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THE00NERAGAZINEOCTOBER, 1929MIGRATION DAY NUMBERStanley Vestal and Isabel CampbellTell How They Wrote Their First NovelsMuna Lee Writes on the Culturalinterchanges between theAmericasAdelaide Loomis Parker ContributesA Beautiful Memoir of Professor ParringtonDavid Ross Boyd, First UniversityPresident, Tells of the University's FoundingTexas Game (October 19) PlansIn Detail in This IssueVol .IIUniversity of Ohlahoma No. 1

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*OCTOBER, 1929Sooneristically SpeakingconstantlyHello, Sooners everywhere! Herewe are, in a new dress,typographi-cally speakng, and in a hew cormof news presentation . As the yearprogresscu during the course of thenrsc volume of monerT heMaga-zine, cnariges in form weresuggesting themselves . Manyof these have been incorporated inthe present issue, ail designed tomake Lie magazine more serviceawe.t his issue is being sent to everygrauuate of record .Our Sooner fam-ily is how or respectable size-morethan seven thousand graduates . Ourmembership list reveals that Soonersmay tie found literall in the fourcorners of the earth, engaged in almustevery occupation . Keeping upwith the members of this greatgraduate family is no easy matter .Help of graduates in supplying hewscoming to their attention will beappreciated. T he )ouncr Magazinesucceeds only wren it serves thegreatest number of graduates .Several events, important in ouruniversity s History, will occur duringthe coming school year . In thefirst place, we resume athletic relationswith the University of Texas,after an interim of several years .Old timers will well recall how thenoble order of Quo Vadis gainedmembers through the great gamesat Dallas, hitcri-hiking, riding therods, walking-any way to get tothe arena where the Sooners wrestledwith the Longhorn . The Texasgame is an important one-the interestSooners have shown in lettersto the editor in the game evincethat .Then there is the dedication ofthe hew library, which will be describedin detail as well as illustrations,in an approaching issue . Thenew library in its arrangements hasattracted international attention, forit is without doubt one of the finestcollege libraries . While opinion differsas to the architectural merit ofthe building, all are agreed that inappearance the building is distinguished. It preserves and refines thecollegiate Gothic of the administrationbuilding, which is built in thestyle of Queen's college, Cambridge,England . But the exterior is merelythe crust of the meat within-forthe wood carvings, the elaborate interiors,the great stack rooms, thereading facilities, and the books, allgo to make this Oklahoma's greatesteducational asset . The school ofart will occupy the old library buildingfronting on Boyd . At present,Mr Jacobson is crowded into a fewTHE SOONER MAGAZINEIA News Magazine for University of Oklahoma (and Kingfishercollege) graduates and former students. Established 1928 .Published monthly except August' and September, by theUniversity of Oklahoma Association, Oklahoma Union building,Norman, Oklahoma . Raymond Tolbert, '12 law, Oklahomaq, president ; Mrs . Walter Ferguson, ex-'07, Tulsa,president CI ; Frank N . Watson, '13 law, Dallas, Texas,vice-vicepresident; Fred Thompson, '22 arts-sc ., Norman, treasurer ;Frank S . Cleckler, '21 bus,, secretary . Subscription is throughmembership in the University of Oklahoma Association, payableas follows : Annual membership, $3,00 in advance ; lifemembership, $60, payable in one sum or in quarterly instalmentsof $3 until paid out, Entered as second-class matterOctober 13, 1928, at the postoffice at Norman, Oklahoma, underthe act of March 3, 1 879 . Printed in the United States by theUniversity of Oklahoma Press . Contents copyrighted 1929 bythe University of Oklahoma Association .Editor : Joseph A . Brandt, '21 journ .Associate Editors : Betty Kirk, '29 journ . ; Duane Roller, '23 sc .business Manager : John B, Gordon, '30 journ.Advertising rates may be had on application to the businessmanager, Oklahoma Union building, Norman, Oklahoma . Correspondenceshould be addressed to the editor . Change of addresssnould be made with the secretary of the association .Vol. II, No . 1 October, 1929CONTENTSA FOUNTAIN, NEW UNIVERSITY LIBRARYFRONTISPIECEOKLAHOMANS AT HOME AND ABROAD 5Calendar for October ; With President Bizzell ; Our ChangingVarsity ; Graduates in Embryo; Gifts to Education ;Association Progress ; Expressed in the Press ; In the EducationalWonderland .MIGRATION DAY PLANS 15LOYALTY AND SERVICE CHARACTERIZE TOLBERT 16A MESSAGE FROM PRESIDENT TOLBERT 17ONE GENIUS IN A FAMILY-ISBy Stanley Vestal-IS NOT ENOUGHBy Isabel Campbell19VERNON LOUIS PARRINGTONBy Adelaide Loomis ParkerA CULTURAL EXCHANGE BETWEEN THE AMERICAS 21By Muna LeeMY FIRST DAYS AS UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT 24Told by Dr . David Ross BoydTHE SPIRIT OF LEARNING 1N A MOTOR AGE 27By Dr. William Bennett BizzellSOONER PERSONS AND PERSONALITIES 28HERE AND THERE WITH SOONERS 33BELLES LETTRES AND BELL RINGERS 44NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORSStanley Vestal is in academic life Walter S. Campbell, associateprofessor of English . His biography, Kit Carson, theHappy Warrior, was one of the outstanding biographies oflast year. His novel Dobe Walls promises to equal the successof the biography . . . . Isabel Campbell, ex '17, is ProfessorCampbell's wife, mother of two children, writer of clevershort stories for Harper's Bazaar and other magazines, poet andnovelist . Her lack Sprat is one of the most brilliantly executednovels on the fall book list . . . . Muna Lee, ex '12, is perhapsthe most celebrated Sooner woman . She is director of theLureau of international relations for the University of PortoRico . She was the first woman to address the Pan-Americancongress . . . . Adelaide Loomis Parker, '06 arts-se . (M .A. '10),is the wife of G. B . Parker, '07, editor in chief of the Scripps-Howard newspapers, and was formerly a member of theuniversity faculty . She is the mother of two children andresides in Bronxville, New York.little rooms in the auditorium building,without facilities of any Kindfor teaching.It becomes more evident, day byday, that the state will either haveto provlue adequate buildings forthe university or severely limit theenrollment .111C university is now four yearsbehind 1h Its building program. Bythe thetimenext legislature con-venes, the state will have to plovlueuullulngs to meet six years growth.1 he cost 01 such a construction program,considered in the sum total,will stagger our legislators .Even the university s staunchestfriends cannot realize now raplu hasbeen the school s growth . l lie phys-ical plant seems large totheoldtimer, accustomed to the few buildingstrial were then grouped aroundthe administration building. T hisappearance of prosperity does theuniversity a disservice.And there is an attitude, unfortunatein tile extreme, that regards theuniversity as just another state institution. Legislators feel that theyhave to provlue for the hydra-headedschool system the old politicalhand-out system set up during theHaskell days . They fee! that thestate business college, the state militaryschool, the state school of mines-all schools with small enrollments,all schools duplicating work doneby the state university and the A .& M . college-must receive equaltreatment with the latter .Other state-., like Texas, olderand wiser than Oklahoma, haveseeen how vicious duplication ofeducational effort can be, and haveeliminated the leech schools . But inOklahoma, playing politics is thegreat order of the day . No one whoknows will deny that the last sessionof the legislature made itsevery move from purely politicalreasoning. The university and theA . & M . college were made the politicalpawns . Both would havefared far better had they been activelyin politics-if material wellbeingwere the only desideratum .But all of us know what a politically-dominatedschool is-how its facultyis insecure, how ifs instructionis futile, how it belies the very nameof education . So no one would beso rash as to alter the independenceof the higher schools of the state .But discerning people, in retrospect,can see how the Democrats and theRepublicans, playing for vantage,were quite willing to toss the universityand the A . & M . college tothe side lines, because politically,these two institutions were powerless.

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1V` THESOONER MAGAZINEOKLAHOMANS AT HOME AND ABROADCALENDAR FOR OCTOBEROctober 1 . Faculty club reception, clubhouse.October 2 . Joseph Benton, Universityauditorium . Fine Arts number .October 2 . Faculty forum, Faculty club,October 4 . Kappa Sigma (lance, Teepee .October 5 . Boomers versus varsity, Norman; football .October 5 . Phi D e I t :I Theta dance,house .October 5 . Delta Upsilon dance, Collegeshop .October 7 to 11 . Surgical diagnosis,University hospital, Oklahoma City, auspicesExtension division .October 7 . American Association ofUniversity Women, Mrs . J . B . Cheadle,4 o'clock .October 9 . Faculty forum, Faculty club .October 10 to 12 . Annual junior-seniorhigh school conference, "Tulsa, auspicesExtension Division .October 11 . Acacia (lance, house .October 12 . Creighton versus Oklahomaat Norman ; football .October 12 . Lambda Chi Alpha (lance,College shop .October 14 . Sigma Chi dance, Collegeshop .October 16 . Faculty f o r u m, Facultyclub .October 18 . Beyond the Horizon., aplay by Eugene O'Neill, Playhouse, Universityauditorium .October 18 . Alpha Sigma Phi dance,Teepee .October 19 . T h e Hallelujah singers,Fine Arts number, University auditorium .October 23 . Josephus Daniels, chapelspeaker, 10 a.m ., University auditorium .October 23 . Faculty f o r u m, Facultyclub.October 25 . Sigma Nu dance, Collegeshop .October 26 . Phi Gamma Delta dance,house .October 25 . United States army band,Fine Arts number, Fieldhouse .October 30 . Faculty f o r u m, Facultyclub.WITH PRESIDENT BIZZELLPresident Bizzell, spending his summervacation in Los Angeles, and beingInade a reader of the Huntingdon library,returned to Norman to resign his positionof chairman of the state textbookcommission . He recommended as his successorin this herculean task Dean EllsworthCollings of the college of education .He delivered his annual address in theFieldhouse September 17 on "The Spirit ofLearning in a Motor Age."President Bizzcll, in a statement writtenfor the Norman Transcript, urged Normancitizens to continue the cordial cooperationthey had shown the universityin the past . His statement follows :The people of Norman will be pleased tolearn that registration indicates that the enrollmentin the university for the current scholasticyear will exceed that of preceding years, Thereis every reason to believe that the year aheadof f us will be the most Satisfactory that theuniversity bas experienced .But the realization of this prophecy will bedetermined by our united efforts . The peopleof Norman with the authorities of the universityin the responsibility of conserving the moralsand promoting the spiritual ideals of the greatstudent bod y that is assembled here for theyear's work .Norman is unlike any other commercial cityin the state, It bas, of course, the commercialand business enterprises that are to be foundin any city of situilar size in the state . But it hasmuch more than this-it has in its midst hundredsof families that have been drawn herebecause of the excellent public schools, and theopportunity for higher education provided bythe university .It has in its midst the largest student body inthe state, numbering approximately 5,000, whohave come here from every part of Oklahoma,and from many other states and foreign countries,There are in our midst the families ofmore than 250 faculty members who are contributingto the cultural and civic life of thecity . There is no other town or city in the stateso - large in those human resources that countin the scale of human values,We must not take our happy situation as amatter of course . It is the duty of all of us tobe very jealous for the good name of the universityand thoroughly awake to our responsibilityto the students assembled here, and tothe home from whence they came, What canNorman do to justify the confidence of the people?I suggest the following :In the first place, our citizenship can see to itthat Norman is free from every vicious inffuencethat will contribute to the misdirection of energiesor corrupt the morals of students . Everyplace where students congregate for recreationshould have responsible supervision, There shouldbe no place in Norman where liquor can hesecured, and every citizen should sec to it thatthe violation of the federal prohibition act isdiscouraged in every possible way. The authoritiesof the university are opposed to the drinkingof intoxicating liquors, gambling, and other vices,and students will be punished who engage inthese practices . But, if our citizenship respectsthe law themselves and co-operates with theofficers in the enforcement of law, there willbe little for the discipline committee to do,In the second place, I urge the citizenship toco-operate with the law enforcement officers ofthe city where the interests of students are involved. The university authorities have had thefinest co-operation from the officers in Norman,I am sure that this will continue, It is not onlythe duty of our officers to enforce and sustainthe law, but it is the duty of all of us to cooperatewith the officers and sustain them in theperformance of duty by wholesome public opinion,In the third place, our people can do muchto discourage extravagance and wasteful expenditureof funds on the part of students . Hundredsof students in the university are working theirwar through school, Parents arc making greatsacrifices to send their children to the university.We should not encourage students to spendmoney foolishly, or waste their funds in extravagantliving.In the fourth place, we should safeguard thehealth of students boarding in our homes byproviding adequate sanitary conveniences, Normanis blessed with an adcuate supply of purewater, Few cities are so fortunate as Norman inthis regard . It is relatively easy for us to maintaingood sanitary conditions for conserving healthand providing for all necessary physical comforts,Much has been done in recent years, through thegarden club, and other agencies . toward thebeautification of our city, This adds greatly tothe happiness and contentment of the studentswho are temporarily residing here, By reasonablesupervision of all public eating places wherefood is prepared in lard, quantities, and reasonablecare in the inspection of sanitaryconveni-ences inboarding housesanddormitories, thereis no reason why the standards of health shouldnot surpass those of any other college communityin the country,In the fifth place, the churches have a greatresponsibility to the university . as well as a greatresponsibility to the community, Uni , rsity authoritiesare denendent noon our r' rches toconserve the spiritual values of student ' . Mostof the students in the university come from religioushomes, Their parents desire that churchaffiliations be maintained . I hope that every re-

6ligious congregation in Norman will encouragethe students to attend Sunday school and churchregularly .The fact that the enrollment in the universitycontinues to increase year after year is an indicationthat the people of the state and nationhave confidence in the people of Norman tomaintain a wholesome environment for the studentsenrolled in the university. Let us rememberthat eternal vigilance is the price we pay forcivic character.COLLEGE OF BUSINESSADMINISTRATIONBy LEONARD LOGAN,'14With the resumption of class work inSoonerland this fall returning students ofthe school of business will find its statushas been changed by the board of regentsduring the summer to a college of businessadministration with three new instructorsin the professional branches .Freshmen enrolling with the intention ofsecuring a B .S . degree in business willconfront a new freshman committee becausethe college of business administrationnow has a full four year program insteadof two.The organization of the college on afour year basis simplifies administrativedetails and makes it possible for the studentto co-ordinate his work to better advantagein the preparation for such occupationsas investment and commercialbanking, accountancy, federal and stategovernment service, foreign trade, secretarialwork, insurance, personnel management,and merchandising.The remarkable growth of the universityhas been reflected in the developmentof the college of business administration .It was in recognition of his services to theuniversity in the building of this collegethat its dean, Dr . A. B. Adams, was electedto honorary membership in the Universityof Oklahoma Association June 3.For it is largely due to his efforts andwork that this college has attained theoutstanding rank that it has among thecollegiate schools of business in the UnitedStates . The college of business administrationhas for some time maintained aclass A rating in the Association of CollegiateSchools of Business . Not only hasDean Adams been instrumental in developingthe college of business administrationbut largely through his effortsthe Faculty club was enabled to build itshouse in 1926. Dean Adams has been oneof the most consistent friends of the alumniassociation, and has given generouslyof his time to the association and manyother extra-curricular activities of the university.In 1917 the school of public and privatebusiness with a faculty of four was cretaedas a subdivision of the college of artsand sciences . With a faculty of nine in1923 the school was made a separate degreegranting institution with the title ofschool of business offering a two yeartechnical course with Doctor Adams asdean . Now through the recent action ofthe board of regents its status has beenchanged to a college with a full four yearcurriculum .The technical departments of th,_ collegeof business administration are listedas follows : economics, finance, business administration,business law, accounting,secretarial science, and bureau of businessresearch .From 1917 to 1923 graduates of theschool of public and private business weregiven a certificate with their diploma fromthe college of arts and sciences . Since 1923the graduates from this department of theJ. F. FINDLAYNew clean of men . His job is no easy one(See page eight)university have been awarded the degreeof bachelor of science in business . The degreesoffered now by the newly created collegeof business administration are bachelorof science in business and master ofbusiness administration .The true test of any institution is thecharacter of its products . By this testthe college of business administrationstands highly recommended. Since 1917beginning with the school of public andprivate business there have been morethan a thousand graduates . Accordingto records on file in Dean Adam's officethe average annual income of these graduatesranges from $1,850 the first year outof college to about $5,000 the fifth yearfrom graduation .But money is not the total measure ofsuccess . The alumni are scattered all overOklahoma and the United States . Practicallyall of them are following the vocationsfor which they studied. In the localitieswhere they live they are knownfor the service they render their respectivecommunities and the public spirit thatdominates their activities .THE SOONER MAGAZINECOLLEGE OF EDUCATIONBy DR . ELLSWORTH COLLINGSThe continuous expansion of the schoolof education during the past few yearsand the policy of President Bizzell for agreater University of Oklahoma led to thereorganization of this school into thecollege of education early this spring.The program includes four years ofundergraduate study and three years ofgraduate study with two very definite objectives. The first objective is to educateteachers, supervisors and administratorson both the undergraduate and graduatelevels for the schools of Oklahoma . Definiteprograms are planned for kindergartenteachers, senior high school teachers,college teachers, elementary supervisingprincipals, high school supervisingprin-cipals, county and city superintendents,and college administrators .The second objective is to add to thefund of professional knowledge. In thisconnection research in teaching, supervisionand administration is carried on as aregular part of the work .The work of the new college of educationis organized around the three majordivisions of the training school, the teachingand administrative fields and the professionalcourses .The plan of instruction of the college ofeducation is unique in the sense that it includespractice of the principles of moderneducation in the training of teachers, supervisorsand administrators . The samefundamental principle that underlies learningin the classroom prevails in the educationof teachers, supervisors and administrators. Children learn by doing-so doteachers, supervisors and administrators .This principle determines the type ofinstruction provided by the college of education. Teachers, for example, do apprenticeteaching under guidance of expertsupervisors in the type of teaching theyplan to pursue in schools of the state .Along with teaching they pursue both professionaland academic courses that arerelated to their teaching experiences . Thisplan includes three lines of work, apprenticeteaching, teaching fields, and professionalcourses, which are followed simultaneously.With this plan the college of education,like medicine or engineering, turns outexperienced and trained teachers . Thesame type of education is provided forsupervisors and administrators . They toobecome supervisors and administratorsthrough engaging in the process of supervisionand administration in the trainingschool at the same time they pursue .professional and subject matter courses re--lated to their work .The training school is the foundationof the college of education . It providesa laboratory for teachers, supervisors andadministrators to learn at first hand how

OCTOBER, 1929to cope with the problems of their respectivefields .The training school includes the universityelementary school, the junior highschool and the senior high school . Thecurriculum of each student is directed bya series of experiences which distributeshis work widely enough to insure a generaleducation and at the same time callfor concentration in two or three lines asan introduction to lines of interest . Theschool tests the work of classes and individualsand devotes much of the timeand energy of its staff to the organizationof the materials of instruction and to thetraining of college students who are to enterthe teaching profession .The college of education is strictly aprofessional school and for that reasonenrolls only those students who have adefinite purpose to pursue for teaching,supervision or administration on a highplane . In order to carry out this programthe faculty provides the following typesof guidance for students : Guidance inchoice of curricula, personal fitness foreducational service and in placement .In addition to the resident program thecollege of education in cooperation withthe university extension division includesa wide field program . This program involvescooperation with the schools of thestate in service training for teachers, supervisorsand administrators . The particularline of field work includes graduateextension teaching, curriculum revisionprograms, supervising programs andschool surveys . This work is carried onby the regular faculty members of thecollege of education .Four undergraduate degrees will beconferred by the college of education .Each degree will include a particular lineof work as follows : bachelor of science inelementary teaching, bachelor of sciencein secondary teaching, bachelor of sciencein school administration . Two graduatedegrees in education will be conferred, themaster of science in education and thedoctor of philosophy in education .FACULTYMiss A. Dove Montgomery, '22 arts-sc .,instructor in English in the university extension,and A. E. Kull, of OklahomaCity, were married this summer . Mrs.Kull will continue her work with the extensiondivision and will be in charge ofextension classes at the Oklahoma Citycenter.Leonard Logan, '14 arts-sc ., associateprofessor of economics, has returned tothe university after two years of study atthe University of Wisconsin.The Oklahoma highschool curriculumcommission, of which Dr . F. A. Balyeat,'11 arts-sc. (M .A . '18), is director, willpublish during the coining year a seriesof bulletins giving the course of study foreach of the highschool subjects . DoctorBalyeat has discontinued his work as directorof the university training school,college of education. For the coming year,he will devote part of his time to teachingextension graduate courses in education.The degree of doctor of philosophy wasconferred upon Miss Helen Burton by theUniversity of Chicago, at the end of thesummer quarter . Miss Burton is directorof the school of home economics . Her thesisfor the doctorate was concerned withthe influence of cereals upon the retentionof calcium and phosphorus in childrenand adults .Floyd A. Wright has been appointedprofessor of law to fill the vacancy leftby the death of Dr . Joseph F. Francis .Dean D. B . R. Johnson, of the schoolof pharmacy, was nominated for the vicepresidencyof the American Pharmaceuticalassociation at the August meeting,held in Rapid City, North Dakota . Thevote for the office is taken by mail andthe results will not be tabulated untilJanuary .Ten weeks of municipal auditing forvarious cities and boards of education wasthe way W. K. Newton, associate professorof accounting, chose to spend his suminervacation .Dr. Aute Richards has returned fromhis sabbatical leave, part of which he spentin research in the Statione Zoologica, Naples,Italy, and the remainder in travel inSwitzerland, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Germany,Holland, Belgium, and England .He was accompanied on the tour by Mrs .Richards and the children .For the third consecutive year, HenryD. Rinsland, '21 arts-sc . (M .A .'24), associateprofessor of education, has been appointeda member of the code of ethicscommittee of the national educational association.Miss Elizabeth Andrews has resignedas director of public information, universityextension, in order to accept a positionwith the McEwen-Halliburton Company,Oklahoma City, as personnel director.Miss Andrews is a former presidentof the state organization of the Americanassociation of university women. While inNorman, she helped to establish MortarBoard, honor society for women, and wasfaculty advisor to Pi Beta Phi .Dr . M. O. Wilson, associate professorof psychology, attended the ninth internationalcongress of psychology, held at Yaleuniversity in September . Doctor Wilsonis a member of this congressDr . Alma Neill attended the thirteenthinternational physiological congress, whichtook place in Boston during August. Thisis the first time that the congress has beenheld in this country . The next meetingwill be in Italy .Arthur R. Holton, representative ofthe Church of Christ in the Oklahomaschool of religion, received the degree ofbachelor of divinity from SouthwesternMethodist university this summer .Professor and Mrs. Joseph F . Paxtonvisited judge and Mrs . Owen at BellaVista Arkansas, the last two weeks ofAugust . Judge Owen received most of hispreparation for the bar examinations inthe university law school .Dr . Paul Vogt, dean of extension, waselected a member of the executive committeeof the national university extensionassociation at the last annual meeting,held at the University of Texas .Dr . Jennings J . Rhyne has been appointeddirector of the school of social science .He succeeds Professor Jerome Dowd, whowishes to give his time to other phases ofsociology .One less asterisk will appear in thefaculty directory with the announcementof the marriage, on August 10, of MissTrix Haberly, '27 arts-sc . (M .A . '29), ofWapanucka, and Dr . Edwin Nungezer,assistant professor of English . Mrs . Nungezeris a Delta Gamma . Doctor Nungezer,whose former home is Columbia,South Carolina, holds the degrees of masterof arts and doctor of philosophy fromCornell university . He is a member of PhiBeta Kappa .H. H. Scott, '26 arts-sc . (M.A .'26), formerlyan assistant in the university extension,has been appointed director of publicinformation, university extension, totake the place of Miss Elizabeth Andrews,resigned .Signal honor was paid to Dr . LeRoyLong, sr ., dean of the school of medicine,when he was selected to preside at onemeeting of the world conference of theinternational society for crippled childrenin Geneva, Switzerland, on July 30 . Theconference at Geneva was held under theauspices of the World Federation of EducationAssociations . The theme of themeeting at which Doctor Long presidedwas "Examination and Diagnosis." Dr .S. R . Cunningham, orthopedic specialist,and a member of the staff of UniversityHospital, also attended the conference andappeared on the program with an addresson "State Aid in Hospitalizing CrippledChildren ."Doctor Long spent the summer travellingon the continent with his son, Dr .Wendell Long, who has been studying inVienna .A recent lecture at the school of medicinewas that of Dr . Charles Richet, jr.,professor of medicine in the Universityof Paris, on Food Idiosyncrasies . DoctorRichet is an authority in France on asthmaand hayfever, hives, migraine andforms of eczema, all of which are oftenmanifestations of food idiosyncrasies.While in Oklahoma City, he was a guestof Dr . Ray M. Balyeat, '12 arts-sc., '18medic ., instructor in medicine in the university,whose hay fever and asthma cliniche is studying .

THE SOONER MAGAZINEGladys A. Barnes, '17 arts-sc. (M.A .'22), assistant professor of Spanish, hascompleted her fifth year as faculty adviserto the university Spanish club . This yearshe is vice-president of Kappa GammaEpsilon, local modern language society .Ivar Axelson has been appointed asassistant professor of economics in the collegeof business administration .William Cross, '07 arts-sc ., a captainof the university football team in 1906and 1907, is now full-time secretary of theathletic association, his appointment havingbeen announced by Edgar D. Meacham,'14 arts-sc ., president of the association.Dr . Edward Everett Dale, '11 arts-sc .,head of the history department, taught atWilliams and Mary College during thesummer . A book, tentatively entitled "Historyof the Range Cattle Industry" will bepublished by the University of OklahomaPress during February .M. L. Wardell, '19 arts-sc ., acting deanof men last year, and member of the historydepartment, is on leave of absence,studying at the University of Chicago forhis doctorate .APPLIED AERONAUTICSCourses in applied aeronautics are nowoffered in the school of mechanical engineeringof the college of engineering . Forthe present, the work is confined mainly toairplane design and airplane motors .COMMUNITY INSTITUTESThe community institute program ofthe university extension division has beenenlarged this year to include a variety oftypes of institutes . Plans are being madefor a series of county and town institutesdevoted to public health, to parent training,and to the needs of retail businessmen and municipal and county officials .a wCOLORED PRINTSThe departments of Latin and of Greekhave recently acquired a large number ofmounted colored prints illustrative of ancientlife .PHYSICS LIBRARYThe office and departmental library ofthe department of physics have been movedfrom the first to the second floor of theadministration building. The laboratoriesand lecture rooms remain on the firstfloor . The new arrangement permits abetter utilization of the space assigned tothis department .VIENNESE SCHOLAR GUESTDefinite arrangements have been madewith Dr. Amold Pillat of Vienna, Austria,who is connected with Fuche's Clinic, fortwo courses in Oklahoma in ophthalmology. Approximately forty eye, ear, noseand throat specialists of Oklahoma havealready signified their interest and desirein having the course given . There are atotal of 114 eye, ear, nose and throat specialistsin the state . A large percentage ofthis number is expected to take the course .Two courses will be given, one at thestate medical school and the other in thecity of Tulsa . Each will be of one week'sduration . Doctor Pillat for many yearshas been one of the leading instructors forAmerican specialists who annually migratefrom this country to Vienna for specialwork in eye, ear, nose and throat work .The work of Doctor Pillat deals only withthe eye . He is said to be a very able teacherand clinician . For the past two years hehas been employed by the RockefellerFoundation at the Union Medical college,Peiping, China, where he is now locatedas head of the department of ophthalmology.In this capacity he has been in chargeof all the ophthalmology work for thewhole of China as supervised by the departmentof Union Medical college underthe auspices of the Rockefeller Foundation.Doctor Pillat will leave the Orient duringthe early part of February and will arrivein San Francisco during the middle partof February . He will come directly toOklahoma under the auspices of the universityextension division and the universitymedical school . As soon as he hascompleted his course, Doctor Pillat willdepart for Vienna, returning to the Fuche'sclinic .* *THE ANCIENT OKLAHOMANCame Colorado scientists into Oklahomaand when they left, they took withthem evidences of Oklahomans of threethousand years ago . In caves near Kenton(in the Panhandle) the careful scientistsfound materials with which the life ofthe early Sooners was concerned .Immediately, there arose a furore in thepress . Where had the Oklahomans beenall the while? Then it developed that asfar as the university was concerned, therewere no funds available, and, if therewere, there would be no place to put thefind . One thing the university does notpossess, thanks to the skepticism of Soonerstate legislators who do not believe inmuseums for the state university is asuitable museum .The Colorado scientists have expressedwillingness to share their finds with Oklahoma,and it is quite probable that thenew state historical museum in OklahomaCity will receive part of them . Certainly,desirable as they would be for the university,necessary as they are for teaching,there is no place on the campus wherethey could be placed .vThe early Oklahomans were weavers,had tools of wood, loved beaded ornaments,they knew how to ran prairie doghides, they knew the use of fire .wThe entireincidentrevealstheimpor-tance ofproviding the uni ersity with amuseum where discoveries valuable to thestudy of biology, of anthropology and ofhistory, may be adequately displayed .5070The University of Oklahoma is rapidlybecoming the Harvard of the Southwest .Its enrollment for the first semester asthis issue of the magazine goes to pressis 5,070, an increase of 163 over the firstsemester enrollment last year . This is thelargest enrollment in the history of theuniversity, and the largest of any of themid-continent universities .Enrollment increases largely come fromout of the state and in the college ofengineering and in the school of petroleumengineering . The college of engineeringhad 745 students enrolled the firstsemester last year while this year it numbers897 students . Thirty-two states, thePhilippines, South American countries,China, Canada and Japan are representedin the out-of-state enrollment . Texas, with303 students, leads in the number, whileother states with more or less large numbersfollow : Louisiana 21 ; Indiana 21 ; Illinois17 ; Iowa 13 ; California 11 ; Pennsylvania10 ; New York 9; Nebraska 7 ;Minnesota 4 ; Ohio 3 . And thus they go,by far the widest representation amongstates Oklahoma has ever had .Despite the increase in enrollment, itwas never better nor more speedily handledthan this year . Credit for this is dueprincipally to George Wadsack, ex-'19,registrar . Students were enrolled in theOklahoma Union building and in fasttime . Wadsack had worked out a systemthat proved perfect .DEAN OF MEN"Every alumnus and every studentshould be proud of the feeling of intimacywhich your school has retained eventhough it has grown in size . This rarequality saves the school which becomesphysically great from resembling an educationalplant . Oklahoma has this intimacyto a marked degree . It is found in yourcampus `Howdy!' and your friendly nods .It shall be one of my greatest interests toaid in guarding this spirit ."Observations from the new dean of menof the university, J . F. Findlay, B.A . Grinnell,M. A. Chicago, are being closelywatched by inquiring students . DeanFindlay is the first of his species to comeas a full time mentor to the campus . Themen are wondering why he is here . DeanFindlay being wise and youthful (he is29, married) soothes suspicion :"Whatever program we shall adopt willgrow out of the system here . It is necessaryto become acquainted with the campusbefore I can declare my plans . Or evenmake any plans ."Each campus is an individuality . Ido not propose to set up a given group ofrules or taboos here just because thev havebeen successful in other institutions . I shall

OCTOBER, 1929wait to know Oklahoma better before I attemptto adopt any measures ."Dean Findlay was active during his owncollegiate days in Grinnell College . Hestudied journalism and music and took anactive part in dramatics and student government. Later he became the dean of menat his Alma Mater.Having known campus activities fromthe student viewpoint Dean Findlay observes,"I am primarily interested in vocationaltraining . Student government alsois of importance in my program . I anticipatemany pleasant contacts during theyear.Observes the Oklahoma Daily in responseto Dean Findlay's ambitions forstudent government : "It was interesting .. . . because of the tremendous task hehas on his hands. It was interesting tosee how he would avoid the looming disruptionof self government oh this campus .It would hot have taken a political seerto have observed the reefs ahead of thissame self government last year. . . . IfDean Findlay with the memories of idealself government at Grinnell fresh uponhim can aid the situation without bringingfire upon his head by both party heads,then let the proletariat heave a sigh ofrelief. Things might be worse."GRADUATES IN EMBRYOTHE FRATERNITY MENAGEFive kewpie dolls from the beautifulKappa Kappa Gammas ;Une pair of suspenders from the diligentPill Beta Deltas ;One cowboy hat from the gallant SigmaNus;One alarm clock from idem ;Tree pair of pants (trousers) from theredoubtable Sigma Alpha Epsilons ;One pair of dress boots from the allcampusKappa Sigmas ;One lumberjack coat from the ChesterfieldianBeta Theta PIS .1 hese were some of the items stolenfrom the aforementioned dormitoryad-junctsto the university during June . Twoboys confessed to Norman police that theystole these and other articles in order thatthey might play pool from the proceedsof their sale . No books were reportedstolen.DEFI . . . DEFUNCTBy action of the board of regents andwith the approval of Oklahoma newspapersand taxpayers generally, those celebratedupholders of "tradition" oh theuniversity campus, the Ruf Neks and theJazz Hounds, were abolished September27 .The abolishment came as a result ofexemplifying the holy ritual of these organizations. Last year the ancient andbeautiful ritual of the Ruf Neks was exemplifiedat Varsity corner . A large andinterested crowd watched this solemn, sacredrite of the modern Guardians ofTradition. The ritual is age-old . It consistsof a beefy Nek wielding a paddle oh thewilling neophyte, who is willing to gothrough hell to add another "honor" afterhis name in the college yearbook . A womanwatching this gentle and cultural exhibitionlast year almost lost an eye whena splinter flew from a paddle wieldedoh an anatomy equally hard . Protestscame from several parts of the state againstthe sadistic practices of the "pep" organizations. The regents passed a regulationbanning paddles oh the campus .ASSOCIATION VICE-PRESIDENTFRANK N. WATSONVice-president of the University of OklahomaAssociation . lie resides in Dallas, Texas, whereon October 1, lie was to become associated withthe Southwest L . E. Myers Co ., as vice-presidentanti general manager . He was graduated from thelaw school in 1913, practical law in UklanoniaCity until 1917, being assistant city attorney fortwo years, served in tire war, as a test lieutenantof infantry, later in the air service, and waspost adjutant finance officer and commander oftile 366th aero squadron at Love Field, Dallas,and served in other "thankless" posts. Mr Watsonis a captain in the air service reserve corps . Alterfire war, he became secretary-treasurer of theW. C. Hedrick Construction Co . at Dallas, thengeneral manager of the Texas branch of theAssociated General Contractors of America, holdingthat post until October 1 . He is a KappaSigma .Pi Kappa Phi fraternity thus far is theonly national Greek letter fraternity thathas publicly announced its intention ofadhering to the regents' ruling . When itcame time to initiate this year, the RufNeks and the Jazz Hounds were dividedoh whether they should obey the regents'rule or defy it . Warned by the universityof the consequences, nevertheless both organizationsdecided to run affairs forthemselves and held a private initiation .Newspapers quickly protested at thedefiance to the university. The Ruf Neksand the Jazz Hounds found themselvesisolated from public favor . The regentsmet, abolished the organizations forever,announced they would look with disfavoroh the formation of any similar group,and suspended the old members . A committeerepresenting the regents and thedisciplinary committee of the universityinvestigated the initiations carefully andreadmitted the members into the university,separating the members into groups"A" and . .B,"' the latter being the menwho had encouraged the use of paddles .These were required to sigh pledges thatthey would abide by the regulations of theuniversity .Frank Buttram, president of the regents,declared abolition of the organizations wasin keeping with making the universityconform with the standards of other universities." T he university is a decade behind withits two pep organizations with a membershipof about pity in a school of 5,000students," Mr. Buttram told 1 he NormanTranscript "I he University of Oklahomawill have as much school spirit as ever .Traditions will hot be forgotten simplybecause rilty-seven boys are barred fromswinging paddles oh freshmen. 1 raditionsamount to considerably more than thisobsolete form of fun. 1 he whole studentbody will be a pep organization . "l eh ortwelve peppy fellows, dressed in appropriateloud colors, will be chosen to leadyells at the football games . This is doneat all the large universities ."Ollhand, the abolishing of the twoorganizations might seem drastic . But webelieve it a step forward. T here will beas much pep or more at the footballgames this fall ."Walter Harrison writing in his Tiny'Times column of The Oklahoma CityTimes, declared :No threat or warning will leave the authoritieswith any standing . There have been threatsand warnings a plenty. This infraction calls fora punishment that will be something more thana slap oh tire wrist, some decision that willshow fire student body that no group of enthusiasticboys can take the school rules in theirown hands and do with them as they see tit.The Daily Oklahoman in its editorialcolumn said :It was a deliberate act of defiance and assuch it cannot be ignored without inviting chaosin university circles . While the punishment inflictedshould be free from the extreme of harshness,if should be sufficient to command thatrespect for constituted authority without whichthere can be no progress whatever at Oklahomauniversity .Several years ago the Ruf Neks refusedto abide by the decision of the athleticcouncil requiring members to show theirtickets at the gate at football games . Theyrushed the gate and a boy, struck on thehead by a paddle, was seriously injured .9

10 THE SOONER MAGAZINETHEY LAID PLANS FOR MIGRATION DAY AT DALLAS.PHOTO COURTESY THE DALLAS NEWSMembers of the University of Oklahoma club of Texas when they met recently in Dallas to make plans for the Oklahoma-Texas game . Right to left, they are : Frank Watson, temporary chairman, and vice-president of the University of OklahomaAssociation ; Frank Cleckler, C. H. Newell, Shelley Tracy, Ira W. Davis and Weaver Holland. Back row : E . C. Sullivan, HarryL. Atkinson, temporary secretary, Hugh Hoff, Bert G. Ashby, Henry Meier, Walter H. Meier, A. L. "Bus" Haskins and ChesterColeCreated to support athletics, nothing theRuf Neks ever did so injured their prestige. If the Ruf Neks could not be dependedupon to support athletics in a sportsmanlikemanner, it was difficult to conceivewhat turn their proteges, the freshmen,would take .The regent-faculty committee declaredin part :Prior to the meetings on Wednesday evening,and probably prior to the joint meeting on Tuesdayevening, the candidates elected for initiationto both orders had been instructed to bringwith them to the initiation the number of paddleseach candidate had heretofore been requiredby custom of the orders to bring to theinitiation ceremony ; and the candidates of thetwo respective orders appeared on the campuswith their paddles at or about the time of theconvening of the two separate meetings onWednesday night .Under the practice of initiation heretofore observed,each candidate was required to carrya bundle of paddles to the initiation, which wasin the process of initiation used by the oldmembers upon the new members . After the actiontaken by the separate meetings, decidingupon private initiation, apparently the officersand members of the two orders who had beenactive in inducing the two orders to abandonthe plan of public initiation directed and procuredthe paddles to be piled upon trucks . Thecandidates and a large number of old membersof the two orders with the two truck loadsof paddles thus proceeded to a point in thecountry approximately two miles south of theuniversity, where the initiations were conductedby the two orders separately . The testimony ofevery old member of the organizations, whoparticipated in or was present at the initiation,was that only the ritualistic features of the initiationwere administered to the candidates, andthat the hazing or paddling feature of initiationwas not indulged in by their organizations ; thatthe paddles were put into a pile and burned ;and that no use of the same was made in theinitiation ceremonies . The committee was unableto obtain any evidence that the paddling ceremonywas indulged in, as has heretofore been thepractice of these orders in their initiations . Fromsome members of the faculty and residents livingin proximity to the place of the initiation, itdoes appear that some use of the paddles wasmade by a limited number of the members ;however, to a very limited extent and incidentalto the handling and final disposition of thepaddles, rather than as part of the initiationceremony, and that the use of the paddles, evenin this form and manner, was opposed and discouragedby the greater part or substantially allof the members participating in the initiation .The committee finds, upon the frank admissionand statement of officers of these two orders,including both those who favored and supporteda public initiation as well as some of those whoopposed it, that the abandonment of the paddlingpractice virtually destroys the only feature andtradition of these organizations worth while andthat unless this practice can be continued thereis little inducement to continue the orders, Therewas also frank admission on the part of thesemembers that these practices attracted an elementof students and members who, despite the effortsof the more conservative members of the organization,at times control the conduct of theorganization, resulting in disorderly conduct andabuses of the hazing or paddling practice, riotousspirit and conduct among the members,Your committee, therefore, is of the onininnthat these two organizations serve no useful purposeto the student body, but that their influencehas been and could only be if continued detrimentaland destructive to the prnner college snirit,conduct and morale of the student body . Yourcommittee recommends that the order of theboard of regents made on September 27, abolishingthe student organizations named and knownas the Rut Neks and Jazz Hounds and prohibitingthe members of these organizations and otherstudents of the university from participating insaid organizations and in any other student activitiesas members of said organizations, to bemade permanent ; and that the president of theuniversity be authorized and directed to expelpromptly from the university any student violatingthis regulation .ONE IN FIVERush week, that season of hysteria,ended a boomer week on the Sooner campusthis year with 250 women studentspledged to 15 women's fraternities andwith more than 200 men pledged to 18fraternities .Disproportion between the number ofactive members and the number of pledgeswas the outstanding characteristic shownin the final" count . The idea of "assimilationof freshmen" seems to have gonethe way of all flesh in this enthusiasticworld of ours and the idea of quantityto have taken its place .Disproportion between the numbers includedin the fraternal scene and in theentire campus is another element which,when considered in its proper light, callsfor a discounting of the hullabaloo ofrush week . To the student who takes nopart in it it is really an overemphasizedthing after all for it takes onlv one fifthof the university's total enrollment tomake all of the racket which signifies

AverageOCTOBER, 1929.pledging . There are approximately 1,000fraternity members in school . There are5,000 students .Kappa Kappa Gamma was "high man"in the total of pledges among the womenwith 38 neophytes donning the blues . PiKappa Alpha, with 38 pledges, led thelist of the men in numbers . Kappa hasan active chapter of 22 . Pi Kappa Alphahas an active chapter of 21 .Women's fraternities with their totalsof active members and of pledges are :Delta Gamma, active 17, pledges 24 ; AlphaPhi, active 18, pledges 13 ; Delta DeltaDelta, active 18, pledges 28 ; Pi BetaPhi, active 38, pledges 17 ; Alpha GammaDelta, active 14, pledges 17 ; Gamma PhiBeta, active 17, pledges 19 ; Kappa AlphaTheta, active 27, pledges 20 ; Alpha XiDelta, active 10, pledges 18 ; Kappa Upsilon,active 25, pledges four ; Alpha OmicronPi, active 12, pledges nine ; Chi Omega,active 15, pledges 13 ; Phi Mu, active19, pledges seven ; Alpha Chi Omega,active 20, pledges 17 .Men's fraternities with their proportionsof active members and with the numberof pledges recorded a week after the endingof rush are : Sigma Chi, active 30,pledges 23 ; Phi Gamma Delta, active 30,pledges 19 ; Sigma Nu, active 20, pledges23 ; Kappa Sigma, active 36, pledges 22 ;Beta Theta Pi, active 32, pledges 16 ; PhiDelta Theta, active 45, pledges 16 ; AlphaTau Omega, active 26, pledges 21 ; SigmaAlpha Epsilon, active 30, pledges 21 ; AlphaSigma Phi, active 25, pledges 12 ;Delta Chi, active 22, pledges 17 ; Acacia,active 24, pledges 17 ; Delta Tau Delta,active 26, pledges 14 ; Phi Kappa Psi, active30, pledges 10 ; Kappa Alpha, active31, pledges 26 ; Delta Upsilon, active 24,pledges 12 ; Lambda Chi Alpha, active 20,pledges 15 ; Pi Kappa Phi, active 24, pledges10 ; Phi Beta Delta, active 15, pledges12 ; Sigma Alpha Mu, active 15, pledges10UNWILLING RUSHEESMessrs . J . T. Hann, '30, Blackwell, andFrank Smith, '32, Marlow, and MissesMarianne England, '32, and Jewell MarieMarkham, '33, both of Ponca City, hadsomething to write home about beforeschool began . The young gentlemen, membersof that grand old Southern order,Kappa Alpha, and the voung ladies, membersof the intellectual Kappa Alpha Thetafraternity, were rushed by hiiackers . Theypledged without a word . The four werein the act of getting out of their automobilein front of the Kappa Kappa Gammahouse (which fronts on the Kappa AlphaTheta house) September 10 when twomen, whose inebriated condition indicatedgross ignorance of Mr . Volstead's celebratedlegal dictum . approached . The visitorssaluted the undergraduates by aimingrevolvers at them . Without further urgingthe quartet was taken for a ride towardsPurcell . Before leaving, the visitors tooka diamond ring valued at $500 from ThetaMarkham, $5 in cash from K.A . Smithand $6 and a wrist watch from K. A.Haun . In the classic words of the reporters,"police are investigating ."COUNTRY GREEKSThe astute Lambda Chi Alpha fraternitybegan construction last summer on anew house on Lindsey street and workprogressed nicely . Great heaps of red claypiled up as the basement progressed . Thenwork stopped . Someone had discoveredthat the ground on which the L.C .A .'swere building was in the country . Underuniversity regulations, no fraternity maybuild outside the city limits . The fraternitydrew up a plat for the affable citycommission ; the plat was rejected . It didnot show the blocks adjoining that inwhich was the fraternity's lots . A newplat was made . This showed all the blocks .It was accepted . Sound of hammers soonafter informed the neighborhood that resi-MRS. WALTER FERGUSON, '07Vice-president of the University of OklahomaAssociation and celebrated as asyndicate writer whose editorials appearin twenty-six newspapers daily . See "HatsOff To" in The Sooner Magazine for February,1929 .dents would soon have many neighbors allin one house . A block away the Italianstylehouse of Alpha Omicron Pi fraternityechoed to the excited talk of rushweek . A.O .Pi, too, had had the same experience. Being women, though, theyhad their lots taken into the city beforethey began to build . All Scotchmen arenot of the male sex .* * *SIGMA DELTA TAUThe fifteenth national fraternity forwomen was installed at the university September14 . It is Sigma Delta Tau whichabsorbed Tau Alpha Sigma, a local . SigmaDelta Tau, which confines membershipto those of the Jewish race, was establishedat Cornell in 1917 . It includes inits policies social service . The fraternity'spin is a golden torch . National officers installedthe local chapter, which gave thema banquet at which President and Mrs.Bizzell were guests .FRATERNITY GRADESThose mighty intellectuals, the celebratedPhi Gamma Deltas, climbed anotch in scholarship and climbed into thecoveted first place in the men's fraternitygrade listings for the second semester of1929 . The Sigma Alpha Mus, who toppedthe list the first semester last year, droppedto fourth place . Acacia kept its rankingin third place . Alpha Tau Omega movedfrom fourth place to sixth and Delta TauDelta from fifth to ninth . Pi Kappa Alpharelinquished the cellar it has occupied forseveral semesters and moved up to twentiethplace, while Kappa Sigma looped theloop from tenth place to bottom .The comparative standing of the fraternities,with their ranking, follows :AverageChapter Second FirstRanking Semester Semester1 . Phi Gamma Delta 3.119 3.0492 . Sigma Alpha Epsilon 3,058 2,7483 . Acacia 3,037 3,0274 . Sigma Alpha Mu 2,985 3,1385, Phi Beta Delta 2,963 2,6386 . Alpha Tau Omega 2 .839 2,8797 . Phi Delta Theta 2 .790 2.6848 . Beta Theta Pi 2,772 2,3649 . Delta Tau Delta 2,751 2,79110 . Phi Kapna Psi 2,629 2,39611 . Siema Chi 2,602 2,49512, Phi Kapna Sigma 2,561 1,81113 . Sigma Nu 2 .514 2.23314, Sigma Mu Sigma 2 .486 2,29915 . Delta Chi 2 .469 2,22616 . Alpha Sigma Phi 2,422 2,16417. Pi Kappa Phi 2.399 2.37218 . Lambda Chi Alpha 2 .099 2,40119 . Kapna Alpha 2,099 2.16420, Pi Kapna Alpha 2,099 1 .79021 . Delta Upsilon 2 .057 2,05622 . Kappa Sigma 2 .050 2,441s *CATHOLIC STUDENT PARISHAn organization which is unique is theCatholic student parish which was establishedby Catholic students of the universityin September . It is the onlv organizationof its kind which is confined to studentsin its membership and depends unonthe students for its maintenance . Thegroup has as its center a chapel two blocksfrom the campus where all lectures andsermons are arranged for students.ENROLLEDPaul R. Stimson of Springfield, Illinois,in the school of journalism . Nephew ofthe Hon . Henry L. Stimson, famous assecretary of state and as owner of Bones(no bones about being a goat) and a cussingparrot ; cousin of the Hon. Arthur

1 2Hyde, secretary of agriculture . Ribbonedby Alpha Tau Omega.Willis Dickinson of Dickinson, NorthDakota, in the college of engineering .The five-thousandth person to enroll thefirst semester, and the first student in thehistory of the university to make the varsity'senrollment 5,000 .Mrs . Anna Laskey of Oklahoma City,in the school of law . Mrs . Laskey representedOklahoma county in the state legislaturelast year.VOX COLLEGIUMShe was a freshman and a rushee andshe was rushing about hither and yon ina raincoat in the women's big fraternityhouse and an old member after about anhour decided to enlighten herself aboutthe matter and so asked :"Dearie why are you wearing that raincoatinside the house?""Why, honey, it's raining outside, isn'tit?"GIFTS TO EDUCATIONVERMONT-By the terms of the will ofMrs . Miriam B . Blake of New York andManchester, a trust fund of $60,000 will beavailable for the University of Vermonton the death of Mrs . Blake's half-sister .The income of the trust fund shall beused thereafter for the maintenance of aprofessionally trained organist at the IraAllen chapel .A total of $3,000,000 is made availableeventually to the University of Vermontthrough the will of the late James B.Wilbur, a trustee of the university . TheUniversity of Vermont has an enrollmentof 1,300 .OKLAHOMA-TO Cameron Agriculturalcollege Oklahoma's civic-minded millionaireLew Wentz, chairman of the statehighway commission, gave $5,000 for astudent loan fund .OKLAHOMA--Four thousand dollars bythe Carnegie corporation and $2,000 froman anonymous donor, were given to theUniversity of Oklahoma in September forart teaching material, President Bizzellannounced . The gift makes available invaluableteaching materials .ASSOCIATION PROGRESSALUMNI COUNCIL AT TORONTOA new type of alumnus was pictured atthe international conference of the AmericanCouncil held at Toronto, Canada,June 25 to 29, an alumnus who is movedless by emotion than by a feeling of concretegood he may receive from his AlmaMater .This new alumnus was discussed amongother problems confronting alumni secretaries. Frank S . Cleckler, '21 bus ., secretaryof the University of Oklahoma Association,represented Oklahoma . It was thefirst Council meeting in several years atwhich Oklahoma was represented .Wilfred B. Shaw of the University ofMichigan association, described the alumniuniversity, as he had observed it intraveling from school to school in thiscountry for the Carnegie foundation-avisit that included Oklahoma . The rah-rahappeal that once sent the old alumnus'blood tingling is more or less absent inNOT RED GRANGEFrigidaire and Kelvinator found solidcompetition last summer in the genialsmile of Tom Churchill, celebrated Soonerathlete, Olympian, basketball captain,footballer, tracker. Iceman Churchill icedin Ponca CityTHE SOONER MAGAZINEour day, hence large universities are enlargingtheir service to interest these alumniin continuing their education after college. Lafayette has an alumni universityweek at commencement time, when alumniattend classes . Several colleges supplygraduates with reading lists recommendedby members of their faculties . Mr . Shawhas not completed his survey, but whenhe has completed it, he will report whatprogress he has observed in the countryand make recommendations as to a feasiblealumni university .The fact that alumni no longer feel theold emotional response to their old varsitieswas regarded by the secretaries attendingthe meeting as symptomatic ofthe times, similar to the falling away fromlodges, churches and institutions generally .Alumni associations must have more tooffer to retain the wavering interest ofmembers .Secretaries representing state universitiesheld a separate session, presided over byFred Ellsworth of Kansas . Their problemdiffers from that of secretaries of endowedinstitutions, in that the latter usually are apart of the faculty, while the former mustobtain funds through memberships .The council will meet next year atNorthampton, Massachusetts, the guestjointly of Amherst and Smith colleges .Secretary Cleckler made many contactswith secretaries representing practicallyevery American alumni organization . Hehad attended earlier in the year a districtmeeting of Missouri Valley secretaries heldin Kansas City .`MY CARD'John Rogers, '14 law, of Tulsa . Herefor freshmen week . Encouraged by improvedfinancial status ofUnion .OklahomaElmer D. Fagan, '20 arts-sc ., Los Angeles,California . Now associate professorof economics at the University of SouthernCalifornia .Maurice Merrill, '19 arts-sc ., '22 law, ofLincoln, Nebraska . Now associate professorof law at University of Nebraska .SAILEDSavoie Lottinville, '29 journ ., Rhodesscholar for Oklahoma, on the Aquitania,for three years of residence at the Universityof Oxford . Scholar Lottinville (edi .for of The Oklahorna Daily last year) willread the honors school of history, econom-ics and politics.ARRIVEDEugene Springer, '27 sc ., Rhodes scholarfor Oklahoma, on the Aquitania after twoyears residence at Merton college, Universityof Oxford . Read mathematics . MathematicianSpringer rowed on the Mertoneight . Reason for return before expirationof scholarship : to read for a doctor ofphilosophy degree at the University ofChicago, where he now is .

OCTOBER, 1929THREE FACULTY ALUMNI WARHORSESGuy Y. WILLIAMS, '06 arts-sc ., '10 M.A ., refusedto say "die" to an alumni association .When others gave up in despair, Guy Y. puthis keen mind to work . The association oftoday is practically the product of Williams& Meacham . Doctor Williams was a memberof the gym team, of the track team and ofthe Senate society . He was athletic editor ofthe first yearbook, He is a member of PhiBeta Kappa, Sigma Xi, Alpha Chi Sigma andRho Chi . He is head of the chemistry departmentand is director of the school of chemicalengineering . He organized military trainingin the university in the spring of 1917 andhad charge of exemptions and discipline mattersfrom 1917 to 1927 as chairman of theboard of reviews . He was chairman of theeligibility committee at the time eligibilityrules were put into effect. If any two menmay be said to have rescued alumni affairsfrom oblivion, they are Guy Y. and EdMeacham .VICTOR E. MONNETT, '12 arts-sc ., director ofthe school of geology in the college of artsand sciences and of the school of geologicalengineering in the college of engineering,has always worked with and for the Universityof Oklahoma Association . Whereverthere are geologists, they know Doctor Monnett; and if they know Doct or Monnctt, theyknow of the University of Oklahoma Association. He is president of the local chapterof Phi Beta Kappa and is a member of SigmaChi..EDGAR D. MEACHAM, '14 arts-sc ., with GuyY. Williams, held on to what remained ofthe association when almost everyone wasready to bury it, They evolved the idea of thelife membership-and here we are, fairlyprosperous as an association . Varsity footballin '11, '12, '13 ; track team in '12, '13, '14 ;editor of '13 Sooner ; Pe-et, Sigma Delta Chi,Phi Beta Kappa, Kappa Sigma. President ofthe athletic council ; assistant dean of the collegeof arts and sciences and professor ofmathematics Doctor Meacham was awardedthe only Letzeiser medal awarded in 1914 .Member of the association executive boardand of the stadium-union memorial board .Studied English under Prof . Lawrence N.Morgan .EXPRESSED IN THE PRESSFAMOUS THROUGHOUT NATIONAlbert Shaw, editor of the Review O fReviews, writes editorially in the Septemberissue : "Dr . Charles N. Gould, directorof the Oklahoma geological survey,famous throughout the nation for his researchwork, has worked faithfully to discoverthe hidden riches of his state . Hisrecords show that there is present in thestate unlimited zinc, 79,000,000,000 tons ofcoal, incalculable amounts of glass sands,123,000,000,000 tons of gypsum, lead, salt,limestone, Portland cement rock, brickclay and shale, granite, sandstone, graveland building sands, novaculite, tripoli,marble, volcanic ash."SALARIES FIRSTWriting in Harlow's Weekly for September7, Charles Evans declares anentthe appointment of James F. Hatcher, '13arts-sc ., Chickasha lawyer, to membershipon the state board of education: "In appointingJames F. Hatcher of Chickashaon the state board of education recently,the governor has given the state a youngman of proved character and resourcesand whose close relationship to all thepublic schools through a long period ofvears, thoroughly qualifies him to do abig service for the state's lamest business,education. . . . When Mr . Hatcher wasasked the other day what he consideredthe largest work of the state board of education,he answered at once with thatfirmness and clearness that made himthrough his seven vears as high schoolprincipal of Chickasha a recognized leaderin Oklahoma education, `Undoubtedlythe strengthening of the entire publicschool svstem by advancing teachers' salaries; education can rise no higher or growno better than the teachers that serve Oklahoma.' . . . This young man born downin the hills of Pontotoc county has wonhis spurs in the world of hard knocks asusual with wiry farm lads . Jim got up toEdmond and the Central Normal, hefeebly remembers how, but he stuck untilhe graduated in 1910 ; then he taught ; thentook his A.B . in Oklahoma university andsoutheastern Oklahoma knew and respectedhim as a high school principalat Madill and Idabel ; after a little Floridawork, war came and Jim Hatcherfound himself at Norfolk in Uncle Sam'snavy ; since the war Superintendent T. T.Montgomery and Jim Hatcher gave Chickashaa system of schools that won it morethan statewide fame ; the tang of a moreintimate contact with men was in Hatcher'snostrils and it swept him into thelaw where he has made himself felt

1 4throughout southwest Oklahoma ."NO LUCY SOONERIn his ``Don't Worry" column in theOklahoma City Times for September 11Walter W. Mills writes : "Recently amongthe letters to the editor in the New YorkTelegram we encountered one credited to`Mrs . Heywood Broun,' and we have beenwondering since whether Ruth Hale hasgone domestic, or whether she threw afit when she saw it. She who might havebeen `Mrs . Heywood Broun' had she feltthat marrying the man called for a changedmoniker was an enthusiastic LucyStoner when we saw her last, and clungto her maiden name, as if that made somedifference . We are among those whocouldn't see that it mattered one way orthe other, and Heywood was a liberalthen, as now . In fact, a writing man, itseems to us, if he should wed a writingwoman, should be rather glad if she woulduse the name she started with, and notmeddle with his . Walter Ferguson (ex-'07), the veteran banker, never seemed tomind it because his wife made his namea household word, but you will observethat he quit writing, and he was prettygood at it."BAIT?Under the heading of "Militarist Baitfor Students" in The New Republic forOctober 2, by Duff Gilfond, one reads :" `Military Science,' declares the Universityof Oklahoma, `furnishes excellent materialfor intellectual development and characterbuilding .'" Military training is describedas a "splurge" at all schools whereR. O. T. C. units are established .HONORED GUESTSEqual Rights in its issue of August 10writes :"A suite of rooms in the new palace ofpeace and justice in Havana has been setaside by the Cuban government for theuse of the inter-American commission ofwomen, which was created as a result ofaction taken in Havana last year at thesixth conference of the American republics."This latest governmental recognitionof the work of the inter-American commissionof women was revealed by MunaLee (ex '12), director of the bureau ofinternational relations of the Universityof Porto Rico, now working in Washingtonwith the commission, at a gardenparty in her honor at national headquartersof the National Woman's Party onJuly 30 ."IN THE EDUCATIONALWONDERLANDEGGS . . . . EXITThe battle of Des Moines has ended .Des Moines university, a Baptist institution,has closed its doors permanently .Commencement time last summer newspaperreaders discovered that the membersof the board of the school were egged .The board members had just come fromthe administration building where theyhad performed a major operation on thestaff by dismissing President H . C. Waymanand the faculty . The quarrel wasbe-tweenfundamentalists andultra-fundamentalists,if such a distinction is possible .Doctor Wayman thought himself a fundamentalist;the board thought he wasn'tfundamental enough . The selection ofWayman was a "mistake" according toa statement of the trustees early in September. At the commencement time, afterthe happy old custom of egg salutationhad been concluded, seniors went to courtand obtained an order compelling theboard to give them their diplomas . Thetrustees, miffed because they bad ordereddiplomas withheld until the Bath of Yolkhad been investigated, closed the school,"The board Is closing the school becauseit feels it only has the high privilege ofpaying the school bills," a statement said .Students seeking an education in fundamentalsfundamentally no longer can regardDes Moines as a Mecca . It is a PereLachaise instead .CRANKY TEACHERSWhat makes teachers cranky is told byone of them in the August Century. All isnot roses for the teacher in the highly departmentahzedmodern school, with itstests and foibles, she says . And then : " Evennow the stenographer and the shoe clerkare not convinced that a teacher has towork for her living . `Think,' they cry, `ofthe long summer vacation!' The summervacation has vanished along with the proverbialpulchritude of the milkmaid . Tnosewho wish to hold their positions are tobe found in summer schools . Compare,if you will, the winter and summer attendanceof the average large normalschool, college or university . It will beseen that many of the three quarters of amillion school teachers are not swingingin hammocks and reading French novels .True, not all of them are to be found insummer schools . A visit to a large teachers'agency will be enlightening to theaverage stenographer ."AND MORE ARE COMINGFrederick B . Robinson of the Collegeof the City of New York writes in theEducational Record (Washington, D. C.)for July of the e d u c a t i o n a 1 prospect :"American education has had exactly thesame history as our industry . We have almostreached the margin in continentalUnited States of our extensive development. What do we find? There are about24,000,000 students in the elementaryschools, over 4,000,000 students in the secondaryschools, and 1,000,000 in colleges,THE SOONER MAGAZINEuniversities and teacher training schools,or institutions above the secondary level .No nation in the world ever bad anythinglike that spread of the benefits of education."THREE ROUSING CHEERS!The athleticization of American collegesis complete . New York university's 70-piece band went into training before theopening of school to prepare for the footballseason . Now for the school withouta textbook!:WENTWORTH COACHWilliam V."Bill" C o x, '21arts-sc. (M.A .'24),S o o n e r baseballa n d basketballstar, has been appointeddirector ofathletics at Wentw o r t h Militaryacademy at Lexington,Missouri .Cox has coachedHelena, Carmena n d Henryettahigh schools . AtWentworth, a shead coach, Cox won the Missouri stateconference title in football one year, andin two years finished second . Last year,his team held the West Point plebes toa 13-13 tie. Last year, his basketball teamwell the Missouri state conference championship.FLOWERSFor the boy who budgets his waythrough school, a sad thought .For the girl who dances, thrills .In the new Whistler Spanish-type buildingsat the varsity corner the SouthernFloral Co ., has opened . B . L. Wennestromand H. A. Schowalter, proprietors, have astheir assistants Gladys Pierce, '30 fine artsand Burford Miller, '28 geol .flowers? What dance will there be withoutRUSSIA IN BOOKS ABROADThe Russian government has assuredDr . Roy Temple House, editor of BooksAbroad, published by the University ofOklahoma Press, that it will co-operate insupplying books for review for the magazine. It will also interest Russian criticsin contributing articles to this unusualquarterly devoted to reviewing the world'sliterature . Two articles on Russian literatureare promised in approaching issuesof Books Abroad, "Contemporary RussianFiction" and Contemporary RussianPoetry ." The magazine recently receiveda subsidy from the Belgian Relief commission; previously, it had been aided bythe Carnegie Foundation .

OCTOBER, 192915migration day to draw thousands to texas fair oct.19dallas alumni planning royal entertainment for greatest of gamesTHE IDEAL game of Sooners from Alaska to Afghanistan,that grand old battle with the Texas Longhorns,is going to be played again this year for the first time insix years, and before the Texas state fair at Dallas October 19 .In the days wheel the Spoonholder was the center of campustradition the Texas game was the game of games . Everyonewent to Dallas . Riding the blinds, riding the rods, riding Pullmans,walking, or any old way . The Texas game stirred theimagination more than any other football game in our schedule,unless it was the Aggie game-in those days when oldBoyd field with its small wooden grandstands accommodatedthe Sooner rooters .There was a glamor about the Texas game missing in anyother . It was prayed before the great crowds of the Texas statefair at Dallas . People from all over the southwest came to seethe tussle . It was a money maker, too .Wita the entry of Oklahoma into the Missouri Valley conference,the Sooners had to forego the Dallas game . MissouriValley rules required that football games be played in thetown where one of the contesting universities was situated .In 1922 the Longhorns invaded Oklahoma and the followingyear the Sooners played in Austin . But the interest, the glamorof the Dallas crowds, was missing, and Texas played Vanderbiltat Dallas and Oklahoma dropped the Longhorns from itsschedule .OKLAHOMA has now signed a contract with Texas forten years . 'the game is to be played at Dallas, receiptsare to be split equally two ways . The game has done a greatdeal to waken alumni interest in Texas. Vice-president FrankWatson has always been a loyal booster and he has taken chargeof the Sooner arrangements at Dallas with eagerness and celerity. He is ably backed 'in Oklahoma by President RaymondToibert . Every indication has it that the Dallas Migration isgoing to be the equal almost of tire annual Homecoming .Migration Day is October 19, but the program in Dallaswill begin the day before . Dallas alumni met Tuesday, SeptemberT/, with Secretary Frank Cleckler and outlined theprogram . Those attending the luncheon at the Athletic clubin Dallas were Watson, Cleckler, C. H. Newell, Shelley Tracy,Ira W. Davis, Weaver Holland, E. C. Sullivan, Harry L. Atkinson,Hugh Hoff, Bert G. Ashby, Henry Meier, Walter H.Meier, A. L . "Bus" Haskins and Unester Cole. They plannedthe following program :October 18-Banquet and dance in the celebrated PeacockTerrace of the Baker hotel . The Terrace, most popular rendezvousin Texas, has been set aside by the Baker managementfor Sooners exclusively, a most fortunate augury for asuccessful Migration day . Plans are being made toDailas one of the student orchestras on the campus .take toOctober 19-Parade in the morning. Visit to state fair exhibits.2 or 2 :30 p.m.-Texas versus Oklahoma, state fair stadiumseating 16,000 persons .Night-The Red Robe, New York musical comedy broughtdirectly from New York for the Texas state fair . A bloc ofthe choicest seats in the house has been reserved by the Universityof Oklahoma Club of Texas .Other relevant facts about the Texas game :Headquarters - Baker hotel, with Secretary Cleckler incharge . All room reservations and reservations for the musicalcomedy should be made of Frank N. Watson, 713 Constructionbuilding, Dallas, Texas .Ticket reservation-Oklahoma will have a bloc of 5,000choice seats reserved . These cost $3 each and should be purchasedof Ben G. Owen, athletic director, University of Oklahoma,Norman . Students having student tickets may reserveDallas seats for $1 extra . All ticket reservations should bemade in advance .Transportation-By auto : Dallas is 219 miles from OklahomaCity and 117 from Ardmore, on United States highway77 all the way Buses make the trip in eight hours from OklahomaCity . The road is paved or gravelled the entire distance,except for ten miles between Denton and Dallas, near Lewisville.In case of rain, the motorist has two optional routes, bothall paved: Via Denton-Fort Worth, with Dallas about twentymiles farther ; or via Denton-Keller-Grapevine-Dallas, aboutten miles farther than via Lewisville but ten miles shorter thanthe other optional route, and also, minus the Fort Worth traffic.By train-The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe railway plansto run a special train from Norman, with fare to be either onewayor one-way-and-a-third for the round trip .By plane-Arrangements are being made with various airlines at Oklahoma City and Tulsa to charter special passengerplanes . For details and fares, write to the Safeway lines, OklahomaCity .Attractions-The Texas state fair, nationally famous ; themusical comedy, The Red Robe ; the Peacock Terrace danceand banquet Friday night preceding the game ; and the game .Migration Day committee-Frank N. Watson, general chairman; Shelley Tracy ; C. H. Newell ; Weaver Holland; WalterMeier; Miss Josephine Duvall ; Mrs . Anna McCall Fitzpatrick .Out of nineteen games played between Oklahoma and Texas,one game was tied, eleven were won by Texas and seven werewon by Oklahoma . 'I he detailed record follows :1900 . Oklahoma 2, Texas 28 1912 . Oklahoma 21, Texas 61901 . Oklahoma 6, Texas 6 1913 . Oklahoma 6, Texas 141903 . Oklahoma 6, Texas 22 1914 . Oklahoma 7, Texas 3219U4 . Oklahoma 6, Texas 40 1915 . Oklahoma 14, Texas 1319U5 . Oklahoma 2, Texas 0 1916 . Oklahoma 7, Texas 211906 . Oklahoma 10, Texas 1917. 29 Oklahoma 14, Texas 01909 . Oklahoma 0, Texas 30 1919 . Oklahoma 12, Texas 71910 . Oklahoma 3, Texas 0 1922 . Oklahoma 7, Texas 371911 . Oklahoma 6, Texas 3 1923 . Oklahoma 14, Texas 26THE SPORTS OUTLOOKThe outlook for Coach Ad Lindsey,newly married director of football for theuniversity, has never been brighter thanat the start of practice for the Big Sixfootball season .For the first time in several years hewill have a beefy team to put up againstsome of the heavyweights in the Big Sixconference . Tall and heavy seems to bethe general run of the men Lindsey canchoose from for his first team. This greatstrength comes mostly from the sophomorecrew, with such men as Guy Warren,celebrated as a broken field runnerin Norman high school football .Frank Crider, captain, seems assured ofbeing fullback . Tom Churchill, at end lastyear, will probably be seen in the backfieldthis year . Bus Mills seems certain ofthe quarterback position . But at that, withmore than twenty veterans and huskyyoungsters all fighting for team positions,first team positions aren't sure for hardlyanyone .Oklahoma enters the season with one ofthe potentially strongest teams in the BigSix conference . No energy is being wastedon a fruitless trip to play a Big Ten team-a great mistake last year, for it tooksome time for the Sooners to recover from(Continued on page 17)

1 6HIS LOYALTY AND UNSELFISH SERVICE TO SOONERSCHARACTERIZES CAREER OF ASSOCIATION PRESIDENTRAYMOND A. TOLBERT,'12 arts-sc ., '13 law,president of the Universityof OklahomaAssociation, is a prominentOklahoma attorneyresiding in OklahomaCity . He wasborn at Vernon, Texas,March 17, 1890, attendinggrade schoolwith several futureSooners like Peyton E.Brown, ex '13, ofBlackwell, Shelley Tracy,'12 arts-sc ., of Dallas,and others .President T o 1 b e r twas a member of SigmaDelta Chi, Phi DeltaPhi, Sigma AlphaEpsilon fraternities, ofthe Sooner bar and theSenate society . He waslaw librarian . Heplayed on the lawschool class championshipfootball team andwas secretary of thestudent committee ofsix that procured theappropriation for thelaw school buildingfrom the state legislature.Mr Tolbert has alwaysbeen in the forefrontof alumni activities. Several times hewas a member of theassociation executiveboard and was presidentof the OklahomaCity branch of the associationwhen he calledthe state wide meetingof graduates andformer students in1923 to oppose the effortsof the then GovernorWalton to removePresident StrattonD. Brooks . HeTOLBERTproposed at this meetingthat the UniversityAlumni association be reorganized as theUniversity of Oklahoma Association,membership to be open to former studentsas well as graduates .This proposal, which marked the beginningof the present association, wasadopted .With Paul A. Walker, '13 law (seeSooner Persons & Personalities in this issue)Mr Tolbert formed a committee oflaw school graduates that volunteered itsservices and successfully represented theboard of regents in the supreme court inthe case of Peebly versus Childers, a victorywhich restored $420,000 to the universitysalary appropriations which hadbeen eliminated by Governor Walton .Mr Tolbert's services to the stadiumunionorganization have been invaluableand most unselfish . He is a member of thestadium union board of the stadium unionbuilding committee; and of the board ofgovernors of the OklahomaUnion . As legalcounsel he incorporatedthase two organizationsand handled allthe legal proceedingsfor them relating tothe $400,000 bond issuewithout compensation. For his many distinguishedservices tothe university, Mr Tolbertwas awarded thecoveted Sigma DeltaChi scroll of honor in1928 .From 1913 to 1919he engaged in the practiceof law at Hobart,service at city attorney,and as president of thelibrary board. He assistedi n establishingseveral Carnegie librariesin western Oklahoma. Rejected for thefirst officers' trainingcamp and in the firstdraft on account of minorphysical disabilities,Mr Tolbertplunged into war servicewhole heartedly,service as city attorney,man of the Red Cross,the food and the Y. M.C. A. drives . He servedin the Y. M. C. A. inthe A. E. F . from December15, 1917, toMarch 30, 1918, andthen entered the airservice, April 1, 1918,serving until January26, 1919, being dischargedFebruary 14,1919 . He now holdsthe commission of captainin the air servicereserve corps .PHOTO On his return fromthe war, Mr. Tolbertbecame assistantatorney f o r Oklahomafor the C. R. I . & P. railway withheadquarters at El Reno . From 1922 hehas been a member of the law firm ofEmbry, Johnson & Tolbert, one of theoldest legal firms in Oklahoma City, withoffices in the Perrine buildingWATTON STUDIOTHE SOONER MAGAZINEMr Tolbert was married on March 1,1920, to Miss Irma Roop of Stillwater, agraduate of Oklahoma Agricultural & Mechanicalcollege, class of '17 . Mrs Tolbertis a member of Kappa Alpha Theta

OCTOBER, 1929fraternity and is a member of the executiveboard of the A. & M. Former Studentsassociation . The Tolberts live at 1516West Twenty-first street, Oklahoma City .Mr Tolbert is president of the OklahomaAuto club, and is probably the firstalumnus to be made a member of the executivecommittee of the Oklahoma statebar association .MIGRATION DAY(Continued from page 15)the Indiana game . Long trips, cold climate,do not help southern football teams.The home schedule is interesting chieflyfor the advent of Ames on the Normanfield . This is the first time Iowa State hasever played in Norman, and the Iowansare a tough lot, as they demonstrated lastyear . By all odds, this should prove to bethe most interesting game on the homeschedule this year .Kansas will furnish fodder for Homecoming. This is big news to most Soonerswho like to see the Jayhawkers in action. The Oklahoma Aggies will also playin Norman this year-a great game, forWaldorf, at the head of affairs in Stillwater,is putting the Aggies through stifftraining .What Dana X. Bible will do to Nebraskais still problematical . Nebraska is aproblem for any coach, due to the "winor die" attitude of Cornhusker fans . IfBible is football gospel, he may be able tosurvive . But there are few who envy himhis job . At that, the Cornhuskers are goingto have sweet opposition this year inOklahoma, for man for man, the teamsthat go into action at Lincoln shouldweigh about the same .Lindsey this year will be able to relyon straight football or on forward passing .He seems to be using both in early practice.The schedule follows :October 5-Freshmen versus varsity atNorman .October 12-Creighton at Norman .October 19-Texas at Dallas (MigrationDay) .October 26-Kansas Aggies at Manhattan.November 2-Iowa State at Norman(Dad's Day) .November 9-Kansas a t Norman(Homecoming) .November 16-Nebraska at Lincoln .November 16-Nebraska Freshmen atNorman .November 23-Oklahoma Aggies atNorman .November 28-Missouri at Columbia .17LET'S WORK TOGETHER FOR GREATER ASSOCIATIONBy RAYMOND A . TOLBERIT is said that each ten thousand dollars invested in GeneralMotors a decade ago has paid handsome dividends and'~ now represents a value of more than one million dollars .A small initial investment in the University of Oklahoma,made nearly four decades ago by our Sooner forefathers, supplementedeach year by the taxpayers of our state and fosteredby faithful regents, faculty, students and former students, hasreturned to the state of Oklahoma and its taxpayers largedividends in education and good citizenship (citizens to leadin her statecraft and in the development of her material andother resources) and now represents an asset of untold valueto the state .Fathers and mothers by sacrifice have accumulated savingswhich they have invested in the education of children at theuniversity and have received therefrom substantial and satisfactorydividends .Students have invested their time (four years is ten per centor more of one's earning span of life) with immeasurablereturns in education, culture, earning power and, by no meansleast, many lasting and valuable friendships formed whichgrow in sentimental and pecuniary value as time passes ..Let us, Sooners All, work together to increase these dividendsto the state of Oklahoma, its taxpayers, our parents and toourselves.Let us, each year, strive together to improve the physicalplant, its maintenance, the faculty, our friendships one withanother and see to it that not only those who enter he servedbut that the institution receives the best raw material in thestate, much of which still misguidedly goes elsewhereThese are some of the things that loval Sooners through theagency of this association are striving together to do . Thismagazine was founded to renew and strengthen friendshipsamong Sooners to their mutual advantage and to work for theadvancement of the university and increase its returns to thosewho have made investments in it .Written suggestions as to details of plans and means tobetter accomplish these ends are invited by Your officers andexecutive board . An interchange of constructive ideas willbe very helpful in the advancement of the university and theassociation ..My telephone rang . I had been unable to attend Commencement. Our efficient secretary, Frank Cleckler, '21 bus ., wastalking. "You are the new president of the association," hesaid . Before I could demur, he continued, "The executiveboard that elected you has already adjourned . All you needdo is to send down your photograph, outline your programand conduct a page in the magazine." Hence, the "outline"indicated in the preceding paragraphs . Write me your ideas .Let's work out the details on this page from month to month .I have been checking up on this man Cleckler this summer .Never heard of him until a year and a half ago when someonehanded me a life subscription blank and a fountain pen, saying: "The executive board has been trying to get this manfor a year . He is a ranking junior executive of the veteran'sbureau . His duties take him to all leading universities . Hehas been studying other associations . He sees a great field hereand will come here if we put the association's finances inshape and get the requisite number of life members ." Of courseI signed but not without mental reservations . But I didn'tknow Cleckler .Never met him personally until he stepped into the breachand took over the administrative management of our stadiumunionproject and proceeded promptly to cut the pay rolluntil it could hardly be recognized and began to make recommendationsthat disclosed that some of his ancestors musthave been Glasgow business men .This summer I have been going over association records,reports and plans with great interest and satisfaction . Ourexecutive board, Cleckler and Brandt have done a good job .The association has arrived . Its set-up, plans and policiesare sound It has no debts . Some possibly have been waitingto see if it survived the first year .Now is the time for all good Sooners to join an organizationwith a future, The University of Oklahoma Association,and thereby get The Sooner Magazine .Little need be said about Joseph Brandt, '21 arts-sc ., Rhodesscholar, Oxford graduate and for several years city editorof a leading Tulsa daily, and now editor of The Sooner Magazine. The initial volume of that publication marks him aseditor of one of the best alumni magazines of the country .Enough said . You will be interested in comparing our magazinewith others.

1 8THE SOONER MAGAZINEBY STAN LWA LLSA romance of the Santa Fe Trailby the author of `Kit Carson'one geniusin a familyby stanley veslaltheory-namely, that writing as a joint affair is the only way fora man and his wife to see anything of each other, especially whenboth have other work than writing to attend to . People mightsuppose that we took up writing as golf-widows take up golfsoas to see something of each other now and then .NOT long ago I saw a picture in a comicmagazine . It represented a disturbed writerlooking up from his desk to scold the cat .The caption (addressed to the cat) read as follows: "What are you doing, stamping through thehouse?"That picture presents the ancient reputation ofthe writers, for from the very beginning they havebeen dubbed the irritable tribe, theirs the cranky,touchy, and altogether difficult profession . Theydo their work in solitary confinement, and oftenare unable to think of anything else even whenthey are not working. And so they are apt to seemlonely souls, irritable as a porcupine .Of course this picture is overdrawn, a caricature .But there is enough truth in it to make peoplewonder what happens in a house where there isnot only one writer-but two!! And why, if thereis already one person writing in that house, anotherone should wish to do so . At least, that is whatthe editor of The Sooner Magazine has asked meto discuss .At first, one might suppose that it was a meretrick of self-defense on the part of one or the other .One might try to explain it on the proverbial principlethat Misery Loves Company . One might contendthat the only way to put up with a writeris to become a writer oneself . But like all plausibletheories, this one has a catch in it . For the factthat both of the Campbells have always wishedto write, and have been working towards it independentlyfrom the start. And so this theoryfalls to the ground . Facts kill it .Facts also dispose pretty effectively of anotherUT the truth is, we both wanted to write, both began towrite, and both found ourselves writing without any expressedplans . And considering the satisfaction of the work, it seemslikely we shall go on writing for some time . Everyone admitsthat the woman who knows nothing of business, the man whotakes no interest in his home, are both missing a great deal ofcommon experience which they might share . But when twopeople practice the same art, they have a bond which arises froma mutual understanding of each other's problems and triumphs .And this, I should say, is the major satisfaction of having twowriters in one house .For, after all, there is no talk like shop talk . Golfers talk golf .Business men talk business . Horsey men talk horses . Mothers talkchildren . We all love to talk of the thing we are interested in, andto talk to others who know what we mean . And that is one ofthe chief blessings of having two writers in one house . Especiallywhen they are man and wife .Everyone has seen professional writers,living alone, distrustful, carefully avoiding allreference to their work in the presence of otherwriters, never really letting themselves go in argu-mentor criticismor praise,menwho leadalifeabout as cheerful and sociable as that of the wanderingJew . No wonder people call them irritable,They are . It would do them good to talk shopwith someone who is neither a collaborator nor arival .F OR that describes the two of us, I think, IsabelCampbell and Stanley Vestal have never collaborated,and probably could not do so . The materialswhich stimulate the imagination of onewould not stir the other ; and our techniques arewidely different, as anyone who reads what wewrite will agree . But for that very reason we findshop talk very profitable, because each one bringssomething which is fresh and novel to the other .And so we have plenty of discussion, debate, andargument about technical matters of writing-discussionswhich to me, at least, are extremely divertingand useful . And we have such a good time atthem, that we never notice whether the cat isstamping through the house or not .EDITOR'S NOTE--Reviews Of Dobe Walls byStanley Vestal and Jack Sprat by Isabel Campbell,as appearing in newspapers and magazines, willappear in The Sooner Magazine for November.Jack Sprat in particular has received unstinted STANLEYpraise for its brilliance and finish . VESTAL

OCTOBER, 192919i.3 not enoughsay the campbellsby isabel campbellF I could bring myself to believe in ghosts, I would say,III answer to queries of my friends as to how it feels to bea novelist, "I don't know-I never wrote a novel-thatbook in the yellow cover named `Jack Sprat' was writtenby some woman named Isabel Campbell . The name seemsfamiliar but the book looks just like any other novel to me ."If it weren't for the memory of those three months I spent inConnecticut pounding away at the typewriter four, five andsix hours a day, I should state in all seriousness that someoneelse wrote, so complete is my present detachment toward it .I felt the same way toward my first baby . It took mesome months to realize that she was mine .Anyway it seems that the novel is here to stay .One novelist in a family is bad enough, but two novelists,writing at the same time, as Mr . Campbell and I did duringthe summer of 1927, is awful . We were living in an oldcolonial country home in Connecticut . My husband generouslyinsisted that I take the only study, so he had to do hiswork on the dining room table, which was a long refectorytable . Our schedule was rather strenuous . After breakfastour little girls attempted to do the dishes for us, I shut myselfinto the study and Mr. Campbell shut himself into thedining room . Only the horrible clatter of our Underwoodskept our thoughts from being distractedby the cries coming from the kitchen"Mother, Malory is splashing dishwater on my-Mother, Dorothy won't dry the forks properly ."There was only one way to keep thinking aboutthe project on hand, and that was to keep thetypewriters going full tilt all morning .After the dishes were finally washed, the childrenwaded in a stream running through theproperty and visited three little friends up the hill .T twelve o'clock, I dashed into the kitchen,threw some potatoes into the oven to bake,cooked some steak and prepared any green vegetableswe could get from the huckster who drovepast every day . Incidentally, our green vegetableman brought us food in a Packard while we modestlytool: the air in a Chevrolet. But we consoledourselves with the thought that we had satisfactionsof the mind and spirit that the green grocerknew not of . Whether the satisfactions of the mindreally do compensate for an eight cylinder car, Iam not prepared to say . I have never had a Packard .After dinner and another bout at the dishes,we went back to more writing. During the afternoonas our daily stints neared completion, wewere both anxious to get an opinion on what hadbeen written and it often happened that we collidedin the doorway, each with a sheaf of yellow,single spaced pages grasped in the hand ."Listen," I would cry at the same time thatMr. Campbell would shout, "What do youthink of this?" and we would both begin to readISABEL at once . Then we would straighten the tangleCAMPBELL out and read to each other what we had written .This would be about four o'clock in the afternoon. Then we would get in the Chevie, drivethe three miles to town and buy our food for thenext day's rations .After supper we scandalously wasted an hoursitting under the big maples that lined the brook,which was a gurgling one, of course, and nineo'clock saw us sound asleep . Oh, it was a great life,it was one of the happiest summers I ever spent .®NE of the nicest things about the New Englandcountry life was the total absence ofwindow and door screens . The outdoors seemedto come right into the house . There was noshed wire to blur the beauty of the round greenwooded hills . Even the bumble bees were friendly. One big yellow fellow regularly flew intomy study door, buzzed curiously around my tableand then flew away again. One day two irridescenthumming birds flew in, but they were sofrightened that they tried to fly through one windowthat was closed and were about to batterthemselves to death . We captured them in anold felt hat and turned them loose,I T'S lots of fun to write, particularly whenthere is a wise and sympathetic ear to listen .Contrary to the belief that it is the sight of thename in print that is the lure, I think the mostfascinating part of the whole business is the actualwork at the typewriter . Writing takes intenseconcentration, full use of every ounce ofavailable energy and continuous application . Inother words it gives one a chance to function fully,and that is my definition of happiness .

20THE SOONER MAGAZINEVERNON LOUIS PARRINGTON AN APPRECIATION BYA STUDENT DISCIPLE, ADELAIDE LOOMIS PARKER '06SINCE Professor Vernon Louis Parrington died in July there have beenpublisned in the literary magazines, in the reviewers' columns in NewYork dailies, and elsewhere, many articles in appreciation of his workas a writer .There will be a thousand tributes to his work as a teacher, but onlya very few will ever see the light in print.The critics have columns open to them . His former students for themost part have not. Their tributes, deeply felt though they may be, areverbal only, and at that they are only half articulate, less than halfadequate .The critics have a very tangible work before them, two large volumessoon to be finished by a third, which cover definite ground, thought outalong certain lines, and well written in a well defined style .One who has sat under his instruction finds less definite results . Afterall it was not the facts given, nor the ideas developed, though these weremost stimulating, nor was it even the manner of their presentation, thoughthat was always smooth, and often beautiful, that made Professor Parringtonan inspiring teacher . The inspiration resulted from all these, plusthat vague, intangible, endlessly important thing we call personality.How can I tell you all it meant to us to have him for a teacher? Oklahomawas young in those days . Most of the students were born in otherstates, for the simple reason that Oklahoma was not as old as the freshmen. All of theta were poor. No matter what the background had beenelsewhere, here the one pervading problem was how in God's name tomake a living . Every morning in chapel we were reminded by someonethat our parents were making sacrifices to send us there . They were .Sometimes we heard the same fact from home, from the little framehouses that braced themselves in such shallow toe-holds against theprairie winds .Then we went into this man's room and for an hour at least we livedin a different world . It was always quiet there and we could relax . Wecould take our eyes off the windy horizon . We could follow the grimand watery struggle between Grendel and Beowulf, or laugh at thetable manners of Chaucer's dainty prioress who did not even have tolick her fingers, or behold with indignation the soldiers of Cromwellwho stabled in a glorious cathedral, or snigger with Pepys at the shame-lessly bedizened courtesan who dropped a garter, and something muchmore serious than a garter if we had only known . We shed a bitter tearwhen rate had played its game out with Tess . We lost ourselves in thelove of David Copperfield for his Dora . We agonized over Steerforth andEmily and felt that Pegotty loved us too, and incidentally we learned howan English novel was put together. We listened to the majestic roll ofMilton, were stirred by the deep and tragic music of Carlyle, and werecharmed by DeQuincy's frail sweet flute . Then one day we begain tostudy Keats, and that day the door to Beauty opened, a high wide doorthat has never since quite closed.And Shakespeare, and the love of words, the respect for them, theconcern that they should not be abused, the thrill at discovering unsuspectedrelations between them, and the far flung romantic histories ofthem, all these were taught in that quiet room, in that smooth andquiet voice.One year Professor Parrington went to Europe . After that we learnedsomething of Gothic architecture, we had details of this or that cathedraltraced with an artist's hand upon our blackboard . He built a house,and all his students came to know something of good taste of simplicityand something of the history of furniture . A mind that was capable ofthe most profound scholarship, as witness his two volumes on the MainCurrents in American Thought, was anything but a single-track mind .There were other great teachers there then . In those days we werenot so many but that sooner or later we all sat under the highest andthe best . But somehow in Professor Parrington's room we forgot thedry sun and the never-ending wind, and the painful and pressing problemof how to make a living, and, while we were there, we lived .When one realizes how a teacher like that can galvanize facts intoliving things, can induce thought and speculation where before was indifference,who creates appreciations which grow throughout a lifetimeand always remain a source of happiness, one wonders how any professioncould be so important as that of the teacher .I had hoped that my son would go to him when he comes of collegeage, so that one who had opened doors for me might open doors forhim too, and show him paths that would gleam all through the years .Words cannot speak my grief that this is not to he,

OCTOBER, 192921aculturalinterchangebetweentheamericasby muna lee,ex '12famoussooner poetandstateswomanMANY of the agencieswhich areof the potato's drawbacksalready buttered, with nonehelping to drawand all its advantages! Itthe Americasis nourishing and delicious,closer together either workbut does not make one putso quietly that the generalon flesh . The university'spublic rarely hears of them,bulletins on tropical vegetablesor else are individuallygive methods of pre-small, seemingly of littleparing these and manymportance, though of greatothers . Some of them aresignificance when one discoverstraditional tropical recipes,bow numerous andbrought i n t o accordancehow constant and how effectivewith modern knowledge ofthese small factorsdietetics ; some are frankare .Since Porto Rico is Spanish-Americanand delightful exportationsfrom the United States . Ourin its past,adaptations o f northernAnglo-Saxon in its present,recipes might amaze you,and, I trust, in the deepestat times ; just as we aresense Pan-American in itsamazed to see you makingfuture, I shall note brieflysalads of alligator pears .some of these unofficial culturalWe use the alligator pearinterexchanges as wefor almost everything else,in the University of Portobut the mere thought ofRico have seen them actuallyadding more oil to that oiliestat work on the is-member of the vegeta-MUNA LEE AND HER SON LUISIT () MUNOZ LEEland . The university withble kingdom seems to usits bilingual and bi-cultural program has parts of the modern world to underestimateeccentric beyond words . Have you everbeen especially active in fostering suchthe importance of methods of cook-cut it into little cubes and scattered theminterchanges, and, to use a time honored ery . Yet, bow often international misunderstandingover a clear soup with which they blendmetaphor, we have been able to observeis complicated by preparing deliciously? Out of the dozen satisfyingthrough the press of the Americas, bow the right food in the wrong way! The ways in which it may be eaten, won't youthe ripples have continued widening from University of Porto Rico is doing its best try this one, next time, in the interest ofevery pebble tossed into the Caribbean . to forestall any further such complicationsinternational understanding?Some of you may remember, for example,as regards the Americas by prepar-The purpose of the university of Portothe accounts of the bi-lingual debate betweening a series of bulletins on tropical foods, Rico has been not merely to introduceYale university and the University under the direction of its department of what is best from our university systemof Porto Rico, which took place this home economics . We have in the tropics in the States, but to conserve the rich Hispanicspring. On that occasion the young met: many fruits and vegetables which shouldculture of the Porto Rican past : tofrom Yale, North-American all of them, be a valuable addition to your diet ; you make the island a point of confluence ofspoke brilliantly in Spanish against Imperialism,have many which we need and are begin-these two magnificent currents . It is awhich was defended by the ning to acclimatize as well as import . North American university in a SpanishPorto Rican debaters . On the following Moreover, recipes should be both interchangeableAmerican environment! We feel each ofevening these latter youthful Americanand adaptable . When I speak these two factors to be an advantage . Tocitizens whose native language is Spanish, of your familiarizing yourself with our the university have come, for instance,attacked Imperialism, in English, in their fruits and vegetables I am not thinking some of the greatest figures in the intellectualturn, and were answered by the Yale of the more spectacular varieties-thelife of contemporary Spain : men suchgroup . The delight and interest of the pink coconuts, for instance, which are as Dr . Tomas Navarro Tomas, Americoaudience, and their equal pleasure in found in a few spots in Porto Rico and Castro, and Fernando de los Rios . I mentionboth groups of debaters, were apparent the Philippines ; and the white egg-plant,them not merely for their own emi-at every moment. The four days during with fruit the color and size of an egg, nence and the benefits they have conferredwhich the young visitors from the north a native of our part of the world and the on our university, but in order to speak ofwere in Porto Rico were of real importance,variety which gave the familiar name to an important cultural agency developedboth on account of the impression the species ; and the rose-apple which is by Spain, whose example in this thewhich they left and because of the impressionalmost as a much flower as a fruit . I re-United States would do well to adopt .which they carried back north with fer rather to such every-day practical vege-Spain bas never reconciled herself tothem .tables as the yautia, which is-how shall the loss of her Spanish American colonies,We have a regrettable tendency in most we describe it?-like a potato that grows and in many ways, indeed, has never lost

22them wholly . And now, Spain has decidedto reconquer them . Not as colonies, notas territories, but as the inheritors and developersof that culture which made theGolden Age of Spain magnificent beyondany other triumphant epoch of the world .And as agents of this re-conquest, the InstitucionesCulturales Espanoles, the SpanishCultural Institutions, are being establishedthroughout the Hispanic world.Ours in Porto Rico was the third to beestablished ; they exist also in Chile, Argentina,Santo Domingo, Mexico, Cuba,New York, and elsewhere . Their purposeis purely cultural : they take no part, nointerest, in politics, commerce nor anythingother than the conservation andgrowth of what is legitimately Spanish inSpanish America. The Cultural in PortoRico, for example, has been generous ingiving the aid which has made it possiblefor our university, a young school confrontedwith great financial difficulties,to number among its faculty those menI have mentioned, and others : men whohave filled chairs at Oxford, Cambridge,Columbia, Hamburg and Vienna, andwhom we could not have called to us foryears to come, without this aid. One ofthem, explaining their role in this hemisphere,said simply, "We are missionaries" ;and all who have been benefited by theirmission will, I am sure, agree with mein hoping that such missionaries may continueto come ; and to wish that the UnitedStates might establish similar culturalagencies . If we had a cultural center forthe United States in each of the countriesmentioned, distinct from politics and commerce,a center such as these Spanish Culturaleswhich ask nothing but an opportunityto contribute to the enrichment ofthe national life, I am sure we should feelthe benefit in every way-even commerciallyand politically . I might add thatthese are not established by the Spanishgovernment but by the voluntary associationof enlightened Spaniards resident inthe different countries .That, by the way, indicates a very importantsource of mutual friendship ormisunderstanding : the North Americansresident in Latin America and the LatinAmericans resident here . One need notgo into details of the criticisms usuallylevelled against such groups . Basically,criticism reduces itself to the elementalfact that a resident in a foreign countryis generally a transient and adopts theviewpoint of a transient - which doesnot make for good fellowhship. The importantthing in such a relationship isto do away with foregone conclusions andkeep an open mind . If to this may beadded a real interest in one's environment,no problems are likely to arise .THE lack of understanding that comesfrom actual ignorance is notorious .Most North Americans know nothingeven of Porto Rico, which has been underthe Stars and Stripes for thirty years ; soBUST OF MUNOZ-RIVERAKnown as the George Washington ofPorto Rico, Munoz-Rivera was LuisitoMunoz Lee's grandfather . This bust isin the principal park of San Juan .THE SOONER MAGAZINEit is hardly surprising that they are aptto confuse Uruguay with Uganda . Onlylast week, in Washington one of the mosteminent scientists of the United States, aman whose name is known all over theworld and with whose achievements weare all familiar, said to me, speaking ofour recently appointed governor, "I supposehe has a hard task ahead in PortoRico, with all those scattered islands havingno settled government ." Porto Ricois one island, one very small island almostexactly the size of Long Island, andits government house, still in use, wasalready hoary with age when the Pilgrimslanded at Plymouth! It has, moreover, along tradition of obtaining legislation bypeaceful methods ; it was the only Spanishcolony of the New World which in allits history never had a revolution . Yetthough Porto Ricans have been citizensof the United States for more than aquarter century, I have heard a very distinguishedsouthern writer ask my husbandwith keen interest, "What do youpeople think of your king?"One important and too little recognizedfactor in removing or in creating misunderstandingis fiction . The North Americanin a Spanish story is apt to be tall,uncouth, and childish in everything excepthis ability to strike a bargain, if aman : and arrogant, domineering and ugly,if a woman. The Latin American of theNorth American films and the blood-andthundernovel is like something that neverwas on land or sea . Our novelists whowrite about Spanish America have usuallyspent only a few months there at themost ; and even the Spanish phrases supposedto give color to their books are almostalways wrong, in grammar and inspelling. Too many are like the travelerwho saw Latin America on foot, and inhis book about his trip, bitterly criticizesthe inhospitality of the "Latin Americans"because an Indian family in a stone buthigh up in the Andes were afraid to lethim in when he suddenly appeared attheir door one night demanding foodfrom their inadequate stores . And yet,even according to his own story, he wasultimately given not only food but shelterin spite of the natural lack of enthusiasmof his involuntary hosts lThere is at least one American writerwho is doing golden service in helpingto break down these barriers of ignorance .Constance Lindsay Skinner has writtena delightful book for boys, The TigerWho Walks Alone, in which the hero isa South American revolutionist who isa gentleman and a patriot and, what ismore, displays that sense of humor whichall Spanish Americans have in real lifebut which they all seem to lose in fiction .She has also a book on California, TheRanch Of the Golden Flowers, in whichthe inter-action of Spanish and Anglo-Saxon traits are sympathetically portrayed .The same author's publishers announce a

OCTOBER, 1929new novel for fall publication, Red Willowswith North American and LatinAmerican characters, in which we mayconfidently expect a similarly faithful, discerningand illuminating portrayal .Translators, again-the most abusedand patient lot of folk on earth-are helpfulin making us better acquainted ;though we hope the time will soon comewhen citizens of the twenty-one republicswill no longer need translators . There isno reason for our not speaking each other'slanguage . Among these translators wemay mention Alice Stone Blackwell, IsaacGoldberg, the late Thomas Walsh . Wemay recall also such friendly gestures asthat of Harriet Monroe who dedicated anentire number of her magazine, Poetry,to poets of Spanish America; and MrGoldberg's services in writing and Knopf'sin publishing his studies of Latin-Americanpoets . Ernesto Montenegro, on theother hand, has introduced Sandburg,Frost, Robinson, Masters, and many otherNorth American poets to the Spanishreading public . In fact, there are a dozentranslators of our writers into Spanish forevery one who translates from Spanish intoEnglish . Babbitt and Main Street havebecome familiar terms in Spanish America; and many commentators in the Spanishpress have called gleeful attention tothe fact that gentlemen prefer blondesbut marry brunettes .Harvard university has just initiated aninvestigation w h i c h w i 1 l undoubtedlyprove to be a valuable contribution toknowledge, and incidentally to friendship .A committee has been appointed, withfive years to work in, to complete a bibliographyfor each of the Latin Americanrepublics . One of the members of thiscommittee, Doctor Waxman, visited PortoRico, Santo Domingo, and Cuba, a shorttime ago, and the reception which he receivedin these places evidenced their appreciationof the interest shown in theirwriters by the great northern university .These investigators may well prove to becultural missionaries in the sense in whichour visiting professor from Spain usedthe word .GAIN, the Inter American Commissionof Women is a very vigorousand a very friendly force in promotingfriendship and understanding . It is theillustrious offspring of an agency, at firstpurely unofficial-a committee of four, ofthe National Woman's Party-which wonpopular and governmental approval resultingin the official creation of the presentbody . It consists of one representativefrom each of the countries of the PanAmerican Union, appointed by the sixthPan American Conference to determinethe present status of women in these twenty-onecountries and to make a reportto the seventh conference when it meetsin Montevideo in 1933 ; together with recommendationslooking toward the establishmentof equal rights for men andwomen in this hemisphere . The commission'sfirst year has largely been devotedto the vexed question of the nationality ofmarried women and their children ; asubject so vital and immediate that it hasclaimed the attention of the press all overthe world, thereby serving to introducethe purposes and methods of the commissionunder highly favorable circumtances. The consequent friendly and widespreadresponse throughout the Americashas been overwhelming proof that women23-and, I assume, men-in our differentcountries can co-operate quickly, efficiently,and delightfully, once their interest isreally aroused and they are convinced ofthe need of action .Another example of such co-operationis the institute of Public Affairs of theUniversity of Virginia . The growth andincreasing interest in the round table onLatin American relations is proof of thegeneral desire for accurate knowledge, thedetermination to do away with old barriersof ignorance and misunderstanding .Williamstown has for some years pastbeen proving the same thing .Last year, in another section of the institutementioned above, some one madea stirring plea for fewer and better billboards. The reason was the wholly inadequateone of delivering our landscapefrom defacement . But how many havestopped to think in how great part billboardsand other advertising representus and misrepresent us abroad? Too oftenour advertising is written for that mythicalLatin-American of the cheap novels-theone who, fortunately, has never existedin human form . But many pages of advertisingmatter carry material written forhis presumable taste and creating an unconsciousprejudice against the UnitedStates . In our advertising in English herein the states, we often show a fine imagination,poetic and practical at the sametime . It would be helpful in many waysif we employed those qualities in the mattersent to advertise our products in SpanishAmerica. Even matter which is excellentlypresented in English may notprove effective nor even intelligible inSpanish : This is particularly true of thatfavorite device of our advertisers, an ap-LIBRARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PORTO RICO

24THE SOONER MAGAZINEpeal based on a pun; which of courseloses all effect in a foreign language ."I cannot understand," a puzzled Dominicansaid to me as he studied a largeand striking bill board, "why the factthat that extremely attractive child wantsto go to bed should presumably induceme to buy a new tire for my car!"Science of course, is the great internationalbond . Especially, has medical researchhelped to unite investigators in thishemisphere . It has been prophesied thatthe next quarter century will be the great-WOMEN'S DORMITORY AT UNIVERSITY OF PORTO RICOest yet known in the history of TropicalMedicine ; and American research, north,south, and central, is already playing avery important part in making it great .Men like Ashford in Porto Rico, Lutz inBrazil, Iturbe in Venezuela, by their organizedwork of investigation and theirgenerous interchange of ideas, are of thenoblest type of international mediator .I have mentioned almost at random anumber of different agencies, some largeand some small but all helping to makeup the sum total of influence . These, anddozens of others, are unceasingly at work .And the rest of us will benefit by theirwork if we permit ourselves to do so .When my little sister was ten yearsold, I gave her a Spanish First Readerand began teaching her Spanish. After aweek or so of the book with its storiesand pictures of children in the Spanishcountries, she exclaimed one day, "Why,those people speak differently but theyare really just like we are!"It was the most important lesson shelearned that summer .MY DAYS AS FIRST UNIVERSITY PRESIDENTTold by Dr . David Ross Boyd to Dr . Roy Hadsell, '04,and Betty Kirk, '29N 1892 the . Territorial University ofOklahoma invited the youth of itsseven counties : "Any young man orwoman who has finished the course in agood country school may enter the universityand find educational work and awelcome."These words were written with deliberateseriousness for in 1892 the TerritorialUniversity of Oklahoma had the spiritualcommodities of work and cheer to offer inplenty . Of material things it had little .The equipment it did possess was morediscouraging than encouraging .So it was that the Territorial Universityof Oklahoma began its existence byplacing importance on cheer and work,the things of the spirit . So it is that perhapsbecause of this quite elemental beginningit has grown into the presentmagnificent State University of Oklahoma,with an annual enrollment of 5,000students and several millions of dollars investedin buildings and grounds .This far in our history mention has beenmade only of the abstract things of thePART Iuniversity's birth and early existence . Tounderstand the concrete side of the developmentit is best to listen to Dr . DavidRoss Boyd, the university's first president,tell of it and to hear the chuckles andanecdotes of Dr. S . Roy Hadsell, who asplain Roy Hadsell, undergraduate, servedDoctor Boyd as secretary .Today Doctor Boyd is more than seventyyears old . He is tall, his body structureis accented, his eye is alert and hisvoice still holds a chuckle . He is of thestuff of pioneers .That his work was to be the work ofa pioneer becomes obvious when we viewwith Doctor Boyd in retrospect the physicalappearance of Norman, O.T ., the siteselected in 1890 by the territorial legislaturefor the University of Oklahoma ."I got off the train on the hot afternoonof August sixth in 1892 . You too haveexperienced August afternoons in Oklahoma. It is probable you have experiencedthem on trains . At any rate you know thatafter that trip my spirits were none toohigh ."I looked off to the southwest whereour university was to be located . Therewas not a tree or shrub in sight . All Icould see was the monotonous stillness ofprairie grass . Later I was to find out thatthis prairie grass wasn't so monotonousas it seemed for its sameness was brokenat quite frequent intervals by buffalo wallows. In August they were dry and hardand not even prairie grass could growon them."To the southwest led a trail, it couldn'tpossibly be called a road . I was to learnthat this trail lead out to Adkins fordwhich was near the present bridge acrossthe South Canadian . It was the trail followedby the thirsty cowboys who cameinto Norman on Saturday nights . Theycouldn't get liquor in the Chickasaw Nationacross the river so they made plentifuluse of Norman's fifteen saloons . This wasalso the trail to be followed by my studentsa year from that time when ourfirst building was to be built."These details I couldn't know of then,though. I could know only the actualities

OCTOBER, 1929that I could see . Behind me was a crudelittle town of 1,500 people and before mewas a stretch of prairie on which my helpersand I were to build an institution ofculture . Discouraged? Not a bit . The sightwas a challenge ."I went to my hotel and dressed andhad supper . The next morning I had myfirst caller. He was the Hon. Tom R. Waggoner,a member of the territorial legislature. When he left me he said he'd beback 'in the evening. I thought he meantafter supper . I found out when he returnedthat it was afternoon he meant. It wasmy first experience with Oklahoma colloquialisms."Tom Waggoner was an intelligentman . He had played an important partin the first legislature and proved his farsightedness ."The main problem of this legislature,as you may have heard, was the locationof the capital . One group wanted it inGuthrie, a second group wanted it inOklahoma City ."After much dickering a bill was draftedfor locating the capital at OklahomaCity, the university at Norman, the agriculturalcollege at Stillwater and the normalschool at Edmond . The selection wasto be submitted as one bill . It was thenthat Tom Waggoner insisted that eachselection be a separate bill for if the governorshould disapprove of one site he wouldhave to veto all of them . Waggoner's advicewas followed, and true to his prophecy,the three school bills passed, but thecapital bill was vetoed and Guthrie finallyselected as its site ."An interesting thing about the passageof many of the first Oklahoma laws isthat often they were just adopted in bulkfrom the laws of another state . A wholebook of other laws would be passed withoutclose investigation. It was this conditionthat lead to the incorporation in theOklahoma statute, books of a maritimelaw regulating the state's shipping industry!N the selection of Norman as a sitefor the university the legislature hadspecified that the town must provide$10,000 and forty acres for the location ofthe school ."Selection of several sites offered by thetown was left to the board of regents .They might have voted against the presentlocation because their buggy stuck inthe mud when they went out to seet it,but they did not. They debated betweenthe present acreage of the state hospital,east of town, and the site which the universitynow occupies ."It had been a simple matter for thepeople of Norman to provide the groundfor their new school . It was an extremelydifficult one for them to raise the $10,000specified in the agreement . This difficultyarose from the fact that there was littleor no taxable land in the county . Whenhomesteads had been staked out in 1889the settlers were given five years in whichto prove their claims. Until the claimswere proved the property was still governmentland and could not be taxed . Consequently,in 1892 the settlers had twoyears to expire before their land could betaxed and the city and county had nofunds .The pioneer qualities of courage andambition were dominant in the peopleof Norman however and they sold bondsfor $10,000 when they had no taxableproperty . The bonds were bought by M.L. Turner of Oklahoma City for $8,500and the remaining $1,500 was raised bysubscription from Norman business men .At a time when cash was an exceedinglyrare commodity this represented one ofthe major sacrifices for education in thestate ."A similar sacrifice was being made allover the territory though," says DoctorBoyd . "When the country was openedthere was no law providing for an educationalsystem . The only law which existedin '89 was the proclamation opening theland to settlement . Furthermore there wasto be no law until the state legislaturemet and this did not occur until 1890 ."`Parents, even pioneer parents, wereambitious for their children's educationand they knew that if they waited forterritorial laws there would be an awfulgap in their children's schooling ."Accordingly, provision was made bythe county officials that the people shouldorganize their own school districts . Thissounded very fine but the hitch was thatthey should also have to provide schoolequipment ."Voluntary services were immediatelyorganized to construct the little schoolhouseswhich were soon dotted overPayne, Logan, Kingfisher, Canadian, Oklahomaand Cleveland counties . Volunteerhauling, volunteer labor, volunteermaterials solved parts of the problem . Donationsof money with which to buynails and window glasses and hardwarehelped further in the provision of theschool house ."But it was not until the school housewas finished that another great lack wasdiscovered . The missing item now wasschool furniture . Benches to seat the students,desks for the teachers, black boardsfor the exercises, all were needed."With this problem on hand the onlysolution was to get the furniture on credit .It was here that the integrity of the Oklahomapioneer came into question andwas found not wanting ."Loans could not be made officially untilthe legislature had met and authorizedthe establishment of the schools . But onthe recommendation of another Oklahomapioneer, Jasper Sipes, representative ofThomas Kane and company of Chicago,his company sent car loads of school furnitureinto the new territory. Their onlysecurity was notes which were not legallyvalid ."Yet I know," says Doctor Boyd, noddinghis head and with a pleased expressionon his face, "I know that all of thosenotes, with the exception of one, werepaid . The signers of the note had themoney for the payment of this one but25THE OPENING DAY IN NORMAN WITH THE BEGINN INGS OF THE TOWN

26 THE SOONER MAGAZINETHIS IS THE FIRST PICTURE taken of students of the University of Oklahoma about six weeks after the opening on September15, 1892 . Reading left to right they are :Top row : Oliver Richardson, Odessa Wallace, now Mr . Ed Rixse of Oklahoma City, Carrie Rockefeller, deceased daughter ofMr. and Mrs . E. J . Rockefeller of Oklahoma City, Elbert Long well, Lem Dorrance, Lizzie Pool, James Wadley of Norman,Perry Alexander of Alex, John T. Ilefley of Henryetta, Etta Alien, Maudc Gossett, W. N. Rice of Capitol Hill, and Roy Stoops,Scotts Bluff, Nebraska.Second row : F . S . E. Amos, city manager of Vinita, John Barbour of Norman, Marvin Miller of Boise, Idaho, Agnes Pool,Ona Barrow, George T. Leavy, Alice Johns, Marion Donehue of Pauls Valley, Harry Brown, Leah Warren, Attie Roberts, MissFrench, Ollie Hunt, now Mrs . English of Edmond, Will Depue, Hattie Jacobs of Pawhuska, Otis Houghton, Pearl Trimble,now Mrs . J . Freeman of Tonkawa, Winnie Edwards and Roscoe Helvie .Third row: Edwin DeBarr, later vice-president of the university, Joe Merkle, Jennie Jarboe, now Mrs . Harry Hammock ofEl Reno, Jesse Hefley of Norman, Etta Warren, now Mrs . J . O. Howard of Shawnee, Ethel Wadley, Clara Wallace, MarshallTucker of Oklahoma City, Wallace Jacobs of Tulsa, Willie Allen, Jennie Barbour, Mrs . Minnie Ritter, now Mrs . George Catheyof Tulsa, Ed Barbour, Maud Compton, J . F. Taylor, Helen Marr, Rose Compton, J . N. Coulter, Dr . David Ross Boyd .Fourth row : L. R. Bond, Beulah Wood, Alma Dickard, Herman Meuller, Mrs. Lucy Dill, Hillie Braden of Norman, KatherineBarbour of Norman and Mamie Martin of Britton.could not deliver it because of some legaltechnicality ."After the legislature did meet andprovided for local schools there was yeta difficulty to be overcome . This did notpresent itself so strongly. in the elementaryschools but in our territorial universityand preparatory school it was a fearfulthing to contend with ."I am referring to the `back home' spiritamong the settlers. You see, they hadcome from all of the states of the union .They had come to Oklahoma to get richbut their allegiance was to Indiana, andPennsylvania and Georgia ."They all took their home town papersand had relatives to whom they wrote .So when the time came for educatingtheir children their first thoughts were of`back home .' It was, consequently, 'backhome' that their children were sent . Ourproblem was to divert this stream of youthsinto our channels and away from thoseof other states ."When, after a year or two of beingpresident of the university I was appointedon the state school board, I used this positionto preach the gospel of the Universityof Oklahoma and of culture allover the state . I accepted every invitationto speak and each speech I concluded withan invitation to come to our school . Itwas `educational work and a welcome'which I promised them and if their meanswere very limited I aided in finding workfor them to do ."CYCLONIC STORMNorman's year of vexatious weatherreached a climax September 8, when a cyclonicstorm struck the city, unroofinghouses near the airport, where planes werehurled from the field onto the Norman-Oklahoma City road, and damaged treesin the city .The grand old trees along Lahoma,Chautauqua and College avenues wereworst damaged . Trees were uprooted, notablythe non-bearing mulberry, locusts andmaples . Chimneys were blown down,while a vigorous hail that followed thewind storm damaged leaves and roofs.The storm was part of a four day periodof rain that broke a drouth begun July7 and broken only by a thundershowerearly in August . The spring had been notablywet, three fourths of the average rainfallbeing recorded before July .LEANING TOWERSWorkmen sunk their spades into earthof concrete hardness . Up came shrubs,treelets, flowers . Piles of sand were laidaround the fine arts building, like barricadesagainst the beauty of the campus .At the four corners of the building-orfive, if you count the bravura front, hillocksof red clay, some hardpan testifiedto progress. The towers of the buildingwere leaning three inches from the vertical. And the workmen were pinning thetowers to solid cement . Pisa may have itsleaning tower . But buildings on the campusare too scarce to wait until four wallscollapse because the towers were not underpinnedwhen the building was erected(during the post-war period) .FRESHMEN WEEKBegun two years ago, freshmen week(orientation week for educational neophytes)this year was reported to be themost successful . Ninety per cent of thefreshmen class attended various meetingsheld in university auditorium . Prof . LawrenceNelson Morgan presided over theweek . Speakers included President Bizzelland John Rogers, '14 law, regent .

OCTOBER, 192927THE SPIRIT OF LEARNING IN A MOTOR AGEHigh Points in President Bizzell's Annual AddressTHAT there is no "royal road to learning"was the admonition of President WilliamBennett Bizzell in his annual addressdelivered at the Fieldhouse on September17 . Doctor Bizzell deplored the noise andconfusion of our mechanistic age and declaredthat they are the greatest handicapsto scholasticism today . A digest of PresidentBizzell's address follows :The assembling of a great student bodyat the beginning of an academic year isan occasion for serious introspection andthe searching of hearts . The resources ofthe university are two kinds-materialand human . About us here today are anumber of buildings that house thousandsof dollars worth of equipment that willbe utilized for your instruction . Muchhas been expended in terms of moneyand effort in the beautification of thiscampus . When we speak of the universitywe usually think of these physical facilitiesbut I remind you that the real universityis not a material thing of brick andstone and mortar . The thing that constitutesa real university is its human resources. In final analysis, it is this factorthat determines the greatness of a university. These resources comprise officers,teachers and students .,It has become a habit with me to sayat this annual convocation that this isthe largest assembly of students that hasever enrolled at the beginning of an academicsession . Students have enrolled inthe university for this scholastic year fromevery section and, perhaps, from everycounty in Oklahoma . Many of you havecome from other states and even from foreigncountries . To each and all of you Iextend a cordial welcome to the universityand express the hope and prayer thatthe days ahead may bring happiness, theconsciousness of increasing strength ofcharacter and a realization of intellectualaccomplishment .It is our earnest desire to create here anatmosphere of learning. I realize that the"temper of the times" is not conducive tostraight thinking . We are living in a machineage with all attendant noises anddistractions that result from the use ofmechanical contrivances . In the past,learning has been associated with the quietplaces-the cloister, the hermit's lodgeand the mountain fastness .It is getting more and more difficult tofind a place where one may freely exercisehis intellectual powers . The motor carand the aeroplane now go everywhere .There are no places, no matter how remotefrom the haunts of man, where thehum of a motor may not be heard today .These great agencies of civilization aremaking one community out of all racesand all nations but, at the same time, theyare preempting the sacred precincts oflearning of the quietude so essential touninterrupted thought and meditation .One wonders what effect the enormousadvance in mechanical invention with thechanging habits produced by these inventionswill have upon the spirit of learning .There are those today who contend thatcivilization will be destroyed by the veryagencies that have determined its progress .These pessimists have expressed the beliefthat increased leisure made possible bymachine production is resulting in habitsthat are undermining health and physicalvigor . We know that security to life hasgreatly declined as the use of motor drivenmachinery has increased . We read inthe daily newspapers of so many peoplebeing killed in motor accidents that wehave almost ceased to be interested in thesetragical occurrences . The automobile hascertainly increased the insecurity of propertyand, as far as I am able to see, thiswill be further increased as commercialaviation develops . It seems that man's mechanicalingenuity has surpassed his socialdiscernment . He is threatening the stabilityof the social institutions that he hascreated by the mechanical contrivances hehas developed for his convenience .The fact that people can no longer beareither solitude or remaining in one placeis detrimental to those mental habits thatare essential to intellectual accomplishment. It is quite obvious that few studentstoday in any part of the world are permittedto pursue their studies under themost favorable conditions . As a generalthing, our educational institutions are locatedin the midst of a feverish environment. The University of Oklahoma ismore favorably situated than many educationalinstitutions . I thing it is exceedinglyfortunate that this university is notlocated in a large city .The task ahead of all of us interestedin the promotion of real scholarship is tocreate an atmosphere around our educationalinstitutions that will make the acquisition of knowledge relatively easy. Wesee evidence of high tension here as wellas elsewhere . Students rush from class toclass .The emotional strain has profoundly influencedthe literature of today . This isthe day of outlines . We have outlines ofliterature, of art, of science, of philosophy,of religion, et cetera . The popularity ofthese outlines reflects the predominantcharacteristic of the age . We get satisfactionout of having a conversational knowledgeof the literature of the past . Thesecondensed outlines enable us to do thiswithout the necessity of reading the vol-uminous volumes on which they arebased .This in itself may not be a misfortune .The thing to be regretted is that the mentaldistractions of today have left us withoutan inclination to read the masterpiecesof the literature of the past . Plato's Republic,Bacon's Novum Orgonum, Kant'sCritique O f Pure Reason, Hegel's PhilosophyOf History, Carl Pierson's GrammarOf Science, Darwin's Origin of Species,and Spencer's First Principles are conspicuoussign posts on the intellectual highwayof the centuries . But few people everread these books today or even realizethat they are sources of the intellectualismof the present time . Probably, not one ofthese authors, if he were living today,would have been able to produce the workon which his title to fame now rests .The conditions for clear thinking arenot favorable . The mind is peopled withtoo many obsessions . The spirit of learningimplies the opportunity, as well asthe power, to concentrate on the singleobject that engages one's attention . Thismeans that the mind must be able to selectthe ideas to which it will attend atthe moment and completely eliminate allimages and impressions foreign to theobject of thought .Every individual is constantly makingchoices . We not only choose to go to collegeor to stay at home, but we choosebetween the vocation of banking or theprofession of law or medicine . No one individualcan be an athlete, a social lion,the best dressed man on the campus, amember of the glee club, a leader in debate,a student politician and a scholarat the same time . Every one who enterscollege must make choices between theseconflicting interests . Upon the relativemerits of these choices will depend one'shappiness and success as a college student .But, you stand today confronted withthe problem of making numerous decisions. Some of these decisions will affectyour character, others will affect your intellectuallife . Some of these decisions willnot be easy for you to make but theymust be made and no one can make themfor you. I remind you that there is noroyal road to learning . Character and wisdomcome high but they are worth theprice you must pay in terms of long hoursof labor and sacrifice to possess them .Names of Sooners are to be observedin the faculty roster of eastern and southerncolleges more and more . Mattie Mac-Addison, '18 Kingfisher (M . S, '29 Oklahoma),began this semester l er positionas assistant registrar of Winth op college,Rock Hill, South Carolina .

2sTHE SOONER MAGAZINEsooner persons and personalitieshe saved oklahoma $15,000,000--a sooner who sells the world newideas as advertising manager of america's largest woman'smagazine--an alumnus who answered a want ad andbrought the talkies to the southwest--aPAUL WALKER, '12THE freight rates on shipping potatoesfrom Spiro, Oklahoma, to Fort Sill, Oklahoma,has been reduced nine and a halfcents on every hundred pounds .This statement sounds like one of thosedull things that could be of interest onlyto shippers of potatoes . It sounds like oneof the many things in which you and Iwould never be interested . If this wereall there were to the story we should undoubtedlypass it by and return to readingour True Story or Time or VanityFair . But like most statistical statementsof dull fact there is a story and a personalitybehind it .It is a story in which you and I areinterested when we know that it has resultedin the potential advantage to ourstate of $15,000,000 . Fifteen millions ofdollars which you and I may divert intoother channels of culture, amusement orfood . The story becomes more interesting.It is the personality behind the storythat is of immediate interest to Soonersand to Soonerland, however . It is the personalityof Paul Walker, '12 law, whichhas been the chief element in creatingthis advantage to our state and which producedthe most exhaustive freight ratesurvey yet made by the interstate commercecommission .It has taken seven years for Walkerand his workers to complete this surveyand achieve the adjustment which grewfrom the case of the state of Oklahomato include the case of the states of Kansas,Missouri, Texas and Arkansas . Theyhave been seven years which would havewearied many a less diligent worker andwould have discouraged another with aless courageous heart. Because he has continuedto work and refused to be downheartedit is to Walker that the creditis due .Walker has devoted fifteen of the seventeenyears he has spent since his graduationin the service of the state . Not theleast of these services was his chairmanshipof the students' legislative committeewhich secured the appropriation for thelaw school building . His intensive interestin the university and the law school aftergraduation had been prefaced by variedactivities while in school .While studying law he was a studentinstructor and debating coach . He was amember of the Senate Literary society andwas a charter member and first presidentof the Holmes Inn of the Phi Delta Philegal fraternity. He was a member of theOklahoma-Kansas debating team in 1909-10 and a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilonsocial fraternity .After his graduation Walker went toShawnee where he entered private practicein law. At the end of two years heleft private life for public life and hasPAUL WALKERever since been connected with some legaldepartment of the state . First serving asattorney for the corporation commissionhe turned after four years to becomereferee of the supreme court of Oklahoma .The refereeship held him for four moreyears at the end of which time he returnedto the corporation commission asspecial counsel to work on rate cases . Hiswork on the Consolidated SouthwesternCases led in 1925 to his being appointedchairman of the committee on co-operationbetween federal and state commissionsof the National Association of Railroadand Utilities Commissioners . Thatsuch distinction was deserved can best berealized from the scanning of excerptsfrom a report made by John S. Benton,general solicitor of the National Associationof Railroad and Utilities Commissioners. Says Benton :"Consolidated Southwestern rates havebecome effective, marking the end of oneof the most protracted and sharply litigatedrate proceedings in the history ofthe Interstate Commerce Commission . Sixor seven years ago Paul Walker instituteda complaint for the corporation commissionof Oklahoma complaining of Oklahomainterstate class rates as unreasonableand discriminatory . This was combinedwith several other cases and with thembecame known as the Consolidated SouthwesternCases . . . . Existing rates werefound to be in a chaotic condition, manyof them being two or three times as highin one part of the territory involved asin other parts, notwithstanding substantiallysimilar transportation conditions .The report provided an entirely new ratestructure, which has been termed the mostconstructive and statesmanlike piece ofrate making yet to the credit of the com ,mission . The revision provided advancesas well as reductions, and naturally someshippers were dissatisfied ; and the carrierswere dissatisfied . Reconsideration wassought and granted . . . . They were disposedof early in July . . . . Certain shippersin the southeast made an applicationfor an injunction . The application washeard at St. Louis on July 9 and 10 . J .Standley Payne appeared for the commissionand Paul Walker and Albert Reedof Dallas intervened in support of thecommission's order . On July 12 the courtannounced its decision denying the injunction. Hence the rates as prescribedbecame effective and Walker feels entitledto a vacation ."The estimate of Walker's service to thestate may be judged from a notice givenout by the Oklahoma corporation commissionin which it states : "The new rateswill give added impetus to the locationand development of factories, distributingand jobbing houses within the state ofOklahoma . They have already brought toOklahoma City a new steel mill, and additionalindustrial development as the resultof these new rates has been reportedfrom other Oklahoma cities and towns."RAY H. HAUN, '12THERE was once a day when $20 amonth paid all of a student's expensesthrough school . That was back in 1911and '12 before the war could be heldresponsible for all manner of things, includingthe well known "high price ofliving ." But if $20 was a modest amount

OCTOBER, 1929it was just as hard to command as itsquadruple is today .For this reason the office of businessmanager of "The Umpire," the studentpaper which later became "The OklahomaDaily," was a coveted one for it paid theexact sum of $20 a month which wouldcarry its possessor through school . RayH . Haun, graduate of Pond Creek highschooland teacher for a year, desired theoffice and got it during his junior year . Inhis senior year he also desired the sameoffice-and got it, thereby establishing aprecedent for he was the first of all studentbusiness managers to hold his officefor two successive years . Today this incidentis perhaps a trivial one to Hannbut it is indicative of his character andability for "managing things" and is thevery trait which enabled him to becomea bachelor of arts in 1912 and the advertisingdirector of The Ladies Home Journaldivision of the Curtis Publishing Co .in 1929 .The Ladies Home Journal had an ad,vertising volume in 1928 of sixteeen andone half million dollars and Haun wasthe director of the earning and expenditureof this sum. It was not, however,through any wizardry of juggling figuresor mastering of a secret code that helearned to fill such a position . It was theunbeatable combination of persistence andexperience which worked the miracle .With Haun the persistence was innateand the base of all his experience wasobtained right within Oklahoma .After his graduation he first becameadvertising solicitor for The DailvOkla-homan andthen in swiftsuccession theadvertising manager of The OklahomaFarmer-Stockman, and director of theservice department of The Daily Oklahoman,The Oklahoma City Times and TheOklahoma Farmer-Stockman .He remained in the advertising field inOklahoma for seven years and then, lookingfor more extensive fields for his growingcapacities, moved to Detroit to becomemanager of the local office of theCapper Publications . Two years sufficedfor him to master the managership of theone office and succeed in 1921 to the directorshipof the central district for CapperPublications, which covered the territoriesof both Detroit and Cleveland . Ayear later he was made director of advertisingfor the Capper Farm Press whichincluded all of the eight Capper farmpapers .In 1924 the "woman's influence" enteredinto Hann's life . No, this is notromance but business, for it was the"woman's influence" in advertising insteadof the home which became a milestonein his career . He had just joined thestaff of the Curtis Publishing Co . andhad become director of advertising of TheLadies Home journal for the state ofMichigan .It was at this time also that the manufacturersof the country first became awareof the fact that women were spending thebulk of the money of the country . Statisticsproving that the woman was thespender caused an immediate boost in theadvertising value of the women's publicationsand Haun, with his new connectionwith The Ladies Home Journal was oneof the first to take advantage of the newtrend . How successful this move was isillustrated in the fact that during histhree years in Detroit his publication increasedits advertising revenue by morethan one half million dollars .This record was responsible for his promotionin 1927 to the Philadelphia officeof the Curtis company . His first duty herewas to organize a sales promotional departmentfor the advertising staff of TheLadies Home Journal . His capacity nowis that of advertising director of that magazine,which responsibility may he gaugedfrom the knowledge that the publicationha; a circulation ofthe2,500,000,sec-ond largest intheUnited Statesandthelargest in its own field .KERR MCQUOWN '22"WANTED:" how often has this ad beeninserted in the daily papers to send hopespringing eternal into the breasts of theambitious ones who are ever seeeking toimprove their lot . And how often does theanswering of such an ad prove that itwas either another sucker or else a geniuswho was in demand!Rare it is indeed for a "Wanted" insertto open up that golden future that allyouth is seeking . Yet, that the word issometimes a magic one, is evidenced in thefortune which Kerr McQuown, '22 eng .,has found from answering just such anad back in the spring of 1923 .It isn't exactly fortune in the moneyedsense that McQuown has feund but for-KERR MCQUOWN AND MRS MCQUOWNtune in that he is working in a fieldwhich he finds intensely interesting andwhich offers perhaps as great a future andopportunity for advancement as any industryopen today.His position is that of installation engineerfor the Electrical Research Products,Incorporated, with headquarters in Chicagoand a territory covering Illinois, In-diana, Iowa, Nebraska, Missouri, Kansas,Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota a n dNorth and South Dakota .McQuown's job is the installation ofMovietone and Vitaphone machines, producedby his company, in theaters overthis area and it is a matter of enlightenmentto hear him converse upon the intricaciesof these two sound devices and theirsignificance in the entertainment of thousandsof people today and tomorrow ."In general," says McQuown, "there aretwo practical methods of recording sound .One is by means of `wax' phonographmethods, as exemplified in the Vitaphone .The other is by film records, as used inthe Movietone . The latter produces variationsin sound from variations in lightpassing through a film of variable density."Close speed regulation is necessary,both in recording and reproducing, notonly to keep the picture and sound machinesin step, but also to prevent anychange in the sound's pitch which may becaused by variation in speed . Failure inspeed regulation for even a fraction of asecond would cause music to sound likethat from a phonograph which is runningdown ."A picture of a section of Movietonefilm shows the sound track on the sideas a series of parallel black lines of differentdensities . To reproduce these lines assound, the film is passed in front of anarrow slit through which shines a powerfullight . The resulting variation inlight intensity fall upon a photoelectriccell which converts them into variationsin electric current . These are amplified ina five stage audio amplifier whose outputfeeds the loudspeakers behind the screen ."The organization of the Vitaphone,however is on quite a different principle .The `wax' records used in the Vitaphoneare cut with a groove of constant depthwhich oscillates or undulates laterallyabout a smooth spiral . The recorder is anelectromechanical device ."The original discs are composed of ametallic soap and are from thirteen toseventeen inches in diameter . This isplaced in the recording machine which isessentially a high-grade lathe whose styluscuts from the center toward the outeredge of the disc . The `wax' shaving is removedby air suction . The cutting speedis from seventy to 140 feet a minute, thespace between grooves being about .004inches . The original wax record is brushedwith an extremely fine conducting powderand is then electroplated, the firstelectrotype being called a `master .' Thisnegative is in turn electroplated to producea positive from which is plated ametal mold or 'stamper .' A thousand ormore pressings may be made from a single`stamper .' The sound is then reproducedby means of an electric pickupsimilar to that used in the electric phonograph."McQuown sees the talking movie as29

30THE SOONER MAGAZINEthe greatest of all entertainment devicesin tile country and is directing his ownenergies to try to keep abreast of the advancementand importance which the"talkies" promise to gain .CHARLES A. LONG, '05"READ it yourself! Read it yourself!" istile advice of Heywood Broun in recommendinga recent book .w e shall echo tile words of Mr . Brounin referring you to tile following articleby Charles A. Long, '05 sc ., who has beenpresident of Granbery college, Julz derora, state of Minas Geraes, Brazil, andis now in charge of the P etropolis district,tile fasmonable summer resort anddiplomatic residence of Brazil.Long tells of early days in Soonerland,of student pranks and collegiate diversions,and of his experiences in tile SouthAmerican republic. But we cannot tell ifas he noes- Read it yourself! Read ityourself!"' 1 entered the preparatory departmentof tile university in tile fall of 1899," Longwrites, -when there were more preps thancollege students and when the total matriculationwas under 400, when everybouyknew everybody else, when dignifiedcollege professors were still teachingpreparatory classes and were the intimate,personal friends of all their students (theywould be yet if there were not so manyof the latter), when Sooners were justbeginning to learn the looks and use offootball togs and athletic suits . My classwas file last college class to complete awhole college year in the original buildingbefore it burned. After this fire wewere obliged to return to the old rockbuilding on Main Street where the universityheld its first classes . It was thetime of the original faculty, PresidentBoyd, Professors Paxton, Parrington, Buchanan,Elder, Miss Grace King, DoctorsDcBarr and Van Vleet, etc . Later additionsincluded Professors Sturgis, Humphreys,Cole, Doctor Upjohn, and "Kirby"f . N. Pricket, superintendent of buildingsand grounds ."Among the students were Roberts,Hertz, Hefley, Mackey, Bucklin, Hadsell,Gittinger, Ferguson, the Reeds brothers,Kirk, Larkin, Williams, Darling and theMisses Ruth House, Fantine Samuels andRena Williams ."The university then consisted of college,a school of pharmacy, school ofcommerce, fine arts and the preparatorydepartment . Medicine and engineeringwere added during my course ."As to my own activities, I am not awearer of the Phi Beta Kappa key andwas never accused of being in seriousdanger of such . On the other hand ProfessorElder is the only professor thatever had the privilege of handing me anF . If was in college algebra . My mottowas `Stick to the Bush' and thereby Icame to graduation with seven extra hoursCHARLES A.to my credit . I am one of the few 'renegades'who did not follow the good traininggiven in the geological department byDoctor Gould, the student's supremefriend ."I was a member of the Forum LiterarySociety, glee club, Rock club, GoodRoads club, Y .M .C .A ., etc . In athletics,I won the walking race in the locals thelast year if was included in college athletics. I also won innumerable tournamentswith pick and shovel, broom andaxe handles, buck saw blades, and officework, whereby I was enabled to win thefinals over lack of funds to carry on mystudies . These latter courses were worthas much or more to me than others I took,though I believe the (then) registrar, RoyHadsell, failed to give me credit for themon my credit card ."I remember the last class fight thatoccurred inside buildings . It was in theold building The juniors had hoistedtheir flag on the tower . The freshmen,usual lineup, pulled it down and hoistedtheirs . During the day following ProfessorCole removed apparatus from underthe tower, foreseeing the battle brewing.Sufficient to say that it was not amissthefight was a draw and a number ofus, including the president's secretary andregistrar, had the privilege of `walkingon the carpet' and paying the bill . Wesuspected, like the little colonel chewingup the artillerymen who fired withoutorders in Empey's Over the Top, the lecturingwe got was 'for the sake of goodorder and form' in part ."After graduating, having declinedseveral offer, of scholarships in Vanderbiltuniversity, I attended summer normalin Norman, and taught in the Lexingtonhighschool the following winter .LONG AND WIFE"In tile fall of 1906 I entered the MethodistItinerary and was sent to grandcircuit in Day county (now Ellis), where1 spent two years in frontier conditions ."in 1908, obtaining leave, I matriculatedin the biblical department of Vanderbiltuniversity and three years later receivedmy B .D. degree . Was also acceptedby tile mission board for work in Brazil ."It happened also, that the MethodistTraining school then existed in Nashvilleand that the Student Volunteer Unionfrequently met there . The result was thata certain young lady who was being acceptedby the women's board for work inChina asked that her papers be transferredto the men's board for work as'permanent pastor's help' in Brazil . Weddingbells rang in Eldorado, Oklahoma,July 8, 1911, and Miss Lucy York, whosesister Ruth recently attended the university,started her 'Long' journey to Brazil ."We sailed from New York July 20and landed in Rio on August 6 . Our firstwork was English congregation and superintendenceof an institutional church .The next year a seamen's mission wasadded and the next the English workpassed to a' successor . Of course languagestudy came at once."After those three years in Rio, we hada year and a half in pastoral work in theinterior, and then I was elected presidentof Granbery college, Juiz de Fora, Stateof Minaz Geraes . That was the hardesttask I think I ever had, for the school wasin `a pickle of a bad fix .' The governingbodies and personnel were in serious disgreement,due to lack of information andmisinformation and misinterpretation . Aformer president had offended membersof the faculty and patrons of the schoolso that an opposition school had been or-

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32THE SOONER MAGAZINEganized and was working havoc and attendancehad dropped to a minimum . Theremaining faculty had some porcupinesin the midst and debts had accumulatedto $10,000 . Also the federal governmentwas making demands on one departmentwhich were choking the life out of it . Tostraighten out this required courage . Thatis, courage to the point of disobeying orderscabled out in the strongest terms inEnglish ."But in the six years of my incumbency,1915-21, I did it . I paid the debt andturned over more than that amount incash to my successor, everything was putinto smooth running order, buildings wereimproved, furniture added, faculty increased,enrollment increased and theplans made for a vast program of development,carried out by my successor . Thecommercial department and equipmentwere added, the whole course strengthened."When I took the school, it was ofhighschool-junior college grade . I left ita good iunior college and it has since beepimproved . It also had a primary andschool of pharmacy and dentistry, said tobe the best in Brazil, and a theologicaldepartment . The government's war onprivate professional schools had obligedthe school to close out the school of lawit had had and obliged us to close outthe school of pharmacy and dentistrv ."From the presidency of the school Iwent to the pastorate of the local churchin that city . where I built one of our bestedifices in the country. Outsiders call itthe `Methodist Cathedral .'"I was delegate to the Congress ofChristian Work in Latin America, heldin Montevideo in 1925."That same vear I was sent back toRio as presiding elder there, as pastor andas dean and professor in Union TheologicalSeminary, as well as treasurer of themission board, of the annual conferenceand of the superannuate endowment fund .I had been presiding elder for severalyears before, even while in the school . Ofcourse this does pot count a score andmore of boards . committees, etc ., whichcall for only occasional time and attention ."In 1926 we returned home from oursecond furlough and in 1927 I was anpointedto Petropolis charge and districtwhere we are at the present . Petronolisis the fashionable summer resort and diplomat;cresidence of Brazil ."Summing up years of service, overlappingof course, during these eighteenyears I have been pastor in English worktwo years : Portuguese work ten and ahalf years : presiding_ elder eight years, inwhich time I have had charge of evervpastoral charge in the state s of Rio deJaniero, Minas, Espirito Santo and theFederal district and have done my shareon mule back through the trails and mudholes of almost impassable interior country; president of college six years : threetreasurerships of one year each ; dean ofthe seminary one year ; professor in seminarieseight years ; chaplain of the Seamen'sMission two years, etc. I have occupiedevery place of responsibility on thefield ."I watch with interest and pleasure thegrowth of my Alma Mater and my oldfriends among the students who are nowdoctors, professors, etc . Success to youall ."Lloyd Noble, ex '21, Ardmore, is presi-(lent of Noble Drilling Co ., one of thelargest drilling contracting firms in Oklahoma. The company is now drilling wellsin Oklahoma, Texas, Kansas and Canada .Lloyd is much interested in the programof the greater University of OklahomaAssociation . He is very enthusiastic overthe addition of "Snorter" Luster, '21 artssc., to the coaching staff .Floyd P. Benson, '28 geol ., is geologistfor the South American Gulf Oil Co . Hisheadquarters are at Cartagena, Colombia .He is at present engaged in field work .W . J . Bacon, ex '24, is editor and managerof the Sayre Publishing Co . a t Sayre .Clarence A. Babcock, ex '21, is an interiordecorator living in Los Angeles,California, at 2719 South Hill street .Hanna Asher, ex '21, is a musician livingin New York City . Her address is542 West 112th street .Try Our Sudden serviceThe "Sooner," Aristocrat of the HighwayMANY ALUMNI .Will complete his journey from Oklahoma City to the Unisityin this giant comfortable bus this fall .You pay 45 cents and in as many minutes you are at the frontdoor of the Administration Bldg . That's service for you.The schedule follows :BUSES LEAVE ADMINISTRATIONBUILDING FOR OKLAHOMA CITY :6 :10 A . M .BUSES LEAVE OKLAHOMA CITYFOR UNIVERSITY :7 :20 A . M .8 :10 A . M . 9 :20 A . M .10 :10 A . M . 11 :20 A . M .12 :10 P. M 1 :20 P. M .2 :10 P. M . :230 P . M .4 :10 P. M . 5 :20 P. M .6 :10 P. M . 7 :20 P . M .L.C . Giles Transportation Co .

l2 .®® to.50$1OCTOBER, 1929here and there with soonersnews ofsooners everywhere by classes33IMPORTANT NOTICE--All news forthis department should reach the editor ofThe Sooner Magazine, not later than thetenth of the month preceding the date ofpublication . News for the November issue,for instance, should be in our handsby October 10 . Keep the magazine informedof important Sooner news-makeit a representative magazine .WEDDINGSRACKLEY-HAIGHT: Mlss Corinne Rackley,ex-'26 and W illett Miller Haight, ex-'2 1, in 1 urcell August .50 . Gamma PhiBeta-Sigma Alpha Epsilon . Home, Shawnee.SHUMATE-McREA : Miss Mary ElizabethShumate and Henry Barxdale McRea, ex-'26, August 24 in Pauls Valley . SigmaAlpha Epsilon. Home, Pauls Valley .HRON-BARTELL: Miss Mary Ellen Hron,and Jack Bartell, '30 medic ., at StillwaterSeptember 3 . Alpha Kappa kappa . Home,Oklahoma City.GIBSON-GIBSON: Miss Louise Gibson, '26art, and William Dow Gibson, '26 arts-sc.,in Norman September 2 . Home, Harrah .TODD-CLARK : Miss Faye Louise Todd,'26 arts-sc ., and Ralph Logan Clark, ex-'26, September 19 in T ulsa . Gamma PhiBeta-Sigma Nu . Home, Tulsa .FRANCE-MCCOY : Miss Georgia France,ex-'21, and Harvey L. McCoy in OklahomaCity on September 21 . Delta Gamma-KappaAlpha . Home, Cape Girardeau,Missouri .RUSSELL-GUFFEY : Miss Jo Russell, '27arts-sc ., and Roy Guffey, '26 bus ., August28 in New York City . Delta Delta Delta-Kappa Sigma . Home, Ardmore .HORNE-GROUNDS : Miss Elizabeth Horne,ex-'24, and William H. Grounds, ex-'24,in Tulsa, September 4. Phi Gamma Delta .Home, Okmulgee .BELL-MULDROW : Miss Clara Mae Bell,'27 arts-sc ., and Hal Muldrow, '27 arts-sc .,in Oklahoma City September 1 . Pi BetaPhi-Beta Theta Pi . Home, Norman .SAUNDERS-MAYFIELD : Miss Wilma JoyceSaunders, '29 arts-sc ., and J . Cleo Mayfield,'28 arts-sc ., September 3 in Marietta . GammaPhi Beta-Phi Beta Kappa . Home,Marietta .LITTLE-MCCLAIN : Miss Wanda Little,'28 arts-sc ., and Carl McClain, '28 arts-sc .,in Oklahoma City on September 4 . PiBeta Phi-Sigma Alpha Epsilon . Home,Waltcrs .We Welcome YouTo The RemainingHome GamesOct . 12 Sooners vs . CreightonNov . 2 Sooners vs . Iowa StateNov. 9 Sooners vs . Kansas Uni .Nov . 16 Sooners vs . Nebraska (Freshman Game)Nov . 23 Sooners vs . Okla . A. & M.And to male your stay comfortableHOTEL HUDSON50 Rooms With BathInterurbans, Cars,WHITEFORD - THORNTON : Miss DorothyWhiteford, '21 arts-sc ., and HamiltonThornton in Cape Girardeau, Missouri,on June 30 . Delta Gamma . Home, St.Louis .LAWSON-GUNBY : Miss Gladys Lawson,ex-'28, and R. H. Gunby, June 30 in OklahomaCity . Home, Vallejo, California .AMIS-LEHEW: Miss Elizabeth Amis, ex-'29, and Elton Wilmot LeHew, '28 medic .,in Shawnee July 10 . Pi Beta Phi-KappaSigma . Home, Norman .50 Rooms Without Bathand Bus Service at Our DoorCARROLL JOHNSTONInsurance BrokerLower cost on Workmen's Compensation Insurance . Completecoverage on personal jewelry and furs . Fire insurance ratinganalysis-Reduces cost . Service all over Oklahoma .WithED . M. SEMANS & COMPANYOklahoma CitySEMANS BUILDING109 North BroadwayPhone - 3-6345

34 THE SOONER MAGAZINECASEY-BARNETT : Mrs . Bernice Casey to Oklahoma City, July 15 . Delta Gamma- '29, June 22 in Sapulpa . Pi Beta Phi.Buford Barnett, '24 pharm ., on June 27 Pi Kappa Sigma . Home, Ada . Home, Norman .in Oklahoma City . Home, Yukon . SNELL-WICKHAM: Miss Margaret Jua- BURLINGAME - BEY : Miss Ruth Burlin-WALKER-PEARSON : Miss Wynola Walker,ex '28, and John Pearson, '29 arts-sc, Wickham, ex '29, July 21, in Oklahoma in Bartlesville . Kappa Kappa Gamma.nita Snell, ex '29, and Howard Charles game, ex '29, and Donald Bey, June 15law, July 20, in Pawhuska. Pi Beta Phi- City . Alpha Chi Omega-Phi Kappa Sigma . Home, Bartlesville .Beta Theta Pi . Home, Pawhuska .WALKER-MURRELL : Miss Opal Walker JOIINSON-BATEMAN : Miss Janice Johnson,BUERCKLIN - WALLRAVEN : Miss Agnes and Lloyd Murrell, '28 bus ., July 14 in ex '28, and Harris Bateman, August 18 inBuercklin, ex '26, and J . E, Wall-raven, Frederick . Lambda Chi Alpha .Bartlesville . Beta Theta Pi . Home, Bartlesville.'25 arts-sc ., in Elk City June 23 . Phi OmegaPi-Sigma Mu Sigma . Home, Anadarko . '23, and Walter Davison in Tulsa, July LONG - GODFREY : Miss Elizabeth FayWOOD-DAVISON : Miss Pauline Wood, exMONTGOMERY-KULL: Miss Dove Montgomery,'22 arts-sc ., and Alec C. Kull, Home, Tulsa .'26, in Norman August 18 . Kappa Kappa10 . Kappa Kappa Gamma-Beta Theta Pi . Long, ex '29, and Thomas Godfrey, exJune 26 in Oklahoma City . Chi Omega . GILBERT-KRESSMAN: Miss Alice Gilbert, Gamma-Sigma Nu . Home, OklahomaHome, Oklahoma City .ex '24, and Pierre E. Kressman, in Toledo, City .DELANEY-MURPHY : Miss Mary Delaney, Ohio, on July 10 . Alpha Phi . Home, Bordeaux,France .Wade Upshaw, '28 arts-sc ., '29 M.A ., andUPSHAW -ANDERSON : Miss Elizabethex '23, and Timothy J . Murphy, jr ., inOklahoma City June 24 . Alpha Phi . GUILDERSLEEVE-SPECK : Miss L a v o nOwen William Anderson, '28 arts-sc., '29Home, Oklahoma City .Guildersleeve and John Speck, '28 arts-sc .,M.A ., in Oklahoma City July 31 . KappaSHANNON-BOGGS: Miss Lorraine Shannon,ex '26, and Foster Pickard Bogs, water.lis.July 14 in Sapulpa . Delta Chi .Upsilon-PiHome, Still-Mu Epsilon . Home, Minneapo-'26 arts-sc ., June 29 in Oklahoma City .MALOY-WILLIAMS: Miss Mary VirginiaAlpha Sigma Phi . Home, OklahomaMEISTER-ARBUCKLE: Miss Helen Meister,City .Maloy,'26'29 arts-sc, and Roland L. Williams,HAUGHT -arts-sc ., '27 M.A ., andMARTIN : Miss Margery LollGlenwood Daleex '27, in Norman August 2 . Kappa KappaGamma-Alpha Tau Omega . Home,Haught,Arbuckle, '27ex '22, and Ward Martin, ex '23,law, August 16 in OklahomaCity . Chi Omega-Phi Gamma Delta .June in Shamrock . Home, Brooklyn, NewOklahoma City .York .Home, Duncan .BARNHILL - BROWN : Miss Fay Barnhill,HEWITT-MORE : Miss Nancv Jane HewittHOLMES-WILLIAMS : Miss Celia Holmes '26 arts-sc., and Joe Brown, '26 law, Julyand Leon S . More, ex '27, in Tulsa Augustand Thomas Elbert Williams, ex '27, on 27 in Olahoma City . Delta Gamma-SigmaNu . Home, Ardmore .10 . Kappa Alpha Theta-Sigma Alpha Epsilon. Home, Bartlesville .Delta . Home, Dallas .PIERCE-SISSON : Miss Alice Pierce, '26July 27 in Oklahoma City . Phi GammaO'DELL-SHENAULT : Miss Elizabeth O' - GARDNER - WOODWARD : M i s s M a u d e arts-sc ., and Edward L, Sisson, ex '26, July27 in Norman . Delta Gamma-SigmaDell, ex '26, and James Shenault, OklahomaA. and M., in Shawnee, July 31 . ward Woodward, ex '26, in Oklahoma Nu . Home, Cordell .Gardner, '27 fine arts, and George Ed-Kappa Alpha Theta-Sigma Nu . Home, City on July 21 . Delta Gamma-Beta Theta VERITY-GOFER : Miss (',lady-. Verity, exShawnee .Pi . Home, Oklahoma City .'28, and Averyt Gober, '23 arts-sc., '27 M.GEE-WIMBLISH : Miss Elizabeth Gee, ex MASTERS - STIVERS : Miss Eugenia Masters,ex '29, and Ovid DeWitt Stivers, ex Oklahoma CityA., in Oklahoma City August 15 . Home,'27, and Robert J . Wimblish, ex '23, in.inOur New F all CollectionThe Smartly Dressed MISSWill Find Apparel1nTheCONSOLIDATEDCUT STONEDR ESSESCOATA and FURSENSEMBLESPALAIS ROYALMAin at 324Oklahoma City..1323 F, Fifth P, O, Box 1795TULSA, OKLAJ L, Bauman H. D. Lanham

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.O36JANEWAY-MCCANN : Miss Catherine Janeway,'28 arts-sc ., and Ward McCann, ex'27, on August 2 in Oklahoma City . KappaKappa Gamma-Sigma Alpha Epsilon .Home, Oklahoma City .HUMPHREY-KIMBALL : M i s s E v e I y nHumphrey and Ray Kimball, '30 arts-sc .,on September 3 in Oklahoma City . Kimballis a Delta Chi and business managerof the Oklahoma Daily .DOYLE - REVELETTE : Miss Alice Doyle,'32 arts-sc ., and Joe Revelette, '31 arts-sc .,SAND Wholesale AND & Gravel.CoOklahoma City, OklahomaOFFICE307 Commerce Exchange Bldg,Phone 3-1900L, D. 544Both Are SoldIn NormanBy TheRETAIL YARDS410 North WesternPhone 3-1901EAST G. & STILESPhone 3-3377GRAVEL, PLANTSDougherty, Okla .Fort Gibson, Okla .SAND PLANTSOklahoma City, Okla .Dougherty, Okla .C . H . MAKINS, PresidentC . J . MURPHY, Sec'y-Treas.TWO WHOLESOMEPRODUCTS(1) Pasteurized Milk(2) Gilt Edge Ice CreamNORMAN MILKANDPhone 130 Norman,Okla .Tin Oklahoma City late in July. GammaPhi Beta-Delta T au Delta. Home, Norman.HODGES-PENICK : Miss Mabel Hodges,'23 educ ., '27 M.A ., and Dr. Grider 1enickin Norman, September 4 . Phi OmegaPi . Home, Oklahoma City .BILBREY-DANIEL : Miss Arteola Bilbrey,'29 fine arts, and Warren Edward Daniel,ex '29, in Norman August 4 . Kappa Ep-silon-Kappa auPi.Home,Tulsa.VAUGHAN-BALLS : Miss Marie Vaughanand Joseph G. Rails, jr., ex '20, Juiy 25in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Home, Atoka.BAY-NEUMEYER : Miss Zelma Bay, ex '29,and Hugh Neumeyer, ex '29, July 30 inNorman . Home, UKlanoma City .KELLER-OGDEN: Miss Florence Keller,'17 arts-sc ., '19 M.A., and Pete Ray UgdenAugust 3 at l aloga . Home, Enid .DASHNER-EVANS : Miss Frances Dasnnerand Don Evans, ex '24, in Ada August 7 .Home, Ada.W EBB-STEELE: Miss Pauline Webb andEarl Steele, ex '26, Oklahoma City August11 . Home, Enid .KELLY-bELAND : Miss Vera Kelly to EugeneB. Beland, ex '21, in Guthrie AugustT4 . Home, Guthrie .FARGO-DLACKARD : Miss Fay Marie Fargo,and Homer blackard, ex '25, in Mul-drow July 25.Home,Nluldrow .McGUIRE-SPREHE: Miss Stella Marie Mc-Guire and Francis L . Sprehe, '27 civ . engin., in Oklahoma City September 25 .T au Beta Pi . Home, Oklahoma City .WOOD-ALLEN : Miss Beulah Wood, andCurtis Allen, '25 arts-sc ., July 23, 1928, inFayetteville, Arkansas . Home, Ponca City .WHITWELL - Y ORK : Miss Audra Whitwell,ex '29, and Leon J . York, '29 artssc.,in Cusning July 21 . Home, Cushing .HUFF-SKALNIK : MISS Mabel Huff, '26arts-sc ., and Charles Skalnik, '25 law, inHobart August 7 . Phi Mu-Lambda ChiAlpha . Home, Tulsa .BRYAN-BRYAN : Miss Eurith Bryan andWillie Bryan, '23 arts-sc ., in Lone WolfAugust 4. Home, Lone Wolf .THORNTON -THORNTON : M i s s S a r a hThornton, '20 arts-sc ., '25 M.A ., and MurrellH. Thornton, ex '10 in Norman . AlphaGamma Delta . Home, Muskogee .MOORE-COX : Miss Carrie Tex Moore,'26 home-ec ., and Arthur Cox, '26 eng .,in Oklahoma City August 12 . Home, OklahomaCity .STYRON-DoUTHIT : Miss Helen Styron,'26 arts-sc ., and Roy Douthit, ex '29, inKonawa August 8 . Home, Konawa .ROBERTS-CROSBY : Miss Catherine Robertsand James Harold Crosby, '27 sc . M.A., in Enid August 7. Acacia . Home, PoncaCity .JENSEN-GEORGE : Miss Ida Mae Jensenand Norville George, '26 educ ., in BlackwellAugust 6 . Home, Geary.KENISTON-WILLIAMS : Miss Marie Keniston,ex '24, and Dr . Gordon Darnell Williams,'25 medic ., in Oklahoma City, JulyTHE SOONER MAGAZINETHESUPREMEAuthorityWebster'sInternationalNewDictionaryConstantly revised and improvedto keep abreast of modern needsand information .Thousands of NEW WORDS suchas audion, joy-stick, Coolidge tube,Fascisti, radiophone, Freud, aerograph,eugenism, etc .Whatever Your Question aboutwords, persons, places, you findhere a ready accurate answer. 2,700pages ; 452,000 entries, including403,000 vocabulary terms, 12,000biographical names, 32,000 geographicalsubjects ; 100 tables, 6,000illustrations .One of the wisest of our school superintendentssays : "I have never seen aperson, whether pupil or teacher, whowas accustomed to the frequent use ofthe dictionary who was not at the sametime a good or superior all-roundA better test than this of the Cueof dictionary work could not be found ."G. and C. Merriam Co .Springfield,Massachusetts

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3824 . Chi Omega-Sigma Alpha Epsilon .PALMER-STRIBLING : Miss Talva Palmerand Jesse B. Stribling, ex '27, August 7in Walters . Home, Walters .GROSECLOSE-DAMM : Miss Esther Groseclose,ex '29, and Rev . Henry J. Damm,ex '29, in Waurika August 5 . Home, St .Louis .WILSON-TONEY : MISS Opal Wilson, '24arts-sc., and Ted Toney, ex '29, in Normanin May . Home, Norman .STRICKLER - KENNETT : Miss JosephineStrickler, ex '29, and Lester Kennett, ex'25, in Enid July 23 . Kappa Kappa Gamma. Home, Little Rock .FULLER-PARKS : Miss Dorothy Allen Fuller,ex '20, and Kirtland G . Parks, '21science, '23 medic ., in August in OklahomaCity . Alpha Omicron Pi . Home,Oklahoma City .School Science& MathematicsThe only Journal in theEnglish language devotedprimarily to the needs ofscience and mathematicsteachers .Here is a publication issued ninetimes each year that will keepyou in touch with the most recent advancesin scientific knowledge andteaching methods .Classroom helps and special teachingdevices for different topics areregular features . The Problem Departmentand Science Questions furnishinspirations and extra activitiesfor superior students .The most progressive teachers insecondary schools and colleges allover the world are regular readers andmany of them are frequent contributorsto this journal .Nine Issues a yearPrice $2 .50 a YearBecome a leader in the teachingprofession by associating with leaders .Send your subscription today.School Science andMathematics1439 14th StreetMilwaukee, WisconsinSTEWART-CHEUVRONT : Miss Faye Stewartand Clifton Cheuvront, ex '29, August4 in Oklahoma City . Home, OklahomaCity .BADGER-BAUGHMAN : Miss Dorothy Badgerand Karl Baughman, ex '29, in MuskogeeAugust 14 . Pi Beta Phi-Kappa Sigma. Home, Ponca City .VENABLE-COLCLASURE : MISS Mary RuthVenable and Cecil T. Colclasure, '29chem ., in Norman August 14 . Kappa Psi .Home, Cordell .SHELLENBERGER - DUNCAN : Miss MurlShellenberger and J . Gard Duncan, ex'28, August 17 in Oklahoma City . Home,Oklahoma City .MORTON-SCOTT : Miss Helen Morton, '27arts-sc ., and Fred Scott in Newkirk onAugust 16 . Pi Beta Phi-Sigma Alpha Epsilon. Home, Norman .GOODS-HARD : Miss Virginia Goode, ex'29, and Wallace Edmund Hard in OklahomaCity August 4 . Home, Tulsa .MOORS-RABON : Miss Corinne Moore, ex'28, and Otway W. Rabon in McAlesteron August 25 . Home, Kinta .BALDWIN-ROBINSON : Miss Frances Baldwin,ex '29, and Powell Robinson in AltusJuly 23, 1928 . Home, Frederick .BEAUMAN-GLASS : Miss Avis Beauman,'27 arts-sc ., and Albert Raymond Glass inWaurika July 18 . Pi Beta Phi . Home,Duncan .SPARKs-LITTRELL: Miss C l a r a DialSparks, unclassified, and C. D. Littrell inWoodward on August 9 . Home, OklahomaCity .MCNABB-CREW : Miss Mavnee McNabb,ex '29, and Robert Reynolds Crew, '23pharm ., in Tulsa August 9 . Alpha ChiOmega-Beta Theta Pi . Home, Muskogee .BRUNT-WAGNER : Miss Blanche Bruntand Richard Lorraine Wagner, ex '29, onSeptember 5 in Chandler . Home, Chandler.CHAMPION-GRIGSBY : Miss T h e l m aChampion, ex '24, and Edward F. Grigsby,student, in Norman August 11 . AlphaChi Omega . Home, Norman .BIRTHSWalker B. Coinegay, ,24 arts-sc ., andDoicas McConnell Coinegay, ex-'24, a son,Walker B . Comegays, Jr ., on July 30 inOklahoma City .Graham B . Johnson, '19, arts-sc ., andGenevieve Farrar Johnson, ex-'20 . a son,Graham B . Jr ., on July 31 in Norman .Dr . E . Eldon Baum, '28, medic, andHettie Maloy Baum, fine arts, '26, a son,William Eldon, on June 21 in Tulsa .DEATHSJACKMAN A. GILLJackman A. Gill, ex=13, prominent Mc-Alester attorney and United States commissionerwas killed near McAlester onAugust 22 when his car skidded on agravel road and overturned . Mr . Gillwas always active in matters affecting theTHE SOONER MAGAZINEwelfare. of the university . In 1923, he wasone of a group of former students thatvolunteered their services and successfullyrepresented the board of regents in :;n actionin the supreme court which restoredto the university salary appropriation bi!'the sum of $420,000 .00 which GovernorWalton attempted to eliminate . He issurvived by his widow and two small sons .UNCLE BEN CLAY"Uncle Bennie" Clay, night watchmanand police officer of the campus for adecade, died on the night of August 26after an attack of appendicitis . "UncleBennie" came to Norman with the openingof the territory in 1889 and has servedas Clevald county police officer under ahalf dozen different sheriffs . He was 69years old . Hundreds of alumni knewhim-his broad hat, his clanking keys,his cheery hail to the late straggler, willbe missed by everyone .ARTHUR A . SHERMANArthur A. Sherman, 30 arts-sc ., 22 yearsold, was killed in a collision between amotorcycle and an automobile near Normanthe night of September 14 . Shermanwas riding in a side car of the motorcycle. He was captain of the Cross-countrytrack team last year and was a trackleter man, and was rated as one of themost consistent performers for Oklahoma .His home was in Tulsa .JOSEPH A. GRAHAMPlunging two thousand feet in the air-Time ChanThere was a time when theinitial cost was the only factorthat was considered in thepurchase of a new tool or machine.Now this is only a minorpoint to be considered as comparedwith the life and actualupkeep of this machine over aperiod of time.MIDEKESUPPLY CO.Plumbing, Mill and MachinerySupplies & Power Plant- - Equipment100 E . Main StreetOKLAHOMA CITYPhone 3-7331 L . D. 173

OCTOBER, 192939plane in which he was about to completehis test for a commercial pilot's license,Joseph A. Graham, '27 arts-sc ., died almostinstantly on July 24 at the municipalairport at Oklahoma City. Mr Grahamspeak-ing inthe universityfor twoyearshad been an assistant in publicprior24 to be assistant attorney general of Oklahoma,succeeding J . Berry King, who inturn has been named attorney general .For two terms Dudley was county ator,county . His home is into his resignation ofCarter June 1 . He was prominentas a participant in dramatics anddebating while an undergraduate . Hewas a member of the Sigma Nu fraternity.PROFESSOR JOSEF NOLLA loss of its most brilliant accompanistand one of the finest musicians in thesouthwest was felt by the piano departmentand by the university in the deathof Prof. Josef Noll, age 34, on the morningof August 4 . Mr Noll succumbed toperitonitis following an operation for appendicitis: He is survived by Mrs Nolland their son, Josef jr., and by his mother,father : and sister of Chicago.Savage and are practicing in Tulsa .Francis M. Dudley, '16 law, was appointedby Governor Holloway SeptemberArdmore . He is married and has onechild .1820Joseph Benton, '20 arts-sc ., '21 voice,has made his 1928 debut in Europeangrand opera not only a matter of achievementbut one of prosperous achievement .He has recently signed a two year contractwith one of the leading Europeanbooking companies. Among the operasin which Benton has sung are "La Traviata,""Il Trovatore," "Faust," "MadameButterfly" and "Rigoletto ."Elmer D. Fagan, '20 arts-sc ., Ph . D.Harvard '26, stole time away from hisactivities as professor of economics to visitthe campus and the Alumna office inJuly . Doctor Feagan who is assistantprofessor of economics at Leland Standforduniversity during the year, taughtthis summer in the University of Virginia .Fagan is a Kappa Alpha .We Have It -- Let Us Serve You!1912Carrol S . Moore, ex '12, owner of MooreAdvertising Co ., leading advertising agencyin Fort Worth, Texas, says that theTexas-O . U. game will be one of thegreatest sports events of the southwest .Adding national to local honor, Dr . RayBalyeat, '12 arts-s ., '18 medic, was electedpresident of the American Society forthe Study of Allergy . The election wasmade at the national convention of thesociety held in Portland,. Oregon, in, July.Considerable recognition . has been givento Doctor Balveat recently because of histreatises on ay fever and asthma treatments:Lloyd W. Maxwell, '12 arts-sc ., M. A.Columbia '16, is now associated withthe Standard Trade and Securities Service,a publication of the Standard StatisticsCo ., Inc ., located at 200 Varick Street,New York City.1914Dr . John R. Neal, '14 medic ., is deputyhealth officer of Los Angeles, Californiacounty, and a practicing physician there .His address is 449 Fourteenth street, SanMonica .1915Overton M. Bounds, ex-'15, who hasbeen general manager of the Garland Aircraftcompany at Tulsa, has been advancedto the position of vice president and technicaladviser of the firm . While in school :Bounds was a member of the baseballteam.;1916Alva Jarboe (Mrs . T. J.) Torkelson, '16arts-sc ., husband and infant daughter, JanetGayle reside at : 715 . East FifteenthStreet, Oklahoma City . Mr Torkelson, agraduate of -the University of Washington,is in . the wholesale lumber business . -Eugene Monnet, '16'20arts-sc.,law,and Royce-Savage, '25 arts-sc ., '27 law,have formed the law firm of Monnet &P OLICE,THIS YEAR, HAVE PROMISEDNOT TO INTERFERE WITH OURCUSTOMERS AFTER GAMES .NationalTire Stores .Inc .HighwayService StationTexacoProductsHighway at Gray Stanley L . Moore, Prop

40SOONER ALUMNIPROFESSIONAL DIRECTORYIRVING PERRINE, A, :M,, PI-I . D.Bell Isle Royally CompanyPetroleum Geologist1619 Petroleum GeologistOklahoma City, Okla .CARL 1-1 . KUNSEMULLER, '20Secial AgentNotional Lnife Insurance Co .of Vermont303 W. Symmes St . Phone 753W, C, KITE, '16Geologist and Oil706 Braniff Bldg,Oklahoma CityInvestmentsLOUIS D. ABNEY, '16School Furniture207 South Compress St .,President-Oklahoma SchoolEquipment Co .Oklahoma CityTOM F. CAREY, '08Certified Public AccountantIncome Tax CouncelBraniff BuildingOklahoma CityWillard A. Darrow, '20 music, '23, artssc., is president of the All Arts conservatorywhich has recently been establishedin Oklahoma City .Dr . Hesler H. Wyand, '20 science, '22medic ., who has been practising in Cleveland,Ohio, has been appointed officialdelegate of the university on the occasionof the dedication of the new building forthe Institute of Pathology at the WesternReserve university, October 7 . Doctor Wyandhas offices at 642 Guardian Bankbuilding .1921A new air transport company has beenformed in Norman . Dr . Ben H. Cooley,'21 med., of Norman, is secretary . TheCurtiss Flying Service abandoned its airportin Norman following its destructionby a cyclonic storm .A. M. Meyer, '21 geol ., is district geologistwith the Atlantic Oil Producingcompany . He and Mrs. Meyers, (FernHazel Houston, '21 arts-sc .,) and theirdaughter, Miss Doris Fern, are living inArdmore.Van Stewart, '21 law, has become apartner in the firm of McKeever, Elam,Moore & Stewart in Enid .Mr . and Mrs . A. E. Kull, (Dove Montgomeryex '21, spent the month of Augustin Lansing, Michigan .Another Sooner who is rapidly achievingdistinction in the educational worldRAYMOND A . TOLBERT, '12Embrey, fohnson & Tolbert, I.awyers1204 Perrine Building,Oklahoma City . OklahomaELGIN E . GROSECLOSE,M. A,. Ph. U,Guaranty Company of New York140 BroadwayNew York, N. Y .B . RAY I INTER, M . D. '21Physician and Surgeon709 Med. Arts Bldg,Phone 3-1920 Oklahoma CityOSCAR WHITE, M . I), '2ISurgery1108 Med . Arts Bldg .Oklahoma CityDAVE LOGAN, M . L), . B . A, '16Consulling GeologisyOkmulgee, Okla .is Charles B. Minner, '21 arts-sc ., who ishead of the department of philosophy atWheaton college, Norton, Massachussetts.Frank S . Cleckler, '21 bus ., secretaryof the University of Oklahoma Association,attended the international conventionof the Phi Gamma Delta fraternityheld at Swampscott, Massachussetts, June19 to 22 .Tully A. Nettleton, '21 journ ., an editorialexecutive on the Christian ScienceMonitor at Boston, has been advanced totake charge of a new office created by thenewspaper, a joint editorial-circulationpost . Nettleton completed a survey ofprincipal American cities last summer forthe Monitor, and during the trip, interviewedGeorge Eastman, the Kodak manufacturerand philanthropist . Nettleton'shome address is 107 Falmouth street,Boston .Hattie Mae Lachenmeyer (Nee Mc-Atee), '21 journ ., conducts a column inher newspaper, the Cushing Daily Citizen,called "On Parade ."Allen Duncan, '21 arts-sc ., is employedby the City National bank, New YorkCity .1922A Sooner with an occupation whereprecision is vital is Leslie E. Athey, ex '27,United States weather bureau at Washington,D. C.THE SOONER MAGAZINEThe legal department of the PhillipsPetroleum Co ., at Bartlesville has a liberalrepresentation from Dean Monnet'sschool . There you'll find Cecil Hunt, '26law, Walter Barnes, 22 arts-sc ., Kirk Hudson,'22 arts-sc, '26 law, and Darwin Kirk .'23 arts-sc ., '25, law .Senator Reed Smoot is not the only manin Washington worrying these days aboutthe tarilf, for Edgar 1 . Mullins, '22 artssc., also is vitally interested . He is aneconomist for the United States Tariffcommission and is also assistant professorof economics of the Foreign Service Schoolof Georgetown university .John Thompson, '22 law is assistantcounty attorney of Carter county and livesin Ardmore .Gilbert Fulton, '22 law, has been appointedassistant to the municipal counsellorof Oklahoma City . Fulton has beenfor some time an assistant attorney generalof the state .1923James R . (Bon) Tolbert, jr ., '23 law,and wife (Mary Noble, ex '24), now resideat Amarillo, Texas, where "Bon" is practicinglaw with offices in the Bivins building.John L. Waller, '23 ed ., associate professorof history in the University of Oklahomareceived his doctor of philosophydegree from the University of Texas atthe summer commencement .Hutton Bellah, '23 journ ., editor andpublisher of the Altus Times-Democrat,this summer sold his interest in his publishingcompany to the Pulliam'interests,represented by Eugene Pulliam of Indiana,one of the founders of the Sigma DeltaChi journalistic fraternity .Nathan Scarrett, '23 law, is associatedwith the legal department of the ChamplainRefining Co . in Enid .Dan Mitchell, '23 law, is county attorneyof Garfield county .1924Kirby Warren, '24 law, is working inthe legal department of the Mid-KansasOil Co . in Tulsa .Leslie Fain, ex '24, is associated withthe Hall-Briscoe Construction Co . ofChickasha .S. F . Babb, '24 educ ., has become athleticdirector of the Oklahoma Presbyteriancollege at Durant .Study at the National University ofMexico and escorting a party of studentsabout the country filled the summermonths for G. Todd Downing '24 artssc.Included in the group who accompaniedhim were : Florence McClure andStella Edmiston, Oklahoma City ; Mrs .Gertrude Sidener Phillips and WillardBrokaw, Shawnee ; John Carson, Norman ;Ruth Guthrie, Joplin, Mo., and Olive Anderson,Lawrence, Kansas .

OCTOBER, 1929HubertLIFE MEMBERSAmbrister, Oklahoma CityF. I . . Aurin, Ponca CityHutton Bellah, AltusBen C . Belt, Houston, TexasA. N. Boatman, OkmulgeeJoseph A. Brandt, NormanHarry J .Brown, TulsaDr. Howard S . Browne, Ponca CityS. I) . Burton, Canyon, TexasFrank Buttram, Oklahoma CityJerome Samuel Byers, OklahomaCityFred Capshaw, Oklahoma City"horn F . Carey, Oklahoma CityDenzelCarr, Krakow, PolandGlenn Clarke, Ponca CityFrank S .Cleckler, NormanRichard H. Cloyd, NormanDr . Ben H. Cooley, NormanFayette Copeland, NormanPaulDarrough, Oklahoma CityA. R . Denison, Fort Worth, TexasHarry H. Diamond, HoldenvilleAlma W.Dowd, NormanW. L . Eagleton, TulsaFloy V. Elliott, TulsaEarl Foster, Oklahoma CityJ, J . Gable, NormanDr, J . M. George, Quanah, TexasClement O. Gittinger, TulsaLeo H. Gorton, TulsaHarry L. S . Halley, TulsaJohn T.C. W. Hamilton, Montclair, NewJerseyHarley, TulsaFrank A. Herald, Fort Worth,TexasJ .Wilkinson Hoover, Carlsbad,New MexicoFrank S . Horne, Wichita, KansasElton B . Hunt, TulsaRobert W. Hutto, NormanDr . Chas . D. Johnson, TulsaNeil R. Johnson, NormanRalph A.Johnston, TulsaCo y, B . Jones, Abilene, TexasRobertKeenan, TulsaL, W. Kitchens, SeminoleEmil R. Kraettli, NormanJ, C. M. Krumtum, WeatherfordPierceLarkin, TulsaT. R. Leahy, PawhuskaH. V. Lewis, TulsafSooner or LaterYou will join the University of Oklahoma Associationas a Life Member . Not only because it is theloyal thing to do, but also because it is a good investment. You get your money's worth, dollar for dollar,when you become a Life Member . Every month TheSooner Magazine brings you the news of yourfriends among the alumni, keeps you abreast ofaffairs on the campus, tells you what your old profsare doing . Things move on the Oklahoma campusand the only way you can hope to keep up with yourold school is through The Sooner Magazine .Become a LifeMemberYou pay sixty dollars, either in a lump sum or ininstallments of five dollars a quarter . No more solicitation. Your money is secure . At stated intervals youwill receive statements regarding the manner inwhich the Life Fund has been invested . Interest onlyfrom the principal will be used for operating expensesof the association.The Sooner the BetterFive hundred life memberships must be obtainedby 1931 . This is the absolute minimum . One hundredlife memberships have already been subscribed .Consider The Sooner Magazine just as you do_ themagazines of general interest to which you subscribe .There are few American homes where magazinesdo not enter. There should be few Sooner homeswhere The Sooner Magazine is not read .How to Do ItSend the University of Oklahoma Association, FrankS . Cleckler, secretary, Oklahoma Union Building,Norman, your check either for sixty or for five dollars(the first installment) . To do so is not onlyloyalty to your old school-it's a 100 per cent profitinvestment .LIFE MEMBERSDavid M. Logan, OkmulgeeGeorge 1 . McFerron, TulsaA . McKinnon, Jr., Oklahoma CityF . I) . Meacham, NormanC . B . Memminger, AtokaMaurice H. Merrill, Lincoln,NebraskaStewart E. Meyers, Oklahoma CityV . E . Monnett, NormanO, F . Muldrow, NormanErrett R. Newby, Oklahoma CityJessie 1) . Newby, Oklahoma CityC. V, Nichols, AnadarkoDr . Claude B . Norris, Youngstown,OhioMarion J . Northcutt, WaltersH. S . Oderman, Detroit, MichiganOwen Owen, TulsaWallace Perry, El Paso, TexasF.arle S .Porter, TulsaDollie Radler, TulsaRalph H. Records, Norman1 . G. Richardson, New York,New YorkWinifred Robey, Houston, TexasMrs, Hazel Beattie Rogers, Tucson,ArizonaJohn Rogers, TulsaC. H. Rosenstein, TulsaDr . H. V. L . Sapper, OklahomaCityA, C . Shead, NormanSeward Sheldon, Ponca CityFay Sheppard,EarlSneed, TulsaNormanFloyd E. Staley, TulsaLloyd Swearingen, NormanFred E, Tarman, NormanGerald S . Tebbe, PerryFred Thompson, NormanRaymond A, Tolbert, OklahomaCityDonald E .Walker, ArdmoreOtto W. Walter, Ardmore, PennsylvaniaM, L. Wardell, NormanWilliam A. Watkins, Buenos Aires .Argentina, South AmericaFrank N. Watson, Dallas, TexasChester Westfall, Ponca CityLuther H, White, TulsaRussell A. Wiles, BixbyGuy Y.Williams, NormanLaurence P . Williams, NormanA, C . Wright, Coleman, Texas

.421925Fairview has as its county judge Howard"Red" Lindley, ex '25 .John Mugler, ex '25, is connected withthe Perry Mill and Elevator Co .Herman Long, '25 arts-sc., '28 medic .,is serving as an interne at John Hopkinsuniversity this year .Edward D. Hodges, '25 arts-sc ., is nowcity attorney at Newkirk . He receivedhis law degree in '27 from the university .Ralph W . Keahey, '25 arts-sc., is assistantprofessor in the department ofpolitical science in Butler university.Eleanor Drennan, '25 arts-sc ., is teachingin RooseveltOklahoma City .junior high school inLeo F . Cailey, '25 medic, is practicingmedicine in Oklahoma City with officesat 503 Medical Arts building . DoctorCailey spent the past year in the graduateschool of medicine of the University ofPennsylvania at Philadelphia where hestudied ophthalmology .Lois Kelley, '25 arts-sc ., spent the summerstudying in Chicago with HubertWitherspoon, Florence Hinkle and RichardHageman . Miss Kelley has beenawarded the Florencethe last two summers.Hinkle fellowship1926John Smith, ex '26, is manager of theSmith Oil Tool Supply Co ., in Sapulpa .1927Luther Bohannon, '27 law,practicing since his graduationnole .has beenin . Semi-THE SOONER MAGAZINECy Ellinger, '26 arts-sc ., is in the lease Helen Boyle, '27 . arts-sc., who. spent twoand royalty business in Okmulgee .years on a fellowship in Chase house,Fred Shields, ex '26, is a geologist for Chicago, is now in Japan, teaching in thethe Sinclair Co ., in Okmulgee .Episcopal training school- in Tokyo .Frank Abbott, '26 law, is associatedwith the Hall iburton-Abbott Co ., of Tulsa.may seem a good distance apart to"thePetroleum engineering and bailing ayaverage person but they became allied industriesin the hands of John Lorenzen,Tom Mayes, ex '26, is in the employof the General Motors' Acceptance Corp .'27 arts-sc. Lorenzen had -been -rearedof OklahomaonCity .a farm El Reno and after graduationMarsden Austin, ex '26 is a representadesertednearhi s career as a petroeum l engineertive of the New York Life Insurance Co :,f Chickasha. to return to a farm. Faced with the laborofAustin was awarded a ,to Canada last summer by the com- °£ bailing hay . Lorenzen then used hisengineering knowledge to inventpang for his rating as one of the foura bailingmachine that dispenses with the serviceshost salesmen in the state .of four men and four horses and worksJohn Coffman, '26 eng., entered thetwice as fast as the ordinary baler . HeUnited States Marine Corps immediatelyhas proved its : efficiency by using . :onlyafter graduation. Since then he has been three men five days to bale 3,000 balesto many ports of the world . His latestof` hay from a 100 acre field .station was Shanghai, China, but he is . toleave there socn and return to the states Tom Harris . '27 bus.. is owner andearly in October .manager of the Harris Auto AccessoriesS . F. E. Baggett, ex '26, is a railway in Add.postal clerk on the Guthrie-Kiowa, Kansas,division of the Santa Fe . He lives become a member of the firm of ArnoteWalter Arnote; '27 arts-sc ., '28 law, hasin Guthrie . ,& Arnote at McAlester. Arnote spentFrancis 'Bush Atkinson, ex '26, is an the summer travelling in Europe and. theaccountant at Roswell, New Mexico . .past year taking post graduate work atHarvard.Douglas McMurray, ex '27, is associatedwith John Bryan"in the lease and royaltybusiness in Chickasha, - _You'llThrow Away Less FoodIf You UseZE O ICEThe Perfect Refrigerant,at Minimum CostIce is nature's refrigerant . There is no artifical substitute for it . Ice gives just the right amount of humidityand moisture to the air in the refrigerator to keep the foods as nature intended them to be kept .And with ice, there is a constant circulation of pure, fresh air . Remember, that without CI RCULATIONOF AIR, foods would lose flavors and would dry up . And remember, too, that with ZERO ICE, therewill be no odors in your ice refrigerator, because the melting ice carries all odors down the drain.'- -=ZERO ICEand COLD STONorman, OklahomaAAGEC

OCTOBER, 1929Miss Jane Harden, ex '27, sailed fromNew York City early in September for anextended trip on the continent. She wasaccompanied by her sister, Miss FrancesHarden who will enter school at Le Manoir,Lausanne, Switzerland .Jack Curran, '27 arts-sc ., '29 law, hasbecome a member of the law firm ofCurran &. Curran in Enid .Mrs . Harold M. Lewis, (Wilma Starns,ex '27), will devote her winter to studyin Salamanca, Spain . She will remain fora year and a half . Mrs . Lewis received theHickman medal for the best language studentwhen she was graduated from theCentral highschool in Oklahoma City in1925, and in her junior year there wonthe state contest in Spanish .Dorothy Lee Patswald, '27 music, hasbeen awarded a scholarship for next seasonin the opera class of the AmericanConservatory of Music in Chicago . MissPatswald was graduated with honors fromthe conservatory last year. As a studentin the opera classes of Eduardo Sacerdote,she made several appearances in the operaticperformances at Kimball hall underhis direction .1928Aubrey Kerr, '28 law, organizer ofSooner politics and one-time president ofthe student council, is a member of thefirm of Kerr & Kerr in Ada .Marie Roberts, '2.8 arts-sc., is teachingschool in Perry this year .Dr. E. Eldon Haum, '28, medic., ispracticing medicine in Tulsa with officesat 708 Medical Arts Building. DoctorBaum and Mrs . Baum, Hettie Maloy,fine arts '26, are living at 1315 South St .Louis in Tulsa .1929Carmon C . Harris, '29 law, and RayTeague, '29 law, have opened their ownlaw firm at 223 West G street, OklahomaCi ty.Juanita Stevens, '29 science, will teach inthe Okeene schools this year . She hastaught in the Wapanucka schools the pasttwo terms .Ethel James Byrd, '29 arts-sc ., is an instructorin East Central State Normal atAda .Walter French and Pete Caldwell, graduatesof the class of '29, are associatedwith the Empire Company in Bartlesville .German French is employed by the 1 . T.1 . O. Company in Bartlesville .Fred T. Klingensmith, ex '29, has goneinto the oil business and has his officesOkmulgee .Sam Clammer, '29 law, and assistantfreshman football coach last year has leftsuccessful career as an athlete to enterthe profession of Gladstone. He is associatedwith the firm of Aby & Tuckerin Tulsa .Drink Bottled BeveragesPaul Cress, '29 law, is a member of thelaw firm of Cress & Cress in Okmulgee .Cannon McMahan, '29 law, is practicinglaw in Okmulgee .Ann Raub, ex '29, is teaching in thepublic schools of Caldwell, Kansas, thisyear .Norman BusinessPeople Invite You ToVisit O . U . often ThisYear .At the, Sig n ofThe Gold HatchetSpecial Dinners Plate LunchesAnything Cooked to Order$5.50 Meal jackets .for $5.00PARTIESWe Manufacture CleanlinessMAN STEAMLAUNDRYPhone 7143They arc: pure, wholesome and healthful when properly manufactured.Select what you drink with as much discrimination as you dowhat you eat .In our factory every bottle is sterilized before being filled andis heremetically sealed by automatic machines without being touchedby human hands during process ."If it's good to eat-We have itELM STREETGPhone 4Norman, Okla .We are exclusive bottlersofandSqueeze(in 6 pure flavorsrGolden Rule Shoe ShopPHONE 1077Where shoe rebuilding is an artWE DELIVER'Owen' Bruton 122 W . MainThe beverages of Quality SupremeOklahoma Coca-ColaBottling Co .THEREXALL STOREWe fill prescriptions accuratelyNoble F . Hilsmeyer . PhC.B.S .

44belles lettres and bell ringersFOLK-SAY . A Regional Miscellanyof folk-literature . Published by theUniversity of Oklahoma Press for theOklahoma Folk-Lore Society . B . A.Botkin, editor . Price $1 .50 net .By PRESIDENT W. B . BIZZELLIn the Daily OklahomanTHIS is the first volume of a newseries of publications dealing with thefolk lore of the southwest . This newpublication is sponsored by the OklahomaFolk-Lore Society and it is the first bookprinted by the University of OklahomaPress . "The talents of several artists andthe skill of the printer have been combinedto make this an unusually attractive volume.The contents cover a surprisingly widerange of material from other sources . Thelore naturally occupies a large place inthis publication, it does not exclude a widerange of material from other sources, Thehigh quality of the contents is assured bythe names of the contributors, which includeJ . Frank Dobie, Lynn Riggs, StanleyVestal and other well known writersand authorities in the field of southwesternfolk-lore .The introduction by B . A. Botkin, theeditor, is a scholarly survey of the fieldto which he has added a discriminatingbibliography . The range of material maybe illustrated by "Choctaw Fables" byJames Culberson, "The Taxi Talk" byGeorge Milburn, and the poems entitledPeople of the Backwater" by Lynn Riggs .1 his is not a volume of the general popularmagazine type out of which one selectstwo or three articles that interestnim and ignores the other contributions.It is a book that one may read throughtrom page to page finding something interestingin every paragraph throughoutthe volume .The appearance of Folk Say is an eventin the literary history of Oklahoma . Itscontents constitute a contribution to comparativeliterature . It is surprising howrich our Southwestern country is in materialof this kind, and the OklahomaFolk-Lore society is to be congratulatedon this literary enterprise . Under theable editorship of B. A. Botkin, GeorgeMilburn and J . Frank Dobie, and withthe sympathetic cooperation of Joseph A.Brandt, the scholarly and efficient editorof the University of Oklahoma Press,Folk-Say should attract wide spread attentionand contribute substantially to our'cnowledge of the material in this field."BY JOHN MCCLURE, '15In the New Orleans Times-PicayuneTHE Oklahoma Folk-Lore Society, followingin the path of the Texas society,whose excellent miscellanies have been reviewedat length on this page, has begunthe publication of Folk-Say, a RegionalMiscellany, edited by B. A. Botkin, whichpromises to be one of the most valuablerepositories of folk-lore and criticism offolkways in America . Mr . Botkin, an excellentpoet and critic and keen student ofpopular lore, has made a highly successfulbeginning in the fist number of the series .Folk-Say deals primarily with the literatureof the southwest but is concernedwith any distinctively regional material,south, north, east or west . One of themost natural and convincing specimensin this number is "The Indiana Log-Rolling"as told by Cliff Frank to Mr . Botkin .Folk-Say, too, includes more than simplefolk-lore . The editor has included inthis number and will include in others tofollow new material in prose and verseof definitely regional tone . "OklahomaOpera" by George Milburn, who spentlast year in New Orleans and is a contributorto Quarter is much the best workin the volume. These sketches of Oklahomasmall town life resemble SherwoodAnderson's sketches in their simplicity, butare richer and more significant than anybut Anderson's best . Milburn promisesto do very fine work indeed .Mr . Botkin who starts Folk-Say with anarticle on "The Folk in Literature : An Introductionto the New Regionalism",points out that both scholars and writersin America, after over a century of vagueaspiration for an "American Literature"conceived as some sort of generality, haveawakened to the fact that good literatureis primarily provincial . A new interestin regional traditions and culture has supplantedthe old democratic abstractions .THE SOONER MAGAZINEGeorge Milburn, '30 journ ., a contributorto The Sooner Magazine, has had aseries of Oklahoma sketches accepted byThe American Mercury, for publicationsoon . The sketches will appear in twoinstallments . Milburn is also preparingfor Ives Washburn, Inc ., New York publisher,a book of hobo songs and ballads .Among American literary people whomore and more find New Mexico a congenialplace in which to write is PhilipBack, ex-'23, short story writer, who residesin Artesia, New Mexico .Cameo is the title of a one-act play writtenby Prof . Ray E. Holcombe, director ofthe department of dramatic art of the university,which will be published this fallby Row, Peterson & Co ., Evanston, Illinois.The play is a domestic tragedy, centeringabout the love of a benchman in abattery works for fine things,THEOKLAHSASHCOMPANYWholesalersManufacturersOffice 8-20 E, Grand Ave .OKLAHOMA CITY, U . S . A .35 MODERN ROOMS EUROPEAN PLANUNIVERSITY HOTEL113 E . MAIN STREET J. W GEORGE, Prop . NORMAN, OKLAHOMARATES $1.00, $1.50, $2.00LONG DISTANCE PHONE 2244 LOCAL PHONE 56

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