Evening star., 1927-10-30
POWER PROJECT
OPPOSED BY HOyA
Georgetown Student Weekly
Declares Plant Would
Desecrate Scenery.

posed Great Falls power project is
made through the Georgetown Hoya.
weekly student news publication of
Georgetown University, in it's cur
rent issue.
Joining opposition to the power
Plant development. the Hoya devoted
a leading editorial to the threatened
loss of proposed park area on the
south bank of the Potomac and the
obINeration of the falls on the upper
Potomac by a diversion of water.
nm the face of governmental prof
ects' to beautify theh south side of
the river, any step that would de.
prive Washington of park area should
hegdisregarded unless it is a matter of
are necessity" the Hoya states.
@Always there is before us the con-
femplation of this aspect of the QueS-
ton: Just how will it affect George
town."
Georgetown has a peculiar interest
In the present controversy that centers
about the proposed development OF
hydro.electric power, the Hoya points
olit, because of its ancient association
with the river. For more than l3o
wears. before the founding of Wash
Georgetown students have looked out
of their rooms over the Potomac.
They are naturally interested in any
movement to beautify the south bank
OF the river. the Hoya points out, as
they are in any project that would
tend to make impossible the carrying
out Of governmental plans for its I'M
provement.
Georgetown men will lend their
heart and hand most enthusiastically.
the editorial adds, ITO any vote that
urovides for the destruction Of certain
uhlovely sign boards that dominate
The skyline as seen in that direction
from our own Hilltop"
Glee Club Plans Busy Year.
With the reappointment of Rich
ard K. Mckeon, S. J. as faculty mad
orator, the Georgetown University
Glee Club is looking forward this year
TO an unusually busy season.
At the first meeting of the club last
Tuesday, Mr.. Mckeon outlined to the
members a new policy Of greater ac'
tivity, to which the student body has
pledged it's cooperation. So many in
yitations have been received from
churches and schools in the city that
Efr. McKeon is planning a series of
public concerts instead of confining
the clubs activities. as heretofore, to
collegiate affairs.
Joseph S. Mullen, '2S, is president of
the glee club and has arranged the
rehearsal hours to fit in with the
program of the freshmen and upper
classmen. With an unusually large
freshman class this year, the club is
drawing largely from the yearlings
for recruits. ..t ,..
ey1n 1r,I hn
Collegians, a student orchestra and
the 50-piece r. o. T. c. band. there
10 no lack Of music at the Hilltop
for any occasion. no matter how
formal. The bandsmen were equipped
with new blue and gray uniforms for
the first time last week and made a
creditable showing at the dress pa
rade of the infantry battalion on
NGvy day. 1t is conceded to be one
Of the best student bands in the Third
Corps Area.
DIR. Carl j. Mess Returns.
DR.. Carl ]. Mess has returned to
the dental school and has resumed
his faculty duties as professor of oral
pfoStheSis. On October IS he gave
On initial talk to the members of the
e1nior class, whom he will meet twice
each week throughout the remainder
of the first semester.
During the past week convention
Of the American Dental Association
W.; held in Detroit. which several of
xhe Georgetown dental faculty at
tended. DR.. Sterling V. Mead's con-
tributton to the convention was a
paper on osteo-myelitis. Another fac
ulty member who has resumed his
duties is Capt. Fernando E. Rodriguez
4o1 1,
been professor of dental pathology at
the Georgetown school since Septem-
Der. 1926.
Eugene B. Daniels, for several years
assistant registrar at the School of
Foreign Service, has resigned to join
the faculty of the University of Mary.
Land as instructor of economics. Few
men associated with Georgetown have
ha0 as picturesque a career. For 10
years Daniels was virtually man
without country" until he became
an American citizen last Spring. A
refugee from his native Russia TO
avoid taking the oath of allegiance to
the Soviet government, Daniels wan
oered about the Orient until he came
- this country in 1921, when about
VI years of age.
Since his arrival in the United
States he worked his way to a degree
at the University of California and at
Occidental College. He came to
washington in 1925 to enter the
School of Foreign Service. where he
became secretary to the regent, Rev
Edmund A. Walsh, S. j., about whose
work in Russia he had learned. He
received his masters degree at
Georgetown in 1926 and continued as
a. ca ndidate for a Phi. D. degree. Last
June Daniels passed the commercial
agent examination given by the De.
pertment of Commerce, after he had
oecome naturalized American cit
tzen.
Fraternity Gives Smoker.
Members Of Kappa Alpha Phi, for
eign service fraternity, gave one OF
the most successful student smokers
OF the year at their chapter house last
Friday. Brig. Gen. Rufus n. Lane OF
the Marine Corps gave a talk on the
American occupation of santo Domin
go and Haiti, where he was sta
tAned for number of years. James
0ulligan, first president Of Alpha
Chapter, journeyed from New York te
ateend the smoker.
Another recent foreign service
smoker was given by Alpha Chapter
of the Delta Phi Epsilon Fraternit,
At its new home, Poll Columbia road
DR.. William Franklin Sands of tht
state Department, who is professor O
international relations at the George
town school. and r. NJ. Stephenson
chief of the European division, Blu
reau Of Foreign and Domestic Com
sperce, were the principal speakers
The latter is a new addition to tn,
Georgetown faculty. In his address
DR.. Sands predicted that the day il
approac ching when AMBASSADORS ant
ministers of the United States ais,
will be chosen from the staff of tn,
Department of Commerce in the for
eign field.
The president of the fraternity