Miami Hurricane, April 14, 1938

              The Miami
Hurricane
THE OFFICIAL STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI
Volume XI
Coral Gables, Florida, Thursday, April 14, 1938
Number 24
Symphony to Give Benefit Concert
Proceeds For Scholarship Fund; All Tschaikowsky Program is Billed
An all-Tschaikowsky benefit program will be presented by the symphony orchestra, Arnold Volpe, conducting, on Monday evening at eight-thirty in Orchestra Hall. Proceeds of the concert will go to the symphony orchestra scholarship fund which is used to recruit new members for the orchestra to replace the graduating seniors.
The program will be purely orchestral with no assisting artists and will include the celebrated “Nut-cracker Suite" which is a favorite with persons from all walks of life. Its utter simplicity and charm and beauty of melodic line account for its vast popularity.
Also featured on the program will be the “Serenade,” a work written
Mrs. Marie Volpe announced this week that students presenting activity books may purchase tickets to the benefit symphony concert at half-price rates of 50c and 75c for reserved seats.
for string orchestra and because of its great technical and interpretive difficulties never attempted except by orchestras of top rank.
The performance will also serve to introduce the new concert-master, Leo Fisk, of the symphony to the public.
The program is as follows:
1.	Serenade for String Orcheitra
I.	Pezzo in forma di Conatina
II.	Walzer
III.	Elegi*
IV.	Final*
2.	Andante Cantabile ftom Symphony No. 5
INTERMISSION
3.	Overture “Romeo and Juliet*'
V Suite "Nut-Cracker"
Dantei Caracteriitiquei:
(a) Marche; (bj Dance d* la Fee dragee; (r) Trepak, dance Rune; (d) Dance Arab* ;; (e) Dance Chinoiie Valie de Fleurci
Reserve seats are priced at $1.00 and $1.50. Students presenting activity books will be admitted for half price. Reservations for tickets and donations to the fund are being taken in room 240 of the University building, at Philpitt’s Music Shop, and at the Coral Gables Radio Shop.
Work of Stall Artist Slated For Exhibit At Beach Hotel
Arnold Newman, student assistant in the art department and staff artist of the Hurricane, will hold a first exhibit of his work at the Tides hotel in Miami Beach beginning Saturday.
The exhibit will be of etchings, water-colors, and paintings and is to include portraits, landscapes, and still-lifes, done for the most part in classes at the University. All students are invited to visit the exhibit which will be open for a week.
CHAIRMAN
Student cooperation for the sophomore barn dance is urged by President Grant Stockdale. The benefit affair will be presented Saturday night in the cafeteria.
Sophs Present Barn Dance Saturday Night
Prizes Offered For Best Costumes ;PlanFloorShow; Grant Stockdale in Charge
A floor show of strictly sophomore talent will be the highlight of the long-awaited Sophomore Barn Dance to be presented Saturday from 9:30 till 1 in the University cafeteria. Grant Stockdale, class president, is in charge of the event.
Master-of-ceremonies Joe Dixon will introduce the undergraduate stars, including Stockdale who will give several of his inimitable impersonations; Jean Moore and Harry Heyward, dance artists; and Jack Breen, who will render popular musical ditties.
Prises For Costumes
Masquerade will be the theme and informal dress the rule of the evening, with three handsome prizes as a premium for originality in costume. Awards for the most unique masculine and feminine get-ups and a cash prize for the most outstanding costume have been posted. Judges will be chosen from faculty members.
The sophomores have signed up Mort Richards’ orchestra, direct from one of Miami Beach’s exclusive supper clubs, and proudly point out that its 14-pieces will be the largest swing musical unit to play in the University cafeteria. John Oespovich is in charge of decorations.
Will Purchase Benches
Tickets are priced at 49c each, the proceeds to be used for the purchase of benches for the University patio. Stockdale, class president, urges student support.
Last year, as freshmen, the class of ’40 donated profits from its Freshman Barn Dance for the purchase of the cafeteria clock.
OWRE IS SPEAKER
Dr. J. Riis Owre, head of the Spanish department, spoke before a meeting of the Lions’ Club of the Redlands district Tuesday night on the subject, “The Revolt in Spain.”
Campus Calendar
Friday, 10:10 a.m. Pan American assembly in the auditorium. Dr. R. E. McNicoll, Luis Molina, speakers in memorial service for Rafael Belaunde, jr. Special travelogues of South America to be shown. 2:30 p.m. Arnold Newman’s work to be exhibited at Tides Hotel, Miami Beach.
Saturday, 9:30 p.m. Sophomore Barn Dance in the cafeteria for benefit fund to buy patio benches. Mort Richards and his orchestra. Sunday, 6 a.m. Annual Easter Sunrise service on Miami Beach. Monday, 7:30 p.m. Pan American Day parade from Courthouse to Bayfront Park. 21 University coeds to participate.
8:00 p.m. Pan American Day program in Bayfront park.
8:15 p.m. Symphony orchestra benefit concert at Orchestra Hall. Proceeds to go to scholarship fund. 10:00 p.m. Miami Chamber of Commerce dance at the Civic Center.
Courses In Italian Offered Next Year
Dr. William P. Dismukes will conduct courses in elementary Italian next year, Registrar Harry Provin announced yesterday.
Courses tentatively scheduled as Italian 101 will be offered during the first semester, followed by Italian 102 during the last semester.
IRC Elects H. McLinden President
Club Discusses British Foreign Policy; Chooses McNicoll to Replace Eckel
At a lively election Bud McLinden was made president of the International Relations Club at its April meeting held last night in the Social Hall. Kenneth H. Vanderford, instructor in Spanish, was guest lecturer of the evening, speaking on the subject of the British foreign policy.
Other officers elected were: vice-president, Betty Lou Baker; secretary, Leslie Mann, jr.; and treasurer, Betty Knight. Dr. Robert McNicoll, head of the Latin-American department, was unanimously elected to replace Paul E. Eckel, who will be on leave of absence, as faculty advisor for the coming year.
Vanderford Definea Policy According to Mr. Vanderford, “The so-called balance of power, defined as a balancing of the power of nations so as to keep a peaceful situation existing, is the basis of the British foreign policy.”
“The League of Nations is a combination of realism and idealism; realism in its backing of the Treaty of Versailles and its attempt to secure a balance of power, and idealistic in its broader implications, its definite machinery of abolishing causes of war.
“Too Precarious Existence” “England at the very present with the resignation of Anthony Eden, advocate of the idealistic League of Nations, has adopted a policy of a combination of the balance of power and of isolation.
“The United States is definitely against the balance of power. It is too precarious an existence. She chooses instead a good neighbor policy which is very good but uncertain in times of stress.”
Final plans and announcements were made about the I.R.C. banquet to be held in the school cafeteria Tuesday, April 26.
Many Pan American Day Programs Are Arranged
Charlotte Megg a, vice-president of the University Y.W.C.A., who will attend the national convention in Columbus, Ohio, April 22-28.
Panhellenic Council Abolishes Hell Week By Unanimous Vote
Hell week as a form of preliminary initiation was formally abolished by unanimous vote of University campus sororities at the regular monthly meeting of the Panhellenic Council Tuesday night in the Delta Tau room,
The ruling of the Council which was passed following several weeks of individual discussion in each member sorority. Although previously no official ruling had been enforced, many of the sororities had voluntarily dropped the practice of hell week preceding formal initiation services.
Election of new officers is scheduled for the next meeting when new council members will be present. Each campus sorority is represented by its president, one appointed representative from the active chapter, and a graduate member appointed by each sorority alumnae organization.
Discussion of rushing as conducted at the University was opened near the conclusion of the meeting. But as all active members and a majority of alumnae members of the council expressed complete satisfaction with existing rules and conduct of rush-in, the matter was shelved.
Pop Koch, Director of Employment, Has Troubles Too, Reporter Finds
By Ray Reiner
With a minor economic problem on his hands, “Pop” Koch, director of the University student employment bureau, is beginning to understand President Roosevelt’s worries.
Up to this year the bureau’s motto has been “jobs for all who need them” but with the increase in enrollment and an increase in applications for jobs, the bureau finds itself unable to balance the inadequate supply and the increasing demand for positions.
But, Pop claims, the bureau has filled a goodly portion of the applications and has placed students as salesmen, drivers, tutors, clerks, and even housemaids. It is also the bureau’s proud boast that any position filled by a University applicant has been successfully handled.
Many jobs are offered to University students for which no application can be filed. In this class are requests for students to take care of the house for week-ends, mind the baby while mama steps out, or feeding the cat while the family takes a vacation. These applicants are usually willing to accept any job not of a degrading
nature.
Applicants usually have from six months to a year’s experience in the field for which they are applying, but experience is not an absolute necessity. Many firms request boys without experience so that they may be trained by the firm. Of the applications filed with the bureau, four out of five are from boys, the girls being taken care of through the office of the dean of women.
Holidays bring the greatest number of requests from business firms for students desiring part time jobs. About one hundred and fifty students were given jobs this past Christmas by the various department houses in Miami and by the postoffice.
Calls also come into the Bureau for students desiring permanent positions with well established firms. These positions are usually for seniors and offer ample opportunity for advancement.
The bureau does not solicit jobs, but receives from many prominent business houses in Miami which realize that the University can supply them with prompt and efficient help upon a moment's notice.
C.Meggs Named Y.W. Delegate To Conference
Organization Sponsors Musical Tea To Defray Convention Expenses
Charlotte Meggs, vice-president of the University Y.WwC.A. organization, will be University delegate at the Y.W.C.A. national convention to be held in Columbus, Ohio, April 22-28.
Approximately 457 out of 590 student associations, affiliated with the National Student Council, will be represented at the bi-annual convention which is divided into three assemblies, professional, industrial, and student.
Expenses of the University’s representation were met at a benefit musical tea given yesterday at the home of Dr. and Mrs. Bowman F. Ashe on Bayshore drive. Mrs. Ashe, Mary B. Merritt, dean of women, Betty Curran, Martha Dorn, and Charlotte Meggs, composed the receiving line, Mary Frohberg and Dorothy Armagost assisting in the serving.
Purpose of the convention is to instruct young women leaders of student organizations in programs and principles of the national Y.W.C.A. Mrs. Austen L. Kimball, Buffalo, New York, president of the organization, and Mrs. Frederic M. Paist, Wayne, Pennsylvania, president of the National Board, will preside at convention proceedings.
City of Miami PlansMammoth Pageant, Dance
Parade of University Coeds Riding on Miniature Floats To Open Park Ceremonies
Parades and pageantry will mark the eleventh annual Pan American day celebration to be presented in Bayfront park next Monday by the combined departments of the city of Miami. A gigantic parade which is to include twenty-one University girls on individual floats representing the Pan American Union nations, will proceed down Flagler street from the courthouse to the park to open the gala ceremonies.
A program of Latin American songs and dances will be presented by prominent Miami artists. The Miami Junior Chamber of Commerce will close the day’s festivities with a costume ball at the Miami Civic Center, the crowning event of a day of international good feeling.
University girls to participate in the parade are: Denise Caravasios, Mexico; Connie Caravasios, Panama; Helene Couch, Argentina; Mary Louise Gaddis, Paraguay; Madeleine Cheney, Colombia; Elaine Devery, Uruguay; Myrtle Wills, Bolivia; Betty Mae Serpas, Guatemala; Mary Ellen Whalen, Honduras; Dau Frantz, Haiti; Pat Cluney, Venezuela; Irene Maristany, El Salvador; Naomi Anderson, the United States.
Nicaragua will be represented by Marie Dominguez; Chile, by Cecile Gaddis; Costa Rica, Doris Doyle; Ecuador, Rosemary Reynolds; Peru, Inga Johnson; Brazil, Virginia Miles; and Cuba, Maria Alvarez.
Dr. Juan C. Zamora To Address Students
Dr. Juan Clemente Zamora, law professor of the University of Havana and a former member of the faculty of the University of Miami, will make the last of a series of appearances in American colleges at a special assembly period on Monday, April 25.
Dr. Zamora will lecture on “A New Interpretation of Latin American History,” a subject which is expected to cause a great deal of controversy among specialists in that field. The speaker will stress the economic phase of the question as presented in his own book on the subject.
On his tour Dr. Zamora has spoken at seven important schools in the southeastern part of the United States. He appeared first at the University of Florida at Gainesville, and following in succession were Agnes Scott College and Emory University at Atlanta, Women’s Colleg of North Carolina at Greensborough, Duke University at Durham, N.C., the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and finally the University of Miami.
Dr. Zamora holds degrees from Harvard, Columbia University, and the University of Havana and has studied in France and England. He is well known in Miami for his work as instructor of political science and Latin American history from 1934 to 1936.
Sinfonía To Play Familiar Numbers At Benefit Concert
Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonía, national music fraternity, will give its annual benefit concert, April 25 at 8:30 in Orchestra Hall.
This year the concert will feature the University Symphony Band, the Sinfonía Chorus, and the thirty piece Symphonic Dance Band. Favorite numbers such as “Yes We Have No Bananas” and Ferde Grofe’s “Mississippi Suite” will be played in addition to a large group of other selections.
Stan Biedron, president, Eddie Baumgarten, Bill Bennett, and Freddie Marks compose the committee in charge of the arrangements.
The purpose of the concert is to raise money to defray fraternity expenses. Admission will be fifty cents for adults and twenty-five cents for children. Tickets are on sale now and may be obtained from Phi Mu Alpha members or from any fraternity or sorority.
Memorial service* for the late Rafael Belaunde, jr., will be included in the Pan American assembly tomorrow morning at 10:10.
Rotarians and Students Join In Pan Am Dinner
Faculty and Students On Hollywood Program; Play Presented By Lilo Oyarzun
With an original one act play “Exchange of Horizons,” by Lilo Oyarzun, the University of Miami made its social debut in Hollywood Tuesday night at the first annual Pan American Day dinner program held under the joint auspices of the University and the Hollywood Rotary Club.
The dinner, held in the beautiful main dining room of the Hollywood Beach Hotel, was attended by local representatives of Latin American countries, Mrs. Clark D. Stearns, and Miss Bertha Foster, dean of the School of Music, as guests of honor. McNicoll Presents Honor Guests The program was opened by Clyde Fawcett, president of the Hollywood Rotary Club, who turned the meeting over to Nelson A. Elsasser. Mr. El-sasser introduced Dr. Robert McNicoll of the University Latin American department who in turn presented the guests of honor.
Following the introductions, Carlos Montero, a University student, extended greeting from the Rotary Club of Sagua La Grande, Cuba, of which his father is secretary. David Elsasser, another University student, spoke on “The Position of The University of Miami in The Pan American Movement.”
Students Give Rhumba Exhibition The group then adjourned from the main dining room to meet a few minutes later in the Bamboo Room, where Oyarzun’s play was presented.
Following the play, Luis Molina and Tilly Barnett gave an exhibition of the rhumba which Molina followed (Continued on Page Four)
Blandersnatch, Fresh From Sticks Discovers Miami, And Vice Versa
Convocation Honors Memory Of Belaunde, Jr.
Dr. McNicoll, Luis Molina Conduct Memorial Service At Pan American Assembly
A special Pan American day assembly, devoted in part to memorial services for the late Rafael Belaunde, jr., will be held tomorrow at 10:10 in the University auditorium.
Honor to the memory of the late instructor, who died in Lima, Peru, February 26, will be paid by Dr. Robert McNicoll, close personal friend, speaking for the faculty, and Luis Molina, speaking on behalf of the student body. Playing of the Peruvian national hymn by the University symphonic band, conducted by Walter E. Sheaffer, will close the first part of the program.
In observance of the annual Pan American day celebration, officially set for Monday, the band will present a program of special Latin American numbers, including “Pan Americana” by Victor Herbert.
The stage will then be darkened for a showing of South American motion pictures with running commentary by Paul Muller of Pan-American airways.
Two students from the University of Havana Law School, good will emissaries from Cuba, are expected as special guests at the assembly.
Appoint Worthington As Associate Justice
Chief Justice John Junkin announces that Norman Worthington has been appointed an associate justice of the Honor Court, succeeding Jack Sitta who was graduated in March.
Worthington has been serving as Honor Court clerk.
By Blandersnatch
There were no bands to greet me and no flags waving when I arrived in Miami but nevertheless I felt as though everyone knew that I had just arrived from the Polar regions, due to my perspiring brow and my gymnastic odor caused by the Harris Tweed that Esquire so maliciously rceommended for traveling.
The omnibus to Coral Gables offered quite a relief from the staring mob that seemed to gather around that monstrosity that was me. While riding along and meditating on the advantages of having a method transportation that enabled one to see the glories of nature instead of a subway that seemed destined to introduce one to Dante’s Inferno, there suddenly appeared before me my first acquaintance,—luckily a vivacious ti-tian who has since, as I have noticed, been glorified m the Poet’s Corner of this chronicle. She blushingly introduced herself, and upon our arrival at the University, despite my frequent hints toward my aspirations for a cooling shower and my dissertations on the length of my journey, she proceeded to conduct me through the spacious and copious capital of the University.
As we entered the “sally port” or arch, as you may call it, my movements became exceedingly convul-
sive, as I have a phobia against falling plaster from dilapidated buildings. Before I had a chance to cool my heels after my extensive journey throughout the many nooks and crannies of my chosen Alma Mater, I was informed that if I wished to matriculate at this University, it would be compulsory for me to obtain a “ducket” or certificate of admission from the bespectacled young miss in the office to my right, who then gave me the impression that the rest of my waking hours in this palacial paradise were to be spent in filling out forms stating whether I was white or black, married or single, Mr. or Miss, and the rest of those derogatory choice questions that tell us more about ourselves than we, who have been our most constant companion throughout life, know.
Upon completing the entire riga-morole known as registering, I was assigned to a very helpful young man who, with a knowing smirk informed me that every course that I wished to pursue embarked upon its journey of knowledge at exactly 8:30 every morning of the week. At the completion of four sadly wasted hours, besides being no further advanced toward my desired curricula and at the same time being on the verge of a nervous breakdown, I gave up the (Continued on Page Four)
Debaters Formulate Plans For Contests And Invitation Meets
Plans for the second annual oratorical and debate contest next month and for invitation meets with ten major eastern universities were formulated yesterday at a meeting of the recently reorganized Debate Council, Larry Peabody, new president, presiding.
Organizations to Compete
Semi-finals of the yearly oratorical and debate contest will be held May 3 in the social hall with all campus fraternities and sororities participating, it is announced. The primary matches will be decided by the decision of a board of judges while the finals, which are to take place the following Friday in the auditorium at the regular assembly period, will be judged by audience vote. The winning team will have its name engraved on the cup now in the possession of the Council. Last year’s winners were Jerry Weinkle and Milton Wasman, representatives of Tau Epsilon Phi.
Challenges Issued
Challenges have been sent by the council to the debate teams of ten of the largest universities in the East. They are invited for two-day Miami visits as guests of the University debaters.
The Debate Council has also accepted an invitation to judge a match next Thursday night between Fort Lauderdale and Boynton high schools in the debate and dramatics contest sponsored by the University of Florida for the schools of Southeastern Florida.
Miami Loses to Florida
Meeting the University of Florida debaters for the first time on home territory Wednesday, April 6, in the social hall, the Miami debate team lost by an audience shift-of-opinion ballot by a score of 3 to 6.
Milton Wasman and Dick Arend took the affirmative for Miami on the question: “Resolved that the National Labor Relations Board Should Be Empowered to Enforce Arbitration of All Industrial Disputes.” Dan Gregory and Robert Dean spoke on the negative for Florida.
122 Candidates For Graduation
A total of 122 students are candidates for graduation on May 30th, Registrar Harry L. Provin announced this week. Twenty-one of the potential graduates are enrolled in the adult division.
Candidates for the degree of Bachelor of Arts lead with a total of 50 students; Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, 21; Bachelor of Laws, 17; Bachelor of Science, 13; Bachelor of Science in Education 12; Bachelor of Public School Music, 5; Bachelor of Music, 2; and L.I. degrees, 2.