Miami Hurricane, November 12, 1937

              The Miami
THE OFFICIAL STUD ENT NEWS
PAPER OF
Hurricane
THE UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI
Volume XI
Coral Gables, Florida, Friday, November 12, 1937
Number 7
Present Concert Monday Night
Southern University Loses County I To Entertain
Tax Suit
Scientists
Hurricanes Face Strong Catholic U Eleven Tonight
TRADITION Marches On!
By JOE HISS
Tradition Marches On!
For ten years the students in the University have been building traditions and one of the most predominant traditions developed is the firing of tj»e cannon at Miami’s football games.
“Little Black Joe,” as the cannon is called, made its first appearance in the old University stadium back in 1927, and up through the years has been pulled up and down the field by the freshmen at all games to salute every Miami score.
Last year in Orlando, “Little Black Joe” disappeared. The freshmen this year failed to find a substitute for our old traditional friend and the loud echo of approval from his barrel has been missed at the games.
But tonight will see the appearance of “Little Black Joe’s brother, “Touchdown Tommy.”
“Touchdown Tommy” was secured (and christened) by Everett Clay and Erl Roman of the Miami Herald sports department, and is a gift from the Miami Herald sports department and Railey-Milam Hardware Co. to the University, for the purpose of carrying on tradition.
“Touchdown Tommy,” gayly painted orange, green and white, will make his debut at the Catholic U. game, and let’s hope that he is called on frequently to carry on the work of his predecessor.
“Little Black Joe” is no more. Long live “Touchdown Tommy.”
Tradition Marches On!
Hannah Asher And Sara Fowell Are Soloists
Initial Program at Miami Senior High School Free to Public and Students
Hannah Spiro Asher, faculty pianist, und Sara Folwell, Miami Conservatory soprano, will be featured soloists with the University symphony orchestra under the direction of Arnold Volpe in its first pre-season concert Monday evening at eight-thirty in the Miami High) Senior High School auditorium.
This initial program of the year is free to the public as well as to all University students.
Mrs. Asher, who is head of the piano department at the University and the Miami Conservatory, will present Liszt’s First Piano Concerto in E flat major. She is a pupil of Leopold Godowsky and was instructor at the Silesian Conservatory in Breslau, Germany. Many of her pupils are outstanding artists.
Mrs. Folwell, a recent addition to the Conservatory, has previously performed with the band. She will offer the “Bird Song” from Pagliacci.
The orchestra has been rehearsing for six weeks, an indication that the program will be of the highest standard.
Program is as follows:
1.	Symphony No. ) (Scotch)	Mendelnobn
I.	Introduction and Allegro Agitato
II.	Scherzo vivace
III.	Adagio Cantabil«
IV.	Allegro Vivacitsimo
2.	Bird Song from "Pagliacci" - Leoncavallo
SARA FOLWELL - Soprano INTERMISSION
J. Firtt Piano Concerto in E-Sat major Lii*l HANNAH ASHER - Pianiil 4. Overture to "Ritas!” ---- Wagner
New Radio Station Features University Talent on Programs
University of Miami was well represented at the first season concert held in Flamingo Park, Monday, November 1, at the opening of radio station WKAT. The program was broadcast by remote control. University students and alumni will be heard regularly over the new station.
Heard on the initial program was A1 Farr, University alumnus, who conducted the orchestra, including Cooky Cunningham, Sam Head, Curley Snyder, Kenneth Snapp, Mac Mehlman, Victor Tantelo, Edward Ingarra, Mort Richards, Leo Fisk, Herbert Bernstein, Harry McMaken, and Eddie Baumgarten. Vocal soloists were Gwen Williams and A1 Lane, and a trio consisting of Curley Snyder, Kenneth Snapp, and Cooky Cunningham.
Preceding the broadcast, Gerry Brannon and Tom Stack presented a novel demonstration of the “Big Apple” and other collegiate dance steps.
Leonard Tobin, former University dramatics student, is a regular announcer over WKAT. Novel programs using University talent are being planned and will be heurd over this station in the future.
Junior Orchestra, Band Organized
Miss Bertha Foster, dean of the School of Music, announced this week that n junior orchestra and band are to be organized for the purpose of permitting instrumentalists who are unable to “make” the senior orchestra and band to have the opportunity to enjoy the beauty and learn the mechanisms of orchestral playing.
Miss Foster stated that many people, students and outsiders, had approached her urging the organization of such musical groups.
Both organizations are open to all students of the University as well as to all outsiders. The units will function under the general supervision of Walter Sheaffer, director of the University band. They will serve as training grounds for the senior groups.
Rehearsals will be held Saturday mornings. All who desire further information have been asked to see Laurence Tremblay in room 256.
Slate Debate Tryouts
Tryouts for the Varsity Debating squad will be held Thursday, November 18. The question for debate is, “Resolved: “That the Labor Relations Board Shall Be Empowered to Settle All Labor Disputes.”
Contestants are asked to prepare a five-minute constructive speech and a three-minute rebuttal. Material on the question can be obtained in the library.
Any one interested must send in a written application not later than November 16 to one of the following persons, Mr. O. V. Over-holser, Thomas Lee, Jack Madigan.
Appeal to Class Spirit Is Made By Freshmen
Trial Meeting Conducted Without V.C. Supervision: Ethel Roger in Charge
An appeal to class spirit was the theme of the Freshman meeting at noon last Friday.
In the absence of the president, Jolly Snowden, a group of class members took charge of the meeting and succeeded in working up a lively discussion. The failure of the last bonfire and the poor attendance at the radio program Thursday night were held up to the class as very poor samples of sportsmanship.
One of the most important features of the meeting was the theory offered that there would be a larger representation at meetings if the Freshmen were allowed to conduct their own meetings without the presence of the V.C. The idea met with the approval of the class and such a meeting was set for Tuesday.
The trial meeting was held Tuesday at 12:30 in the auditorium with Ethel Koger, vice-president of the Freshman class in charge.
Although a quorum was not present at the meeting the attendance and enthusiasm exceeded that of former meetings. Those present voted to have one meeting a week independent of the V.C. but due to the lack of a quorum the vote was declared void.
Frosh Vote Wed.
Tom Condon, president of the •tudent body, has called a special meeting of the freshman class to be held in the auditorium next Wednesday at 12:30 p.m.
Permanent class officers for the year will be elected at this time to replace temporary officers chosen October 8. All freshmen are required to attend this meeting.
When Dave Duncan, University senior, stood on a pearl-fishers’ wharf in Acapulco, Mexico, last May, idly snapping pictures of a Mexican net-caster who was drifting by, he hardly anticipated that one of the pictures would be worth money to him. But the picture proved to be more than its weight in greenbacks when Dave received a check for $250, representing second prize in the Eastman National Snapshot Contest.
Dave intends using the prize-money to purchase a Speed-graphic camera which he will take with him on a trip which he and two friends plan to make around the world in a 42-foot sailboat in April. The world cruise will include pearl-diving, photography, travel writing, inter-island trading and a search south of Australia for ambergris, a substance used in the manufacture of the world’s finest perfumes. Dave also intends to try his hand at importing in the hope of finding the means to continue his world cruising as an occupation in years to come.
This will not be young Duncan’s first venture into foreign lands. He started his travels by leaving his family’s ranch near Tucson, Arizona, and
Head of Business School Fails to Prevent County Grant to University
Judge Arthur Gomez of the Circuit Court yesterday dismissed the suit of Lee P. Southern, president of Southern Brothers University and Law College, to prevent the University of Miami from receiving a $29,-000 grant from the publicity funds of Dade County. It was indicated that Southern will not appeal the case further.
Southern’s contention was that the granting of funds to the University for publicity purposes was unconstitutional since the University is a private institution.
Dean Russel A. Rasco of the University of Miami Law School then filed an affidavit charging that Southern had offered to withdraw his suit provided the University pay him $5,000, $3,000, and finally the University Law School and library. Southern denied the charges in an affidavit filed in court. A second affidavit denying the charges against Southern was filed by Dr. Leonard W. Haskins, Miami optometrist in his capacity of a property owner, after Richard H. Hunt, attorney for the county budget board, charged that should the University obtain the county fund, Southern’s tax “burden” would amount to 2V6c a year. Judge Gomez allowed Haskins to withdraw as intervening complainant after Hunt charged that Haskins owned no property in Dade County.
Russell Thompson, Miami Beach real estate agent and apartment owner, filed a motion in Circuit Court this week to intervene as a defendant against Southern, stating in the motion that as a taxpayer he welcomed, approved and solicited constructive publicity and that his business and property would be greatly enhanced by the levy and its expenditure by the University of Miami. John H. Boyer and Charles A. Luehl, attorneys, represented Thompson.
Four New Rooms On 3rd Floor Open For Use Monday
Four new rooms on the third floor of the administration building will be ready for classroom use Monday, U. J. Hiss, business manager, announced Wednesday. Several changes in classroom schedule will be made necessary.
Classes held in rooms 280, 282, 284, und 286 will be held hereafter in the new quarters, and work is to be started immediately on the vacated rooms to prepare them for occupation by the University law library.
Law classes will occupy room 200, previously the accounting laboratory. A moveable partition will be constructed to divide the room into two smaller classes when it is found necessary. The accounting department will be accommodated in the old law library, room 236.
Joseph G. Havens was in charge of the construction.
wandering into Mexico where he joined several archeological expeditions working in the southern part of the country. Since that time he has traveled extensively in the United States, Canada, Alaska, the West Indies, South America and the Far East by way of the British Isles and the Mediterranean. He considers himself a very lucky young man in having such understanding parents who have encouraged him in his type of living. Because of his continued moving about the world, however the place which seems most foreign to him is his home in Kansas City, Mo.
Recently Dave has been making his photographs into etchings and has spent a great deal of time making pencil and charcoal drawings of wild life which will be used in sports and nature magazines.
Offered a position as portrait photographer in a Miami Beach studio, he still prefers to make the trip around the world, believing he still has “plenty of time to settle down.”
Formerly a student at the University of Arizona where he was a member of Phi Delta Theta fraternity, Dave will graduate from the University of Miami in March.
Florida Academy of Science Will Convene in Miami November 18, 19, and 20
University of Miami will be host next week to the leading scientists of the state at the second annual meet-» ing of the Florida Academy of Sciences, convening here November 18, 19, and 20.
Official program includes marine zoological and botanical trips on Thursday, a banquet Friday at 7 p.m. in the University cafeteria, and separate meetings of the biological and physical science groups and business and general sessions Friday and Saturday. Many of the sessions will be open to students.
Dr. Walter S. Phillips, assistant professor of botany, is in charge of convention arrangements.
Founded in 1936
The academy was founded February 6, 1936, when a group of representative scientists was called together at Gainesville, Florida, by an organizing committee headed by Dr. Herman Kurz, professor of botany, Florida State College for Women. Charter and by-laws were drawn up and adopted, and two types of memberships created, regular and associate members. Dr. Jay F. W. Pearson, professor of zoology, was elected treasurer of the charter organization.
At a second meeting at Gainesville, May, 1936, it was decided that the academy should hold annual meetings in November. First of the annual meetings was held last November at John B. Stetson University in Deland.
Ten Miami Members
The University of Miami is represented in the academy by Dr. Pearson, Dr. Phillips, Dr. Max Meyer, Dr. John C, Clifford, ,/Dr. John Henry Clouse, Dr. E. Morton Miller, Mr. Evan T. Lindstrom, Dean Henry S. West, Mr. W. M. Busv/ell, and Mrs. E. Morton Miller.
Present officers include: president, H. Harold Hume, University of Florida; vice-president, Jennie Tilt, Florida State College for Women; secretary, J. H. Kusner, University of Florida; treasurer, J. F. W. Pearson, University of Miami; chairman biological sciences section, J. E. Spurr, Rollins; and member of the council as past president, Herman Kurz, Florida State College for Women.
Freshman Debaters To Meet Girls’Team In First Contest
Newly organized by Varsity Debate Coach O. V. Overholser the freshman debating team will open its season against the girls’ debate squad, it was announced this week. Time and place of the contest are still undecided.
Subject for debate will be: “Resolved: That Unicameral Legislatures Should be Set up in All States.”
Freshman Debate Coaches Dave Hendrick and Jerry Weinkle have announced that plans for the future are still tentative. Negotiations are under way to bring Emory Junior College and University of Florida freshman forensic teams here for contests in the near future. If the local frosh fare well in these contests, there are plans for sending them on a trip.
“In the meantime we cannot stress too much the importance of regular attendance at the weekly meetings held every Thursday at 7:30 p.m.,” said Weinkle and Hendrick. “It is necessary to have the cooperation of all concerned if we are to make this team a success.”
Campus Calendar
Today,
4:00 to 6:00 — Sorority tea given by all pledges for all actives at the Antilla Hotel.
8:00 p.m. — University of Miami-Catholic University football game in the Burdine Stadium.
Sunday, 4:30 p.m.—World Fellowship Vespers presented by the Y.M.C.A. and Y.W.C.A. at the White Temple in Miami. Mr. Paul Eckel will be guest speaker. Open to the public.
Monday, 8:30 p.m. — University of Miami symphony orchestra, Arnold Volpe conducting, in pre-season concert in the Miami Senior High School Auditorium.
Wednesday, 12:30—Freshman meeting in the auditorium.
Thursday, 8:00 p.m.—Newman Club meeting in the Social Hall.
German Club ToBeOrganized By Students
Faculty Advisor Invites Ten Advanced Students to Membership in Club
Ten students of advanced German will meet tomorrow night at eight o’clock at the home of Mildred Harrison, 3886 La Playa Boulevard, Coconut Grove, to organize the Deut-scher Abend, German club, under the direction of Mrs. Melanie Rosbor-ough, faculty advisor.
Short talks will be given by Ruth Fields, Joan Goeser, Jack Clark and Mildred Harrison, students who studied at the University of Heidleberg, during the past summer. George Ros-ner will offer a number of German jokes and with Mildred Harrison will appear in native costumes of Bavaria and the Black Forest. Following the singing of German songs a German buffet supper will be served.
Among those invited are Joan Goeser, Ruth Field, Hilda Ringbloom, Alma Jean Walker, Mildred Harrison, George Rosner, George Guile, Edward Baumgarten and Tom Mote. Other guests include Mrs. Rosbor-ough, Mr. and Mrs. Wade Livingston Street, Miss Margaret Phelan, Miss Betty Scott and Mrs. W. E. Harrison.
(¿iris’ Glee Club Holds Rehearsals
Because of the absence of Director Bertha Foster last week, the girls’ glee club was unable to hold its usual meetings.
Activities were resumed on Monday, however, when the selections “Ay, Ay. Ay!” and “The Garden” were rehearsed. These numbers are to be sung on the “Classroom of the Air” program over Station WIOD December 1.
Anyone interested in joining the club should report to Room 250 on Mondays and Wednesdays at 12:40. Membership now totals twenty-five girls.
SON TO NOX CONNELLYS
Mr. and Mrs. George Nox Connelly, Jr., 3103 N. Bay Road, Miami Beach, are the parents of a son, George Nox, III, born November 6.
Connelly is a senior in the School of Business Administration and a member of Phi Alpha fraternity. Mrs. Connelly was formerly Kay Coleman and is a member of Lambda Phi sorority. She attended the University last year.
CORRECTION
The Hurricane reported incorrectly in a story last week that Myron Broder, a student, was in an accident which occurred October 29 on Tamiami Trail. The student was Arnold Broder.
Senate Rejects Finance Board Appropriatons
Ask for Additional Time To Consider Allotments Made to Campus Groups
The highpoint of Tuesday’s Senate meeting was the student government body’s refusal to accept activity fund appropriations to campus groups as set forth by the Finance Board.
An All-American co-ed contest, a flagpole project and the insertion of debate tickets in the student activity book were among the diversified subjects discussed.
The meeting was called to order by President Tom Condon at 12:35. Jane Mercer, secretary, read the minutes of the last meeting which were approved. She also read an answer to her letter to St. Thomas College, thanking them for their kindness to the Hurricanes in Lewisburg for Bucknell gume.
Ted Treff, chairman of the flag committee, gave a report on the flag pole, to be erected on the rotunda, quoting prices on wooden poles. Senate voted on a steel pole, rather than one of wood, to be about eight feet long. Tommy Lee suggested asking the City of Coral Gables for infor-/r-j tion on obtaining a pole of this type. The committee was asked to work further on the project and submit a report at the next meeting.
Inquiries were made as to the existence of a University flag. Since the Senate voted that an American flag alone is to be used, the University seal above the rotunda makes a University flag unnecessary.
Eddie Baumgarten reported that he had presented a request to Dr. Pearson for a meeting place for the Senate, but since there is no available room at present, the Senate will have to wait until the law library is moved, when room may be found.
The Finance Committee reported on allotted appropriations. The Band asked for a larger appropriation, but was told that no petition for a stipulated amount had been submitted by the Band. Following several suggestions for cutting and increasing various allotments, a motion was made and carried that acceptance of the appropriations made by the Finance Board be deferred until the next Senate meeting.
Tommy Lee thanked the Senate for the amount alloted the Debating Council and asked that tickets be placed in the student activity book to allow students to attend the debates free. A motion to this effect was made and carried.
President Condon then introduced a Mr. Butler, who presented a plan for an All-American co-ed contest to be held in Miami in connection with the University. The contest was to be in the form of a Spring Frolics, with girls who had won their title of the most typical co-ed in their respective schools, competing. The University of Miami co-ed would not compete, but would act as hostess.
—Denise Caravasios, Senate Reporter
Inaugurate New Gridiron Relationship
Cardinals Boast Powerful Squad Led By Two All-American Candidates
Radio Station WKAT, Miami Beach, will broadcast tonight's game between Catholic U. and the Hurricanes starting at 8:15 o’clock. Maurice Fink, University sophomore, and Wilbert Bach, publicity director for the athletic department, will be at the microphone. The broadcast is sponsored fay Joseph E. Widener.
Coach Jack Harding’s Hurricanes will inaugurate a new football relationship tonight when they meet the Catholic University Cardinals in the Burdine Orange Bowl. Kickoff at 8:15 p.m.
Hailing from the nation’s capital, Catholic University brings with them an impressive record and a heavy, powerful, clever eleven.
Led by their All-American candidate “Irish” Carroll and Joe Guynon, the elusive, triple-threat man, son of the famous Guynon of Carlisle Indian fame, the Cardinals will give the Hurricnnes a busy evening. They also possess a big bruising fullback named Rocco Perro, who, along with a heavy, fast, charging line will be hard to stop.
One of the highlights of this encounter will be the battle between the two systems, the Rockne Notre Dame system as used by the Cardinals and the Sutherland Pitt system as advocated by the Hurricanes.
Stresses Reserve Power
The Miami team stressed reserve 'lower in their daily workouts, with Harding easing up on his regulars the latter part of the week. With the exception of Pittard and Olson, the Hurricanes came off the field from the Stetson contest in fine condition. Pittard, with a bad ankle and Olson, with a bruised leg muscle, probably will view the Catholic U. game from the bench. The rest of the squad is set to go.
In this contest the Hurricanes will face their toughest competition to date.
“We know that Catholic U will be our hardest contest this season but we have progressed, and glthough they are big and deceptive, I’m sure we’ll give them a real fight for this ball game. Offensively we have* progressed more rapidly than defensively but we expect to gain more experience with each contest,” Coach Harding said. “There will be no changes in our backfield but there may be a few changes in our forward wall.”
Have Been Defeated Twice
Fresh from a win over Stetson, the Hurricanes will battle a team that has lost but two contests this season, one to a tough Detroit University team and the other to powerful St. Louis University outfit. Last week the Cardinals toppled West Virginia Wesleyan 21 to 0. Previously they opened the season with a 14 to 6 victory over Canisius, whipped Loyola 14 to 0, and toppled La Salle 27 to 12.
They are rated higher by sports-writers than Georgetown University, whom Miami nosed out in an intersectional thriller last season.
The Catholic University team, which arrived in Miami yesterday at 5 p.m. via the Seaboard Airline Railway, was greeted by a group of twenty-five of the University of Miami’s coeds. The visitors were presented with a crate of oranges, donated by the Walgreen Drug-Department Store, and invitations to the M Club dance tonight. A sightseeing tour of Miami has been arranged for them through the courtesy of the Miami Transit Company.
TO HOLD VESPERS
Mr. Paul E. Eckel, of the University history department, will be the speaker at the World Fellowship Vespers next Sunday at 4:30 p.m. at the White Temple. The Y. M. C. A. and Y.W.C.A. of Miami and their affiliated groups at the University are cooperating to present the program.
Mr. Eckel’s topic will be “World Problems in the light of the Christian Message."
Mrs. Dorothy Stearns Mayer, prominent Miami soloist, is chairman of the music. George Guile of the university symphony orchestra will render a violin solo.
Snapshot of Mexican Net-Caster Wins $250 Prize for Dave Duncan