OCR::/Vol_033/WLURG39_RTP_19290427/WLURG39_RTP_19290427_001.2.txt 1 Y O. D. K. is sending out men this week to line .up prospective freshmen. BY THE STUDENTS, FOR THE UNIVERSITY Finals Wire, that girl now Informal May Support Finals! v6£iiiiii3i3E1T ®.D.l{. retina Deputations To State Schools Fourteen Men To Visit Vir- ginia Institutions In Inter- est of University. TO SEEK MATERIAL FOR COMING YEARS Expedition Planned To Get Line On Best Of Pros- pective Students. Fourteen men will be sent out over the week-end under the aus- pices of the Alpha Circle of Omri- con Delta Kappa, to speak at va- rious preparatory and high schools in the state. The depu- tations are being sent in the in- terests of the University, but it is not the purpose to increase the enrollment of the school as much as to get a line on the best material available for next year. This is the first time that such trips have been made for several years, and it is hoped by those in charge that the experiment wil prove a success. Verbon E. Kemp, alumni sec- retary, has made arrangements for the speakers at the various cties. J. P. Lowry, P. R. Harrison_ and C. C. Hutchinson will speak at Woodstock, and Winchester_ Va., and also at Martinsburg, W. Va. G. N. Lowdon, T. B. Fitz- hugh, and S. F. Hampton will speak at five schools in Washing- ton, D. C., and at Alexandria, Va. R. D. Powers, Jr., and C. W. Gordon will speak at Richmond and Petersburg, Va. Myer Selig- man and Graham Morison will speak at Bristol and Johnson City‘, Tenn. E". A. Fitzpatrick and J. R. Moore will speak at Roanoke, Va. J. M. Holt will go to Lewisburg, W. Va., and W. J. Dorsey will speak at Bedford and Danville, Va. College Choir of Sweet Briar Here For Program The Sweet Briar college choir will present their program of sacred music in th Lee chapel tomorrow. The choir will make its headquarters at Dean Camp- bell’s and will eat Sunday sup- per at the Beta Theta Pi house. Twenty-five girls compose the choir who will present the follow- ing program: 0. Savior Sweet-Bach. Largo—Handel. Lo, How a Rose is Blooming— Preatorius. Ye Sons of Isreal*Mendelsohn. O Lord Most Holy—Franck (a solo by Miss Elizabeth Copeland). Ave Verum—Feature. The Day is Gently Sinking—— R. W. Martin. Once Long Ago—Tschaikowsky. 0 light Divine—Kastalsky. J erusalein—Perry. The choir will be accompanied by R. W. Martin on the Piano. President Meta Glass and several faculty. members are on the trip. Beatrice Wainwright is director. the offices of the Y. M. C. A. % Lambert Named “I3” Club Head Beverly J. Lambert, Jr., of Holly Grove, Arl<., was elected president of the “13” club at a meeting of the club, held in Newcomb hall last night. He is a junior in te commerce school and is a member of Sigma Nu social fraternity. At the same time, Harvey L. Williams, Jr., of Richmond, was’ elected secretary-treasurer. Wil- liams is also a junior in the com- merce school. He is a member of the Phi Kappa Sigma social fraternity, and was president of the sophomore class last year. year, these officers will lead the figure in the annual dance spon- sored by the club. 0 Princeton frosh prefer 2. Phi Beta Kappa key to a varsity let- ter, and a college girl to any other kind, and would rather support a college paper than a football team. My word! wiisuiiiidioii AND L Old Time Barroom Still May Be Seen In Lexington East Lexington Man Owns Completely Equipped Saloon —Unused For Thirty Years “Name your poison, gents!” In these days when the old sal- utation of a kindly barkeeper has become the death cry of the mod- ern bootlegger, it seems out of place. But in East Lexington’_s one saloon, it seems to echo around the walls. For East Lexington has a sa- loon. That is, every requisite of a saloon except the staple com- modities, beer and whisky, which are lacking. Untouched for nearly ‘thirty years, the visitor may see, in an old building on Main street, the last word in the old-time saloon. He may go through the swinging doors, up to the oak and walnut bar, put his foot on the brass rail, and let his eye roam at will over the glasses, whisky containers, flavor containers, beer kegs and malloets, cocktail shakers, meas- uring cups, flasks, labels and all the accessories of the bigger and better barroom. Distillers and brewers have their gaudy advertisements on the wall, one from Staunton, one from Baltimore and the rest from Northern firms. Peculiarly shap- ed chairs, their rear legs shorter than ll1O "front ones, are scatter- ed about the room. The “hind legs” are sawed off to give the patrons their desired tilt without encouraging them to put their feet on the walls. Students of Washington and Lee University and cadets of the Virginia Military Institute were among his most frequent custom- ers, said the former barkeep. In the time of his housc’s heyday, some could be found in there every night. “None of them ever got drunk, though,” he said. Venable Wins Speech Tryout More Than—I®_Hear Three Speakers In Contest In Chapel. W. W. Venable, Virginia, of Norfolk, a freshman lawyer, won the right to represent Wash- ington and Lee in the Virginia in the tryouts held Thursday night in Lee Chapel. He with representatives from eleven State Oratorical contest will compete colleges and universities from all sections of the state at William and Mary college, at Williams- burg, next Friday. The public speaking clesses and a set of faculty judges decided the win- ner. The voting was extremely Welfare Board Has lllany Cases Average of Two a Day Is Record of Board Working With Red Cross. An average of nearly two wel- fare cases a day has been handled by Mrs. Bessie L. VVoolfolk, coun- ty welfare worker, since her ar- rival here in the fall of 1926, ac- cording to a recent report made to the Board of Public Welfare and the Red Cross society here. During this period» of thirty months, Mrs. Woolfolk attended 17,328 visits, traveled 32,000 miles, wrote 3,016 letters, and furnished 11,710 garments. This work was financed by an annual allowance of $3,488.77 made by the Boardxof Public Welfare, in- close and it took the judges some l Cluding $500 g‘iV€Y1 annually by time to come to decision. There were two other candidates: J. E. Piersol, Jr.; and J. R. Moore. Venable spoke on the “Great De- fender” (John Marshall); Moore gave his speech on the “Consti- tution;” and Piersol made an ex- tremely good talk on “Sover- eignty of Ideas.” A crowd of more than a hundred students were present at the tryout. H. M. Platt represented Wash- ington and Lee in the contest last year and won first place. The prize is a gold medal set with a diamond which is considered quite a valuable award. The con- tets have been held since 1910 and Washington and Lee repre- sentatives have won a majority of them. the Red Cross. Mrs. Woolfolk has brought $21,- 310.06 into Rockbridge county from outside sources. This sum includes $9,583.00 obtained from adjusted certificates for e'x-serv- ice men, $5,366.72 from pensions, claims and compensations for sol- diers, and $4,228.44 from the ju- venile court for neglected wives and children. Ninety—two mothers and 209 illegitimate children have been been cared for, homes being found for some. Employmentyfor 150 persons has been obtained and 300 physical examinations been given. Among Mrs. Woolfolk’s files are letters showing individual re- (Continued on Page Four). have Tourists Are Puzzled at Scarcity of Students After Recent Elections By C. ‘H. WILSON. After the polls closed at the re-, cent election a group of tourists visited the college. ,, “Pretty good looking buildings you have here,” said one to the janitor, “but where are the stu- dents? It’s not Sunday, is it? I haven’t seen a Washington and Lee student on the campus.”- “It is kinder queer,” the jani- tor agreed. “I don’t know where they are. I wuz up town while ago and I didn’t see nary a stu- dent up there.” “What? No students!” quoted the beautiful ‘daughter of the selfsame tourist whcih brought forth the following parable from the janitor: “When a fair maiden comes to Lexington without there being a dance manifold students gather around and gaze upon the entic- ing pulchritude of so rare a sex.” “Heh—-heh—heh-heh,” cackled the grandpa tourist. “Thunderin’ tarnation but where are them students. Nannette’s shore perty enough to mak ’em all gaze at her.” About that time a tall instruc- tor came out of Washington Col- lege and walked toward the chapel. “Pardon me, sir,” began the tour- ist, “but are you a student here?” “No! I am a member of the faculty,” the half—time freshman instructor snapped, his pride wounded by the cruel question. “Well, then, where are the stu- dents? I’ve been on the campus thirty minutes and in town two hours and I haven’t seen a Wash- ington and Lee student yet.” A sleepy-eyed young man came walking weakly down the side- walk. “Ah, there’s one, said the instructor. Then he (the instruc- tor passed out (of this story). “Poor boy,” tenderly noted the mother of the tourist’s daughter Nannette, “he looks pale and weak. What can be the matter with him?” “Hello, young man,” shouted the tourist in a most hearty, back-slappiiig, Rotarian fashion, “where are all your mates (the tourist had gone down to sea in a rowboat once and thus knew (Continued on Page Four). EE UNIVERSITY, SATURDAY, APRIL 27, 1929 Eelegates Of l9 Prep Schools Fifty-two Delegates From Six States Registered To Press Convention. SESSION HELD FRI. AND SAT., MAY 11-12 Open Forum Meetings Will Be Held To Discuss Pub- lication Problems. Fifty-two delegates from nine- teen schools in six Southern states have already registered for the fourth annual convention of the Southern Interscholastic Press Association, to be held here May 10 and 11. A delegate from the Hatties- burg, Mississippi, High school will journey the greatest dis- tance. Others come from towns in Florida, North Carolina, Mary- land, West Virginia, and Virginia. The first meeting will be held Friday morning, May 10, and sessions will continue through both that and the following day. Members of the School of Jour- nalism staff will address the high school journalists on such profes- sional phases of newspaper work as “Writing the Book Review,” “The Importance of Accuracy in Reporting,” etc. Open Discussions. Open forum gatherings will discuss problems that confront high school editors, and many of the publication advisers who at- tend will speak on their individ- ual problems. The convention will close with a “Made-in-Dixie” banquet, at which, to quote a recent article in a Richmond paper, everything servedw-food, favors, and speeches ~will be made in Dixie. Mem- bcrs of Sigma Delta Chi, national professional journalistic fraterni- ty, will present a dramatic play- net at this time entitled “A Pro- fession is Born.” A big feature is also promised for the evening, the details of which are being kept secret until the banquet night. Prominent newspaper men of national notelwill talk at the banquet and a paper will be is- sued on the banquet floor. Phi 1;; Kzgpa Holds Banquet With Initiation Hodges, Peery and Powell Are Speakers At Banquet For New Men. The Gamma of Virginia chap- ter of Phi Beta Kappa, national honorary scholastic fraternity, initiated 16 new members last night at 7 o’clock in the Alumni club room. Thirteen students and three alumni were taken in at this time. Immediately following the ini- tiation ceremonies, a banquet was given at the Dutch Inn. Mr. Robert M. Hughes of Norfolk, Va., made a very interesting talk to the new members on the sub- ject of History of Alpha Chapter at William and Mary. L. E. Powell and Mr. Peery also spoke. The thirteen students are: Gatewood Brock, G. W. Dunning- ton, L. A. Haskell, N. E. Hawes, M. M. Heuser, R. B. Lee, J. L. Lockett, Jr., L. F. Powell, I. T. Sanders, J. M. Shackleford, J. C. Wilbourn, W. H. Wilcox, Jr., and Bernard Yoepp, Jr. T. J. Sugrue was not initiated due to illness in Washington hos- pital. His initiation will prob- ably be held as soon as he re- turns to school. The alumni who were taken in are: Judge H. W. Holt of Staun- ton, Va., Hon. G. C. Peery of Tazewell, Va., and C. H. Morri- sett of Richmond, Va. —?—o The mustache, that bushy little appendage of so many collegiate upper lips, has received the cold shoulder from the feminine pop- ulation at the University of Michi- gan. “Pure vanity,” said one girl. ?___._._.____,____.:_.._.‘ Doctor Smith Calls 2 Lee “Sublime Rebel” ln Lynchburg Speech INTEREST MANIFEST IN CLASS ELECTIONS Wth many candidates and active campaigning, the class elections this year promise to draw more than usual inter- est. , Sophomores will meet in Newcomb hall to elect their officers for next year’s junior class; freshmen will elect theirs in the geology lecture room. In the law classes, the freshman lawyers will meet in the south lecture room in Tucker hall, and the junior lawyers will meet in the north lecture room. All elections promptly at night. be held Monday will 7:30 Finals lnlormal Scheduled For Sat., May ll Best Informal Of Year In Prospect; Collegians End Season. the drive started last Wednesday arrange- the Finals Informal May 11 are being completed. The Southern Following Finals ments for Collegians will make their last appearance of the sea- son at this dance, for years the of informal finest and most pretentious Washington and Lee’s affairs. “Dream Train,” “Allah’s Ga1‘> den,” and “Mean 'I‘o Me,” are a few of the numbers to be fea- tured, according to an advance The Collegians are working on these and a variety of other pieces pre- paring for the dance as their last appearance this season. The or- chestra will probably disband this summer, and does not plan to re- new their contract with the French Line on whose boats they played during the summer of 1928. All proceeds from the Informal will go toward the financing of Finals. The finance committee reported favorably on their drive Wednesday, but Finals budget is still short some $900, George Lanier said yesterday. An infor- mal drive will be conducted after the first of the month, and mem- bers of the committee will inter- view again the men who have made arrangements to give their checks after that time. Finals Informal May 11 will of- fer Washington and. Lee’s fancy dancers a chance to get in train- ing for the culminating dances in June. Hitherto this informal has been the best and most wide- ly attended of the season. The week-end of the dance this year will be featured by a baseball game with V. P. I. here on Fri- day, by the dance Saturday, and probably by warm May weather throughout. i It shouldn’t be hard to picture the affair—Doremus gym in the moonlight—a dreamy rythm with- in———a touch of spring moon-mad- ness—a long, warm May evening —shadowy buildings and white columns on the campus and lov- ers’ lane a. silvery path through the grass behind the chapel—a crescent moon floating in a sea of stars and purple sky——bright dresses, and touch of hands— laughter, and touch of lips——then the swinging rythm within, again, and the dance, and the Girl. Wire that girl now for Washington and Lee’s finest Informal May 11. .:__T_ Psychologists at the University of Utah proved that at least 50 per cent of the students cheat during exams. This practice, they say, is prevalent because the students believe that cribbing pays and is universal. Crowded rooms and physical inconveniences are blamed for a large part of the cheating. announcement last night. 0 Excessive drinking during home-coming celebration at Colo- rado college last month has caus- ed a ban to be placed on all for- “They are all right in their place, but they are misplaced.” mal social events except junior prom for the rest of the year. NUMBER 54 President of University Stirs Heaters With Address on General Lee As Pioneer of Progress “Robert E. Lee, the Life-Long Rebel,” served as a subject for President Henry Louis Smith of Washington and Lee University in his address before the annual meeting of the Sphex club of Lynchburg, when he pictured the Southern chieftain as one of those by whose opposition to crystal- ized ideals and customs all hu- man progress has been achieved. Dr.’E. C. Glass, president of the club, presided over the meet- ing which was attended by ap- Patterson To Sail For China On August 16 Retiring Y.M.C.A. Secretary Was Prominent In Activi- ties While Student Here. Mr.,C. H. Patterson, for the past two years general secretary of the Washington and Lee Y. M. C. A., will sail from San Francis- co for China on August 16th to resume his missionary work there. Upon his arrival in that coun- try he will go to his station at Sutsien about 300 miles north of Shanghai, which is the interior station of the Southern Presby- terian mission. This will be Mr. Patterson’s second trip to China as a Mission- ary. His first trip was made in 1923 following his graduation from the Union Theological sem- inary, but he was forced to leave in 1927 ‘due to the revolution which was going on at that time. Mr. Patterson was born in China and spent several years in that country before coming to America for an education. He was graduated from this school with high honors in 1919. He was a member of Beta Theta Pi so- cial fraternity, and Omicron Del- ta Kappa and Phi Beta Kappa honorary fraternities. He re- ceived a monogram in football and was also a member of the boat crew. After his graduation, he taught school for one year in Danville, Va., going from there to the sem- inary from which he graduated in 1923. During that summer, before sailing to take up his work he was married to Miss Francis Glasgow, of Lexington, who will return with him on his second trip. nrive_r§laii§«l For Va. Post Former Director Of Athletics At South Carolina May Succeed Brown. James G. Driver, recently re- signed director of athletics at the University of South Carolina, is slated for a similar post at the University of Virginia, according to information released recently by the Richmond News-Leader. He will succeed D. Ellis Brown, graduate manager at Virginia since 1922, who has given up his post to enter the coal business. The post of athletic director was created by the Athletic Council of Virginia several months ago and the job offered to Ray Morrison, coach of football at the Southern Methodist University, ‘but Morrison declined the job. Driver is a graduate of Vir- ginia, winning his monogram in four major sports. He was head coach for a time at William and Mary before accepting his position at South Carolina. proximately 150 persons, including club and their guests, a number of the guests of the state and including the presidents members of the being from other parts of several important educational institutions. Response to the ad- dress of Dr. Smith was made by Dr. A. L. Wilson, a member of the club and son of Dr. Smith’s predecessor in the presidency of Washington and Lee University, while others who spoke briefly at conclusion of the meeting includ- ed President J. P. McConnell of Radford State Teachers college, President J. L. Jarman of Farm- ville State Teachers college and President Charles J. Smith of Roanoke college. In opening the meeting Dr. Glass described briefly the history and nature of the Sphex club, re- calling that it was formed seven- teen years ago, is limited to a meetings at which papers are read and discussed by members and, once a year, entertains its friends with an open meeting to which some outside speaker is in- vited. He recalled also that Dr. Smith was the speaker at the club’s first annual meeting and is the first speaker to be recalled by the club for an “encore.” Free Spirits Opposed. “The slow progress of civiliza- tion always is due to those free spirits who rebel against the crys- talized traditions of their time,” Dr. Smith began, “and although such men may come to be revered by future generations they are crucified and ostracized by their own contemporaries.” Recalling that Christ himself was crucified as a convicted rebel and that this has been the fate of “martyrs from the sixteenth century down to Woodrow Wil- son,” the speaker warned that no different fate could be expected by the American or the Virginian of today who rebels against rc- ligious bigotry or political despo- tism. “But,” he continued, “if Ameri- can civilization is to escape the fate of‘ civilizations of the past. it must be by accomplishing the miracle of. refusing to become crystalized and by allowing the hated new to triumph over the revered and sacred old. “As a twentieth-century pro- gressive occupying the place and attempting to carry on his task. I wish to present to you tonight five flashlight pictures of the char- acter and work of the most aw- less and sublime rebel in Ameri- can history, Robert E. Lee. I do this in the hope that we may catch his inspiration and mould our civic loyalties after the Lee ideal.” The first picture he presented was that of Lee as a cavalry of- ficer in the United States Army “whose rigid morality, total ab- stinence and habits of daily liv- ing and praying set him apart from his associates. Cut off from the influence of church and home his military career yet was marked by purity of life, speech and conduct. He was an absolute rebel'against the customs and tra- ditions of military men of his day. , * Faith the True Measure. “Floating over his head as the one ag of his life-long allegia- ance, we see not the stars and stripes nor yet the stars and bars, but the sacred banner of the cross. “In these troublous times of waning faith and drooping ideals let us pray that we and our chil- dren and our children’s children may from this lofty life learn that a living, loving personal faith is (Continued on Page Four). OCR::/Vol_033/WLURG39_RTP_19290427/WLURG39_RTP_19290427_002.2.txt PAGE TWO flip Tiling-tum lfihi (ESTABLISHED 1897) WASHINGTON A-ND LEE UNIVERSEY SEMI-WEEKLY Member of the Virginia Intercollegiate Press Association. Subscription $3.10 per year. in advance OFFICE AT DEPARTMENT OF JOURNALISM Telephones: Editor-in-Chief, 489 and 316; Business Manager, 430; Managing Editor, 412; University News Editor, 579; Sports Editor, 112; Editorial Ilooms, 2043 and 2143. 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If the choice were left to me whether to have a free; press or a free government, I would choose a free press. Thomas Jefferson. THE OLD QUESTION It may seem a little early to talk about fraternity rushing, but the end of the year is in sight and plans are already being‘ 131d for next fall’s hectic weeks. Whenever the question of rushing comes up there is usually an argument Over the method that should be employed. Such has happened at the annual Interfraternity Con- ference in New York this winter. A debate on the merits of deferred pledging was ar- ranged, with the subject: “Resolved that after the opening of the freshman year there should be a period of time during which rushing and pledging to fraternity membership should be prohibited.” The affirmative was taken by Dean J. A. Burs- ley, of Michigan, and Dean Floyd Field, Of Georgia Tech, and the negative was taken by Dr. Charles A. Tonsor, Delta Sigma Phi, and Dr. Charles W. Gerstenberg, treasurer of the conference. The arguments used by the affirmative were, in the main, as follows: Delayed pledging will result in better freshman scholarship. It will permit the fraternity to judge the candidate closely, as an indi- vidual. It will permit a freshman to know something of the fraternity he is invited to join. It will result in fewer Christmas graduates, fewer freshman casualties, and fewer broken pledges. It will do away with the underhand methods that are inherent in unrestricted rushing. The negative brought out these points: If there are abuses in the present system, delay in rushing and pledging will not cure them. If pledging is delayed, other under- graduate organizations will profit at the fraternities’ expense. It would be unfair to the freshman to deprive him of the home atmosphere of the fraternity house, the democratic discipline of the fraternity, and the character molding in the smallest pos- sible organized group you can get on the college campus. Delayed pledging would be injurious to the fraternity as a business enterprise, with all the attendant evils of insufficient income. It will result in boot- legging of freshmen. It will brand the fra- ternity “as a vile influence from which freshmen must be shielded.” The present methods of rushing keep the freshmen from worrying six months or a year as to what fraternity he will make. The arguments that the negative present- ed in the debate are the arguments for continuing the system of rushing and pledging now in use on the Washington and Lee campus. The arguments of the affirm- ative are the ones for revising the present system. Here, a freshman may be pledg- ed at any time after his matriculation; he may not be initiated until after he has pass- ed an amount of school work required by the faculty. There have been unfortunate instances where hasty pledging has brought about mistakes on both sides; there have been in- stances of “cutthroat” rushing; the use of the “sweet box” is not strange here, but we believe such cases are in a minute min- ority. And we agree with Doctor Tonsor, when he said, that if there are abuses in pledging will not cure them. . WELCOME IMPROVEMENTS Improvements are always welcome. One of the greatest improvements on the Wash- ington and Lee Campus for many years was the erection of the Memorial bridge across Wood’s Creek gorge to Wilson field. An- other welcomed addition was the new side- walks that greeted old students on coming to school last September. And now comes the announcement of another forward step toward beautifying the campus. In the last issue of the RING- TUM PHI was a story which told of the plans that have been made for brightening up a corner of the campus that has long been an eyesore. The plans, onqwhich ac- tion will be started in June, call for exten- sive paving and beautifying in the part of the campus lying between Dormus gymnas- '.um and Graham dormitory. Persons attending university functions in the gym and on the athletic field have here- 5:0-fore parked their cars in front of the gym. As a result the ground there is Jleeply rutted and the grass bare and scan- ty. According to the new plans a parking place will be constructed, in the rear of the gym, and no parking will be allowed on the grass in front. A concrete driveway will be constructed to the rear of the gym to faciliate turning around. A . curb, high ‘enough to discourage driving over, will be built between the driveway and the campus in front. There are other good features about the plan other than saying the grass and beau- tifying the campus. Traffic will be enab- led to move faster. At dances the cars can drive up to the gymnasium entrance, dis- charge their passengers, make the turn around the gymnasium, and then either drive off for another load, or park. All this can be done much more speedily than the old method of circling a dormitory, passing the library, stopping at the gym and then driving toward town directly into persons walking to the dance. If the Town of Lexington were as pro- gressive as the University officials in the matter of paving where paving is neces- sary, more improvements would greet the returning students next fall. Brick side- walks and rough streets, will probably, however, last as long as the town itself. _mm. THE NEW COACH Eugene Oberst the new football coach, will be here Monday. He comes to Lexing- ton from Indiana to take over the spring football practice, started by his assistant, Mike Palmer. Sentiment on the campus is behind the new coach. Students are expecting the Washington and Lee football team to make a comeback this fall. While they realize it is next to impossible for 2. new coach to put out a world beater his first year, they are sure that Oberst will bring to Lexing- ton exactly what the Generals need to win some games. He will have a good material. The ear- ly practices show that. Not a huge squad, such as he was accustomed to work with at Notre Dame, as a star under Rockne, but a comparatively small band of men that are capable and determined to put Washington and Lee back on the football map. . From his record, and from his recco- mendations, one gets the opinion that Oberst is a_ man who knows what orders to give and is one that is capable of having them carried out. And when he starts teaching the Rockne system here, he will have a class of sincerely attentine. students that any professor would envy. 0 COLOR-BLIND The value of light signals to regulate road traffic was discussed at the transport commission’s meeting when .Mervyn O’Gor- man, vice-president of the Royal Automo- tive club, declared that the employment of red lights was almost useless, as 25 per cent of the male population was practically color blind. The use of the red light in connection with with motor cars should be abolished. It was an inheritance from the railroad companies. , It was preferable to signal by means of form or shape rather than by color. If the triangle was a danger sign there was no need for it to be ‘red. The chairman, Sir A. Griffis Boscawen, asked Mr. O’Gorman why he referred to male motorists only. _ “Because,” he replied amid laughter, “no woman is color-blind. Color-blindness is a thing the female sex can transmit, but does not suffer from itself/’—London Ex- press. the present system, delay in rushing and THE RING-TUM PHI sq... What Other Editors Say WOMEN IN BUSINESS It used to be that you could learn who was in New York’s smartest society by consulting the social register or newspaper col- umns devoted to the doings of the city’s most exclusive circles. Now you can learn nearly as much by walking along Fifty- seventh Street or Madison Avenue and noting the names on the win- dows of the small smart shops. Society women—the daughters of those who used to speak of “trade” as if it were a disease— have gone into business so rapid that the occasional one who does now a days is regarded as a bit odd by her sisters. Since the war the idle women, the waster, the parasite, have al- most vanished. Society, so-called, no longer has the appeal it once held for thinking men and women. The days when the climber had to be literally an acrobat to “get in”are practically gone. Just to dine out and dance and be “en- tertained” by dreary entertain- ers is insufficient. It is not that a little nonsense now and then is not still relished by the wisest men and women, for one will see them, after the day’s work, glad of the glimpse of the places of fun and frolic. But one notices that they go home earlier than they used to do, for there is work to be done on the morrow—and. staying up until two and three o’clock in the morning is no longer possible if one’s nerves are to be steady at the shop. Women, especially those of the younger generation, who repre- sent many of the best known names in the social register, eith- er own or are associated with fully a hundred business‘ enter- prises. Marjorie Oelrichs was one of the first, and her success is widely known. Mrs. Robert McAdoo, Mrs. Edward S. Cowles, Agnes Porter Wright, Mrs. Wilt- bank, Natalie Slocum, Margaret Phelps, Mrs. George Howard, who owns and operates shops both in New York and Florida; Mrs. R. T. Wilson, who deals in antiques —these are only a scattered few. There are a score of titled wom- en, particularly those of the Rus- sian and other deposed nobilities, who have adopted New York residence and are earning their living by daily attendance at busi- ness. Mrs. Franklin D. Roose- velt, wife of the New York gov- ernor, who owns and operates a furniture factory; the daughter of an Episcopal bishop conducts a travel agency. No longer need anyone feel sur- prised over this state of things, however, for evidences of a sim- ilar feeling are in every city where the doers among women are striking out for a closer con- tact with the world of affairs- Charles Hanson Towné, in Har- per’s Bazar. ___m_.0_'__j__ CONRAD’S TALK Now that Conrad talked for effect. He just talked as one friend to another, considerate of other opinions and quick to ap- preciate a contrary point of view. Nor did he lead conversation into channels that appealed to him un- less he saw that they appealed to his listener also. On the contrary he always tried to talk to people on their own subjects. I have heard him speak to his gardener about gardening. I have heard him speak to his chauffeur about the mechanics of motor cars. I have heard him speak to a vil- lager about local affairs, and he was completely at home in con- versations of that sort. That is to say, he discussed all such mat- ters with that sense of bowing to him at once on a proper level with his hearers. Everybody with whom Conrad talked found him companionable, for there was no air of deigning about him and no air of boredom. He . . . liked to know how things were done; he had an interest in affairs and liked to know what was going on. There never was a man who was less of a mental recluse or less attached to the ideas of any clique. With children, he immediately got terms. Which leads me to say that all Conrad’s letters possess an offin- ity of his talk. When I read a in particular, on level letter of his I not only gauge the exact mood in which it was writ- ten, but I judge the very tone he would have used if he had spoken these words. The intimate friend- liness is reproduced exactly, ast also are the pensive moments of memory and those piercing asides or irritable outbursts which were so typical of the man. There is is no need for me to discluss his letters, but I will say this: that those who study them will catch unaware the veritable echo of Conrad’s voice.—Richard Curle, in “The Last Twelve Years of Joseph Conrad.” O THE RIGHT ANSWER. The Fort Meade, Florida, Lead- er propounded the query, “Why is :1 newspaper like a woman?” and offered a year’s subscription for the best answer which brought forth these replies: “Because you can believe ev- erything they say; they are thin- ner than they used to be; they have bold faced types; they are easy to read; well worth looking over; back numbers not much in demand; they are not afraid to speak their minds; they have a great deal of influence, and if they know anything they usually tell it.” “Because they always have the last word. Because they carry the news wherever they go.” The correct answer is: Because every man should have one of his own and not run after his neigh- bor’s.”—Walton Tribune. '--C7/‘ At: the annuai Young Mcn’s Christian Association banquet held last. Monday night at the Presbyterian church the organiza- tion was honored in having for its principal speakers James Ap- pleby and Roland Sims, graduates of Davidson college and now stu- dents at Union Theological semi- nary, who spoke on the ;:i'.i,;'i-rss of the Y.‘M. C. A. at other col- leges and offered suggestions as to its activity on this campus. The retiring president, A. C. Junkin, spoke on the progress and activity of the Y. M. C. A. on the Washington and Lee cam- pus and of the plans to be car- ried out in the future. The elections (T n“«::*; }':~s1i"s of- ficers were h.-.d =:~.;:tl arc: President, J. 1‘. i)uvi.5_. vl.-c-presi- dent, E. F. Pilley; secretary, W. 0. Thomas; treasurer, J. P. Lynch. How Gold Prospector " Went Scotch” Minneapolis, Minn. April 80, 1928 2.}..;~.) Larus & Bro. Co. Richmond, Va. Dear Sirs: Two years ago last winter I went into the Red Lake gold fields in Canada. It was a tough trail from Hudson, over 140 miles of snow and ice. There were fourteen of on the trail going in, and frequently at night when seated around a big camp fire, some one would ask me for a pipeful of Edgeworth. These Canadian boys sure like our Edgeworth. In four weeks’ time I ran out of Edgeworth. I was glad to get ’most any old tobacco. One day, nowever, I dropped in to Dad BroWn’s tent, a 72-year-old pros- pector, and seeing a can of Edgeworth in an improvised table, back there 15-0 miles from the “steel,” I perked up at Jnce, saying, “Dad, I’m plum out oi I tobacco—hoW’s chances for a pipe- ful?” “Help yourself,” l*3 said. So pulling my heavy duty pipe from my pocket, I loaded it vxitfi Edgeworth, packing it in so tightly that I couldn’t get the least bit of a draw. I excused myself for a moment, and etepped outside to remove about three pipefuls to put in my pouch. D46; ttepped out, saying, “Yoi1’i'e VVOTT’ than any Scotchman I ever sziw.’ Then I confessed. I told him vxlhs-.; Liappened to my Edgewortl1—vtliat. 1 was just dying for a smoke, and l‘:‘f understood right away. He said, “Boy, Edgeworth is mighty scarce in these parts, but I reckon I can spare what’s left of that can. Help yourself.” You can just bet your last nickel that I guarded this Edgeworth with extreme care until I got back to the “steel.” Yours very truly, Edgeworth Extra High Grade Smoking Tobacco Resources Two Rockbridge National Bank "AUL M. PENICK, Pres. A. P. WADE, Cashier Million Dollars l Is West Point “A mafeur Institution?” “Unless there have been som. revolutionary changes recently,” states P. S. Day in the May College Humor, “the mode of academic instruction is quite the opposite of modern pedagogical theory. It is largely the black- board recitation, a mechanical, authoritative classroom procedure, and not really teaching in the true sense. It is more the prac- Lice of the schoolmasters of the past who demanded that their pupils absorb the daily dose or take the consequences. But al- though it is far from the idealized Socratic method, the daily reci- tation required of each cadet is markedly effective in preventing that disastrous gap between good intentions and their execution, which is so apt to appear under the popular lecture system. The evils of postponed mental effort are not a problem at West Point. “However, as long as the bulk of instruction is performed by young graduates temporarily as- signed to the duty and whose sole qualification is that they stand reasonably well in the subject which they are expected to teach, the quality of that instruction must leave much to be desired. As Admiral Sims said in refer- ring to the same condition at An- napolis, it is an ‘amateur insti- tution.’ Having been a member of this amiable sodality of ‘ama- tours’ as an instructor of math- }ll€tl3lCS, I can only say, in the language of the cadets: ‘The charge is"correct; the offense was unintentional.’ I remember one of my colleagues who had three .norning classes in the same sub- ject confiding to me that he learn- ed the day’s lesson from the first class, recited along with the sec- grid, and tried to put over a modi- mm of instruction in the third. in reality the cadet has to dig it all out by himself or go with- out, and that is largely the West Point theory. The instructor is hardly more than a monitor to '.U.LuL3.t8 the grades. “I do not mean to imply by the above ruminations that the West SERVICE OUR MOTTO If you want that job in a hurr_v—-bring it to Acme Print Shop First N:it’l Bank Bldg. Phone 146 ‘ MYERS HARDWARE Co. INC. 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Fifty candidates for the 1930 edition of the “Fighting Gen- answered the call for spring football practice issued by Assistant Coach “Mike” Palmer this week. The majority of candidates are with a considerable number of monogram and numer- linesmen al men returned. Captain-elect Bill Hawkins and Earl Fitzpat- rick, captain of last year’s team, are aiding Coach Palmer in con- ditioning the squad. The initial practice held Tues- day afternoon saw the condition- ing measures in full blast. Charging and blocking by lines- men, forward pass receiving, pass- ing, punt recoveries, and the run- ning through of a few elementary plays have been the feature of «the week’s practice. With the arrival of Head Coach Oberst in Lexington on April 29, Coach Palmer expects to have his squad in tip top con- dition for the introduction of the ‘ Notre Dame system. v V \ i J The wcorkouts held during the week have been a sort of orienta- * tion course for the introduction of the new system. The linesmen, particularly, fa- miliar to the pecularities of the Warner system as coached by “Pat” Herorn, are now being schooled in the rudiments of the 'ockne method. , The backfield candidates are be- ing put through a series of live- fly stepping exercises, emphasiz- ing a keynote of the new system—— speed. The entire squad being combed for possible punters. Every man on the squad gets his turn at sending spirals down the field to the backs. The backs, Barnett, Cohen, Mc- ‘Laurin, Martin, Jones, and Mel- lon have been working on passes. Coach Palmer is striving for ac- curate snap passes, bringing sev- eral eligible men into the open instead of the lone man as on a long pass. Long, Cocke, Day and Bledsoe have been working favorably at ?ie ends, showing plenty of _ peed. The number of candidates for the pivot post has been en- larged to four with the advent of Jerry Holstein, freshman center of 1927. The other candidates (are Howell Snodgrass and Herb Groop, monogram men, and Tay- vlor, freshman numeral winner. Captain Bill Hawkins, Hostet- ter, Don Tillar and Stemmins are the varsity men of last year who are showing well in early prac- tices. Tilson, Tonsmoire, and Rosen- berg of the freshman team, will ‘push hard for one of the tackle berths. The guard positions are not at- tracting monogram men. Still- ‘well and Devine of the “Daffo- dils” and Harris of last year’s freshmen are some of the candi- ‘(gates for this berth. Three teams were organized at yesterday’s drill, with elementary plays to work on. Soon after the arrival of Coach Oberst, it is ex- pected that the teams “A,” “B,” “C” and “D” will be picked and ‘ Scrimmages held. ’Junior Manager Conway has ‘his score of managers at work is fatering to the needs of the huge ‘ squad. Coach Palmer, realizing that there are still a number of foot- ball ,men who have as yet not fiueported, requests that these men come out for practice, along with every able-bodied men in school, iiotwithstanding previous experi- ence. 1 eneral llletmen Lose to Lehigh; Win One Match _Washington and Lee’s tennis team lost to the Lehigh univer- sity team yesterday at Lehigh by the score of 6 to 1. Brady was the only Blue and White player to win a match and he was forced to ‘go to twelve games to win his first set from Wycoff and winning the second by 6 to 3. Seligson, national indoor and intercollegiate champion, won over Gooch of th( Blue and White in two sets of 6-3, 6-2. Summary, singles: Seligson, Lehigh, Gooch, W. & L., 6-3. 6-2. Usher, Lehigh, defeated Scott, W. & L., 6-1, 6-0. Eipstein, Lehigh, defeated Pil- ley, W. & L., 7-5, 4-6, 6-2. Brady, W. & L., defeated Wy- coff, Lehigh, 7-5, 6-3. Englemen, Lehigh, Cort, W. & L., 7-5, 6-0. Doubles: Seligson and Usher, Lehigh, lefeated Scott and Brady, W. & L., 6-4, 6-3. Eipstein and Monteicount, Le- Iiigh, defeated Pilley and Gooch, W. & L., 6-1, 6-4. With Jupe Pluvius in the sad- dle, the Washington and Lee team is finding that their sched- ile of a week’s games has dwin- iled to but one or two matches. The team of Manager Gooch, C. C. Scott, French Broady, Marvin Pilley and Harris Cox left Sunday night for a week’s tour gf Northern schools. The~ squad is considerably weakened with the absence of the number one man, Captain Len Jacobs, who was forced to remain in Lexington due to a severe sprain of his wrist. With Jac0b’s absence, Manager Gooch moved up to his place, and room was made for another member of the team. An interesting feature of the meet is lost in Jacob’s indispe- sition. The match with Julius Seligson, national ranking Lehigh team member, would have fallen on Jacobs. defeated defeated The team was scheduled to meet Catholic University on Mon- day, and George Washington Uni- versity on Tuesday, but both matches were washed away. Maryland university netmen were met on Wednesday and vanquish- ed 6 to 1. Scott and Cox both took their matches, 6-1, 6-], while the other members won in straight sets. The rest of the schedule called for a meeting with Johns Hopkins in Baltimore on Thursday, with Lehigh university at Bethlehem, Pa., on Friday and with New York university, in New York, to- day. morrow night. iilaryland Downs enerals 5-5 In Fast Game Spree In Second Gives Old Liners Decisive Four- Run Lead. A wild scoring session in the second inning paved the way for the University of Maryland’s vic- t01‘Y Captain Gene White and his Blue and White baseball nine by a score of 6 to 5 at Col- lege Park, Maryland, yesterday. The game with the Old Liners was a Southern Conference fray and marked the fourth consecu- tive game that the Generals have lost by a one point margin of victory. Captain White worked on the mound for the Blue and White and except for the scoring spree in the second frame he was in fine form. Scoring was begun by the Generals who started work- ‘ing in the initial frame and brought one tally across in this _lnnlY1£-.”- The Old Liners were held In their half of the first but in the second they opened a short range attack which was climaxed ‘Wll1h 3 double by Radice and a triple by Higgins which brought four runs across the plate to give the Maryland nine a lead‘that was never overtaken. Each team got ten hits apiece and only the rally in the second enabled the Old Liners to get the one point margin of victory. Hit- ting honors for the day went to Slanker and Captain White, who collected two safe blows apiece for the Generals. The Maryland hitting was divided between Kess- ler, Derr and Radice with each getting two safeties. OVQT MOTHERS DAY GIFTS Ask Frances Hamilton GIFT AND ART SHOP Robert E. Lee Hotel The team will return to- Starring Rockbridge Theatre Buena Vista, Va. Presents United Artists, Synchronized, Talking, Singing, Audien LADY OF THE PAVEMENTS Lupe Velex, MONDAY AND TUESDAY, April 29 and 30 COME AND HEAR AND SEE A Real Honest-to-Goodness Production. you ! $8.00. The Del Rio, by Knox, is a hat for men who are young--and for men who like to stay young. The crown is high and beautifully tapered. The brim is narrow and snaps just so! GRAHAM & FATHER Here’s a hat for Frosh- Trackmen Hold Last Dual Meet With VPI What promises to be a closely contested track meet is scheduled for today at Blacksburg when the little Generals match strides with Virginia Poly frosh. With one of the freshmen track combines in the the Goblets will place a team on the field and track that has one all of its meets this season, piling up an average of over eighty points a Cpached by Harold ‘Os- borne, former national high jump strongest recent years meet. champion, the yearlings boast in Rheinart, former Woodstock ace, a sprinter that runs the quarter in 51 seconds and threatens 10 seconds flat in the century. Os- borne also has under his care a high jumper that has leaped over six feet. A last minute squad cut sliced the team personell of the Blue and White to 18 athletes, all of whom have scored in recent con- tests. Since dropping their initial meet to Staunton Military Acad- emy, the Fletcher-coached-ma- chine has also been traveling at a fast clip winning meets against Jefferson High and the Univer- sity of Richmond frosh by large :-nargins. Gobblers Nose Out Generals Murden Holds W.&L. Hitters For Seven Innings; Is Chased In Eighth. V. P. I. nosed out Washington and Lee in a fast diamond en- counter in Blacksburg Tuesday by the score of 4 to 3. Gene White, hurling for the Generals, had the Gobblers eating out of his hand for six innings, but he weakened in the seventh and V. P. I. pushed over the tieing and winning runs. White opened the scoring with a terrific home run into deep left field in the second inning. The Techmen knotted the count in the fifth and forged to the front with another ‘marker in the seventh. The seventh inning proved the undoing of the Generals’ chances when the Gobblers combined three hits with an infield out to push over two runs. Murden, on the hill for V. P. I., had the situation well in hand for seven innings, White’s circuit ride being the only blemish on his slate. He went up in the air, however, in the eighth when Thibodeau and Slanker hit safely in succession. 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Not all the ruthless horrors of the invasion of the South could tempt him to sectional hatred. What other leader, when an invading army had crushed his beloved land until it ran with blood could say of his enemies, ‘I have never seen the day I didn’t pray for them’?” A fourth and, according to the speaker, a still more striking pic- ture was that of Lee as the pro- gressive, sponsoring new ideas as opposed to old ones even to the point of rebellion against the tra- (litions of his section and of his family. As exemplifying this at- titude Dr. Smith spoke of Lee’s opposition to slavery and his freeing of his own slaves; his op- position to secession and belief in the principle of an undivided union; his freedom from any sort of religious partisanship or de- nominational narrowness; his fixed opposition to militarism or com- petitive armaments; his freedom from patriotic war-born hatred and, finally, his rebellion against the custom and tradition of his time in regard to use of alcohol as shown by his own total absti- nence and opposition to any use of intoxicants. Creative Engineer. But, the speaker continued, T MONDAY, APRIL 29 WILLIAI4 I-‘OX pres-'.:.a:{'3 <- I ., . JANET GAYNOIKF G.E0RGE.0'5ll1EI_ WEDNESDAY, MAY 1 most astonishing of all ‘was the Lee seen in his fifth and final pic- ture—“The South.” Describing how the Southern general found himself at conclusion of the war “without a profession in a devas- tated land with a family of help- less women and an invalid wife dependent upon him for support,” he told of his refusal of offers to go abroadfior of a high salaried position in. the North, choosing rather to become president of Washington College at a salary of $1,500 and to bury himself in a little mountain village forty miles from a railroad “to rebuild a bankrupt college in a bankrupt land and to assume the heroic task of building up the ‘youth who must accomplish the re-build- ing of that land.” “Then he entered upon a work of creative statesmanship which time has shown to be the most fruitful of his entire career. Telling of how Lee remodeled Washington College from an ul- tra-classic institution to make it a university fitting the need for creating builders of a new South, Dr. Smith told of introduction into the school within a brief pe- riod of such, at that time, ultra- modern ideas as an elective sys- tem of studies, the honor system, student self-government and a unit of the national Y. M. C. A., of addition to the curriculum of courses in English, languages, ap- plied science with laboratory work and of natural philosophy—— courses hitherto unknown in such an institution and then of his es- tablishment in a period of four years, adding‘ one school each year, of professional undergradu- ate schools of law (1867), civil and mining engineering (1863), journalism (1869), and commerce and business administration (1870), these latter two being the first schools of their types in America or in the new world. “Thus,” continued the speaker, “he placed Washington College fifty years ahead’ of its time-a university offering practical train- ing for civic and industrial lead- ers—-and he fixed for all time campus traditions of courtesy, gentility and honor.” He asked, “What lesson should we‘Virginians of today learn from this victory of the vanquished?” Lesson For Today. Answering, he spoke of the “es- sential and eternal supremacy of things of the spirit over those of sense and time,” and, explaining that he is an industrialist and believes in promoting material prosperity, he urged that at the same time “a lofty sense of per- IRWIN & CO., Inc. Everything In DRY GOODS AND GROCER- IES Quality, Service and Price QUALITY AND SERVICE Special Dinners 50c 12 noon to 9 pm.- Meal Tickets R. E. Lee COFFEE SHOP ALEXANDER THELEN, Mgr. .x_> sonal honor, dignity and of the past prove a bulwark against the shallow 00d of friv- olity and mammon-worship.” Dr. Wilson, vice-president of the Sphex club, thanked‘ Dr. Smith for his address and himself eulogized Lee, describing his life as a tall mountain range without outstanding peaks as his resigna- tion from the federal army to serve his native state; his oppo- sition to slavery, his heroic sur- render at Appomattox and, tow- ering still higher, his quiet serv- ice during the last years of his life at Lexington. He recalled also his own memories of the house in which Lee lived and of these associations which Dr. Smith also has shared. Dr. McConnell, Dr. Jarman and Dr. Smith, who were among the group of college presidents pres- ent at the banquet to do honor to the retiring president of Washing- ton and Lee University, spoke briefly basing their remarks upon the main address of the evening or gracefully complimenting the speaker and the Sphex club. List of Guests. Guests seated at the speakers’ table were Dr. E. C. Glass, Dr. Henry Louis Smith, Miss Matty L. Cocke, president of Hollins college; Dr. J. L. Jarman, presi- dent State Teachers’ college, Farmville; Dr. C. L. McPherson, dean Lynchburg college; Dr. J. N. Hillman, president Emory and Henry college; Rev. E. B. Wil- lingham, Dr. John Preston Mc- Connell, president Teachers’ col- lege, Radford; Dr. Arthur L. Wilson, Dr. Meta Glass, presi- dent Sweet Briar college; Gen. W. H. Cocke, superintendent Vir- ginia Military Institute; Dr. J. E. Williams, dean Virginia Polytech- nic Institute; Dr. N. A. Patillo, dean Randolph-Macon Woman’s college; Dr. C. J. Smith, president Roanoke college; Dr. Oscar D. Randolph, principal Virginia Epis- copal school; Prof. F. B. Fitz- patrick, Teachers’ collcge, Rad- ford. N. H.; Rev. James L. Finch, Al- tavista; Major John L. Hurt, Chatham; F. Kirk Perrow, An- niston, Ala. Weinberg’s Music Shop Lexington, Virginia Opposite New Theatre VICTOR and ‘COLUMBIA AGENCY VICTOR Releases date » Friday each week. COLUMBIA —— 10, 20. A» 11- G should remain as distinguishing in characteristics of Southern citi-1 Zens, letting the ethical standardsl any sharp declines but with such. F. L. ‘Chapman, Somersworth, 30th each month. Models for Sport and Formal Wear- Distinguished For Style and Quality. FRANK BROTHERS Fifth Avenue Boot Shop Between 47¢ and 4891 Str-ecv.s.New York ......m............a«.m.. i . I . LA ,, EXHIBIT AT FINCHLEY’S SHOW ROOlV TUESDAY, APRIL 30TH Wayland-Gorrell Drug Co. Inc. NORRIS & NUNNALLY’S CANDIES W. & L. STATIONERY Meet Your Friends at / LEXINGTON 1>ooL co. Equipment Unexcelled E3 -. ElllllIIHIIIlll|1Il||||IH]1lI(HUIHiHlllllllillllllllHIlH‘lIlHHIMillillllflillilllHHHHHJIHi THE RING-TUM PHI Second Place Entrants In Air Award Con- ‘test Prefer Scholarships In Aeronautics. Sixty-two per cent of the ap- plicants for the Eaglerock awards for 1929 have chosen the scholar- ship in a questionnaire recently sent out by the Alexander Air- craft C0,, Colorado Springs, Colo- rado, donor of the awards. This company is offering a scholarship in the Guggenheim School of Aeronautics, New York University, and a completely e- quipped Eaglerock airplane for the two best sets of four papers on aviation subjects submitted by un- dergraduate students before May 31. ‘ Those choosing the scholarship expect to complete their educa- tion in aeronautical engineering preparatory to entering commer- cial aviation. On the other hand those indicating their choice of the Eaglerock airplane expect to use it as a nucleus of an operating company or to earn sufficient money to continue their educa- tion. Alexander Klemin of the Gug- genheim School of Aeronautics, New York University, is chairman of the scholarship’ awards com- mittee. Another group will make the Eaglerock awards. Welfare Board Has Many Cases (Continued from Page One)‘. sults of her work during this pe- riod. A young girl for whom a school scholarship was obtained writes of her interest in her school work and reports an aver- age of 95.8 since her arrival at the institution. Another, 3. girl of eleven, labors "with her pencil to tell the welfare Worker of the happiness received at her hands. This girl cooks, washes, and keeps house for her father and attends school regularly. A third letter is from an eighteen—year-old mother of two illegitimate children who present working in Richmond. PAGE’S Meat Market Phones 126 and 426 is at, . . This girl writes a neat letter to thank Mrs. Woolfolk for her aid, comments upon her happiness and contentment with her work away from home, and expresses a de- sire never again to be under the “evil inuences” from which she has been removed. Lack Of Students «- Puzzles Tourists (Continued from Page One). nautical terms). “Asleep,” came the weakly in a sleepy voice. “What! You fellows sleeping away a fine spring day like this? What’s the matter?” “Politics.” “You mean to say petty campus politics wrecks your constitutions like that? How did it happen?” “We couldn’t sleep all week. Too much politicing in the houses. Then I am not accustomed to smoking political cigars and drinking cheap stuff all the time.” “What did you drink, sonny" Coffee, tea or coco cola‘? You know all three drinks are hard on a growing boy because they contain caffeine and “But, sir, we didn’t “Yes, you did. You you’ve been drinking so much coffee you .couldn’t sleep. Now you take the advice of a man that knows and cut out coffee, drink milk, and get some sleep.” At that moment the only stu- dent in W. & L. not sleeping off the effects of a week’s political coffee drinking spree fainted. kn ow ()_'_L.__. U. S. Stars Head Ryder Cup Play Playing beforea crowd of 10,- 000 at Moorstown, England, yes- terday, the American Ryder cup - golf team took the lead in the Anglo - American championship 7!‘: B R 0 W N .3 Cleaning Va/orks Phone 282 163-65 S. Main St. Fraternity Houses A We have em‘. iii.-.2 mill burnl, Phone l.i> jvour o:'ile1‘s Harper 8.: Agnor, 2 f Inc. “The Fuel People” R. L. HESS & Bro. Watchmakers and Jewelers Keys Made, Typewriters Re- paired Next Door to Lyric Theatre AGNOR BROS. Successors to W. Harry Agnor Staple and Fancy Groceries Phones 36 and 76 SHANER’S TAXI SERVICE Phone 161 SUBWAY KITCHEN, lnc. By Students—For Students Is Built On Honesty and Fair Dealing, Friendship and Service. 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