Evening star., 1939-12-03
Senior High School
Students Conference
Will Open Friday
Delegates to Be Guests
Of 6. W. at Luncheon
On Saturday

George Warrington University
will hold its seventh annual con-
ference for senior high school stu
dents Friday and Saturday.
Twenty five high schools In Rich
mond, Baltimore and nearby Vir-
ginia and Maryland towns, as well
as all of the local senior high schools,
will send delegates.
The conference is held by the
university each year to give high
school debaters in this region the
opportunity to come together to
discuss the subject selected for all
high school debates. This year the
debate subject Is: Should the Fed
eral Government Own and Operate
the Railroads."
Friday morning the debaters will
hear a model debate by two experts
in the field, Government ownership
being upheld by Eliot Janeway, sta
tistician and economist, Of New
York City, and opposed by Robert
s. Henry, assistant to the president
of the Association of American Rail-
roads.
Resolutions TO Be Adopted.
Following the debate delegates to
the conference will meet In small
groups to discuss various phases of
the problem. At . general session
Of the conference Saturday morn
ing the sections will report, and
resolutions on the question win be
adopted as the expression Of the
majority opinion.
The conference will close Satur-
day with a luncheon at the May
flower Hotel when the delegates will
be guests of the university. DR..
william G. Johnstone, jr., profess
sor of political science and dean
of the Junior college OF the uni
versity, who recently returned from
a seven-month tour of China, ia
pan, Indo-China, the East Indies,
Australia and the Philippines, will
discuss The Other War in the
Far East"
The university's annual confer
ence on inter-American problems
will take place Tuesday, Wednes-
day and Thursday evenings. Re-
quests for cards Of admission in
dicate that the meetings, to be
held in the auditorium of the United
States Chamber of Commerce, will
be attended by more than a thou
sand persons. Addresses and panel
discussions will center around the
subject, Pan American Solidarity !:
Nine Methods of Cooperation. "
Leaders in government. diplomacy,
the Army and Navy, education. the
press. radio and motion pictures
will speak.
DR.. Teller to Lecture.
A series of three public lectures
will be given by DR.. Edward Teller.
professor of physics in the univer-
sity, on the evenings Of December
4, II and l8. These lectures will
deal with the application Of nuclear
activity to series Of problems rang
ing from chemistry, through geo.
physics, to astrophysics. Tomorrow
evening DR.. Teller will discuss "Ra-
dioactivity and Chemistry" The
following Monday his subject will
be "Radioactivity in the Earth. :"
The final lecture, Monday evening,
December 1s, will deal with RADIO
activity in the Stars" All viii be
illustrated. The lectures will take
place at Sis pm. in the Hall Of
Government.
The Student Bar Association of
the law school will hold its first
general meeting tomorrow night in
Stockton Hall. Justice Bontha j.
Laws of the United States District
Court will be the speaker. Wilbur
A. Schaick, president Of the asso-
citation, will preside. A social hour
will follow the meeting.
The Student Council of the uni
versity will present a forum on the
European war Thursday at 8:l5 pm.
in the Hall of Government. A rep
resentative of each of the three
allied powers, selected by the Brit
ish. French and Polish Embassies,
will address the meeting. A panel
composed of two students and one
faculty member will lead open dis
cussion following the meeting. Ir-
win Nathanson, forum director OF
the Student Council, is in charge