Miami Hurricane, November 09, 1939

              The Miami
Hurricane
THE OFFICIAL STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE
UNIVERSITY
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MIAMI
Volume XIII
Coral Gables, Florida, November 9, 1939
Number 8
What Price Health?
XTeed has been felt since the recent increase of our student body for the formation of adequate university hospitalization facilities. In the past when a student became ill, he was sent to one of our several local institutions for care. However, since our expansion, it seems that a definite plan should be evolved whereby ill or ailing students could obtain hospitalization at minimum expense.
Rather than attempt to organize an infirmary with the added expense to the sutdent body, The Hurricane has formulated a plan which it hopes will be accepted in time to be put into operation by next semester. In outline it is as follows:
A fee of betwene five and six dollars will be charged each school year in consideration of which each student will be insured against hospitalization expenses.
The benefits from this would be hospital care for twenty-one days at one or more times throughout the year in semi-private accommodations; use of the operating room; necessary X-ray and laboratory examinations for bed patients; insulin, serums, fluroscopes, ordinary drugs and dressings; anesthesia administered by a salaried employee of the hospital, general nursing care and routine medications and dressings.
The cash benefits of such a plan are easily seen, for a small fee of two-and-a-half to three dollars a semester, University students would receive, if necesssary, the cash equivalent of three hundred dollars worth of hospitalization.
One of the basic facts of this plan is that it is entirely a nonprofit scheme, and would be administered by a selected group of students.
The Hurricane wholeheartedly supports this progressive plan and invites the comment and opinion of the entire student body through the channels of it’s “Letters to the Editor” column and through personal interviews by staff members.
"Jiggs" Huffman Points Out Tricks of Trade To University’s Twenty Would-Be Aviators
Students Elect Wider Cultural Background
(.By Student Opinion Sutvtys of America]
Austin, Texas, November 8 — If American students could plan the course of study for the nation’s colleges and universities, an overwhelming	prarcribe wide
cultural background, the Student Opinion Surveys of America find in their latest national poll of campus thought.
Only 17 per cent of the country’s collegians believe that higher education should be mainly technical and professional training. The rest say they prefer a curriculum that will embrace a general education rather than one that will produce men and women primarily skilled in the trades and the professions. But 37 per cent of this last group make it clear that their choice is the school that presents a blending of the two extremes.
Hurricane in Poll
Since the weekly polls of the Surveys are all based on a coast-to-coast sampling determined from actual enrollments, these results represent the opinions of the million and a half students in all kinds of colleges, both technical and otherwise. The Surveys are conducted in cooperation with the Miami Hurricane and nearly 150 other campus publications. Headquarters are at the University of Texas, Austin.
Last month Brooklyn College inaugurated a new president, Harry D. Gideonse, who once quit a University of Chicago professorship after much argument with Dr. Robert M. Hutchins, chief U. S. exponent of classical education. Declared Dr. Gideonse at his installation: “No college can live by training the mind alone . . . Talent . . . must now be shifted from sheer cultivation of intellectual virtues to education for the whole man, for men as ‘knowers and doers and appreciators’.”
Weit Prefer* Profession*
A surprisingly large number would agree with Dr. Hutchins—but there is also a large group that believes college is the place to train both “knowers” and “doers.” The results of the poll are:
College Education Should—
Be mainly technical and professional 17 per cent Emphasize a wide cultural background 46 per cent Include both	37 per cent
Sentiment for professional training is least popular with New England students (7), and most in favor with Far Westerners (24%). All other sections of the country agree almost exactly with national student opinion as shown above.

CERCLE FRANCA1S FORMED
Jacques Wilson was elected president of the newly-formed Cercle Francais at a meeting of the group held last night. Other officers are Selma Bron-ston, vice-president; Wilma Resni-koff, secretary; and James B. Bric-kell, treasurer. Faculty sponsors Dr. William P. Dismukes and Leonard Muller were also present at the meeting.
By Ted Wayne A sight which would warm the cockles of a University professor’s heart may be seen any weekday afternoon at 1:30 in Room 279.
Here a group of about twenty-nine students sitting on the edges of their chairs, never closing an eyelid, and hanging desperately on every word emerging from the instructor’s lips, may be found studying the intricacies of aviation in the government supervised course being given here at the university.
The instructor producing this phenomenon is none other than Stanley C. “Jiggs” Huffman, erstwhile flying instructor at a local flying school and recently appointed flight instructor for the University of Miami aviation course, whose history and record read like a page out of Horatio Alger. A brief record of his history would read as follows:
Jigg’s Life History
He has logged 6500 hours of flying time since he started flying at the Army Flying Center at Kelly Field in 1922. In December of that year year he left the army to become a flying exhibitor of night fireworks. Then, he reentered the army flying corp at McCook Field and emerged again in 1924 as a graduate of the Air Corp Engineering School.
In 1926, he became chief pilot for the Embry-Riddle Flying Company in Cincinnati, and one year later was promoted to General Operations Manager. It was at this time that he flew the first Air Mail out of Cincinnati.
“Jiggs” merged in 1932 with Ver-milya to form the Vermilya-Huffman ¡Flying Schol in Cincinnati and the next year won the Cord Cup Race around the United States. It was right after this he was made a member of the C.A.A. on Airway Traffic Control in Cleveland. Miami, in 1937, was his next stop—this time as Operations Manager of the Miami Aero Corps.
Holds Many Ratings
At present, the popular Miami flight instructor holds the following airplane ratings: Captain in the Air Corp Reserves, Airplane Pilot and Instructors Rating, Commercial Pilot with Class I Land and Water Rating, Class 2 S Land, 3 S Land, 4 M Land and Water Rating, Third Class Radio Operator, Airplane Engine Mechanics ticket.
Mr. Huffman is at present teaching Civil Air Regulations in the ground school and hopes to get his students into the air in the very near future.
“Jiggs” predicts a very brilliant future both for aviation in Miami and for the newly installed aviation course given by the University. He says that “It is the first step in a government prigram of subsidy of | the aeronautical industry.”
The twenty men taking the training were named this week. They are | David Andre, Matthew Archibald, Emmett Brown, Oliver Chambers, Malcolm Campubell, John Fitting, Walter Falk, Richard Flinky, Henry Fuller, Bob Iba, Darrel Irwin, George Litchfield, Robert Long, William Martyn, James Pollard, Donald Sapp, A. J. Slavin, Ted Wayne, Pat Wei-land, and Marvin Wildman.
CELLIST, PIANIST PLAY
Alan Collins, cellist, and Joseph Tarpley, pianist, will present a concert in the lounge of the Administration Buliding, Monday evening at 8
Four Leave For Pan-Am Conference
Secretary Hull Invites Miamians To Discussion Of Pan-American Affairs
Because of the success shown at the University of Miami in promoting the study of Latin-American relations, the University has been invited to send a delegation to a special conference in Washington, D.C. on Inter-American relations in the field of Education, called by Secretary of State Cordell Hull and J. W. Stude-baker, commissioner of Education. Miami delegates to the conference, which 29 universities have been invited to participate, include Dr. Bowman F. Ashe, president of the University, Dr. J. Riis Owre, Professor of Spanish, Dr. Robert E. Mc-Nicoll, Associate Professor of Latin-American History and Institutions, and Mr. Arturo Morales, Assistant Professor of Latin-American Affairs.
The conference was called to discuss means for improving the inter-American activities of American universities, a closer relationship between the universities by the exchange of students and professors, and the adoption in the curriculum of special lecture courses similar to the Hispanic-American Institute held in Miami each year.
The University of Miami delegation left for Washington Tuesday.
APO Starts Search for Plain Jane
Talks Feature Pep Meeting; Parade Tonight
Jack Bell and Hurricane Coach Jack Harding were the feature attractions of the pep meeting held this morning at 10:30 in the auditorium, at which it was announced that the bonfire protest parade planned for tonight will go on as scheduled.
Tonight's meeting will begin with a parade starting at 7:30 from the Coral Gables Theatre and proceeding to the city hall. Freshmen will be required to carry torches, candles, or other illuminating devices, and if possible to wear night shirts and pajamas. The entire student body is also expected to be on hand.
Jerry Weinkle, master of ceremonies at the pep meeting, introduced Jack Bell, sports editor of the Miami Daily News, who discussed the team’s chances over Drake.
Eddie Dunn, backfield coach, and Hart Morris, line coach, each made short talks, in addition to the pep talk given by Harding.
The entire varsity squad of cheerleaders introduced a new yell, which will be used in the next game. The band closed the meeting with “Keep It Rollin’.”
Drake’s Bulldogs Are Back Again
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Pictured from left to right are three of Drake’s mighty Bulldogs: “Hank” Hanks, pass-throwing halfback, Co-Captain Thell Fisher, triple-threat backfield ace, and Clyde Carney, lanky Bulldog end.

Reinert Needs Voices That Regrow Haii\
So you can’t sing? How do you know? Maybe your neighbors are wrong. Anyway, the Mixed Chorus and Glee Club need yodlers, contraltos and mezzo-sopranos. Come out and let Professor Bob Reinert give you his opinion. He’s tearing his hair out for talent, and you wouldn’t want Mrs. Reinert to have a bald husband would you?
Let's hear what you frustrated bath-tub warblers can do. You doq’t have to be a Caruso or a Lily Pons; anyone who can talk can sing. Come on, give out!
P.S.: the Mixed Chorus meets Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays at 12:30, and the Glee Club meets Tuesdays and Thursdays at 10:30.
Professors Attend Lakeland Meeting
Dr. Harold Briggs and Dean Henry West leave today to attend the “Congress on Democracy” at Southern College, Lakeland. They will return Sunday.
Among nineteen state and national leaders who will speak are Paul V. McNutt, federal securities administrator, Florida senators Claude Pepper and Charles Andrews, and John Studebaker, national educational director.
The meaning and effectiveness of democracy will be discussed in forums, seminars, and rallies.
YWCA MEETS
A talk by Dr. W. H. McMasters will ¡follow the pot-luck supper meeting of the YWCA next Wednesday evening from five o’clock to seven in the penthouse of the Girls’ Dorm.
Season’s First Play Will Open Next Thursday
“You Can’t Take It With You,” first play of this year’s dramatic season scheduled to have its University op ening next Thursday, November 17, had u preliminary performance last night at the Coral Gables elementary school under the sponsorship of the Lion’s Club.
In the cast are Maxwell Marvin, as Grandpa Vanderhof; Adele Rickel, Penelope Sycamore; Maybelle Cohen, Essie Carmichael; Eddie Baumgarten, Ed Carmichael; Don Satin, Wilbur Henderson; Stuart Allan Cohen, Donald; Sylvia Locke, Rheba; Sidney Cassell, Kolenkhov; Thyllis Salter, Gay Wellington; C. H. Motter, Mr. De Pinna; Jack Lueddeke, Paul Sycamore; Jean Small, the Grand Duchess Olga Katrina; Denise Penchina, Mrs. Kirby; Jack Madigan, Mr. Kirby; George Dawkins, Tony Kirby; Myra Atkins, Alice Sycamore; and Ned Turner, Arnold Kay, and Meade Stockdell, G-Men.
Mrs. Opal Euard Motter, head of the dramatics department is the director of the play. Under the direction of C. H. Motter, technical advisor, are those in charge of properties, B. Collins and Mrs. Gilbert.
The play will have two performances in the Cardboard Theatre on next Thursday and Friday nights. Curtain rises on both at exactly 8:30 p.m.
Activity books will be honored at either performance, and outsiders will be admitted for seventy-five cents. They may buy season tickets admitting them to six plays for $2.50.
’Our Town’ Tryouts Te Be Staged Today
Open try-outs for “Our Town” will be staged in the Cardboard theater at 4:30 this afternoon and again tonight at 7:30.
“This year we want to give an opportunity to everyone interested in acting, whether he is enrolled in u drama course or not,” states Frederick Koch, director. “All those who come will fill out a card listing their interests and experience.”
Thirty parts are open, varying from Doc Gibbs, the country doctor, and Mr. Webb, the village editor, to Howie Newsome, the milkman, and Simon StimpBon, the town drunk.
A tale of village life, this drama won the Pulitzer Prize in 1937 for its beauty, human interest, and sincerity. A novel feature is the discarding of conventional scenery and props. It is performed with only a few simple tables and chairs on the bare stage. All props are imaginary.
Interest in try-outs is evidenced by the fact that forty students have borrowed scripts at the reserve desk in the library.
DORM GIRLS ELECT
Ruth Wilson, member of the Junior class, was elected president of the Women’s Residence Hall Student Government Association last Thursday at the group’B meeting.
Others elected to office were: Beatrice Ettinger, senior, vice-president; Wilma Resnikoff, sophomore, secretary; and Sue McConnell, sophomore, treasurer.
These officers and a representative from each class will compose the House Council. Representatives are being elected this week.
One Cent Buys Ballot For “Un-Glamour Girl’s” South Carolina Journey
We’ve had our Kampus Kings, Carnival Queens, Campus Sweethearts, Queen of Clubs, and Fraternity Girls; but at long last comes a contest for those who don’t have beautiful blond tresses, long dark eyelashes, dimples, and a figure like Venus.
It’s true, so help us, Alpha Phi Omega, national service fraternity, is sponsoring u “Plain Jane” contest to select a girl who owes her popularity to personality, not face, figure, fortune, or glamour. As a matter of fact, candidates should not possess the customary pre-requisites.
The reward accruing to “Plain Jane” will be a free round trip ticket and a 50-yard line seat to the South Carolina game, a guest of honor billing for the Homecoming Dance following the Florida game, and other appropriate gifts.
The purpose behind the contest will be the replacing of the tattered University flag fluttering over the Rotunda, Bob Hillstead, president of APO, announced yesterday.
Voting starts today and ends Friday at 4:30, with ballots selling at one cent each. Girls can be nominated for as little as a penny, so get busy now and see your favorite at the South Carolina game and the Homecoming Dance!
Ibis Staff Decides On Cap Argument
Because not enough votes were cast to swing the election one way or another, the decision on whether seniors will wear caps in their yearbook pictures will be ultimately left up to the Ibis staff, Editor John Hopkins announced yesterday.
Although the election had been well publicized, with announcements and bulletins out for two weeks, not •n a bare quorum of the senior class was reached, and no definite majority either way was reached.
Hopkins said, “I feel that ample opportunity has been given all seniors to make their decision, and since they have not responded, Ibis staff-members will make the final choice.”
ENGLISH SOCIETY MEETS
The English Honors Society will hold its first meeting of the year tonight at eight o’clock in the Card ’ Room of the Administration Building. All Junior and Senior majors in English, or other upperclassmen who are interested in an informal discussion of current literature, are invited to attend.
Campus Calendar
Today, 7:30 p.m. Pep Meeting. University.
8:00 p.m. Jewish Cultural Society. Tomorrow, 3:30 p.m. Hurricane Staff Meeting, Room 237.
8:15 p.m. Miami vs. Drake, Roddey Burdine Stadium.
After Game—“M” Club Dance at Coral Gables Country Club. Monday, 12:30 p.m. YMCA meeting, Room 290.
3:30 p.m. Ibis Staff meeting, Room 239.
Tuesday, 10:30 a.m. Senate Meeting, Room 224.
10:30 a.m. General Faculty Meeting, Room 213.
12:20 p.m. YW Cabinet Meeting, Room 290.
Wednesday, 5-7 p.m. YW Pot-luck Supper and meeting, Penthouse of Girls’ Dorm.
7:30 p.m. IRC meeting, Card Room . of Administration Building.
Rigney Elected New Religious Council Prexy
Bob Rigney, vice-president of the Y.M.C.A., was elected Chairman of the Council of Religious Organizations at a meeting of the group Tuesday morning.
The Council, which was formed last week, brings together all religious organizations on the campus, and will schedule programs and lectures that are to be presented to the student body by these groups.
Two representatives from each organization comprise the Council. Members of the Baptist Student Union, Newman Club, Wesleyan Foundation, Y.W.C.A., and Y.M.C.A. were present at the meeting. Representatives from the Jewish Cultural Society have not been elected as yet.
The Council plans to meet every two weeks in Room 290, which was recently acquired as a headquarters for all religious denominations. The next meeting is set for Tuesday, November 21.
IRC Panel Discusses European Struggle
“Motives behind the European War” will be the subject of a panel discussion to be featured at the next I.R.C. meeting Wednesday evening at 7:45 p.m. in the Card Room of the Administration Bldg. The speakers will be Dr. Harold E. Briggs, Dr. H Franklin Williams and Dr. Charleton Tebeau. The meeting is open to all members and their friends.
A panel discussion on the Classroom of the Air on “Should the United States be involved in the Present European Conflict,” rounded out the activities of the I.R.C. for the week. Participating were Mildred Zinn, Riva Lief Hemphill and A1 Collins.
The high point in the discussion was reached when Mildred Zinn stated that Britain has no more love for the United States than she has for Germany, and is trying to get the United States to pull her chestnuts out of the fire. She concluded the discussion with a plea that America keep out of war and use its influence as a force for peace.
NEW MARCH PLAYED
The “Orange Bowl” March, by Henry Fillmore, one of America's most noted band composers, will be played by the University Band in the stadium tomorrow night for the first time.
Green’s Outfit Tries for Third Win Tomorrow
Tricky Offense Expected To Baffle Miami; Jack’s Boys Ready For Game
By Sid Kijne
Coach Vee Brown’s powerful Drake Bulldogs from Des Moines, Iowa, twice conquerors of the Miami Hurricanes, will be out to make it three in a row when they oppose the Hard-ingmen tomorrow night at Roddey Burdine Memorial Stadium. Kickoff is at 8:15.
Drake brings to Miami a surprise team, for handicapped by the loss of eighteen of last year’s regulars and replacement, Brown was faced with a disastrous season. Instead, we find him bringing south his best club in years.
The Bulldogs, in spite of the loss of Pug and Phil Manders and most of last year’s squad, invade Miami with the most impressive record of any eleven encountered so far this season by the Hurricanes.
Drake Ha* One Defeat
Drake has suffered only one defeat —a 7-0 loss to Creighton. The Bulldogs have turned back Kansas, Grin-nell, St. Louis, Washburn, and Iowa State. In six games, they have been scored on but three times — which speaks for their defensive ability.
Coach Brown’s Bulldogs present a tricky “now you see it, now you don’t” offensive. Their opponents have been baffled all season by their mystifying ball handling, and plenty
Sponaors for tonight’* game are Ruth MacDonald and Janet Silver-glade, Chi Omega, and Frances Cummings and Patty Hollarn, Zeta Tau Alpha.
Following the game, the “M” Club will hold it* weekly dance at the Country Club. Admission is $1.10 and .55.
of “hidden ball” plays and reverses will give the Hurricanes a busy evening.
A speedy, all-round backfield, headed by Captain Thell Fisher, a 170-pound triple-threat half, will be behind a big, tough Drake line, which will probably average around 190.
But the Bulldogs will be facing a Hurricane team that has found itself and is rolling at top speed. Coming out of the Texas Tech game in good shape, the Hardingmen should all be ready for the opening whistle.
Team in Good Spirits
Co-Captain “Chuck” Guimento split finger bone, Steve McCrimmon bruised a hip, and Johnny Kurucza sustained a shoulder injury, but all three will be in condition to play.
The team appears in great spirits, displaying plenty of pep and drive in practice sessions this week. The daily workouts have been marked by the nip-and-tuck battle between George Pittard, little Frankie Paskewich, and Joe Krutulis for the starting assignment on the left wing.
‘If the boys play heads-up ball with the same spirit and drive they displayed against Texas Tech, I’ll not worry about anybody else on our schedule; however, any letdown by the team spells sure defeat,” was Coach “Spike” Harding’s statement this morning.
The opening whistle will probablr see Kichefski and either Pittard Krutulis, or Paskewich at ends, Raski and Poore at tackles, Snowden and Guimento, guards, and Salisbury at center. In the backfield will be Kur ueza, Mike Corcoran, Terry Fox, and either Carl Jones or Bill Steiner.
When a Feller Needs a Friend or Else-Maybe a Fur-Lined Igloo
Take it back, Yankees! Take it back! It’s too much for us—this blood-chilling weather. You enthusiastically call it “exhilarating”; we call it excruciating. It makes you slap your chest and yodel in the shower—it makes us discard our very becoming dotted swiss for heavy, bunglesome sweaters. It gives you a glorious sense of well-being. It gives us a cold.
It seems you can always discover your true pals here on a cold day. Never place any confidence in the fresh air fiend — he’s just a fair-weather friend. He throws windows open and expands his chest with a soulful expression on his face, while you cower in some draughty classroom corner. He glares when you furtively close the window an inch to keep yourself from being blown out
the door.
When the temperature hovers around 50 degrees, he complains constantly about being suffocated, but never thinks to place his sweater on your hunched, shaking shoulders. He calls you a thin-blooded sissy, if you try to protect yourself from the elements, but passes off his cold as “a touch fo sinus.” A public menace, he, but a boon to the medical profession.
The patio has been as popular as a tomb, while there have been days when you couldn’t get a table in the Soda Shop for love or cover charge. They report a decrease in the sale of cokes, and a rush on coffee. Dunking is in style again. One must warm one's fingers, if one is going to push a pencil.
Mustn’t one?