Miami Hurricane, September 17, 1943

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Second most beautiful and talented girl in the Country is what the judges decided when they took a look at the University’s Muriel Smith at the finals of the 1943 Miss America contest in Atlantic City, N. J., Saturday night. Muriel, who was the Miss Florida entry, has been signed to appear in the Broadway production, “Blind Date,” in November.
Holder of a national baton-twirling title, Muriel ran a close second to Miss California in last week’s competition. We wonder how the local Chamber of Commerce feels about that.
Phefbio Dislikes These EXCLUSIVE Dances, Suggests We ALL Face The Music and Dance
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The V-12 had a dance the other night. That ia—somebody told them they did. In fact, the Hurricane chattered happily, “Another of the series of Bell Bottom balls will be held at the Coral Gables Women’s club on Saturday at 9 p.m. This time the band will not be present as the boys in the band are going to be given a chance to dance.”
But the band might as well have brought their instruments and played the night away to entertain themselves. Because they didn' t get to aance. Not many people can dance, with only two girls there. So now the subject is a sore one with the Navy. If you ask a V-12 lad to a dance, he’s quite likely to reply, “No, thanks, I really think I’ll stay home and work on my geometry this weekend.” He knows darn well the geometry book will show up to keep the date.
Things have come to a pretty pass when one gilt-edged orchestra, one dance floor, and some of the best dancers you’d ever want to dance with go to waste. And the sad part (sob!) of the whole affair is that you know as well as I do (and do I know!) that half the feminine population of our “Jungle Tech,” crying their hearts out to go listen to the music Saturday night, sat mournfully at home because “nobody asked me.” No kidding, something’s
present loose arrangement -(some-: body phones up frantically trying; to get a-crowd of girls who either-already have dates or are afraid j they’ll be the only stag there).} What’s to be done? Well, either’ let the fellas get dates and for-' [continued on pace four] 1
here. Those dances are a grand idea, and they shouldn’t be allowed to die a slow death (and that’s what’s happening) because of a bad start.
Now what’s wrong? Well, the fellas say they don’t know till too late to ask the gals, and besides they don’t know any gals. The gals, of course, want to go, but DON' T want to go stag under the
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the traces that once eminated :ardboarcj halls, the Harri-is challenging the winner ef today’s V-32 skit contest to a dramatic l|out to determine the all-schofl entertainment champion.
Boasting tlje talent of V-12s and civilians and girls, the staff promises to present stiff competition to any! “cheesecake” the winning V-12S possess.
The staff -also invites any other campnij groups to compete—if they; dare. They propose that thq meet be held in assembly sonde time during the neat few weeks to be judged by an impartial jury.
Arrangements can be made with N. O. F;hilbert, in charge of production, by letter. Anyone who wishes to offer a prize is welcome tc, do so.
Dean Advocates World Gold Pool
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Suggestions < for stabilising the post-war world are proposed by Dr. John T. | Holdsworth, dean emeritus of toe School of Business Administration, in an article for the Commercial and Financial Chronicle this ;month.
Dr. Holdsworth believes that an international gold pool can assist in world stabilization and the resumption off world commerce.
In the post-war era, Dr. Holdsworth would like to see an international pool* organized so that small countries "ould “lease current” gold credit to cover international traded obligations and to set up their own domestic currencies.
A member ;of the Economists’ National committee bn Monetary Policy, Dr. jloldsworth reviews the wartime rt^le played by gold iq supporting ! the government’s mounting currency and credit obligations and crvicizes the “slacker” attitude of th<; silver bloc in Congress in preventing the use of gov-ernment-owne) silver as a substitute for a> number of scarce metals.
Dr. Holdsworth has been a faculty member at the University for fifteen years,1 prior to which life taught at Princeton, the University of Pennsylvania, and the University of Southern California. He is a recognized authority in finance and international economics.
With a nearly full football schedule virtually assured, and night football fn the Orange Bowl almost certain, Head Coach Eddie Dunn is sending the Hurricanes through steadily toughening scrimmages in preparation for the opening game with a powerful Jacksonville NATTC eleven there Oct. 2.
Arrangements for two games with the Boca Raton Air Base and
NKT Proposes More Frequent Honor Topping
Tapping each trimester instead of once a year is the policy being discussed by Nu Kappa Tau, highest women’s honorary. Members would then be able to participate in the activities of the fraternity for a greater length of time, and conflicts over trimester eligibilities would be avoided.
Presidents and advisors of the honoraries on campus are being asked their attitude towards joining Nu Kappa Tau in a regular Trimester Honors assembly, the first one to be held some time this October.
Among the societies which will be contacted are Iron Arrow, highest men’s honorary; History honors; Delta Tau Alpha, art; Lead and Ink, journalism; Pi Kappa Delta, debating fraternity.
Leadnink May Meet Tuesday
One of the biggest mysteries of the year is "Will Lead and Ink ever have a meeting?” Meetings were scheduled, postponed, and rescheduled half a dozen times, but the members of the journalism fraternity have yet to congregate this trimester.
Making another attempt, the schedule-weary president, Rita Giossman, is calling a meeting for Tuesday evening at 7 p.m. at the home of Simon Hochberger, sponsor, 642 Sevilla.
The fraternity presented a club key to Bland Bowers, honorary member, this week.
one tilt with the Third Armored Division of Camp Gordon are being made. Only the dates remain to be figured out In addition another contest with the Coast Guard team of the Charleston Navy Yard has been tentatively slated for Oct 22 or 23. Thus a schedule of seven games appears near closing, with two games with the NATTC and one with the 176th Infantry of Ft. Benning already definite.
* However, Coach Dunn wants to get at least one college team on the Hurricane schedule. Most of
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Naomi Grossman, Mary Reed Leave For Tulane Monday
Two graduates of the University, Mary Reed and Naomi Gross-man, have received scholarships to the Tulane School of Social Service and will leave Monday to do graduate work at the university of New Orleans.
Mary Reed graduated in 1940 with an A.B. degree. Since her graduation, she has been doing social service work for the American Red Cross and the Family Service bureau. At the University, she was a member of Nu Kappa Tau, Beta Phi Alpha social sorority, Who's Who in American Colleges and Universities, and worked on the Ibis staff and the Junior Prom committee.
A magna cum laude graduate of '43, Naomi Grossman was also a member of Nu Kappa Tau and Who’s Who. During the summer she worked for the State Welfare board. President of Pan Hellenic in her senior year, she was a member of History Honors, English Honors, Lead and Ink, Delta Phi Epsilon social sorority, and the Ibis and Hurricane staffs.
¡versify Research Council Sponsors Study of Semi-Tropical Plant Tissues
There's some mighty interesting work going on down in the botany labs these days, and the fair-haired boy slicing paraffin - embedded plant sections off by means of what he calls a “Rotary Microtome” is former student Frank Venning.
Venning is doing the technical research work for special work in histology, under the direction of Dr. Walter T. Swingle. The University of Miami Research council (formed one year ago) is sponsoring the work as their first project.
Venning was graduated in 1942 with a major in botany and a
Japs Polite in Peace* Brutal in War,—Eckel
“Sensei,” or if you will, Professor Paul E. Eckel has led a highly interesting life. Dr. Eckel graduated from the University in 1929 aqd took his master and doctor’s degrees at the University of California.	*
Dr. Eckel spent six years after his graduation from Miami in Japan. He found the educational system there far different from American methods. There were the little matters of teachers not being allowed to fail students and the schools being under government domination.
While in Japan he tanght at the University of Commerce, Uni-
versity of Kobe, College of Commerce in Tarami, and the College of Foreign languages in Tenri, where he held the position of professor of socifd scienee.
Dr. Eckel fyund that tpe Japanese m peacetime were delightful, polite, intelligent, and on the whole very considerate. He also found the Eviq|g conditions excellent However, during wartime under military rule And subject to military propaganda, the Japanese have reverteq to their “primitive brutal instine**,” he says.
Dr. Eckel Also worked as examiner in the Mitsubishi Electoral Engineering cbmpany which mano-' !
factures the famous Zero fighter plane. His job was to give tests to young men in the company who were to be sent abroad to study engineering and technical fields in American universities.
In Manchuria in 1931 before the Jap invasion, Dr. Eckel observed the effectiveness of the fifth column.
As a student at the University, he was a member of the Gym team, theYMCA, the Leader’s club, and was president of the glee dub. As |a professor, he teaches a course in the Far East, a number of history courses, and also some sociology courses.—IG
minor in zoology. Dr. Swingle, widely known botanist who, according to Venning, first introduced figs and dates into the United States, proposed that Frank go to Washington for study in the newly developed' and perfected techniques under Dr. Tillson and Dr. Longley in the Department of Agriculture in Washington, D.C. Frank, lab assistant, secretary-treasurer of Mu Beta Sigma, and a member of the German club, decided to take Swingle’s advice. For the past year he has been studying the techniques both in the lab at Glendale, Md., and in Washington, D.C., where he was allowed complete use of all department and library facilities.
Dealing with the preparation of plant and animal tissues for microscopic study, the project as covered in the labs here will be the building up of a vast reference library of slides, a record of all important features of semi-tropical plants now economically important or having potential commercial and economic importance for South Florida in the future.
The technique, perfected by Tillson and Longley, consists of almost miraculous chemical processes whereby any herbarium material, regardless of when collected or when dried (it is possible in many instances to take a chromosone count in material one
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