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In the NeWS this Week: THREE Alumni Trustees nominated to date—Maurice C. Burritt, Bancroft Gherardi, and Jacob F. Schoellkopf, Jr. Page 291

AsHBERY, field secretary, returns from extensive trip, where he was entertained by many clubs and organizations. Page 292

COLGATE and Syracuse vanquished by varsity track team in interesting meet—First Box Lacrosse game great success. Page 288

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J. Dall, Jr., Inc. The Romance of Cornell Building Construction By FRANK A. WRIGHT '79

HE career of Andrew D. White, first President of Cornell University, il- Ithaca Tlustrates an adventure in modern education in which fate and a lucky distribution of the cards play a large part. In 1876 when I entered as first N.Y. instructor in Architectural Drawing, Cornell was eight years old and still in a formative state. Gaunt stone buildings on a bleak hill, the material equipment was ugly and unpromising. Now after 57 years there are glorious trees and fine buildings. Even the early structures have been beautified by time and form a striking part of a most attractive college campus. The fortunate events that brought about this splendid transformation are wonderful, unusual, and hence the title of this sketch. J. Dall, Jr.,' I6 Telephone Consider the salient things of Mr. White's career and how they all dove- Λ President tailed in to get results. Heir to a competent fortune that made it unnecessary to consider material wants, he showed in his youth a most precocious and all- embracing mind. At the age of fifteen Hobart College had nothing to give him. His father, very strong for Episcopalianism, decided that Trinity College was the next step, but on the way to Hartford the boy persuaded him to Yale. He entered there in the famous class of 1853 and during his freshman year took all ESTABROOK & CO. the prizes that Yale afforded. Members of the New York and Apparently he never selected any special line of work. After traveling some Boston Stock Exchanges and being a professor in a western College, he took the role of a scholar in politics much the same as they do in England. Doubtless he had ambitions. Later on his name was frequently mentioned, quite seriously too, as a candi- Sound Investments date for the President of the United States. But he never got further than to be a Investment Counsel and member of the State Senate of New York. There he met Ezra Cornell, also a Supervision state senator, who was determined to found a college for boys and girls where could be studied anything and everything. Ezra Cornell was a typical and suc- Roger H. Williams'95 cessful American citizen filled with his noble purpose. He had his big farm on Resident Partner New York Office the east hill at Ithaca overlooking Cayuga Lake and the town. This was the 40 Wall Street place and he had $500,000 to give. But how to do it in the best way was not so easy. He had interested some of his associates, Sage, McGraw, and Sibley, all hard-headed successful business men. The first idea was to make it available to all without entrance examinations. They were aware of comparatively small means. It takes a lot of money to run a college. So it was when White appears Quality . . . on the scene. Never a more fortunate meeting. Ezra Cornell had laid the egg and here was Andrew D. White to hatch it. Fate could not harm such a con- Service junction and the University of to-day is the result. Still, there was some fine work to do in the way of proper endowment. Here E. II. Wanzer again the Cornell-White Team played a good game. The State of New York had Federal grants of valuable timber lands out west. No one could know better The Grocer than Sage how good they were. It was not difficult to persuade the Legislature that a School of Agriculture and certain free scholarships might be a good thing for the State. The founders were in a position to help this idea prevail Aurora and State Sts. and thus Cornell was provided with the necessary capital, so well administered Ithaca, N. Y. afterwards by the trustees to give a maximum income. With the stage all set, President White at the age of 35 was free to develop his plans. His conception of a University was men, not buildings. Yet he was highly qualified in architectural taste. He had a wonderful architect's library which he gave to the University. But his job was to get a good faculty, an es- R. A. HEGGIE& BRO. CO. sential of success. Here is a sample of its quality: One of the Greek letter fraternities (Psi Upsilon) had an evening where student essays and poems were * Fraternity read and followed by refreshments and a social time. Including President White there were 16 of the faculty present. Other guests were Rev. Joseph E. Twichell Jewelers of Hartford who told stories to us while Mark Twain, his neighbor, laughed Ithaca, New York with us and Goldwin Smith and Bayard Taylor joined in. Verily the early stu- dents were fortunate. Among other men we had contact with were George William Curtis, Felix Adler, and Agassiz. Then, too, on the other hand, we had athletic success, especially in rowing before the days of coaches, a big influence in spreading the fame of Cornell and attracting students. 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The Light That Failed By WM. H.MOORE,M.P.

R. CHAIRMAN and gentlemen, per- We sent you there to cure the depres- would refresh your memory. I would take haps I owe an immediate apology sion." He was complimentary, because he you over the long road we have travelled M for the subject of what I have to said I could do it if I would. I hope he is under capitalism. I cannot do it to-day, say, but when your president telephoned listening to your expression of in- but I want to gίYQ you one phase of the and asked what I was to talk about I had credulity. capitalistic order. The gist of it—produc- been thinking of an old Russian fable or tion for profit. Let me put it another way. story, in which a group of men, women, A Virile "System" Service for profit. Service with a profit and children were lost on the wind- We are told to-day that the capitalistic motive. And what is wrong with that? swept, ice-bound plains of Russia. They system has broken down. Now, I am not were cold and hungry. They had no going to say that anything has broken Service for Profit shelter. After they had wandered here down. I am not going to say we have had Service for profit. The socialist, and and there, someone in the group said, a collapse. I am going to say this, though, others that are not socialists, say the "There is a light." And the older mem- that we have, in whatever system we present order is passing away, that the bers of the group said, "We can see no have, a remarkable virility. If anybody profit motive means greed. I am labouring light." "There is a light," it was in- had told hard-headed D. B. Hanna that under no illusion as to human nature, as sisted, "and that light means home; that to-day we would have had in the United to the greed that is within human nature. light means food, shelter." And elo- States ten or twelve millions of unem- But that greed—if you like, call it so— quently insisting, by sheer force of insis- ployed and have had them for months— that profit motive means efficiency. Men tence, the other members of the group if they had told him that two or three in search of profit searched the continent saw the light; they followed on and on, years ago, knowing D. B. Hanna as I of Africa, and also South America, all to only to perish. know him, I am sure he would have serve us. And under the capitalistic order It was a false light. And I thought of thought there would have been a revolu- you will remember we checked greed, its application to present conditions. I tion. I am sure I should have thought so. profit-seeking, with competitive effort. wonder how many of you are suffering to- And still our system carries on. If we are That was the safety valve. Socialists day. I wonder how many of you have not in a collapse to-day we are near again tell us that competitive effort been brought into actual contact with enough to it to check over, and to try to means waste, and it does, but that waste the suffering of to-day. How many of you put our house in order. means growth, and out of those phases of have been in homes in the last few days Just what is supposed to have col- the capitalistic order we have had that had no fuel? I don't mean homes of lapsed? Just what is wrong? What is our growth. We have been taken from people on public relief. I mean the present system? I have an idea and I have poverty to prosperity. I read just before I homes of men who are educated as you had it for a long, long time, that in this came in here in the Toronto Star that some- were. Men who on the streets dress as you country we are suffering from illusion as body had said that the competitive sys- dress, and hold their heads high and to names. We get mixed in our nomen- tem was a survival of the jungle days. scorn public relief, but who are struggling clatures. There are some people who talk Now, historically, that man is wrong. It on wearily. Someone has said ," There is a of government ownership when they was competitive effort that brought us light." Can you blame them for follow- mean state capitalism, or state socialism, out of the jungle and its destruction will ing it? There is comfort; there is safety; and some of them talk about it when they take us back. there is surety; there is independence. don't mean it. And they get all mixed up I wonder if to-day we can just look at And that is what I want to talk about to- when they talk about communism and these things and have some facts on the day. I can think of nothing more worth socialism. I have an idea that there are table. I almost wish I were in a political while talking about. We have in this some people in this country who are con- gathering where they are accustomed to country of ours a group of men and a fused when they talk about cooperation heckling, because if I go wrong I want to woman who hold up a light. Some of and socialism. The Cooperative Common- be put right. That capitalistic order that them are my colleagues in the House. wealth is a Socialist party. Now, true in a is so much denounced did suffer and does They are able men and an able woman. way, socialism is cooperation. But it is suffer a very serious defect. It has always They have said that light means state not voluntary cooperation. It is coopera- been subjected to depressions. It has not socialism, means turning to the left. And tion with the policeman present with a been a straight course upward. Up until that I want to talk about, because, club or the soldier with a bayonet, and the days of Queen Anne, under the old frankly, in my opinion, it is a false light. we might just as well see things as they system the population of Great Britain I talk of it the more willingly because I are. Now, we must find out in what order never reached beyond five and one-half had an anonymous letter the other day. we are living to-day. We must be precise. millions. It began to grow only as the It was complimentary. It came from one We must know that before we can take world turned to the freedom of the in- of my constituents and he said, "Dear action. I wish you would run over your dividual within the organization of Sir, I want you to understand we did not school-day teachings to realize just what capitalism. And to-day, as you know, send you to parliament to make speeches. the capitalistic order is. If I had time I Britain has forty- [Continued on-page 290

[This address was given at a recent meeting of the Canadian Club of Toronto, and it is through the kindness of the author and the University of Toronto Monthly, that we are able to present it to our readers. Mr. Moore is a member of the class of 1894 at Toronto. The subject is one which has interested many of the readers of the Alumni News and we have had several requests for such an article.] 288 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS

About was the first time that Cornell has won Pole Vault—Won by Belloff (Cornell) this event in the Drill Hall in ten years of 13 ft.; Stutzman (Syracuse) second; Bacon Athletics competition. This victory was even the (Syracuse) and Risley (Colgate) tied for ΓJESTRICTING themselves to Central more unexpected because Ratkoski has third. |\ New York, Cornell teams emerged seldom cleared this distance in practice, High Jump—Won by Ratkoski (Cor- from the Black Winter, a season of defeat while Wehrfritz of Syracuse, who cap- nell) 6 ft.; Schroeder (Colgate) second; and disappointment and injuries, to tured second place, consistently jumps Wehrfritz (Colgate) third. register two impressive victories. The six feet. Freshman Dash—Forsythe (Cornell) triangular meet arranged in the Drill Hall Hardy, the best sprinter Moakley has 7.7; Howland (Colgate) second; Mohr March 2.5, for Cornell, Syracuse, and Col- coached since the days of Hank Russell (Syracuse) third. gate, resulted in an impressive victory for 'z6, was an easy victor in the 75-yard Freshman Relay—Won by Cornell the home team. Cornell scored 68 points dash, his time coming within a tenth of a 1:36.7; Syracuse, second; Colgate, third. second of tying Russell's Drill Hall as against 30^ for Syracuse and 8J^ for Interfraternity Relay—Won by Theta record. BellofFcleared the bar at 13 feet to Colgate. Kappa Nu x:41.x; Alpha Zeta, second; win the pole vault for Cornell. Nick Bawlf led his lacrosse squad to Beta Theta Pi, third; 12.0 Wait Avenue, Only in the weight events, the features Rochester March Z5 to engage in his- fourth; Sigma Nu, fifth. that have been dominated by Cornell for tory's first intercollegiate box lacrosse Intercollege Relay—Won by M.E., game. History will record that Cornell many years now, was the Big Red team weak. The graduation of Schoenfeld left 4:2.5.5; Arts second; Agriculture third; captured the first contest of this kind by Hotel, fourth. by the score of 12.-7, administering a Assistant Coach Bangs temporarily with- out any candidates to carry on the vic- severe drubbing to Syracuse. The Lacrosse Team torious tradition established during the The Track Meet last few years by Worden, Wright, Having accustomed themselves to the indoor variety of the Indian game by Led by Captain Mangan, who per- Anderson, Levy, and others. Werntz of many weeks of practice on the hard sonally accounted for ten points, the Colgate out-tossed Martin and Rieker of boards of the Drill Hall, the lacrosse Cornell team exceeded all expectations by Cornell, to win the shot put with a cast team was able to render a splendid ac- turning the meet into a rout. The scoring of 44 feet. Klauer of Colgate, the de- count of itself in the Rochester Armory. was even until Mangan led Vipond home cathlon athlete who had been expected to Before a large crowd of Cornell and Syra- to give Cornell the first two places in the capture this event easily, was unable to cuse alumni, the Ithacans secured an early mile run, after a battle with Streeter of compete because of an injury. lead and were never headed. Syracuse. Mangan's time was four sec- Cornell's freshmen showed that they onds longer than the Drill Hall record, will bring some important additions to The game was arranged by the Cornell but he finished sprinting strongly and next year's varsity. They won the relay Club of Rochester, which guaranteed the easily, conveying the impression that he for freshmen in fast time, and Forsyth's expenses of both teams. The success of the can lower the local record any time it oc- winning time in the 75-yard dash was affair makes it almost a certainty that curs to him. only two-tenths of a second slower than this practice will often be resorted to Mangan returned to the track about the winning time in the varsity event. during the instant economic emergency. thirty minutes later to beat Streeter in the Finch and Kerr were unable to fight off All the atmosphere of an intercollegiate 880 yard run. The sturdy Cornellian the sprint of Bateman, the Syracuse two- contest was preserved, although the τ traveled this distance in the estimable miler, and this event w ent to the Orange game was played many miles from the time of 1.03. This was the second time despite the predictions of most observers. campus of either institution. The Cornell this season that Mangan won two events The summary: and Syracuse bands played between the halves, and varsity cheer-leaders stimu- in the same evening. In the triangular Mile—Won by Mangan (Cornell) lated graduates of many years to shout meet with Harvard and Dartmouth at 4.x8 3; Vipond (Cornell) second; Streeter themselves hoarse. Boston last month, he won both the mile (Syracuse) third. The Cornell team, constructed around a and the half-mile. 440—Won by Smith (Syracuse) 52..3; nucleus of powerful football men, was Cornell was invincible in the hurdles, Rosan (Cornell) second; Fox (Colgate) capturing all six of the scoring positions third. quite impressive. Phil Winslow, a mem- ber of last year's Ail-American lacrosse in the two events. Merwin, who is one of 75 yard dash—Won by Hardy (Cornell) the most promising sophomores under 7.5; Dreher (Cornell) second; Phillipson team, was the outstanding star on the Moakley's tutelage, led the way in the (Syracuse) third. Cornell side. 75-yard high hurdles in the time of 9.6. High Hurdles—Won by Merwin (Cor- It is interesting to observe that nine He was second in the low hurdles to nell) 9.6, Bennett (Cornell) second; Hil- sons of former Cornellians appeared in the Irving, who will be remembered for his mer (Cornell) third. line-up in the course of the evening. At occasional appearances at right end on Two mile—Won by Bateman (Syra- one time almost the entire Cornell team the football team last fall. Irving also cuse) 10:6.4; Kerr (Cornell) second; was comppsed of the sons of alumni. scored with the mile relay team which Hazen (Cornell) third. Avery, Haire, Hochbaum, Hodgson, ended the meet with another stirring 880—Won by Mangan (Cornell) 2.10.3; Joseph, Pettit, Siegel, Stalford, and Win- triumph for Cornell. Streeter (Syracuse) second; Carr (Syra- slow are all sons of Cornellians. The relay was the most exciting event cuse) third. The lineup: of the evening. After losing an early lead, Low hurdles—Won by Irving (Cornell) the varsity runners came back to give CORNELL SYRACUSE 8.6; Merwin (Cornell) second; Bennett G. Sampson, the anchor man, a meagre ad- (Cornell) third. vantage. Sampson fought off the drive of Haire Baker Broad jump—Won by Phillipson (Syra- the powerful Syracuse man running R.D. cuse) 2.2. feet. 6 in.; Berkowitz (Cornell) against him, and reached the tape less Kossack Ornstein second; Townsend (Syracuse) third. than a yard ahead of his rival. L.D. Relay—Won by Cornell 3:31, Syracuse Brock Cook Rαtkoski Wins High Jump second; Colgate third. R. The surprise of the evening came when Shot put—Won by Werntz (Colgate) Beyer (capt.) F. Martin Ratkoski of Cornell won the running 44 ft. J^ in.; Martin (Cornell) second; C. high jump with a leap of six feet. This Rieker (Cornell) third. Cornell Gudat MARCH 3 0, 1933 289

R.W. But coming into the last quarter mile they Just Vaughan D. Martin stepped up the beat and slugged their L.W. way to a close victory. Looking Around Winslow Thiel When one of their oarsmen caught a LKANAH WATSON was up this-a-way in Cornell 3 3 4 2.—12. crab near the finish, the Freshmen lost 1791, reconnoitering the route for a their opportunity to overtake the third E Syracuse 2. o 2. 3— 7 proposed canal from Albany to Seneca varsity in the second race of the day. Lake. I recommend his Memoirs to you; Cornell substitutes were: McEachron, They lost by over a length although they he was a wise, genial, and courtly Ebertz, Petroff, Tyler, Hodgson, Shul- had started a sprint previous to the ac- gentleman. Also, he was one of the first man, Marquart, Forker, Pettit, Geoffrion cident which was eating up the space be- Finger Lakes Boosters. He found nothing Mason, and Fauerbach. tween them and the lead. to criticize but the rude and uncouth The coaching launch is due for a paint- Fencing Team Victors pioneers, "but, they are a useful race of ing in the next few days and will then be citizens, calculated to subdue the wilder- The Cornell Fencing team won a close ready for use. At that time, weather per- ness, and make way for more civilized match from Hamilton, 9-8, in the Drill mitting, Coach Wray will put his men Hall Saturday afternoon. In the foils, the settlers, rising by gradations. In spite of through their paces out on the lake, and Cornell team showed a tremendous im- fleas and bugs, as this was the only over longer distances. With only five provement, winning by a score of 7-2.. civilized roof we had slept under for ten Garrett of Cornell was the star of the weeks to prepare for their first race the nights, we submitted cheerfully to our day, winning all three of his matches in crews still have a long way to go before fate. I had reason, however, before the foils. Bond scored two more points reaching racing shape. There are any morning, to sigh for the luxury of sleep- for Cornell by winning both of his number of points to be ironed out and ing in the open air, with my feet to the sabres matches. The recapitulation of the probably a few changes in positions be- fire. I found a difficulty of breathing, meet is as follows: fore the boats will be ready. pent-up in a close room, the air of which, Foils: Garrett of Cornell defeated The seatings for the crews Saturday being contaminated by different breaths, Paumier, Ballard, and Montrose of afternoon were: Varsity: Haire, bow; or even a single breath, is always pre- Hamilton; Anderson of Cornell defeated Fleischmann, 2.; McLoed, 3; Garber, 4; judicial to health." Paumier and Montrose of Hamilton and Todd, 5; Williams, 6; Schroeder, 7; Foote, Ithaca did not exist at the time of his was beaten by Ballard of Hamilton; Blau stroke; Travers, coxswain, xnά varsity: tour. He found Geneva "a small, un- of Cornell lost to Paumier and defeated Everett, bow; Thompson, 2.; Kitchen, 3; healthy village, containing about fifteen Ballard and Saunders of Hamilton. Day, 4; Blum, 5; Nelson, 6; Hooper 7; houses, all log except three, and about Sabre: Berumen of Cornell lost to Scanlon Payne, stroke; Eliasberg, coxswain. 3rd twenty families. We received decent ac- and Bellatty of Hamilton; Bond of Cor- varsity: Dreyer, bow; Babcock, 2.; Wolf, commodations at Paterson's, on the mar- nell defeated Scanlon and Bellatty of 3; Buck, 4; Borland, 5; Otto 6; LePage, 7; gin of the lake, but were troubled, most Hamilton. Epee: Blau of Cornell lost to Vaughn, stroke; Jenkins, coxswain. 1st Scanlon and Breined of Hamilton; frosh: Reynolds, bow; Van Arsdale, 2.; of the night, by gamblers and fleas—two Berumen of Cornell lost to Scanlon and DuMond, 3; Downer, 4; Glasser, 5; Hop- curses to society." Hawley of Hamilton. per, 6; Dickerson, 7; Werrenrath, stroke; He was enchanted by Cayuga Lake. Davison, coxswain, 2.nd frosh: Pierce, "We landed occasionally; noticed distant Rΐίle Team Wins bow; Hart, 2.; Greig, 3; Campbell, 4; smoke, and here and there a log hut em- The Cornell rifle team outshot Syra- D. Wood, 5; Forbes, 6; Brown, 7; Paul bosomed in the venerable forests. In the Wood, stroke; Carson, coxswain. cuse, 687 to 656, on the Drill Hall rifle southwest quarter, the township of Ovid range Saturday afternoon for the second made its appearance. It rises beautifully win of a series of shoulder-to-shoulder matches with the Orange. This match from the shore toward its centre. The tops finished a very successful season, the Red of the' trees resemble waving fields of rifle team having won all their shoulder- wheat at a distance. We sailed along the to-shoulder matches except the one with shore of the town of Scipio, a fine tract of the New York Stock Exchange team. rich land, already thickly inhabited by In the Cornell-Syracuse match ten men new settlers. . . . The map of the world shot from each team from three positions, does not exhibit, in any other country, prone, kneeling, and standing. The five two lakes equal in magnitude to the highest of each team placed: Cornell— Seneca and Cayuga, so singularly and so Blount, 140; Bleier, 139; Keet, 139; happily situated. What a fertile theme for Martin, 135; Throop, 134. Syracuse— Jack, 135; Hansen, 134; Post, 1^; Wil- painters, poets, philosophers, and travel- liams, 1x9; McNasser, 12.6. lers, for the last two thousand years, had they been found in Italy! . . . Whenever it Crew Trials reaches a cultivated state, by the vigorous Some interesting results came out of a arm of freemen, it will become the para- few time trials held for the crews on the dise of America. Nothing can exceed the Inlet last Saturday afternoon. beauty of the country. ... In a word, I The first varsity, stroked by Bill Foote almost deplored the short span of human (son of Ed Foote '06 of Milwaukee) took life, that I cannot witness the happiness a close decision over the second varsity by of those generations of Americans, yet about two feet. Jumping into the lead at τ unborn, w ho are destined to inherit these the start the second boat increased it at the half mile mark to about three-quarter delightful regions." of a length. Bert Payne was setting a And to think that there are some of this smooth, steady pace that the rest of the blessed generation who look back, with a crew was picking up nicely. The varsity certain envy, to Elkanah Watson! seemed to be rowing too hard for comfort. THE WHITE GATEWAY AT YALE RϋNDSCHAUER 290 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS

The Light That Failed history. Then the dam broke. That big you sit with your feet on the ground so (Continued from page 28γ) bad dam broke and engulfed us. long as there is a little fellow on the other end, but if a big fellow gets on the five millions. But it was not a straight A New Era other end your feet leave the ground. upward growth. We had these cyclic and That was not all. Almost enough, but That is precisely what has happened to secular sharp or long downward trends. not all. There were two other malignant us. Our statisticians are strong on most forces, and I want to talk about them. We No Cost Adjustment things but they are weak on the figures as are not to-day in a competitive order. Again, a subject one has to investigate. to the number of combines in this country. We are living in a new era, and that is a I have not the disposition to go into it at In Germany they are franker. They regis- any length but I would have you recall phrase I hate to use. We are always having new eras. We are out of one and ter their combine operations, and I want that depressions come with falling com- to give you some German statistics. There modity prices, and you can have just as into another, and to-day I am going to ask you to believe that it is not the com- they have had combines, if you like, or much profit, just as much prosperity, on price regulation by producers, for sixty one price level as another provided you petitive era that has gone wrong. It is a new era which is only partially com- years. And according to the last account, have adjustment of costs. And that is one-half of the raw products and semi- precisely what we lack to-day. We are petitive. Now, again, I have to take you back to finished products in Germany are pro- down and we are not able to get up as we duced by cartels or under price control. have always done under similar condi- school; I have to say something about the Just one-half. Now, how does it work, or tions. And why? Well, I should like to capitalistic system. You will recall that it rather, how does it fail to work? I gave tell the man who wrote that anonymous means specialized effort, specialized pro- detailed figures the other night to the letter that we have tried. Mr. Hoover duction, away from the old self-contained young men of the Canadian Club. I want tried, tried with the assistance of the industries in which a man spun yarn and to repeat two or three of them. In 19x9 ablest men of the United States, tried for wove it and made cloth and at the same the cartelized prices were on an index a year, because he knew his political life time cultivated a garden and had a horse number of 104.6 and the non-cartelized was at stake. He failed. We have had and cow. It meant that each one of us world conferences and are still having tried to do some one thing and did it the 101.9, i.e., taking the figures of τψ£ as them. We had a conference at Ottawa this better because it was the only thing we 100 base. They were very near together summer; still we are in depression. Now, did. The cobbler stuck to his last. But in then. In January 1932. cartelized prices it does seem a bit presumptuous on my order to work that system we had to had fallen to 84.4 per cent; the non- part, doesn't it, in view of these things, have a method of exchanging what we cartelized or competitive prices had fallen to make suggestions? But I believe that produced. Exchange our services. And to 51.2. per cent, or fifty per cent. And one every man in these trying days should do then we come to something that Mr. group of producers could not buy the his bit, and I propose to give you my Chalmers likes to write about—the price goods of the other group of producers. views and leave it to your judgment as to level. We must have a workable price You have had the same thing happen in their reasonableness. level. The repair men of the present order Canada. want generally to raise our price level by Now, of course, some of the things we I have had a watching brief for many inflation. I am going to take issue with are suffering from are effects of the War. years on the effects of price control. them a bit because our trouble, in my You are all familiar with them. I want to opinion, is not so much with the price Thirty years ago I read a paper on the give you, however, one phase that you level as with the existence of price levels; subject, I am proud to say; I was then in probably have not thought much about. and they have come about by two malig- my twenties; it was given to the British We should have had a depression after the nant forces of which I intend now to speak. Association for the Advancement of War. We got it in 192.0 and 192.1. Then we Science, and I have followed the subject The first is the growth of non-competi- said, we are going to stop depressions for ever since. I want to give you some salient tive economy. In the natural order of all time; and we hit upon an idea—I figures and I am not making by the cita- things when machines replaced tools, mean the world at large—to stop that tion of these figures a charge of price the producers became bigger and bigger— depression, to stay it, to cut it short, and control. I am giving you simply an il- and fewer. Then they said, "Instead of we did it by international finance. There lustration of why the present system was a reservoir of trouble into which we settling prices by competition, by having them determined in the cold, cold world won't work. The safety valve has been were pouring all the potential pains for clogged. I am taking what the farmer has mankind that arose out of the War. There of competitive effort, we will fix our own prices." Now, one man's prices are to sell, and the same figures apply very were currencies that had been inflated and largely to all competitive industries. then sharply deflated, tariffs that had another man's costs; and you then had an inflexible element put into the present Taking the figures of the prices of 192.6 as been raised not only in the old countries 100, what the farmer had to sell in but in the new countries, created after the order; and it can't work up and down October was at an index of 44.9; his War. There were wheat belts that had without a flexibility of parts. household goods at an index number of been expanded without a corresponding I have been looking at a man in this 72.-5; hi$ fertilizer 72.-3; his tools 88.8 and expansion of human belts. There was a audience two or three times because of his implements 96.9. It is only fair to say rise of industry in the Orient. There were what I know I am going to say next. I that the implement manufacturers claim scores of things that went into that can give as many reasons as he can for the that there has been an improvement in reservoir, malignant forces, and we stayed existence of what he calls a "fair price," quality. But what is the use of having an them back by borrowing money—by determined for his product in combina- loans. And loans never yet settled debt. tion with other producers. There are improvement in quality if the farmer can- We built the dam, higher, higher and distress prices'' and there is'' cut-throat not buy his implements, if he cannot buy higher. Within six years, before the end competition" and—oh, I could think of a the goods he needs? As a result you have of 192.9, between fifteen and twenty bil- hundred reasons for that procedure, but lack of buying, unemployment and dis- lions of dollars had been loaned by the the strongest reason against it is simply tress. And I know men, some of my own people of one country to the people of this, that civilization won't work when friends, who actually boast that their other countries. I mean not by one that sort of thing reaches a preponderate contribution to the present depression is country, but by the people of different scale. that they have maintained their prices. They have paralyzed buying power. We countries to the people of other countries. Like α Teeter Board have different levels, and the man on the You can see the size of that dam. Never I know some of you as boys have been lower level cannot reach the goods of the was there anything like it in the world's on a teeter board. You know what it is; man on the higher level. MARCH 30, 1933 291

The Combines affect the world's book-keeping. Taking ALUMNI TRUSTEE the years 1913 and 19x8, the average in- There is still another malignant factor Candidates Nominated and still another price level. Since the come of the Englishman increased by 65 War and largely as a result of the War we per cent, and the government's budget by Three candidates for alumni trustee have had a new outlook upon the state 346 per cent.; the income of the French- have had their nominations filed with and the state upon us. I can remember man dropped 6 per cent, but his govern- the treasurer's office up to the time of when men generally looked askance at ment increased by 82. per cent, the going to press for the ALUMNI NEWS. combines and realized their baneful expenditures. The German increased his Since nominations are closed on March effects. When I was on the tariff board I income by 43 per cent, and the govern- 31, it is not expected that there will be had some fruit growers come before me. ment increased by 142. per cent, its any more nominations. Frankly, I was shocked by them, and it expenditure. And think of the United The three candidates are Maurice C. takes quite a bit to shock me. They came States. They had a marvelous increase in Burritt '08, Bancroft Gherardi '93, and from British Columbia. (No ρ®litics in individual income of IXI per cent, and an Jacob F. Schoellkopf, Jr. '05. The last two this story.) I think it was a Liberal increase of 458 per cent, in government are now serving as trustees and will run legislature that had passed a marketing expenditure. Now, all that meant taxa- for reelection. act by which a fruit grower could be put tion and, generally, an increase of debt. Ballots and the accompanying bi- into jail and fined a large sum of money if Somebody in the anteroom before I came ographies of the candidates will be sent he sold his own fruit to the people of a in—I think Sir Thomas White—said, our out from the Alumni Office shortly after trouble is debt, government debt, private neighbouring province. Yes, that was the the first of April. debt. Province of British Columbia. In order to include any other possible And how many forms these combina- Sir Thomas White: World Debt candidates, the ALUMNI NEWS will pub- tions assume! We all know of the history I wonder if I might just look for a lish biographical summaries after the of the wheat pools and we think of them Easter recess. All Cornell degree holders moment at our own provincial debt. I as purely cooperative undertakings and are entitled to vote for alumni trustees. am not going to take you over all our generally approved of them. They were The Cornell Corporation and the ALUMNI debts; you would not have time to listen. not simply cooperative, because the NEWS urge those so entitled to cast their governments went behind the pools, But in 1896 the debt of our nine provinces vote. The time limit is June 1. went behind the purchase of their was $51,000,000; in 1916 it was $2.40,000,- elevators, went behind them in many a 000, and in 1930 it was $1,140,000,000. ST. LOUIS CLUB way. The farmers, the Chalmers, Smiths Someone I know here is quietly thinking, and Mitchells, out there—went on But our debt in the Province of Ontario Dean Dexter S. Kimball and Professor growing wheat while their own judg- and the other provinces is made up Nathaniel Schmidt were guests at a ment told them they should do some- largely of profit-making public utilities, special meeting of the Club held at the thing else, but they said, we have the or at least of public utilities that pay Hotel Statler on March 17. Lock wood governments behind us, so we must be Hill '09, president of the club, presided. right. And they went on in production their way." Well, it doesn't show in the that was uneconomic and they went on tax returns. Those nine provinces in 1916 Dean Kimball attended the convoca- spurred by government encouragement. imposed taxes of $15,000,000 on the tion of the engineering societies of Wash- ington University, and on the evening of Then we have had an extension of people; in 192.9 taxes of $109,000,000; government administration. Not in Can- they increased them seven times in March 17 gave an address on the "Limi- ada alone, but throughout the world. thirteen years. And still we are told there tations of Modern Industrial Methods," And I wonder if I may again give you is a light ahead. Turn to the real left—to to which the Cornell alumni were in- just a few key figures, because these all state socialism. [Continued on page 294 vited.

The Three Alumni Trustee Candidates

Maurice C. Burritt '08 Bancroft Gherardi '93 Jacob F. Schoellkopf, Jr. '05 292 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS

CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS and means of developing these contacts. Morris E. Trotter '3Z and James ITHACA, NEW YORK A special meeting was called for the Lister '33, as well as a student from Spring recess at which time the Washing- Harvard and one from Iowa State Col- FOUNDED 1899 INCORPORATED 1926 ington undergraduates will be the guests lege, are the men selected from the 48 Published for the Cornell Alumni Corpora- of the Washington alumni. architects who entered the preliminary tion by the Cornell Alumni News Publishing The Trenton alumni took advantage of competition, to start in the finals on Corporation. Ashbery's visit to invite members of sur- March 31. Published weekly during the college year rounding preparatory and high schools to Ordinarily one contestant of these four and monthly in July and August: thirty-five hear him tell of campus news and to see would be awarded the fellowship, but issues annually. Issue No. i is published in September. Weekly publication ends the last motion pictures of the campus. Over circumstances this year are such that week in June. Issue No. 35 is published in thirty men who are planning to enter col- there is a possibility that two may be August and is followed by an index of the en- lege in the fall were present. There were chosen by the judges. tire volume, which will be mailed on request. representatives from Peddie, Lawrence- The final competition will close April Subscription price $4.00 a year, payable in ad- ville, and Bordentown preparatory 30, and the decision will be announced vance. Canadian postage 3$ cents a year extra; for- schools. eign jo cents extra. Single copies twelve cents each. May 8. The winner will go to Rome this Ashbery attended a meeting of the summer for two years of study of land- Editor-in-Chief R. W. SAILOR '07 Plainfield alumni on March zi. The club Business Manager R. C. STUART scape architecture in the famous gardens Managing Editor HARRY G. STUTZ '07 had as its guest William G. Mennen '08. of Italy. Asst. Mng. Editor JANE MCK. URQUHART '13 He gave an illuminating account of the The American Academy sponsors the present dormitory system and the Univer- Associate Editors fellowship in landscape architecture as sity's plans for the future. Ashbery gave a MORRIS G. BISHOP '13 FOSTER M. COFFIN '12. one of the series of awards in the School MARGUERITE L. COFFIN MILTON S. GOULD '30 detailed account of campus activities and the meeting was concluded with a show- of Fine Arts. It also presents annual fel- Member Intercollegiate Alumni Extension Service ing of motion pictures. lowships in the School of Classical Study. Printed by The Cayuga Press The club elected new officers for the Entered as Second Class Matter at Ithaca, N. Y. year: Leslie Slocum '13, president; Wil- About ITHACA, N.Y. MARCH 30, 1933 liam H. Hill 'zz, secretary. On March zz the alumni of Westfield The Clubs held a meeting at the Y.M.C.A., and Milwaukee FIELD SECRETARY invited as their guests the members of the The annual banquet of the Club was Makes Extensive Trip Westfield High Schools. The trip was held at the University Club on March 10. brought to a close with a luncheon Henry D. Lindsay Ίo and George G. Ray S. Ashbery '2.5, alumni field meeting of the Newark alumni which Goetz Ίz served jointly as toastmasters, secretary, has returned to Ithaca from a was held at the Down Town Club in and the entertainment included two two weeks tour among the alumni clubs. Newark on March Z4. massed choirs, and reels of motion pic- He attended eight meetings. Starting in ture films sent by the Alumni Office in Baltimore he went as far south as Wash- Ithaca. F. Van Epps Mitchell '2.3 was ington and returned by way of the FRESHMAN WOMEN SWIMMERS elected president, succeeding Elliott B. Atlantic coast, visiting clubs in Delaware The freshmen women's swimming team Mason 'zi. The other officers were re- and New Jersey. defeated the sophomores and seniors in elected: Clair P. Nourse '19, vice-presi- The tour was inaugurated on March 13 the W. A.A. Interclass Swimming Meet in dent; Henry M. Stillman, Jr. '30, secre- when Ashbery attended a luncheon at the Old Armory last Friday evening. The tary; Ernst Clarenbach, Jr. '31, treasurer. Baltimore. The meeting was held at the freshmen made a score of 3Z points, the Engineers Club. Ashbery gave the latest sophomores 30 points, and the seniors Z7 Cleveland news from the campus, and solicited co- points. The Club has made the annual operation for the Committee on Relations Virginia Camden, instructor in the presentation of its track trophy on March with Preparatory Schools. He told of the Physical Education Department, coached 9. This year East Technical High School undergraduate sectional meetings held in the teams, and Haskell and Ryan, also of was the winner, and Tel S. Berna Ίz, one Ithaca to enable the present undergradu- the Physical Education Department, of Cornell's best-known performers in ates to make new contacts with the were the judges. track, made the presentation at an as- alumni of their respective cities. The Nine events took place, with winners sembly of the school. The trophy is alumni were interested in the under- as follows: Free style—one length, awarded annually to the high school in graduate activities and pledged their Katherine M. Doring '35; side stroke Cleveland that has made the greatest support to the new movement. (form), Sophie M. Jacobs '35; plunge for achievement during the preceding year. Two meetings were held on March 15. distance, Ethel M. Potteiger; back crawl The schodl winning it three times will Ashbery met with the Harrisburg club for speed,Dorothea E.Wiener '35; crawl hold it permanently. East Technical and at luncheon in the Hotel Harrisburger. (form) Dorothea E. Wiener '35; free Lakewood High Schools now have two In the evening, the Wilmington Club held style—two lengths, Margaret R. Blender- legs on the trophy, which has been in its annual meeting at the du Pont man '36; back crawl (form) Maud competition since 192.5. Country Club. Franklin Taylor '2.x, presi- Sargent '33; obstacle race, Alice M. Ryan College Night—Freeport, L. I. dent of the Club, presided. After a talk by '33 relay race, seniors. Ashbery, and a showing of motion pic- Joel K. Pitcher 'zo and Gilbert S. Flint tures of the campus, the alumni were '30 represented Cornell at the annual entertained by the cast of the Legion ROME PRIZE COMPETITION "College Night" held at Freeport, Long Frolic. Four contestants, two of them Cor- Island, on March 10. Fifty-three colleges The Washington alumni held a dinner nellians, remain in the Rome Prize Com- were represented by delegates, with on March 16 at the University Club. They petition sponsored by the American twenty-four high schools of the neighbor- were extremely interested in the program Academy, which presents an annual hood invited to participate, and to send to create closer contacts between the fellowship to provide two years of study to the meeting those seniors and juniors undergraduates and alumni. After Ash- in Rome for the winning landscape who are interested in learning more about bery's talk the alumni discussed ways architect. the colleges. MARCH 3 0, 1933 293

The Week On The Campus

HIS BEER BUSINESS presents its special crtiical time as this to gain favor with his THE CLEVELAND SYMPHONY Orchestra collegiate problems. A good many creator? You will find no spiritual benefits gave the last of the University Concert Tof the undergraduates seem to think in a beer crowd but rather the elements of Series on Thursday. The evening was that the promised beer is an enchanted satanic influence, which has never dis- something of an ovation to Nikolai fluid, sweeter than honey in the honey- played virtue." Sokoloff, who is to retire at the end of the comb, pleasantly warming and cooling, season. To TURN FROM DRINK tO fθθd, the CO- soothing and stimulating. I hate to think operative group of students, getting two MARGIT WIKSTROM, soprano, gave a of the chill that will seize a thousand meals a day for $2..00 a week, has begun pleasing recital in Willard Straight Hall hearts following the first rapturous taste its meetings with evident success. Their on Sunday. She was assisted by Dr. J. A. of the new beer. You and I know, of first dinner consisted of cream of tomato de Tomasi, violinist, and George Daland, course, that the enjoyment of beer is an soup, lamb chops, potatoes au gratin, pianist. acquired taste; no one likes his first drink beets, and a baked apple, with milk and of beer. And even after he has had quite a FRITZ KREISLER, here on Tuesday last, bread and butter. This was served for less few, he recognizes that beer is a heavy, accepted the invitation of the Ameri- than the proposed unit cost of 13.5 cents. bloating drink, a marked sudorific. Very can Legion to dinner. This is especially nice in the right circumstances, but there PRESIDENT and Mrs. Roosevelt did even nice, because Mr. Kreisler ordinarily re- are plenty of circumstances when a better. Mrs. Roosevelt served on Tuesday fuses all offers of entertainment. chocolate milkshake with ice cream one of the depression lunches she learned MR. JAY W. FAY, of Ithaca College, has floating is far superior. about here during Farm and Home Week. suffered a breakdown, and is retiring to It consisted of hot stuffed eggs with take a long rest. Mr. Fay was head of the WILL BEER BE SOLD in Willard Straight tomato sauce, mashed potatoes, prune Hall? The authorities are in a nasty spot. Band and Orchestra Departments and pudding, bread, and coffee. This cost The University charter forbids the sale of Professor of French, German, and Italian. seven and a half cents. President Roose- intoxicating liquors on the campus. But velt ate it all, and then signed the beer PROFESSOR John W. Hebel Ph.D. '10, of Congress has decided that 3.x per cent bill. the Department of English has received a beer is not intoxicating. Therefore it can grant from the American Council of just as well be served in Balch Halls. On A GOOD THING to eke out these simple Learned Societies to continue his edition the other hand we somehow can't get rid meals is Shark Liver Oil, given to the of the poems of Michael Drayton, three of the well implanted idea that beer is world by Robert P. Nichols '06 of volumes of which have appeared. Profes- liquor, and hence out of place. On the Coconut Grove, Fla., son of Professor sor Max L. W. Laistner of the Depart- other hand a lot of accepted definitions Emeritus Edward L. Nichols '75. Shark ment of History has received a similar have gone by the board in the last few liver oil is very rich in vitamins A and D. grant to aid his edition of Bede's Com- years: cigarette-smoking as a symbol of Mr. Nichols got 100 gallons of oil from mentary on Acts. feminine promiscuity, for instance. Yet one shark's liver. we don't want callow boys and girls AT THE DEPRESSION BALL, 'reported on PROFESSOR George J. Thompson of the getting intoxicated even on non-intoxi- last week, admission was granted to one College of Law is one of the eight re- cating beer. Altogether we don't know dancer in exchange for 2.5 cents in cash cipients of a research fellowship in the what to do. and a dozen original drawings, one en- Harvard Law School. THE DOWNTOWN SCOFFLAWS are like- titled "A Design for a Simple Tomb- C. P. ROBERTSON '33 of Buffalo, who wise nonplussed. It need no longer be a stone." The committee would like to hear suffered a fractured skull in the St. secret that strong drink is bought and from anyone desiring a design for a Patrick's Day battle, is out of danger and sold in this sylvan Sodom. Commissioner simple tombstone. is reported to be resting comfortably. Monroe M. Sweetland '90 estimates the THE UNDERGRADUATE-ALUMNI dinners ATTENTION OF Dr. Malinowski: Fox's number of speakeasies as xoo, and he says have been continued. Last week residents Cannibalism Control is on sale in Treman he has heard guesses running as high as from the Middle West and from New King's basement. "We are glad someone 2.000. C. R. Rosenberry '2.6, the enter- Jersey dined together. invented something for cannibalism," prising reporter of the Ithaca Journal- THE WINTER intramural sports season writes a satisfied customer. It seems that News, finds, to his surprise and ours, that was brought to a close with a festival in you cure cannibalism by painting the the proprietors of the local pump rooms the Drill Hall. The S. O. L. Club, a group hen-house windows blood-color. rather welcome the new law. One key- of independents, winners of the basket- M.G.B. man is thus quoted: "They can't end ball series, met and defeated Delta Kappa prohibition any too soon to suit me. I'm Epsilon of Colgate. Joe Moran and Tony sick of the business. There was good ALUMNUS HEADS Balash, eminent Syracuse University money in it for the first few years, but National City Company boxers, put on a satisfying bout. There then competition got so tough that no- were also displays of fencing, weight- Joseph P. Ripley '12. has been elected body could make anything, not to men- lifting, and more boxing. executive vice-president of the National tion the' loans' we had to make to Federal City Company and put in charge of its men. Now nobody's got any money any- STUDENTS from Cornell will represent activities. Since the resignation in Febru- how." India in the Model League of Nations, to ary of Charles E. Mitchell, Ripley has be held at Lehigh University on April 6, 7 IN THIS CONNECTION it would be well to been nominally in charge, but until this and 8. bear in mind the published words of the time no executive head had been named. Rev. Wayne G. Rose of Ithaca: "What THE SAGE CHAPEL preacher was the Ripley was formerly vice-president of the likelihood is there of he who sells his Rev. Henry H. Tweedy of the Yale company and has had much experience to birthright for either soup or beer in a Divinity School. fit him for this important post. 294 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS

The Light That Failed revolution, somebody adds. Well, I had a to-morrow once you have socialized. (Continued from page 291) friend who was held up by a highway- You have to go in for autocracy. man down on the Kingston Road. My That is the light held up to-day. It I am going to bore you just a little friend said he was a polite robber: he had takes us back to unfreedom. After the longer with figures. They are not good a gun and said, "Hand over what you've things after lunch, but this is a serious long road upon which we have struggled got and do it peacefully." Are we going situation and I believe you ought to for freedom we are to go back to unfree- to acquire these things by purchase? That know more than you do about our na- dom and we shall surely go back to was the dividing line in the Russian tional bookkeeping. What are we going poverty. State socialism cannot deliver revolution. There were two groups of to socialize? What are we going to take the goods. Now, I have said that years people, one called the Mensheviki, who over? That is the A.B.C.'s I want to ask. . ago, academically. I say it now with the said they would compensate the owners Well, let us look at what we have. Our authority of experience. They have not farms, our urban real estate, household —they would buy. And there was the delivered the goods in Russia. Someone goods, and autos constitute 59.39 per cent, other group, the Bolsheviki, who said may say,'' You have never been in Russia of our national wealth. I wonder if there they would confiscate. The Bolsheviki —what do you know about it?" I know a are any farmers within the sound of my won. Now we are told we should con- lot about it, not merely by what I have voice. If there are I want to ask them this fiscate the wealth in this country. What read; and you can know as much. There question. Will your fa^rms be better run by kind of wealth? I mean, confiscation of are thousands of men and women in this the township council than you run them? which one of these different items I have city with relatives in Russia. I have By the county council? By the provincial read to you? I presume business capital is several thousands of them in my own government? By the federal government? meant. You would have to have that if riding. They are receiving letters from Now, until there is a clear answer to that you had socialism. But it cannot be done day to day of the intimate things of life question we should not be set for state so- peacefully in this country; twenty-one under the Soviets. Just the other day a cialism, at least so far as it affects the tak- per cent, of it is owned in the United man came and asked me to try to get his ing over of one quarter of all the national States; thirteen per cent, of it is owned in brother out of Russia, and I said, "My wealth of this country. It would not do the United Kingdom. And it cannot be dear man, you must be crazy to think of much good to take over this hotel, or taken peacefully. bringing him over here under the condi- many of the buildings I see in central I was talking on the platform this sum- tions we have." And he said, "You can- Toronto, and it would not do much good mer with a man who thought there ought not know the conditions of Russia. Last to take over your houses. to be a little bit of fighting. He told a year my brother and sister went through Railways, highways, harbours, canals, story of a gardener who was a bit radical the winter with just one pair of boots be- electric stations, electric railways and and asked his master, the proprietor of tween them. When one went out of the telephones constitute 17.39 Per cent of the place, how he got it. "Well," he house the other had to stay in." And that the national wealth of the country; our said, "I inherited it from my father." under socialism. That is only an illustra- trading establishments or stores and How did your father get it ?" " He got it tion of hundreds of stories I could give merchandizing establishments 5.79 per from his father." "Where did he get it?" you. They are clever men, the men in cent.; our forests and fisheries 6.2. per Well, his grandfather fought for it and charge of Russia. They have a simple cent. We own most of the forests now. If won it." So the gardener took off his coat economy, very simple as compared with somebody will raise that blind and let us and said," All right. Γ11 fight you for it." ours, very easy to handle as compared look at the lake I will show you a body Now, that is an old story and it doesn't with ours; and yet they have failed. of water that ought to be prolific of fish apply to this country. If people want land and is not—it is owned by two of the here, all they have to do is take off their Put Our House in Order coats and work for it. wisest countries in the world; an example Now I must close. I have not given you of the inefficiency of state ownership and When we get these properties, how are any constructive suggestions, have I? state control. we going to manage them? Maybe I am But they ought to be apparent out of I am turning to something possibly you going to hurt somebody's feelings now what I have said. Our duty seems to me to might take over. I am going to give you because I am going to make the statement be very plain. We must look after those five more items and I shall be a little more that on the side of the House where I sit I who are ditched, those who cannot pro- explicit. There are mines. If we take them do not know of anyone, not even Mr. vide for themselves, but that should be a over your share and mine on a per capita King, who has the ability to regulate all temporary measure. We have to put our basis is $86.00. The capital employed is the details of industry in this country. house in order. We must think out what 2.81 per cent of our national wealth. Here And as I look across, I cannot see any- the state can do and what the state can- is a surprising thing: our manufacturers' not do, and regardless of party we must machines, tools and capital, in rural body on the other side, not even Mr. be sure that it doesn't try to do that lands and buildings, constitute 4.6 per Bennett, with all his forcefulness, and I which common sense and experience cent, of our national wealth and on a per doubt if anybody down in the left hand teaches* us it cannot do. We must restore capita basis mean $141.00 for each of us; corner where the new party sits has that competitive economy. We must make for other manufactures, $83.00 for each of ability. The older I get the less faith I these big corporations behave. And if us—2.-72. per cent, of the national wealth. have in supermen. they won't, then I tell them—and there Then there is construction and custom are many here who look as if they be- repair materials and tools, which are less Socialism Won't Work longed to them—I tell them that the than one-half of one per cent; specie, coin Socialism won't work under democ- other day Germany had to take action. and other currency, with governments, racy. I wonder if you have ever thought She had to take action by naming the banks and in the hands of the general of that. I wonder if you ever realized that prices at which they must sell their public—only $20.06 for each of us and less a socialist party is tolerant of other goods. than two-thirds of one pel cent, of the parties only so long as it is in opposition. We must get back to competitive national wealth of the country. And it cannot be otherwise. You know, economy, to the order that brought us in Russia they will not tolerate the rise of from poverty into prosperity and which How to Control? political parties and they cannot because we have allowed to be destroyed. What I How are we going to acquire these you cannot go back once you have have said to-day has been wasted unless things if we decide to acquire them? socialized. You cannot have a socializing you realize that effort is yours: your job, Revolution, somebody says. Peaceful policy to-day and an unsocializing policy and yours, and yours, and mine. MARCH 30, 1933 295

WOMEN ELECT CARLETON MCCULLOCH VAIL, ΌZ A.B., Concerning W.S.G. A. Officers president of H. S. Vail and Sons, actuaries in Chicago, was fatally injured in an The Alumni Miss Margaret I. White '34, of Waban, automobile accident near Sturgeon Bay, '86—William C. Green is president and Mass., was elected president of the Wise, on October 15. He was born in treasurer of the W. C. Green Company, Women's Self Government Association Highland Park, 111., on February 13, commercial engineers specializing in for next year at the recent mass meeting 1881, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry S. heating, ventilating, and air condition- of all women students. Other senior Vail. He was a member of Beta Theta Pi, ing. His address is 704 Race Street, officers chosen were: chairman of the Cornellian board, and the Mandolin Cincinnati. organized groups, Henrietta M. Deubler; Club. In 1916 he was elected a member of chairman of activities, Ellen M. Mangan; the board of education of district 108, '94 AB, '95 LLB—A. Berton Reed is a president of the Class of '34, Helen E. Chicago, and at the time of his death was lawyer at i6z Remsen Street,. Brooklyn, Rowley; president of W.A.A., Dorothy president of the board. He was a member and is managing attorney of the law de- C. Buckingham; president of C.W.R.A., of the board of directors of the Highland partment of the Prudence Company, Inc., Nobuko Takagi; and presidents of Balch, Park Hospital, and a trustee of the Royce- and Realty Associates, Inc. He lives at Ruth Creighton, Elizabeth S. Foote, more School for Girls in Evanston. His 1049 East Thirty-first Street. Dorothea M. Heintz, and Cornelia D. home was in Highland Park. He was Morse. married in 1907 to Winifred Case of Όz ME, '04 MME—John M. Young Lois L. Coffin '35 was elected president Evanston, who survives him as do a has recently been reappointed as the of Risley; Edith M. McAdoo, '35, presi- daughter, Edith, a son Carleton McC, engineering member of the City Planning dent of Sage; Norma A. Nordstrom '35, Jr., his mother, and two brothers, Roger Commission of Honolulu. He is professor president of the Class of '35 and Helen L. S. Vail '06 and Malcolm D. Vail Ίz. of engineering at the University of Smith, '36, president of the Class of '36. Hawaii. In 1930 he was president of the Elections to Mortar Board, women's HENRY HUME MCPHERSON, '03 M.E., Chamber of Commerce, and is at present senior honorary society, were also an- died in Detroit on April 17, 1930, by his a director of the Automobile Club. nounced. The new members are: Mrs. A. own hand. He was born in Bergen, N. Y., '03 AB—Porter R. Lee, who for sixteen on November 9, 1880, the son of Daniel K. Albright, May B. Bjornsson, Ruth E. years has been director of the New York Boeheim, Henrietta M. Deubler, Hazel J. and Emma Hume McPherson. A. Ellenwood, Ellen M. Mangan, ARTHUR ALEXANDER COSTELLO, '04 Cornelia D. Morse, Margaret L. Pfeif, A.B., a lawyer in Syracuse, N. Y., died on Ruth M. Reynolds, Helen E. Rowley, November z. He was born in Syracuse on Nobuko Takagi, and Margaret I. White. CORNELL UNIVERSITY October Z9, 1883, the son of John H. and Hubertine D. Costello. He was a member Summer School of Obituaries of Psi Upsilon and Sphinx Head. He re- ceived the degree of LL.B. from Syracuse. SIDNEY FRANCIS ANDREWS, '78-9 G r., BIOLOGY assistant director general and general HURON HERBERT SMITH, Ό^-'y Gr., solicitor of the United States Railroad curator of botany at the public museum Administration, died at his home in in Milwaukee, was killed on February Z5, JULY 8 — AUGUST 18,193 3 Washington on February 16, of heart when the automobile in which he was disease. He was born in Allegheny City, riding was struck by a train, near Glen- The Summer School of Biology Pa., on March z, 1857. He attended the view, 111. He was born in Danville, Ind., was organized as a unit of the Western University of Pennsylvania, and fifty years ago. He received his arts de- University Summer Session in later studied in Germany. He is survived gree from DePauw University. During 19Z4. By this means facilities by his wife. his time at Cornell he was an instructor and instruction of the highest in dendrology. Mr. Smith was well grade in biological subjects MERRΓΓT WRIGHT BARNUM, '88 B.S., known as a botanist, and for his intimate prominent physician in Ossining, N. Y., ' have been placed at the dis- knowledge of Indian life. Several years and for the past eight years president of posal of Summer Session ago he was made a member of the I students. the Ossining Trust Company, died sud- Menominee tribe. He was president of denly at his home on February 14, of a the Wisconsin Archaeological Society in The work offered has proved to be heart attack. He was born in Chappaqua, 19Z8, of the Milwaukee Horticultural ' of particular value to two N. Y., sixty-four years ago, the son of Society in 1930, of the Wisconsin Horti- groups of students—teachers Mr. and Mrs. Stanbury Barnum. He re- cultural Society in 19Z6, of the Kiwanis of biological subjects in high ceived his medical degree from the Uni- Club of Milwaukee, and was the first schools and colleges, and grad- versity of Jena in 1891. He specialized in person to be chosen an honorary member I uate students planning to take neurology, and was associated with the of the State Forest Association. He is advanced degrees. This adver- New York Neurological Institute and survived by his father and a daughter, tisement is inserted to call the the Vanderbilt Clinic in New York. His La Vaughn Smith. His wife was also attention of Cornell alumni to wife, Mrs. Madeline Howley Barnum, killed in the accident. the facilities now offered in and a son, Merritt W. Barnum, Jr., sur- this field by the Summer Session vive him. EDITH ADAMS YOUNG (MRS. EDGAR at Cornell. W.) HULTMAN, Ίo A.B., died in Los CARL GUNDERSON '93, Governor of The Announcement of the Summer South Dakota in 192.5 and in 19x6, died Angeles on December 19, of angina School of Biology will be at his home in Mitchell, S. D., on pectoris. She was born on April 14, 1888, issued soon. For a copy and for February 2.6, of heart disease. He was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John C. additional information, address born in Vermillion, Territory of Dakota, Young. She was a member of Kappa Alpha Theta. on June zo, 1864, the son of Hans and PROF. K. M. WIEGAND Isabel Lee Gunderson. He took a year of CARL ARTHUR MCCLAIN, Ί6 M.C.E., civil engineering. He was Lieutenant superintendent and secretary of the Water Department of Botany Governor in 1910 and 1911. For many years Board of Eugene, Ore., died at his home CORNELL UNIVERSITY, ITHACA, NEW YORK he owned and operated a 960-acre farm. there on August 5. 296 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS

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