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JUNE CALENDAR June 13. Lorado Taft, sculptor, in lec- John O. Moseley, associate professor of Latin, ture. will study at Stanford university. June 1 . Baccalaureate services, univer- A. C. Shead, assistant professor of chemistry, will sity auditorium . June 16. Eugene Laurant, magician, in study at the University of Illinois . program. Howard O. Eaton, associate professor of philos- June 3. Commencement . University of ophy, will study and translate the unpublished Oklahoma Association annual meeting. June 20. Holmes-Stuhl trio. manuscripts of the philosophical works which June 4. Registration for summer session. June 27. Bennett - Hall players in F. Brentano and A. Meinong had completed at June 5. Summer session begins . Grumpy. the time of their deaths, said study to be with the aid of Professors Ehrenfels and Kraus at the University of Prague, and Professor Mally at the University of Graz. These manuscripts deal largely with the philosophy underlying the Our changing Gestalt theory of psychology . varsity Jewel Wurtzbaugh, assistant professor of Eng- NEW FACULTY MEMBERS is working on a History of American Philosophy Hopkins . to be published in German. lish, will study at Columbia and Johns Kenneth Crook, W. A. Willibrand, assistant professor of mod- Three University of Oklahoma gradu- instructor in chemistry, re- ern languages, will study in foreign universities ates and one graduate of Kingfisher col- ceived B. S. in chemistry, University of Okla- homa, 1925 ; M. towards a doctorate. lege are included in the new appointments S., University of Oklahoma, 1926 . He was assistant professor of chemistry to the university faculty approved by the at Oklahoma City university, 1926-27 . He will RESTRAINT NEEDED board of regents. The appointments in- receive his Ph. D. from the University of Wis- Dr. Jerome Dowd, professor of sociol- clude a celebrated German author who is consin in 1930. ogy and internationally known authority a philosopher and playwright (see the Charles Eugene Springer, instructor in Mathe- on the Negro, told a Y.M.C .A. class at matics, received his B. A. from the University Belles Lettres department of this issue for of Oklahoma, 1925 ; M. A., University of Okla- Oklahoma City March 18 that "the cham- fuller treatment) . homa, 1926 . He was a Rhodes scholar at Oxford, pions of sex freedom do not favor any The appointments are : 1925-27 . He studied at the University of Chi- kind of restraint or discipline. In the evo- cago in 1929 as a candidate for the Ph. D. He family we have arrived at a Louis P. Woerner, associate professor of French was an instructor lution of the in mathematics in the Uni- in process and German, attended the classical gymnasium versity of Oklahoma, 1926-27. stage where paternal control is and "Philosophic" at Immensee, Fribourg and Stanmore B. Townes, instructor in mathemat- of disappearing . If human passion is to Einsiedeln, Switzerland, 1914-21 ; 1921-23, Saint ics, received his B. A. from the University of rise above the animal plane, it must be graduated . Mary's college, California, and was Oklahoma, 1923 ; M. A., University of Oklaho- subject to all the restraints which social While attending Saint Mary's college, he was ma, 1925 . He was an instructor in mathematics a member of the literary honor society, "A. P. at the University of Oklahoma, 1925-27 . He has considerations impose." Doctor Dowd told G. U.," and in 1923 was awarded the "Cottle been on leave of absence, studying in the Uni- the class that trial marriage made for Oratorical Medal," for winning the annual ora- versity of Chicago, 1928-30 . promiscuity, and a consequent lowering torical contest . He taught in the French and Ger- Yvonne Fleury, assistant in French and Ger- of standards. man departments in Saint Mary's college, 1923- man, received "Ecole Vinet" Diplome du Degre 29. He has done post graduate work in the Uni- Superieur, 1915 ; College Classique Cantonal versity of California and Stanford, and expects Lausanne, Baccalaureat es Lettres, 1918 ; Uni- FELLOWS to receive his Ph. D. from Stanford in Janu- versite de Lausanne, Licence es lettres, 1924 ; Maurice Halperin, instructor in French, ary, 1931 . University de Lausanne, Teaching diploma, 1925 ; now on leave of absence reading for his Gustav Mueller, assistant professor of philoso- International Phonetic Association certificate, phy, received B. A., 1917, from Humanistic gym- 1926 . She was a teacher of French and German, doctorate in the Sorbonne at Paris, has nasium, Bern, Switzerland ; M. A., University of Classen high school, Oklahoma City, 1929-30 . been granted an American field service Bern, 1930 ; Ph. D., 1923, University of Heidel- She has also done several years teaching in vari- fellowship carrying a stipend of $2,000 a berg. He taught philosophy, University of Ore- ous schools in Switzerland . year. The honor is a coveted one. Mr gon, 1925-29 . He has traveled in France, Italy, Hilding V. Beck, assistant professor of me- Belgium, Holland, Germany, England, and the chanical engineering, received B. S. in M. E., Halperin will remain in France for an- United States. He is a member of the American with honors), University of Illinois, 1929 ; M. S. other year. In the meantime, the Penn Philosophical association, Schweizerische Psycho- in M. E., Yale, 1930 . Publishing Co. of Philadelphia will issue logische gesellschaft, and A. A. U. P. His prin- Roy D. Eaton, instructor in government, A.B., shortly a translation of Polish stories done cipal publications are: Philosophy of Life, An Kingfisher college, 1924 ; M. A., University of Elementary Systematic Philosophy, which was Oklahoma, 1928 . He has taught for sixteen years by Mr Halperin and Dr. Roy Temple used as a text book in his course at the Univer- in Oklahoma public and high schools. House, editor of Books Abroad. sity of Oregon ; Marx and Hegel (Bern) ; Parcel- Members of the faculty who will be on leave Professor R. J. Dangerfield of the school sus, drama (Bern) ; Der Ruf in die Wuste, dra- of absence 1930-31 are: of citizenship and public affairs, has been ma (Bern) ; "The Paradox of Ethics," Interna- Edgar D. Meacham, professor of mathematics tional journal of Ethics; and other articles in and assistant dean of the college of arts and awarded a fellowship carrying a stipend American and Svviss magazines . At present he sciences will study at the University of Chicago. of $3,600 by the Spellman - Rockefeller 306 THE SOONER MAGAZINE foundation for study at the University of conflict, and the Arkansas country became Span- assistant professor of geography, was pub- ish territory. To establish a government for Lou- Chicago. He will work with the Hoover lished in the April Geographical Review . isiana added one more problem to Spain's al- Rud Neilsen, associate professor commission on social trends, studying par- ready over-burdened Empire . In order to cope Dr. J. ticularly administrative centralization in with the situation Spain adopted France's Indian of physics, is the co-author of a study, national and state governments. policy ; that is, she made treaties and made gifts "Atomic Resonance Radiation in Potassi- to the Indians in order to control them . The Ar- um" published in the Optical Society of A fellowship carrying a stipend of kansas Post was a center of treaty making and America Journal recently . $3,700 has been awarded Dr. Jack T. Sal- trade during the Spanish period . The name of Doctor Neilsen has received a grant of ter, associate professor of government and the Post was now changed to Fort Charles III but this was only used in official circles. $200 from the American Association for editor of The Oklahoma Municipal Re- The correspondence between the Spanish gov- the Advancement of Science for his re- view by the Social Science Research coun- the Arkansas ernors and the commandants at search in the Raman effects on wave cil, effective July 1 . Doctor Salter will be Post covering the period 1766-1784 tells of the commander, such as, mechanics. on leave of absence from the university difficulties of a frontier trade regulations, Indian treaties, difficulty with ., librarian and will work in Philadelphia studying Jesse L. Rader, '09 arts-sc of the English traders, Indian wars, desertions of the university, addressed the members of city politics there. He has already made soldiers, the outlaws, the free traders, the frontier April 10 in the extensive study into the methods of ward and religious difficulties . Spain kept many of the the Par Avarice club treas- her frontier of the library on old and rare politics in that city. Frenchmen to help her carry out ure room policy in Louisiana. The French commander at books. "Rarity in a book involves many the Arkansas Post, Du Clouet, was there at the particulars," he told the club members. time of the transfer and remained until after the COLORS Revolution in 1768 in New Orleans. During the "Nearly all books which appeared in the and Ja- after the invention of The university was presented the regi- American Revolution Beltaser De Villers first quarter century cobo Dubrcuil were commanders of the Post and printing are very rare, some superlatively mental colors it had presented fourteen made Dubrcuil held the Post against an attack So . First editions always command high years ago to the old first Oklahoma infan- by the English allies, the Chickasaws in 1783 . and books coming from special try in service then on the Mexican border The Province of Louisiana by the end of the prices just beginning to show presses are much sought after by collec- by George Marland in behalf of E. W. nineteenth century was signs of a commercial future, and it shared with the case of finely illustrated works Marland of Ponca City April 15. Mr Mar- tors . In all the West, the necessity of putting an end to the earlier editions are more desired and land made the presentation to Colonel rivalry for the control of the Indians, the endless some books are sought entirely because of John Alley, head of the school of citizen- and that international struggle carried on through for the control of the the value of the illustrations." ship and public affairs, who had been a their wars . This rivalry Indians in order to control this territory reached Prof. Charles F. Giard, head of the pi- major in the regiment serving in the Mex- its solution in 1803 . ano department of the college of fine arts, ican fray. addressed the Oklahoma Federated Music TEACHERS clubs convention at Chickasha April 10. DOCTORAL EXAMINATION Oklahoma City teachers are in the Mr Giard declared that modern critics Oklahoma schools, and Miss Anna Lewis was given the second main graduates of have dealt too harshly with modern com- summer session work, they examination for the doctorate in the uni- when they take posers, instead of lending deserved en- it in Oklahoma institutions . There versity's history on Thursday, May 8, in take couragement. Modern composers have employed ; of these, 177 the Oklahoma Union building. Miss Lew- are 744 teachers originality, are sincere and interpret the Oklahoma Summer session, 87 is, who holds A .B. and M.A. degrees from attended modern scene, he observed. Those who the University of Ok- the University of California, was a stu- of them coming to criticize the moderns because they do not only 97 went to out of state dent in history, her thesis subject being lahoma, and adhere to the old masters are false to the schools; 214 of the teachers have degrees "The Early History of the Arkansas Riv- world of art, which is creative . of Oklahoma. er Region, 1541-1800." Miss Lewis is a from the University Dr. Charles M. Perry, head of the phil- professor of history in the Oklahoma Col- osophy department, attended a dinner lege for Women. CUTS April 24 at Ponca City of the extension Ponca Miss Lewis's thesis, abbreviated, fol- Under a new rule of the university ad- department philosophy classes. having lows : ministrative council, excessive cuts from City is the only city in the state the stu- philosophy classes. The Arkansas river region was a field of in- classes will not reduce credit of extension division ternational rivalry during the age of discovery dent cutting. The matter is made one for Prof. Fayette Copeland, '19 journ., at- and expansion, between the Spanish and the the teacher to decide with the student. tended the meeting of the Southwestern Quivira, French . The Spanish seeking the Gran The student, however, must attend at Students' Press club at Fort Worth, Tex- traversed this territory. The French hunting a route to the Vermillian Sea, to the Southern Sea, least eighty per cent of his classes. Stu- as, April 6 and gave a talk. and a highway into the Spanish southwest ex- dents who attend classes irregularly may Dr. Maurice G. Smith, head of the de- plored its rivers and visited many of the Indian be dismissed by the dean. partment of anthropology, has been ap- tribes . pointed a member of a national committee The first settlement in this region was the help on the Arkansas . The Old Arkansas FACULTY by the National Research Council to French Post dis- Post was established in 1683, by Henri Tonty, on Stanford university will confer the de- in getting more accurate reports of given him by La Salle. This old Post the a grant gree of master of arts on John H. Casey, coveries relating to anthropology for was established in order to hold the Arkansas council's Science Service . of trade to associate professor of journalism, in June. river and to use it as a highway Everett Dale, arts-sc., Santa Fe and Taos . Professor Casey is at work on the history Dr. Edward '11 the From 1683 until 1763 France controlled this of the National Editorial association. head of the history department of her Indian treaties, her system lectures region, through James H. Felgar, dean of the college of university, will deliver a series of of gifts, and her missions . The oldest French 16 to 20 at Stillwater for the the engineering, attended the fiftieth anni- from June Mission in the Southwest was established at Mechanical Post as a Jesuit project. versary of the American Society of Me- Oklahoma Agricultural and history. In the triangular conflict, which was fought chanical Engineers in Washington April college special summer course in on the American continent, the Arkansas river 5 to 9. Dr. Albert Bushnell Hart of Harvard and region played an important part. In this conflict Carl Russell Fish of Wisconsin, are control of the territory, the In- Julien C. Monnet, dean of the school Dr. waged for the . Doctor Dale's sub- dian was the tool used by the three nations. The of law, spoke before the Okmulgee High the other lecturers Trad- true pioneer on the American continent was not Twelve club April 4. ject is "The Western Indians, Fur the European or the Anglo-American but the Central Okla- ers and Gold Seekers." frontier. "A Population Map of Indian ; he blazed the trails on each Dr. A. I . Ortenburger, associate profes- By 1763 France was eliminated from the homa for 1920" by Dr. C. J. Bollinger, 308 THE SOONER MAGAZINE which is least appreciated and most is not responsible but merely speeded up vague than that of the social mind, but its abused. "The fountain of youth is not a movement already on foot. That this importance to humanity demands greater hidden away in some fabled cave," he movement is all to the good may be seen effort to make it more intelligent and said, "it is found here where man con- in the increasing moral fastidiousness and efficient. nects his destiny with God. democratic ideals prevalent among the The World War did much to prove "The daring of youth is a priceless young. the supreme need of unity of feeling, quantity . The world has ever made "The rapid economic expansion of the thought, and purpose. For while Ger- room for the man who dared. The country has clearly revealed the possibility many, with her beer garden training of over-cautious have long been buried in of success for the diligent man and has her social mind, was a match for the rest the dust of deserts of oblivion. There stripped inherited wealth of its glamour. of the world. It was fortunate for has never been an age when the daring The ancient feud between youth and age America that here at least, those in con- man was not the front actor in the play survives but youth will be the just victor trol were psychologists and social phil- of history. in setting up finer principles with which osophers . It was necessary to create a "In the roll call of daring men one to live. state of mind adequate to meet the de- thinks of Bismarck, the maker of the "Our young people have discovered mands of the war. Countless community great German empire who dared for his and used the caution of Aristotle, to meetings and "four minute" men were nation's need of people and power," he apply `Strictness in essentials, liberty in enlisted to aid the cause of unifying the said. "One thinks of Cromwell, whose non-essentials .' public mind. About this time a national daring made the British empire, of Pat- "Every man has his heritage of in- organization, Community Service Incor- rick Henry, who at Richmond dared to stincts, good and bad. It has been the porated, was organized to assist in this urge his countrymen to a recognition of aim of the colleges to develop those in- work. This organization used every re- their ever encroaching peril . stincts which are good, the ones tending source of social psychology that would "Men from the people have arisen and to a moral and high social responsibility . make people feel, think, and work to- assumed the servant's place and found at "Believing youth is moving away from gether . the end of the task a crown. Let men hypocrisy and pedantry to truth and The origin and success of the com- and women note here and everywhere straight-forwardness . We have watched munity institute in Oklahoma as inno- that godliness has ever begotten manliness and applauded the process. It is, how- vated and sponsored by the university, and nobility of the finest type. No man ever, still necessary to allow to youth was due chiefly to two causes, one na- can come to his best without God. If the tolerance which we learn with age. tional, the other local. The national you would catalog these men you " `By their fruit shall ye know them' cause was the realization brought about would find the men of God the leaders is an adage of great date. It is our re- by the war, that this unity of the social ever. sponsibility to remember it literally and mind was desirable in time of peace as "Millions have lived and passed from allow time for the fruit of our youth to well. The local cause was due to the the world's memory-they left no track. mature . We must not judge youth by heteregeneous origin and make-up of the Their condemning sin was that they the bud, and so prove our own short- population of the state ; its formation by sought only the easy place and refused comings and intolerance." people without previous acquaintance, to dare. If you would be happy in this The climax of the morning program friendships, like-mindedness, social habits, world and live on forever both here and was found in the granting of the doctor and similarity of tastes and ideals . This beyond, choose the life of the benefactor of philosophy degree to Miss Anna Lewis . varied population made the need for so- and forget the claim of the beneficiary." This is the second doctor of philosophy cial unity apparent . Doctor Bateman's appeal to the senior degree to be awarded by the university, Plans for community institutes in class was : "Let us have a generation of the first being granted a year ago to Miss Oklahoma were begun before the war, people who serve not to be served, but Mary Jane Brown. Miss Lewis' thesis but actually not much was done before catching step with Him who said, `I was based on "The Early History of the 1920, when Mr McKee, of Detroit, Mich- come not to be ministered unto but to Arkansas River Region, 1541-1800." igan, traveling secretary of the Com- minister,' will lead this whole world up munity Service Inc., heard of the Okla- to the heights from selfishness to service." YOUNGEST MEDIC homa movement and came here to in- Doctor Denny chose as his commence- The youngest graduate of the school vestigate. Dr. J. W. Scroggs, of the ex- ment subject, "The Problem of Youth." of medicine of the university is Orville tension division of the University of Ok- This he presented as one of discover- Cole, M. D., '30 of Norman, who com- lahoma, discussed the plans with Mr ing a sound philosophy which will per- pleted his work this commencement per- McKee, who in turn presented them to suade the young to accept the best ele- iod. Doctor Cole is only twenty-one the executive committee of Community ments of home, school and state. years old and ranked third in a graduat- Service. This committee voted to sup- "There will never be any standards for ing class of forty-seven. He was president port the Oklahoma plan for community the guidance of youth better than those of Alpha Kappa Kappa, medical fratern- institutes, and authorized a financial sup- handed down from Sinai . There will ity. In July Doctor Cole will become port of $35,000 for organization . Doctor never be a better sermon than that an intern in a San Diego, California hos- Scroggs and Mr McKee selected their preached upon the Mount. These two pital. He was graduated from Norman staff, a singer and play leader, a conduc- may still be our criterion of philosophy high school when fifteen years old. tor, and social psychologist, and an or- and living. ganizer to "sell" institutes . "During the last fifteen years there COMMUNITY INSTITUTES Reverend Duncan McRuer served for has been a great period of anxiety con- While billions of dollars are spent for nine years as seller and organizer for the cerning the shifting standards of young education of the individual mind, and community institute plan as sponsored people . Much pessimistic material has wisely so, it is strange that so little has by the University of Oklahoma. He been written and talked about their been done to educate the social mind, had traveled over the state for a num- change. Such prophecies have been over- which is the ultimate control. Instead ber of years as a Sunday school mission- drawn and lacking in understanding. of making the education of the social ary and was in a position to create the "I believe that our youths are finding mind the culmination of educational ef- right atmosphere for the undertaking. a way to better principles. The war, fort, we leave it chiefly to chance. It is Dotor Scroggs, who was the chief spon- which has been blamed for the revolution, true that few of our concepts are more sor for the plan in Oklahoma, believed

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the first and most important work of for the nomination as attorney general of of Chickasha, Methodist church South ; the institute was to create a state of mind . Oklahoma . G. A. W. Fleming of Cordell, Church of Without that no programs that could be Earl Welch, '21 law, of Antlers, has Christ ; A . E. Bonnell of Muskogee, suggested would succeed; with it, com- filed for the Democratic nomination for Methodist church South ; Harry Diamond munities would make their own pro- district judge in this county. of Holdenville, Episcopal ; William M. grams. A community institute should Vickery of Blackwell, Methodist Episco- strive for a broad and comprehensive pal. one that contains something for NORMAN'S POPULATION program, GRADUATES individual in the community, Norman shared every in the healthy growth Oklahoma's schools of higher educa- and old, rich and poor, learned of most Oklahoma cities, and moved up young tion contributed 1,825 graduates, accord- and unlearned. The themes presented to nineteenth place in the hierarchy of ing to a survey made by the state de- pertain to the common good. are such as cities. The city showed a gain of ninety- partment of education. The University The discussion of such themes as child one per cent, the population being 9,596, of Oklahoma led with 850. Oklahoma public welfare is in itself welfare and exclusive of students in the university . Agricultural & Mechanical college ranked but their chief value is in se- The 1920 beneficial, population was 5,004 . The second with 282 . The figures are for curing unity of thought, feeling, and increase was 4,592. 1930 . purpose, which is the foundation of all community or social existence. These NEW COURSES experiences tend to link themselves up FIELD SECRETARY In dramatic art : a course for freshmen with those of daily life in the community Miss Esther McRuer, '22, assistant to that will give them a perspective of what and become habitual, thus strengthening Dr. Charles C. Weith, pastor of the First the school offers and a consciousness of the influence of altruistic leadership . Presbyterian church of Ardmore, tender- the problems of the theater. The community institute does for the ed her resignation effective July 1 to be- In journalism: a course in sport writ- community mind what the ordinary come field secretary for the board of na- ing and another in oil and gas reporting. school does for the individual . It increases tional missions of the Presbyterian and develops the social consciousness and church U. S. A., with headquarters in CURRENT awareness of social relations, joys, duties, New York. She will report September 1 . As Ed Mills remarked in his column and fellowships. Since the close of the She has been pastor's assistant in Ard- in the Oklahoma Daily, the appearance of World War there has been a general more since September, 1926. 110 men for the sixth annual electric trend toward individualism, and com- meter short course at the university May munity institute work has become dif- 14, 15 and 16, was a current event. Lec- ficult. This wave of individualism has SCHOOL OF RELIGION tures in problems confronting the meter been accompanied by a crime wave, and Under the able direction of genial Rev. men, suggestions for improvement, etc., the community institute is needed as Nicholas Comfort, the Oklahoma school were features of the course, held under much as ever; more perhaps. The radio of religion is making rapid progress the auspices of the college of engineering. and airplane have increased the possibili- toward its goal of an adequate plant to ties of friction and conflict. True, there serve the state. Enthusiastic support was SOONER MOTHERS CLUB are unprecedented peace conferences, promised for the program at a meeting of Mrs Inez Ballard of Norman was elect- business mergers, and other thrilling the board in Norman Friday, May 23. ed president of the University of Okla- signs of awakening, but all these must The board authorized the raising of a homa Mothers club at the state meeting build upon the foundation of the social fund of $40,000 to be completed by Janu- in Norman May 10. Mrs D. M. Ireland mind, which has never needed cultiva- ary 1, and members of the board pledged of Sapulpa was elected first vice presi- tion and development as now. themselves to help raise the fund. John dent. Other officers are Mrs L. G. Hy- B. Nichlos of Chickasha, a new board smith of Wilburton, second vice presi- member, started the campaign with a dent, Mrs R. M. Calvert of Chickasha, SOONER CANDIDATES gift of $1,000 . Twenty thousand dollars secretary, Mrs Edward McKay of Okla- Richard Cloyd, '19 arts-sc., of Norman, will be used for the regular expenses of homa City, treasurer, and Mrs R. L. formerly general secretary of the Uni- the school and the rest of the fund will Searcy of Tulsa, recording secretary. versity of Oklahoma Association, has an- be used to bring outstanding people in nounced for re-election to the house of religion next year. FELLOW representatives of Oklahoma on the Dem- New board members elected were : Horace Taylor, '21, assistant professor of ocratic ticket . Richard Lloyd Jones of Tulsa, Unitar- economics at Columbia university, has Herman E. Lautaret, '21 law, of Nor- ian ; Fred S. Gum of Oklahoma City, been awarded a $2,000 William Vayard man, is the Republican candidate for Presbyterian ; Rabbi Joseph Blatt of Ok- Cutting fellowship and will study the representative from Cleveland county, lahoma City, Hebrew ; J. F. Owens, of Ok- teaching of social sciences in several without opposition . lahoma City, Catholic ; John B. Nichlos European countries. District Judge Owen Owen, ex -'13, of Tulsa, has also announced for re-election to the district court bench of Tulsa coun- ty, subject to the Democratic party. George W. Goad, ex '27, of Jay, is a Graduates in embryo candidate for county attorney of Dela- LARGEST CLASS Applications for degrees and certificates ware county, subject to the action of the follow : Arts and sciences 314; business 86 ; Democratic primary. The largest class in the history of the education 47 ; engineering 82 ; fine arts 54; After being mentioned frequently as university was graduated June 3. By law 85; medicine 90 ; nursing 38 ; phar- the probable candidate on the Republi- May 10, there were 873 applications on macy 41 ; graduate 66. can ticket for governor, Roy Saint Lewis, file, two of them for the degree of doctor Twenty-three states, Mexico, China and ex '13, United States district attorney for of philosophy. Only 850 degrees were the Philippine islands are represented in the western district, Oklahoma City, filed conferred however. the list of degree applicants . Three broth-

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ers, Milton C., Millard L. and Lamont S. jority to adopt another form and now coopera- The question debated was disarmament tion . Emanuel, all of Chickasha, were candi- is needed sorely. Those who voted against Oklahoma represented the negative. dates for degrees the constitution did not lose, in the strict sense . Milton and Millard are of the word, as neither did those who voted for Oklahoma defeated Loyola university twins and are candidates for degrees in it win. Both sides, by exercising their right to of New Orleans by a unanimous decision the college of business administration, vote, succeeded in finding that which pleased April 9 at Norman . The disarmament while Lamont is a candidate for the the majority most. question was debated . degree At no time could the ancient truth "in union Southwestern university of Los in electrical engineering . A fourth brother, there is strength" be used to a better advantage . Angeles Leon, is a freshman student. Among the The way is open to a brighter era of self-gov- defeated the Oklahoma debate team at graduates is William Howard Taft of ernment; students now have within their reach Los Angeles March 19 on the disarmament Garber, a seventh cousin of the late chief more powers than students of this university question. Will Rogers heard the debate have ever had before . Grasp the opportunity . justice . He received the B. A. degree. and in his telegraphed comment of the Support the new form of government with day praised the everything you have . Do not allow your faith Oklahoma team . in it to be broken by false rumors spread about Oklahoma successfully upheld the nega- NEW CONSTITUTION by those who only strive for the satisfaction of tive of the disarmament question April The venerable, worm-eaten constitu- "I told you so." 5 at Blanchard against a traveling Uni- You tion by which students "governed" them- have won a newer and more liberal gov- versity of California team . ernment. Now fight to keep it! selves has been Tulane university defeated the scrapped by a vote (on An election was held under the new Univer- sity of Oklahoma debaters April 23 May 5) of 1,105 for a new consitution constitution, the nominations having been at advocated Norman by a two to one decision on the by Paul Kennedy, editor of the made at mass meetings of the various Oklahoma Daily, question : "Resolved : That the federal and a member of Blue colleges and schools, the election conducted Key, leadership fraternity, while only 521 government should operate and control under faculty scrutiny . Carl Albert, '31 sources votes were cast against it. of hydro-electric power." Norman arts-sc., of McAlester, was elected presi- upheld The vote by schools for the new con- the affirmative. dent of the council . Oklahoma defeated Texas stitution showed : at Norman unanimously For Against in a debate on the question : Principle features of the new consti- "Resolved : That modern Engineering 268 38 advertising is tution are : more harmful than beneficial Education 32 11 to society ." Separate councils for men and women. Oklahoma represented the affirmative side . Graduate 15 3 Matters involving both men and wo- Fine Arts 105 46 men are to be taken up at a joint meeting CHI DELTA PHI Arts and Sciences 411 218 of the councils . Law Chi Delta Phi, national honorary lit- 67 94 Each school or college or independent Pharmacy 30 22 erary society, has nationalized Chi Delta, ranking shall have one representative on a local Business 177 89 chapter of the university. Miss the men's council for every 300 students Goldia Cooksey, '21 arts-sc ., is adviser of Paul Kennedy, editor of the Oklahoma enrolled . Daily, and one the chapter for the faculty . of the originators of the Nominations shall be made at mass new plan, and active proponent of it in meetings in the respective schools and col- LETZEISER MEDALERS his paper, declared enthusiastically when leges. the results of the Winners of the medals awarded an- election were announc- Non-partisan ballot shall be used and nually by the Letzeiser & Company, jewel ed : names of nominees listed alphabetically . The will of the students has been made known. manufacturers of Oklahoma City, to the The dean of men shall help the com- Demand for freedom from the old, farcial form three men and three women mittee on the men's council in the student lead- of government has resulted in an overthrow count- ers were : of that form and has given a new form in its ing of ballots . Women : Peggy Maguire, stead. A battle has been won. Both the men's and women's council '31 arts-sc., But the fight is not yet over. Far from of Norman ; Elizabeth Hayes of Webster it, shall have a representative on the uni- it is now only well begun. Even while a ma- Grove, Missouri, '31 arts-sc . ; Velma Jones versity discipline committee, but the jority of students were voting to bring about of Bristow, '31 arts-sc. the new form of government, forces that had at men's council member shall not be pres- Men : Ed Patterson, '30 arts-sc., of Ok- first sought to defeat the movement were at ent when a woman is on trial before the work to destroy it if it should be adopted. Within lahoma City ; Tom Churchill, '30 arts-sc ., committee, and vice versa. the next forty-eight hours we shall witness frantic of Oklahoma City; Charles Ittner, '.30 attempts to clog the machinery of new Matters of interpretation of the con- the gov- eng., of Oklahoma City. ernment : witness attempts to wreck the new stitution shall be referred to a committee plan and discredit its backers. consisting of the dean of the school of It may seem to no point to shout a warning EDITORS, MANAGERS in the law, the head of the school of citizen- face of a victory but the fact remains Publication heads for next year arc : that scores of newly erected governments have ship and the dean of men . been smashed before they have had time to Dick Pearce, '31 journ., of El Reno, edi- function properly . It is too tor, and Benton Ferguson, '31 journ., of often the case that SIGMA MU SIGMA HOUSE those who have fought the hardest will recline Tulsa, business manager, of The Okla- first with the earliest flush of victory . Such Sigma Mu Sigma fraternity has an- homa Daily. action spells only ultimate defeat. nounced that construction work is to be Stewart Harral, '31 journ., of Durant, There will be a gap of a few clays from the started shortly on a new home for it acceptance of the new to and Miss Margaret Kerr, '31 arts-sc., of constitution until the cost $60,000 . The house, machinery of the old is finally replaced . There following Eng- Oklahoma City, editor and business man- remains loose ends to pick up, necessary dove- lish precedents, will be on Chautauqua ager respectively, of the Whirlwind. tailing so that things will function smoothly . avenue between Parsons and Lindsay Mr Pearce is a member This lapse of Pi Kappa of time is the real crucial stage of streets, north of the Alpha Gamma Delta Phi fraternity, while the reform movement . Tiding it over these few Mr Ferguson (son days will bring the real success. house. The house will have twenty-one of Association Vice-President Mrs Walter With this in mind it behooves the student to bed rooms. Ferguson, ex '07, and Mr Ferguson, ex see that the new form of government is given '07), is a member of Kappa Alpha. Both an opportunity to demonstrate its superiority be- DEBATES have had newspaper experience. fore allowing it to is be attacked . It the duty The university touring debate Mr of those who originally voted against the new team that Harrall has talents in many direc- constitution to give their whole support . Their visited the Pacific coast (George Copeland tions. He is a speaker for the university ex- disagreement with the newer form, no doubt, and Bob Harbison), defeated the Uni- tension division, is a licensed Methodist was sincere. But it was the will of the ma- versity of Nevada March 13 at Reno. minister, and was city editor of the Durant FOR JUNE 1930

Daily Democrat last year. He is a Sigma AWARDS of my classmates of '20 who have escaped Chi . Miss Kerr, the second woman ever To Ed Patterson, '30 geol., by Sigma marital life along with me and it is such to be a student publication business man- Gamma Epsilon, its award as being the a consolation to actually know that- a member of Kappa ager, is Alpha Theta. outstanding student in geology. occasionally there is a picture of one of To Robert Weidman, '31 arts-sc., the them which helps me to detect whether PE-ET Books Abroad prize for the best French they are managing to ward off appear- Pe-et, oldest of the honorary campus translation in the modern language de- ances of "spinsterhood" and fool the pub- fraternities for men, pledged six men this partment. Translator Weidman is the lic. year. They are James Lewis of Win- first student to win two foreign language There are several O. U. grads and form- Kansas, Ed Wardner field, of Hobart, Al- prizes, he having won first place last er students living here in San Diego. The bert Kulp of Norman, Carl Albert of year in the German contest sponsored by army and navy harbors several O. U. McAlester, Richard Williamson of Henry- Zion Evangelical church. medics as you know. Ronald and Louis Paul Thurber etta, and of Norman. Sears have been over to see us; they are PI KAPPA PHI HOUSE surely looking prosperous and Ronald is PI SIGMA SIGMA Construction has begun on a new fra- becoming, in reputation and in looks Sigma Pi Sigma, national honorary ternity house to cost $60,000 for the Pi quite an established "Dr." Ralph Hardie, physics fraternity, installed a chapter at Kappa Phi fraternity at the corner of who is, I believe of "ye old days," is an University of Oklahoma May 17. the Parsons and Lahoma. The house will instructor in the army and navy academy Dr. Marsh W. White of the Pennsyl- be of the colonial style of architecture, here. Harvey Collins, a former O. U. state college, national secretary, vania with the living room extending across glee club member, and Willa B's science was the installing officer. the front. teacher at Norman High, lives here. We have had pleasant visits with him several times; just Sunday, Harvey, with his wife and mother, were over to see us. We Sooner to Sooner had such a good session of the dear old LETTERS OF THE WAR DEAD former student who does not belong to days at O. U. and copies of The Sooner 55 Pilgrim Road the alumni association of the University Magazine were brought forth to aid us Boston 17, Mass. of Oklahoma is, in my opinion, missing in our discussion . At Pan-Hellenic here, April 3, 1930. one of the biggest advantages of having we met an Alpha Phi from O. U., Isa- the Editor: been a student at O. U. To belle Breese . There are others here I I have undertaken to assemble and pub- I cannot feature any O. U. grad or am sure, but we haven't come across a collection of extracts from the, let- lish former student failing to expend the them yet; the alumni directory will aid ters and diaries of American students "measley" three dollars which brings to us-another advantage in being a paid been pro- who fell in the war, having him the five major services offered to a up member of the OUA . foundly moved by a similar collection member of OUA. For us far away, The In a few months now, I plan to take made for Germany by a Doctor Witkop. Sooner Magazine and the alumni direc- out a life membership 'cause I'll always Such letters and diaries of undergradu- tory are the most important of the five want to keep in direct touch with O. U ates and postgraduates of all types, drawn major services . We miss O. U., but The grads and former students and I plan on from every section of our country, should Sooner Magazine keeps us in closer touch living a life-time. We shall always be furnish a composite portrait of the intel- and we know at all times what other O. vitally interested in the OUA and you . lectual American youth of the great war U. grads and former students are ac- may depend upon us for contributing our The editors having Atlantic Monthly complishing and where they are and what Sooner spirit to the activities of the as- shown great interest in such a collection they are beginning to look like as "old sociation. encourages me to hope for your co-opera- age" creeps upon them. There are a few JEWELDEAN BRODIE, '20. tion and support. The principal difficulty is to get in touch with the relatives and friends of these boys, and for this I need a memo- Expressed in the press randum from every university and college MISSOURI AND BROOKS he had been superintendent of schools. of the names and addresses of all of its President Stratton D. Brooks, beloved During the Walton regime, he resigned men who died in the war. Whenever pos- by hundreds of Sooners who came to ad- to become president of the Columbia sible I want the following: Name in full; mire him during his twelve years as presi- school . President Brooks was given leave color and race; date and place of birth; dent of the University of Oklahoma, was from June until December. Walter Wil- student of (academic, scientific, etc.) ; P. summarily dismissed as president of the liams, director of the school of journalism, G. course (chemistry, theology, medicine, University of Missouri, where he had been was named Doctor Brooks' successor. etc.) ; date and place of death-or where in charge for the past seven years, since President Brooks announced he would wounded and died. leaving Norman. remain in Columbia . Would you therefore also be so kind as The action was taken by the board of The Kansas City Times commented to put a notice in your magazine, an- curators of the university April 4. A editorially on the situation : nouncing that such a memorial is in the statement declared : "The board finds the There can be only regret that the service of making, and asking relatives and friends President Stratton D. Brooks as head of the relations between President Brooks and University of Missouri should terminate under to get in touch with me as soon as pos- the board, and the relations of President the circumstances disclosed by the statement sible?LOUISE ERDNA REGGIO . Brooks with the faculty have created a issued by the board of curators at Columbia Sat- situation which has impelled the board urday. Doctor Brooks has had a long and hon- FOR EVERY GRAD orable career as an educator, including four to declare that the welfare of the univer- years as assistant superintendent of schools at San Diego, May 15, 1930. sity requires that the term of Doctor Boston, six years as superintendent in that city To the Secretary: Brooks as president of the university and eleven years as president of the University of I just want to tell you that Willa B should end." Oklahoma immediately preceding his call to and I surely enjoy Missouri in 1923 . The Sooner Magazine Doctor Brooks came to the University As president of the institution at Columbia, to the very fullest. Any O. U. grad or of Oklahoma in 1910 from Boston, where he labored zealously to promote good relations

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an eighth of a between the university and the people of the ON OIL CURTAILMENT in a second broadcast, sec and state and between the university and the public after it had left Schenectady. reports a plan of heard this program that school system . But in the crucial matter of his The Tulsa World Listeners not only had relations with the faculty he proved unsuccess- Fred Capshaw, '13 arts-sc., '14 law, on been tossed about like a shuttlecock but they heard A. B. Hitt of the technical staff at Sche- ful. His policies developed a spirit of unrest curtailing oil fields even before they are that found expression in the loss to the univer- nectady talk to Mr Farmer, the engineer of the opened . The story follows. Australian Amalgamated Wireless, the conversa- sity of some of the strongest men on the teach- ing force. The conditions developed in the big oil fields tion being readily heard . was another thrill for listeners Finally a stage was reached where it evidently of the state and the national demand for curtail- Then there engineer say, was necessary for the curators to take drastic ment of oil production have led Fred Capshaw when they heard the Sydney "Hel- lo, 5SW, this is VK2ME calling London . Hello, action to end a situation that promised demorali-ation to the school. of the corporation commission to suggest to Mid- Continent field operators the formation of some London ." An effort was made to get London All the available evidence verifies the state- sort of an agreement to limit drilling in new which would have privileged the listener to hear ment of the board that neither the sex ques- fields before they are even opened . a three-way conversation with Sydney as the relay point between Schenectady and London tionnaire episode nor politics was involved in the It was while Wirt Franklin was on the stand . An effort will be made later to establish this outcome. The curators had heartily supported in the commission's hearing Thursday on the connection . Doctor Brooks in his dealing with the incidents extension for 90 clays of the proration agreement Sytlncy reported tropical weather with a big growing out of the questionnaire and the unan- for this state. Capshaw asked Franklin if it would thunder storm roaring in the distance, the at- imity of their attitude disposes of any suspicion not be possible to work out in advance some mosphere full of humidity, while in New York of political interference . program to limit the number of wells that might the temperature was eighteen above zero . Unfortunate as the whole affair has been, in be drilled in a new field even before the field view of the impasse that Doctor Brooks had was opened and then to also work out an agree- come to in his relation with faculty and cura- ment that each well drilled in a new field should DARK, MYSTERIOUS tors, apparently there was no other way out. be agreed to a limited production before it ever A different viewpoint is presented in an blew in . The berated, celebrated order of mys- replied that he thought such a plan editorial in the Daily Oklahoman, which Franklin tery, known as D.D .M .C ., has come in could possibly be worked out if proper attention points a moral for Oklahoma : for some hard flaying on the part of sev- was given to the short-term ]eases so that no Missouri authorities will encounter little trouble man would lose his lease because of, failure to eral state editors. With their uncanny in finding some one to succeed Doctor Brooks drill by reason of the advance agreement lim- sense of appearing at the moment when as president of Missouri university . Only they . iting the number of wells they can do the university the most harm, be able to find the kind of man they may not "It seems to me that when an operator is Doctor Brooks's re- the D.D .M.C . club (whose members are want . The circumstances of about to open a new field he could call in all from the position he has honored for not publicly known stole the "Oklahoma moval the other operators owning or leasing land in real educator to quite eight years will cause the that field and they could make a co-operative Nightie" which is distributed by Sigma decided misgiving upon subjecting look with agreement to drill only a limited number of Delta Chi at the . For where poli- gridiron dinner . These himself to the same humiliation wells in each acre or within a radius of say hurled its bolt there can be no were later dropped into the banquet by tics has once three miles and then also agree to limit the visitation . While second a security against a second production of each well so drilled to say 100 masked man, each stamped with the little to lose may covet the chair class men with barrels a day," Capshaw suggested to Franklin . letters of the organization . It happened now vacant at Columbia real educators may be Capshaw contended that if before an operator that the journalists had printed another disposed to count the position a good one to let field new pool, he knew exactly opens a new or edition, which had already been distrib- alone. how many wells could be drilled in a given area Oklahoma has suffered entirely too much and uted . and how much production each well would be effects of the too often from the mischievous permitted that much of this proration trouble However, Paul Kennedy, '30 journ., ed- spirit now rampant in Missouri . At times we with a new order every few months could be itor of the Oklahoma vigorously have had a real orgy of decapitations in educa- Daily, eliminated . His idea was that such an advance circles. But there has been marked im- attacked the D.D .M .C . and called upon tional agreement touching new fields would be in provement in recent years and the heads of state the discipline committee to stamp it the nature of a permanent arrangement, ant] out . now enjoy a larger measure of se- institutions even went so far as to intimate that maybe the Called by the discipline committee to give curity . In order to make this measure of security corporation commission could make the plan ef- names of members of the secret fraternity, far ample, amendments to the constitution more fective by the issuance of a formal order direct- designed to protect our institution heads have he (lid not do so on the ground that it ing that that policy be followed in each new field. been submitted to the people and will be rati- would be impossible to prove that those fied or rejected next November . It will be a he did name were actually members. long step forward if these amendments shall be The Oklahoma City Times declared ed- ratified and a decided disservice to the state if RADIO EXPERT they shall be rejected . itorially that the secret organization had . Maurice Prescott, '24 elec eng., went no place at the university, and Edith from Norman immediately after his grad- Johnson declared in the Daily Oklaho- HOW EL PASO GROWS uation to Schenectady, New York, where man, under the heading, "Your Brother's he has since been employed by the Gen- They libel El Paso, they who say El Peeper" : eral Electric Company. The success of Paso grows because of Juarez . At least, The D.D.M .C .'s seem to be making an un- Prescott, who is believed to have estab- fortunate start in life. we have the word of Dorrance Roderick, lished a world's record in broadcasting, re- If it be true that they consider themselves '22 journ., to that effect, according to an morally constituted to break up card games and ceives the following comment from the Associated Press story dated May 31 . invade parties, they arc educating, themselves to Schenectady Union Star: Dorrance Roderick, publisher of the El Paso be thoroughly pestiferous citizens who will spe- Herald and Times, Saturday had made an offer A radio program that originated in Schenec- cialize in minding their neighbor's business in- radio listeners of that sta- to pay the expenses of a writer for an eastern tady was broadcast to stead of concentrating on their own. news agency to "come out west and see what tion one-eighth of a second after it left the city In forming what is called the "campus purity of a trip to Australia and preside makes El Paso grow ." and at the completion league" and appointing themselves to Roderick's offer was made after he had express back, a distance of approximately four-fifths the over the manners and morals of their fellow- earth. This is believed by University of Oklahoma, they are ed his indignation at a dispatch he said the news circumference of the students at the service sent from Dallas in which the growth experts to be a rebroadcast record . taking a good deal upon themselves . are upon others and to at- of El Paso in the last decade had resulted from Experimental work was being carried on under Who they to spy that "thousands of bartenders flocking here to work the direction of Maurice Prescott, with VK2ME, tempt to supervise their conduct? Presumably in, the student council and the in Juarez." Sydney, Australia, when the latter's station call power is vested and the president of the A survey of distillery workers in Juarez, Rod- came in clearly, followed by music that was rec- discipline committees crick declared, showed that nine El Pasoans were ognized as having come originally from Schenec- university . .D .M .C . was ordered to go employed in the Mexican city's liquor dispen- tady. It had been transmitted across the Ameri- Long since the D existence. It continues to exist and to func- saries, and only 200 El Pasoans employed in all can continent and across the Pacific ocean to out of all constituted authority. In ways lines of work in Juarez . Schenectady, there picket] up and rebroadcast by tion in spite of tricks that are vain, they "The growth of El Paso," he said, "has re- that station and pushed back across the Pacific that are dark and by to disband them . sulted from the natural development of its and the United States to Schenectady where it defy all efforts . Obsessed by that spirit that brought the Ku many and varied resources." was again picked up and put back on the air FOR JUNE 1930 31 3

Klux Klan into being and that incited its mem- attitudes toward life . They form a common Americans begin to understand just what it all bers to terrorize persons who did not please meeting and molding ground, and they stand means. For it is not impossible that here in this them, the D.D .M .C .'s, cloaked and hooded, are for all that is finest and best and most worth young state the children of the aborigines have keeping the campus on needles and pins . while for girls." literally created an outstanding school of paint- D.D .M .C . activities are cut off the same piece In Central high school, as in most similar in- ing. It is not entirely impossible that America's as anti-evolution laws, efforts to set aside the stitutions, there are self-constituted elite groups, greatest contribution to real artistry is destined to bill of rights and all forms of public and private little cliques that soon form a snob problem in come from the tribes of the plains . It would snooping that violate the spirit of the Constitu- the school . At Central high school such practices be akin to fate's grim irony if our country's entry are sternly frowned upon, into the tion . according to Miss aesthetic realm should be brought about Elliott, Although many of their depredations may be who says that, although the situation is by the children of a dispossessed and neglected not nearly so serious as it has been at times past, people . carried on in the spirit of fun, they savor en- it is nevertheless discouraged Oklahoma will tirely too much of inquisitorial activities, of as much a ever. be unpardonably negligent if "Although there she ignores witch-baiting and the like . They seem to have in- are some girls who have what well may be a potential treas- been affiliated with cliques who have given very ure out on the southwestern plains . There is voked the spirit of Mrs Grundy on the one beautiful service to the school," she explains, "on promise here of infinite possibilities unless an hand, and that of Anthony Comstock on the the whole they are not the girls who are active opulent commonwealth permits it to perish from other. in organizations and who form the real backbone neglect. And old world country would treas- If they adhere to their present principles they and life of the student body . And I am glad to ure this possession and regard it as so much fine man censorship boards and societies for the will be able to say that today there is no real feeling gold, and our own country and state will be of vice . They will take care to have suppression of regret among girls who do not belong to inexcusably derelict if this promising talent is the statutes measures that prohibit scien- kept in cliques. The real school leaders do not belong . permitted to waste and go unrecognized . Okla- tists and scholars from purchasing and importing And the great number of girls to whom other homa should take immediate and effective steps classics for their own use. girls look up are not clique girls." to give these budding artists the chance in life In America there are two opposing move- Over the subject of girls smoking Miss Elliott their promising talent justifies. ments, one tending toward liberalism and an- is not alarmed. No smoking is permitted within other asceticism . The D.D .M .C .'s, unless they the high school building by either boys or girls, should have a change of heart, will recruit the and smoking outside is discouraged. Miss Elliott MAHAFFIE LAUDED ranks of the ascetics, the sadists who delight in believes that the reason girls who smoke do so is Under the heading "Former Farm Boy punishing others for things that are innocent to because of the psychological effect . They are Dictates to Railroad Giants-C. D. Ma- them . doing something outside the beaten path, and The very fact that they have refused for years forbidden fruit, of course, is sweet. When the haffie Rules I . C. C. Hearing With Firm to disclose their identities to the president and the shouting and tumult dies, Miss Elliott feels, girls Hands" the San Francisco Chronicle re- faculty, speaks eloquently of their purposes . will cease smoking. cords the success of Charles D. Mahaffie, Men, women and young people who have "If they don't," she says, "we will just have '05 arts-sc ., Kingfisher : nothing to be ashamed of walk boldly in the to accept it as we have accepted other things . light. I do not think antagonistic methods will do any Rat-ta-tat-tat! good . Until the girls themselves come to look "Gentleman," admonishes a quiet, determined- looking young man, from the depths of a big RECONSTRUCTING GIRLS upon smoking with disfavor there is little we grownups can do about it . chair on the raised platform, "I cannot and will Six years as dean of girls of Tulsa high Miss Elliott came to Tulsa six years ago to not listen to these exchanges between counsel! school have been wonderful ones for Miss take up her duties at the high school . At that This is a quasi-judicial hearing; not a bickering Floy V. Elliott, '17 arts-sc., assistant prin- time she was principal of the Drumright high pit nor a debating society!" Pompous attorneys representing some of the cipal of Tulsa high school, in the pleasure school . She has graduated from the University of Oklahoma and did post-graduate work at mightiest millions in America-the great "vested that comes from watching girls who once Chicago university . During the past few years interests" which keep the wheels of our railroads were problems develop into splendid she has been active in the national association rolling round-grin sheepishly and return to young women. of cleans, attending conventions at Cincinnati, order. A Kansas farm "kid" of yesteryear has compelled There is an interesting interview with Washington, Dallas and Atlantic City . At the brought them to their legal senses-and last convention, in Atlantic City, she was elected their admiration in the doing! Life Member Elliott in a recent Sunday national secretary of the organization . Are any of you wondering what chance the Tulsa Daily World, from which we quote: At Central high school she is universally loved farmer boy of today has in these broad and fertile With 1,939 girls enrolled at the high school by the girls, who count her a personal friend United States? Turn your eyes, for a moment, since last September, Miss Elliott has a large and do not hesitate to confide in her. In return toward one Charles D. Mahaffie, director of the family indeed . she treats their confidences with the utmost re- Finance Bureau of the interstate commerce com- "I feel like the old woman who lived in the spect. Although she has been asked numerous mission, at present engaged in the taking of shoe," she laughs. times to give a news story on the human interest testimony on the application of the Great North- But whereas the lady of storybook fame didn't side of her work, the little incidents that come ern and Western Pacific railway systems for know what to do, Miss Elliott does . She is up among the girls, she has always refused. permission to construct a 200-mile connecting constantly seeking new ideals, and looking about "The quieter my work is," she explains, "the link of rails in Northeastern California . to see what is being clone in other schools that better . And I can't give news stories without Born on Kansas Farm might prove of benefit at Central high . In ad- breaking the trust my girls put in me, But I Mahaffie was born, some forty-four years ago, dition to the personal contacts she makes with do want to say, now, that the general public on a small farm on the outskirts of Olathe, Kans ., the girls under her charge, she functions on a has been more than kind to me, and the press from which his Scotch-Irish father and Welsh- number of school organizations, thereby gaining most considerate. American mother extracted a more or less pre- first-hand information on the problems the girls "Of the younger generation I can truthfully carious livelihood . Today Mahaffie, in his official in school must face and thus becoming better say I expect only the best. There are, of course, capacity, tells men representing billions of dol- equipped to help them help themselves . some members of the younger set who are very lars "where to head in" when they overstep the She teaches two classes in English drama and had. But there have been members of every bounds of parliamentary propriety. poetry ; sponsors the senate, the student governing generation I have ever known who were bad." That's one chance the poor farmer boy has, body of the school ; sponsors the home room granted he's got the brain and the determination representative body, the house of representatives; to go after it! is a member of the assembly program committee; INDIAN TREASURES Mahaffie, since his advent into the interstate and is chairman of the national honorary society A plea to develop the treasure within commerce commission, has passed judgment on committee. that lies locked in Indian hearts matters vitally affecting a total of $9,690,000,000 "Those are my assigned tasks," she declares, the state worth of railroad properties . What wonder if he "but in addition there is, of course, my concern is made in the Daily Oklahoman. regards the present action as "inconsequential" so in aiding the girls themselves in solving their Most Oklahomans have heard or read of the far as the financial aspect is concerned? various individual problems of unhappy adjust- paintings done by Kiowa Indian students in The present director of the finance bureau of ments, of not making good grades, of being over- Oklahoma University which have won extra- Uncle Sam's mightiest industry-protecting organi- social, of economic stress . ordinary notice both in Paris and in Prague . zation (unless it be the United States supreme "My unfailing prescription, in most of these And if the interested should only visit the In- court) is faced almost daily with tremendous cases, is for the girl to become a member of some dian school at Fort Sill, they would find drawings responsibilities . Upon his shoulders rests the fine character-building organization such as the from the crayons of grammar school pupils which burden of passing upon such vital matters as Girl Scouts, the Girl Reserves or the Girls' ath- stand apart both in skill and originality. Few if railroad consolidations, acquisitions, issuance of letic association. Such character-building organ- any schools in all the country can show mere securities, borrowings in times of stress, relin- izations are not purely social situations but they classroom work equal in original talent to the quishments and other important details. meet the needs of the girls in the various groups . work of those Kiowa and Comanche children, Day after day this slight, merryeyed, prema- They help each girl in many of the vital prob- some of whom are not ten years old . turely gray disciple of jurisprudence sits at the lems of her life, and because they deal with Europe has begun to talk of the Indian pic- head of the council tables of one or another of such an infinite variety of things, they hold in- tures it has seen by the Moldau and the Seine. the 100 of more railroads of the country, listen- terest for girls of totally different positions and America also will begin to talk of his work when ing to their arguments and pleadings for this 31 4 THE SOONER MAGAZINE thing or that, weighing the visible and oral evi- and $5,000,000,000) . Originally refused; ap- modest and affable chap off stage, especially when dence pro and con, separating the wheat from proved on rehearsing . one considers the huge responsibilities he is ac- the chaff, summing up the evidence, visible and Hearing of the petition of the Kansas City customed to assume, and the "bigwigs" of the "submerged," and bringing in his report and rec- Southern for permission to acquire the Cotton industrial, financial and transportation worlds ommendations to the I C C, when the entire Belt system (which, in turn, was to acquire the with whom he is brought into constant contact. story is told, strictly on the issues of the case, M . K. and T. Railway), involving assets of ap When he's at home he lives quietly-a sort whether it be a matter of mites or millions . proximately $500,000,000 . Refused, since the of "pipe-and-slipper" existence, if reports from A little more regarding Mahaffie's preparation Kansas City Southern, with a mileage of approxi- Washington are to be believed-and at no time does intrude a mannerism nor a "pose" and qualifications for the work he is doing would mately 500, was not considered the proper domi- he into not be amiss at this time . While he was still nating factor in a three-way deal involving the whatever proceedings he may be conducting. To a youngster his parents moved from Kansas to Cotton Belt, with a mileage of approximately look at him one might think that he were "just a farm near Hobart, Oklahoma, where "Charlie" 17000, and the M. K. and T. with 3500 miles of a witness' in the case instead of being the semi- grew up and where his father is still farming. road . final tribute to whom the great traportation On his showing of precocity during his gram- interests look for judgment and justice. Hearing of the proposed unification of the mar school days, Mahaffie's father and mother As soon as the proponent and opponent coun- Nickel Plate, Chesapeake and Ohio, Erie, Pere decided-at what sacrifice to themselves only, the sel now before the director Marquette, and Hocking Valley . Combined as- in the action have Great Record will reveal-that their son should concluded their introduction of testimony, ex- sets of approximately $400,000,000 . have the benefit of a college education. He was hibits, and what not, tending to show that the bundled off to Kingfisher college (now absorbed Reorganization of the Chicago, Milwaukee and pemission to build should or should not he by the University of Oklahoma), where he took St . Paul, involving assets of approximately $500,- issued, Mahaffie will depart for Washington, there his degree as a bachelor of arts . 000,000. to digest recapitulations of the records which arc In 1905 he won his right to join the second Reorganization of the Denver and Rio Grande even now being prepared for him by attaches of group of American scholars to whom is accorded, Western, involving assets of approximately $400,- the finance bureau from transcripts and exhibits through the far-sightedness of the late Cecil 000,000. dispatched to them from day to day as the hear- Rhodes, the priceless gift of two years of study Proposed consolidation of the Great Northern ings proceed. at St . John's college, Oxford . Adding to this a and the Northern Pacific systems, involving com- Out of these recapitulations will grow Ma- year of post-graduate work in economic law, he bined assets of more than $1,000,000,000 . haffie's report on the case ; which, following di- emerged from the institution with the degree of Petition of the Great Northern to extend its gestion of briefs filed by the lawyers, will be B. C. L. (bachelor of civil law), believed to be Pacific Coast line southward (joint use of certain presented to division four of the interstate com- the highest non-honorary scholarship award in track with Southern Pacific) from Eu- merce commission-consisting of a member from the gift of any university in the world. gene . Or, to Klamath Falls. Assets involved Wisconsin, one from Massachusetts and one from Followed thereafter a year tutoring at Prince- approximately $400,000,000. New York-or to the entire commission if Di- ton university, in the law school of that institu- Present action, Great Northern and Western vision Four, upon request of one or another of tion, one year of private practice in Oklahoma and Pacific petition for connecting line in Northeast- the parties to the litigation, decides to present it five in Portland, Ore., bringing him (in 1916) ern California . Assests of roads involved ap- there. and to a solicitorship for the interior department, un- proximately $2,500,000,000 . In any event, the report recommendation der the late Secretary Franklin K. Lane. Those are few of the cases over which Ma- of Director Charles D. Mahaffie, one-time Kansas There is little doubt that an intriguing poise haffie, in the role of "orchestra leader," has farmer "kid" and Oklahoma school boy, will and a sense of humor which seems forever bub- waved the judicial baton. Do you wonder, then, have vitally important bearing on the result . bling just underneath the surface of his other- that he fairly sniffs at an insignificant sum like Meanwhile, Millions, don't presume with Ma- wise serious physiognomy have been important thirteen millions? haffie! If you do he'll surely "spank" you, meta- factors in his rise to what is considered, by the The I. C. C. director of finance is an extremely phorically speaking-yes, and make you like it! giants of the transportation world, one of the most important assignments in the entire struc- ture of the federal government . Mahaffie is not a light thinker-far from it- but his judgment of the genus homo (sometimes I n the educational wonderland sapiens) is so keen that an occasional inward SEGREGATE THEM? station of the university in a national egg chuckle over the valient efforts of the witnesses laying contest. The pledges, keen seekers appearing before him, to paint a roseate picture President Hutchins of the University of with pigments of gray or ultramarine, cannot Chicago, proposes to divide the work of after a college degree, cannily selected the be escaped. His rapier-mind is usually several the university into three divisions : Colle- three hens that were national champions jumps ahead of the testimony given; and he en- giate, in which students should begin and which were valued at $2,500 . The joys himself accordingly. unsuspecting hens were caught, necks To an even greater extent than he permits him- their work; university, in which the regu- self to "take pity" upon a struggling witness or lar education features would be given; wrung, plucked, dissected, and consumed . Sigma floundering lawyer, Mahaffie strikes sternly at graduate . The collegiate division would Discovery of the leg bands in the any effort to hoodwink or confuse him. The mean the segregation of freshmen and Nu refuse pails led to the discovery that oily charlatan, the bluffing bully and the belli- the fraternity had enjoyed a $2,500 meal. gerent barrister are not halfway down to first sophomores from the university . They base before a curt admonition to "come to order" would be oriented to the university's train- The chapter was suspended by the na- or dispense with those tactics" clicks from the ing before being admitted formally to it. tional fraternity and the university guar- lips of the examiner. A student, to gain advancement into the anteed the aggrieved owners their $2,500 . And a word from Mahaffie is sufficient . His The fraternity members who gave the reputation as an arbiter who will "stand no non- university division, would be judged by sense" is Nation-wide. his "reaction to the university's opportun- order to get the chickens and the pledges Mahaffie was acting as a solicitor for the fed- ities and his own qualifications for ad- who got them are still at large. Mr H. L. eral director general of railroads, James C. Davis, the vanced work."A student's "mental capac- Mencken of Baltimore did not attend arguing a case before the interstate commerce dinner. commission in 1922 when he was asked to as- ity" would determine the length of his sume the office he now holds, created two years college course. previously, when the commission had imposed TULSA'S SKELLY upon it, by act of congress, the duties over which EPICUREAN SIGMA NUS Munificent gifts continue to be made to the finance bureau now has jurisdiction . latest Since that time here are a few of the more The gallant Sigma Nu fraternity at other universities and schools. The important cases which he has handled, with the the University of Maryland craved food gift to be made within the state was the amounts of the actual moneys involved or the recently-chicken, to be specific. Today, sum of $125,000 by Tulsa's W. G. Skelley, assets of the railroads directly concerned in the the members of that ancient order might oil tycoon. Oilman Skelly specified that his litigation : pro- Distribution of a total of approximately $535,- be inclined to paraphrase the Spanish prov- thousands should go for a stadium, 000,000 of Federal funds to the railroads of the erb, "It is a bad hen that eats at home and vided that a like sum be contributed by country following their return to private owner- lays abroad," to "It is a bad hen eaten at Tulsans to erect the proposed $250,000 ship after the cessation of governmental oper- home and stolen abroad." For it seems athletic arena. Records the Tulsa World: ation at the conclusion of the great war in- volving a vast amount of expert accounting, en- that the chapter induced some of its The University of Tulsa will have its gineering and general analysis of a most per- pledges to show their intellectual calibre stadium. Directors of the school were pos- plexing question . by procuring some hens. While this edu- itive on that point Saturday when W. G. Hearing of the petition of the New York cational and instructive law was being Skelly, head of the Skelly Oil company, Central (total assets of $2,100,000,000) for per- project. mission to lease the Big Four and the Michigan laid down, several noble and ambitious donated $125,000 toward the Central (combined assets between $4,000,000,000 hens were laying eggs at the experiment Skelly's only provision was that an equal

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-HEFFNER HERE ARE THE LEAGUE LEADING SOONER BASEBALL PLAYERS One reason why Jap Haskell, '21 arts-sc., baseball coach, wears a broad grin these days, is the above group of men. They are the Sooner Big Six leading baseball players. Front row, left to right: Carl Hogge, 3b, Cornes A . Pickent, of, Bus Wall, If, Eph- raim Lobaugh, ss, Glen Cannon, P. Middle row: Donald Chappell, 1b, Otho Newman, 16, Udell Price, p, Elbert Cook (cap- tain) ss, John May, 2b, Boyd Lowe, c. Back row: William Bell, p, John Duffield, p, Preston Lampton, rf, Tom Churchill, p, Jerry Jerome, of, Ray Watson, c, J. C. Lookabaugh, utility.

sum must be contributed by other Tul- scholastic "bowl" will be completed by record for the 100-yard dash by doing it sans. October and dedicated at the Arkansas- in 9.4 seconds. With half of the necessary funds al- Tulsa football game here October 4. Eight conference records were broken, ready promised, however, university rep- As already planned, the new stadium as follows : resentatives are confident the other half will be erected on a tract of land 1,000 feet 440-yard dash-Dills, Missouri, Time, 48 .6 can be obtained . Not only is the school square. Construction work on the project seconds. apparently assured of the stadium but, will be rushed, it was said, to assure its 100-yard dash-H . Meier, Iowa State. Time, under plans advanced Saturday, the huge completion for the October date. 9.4 seconds. (Betters official world's record .) 120-yard high hurdles-Hager, Iowa State. Time, 14 .5 seconds. Two mile run-Putnam, Iowa State. Time, 9 minutes, 30.2 seconds. Sports of all sorts 220-yard low hurdles-Welch, Missouri . Time, CHURCHILL receipts therefore showed a decline from 23 .3 seconds. Tom Shot put-J. Bausch, Kansas, 49 feet 10 %2 Churchill, '30 journ., versatile $4,263 .50 for home games last year, to inches . Sooner athlete, will play professional base- $1,359 .05. The high mark in attendance Discus-Thornhill, Kansas, 155 feet, 11 inches . ball with the Arizona State league this this year was at the Oklahoma-Oklahoma Broad jump-Thomson, Nebraska, 24 feet, summer as a picher for the Albuquerque Aggie game, when 2,459 persons watched 2 1/4 inches . Dawson of Oklahoma team. Next year he will be a football the game. The game with Missouri in won the mile coach for the University of New Mexico . the fieldhouse brought the largest gate run. receipts, $323 .25. The total expenses of BIG SIX FINAL STANDING BASKETBALL ATTENDANCE the basketball season were $10,598. Attendance at basketball games in the W L Pct. fieldhouse this season showed a decided BIG SIX TRACK MEET OKLAHOMA 9 3 .750 drop over the average a year ago. Ad- Oklahoma placed fifth in the Big Six Kansas State 9 3 .750 verse weather was one of the factors gov- track meet at Lincoln, May 24. The Nebraska 7 5 .583 erning the decrease. The average last placement: Kansas 58 points; Nebraska Missouri 5 5 .500 year for the title-holding Sooners was 3,- 55 ; Iowa State 42 ; Missouri 29%2 ; Okla- Iowa State 4 10 .285 831, while this year, with the Sooners homa 26%2 ; Kansas Aggies 14. Hubert Kansas 2 10 .166 victorless, the average was 2,199. Cash Meier of Iowa State established a new Oklahoma and Kansas Aggies tied for 316 THE SOONER MAGAZINE first place in the Big Six baseball con- Had the Sooners been able to head off so admirably as Mr White, since Mr ference . Oklahoma ended its season May the Kansas Aggies in both of the two Tolbert declared that he could not serve 24 by defeating Iowa State and then final games with the Manhattanites, Ok- again this year as president. waited to see what Kansas Aggies, with lahoma would have assuredly held first The election of a member of the board, two more games to play with Kansas, place. it was the consensus of opinions, leaves would do. Sooner results: open the membership for district No. 1, The Aggies made good use of their May 19. Oklahoma 7 Kansas Aggies 9 for which an election will probably be last two games by trouncing the lowly (at Manhattan) . held this fall, following Mr White's form- Jayhawks, thereby claiming the co-title May 20. Oklahoma 9 Kansas Aggies 7 al resignation from that post. of the conference . Nebraska moved up (at Manhattan) . de- 23. Oklahoma 15 Iowa State 7 (at to second place by virtue of its two May THE ASSOCIATION MEETING feats of Iowa State, while Missouri, like Ames. The formal meeting of the Association Oklahoma, waited with its final percent- May 24. Oklahoma 9 Iowa State 4 at was held Monday, June 2, in the chem- age already determined . Ames . istry building, with Dr . Guy Y. Williams as presiding officer in the absence of Mr Tolbert and Mrs Ferguson. Mr Cleckler reported on the progress Association progress of the Association during the year, and THE NEW BOARD (See Sooner Persons and Personalities, his report was accepted . Detailed finan- A mail ballot of members of the Uni- this issue, for biographical sketch) . Dis- cial statements were mailed to the mem- versity of Oklahoma Association closed trict No. 6. bers along with the board ballots. May 15, resulting in the election of the Mrs Alta Loomis Carder, '06 arts-sc., The principal problem facing the as- following members to the new executive of Cordell. Instructor in mathematics sociation in Norman, Mr Cleckler declar- board : at Cordell high school . Vice president of ed, is in getting greater support from the AT LARGE the University of Oklahoma Association senior class. He pointed out that at Dart- in 1926-27. District No. 7. for instance, a fee of $50 Paul Darrough, '13 arts-sc., '15 law, mouth college, . S. "Homer" Browne, '11 Oklahoma City. Newly appointed ref- Dr Howard is charged seniors, which includes arts-sc., '12 pharm., M. S., '13, of Ponca eree in bankruptcy, western Federal dis- mem-ershipintheDartmouthalumniassocia- Former dean of the trict. Life member. City. Physician . tion. He cited other instances where the pharmacy of the University of W. L. "Bill" Eagleton, '14 arts-sc, '19 school of university fees included such member- Oklahoma . District No. 8. Cleckler con- law, of Tulsa. Member of the Oklahoma ship. At Oklahoma, Mr supreme court commission. Life member . tinued, a fee of $8 only is charged seniors, Glenn C. Clark, '13 arts-sc., of Ponca It is interesting to note that eight of and that does not include membership ; City. Chief geologist Continental Oil Co. these new board members are life mem- despite the low fee, there is even some Life member. bers of the University of Oklahoma As- complaint as to the "highness" of the Dr. E . 1). Meacham, '14 arts-sc., of sociation. Several old faces were missed senior fee. Norman. Assistant dean of the college from the executive board, several new The progress of the association general- the of arts and sciences, University of Okla- faces added. These latter include Mr ly has been very satisfactory, with homa. Life member. Brewer, Mr Monroney, Mrs Carder, Mr largest membership in the history of the Raymond A. Tolbert, '12 arts-sc., '13 Woods and Mr Forrest M. Darrough . association marking the conclusion of law, of Oklahoma City. Past president the second year of the revived Associa- of the University of Oklahoma Associa- THE NEW OFFICERS tion. memberships tion ; attorney at law. Life member. At its first organization meeting, the During the year, the life Dr. Guy Y. Williams, '06 arts-sc., M. executive board elected the following of- will have to be raised to five hundred, A., '10, of Norman. Director of the ficers : Mr Cleckler warned, if the Association school of chemical engineering, Univer- President: Luther H. White of Tulsa, is to be self-sustaining. the sity of Oklahoma . Life member. succeeding Raymond A. Tolbert of Ok- Fred Tarman, '10 arts-sc., editor of the hon- DISTRICT MEMBERS lahoma City. -Norman Transcript, chairman of Luther H. White, '14 arts-sc., of Tulsa. Vice Presidents : Frank N. Watson, '13 orary member committee, the other mem- Dr. Chief geologist for the J . A. Hull Oil Co. law, of Dallas, Texas, first vice president, bers being Dr. Guy Y. Williams and reported on (See Sooner Persons and Personalities succeeding himself as second vice presi- Victor Monnett, '12 arts-sc., fac- department, this issue, for biographical dent. the names of three members of the on sketch) . New president of the University Miss Florence McClure, '15 arts-sc., ulty, who by virtue of having served or more, of Oklahoma Association. Life member. of Oklahoma City, succeeding Mrs Walt- the university faculty ten years and District No. 1 . er Ferguson of Tulsa. by having rendered the university for elec- Andrew N. "Jack" Boatman, '14 arts- Treasurer : Fred Thompson, '22 arts- state signal service, were eligible sc ., '16 law, of Okmulgee. Attorney at sc., o£ Norman, re-elected . tion as honorary members. These three law. Life member. District No. 2. Secretary: Frank S. Cleckler, '21 bus., are : professor of O . A. "Dutch" Brewer, '17 arts-sc., '20 of Norman, re-elected . Prof. Patricio Gimeno, art. law, of Hugo. County attorney of Choc- For the first time in a number of years, Spanish, for his service in the field of mathe- taw county. District No. 3. the executive board chose as president Dr. J. O. Hassler, professor of Forrest M. Darrough, '21 arts-sc., '23 of the Association one of its own mem- matics, for his contribution to the field law, of Holdenville. Attorney at law. bers. Mr White had been unable to at- of mathematics. of District No. 4. tend the meeting, but came down Tues- Dr. William Schriever, professor secur- A. S. "Mike" Monroney, '24 arts-sc., of day, June 3, to preside over the Associ- physics, for his instrumentality in Oklahoma City. President, the Doc & ation-senior luncheon in the Oklahoma ing Sigma Xi for the university. the past Bill Furniture Co. District No. 5. Union building . The board members Doctor Schriever has been for fact, H. Merle Woods, '17 arts-sc., of El felt that it would be difficult to obtain year a member of the Association in of the Reno. 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faculty not a graduate of the university, some vestige of class spirit; there was And that graduate is Miss Ruth Moore, the Association to join . heard the challenge facing alumni both ('20 mus., member of the fine arts facul- motion of Dr. Leonard On Logan, '14 in Association affairs and in co-operating ty) . I signed her diploma when she was arts-sc., The Sooner Magazine was com- with the university in the critical year a student of mine." unanimously by mended the Association. facing it. After Prof. William G. Schmidt, '12 The editor of the magazine reported Tulsans predominated, much to the de- mus., led the Sooners in singing Boomer plans for the ensuing year. light on of President White, himself an ar- Sooner, Mr White introduced Dr. Irving The project of the Association dent Tulsa creating booster. It was the first time Perrine, former member of the school of memorial to the a late James Shannon in several years that the Tulsans had geology faculty and now oil operator of Buchanan was presented made to the mem- a showing against the capital Oklahoma City. Mr Perrine though an the bers of Association and by unani- group, and there were, considerable chal- alumnus of Cornell, was the first man to vote it was lenges mous recommended to the back and forth through the cafe- take out a professional card in the Sooner executive board for action. teria, about oil and population. Alumni Professional directory, Mr White "Yesterday afternoon I received a long pointed out, and had aided the Associa- distance call from Frank Cleckler," Presi- tion in many ways. THE BOARD MEETING dent White explained, in opening the "This is virtually a homecoming to The executive board held its meeting meeting. "Frank was telling me that I me," Doctor Perrine declared. "Frank noon June 2 in the at card room of the had been elected president of the Associa- Tappan, here at my right, is a classmate Oklahoma Union building, with Doctor tion. I didn't know whether he was kid- of mine at Cornell ; Dean Reaves over Williams presiding as chairman. Board ding me, but I thought since the As- there is a classmate of my brother. So members present were Forrest and Paul sociation was paying for the long dis- in a way this is a homecoming to me, Darrough, Mrs Carder, Eagleton, Wil- tance call, that it might be serious. And even though it is that of a university liams, and Boatman. long distance was not the way to argue from which I did not graduate, but in The board elected officers for the en- over the point ; so I accepted . which I have always been and am still, suing year, then proceeded to the business "I'm afraid that some of you might interested. before the Association. The report of have the impression since we've settled "I did not come down here with the the life membership fund committee not our school affairs in Tulsa (Mr White intention of speaking; in fact, I wasn't being ready, it was agreed to is continue a member of the Tulsa board of educa- planning to come down at all. This the present arrangement for handling the tion) that I have nothing to do, that I morning Luther came in to my office and fund through deposit at the Security am looking for something to do, and so said `Come down to Norman with me.' National bank until the Homecoming decided to give me this . task So I came along. When I got here I meeting. "Well, I accept it. I accept it, knowing found out that I was on the program to Secretary Cleckler reported the action full well what a momentous year is ahead speak. of the Association meeting in approving for this Association and for our univer- "Perhaps I can give you some hints of a memorial to James Shannon Buchanan. sity. value from the experience of my school . Forms which the project "I should take am a graduate of the best class in I am proud to say that in eighteen years were discussed, and it was agreed that one the history of the university-that of I have not missed a class reunion at of the following should be the type : 1914," Mr White continued. Cornell (Applause) or at least, getting 1 . Creation of a James Shannon "Except Bu- the class of 1906?" interrupt- back to Cornell one time during the year. chanan memorial lectureship. ed Doctor Williams, amid applause. Of course, it is rather an easy thing to do, 2. Establishment of a fund "How to purchase about the class of 1907?" de- for one can reach Ithaca so easily when books in history, politics and government. manded Lon L. Hutchison of Tulsa. visiting New York. Judge Eagleton spoke for the second There was applause and laughter. "The older the University of Oklahoma plan and Doctor Williams for "Well, the first. the class of '14 is the best class grows, the more deeply will alumni spirit The matter was left for decision to a this university ever turned out, except be developed . Frankly, I was surprised committee to be named by as President amended." (Applause) . "That is the when I sat down here to see how few of White. It was agreed, however, that the same class as that of John Rogers. Our the O. U. boys from Oklahoma City campaign to raise the fund should begin class was the only class that ever licked were here for this luncheon today. In immediately. the sophomore class when freshmen. . . " fact, I see more Tulsa people here than Doctor Williams stressed the fact that "Why, our class did that," Doctor Wil- Oklahoma City people . It is natural, every Sooner would give liams to such a me- challenged. perhaps, that that should be so, because morial project and urged that the amount "I repeat, was the first class ever to they want to see the Oklahoma City oil sought from each individual be kept lick the sophomores, and then turn field." (Laughter) . small, from $1 to $5 a person. around when sophomores and beat the "Come to Tulsa to see our airport!" Six alumni were nominated to serve freshmen!" declared Mr White trium- challenged John Rogers, '14 law, regent, on the athletic council ; from this group phantly. "We had real class and school amid applause . President Bizzell is to select three : Neil spirit in those days, a spirit not rivalled Mr Perrine smilingly nodded acquies- Johnson, Raymond Tolbert, Claude Mon- before or since. cence, then continued: "Alumni associa- net, Earl Foster, Ray Evans and Fred "We need some of that old class spirit tions more and more are coming to adopt Thompson. today. That's a problem facing you and the Dix plan of class reunion; it enables me-and we're going to get it, if we the classes that were in school at approxi- have to come down here and tie a log mately the same time, to hold their re- THINGS LOOK UP chain to some of these students to get it." unions together. The days when class re- Not in years can the old timer recall (Applause) . unions were fraternity reunions have gone the amount of "pep" that was displayed "I want to digress a minute here. In by, as are the days when the man who at the annual Association-senior luncheon the old days I taught school. And while got most gloriously pickled had the most in the Oklahoma Union cafeteria Tues- I am not such an old hand as I might successful reunion. Today, if you go to day noon, June 3, with President White seem, yet my name is on the certificate of my school, you will never see an alumnus presiding. There was heard for the first one of the graduates of this university, drunk. The alumni spend their time time on the campus in the last decade now a member of the university faculty. visiting and at night, sitting in the dor- 313 THE SOONER MAGAZINE mitories, singing the old songs and re- that freely, because I have paid my mulgee, rendered the university in the counting mutual experiences. pledge. We need that money to make fight to secure the library building ap- "And every year, we make it our am- this building complete. Let's all do our propriation. bition to make the reunion of that year share. "The greatest single service any gradu- surpass every previous one. One way of "We need a $2,000,000 appropriation ate of this university ever did for the helping do that here is to have an alumni for buildings . And the greater share school was by a member of my class, that register . Award a prize to the member of that money should go for buildings of '14, and we are proud of it," Mr who comes the longest distance and a for science . I have my views of how Rogers said. "I don't see him here today, prize to the class having the largest at- that money should be spent; all of you but I see his brother here. That man is tendance . At Cornell we have a turn may not agree with me. One of the Dave Logan. Appropriations of a half out from almost every state in the Union. hardest tasks for a regent is to form a million dollars for a single building were I read figures the other day regarding broad gauged view of the needs of the unusual. But that was the minimum re- the distribution of students at your uni- university, instead of from the view of quired to build the kind of library the versity this year, and I believe there were his personal prejudice. I am a graduate university needed. The bill was cut in thirty-six states represented. In a few of the school of law, but I am telling committee to $250,000 . Things looked more years, you should have alumni from you that in my opinion the single greatest desperate for the university . Dave Logan each of these states attending the annual need of this university right now is a took up the fight to make it $500,000 . class reunion . biological science building. In that old He stayed with the fight day and night, "You should have more frequent class frame building where I took gym is he fought for it and he got it. reunions . And every alumnus who re- stored valuable scientific equipment that "That was the greatest single contribu- turns for a class reunion should spend can't be used because there is no place tion of any member of this Association at least one night on the campus. Why to display it. Then we need a building to the university . There was a man not turn over the fraternity houses to the for physics, for the college of business who did the right thing at the right alumni? It can be done here as well as administration and classroom, and for time." elsewhere." home economics, but the greater share of The building program of the uni- "I think that Doctor Perrine ought to the money is needed for the scientific versity is already attracting statewide at- be an honorary member of the Associa- departments, for class rooms and labor- tention, and to the list Mr Rogers cited tion," declared Mr White. "He has been atories. as essential the Oklahoma Press associa- a friend constantly of the university and "We are going to carry through that tion at its Woodward meeting added the to every graduate . He has given gen- program for the university . I have only school of journalism building, which has erously to this Association. He took out one more year to serve on the board, but been on the university's building program the first professional directory card, and I am not quitting working for the school for a number of years . The association carried an advertisement in The Sooner then; I'm going to keep on working for in a resolution asked the university to Magazine urging alumni to take out this university . keep the building at the head of its list, such advertising cards. And I think that "But we must have help to carry in order that it might not be stifled, and all of us can be of assistance, especially through this program. We must have asked further, that the school be made a those in professional life, in taking out your help, you members of the Univer- separate college, with its own dean, and cards in the alumni professional directory sity of Oklahoma Association. This As- with additional instructors. Present of the magazine ." sociation is the life of the school. If the quarters in the University Press building, The university women's quartet sang graduates of this university take the in- the resolution stated, are entirely inade- and received an ovation . President terest in its development that they should, quate. White then introduced his fellow-class- we will build here a university the equal mate, John Rogers, who represented the of any. THE BUCHANAN MEMORIAL board of regents and the university . "You're the backbone of the university, Plans have yet to be completed as this Mr Rogers gave a spirited address that the foundation of its future . Every grad- issue of the magazine goes to press, for was warmly applauded, outlining the uate should be a member of this the Buchanan memorial . The project challenge to alumni during the crucial Association; every member should take will receive the early attention of Presi- years ahead of the university, when its magazine . And I want to say here dent White. The university, through buildings are needed and when the tax that I am proud of our magazine . At President Bizzell, has agreed to co-oper- structure of the state is undergoing a the University club in Tulsa I see many ate by supplying copies of the memorial radical change, perhaps to the good of alumni magazines, but our magazine is booklet published early this month by the the university, perhaps to its disadvant- the equal of any of them. And every University of Oklahoma Press. age. member should become a life member. If the lectureship is established, Presi- "One of the first tasks of our Associa- The terms are so convenient that it dent Bizzell has assured the officers of tion," he declared, "is to see that the should be possible for every one to be- the Association that the university will Oklahoma Union building is completed come a life member and so endow the publish the series of lectures made pos- from top to bottom. It has been my Association. sible by the Association's gift in the form privilege during the past year to visit "The progress during the past eighteen of the Buchanan Memorial Lectures by several universities, and at each of these years has been marvelous. Eighteen the University of Oklahoma Press. institutions, I found that the most im- years ago there weren't as many students The fund given by Frank Phillips, portant single building on the campus is of collegiate rank on the campus as there Bartlesville millionaire and friend of the the union building . I know how life are members of the senior class today. university, is providing the university al- centers in the Union building, and there- With nothing to begin on, we have built ready with an invaluable library of south- fore how important it is to make it com- here one of the most beautiful artificial western history, that already is said to be plete and servicable. campuses of any university . We can't the most complete in the southwest. "Let's get together to finish our job. stop now. I am pleading with you to There are no lectureships at the univer- Let's complete the hotel rooms on the do your part-to take a greater interest sity, although there are famous lecture- fourth floor; let's finish the lounge rooms. in your university ." ships in eastern universities . And one way we can help is for every- Mr Rogers paid high tribute to the In informal discussion with President one to pay his pledge . I feel I can say services Dave Logan, '14 arts-sc., of Ok- Bizzell, officers of the Association in pre-

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senting the plan; were assured of the ap- Arbuckle (Helen Meister), '26 arts-sc., the Alumni council meeting were Presi- preciation of the university for whatever Duncan, secretary-treasurer. dent E. M. Hopkins, of Dartmouth, form the memorial might take ; the lec- Musical entertainment at the affair was President Arthur Stanley Pease, of Am- tureship, the president said, appealed to provided by the Duncan high school or- herst, President Mary E. Wooley, Mount him, because it was in harmony with chestra. Holyoke, President William A. Nielson, the spirit of Mr Buchanan, who was a of Smith, and President Thatcher, of delightful after dinner speaker, and be. DIRECTOR CLECKLER Massachusetts Agricultural college. cause it would tend to keep the memory Frank Cleckler, secretary of the Uni- The progress of continued education for of Mr Buchanan before the state in versity great- of Oklahoma Association has been alumni was a subject which received con- er measure than by any other possible elected director for the American Alumni siderable attention at the meeting. Lafay- project. The president assured the As- Council district including colleges and ette college conducted a successful experi- sociation also that only nationally and universities in Oklahoma, Kansas, Mis- ment along this line a year ago. A formal internationally known lecturers would be souri, Iowa, and Nebraska . His elec- program of lectures covering a varied secured, in order that the lectures tion might to the office took place at the meeting field, was held for alumni during the be certain to bring to Oklahoma only of the American Alumni council held at week following commencement. men of known merit, and so guarantee Amherst, Massachusetts, May 1, 2, and 3. Approximately two hundred delegates to the Association members that the spirit As district director Mr Cleckler will pro- representing eighty colleges and univer- of the memorial-to keep Mr Buchanan's mote the annual district meeting held in sities attended the meeting of the name before Soonerland-would Ameri- live per- Kansas City, Missouri, usually in January. can Alumni council at petually. Amherst. The Plans for the program at this meeting hosts for the meeting were the Connecti- will be under his direction. cut valley colleges, Amherst, Mount Hol- INDEX, DIRECTORY Another distinction was conferred on yoke, Smith, and Massachusetts This is the final Agricul- news issue of volume Mr Cleckler at the meeting of the Alumni tural college, all located II of The within eight Sooner Magazine. After a council when he was made chairman of miles of each other. thorough study of the situation, it was the magazine section. He presided over decided by the officers of the Association all discussion presented concerning alum- GOLF AND BRIDGE to make the July issue the directory num- ni magazines . The historical background The Norman Alumni club added its ber. This will reduce the mailing cost progress, and future of this type of mag- bit to the entertainment of the commence- to a fourth, and by using stiff covers azine the provided a wealth of material for ment homecoming guests with a bridge issue will be as serviceable as in the discussion . An improved service to ad- party and a golf tournament held on smaller format in which the directory has vertisers by alumni publications was sug- Monday afternoon at the Norman coun- been issued in the past. The July issue gested . try club. Men only entered the golf tour- will also contain the index of Volume Dr. Frank W. Scott, editor-in-chief of nament while both men and women at- II for those who have their volumes the D. C. Heath Publishing Co., addressed tended the bridge party. The golf trophy bound. The June issue of the magazine the magazine section on "Some Aspects was a silver loving cup while the bridge has been delayed in order to combine of Alumni Publications." He said that prizes were varied. All were contributed feature articles and news designed for the alumni publication, although in some by Norman merchants. Bridge prizes the final issue, with the normal respects contents a "house organ," should be kept were awarded to Mrs Alta Loomis Lard- for this month. The July directory num- in a category above that purely commer- er, Cordell, Mrs R . W. Hutto, Mrs Gra- ber will be mailed July 15, and will sell cial type of magazine . ham Johnson and Charles Meminger. for $3 to those not paid up members of Five college and university presidents The golf cup was won by Neil Johnson, the Association . Memberships received who spoke on alumni relationships at Norman. before July 1 will include the directory number. The next news issue of the magazine will be mailed October 1 . Clinic of our times DUNCAN ORGANIZES Stephens county alumni of the Uni- The alumni university versity of Oklahoma rallied round in DECORATION EXPRESSES THE Court ceremonies became extremely goodly number at an alumni banquet LIFE OF AN EPOCH formal and dignified. All entertainments which was held in Duncan Thursday, became complicated and were put on in May 22. About fifty `,former Sooners By DOROTHY KIRK, '23 the grand style. Fetes, balls, and parties from Duncan and vicinity gathered for of every conceivable type were planned the pow-wow planned by Frank Cleckler, OUIS XIV being a vain and pom- on a tremendous scale. For these grand secretary of the alumni association. L pous person, abashed and a little functions great rooms and halls were President W. B. Bizzell lent special unnerved by his brilliant and added to the palace. Rooms of tremen- distinction to the affair by his address at powerful mother when only a boy longed dous proportions with walls, ceilings, and the banquet. The Duncan alumni or- for his reign to begin. He longed for a floors of marbles brought from various ganization should have an auspicious be- great kingdom to rule and wished for parts of the world. ginning with the president of the uni- that kingdom to be filled with a very To provide the rich background for versity in attendance at its innovation. loyal and devoted pople . this grand court in these tremendous Organization of the Duncan group in- To insure the devotion of his obstreper- rooms the factory of the Gobelins was cluded election of officers and the ap- ous subjects he invited them to live at founded where painters, master weavers, pointment of a committee to formulate his court where he could watch them. goldsmiths, engravers, and cabinet mak- plans for future meetings and programs . To satisfy his vanity and to house his ers worked. Tapestries were woven after Those who were elected to office in the noblemen he had Versailles built. To the designs of Raphael and Lebrun and association are : Jerome Sullivan, '25 law, keep these noblemen his devoted and loyal cabinets were made by Boulle . Great Duncan, president ; A. H. Sills, '24 arts- subjects he employed entertainers to chairs with arms gave place to armless sc., Loco, vice president ; and Mrs Dale amuse them. round chairs so that ladies might sit com-