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Evening star., 1939-01-22

west as the Mississippi River and
throughout the Southern States. One
of their features is the exhibition of
native costumes from the countries
she has visited, with young people
from her audience as the living
models.
Tourists" Mrs. Ahrens said, lin
variably come back from South
America with an enlightened view
point toward this great continent to
the south of our own, which is to
play such vital part in the develop
ment of a united Americas policy"
Many Women's organizations and
educational groups" she further en-
phasized, ARE not only eager to par
ticipate in the development of closer
ties between the women of South
America and themselves, but are
taking definite steps toward bring
ing 1t about"
LAS an example of this, Mrs.
Ahrens called attention to the effort
of the Washington Branch of the
American Association of University
Women. which, under the chairman
ship OF Mrs. Lucy Madeira Wing, IS
endeavoring to establish fund of
$4,000 for the endowment of Latin
American felloWships among the
college women of the two Americas.
Many times as result of her pub
lie appearances Mrs. Ahrens is fire.
quently asked by mothers and their
daughters. How did you work into
your present position?" Her answer
is, First by training for it, in COL
lege, and then by getting into a field
that was alive to what I most wished
to do" This, she feels, is essentially
necessary for young people who ale
striving for certain types of careers
or to change their present ones.
Home Career, Too.
In addition to her duties as a rep
resentative of the Grace Line and
her pan-American activities, Mrs.
Ahrens is also the active head of
household at 1348 jefferson street
NV, which includes her husband,
her brother and her widowed father.
She admits to being a good house
keeper, too, and mot such a bad
cook" Roast beef done to a juicy
turn, hot biscuits and deep-dish
apple pie are specialties that never
fail to win the appreciation of her
family.
Mrs. Ahrens is the author of an
article on South America in the
October issue of the D. A. R. maya
zine entitled "Pan-American Pas
sage and has written extensively
on South American subjects for
various school publications.
Some day she hopes to write a
novel based upon South America
and its people. with her research
and travel experiences as the back
ground for it.
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Alumni to Hold Dance

The Southeastern University
Alumni Association will hold buff
let supper and dance at the Carlton
Hotel Saturday night for association
members, the faculty and seniors of
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sity, will celebrate high mass and
preside at the ceremonies of inves-
titure at Maryhurst, the Eastern
provincial residence Of the Sisters
Of Providence, at Hyattsville at 8
am. tomorrow. During the cere-
mony several postulants will be re-
ceived into the order.
Child Psychology" will be the
subject Of an address by the Rev.
DR.. Thomas Werner Moore, professor
and head Of the department of psy-
chology, at the luncheon of the
Catholic Parent-Teacher League of
Cleveland, Thursday, January 26.
Daniel j. Lyme, vice president of
the Boston Bar Association, chair
man of the Massachusetts Probation
Commission and member of the
Massachusetts, Crime Commission
will be the first speaker in the second
jubilee series of law lectures spon-
sored by the Law School Friday.
THE Function of Law in Society
Today" will be examined from four
distinctive approaches by outstand-
Ing attorneys, with Mr.. Lyme pre-
senting his views at the opening ses-
sion in Mcmahon Hall at pm.
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Four Pi Gamma Mu
Chapters Plan Banquet

The four District of Columbia
chapters of Pi Gamma Mu, na-
tional honorary social science So
ciety, will hold their annual Joint
banquet in early May with the Beta
Chapter at the George Washington
University acting as host. The
other local chapters are Catholic.
American and Georgetown unlversi-
ties
New officers have been elected
and installed at the George Wash
. ington Chapter. They are: Glen
Boyer, president; Robert Sammors,
vice president, and Katherine Muir
ply, secretary treasurer.
The newly installed president, Mr..
Boyer, is graduate student in eco
nomics.
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Midyear Exams
Al 6. W. u. 10 Start
This Saturday
Dates Are Announced
For Registrations for
Second Semester

i Midyear examinations will start
saturday at George Washington
University. continuing through Feb
ruary 4. Registration for the second
semester will take place February 8
and 9 and classes will resume Feb
fuary 10.
Two hundred courses will open
the second semester in 43 of the
departments of instruction. In ad-
dition, many of the full-year courses,
which start in September, may be
entered IN February with the con-
sent OF the instructor.
Glasses Form in February.
! All OF the colleges, schools and di-
visions of the university may be
entered in February with the ex-
ception Of the school of medicine.
Freshman courses are started in a
number of the departments for
those graduating from high school
IN February who wish to enter i'm
mediately upon their college work.
The law school arranges a special
schedule for those desiring to begin
the study of law AT this time.
The core of the university's pro-
gram is its sequence of studies in
the liberal arts and sciences, ex-
tending from the elementary COL
legiate discipline of the junior COL
lege, through studies in the senior
tColumbian) college for the bacca-
laureate and masters degrees.
Professional Schools.
Resting upon this structure are
the professional schools, including
the school of medicine, the law
school-one of the 10 graduate law
schools of the country-the school
OF pharmacy, the school of engi-
neering, the school of education the
school of government and the di-
vision of library science.
The capstone of the university
organization is the graduate coun-
Gil, which directs research leading
to the doctorate.
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Courses in National
Problems Offered
Al American i.
Wage and Hour, Toxes
And Fiscal Policy
To Be Taught

The American University, through
its Graduate School and School of
Public Affairs, will offer during the
second semester a group of courses
on national problems.
One course. Wage and Hour
Problems" will be given by DR.. Leon
c. Marshall. assisted by DR.. Mollie
Ray Carroll, industrial economist of
the Department of Labor, and DR..
N. Arnold Tolles, assistant chief
economist, wage and hour division.
Department of Labor
Other matters covered will be
taxes and fiscal policy, by DR.. Fritz
Karl Mann, professor of political
economy; subsistence farming, 5v
DR.. M. L, Wilson, Undersecretary OF
Agriculture; the holding companies,
by DR.. Walter w. M. Splawn,
commissioner, Interstate Commerce
Commission; the monopoly investi-
cation, under DR.. William H. Ste
vens, and unemployment, under DR.
Oscar Weigert, visiting lecturer of
the Social Security Administration
and author of German unemploy-
ment compensation laws.
The College of Liberal Arts, as a
result of recent action of the
Board of Trustees. will offer the
degree Of bachelor of science for the
first time. DR.. George B. Woods,
dean of the college, in making this
announcement stated that an in
creased emphasis on the study of
natural sciences has made possible
this action.
A special program of studies has
been arranged for those students
just entering any of the university's
three branches. In the College Of
Liberal Arts these courses are so
planned as to make it possible for
exceptional students to complete
their college work in three and one
half vaorc
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GEORGETOWN Law School alumni
serving in the Seventy-sixth Con-
gress. Oficials of the law school
welcomed the news, as they were
unaware of his election last Novem-
ber to serve his first term in the
House.
Records at Georgetown show that
Mr.. Harness graduated in 1917 and
was admitted to the District Of Co.
lumbia Bar that year.
With the exception of Wilbur L.
Gray, secretary, all the newly elected
officers of the District of Columbia
Bar Association are alumni of the
Georgetown Law School. In addi-
ton, two of the three new members
of the Board Of Directors elected
Tuesday night also are alumni. They
are E. Barrett Prettyman and David
A. Hart. Seton Darr, the new bar
president, succeeds Godfrey L.
Munter, an alumnus of National
University Law School.
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Date Bureau Formed
For Campus Dances
At Lafayette

A date bureau has been
organized at Lafayette College
by Lloyd Dudley Rapp, of
Easton. Pa, a senior, to pro-
vide companions for college
students for dances held on
the campus.
Rapp has acquired list of
about IS young ladies, with
all the specifications as to
height, weight, color of hair
and eyes and other data, and
started by booking dates for
the dance given by the Marquis
Association of the college last
night.
Last year Jesse Farr, then
q senior, opened such a bureau,
but it was short lived.
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Public Lecture
Series at E. U. Opens
This Afternoon
Dr.. Mcclure to Speak
On Universities and
Their History

The Catholic University will open
its series of public lectures on "Uni-
versities and Their History" this aft
ernoon at 4 o'clock. DR.. Martin r..
P. Mcguire, dean of the Graduate
School of the university, will speak
on "The Idea of the University in
the Middle Ages"
AS part of its golden jubilee cele-
bfation the Catholic University will
review the growth and development
OF the great universities of the
world.
Prominent Universities Topics.
AS subjects of a first series of lee
lures. outstanding European centers
OF learning have been selected which
In their beginnings or through their
history have enjoyed the special
patronage of the papacy. On Feb
ruary IL and on later Sunday AFTER
moons during the next few months
the Universities of Paris, Oxford and
Cambridge, Louvain and Salamanca,
together with the universities of
Germany, will be discussed. Lee
turers have been named who are
familiar with these institutions. All
are members of the Catholic Uni
versity faculty.
In the first lecture this afternoon
Dean MCGUIRE will trace out the
idea OF the university in its medieval
origins.
DR.. Mcclure, as dean of the Grad
uate School, has made the thought
and culture of the Middle Ages his
special field of study and research.
DR.. E. V. McCollum, head of the
department of biochemistry of the
School of Hygiene and Public Health
at Johns Hopkins Hospital, will de-
nver the second of the jubilee series
OF lectures in chemistry Wednesday
evening at BIS pm in Mcmahon
Hall auditorium. DR.. McCollum will
speak on Trace Elements in Animal
and Plant Nutrition"
The Right Rev. Patrick J. Nc
COrmlck, vice rector of the unjver-
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Sesquicentennia|
Dates Are Announced
Al Georgetown u.
Plans Will Be Made
For Big Celebration
Before Commencement
'efore Commencement

The Very Rev. Arthur A. OLeary
S. j., president of Georgetown Uni
versity announced yesterday the
university's sesquicentennial cele-
bration will be conducted from May
% to June 3, inclusive, preceding
the annual commencement activi-
ties.
With the official date finally de-
termined, the Executive Committee
is now in position to go ahead and
complete details of the six-day pro-
gram. In postponing the sesqui-
centennial date. the president was
influenced by the large number OF
alumni who have indicated their
desire to attend. Since many OF
these would come from distant cities
1t was thought best to merge the
program with the commencement
so they might attend both events
while here.
DR.. OLeary said the awarding
Of sesquicentennidl honors would
be a feature of the program. For
the purpose of considering. possible
candidates for honors, he met last
week with the deans and regents to
canvass the situation. There is no
announcement to make at this time
The sesquicentennial program
will culminate in an alumni ban
quet following the awarding of
honorS, In addition to local alumni
Georgetown clubs in a.,core Of cities
will be represented at the dinner.
Frank j. Hogan of Washington,
president Of the American Bar As
sociation is president of George
towns National Alumni Associa-
ton. He is also on the Executive
CoHmittee for the sesquicenten-
nial which is headed by DR.. Edmund
A. Walsh. S. j., vice president and
regent of the School of Foreign
Service.
1t wss believed that all details
OF the sesquicentennial program
will be completed before another
month expires. Official announce
mems will be made through the
newly established Alumni Bulletin,
which is now being issued to men,
bers from coast to coast. DR.. James
S. Ruby, jr., executive secretary in
charge OF the Bulletin, announced
meeting of permanent class secre-
taries Tuesday evening. The pur-
pose is to discuss ways in which the
value of the Bulletin may be in
creased.
With the exception of the School
OF Foreign Service every department
OF Georgetown is represented by an
individual alumni organization
Steps are being taken. it was an
nounced, to organize the far-flung
foreign service alumni, scattered in
more than so foreign countries.
DR.. Thomas H. Healy, dean of the
school, has kept in close contact
with its alumni for many years. His
records should be of great assistance
IN contracting them. Although the
school is the youngest department
OF the university, having been
founded in 1919. its student enroll
ment is one Of the largest.
Representative Forest Arthur Har-
ness, Republican, of Indiana, has
acquainted the University with the
fact that his name was omitted
from recently published list of Is
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Clty, hanS. He
has been at
tending the eve
ming sessions of
Strayer College
of Accountancy
since February,
1886. and Is now
completing the
work required
for the bachelor
of commercial
science degree.
He is employed
by the Inter-
state Commerce
Commission.
Mr.. Glennie
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7. W. Increases Courses

The general education depart
ment Of the Y. w. C. A. will re-
fume on February 6 with practi-
cally all courses offered during the
autumn and several new subjects.
/: Among these latter are a course
IN commercial law by Stuart H.
Robeson, a course in current events
py Miss Ella L. Smith, "art adven-
ture" by Miss Fay Gaer and a
course in housing by Mrs. Helen
Duey Hoffman,.
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VIII represent his class at the semi
annual graduation exercises of the
college in Memorial Continental
Hall on February %.
On February "a a closed dance in
honor OF the graduates of Strayer
College Of Secretarial Training and
Strayer College of Accountancy will
be held in the grand ballroom of the
Mayflower Hotel.
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the university law and accountancy
schools. Otis H. Ritenour is in
charge Of arrangements.
Twelve new members have been
initiated into Sigma Nu Delta Legal
Fraternity at the university. They
are Frank Anderson, Jerry Bats,
Lloyd A. Brewer, w. Slade Brom-
well, jr.; j. Weldon Choate, James
j. Francis, Thomas F.. Kilroy, Louis
F. Lucas, Erwin j. Neimeyer, Carl
C. Hall, Reginald r. Sheriff and
Arthur L. Weller.
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New Glasses to Stort

Paul J. Levermore. principal of
Columbia Tech Institute of Wash
ington, announced yesterday that
the next classes in the schools
courses in refrigeration, air condi-
tioning and radio repair and service
will start the week of February 6.
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kunsun Is Choice
Of Struyer Class

Charles R. Glennie has Just been
elected president Of the February
graduating class of Strayer College
OF Accountancy, according to an an
nouncement made by Dean Harry
L. Darner.
Mr.. Glennie is a graduate of
Strong City High School, Strong
Milford chronicle., 1939-01-27
GR0uNpHoG CONING

On February 2, says the old tra-
dition, the grounding emerges from
the comfort of his winter residence.
If it is a bright and pleasant day.
and he sees his shadow, he decides
that the spring appearances are de-
ceitful, and that he would better
sleep six more weeks.
So the grounding. if one places
any reliance on that quaint old su-
perstition. is perhaps wiser than
many humans. There are times when
the weather of human life looks
nice and pleasant. and people start
out on new adventures with trust
ing hearts. If the right time has
not come, the superficial sunshine
soon disappears amid the storms of
life, and the too sanguine adventur-
ers wish they had remained in their
safe retreat. Perhaps the young
folks who get married without know
ing the character of their mates, are
a little like some uneducated
grounding, who decided to begin his
spring work before the sun was
ready for him.
Milford chronicle., 1939-01-27
Rapid Happenings

Things are happening daily in po-
litical circles at Dover while the
LEGISLATURE is in session. Daily
readings are necessary to keep
abreast of the times. so rapidly are
events moving. The investigation
committees are discovering some
strange facts that few of the people
ever knew before; and the commit
tees have made such great progress
that they were all continued by the
majority. II was a strange thing
that all of the Democratic members
voted for the investigations to stop.
Seems to me that they could at least
have made a gesture that they want
ed the public to know and one or
two of them could have voted TO
have the investigation continued
especially as they knew they were
going to continue anyway. Is it pos
sible that the Democratic admins
tration is afraid of what the inves-
tigation will disclose? Poor politics
TO have let il be so widely known
by their unanimous vote for the in
vcstigating committees to be dis
charged.
Milford chronicle., 1939-01-27
AMERICANS GOING roo FAST!

The American Association for Ad-
vancement of Science was recently
told that both physical and mental
work are wearing down the nerves
and reflexes of men and women who
are working too hard.
1t has not seemed of late that
many people were working too hard.
Hours of labor are short. When peo-
pie are tired, it is quite as apt to be
from playing the game of sport and
amusement. as from the tolls of fac
tory and shop.
Men who have heavy business re-
sponsibilities. who worry day and
night how they are TO keep their
plants going. are subject to n severe
nervous wear and tear. Women who
try TO perform the labors of home
and keep up with the social sets. Of
ten play the game pretty hard. The
folks who wake up in the morning
weary and jaded should realize tina.
he human machine cant safely run
At Il higher speed than il is geared
% accomplish
Milford chronicle., 1939-01-27
ENJOYABLE Free Trips

Isn't it an odd thing that the DEM
ocratic Secretary of State had to
make a personal visit to Florida to
arrange for an agreement for Flor
ida trucks to travel through Della
ware? Mere letters would not do, We
find. Mr.. Marvel had to take a trip
there himself Odd how it had to be
settled in the winter so that the trip
could be taken in January. Wonder
how much il cost and who paid the
bills? We will make a bet of large
red apple with any one interested,
that Delaware paid the costs for Mr.
Marvel's urgent Florida trip during
the winter season. In addition to
this trip, Mr.. HOlcomb, secretary to
the State Highway Department, will
have to attend several conventions
with trips to distant cities and var
iOus other State employees will have
to take trips at State expense to
various places. Some times they go
in a group and then again. just one
OF two go. Zack Wells just recently
returned from some important trip,
seems to me.
Milford chronicle., 1939-01-27
B00TLEGGING THE TRnTH

The American people seem likely
to support the proposed increases in
the government appropriations for
defense. They recognize that the
world is in a very disturbed state,
with nations talking in a warlike
way,and in such a world armed pro-
lection is necessary.
If the nations only had means for
ascertaining the truth freely, the
danger that any of them would ever
attack the United States would be
slight. Whatever danger there is
comes mostly from the suppression
of the truth. The truth is that the
American people are a peaceful ma
tiOn, which does not wish harm to
any country, nor does it wish to in
terfere with any country's rights or
prosperity.
1t is a terrible thing when truth is
suppressed in any country, so that
people don't know what is going on.
In such a country the truth has to
be communicated, if it is cOmmuni-
Gated, by sO-called bootleg channels.
People have to seek furtive and Sc
cret ways of conveying the truth.
They have to hide printing presses
in cellars and dark closets. and dis
tribute their information by silent
and hidden methods. |
Can truth make any progress
when it has to contend against such
obstacles? What can he done when
The government controls newspapers,
radio stations, and limits free speech
md free assembly?
Nations that are in that situation
ire up against 1t. The government
nay plunge them into wars without
giving them any real reason for II
We should be thankful in America
hat truth does not have to be boot
egged. Our glorious constitution
,ives our people the right to speak
nd print freely The people at least
AVE the chance to exercise their
Judgment and decide what is the
ruth
Milford chronicle., 1939-01-27
WHY TOWNS GROW

Some towns remain stationery,
neither gaining nor advancing. some
slip backward. and some go ahead.
What is the underlying difference.
and why do some make progress,
while their neighbors fail to do so?
The reason is usually that the
growing towns have pushing people
in them who are always trying to
improve those places. to enlarge the
business done there. TO carry on use
ful organizations. to keep their home
and business places up to stand
ard. The town that has these active
people is sure to go ahead. The pres
ence and activity of such folks can
make any town prosper.
Milford chronicle., 1939-01-27
0nR SIDE 0F rae FENCE

There has been some discussion
about the advisability of fortifying
the island of Guam, located in the
Pacific ocean about 1900 miles from
Toxic. capital of Japan. Presumably
such fortification would help defend
the Philippine islands.
If Japan should get possession of
some island 1900 miles from San
Francisco, and fortify it. our people
would see clouds on the horizon.
They might begin to count their
guns, and polish up their weapons.
Parents used to tell their boys to
keep on their own side of the fence
that separated them from quarrel
some neighbors. If they got on the
opposite side of the fence, trouble
might start. 1t may be the same in
relations.
Milford chronicle., 1939-01-27
UNCLE SAWS DEFENSES

President Roosevelt has asked for
1852 100000 to be appropriated im-
mediately as protection against the
possibilities of war.
We live in a very troubled world.
1t was thought that 90 years ago it
had been demonstrated it does not
pay to make wars. Germany. as the
result of making war. had fallen
from a position at the top of Eu-
ropes heap to the very bottom. and
il was thought no nation would soon
care to take a similar drop.
Now we see Germany once more
at the top of Europe's heap. and
showing perhaps more warlike spir-
it than was manifest before the
World War. The United States may
not be in any great danger of at
tack. but with nations acting as if
their salvation lay through fighting
rather than through peaceful work.
Uncle Sam needs some very good
guns in his pocket when he goes out
on dark nights.