Bee, 1938-03-11

              the bee number 21 volume 18 a s*'4 8 buffalo n y friday march 11 1938 price five cents underclassmen prepare for annual dance tomorrow night nautical affair planned to raise funds for swim ming pool incorporates unique features and prize for best dancers a capacity crowd is e nual frosh-soph dance to morrow evening from 10 - the co-chairmen of the affair walter wllloughby george scrim shaw richard fletcher and don ald davis announce that they ex liect this to be the most enjoyable dance yet held by any frosh-soph group the orchestra committee kath arine klein and marcla brown left no stone unturned to engage the finest orchestra available they selected wally carpenter's twelve lilece band to swing out the tunes of the day the decoratlona in charge of hil i red thau margery , lanphere samuel easterbrook and peggy sukernek will create a nautical atmosphere in tune with the pur pose of the dance to raise funds lor the swimming pool the publicity has been handled liy jack rombough dorothy sny dor and jack smith tickets may be secured at reduced prices any time before saturday from the members of the committees above mentioned the nominal price is 1 99 per couple pre-sale or 1.25 at i lie door all girls under 110 pounds if weighed before the judge may get a refund of a penny per pound for each pound under 110 pounds donald dayls will be in charge of the door committee kappa delta psi and beta chi epsilon each offer one ticket as a door prize to their joint dance at the trap and field club on satur day march 19 the best dancing couple will be awarded a free ticket to the home concert april 18 the judge for the event will be wally carpenter the judging will take place at 11:30 p m a beautiful artist's model in a bathing suit will appear to present all prizes joeplng will he confined to the lobby this practice initiated last year at the frosh-soph dance met with great approval jxpected to attend the an be held at norton hall to 2 o'clock bison offers excuse for delay due to new processing methods hie issue of the bison scheduled ior thursday march 10 did not make its appearance but will ap pear on sale on wednesday march 16 the bison staff wishes to cor rect the statement made last week biirdlng promotions to the adver tising staff harold yablin is ad vertising manager norman gold berg and morton koskye his assistants i exiled anti-fascist presents fenton talk salvemini noted author and professor contrasts u s and italy gaetano salvemini well-known opponent of faciam and its leader benito mussolini who waa deprived of italian citizenship with total confiscation of property in 1926 will deliver the next fenton foun dation lecture at the university at 8:30 p m thursday march 17 on democracy and dictatorship the lecture will be held in the auditorium of norton hall on the university camus and will be open to the public without charge mr salvemini a native of mol fetta italy served as professor of modern history at the university of pisa for six years and at the university of florence for nine years from 1019 to 1921 he was a member of the italian chamber in june 1925 he was arrested as an opponent of the facißt dictator ship and in august of that year he left italy in 1925 he resigned his chair at the university of florence butt subsequently was dismissed as an absentee in the following year he was deprived of his italian citizen ship and nil of his property was confiscated he is the author of several volumes on political science and modern history including the facist dictatorship in italy pub lished in 1928 and under the axe of facism published in 1936 during the first semester of the current academic year he was le turer on the history of italian civilization at harvard university math club elects new officers at its monthly meeting wednes day night the mathematics club elected the following officers for the coming year president miss rhona garvey vice-president mr paul civin secretary mr harold uhl miss evelyn jaeckle and miss genevieve grotjan were chosen student judges for the sherk mathematical essay competition miss grotjan spoke at some length on semi-linear equations involving absolute values campus dehibernates as white shoes march winds and spring love appear inmates of foster and the library recover from winter weather in anticipation of balmy lassitude under trees as is usual with the rest of the world when stuck for a topic of conversation a way out of an em imrrasslng fix or a subtle method of getting rid of aunt harriet when lusirlng the parlor in which to coo with caroline we shall resort to he weather and attempt to give you an entirely learned and scien ce dissertation on this astound ing and ever present phenomenon the focal point of all the dis rreeable weather on the campus oems to be foster hall whether i lie weather is due to winds snows or rains it would seem that the poor pharmacists and chemists must take the brunt of it of course u the days when the classes are liking hydrogen sulphide or chlor i"p i that feature can become the ! " me of comfort but the profs can't '" ep the classes making odlferous products all the year round if only in deference to their own scents of honour which all goes to prove that a pharmacist is not without honour save in norton hall speaking about pharmacists and the weather brings to our mind that noble char acter miss mary e griffin who has just announced to the world upon leaving the sacred confines of foster that she believes if the weather keepß up that she will re move those red flannels that she sewed on last fall and emerge to perform her spring ablutions may 1 is set as the tentative date lockwood library is second to none in the demonstration of the balmy breezes that float about our airy domain having holed in at the reserve room for the winter we now see such bright cheery souls as keith seiffert and eddie randall beginning to emerge and blink in beta gamma sigma installs members scholastic merit poten tial ability count in choice of upper classmen one honorary member and five regular members were initiated in to the local chapter of beta gamma sigma national honorary frater nity in business administration at the annual initiation banquet held inst night in norton hall chancellor samuel p capen the honorary member elected deliver ed the main address of the evening on the function of a college man in business the student members were robert p berner a junior in the school of business administration and four senior students — william a boehmke milton a bander sheldon w stark and edwin m heary the attainment of high scholar ship and promise of marked ability are the prime requisites governing election the number of elections each year being limited to the upper ten per cent of the senior class and two per cent of the junior class under the grading system in force in the school a btudent who received all a grades would have a quality point rating of 3 a student who received all b grades 2 a student who received all c grades 1 computed accord ing to this scale the ratings of the five new members of the society are berner 2.46 boehmke 2.35 bender and stark 2.23 and heary 2.18 robert p berner the junior stu dent selected is a graduate of kenmore high school he is a member of the board of managers of norton hall and of the bison head honorary society in decern posponed frat dance scheduled for march 19 beta chi epsilon and kappa delta psi fraternities who will hojd their second annual dance on saturday march 19 at the trap and field club are bringing bobby lyon's eleven piece band to pro vide the rhythm sheldon stark co-chairman of the dance declared in bringing bobby lyons to buffalo we are going to present some really smooth music rendered in the tommy dorsey style the committee members include cameran benson allan mctag gart robert berner and richard browning of kappa delta psi and sheldon stark frederick quirln william nell and frank dlehl rep resenting beta chi epsilon outside of the prom this will be the biggest dance of the year claimed charles roesch the dance was originally sched uled for december 11 but was postponed because of the snow storm of december 8 which tied up transportation all around buf falo university debates w and l concerning labor board the university debate team matcned with washington and lee university in a non-decision affair last saturday in the blue room of norton hall the subject was one which is of political significance at the pres ent resolved that the national labor relations board be empow ered to enforce compulsory arbi tration taking the affirmative for the visitors were hugh avery and thomas christopher the negative was upheld by henry morof and lester smith of buffalo although it was a non-decision debate the customary forms were observed those of two men teams with ten minute advance speeches and five minute rebuttals continuing their swing north to universities as far as toronto the washington and lee men remained long enough in buffalo to be shown the city by the u b team library dispute to be discussed at tea bee sponsors faculty-stu dent meeting in attempt to remedy situation in an effort to effect a solution to the controversy caused by the alleged abuse of the lockwood memorial library browsing room privileges the bee governing board has invited ranking mem bers of the administration and out standing student leaders to an in formal tea discussion on tuesday afternoon march 15 in the faculty lounge of norton hall chancellor samuel p capen dean of women lillias m mac donald associate librarian ruth e bartholomew norton union di rector robert parke and profes sors oscar silverman and willard h bonner head the list of faculty membets to whom invitations have been extended board of managers president william j neil bee editor ber nard i obletz sorority representa tives dorothy sharpe and marcia brown blue masquers president robert o swados interfraternity council vice-president robert berner and blsonhead member n yorke lucci comprise the student delegation martha pitcher sally lou grif fith and patricia ahern seniors majoring in the english depart ment will preside at the urns model senate to be held at colgate two students represent university at discussion of current questions william j copoulos arts 40 and henry morof bus ad 40 will represent the university of buffalo at the fourth annual model senate meeting to be held at colgate uni versity on friday and saturday march 11 and 12 this is the first year that the university has been represented at the conference the parlia mentary procedure of the united states senate will be duplicated by 96 representatives from various new york state colleges addi tional delegates may attend as lobbyists the meeting will be devoted to the discussion of the following three questions 1 what should be the objectives of future amer ican foreign policy 2 shall congress enact an anti lynching bill 3 should congress repeal the taxes on capital gains and coporate surpluses as an aid to business in getting out of the recession as in the senate itself bills will be introduced in a plenary session of the senate and will then be re ferred to committee the senate will be sub-divided into three com mittees each of which meets separately to discuss its bill hear the lobbyists and prepare a full bill for presentation to the senate delegates sometimes prepare and bring with them bills which they consider the best solution sub committees are appointed to draft a complete bill this draft is then submitted to the committee for approval and amendment and fi nally returned usually along with a minority report to the senate pinal action will be taken on all three bills at the two final plenary sessions on saturday afternoon and evening ' % chaplin film at convocation the revival of the moving pic ture carmen and old charlie chaplin success will be featured at convocation wedneaday march 16 the movie will be shown at nor ton auditorium at eleven fifteen and should be a rare treat for chaplin fans the assembly will be patterned after very popular programs at brown university and other lead ing eastenr colleges the audience will supply all sound which will in clude the hissing of the villian and the cheering of the hero masquers assigned roles in kind lady plans for spring presen tation of melodrama are furthered as cast and committee are chosen this week blue masquers swung into the production of kind lady a three act melodrama by edward chodorov to be presented on the nights of april 1 and 2 in norton auditorium kind lady is the story of an unscrupulous shiftless londoner with a fine appreciation of art who worms his way into the confidence of a middle-aged woman the plot concerns his efforts to completely dominate her will and subsequently to defraud her of the valuable paintings which she owns the part of henry abott the londoner and vlllian in the drama is taken by n yorke luccl able and experienced blue masquer he is well known to masquer audi ences and is remembered especial ly for his fine performance as the lead in spring dance mamy lee agee is cast in the role of the kind lady mary herries who so innocently befriends the charming young man only later to be divested by him of her life-long collection of art works miss agee is also a veteran blue masquer actress sally lou griffith takes the part of miss herries niece phyllis and eddie heit is her fiance peter an american bond salesman dorothy sharpe and george morse are cast as mr and mrs edwards henchmen of arnold who displace rose the trusted servant student bridge contest to take place this afternoon the fourth annual bridge tour nament will take place this after noon in the norton union card room at 4:00 o'clock . the contest will be open to any i student w!fb wishes to participate it will not be necessary for any contestant to register all those who wish to enter need only be present in the card room at four o'clock after the tournament prizes will be given to both mem ' bers of the winning team who in turn will challenge the winners of the faculty bridge tournament in regard to future plans cecil pearl chairman of the tournament committee said if enough in terest is shown by the student body more tournaments will be held an an attempt will be made to organize contract bridge classes for beginners and for those who wish to improve their game concerning today's tournament robert parke director of norton union observed perhaps no other union program during the ' course of the year offers oppor tunity to so many students to gather at one time to match wits with their fellows each year the student participation in the union tournament increases the size and prominence of the affair is limited only by the volume of stu dent interest dispute over browsing room privileges discussed associate librarian and student air views on controversy ask speedy clarrification of present difficulty abuse of the smoking the lockwood memorial li small group of students has r and talking privileges of ibrary browsing room by a i caused the indefinite clos ing of the room it was announced to the bee by miss ruth m bartholomew associate librarian of the university ensconced behind her desk in lockwood library miss bartholo mew told a bee reporter the rea sons why the so-called drastic measures were taken the browsing room was origi nally intended to provide a place of relaxation for the student body at work in the library she said and the facilities of the room were designed to afford those who de sired to interrupt their j-outino of studies a place for smoking conversation or light reading miss bartholomew pointed out that for the first year or so after the opening of the building in may 1935 the browsing room was one of the most valuable adjuncts of the horary but recently in fact especially in the past two semes ters the room has become sort of a second norton hall and the ever growing uproar caused by users of the browsing room has upset the normal routine of the library i am convinced stated miss bartholomew that the abuses are not intentional or malicious nor are they the product of a large group in fact i believe that the noise and turmoil caused by the browsers baa resulted from a misunderstanding of the purpose music organizations rehearse selections many students participate in preparations for an _ nual home concert plans for the annual home con cert to be given on april 8 in the main ballroom of the hotel statler are progressing rapidly mr wallace van lier will direct the men's glee club the men's octette the women's glee club the women's octette and the uni versity band in an entertaining program of varied selections which gordon heimer chairman of the affair promises will be unusual and delightful among those who will partici pate are carl hahl edward sch reiber william whitehead leigh wallace gordon heimer gordon bloom william holliday and cal vin stuntz members of the men's octette and alice klttinger her nial nax anberta coleman ger true weintraub hildegarde metz annette schwenk orchid gates and miriam lazarus members of the women's octette members of the special commit tees are as follows : publicity ed ward schrelber bertha nax ed ward helt james summersgill charlotte mols and howard fred catholics announce retreat for university students the rev quitman beckley chaplain to the catholic students at princeton university princeton n j is conducting a three day retreat for the catholic students of the university of buffalo the retreat consists of an even ing service held last night one to night and one tomorrow evening at 7:45 p m in the blessed sacra ment chapel on delaware avenue next to the new cathedral the retreat will close sunday morning march 13 at 9:30 o'clock with mass offered by the rt rev msgr john j nash a breakfast served at the markeen hotel will follow the mass at which the hon orable thomas l holllng mayor of buffalo will address the stu dents the newman club announces that all non-catholics are welcome to attend the services u.b women's debate team makes collegiate tour the women's debate team has recently returned from a success ful four day tour to three leading eastern colleges where it held de bates with the women teams of these schools the u b team which includes jean hughey marie burns and suzanne hutter as members visited keuka college cornell uni versity and penn state college where they took negative side of the question resolved that the national labor relations board should be in part to enforce com pulsory arbitration in all industrial disputes after debates audience discussions were held reverse dance re-scheduled marcla brown arts 40 has been appointed as chairman of the an nual reverse dance — the dance at which the tables are turned giv ing a girl her chance to get ac quainted with that handsome boy she has had her eye on for months but from whom bhe hasn't been able to get a tumble the dance will be held in nor ton hall march 25 from 10 p m until 2 a m although no commit tee members other than the chair man have been appointed marcla brown assured the bee that the dance will be given march 25 in stead of the previously scheduled date of april 1 groping for words to express her conception of the affair she said unique . . . it's vastly different . . . you know it's appealing u.b professor believes armament race does not portend world war dr reid in comparison of 1914 and 1938 sees only peace for world in future in regard to the present inter national re armament race dr helen dwight reld in an exclusive interview with a bee reporter said 1 do not believe that the current world armament race al though the most furious the world has yet seen will catapult the united stataes into another great catastrophe dr reid associate professor in the university's department of his tory and government and one of the few women to speak before the hague believes that although there are many similarities in in ternational conditions in 1938 cor responding to those which preceded the world war in 1914 the exist ing public horror of war coupled with the increasing non-political work of the league of nations sec retaries now tends to alleviate the chances of war in discussing the similarities be tween 1914 and 1938 dr reid said the naval race much larger than in 1914 is one of the major causes for the current fear of : war the mutual tears and tension among nations results in a search for security through re-arming this mutual fear also results in alli ances as in 1914 to protect each other the inferiority complex of the have-nots a new turn but an old idea helps to cause added tension and disturbance these similarities alone would seem to indicate that we are heading to wards the same end in 1938 as in 1914 however there are certain fundamental differences between the pre-world war world and the international situation of today in 1938 there is a far greater popular revulsion against war people the world over having experienced war's horrors and having heard tales of the cruelty of war are not now so anxious to take up arms the kellogg peace paot although continued on page 4 continued on page 4 contlnned on page 4 continued on page 4 continued on page 4 continued on page 4 governing board meeting friday 12:30 circulation staff meeting today 12:30 ' bee office