The Pine, February 9, 1937.

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Published, by Associated Students
Tuesday, February 9, 1937 ARIZONA STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE, FLAGSTAFF, ARIZONA Vol. XXIV—No. 18
Trials For
PiKapActs
Friday Nite
Many Entries Make Bids To
Enter Competition
In Show
SEEK I ’ALENT
Vaudeville Is Move To Bring
Dormant Abilities To Eye
Of Public
Tryouts for the second annual
Pi Kappa Epsilon vaudeville show,
to be held February 19 in an ef­fort
to bring out local talent, will
be held next Friday night at 7:30
p. m. in Ashurst auditorium.
“From the number of entrance
blanks which have been turned in,
this year’s show should far surpass
the one held last year," Harry Bil­ler,
president of the fraternity,
said last night. “Besides many
new entrants, all of the prize win­ners
of last year’s show will com­pete
again,” he added.
th re e prizes of $10, $5 and $2.50
will be awarded to the winners of
the first three placed as chosen by
a committee of uptown judges.
This year, Kenneth Hurlburt. head
of the English department of the
F lagstaff high school, will act aj
chairman of the judging commit
tee. The winners will be an
nounced immediately after the last
, art.
To avoid any dissention over the
decisions, no Pi Kap member will
be allowed to compete for the priz-
. es. However, for the entertain­ment
of . the-audience while proper­ty
changes are being made and the
judging is taking place, the Pi
Kappa orchestra will be featured
in an especially arranged act. They
will also provide accompaniment
for the various performers.
According to information receiv­ed
from Paul Hefrrera, treasurer,
advanced ticket sales have already
exceeded the 100 mark, 30 per cent
more than those of the same time
last year. It is estimated that
over 300 people saw the perform­ance
last year.
Listed among this year’s en
trants aije Fred Dockstader, first
prize winner of last year; W. A. A.,
which took second place; Dorothy
Harrington, who placed third; Mad
Hatters, Wilson Riles, Girls’ trio,
Freshman class, Sophomore class,
Tom Brady, Pat Coleman, Omicron
Kappa* Gamma, and the Pi Kaps.
Several other acts, although they
have not filed entry blanks, are ex­pected
to try out.
FLAG ARGUERS
DROP TILTS TO
DRAKE U TEAMS
Only One Local Debater Had
Seen Action Before In
Word Fray
F lagstaff teams, debating Drake
university of Des Moines, Iowa, on
the question, “Resolved, that Con­gress
should be empowered to fix
maximum hours and minimum
wages in industry," lost both the
men’s and women’s matches, af­ter
a remarkable contest last Wed­nesday
night.
Flagstaff was represented by
Margaret Temme and Florence
Dupgan, girls’ team, who took the"
affirm ative against Kathryn Coons
and Jtir 3 Gibson of Drake O. In'
this match the judges voted two
to one in favor of the visitors.
Bruce Gourley and Lloyd Engel-brecht,
local men, took the nega­tive
on the same question against
John Simms and Charles Brown­ing,
The decision was unanimous
in favor of the Iowans.
Of the four F lagstaff debaters,
Margaret Temme was the only one
who had ever seen action outside
the debating class. The two visit­ing
women had won second place
in a national tournament held in
Houston, Texas, last year.
The judges of the debates were
Mrs. George Portnoff, Mrs. Win.
Durkovich, Clarence Brooksby, J,
Q. Thomas. Kenneth Hurlburt and
G. T- Midgley.
Madrigal Choir To
Sing A t CCC Camp
Traveling to Sedona next Wed­nesday,
the Madrigal choir of the
college will appear before the en­tire
^personnel of the CCC camp
th e re \th a t night and present a
variety of songs as- one of the
regular series of presentations giv­en
el the camp at regular inter­vals.
This appearance will mark the
first time that a program of this
kind has been tried in the state.
The purpose of it is to revive songs
which were used during the Eliza­bethan
period to which a large
group of singers cannot do justice.
The members of the choir, which
is strictly a student organization
and! under student management,
are: Ruth Williams, Elizabeth.
Phelps, Pat Coleman, James Wil­liams.
Paul Henry Giroux and
Emma Jo Pew.
I n d u s t r i a l A rts
Class Learns How
Power Is Formed
The Industrial Arts class, under
the direction of Mr. Osborn, was
given an inside view of the opera­tion
of generators at the city pow­er
house last Wednesday morning.
Mr. Lowsin, superintendent of
the power house, gave a lecture on
the operation of the generator. He
also added that the cause of so
much static on the radios was due
to the noise that started in the
country and was transformed over
the power lines.
French Movie To
Be Shown Tomte
Tonight at 7 p. m. in As-hurst
auditorium students and
faculty of A. S>T. C. will have
an opportunity to see how talk­ies
are made in France with
the showing of the comedy, “A
Nous La Liberte.” A satire
on modem industrial society,
the picture shows in a side­splitting
manner what happens
when a workman fails to put
on the proper screw at the
proper time in an ultra-modern
phonograph factory. Remark­able
pantomine directed by the
ace French director, Rene Clair,
makes the story clear in spite
of the foreign dialogue, but in
addition superimposed English
sub-titles and an English in­troduction
make the story an
open book. A short subject
will precede the feature. The
admission, as usual, is 10 cents.
Heads Show
Harry Biller, president of the
Pi Kappa Epsilon fraternity, is
largely responsible for the work
being done by that organization
this year, and is rapidly complet­ing
plans for the fraternity’s an­nual
vaudeville.
Eastern Co-eds
Agree With Local
Girls On Marriage
Lpsola Women Put “Flaming
Love” Last, Want Brains
In Men
T h at coeds at Up.sala college.
East Orange, agreed with the co­eds
at F lagstaff was revealed re­cently
when the following article
appeared in a Sunday issue of the
Newark, N. J.. Call:
Coeds at Upsala college. East
Orange, agreed emphatically with
their sisters at Arizona State
Teachers college in Flagstaff, Ari­zona,
that a man doesn’t have to
be able to embrace fiamingly to be
a good husband.
A poll of a cross section of Up­sala
girls revealed that good char­acter,
ambition and intelligence,
especially intelligence, are a man’s
best qualifications for the altar.
Like the Arizona girls, the East
Orange coeds put the “passionate
lover” type at the bottom of the
list.O
ut in Arizona, where the jokes
are dry anyway, the girls don’t
care much whether their future
husbands have a sense of humor.
But in East Orange nine out-of 10
sgirls put this attribute third on
the list.
Some differed over whether
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JOHNSON BACK
FROM CONFAB,
TELLS OF TRIP
Seventy Delegates A t t e n d
Conference Of College
Pressmen
James G. Johnson, publicity
director, returned early Monday
.morning from Utah, where he had
gone to attend a district meeting
of the American College Publicity
association, of which he is a mem­ber
of the executive committee,
held in conjunction with the an­nual
convention of the Rocky
Mountain Intercollegiate Press as­sociation.
oth meetings were successful,
according to Mr. Johnson.
At the publicity directors’ meet­ing,'
President Harris of Brigham
Young, host school, spoke on "A
university president’s ideas con­cerning
publicity," with a reply
from the publicity man’s point of
view by Mr. Johnson. Other topics
included suggestions for obtaining
more and better national publicity
for the colleges in this district,
ways to run a student staff in a
publicity office, and the use of
radio in college publicity.
Mr. Johnson drcve 1100 miles on
his trip, making GOO to Provo in
one day. He arrived, with Mrs.
Johnson, at 3 a. m. Friday and
found no room to be had in the
city. After searching for an hour,
they finally went to sleep on • a
m attress in a hotel corridor. Com­ing
back was more evenLful. They
were stuck in a mud hole near
Fredonia for two hours, and were
pushed into a snowbank near
Jacobs Lake by a big truck, which
fortunately stopped after Mrs.
Johnson chased it, and pulled them
out. The car had dug through the
edge of a five-foot snowbank for
30 feet until the front wheels
caught and threw them into it,
landing them at right angles to
the road with the nose of the car
buried in the drift. Three feet
away was a 20-foot ditch which
thpy had scraped by. They arrived
in JFJagstaff at 2 a. m. Monday,
after going through rain, snow,
sleet and mud, all in one day, with
frozen brakes and steering geai
B e n s o n , Willis
Married Sunday
Miss Frances Willis, former stu­dent
of A. S. T. C.. Flagstaff,
and Walter Benson, also of Flag­staff,
were united in marriage at
the home of the bride's parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Willis, in King­man,
Sunday, February 7. Clyae
Latham, student of the Arizona
State Teachers college at Flag­staff,
was best man, and Miss
Louise Beck of Winslow was the
bridesmaid.
The couple left for an extended
honeymoon trip in southern Cali­fornia.
When they return, the
newlyweds will make their home
in Flagstaff. Mr. Benson is
postoffice clerk here.
Reader Lauds Co-Eds On Stand
In an Amarillo, Texas, paper
last week a story ran under a large
head that said “Women Students
Ban Passionate Lovers as Mates.”
The story went on to tell how
Flagstaff women placed men of
good character, intelligence, and
ambition above all other virtues to
be desired in a mate. In the next
column in the same paper under
a still larger head which read
“Robert Taylor Runs Gauntlet of
Kissing Women at President’s
Dance," a lengthy article went on
to tell how “one hostess, well ma­tured,
jumped out of line, threw
her arms around the actor’s neck,
and kissed him. He broke into a
run, but was kissed several times
before he reached the platform.”
An Amarillo reader of the paper
was so struck by the contrast in
the two stories th at he sat down
and wrote the following letter to
the women students of this college.
Amarillo, Texas
January 31, 1937.
Women Students
Arizona State College
F lagstaff, Arizona.
Greetings:
If I were young and single, I
would go to Flagstaff and see if
this is in good repute. I am not
young, but with the 48 years, of
experience, I feel a little encour­aged
that perhaps women are wak­ing
up; beginning to realize that
they hold the keys to the moral
situation, and that they will re­linquish
th a^ iig h ly esteemed posi­tion
if they continue to sink to a
man’s leve’. What a contrast we
see in the enclosed clipping. 1
have a son, who is better looking
than Robert Taylor, and of all the
evil forces th at seem to beset him,
I believe th at the general disposi­tion
of the girls—in this age—are
the most calamitous. They say
times have changed; we hepr that
on every hand, and it is apparent
that they are using it as a slogan
to justify themselves in running
amuck.
So fa r my boy does not drink
or smoke, and f do not believe he
is possessed of the many popular
evils, but it is my vital concern as
to when he will break over. Ap­parently
it is inevitable if he is
popular or tries to stay in the
“ring.” I wish that I could choose
a girl; place her in safe-keeping
until he has acquired an education
and developed, then present to him
the greatest gift that God gave to
man-—a good woman—a woman
th at loves home and places char­acter
above everything. If that
could be true, I would never worry
about the destiny of my son.
Sincerely,
A FATHER.
Workmen Prepare City
Park Slides For Snow
Frolics Over Week-End
Playmakers Hold
Meeting, Appoint
S t a f f Committee
In order to appoint committees
for the presentation of the play,
“Bury the Dead," the Arizona
Playmakers held a meeting at 6:30
Monday night in Ashurst auditor-
Those appointed on the play
staff were as follows: • Howard
Westcott, chairm an of the prop­erty
committee with assistants;
Amy Thompson, Pauline Timmons
and Marion McGuire for the make­up
comittee; John Connelly, Le-land
Chapman and Carlotta Wood-bum
are on a special committee
to take care of sound and lighting
effects; Mary De Mario and Mabel
McKnight are in charge of prompt­ing
and customs respectively.
E^jch member of the club is
quired to sell at least 10 tickets
to the play.
P in e Knots To Go
On Press In March
At a meeting of Pine Knots held
a t Dr. Hill’s home last Tuesday
night, plans were made for the
publication of the Pine Knots mag­azine
early in March.
Stories and poems read and ac­cepted
for publication were “Gold­en
rod” and “My Love” by Charles
Bull; “Celebration" and “Apache
Devil Dance" by Vivian Lockhart;
“Fear” by Juliet Osborn, and
“Chamber of Commerce” by Orley
Pendergraft. Laurel Peterson read
an original story, “Bridge or War,”
which is to be re-read at the next
meeting with a few changes. Mar­garet
Dunklin is to re-read her
story, “The Peaks" and Herbert
Osterberg is to re-read his story,
“Oh for the Life of Riley" with a
few alterations.
Students Treated
Coach and Mrs. G airett Arbel
bide entertained the following
guests at their home Sunday night
with a spaghetti dinner: Pauline
Timmons, Brix Moore, Ruth Scar­lett,
Amy Thompson, Louise Car­son,
John Herrera, Royce Mat­thews.
Homer Jacobsmeyer and
Alfred Shantz.
A fter the dinner the remainder
of the evening was spent playing
contract.
S ixty Mile Gale
. H alts A ctivities
All outdoor activities at A. S.
T. C. were discontinued last
Sunday when a 60 mile an hour
gale swept through the cam­pus.
The drizzling rains of the
night before had melted the
snow banks, and the resulting
water froze into chunks on the
sidewalks so that walking was
made dangerous and uncomfort­able.
Listed among the day’s mis­haps
on the campus were sev­eral
broken transoms in the
women’s dormitory; the tearing
down of two huge pine trees
that have been landmarks for
years; roofs swept off some of
the cabins and. down town7 tele­phone
poles uprooted. Any ad­venturous
souls who dared to
brave the swirling snow and
stinging blasts were soon dis­couraged
and returned to the
sanctuary of their home'* or to
the dormitories.
Bill Would Make
Flagstaff Part Of
State University
Denying-political logrolling, Sen­ator
Wieden, of Yuma county, last
week asked to have a new bill in­troduced
in the House to replace
the Stauffer bill that has already
passed the House and is up for
approval by the Senate.
The new bill, as described by
Senator Wieden, would make A. S.
T. C. at Tempe and Flagstaff
branches of the university. Any
degree that the two schools should
desire to issue would be a featured
part of the Wieden bill. The rea­son
for such action by Senator
Wieden was said to bring the diB-sention
that was growing in the
legislature to a stop.
Backers of the Stauffer bill said
that Wieden’s bill was in reality a
move to kill Stauffer’s bill, and
put a bill before the House that
would be voted down. Such a hill,
they also said, would never pass
a judiciary committee because of
its unconstitutionality.
F ifty Sign To Make
Trip To Tempe Tilt
At the present time approxi
mately 50 students have signed up
to take part in the special rooting
section that will leave Friday
morning to invade Tempe with the
Lumberjack casaba team.
Although rides have been found
for all the students who have ap­plied,
many students are causing
confusion by seeking rides for
themselves. On the other hand,
several students already designa­ted
to certain cars have decided
not to go but have not as yet noti­fied
Sam Ilitzky, yell leader, who
is supervising the trip arrange­ments.
This means that if the
car owners are not notified they
will find themselves with vacant
places Friday morning when they
go after their passengers. Conse­quently
they may not make the
trip.
Students who wish to go to Tem­pe
and do not have rides are urged
to see Sam lllitzky immediately
for the necessary arrangements.
Students who have already con­sulted
him but are not going, are
also urged to give proper notice so
that the vacancies may be filled.
Icy Tracks Being Smoothed
For High Speed, Bank
Curves For Safety
HIKERSTO PLAY
Campus Croup To Hold Outing
At* Hill Saturday, Scouts
In Meet
In preparation for a week of
inter sports frolics to be held on
the new City park slides next
week-end. a crew of seven men,
under the direction , of Carr
Schwarz. WPA recreational advis-
>r for Flagstaff, are busily put-ing
the finishing touches on two
dides, one of which is over a quar­ter
of a mile long, in anticipation
of one of the largest crowds ever
to gather in F lagstaff for partici­pation
in sports of this nature.
Already this week many college
and F lagstaff people have taken
advantage of the runs which have
been put into almost perfect con­dition
afte r recent rains, snowfall
and cold weather had provided an
icy base for the. bottom of the
track. Last Monday evening, a
party of college students rode the
tracks on sleds and toboggans and
reported that the now soiidly-pack-ed
snow had made the runways so
fast that it was necessary to start
half way up the trail. Work this
week, however, will remove all bad
spots, and It will be possible to
traverse the full length of the
trail, attaining top speeds of near­ly
40 miles an hour.
Still undaunted after being kept
indoors for two weeks because of
adverse weather conditions, the
Hiking club has planned another
outing which is to be held on the
hill next" Saturday hdoming. Ski­ing.
sledding and riding on the
new 16-foot toboggan purchased
recently by the club will be featur­ed1
for the members.
Net to miss out in the fun, a
troop of city scouts,has made a r ­rangements
to hold a sledding* and
skiing tournament on the small
track Saturday morning. The
competition will feature sled and
ski races between the members.
Talk has been current uptown
ir s/iiji*- time cnTwommg a com­petitive
winter sports carnival for
all northern Arizonans which would
be held on the new hill. As yet,
however, no definite plans have
been announced.
DANCE POSTPONED
The Mid H atter “Sweetheart
Dance” which was to have been
held this week-end has been post­poned
until March 5th. This dance,
an annua) affair, is to be a coea
formal.
CARSON GETS JOB
Louise Carson, home economics
major, left this morning for Pres­cott
where she will take over the
duties of the high school Home
Ec. department during the illness
of the regular teacher. Miss Car­son
is not positive how long she
will be gone.
Archaeology O f
Two States Told
A t Class Meeting
Walter Taylor, whp has been
isiting J. C. McGregor, gave a
talk to the Southwest Archaeology
group at last Thursday’s class
meeting, on the archaeology of
Connecticut and Georgia.
Mr. Taylor is a graduate of Yale
and has done considerable gradu­ate
work at that institution. Sub­sequently
he has studied at the
University of Arizona and two
summers ago was a member of
Mr. McGregor’s field school. In
the past six months he has done
extensive research work in Geor­gia.
Mr. Taylor after leaving here
will matriculate in the University
of New Mexico for further study.
Students Aid Red
Cross Fund Drive
The vF lagstaff college students
were alive to the widespread ap­peal
for contributions to the flood-stricken
area this past week when
they raised $12 that was sent in
immediately. Seven dollars was
raised by the men and five dollars
by the WSftMo. The men took up
contributions among themselves
while the women gave from their
regular women’s fund.
NOTICE
All studenta interested in pho­tography
are urged to attend the
meeting to be held at 7 o’clock
thia evening in the new Science
building. Plans will be made for
the organization of a camera dab
which will take up all phases of
the art of photography.