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Oklahomans at home and abroad

JUNE CALENDARJune 4 . Semester examinations end .June 5 . Baccalaureate services, 11 a .

m., in the fieldhouse .June 6. Alumni day .June 6 . Commencement concert, 8 p .

m., in auditorium .June 7 . Fortieth annual Commence-

ment exercises, 10 a . m., in fieldhouse .June 7 . Meeting of Board of Regents .June 8 . Registration for summer ses-

sion.June 9 . Class work begins, 7:10 a. m .

ASSOCIATION PROGRESSMeeting Coach Hardage

Coach Lewie Hardage really meantwhat he said, when he announced thathe wanted to meet and greet alumni ofthe university-and the alumni werewhole heartedly in earnest when theysaid they would enthusiastically receivehim. A series of alumni meetings hon-oring Coach Hardage and Coach BoRowland, are being held over the state .The principal purposes of the meetingsare to afford alumni and the interestedpublic an opportunity to become betteracquainted with the new football men-tors and to create and perpetuate a closerrelationship between the alumni and theuniversity . Wherever the new coacheshave been entertained, alumni have beengenerous in unanimously pledging sup-port and co-operation .

Meetings have already been held inNorman, Chickasha, Oklahoma City,Ardmore, El Reno and Shawnee . Moredistant towns will be visited as soon asspring football practice is completed,when the coaches will have more timefor these trips.At Chickasha, the meeting was under

the charge of Henry "Skeet" Wooten,with Elmer Fraker serving as toast-

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master . Mell Nash, Prexy to the girls ofOklahoma College for Women, and JessLarson, Chickasha's dynamic mayor,did the honors for the home town. At-tending the meeting were:B . B . Smith, jr ., G . H . Crouse, W. H.

Campbell, Satch Austin, John B . Wooten,Virginia K. Sage, Verden, Oklahoma ; S.Klostar Powell, King G. Price, Norman ;Howard Taylor, William D. Owsley,Jess Larson, Carl H. Kunsemuller, Nor-man ; Jessie Love Clarkson, John T.Eisheid .Edna Stuerke Fraker, Jim Hatcher,

Phil Montgomery, T. T . Montgomery,Joe J . Miller, Bruce J . Myers, MarjorieCalhoun Nichlos, J . E. Peery, Minco ;B . B . Barefoot, W. H. LaBoon, P. G .Spining, J . J . Bryan, Jeff H. Williams,Clyde B . Turner, C. W. Trammell, R .R . Smith, H. N. Smith, jr ., GeorgeMontgomery, Alexander B . Leeds, BertJohnson, 1. C . Jeffery, Doris Z . Hubbard,Verden ; Fred Grimsley, D . M . Cavaness,W. P. Brown and Ona Alenner.

At the Oklahoma City meeting, thealumni club and the newly organized"O" club sponsored the meeting . JoeWhitten served as toastmaster and FredCapshaw spoke for the "O" club, out-lining its purpose and plans, and pledgedthe hearty co-operation of that organiza-tion . The sports editors of the Oklaho-man, Oklahoma City Times, and Okla-homa News were present and all ex-pressed faith in the ability of the newcoaches to "get the job done." Otherspeakers were Raymond Tolbert, mem-ber of the Board of Regents ; Ben G.Owen, director of athletics ; and CoachLewie Hardage and Coach Bo Rowland .Those present were :W. W. Milam, W. M. Morgan, Alfred

G . Smith, Elmer 1. Streich, F . L . Wilk-ins, Dr Wayman J . Tompson, Ralph G.Thompson, Lee B . Thompson . Lloyd

Story, J . Merrel Siler, J . Lester Sharp,John F . Sharp, jr., Dr Fenton M. Sanger,R. J . (Bob) Price, Errett R. Newby, MikeMonroney, Claud Monnet, Tom Lowry,Dr LeRoy D. Long, Coleman H. Hayes,Lloyd H. McGuire, A. L . "Bus" Haskins,Dr A. C . Hirschfield, Mrs Earl Foster,Earl Foster, Paul A . Walker, Glenn W.Faris, Paul R . Darrough.

Fred Capshaw, John F . Butler, B. B .Bass, Lee K. Anderson, Mrs Lee K.Anderson, Hubert Ambrister, Fred M.Hammer, A. C . Craig, Charles W. Sauls-berry, Jim Hopkins, Mrs Frank L . Wilk-ins, T . W. Roe, B . L . Scott, MauriceSpeers, W. K . Vandergrift, Ray O.Weems,L.S.Moorhead,Wm. F. Cleckler .

Don Walker was in charge of themeeting at Ardmore . Bill Hamilton,former football captain served up pepin the role of toastmaster . The Ard-more colored high school quartettefurnished music, and as usual, the audi-ence was enthusiastic and interested in thenew regime at Norman . The alumni whoturned out to meet the coaches were :W. D . Evans, W. Eugene Cruce, Win-

field L. Miller, Margaret Thompson,Henry V. With, Mort Woods, W. W.Patter, Clinton O . Bunn, Tide Cox, jr.,Harry B. Bogart, Harry Arnold, PereyJohns, Ethel McClure, Perry Carmichael,Donald E . Walker, Paul Thurber, Tisho-mingo ; John M. Thompson, W. HenryPotterf, John W. Patterson, Lorena CruceNorris, F. E . McReynolds, Mary GordonJones, Mr Bernice Bray, O. R . Bridges,Earl A. Brown, Elsie Potterf Chapman,J . Spencer Entriken, Freeman Galt, F .M . Hoover, O. C. Rogers, Gerald F.Mobley, Everett T . Krueger, Wayne W.Welch, F . E. Tueker, Rev . George H.Quackerman, Arthur C . Stralhley, KarlV. Phillips, Mrs John W. Patterson, JohnB. Ogden, Ramon Martin, E . A . Mc-Gonan, M. K . McClure, Harry E . James,Randall Holladay, Edward Galt, Harold

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H. Dyerly, Max Cook, A. W. Cook, Chas .E. Clowe.

The "`touring" football coaches andalumni officers next visited the "basket-ball metropolis," El Reno. H. MerleWoods served as toastmaster. HerbWrinkler, superintendent of schools ; Doc-tor Goodman and High School CoachSimmons contributed to the programwith welcoming talks . A CanadianCounty alumni club was organized atthis meeting . County Judge EmmettThompson, '26 arts-sc ., '28 law, waschosen to serve as its first president .The following alumni and friends of theuniversity were present :H . M. Woods, H. E . (Herb) Wrink-

ler, Jim E. Smith, Bert Mulvey, AlphaL . Johnson, Dr LeRoy Goodman, Yu-kon; Judge Emmett Thompson, Dr Mal-colm Phelps, K. E . Kalbflinch, L . C .Gadberry, Paul R . Wade, J. E . Simmons,J . L. Stanley, P . Francis Reita, John T.Naylon, Wesley Beck and Percy M. Beck .

More than one hundred former stu-dents and alumni of the universitygathered for the football rally in the Ma-sonic temple banquet room at Shawnee,May 13, when Coach Louie Hardageand Bo Rowland, assistant coach, wereintroduced . Ray Evans as toastmaster in-troduced Frank S . Cleckler, secretary ofthe University of Oklahoma association,who made a short talk . Other speakerswere A. S . "Mike" Monroney, Oklaho-ma City, president, and Judge OrelBusby of Ada, former member of theboard of regents . The coaches were wel-comed to Shawnee by T. E. Thompson,city manager, and Peyton Jennings, presi-dent of the chamber of commerce .

In a short address, Coach Hardageasked for the graduates' support in put-ting over the university's athletic pro-gram for next year . He said the foot-ball team belonged to the fans, not thecoaches, and asked their unified supportin obtaining material . Ben G. Owen,director of athletics, made a short talkexplaining the recent change in the uni-versity athletic department . He saidthat with the change in coaching staffs,a new regime in athletics has been ush-ered into the university .Those who attended the meeting were :

Phil P. Potter, Leroy J . Neal, Max Co-hen, Gertrude Sidener Phillips, S . L .Mayes, Earlsboro ; Don Cochrane, FredAlbert, Milton E . Asfahl, Mrs PrestonC . Clarke, Kenneth Abernathy, Earl F .Alden, Doris Baxter, Wm. M. Bell, W.W. Gilbert, Tecumseh; Clinton Gallaher,M. D., Mrs Clinton Gallaher, Don Foster,H. E . Doty, Dale ; R . H . Davis, Mc-Cloud ; Clark Craig, Oles I . Clause, Pres-ton C . Clarke, A. B . Carpenter, J. KnoxByrum, Pat OByrne, George M. Brad-field, L. C . Bocher, Claude M. Tyler,H. B . Taliaferro, B . A. Stuart, Clifton

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Shearer, G. E . McDowell, McCloud ;Roy L. Lewis, H. B . Klipper, OklahomaCity ; A . M . Hilliard, W. D . Henderson,Corrine Rackley-Haight, Finis Copeland,Maud ; E . D. Reasor, Ruth Townsend,McCloud ; Thomas M. Stevens, BryanRoberts, Floyd E. Proffitt, Paul B.Moody, Kenneth B . Kienzle, Wm. R.High, John L. Goode, P. T. Brown, C.E . Bowlby, O. K . Winteringer, A . M.Wilcoxson, V. H. Welch, Dock Walters,Ralph Walkingstick, Oliver C. Walker,Dale ; T. M . Waldrop, Tom Waldrop,Newton Van Zandt, Geo . M . Tyler,Maud; Walter Templeton, Ed Shelton,Cecil Saied, Maud; Watt J. Richards,Gordon Richards, Mickie Parks, MrsLouise Hale Paramore, Chas. F. Para-more, M. D., Carlisle Nuckolls, H . NedNorton, Leslie Niblack, Wm. B . Mul-lins, Luther E . Mayes, Oklahoma City ;Paul P. Loy, Rufus Lillard, O . C . King,Tecumseh; Clarence Johnson, Macomb ;J . A . Jarrard, Earlsboro ; V. E . Hurt,George Hill, L . E . Heldenbrand, W. M.Haight, Albert Haddad, Boynton .

Sooner candidatesWith political offices ripe for the pick-

ing this year, a large number of alumnihave thrown down their hats, and arecanvassing in counties all over Oklaho-ma. A check reveals at least fifty ofthe candidates for the state legislatureare graduates or former students of theuniversity . If a reasonable number ofthese are elected, the university will berepresented by an unusually large dele-gation in the legislature. In the 1930election, four graduates of the univer-sity were elected to the senate and sevengraduates or former students won seatsin the house .The four state senators elected in 1930

were elected for four year terms andwill hold office another two years . Theyare George H. Jennings, '16 law, Demo-crat, Sapulpa, eleventh district ; J . WoodyDixon ex '23, Democrat, Marietta ; eigh-teenth district ; Hardin Ballard, '27 law,Democrat, Purcell, nineteenth district ;and C . B . Memminger '14, Democrat,Atoka, twentieth district .The Sooner candidates for the state

senate this year are :Democrats-Tom Waldrep '15 law,

Shawnee ; Harry Jolly ex '14, Carnegie ;Reuel W. Little '27 law, Madill ; DavidM. Logan '16 arts-sc ., Okmulgee ; andJimmie Thompson ex '25, Pauls Valley .Republicans-R . W. Simonds '22 law,

Enid; Clarence Johnson '13, Macomb ; andLeo J . Conrad ex '24, Stigler .

University graduates or former stu-dents who are candidates for the house :Democrats-J. C . Ryan, '28 law, Wa-

tonga ; Richard H. Cloyd, '19 arts-sc ., '28law, Norman; John W. Barbour Ph. C.'97, Norman ; J . T . Daniel '25, Waurika ;R . C . Garland ex '26, Wilburton ; J . I .

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Gibson, '30 law, Wellston ; Roscoe Cox'13 law, Chandler ; John Steele Batsonex '21, Marietta ; L. W. Burton ex '04,Stillwater ; Arthur Grunert ex '25, Ard-more; Merton Munson '29 arts-sc ., '31law ; . Lawton .R . L. Clifton M. S . '25, Enid ; Frank

Manning '12 law, Chickasha ; WilliamH. Cline '21, Newkirk ; John J. Thomas'20, Talihina ; Leon C . Phillips '16 law,Okemah; T . H . Ottesen '19 law ; JamesS. Buchanan, jr ., '24 law, Barnsdall ;Hobert G. Orton '26 law, Ada ; G. B .Coryell '26 law, Bristow ; Q . B . Boyd-stun '19 law, Fort Gibson ; Wilbur L.Morse '28 arts-sc ., '30 law, Henryetta ;Hiram Impson '15 arts-sc., McAlester ;Kenneth Abernathy '31 law, Shawnee;E . L . Kirkpatrick M. S . '29, St. Louis ;Lester E . Smith '24 law, Wewoka ; W.D. Grisso '26 arts-sc., '28 law, Seminole ;Dean Harr '10, Edmond ; L. L . Hutchi-son '07 arts-sc ., Tulsa ; John B. Johnson'25 law, Tulsa .

Leslie Conner '27 law ; Charles L. Roff,jr., '17 law ; Frank W. Jones '28 arts-sc .,'29 law ; William O. Coe '28 law ; LeonC . Shipp '28 law ; Guy Parkhurst '27arts-sc . ; Merton M. Bulla '31 law ; andGeorge H. Copeland '31 law ; all of Ok-lahoma City .Republicans-Thomas Z . Wright '29

bus., Beaver ; Ted Foose '27 arts-sc ., '30law ; Watonga ; Harry B . Flake '22 law,Guthrie ; Gordon T. Schaul '29 arts-sc .,'28 bus ., Oklahoma City ; and O. O.Owens ex '13, Tulsa .

New AlumniThe alumni roll call will be increased

by the names of approximately 950 menand women when the largest graduatingclass in the history of the university wasto be given degrees at the fortieth an-nual commencement exercises June 7 inthe fieldhouse .Commencement was also a time of re-

union for the twenty-five and twenty-year reunions of the classes of '07 and '12 .Other features were the commencementconcert by members of the college of finearts, the annual alumni-senior receptionand dance, and a luncheon of alumniof old Kingfisher college which wasmerged with the university in 1927.Headed by the two senior class mar-

shals, Gertrude King, Calvin ; and RobertFeemster, Artesia, New Mexico, presi-dent of the senior class, the long pro-cession was to file down the elm shadedcampus walks into the fieldhouse for thebaccalaureate sermon which was to bedelivered by Rev. Burris Atkins Jenkins,pastor of the Linwood Boulevard Christ-ian church, Kansas City, Missouri, June5 .The commencement address was to be

delivered at 10 o'clock Tuesday morn-ing by Dr E . H . Lindley, chancellor of

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the University of Kansas, Lawrence,Kansas .Two hundred and fifty-six seniors

were to receive bachelor of arts degrees,the largest number to be graduated froma single college . That students are be-coming practical about education whichwill help them in making a living aftercollege days was demonstrated by then 'limber receiving the bachelor of sciencein business, eighty-two graduating fromthe college of business administration.

Seventy-six young lawyers were to re-ceive degrees from the college of lawand sixty-eight men and women havecompleted work for degrees from the col-lege of education .

Forty-five students were to receive thebachelor of science degree in medicinewhile the school of medicine conferredthe degree of doctor of medicine uponforty-six .One student each was to be graduated

from the departments of chemistry, zo-ology, painting and violin .

Twenty-three receive degrees in libraryscience . Nine had completed require-ments for the bachelor of science degree .From the geology department, thirty-fivewere graduated .

Sixteen women who may be listed as"homemakers" in future alumni direc-tories completed the courses in homeeconomics . Four women were to receivethe bachelor of science degree in physicaleducation .From the college of engineering, the

departments were to graduate seniors asfollows : architectural, two ; chemical,five ; civil engineering, eleven ; electricalengineering, twenty ; geological engineer-ing, ten ; mechanical, twenty-two ; min-ing, two ; oil field management, two ;petroleum engineering, twenty-four;engineering physics, two .From the college of fine arts, two

were to receive the bachelor of fine artsdegree ; five, bachelor of fine arts in pub-lic school art ; three, the bachelor of finearts in interior decoration ; one graduateof painting. Seven from each of thesedepartments were - to receive degrees,dramatic art, piano, and public schoolmusic . Two were to graduate in publicschool instrumental music . Six were toreceive the bachelor of fine arts in voice .The school of nursing was to gradu-

ate forty-one nurses . Thirteen receiveddegrees of pharmaceutical chemist, andfour graduated from the school of phar-macy .From the graduate school, twenty-four

received master of arts degrees . Nine-teen became masters of science ; two,masters of business administration ; eigh-teen, masters of education ; five mastersof science in engineering ; one master ofscience in pharmacy .Three were to be awarded the degreeof doctor of philosophy . They are RolandLycurgus Beck '26 M. A. ; W. Daniel

Emerson '17 arts-sc ., '26 M. S . in ed . ;and Mrs Pearl Webb Johnson '18 M. A .With such a large graduating class,

many paradoxes appear . The two Mc-Carrell twins, Lava and Letta, of Okla-homa City, have received identical grades,having enrolled in the same coursesthrough college, the reason being thatprofessors possibly might not have beenable to tell them apart .Mrs Anna Stewart Crouch of Tuttle,

is the oldest student graduating this year.She is sixty-four years old, and is makingplans to do graduate work . She is in therace for county superintendent of Gradycounty . The youngest student to securea degree is Dean Wooldridge of Okla-homa City, who is eighteen years old .Nevertheless Wooldridge has made suchremarkable progress in physics that hehas been awarded a fellowship in the de-partment .

Joseph J . Finkelstein, Bristow, is theonly graduate who has majored in an-thropology and is the first to receive adegree with a major in this field . HelenR . Hagler, Norman, receives her fourthsheepskin from the university . Fifty-twoof the new graduates hail from Texas ;fourteen from Kansas and Missouri .There were twenty-one other states rep-resented in the graduating class .

OUR CHANGING VARSITYThe president's program

President W. B. Bizzell accepted sev-eral invitations to make commencementaddresses before graduating classes ofhigh schools, colleges and univer-sities this spring. He was to deliver thecommencement address at Kansas StateTeachers College, Emporia, Kansas, May27 ; Oklahoma Baptist University, Shaw-nee, May 30 ; Capitol Hill high school,May 24 ; and he was the guest speakerat the graduating exercises of Lawtonhigh school, May' 19.

Caddoan potteryThrough exchange, the anthropology

museum of the university will be therecipient of specimens of Caddoan pot-tery made 800 years ago. The potterywhich has been loaned by the departmentof anthropology at the University of Utah,Salt Lake City, was made in the north-ern part of the Pueblo area in Utah, ac-cording to Dr Forrest E. Clements, headof the anthropology department .

Football prices

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Football fans need not stay away fromgames next fall because of high admis-sion prices. The athletic council hasmade a cut on season tickets . Studenttickets will be sold for $7, and reserved

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seat admission to football games will bereduced to $2 . The council is workingon a plan for $1 admission to a part ofthe east wing of the stadium.

Loyola innovationLoyola university of Chicago is inaug-

urating a new policy effective in 1933which will be watched with interest byall American universities . An examina-tion covering the entire four years ofwork required will be given all seniorsto determine their fitness to receive de-grees . Students who have maintained astraight "B" average will be allowed topursue special honor work in theirchosen field . "All standardizing agen-cies and leading educators in the countryadmit the failure of the mere adding ofsemester hours in producing men of de-gree calibre," the United Press quotesRev . Thomas A. Egan, dean of the col-lege of liberal arts and sciences as saying .

Dr Forrest E . ClementsThe last of the series of lectures plan-

ned by the university and given by mem-bers of the faculty who have gained na-tional recognition in their field was givenby Dr Forrest E . Clements, head of thedepartment of anthropology, May 10 .Doctor Clements spoke on "Racial Con-trasts," a discussion of the intelligenceand emotions of races and the correla-tion between native ability and capacitiesof races to assimilate civilization . Doc-tor Clements has gained national recog-nition for his research work and for hiscontributions to scientific journals . Hecame to the university as head of theanthropology department in February,19.31, from the research staff of the an-thropology-psychology division of the In-stitute of Human Relations at Yale uni-versity . He has done anthropologicaland ethnological research work amongthe Indian tribes in California, Arizona,New Mexico and Nevada . At presenthe is planning a research program amongthe Indians of Oklahoma. He has con-ducted archeological work in Californiaand in Lower California .He received his undergraduate and

graduate training at the University ofCalifornia, securing the Ph . D. degree in1928 .

FacultyThe Oklahoma Historical society has

honored Dr E . E . Dale, head of the de-partment of history by naming him amember of a committee to work on thecentennial celebration of Washington Ir-ving's "Tour of the Prairies," in October.Charles F . Colcord, Oklahoma City, pres-ident of the society has notified DoctorDale of his appointment . The committeewill co-operate with local agencies and

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organizations in Osage, Pawnee, Payne,Logan, Oklahoma, Cleveland, Pottawat-omie and Okfuskee counties .

President W. B. Bizzell will be aspeaker at the annual convention of theWestern Oklahoma Chamber of Com-merce convention, June 8 and 9 at Sayre.Rupel J. Jones, director of the school

of dramatic art, recently was elected amember of the National Theatres con-ference at a meeting of the organizationin Iowa City . Forming an affiliationwith this organization will give the uni-versity an opportunity to find out whatis being done in dramatics in other uni-versities and other sections of the country.William Wehrend, director of the Uni-

versity of Oklahoma band, was electedpresident of the newly formed OklahomaState Band and Orchestra association inTulsa May 14 . The association has forits objectives the continuance of stateband festivals and the passage of a statelaw giving the right to each communityto levy a small tax for the maintenance ofmunicipal or school bands.The unusual distinction of receiving

the second offer for a scholarship to studymusic in France has been accorded Prof .Eugene G. Hassell, associate professor ofpiano, who has accepted the second in-vitation and will study_ this summer withIsador Phillipp, noted French pianist andteacher at the Fontainebleau School ofMusic, Fontainebleau, France . Mr Has-sell was awarded the same scholarshiplast year but was unable to accept it atthe time .

No federal taxOne ray of consolation shines through

the dark clouds of the university profes-sor's financial outlook. It has been de-creed by the federal board of tax appealsthat compensation received by professorsin state universities is exempt from thefederal income tax. The decision wasin the case of G. Ridgly Sappington, aninstructor in the Maryland universitylaw school .

Library science recognitionThe school of library science now has

the same standing as the largest libraryschools of the country since it has beengiven a fully accredited rating by theAmerican Library association, recently insession at New Orleans, J. L. Rader, di-rector of the school, has been notified .

David LawrenceA cordial reception and keen interest

was accorded to Mr David L. Lawrence,editor of The United States Daily and na-tionally-famed political writer who spokebefore an audience of more than 150persons at the annual banquet of SigmaDelta Chi, professional journalistic fra-

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THE NEW ARCH

The newestmemorial, the Spanish Gothicarch, gift of seniors of '32,stands as a beautiful en-trance to the southwest cam-pus . Designed by HaroldGimeno, '21, the arch over-looks Fraternity Row. Seniorswere spurred in their en-thusiasm to secure the archby their president Bob Feem-ster of Artesia, New Mexico .It was constructed with theco-operation of the utilitiesdepartment

ternity, May 13, in the Oklahoma Unionballroom .Many out of town visitors as well as

Norman and university men and womenheard the brilliant national journalistspeak upon "Representative Governmentin the Present Crisis ." Mr Lawrencecame to Oklahoma to speak at the Okla-homa Bankers' convention held in Tul-sa, and made several talks in OklahomaCity and Tulsa, during his stay in Okla-homa .Walter M. Harrison, managing editor

of the Oklahoma City Times and DailyOklahoman introduced Mr Lawrencewith an outline of his career as a news-paperman . Other speakers at the ban-quet were Prof . H. H. Herbert, directorof the school of journalism ; Mr MikeMonroney '24, Oklahoma City ; Dr Vic-tor H. Culp, professor of law ; Mr Wil-liam Martineau, Oklahoma City, editorof Livestock News; Mr Larry Sisk, as-sistant managing editor of the OklahomaCity Times.Mr Lawrence deplored the menace of

"organized minorities which are threat-ening to destroy democratic government."Economy in government is impossible aslong as powerful minorities, such as theAmerican Legion, can force congress in-to granting special favors, Mr Lawrencebelieves .

"Only a thoroly indignant electorate,demanding a government for the major-ity and voting to get it, can overcomethis threat.

"Vested wealth is shouting for the gov-ernment to economize by cutting outregulatory boards and commissions, yetthese boards cost only fifty-one milliondollars out of a total budget of four bil-lion ."

Slashing of the big items, which bene-

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fit minority groups alone, was urged byMr Lawrence . These minorities, theIndependent Petroleum association, Navyleague, Association of Railway Execu-tives and scores of others were blamedby Mr Lawrence for the defeat of anycongressmen who vote against their bills .Mr Lawrence believes the reason de-

mocracy doesn't work is because out ofevery one hundred citizens, only fifty-two will vote . Of these thirty are nor-mally republican, twenty-two democratic .A shift of ten votes can swing that pre-cinct . Most any well organized groupcan swing ten votes-and the conscien-tious official is ousted . The other forty-eight citizens who do not vote are tooindifferent to vote . And, of course, theydon't know how to vote intelligently .Mr Lawrence expressed the hope thatthe voters might someday jar out of theirindifference, wake up and make a de-mocracy out of the autocracy we nowhave . The formula he advocates-"ev-ery man voting and voting intelligently."Mr Lawrence's career as a newspaper

man has been both varied and extensive .He joined the staff of the AssociatedPress immediately after his graduationfrom Princeton in 1910 and was detail-ed to Mexico to cover the Madero andOrozco revolutions .During the first part of Woodrow Wil-

son's presidential term, he was the offi-cial White House reporter for the Asso-ciated Press and at the outbreak of thewar was put in charge of the divisioncovering neutrality and relations withGermany for the association . The NewYork Evening Post made Lawrence itsWashington correspondent in 1916 andhe became president of the ConsolidatedPress association at Washington in 1919 .Mr Lawrence now devotes most of his

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time to the United States society, anoutgrowth of his paper for disseminationof governmental information . He is theauthor of The Other Side of the Gov-ernment and the True Story of WoodrowWilson, and has written numerous mag-azine articles on governmental affairs .The paper, The United States Daily,

was founded in 1926 by Mr Lawrenceand forty-eight noted men and womenfrom different states of the union. Itssole task is to report daily the officialnews of the national government andof the forty-eight state governments, yetto report it in complete detail and withabsolute accuracy . No editorials, inter-pretative articles, comments or opinionsof any kind are printed. News is em-phasized primarily for its importanceto the greatest number of persons. Sen-sationalism is secondary. As a result ofthe absolute adherence to confirmed factsThe United States Daily has come to beaccepted as an undistorted mirror of thethousands of official activities occurringdaily in the national and state capitols .Mr Lawrence has become popularly

known through his radio talks as a partof the National Broadcasting company'sfarm and home hour .

In commenting upon Oklahoma andthe university before Oklahoma Citynewspapermen, Mr Lawrence said in hisdaily dispatch to many newspapers :"Not far away stands the University

of Oklahoma with its spacious campusand remarkably effective group of build-ings-an Oxford library as artistic and asefficient in books and reading space asanything in the cultured east . For, in-deed, here there is no less progress, noless culture, no less appreciation of thefiner side of life . The middle west usedto be called the heart of America. It be-longs now to the refreshing plains of

Oklahoma, where a second generation ofpioneers has blended in the architectureof homes and skyscrapers all that theeastern country can offer, plus, nowadays,a certain superiority of spirit whichgives the business touch even to a cityof declining revenues and of diminish-ing drills in the oil acreage."Marsden Bellatti . president of Sigma

Delta Chi, announced the four outstand-ing newspapermen selected for associatemembership in the order, by vote of stateeditors . They are Harry B. Rutledge,field manager and secretary of the Okla-homa Press association ; Frank D. North-up, editor of the Enid Events ; N. G.Henthorne, editorial director of the Tul-sa World; and C. R. Bellatti, editor of theBlackwell Morning Tribune.

Dr Eugen KuehnemannDr Eugen Kuehnemann, stocky, ro-

bust philosophy professor from the Uni-versity of Breslau in northern Germany,dropped into Norman late in April andin a series of addresses presented a pan-oramic picture of German idealism : past,present and future .At a general assembly in the univer-

sity auditorium, Doctor Kuehnemann,who is author of a valuable biographyof Goethe, told of the unique friendshipbetween Goethe and Schiller, those twogreat German philosophers whose idealswere strangely akin yet opposed in manyrespects . In a rhythmical, poetical man-ner he traced the threads of Germanthought from Goethe and Schiller downto the present day.

Earlier in the day, he projected a clear-cut picture of Germany of the presentat a luncheon in the faculty clubhouseand pointed out striking comparisons be-tween his country and America.

CHILDREN OF THEMOON

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-Children ofThe Moon,- was easily oneof the most dramatic and en-tertaining productions of thePlayhouse the past season .The production, late in thespring, gave Muriel Mon-sell, Sand Springs, graduat-ing senior, an excellent op-portunity to give her last uni-versity performance with fin-ished charm and ability . MrRupel J . Jones, director ofthe school of dramatic art, di-rected the play

"America is the land of sunshine,wide-open spaces, friendliness and jovial-ity," he said, "but Germany, poor Ger-many, is undermined with distrust, per-sonal hatreds and a feeling of despair.

"In my country, a state one-seven-teenth the size of America, life issqueezed into a small area . The ever-lasting rubbing of elbows-confined liv-ing conditions-makes life too intimateand leads to complexities . Distrusts arecommon and lead to hatreds and disa-greeable living conditions .

"America has only twice the popu-lation of Germany in this huge country.Personal privacy is not at a premium .Persons have more confidence in theirassociates . Men and women joke andare generally friendly . There is littlejoking in Germany."

In a few well-chosen paragraphs, theoccasionally bombastic, white-beardedphilosopher touched upon German poli-tics of today.

"Germany is constantly embarrassed bythe impossible and unreasonable de-mands of other countries, particularlyFrance, for war reparations," he said ar-ticulating with characteristic precision.

"Germany must have a strong manat the helm, a man who will say, `Wehave suffered our last insult. Your de-mands are preposterous .' When this manrises to power, brow-beaten Germanywill regain confidence ; sick Europe willbe made well ; the condition of the wholeworld will be improved . Germany isthe heart of Europe and the world andthe heart is broken .

"There is no hatred toward Americain my country," he said, "Nothing butadmiration and respect ."We have confidence in you. You

came into the war to perpetuate peacein the world. Such peace does not exist

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now, but Germany and all of Europeknows America will fulfill her promise.You have the strength and the powerto reorganize the world on a peacefulbasis and we know Amercia will not restuntil she has accomplished such a re-organization ."

Doctor Kuehnemann delivered a thirdaddress in his native tongue before fac-ulty members and advanced students .More of the intimate details of the lifeof Goethe were included in this talk .The visit of Doctor Kuehnemann was

interesting because of the genuine cos-mopolitan viewpoint he brought withhim. During the last two years he hasspoken in 35 states in this country. Histour is sponsored by the Carl Shurzfoundation for the creation of friendly re-lations between this country and Ger-many .

SOONER TO SOONERA valuable contact '

The editorial mail receives the follow-ing appreciated letter from Sam Zim-erman, '30 arts-sc., who is now in thegeological department of the N. V.Nederlandsche Koloniale Petroleum Ma-atschappij company, and is located inBatavia-Centrum, Java, D. E. I. Hewrites :Reading a letter in a recent issue of

The Sooner Magazine from my old class-mate, Arthur Maddox, in which he ex-presses his appreciation for the magazine .I too, wish to thank you for your effortsand to compliment you on a most in-teresting, and let me assure you, highlyappreciated alumni magazine-truly avaluable source of contact with home!

There are seven of us white men, allAmericans, here in the jungle with some200 Sundanese coolies . Our camp sup-plies are all moved by man-pack . Forthe biggest part of the time we are quiteout of touch with the outside world. Iam the only Sooner in the party but theother men, alumni of Kansas and Coal-gate universities, seem to enjoy the mag-azine as much as I do and are high intheir praise of contents and make-up.

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Coach LewieHardage and his assistant,Coach Bo Rowland, havelost no time in putting theboys through their springscrimmage in preparation fora boomer season next fall .Indications arethat the coacheshave a few surprises up theirsleeves with which to trainthe boys next fall

Possibly our university does not winquite as many games as some of theother schools-does not hold quite asmany championships but (fundamental-ly it is sound. That's such a popularphrase in these hectic times) and it hasan alumni magazine that has no peers!

Assuring you of my interest and ap-preciation, I am,

Sincerely,SAM ZIMERMAN .

GRADUATES IN EMBRYOA woman editor

A newspaper paradox is ChristineSquire Hill . . . the co-ed editor of theOklahoma Daily for the first semester ofnext year. She is the first woman editorof the student paper since its establish-ment in 1906, when it was named theUniversity Umpire, a weekly sheet.Then, Mrs Hill creates a contradiction

in appearance . . . petite, doll-like, shegives little evidence of the efficiency, thefirm executive ability, and the journal-istic vocabulary which she possesses, andwhich have been well demonstrated dur-ing her work this year as women's edi-tor, and in her column, "A Skirt Speaks ."

Christine came to college after attend-ing Hill's Business College upon hergraduation from Chandler high school in1927 . And she made the highest gradein the freshmen placement test in Eng-lish . But Christine had come to collegeto study music. Then she changed hermind . And now she is majoring in jour-nalism and her proficiency in English isconvenient . She is vice-president ofTheta Sigma Phi, professional journal-istic fraternity for women; a member ofthe Sooner staff, 1932, serving as sorori-ty editor ; member of Women's Self Gov-erning Association council; and KappaKappa Gamma, social fraternity . Shewas married to Ernie Hill '32 jour ., Jan-uary 19, 1931 in Purcell. Her husbandwas managing editor of the OklahomaDaily in 1931 and the following summer .Christine is the (laughter of Mrs C . O.Finch, 403 East Eleventh street, Chand-ler .

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Of the twenty-five students whohave been editors of the universitynewspaper since it was established in1906, about half are still in the news-paper business and the other halfhave turned to law, the oil busi-ness and other vocations, a surveymade by Ernie Hill in The NormanTranscript has revealed . J. Wallace '07,editor of the University Umpil+e, a week-ly paper, established in 1906, is now edi-tor of the El Paso Post . Reuben Mc-Kitrick '07, Wallace's successor duringthe second semester of that school year,is dead .C. W. Fowler '08, address unknown,

was Umpire editor in 1907 . Earle W.Radcliffe '09 arts-sc., '12 Master of Arts ;who headed the paper in 1908, is make-up editor for the Oklahoman. WilliamN. Randolph '10, '12 law; was the Um-pire chief in 1909 . Lloyd Maxwell '12,editor in 1910, is an economy expert forthe United States shipping commission .Earl Foster '12 arts-sc., '13 law, the nexteditor is practicing law in OklahomaCity, while Orel Busby '14 law, head ofthe editorial department of 1912, is nowa district judge in Ada .

Prof . H. H. Herbert, director of theschool of journalism, founded the schoolin 1913 . The Umpire was made a semi-weekly paper and its name changed tothe University Oklahoman. Earl Christ-mas '13 jour., editor that year, is nowa free-lance writer and publicity man inSt . Paul, Minnesota. Chester Westfall'16, editor in '14, entered the oil businessshortly after leaving school and is stillengaged in that business in Ponca City .Willard H. Campbell '20, edited the pa-per in 1915 . The following year, it be-came a daily paper and was renamed theOklahoma Daily. Mr Campbell was re-elected editor and served the first yearafter the change .

Fayette Copeland '19, was chosen edi-tor in 1917, the year the United Statesentered the war. Mr Copeland is nowassociate professor of journalism in theuniversity . He was succeeded by HaroldSanders '20, now a lawyer in Dallas,Texas. Dewey H. Neal '21, who is inthe advertising department of the Okla-homa Farmer-Stockman, Oklahoma City,was selected editor in 1919 .

Joseph A. Brandt '21, carried the edi-torship in 1920 . He went to Oxford ongraduation and is now editor of theUniversity of Oklahoma Press. TullyNettleton '23, his successor as studenteditor is employed as editorial writer onthe Christian Science Monitor in Boston,Massachusetts. Mike Monroney '24, edi-tor in 1922, reported for the OklahomaNews after leaving school, since becom-ing manager and owner of the Doc andBill Furniture company in OklahomaCity .Guy P. Webb '24, next in line, is now

a reporter for a paper in San Francisco.

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Orville Priestly '25, editorial head in 1924,is part owner and managing-editor of aweekly and daily paper in Crowley,Louisiana . Roscoe Cate '26, now cityeditor of the Transcript, was elected edi-tor of the Oklahoma Daily in 1925 . Hewas followed by Frank Dennis '29, nownight editor of the Boston Herald. Den-nis edited the Daily for two years .

Savoie Lottinville '29, editor in 1928,will finish his studies at Oxford univer-sity this year, where he was awarded aRhodes scholarship. Paul Kennedy '30,the next in line, is continuity writer forWKY, Oklahoma City radio station .Dick Pierce '31, the last editor to begraduated, is a reporter on the OklahomaCity Times. Jack Fischer '32, is thepresent editor of the Oklahoma Daily.

Senior honorsSeniors were honored when public

pledging ceremonies were held Seniorday by Blue Key, Toga, Checkmate,Pe-et, and Mortar Board . President Biz-zell awarded Letzeiser medals to six out-standing seniors .

PE-ET: Leon Fisher, Andy Beck, andMack Cunnyngham, all of OklahomaCity ; Samuel K. Abrams, Guthrie ;Ralph Dale, Enid; Newton ; and Engle-man.

BLUE KEY: Bob Hurt, Muskogee ; FredO. Newton, Cushing ; Murray MacDon-ald, Oklahoma City ; Chester Stinnett,Enid; Rupert McClung, Trinidad, Colo .,Bernard Doud, Norman; Lee Minter,Oklahoma City ; Charles Engleman, Tul-ia, Texas ; Vincent Dale, Guymon ; HughOwens, Oklahoma City ; Tom Hunter,Paris, Texas ; Earl Sneed, Tulsa ; Jim Tay-lor, Oklahoma City ; Bob Clark, Nor-man; Buck Garrett, Holdenville ; DudleyTurner, Norman; Willis Stark, Oklaho-ma City.MORTAR BOARD: Evelyn Anderson.

Norman; Elizabeth Bearley, OklahomaCity ; Thelma Bradford, Norman ; BettyEvans, Ardmore; Nan Estelle Hunter,Oklahoma City ; Virginia Lester, Okla-homa City ; Gordon Peeler, Elk City ;Eloise Chandler, Tulsa ; Mrs W. B . Biz-zell ; and Miss Edna E. McDaniel, deanof women.CHECKMATE: Pat Sinclair, Dalton Mc-

Bee, Oklahoma City ; Denver Meacham,Clinton ; Daniel Jones, Norman; Dale ;Clark ; Beck ; Doud .TOGA: Robert Ratliff, Cromwell ; Glenn

Collins, N. M. Newport, George Masseyand Ray Will, all of Oklahoma City ;Sinclair ; Newton ; Fisher ; Beck ; Jones ;and Clark.

President Bizzell presented Letzeisermedals to George Miskovsky, OklahomaCity ; Clifford Mell, McKinley, Texas ;Cecil Armstrong, Oklahoma City ; Ger-trude King, Calvin ; Elizabeth Morley,Oklahoma City ; and Marguerite Cham-bless, Norman .

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Masters degrees are receiving a rushin the schools of geology and geologicalengineering, with a total of eight candi-dates anticipating degrees from these de-partments this June . Records show thatthe M. S . degree in geology was neverbefore given to more than four studentsin one year .Two of the eight degrees will go to

women . Ellen Posey '28 geol ., who hasbeen finishing her thesis while employedwith the Empire Oil company of Bartles-ville, and Eudora Edmiston, Winfield,Kansas, will qualify for degrees . Othercandidates for degrees are Cecil G . La-licker, South Haven, Kansas ; Roy Maxey,Enid ; Ed Hammer, Wirt ; Edwin Pat-terson, Oklahoma City ; Ben F . Uhl, NewYork City ; and Fay Coil, Fort Smith,Ark . Thirty-one students registered forgraduate work during the spring and fallsemesters toward M. S . degrees .

Fraternity house changesDeflation of high financing in frater-

nity life is seen as explanation of frater-nity house swapping which is takingplace on the campus . Pi Beta Phi soror-ity girls were looking around for a newerand more roomy establishment at thesame time the Pi Kappa Phi fraternityboys were growing weary of excessivehouse dues . The two Greek orders simp-ly exchanged houses, each assuming theindebtedness of the other. Sigma MuSigma, men's fraternity sold its home toAlpha Xi Delta, sorority . The price was$39,000 . At the beginning of the se-mester, Alpha Omicron Pi vacated itshome and the girls moved into Hesterhall .

Young RepublicansStronger ties between republican al-

umni men prominent in state politics,and students in the university were knitwhen nearly 150 members of the YoungRepublican club went to Chickasha May14, for a lively barbecue and dance spon-sored by John B . Nichlos, oilman . Amongthe invited guests, which included thir-ty members from Oklahoma City andfifty co-eds from the Oklahoma Collegefor Women were Fred Clark, OklahomaCity, former state chairman of the re-publican party ; C . C . Hawk, Shawnee,present chairman ; Lloyd H. McGuire,Guthrie, president of the Young Repub-licans of Oklahoma ; Lew Wentz, PoncaCity ; and W. G. Skelly, Tulsa, republi-can national committeeman .

Round tableClose students of conditions, social, ec-

onomic, and political, are the alert mem-bers of editorial writing classes at theuniversity . Under the leadership of MrsMay Frank Rhoades, the problems of

the world are plucked to the core andanalyzed . Recently, President W. B .Bizzell contributed his tutelage to theaspiring editorialists, by entertaining theadvanced class in his private office, wherehe discussed with students the problemsthey would confront when they enteredthe business world . After the roundtable discussion Doctor Bizzell showedhis visitors rare editions from his libraryconsisting of 1,700 books . He is a mem-ber of a club of 1,500 persons who re-ceive copies of limited editions at desig-nated times . This club is composed ofleading educators and men of lettersthroughout the world .

Ball room managementUnion ballroom dances have been turn-

ed back to the control of the activitiestrust fund committee, following the man-agement of the dances for the past twoyears by the athletic association . Thusreturns the old order of control, recallingthe days when the student council danceswere managed by the student council,and the prize plum to be picked was thejob of dance manager . Ben G. Owen,director of athletics, announces that $I,-200 has been lost by the association onoperation of the dances for the past twoyears .The Ruf Neks and Jazz Hounds will

supplant the old dance manager system,the council decided and those organiza-tions will share in the net profits withthe men's council . With the precedentof hiring only campus orchestras broken,Joe Stamper, council president, announc-ed that not more than $60 will be paid

S. A. M. re-instatedSigma Alpha Mu, men's national so-

cial fraternity, has been reinstated intothe interfraternity council, followingtwo years without membership.

English examinationsFundamentals of grammar, spelling

and theme writing assumed mammothimportance as all juniors and seniorswere "quizzed" in these proficiencies inMay. Eight hundred and forty upper-classmen were grouped together for ex-aminations which must be passed beforedegrees will be granted in the future,for the first time in an effort to improvethe standard of English among students .

Student politics

June

It's political hey-day at the university .This the opinion of most students whohave been watching with elevated eye-

for an orchestra, and that should thecampus orchestras fail to get in line,music will be of the imported varietyin the future .

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brows, the well oiled political machineryfunction in the recent student councilelection, May 3. Despite efforts to endpolitical combines and parties which at-tempt to rule student government, ef-forts which resulted in the "reform" con-stitution of two years ago, wherein po-litical parties were formally abolished,such parties merely became secret ones,thriving more strongly than ever, stu-dents believe.

With election of thirteen new mem-bers of the council, the Administrationparty, headed by Finis "Chick" Gillespie,swept nine of its thirteen candidates in-to office at the recent election . The so-called non-fraternity party, headed byBill Brodersen, Okarche, is backed by theold Beta combine. The Brodersen-Betacombine netted only three seats, havingelected one representative from the phar-macy and education schools, and onefrom the college of engineering.

But the election of members broughtno security to successful candidates, asthree moves were begun immediately tooust them. Thus issues the contention .The engineers will have none of crook-

ed politics, they say, so it is announcedthat they would seek to recall the menelected Tuesday from that school . Thesecond petition by the college of businessadministration charges that two constitu-tional provisions were violated in the elec-tion in the business school, and asksthat the results of the election be thrownout. Hicks Epton, Durant, law schoolmember of the old council, started thethird petition . He avers that the newcouncil was not legally seated since theprecedent was not carried out by the oldcouncil of seating the new council byvote . George Miskovsky, old presidentof the men's council gaveled Joe Stamp-er, Clayton, into the president's officeMay 5.

Jack Fischer, editor of the OklahomaDaily, writes for the student paper, thefollowing:Today two new and lusty combines are bat-

tling in a "non-partisan" election. To the nakedeye there are only two differences between thecombines and the old parties :

1 . The new groups are furtive, scared of thelight . Their politicking is all done in corners,the darker the better .

2 . The caliber of the politicians is consid-erably lower than in the era of the Big Guns,such as Merton Munson and Bob Shelton . Thissad decline is natural-the result of pryingstudent hands off of the money bags. On theday the council dances were protected againststudent plundering, politics began to decline.Able men don't care to bother with such non-profit pastimes . Hence all we have left arerather inept amateurs .

Like most reform movements, the spasm oftwo years ago accomplished exactly nothing .Worse than that, it served only to drive poli-tics underground .

Personally, I'm in favor of a frankness cam-paign. Let's make all the parties open and le-gitimate. Allow candidates all the advertisingand publicity they want. Let student votersknow whom and what they are voting for .

Candidates who were successful in theTURN TO PAGE 330, PLEASE

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The university state economyleader

O NE

of

the

soundest

ofAmerican universities financially, theUniversity of Oklahoma was one of thefirst in the country to take the leadershipin co-operating in curtailing government-al expenditure .The university was the first institution

or department in the state of Oklahomato reduce its budget beyond the alreadyslender sum allowed it for the bienniumby the state legislature.The board of regents of the university

at its meeting May 21, 1931, orderedthat a total of $305,000 of the univer-sity's appropriation be returned to thestate. This made at the time a totalsaving for the current biennium as op-posed to the preceding biennium of$721,000 . The saving in accordance withthe order of the regents was accomplish-ed by a general salary reduction andreduction in maintenance .Recognizing the public spirit actuating

President Bizzell and the board of re-gents in making the reduction duringthe current fiscal year, Governor Murrayissued a statement asking that state in-stitutions and departments return to thestate during the next fiscal year a totalof $2,000,000 . A conference of teacherscolleges was had with the governor andthey at once agreed to make a reduction.

In the meantime, the board of regentsof the university met at Norman March30, approved the recommendation ; ofPresident Bizzell for the ensuing fiscalyear and voted to continue the reductionin the budget so as to allow the uni-versity to return to the state a total of$152,000 during the coming year .

Soon after this meeting, the board'srepresentatives, Regents Lyons andHatchett, met with representatives ofthe board of agriculture and PresidentsBizzell and Bennett. The Oklahoma re-gents stated that the university had al-ready effected a saving but was willingto do its fair share towards reducing therapidly mounting debt of the state, pro-vided that the reduction was made uni-formly by all schools and departmentsof the state. They suggested a uniformcut of ten per cent in the sum appropri-ated by the legislature . The OklahomaA. & M. college agreed to this, as didthe representatives of the other institu-tions in the state.Thus during the ensuing fiscal year,

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all institutions of the state will be re-turning money to the state treasury tohelp reduce the state's debt .The new reduction makes the total

returnable to the state from the uni-versity approximately $202,000 . The to-tal reduction in the budget for this bi-ennium as compared to the preceding bi-ennium thus becomes $847,703.88-thelargest saving not only in amount butin percentage as well, of any institutionor department in the state.The new cut created a grave prob-

lem for President Bizzell, already work-ing miracles with the lowest budget percapita enrollment of any state universityin America. The per capita cost this yearis $194, a saving of $38 over last year .

Determined to preserve the essentialfunctions of the university-a policy inwhich the regents whole-heartedly agree-the president determined to make thenew reduction possible through the fol-lowing means:

First, by reduction in salaries of fac-ulty members and employes ;

Second, by leaving vacancies unfilled,where other members of departments cancarry the teaching duties ;

Third, by appointment of teachers oflower ranks in vacancies which are tobe filled ;

Fourth, by extending the teachingweek from five to six days ;

Fifth, by increasing the teaching loads;Sixth, by elimination or consolidation

of services ;Seventh, by restricting maintenance ex-

penses ;Eighth, by postponing improvements

and repairs of the university groundsand plant.

It has been the aim of both PresidentBizzell and the regents to maintain theuniversity's standards and at the sametime, to face the necessities created bythe national depression . The universityunder President Bizzell was one of thefew institutions in the state which 'dur-ing the past six years closed each yearwith its books balanced, and withoutasking supplemental appropriations fromthe legislature . This same careful man-agement brought about a plan underwhich the essential functions of the uni-versity will be continued without de-stroying the value of the education giventhe state's youth.

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is necessary to have the name in orderto give proper credit ; and seventh, if theborrower will state what the material iswanted for-whether it is for debates,club program, theme or whatever else-it will be helpful in selecting the cor-rect- phase of the subject desired . Whenpossible, requests should be sent severaldays in advance of the time the materialis needed .

Regulations regarding the forwardingof plays and readings follow ; first, loansare made for a period of five hays, withno renewal privileges ; plays are loanedfor the purpose of "reading and selec-tion" only ; the copies necessary for pro-duction must be ordered directly fromthe publishers ; the- publishers should bewritten also with reference to the roy-alties. In addition the regulations ap-plicable to the package library, with theexception of the loan period, as givenabove, are operative in connection withthe loaning of plays and readings . Allcommunications should be addressed tothe department of public information,extension division, University of Okla-homa, Norman, Oklahoma.

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election are : Vincent Dale, Guymon, whowas elected vice-president ; HermanGreenhaw, Hobart, secretary . Dick Mur-ray, independent, Colbert, won the lawschool election. Charles Davis, Okla-homa City, Dale, Stamper, and Green-haw, were administration party candi-dates elected from the college of arts andsciences .

Engineers elected Ernest Childers,Geary ; Raymond McClung, Norman andErvin Glasgow, Carman. In the collegeof business administration, Ralph Cissne,Oklahoma City ; Andy Beck, OklahomaCity were elected .

Cecil Ferree, Skiatook, and Ralph En-ix, Hennessey, were elected in the schoolsof education and pharmacy respectively .Paul Huff, Norman, won the college offine arts seat by default .

Kappa Delta Pi alumniOklahoma City alumni members of

Kappa Delta Pi, national honorary edu-cational fraternity for men and women,entertained recently at the new AndrewJackson junior high school for membersof the chapter at Norman .

Robertson hall presidentMiss Annell Criswell '34 arts-sc ., We-

woka, has been named president of Rob-ertson Hall, dormitory for women. Shewill succeed Miss Floriene Slayton '34,of Oklahoma City .

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Phi Beta Sigma initiatesPhi Beta Sigma, national scholarship

fraternity in education, announces the in-itiation of nine prospective teachers, ma-jors in education in the university. Mem-bership is based upon scholarship andis limited to the upper fifteen per centof the class, according to F . F. Gaither,'21 arts-sc . M . S. '26 ., assistant professorof education and secretary of the fratern-ity . The new members are VirginiaEarley, Oklahoma City ; J . M. Ashton,Norman ; Mrs Ruth Russell, Ringling ;Gertrude White, Prague ; Mrs JudithMarie Gaither, Norman; Anna Neal,Norman; Mrs Emma Lee Bond, Man-gum ; Mrs Ruth Bernard and Irwin F .Bingham, both of Norman.

Dramatic awardsBuffalo Masks, highest honor which

may be accorded to a university actor,have been awarded to eight dramatic artstudents . They are Juanita Beauchamp,Tulsa ; Virginia Dicken, Oklahoma City ;Calvin Good, Chickasha ; Eugene Hass-man, Oklahoma City ; Lucille McGuire,Norman; Subert Turbyfill, '25 B . F . A .in expression ; '26 arts-sc., '32 candidatefor the master's degree in dramatic art ;Larry Haydon, instructor in dramaticart, and Mrs Katheryn Haydon. Allhave taken major parts, either as actorsor technicians in Playhouse productions .The Playhouse, honorary actor's organ-

ization announced the following pledgesat the annual dinner of the fraternity,May 19 :

Doris Pearson, Norman; June MarieWilliams, Oklahoma City ; John S . Weav-er, Dallas ; Subert Turbyfill, Norman;Maurice Steinig, Oklahoma City ; EarlSneed, Tulsa ; Oscar Smith, San Marcos 'Texas ; Lillian Sanders, Weleetka ; IvaJewel Rone, Walters ; Hylagene Robber-son, Norman; Lucille McGuire, Norman;Ben Marks, Tulsa ; Georgia Ledbetter,Norman ; Helen Hillsmeyer, Norman;Gladys Henson, Oklahoma City ; CalvinGood, Chickasha ; Howard Fielden, Ana-darko ; Virginia Dicken, Oklahoma City ;Corinne Chandler, Anadarko; Milo Bris-co, Seminole ; Louis Bond, OklahomaCity ; Juanita Beauchamp, Tulsa ; EugeneBarney and Walter Ainsworth, Camden,Arkansas . Rupel J. Jones, director of theschool of dramatic art, was toastmaster .

German prizeBeryl C . Ward '33, Norman, has been

awarded the prize given by the Zion'sEvangelical church, Oklahoma City, inthe annual German contest of the uni-versity . Seymour Ingerson '33, Chick-asha, and Margaret Barnes '33, Normantied for second place, receiving Germanbooks awarded by Books Abroad.

Sigma Delta, Chi pledgesSigma Delta Chi, professional jour-

nalistic fraternity, announces the pledg-ing of Ervin Lewis, Tulsa ; Hirst Suf-field, Gage ; David Truitt, Helena ; Rob-ert Whitney, Tulsa ; John Fortson, Te-cumseh ; and Ralph Roberts, Guthrie .

Engineers presidentFred Newton, Cushing, is the new

senior president for seniors of '33 . Backedby the engineering students, Newtonwas elected by an overwhelming major-ity in the junior election May 19. . Vir-ginia Lester, Oklahoma City, was electedsecretary, and James Hamill, Norman,vice-president.

Sigma Chi prize

Track men second

Second in tennis

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Lee Bond '32, Chickasha, has beenawarded a $50 life membership prize of-fered by his fraternity, Sigma Chi, forthe best letter submitted to the SigmaChi Magazine by any chapter's associateeditor .

SPORTS OF ALL SORTS

Oklahoma trackmen have just woundup with the heartening record of secondin the Big Six outdoor meet at Lincoln,Nebraska, May 20 and 21 . Alfred "Hip-po" Howell of Nowata was high pointman of the meet with eleven points . TwoBig Six records were broken by Sooners,Ben Marks of Tulsa, throwing the jave-lin 197 feet 9% inches, breaking the oldrecord of Arthur Cox of Oklahoma .Harold "Hap" Morris of Tulsa, made

a new record for the outdoor broad jumpwith 24 feet, 4;z inches, exceeding theold record held by Gray of Nebraska .Nebraska won the Big Six meet, withOklahoma second ; University of Kansas,third ; and Kansas State, fourth .

'Tracksters were brushing up for theOlympic tryouts which were to be heldat Norman May 26-27. The last bigevent of the year was to be the Nationalcollegiate meet at Chicago, June 10-11 .Track schedule : O. U. Op.April 16 Kansas State at

Manhattan

71 2/3 591/3May 6, Nebraska at

Lincoln

63 2/3 67 1/.3May 11, Oklahoma Aggies at

Norman

76 1/2 541/2

The tennis squad, coached by Prof.John O. Moseley, made an exceptionallyfine showing this year by rating secondin the Big Six conference . Charlie Davis,star player, is a junior from OklahomaCity, and will be back next year. The

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other three players are sophomores, andall expect to be back to boost tennis overthe top next season . They are Jim Ses-sions, Okmulgee ; Ray McPhail, WichitaFalls; and Bill Shofstall, Tulsa. TheUniversity of Kansas, which won theBig Six conference this year in tennis,was the only victor over the varsityteams. The schedule :

O. U. Op .April 11, Okla Aggies at

Norman

6 0April 16, Missouri at Norman 4

2April 23, Kansas at Norman 0

6May 4, Missouri State Teachers

College at Springfield

4

0May 5, Kansas at Lawrence 0

6May 6, Kansas State at

Manhattan

4 2May 7, Nebraska at Lincoln 6

0One non-conference game was played

April 30 with Southeastern state teach-ers at Durant, Oklahoma winning 5-1 .

Baseball season

ScoreO. U. Op .

April 1, 4, Central at

3

1Edmond

8 9April 8, 9, Oklahoma Aggies 7

6at Norman

3

6April 15, 16, Central at

5

7Norman

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at Manhattan

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5April 22, Missouri at Columbia 3

9May 20, 21 Oklahoma Aggies

18

4at Stillwater

4

8May 13, 14, Kansas at

9

6Norman

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Southwest olympics

The cream of the southwest track andfield men are expected to compete at thepreliminary Olympic track and field meetat Owen field May 26-27. Approval forthe meet has been given by the WesternAssociation of the American AthleticUnion, and all athletes from this associa-tion's territory, including Missouri, Kans-as, Arkansas, Oklahoma and St. Clairand Madison counties of Illinois, are eli-gible to compete, providing they holdregistration in the A. A. U.The meet also will be open to Texas

and other states' athletes providing ath-letes register and secure traveling per-mits .

Competition in every event on theOlympic track and field slate except themarathon, decathlon, relays and walks,has been planned, university officials an-nounce. The gala event will includethe hop, step and jump, hammer throw,5,000 and 10,000 meter runs and the col-orful 3,000 meter steeplechase, events notusually contested in the average trackand field meet in the United States .Any athlete who retains his amateur

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standing, even though he may be gradu-ated from college or may never have at-tended college, is eligible for this meet .Some of the outstanding athletes expect-ed to attend are :Glen Cunningham, Clyde Coffman, Joe

Klaner and Mutt Thornhill of Kansas,the Dunkin brothers of Missouri, HarryHinkley and Milton Erlich of KansasState, Schroeder and White of Pittsburg,Kansas Teachers, Skippergosh of Haskell,Harold Manning and Forward of Wichi-

ta university, Glen Dawson, "Hippo"Howell, Clifford Mell, Harold Morris,Phil Kleas and Bill Newblock of Okla-homa, Payton Glass, George McGuireand Ira Littlejohn of Oklahoma A. andM., Gene Medley of Southwestern, Ma-rion "Red"' Strong of Southwestern, Pe-den of Central, Fulton and Bradley ofOklahoma Baptist university, Gray ofAbilene, Texas, college, Oliver of TexasChristian, Hodges, University of Texasand many others .

Belles lettres and bell ringers

Frederick Lynn Ryan. A History ofLabor Legislation in Oklahoma . Nor-man. University of Oklahoma Press .1932 . Price $1.75 .

AGITATION for labor leg-islation in Oklahoma originated with thecoal miners since they and the railroadworkers were the first large groups in

t h e Territory.The miners cameinto conflict witht h e railroads,principal ownersor lessors of themines ; and strikeswere frequentlybroken by therailways import-ing Lithuanianand other alienstrike - breakers .The Oklahoma

Federation of Labor came into existenceas the Twin-Territory Federation of La-bor December 28, 1903 and since thattime has assumed the leadership in en-deavoring to obtain adequate progressivelabor legislation . At first, the organiza-tion was dominated by the miners butgradually, as the greater industrializationcontinued, the constituent elementschanged .There is a curious anomaly in Okla-

homa which Doctor Ryan in this ablestudy points out. Oklahoma was pri-marily an agricultural state, at least inso far as politics reflects the sociologyof the state . Consequently, much need-ed legislation in the early days was de-feated by the farmers or by the legisla-tors afraid of the supposed power of thefarmers because such legislation wasclaimed to be ineffective on farms andhence, class legislation . Another curiouspoint was some of the methods takento escape observance of such labor laws

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as were passed . There was one instancein which railroads for a while showedmachievellian skill : a law had been pass-ed requiring letters of dismissal to em-ployes quitting their jobs . The railroadsmaintained their "black lists" and whenan employe resigned or was fired whoappeared on that list, he would be givenhis letter of dismissal and qualificationas required by law. When he presentedthe letter to the executive of anotherrailroad, the latter would hold the letterto the light ; if it showed a watermarkof a man with his head cut off, thenthe applicant was on the "black list."As soon as labor discovered this tactic,it secured an amendment requiring let-ters of dismissal to be written on papersatisfactory to the laborer.There is much profitable reading in

this book for Oklahomans interested inthe development of labor. Not only that,but the volume offers a footnote on Ok-lahoma sociology extremely valuable toany student of Oklahoma's history anddevelopment.

Jeanne d'Ucel . Berber Art: An Intro-duction. Norman . University of Oklaho-ma Press. 1932 . $4 .

In 1926 Jeanne d'Ucel and her hus-band, Oscar Brousse Jacobson, travel-ed through North Africa studying thecountry, the Berbers, their customsand art . In this country of a varying cli-mate, untouched by outside influences,they found hard headed, utilitarian peo-ple expressing their philosophy of life inan unsophisticated and spontaneous man-ner. Because of their continual fight forexistence against their relentless climatetheir expression of beauty has been lim-ited almost wholly to articles of barestnecessity . Typical of these are the in-dispensable water jug, the blanket, therug, firearms and jewelry.