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Eastern Illinois University The Keep September 1947 9-24-1947 Daily Eastern News: September 24, 1947 Eastern Illinois University Follow this and additional works at: http://thekeep.eiu.edu/den_1947_sep Recommended Citation Eastern Illinois University, "Daily Eastern News: September 24, 1947" (1947). September. 1. http://thekeep.eiu.edu/den_1947_sep/1 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the 1947 at The Keep. It has been accepted for inclusion in September by an authorized administrator of The Keep. For more information, please contact [email protected]. t 'J/V '1 Eastern State · News "Tell the Truth and Don't Be Afraid" EASTERN ILLINOIS STATE COLLEGE ... CHARLESTON WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1947 nrollment Hits New High; 1371 Students on Campus Freshman Daze Veteran Enrollment Down; ri Sig mos Attend ational Convention 146 Freshmen Use Scholarships WITH DATA nearly complete, a total of 1,371 students was .THERINE Ja McQUEEN and announced by the office of the registrar last Friday. hala Foote attended the Golden This total is an all-time high for Eastern. Last year's rec 'ubilee convention of Sigma Sigma ord for the fall term was 1,218. a sorority from July 13 to Veterans this year num at historical Williamsburg, Vir- ber 682 in comparison with .nia. 721 last fall. More than 200 college members A. J. Carey to Present The breakdown of total shows that each Eastern 1d alumnae took part in the ac girl can have 2.3 men. This, however, also in ',ties of the week which included Famous Oration cludes married veterans. Nine ban- ;iness meetings, formal hundred fifty-six men have been 1ets, tours of Williamsburg, "A PAGE FROM History" will be enrolled while 415 women signed .estown, Yorktown, a trip to given to the students and facul up. ty of Eastern next Wednesday Another school record w a s 'irginia beach, and the Atlantic • ...Heller too broken when 146 scholarship stu .n. when Archibald J. Carey will de dents entered Eastern last week. liver his famous oration to the While there, Eastern's Tri Sig .. Among foreign students regist Students Receive assembly. Reverend Carey, Ne 's participated in the sextext Choose Football ered are Suzue Iwatate of Hono lulu, .t sang on several occasions. 1947 Warblers gro, preacher-I aw ye r-polititian, Marietta Perez of Colombia, now represents Chicago's third South America, and Clara Fan One of these was a formal ban- Greeters Tomorrow akos who attended a high school THE BLACK-BOUND Warbler ward as Alderman in the City 1411et at which time a song was in Greece for three years. was distributed to the Eastern Council. .g that had been ·written espec- EASTERN'S STUDENTS will. go Strange duplications arose in student body last Wednesday· by to the polls tomorrow to choose A champion of his race, the registration office. It was lly for Miss Mabel Lee Walton, the '47 staff. Carey 'has campaigned vigor discovered that Don Harris of retiring national . president. Containing 160 pages of pictures one of the more attractive misses Mattoon and Donald Joseph Har .Aphpa Psi's representative also and copy, the Warbler gave a rep on campus to greet the opposing ously in the Chicago area for l ris of Effingham are both in :took resentative picture of the activi racial equality in labor, bet part in a Varga Girl skit sim- football teams throughout the fall. school as are John Frazier of ties, students, faculty, and sports Retiring greeter of the opposition ter educational facilities, and r to that given at Eastern's Paris and John Frazier of St. events of the '46-'47 year. is Juanita Williams and her two better housing. He .succues- nytown. Louis. The Warbler staff, headed by assistant Sally Watt and Esther At the convention, new national Everett Cooley, was composed of Cunningham. The polls will be icers of Sigma Sigma Sigma Shirley Middlesworth, associate ed open from 9 :00 to 12:00 tomorrow Eastern 's Newest ·ere elected and installed. They itor; Jack Muthersbough, sports morning and 1:00 to 4:00 in the Noted are as follows: president, Mary editor; Emil Moore, business man afternoon. The girl receiving the Sport tings Page; collegiate secre ager; and Harold Miller, assistant greatest number of votes will be ... Withdrawing , Joy Estey; treasurer, Helen business manager. Dr. Francis the head greeter and the two run ;wright; · executive secretary, Palmer was the faculty adviser. ner-ups will act as her assistants. Library Books Marie Durham; alumnae secretary, Erlene Scheer. IT'S A pure and simple case ·of When the week ended, the del the mountain coming to Mahom ep.tes left Williamsburg with Eastern Students Speak Correct et. Like our American institutions :inemories of all their new exper of car-hops, soda fountains, and iences. They had seen places such main order catalogues, Eastern's as Burton Parish church, the English, Says Marietta Perez library was moved to a new loca Governor's palace, and the old tion so that students may now se Capitol building. They had al.so lect their books and pamphlets "on THE FIRST student to take advantage of the year's scholarship given made many new friends and had the run" as it were. In fact, they by the 19th· district of •the Illinois. federation of women's clubs is new ideas for the Alpha Psi chap --Ji.ave gone so far as to make it ter. Marietta Perez from. Medellin, Colombia. almost impossible for a student to get by the desk without asking for The scholarship is given by the a book in self-defense; otherwise From Director woman's club through the coop they may be in danger of being eration of the United States gov swept under in the tide of stu dents which flow from each hour's ernment and the president of East classrooms. ern. You must choose the main Miss Perez is enrolled in classes current and stick to it-if you in English and chemistry and will try to edge through on the fringes of the strea,m, you ..rgive. lessons in Spanish c.onversa J. Rev. Archibald Carey may find your shins craeked tion to Eastern students. Miss Per ...orator by piles of lumber or yourself ez is also obs.erving methods of flung brutally against the teaching employed here.' lending desk or card catalogue. , . • ·• lf• fh"ney After graduating from the Me yo,b. .yourself as a dar fully appealed for the up : � :hi.g•: a3V-e��r�·, try breaking dellin Normal college in 1933, Miss grading of Negroes in :i"· � :tli.rough t�e,lin�1i1.at a particularly Perez spent fourteen years as a branches of the postal serv 1�e· pusy'·time.:Yoll would think that and led the pick t line th • director of a public school in heI' ��, • f • ! JJlt �:Pe in'the "mids� of a foot bro�e "�im Crow at one ��. • city. , �aU. �attt�!'".If• ou \h1nk that is . , : •• : : t White City s roll�t"r?�s; tp IL� Although she has studied bad, •t,ry: ."h!iktnze llin>.f•il of· Several oChicllit.O:·• of the 11irg�r� Mok' s', a tray of cards, a pencil, English only "two years, Miss papers supported him in his re- and the necessary call slips on the cent campaign.. One of the mo.st Perez says that the English same drawer when trying to find gracious compliments was paid spoken here at Eastern is not a book. him by the Chicago Defender especially difficult to under Think of the joy that must when it said, "In every phase of stand because· it is spoken cor- spring into a student's heart civic improvement Reverend Carey rectly. (Continued on page 5) has been active as a minister, a Miss Perez believes that the lawyer, or just plain Joe Doaks, school system of Colombia and the citizen." United States are alike in some As a background, Carey has Election Notice ways but especially because they graduated from Northwestern have the same end in view-"To university, Chicago's Kent col FOUR ELECTIONS will be help prepare students for service lege of law, and holds an hon held tomorrow under the · to themselves and to their coun orary Doctor of Divinity fro)ll clock in the main hall. The try." Wilberforce university. He is football greeters, a fresh Because of her limited vocabu a practicing lawyer and mini man leader, a junior woman lary Miss Perez finds it difficult ster, sometimes mixing the representative to the Wom to express her gratitude to the two by defending victims of en's League council, and an many people who enabled her to race discr i.mination. Be.sides Independent representative attend Eastern. Miss Perez says, his duties to clients, church, to the student council win however, "I want to expre'lss my and city he is vice-president be elected. All petitions for thanks to the United States gov and director of the Illinois these offices can be obtained ernment, the president of the col Federal Savings and Loan in the Dean of Women's of lege, the professors, and the wom association a n d Assistant fice and should be filled out en's club, Angele Gayne and Mr. General Counsel and Director and returned to that office Harris because they have a great of the Unity Mutual Life In by 4 p. m. this afternoon. knowledge of my language and ar� surance company. Because The polls will be open to J. able to overcome my difficulties. Archibald Carey is truly a morrow from 9 a.