Evening Star Newspaper, December 2, 1934, Page 26

Schools and Colleges Ryan Gets Award. MOST REV. JAMES H. RYAN, Bishop of Modra and rector of Catholic University, is one of the five persons to be feted at a tes- timonial dinner in New York City Tuesday, when they will be presented with the star cross of the Caiholic | Boys' Brigade of the United States | in recognition of their work in be- | half of youth in America. The | award also will go to Alfred E. Smith, | former Governor of New York; Rev. John F. O'Hara, C. S. C., president | of Notre Dame University: Rev. Dr. | Aloysius Hogan, S. J., president of | Fordham University, and Miss Ann | E. F. Ryan, founder of the Associa- | tion for Catholic Action Among Boys. | The brigade, established in 1916, | is “a patriotic, social, charitable, rec- | reational, educational, health and | - character-building volunteer organi- | <zation for all boys.” | Nine undergraduates were pledged | to the three social clubs on the | campus at the annual “Tap day” | ceremonies recently. The Abbey Club | bid one student, Maurice F. McDon- | nell, of 2933 Twenty-eighth street. Three Washington students became | pledges to the Senators’ Club. They | were Oscar B. Hunter. jr. of 31 Oxford street, Ch Chase, Md.; Paul E. Moris of 713 Teweksbury | place and George P. Parton, jr., of 3926 Morrison street. The men bid | by the Utopian Club are Rene Benetoz of New York, N. Y.; Joseph Clements, Baliston, W. Va.; Alfred Cozzolino of Paterson, Attilio Gasparino of Orange, J.; Robert | Makofake of Hempstead, N. Y., and . George Orth of Long Island City, N. Y. Cohan Lauds G. U. Group. HE Mask and Bauble Club of I of Georgetown University, aided by a group of girls from Trinity | { College. will make its initial appear- ance of the season Wednesday night | rat the Belasco Theater in “The Tav- ern,” a George M. Cohan production. This is the first time in a number | of years that the Georgetown Thes- | pians have planned a production in a downtown theater and the careful rehearsals, continued through the ‘Thanksgiving holidays, forecast an excellent performance. From Mr. Co- han in New York the players received | a congratulatory telegram last week, wishing them success. The veteran actor praised the Mask and Bauble Club as the best amateur talent he has seen. Mr. Cohan helped the boys rehearse one of the important scenes two weeks ago when he was in Washington. Joseph S. Kirby is president of the Mask and Bauble Club. “The Tavern"” will be the first of a number of comedies the club will produce dur- ing the year. In- cluded among the cast of Georgetown players are Frank Miller, who is to take the role played by Mr. Cohan; John G. O'Brien, Tom McCarthy, Matt McDermott, Joe Di Sessa and William Dawson. Rev. Ferdinand W. Scho- berg, S. J.. is moderator of the club. Under the direction of Nicholas Ryan, stage manager, the members of the club have arranged their own scenery. Ryan is being assisted by | ‘Wilbur Cagney, Edward Raleigh, Wil- ‘ liam Daly, Anthony Mueller, Vincent | Beatty and Robert Kelly, who con- stitute the stage crew. Class will resume tomorrow, mark- ing the close of the Thanksgiving holi- | days. J. S. Kirby. G. W. Presents Play. “~~NUE AND CURTAIN CLUB of ({ George Washington University % will give its first production of : s and Friday at the | each year and to have as guest on | N. the year Thursdsy an d | each occasion a person of prominence | bright. Wardman Park Theater. | The play is George Kelly's satire on amateur theatricals and little theater | movements, “The Torch Bearers.” Leading roles will be taken by Verna Volz, Maxine Kahn and Amanda Chit- tum. Others in the cast are Norma Michelson, Hamilton Coit. Machin Gardner, Deane Bryant. Sue Slater, Fred Stevenson. Berry Simpson, Mar- guerite De Meritt and Harold Mullin. Sets for the play were designed by students and made in the Cue and Curtain workshop under the direction of Karl Gay, production manager. The play is directed by Anton Hardt, well known for his work with the Pierce Hall Players, Washington Drama Guild and Roadside Theater. The Studio Club of the university will present an illustrated lecture on “The Development of Modern Art,” by Eugen Weisz, at Columbian House Thursday at 8 pm. Mr, Weisz is in charge of the illustration and water | color classes and lecturer on history of art in the division of fine arts. | Members of the International Stu- dent Society who are from the Latin countries will present a “Latin Night” | program on Friday in Corcoran Hall. | An entertainment typifying the music | and dancing of France, Spain, Italy and the Latin American countries is planned. Jose Gibernau, Spain, is chairman. The George Washington University Luther Club will be host for the Lutheran Student Conference to be held Saturday. Five men of last year's freshman class have been elected to member- | ship in Phi Eta Sigma, freshman | honorary fraternity, in recognition of | their high scholarship. They are Edmund Burnett, 1204 Newton street northeast; Guy Erwin, jr., Falls Church, Va.: Joshua Evans, 3d, 3405 Lowell street; Irving Fox, 2144 P street; Davis Harding, 4514 Con- necticut_avenue, and Theodore K. Pasma, Rockville, Md. James W. Haley has been elected editor of the University Hatchet to | serve for the remainder of the year, | succeeding John Madigan, resigned. | Haley has been associate editor since | last April and served as head of the copy desk and assistant to the editor. The appointment of Richard C. Mur- phy as business manager has been confirmed. Classes in the university will re- sume tomorrow following the | Thanksgiving recess. W. C. L. Resumes Classes. ASHINGTON COLLEGE OF LAW | will resume classes tomorrow in both day and evening divisions following the Thanksgiving holidays, for which the college closed Tuesday evening. Edward J. Reilly, instructor in per- | sonal property and bailments in the | freshman class of the evening di- vision, has been elected class faculty adviser. Oliver Wendell Holmes Chapter of Sigma Nu Phi Legal Fraternity held | its semi-annual banquet Saturday evening at the Hamilton Hotel. The principal speaker was Dr. Edwin A. Mooers of the faculty. Preceding the dinner the following students were pledged to membership: Oscar B. Abbott, Donald F. Blake, Lester 8./ Consol, Richard W. Harr, Walter A. | Hilgeson, John M. Horstkamp, Nat ' S. Perrine, Carl W. Thompson, Au- | gustus D. Vanech, Oscar B. Waddell, } Herold J. Weiler and J. Warren Wil- (son. Jack H. Linscott, chancellor, | presided. | ‘ Rosso Addresses A. U. SIGNOR AUGUSTO ROSSO, Italian Ambassador, will speak at a stu- dent assembly at American Uni- | versity Friday morning. Dr. Joseph M. M. Gray, chancellor of American University, will speak before the Chicago Sunday Evening Club, in Chicago, tonight. He will deliver the convocational address at the University of Toledo, at Toledo, Ohio, tomorrow. High light of the Fall social sea- son of the college was the inter- fraternity prom Friday night at the Kennedy-Warren. Frances Fellows, president of the Swagger Club, was chairman. Other members of the committee included Martin Allwine, Emily Coleman and Edward Hopper. Chaperones were Chancellor and Mrs, Gray, Dr. C. C. Tansill, dean of the Graduate School, and Mrs. Tansill; Dr. and Mrs, Lowell F. Huelster and Mr. and Mrs. Raymond J. Spaeth. The freshman dance will be held Saturday night at the college gym- nasium, Committees in charge are headed by Daniel Hild, Jane Jordan and Joseph Masi. A student forum, meeting recently at Hurst Hall on the campus, decided that public opinion would be the most powerful means of maintaining an honor system in examinations. Henry Bucke presided. Southeastern to Hear Fast. ARL FAST, New York economist, will give the third of a series of lectures on “Recovery Realities” tomorrow at 8 pm. in the South- eastern University auditorium. The session will be devoted to a discussion of budgeting in the mer- cantile fleld, latest methods for “dol- lar control” over buying, sales fore- casting, inventories and other phases of the merchandising business. Mr. Fast opened the special lec- ture course last week with discussions on causes of the depression and means for bettering business through proper planning of store expenses. A number of students have enrolled for the new course for those who stammer, to be conducted by Jess Sid- ney, expert on speech defects and their correction. This course, one of the most unusual ever offered by the university, has attracted wide in- terest, according to Fred L. Dawson of the Y. M. C. A. Department of Education. All departments of the university were closed from Thursday until to- | morrow for the Thanksgiving holi- days. Nudge Bentley to Address N. U. Club. | JUDGE FAY L. BENTLEY of the District of Columbia Juvenile Court, will be guest of honor and speaker at the Cy Pres Club breakfast which National University women students will give at 10:30 a.m., De- | cember 16, it was announced by the committee in charge last night. Formerly director of school atten- dance and work permits in the District of Columbia pub- lic school system, Judge Bentley, who is a gradu- ate lawyer and member of the District of Co- lumbia bar, be- came the leading candidste for the bench of the Mu- nicipal Court for- lowing the with- drawal of Judge Katherine Sellers. National Uni- versity’s Cy Pres Club is the lead- ing organization of women students \m that institution. It is its custom !to hold a few outstanding functions Judge Bentley. in a particular field. The forthcom- ing breakfast will Admiral. Vera Rhine, president of the club, will introduce Judge Bentley. The committee in charge includes Miss Catherine Edmonds and Miss Ethel Ginberg. ‘The schedule of Fall term examina- tions in the National Law School was completed yesterday. Beginning De- cember 10, the tests will continue through the week. The schedule fol- lows: December 10. contracts, sales, patent law, admiralty and Govern- ment of England; December 11, real | property (B) cases, extraordinary legal remedies, review and marital | property: December 12, agency, do- | mestic relations and Federal Trade | Commissioh; December 13, partner ship, real property (C) text, and con stitutional law, and December 14, | political science and Securities Ex- | change Commission. ‘The examinations will close the | 1934 Fall term, and will mark the beginning of the Christmas holidays. These holidays constitute the only real break in the academic year at National University, there being no Easter recess. WANTED Soprano Soloist Prominent Protestant Church Applications Treated Confidentially. ,,Add,",“ }ox lOS;R_ Star Office. KALORAMA DAY SCHOOL A K v :P ¢ hY W here Children 2 to 6 Years are safe and happy during the usy Christmas sea- son. Construc- tive program daily: attractive monthly rates. 1510 Kalorama Rd. Columbia 2336 THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., DECEMBER 2, 1934—PART ONE. PAY §1.710.441,00 Survey Discloses 164,101 Firms Had 1,094,878 Full-Time Workers. A total of 164,101 establishments in all branches of wholesale trade employed 1,094,878 full-time wage earners and paid them a total of $1,650,637,000 in 1933, according to a summary of the census of Ameri- can business covering the wholesale field. ‘The summary was made public today by William L. Austin, director of the Bureau of the Census, and is thg first complete tabulation made since the census of distribution in 1929. In addition to the full-time pay roll, wholesale establishments paid | out $59,804,000 to part-time em- ployes, making a total pay roll for the year of $1,710,441,000. At the same time the business houses reported total net sales of $32,030,504,000 for the year, with stocks on hand at the end of De- | cember, 1933, valued at $2,966,699,000. $1,507 Average Salary. Under this tabulation all the firms | had an average full-time pay roll of $10,058 plus for the year, which ap- pears small when it is pointed out that the average salary of full-time workers was $1,507 plus. Compared to the 1929 census, the | number of wholesale establishments decreased by 3.3 per cent, but the dollar volume of business dropped 53.6 per cent, which means fhat the average sales per establishment was | considerably less than four years be- fore. The average last year was only $195,187 plus per establishment. In taking ethe business census wholesale establishments were di- vided into six general classifications. These groups and the percentages of the total volume of business for each follows: Wholesalers proper, 405 per cent; manufacturers' sales | branches, 23.4 per cent; chain store | warehouses, 4.5 per cent; bulk tank | stations, 5.9 per cent; assemblers and country buyers, 5.4 per cent, and agents and brokers, 20.3 per cent. Classification by kinds of business | show that the value of groceries and | foods (except farm products) led all other commodity groups in wholesale trade in 1933, amounting to $7,525,- | 976,000 or 235 per cent of the total. Second in order of dollar value were farm products-raw materials, aggre- gating $3,848,638,000 or 12 per cent of | the total. Next came farm products- consumer goods, with $3,161,675,000 or 9.9 per cent; petroleum and its prod- ucts, with $2,288,929,000 or 7.2 per cent, and dry goods, with $2,242,392,- 000 or 7 per cent. Figures on employment show that one full-time worker was kept on the job for each $29,254 of sales. Part- time employment figures show a total of 475,896 man months of work given by wholesale establishments. For the trade as a whole, 5.3 per cent of net sales was spent for wages. Employment Gains Shown. The largest employers of wage earners were wholesalers proper, em- ploying 636,194 or 58.1 per cent of the total. Figures by months show that em- ployment improved steadily through- out the year, graduating upward throughout the year from January to December. The census of American business was conducted under the direct super- vision of Fred A. Gosnell, chief sta- tistician, with funds provided by the Civil Works Administration. In addi- tion to whole sale trade, the enumera- tion also covered retail trade, and serv- | ice, amusement and hotel establish- | ments. The wholesale trade tabula- | tions were prepared by Dr. Theodore N. Beckman, assisted by John Al- i | i | be held at the| The Cynthia Warner NURSERY SCHOOL For Kiddies, 2 to 5. 1405 Emerson St. N.W, Phone GE. 8909 1601 N. H._ Ave. (18 & Q). Nortn 62 | Kindergarten (3 yrs. S half day. $106 p and out- All school grades. Day depts. Hot-water heat. rooms E |THE TEMPLE SCHOOL| Secretarial Training and boar Souther: Day and Evening Classes Review. 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He was here to read some of his| poetry before the closing session of the convention of the National Coun- cil of Teachers of English, but in the privacy of his room he spoke of other things; of poetry and the characters and personalities of literary contem- poraries, of his own struggles for recognition, his homes in New Eng- land. To Robert Frost the writing of poetry has been a career which ex- acted toll for each unit of reward. He recalled yesterday how he sold his first poem in 1892, only a year after being graduated from high school. Immediately he was “discovered” by a group of strong-minded persons who sought to take him in hand, exploit him as a new Whitman. Found Own Publisher. “When they found that I wouldn't consent to be taken in hand, they chucked me,” he said in a tone more wistful than bitter, “and it was 20 years before I really made a start. Strangely enough, this was in Lon- yesterday | ROBERT FROST. —Star Staff Photo. don, where I knew nobody. I was | sitting with my wife before an open fireplace, keeping warm by burning | up old poems, when I decided to try | collecting and publishing some of them in book form. From the pile| of manuscripts. which I kept at a | constant size by burning some while | writing others, I selected about 30. | The next day I visited a small pub- lishing house which had been pub-‘ lishing some of Willilam Ernest Hen- | ley's work. They didn’t know me, but | | they accepted the poetry and pub- | | lished it at once. I owe them very | much for their generosity. | “But the war interrupted our life | over there, not much money came ! | work, Frost termed himself an from two books of verse and wé re- turned to America.” Of his life since then, Frost spoke most fondly of his farms in South Shaftsbury, Vt., and in Amherst, Mass. In the latter place he spends at least three months each year as & resident* professor in poetry at Am- herst College. In this post he teaches no classes—merely talks to students and others of the little college town who are interested in poetry. Likes Quiet of East. His few ventures out of New Eng- land since settling there during the war have not been particularly happy ones, he said yesterday. At the Uni- versity of Michigan, where he served for a number of years, he found life too hurried, less quiet and gentle than that of Amherst. While declining to rank contem- porary poets in order of their genius, | Dr. Frost spoke fondly of William But- ler Yeats, Walter de la Mare, W. H. Davies, James Stevens, Carl Sandburg, | Edwin Arlington Robinson and the late Vachel Lindsay. In the work of all of them, he said, is the common essence of drama. Asked for an analysis of his own pressivist,” a poet whose objective is dramatic intonation, rather than metric. “It isn't something new,” he de- clared, “rather, it is old, very old.” Nervous Before Talk. 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