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THE SOU'WESTER. Student Weekly Publication of Southwestern at Memphis 16TH YEAR SOUTHWESTERN, MEMPHIS, TENN., FRIDAY, MAY 10, 1935 Number 29 JOHNSON VOTED STUDENT BODY HEAD * * - . ANNUAL CURLING NEW WOMEN PAN IRON BANQUET TO COUNCIL CHOSEN Defeats Jones Nine BE WEDNESDAY FOR NEXT YEAR Votes In Runoff Y.W.C.A. Gives Party In Final Meeting For Old Balloting For Various Class Officers To Be Held Neely Hall; To Have Members To Be Held Speeches, Skits Wednesday Next Week Announces Election Body; Polls Close At Noon BAILEY TO PRESIDE MAKE RUSH RULES CURTIS JOHNSON defeated Harvey Jones in a closely con- Preliminary Stunts Willi Five Sororities Have Two tested election for president of the Student Body. The vote was Johnson, 141; Jones, Begin Tomorrow In Representatives In 132. The president-elect of the Student Body is president-elect Assembly Council of Sigma Nu, a member of the debating team, and of the Lynx Club. The annual women's "curling The Women's Panhellenic Coun- Four candidates were nominated Iron" banquet will be held this year cil will meet Wednesday afternoon, CURTIS JOHNSON has been elect- for the presidency of the student Wednesday night at 6:30 o'clock in May 15, at-.3 o'clock in Mrs. Town- ed president of the Student Body body: Duff Gaither, Richard Dunlap, Neely Hall. Tickets will be 50c for for 1935-36. send's office. The purpose of the FORM SN WILL Harvey Jones and Curtis Johnson. town students and 25c for dormi- meeting is to make rules for sum- Nominations for vice-president tory students. Over one hundred mer rushing. MOTHERS CLUB and secretary of the Student Body attend. are expected to ELECTION BODY Members of the old Council who and president of the Publications The program will consist of sev- will attend are Olive Black, pres- Board were held Thursday. eral "speeches" and two skits by ident and Martha Shaeffer, Kappa Sponsors Cooperation; Balloting for the various class members of the student body. Six MEETS SUCCESS Delta; Helen Gordon and Elizabeth Group To Honor officers will be held next week, ac- indignitary titles are to be elected Pearce, Chi Omega; Teresa Lilly and Mothers' Day cording to the schedule given out at the affair. Martha Bailey has No Hitch In Workings Dorothy Ann Ferguson, Alpha Omi- by the Elections Commission. The been selected as toastmistress, and Of Initial Attempt cron Pi; Olga Hartmann and Lucille officers to be voted on include a Sigma Nu Fraternity is complet- is aided by a committee made up Of Body Wood, Zeta Tau Alpha; Sara Eliza- class president, vice-president, sec- of Betty Hunt, Betty Foley, and beth Gemmill and Thelma Worth- ing plans for forming a "Sigma retary-treasurer, representative to Edith Chesebro. ington, Tri Delta. With the selection of president of Nu Mothers' Club." publications board, and representa- that are to be voted on Members of the new Council are Offices the student body last Wednesday All mothers of members of Sigma tive to honor council. Voting for are: "Mamie Moran", "Biggest Dorotify Ann Ferguson, president, the Elections Commission complet- Nu Fraternity, whether of this chap- these titles will begin May 13 and Shiner", "Haggiest Hag", "Luniest Alpha Omicron Pi; Elizabeth Pearce ed its first job, beginning with nom- ter or of chapters of other colleges continue through May 18. Loon",'Duckiest Duck", and "Honey inations and continuing through the and Nancy Warden, Chi Omega; are eligible. The run-off will be held Saturday. Pouring Polly." Virginia Hoshall and Martha Shaef- The polls will close at 12 instead of mechanics of counting. The purpose of the club is to Speeches will begin in student as- fer, Kappa Delta; Lucille Woods and at 1 Friday. After the primary voting, the run- bring about a better cooperation be- sembly Saturday morning and con- off was held Wednesday morning. Sara Fox Martin, Zeta Tau Alpha; Ethel Taylor and Dorothy Jackson, tween the mothers with the frater- tinue through Wednesday. At all times from 9 until 1 there and to Tri Delta. nity and with Southwestern, Delta Entertains were two members of the commis- bring the families of the members Kappa sion on duty at the polls. Ballots closer together. The mothers will With Social Wednesday were deposited in a lock box, with Stylus Papers Must Be aid in the furnishing and designing LYNX LEAVE ON the tallying signed stubs placed in the decoration for the fraternity Kappa Delta entertained with a a separate container. In By Noon Today quarters. supper Wednesday night following As soon as the voting was closed, ANOTHER TOUR Although the idea is novel to the regular meeting in the sorority both boxes were taken and placed lodge. Margaret Lueck and Sarah All papers to be submitted by the Southwestern, it is an established with the Registrar. At 1:30 P.M. Carter were in charge of the supper. Will Compete In Annual the council met for the counting of thirty men for consideration by the custom for fraternities in northern colleges to have their mothers fre- ballots. Stylus Club of Sigma Upsilon must TIAA Tourney; quently get together for teas, lunch- Each vote counted was first read be in today by 12:30, noon. Rod- ney Baine, president of the group, eons, or bridge. David Flowers Elected Six Go by one member of the commission requests and then examined by two others. that the literary works be It was decided at the last meeting President Of Nitist Club Six Lynx net men left yesterday The tabulation of results was sim- given to either himself or Richaid to honor Mother's Day by having morning for the TIAA tennis meet ultaneously carried on by two other Thomas, secretary. each member, and pledge, of the At a recent meeting of the Nitist to be held in Cookeville, Tenn. The members of the group. At the luncheon meeting members fraternity attend evening service Club David Flowers was elected as locals are the defending champions After all the ballots were read will pass on the men applying. Also, with his mother. The group will president for the coming year. Mau- and plan to enter three doubles and recorded, the composite vote at the same time, officers for the gather at the home of Harold Cooke rice Carlson was elected as secre- teams as well as six single men in was checked with the total number coming year will be chosen. and attend service together. tary to serve with him. the tourney. of deposited ballots. Enroute Southwestern is to play In case there were any fears of Vanderbilt at Nashville. The TIAA fraternity or sorority collusion, a meet is to continue over both Fri- majority vote of the commission PSYCHOLOGISTS JOURNEY TO BOLIVAR day and Saturday. On the way back, was required to open the stub box Sewanee will be played. so that a check could be made which They met Abraham Booth, the Mrs. Brown: "I don't know." Dr.: even after his remark (Duff's not Both Dorsey Barefield and Dikie would reveal these conditions. president of these United States, "Oh, yes you do. Come on tell Luther's) "Oh, Miss Gary DO let Dunlap are defending champs and At 2:15 the results of the election and a man with 49,000 banks, 49,000 them what year you were born in." ME pass the cookies." will be seeded first and second were announced. These results, how- wives and 49,000 children. They Mrs. Brown: "Listen, doctor, I was Over in the colored ward Alice places. ever, as with the other selections heard illustrative lectures on every- a baby when I was born, how do was the big attraction. She knew were open to question by a major- thing from the Pure Food Laws to you expect me to remember what everyone in the room. (It didn't ity vote of the commission at any Coaxes Honey the most scientific method of plant- year it was." (The Marx Brothers matter what name she made up for Coach time during the rest of the week. ing pansies. They heard a program would probably pay her money for you, you immediately said, "Sure, To Flow from Station WMAG, "off Times the crack). how are you Alice.") She it was Lumpkin To Head PiKA Square in Chicago." Then there was Luther. The girls who introduced us to "Abraham By now you have probally real- in the class were all for exposing Booth the president of the United You can't say that Coach Miller Frat For Next Session be- States." (The colored guard stand- is not brave and economical: He ized that this is no fairy tale bitt the Southwestern men to Luther of bees in a tree the annual pilgrimage of the psy- cause he is their idea of a real gen- ing in the door fell heir to the saw a swarm Pi Kappa Alpha announces they the other clay, and did he think chology department to Bolivar last tleman. His conversation, with the title.) She immediately told Mrs. following officers for next year: of the bees stinging him? No. Thursday. Dr. and Mrs. Atkinson true Southwestern - Oxford accent Atkinson that she used a 35c tooth Hiram Hill Lumpkin, president; Did he think of the danger of accompanied by more than twenty ran: "I don't know when I have had brush and Babe Black that she used Charles Barton, vice president; climbing the tree? No. Did he students of abnormal psychology the privilege of addressing such a Ipana tooth paste. Poor Lib-Pearce. Douglas Johnston, treasurer; Francis think of what-the bees might and medicine, under the protection distinguished group of young men Alice sorta fixed her up.