1950–51 Volume 75 No 1–5 - Phi Delta Theta Scroll Archive

The SCROLL of Phi Delta Theta for September, 1950while and effective job, I wouldn'tbother."The Kansas City Crime Commissionwas established about a year and a halfago and was patterned after a similarorganization that had been in existencein Chicago for more than thirty years.Today the Kansas City Commission iscomposed of a carefully screened Jaodyof 100 citizens representing a true crosssection of the city's life. All were admittedto the organization on a basis oftheir genuine concern over the post warresurgence of organized crime.As explained in Town, Kansas Citypublication from which most of the factsof Wilson's appointment were taken, theCrime Commission is not a judicial,prosecuting, or apprehending body. Itwas established to cooperate with city,county and state authorities with nothought of beating them at their business.Rather the Commission will act tocontrol the spread of organized crimeand to act as a deterent.Arlon Wilson attended grade and highschools in Quenemo, Kansas, where hisfather is a successful stock man. He wentto Washburn University, where he madea most successful record. It was at Washburnthat he formulated his desire tobecome an F.B.I, agent. While schedulinga series of speeches for Kansas Beta chapterof * A 0 and the Washburn LawSchool, he went to Kansas City and invitedthe head of the F.B.I, office thereto appear on the program. This gentlemanwas later instrumental in gettingBrother Wilson an appointment to theBureau. He went to Washington whereG. ARLON WILSON, Washburn 37he married Elizabeth Short, a graduateof Kansas University. From 1940 to themiddle of 1946 he served with the Bureau'scriminal investigation unit. At thistime he went into partnership with anotheralumnus of the F.B.I, in the frozenfoods distributing business. He is nowon leave of absence from his company.Brother Wilson and his wife live at437 Huntington Road with their threechildren. Jay, 8; Martha, 3; and Nan,six months. He is prematurely grayhaired and appears at first glance to beolder than his thirty-three years, thoughthe gray hair is not a result of being shotat while a member of the F.B.I., he explains.For relaxation he enjoys fishingand hunting and gun collecting.Grantland Rice Honored by Helms Hall of FameGRANTLAND RICE, Vanderbilt '01, illustrious sports journalist, was named to the HelmsHall of Fame recently along with Knute Rockne, famed Notre Dame football coach untilhis untimely death in an airplane crash in 1931.Brother Rice and Rockne were selected for the honor by the Helms Hall Board,according to Bill Schroeder, managing director of the Helms Athletic Foundation.The Hall of Fame now includes twelve men and Rice is the second Phi to be sohonored, the other being the late DWIGHT DAVIS, Washington (St. Louis) '99, donor oftennis' Davis Cup.