The Griffin: volume 04, issue 10 - Feb. 12, 1937

              IV, No. 10
Symposium at Slatler Sunday
CANISIUS COLLEGE, BUFFALO, N. Y.
FEBRUARY 12, 1937
ODALITY WILL HOLD SYMPOSIUM
CANISIUS HOST TO MARQUETTE DEBATE TEAM
Will   Argue   "Minimum   Wage" Topic In Mount St. Joseph's Auditoritun Saturday ,-     Evening
On Saturday evening, Canisius will play host to representatives from Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in a debate to be held at Mount St. Joseph's Academy Audit¬ orium at eight o'clock, Marquette University, represented by Mr, Paul Noeike and Mr, Steven Keane, will uphold the aflirmative of the question: "Resolved, That Congress be empow¬ ered to regulate maximum hours and minimum wages in industry,''
Mr, James Lanz and Mr, John Olin, Canisius representatives, will present the case for the negative, Mr, Charles A, Brady, Assistant Professor of English and History, will preside as Chairman.
This will mark the first appearance of a Marquette debate team in Buf¬ falo since the Fall of 1926 when a team captained by Mr. Edward F. Barrett, present coach of the Senior Academia, defeated representatives from Marquette.
That Marquette will be represent¬ ed by experienced orators is attested to by the debate records of Messrs. Noeike and Keane-  Mr, Noeike is a veteran of thirty-five intercollegiate debates and was winner of second place in the Wisconsin State Peace Contest in 1936. Mr, Keane has par¬ ticipated in forty-five intercollegiate debates for Marquette, and was win¬ ner of the Intercollegiate Extempor¬ aneous Speaking Contest in 1935, as well as winner of the Wisconsin State Peace Contest held in the same year. On Thursday morning, February 25th, Canisius debaters will meet rep¬ resentatives from Alfred University in a debate to be held before the school  assembly.   On  this occasion, Canisius, represented by Mr. William Flynn and Mr. Buswell Roberts, will uphold the affirmative of the mini¬ mum wage question.
Last Thursday afternoon, Febru¬ ary 4th, Canisius engaged St. Thomas College, of St. Paul, Minnesota, in debate   over   Station  WEBR.    St. Thomas College, represented by Mr. Abraham Kaplan and Mr.  Ernest Zack, upheld the affirmative of the issue: "Resolved, That the Congress be permitted to override by a two- thirds majority vote any decision of the Supreme Court declaring acts of Congress    unconsdtutional."     The Canisius  debaters  were   Mr,   John Neylon and Mr,  Norbert Phillips. Mr. J. Edward Lohan, Manager of debate, acted as Chairman.
MAKE COLORFUL JUNIOR DANCE
Flynn,   Szur,   Werth   Numbered
Among Ten Seniors Tapped
For Coffin Club Honor
SPEAKERS WILL PRESENT "GOD- MAN OIGALILEE"
Hotel Statler Ballroom Scene of
Annual   Collegiate   Meet;
Expect Record Throng
—By Wahl of the Camera Club
COFFIN CLUB .MEMBERS TAPPED: The scene on the  left shows  Prof. Edward Barrett congratulating Ben Werth, Griffin editor, newly tapped member of the Honorary Society.   On the right is a group picture of the * proraenaders watching the Coffin Club tapping.
FR. BOUWHUIS TALKS ON "SIFTING BOOKS"
This evening at 8:15 Fr. Andrew L. Bouwhuis, S. J., Canisius Librar¬ ian, will lecture before the Canisius Library Guild on "Sifting Books".
Fr. Bouwhuis will say:
"Every year publishing houses flood the book markets with thousands of their products. And since it is hu¬ manly Impossible to read even one- tenth of them, we must have some standard with which we can judge those books, in order to find which are worth reading. We must be able to sift all of the books and discover, finally, the few that will do us the most good and give us the most pleas¬ ure.
"By careful selective readings, and by constantly comparing and contrast¬ ing books, we can determine just what books are the best, just what ones we can read with the most profit and ' enjoyment."
The lecture, open to Guild mem¬ bers only, will be held in the school library.
IH. BROJ TONIGHT
Camera Club members are looking lorward to a very enjoyable evening tonight in Room 24, when Mr. Rudolph H. Brown, noted commer- •^'al photographer, will give a talk on miniature camera work.
Since the economy of miniature camera work puts it within the reach 0' everyone, the lecture should prove to be of universal interest.
Roman Daigler of the Senior Class was the winner of the drawing for the Prom En¬ semble, He: received a ticket to .tl>e Junior Prom and nine dol- lars in cash. ,
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FOOTBALL CLUB PICKS COMMIT TEES
A recent announcement by Presi¬ dent "Toby" Enright reveals the ap¬ pointment of different committeemen to head the various activities of Jimmy Wilson's newly organized Football Club, The Committees and their Chairmen are as follows:
Scholarships, Bill Wilson;  Clear¬ ing, Wally Steffan;   Grievance, A, Zielinski;   Entertainment, Jim Ho¬ gan;   Publicity, Lou Goetz;' Foot¬ ball, Chuck Kenny;   Boxing, Russ LaTona;   Wrestling, Gus Kempff; Track, Toby  Enright;   Gym,  Ed Connors; Winter Sports,,Wally Stef¬ fan;   Rowing, Jim Hogan;   Swim¬ ming, Jim O'Brien;  Music, Wally Steffan; Nominating, Ed Zuchowski. On Sunday, January 31st, Jimmy Wilson and his crew had a merry- trme at the Hillcrest Club, Albion, Canada.   A long hike,  games and athletic contests featured the outing, and  refreshments  aplenty kept  the fellows  in  a happy  and  convivial mood,    	
"CLOISTERED" TO BE AT ERLANGER
Late this month, Buffalo will have its first opportunity to see the famous French-made film, "Cloistered," an amazing motion picture of convent life which New York critics of both the religious and secular press hailed as a masterpiece in its recent metro¬ politan debut.
Two years in the making, "Clois¬ tered" will have a week's showing locally at the Erianger theater under the auspices of the Catholic Actors' Guild, The undertaking has the full approval of Msgr, John J, Nash, act¬ ing Bishop of Buffalo.
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SUCCESS INDICATED IN MEMORIAL DRIVE
The Sindele Memorial Drive re¬ cently launched by the Canisius Col¬ lege Alumni has already given certain indications of success.
As yet, there is no report froni the subscription committee. At the pres¬ ent time, however, the amount suB- scribed totals about $1,600, and the majority of the donations have been cash.
It is quite significant that those contributing number less than fifty, and that the suggestion of twenty- dollar donations has not been recog¬ nized as an average.
At a meeting held on Sunday, Feb¬ ruary 7th, the Alumni discussed plans for welcoming Bishop John A. Duffy, recently appointed to the Buffalo Diocese. Final plans were not drawn up and it has not as yet been decided whether a dinner or a reception will be given.
A'closed Alumni Ball was also pro¬ posed, to be held some time after Easter. No decision was made, how¬ ever, and as yet plans are tentative.
CANISIUS STUDENT THRASHES^GUNMAN
By EDMUND J. KELLY
By CLAYTON J. BARTH
FROSH DEBATE ON ADVERTISING
The strong points and weaknesses of modern advertising were forcefully brought out  in  the  debate at the Freshman Academia meeting Tuesday evening in the College. The subject was. Resolved: That modern adver¬ tising as now conducted is detrimental to the best interests of the Ailierican people. The team composed of Rich¬ ard Fahey and Robert Miller debated affirmatively, while the negative team was made up of Earl Webb and Wil¬ liam Wllliatas.  The chairman and the critic of the evening, respectively, were Louis O'Brien and Henry Ro¬ manowski.   Following the speeches, an open floor discussion was held on the same subject, and Mr. Peter Mar- "tlnT'S. J., then gave suggestion^foT the improvement of future speeches. The society adjourned to the cafeteria where light refreshments were served.
"Those on the inside of the Emerg¬ ency Hospital, in a few short hours, see more of the grim, vivid reality of life than the average person sees in a whole lifeti'me. . . . There is never a dull moment. Always excitement," Thus wrote Carroll Malone, a Canisius sophomore, in his article, "Night at the Emergency," a feature of the Winter issue of The Canisius Quarterly.
Little did he dream how soon those words "never a dull moment , , , , always excitement" would come breath-takingly true.
At '2 o'clock in the morning of Monday, February 1, that "grim and vivid reality of life" stalked the shad¬ owy operating room of the Emergency Hospital, and, by an ironical quirk of fate, Mr. Malone played the leading role in the startling drama that was far from a pen-and-ink ex¬ perience.
Half carrying a wounded com¬ rade, a man wearing dark glasses, later identified by police as the "Mail Order Bandit", stumbled into the quiet institution.
"Get a doctor right away," he commanded the night nurse, "He's shot. I did it. It was an accident,"
Night Orderly Malone arrived on the scene and placed the limp form on the operating table. The wounded man's companion lounged in the door¬ way calmly smoking a cigarette. When the nurse attempted to remove the cigarette from the stranger's hand, for fear it would burn his fingers, he whipped a gleaming revolver from his side pocket and pointed it menacingly at the girl.
"Don't get tough with me,"  he
snarled.  "Get a doctor.  If you call
the police, I'll blow your brains out."
Coolly the nurse walked from the
Amidst glamor, music, beautiful gowns and great hilarity the studious collegians of Canisius Strutted their stuff. Surrounded by heavens of blue and gold bunting, engulfed in waves of rhythm, propped up by stiff shirts .ind dragging their tails behind them, small hordes of Seniors, droves of Juniors and underclassmen laughed and danced their w.iy through the night. All this is just a rhap.sodical attempt to describe the most perfect evening of the social year, the Junior Prom of last Friday night.
One thing, after another heaped into a whole formed the kaleidoscope into which many an ecstatic youth looked that night. Some even went so far as to give vent to an occasional burst of the immortal "jeep", a rather deadly type of dancing, which evokes either admiration or criticism.
The evening was a marked success from the very opening of the doors. The favors drew "ahs"' and "ohs" from the Lidies; the "ahs" and "ohs" drew smiles from the committee. The program was pert and plain yet rather unique In design. But the greatest pleasure of all was entering the ballroom. Under the colored canopy the music of Frank Dailey, the big¬ gest joy and surprise of the evening, flowed tranquilly and grew torrid, while lads and ladles skimmed and swirled with the greatest of ease. The men pf Canisius were to be seen lit¬ erally hanging from the balcony and holding up the walls and trailing in the wake of beautiful ladies. The grand promenade led by Chairman Paul Batt, started with a streamer of (Continued on page two)
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CAPTAINS SELECe E
TWO CANISIANS IN "CHURCH STREET"
Two of the Canisius actors pro¬ gressed one step further on the road to success last Sunday evening. James M. Conroy, president of the Canisius College Drattiatic Society, and Mar¬ vin Rubin, erstwhile minister of the "Lights Out" production, appeared in the Catholic Actors' Guild School presentation of "Church Street," The play, written by Lennox Robinson, was presented Sunday evening in the auditorium of Mount St, Joseph's Academy,  Miss Margarj'.t Ryan di¬
rected the piece, which ha^ to do with a young dramatist who brings to light the supposed eccentricities of his home town people. /
room, supposedly in search of a physi¬ cian, but, in reality, to spread the alarm,     \_
No sooner had the pistol dis¬ appeared in the tnan's pocket, than Mr, Malone leaped upon him and grappled with him. Savagely the two struck at each other. Suddenly there was the cold glint of a gun barrel. The stranger was attempting to level the muzzle at the orderly's body, Mr, Malone kicked the weapon from his assailant's hand. As it struck the floor, he kicked it out of range.
Suddenly the gunman broke away and dashed into the corridor, through the door, and out into Pine Street.
As he passed through the hallj he whipped out another pistol and at- temi)ted to shoot Sister Laura, the night superintendant, who was about to enter the operating room. How¬ ever, the gun failed to discharge.
The gunman made his escape into Eagle Street. He was later identified
First   steps   toward   the   annual Intra-mural Basketball Tourney were taken recently, at the .announcement of the appointments of captains of the various class-divisions.  Appointments are as follows: Senior Science—D, McCue, Senior Arts—Ed Rozek, H, Hacker, Senior Business—P. Travers. Senior Pre-Med—T. Koss. Senior Pre-Law—L. Braun. Junior Arts—^John Allen. Junior Science—L. Hochreiter. Junior Business—C. Barth, Junior Pre-Med—B. Fontaine, Junior Pre-Law—T, Donavan, Soph Arts—J, Sexton, J, Mattina, Soph Science—Ed, Decker, Soph Business—Jfm Batt, Soph Pre-Med—La Mantia, Soph Pre-Law—^J, Coppola, Freshman Arts—D, Fahey, J, Fick, Freshman Science—H, Rozek, L,
Miner. Freshman Business—Zaso,  B,  Har¬ nick, Freshman Pre-Med—J, Nelson, Freshman Pre-Law—C, Kelleher,
A meeting of the aforementioned captains will be held this afternoon at 12:30 p, m, in the auditoriu'm. Plans, regulations and arrangements will be thoroughly discussed and ar¬ rangements fpr playing time will be settled,
as one of the mysterious bandits who have figured in several recent hold¬ ups.
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On Sunday afternoon, February 14th, .at 2:30, iuonths of effort by representatives of the seven college members of the Western New York Sodality Conference will culminate in the presentation of the seventh, an¬ nual Catholic Collegiate Symposium, One of the keystone doctrines of the wliole Christian faith, the Divinity of Christ, will be discussed under the title, "The God-Man of Galilee",
This will he the fii"st in a series of presentations planned with a different roster of speakers for each occasion. At Buffalo tlie main speeches will be delivered by Edward Conlcy of Niag¬ ara University, Eleanor O'Sullivan of Mcrcyhurst College, Joseph Clcary of St, Bonaventure College, Jean Dolan of D'Youville College and William Flynn of Canisius College, An Innovation In the method of pre¬ sentation of the matter will Introduce Edna Bruckcl of Nazareth College and Mary O'Connor of Villa Maria College .IS objectors. It will be their part to offer, for clearer development, difficulties   suggested   by   the   main
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This Collegiate Symposium, whicli' ' annually stirs the interest of the en¬ tire Conference area stretching from Rochester and Geneva to Erie, has attained nation-wide notice and re¬ ceived commendation in the national press. Information regarding the de¬ tails of its conduct and prepar.ition has been sought from various parts of the country. New York City, De¬ troit, Chicago, and Washington have ad.apted the methods of the Western New York Conference to their parti¬ cular needs.
In keeping with a custom which h.as been established in the p.ist years the group will travel to Rochester and Erie to present the .nddrcsscs be¬ fore audiences at Villa Maria and Nazareth.
Due to the new method of pre¬ sentation tlie roster of .speakers will be rearranged for each occasion, to bring into prominence the Sodalists from the local colleges.
This year .acceptance of the invita¬ tion extended by the Knights of Col¬ umbus of Efmini, New York, will (Continued on page four)
FR. KENNEDY TO RETREATJRCH 8-14
Rev. R<aymond J. H. Kennedy, S. J., of the College F.aculty, will be the retrcat-niJister of the Alumni So¬ dality Retreat, Monday night, March 8th, to Sund.ay morning, March 14th. Present and former members of the Alumni Sodality and friends of mem¬ bers, as well as Knights of Columbus, Knights of St. John and Knights of Equity are cordially invited to attend.
Services will be held every night at eight o'clock in the College Ch.apel and will consist of a hymn and the recitation of the Rosary, short instruc¬ tion and retreat sermon. There will be Benediction of the Blessed Sacra¬ ment during which the prayers of the Novena to St. Francis Xavier will be said, until March 12th. Confessions will be heard each night after the services.
On Sunday morning, March 14th, the retreat will close with General Communion and Breakfast in the College Cafeteria. The Mass will be at 8:00 a.m., as usual. Jim Britt, popular sports announcer, will be the speaker.
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