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situation in which they are earning
and still desire to pursue work for
their degrees"
The evening division of the School
of Social Sciences and Public AZ
fairs, the university downtown CEN
ter, Is offering courses leading to
the associate in administration, the
junior college degree, in secretarial
administration, and the bachelors
degree in administration, fitting stu
dents for positions in business and
Government and preparing them
for new tasks in the postwar world.
The evening division of the College
Of Arts and Sciences is offering new
courses In the sciences, mathematics
and other fields in which the new
ManpoWer Act has called upon the
colleges to serve. DR.. Edward w.
Engel, evening division director,
pointed out that basic science
courses leading to junior college de-
grees can be pursued by students
employed.
Increase Enrolment,
The third problem faced by the
American University, according to
President Douglass, Nhas been the
regular program of the College of
Arts and Sciences. Pointing out
that there are more enrollments for
full-time work beginning in Feb
ruary than in any previous year,
President Douglass said that he ex-
pected that the closing of other COL
leges to devote their resources to the
war education programs would place
new demands upon the resources of
the University.
A number of families who have
previously sent their sons and daugh-
terS to other colleges are now bring
ing them back to Washington to
avoid transportation problems. The
college will continue to emphasize
the liberal arts, the president said.
Declaring that the attack upon the
liberal arts is dangerous both to the
war effort and postwar leadership,
DR.. Douglass said the American Uni
versity has developed a program by
which man, entering at 17l2 years
of age, can complete a junior college
course on an accelerated program
before induction at the age of 1872,
which is the probable ege at which
the new men will be taken into the
armed forces.
The Importance of counselling in
the accelerated program is stressed
by Prof. Earl A. Dennis, university
llaiSon officer with the armed forces.
College men, he said, have been
placed in a position in which they
have desired best to serve their coun-
try but have been unable to discover
what was expected of them. In
guiding scores of men to enlisted
service and to reserve enlisted corps.
DR.. Dennis said that the men are
anxious to fit themselves for the
highest duty they can perform.
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Local Schools to Hold
Income Tax Course

Accountants, bookkeepers and
others who anticipate difficulty in
preparing tax returns under the
new law will be aided by a special
income tax course announced by the
Benjamin Franklin Accountancy
School. The course will be a very
practical one, offering instruction in
the. actual preparation of returns.
While no attempt will be made to
60 into the more advanced phases
of tax accounting, the course will
cover the difficulties commonly met
by individuals and corporations.
The class will meet two nights a
week for 10 weeks, beginning Tues
day, January S, at 8 o'clock. The
class will be open to men and
women who have sufficient knowl-
edge Of bookkeeping. A reference
text will be furnished, and students
will be made acquainted with the
law, regulations and decisions.
Charles Kershenbaum, certified
public accountant and attorney at
law, who has specialized in tax
practice. will teach the class. He
is the regular lecturer on this sub
ject at Benjamin Franklin.
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9. W. u. Engineering Course
For Women Only Is Planned

George Washington University, in
cooperation with the United States
once Of Education and the Federal
Civil Service Commission, will offer
a short intensive engineering course
with enrolment restricted to women
beginning January 4. 1943.
Registration already is underway
and will continue through Decem-
Der 81 Those wishing to enroll may
register between the hours of 8 am.
and $50 pm. every day except Sat-
urday and Christmas Day in Cor
coran Hall, 725 Twenty-first street
NV.
This class. one Of 80 war en-
gineering courses now offered by the
University, is designed exclusively
for women who wish to aid the Ma
tion's manpower program by taking
defense jobs. Tuition in all the
courses is paid by the Federal Gov
ernment.
Jobs Listed.
In announcing the course, Prof.
Frank A. Hitchcock, director of
the engineering extension divi-
sion, said the course was designed
particularly for the training of
women who are interested in filling
positions as junior engineers in the
Federal civilian service.
Those who have the qualifications
required for admission to the course
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mas tree at noon and in the eve
ming. and a USO Christmas eve
party beginning at 9 pm.
On Friday the YWCA and the
Phyllis Wheatley YWCA will spon-
sor a Christmas dinner for Wash
lngton newcomers to be held at
Seventeenth and K streets at 1890
O'Clock. Reservations for the dinner
can be made The USO Club will
serve tea from to pm. Open
house will be held by the USO Club
from 10 am. to noon. A Christmas
dinner for service men will be
served at 7 pm. and will be followed
by informal dancing.
The Saturday night USO dance
will be from to II midnight.
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BY JESSIE FAINT EVANS.


Washingtons 1t. Mary Agnes
Brown, at present director of the
WAAC 9th Service Command, with
headquarters in Dallas, Tex, has
just returned to her home at 4606
Fifteenth street NV. on leave for
| Christmas week
Next Saturday she will be one of
four recipients of Central High
Schools 1912 award of certificates
of distinction to its outstanding
alumni. Graduate of the class of
1919 and a star member of Gen.
trails debating team, she will share
honors with Vice Admiral Russell
Wilson. U. S. N, 1901, deputy COM
mander in chief of the United States
Fleet and formerly superintendent
of the Naval Academy at Annapolis; :;
Bruce Baird, 1910, president of the
National Savings & Trust Co., and
Judge William E. Richardson, 1888,
chief judge of the new Municipal
Court of Appeals director Of the
Columbia Historical Association and
president of the Society of Natives,
District of Columbia.
Hats Legal Career.
President of the Womens Bar As
sociation of the District of Colum-
bia and one of this city's leading
feminine lawyers, 1t. Mary Agnes
Brown in her war service with the
WAAC has temporarily abandoned
her legal career as one of the five
woman lawyers in the solicitors Of
flee of the Veterans Administrs-
ton. Here she was an acknowl-
edged authority on legislation per-
tanning to veterans affairs, drafting
many of the bills pertaining to leg
isle ton concerning them, as well as
making digestS of congressional ac-
ton in their behalf.
She now is in general charge of
WAAC activities, service of supplies,
in the 9Th Service Command. A
member of the staff of Mai Gen.
Richard Donovan, U. S. A.. she rep
resents Col. Oveta Culp Hobby. di-
rector of the Women's Auxiliary
WI pS, AoA VIC OIll SOIIlIlldIlu ON
all matters pertaining to assignment,
transfer, promotion, rating, dis
enrolment and discharge of indi-
vldual members of this corps.
Her office headquarters are in
the Santa Fe Building, Dallas, Tex,
| but her jurisdiction includes the
five States of Texas, Arkansas. New
Mexico, Oklahoma and Louisiana
1t Browns present administrative
duties have recently taken her on
a tour of WAACS activities in
all of these States.
Longer Range Picture.
Based on their brief record of
accomplishment and experience, 1t
Brown believes there isn't Job
short of bearing arms which the
women in the uniformed service OF
the United Nations can't fill and
NAV not be called upon to tackle. in
order to release men for combat
! du-y.
There is. however, a longer range
picture which she thinks will be
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and who successfully complete the
course will be eligible for appoint
ment to positions in the Bureau of
Ordnance, Bureau of Ships or Hy-
geographic Office of the Navy De-
partment: U. S. Maritime Commits
sion, U. S. Geological Survey, Ma
tional Advisory Committee for Aero
nautics, Civil Aeronauttcs Admin
stration, IT, S. Coast and Geodetic
Survey. and other Federal agencies
The entrance salary for junior en-
gineers is $4,000 per annum.
Must Have Degree.
Though most of the courses are
open to people who have had two
years Of engineering college work
or its equivalent in experience, Mr..
Hitchcock said the engineering fun
damentals course for women will
take only those who have success
fully completed a full four-year
course leading to bachelors degree
at college or university of recog-
nized standing.
A total of 322 hours of class. field
and laboratory work, not including
the time devoted to outside prepa-
ration, will be given in two Is week
terms in the evening on part time
basis. Instruction will include shop
processes and methods, engineering
computations and problems, and
surveying methods.
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Specialized 1raininu
For Army Offered
Al Wilson Teachers
'Pre-Induction' Courses
In Technical Subjects
Approved by Army

Wilson Teachers College will offer
group Of special "pre-induction
courses next semester for young men
who have recently graduated from
high school, according to an an
nouncement just released by DR.. C.
M. Huber. assistant to the presi-
dent Of the college.
The courses are intended for young
men who expect to remain in COL
lege for only one or perhaps two
semesters before they are called for
service in the armed forces. They
will give basic training in the
sciences and mathematics. They
have been planned carefully after
consultation with officers of the
War Department who have outlined
the kind of training needed in these
branches by the men in a modern
army. The courses will prepare the
young men to render greater service
after induction into the armed forces
and should enable them to move
more rapidly to non-co commissioned
officer status or even to be selected
for an officer candidate school.
Wilson's pre- induction courses
will include practical Physics, "
practical Chemistry" Mathematics
for Technicians" and Basic Work
in English Composition and Speech. "
In each course, the men will study
lntensively for one semester the
most important problems and sub
ject matter as outlined by the War
Department. Men may take one
or all OF the courses, according to
their interests, background and
time available. In addition, every
man will be expected to take physi-
cal education.
All Of these induction courses
are definitely on the college level,
according to DR.. Huber. College
credit Of four semester hours will be
allowed for each one excepting the
physical education which carries
one semester hour The work is so
planned as to make allowances for
the amount Of previous preparation
each student has had. Students
with little or no previous work in
science or mathematics can carry
the courses. Students with con-
siderable preparation in these fields
will be placed in different sections
or even in more advanced courses.
In making his announcement. DR.
Huber said that he expects many of
Washington's young men will find
1t profitable to take just this kind
OF work during the next six months
or more while they are waiting for
their calls into service.
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Georgetown Seniors Elect
Napier as va|edictorian

Before Georgetown University stu
dents departed for the Christmas
holidays last week, the senior class
Of the college elected Robert c. Ma
pier of Rochester, N. Y, as Cohon-
guroton orator at the class day ex-
ercises next month.
Georgetown commencement falls
on January 81, under the accelerated
program. The traditional Cohon-
guroton grafton is one of the main
events Of senior week. The choice
was made before the holidays be-
cause the final examinations will oc-
cupy the greater part of the stu
dents time after they return.
As the class valedictorian, Mr.. Ma
pier will deliver the grafton the
night before the graduation exer-
cises. The Indians living along the
Potomac River when the first white
settlers arrived called it the Cohon-
guroton, meaning the River Of
Swans. In 1919 the Georgetown
seniors adopted the plan of address,
ing farewell to the river on whose
SllOl Go tiiCy lldu AFcu lOl lOllI SCIlOOl
years. The orator is always dressed
in Indian garb and speaks from a
tepee that is set up for the occasion
over the Healy entrance to the COL
lege quadrangle.
There were five nominees for the
honor this year. The other contest
ants were Edward j. Callahan of
Minneapolis, Mimi; Gerald Bran
non of the District of Columbia :;
Frank Murphy of Detroit, Mich. and
Frank Hartnett of Elmira, N. Y.
The Christmas holidays started
last Tuesday and will continue
through January 3, longer period
than usual. The holidays were
heightened in cooperation with the
Office of Defense Transportation, so
as to tighten the load on railroads
during the Christmas season.
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American u. Testing Center
Ready to Extend Services
College Acts to Meet Withdrawal Problem;
Evening Courses Leading to Degrees Offered

With the designation of the Amer
ican University as the testing cen er
and examination authority for the
washington Metropolitan Area by
the Carnegie Foundation for the
Advancement of Teaching, the uni
versity has completed its program
| to render the largest educational
service of which it is capable, ac-
cording to President Paul F. Doug
lass, a member of the Executive
Committee of the Middle States
Association of Colleges and Sec
ondary Schools.
The appointment of the university
as the examination center is part
of the program by which achieve
ment tests can be given in the form
of the graduate record examination
to determine the intelligence sta .us
of men withdrawing from college to
enter the armed forces. The ex-
animation, used by the university
during the last two years at the end
of the sophomore and senior years,
as we'll as in the graduate division,
will also be used after the war to
determine the status of men released
from service.
Credits and Admissions.
The problem of withdrawal from
universities in the middle of semes-
ters and the return of men who
have had special training and have
matured by service in the armed
forces. present the colleges with
problems of credit and admissions
for which there is no experiences in
the history of higher education,
President Douglass pointed out.
While standards must be MAIN
tanned, colleges are said to be now
concerned in higher education with
what man actually knows and
not necessarily what hours he has
spent in the classroom. The Car
negie testing program is becoming
the standard for dealing with this
national issue, said President
Douglass.
DR.. Edward w. Engel, director of
admissions at the College of Arts
and Sciences. has been appoint -
by DR.. William S. Learned of the
Carnegie Foundation as director of
the area examination authority. DR.
Engel is also director of testing pro-
grams at the university.
The second step which the uni
versity has taken has been the prep
aration of curriculum beginning
February l in all divisions of the
university to assist employed young
men and women to continue their
education.
Many young people" said Dean
Harry J. Ketchum of the under
graduate division of the School OF
Social Sciences and Public Affairs
Who never dreamed they would
take employment before graduation
are now face to face with a real
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law, Latin-American law, legal bib
biography, legal ethics, civil pro-
cedure, real property, sales, insur.
ance, equity, trusts and administra-
tive law for undergraduates. Grad
uate courses in Federal trade reg
ulation and administrative law will
be completed during the winter
quarter.
Final examinations for the fall
quarter were completed on Decern-
Der 18. Under the new plan Of
concentration some subjects are
completed in q single quarter, and
no subject continues longer than
two quarters durinng school year.
The law school has just completed
its first list of alumni and students
serving in the armed forces of the
United States. This list already
numbers 122 and is growing rapidly.
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Junior College Term
To Open January 4

The winter term of the junior col
lege Of National University will
commence on Monday, January 4.
The junior college is member
Of the American Association of
Junior Colleges and is accredited by
the Board of Education Of the Dis
trict of Columbia. It offers to eve
ming students a rounded curricu-
lum in English. foreign languages,
history and the social sciences,
mathematics and natural science
which constitutes . full two-year
college program in the liberal arts
preliminary to professional special
ization.
New students may enter at the be-
ginning Of the winter term.
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Sons and Daughters
OF Liberty

Hope Council will meet Tuesday
night at Naval Lodge Hall for
election of officers. A Christmas
party will follow Councillor Mrs.
Lulu Killing will preside.
Columbia Council will meet We'd
nesday night at Northeast Masonic
Temple for election of officers and
Christmas party Councillor G. Neal
Carney will preside.
True Blue Council will meet
Thursday night at Fourth street
NE. for election of officers and a
Christmas party.
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Closed for HoIiduys

The Textile Museum of the Dis
trict will be closed during the holi-
days from Wednesday through jan
uary 8. 1t was announced yesterday
by George Hewitt Myers, president
Of the museum.
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New Courses Planned
Al Columbus Law School

Columbus University School Of
Law begins new courses in the grad
uate and undergraduate depart
ments January 4, according to an
nouncement by Dean James j. Hay
den. Included are international
Evening star., 1942-12-20

The dollar Is a war weapon with
the advantages Of a boomerang.
Put into War bonds, it will return
to you later with interest.
Evening star., 1942-12-20
D. c. Employees Get Bonus

Thomas Geraci, manager of the
National Furniture Co., announced
yesterday that the firm would pay
the annual Christmas bonus of two
weeks salary to all employees with
the store a year or more. Those
working less than a year will re-
ceive proportionate amounts.
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PINEHURsT JUNIOR SCHOOL

For boys from to IS years Rand
progress by our Individual method Mid,
dry climate. Pine air. Outdoor sports ali
winter. Horseback riding for every boy
Tuition, $500, Monthly payments under
$3.50. Send for booklet. Box 1872, So.
Evening star., 1942-12-20

Every time you lick a War Savings
Stamp you help lick the Axis.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-07-09

THE STORY so FAR: Clay Morgan
has decided to play lone hand against
Ben Herendeen, rancher bent on run
ming the cattle country his own way.
The two men have been enemies for
years, having first fought over C1ay's
wife, Lila, who died hating him and be-
heving she should have married Heren.
deem. Morgan is a solitary figure, de-
voted to his nine-year-old daughter, JAM
ct. Although two women, Catherine
Grant and Ann McGarrah, are In love
with him, they know he cannot forget
Lila. OF his former friends. only Hack
Breathitt has not gone over to Heren-
deems side. Gurd Grant, GATHERINGS
brother, hesitated about joining Heren-
deem, but became Morgan's sworn ene-
my when he discovered that Catherine
had been to his ranch. Hack Breathitt,
seen camping with Pete Borders, rus.
tier, is being watched by Herendeen's
men. Now Clay has Just learned that
Government Valley is to be auctioned
at Sage City, 100 miles away. Morgan
knows Herendeen will be bidding for the
land, and he is determined to get it.
Meanwhile Hack Breathitt has encouI cred
some of Herendeen's men.
Now cortinue with the story.
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PAGE SEVEN

Augusta Latham and other relatives
and friends.
Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Hartman Of
Cleveland We're Sunday callers Of
Mr.. and Mrs. Homer Hartman.
Miss Betty Painter is spending
week in Ada, With her grandmother,
who is i'll.
Mrs. Grace SchrolI and family
spent Sunday visiting relatives in
kenton.
Mr.. and Mrs. Woodrow Little of
Bluffton spent few days with Mr..
and Mrs. Henry Little. Sunday
guests in the Henry Little home
were: Mr.. and Mrs. Richard Pope
and family of Lima.
Rev. and Mrs. C. D. Landes, Mr..
and Mrs. Enos Bauman and the
Misses Betty Landes, Rose Ann
Kimble and Mary Jean Harris were
Sunday dinner guests of Mr.. and
Mrs. Reuben Bauman of Mt. Cory.
Mr.. and Mrs. Leroy Mexican spent
! Tuesday evening with Mr.. and Mrs.
Harold Smith.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. A. Otto were
Sunday dinner guests of Mr.. and
Mrs. Burdette Otto and family.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-07-09

most regularly on the paddle tennis
court at Harmon field are Neil
Schmidt, Kent Stonehill. Harry kfay,
Robert Fisher and Kenneth Bracy.
Paddle tennis has the same rules as
the regular game.
All of which reminds us of the
wiseerack Bernard Shaw, English
wit, made about the game of tennis.
He said that tennis is a fine game
only it would be greatly improved if
tall grass were allowed to grow on
the court and that the balls, rackets
and nets would be eliminated. Under
those circumstances Shaw said that
he would like to take up the game
to improve his health.
=
It's just little hard for us to
visualize Bob Cooney in the rule of
the strict disciplinarian but we are
told that he is really tough in his
enforcement of the swimming rules
at the Buckeye this summer.
|
Mary Margaret Basinger has
started to take organ lessons from
Prof. Holtkamp of the college and
tells us that it's lots of fun. The
hardest job, she says, is learning to
coordinate the bass footkeys with
the manual keyboards. In addition
one has to keep his mind on the
dozens of stops which provide the
tone variations. Quite some job; toe
bad one doesn't have a third hand tc
manipulate the stops.
/
Grocers tell us that some people
object to beet sugar in the present
rationing program. With cane sug-
ar almost impossible to get because
of importation restrictions some few
people have gone without sugar in
preference to taking beet sugar. We
are informed by w. O. Geiger
Bluffton High school chemistry
teacher, that laboratory investiga-
tion has found no difference what
soever between cane and beet sugar
Substitutes could be made and the
most preiudiced housewife would not
know the difference, it was stated
One clerk here reported weighing
out 96 pounds of canning sugar only
to have the customer refuse it wher
told that it was beet sugar.
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Elrose

Mrs. Linda Koontz, Mr.. and Mrs.
Henry Koontz and family spent Sun
day at the Richard Bayless home in
Findlay.
Francis Sager of Mt. Pleasant,
Mich, called at the Ami Nonnamaker
home, Thursday afternoon.
Mrs. t. ]. Koontz spent Tuesday at
the A. j. Nonnamaker home, Mrs. M.
]. Stratton was an Afternoon caller.
Mrs Emmaline Nonnamaker was a
guest several days last week at the
home of her brother, Mr.. and Mrs.
John Reigle of Coolies, Mich.
Union prayer meeting at the U. B.
church, Thursday evening.
Glenn and Faery Nonnamaker spent
Sunday afternoon with the Chauncey
Kingler family of near Ada.
Mrs. M. J. Stratton, daughter Flo,
Misses Gladys, Dorothy and Jean Ann
Klingler visited at the Alfred Kloetz-
ley home, in Salem, several days last
week.
T. J. Koontz, wife, and son Robert
spent Sunday evening with Mr.. and
Mrs. j. r. Fisher.
Roderick Nonnamaker is spending
the week at Camp Defiance in COM
pany with the Scout Troop SO of
Bluffton.
Mrs. M. A. Difford, Minnie Dray,
Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph Yoakum and dau-
ghter of Warren spent the week end
with Thomas Dray.
Kaye Nonnamaker called on Mrs.
Ami Nonnamaker and Faery Nonna-
maker, Monday evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lendon Basinger and
family spent several days last week
camping in Michigan.
Mrs. T. J. Koontz and son Robert
called on Mrs. ROLAND Koontz of
Bluffton, Monday afternoon.