The Ursinus Weekly, November 30, 1942
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Ursinus College Digital Commons @ Ursinus College Ursinus Weekly Newspaper Newspapers 11-30-1942 The Ursinus Weekly, November 30, 1942 J. William Ditter Jr. Ursinus College Donald Melson Ursinus College William H. Sutcliffe Ursinus College Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/weekly Part of the Cultural History Commons, Higher Education Commons, Liberal Studies Commons, Social History Commons, and the United States History Commons Click here to let us know how access to this document benefits ou.y Recommended Citation Ditter, J. William Jr.; Melson, Donald; and Sutcliffe, William H., "The Ursinus Weekly, November 30, 1942" (1942). Ursinus Weekly Newspaper. 747. https://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/weekly/747 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Newspapers at Digital Commons @ Ursinus College. It has been accepted for inclusion in Ursinus Weekly Newspaper by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ Ursinus College. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Community Club's Program Questions Way Toward Peace e I VOL. 41, NO.9 MONDAY , NOVEMBER 30, 1942 Price, 5 cents Z619 Town Meeting Discusses Post-War World Y Launches Drive "How can we best achieve a dur Louis Adamic, "Messiah," and Senior Ball able peace?" was the topic last At Ursinus Today Tuesday evening when Mrs. Edwin H. Coggeshall, Mr. Raymond Pearl Behalf of WSSF To Make the Week of December Seventh stine, and Dr. Elizabeth B. White In presented their views at a "Town Meeting" program in Bomberger National Goalls $300,000 I One of the Biggest of the College Year hall. The Collegeville Community College's Is $250 club and the Ursinus College Veteran Soloists To Headline Chuck Gordon To Return Author - Lecturer To Address Forum committee were co-sponsors. "Use your pin money to hold the Mrs. Coggeshall, former president world together," is the motto of Oratorio Performance For Second Engagement I Forum on December Ninth of the Community club, discussed the Y's Social Service committee as the desirability of planning the it launches a drive today in behalf Thursday evening, December 10, Returning to Ursinus for their "The Crisis Is an Opportunity" peace now. "Victory in the war," of the World Student Service Fund. will mark tho fifth consecutive second Senior ball engagement in will be the subject of the talk to be she said, "will preserve for us only The Ursinus share of the $300.000 rendition by chorus, soloists, and as many years, Chuck Gordon and delivered by Louis Adamic, famous the oppol' t um·t y 0 f ac h"Ievm g a na t·IOna I goaI h as b een se t a t $250 . orchestra, of "The Messiah" of his orchestra will supply the mel- author and lecturer, bel ore the lasting peace. We must all work The WSSF provides direct relief Ursinus forum on Wednesday even- together now if we want to erase for students and professors who are George Frederic Handel. This odic background for the outstand- ing, December 9, in Bomberger the evils in the international so- victims of war, and is the author- feature of the Christmas season, ing event of Senior weekend on hall. cial and economic set-up." ized channel for aid to student which has become a tradition at Friday evening, December 11, in I Mr. Adamic, ~ Sloveni~n by birth, Mr. Pearlstine, a member of the prisoners of war, operating under Ursinus, will again bring to the the Thompson-Gay gymnasium, has f!Oom the tIme of hIS entrance Montgomery County bar, outlined the Geneva Conference of 1929. It campus as soloists Miss Florence while the Senior-Curtain club play ~o thIS coun~ry. been tr.em~ndously the economic factor in the con- is international, non-sectarian, and " . .".' Impressed WIth the prmclples of sideration of a lasting peace. Af- non-political, and it builds for the Vickland, soprano, Miss Joanne de Rmg Around ElIzabeth, WIll fol- Americanism to which native ter giving a background of the future through relief, education, --- lo\v on Saturday night. Americans point with pride. How- pre-war economic disturbances, he and reconstruction. Gordon's better-than-ever band ever, he has also been struck with stated, "Isolationism cannot pos- Blanche Shirey '43, chairman of will feature a new vocalist, Fran- the reluctance of these same people sibly exist if a permanent peace 1'3 the Social Service committee, has ces Bishop, when the orchestra to extend these principles to those to be obtained. Moral, physical, planned an extensive program for takes over the gym. Boasting of a who come from other countries, and economic reconstruction are WSSF week which begins today. seeking happiness under demo- essential; and each nation must Students have already voted to long line of Southern plantation cratic rule. increase its own productivity and give up desserts at three meals so owners in her family tree, Gordon's Consequently, he is carrying on a consequently trade its surplus on that the savint:s may go to the new singer is from Richmond, and crusade in which his aim is to re- a world market." fund. Speakers on campu.s dur- is well known in Virginia society. erect for present day AmerIcans, "We must avoid the presentation ing the week will refer to the especially for those whose families of a tailor-made peace constructed drive, and each student will be James Raban '43, chairman of have been American Citizens for by the most powerful nations," said solicited individually for a contri- the ball committee, has announced two centuries or more, "the Ameri- Dr. White of the College fat:.!ulty bution. A thermometer, placed in that the atmosphere of the Thomp- can dream-that sense of demo- presenting the political basis for a front of Freeland hall, will indi- son-Gay ballroom will be in per- cracy and love of freedom which durable peace. "The peace must cate daily progress. fect keeping with Gordon's type of guided America's first pioneers." be made by and with all powers As a further aid to the WSSF music. Frederic Lynch, designer He points out too that there are concerned, and the politics of no drive this week, the Y Social Ser- of last year's Junior prom set, is now some fifty million non-Anglo- nation must influence post-war ac- vice committee has announced in charge of decorations. Saxon Americans who are making tivity." Dr. White concluded by plans for a party this Friday even- "Ring Around Elizabeth," the definite contributions to American saying that the League of Nations ing in the Thompson-Gay gym- other feature of the weekend, is a life, but who are still regarded as was a thoroughly creditable experi- nasium. Broadway comedy by CharI Arm- foreigners by many. In line with ment from which the world should According to Carl Schwartz '45A, strong. The Ursinus production is this, Mr. Adamic has a staff of profit; and that if cooperation on heading the committee on ar- being directed by Homer Koch '43, workers travelling over the entire a large scale can be managed in rangements, a Chinese theme has I and Barbara Cooke '44, as Eliza- country to aid him in obtaining war, we should be able to cooperate been adopted and one of the feat- beth, and Howard Lyons '44A, as information about the contribu- Dr. WiI!iam F. Philip, associ- I h h th I d' I on a large scale in achieving a (Continued on page 4) Ra p, ave e ea mg ro es. tions to American life of various lasting pe,ace~. • • Facu]ty-Se--nds Four I ate plofessor Ol music, who will Saturday afternoon's tea dance, racial and foreign groups, especial- direct the fifth annual presen- which will be for Seniors and their ly those who have come to America _ el. Ie btio"f rlpl'c;:"l\ pc;:c;'~h" dates .. wj..ll get nnder way at 3:00 i' th~ P .1 C r.t ./ ~ ...~ coun l'ics a ~ C I I on December 10. p. m. in the upper diningI' roomth other than the British Isles and T 0 P ro f S onc ave with recorded music supp ymg e the Netherlands. The information In B OSt on T raged y . - rhythms for. dancing. James I thus received is used as a basis for Four members of the faculty Nault, contralto, Mr. Steel Jami- Richards '43A, is. in charge of the his writings and lectures, and in One of the victims urday represented Ursinus over the week- son, tenor, and Mr. Earle Styres, tea dance commIttee. the magazine "Common Ground," night of Boston's Cocoanut Grove end at the fifty-sixth annual con- bass-baritone, and will be directed ----<0 which he edits and which is pub- fire, which has already taken a toll vention of the Middle States As- by Dr. WIuiam F. Philip of the Col- Y HEADS TO DD ESS FROSH lished by the Common Council for of 440 lives, was Alean Winkleman, sociation of Colleges and Second- lege music department. American Unity. sister of Nathaniel Winkleman Jr. ary Schools held Friday and Sat- "The Messiah" was composed by The first of t· a meetings to fur- The Carnegie Foundation is '42, who is now a student at the urday at the Hotel New Yorker, in .dand31 1 1.41. Its text was ar- ther acquaint f eshmen and upper sponsoring Mr. Adamic's efforts, University of Pennsylvania's School New York City. The group includ- langed by Charles Jennens from class students '4th Y activities will which are now especially con of Medicine.