DePaulia (DePaul University, Chicago, IL), 1937-10-28, 1

              ANOTHER LANGUAGE S.A.C. Sets Date For Submission of Play Manuscripts Student Committee to Judge Scripts and Decide Winner The Student Activity Council, at a meeting held last October 18, formulated the rules guiding the authorship of the manuscripts for the annual musical comedy. The deadline for the submission of the plays has been extended to January 3, in order to give the authors more time to put their scripts in shape. Anyone who is enrolled in De Paul is eligible for participation in this contest. A committee composed of members selected from the S.A.C. will judge the manuscripts. As soon as possible after the contest closes announcement of the winner will be made. The playwright that is chosen will have at his disposal the facilities of the music school in arranging and orchestrating the musical numbers. Members of the cast who will require professional training will be selected from the Drama department. Advice as to staging and production will also be furnished by this branch of the university. In all probability the revue selected will be patterned after a musical comedy. In former years it was this type of entertainment that has been received in the best manner by the student body. A greater number of students are able to take part in a production of this kind and it is hoped that all who are in any way talented will try out for the various parts. On the whole it has been the Uptown school that has captured the greatest number of roles. As this is an all De Paul undertaking all Downtown students are urged to attend the preliminary try-outs in order that the loop school will have a larger representation in the play. Negotiations are under way to secure the Goodman theater for a two day run. Last year the De Paul auditorium was the scene of the musical comedy, but due to the great success that it was, a larger theater will be able to better accomodate the expected audience. At present several students who have distinguished themselves in the literary field are working on manuscripts for the contest. A decision on these manuscripts will be made as soon as possible after the closing date. Meehan Society Plans New Type of "Quiz" Contest The John J. Meehan Memorial Society announces a new activity for this semester. A contest new to De Paul students is soon to be placed into execution. It's a "Quiz" contest."Professor Quiz" that versatile and tantalizing radio questioner— provided the basic idea of the contest. Sets of questions are to be compiled and, as on the coffee program, contestants will be quizzed and scored. The contestant answering the most quesions correctly will be given a prize. In order to make the contest one for the entire university, the society is offering a prize to the student submitting the best set of three questions—and answers, of course. Questions may be upon topics of the day, historical data, oddities or just plain riddles. Get out the encyclopedia, dictionaries and other sources of material and find some questions. Submit them to any member of the society or to the fifteenth floor switchboard operators. As to the actual contestants, any student enrolled at De Paul is eligible to compete. The time and place will be announced later. There will be no entry fee and prizes will be given to the top three winners. Cisca Sponsors Raffle In New Drive for Funds A Thanksgiving raffle which will close on November 22 is now being conducted by the uptown division of De Paul's Cisca organization. The prize offered is a turkey, donated through the courtesy of Mr. Joseph Placek. The books have been distributed throughout the uptown campus and the chances are priced at five cents. Lending a novel note to the raffle is the fact that Tom Cleland, president of the Wranglers, has assigned the selling of chances to all freshmen who have neglected to wear their green hats. On October 9, David Scanlan, successor of Henry Rago, former chairman of the Eucharistic Our Lady's Committee of Cisca, conducted the first meeting of that division in his new capacity. STUDENT COUNCIL Because of the numerous difficulties which have arisen from a misunderstanding of university requirements. the Student Activity Council makes the following announcements: 1. The S.A.C. has the right to grant dates to organizations. Those wishing anction must petition this body first. 2. No organization is permitted to hold a dance within two weeks of a major school dance. 3. No two open dances may be held on the same night unless organizations petitioning the Council agree to such a compromise as to the date. 4. Infraction of these regulations is subject to penalty at the discretion of the Director of Student Activities. 5. Ignorance subsequent to publication of this notice does not release offender from liability for violation of these regulations.Economics Club Group Discusses Executive Power A new Economics Club of the Commerce Department held its first meeting at the Medical Arts Building on October 26 at 6 p.m. Edwin Johnson, Commerce Senior, was chairman of the discussion entitled "Roosevelt: Democratic or Dictatorial?" with Cyril O'Donnell, economics professor, as presiding faculty member. Because of the small number of students participating in the activities of the Economics Club of the past few years, the Commerce students interested in economic problems have organized the club on "Round Table Discussion" basis. Monthly meetings and discussions with presentation of the main arguments of the topic by a guest speaker or student member will take place at a "Round Table Supper." In presenting the theme on Tuesday, Mr. Johnson outlined the pros and cons of the proposition basing his statement on Stanley High's article "Roosevelt: Democratic or Dictatorial" in the November issue of HARPER'S Magazine. Quoting Mr. Johnson, "Roosevelt's ideas are accepted as democratic by the nation as a whole, but the means used io attain the democratic ideas are dictatorial." An immediate bombardment of questions followed, the members engaging in a lively discussion according to their individual views. To top off the evening, Mr. O'Donnell summarized the discussion with usual armchair philosophy. Attendance at the meeting included: Therese Balis, John Billsbuty, Jerry Donovan, Jack Greenfield, Genevieve Lama, Evelyn Ross, Loretta Urban. The topic and date for the next table supper meeting will be posted on the main bulletin boards, and all students interested are invited to attend. Provision for reservation r.t the supper should be made at least four days in advance by speaking to the chairman of arrangements or one of the club members. Devany Club Holds First Round Table Discussion Oct. 25 At the last meeting of the Devaney Law Club of the evening school, there were so many present that they filled practically the entire 15ih floor. Mr. Taft, Ass't. dean, and faculty sponsor who spoke, was highly gratified at the turnout. The next meeting of the Evening school unit of the Club will be held on Tuesday, November 2, 1937, from 8:00 o'clock until 9:00 o'clock in Moot Court. At this meeting there will be a ten minute pro and con debate on the subject of, "Resolved that Congress shall be empowered to fix minimum wages and maximum hours for industry." The speakers of the evening on this subject will be Mr. Walter Hartman, evening sophomore, and Mr. David M. Molthrop, also of the evening law school. After the debate there will be ten talks of three minutes each, given by those in attendance, who will be picked at random from a box containing their names. The list of evening school committee members of the Frosh, Sophomore and Junior classes will be announced in the next issue of the DE PAULIA. The Senior committee members chosen by the faculty are Miss Lucy Brudzinski and David Weiner. The officers are Edward Bradley, president Dwight Dalbey, vicepresident and Antonia Rago, secretary.HOLD WRANGLER MASQUE DANCE IN GYMNASIUM Halloween Decorations Lend Festive Notes To Preparations Tomorrow night the Wranglers will be host to the students of the entire university for a night of revelry in the proverbial Hallowe'en manner with costumes and pumpkins furnishing the true atmosphere. The chairmen, Leno Michelon, Ray Czarnick and Bud Kevin, have been in charge of the decorations of the gym and will be glad to make any reservations for tables for the evening. The feature of the evening will be the gargantuan pumpkin that will occupy the center of the floor. Its measurements run seven feet high, seven feet in diameter, and twenty-two cubic feet. Just as this pumpkin will dominate the dance floor, the spirit of gayety and masquerade it symbolizes will hold sway over the crowd for the evening. The chairmen are issuing a clarion call for co-eds to come to the aid of the Wranglers and assist them in waiting on the tables and dispensing the evening's refreshments—doughnuts and apple cider. Apple-bobbing, balloon-chasing and costume judging will add to the fun when Willard Back's orchestra stops to catch its collective breath. Barry Devine. Joe Connolly, Stuart Doyle and Jack Weyer have been active in carrying on their committee work under Tom Cleland, president of the Wranglers, and quickly disposed of the bids that went on sale last week at seventy-five cents each. These clever bids are the work of Stuart Doyle and will be much in demand as souveneirs of one of the best dances of the year. Downtown students can purchase their bids in advance from Everett Wiles. DEPAULIA editor and Blue Key vicepresident, this afternoon and tomorrow afternoon in Room 900. The northsiders need only apply to any Wrangler member. The wearing of costumes is optional, but the committee urges all the couples who plan to attend to make arrangements to do so in masguerade. It will do much to further the informality of the evening, and a grand march with all the glitter and glamor of each individual disguise will make a more picturesque scene than the old walls of the Auditorium have seen in many a day. A silver cup will be awarded the couple selected as wearing the cleverest costumes. The Reverend Howard J. Ahern, C.M., director of student activities, Miss Kathryn Miller, dean of Women, Miss Virginia Woods, assistant dean of women, and Mrs. M. C. Porcelli, bursar, will make up the committee on the awarding of this cup. Northside Debaters Meet Downtowners On Labor Question Opening the new debating season, the Uptown debating team will attempt to wrest the intra-mural forensic crown from the Downtown Debating Society, which won the contest last year. The battle of wits will take place Friday, November 5, in Moot Court of the Downtown school, with the subject, "Resolved: That the National Labor Relations Board should be empowered to enforce arbitration in all industrial disputes." Composing the Uptown delegation, which will take the negative side, are Leno Michelon, Martin Gertler and Stanley Mikowski, while the Downtown team has not yet been named. Judges of the contest will be Father Merlin Feltz, teacher of philosophy, Professor Leo Shapiro of the Commerce school, and a third man not determined as yet. Other debates have been scheduled with Mundelein College and Columbia university of Dubuque, Iowa. In preparation for the big clash with the Downtown students, the Uptowners have arranged a debate on the same topic with the Uptown Economics Forum November 3, to be followed on November 12 by a joint splash party at the Medinah Club. Annual to Give Pri^e For Best Snapshots An artist's candid camera will be the grand prize awarded to the student cameraman with the most pictures of school life accepted in the contest sponsored by the DE PAULIAN. All students are urged to take photographs of school life which are interesting, sharp and well-focused. The pictures will be judged by their composition and the subject portrayed.There will be three phases to the contest: the period ending with November 15, November 15 to Janu ary 15, and finally January 15 to March 15. Pictures must be handed in on or before any one of hese dead lines. THE DEPAULIA Vol. XVII, No. 6—Z142 DE PAUL UNIVERSITY, CHICAGO, ILL. Thursday, October 28, 1937 Drama Students Present Opening Play of Season "Another Language," a three act play by Rose Franken, is now in production in the Little Theater of De Paul University. Under the direction of David Itkin, dean of the department, the play began last Monday and will continue until Friday evening. It marks the opening of the productions of the Department of Drama for this year, and is the thirty-fourth undertaking to be presented in the seven seasons of the department's existence. The theme of "Another Language'' is the portrayal of the typical American family in which the sons grow up, marry and settle down to the business of living, which to them means "getting up in the morning and going to bed at night." Assisting Mr. Itkin as director is Oscar Jacobson, a graduate of the Drama Department, who is now an instructor in the school. The settings for the play were designed by Frank Cunneer. and were constructed by Carlyle Rees and Alex Frankel. Acting as property manager is Arlene Formund, while Carlyle Rees is also stage manager. The cast of characters includes Geraldine Oberski as Mrs. Hallam. Carlyle Rees as Mr. Hallam. Edward L. Mullen as Harry, Gertrude Wachowski as Helen, Phil Revitz as Walter. Betty Goldberg as Grace, David Block as Paul, Adele Alperwitz as Etta, James Chechopoulos as Victor, Solveig Dahl as Stella, and Frank Cunneen as Jerry. Beginning on October 27 and lasting throughout the run of the play, Elysse Rusiecka. Mary Clare Meagher, Ruth La Plante and Alex Frankel are taking the roles of Mrs. Hallam, Helen, Grace and Paul respectively. Season tickets for the productions of the Drama Department are on sale for SI.25 between acts and after the performances of "Another Language." Evening Section of Law Society Holds First Meet The first meeting in the evening law school of the Meehan Memorial Society will be held on Friday, October 29. at 8:00 o'clock in the Moot Ccurt. At this meeting Miss Antonia E. Rago, the newly elected vice-president and chairman of the evening school, will preside. Mr. John Curran, professor of law, and faculty sponsor will give the official welcome. The following people have been selected by the faculty of the law school to be the chairmen and representatives of their respective classes in the evening school executive council of the society. These people have been selected because of their qualities as leaders. Seniors: Lucy Brudzinski, Thomas Fitzgerald Juniors: Cynthia Cohen, Chester Barnow Sophomores: Benjamin Davis, Edward Powers Freshmen: Loretta Phelan, Franklyn Drause. Honor Fraternity Notifies Qualifying Students of Choice Phi Beta Epsilon, De Paul's honor fraternity, announced that letters of notification to students who have fulfilled the fraternity's entrance requirements are now in the mail. A candidate to Phi Beta Epsilon must have maintained a average for his first two consecutive semesters of resident work at De Paul, and must also have participated in extra-curricular activities. Final selection and admission of the eligibles to Phi Beta Epsilon is based upon the merit of a five minute paper presented by the candidates in meeting. The honor fraternity's aim is not only to recognize and reward high scholarship, but to incite in the individual the need to make an active effort to realize constantly perfection in the things for which the fraternity stands. It holds that election to membership is the beginning, not the end, of the member's connection with the organization. The meaning of the Greek letters that form the fraternity's name— Phi Beta Epsilon—are scholarship, brotherhood and service. Consequently members strive for these qualities in their scholastic and civil life. Students of all departments of knowledge are included in Phi Beta Epsilon. Active cooperation with a myriad of tastes, temperments and characters of the finest type in a common program of individual and collective betterment is this society'* goal. There will be no classes for day divisions of all departments of the University on Monday, November 1, the Feast of All Saints and a Holy day of Obligation. Rev. T. C. Powers Tells of Significance to Catholic Schools November 5, 1937, will go down in the annals of the history of the Archdiocese of Chicago as Catholic Action day de luxe. For on that day for the first time in history the President of the United States, speaking through his special envoy, will deliver a message to the young men and the young women of the Catholic universities, colleges and high schools of the Archdiocese. The subject of the President's address will be "Youth." The Catholic youth of Chicago is highly honored by being selected as the privileged audience of the President on such a topic. May we not take to ourselves the compliment that in addressing us, the Catholic youth of Chicago's Catholic school system, the President is convinced that his words will be received with entire sympathy and docile understanding? There will be an impressive army on hand to hear the speaker's message. This army is mobilized from schools and centers of learning where the emphasis placed on character and discipline and moral restraints is equal to, if not stronger than, the emphasis given to mental or Rev. T. C. Powers, physical developC.M. ment. One thing is sure: any army recruited from Catholic high schools and colleges will not be made up of radicals, nor mal-contents it will not present any grave problems of lawlessness nor delinquency, it will not raise its fists in rebellion against constituted authority, nor will it raise its voices in proclaiming seditious sentiments against law and order. If the President is in search of an army of youths who are ready to hear that character formation is an essential part of education that observance of law is not only a civic duty but an obligation binding in conscience, then he could not do better than address his remarks to the young men and women who represent and, we hope, justify the Catholic System of Education. We think the President's decision does credit to his courage and is a compliment perhaps long overdue to the Education System of the Catholic Church. De Paul students are standing at attention! Initial Symposium Of Semester Held By Classical Club The first symposium of the Classical Club was held yesterday in room A1 of the Uptown Liberal Arts. The program was made up of talks on Greek lyric poetry. Miss Helen Peacek. who is president of the organization, introduced the speakers. Miss Gertrude Cichon, newly-appointed secretary, opened the discussion with a talk on the general background of Hellenic song literature. Another De Paul student, Clifford Barton, program chairman, spoke on Pindar, one of the greatest of ode writers. Miss Joanne Demmicli and Miss Elizabeth Higgins, both of Mundelein College, read papers on Sappho. After the meeting, a tea was served under the direction of Miss Virginia Woods, founder of the club, and Miss Eleanor Schaffer, who is the club's social chairman. Miss Woods is the assistant dean of women and the Greek instructor at the Uptown school. Many of the school's instructors, both of the classical and non-classical departments, and a great number of the student body attended the meeting. The next symposium of the organization will be held late in November. It will be addressed by Miss Wright, head of the classical department at the University of Chicago. Dean of Music School Offers Recital Series Dean Arthur C. Becker of the De Paul University school of Music has just begun a new thirteen weeks series of broadcasts under the sponsorship of the University Broadcasting Council. The Development cf Music is heard Tuesday evening, 10:00 to 10:15 P.M. over W.G.N. Each week a different type of musical score is explained and demonstrated by Dean Becker. President Roosevelt Appoints Son to Deliver His Message To Chicago Catholic Students Prof. J. J. Buckley Disapproves Use of Lie Detectors In a recent article in the Chicago DAILY NEWS Professor Jeremiah J. Buckley of the College of Law revealed his findings of various tests with the lie detector. He called it "a nice parlor game, but without value." Professor Buckley said there was nothing new about the idea, that history is cluttered up with similar "discoveries," and, he said, they were all alike in that they contributed nothing in the way of determining whether or not a person was lying. He also advanced the belief that it was a dangerous instrument to have around a trial because the average defendent is usually laboring under intense strain whether innocent or guilty and, since the device registers nervous reaction converted into blood pressure, it's not unreasonable to believe that an innocent man might be convicted on such "scientific" evidence.Professor Buckley explained his stand like this: "The lie detector as an aid in solving criminal cases is worthless. It is probably a pithy commentary of the laziness of the human mind that recourse must be had to mechanical devices to determine the truth or falsity of alleged facts. Such devices, however, are by no means new they have existed as long as the records of human history."The ancient Greeks consulted the oracle, who divined the truth by watching the flight of birds the medieval English relied upon various ordeals to which the suspect was subjected, or truth was determined by physical prowress in a trial by battle latter-day savants have had recourse to crystal-gazing, teacup leaves, and the ouija board and now God Hilpus comes the scientist with his lie detector machine. "The theory upon which the lie detector is based is that the telling of an untruth creates a certain nervous reaction that manifests itself in increased blood pressure, which fluctuation is recorded on a chart When complete this chart very closely resembles the graph issued by a buckethop operator in the stock market." Rev. A. P. Schorsch Author of Recent Teachers Manual The new revolutionary method of teaching religion in the parochial schools is now completed with the publication of the teacher's guidebook and student workbook for eighth grade pupils. The Reverend A. P. Schorsch, C.M., dean of the graduate school at De Paul university and Sister Mary Dolores Schorsch, O.S.B., are co-authors of the new system which eliminates the rote method of teaching the catechism.The new method employs the latest psychological methods in a program that utilizes all other progressive learning, including art, music, literature and even architecture, to teach religion. The entire series, which took seven years to complete, includes a teacher's guidebook and pupil's workbook for each grade. The former explains the exact method of teaching each unit of the course and contains character guidance, work lists, facts concerning the liturgical year, correlated pictures poems and hymns. The workbook contains Scriptural quotations, poems, problems, puzzles, directions for project work and a practice that is actually to be "lived" by each pupil each week. The course, now in its third year of use in the diocese of Chicago, has also been adopted in Seattle and Des Moines. Blue Book Honors Department Head The names of Rev. Castor Ordonez, head of the Biology Department of De Paul, and Mr. W. Clark appear in the new 1937-1938 edition of the "International Blue Book" with their biographical sketches in English and in French. The International Blue Book is a biographical dictionary of the world's most notable living men and women. An extensive biography of Father Ordonez and his work, together with other important Americans, was published last spring by one of the best English magazines, the "Town and Country Review" in London, Eng(Continued on page 4) OBSERVE COURTESY WEEK James Roosevelt to Address Qroup at Loyola Nov, 5 Signaling out the Catholic students of Chicago as his recipients, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, President of the United States, through his son James, will deliver his message to youth on November 5, at Loyola University. On this date, a week from tomorrow, James Roosevelt will officially represent the President. Approximately fifty thousand students of Catholic high schools and colleges of Chicago will gather at the north side school to hear the words of the President. This momentous event marks the first time in the history of the country that a president has chosen a Catholic group of young people to receive his message. De Paul University is making plans to cooperate to the fullest extent with His Excellency, Bernard J. Sheil, D.D., Auxiliary Bishop of Chicago, who desires (his to be the largest outpouring of Catholic youth in the history of the Archdiocese of Chicago. In order to accommodate the large crowd, the Loyola stadium will be the scene of the event. However, if the weather does not permit its usage, a triple assembly, consisting of the Loyola Community Theatre, the school auditorium and the gymnasium will house the audience. Mr. Roosevelt, in this case, will speak from the theatre, and his words will be carried to the other listeners through an amplyfing system. In selecting Catholic youth to hear his speech. President Roosevelt paid a distinct tribute to the young people of our religion. It is also a mark of distinction that the Archdiocese of Chicago should be selected to represent the Catholic youth of the nation. However, this selection is probably due to the meeting of the President and His Eminence, George Cardinal Mundelein, Archbishop of Chicago, a few weeks ago when the new outer drive brige was dedicated.The problem of communism and delinquency in youth presents a grave question today, and it is the president's wish to sound out these tendencies in the young people of the country. Catholic youth has been selected to hear the president's message because that body is best equipped in teachings and principles to offset these evils. Classes for that day will be waived and all departments of the school will attend the delivery of the speech. Inasmuch as First Friday also falls on that date, religious services will be held as usual in St. Vincent's church, after which the students will go to Loyola by special transportation. The Rev. T. C. Powers, C. M., will oversee the arrangements. City Opera Signs Ralph Niehaus of Music Department Professor Ralph Niehaus, professor of voice culture at the downtown music school, has been honored by a contract with the Civic Opera Company for appearances this season. While singing in the pageant, "Light of Ages," Saturday night, he especially attracted the attention of Mr. Longone, general manager of the Civic Opera Company from whence came his opportunity. Mr. Niehaus is also a soloist at St. Luke's Procathedral in Evanston. Dean Arthur C. Becker's A Capella, "Sing Noel" has been recently published by J. Fisher & Bros., New York. The number was done with great success by the De Paul A Capella Choir at their concert at Kimball Hall last season, and will be heard again over Station W.G.N, at the Annual Xmas card concert. The new Mass in honor of St. Vincent by Dean Becker has just been released from the press. McLaughlin & Reilly of Boston are its publishers. Economics Club Meets Prepares for Debate The Economics Forum held a meeting on October 28, at 12:00 noon in room B2. The meeting consisted of a preparatory debate by the three speakers who will represent the Uptown Debating at their next formal debate. The speakers were Leno Michelon, Martin Gertler and Stanley Mikowski. A week ago the Economics Committee presented 'The Economic Factors Involved in War and Peace." The speakers were J. Durkin, F. Grier and Bud Kevin. Plans were formulated for the splash party to be held Friday, November 12