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SENIOR
EDITION
SENIOR
EDITION
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Student Weekly Publication
The Rice Institute
NO. 23
HOUSTON, texas* friday, MARCH 24, 1033
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Owl Musicians Plan Band Hall;
Officers Urge Construction;
Campus Location Not Chosen
President
Points Out
Advantages
Administration May Allot Site
Soon, Montgomery
Announces
By GARDNER SOULE
Plans are under way for the
Rice Owl band to have a band
hall of its own in the near future,
according to Lee Chatham, direc-
tor. For the first time in years
the organization is financially
able to pay for construction of a
building, and the only thing that
remains to be done is to select a
good location on the campus for
the hall.
It is hoped that administration
officers at Rice will allot a place
to the band for the new building
very soon, Franklin Montgomery,
manager, said Friday.
Band members have declared
that anywhere on the campus
would suit them.
Richard Shannon, band presi-
dent, pointed out the pressing ne-
cessity for a band hall to a re-
porter for The Senior Thresher
yesterday. "With a regular' meet-
ing place members could work
much more efficiently," Shannon
said. "Hiey would have a definite
place to leave their horns while
they went to laboratories. This
woffid obviate many hurried trips
home, or to Autry house, or some-
where elge on the part of mem-
bers, who could come straight to
rehearsals from lab. The band
could meet more often and more
regularly. Advantages to the band
that would accrue from a. hall of
its own are too numerous to men-
tion."
The band at present is meeting
twice a week in the senior mess
hall, where it moved from Autry
house several months ago. Prac-
tices here, the officers' say, neces-
sitate short rehearsals and can-
not be held more often. In order
to get the band into top form for
its extensive schedule of spring
concerts, it should meet three or
four times a week, they say.
The band's moving into a new
hall would mark another mile-
stone in its growth, according to
Lee Chatham, director, who yes-
terday recalled many outstanding
incidents in its evolution.
Chatham recalled the time
when, after the Rice Institute had
purchased 15 instruments, there
were not enough band members
to . play all of them. He discussed
the band's first uniforms — con-
sisting of dark blue trousers, gray
shirts, blue ties, and sailor caps.
He recollected the decision, in
1923, to give Owl bandmen sweat-
ers of the same quality as the
athletes.
Not least important in eventful
occasions of various Owl bands,
Chatham said, were their entries
into three Harris county band
contests.
On May 7, 1927, 3,000 people
saw the Owl band win a loving
cup for first place in the county
contest. The Rice outfit was
picked over the D. O. K, K.,
Southern Pacific, Humble, and
other bands.
On May 7,1930, the Brass Owls
took second place in the county*
contest to the Southern Pacific
band of professional musicians.
On May 15, 1931, the Owl toot-
ers again grabbed first place Class
A honors, with the D. O. K. K.
band taking second place.
Chatham was elected director
of the Owl band in 1924, and has
been re-elected ever since. He
had been elected president in
1922, and renamed as president in
1924, when as an undergraduate
' a trombone within the
AldenPasche Named
Rice May Fete King
Alden Pasche has been selected to
serve as king of the annual May fete
by the Rice Women's council, accord-
ing to Irma Fonville, chairman.
The other men selected to partici-
pate are Robert Blair, senior duke;
Robert Hannon, junior duke; Kemp
Lewis, sophomore duke and David Red,
freshman duke.
Concessions were granted as follows:
P. A. L. S., candy; O, W. L. S., ice
crcam and soda water; E. B. L. S.,
programs.
After this year the Y. W. C. A. will
be granted a concession.
All girls in the May fete are re-
requestcd to attend a meeting in the
Physics amphitheatre Thursday at 1
p. m. at which time dresses to be worn
in the affair will be discussed.
Debating Club
Pick TeamsTo
Meet A. & M.
Tambert-Scott, Masterson - Bald-
win Will Argue Capitalism
Early in April
Five Seniors
Selected For
PhiBetaKappa
Annual Dinner and Reunion of
Members at Cohen House
Tonight at 6
Five members of the Senior Class
will be initiated as members-in-course
of the Rice Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa
this evening at 5 o'clock in the Faculty
chamber. They are:
Lucy Anile Clay, Houston, scholar
of the John McKnitt .Alexander Chap-
ter, Daughters of the American Revo-
lution.
Marjorie Meyer, Houston, junior
scholar receiving special mention for
1931-32.
Ruth Loughridge, Houston, Pallas
Athene Literary Society scholr.
Helen Turner, Angleton, Thomas A.
Dickson and Pauline M. Dickson
scholar.
John LeRoy Sims, Houston, Hohen-
thal scholar.
Following initiation services, the an-
nual dinner and reunion of members
and honorary members will be held at
G o'clock at Cohen House. The newly-
elected members, those elected in Oc-
tober and last June will be honor
guests.
The members will attend the address
to be given by Sir Robert Falconer in
the Physics amphitheater at 8:15 on
"Religion as a Factor in the Making of
a Complete Citizen."
M.S.U. Opens
Clubroom At
Autry House
New Quarters Furnished Union
By Mrs. Blake—Student
Night Tuesday
The M, S. U. entertained their friends
with a "house warming" Wednesday,
as they moved into their new clubroom
upstairs at Autry House. The room,
recently turned over to the Methodists
by Mrs. Blake, is to be furnished by
them and made into a student center
where off hours may be spent.
•A schedule is "now being drawn up
so that there will always be someone
in the office from 8 until 1, Harold
Wigren stated. He has also announced
that a Student Night is to be observed
at St. Paul's on Tuesday, April 4.
Bishop Hiram A. Boaz will deliver a
series of pre-Lenten sermons all that
week, and a special sermon and stu-
dent paritcipation will feature Stu-
dent Night.
A capacity attendance turned out
Sunday for the M. S. U. breakfast, in
spite of the damp weather. The pro-
gram was furnished as follows: Nyna
Dot Brown, piano solo; Adelbert Bar-
ry, baritone solo; Helen Harris, read-
ing; everybody, Rice's Honor.
The M. S. U. and B. S, U. councils
collaborated last night, and enjoyed a
steak fry at the ,Towi s farm on the
Humble road. HalUe Beth Talley and
.Alberta Black were in change.
At a meeting of the Debating Club
Wednesday night al Autry House, R.
H. Lambert and James Scott were se-
lected to uphold the affirmative and
William Masterson and John Baldwin
were picked to defend the negative of
the question, "Resolved, That Capital-
ism Is a Failure," as club entrants in
two debates that will be held early in
April between representatives of A. and
M. College and Rice Institute.
The Rice representatives will uphold
the negative of the issue when the
teams first clash on April 4 at Col-
lege Station and will return to Hous-
ton on April 6 to defend the affirma-
tive as the representatives of the two
schools again meet in the auditorium
of Albert Sidney Johnson Junior HigJj
School. £|
According to John Costley, who is in
charge of tickets, admission for (he
Houston debate will be 15 cents and
tickets are available on the campus
from any member of the Debating So-
ciety.
In the elimination contest, Wednes-
day night, Scott and Lambert became
the Rice participants in the controversy
when Jack Warfield, who was another
contestant for a position on the squad,
withdrew from further competition.
In the preliminary discussion of the
issue Wednesday night at the time of
the .eliminations Lambert pointed out
the industrial maladjustments and com-
petitive unfairness of capitalism, while
Scott showed how the capitalist system
lias caused nothing but insistent war
and unemployment throughout its en-
tire period of existence.
Masterson declared that capitalism
must be with its benefits as it has ex-,
istcd for so long a while and then pro-
ceeded to list the advantages that have
been derived from a capitalistic so-
ciety, while Baldwin argued that cap-
italism is the only system of society
that encourages initiative enterprise
and that to say that capitalism has
failed is to likewise say1 that humanity
and progress have failed as everything
we now possess have been gained un-
der a capitalistic form of society.
Jack Roberts, general chairman of
the committees in charge of the two
debates, declared that the judges and
chairman for the Houston controversy
have been selected and will be an-
nounced very shortly with other final
plans for the debate.
Lecturer
"Hell-Bent For Heaven" To Be
Presented Wednesday At Little
Theater By Rice Dramatic Club
Writing Club Holds
Manuscript Reading
Many attended the writing Club
meeting last Tuesday night at the Au-
try House. As the meetings are being
held every other Tuesday now, there
were a good rrtany manuscripts on
hand.
The short stories read and comment-
ed upon were: "The Impossibility," by
Pete Maniscalco; "An Unexciting
Christmas," by Bernece Neilan, and
"The Neighbor's Secrets," by Alberta
Rieson.
Blanche Delambre read the third
chapter of the novel she is writing,
and Harry Vinock read excerpts from
his long-short story, "The Flood."
After the discussions, refreshments
were served.
The Writing Club will meet again
Tuesday, April 4.
Sir Robert Falconer will talk on "Re-
ligion" in his last lecture on citizen-
ship.
Falconer In
Fourth Talk
! Tonight, 8:15
I Lecture Marks Close of Series
Delivered by Sir Robert
On 'Citizenship'
Speaking on "Religion as a Factor in
the Making of u Complete Citizen," Sir
Robert Alexander Falconer of Toronto
will deliver the {fifth public lecture
under the Sharp leiiiureship in Civics
and Philanthropy tonight at 8:15 in
the Physics amphitheater.
Dr. A. D. McKillop, president of the
Rice chapter of PhrBota Kappa; will
preside. Members of the society will
attend the lecture after the annual din-
ner of the chapter.
This lecture marks the close of a
series of four delivered on the general
subject "Factors in the Making of a
Complete Citizen." Tuesday night Sir
Robert spoke on "Tradition," Wednes-
day night on "Scientific Enquiry," and
Thursday night on "The Pursuit of
Beauty."
Tuesday night Sir Robert said that
tradition is one of the essentials in the
making of a complete citizen. Sum-
miug up he said:
"The culture of earlier days has
helped to make us what we are. Tra-
dition is a foundation on which those
who come after us will erect nobler
structures where we stand. It is a
social power that bends the strongest.
"Today there seems to be a weak-
ening of tradition. Culture is disap-
pearing. The world is bing so crushed
together by the rapid means of modern
transportation and communication that
its civilizations are being crushed
against one another. People are be-
ing washed off their feet." \
Culture is made possible by a civi-
lized society, he said, and is the mark
of a liberally educated person. On
this continent we have been more suc-
cessful in surpassing the world on the
economic scale, but less on the cultural
scale.
Dr. J. W. Slaughter, lecturer in
civics and philanthropy, presided at the.
lecture. Dr. H. A. Wilson, professor
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Dates Are Set
For Retreat
Of Y.W.C.A.
Esther Beman President of Co-ed
Organization for
Next Year
March 31-April 1 have been set aside
a.s dates for the annual spring retreat
of the Rice Y. W. C. A. to be held
at Casa Del Mar.
Miss Dorothea Fask and Mrs. Olivia
Fuller will be guest speakers. Ath-
letic contests, a picnic and a dance are
also planned. A tentative program for
the coming yaer will be outlined, it: i;,
important that all new cabinet mem-
bers be present. Cars will leave the,
Autry House at 1 o'clock on Friday,
March 31.
At the last regular meeting officers
for the year 1933-34 were elected as
follows: President, Esther Beman; vice-
president, Albert Riesen; second vice-
president, Peggy Soule; secretary; Mar-
garet Elkins; treasurer, Doris White;
parliamentarian, Mary J. Oliphant; re-
porter, Sigrid Roos,
After the election, Miss Fern Bab-
cock, national student secretary of the
Y, M. C. A., gave a short t |lk on
Christian ileads on campuses. Carry-
ing out the theme of the meeting,
Margaret Elkins played St. Patrick
airs.
Final Speaker
mi
II
Adcock And
Thomas Are
Directors
Students Get
Special Rate
For Opera
Cranmer Club
Hears Sumners
Rev. Charles Sumners will summa-
rize the letter of Paul to the Corin-
thians and Ephesians Sunday evening
at 6:30 for the Cranmer club. On the
following Sunday Horace Kehl will
speal on Paul's Epistle to the Romans.
Last Sunday Katherine Honor spoke
on Paul's Epistle to the Ephesians, em-
phasizing as Paul's foundation of re-
ligion the belief in the love of Christ
and faith in God.
METCALF CALLS ENGINEERS
Dick Metcalf has issued a call to all
engineer* who wish to come out for the
Engineer Baseball team that will be en-
tered in the Intramural League. All
who are interested get in touch with
Dick Metcalf at South Hall.
Section Reserved at Performance
of 'Madame Butterfly'—
Nespoli Arranges
, Students will be given a special rate
I for "Madame Butterfly," which is to ho
produced by the Southern Opera Com- j
pany at the City Auditorium, April 4.
A special section will be reserved for
students and tickcts will be sold to
them for 55 cents. Student identifica-
tion cards may be obtained in the of-
fice.
The special rate was arranged by
Uriel Nespoli, conductor of ihe South-
ern Opera Company, in order that
more students might be able to attend
the opera. Nespoli is especially anx-
ious to have a large student attend-
ance.
Special Settings. Sound Effects
Add to Force and Appeal
of Drama
! Departing from the usual type
of amateur productions, the Rice
j Dramatic Club will present next
j Wednesday evening at. the Little
Theater, "Hell-bent for Heaven,
a Pullixer Prize winner written
I by Hatcher Hughes.
Work on this play, which deals
; with the Carolina mountain folk,
j is progressing rapidly under (he
I capable direction of Mr, K. R
Adcock and Mr J. D. Thomas.
Effective settings and sound ef-
fects add much to the force and
appeal of a powerful written
piece of drama. The picturesque
in ihe last of; speech and thoughts of these iso-
Uirts at Rice ; |at0fj mountaineers, upon whom
the Great War vaguely intrudes,
constitute the foundation upon
which is builded a fast-moving,
I plot.
I _ i / ^ * The plav opens with the return
Lecture Given of one of the mountain boys, Sid
! Hunt, from the War. With the
I possibility of the loss of his job
land, also of the girl with whom he
■J | is in love, Rufe Pryor, an hired
I hand, goes conscientiously to
'° j work to stir up an feud between
j Sid Hunt and Andy Louery, tin-
girl's brother. Complications
which develop as a result of this
attempt keep "Hell-bent, for
Heaven ' interesting and thrilling
to the final curtain.
Sid Hunt is played by Gerald
who is known not
Dr. Altenburg will speak on "Racial
| Changes in the Genes," ii
| a series of )2 public I
! institute.
Final Sunday
By Altenburg
Assistant Biology Professor
Speak on "Racial Changes
and the Genes."
Dr. Edgar Altenburg, assistant pro-
, fessor of biology, will deliver t ho final
! Sunday afternoon lecture at. 4:30 p. m. !
in the physics amphitheater, March 2G.
'His subject will be "Racial Changes i .
land the Genes." HichaitUn , , ,
r,r.u f . . only tor his line work with the
With the approach of summer, bring- !T->- r\ < / (> , , . r
ling with it mosquitoes, interest to R ce .Drai™ * Club bu also for
, drawn to fear of malaria and how to ' P1 r* s the Hous-
j control it. The man who deserves ton battle Theater. Melba Slim-
l the honor for making possible this P' . who is also well known to
i work whereby millions of human i Rice theatergoers plays the I'rrei-
I deaths are prevented each year, an : nine lead. Judo Louery.
unimaginable amount of human suffer- un,;i ,.u ; i
ing eliminated, and the conquest of the . Wh, e she fr«sh,n
tropics made possible is the late Sir h.as ">tappeared in other Drama
Ronald Ross, Dr. Asa C. Candler, pro- |tlc Club productions. Bdhe kmght
young lady
Meg Hunt,
Rice Baptist Classes Feted At
Home of Vera Sanders Sunday
The Rice classes of different Baptist
churches were entertained informally
Sunday night at the home of Vera San-
ders, 325 Heights boulevard. Delicious
punch was served after the evening's
entertainment. These Sunday night
get-togethers have proven to be very
successful.
fessor of biology, said in his lecture ia very talented
Sunday afternoon. „who will be seen as
"After years of hard labor and oxpe-*!^hc mother of Sid.
rimfentatibq," Doctor Candler stated: Rufe Pryor, the religious tana
"Sir Ronald Ross, in South India, sue- tic and trouble maker of the play
ceeded in the demonstration of the fact js characterized by Harry Bloom
Seniors Have Varied JVays
For Ending The Depression
By LEON BRESKY
How can we end the depression?
That is the questioih that was put to
Seniors for their opi nions and answers
last week and the j nnaceas and solu-
tions that were give \ in reply look as
though they might ie taken from or
incorporated into a ;opy of The Con-
gressional Record.
Harry Kaplan s-ta' es that if we are
to have a Chicken in every pot, we
should just "wait" v, hile Bob Blair be-
lieves that if we wan . to findthe corner
around which prosp rity is hidden, we
should "soak the riuh."
"Sell beer" is the solution that Ray
Harbour offers, whil i "reduce the gov-
ernment debt and g :t rid of all taxa-
tion" is the cure thl t William Strozier
suggests.
Communism is th > solution for the
depression according to Frederick Tay-
lor, who believes < iat if We are to
ever regain normals: ■ "all we need is a
communistic state."
Gardner Soule adt ocates an increase
in advertising and offers as his sug-
gestion "for films 1 a increase adver-
tising," and Sam Smpiro believes in a
readjustment living standards with
a "scaling dovm'dt 4 era N people can
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A- iCftr>TOtwr-
:-y, w
.vV / ",(
j pay off and a readjusting of the mone-
| tary system.''
William Pollard favors "a slow
' change with constructive legislation
including drastic economizing and hu-
manistic administration,'' and Maurice
Sullivan believes that "more individ-
uals who have fortunes should use
their money philanthropically and put
it into circulation."
Legislative action is the suggestion
of Emmett Murphy, who believes that
we should have a "lower tariff, de-
crease governmental expenditures, give
the farmer more for his goods and de-
crease unemployment by national bene-
ficial projects."
Ethel Fallis gives a coed's view on
the question and declares that we
should get "an optimistic optical illu-
sion of the future," while Lois Dawson
presents another coed's opinion and
suggests that we need a "greater co-
operation between the government and
the people."
R. B. Roos offers a solution with his
advice that we "reduce tariffs, cancel
war debts, balance the budget by re-
ducing veterans' compensation and
army and navy appropriations and in-
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that malaria is transmitted only by the
bite of certain kinds of mosquitoes.
This at once suggested the possibility
of control if not actual eradication of
the disease by attack on Anopheles
mosquitoes. It was not long before it
whose name has been associated
with the Dramatic Club for the
past three seasons. Henry Ed-
wards. who is also production
manager, is seen as David, Sid's
was abundantly demonstrated that Ross ; Grandfather. Card Elliot, appears
was right in believing that the control , as Matt, David's son.
of malaria could be accomplished, but; Tickets for "Hell-bent fer
it has also been demonstrated that he Heaven" will be placed on sale
at the Sallyport at a special price
was wrong in believing that it would
be. It is a project which costs money,
requires interest on the part of gov-
ernments, and a popular demand.
Where these requirements have been
found, malaria has either been abol-
ished or reduced to a small fraction
| of what it once was.
"Many counter proposals were made
such as universal quininization, screen-
ing, use of repellent ointments, lamps
to attract and destroy thousands of
adult mosquitoes. When Ross talked
on the subject of mosquito control he-
fore societies, he was laughed at, or ; 1' ^nd Chandler Appear First
of 50 cents each. They may also
be had by calling George Pike,
Hadley 1547.
Six Of Faculty
On Honor Roll
argued down or ignored. He felt very
strongly about the failure of his coun-
trymen to make the best us of its
scientists. Finally, in 1901, Sir Ronald
organized an expedition of his own to
West Africa, financed by private funds
of a backer, to demonstrate to a skep-
tical world the possibility of actually
controlling mosquitoes at a reasonable
cost. This expedition was successful,
and was followed soon after by equally
successful demonstrations at Ismailia
on the Suez Canal and the transforma-
tion of the Canal Zone in Pamana from
a White Man's Graveyard to one of
the healthiest localities in the world,
the greatest sanitary achievement the
world has ever seen. Col. W. C. Gor-.
gas, chief sanitary officer, wrote to
Ronald Ross: 'It seems to me not ex-
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Time On List Chosen by
Editor of 'Scicnce'
Six members of the Rice faculty
have been named on the roll of "1000
leading men of science" prepared for
1932 by J. McKeen Cattell, psycholo-
gist and editor of the magazine
"Science."
Two of these are on the list for the
first time. They are Lester R, Ford,
assistant professor of mathematics, and
Asa G. Chandler, professor of biology.
The others, who have been named on
previous lists and are included in the
newest are Griffith C. Evans, profes-
sor of pure mathematics; Edgar O.
Lovett; professor of mathematics and
president of the Institute; Harry B.
Weiser, -professor of chemistry, and
Harold A. Wilson, professor of physics.
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