DePaulia (DePaul University, Chicago, IL), 1939-12-14

              SEASON'S GREETINGS! De Paul Shows Christmas Spirit In Charity Drive Wranglers, Women's League Combine For Dance Under the direction of the Rev. Thomas J. Powers, C.M., Vice-President of De Paul University, and Miss Kathryn J. Miller, dean of women at the uptown College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, the annual Christmas program has been planned. In keeping with tradition, the extensive program of student activities will continue throughout the last class day before the commencement of the holidays, Tuesday, December 19. Begin with Mass The program will begin in the morning with 9:00 o'clock Mass in St. Vincent's church, the entire student body assisting. Senior students will act as acolytes and ushers, and the Glee Club, under the direction of Fr. Barrett will sing the traditional carols. Immediately after Mass the students, beginning with the seniors will be allowed a few minutes for worship at the crib, where they will make contributions for baskets. In this way the Catholic students can offer their Christmas contribution to the poor. While the long procession is advancing to the cnb, the Glee Club will chant familiar carols which express the spirit of the real Christian Christmas. After each student has made his contribution to the crib the students will arrange themselves around the crib and chant the "Adeste Fideles." During the day the Glee Club will chant carols at the Christmas tree in the corridor, in the President office, and in the rectory. Christmas Dance At 8: 30 the annual Christmas dance will be held in the auditorium, sponsored by the Wranglers and the Women's League. The admission will be twenty-five cents, and the proceeds netted will be devoted to the De Paul University students' Christmas Charities. The language groups of the University will be a special feature of the dance, and will sing carols in French. German, Spanish, and Polish. Jerry Lane and his ten-piece band will play. On Friday, December 22, the second part of the Christmas program will continue at 9:30 with the packing of baskets and delivery to the poor. Students are asked to offer their services for this, the most worthy of Christmas causes, in making up the baskets and bringing cars to deliver them. At 3:00 that same day 195 children at the De Paul Day Nursery, 2145 North Halsted Street, will be made happier with toys and candv, donated by the students of the University, at a party in their honor. If you wish to make a donation of either toys or candy it will be most welcome. Choose Committees Members of the various committees making arrangements for the program are as follows: serving on the dance committee are Ed Stempel, Jean Cross, Jeanne Collins, Eleanore Schaefer, James Maniola, Manuel Correa, Frank Collura, Stanley Prusinski, Gordon Curzon. Adelaide Majewski, Ralph Ueberbacher, and Harry Bourke. Tickets for the dance on Tuesday may be purchased from any of the abo-. c. Members of the Basket Committee, who are to assemble at the Liberal Arts building at 9:30 on Friday, December 22, are: Jane Jackman, Eleanore Schaefer, John Jenicek, Samuel Aronson, Carol Salerno, Harriette Hork, Virginia Reilly, Harry Bourke, Eugene Knight, Eileen Tiede, and Maxine Chapman. Jean Cross, Jane Jackman, Eugene Knight. Eileen Tiede, and Maxine Chapman will assist at the Day Nursery on Friday afternoon. De Paul Choir Plans Program The De Paul university A Cappella choir, under the direction of Arthur C. Becker, will present a special Christmas program of songs, Saturday evening, December 16 over WGN at 7:30 o'clock. Ralph Niehaus, tenor, will be the soloist and will sing "Jesu Bambino" by Yon and assist the choir in "Sleep of the Child Jesus" by Gevaert "Carol of the Bells," by Leontovitch and "The Virgin's Lullaby' by Luvaas. The choir will also sing "Angels We Have Heard on High," "Adoramus Te" by Palestrina, "Sing Noel" by Arthur Becker, and "Three Kings" by Romeu. The concluding number will be "The Angels and Shepherds" by Boheminan. Gregory Konold will be soloist at the organ. Vol. XVIII, No. 11—Z142 Mr. Leo Shapiro To Give Lecture On Propoganda At the twenty-fourth annual convention of the National Association of Teachers of Speech, which will be held at the Stevens Hotel, December 27-29, Professor Leo Shapiro, Director of Debate and a member of the Department of English and Speech, De Paul University, will give a lecture on the subject, "Discussion as a Factor in Propaganda Analysis." Professor Shapiro's lecture will be part of a symposium and panel built around the general theme, "What Should Be the Place of Discussion in the Speech Curriculum?"* Participating in this analysis of Discussion will be Professor James H. McBurney, Northwestern University, Chairman Joseph F. O'Brien, Pensylvania State Karl F. Robinson, Northwestern Alma Johnson, Florida Southern P. Melville Larson, North Park Bower Aly, Missouri J. Jeffery Auer, Oberlin Kenneth H. Hance, Albion Elwood Murray, Denver Russel- H. Wagner, Cornell. In his lecture, Mr. Shapiro will describe the process of propaganda in its signification and in its everyday use by practical propagandists like Hitler, Ivy Lee and Edward Bernays. There are certain rather concrete ways in which groups can break down the appeals, for the most part emotional and non-logical, which these men use to sway mass opinion. Mr. Shapiro believes that there are certain inherent and traditional values in face-to-face discussion, from the Socratic to the Town Hall of the Air approach, which enable it to cut at the heart of propaganda more directly and effectively than such other speech modes as lectures, symposia, debates, and the like. Loop Clubs Plan Christmas Social Tuesday afternoon, December 19, has been selected as the date for the pre-vacation social. Sponsored by the Amazons and Wranglers, this dance will begin at 2 p.m. and continue to 5 p.m. The scene will be laid on the second floor of the Downtown building, and as this is the last scholastic occasion of its type to be presented by the representative men and women societies it promises to be a gala affair. Presidents of the two organizations, Josephine Johnson and Ray Ahearn, have planned for the hop for the past two weeks, and student comment assures a turnout representative of the spirit of the holiday season. The music selected is such as will please each and every couple on the floor, and as school will have just recessed the students will enter the second floor door with the feeling of complete relaxation which usually accompanies such a freedom. Freshmen, sophomore, juniors, and seniors are all invited, and the support of each class is solicited for the assurance of the complete satisfaction of each and every student. Hold Tea Sale For Day Nursery An unusual donation in the parade of Christmas contributions comes from the Far East through Dr. Corliss of the Mathematics department of the University. Dr. Tashiro, a Japanese Doctor of Dentistry in the Chicago area has supplied the De Paul Student Charities with over 400 packages of the finest Japanese tea, which he in turn had received from Mr. S. Mitsuhashi of th® Japan Tea Association, 2 Nichone Shinbashi, Shibaku, Tokio, Japan. The major part of the tea was sold at the De Paul Day Nursery Party, and the remainder will be put on sale in the corridor of the uptown school tomorrow, Friday, December 15, at ten cents a package (one and one-half ounces to the package). The tea sells usually at $2.00 a pound, which makes the ten cent packages definitely a bargain. Students are urged to purchase these packages, thus aiding the needy, since the proceeds of the sale will be incorporated in the Christmas Charity fund. Willard Munzer Conducts Forum Mr. Willard Munzer. vocational guidance head and professor of sociology at the Uptown Liberal Arts College, will act as chairman for an open forum on "Socio-Economic Problems," at the second annual convention of the American Catholic Sociological Society, which will be held from December 27th to the 29th, at the Morrison Hotel. Outstanding leaders in the field of Catholic social thought and research will discuss various topics of social import. These include "The Family in the Changing World," "Modern Problems in the Social Field," "Rural Sociology," and "Social Psychiatry." Round table discussions and a special student session will be part of the program. The Rev. Raymond W. Murray, C.S.C., President of the University of Notre Dame, is president of the Society, assisting him is the Rev. Paul H. Furfey, Ph.D., of the Catholic University, Washington. D.C. The latter will be one of the speakers on the forum conducted by Mr. Munzer. George F. Hurley Leaves De Paul George F. Hurley, LL. B., A.B.. instructor in the Evening Law School, has turned his resignation in to the University officials. Part-time instructor in Torts for the past sixteen years, Mr. Hurley was forced to leave the university because of ill health. The vacancy he leaves in the Torts I course of this semester's Evening Law School will be filled by Professor R. S. Bauer, J.D., M.A., day school instructor. The faculty and student bodies deeply regret the fact that Mr. Hurley has been forced to leave, and hope that the illness which forced him to withdraw will soon be overcome.THE DE PAULIA DE PAUL UNIVERSITY, CHICAGO, ILL. ITKIN TO PRODUCE NEW PLAY TUESDAY On Tuesday evening, December 19, Professor David Itkin of the Drama School will produce his interpretation of Sierra's "The Kingdom of God." The play has proved to be so highly entertaining to Chicago audiences in the "past that a capacity audience is expected for the De Paul production. Current rehearsals have shown that the play has not been overpraised, and is not to be missed by intelligent theatre-goers. Martinez Sierra's play is a threeact portrayal of the religious life of Sister Gracia as a novice, directress of a maternity home, and finally as the aged Reverend Mother, governing a home for orphans. The role of the heroine will be enacted by Bella Itkin, who has proved her ability in the past series of plays. Action of the play revolves about the three great periods in her career as Sister Gracia. who, through her zealous pursuit of the life she has chosen and her ability to spread her innate spirit of happiness to her charges, depicts a character of the highest mold a women who ever keeps before her the end she has chosen and its means. The closing quotation of the play portrays its spirit: Sister Gracia, SECRETARIAL BALL ON DEC. 23 speaking to a forlorn, hungry orphan says, "Don't cry, for men don't cry, you know and they don't complain. They suffer, but they work and hope." "The Kingdom of God" will highlight Itkin's tenth season as head of the Department of Drama at De Paul University. Dean Itkin, noted director and a product of the Moscow Art Theatre, has put forth special care and painstaking effort to make this anniversary year a banner one for the Drama School. The December 19th production is in keeping with his plans. Sierra is a contemporary Spanish playwright, novelist, poet, and producer. He is the author of some forty plays in Spanish and has translated more than fifty others into Spanish. "The Kingdom of God" was written in 1915. Mr. John C. McMahon, a member of the Drama Department, has designed the scenery for the play. The office of the Drama School in the Downtown Building will fill any requests for the seventy-five cent student tickets. Patrons with season tickets need only send their pass number and a self-addressed stamped envelope to the office and tickets will be mailed forthwith. League Council To Plan Party As a means of assuring the success of and interest in the Women's League's Annual Card Party, the Women's League Council requests that the members of the League from all four classes report to their respective representatives on the Council at some time today, Thursday. The Council members are Marjorie Miller, freshman Lucille O'Connell, sophomore Josephine Messineo, junior and LaVergne Porten, senior. The members are asked to answer two questions, namely: first, whether or not they desire a card party again this year, and second, if the card party is scheduled, whether or not they will be willing to offer their services wither in selling tickets, making arrangements, or modelling. It is imperative that the girls get in' touch with their representatives today as the Committee for the party must be chosen no later than tomorrow.Results of Doll Party Announced Miss Kathryn J. Miller, dean of Women in the Uptown Liberal Arts College, announces that the proceeds of the doll booth sponsored by the Women's League at the Bazaar last Saturday, December 9th, for the benefit of the De Paul Day Nursery, amounted to a total of $69.68. The drawing for the five dollar bill, for which five cent chances were sold throughout the school under the direction of the Junior League, netted $13.50. Minug the five dollar prize which went to Eugene Knight, $8.50 was turned over to the Day Nursery, together with the $69.68, which made a total of $78.18. Miss Miller wishes to thank the students, mothers, and sisters who assisted in making this Doll Party a success. The faculty and student body extend their condolences to Katherine Lemke on the recent death of her father. MUSICAL COMEDY SCRIPTS ARE DUE ON FEDRUARY 1 Rev. Howard J. Ahern, C.M., has announced the deadline for the submission of the scripts for the musical comedy annually produced by the University. This is to be February 1, because the play will be given earlier this year than before and so all contesting authors must have their efforts into the office of Fr. Ahern by this date. Each year it is the custom at De Paul for all the students of the University to cooperate in the production of a musical comedy. All phases of the project are under the control of the students interested. The first part of the program is, of course, the selection of a suitable script to be used. This is done by a committee headed by Fr. Ahern and after that matter has been settled the cast is selected from both campuses by a competition under the guidance of Director Thomas Haggerty, producer of the play this year as in other years. When the play and cast are set the music is written in conjunction with the Music School to conform with the script. Rehearsals then begin after these steps have been completed. Last year the Musical was written by those two budding geniuses, Dave O'Brien and Joe Moran and was entitled "Break It Gently". Enthusiastic reception was accorded this production and its stars, Phyllis Evans and Nick Semkoff. It would be advisable for those who wish to be "glorified American girls" of the chorus to brush up on their steps just in case. The fact that this is an all-student enterprise should serve as an incentive to anyone with ability to write to give it a fling and see how good they really are. Debaters Meet Lake Forest On Friday, Dec. 15 Lake Forest College will be the next De Paul University debating opponent, on the subject of national isolation as a war-time policy, when two squads of De Paul Debaters meet the Lake Forest forensic teams on Friday. December 15. The debates held at De Paul will be in Moot Court. The De Paul debaters will be Justin McCarthy and Bill Foley, representing the affirmative, and Jules Sherman and Jim Tully, representing the negative in the men's comoetition, and Frances Massey, and Virginia McCabe, women's affirmative team, and Rita Jane Carlson and Mary Weber as the women's negative team. The squads have undergone an extensive period of training in preparation for the season which is now approaching, it was declared by Coach Leo Shapiro,, of the English Department. The Lake Forest debates represent the second opponent to be met by De Paul this season. The first encounter of the season was a debate against Niagara University, on Friday, December 8, with Justin McCarthy and Bill Foley upholding the affirmative side of the isolation question for De Paul. Thursday, December 14, 1939 Fur Beauty Found «l ust Skinned Possibly it's just a return to the old skin game. Women once were very effective at that. Have you noticed the enlarging of the female optics come the presence of a furpiece? Possibly we have just ascended the dais of manhood, and then again a possibility lies in the fact that' we have had our allowance increased proportiontely, but we are conscious of a growing familiarity between ourselves, the weaker sex, and furpieces. We are prompted to think on the practicability of fox-fuzz, ermineepidermis, and hare-hair. The main purpose of the skin game seems to be just having these products of nature, which is about as useful a purpose as that of changing a girl's name from Gladiola to Esmerelda. The improvement is obvious. The pelts are not worn to any definite observable advantage, and yet they are admired both far and wide (especially wide) by members of the suggestive sex in a voice that seems to sound the clarion denoting the onslaught of possible price. The blood flows freely. The latest is the chubby. And it is. It makes the ninety-eight pounder look as if she's having a tough time cutting down her weight, and the hundred-twelve-pounder look as if there is no use trying. For those over the latter weight, a circus tent is the only covering, it makes them SECRETARIAL LEADER Elaine Kohl, Secretarial coed, who is active in preparations for the forthcoming Secretarial Ball, to be held on Dec. 23. Deutsche Gruppe Holds Christmas Party Tomorrow "Die Deutsche Gruppe" is holding its annual Christmas party tomorrow at 3 o'clock in the Women's clubroom. The party is being given under the sponsorship of Dr. Karola Geiger, professor of German. The arrangements are being taken care of by Gordon Curzon, president of the German group, Sam Aronson vicepresident and Joyce McArdle and Frances Breit. The main attraction is to be a celebration centered around the banquet table. To make this Christmas party more interesting no details have yet been released for publication. The doors of the clubroom will be locked all day until the time the activities are to begin ... at three o'clock. Tickets have been on sale all week and the names of all those buying tickets have been taken. There is a bulletin board in the Liberal Arts Building where students desirous of attending the party may register. Those on the refreshment and ticket committees are Louis Cornolo, Celestine Poull, Irene Terlikowski, Walter Wieferich, Ray Munick, and John McMullen. Tickets may be purchased from them or from Gordon Curzon or Sam Aronson for only twenty-five cents. All profits accruing from the party will be donated to the Christmas Basket Fund at the Christmas Party on Tuesday. The German Club will also sing carols at this party. look alike. And the chubby is very warm, down to the waist, which is waste no matter how you spell it. Imagine cutting the poor animal in half to please the vanity and height of the four-foot-fives and the fivefoot-fours. Did our children of nature wax hale for this endless career? The two-skin new-skin is another in the gay procession of adornaments which are making headway among the brainless. And they wear them as if the poor skunk were still alive and struggling for a last, long breath. The poor things are so tired they're biting one another's tails, and this constant plaguing of being turned in circles about a neck is the substitute to being laid to rest. But the crowning one came with the introduction of the breathingbulldog movement. This trend of thought is toward the placing of a quiet, meek animal about the neck, strolling languidly down the street, then watching your erstwhile earmuffs take the long way down your spine and toddle along beside you. This should be recommended as a cure for drunkenness. Instead it's an incentive to. Imagine a youngster seeing his pet quietly nursing a glamour-girl's shingle into an eighty degree temperature. The youngster shouts with dismay, naturally. The dog hears him and whimpers. knowingly-Fur crying out loud. SEASON'S BLESSINGS! Winter Limelight Stolen by Gala Christmas Dance Bob Peary and Drake Hotel to Furnish Atmosphere The coeds of the Secretarial college at De Paul University will hold their annual Winter Formal on Saturday evening, December 23rd, in the main ballroom of the Drake Hotel, with 3ob Peary's orchestra playing for the occasion. First of the two formal dances given by the Secretarial school, the Winter Ball ushers in the Christmas season. The affair will be the 6th Annual Charity Ball sponsored by the Secretarial School and, according to indications, promises to top all the previous dances in popularity. The dances held in the past have gone far to build up a following among the students of the various colleges in the University. Consequently, the coeds should have little trouble in disposing of the bids. Assurance of a successful dance will only require a little cooperation by the prospective secretaries, says Miss Loretto R. Hoyt, Dean of the Secretarial School. Bob Peary and his orchestra will furnish the melodious strains for the attending couples. Recognized all over the city and surrounding area as having a definitely danceable band, Bob Peary was cnosen to play for this, the swankiest of De Paul's affairs. This inducement alone should serve to sway the skeptical minded to attend. Dancing will begin at 10:00 o'clock and continue until 1 a.m. Everyone who is planning on attending this affair is requested to make reservations for tables as early as possible in order to be assured of good accommodations. Arrangement for the affair have been placed in the hands of Virginia Ruppert, President of the secretarial class. Assisting her in the preparations will be Doris Grunt, secretarial Vice-President, Barbara Cook, Secretary, and Ursula Clark, Treasurer. Heading the bid committee is Elaine Kohl. The bids have already been distributed and can be purchased from the members of the committee for $2.50, or $3.00 at the door. In keeping with the Yuletide spirit of giving rather than receiving, the proceeds of the dance will be used to finance a Christmas party for the children of the St. Vincent Orphanage. All the members of the Secretarial School under the guidance of Miss Loretto Hoyt, Dean of Women, are working hard to make this year's dance as socially and financially successful as all previous charity balls. Commerce Club Sponsors Dance The Evening Commerce Club will climax its 1939 activities by staging a Christmas p^rty tomorrow (Friday) evening on the second floor of the loop building. The social committee, under the chairmanship of Miss Katherine O'Herron, promises everything in the way of entertainment for this affair. Music, dancing, singing, Christmas decorations, and an honest-to-goodness Santa Claus will be featured on the program of events for that evening. An orchestra will play for dancing from nine until twelve o'clock and refreshments will be sold in the lobby. No admission charge will be made for ladies, and Evening Commerce students will be admitted upon presentation of membership cards. Gentlemen non-members will be taxed twenty-five cents according to the usual mixer regulations. Evening Commerce membership cards will be distributed from six until nine o'clock on Friday even at the Commerce window for the convenience of any students who have as yet not procured their cards. The social committee in charge of arrangements for the Christmas party include Kay O'Herron, chairman, and the following- assistants: Stephen Aufmuth, Joseph Craw. Kay Duffy, Hugh Dermody, Bernard Bernier, John Bresnehan, Timothy Evans, Loretta DeFelicis, Frank Hayes, Theodore Rummel, Jim Kelly, Jim Riha, John Gallagher, Bernard Gallagher, Edward Stahl, Frank McLoraine, Katherine O'Malley, Walter Fiedler, Paul Frenz., Helen Kisonas, Renee Potter, Aurelia Rubas, William Miller, Jr., Monica Doyle, Virginia deGrasse, land Jim Durkin.