averse ative . fall. The latest was in the Terraplane to a return engagement next year. The first international radio debate hour after the Texas victory October 14 . Mrs. Louie G. Kneeland, '20as, is ever scheduled, including both Canadi- Ten thousand gallons of Oklahoma general chairman of the annual scholar- an and United States stations, and units City crude oil was the first to be refined ship fund dance to be given by Kappa of both the National Broadcasting Com- by the University refinery this fall, on Alpha Theta alumnae in Oklahoma pany and the Columbia Broadcasting October 13. City November 10 at the Oklahoma System, was organized by T. M. Beaird, Herbert Barnett of Tulsa is the new University club. '21as, director of WNAD, and was to president of the executive board of the Ewing Sadler of Sulphur was elected be broadcast November 1 . The question Menorah society of the University . president of the men's council to suc- was "Should the United States adopt The department of public relations of ceed Mark Evans of Norman . Mr. the essential features of the British sys- the University maintained a discreet Sadler pleaded for harmony in the coun- tem of radio control and operation?" silence when medical doctors at Tulsa cil so that interest in student self-gov- Six radio leaders and educators were to protested against osteopaths participat- ernment might be increased. He has participate in the debate, the subject of ing in the postgraduate medical school thus far received full cooperation from which is to be debated this year by 750,- sponsored by the department at Tulsa the council. 000 high school students . in October. Journalism 1 students have organized The University R. O. T. C. unit has The Oklahoma Daily charges that a Press club, electing Bob Kniseley of an enrolment of 281 advanced students members of Sigma Alpha Mu and Phi Norman as president. and 1,004 students in basic courses. in Jerry Waters this year that he Beta Delta are denied membership found Pete Gracey, all-American center last the celebrated Jazz Hounds, purely on had more men out for his polo team year from Vanderbilt, has been named racial despite the strenuous ef- than Lewie Hardage had for his football grounds, assistant freshman football coach of the and . forts of Baxter Taylor, chief hound, team University . others, to prevent this betrayal of col- Phantom Mask, honorary radio or- lege education . Ralph Sewell, manag- ganization of the University, may soon Roy Clark, well-known cleaning shop ing editor of the Daily and a Jazz become a national organization, if the owner, died suddenly of heart failure at Hound, remarks that "I can now see Norman, September 26. very little purpose in the pep groups and CONTENTS The celebrated Beta combine in stu- fail to see why either Jewish group wishes Oklahomans at home and abroad 31 dent politics seems to have suffered a to be represented, but they do." With Sooner Clubs 37 defection in Delta Upsilon and Phi Kap- Winifred Ketchum of Tulsa is the new The Dangers of Dallas 38 pa Sigma. president of the Social Service club of By Benton Ferguson,'32 Mexico is the subject of the social sci- the University . Art and the Depression 39 ence seminar for the first semester at The Sooner pistol team, coached by By Louise Williams Groseclose the University this fall. The discussions, Lieut. Ivan D. Yeaton, won all three For Admiral Byrd 40 which are held from 7 :30 to 9:30 p. m. trophies offered in the seventh annual By Howard Van Dyke,'32 each Wednesday night in the Zoology Southwestern pistol tournament at Dal- The Individual and Spiritual Values 41 Building, are open to interested alumni . las the last week in September. By Horace Thompson,'30 Charles Mooney of Shawnee is the Dr. LeRoy Long, former dean of the Homecoming, Vintage 1933 43 new president of the men's glee club. medical school of the University, was By Frank S . Cleckler,'21 Oklahoma cross-country runners meet elected for a period of three years a gov- Messages and Memories for Home- Oklahoma Aggies at Stillwater Novem- ernor of the American College of Sur- coming 44 ber 12 in a five-mile race. geons at its annual meeting in Chicago By C . Ross Hume,'98 Jack Spivey of Oklahoma City was October 11 . Belles Lettres and Bell Ringers 56 elected president of the senior law class

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Wilder and Wilder LEADER RADIO The University's all-time intramural champion, Webster "Web" Wilder, '33 law, is practicing law with his father at Cherokee. During his last two years at the Uni- versity the younger Wilder participated in every one of twenty-two intramural the After T. M. Beaird, '21 as, sports events on program. department of public rela- keeping his record clear of winning any of the championships, Wilder slipped during tions of the University, is national chairman of the National Univer- his last year and won a free throw cham- sity Extension Association's com- pionship for Beta Theta Pi. He held mittee on debate materials and more runnerup-championships than any- interstate co-operation . He is re- one who ever attended the University . sponsible for the debate to be broadcast 3 to 4 p.m . eastern Opens New York Office standard time over the NBC and A new chapter in the colorful history CBS chains on the question of of Mrs. Florence Cobb, widow of Semi- adoption of the British system of nole county's first county judge, will be radio control and operation. The written this fall when she goes to New six debaters are nationally-known York City to open a law office . educators The picturesque woman attorney who began the study of law at the Washing- ton College of Law in 1902 attended the University during the past three years and took courses she always wished to . at the annual class election Harold Land- Frank Hamilton of Oklahoma City, a have. She enrolled for the last time at Kingston was elected vice presi- ram of pledge of Sigma NO, is the freshman the University in the spring of 1932 and Kingfisher, sec- dent and Roy Mead of class president. Virginia Lee of Bartles- was forced to drop out of school on ac- . James Hamill of Norman was retary ville, a pledge of Pi Beta Phi and a count of poor health. She holds LL. B. the freshman earlier elected president of straight A student, is freshman queen. and LL. M. degrees from the Washing- law class. Due to budget cuts of the athletic ton College. economic students at the Uni- home council, the University will have DO of- The Daily Oklahoman said recently of lively versity practice house have a ficial tennis team this year. Mrs. Cobb : give the tone of real domestic- charge to Thomas Beeler is the president of the "After serving as attorney for the In- the form of a two- ity to Glasswork, in freshman medic class. dian bureau at Washington and writing months old baby, Jimmie Abbee of Nor- many notable opinions, Mrs. Cobb came man. Jimmie's mother, Mrs. Naomi Increase to Wewoka fifteen years ago where she and in Enrollment Abbee, is teaching at Elmore City Fall enrollment at the University became the probate attorney for the In- sent her baby to the practice house where passed the total mark of last year early dian department . After resigning as pro- could take care of it. students in October and apparently will show a bate attorney, she devoted most of her First exhibits of pottery made from slight increase over the previous year, time to literary efforts. She has been for Oklahoma clay and made in the new George Wadsask, registrar, announced. several years librarian of the Carnegie N. Frank, factory of John instructor in The total enrollment during the fall library of Wewoka ." ceramics, was held in Norman recently. semester of 1932 was 5,231 students. Mrs. Augusta B. Griffith, although a This mark was reached early in October Young Surgeon grandmother, is one Oklahoman who this fall and was mounting close to 5,300. A reputation as a fine surgeon and realizes that education is intellectual A tabulation of students by counties, successful physician is being made by curiosity in action throughout life. When states and countries will be made when Dr . John Miles, '27as, '28M.D., who is her granddaughter, Miss Nancy Meents registration is complete in November. in charge of the Anadarko City Hospital . of Ada, a pledge of Kappa Alpha Theta, Passing the 5,200 mark both in 1933 After his graduation from the medi- came to the University, she carne too. and 1932, the enrollment total was ma- cal school, he was affiliated for a time She and Miss Nancy have been fond of terially higher than in 1931 when it drop- with the United Fruit Company at New doing things together, she explained, pcd to 5,000. The highest figure of all Orleans, Louisiana. He became head and she herself wanted to continue her was recorded in 1930 when 5,400 full- surgeon a year ago at Anadarko's new study of languages begun in Europe sev- time students were registered. hospital . eral years ago. . John W Robinson of Calumet is the Wentz Loan Beneficiaries Third Generation LL. B. president of the newly-formed club com- Since the establishment of the Lew Harrison Roe, '33law, has opened a posed of petroleum engineering students. Wentz Loan Funds at the University of law office of his Own in the old Bank The semi-annual state meeting of the Oklahoma and Oklahoma Agricultural of Commerce building in Frederick, ac- Associated Press will be held at Norman and Mechanical College 1,515 students cording to the Frederick Daily News. November 4. have either completed work at the in- Roe was a member of Phi Delta Phi and Dr. Guy Y. Williams, '06as, director stitutions or are still enrolled in school, Coif, honorary scholastic organizations, of the school of chemical engineering, is the United Press reports. The Univer- at the University last year. the new president of the athletic council . sity's Fund is now $146,984, while the A. The News says of young Roe : Other officers are Prof. Lawrence N. & M. Fund is $88,000. Mr. Wentz con- "Harrison is the third generation of Morgan, vice president; J. R . Lindsey, tributed a total of $200,000, equally di- lawyers in the family . His father, W. treasurer; and Bill Cross, '09as, secretary. vided, to both schools. G. Roe, of the firm of Wilson and Roe,

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has been practicing here for about a quar- len, Toronto, Canada, winner of the nology and the Universities of Illinois ter of a century, and is one of Oklaho- 440-yard dash at the Canadian high and Michigan . He was in the army ma's leading lawyers. The latter's fath- school meet last year. chemical welfare service during the er was for years one of the district at- World War. torneys in Illinois. Observers believe Phi Gamma Delta Again Harrison will live up to the high mark The announcement of fraternity grade Harkin to Europe set by his forebears." averages for the 1933 spring semester Deserting musical and legal careers, showed Phi Gamma Delta winner of the Ray Harkin, '32law, Pawhuska, started Osborne to Ministry scholarship cup for the ninth time dur- a course of study this fall at the Ameri- L. V. Osborne, '30M.S., Granite, has ing the past ten semesters. can College at Louvain, Belgium, which left the teaching profession in which he A general improvement in grade av- will qualify him for priesthood . has been engaged for the past twelve erages was apparent with no fraternity Harkin, while he was on the campus, years and gone to Chicago where he showing an average below .8, the line at was manager of the Boomer band. For will study for the ministry in the Pres- which social privileges are taken away . several years, while he was out of school, byterian Theological Seminary. The grading system now in use gives he played with professional bands in the The Democrat Chief, Hobart's daily three points for "A," two points for "B" south . After his graduation from the paper, said of Osborne : and one point for "C." No points are law school in 1932, he practiced in Paw- "For a number of years he had felt given for "D" and points arc subtracted huska. the urge to the ministry and yesterday for failures . He plans to study four years in Europe he burnt all the bridges behind him, The averages follow : before returning to this country to pass turned down a flattering offer to become 1 . Phi Gainma Delta 1 .688 requirements to enter the ministry . superintendent of schools in a certain 2. Delta Tau Delta 1 .474 3. Beta Theta Pi 1.461 Oklahoma town, and made application 4. Phi Kappa Psi 1 .459 The Regents' Meeting to the Presbytery to be received as a can- 5. Kappa Sigrna 1 .344 The Board of Regents of the Univer- didate for the ministry." 6. Sigma Alpha Mu 1 .328 sity at its quarterly meeting in Oklaho- 7. Phi Beta Delta 1.233 8. Phi Kappa Alpha 1.196 ma City September 29 reduced the bud- Eight Degrees for Huffs 9. Lambda Chi Alpha 1 .191 get of the University for the second Eight diplomas in one family with a 10 . Sigma Alpha Epsilon 1 .162 quarter by $10,000. The board pledged ninth one in prospect is the record of 11 . Delta Phi Epsilon 1 .114 its cooperation with the Greater Univer- the W. T. Huffs. The United Press car- 12 . Kappa Alpha 1 .080 13 . Sigma Chi 1 .069 sity of Oklahoma movement. ried a dispatch recently telling of the un- 14 . Delta Chi 1 .033 The board approved the following fac- usual history of the Huffs. It follows: 15 . Alpha Sigma Phi 1 .016 ulty appointments : Dr. C. S. Bobo of "The W. T. Huffs family of Nor- 16 . Alpha Tau Omega .9913 Norman as University physician and di- 17 . Phi Delta Theta .9540 man, may organize its own University 18 . Pi Kappa Phi .9531 rector of the Ellison infirmary ; Richard of Oklahoma alumni association, for its 19 . Acacia .9447 Lee Huntington, '17as, as associate pro- members have won eight diplomas since 20 . Sigma Nu .9134 fessor of petroleum engineering; George 1920, and a ninth is in prospect. 21 . Delta Upsilon .8908 J. Goodman as instructor in Botany 22 . Phi Kappa Sigma .8689 ; "Tipton Huffs (now of the Muskogee 23 . Sigma Mu Sigma .8438 Gaylord Wilkinson as instructor in art; Phoenix) started the procession with a Dr. Francis E. Dill, Dr. Stanley F . Wild- B. A. degree in 1925, and since then there Placement Ranking man, Dr. Path H. Lawson, Dr. Wilbur have been only two commencements at Fourteen University freshmen tied for F. Kelly and Dr. Ralph Bronwn, all of which some member of the family did high honors in the English placement Oklahoma City, as members of the clin- not march across the platform . examinations as school started this fall . ical staff of University Hospital . "Lorenz Huffs took two degrees, mak- The fourteen who had grades of ninety- ing up for Curtis Huffs, who was '29, five on their English tests follow : Ma- The Magazine's New Editor but left without a diploma. The young- rion Wolfe, Ardmore; Muriel Spiro, Ernie Hill, '32journ, of Norman, en- est sister, Alice, is a sophomore this Ruth Paul, Walleah Jones, Anna Mae rolled in the graduate school, becomes fall." Gordon and Ira Eppen, all of Oklahoma editor of The Sooner Magazine, effective City; Norma Ann Stovall, Hugo; Edgar with the December issue, Frank S. Cleck- Late-No Dates Hallock, and Mary Kathryn Frost, both ler, '21bus, secretary of the Association Thirty-five University women who of Norman; Presley Ford and Betsy Bil- announces. were to have had dates with the Van- lings, both of Tulsa; Elaine Davis, Hold- Mr. Hill has for several years been a derbilt football players on the eve of the enville; Donald Brown, El Reno; and reporter for The Norman Transcript Oklahoma-Vanderbilt game found the John Clark Joyce, Rogers, Arkansas. and has been correspondent for the United woman's prerogative for being "just a lit- Press and various Oklahoma newspapers . tle late" questioned. Huntington Returns He writes radio plays and is constantly They arrived at the Vanderbilt alumni Dr. Richard Lee Huntington, who at work on the short story. His wife, banquet in Oklahoma City one hour was graduated in chemistry in 1917, re- Mrs. Christine Squire Hill, '32journ, was late. They were met by Dan McGugin, turned to the University this fall as an the first woman to be editor of the Daily. Vandy coach, who apologized and in- associate professor of petroleum engi- Mr. Hill became assistant editor of the formed them he thought they weren't neering to fill the vacancy left by the Magazine with the October issue. coming and had already sent the foot- resignation of F. W. Padgett who ac- Joseph A. Brandt, '21journ, editor of ball team to bed. They were fed royally cepted a position with Sun Oil Company the 'University Press, has edited the Mag- and returned to Norman without ever at Marcus Hook, Pennsylvania . azine for five years since its foundation seeing a football player. Huntington took charge of courses in in 1928, without pay from the Associa- refining engineering. He left the Phil- tion and in addition to his regular du- Canadian Champion lips Petroleum company, Bartlesville, ties. He submitted his resignation in A national interscholastic track champ- where he has been a chemical engineer . October, 1932, due to pressure of his ion of the Dominion of Canada has en- After he was awarded his degree here regular work, but at that time the As- rolled in the University school of pe- in 1917, he engaged in graduate work sociation felt it could not employ a full- troleum engineering. He is Paul Bow- at the Massachusetts Institute of Tech- time editor. Mr. Brandt submitted 34 The Sooner Magazine November along with his resignation those of his NEW MAGAZINE EDITOR contributing editors, in order to permit the new editor full freedom in establish- ing his own policies . The contributing editors were : Betty Kirk Hemens, '29journ, of Chicago, Illi-nois, formerassistanteditor oftheUni- versity Press; John Joseph Mathews, '20 sc, of Pawhuska, novelist ; Dorothy Kirk, '23art, of Norman, artist and designer, member of the art faculty of the Uni- Ernie Hill, '32journ, of versity ; Winifred Johnston, '24as, of Norman, has been selected to be- Norman, writer on the stage ; Duane Rol- come editor of "The Sooner ler, '23sc, of Norman, member of the Magazine" effective with the physics faculty of the University and ed- December issue, succeeding itor of The American Physics Teacher; Joseph A. Brandt, '21 journ, of Elgin E. Groseclose, '20as, of Norman, Norman, whose resignation sub- member of the economics faculty of the mitted October, 1932, has just University, financial writer and former been accepted . Mr. Hill has had associate editor of Fortune; Leonard a variety of journalistic experi- Good, '28art, of Norman, artist and ence and is a former president of member of the art faculty of the Uni- the Sigma Chi chapter at Nor- versity; Muna Lee, '12(x, of Rio Piedras, man Porto Rico, poet, internationally known feminist and director of international re- TRUBY lations for the University of Porto Rico ; George Milburn, '30(x, of Wilton, Con- necticut, short story writer ; Harold Keith, golf which he admits reluctantly is still a lit- by any man or set of men. I refuse to pledge Norman, sports and short '28journ, of tle ragged . my vote in advance on any issue. When elected story writer ; Ross Taylor, '31as, of Sny- In business, he and his father are partners, I will carefully investigate and study, and in- as my best judgment dictates ." der, short story writer . but from his conversation one judges that the dependently vote partnership extends considerably deeper . He Welch has been in business in Oklahoma quit the university before getting his degree City for 18 years. He is a graduate of the West in Operatic Role because the work was getting too heavy "for University of Oklahoma and served overseas . J. Forrest West, '33mus, director of dad." (luring the World War, as captain of engineers Incidentally, Johnson's college work in no He lives at 510 Northwest Thirteenth street, music in Anadarko schools, continued way indicated that he some day would enter is active as a clubman and golfer and has one his career in grand opera in Oklahoma the political arena. He studied chemistry at daughter, Yvonne, a member of the younger when he sang a leading role in Madame the University of Oklahoma and Chicago uni- social set. candidates the Butterfly, presented in Tulsa's Conven- versity because he liked it . He still dabbles "As I looked over the other around in chemistry a lot but never has ap- other clay, I was reminded of the time when tion Hall October 13, under the direction plied his training in it. Alexander the Great said to Robinson Crusoc, of Colo Edwards, assistant conductor of An omnivorous reader he at one time served 'It's just another case of (log eat dog,' ' said the Metropolitan Grand Opera Company. a term on the city library board. His reading the ward three entrant, going on to announce that "It's time to take both gangs `for a ride' Mr . West sang the leading role in the leans largely to works of science. However, of late, funny papers and children's books take up and save the ransom money for the people!" University's presentation of Aida last a lot of his time . . . little Bobby can probably spring . explain that point. The Johnson Carpet Cleaning Co . in which Women's Fraternity Grades thousandths of a Candidates he and his father are partners has been oper- Measured by six ten Capital ating on the same site for twenty-seven years. point difference, Sigma Delta Tau Fra- Two Sooners were in the race for The son came into the business twelve years ternity nosed out Pi Beta Phi to win the ago. He 34 years old. councilman in the Oklahoma City re- is Panhellenic scholarship projects Johnson never- second semester call election to be held October 17, Os- Active in community theless gives much of his time to Masonic work . cup; but names of both fraternities will car L. Welch, '15as, and Earl Johnson, He is a Knight Templar and has been a mem- be engraved on the cup, although Sig- '20(x; both were candidates for council- . ber of the Shrine Patrol for nine years He is ma Delta Tau will have possession of man from ward three. Mr. Johnson was a member of the Presbyterian church. "I'm not wanting this council place as a the cup for the semester . on the so-called city managerial ticket, stepping stone to anything . I'm not interested The standing of the women's fraterni- while Mr. Welch was for a new deal all in going any further in politics," Johnson de- ties in detail follows : the way around . clared . "As I see it, the principal issue is the 1. Sigma Delta Tau 1 .8456 The Daily Oklahoman gives the fol- managerial form of government . I'm for it . As for oil extensions, I believe that should be 2 . Pi Beta Phi 1 .8450 lowing biographical sketch of Mr . John- left up to a vote of the people ." 3 . Delta Gamma I .7527 son: The Oklahoma City Times carries he 4. Gamma Phi Beta 1 .7052 "Busy as an alderman" is a phrase that prob- Mr . Welch: 1.6888 ably will come back into active use if Earl following sketch of 5. Phi Mu Johnson, candidate for councilman An ward Striking out independent of what he alls 6. Beta Sigma Omicron 1 .6425 three is elected. At business Johnson restores "newspaper gang" on the one hand cthe and 7. Alpha Xi Delta 1.5988 lowly rug to its original beauty and clean- the "Blinn politicians" on the other, Oscar L. the 8. Delta Delta Delta 1.5938 liness . At home he gives Mrs. Johnson a hand Welch is candidate for city councilman om Gamma 1.5765 with the three young Johnsons . Mary Jeane is three. frward 9. Kappa Kappa 10 years old, Earl, jr ., is 8 and Bobby is 5. Welch says that he has never run for fice I0 . Alpha Phi 1 .5456 and Admittedly a poor politician, Johnson says knows very little about politics ofbefore, 11 . Kappa Alpha Theta I .5234 he threw his hat into the ring just to see what entered the campaign simply because he ants I3 . Alpha Gamma Delta I .5047 makes the wheels go around in city politics- protect his own interests from what hewto eels I .3958 that and a long cherished desire to be of some two warring elements . fare I4 . Chi Omega service to the city. "To protect my own as well as the lic's I5. Alpha Chi Omega I .2947 I am a candifor date In person the candidate is a mild mannered and family interest. pubbusiness I6 . Alpha Omicron Pi 1 .0619 young man, husky and neat-appearing . He councilman," Welch said . "Nobody asked me GENERAL AVERAGE 1 .5716) is serious about everything he goes at, even his to run and I am neither owned nor controlled 1933 The Sooner Magazine 35

Herbert "Slick" Hyde thirty languages, will be a member of Claudia is going back to Japan in a few days the University of Hawaii faculty next to rnect her mother and visit her other grand- Herbert K. Hyde, '20ex, climaxed a parents. She will leave her father in Hawaii, brilliant career as the country's youngest year at Honolulu . After hectic where he will become a professor of English, federal district attorney with a great vic- expeij-ences whichmakeonedoubtwhether French and Russian in the University of Ha- tory in the Urschel kidnaping case in real reform has been achieved in the waii . October 1 . American consular service, Mr. Carr, his Travel is nothing strange to the brown-eyed Oklahoma City, Mr. Hyde little blond, who looks with wide eyes at this has announced he intends to retire Jan- wife, who is a Russian and without cit- new land she has not seen before, whose peo- uary 1, 1934. The United Press carried izenship in any nation, and daughter, ple eat strange foods she does not seem to care the following story in newspapers : Claudia, aged six, reached Oklahoma, for. She will make the trip to Japan from where they visited friends and Hawaii alone. Herbert K. Hyde, who learned to love the relatives But the trip will not be difficult. From what- law when he worked as an attorney's janitor, in the middle of August . ever land her fellow travelers may be, she will tonight proposed two vital changes in the Lind- Frances Corry, writing in The Okla- be able to understand their language . She bergh anti-kidnaping law. speaks Russian and reads it well, too. Her should carry the homa News, describes her interview with First, it death penalty, Hyde mother and father speak Russian at most times, and second, little Claudia. The interview follows said, it should be amended to : and it is native to the child . But English is take possession of ransom money prima facie Claudia Denzclovna Carr had me stumped no handicap, and her accent is slight . She evidence of guilt, in order to trap the "money- on the interview. She's a tiny world-traveler reads English well and has mastered all the changers ." who has lived in storybook places and speaks primary readers her father could secure for her These are the lessons to be taken before the six foreign languages. in Holland. next congress in a move to put more teeth in It isn't easy to interview one so traveled, Polish she knows also, for the year she the law under which Bates, Bailey, the Shan- although she is only 6 years old and having studied music at the conservatory at Cracow nons, Skclly and Herman were convicted, he a "gout" time on her first trip to the United where her father taught a number of his 30 . said States and her father's native Oklahoma . intimately known languages at the university, Smiling broadly after the victory, the 35- Travel has matte the cosmopolitan little vis- she spoke Polish . year-old Oklahoman paced his office excitedly, itor a diplomat. When in Poland, says her Her music was learned in Polish and she and confessed the same thrill he felt when, father, Denzel Carr, who is a linguist of amaz- received a diploma at the age of four. Then in 1917, he "rode the rods" tramp fashion, ing abilities, she likes Poland best . When in there is German and Dutch which she uses, while a youth, going from Norman high school Japan, where she was born, that is the finest and Japanese . Other languages hold little mys- to Dallas to clown the best orators of South- land in the world. Holland, from whence she tery to her, for many words she understands western high schools in a debating tourney. has just come "on a beeg boat" is a nice land, in strange dialects which she never uses . He predicted as "certain" that defense at- when she is in Holland. When our tiny linguist friend gets excited, torneys would carry their test of the federal And now, in Oklahoma City to see her aunts as likely as not she'll tell us all about her im- kidnap law to the supreme court in an ef- and uncles, grandfather and cousins, "Thess is pressions of this great big world in a smattering fort to free the convicted persons. the best ceety I've been in ." of languages we have never heard before . Hyde's meteoric climb to success in thirty-five "But New York City, nah, eet is not a ceety Eleven languages are as native to Claudia's adventure-packed years parallels the genuine I like," she says, "it is too dirty for me ." father as your own is to you. English, French, Horatio Alger Hero . Denzel Carr left Central high school here in Spanish, Portugese, Italian, Japanese, Chinese, An only son of poor part-Cherokee Indian 1919 to begin his adventures in the languages Polish, Russian, Dutch and German . And he parents living in the Oklahoma territory, Hyde of the world at the Berlitz school in Chicago reads and writes 30 languages-leaving but a blacked shoes in Norman, sold papers, and dill and Detroit. Back he came to his own state few strange dialects which he has not mastered small errands to help his father support his for two years at Oklahoma university before to become the recognized linguist he is . But two sisters and mother . going to California to learn Japanese and Chi- he is leaving Sunday for another strange land He obtained a job as janitor in a law office, nese . Then he became a translator and writer and another strange people, and for all his 30 and often staged mock court scenes in which on a Buddhist journal published in English in languages he must learn Hawaiian to be able he aped his employer in defending clients. Kobe, Japan, and later a teacher in the Uni- to speak with them . In high school he "bummed" to the Dallas versity of Japan. And there he met Claudia's At the home of Mr. Carr's aunt, Mrs. E. C. oratorical and debating tournament, to take Russian mother and married her. Jeffriess, 109 N. Madison avenue, Claudia has first honors from the Southwest's best. Later, with the same spirit which character- ized him as a lad, Hyde worked through the University of Oklahoma law school, attended George Washington University at the national capital, and received a second law degree from Boston university . He began his public career as secretary to former Senator W. B. Pine, of Oklahoma . Later he wits assistant county torney of Logan county, and from that position was appointed assistant United States district attorney. Telephone calls and telegrams of congratu- lations flooded his office as he paced the floor explaining to newspapermen, "I don't know what to say. It was a great victory, and Mr . Keenan and the others who helped me make it possible are to be congratulated ." He recommended the death penalty inclusion in the Lindbergh law on the grounds it would not require state prosecution in such instances in order to secure execution of "such gangsters as Machine Gun Kelly and Albert Bates." "One of the greatest stumbling blocks in the present law, as brought out in the Urshel trial is its silence on the question of when the con- spiracy ends . The act merely makes it an of- Paul Walker, fense to kidnap a man and transport him '1?- law, chairman of the across a state line to hold him for ransom ." He commended judge Edgar S. Vaught's; state corporation commis- interpretation of the new law as "fearlessly sion, is being considered by striking out along a new path in American President Roosevelt for a justice," and said the question of penalty, even federal appointment in the with the supreme penalty included in the law, should be left with the federal district judge. inter-state commerce com- mission, according to semi- Carr official reports of Wash- to Hawaiian University newspaper Denzel ington, D. C. Carr, '23ex, Soonerland's most correspondents versatile linguist, who speaks or reads November 36 The Sooner Magazine

tendency toward collective action in edu- COUNSEL BARNSDALL cation. The latest steps are restrictions on enrollment and limitations of numbers in various professional courses. "There is much to indicate that this tendency will be carried much further in the im- mediate future." "The Industrial Revolution produced the vocational objective in education more than a half century ago. The eco- nomic revolution of today brings us squarely to the need for avocational and recreational education ." The times call for versatile workers. In order to be able to meet the demand of our age we are going to have to learn to utilize our leis- M. Darwin Kirk, ure in developing secondary inter- been time '23as, '25law, has ests in order to insure security . made counsel of the Barns A new synthesis of values needs to be dall Companies and is one made. A new appraisal of work, play, of the youngest counsels of worship is demanded. This the love, and a major corporation in new appraisal is the chief task of the United States. His home is freshman as he enters his college year . in Tulsa The earnestness and fidelity with which he pursues the work at hand and the ways by which he utilizes his leisure time will indicate to what extent he is really preparing to live a good useful life in the world into which he will go in a few fleeting years . been teaching her favorite American cousin, devoted more than two years in research Ernest Kendall Jcfferiess, age 7, Russian words. and will begin writing the actual book has are Made Of Ile's learning, too, she says . He already ." Little Boys say, "I have been there," and this fall learned how to Highsaw holds an M. A . degree from V. M. Mulkey, 'llphar, Tonkawa "I like you." is enjoying life studying the Before reaching Oklahoma City, Claudia and the University of Wisconsin and Ph. D. druggist, through her father visited her uncle, Wilmore Kendall, from George Washington university, youth of today and reminiscing Oxford, Eng- jr ., who is a Rhodes scholar at Washington, D. C. his undergraduate days at the university . land, and stopped off in Ada, Oklahoma, to Blackwell's daily paper, The Tribune, see E. M. Carr, Claudia's grandfather. : about her, studying this new city, Learning and Leisure says of the Tonkawa druggist Looking intellectual Claudia cocked her blond head with its perky The convocation address of President "A connoisseur of the ribbon to one side and summed it up : "I thinkers of the world, pink W. B. Bizzell on September 19 was re- thoughts of the like Oklahoma City," she said, definitely, "but discreet connoisseur of American I like `kits,' though, and ceived by a large crowd of students and and a I don't like dogs . are the hobbies of V. M. Mul- Ernest Kendall. I don't like the things you eat, visitors in the Fieldhouse. The subject boyhood Brooks and except the rice and the ice cream. I don't like "Learning and Leisure" called attention key, partner in the firm of motor cars, but I like trains . And boats-they . Mulkey, as one of to a new epoch in education and public Mulkey, druggists are the best ." business men of Tonkawa, life and outlined a new approach to the youngest best known. study. is probably one of the his col- Alumnus Writes Book Following is a summary of his address : "In the fall of 1907 he started the University of Oklaho- James L. Highsaw, 'llas, founder and Today an irresponsible individualism lege career at with Ray ('12as) and director of the Memphis, Tennessee, is being superseded rapidly by regulated ma, `batching' brothers of Carl Technical high school spent the latter and cooperative capitalism . Individual- Harry Haun ('12as) Blackwell . The years 1908 part of the month of August in north- ism has been slowly losing ground in Haun of were spent at the university, eastern Oklahoma and the west part of its conflict with collectivism and ulti- and 1909 roommate of the Haun Texas collecting material for a book he mately will be overcome. The conflict this time as a . will write on "American Defacto Gov- in education has been going on for some brothers interest in my college days is the ernment." Mr. Highsaw has been di- time. " `Of Frank who last rector of the Tennessee school since he "Montaigne developed his theory of memory of candidate for the office of founded it fifteen years ago. education around the interest of a single year was a stated . Highsaw, whose wife is Mary Baker gifted child whose intellectual life was governor,' Mulkey "Following graduation he purchased Highsaw, 'l0as, spent three days in Beav- guided by one capable tutor. Rousseau store at Deer Creek, and er interviewing old settlers. approached the problem somewhat dif- his first drug started on his hobby of col- The Herald-Democrat, Beaver weekly ferently but had much the same idea. also there books, and the classification newspaper, says of Mr. Highsaw's plans : Thomas Jefferson founded the Univer- lecting good and psychological study of the adolescent Mr . Highsaw will cover sity of Virginia upon the ideal of free "In his book, boy. Mulkey has been in Tonkawa for defacto governments choice of subjects and the personal wishes the whole field of eight years." in the United States . Three or four of the student. Ezra Cornell the found- will be devoted to the Cimarron er of the university which bears his name, chapters of Miss Forbes movement, showing the conditions that opened the same opportunities to his Death existed here and outlining the organiza- students." Miss Minnie Mae Forbes, 'l0as, '11M. of the English tion of the defacto territory of the Cim- But compulsory education, restriction A., for ten years a member and one of the arron. Mr. Highsaw's book will be very on the choice of subjects, and state adop- faculty of the University (TURN TO PAGE 47, PLEASE) thorough and complete. He has now tion of text books are examples of the

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This dread of indoctrination Mr . Levi Football Results traces to two sources : First, the ideal of Oklahoma 0, Vanderbilt 0 scientific impersonality which has been Oklahoma 7, Tulsa 20 translated in the liberal college in terms Oklahoma 9 Texas 0 of an unwillingness to pass on moral is- GAMES SCHEDULED sues, thereby leaving the graduates to October 21 Iowa State at Norman . Sooner roll call lead the path of disillusionment alone October 28 Nebraska at Lincoln. SHADt-r-FUNK : Miss Annie Laurie Shadle, open to those who maintain an attitude November 4 Kansas at Norman . '32lib.sci, and Dr . Theron H. Funk, June 17 of moral neutrality in an active world. November 18 Kansas State at Manhattan . in Oklahoma City . Home, 1155 Grand Avenue, Abilene, Texas. And second : the college's lack of knowl- November 30 Oklahoma Aggies at Nor- STARKEY-DUNCAN : Miss Ruth Starkey, '3lfa, ede as to how to equip its students with man . end Robert Thomas Duncan, '30fa, September the essential ethical basis for conduct. 20 in Oklahoma City . Delta Gamma. Home, This lack it shares with the age, which All Time Texas Scores 634 East Ashby Place, San Antonio, Texas. HUGHES-BUELL: Miss Helen Hughes, '32as, is one of general bewilderment . But 1900 Oklahoma 2, Texas 28 and Arthur Luis Buell, '34, September 17 . Home, though it might merit pity rather than 1901 Oklahoma 6, Texas 12 216 East Tonhawa Street, Norman . condemnation for sharing in the univer- 1901 Oklahoma 0, Texas 11 STANSBURY-SMITH : Miss Lennie Pearl Stans- sal inability to "penetrate the moral fog" 1902 Oklahoma 6, Texas 22 bury, '3las, and Charles Clinton Smith, Sep- of our times, Mr . Levi feels that in its tember 3 at Guthrie. Home, 1008 West Apache, 1903 Oklahoma 6, Texas 6 Norman . attitude it has stepped aside from the 1903 Oklahoma 5, Texas 11 SCHLAUDT-CATRON: Miss Gretchen Schlaudt neutral toward the destructive path 1904 Oklahoma 10, Texas 40 and Edward M. Catron, '22ex, June 7 in Hutch- inson, Kansas . which is able to create only a philosophy 1905 Oklahoma 2, Texas 0 Sigma Chi. Home, Denver, Colo- rado . of negation for those who come suffi- 1906 Oklahoma 9, Texas 10 HAMBY-LANDON : Miss Marjorie Ellen Hamby ciently under its influence ; and that in 1907 Oklahoma 10, Texas 29 and Grant K. Landon, September 20 . Phi Beta its strongly agnostic attitude it has re- 1908 Oklahoma 50, Texas 0 Chi. Home, Oklahoma City . fused STOKES-NEWMAN: Miss Mary Louise Stokes, to give the resolute and positive 1909 Oklahoma 0, Texas 30 '33he, and Otha Sim Newman, '32ex, Septem- guidance in the realm of moral action 1910 Oklahoma 3, Texas 0 ber 21 in Oklahoma City . Delta Gamma-Kap- which is its greatest responsibility . 1911 Oklahoma 6, Texas 3 pa Sigma. Home, Shawnee. "In PATE-EPTON : emphasizing knowing," says Mr . 1912 Oklahoma 21, Texas 6 Miss Thelma Pate and Hicks Epton, '32law, September 6 in Duncan . Home, Levi, "the college has forgotten doing" 1913 Oklahoma 6, Texas 14 Wewoka . and so has failed in inculcating a prac- 1914 Oklahoma 7, Texas 32 HUTCHINS-HEASLET : Miss Elno Hutchins and tical workable philosophy of values . 1915 Oklahoma 14, Texas 13 Walter Heaslet, '3lex, August 19 in Owasso . Home, Miami. 1916 Oklahoma 7, Texas 21 ROCHE-EASLEY: Miss Rosa Lee Roche and Wil- 1917 Oklahoma 14, Texas 0 OKLAHOMANS AT HOME AND liam A. Easley, jr ., '32ex, September 7. Sigma 1919 Oklahoma 12, Texas 7 Alpha Epsilon. Home 527 Northwest 22nd, Ok- ABROAD 1922 Oklahoma 7, Texas 32 lahoma City. GRANT-RUSSELL: Miss Stella Grant, '32 (CONTINUED PROM PAGE 36) 1923 Oklahoma 14, Texas 26 and U. S. Russell, jr., '3lex, September 14 in Hold- most popular teachers with undergradu- 1929 Oklahoma 0, Texas 21 enville. Gamma Phi Beta-Lambda Chi Alpha. 1930 Oklahoma 7, Texas 17 Home, Oklahoma ates, died October 2 in Oklahoma City, City. EDWARDS-FORRESTER: Miss Pauline Edwards, following an illness of several 1931 Oklahoma 0, Texas 3 weeks. '25as, '30M.A ., and Claude Forrester, '22ex, 1932 Oklahoma 10, Texas 17 The faculty of the English department September 16 in Tulsa. Alpha Gamma-Alpha have forwarded The Sooner Magazine 1933 Oklahoma 9, Texas 0 Tau Omega. Home, McAlester. the following resolution of appreciation MARTIN-CARBAUGH: Miss Mae Martin, '32ex, and Noel W. Carbaugh, June 5 at Lawton . of her achievements : 243 416 Home, Hobart . Oklahoma won nine . MINNIE MAL FORBES : IN MEMORIAM KENDALL-PYATT: Miss Bess Kendall, '31ex The members of the Department of English Texas won eighteen . and Dr . C. E. Pyatt, June 15 at Strong City . feel deep grief and a sense of loss in the death One game tied . Home, Cheyenne . of Miss Minnie Forbes, for ten years their col- No games in 1918, 1920, 1921, 1924-28 . LANIER-GRAHAM: Miss Martha Lanier, and league . Floyd Graham, '30ex, June 10 at Chattanooga. In her work as a teacher, she was thorough, Sigma Nu . Home, 2303 North Walker, Okla- careful, and conscientious. She used every op- At least four touchdowns per game homa City . portunity to broaden her knowledge, to make in their last four annual meetings has MOORE-SHELLEY: Miss Marjorie Jayne Moore, herself a better teacher; and the results she '30ex, and Paul Gray Shelley, '29eng, June 30 . been the high-geared offensive record of enthusiastically gave to her students . Kappa Alpha Theta. Home, Okmulgee. Miss Forbes was loyal to the Department and Iowa State and Oklahoma whose foot- KINGKADE-McFARLAND: Miss Katherine Kin,g- to the University. Always she (lid more than ball teams clash at Norman Saturday, kade and Earl R. McFarland, '30ex, July 4 in her share of departmental work . In her re- Oklahoma October 21, in what will be the first Big City . Home, Chickasha. lations with her fellow teachers, she was cor- GEYER-RADER: Miss Pauline Geyer, '28ex and dial and friendly . Her thoughtfulness was Six conference tilt of the season for the Trov W. Rader, June 2.4 in Fuss . Home, Cor- especially shown in the generous help she gave Sooners. dell . to younger and more inexperienced members of That football fans who attend a Cy- SAGE-BAKER : Miss Janet Margaret Sage and the department . Marion True clone-Sooner clash always get their Baker, '32as, '33law, June 16 in Miss Forbes, too, had a large circle of friends Taronppg,SrinsFloridaPhi. KaappgSim . among students . Their confidence she won and money's worth is proved when one ex- Horne, Shawnee. held . Many times students told her about their amines the life-time record of the two HOYT-BIRDSEYE: Miss Vivien Hoyt, '32as and problems and troubles, sure always that she schools: George Reedc Birdseye. '3lbus, July 8. Delta would give them advice and encouragement. Gamma-Phi Delta Theta. Home, 2134 North 1928 Oklahoma 0, Iowa State 13 She lent students her books ; she gave financial Busch Street, Oklahoma City . assistance . Sometimes she took students who 1929 Oklahoma 21, Iowa State 7 otherwise could not have gone, to Plays and 1930 Oklahoma 19, Iowa State 1 .3 concerts in Oklahoma City . She influenced for I E 1931 Oklahoma 12, Iowa State 13 U N V R S I T Y good the lives of many people . 1932 Oklahoma 19, As a woman, Miss Forbes was friendly and Iowa State 12 cordial in her manner ; generous, of quiet dig- nity, of independent thinking, and of unflinch- 71 58 Book Exchange ing courage. In her death we have suffered a Only time either great loss . school failed to score Charles C . Miles, Manager S. R. HADSELL, was in 1928, the first game, when Iowa 1.. N. MORGAN, Committee. State blanked the Sooners 13 to 0 on a