Evening Star Newspaper, February 17, 1929, Page 10

) B SPRIG SPEAIG CONTESTS T0 0P American University Will Hold First of Extempora- neous Series. The first of three State high school extemporaneous speaking contests to be beld at American University this Spring will take place next Friday and Satur- day, when contestants from 20 Maryland high schools will gather to choose two winners to compete against winners from Pennsylvania and District of Co- lumbia High Schools. ‘The District of Columbia contest is to be held on March 1, the Pennsylva- pia contest March 8 and 9 and the finals on March 22 and 23. ‘Total prizes for the contests have Been offered by the sponsoring organ- igations, the United States Daily giving $450 cash and American University of- fering scholarship prizes of $1,30v. The Maryland contestants will arrive from all parts of the State to report at the university at 10 o'clock Friday morning foy assignment of the sub- Jjects which they will discuss that after- noon for the contest. Each contestant will be prepared on two of the general subjects which had been sent out in advance by Arthur 8. Fleming of the university, director of the contest. These der Dam and Federal control of water power sites, consolidation of railroads, naval armaments and Kellogg treaties, | revisjn of the Dawes reparation plan. By lot each contestant wili draw a specific subject under one of the two general subjects on which he or she is prepared. Preliminary Contest Groups. ‘The - Priday afternoon preliminary contests will include about four groups and will result in cutting down the number of contestants to _about 8 or 10 to participate in the final contest Saturday night. A banquet will be held at the college dining room ¥riday night for all contestants, and the contestants will be the guests of the college dur- ing their stay in Washington. The high schools which will send representatives include Calvert High School at Northeast, Md.; Pleasant Val- ley High School at Westminister, Penn- sylvania Avenue High School at Cum- beriand, Mt. Airy High School, Cam- bridge High School, Takoma-Silver Spring High School at Silver Spring, Hagerstown High School, Tracys High School, Fairland High School at Belts- ville, West Friendship High School, Boonsboro High School, Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School at Chevy Chase, Rock Hall High School, Dickerson High School, East New Market High School, Forest Park High School and Baltimore Oity College, both of ‘Baltimore; Smiths- burg High School, Calvert County High School at Prince Prederick and Hur- Jock High School. For the final Maryland contest Sat- urday night, the students will be as- signed their c topics on Saturday morning at 10 o'clock, and these will be different from the ones discussed FPriday. The rules provide that during 1929—PART 1. THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., FEBRUARY 17, YOUNGSTERS BUILD OWN “LIBRARY” Following a visit to the Mount Pleasant Public Library, the children of the Brightwood School kindergarden, under their teachers, Miss Hazel M. Priest and general subjects are farm relief, Boul- | Miss Adele Price, set up a model Lbrary in the cloak room of their class. The | boys erected cases, tables and chairs out of boxes; the girls sewed curtains and table covers, and the class fashioned “books” in paper which they decorated. HOWARD T0 HONOR SONS OF FOUNDER Charter Day Dinner by1 Alumni Will Be Tribute to Visitors Here. ‘The Alumni Senior Charter day din- ner to be held at Howard University, Saturday evening, March, 2, will have, as its special honor guests, Harry Howard, attorrey of Burlington, Vt., and Col. C. O. Howard, librarian in the Department of the Interior, both sons of the founder of the university. The dinner has become one of the important events on the university's Seniors o€ all ‘depariments ‘“‘”‘rm“‘é of al ents are of the faculty and alumni. The dinner will be held in the university dining room, which is to be especially decorated both in commemoration of the founders and in keeping with the spirit of in- auguration. ‘The affair this year is to be promoted, the time the contestants are g:eplrln. their speeches on the campus here they will have access to the college library and & room in which to practice, but they “are to have no help whatsoever from any teacher, relative or friend.” Of major interest to the entire uni- versity was the appointment last week of Walter H. Young, a graduate of Ohio ‘Wesleyan University and coach of Chil- licoths High School, to be assistant pro- fessor of physical education for the college. He will come next Fall, to succeed G. B. Springston, who has en giving part time to college ath- tics since the college started, four ear ago. Mr. Young married an Ohio ‘esleyan girl soon after he zudunted from school and they have two boys, George and James. Mr. Young wil give his full time to the physical edu- cation program at- college and will ;be a niember 5 1 Winners of Seholarships. ¢ Schol winners for the firs| semester’at college were announ + yesterday to be as follows: Freshmen—Audrey Belt, Norman Fa- ‘Bian, GWwendolyn -Folsom; sophomores— rothea Belz, ‘Pauline Frederick, Hy- Lewis, Putnam and Carol ¥ juniors—] Barrett, Edwin Kelbaugh, Ronald McLaughlin, Janie Beantlin; seniors—Rowannetta Allen, Marion Gross, Ida Belle Hopkins, Jane Lucas, Roland Rice and Helen Roher. Dr, Edmund D. Soper, new president of Ohio Wesleyan University, will speak at college chapel next Wednesday morning at 10 o’clock. Dr. Lucius C. Clark, chancellor of American University, attended the in- auguration of Dr. Soper as president of Ohio Wesleyan last week. The tea given by the Women's Guild of American University last Tuesday afternoon, under the general chairman- ship of Mrs. Lucius C. Clark, was largely attended by members of the guild and other friends of the university. A benefit entertainment under aus- pices of the student council will be given at the gymnasium next Friday night for funds to purchase a new ggonograph for the women's residence 1l The committee in charge in- cludes Leland Field, Samuel Bilbrough, Irene Dezendorf, James Johnson, Otis FPellows, Herbert Elliott, Janie Scantlin, Ellsworth Tompkins and Ruth Edwards,‘ During the triangular debate with 5 Which American University opened its " women’s debating season Frid: v Baturday, the American University af- firmative team which went to Hood Col- lege yesterday consisted of Charlotte Magee, Nola Livingston and Kay Heath. ‘The negative team which debated West- ern Maryland here Friday consisted of Jane Lytle, Ethel Moulton and Ethel- wyn Hine. Dr. George B. Woods, dean of the college, addressed the Torch Club of ‘Washington Tuesday night at the Cos- mos Club on the “Process of Getting a 4. College Accredited.” “HONOR ROLL RATING AT RANDALL SCHOOL ; Verna Volz Gets Highest Rank at Junior High, Others Lead Classes First Semester. Verna Volz, high eighth grade student at the Langley Junicr High School, re- - ceived the highest rank in her school during the first semester just concluded, it was shown when the school’s honor roll was made public last week. Verna received a total of 113 points in a rating system which allows 4 points for an “A” or perfect mark, in a sub- 3 points for a “B,” 2 points for a and 1 point for a “D.” Nettie Gaither of the low seventh grade led her class; Eleanor Nordeen topped the high eighth grade; George Bon Durant led the low eighth, while Gilbert Bates made the highest record in the low ninth grade. ‘The honor roll follows:. 7A — Nettie Gaither, Alfred Esscx, Howard Cranford, Mary Griffith, Fred- erick Schaller, Emma Sunday, Virginia Webb, Christine Kempton, Mary Davis, Audrey Marsales, Elizabeth Holcomb, Barbara Moy and Mildred Hall. 78—Vernon Brooks, Doris Hall and Eleanor Nordeen. 8A—George Bon Durant, Allen Mar- ans, Martha Cuticchia, Lelia Hulbert, Lucille Profe, Nefle lI)lskl.n. Russell ' » Bailey and Alleen Lawler. A 8B—Verna Volz, Esther Strickrott, “" vivien Hildebrand and Marguerite ¥» as in the past five years, by a commit- tee under the chairmanship of Mrs. Alma J. Scott. The committee, last year, succeeded in collecting sufficient funds from faculty and alumni to meet the ex- pense of the 1928 dinner and to liqui- date the deficit of $150 that had been carried over from the previous year. In addition to the guest speakers, a brief but impressive Hg;ognm will be presented. An orch will provide music for dancing in the hour before midnight. As the hall will ac- commodate comfortably only 500, alumni rticipate have been ad- partments—colle cal, dental and pharmaceutical—there is an assurance of a large number of Zuests. The remainder of the plates will b§ taken by members of the faculty and o 5 2 NEGRO HISTORY WEEK OBSERVED AT DUNBAR Negro history week was observed at fl;e Dunbar m':‘mredmblng:c l:e vmetx of programs - pre TS AN students, On Monday afternoon ‘he ‘Teachers ofd ivisions 10-13 assembled in the Dunbar Auditorjum, heard brief ad- dresses by Alain L. Locke and Ralph W. Bunche, professors at Howard Universi- ty, and J. Francis Gregory of the Miner Normal School faculty. An instru- mental solo by Clyde Glass and a chorus completed the program. Asst. Supt. g. C. Wilkinson presided on this occa- on, An hour program of Negro music was presented Wednesday. The program in- cluded works of contemporary compos- ers which are based on its idiom. Com- positions of Dvorak, Dett and Burleigh and several spirituals were presented by the following students: iam Cook, Irving Semple, Percy Tavlor, Perry Da- vidson, Montrose Hunt, Theodore Smith, Bernice Hill, Annie -Todd. Lucy Wil- liams, Araminta Dale and William Bur- ton. James E. Lee, Dunbar, 28, was guest soloist. Miss Mary L. Europe con- ducted the choruses. At the noon assemblies each day brief essays on the Negro's achievements and outlook and tributes to Abraham Lin- coln and Frederick Douglass were read by the following pupils: Ethel Buckner, Amelia Saunders, Mary Sims, Harriet Campbell, Dorothy Herriot, Murray, Ada Fisher, Lloyd Washington, | Grace Wilkinson, Vernelle Speller, Avis Gadson, Edith Yerby and Antoinette ‘Tucker. M. M. Brewer, who addressed the stu- dents Wedneaday at noon, was general chairman of the week's projects in divisions 10-13. The first of the fourth annual series of interclass debates was won last Fri- day by the freshmen, who upheld the affirmative of the question, “Resolved, that the Constitution of the United States should be so amended as to pro- vide for the election of the President end Vice President by popular vote.” Mavis Wormley, Willlam Smallwood, Laura Lee and Dorothy Hawkins con- stituted the winning team, which de- feated the sophomore team, consisting of Ulysses Lee, Janie Johnson, Otero Tymous and Maurine Pelham. J. New- " | pital. He had Lorelle | te ton Hill sponsors the debating club. EDUCATIONAL. CATHOLIC U. GIVES DEBATES SCHEDULE Temple, Loyola of Chicago and Canisius to Be Met on Platform. Catholic University's schedule of in- tercollegiate debates, to be held during the next month, has been completed, according to Francis P. O'Keefe of Philadelphia, president of the Shahan Debating Soclety. Competitive preliminary debates are being held under the direction of Joseph English, moderator of the soclety, each Friday evening in Gibbons' Hall for the purpose of selection a team to de- bate publicly. The schedule is as fol- lows: February 19, Temple University; March 16, Loyola College of Chicago, ?34 March 22, Canisius auue of E\E?- o “George Washington, the Man,” will be the topic of a lecture to be de- livered tomorrow evening at the uni- versity by Dr. John Fitzpatrick of the Library of Congress. The lecture will be given in the auditorium of Me- Mahon Hall and will begin at 8:15 o’clock. The university suffered the loss of its physician last Wednesday morning when Dr. John A. O'Donoghue died at his home, 909 Sixteenth street, after a brief {llness. Dr. O'Donoghue was a member of the faculty of Georgetown University Medical School and of the staff of Georgetown University Hos- been the attendin, campus physician for 11 years. solemn high requiem mass was sung for him by Right Rev. Mgr. George A. Dougherty, controller of the university, last Friday morning at 11 o'clock at st;‘Matt.hzw‘a D‘C&gc&] s atithe meef cl Lay Alumni Assoclation of tfl?unher- sity will be held tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock in the clubrooms of the gm- nasium. = According to Basil J. Kelly, president of the Washington chzr'.er. nlfllcer: for the coming year will be elected. GLEE CLUB FORMED AT COLUMBUS UNIv. Thomas O'Brien Named Faculty Director of Athletic Association, A student body glee club has been or- ganized at Columbus University under the direction of Willlam Harris of the faculty, it was announced yesterday by Sefton Darr, vice dean of the school. The glee club was organized pri- marily to furnish ente ment at school functions. Mr. Harrls came to Washington from Indiana, where he met with considerable success in musi~ cal endeavors. Darr _made t the same time Mr. known the appointment of Thomas O’Brien as faculty director of the re- cently organized Columbus University Athletic Association. A charter mem- ber of the old Rival Athletic Association of Philadelphia, in which he was starred as an indoor sprinter, Mr. O'Brien plans to devote his initial time and efforts to- ward the development of a basket ball am. The Pi Chi Club, woman students’ organization of Columbus, entertained at a card party and dance at the school last Monday night for the benefit of the Athletic Association. Two hundred per- sons attended the affair. 3 The hall was decorated in crimson’ and gold, the school colors, and with Valentine decoratidns. The refreshments tables were presided over by Miss Fitzgerald and Miss Trinity College. Miss Saidee Drawner of the junior class was the chairman of th> committee in charge. Prof. and *xs. ‘Thomas Fitzgerald were the guests honor. The first decisions of the modt court, of appeals, which is composed of Rossa Downing, Robert I. Lynch and Joseph Neale, were handed down on Thursday dl evening. Judgments were given in favor £ of the defendants, represented by E. Sohon and E. Poisson. EDUCATIONAL. . School with University Atmosphere. Jaeger. a!M—-«';ubr-rt Bates,” Snowden Stabler, Bmya Hild, Barbara Healy, Frank Feldntan, Ivan Mensh and Mebel Pain. ¥ Main 2480 The " Washington School fer Secretaries MID-YEAR CLASSES IN Secretarial Training Day School Evening Schoolf EARLY REGISTRATION IS ADVISED CATALOG ON REQUEST 1 February 18 i NATIONAL'PRESS BLDG., 14th & F Sts. Betty O'Byrnes of | Sohool 17 JOURNALISITC HONORS BESTOWED Five Prominent Members of Profession and 12 Students in Pi Delta Epsilon. | Five journalists of national prominence | and 12 students who are active on the staffs of George Washington University student publications have been elected to membership in Pi Delta Epsilon, na- tional honorary journalistic fraternity. Frederic Willlam Wile, one of the best known editorial writers and an in- ternational authority on politics; Ira Bennett, editor of the Washington Post; Louls Ludlow, only Democratic Con- gressman-elect from a Republican dis- trict_of Indiana, former president of i the National Press Club and a widely known newspaper correspondent; Gid- eon Lyon, associate editor of The Wash- ington Star, have accepted election to the fraternity. ‘The 12 students whose work on pub- lications has been recognized by elec- tion are Donald Iglehart of the Hatchet staff, Bernard Conger of the Cherry Tree Annual, Nathaniel Thompson of the Hatchet staff, Allan Nell, business manager of the Cherry Tree; Pern Henninger of the board of editors of the Hatchet and former business man- ager of the Colonial Wig, Willlam Dis- mer, sports editor of the Hatchet; Nor- man Chase “of the Cheyry Tree, Nor- man Conner of the Hatchet, George Roth of the Hatchet and Wig, Harold Jenkins of the Hatchet, James Wingo of the Hatchet and James Wescott, for- mer assistant business manager of the Hatchet and now business manager of the Colonial Wig. Women Open Debates. Woman debaters of the university opened their season last night with a debate against a woman's team from Penn State College. The George Washington team was composed of Ruth _Kernan, Marjorie Mothershead and Louise Feinstein. Ruth Kernan and Marjorie Mothershead were mem- bers of the team which participated in the first woman’s international inter- collegiate debate, on October 31 last, when a team representing the colleges of Great Britain met a George Wash- ington team. The women Wwill have their second debate on March 1, when they will meet Swarthmore College. The men's varsity debate team bas just returned from & tour which includ- ed Syracuse University and Colgate Uni- versity. Later therdebaters will visit Western Reserve University, Rutgers, New York University, Loyola and Butler. The history club will hold a recep- tion in honor of Dr. Charles Clinton Swisher, emeritus professor of history, who recently has returned from several months in pe and Africa. Tuesday night in the woman's building Dr. Swisher’s former students and friends of the university, as well as members of present history classes, have been in- vited to attend. On Wednesday the club will hold a benefit card party at the Burlington Hotel to raise Swisher alcove in the library. Fund Pledges Asked. Members of the Febnmr{ graduati | class who will receive their dgtm al the Midwinter convocation, February 22, when President Coolidge will make the address, are being asked this week to pledge to the graduate endowment fund of the university, established by the classes of 1926. A pl to the fund was made recently by Phi Delta Gam- ma, graduate sorority of the university. This is the first pledge to be made by a_campus organization. In making the pledge, Phi Delta Gamma made it clear that this would in no way interfere with the Individual pledges of members, and urged each member to sign a pledge in- dividually. Other campus organzations, the Interfraternity Council, tion, the Wom- an’s’ Advisory , Y. W.C. A, the Woman's Athletic Association, the Kappa Beta Pi Legal Sorority and the Phi Delta Phi Legal Fraternity have ado) formal resolutions in support of e fund. Geol Richard . Roberts, tendent of the architectural engineering division of supervising architects of the superin- university to succeed Richard Fourchy, resigned. Mr. Roberts holds the de; of A. B. and A. M. from St. John’s Col- lege, the degree of LL. B. from the Uni- versity of Maryland and the degree of C. E. from Lehigh University. He has served as professor of civil engineering in the University of Mexico. Douglas Bement Speaks. Douglas Bement of the English de- ent spoke before Writers’ of ashington at the Thomp- (son Community Center Friday evening on “Commercialism in Literature.” Mr. Bement will address the League of American Pen Women tomorrow on “The Short Story.” March 15 has been set as the date for the first annual freshman oratorical contest. This new activity, which here- after will be an annual event, is n- sored by Phi Delta Gamma, nat 1 proleulon;l forensic murbnllg. for the urpose of encaungng pul Tunn. gmanx new students of the university. The winner will receive as a permanent award the Phi Delta Gamma silver lov- ing cup. A membership drive shor will be inaugurated by the General Alumni As- sociation of the university. A member~ ship chairman has been appointed for each college by Dr. Oscar Benwood Hunter, president of the association. These chairmen will work to increase the association’s membership among alumni of their particular schools. The committee chairmen are as follows: Dr. Charles B. Campbell, School of Phar- macy; Albert L. Harris, architecture; Dr. Ralph L. Morrison, School of Den- tistry; Willlam F. Roeser, School of En- gineering; Dr. Cline N. Chi) , Medi- cal School; Layman , Law ; Miss May Paul Bradshaw, School of Education, and Lewis Money- way, Columbian College. EDUCATIONAL. SPECIAL E' i, S A, PO, et 8 ing, 4 te." Tuitjon, 35, timu-" Rights The, Civil Service Preparatory cor. 12th and F . 6337. * Columbia School of Drafting and Engineering Nineteenth Year Paul J. Leverone, President 18th & E Sts. NW.—Frentiis ~o3g Three to Six Month Courses Day Classes—Evening Classes ENGINEERING AERONAUTICAL Mechanieal Structural 8 Architectural oeTaphic (M Patent O Individual Instrueti i | iasses Contintes" Fhroushous the Fomr i an!- lans, blue- sy il SRy e trades, to learn int D new wil nds for the |2 F ST. QUARTERS TAKEN BY DRAFTING SCHOOL Heavy Rolls at Columbia Neces- sitate More Rooms Beginning Tomorrow, Beginning tomorrow, the mathemat- ics, advanced architectural, advanced aeronautical and special engineering classes of the Columbia School of Draft- ing will be in session in quarters at the International Building, 1319 F street. ‘This change in class quarters was necessitated by the heavy enrollments in the drafting and engineering classes following the recent announcement of special engineering courses. ‘The offices and drafting classes of the school will remain at the institu- tlon’s headquarters in the Columbia Building, Thirteenth and E streets. John Fleming, dean of instruction at the school, will have charge of the ad- ditional classrooms in the International Building, while Paul J. Leverone, presi- dent, will retain his office at the Thir- teenth and E streets building. FASTERN HIGH PLAY CASTS ANNOUNCED Jerome’s “Robina in Search of a Husband” to Be Given March 21 and 22. ‘The two casts which will present Eastern’s Spring play, “Robina in Search of a Husband,” by Jerome K. Jerome, on March 21 and 22 in the school auditorium have been announced. Lord Rathbone will be played by Ron- ald Van Tine and William Wood, Hor- ace Greenleaf by Donald Craig and Blaine Harrel, the doctor by Clarke Harper and Willlam Waikart, and the ector by Newell Lusby. The name part will be taken by Myrtle Thom and Gwenlllan Davis, while the two other heroines, Susan and Kate, will be act- ed, respectively, by Mildred Duryee, Cynthia Eldridge and Sylvia Donovitz. Lou Snyder and Irene Stine will have the part of the inkeeper, Mrs. Mulberry. Charles Hart, jr., won the prize awarded annually by the Sons of the American Revolution for the best essay on a historical subject. The contest is city wide and open to private and public school students. The prize essay was on “Virginia’s Contribution to the War of the Revolution,” and the winner will be awarded a gold medal at patriotic exercises held on February 22 at Me- morial Continental Hall. Twelve members of the basket ball squad and their manager were awarded letters by Coach Guyon at an assembly held on Wednesday. Those recelving awards were Theodore Cllgem, Wil- liam Noonan, Joseph Robey, Willis Fisher, David Shapiro, William Wood, Benjamin McCullough, James Ryan, Richard Kelso, Blaine Harrell and Jos- eph Morrison, manager. ‘The executive committee of the Alum- ni Association will meet in the princi- pal’s office at 7:30 Thursday, February . ‘The next Alumni Bulletin, edited by~ James Dietz, 1928, will be issued March 1. The Punch and Judy, Eastern'’s year- book, is progressing under the direction >f Donald A. Craig, jr., editor, and Helen Swick, associate editor. Five Eastern finalists in the Sixth National Oratorical Contest will deliver their orations at ,the meeting of the Home and School Association on Wed- nesday, March 27. These five will be chsen from all Eastern entrants on Fri- day, March 8. e NEGRO HISTORY WEEK FEATURES OUTLINED Dr. Eva Dykes Speaks on “Spirit- uals” at Opening—1,000 People at Carnival Tuesday. Dr. Eva Dykes, professor of English at Howard University, spoke on spiritu- als at the opening celebration of Negro history week last Monday morning. Several spirituals mentioned in Dr. Dykes’ discourse were played on the plano by Miss E. E. Pinkney and Dr. Dykes. Over 1,000 persons attended the x- nival on Tuesday, the first night. - served seats sold until the inning of the show. The program opened with a parade of all parf nts, led by the clown band. Julian Branch, Bernard Coleman, Leonard Cross, Allen Dunlap, Edwin Bruce, Robert Murray and Alfred Jackson were among some of the boys wllg were applauded in their various ac “Achievements of the Negro” were discussed in a lecture delivered to the student body by D. O. W. Holmes, dean of the College of Education of Howard University, on Wednesday morning. SNYDER ADDRESSES LAW SCHOOL GROUP Outlines Origin and‘Present’ Functions of United States Marshal’s Office. Edgar C. Snyder, United States mar- shal for the District of Columbia and presidgent of the United States Mar- shalg’ Association, gave the second lec- ture of the course on the judicial sys- tem of the District of Columbia for, the senior and post-graduate classes of the Washington College of Law in the College Hall last Wednesday evening. Mr. Snyder discussed the functions, scope and operations of the marshals’ office and covered its history. Such offices, he said, originated in the Mid- dle Ages, and finally developed into the present system. Has a Quadruple Duty. ‘The United States marshal for juris- dictions under Federal control has a quadruple duty to perform--that of high sheriff, marshal, justice of the peace and constable, Mr. Snyder told the class. The District of Columbia is by far the largest of such jurisdictions, he added. The functions and operations of the clerk’s office will be discussed by Franx E. Cunningham, clerk of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, next Wednesday. Freshman Class Debate. ‘The freshman class debated recently on the subject, “Resolved, that uniform marriage and divorce laws should be established,” and the judges were con- vinced such laws ought to be. The vic- torious affirmatives were Miss Mary E. Fowler, Miss Edna Moren and Miss Katherine Vaux, while the defeated negative team included Miss Theresa Buckhantz, Miss Verdie Hyman and Miss Aida Humphries. First and sec- ond individual honors were given to Miss Katherine Vaux and Miss Edna Moren, respectively. Phi Delta Delta Legal Praternity met last week at the home of Miss Mary Senart, at which time four students of the junior class of the Washington Col- lege of Law were initiated by Beta Chapter. They were Mrs. Nellie E. Bishop, RJliss Dorothy M. Long, Miss Emma Luebb! and Miss Aida A. Sharp. The initlation was followed by a tea, at which the hostess was assisted by Miss Gertrude E. Coyle and Miss Corrine Quarrels. Special Guests Listed. Other guests included Miss Katherine Wood, Miss Ethel Donagh, Miss Pearle Cooper, Miss Ellen McDonald, Miss Vera Mankinen, Miss Agnes Quinn, Miss Genevieve Wesley, Miss Grace Collins, }:c‘fc'h Adeslzlhdenk Sml-lude;‘l:’l; Miss eryn enkat, Mrs. Carley and Mrs. Leona W. Gilbert. The Eta Alumnae Chapter of Kappa Beta Pi Legal Sorority held a meeting at the college last Monday evening. This chapter is composed of graduate mem- bers of Epsilon, Nu and Omricon Chap- ters, of which Miss Adele Stewart Is dean. Following the business session u:m:n served in the clubroom of the school. EX-OFFICIALS INDICTED. Charged With Getting Share of ||| Bootleg Profits. KANSAS CITY, February 16 (#).— Indictment by the Federal Grand Jury of six former deputy sheriffs, a former constable and two others on charges involving an alleged conspiracy to vio- late the prohibition laws was announced Evidence of alleged crookedness amor his deputies was discovered and reporlz ed to Federal agents by John L. Miles, former sheriff, who is slated to be Kansas City's new chief of police. The deputies and constable were charged with participating in half the proceeds from the operation of a still and with extorting money for protec- tion from another bootlegger. — EDUCATIONAL. 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YOU how big pay, romotion can be ustry. | Age s no hool education ‘is all you System of Training. NATIONAL U. OPENS RESEARCH BUREAU Covers Field of Law and Government—Papers Are | Widely Reviewed. In view of the growing need for re- | search not only in the field of law, but of government generally, there recently was organized in connection with the | National University a special research department, now in charge of Dr. Con- | stantine D. Kojouharoff, and the first report of the fruits of the research so far conducted now is available. The recently published treaties on | “The First Armed Neutrality,” by Dr. | Charles F. Carusi, chancelior of the | university and president of the District | of Columbia Board of Education, and Constantine D. Kojouharoff at the in- | stance of Senator Reed of Missourl, was | reprinted in the Congressional Record | for February 5, as bearing upon the cruiser bill then before the Senate. In | addition to this treatise Senator Reed | also placed in the Record a supple- mental article prepared by Dr. Carusi and Dr. Kojouharoff dealing partic- | ularly with the question of prize courts | in times of war and various treaties regulating neutrality rights. Pergler's Work Widely Reviewed. Another work of research in the field of international law by Dean Pergler of the School of Economics and Gov- | ernment, who is closely co-operating | with the research department, has been | extensively reviewed not only in this country but abroad as well. The January number of the Harvard BusinessR eview, published by the Har- vard School of Business Administration, contains an extensive article by Dr. W. H. 8. Stevens, professor of finance th the National University School of Economics and Government. The work of the research de- partment will be continued and addi- | tional results of this research will ap- | pear in the forthcoming number of | the National University Law Review, which will contain an article on “The | Development of the Concept of Law and | the Nature of Positive Law.” Junior Prom Is Success. { ‘The junior prom held last week at | the Mayflower Hotel was a financial and social success. Dr. and Mrs. Hagen acted as host and hostess. A number of card tables were supplied, and sev- eral specialty numbers were given. 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