1930–31 Volume 55 No 1–5 - Phi Delta Theta Scroll Archive

THE SCROLLPHI DELTA THETA November, 1930Brother Evans a medal as the mostdistinguished citizen of that city.While Brother Evans was president ofthe Houston Cotton Exchange andBoard of Trade in 1919 he undertookthe task of getting the first vessel toload cotton at this inland port. Withadditional warehouse space which heobtained, the loading of cotton wassoon raised to 445,000 bales.The development of the port, largelyBrother Evans' work, has been thechief factor in the doubling of Houston'spopulation within ten years andthe adding of over $200,000,000 to thecity's property values. The port wasused last year by almost 100,000 vessels,over 4,000 of which were oceangoing.Chicago hoodlums recently bombedthe home of Charles C. Case, Northwestern,'01, probably in reprisal forthe work Brother Case had done forthe Chicago Bar Association in prosecutingelection frauds. The BarAssociation has offered a reward of$1,000 for information leading to thearrest and conviction of persons responsiblefor the outrage. His life andthose of his family were imperiled bythe bombing. Brother Case had beenvery vigorous and successful in hisattacks on persons guilty of electionfrauds. He was especially chosen bythe Bar Association for this work becauseof his unusual fitness for it.The publication of Strange Bedfellowsby Don O. Herold, Indiana, '12,forecast in the SCROLL for May, hasoccurred since that issue. The book,an autobiography in Brother Herold'sinimitable style, has aroused a country-widechorus of favorable commentand reviews. A typical quotation, attributedto Alexander the Great, is:"We are born in bed, most of us diein bed, and in the interim we meetmany strange bedfellows."The sixth international roads congress,held in Washington early in[1October, saw a member of * A 0 asone of the principals. Roy D. Chapin,Michigan, '03, chairman of the boardof directors of the Hudson Motor CarCompany had been appointed by Secretaryof State Stimson as presidentof the .American Organizing Commissionof the congress. Brother Chapinis the chairman of the highway committeeof the National AutomobileChamber of Commerce, and as suchhas been one of the nation's chieffactors in the development of bettermeans of transportation. BrotherChapin, by virtue of his connectionwith the congress officially and becauseof his thorough knowledge of mattersdiscussed there, was very largely responsiblefor making the detailed arrangementsfor the congress.Ticket speculators will go out ofbusiness if theaters of the future areto be designed according to plansworked out by Fred F. Dexter, Jr.,Cincinnati, 'ZZ. Brother Dexter hasworked out some radical innovations,intended to "democratize" theater architecture,in his thesis for the M.S.degree at the University of Cincinnati.Boxes, the proscenium arch, conventionaldesigns, and other featurestraditional with the theater of today,have all been done away with or startlinglyaltered in the effort to makeseeing and hearing better and to takeaway the "bag of tricks" which hascharacterized theater settings of thepast. Brother Dexter has studiedthe methods of Max Reinhardt andother European authorities in hisstudy of theater construction.Sam R. Hay, Jr., Southwestern, '17,until recently a district manager of theSeaboard Life Insurance Company ofHouston, Texas, located at Beaumont,Texas, has resigned that position toaccept one as supervisor of agenciesof the San Jacinto Life InsuranceCompany. He will remain in Beaumont,where the San Jacinto Companyhas its headquarters. Brother Hay