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Volume XXXVIII APRlL, 1929 Number 4 CONTENTS PAGl~ D1;ATH CI.ADrs OscAR UND~:RwooD . 317 A t.ABAMA i\J EN \ \11 N HIGH HONORS ......... THOMAS A. BRITTON, Camma, A!pha 320 GREETINGS SENT Gour.D IN ANTARTIC . ..... ... LAWR I'lNCE HARTWIG, Beta-TWit 321 NF.w CHAPLAIN Is SPORT FAN . ...... ... CHARI.ES H. 0LMST£AD·, Beta-Theta 323 H oNoR FouNDt:RS Tllf: NATION OvF.R . • . 325 FouNDERs' DAY INSPIRES ExHORTATI ON ......... ... J. G. McAr.r.IST>:R, JR., Iota 341 SM ITH HEADS DISTRICT No. 2 .. .. ... .... D ouGI.AS C. liicCur.r.Y, Alpha-Psi 342 J uA REZ BATTLE Two M oNT liS LATF. ..... .. ....... BF.N R. How£.1 , 1 ~, Beta-M" 343 SF.VF.N II K A's Now AT ANNAPOLIS .. .. .... ... JAM F.S D. \ VHrTFORD, Sigma 345 MANY FRATF.RNITY M.F..N Mt:F.T . 347 SM ITH ATn:NDS INTt:RFRATERNITY CoN f~RI·::-;o: ..... .. S. R ov SMITH, Alpha.-Psi 353 :\'F.w D. P. Rf:vF.AI.S DARK SF.CRE.TS . ....... CARL H. MoRGF.NSTERN, Beta-Ta·l£ 355 I-IF. SA!I.f:D TQ BITITU, SouTH SF.AS ....... .. ...... R. i\I. STF.GNER, Bet{l!.Chi 357 \ Vnv N oT Gt:T YouR M ON EY's \VORTll . ... DR. WALTER B. CARVER, Beta-Theta 359 PIIOF.NIX Ar.uMN! \Vru. 0RGAN !Zf; . ... HowARD E. DU NLAP, Gamma-Delta 362 1-H:.LI'I NG R uSS IANS IN MANCHURIA .. .. ....... ....... H owARD L. HAAG , Beta- Ta ·~t 363 SYRACUSf: CHAPTER CF.LEHRA'n:S ....... ... ... j. ARTIIUR DE MuND, Alpha-Chi 366 GALI.IW SINGER TwANGS CoMTC LvR>: 367 CArNs FA .\LE AS CnARACTF.R AcTOR .. .... •.. ... • ...•....•................. 369 MEMORABILIA URGENTLY \VANT!o;D ............•... .. ........ , ......... , . 371 FRANCIS TESTS FRATF.RNrTv Ga'T . • . • . 373 'l'Ar.MAGE i\IAK>:s Het.r.o SAYING EA sY . 374 RtCULfl GF.TS BROADCAST P F.. RMIT . 37 5 DISPOSF.S Of CASF.S BEFORE THE BAR .. .. • .... SA~IUEL B. AR)I!'TRl>NG, A iplul-I'Vlt 376 DocToR GRows FLOWt:RS AS H oB BY .... .... .. DR. R onERT H. LAFFF.RTv, Beta 377 ALPHA-TAu OusTs GAMMA-EPsll.ON . • . • . 378 IN PHI PHI KAPPA ALPHA . ..... ..•........ _r . HAROLD J o HNSTON, A ;plur>- Psi 379 CA RTOON ....... .. .... .. ........ ........... RICHARD CHF.lNAULT, Alpha-Zeta 382 Tne OuTLAW CHAPTER . .. .. ......... .... .... H. \VII.SON Lr.ovD, Alpha-Ps·i 383 TwE:NTY-FIVE: YF.ARS AGo ............. .. .• .. ....... ... .... .- ............ 387 'l'J.n: II K A ScRAP B ooK . • . 391 A.l.UMNI CHAPTER NF.ws (index) . 393 OuR N l'l rGHBORS ............ .. .. G1I.ll£R1' H. SciiADI·:, Alpha-Psi 398 DIR>:cToRv AND ADYF)RTrSF.MF.NTS . • . ... 401 J, HAROLD J oHNSTON, Editor 225 West 34th St .. New York C ity R. G. BAUMHOFF, Associate Editor K. D. Pur.crPHER, Associate Editor The Post-Dispatch, St. Louis, Mo. 525 Union Station, Chicago, Ill. THI! SHIEI.D AND D•AMOND is published five A ll members of the fraternity are invited to sub times a year at The Evangelical Press, Third mit articles and photographs of both active and and Reily Streets, Harrisburg, Pa., in October, December, February, April and June, by the Pi alumni members. 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SHIELD and DIAMOND Vol. XXXVIII April, 1929 No.4 • Death Claims Oscar Underwood One of Pi Kappa Alpha's Most Famous Sons in Public Life Succumbs at I-I is Home Near Washington in I-lis Sixty-Fifth Year N THE death last January of Oscar the age of sixty-six. He had suffered a I Wilder Underwood, Alpha, the fra cerebral hemorrhage a month before, fol ternity has lost one of its mo t distin lowed by a paralytic stroke. "Wood guished members and the nation has lost lawn," which had been acquired by Un a statesman and commanding figure. A derwood when he decided to retit:e from thorough Democrat in party politics, he public life, is near Mount Vern on, the was also a true democrat in the J effer American shrin e. Upon motion of Vice sonian ideal of popular rule and human President Curtis, then Republican floor rights. First famous as a "low tariff" leader, who said, "Underwood was one man, his name will live in history as a of the finest men I ever knew," the liberal and a leader of the forces uphold United States Senate adjourned imme ing the early con titutional ideal of diately upon learning of the death. In American government. forming the House of Representatives of Twice a candidate for the presidential the occurrence, Democratic Floor Leader nomination, Underwood held two high Garrett declared Underwood was "one of missions by appointment of Republican the very great men of his generation." presidents. Harding made him an Amer Many other tributes from the nation's ican spokesman at the famous Washing leaders foll owed. ton anns conference and Coolidge sent Underwood was born at Louisville, him to Havana for a notable Pan-Ameri Ky., May 6, . 1862, the son of a lawyer, can conference. Underwood wrote the but went with his parents at the age of memorable tariff law of 1913 that bears three to St. Paul, Minn., then a pioneer his name and after his voluntary retire outpost, whose streets were filled with ment from Congress, where he served for Indians and soldiers. The northward thirty-two years as Congressman and journey was made on sledges on the Senator from Alabama, he attracted at frozen Mississippi River. Returning to tention by his treatise, "Drifting Sands Louisville, the youth studied and played of Party Politics." Sensationalism was football at Rugby School, then went for ever lacking from his record. a law course to the University of Vir Death occurred at Underwood's home, ginia, where he became a member of Pi "Woodlawn," at Accotink, Va., near his Kappa Alpha. Upon his graduation in beloved Vvashington, on January 2'5, at 1884 he was admitted to the bar. Soon 317 318 SHIELD AND DIAMO D, APRIL, 1929 he entered practice in Birmingham, Ala., ize the House rules. A little group of which was to become his home, where he men had run the House, but Underwood's was to witness the transition of a lately selection as official leader marked the be "reconstructed" South into a vital part ginning of that legislative scheme still in of the nation, along with a succession of vogue. There was an unwieldly majority social, economic and political problems to be controlled. that helped to shape his career. The Federal Reserve act, the Clayton Within a few years he was deep in the anti-~rust act and the farm loan act Democratic politics of Alabama, being three measures of great importance to the chairman of the commission that adopted country-were passed with the important the state's present constitution, and in aiel of Underwood. Fighting for his 1895 he wa elected to the first of ten tariff act, Underwood was one of the first terms in the lower house of Congress of the younger Democrats to challenge the authority of William Jennings Bryan. In 1915 Underwood was elected to the Senate over Richmond Pearson Hobson, a national hero and a prohibition leader. In later days Underwood was to become a foe of sumptuary laws like prohibition. It fell to Undenvood's lot in the Senate to have charo·e of many of the huge bills making appropriations for the World vVar and he had a big part in the tax legislation that financed the conflict to a great extent within the current genera tion. vVhen the Republicans gained con trol of Congress after the war Under wood retired from Democratic leadership rather than maintain the steady critical attitude the task demanded. PFesident Harding had been a personal friend of Underwood in the Senate and S !MMOXS AN D U N DE RWOO D R EAD! l\"G THEIR knew the Alabaman's fairness under all 1913 T AR! FF BILL circumstances, which likely ·was a factor in the selection of Underwood as a Dem from the Birmingham district.