1930 article titles and notes Vol. I, No. 52, January 3, 1930 "New Public Officials to Take Office. Borough, County and Township Administrations to Change at Reorganization Meetings Monday" (1 & 6 - BB, BS, and DC) - After detailing the new elected positions and discussing the "political plums," county appointments for prison warden and U.S. marshal, the article mentioned how married women in the Recorder's office and other courthouse offices were losing their jobs. "There has been considerable criticism of too many married women holding clerkship positions in the courthouse. It has been pointed out that some of these women have husbands who are in business or have good positions." "Church of Christ Scientist Opening New Building Sunday" (1 - RS) - on Park Avenue "below Harvard avenue" "Children's Aid Provides Gifts. Thanks Swarthmoreans for Meeting Needs of Children Described in Paper. Many Toys Received" (1 & 6 - CW, DC, and TS) - inset of letter to the editor from Miss Margaret Bube, County Secretary of the Pennsylvania Children's Aid Society of Delaware County, expressing gratitude for helping 83 children, followed by a list of the gifts for 11 of The Swarthmorean's 15 'special cases'. "Health Society Grateful for Gifts of Swarthmore People" (1 & 5 - CW, DC, PH, and TS) - thanks for baskets and donations that benefited "[o]ver fifty-four families" "Merchants Praised for Decorations. Holiday Appearance of Business District and Christmas Party Great Success. Urge Annual Affair" (1 & 5 - BB and SE) - This praise for the Christmas party included a letter from D. Durnall, who thanked Swarthmore's merchants 'for their successful handling of a very enthusiastic crowd of children'. "Developing Our Public School System. An Article Which Provides a Background for the Present Plans of the School Board" by Arthur W. Ferguson, Superintendent of Schools (1 & 6 - BB and CE) - A preface (in italics) explained that The Swarthmorean was publishing a series of articles on Swarthmore schools. This one showed "how the provisions for the present school needs have been developed into a definite program that fits in with the present organization of the school system." Ferguson explained the division into grades; the schools' two locations; reasons for the daily schedule; and how to meet the state's requirement for students' physical education. "News Notes" (2, 3, & 4 - SL) "Classified" (3 - RR) - included under Position Wanted was "Man and wife, colored, with girl six years old, want place in city or county. Write 1617 West Tenth St., Chester, Pa. Mr. Purnell." 1 Ad for the Electro-Medical Doctors, 1333 North 15th Street, Philadelphia: "Special One Dollar X-Ray Examination" (3 - QA) - These "doctors" listed a host of treatments that included x-rays, ultra violet light, and ozone to cure "anemia, asthma, biliousness, bladder and blood troubles, bronchitis, bowel troubles, catarrh, constipation, deafness, dyspepsia, eczema, female troubles, stomach gases, gastritis, heartburn, intestinal troubles, liver complaints, weak lungs, nervous debility, paralysis, neuritis, rheumatism, and other diseases of men and women." It featured a photo of and testimonial by Mrs. Reba Ford of 542 New Market Street in Philadelphia. "$200.00 Paid for One Copper Cent" (3 - M) - by the Numismatic Company in Fort Worth, Texas "Infant Son Dies" (3 - AD) - James Frank Reynolds, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harvard Reynolds of 3 South Chester Road "Notice of Election on the Question of Increasing the Bonded Indebtedness of the School District of the Borough of Swarthmore, Delaware County, Penna." (3 - BB and CE) "Sheriff Sales" (3 - RE) "Book Reviews at Next Club Meeting" (4 - AC and WO) - The Swarthmore Woman's Club's next meeting was to be "under the direction of the Literature Section of which Mrs. J. V. S. Bishop is chairman." Two books were to be reviewed: The Salt Box House,1 "which will be reviewed by Mrs. J. Passmore Cheyney in Colonial costume" and And Then Came Ford.2 "Women's Association to Meet Jan. 10" (4 - CW, RS, and WO) - executive board meeting of the Women's Association of the Presbyterian Church, along with sewing for the Presbyterian Hospital "Car Overturns; Two Local Men Injured" (4 - AD and CV) "J. V. S. Bishop Named to National Committee" (4 - SN) - of the United States Chamber of Commerce "to represent the Iron and Steel division on raw materials" 1 Written by Jane de Forest Shelton (1843-1914) in 1900, this book had the subtitle "Eighteenth Century Life in a New England Town." 2 Merz's And Then Came Ford (1929) examined three "giants who set the stage for Henry Ford." From amazon.com/Then-Came-Ford-1929/dp/0766165078 (accessed October 2020). 2 "County Women Voters Meet This Afternoon" (4 - DC, PO, and WO) - Delaware County League of Women Voters were to discuss 'Disarmament,' 'Root Protocol of World Court,' and 'Pan-American Treaties.' "Girl Scouts Will Meet Tomorrow" (4 - KO) - Drum and Bugle Corps "Church News" (4 - RS) "Dr. Pearson Honored at Testimonial Dinner" (5 - SN) - "held by 'the old guard' of the Swarthmore Chautauqua at the Rolling Green Golf Club on New Year's night" "Poem in Last Week's Paper Admired" (5 - LP, SC, and TS) - all three poems received "favorable comments". The one by Ruth ED.3 Cook, a Swarthmore College student, was published in the college's monthly literary magazine. Ad for the Media Theatre: "Today and Tomorrow See and Hear Red Hot Clara Bow in 'The Saturday Night kid; Mon., Tues. and Wed. All Talking 'The Mysterious Dr. Fu Manchu' with Warner Oland"4 (5 - EA, QA, and RR) "January Players Club Production Next Week" (6 – AC and CO) - "Pigs" "'Sandy' Is Dead" (6 - AP) - Mrs. William T. Ellis's "frisky and friendly little Scotch terrier" was run over by a car. Vol. II, no. 1, January 10, 1930 "New Councilmen Inducted; Reitzel New President. Police Officers and Other Borough Employees Reappointed to Serve. Retiring Solons Praised" (1 - BB and SN) - New president: Frank S. Reitzel; new councilmen: Leonard C. Ashton, Joseph S. Bates, William Sproul Lewis, and H. Roger Coleman; other councilmen: T. E. Hessenbruch and J. kirk McCurdy; borough treasurer: Walter L. Thorpe; secretary: Albert N. Garrett, Jr., solicitor: Albert N. Garrett, Sr.; police chief: John Rogeri; patrolmen: Thomas Bateman and Charles Manata; committees: public safety, finance, sewers, accounts, public property, and highway "Fortnightly Will Meet Monday, Jan. 13" (1 - AC and WO) - On the program was a reading by Mrs. Burton Alva konkle of "Fixins" by Paul and Erma Green.5 3 Because of the poor quality of the scanned newspaper, it was difficult to make out her middle name here; it looked like Erntien. It was in fact Ernestine. 4 The actor who played the Chinese doctor was not of Asian descent; he was Swedish. A Wikipedia entry on this 1929 film notes how it "incorporates several Yellow Peril stereotypes typical of that era in its portrayal of Fu Manchu"(BR). From en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mysterious_Dr._Fu_Manchu (accessed October 2020) 5 Paul Green's (1894-1981) "Fixin's" was billed as having been written "in collaboration with Erma Green," his sister born in 1903.. Subtitled "The tragedy of a 3 "Woman's Club Sponsors Recital Next Wed." (1 - AC, IR, and WO) - program by Catherine de Vogel, who was to "sing her numbers dressed in native costumes appropriate to her different [folk] songs" from Holland, France, England, and Germany "'Pigs' Is Players' Club Production. Robert W. Graham Directs Light Comedy Which Pleases Club Members. Oldtimers Win Applause" (1 & 2 – AC and CO) - laudatory description of the play and its actors "School Board Studies Plans. Public Citizens Ask Questions about Rutgers Ave. Site and Bond Issue Election. Prep Site Suggested" (1 - BB, CE, & SC) - The board was exploring the idea of buying the Prep school for the new school, but there was also the possibility of buying "land adjoining the College avenue school site at a much lower figure than that of $67,000 an acre originally given" by officials at Swarthmore College. "School Board Head Tells Why New Site Was Chosen. Based Decision on Survey Which Showed Future Needs of Borough" by Frank N. Smith, President of the Swarthmore School Board (1 & 5 - BB, CE, and RE) - The board bought a new athletic field and school site at Rutgers and Westdale, paying John J. Tyler $36,000 for 8.436 acres, and paying the estate of Dolty McGinley $4,000 for .344 acres. Plans were made for a full-sized football field that would double as a standard hockey field surrounded by a quarter-mile track; a 140-yard "straight-away"; a baseball diamond; six tennis courts; jumping pits; space for school buildings; and space for grandstands and a field house. Smith referred to "startling and disquieting facts" he found in a "General Report School Building Program for Swarthmore, Pa." dated May 10, 1926, especially, it would seem, regarding the projected growth of the number of students through 1943, when they would nearly double. "New Books for Public Library" (1 - BB) - list of new books "Recital at College by Sommerville Forum" (1 - AC, IR, and SC) - Miss Gretta Don from Scotland was to "sing Scottish and Hebredian songs in costume". "New Members Join Presbyterian Church" (1 - RS) - The church welcomed "a large addition of new members" that included "Mrs. Robert E. Sharples, Swarthmore and Yale avenues, from the Christ Church, Redfield, Iowa." tenant-farm woman," the play was first performed in 1924 by the Carolina Playmakers at the University of North Carolina. The Hedgerow Theatre's Jasper Deeter directed the 1926 premiere of Paul Green's Pulitzer-Prize winning play "In Abraham's Bosom" at the Provincetown Playhouse on Broadway.