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Oklahomans at home' and abroad

OCTOBER CALENDAROctober 3 . Oklahoma versus Rice,

football . Boy scout day .October 6. Annual reception by Presi-

dent and Mrs Bizzell, president's home.October 9 . Frosh stag dinner . B . . V.

Edworth, state Y. M. C . A . and Hi-Ysecretary will be a guest. ' ,

October 17. University committee se-lects Rhodes scholar candidates .

October 31 . Oklahoma versus IowaState, football;. Dad's day. Annualmeeting of Dad's Day association . Two-mile race with Iowa State .

ASSOCIATION PROGRESSMigration day, October 17As many loyal Sooners as possible

should make it their business to attendthe third annual Migration Day at Dal-las, October 17, for the annual Texas Ok-lahoma game. As usual the Baker hotelwill be headquarters and you will findSooners gathering there around October16. There will be a luncheon rally ofall alumni in Dallas October 17. Thetime and place can be found by register-ing at University of Oklahoma Associa-tion headquarters at the Baker . If youare in Dallas in any case be sure to reg-ister giving your address so that friendsin Dallas at the time will be able to findyou .Arrangements are in charge of Chas.

H. "Chuck" Newell, ex '13, president ofthe Oklahoma University club of Texasand editor and publisher of TexarkanaPress . Mr Newell and his associates inthe Sooner club #of Texas are arranginga lively program and President Newellwrites, "We will want the two B's, Biz-zell and Benny, on our program October17. (I like those B's better than thebonus and beer B's of the American Le-gion.)" So President Bizzell and Ath-

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letic Director Bennie Owen will be onthe luncheon program .

There is an advantage in having thepresident of the Texas Sooner club as aneditor for he can write live publicity forthe Migration day . Below follows astory sent out by him to many Texasand Oklahoma newspapers .DALLAS-An All-Oklahoma rally in the

Crystal ballroom at the Baker hotel before theannual Texas-Oklahoma football classic at thestate fair October 17, has been arranged .

Plans for the rally between 11 :30 a. m . and1 p. m. were announced here today by Chas.H. "Chuck" Newell, president of the OklahomaUniversity club of Texas.

"President W. B . Bizzell and Athletic Direc-tor Bennie Owen, of Oklahoma university, haveagreed to speak at a luncheon rally of Sooneralumni, ex-students and undergraduates whowill be in Dallas for the Oklahoma-Texas gameOctober 17," said Newell.

"State fair football was built on the founda-tion of the splendid games Texas and Okla-homa have been furnishing the southwest foryears . It is expected that more Sooners thanever will be on hand for this year's game .

"Hundreds of ex-Soonnes live in Texas . Theyhave arranged a pre-game luncheon at whichevery Sooner can get something to eat and re-new old associations of happy college days .

"The Sooner band of eighty pieces will beon hand to furnish music. President Bizzelland Bennie Owen, the oldest athletic directorin point of continuous service at one schoolwest of the Mississippi, will be on hand to de-liver pep talks . There'll be plenty of fun androom for the largest affair of the kind everheld in the southwest."The Oklahoma University club of Texas

guarantees to have the show all over in plentyof time for Sooners and Ex-Soonnes and theirsweethearts to get to the stadium at Fair parkin ample time for the kick-off ."

Hourly Nurse serviceThe Alumnae association of the school

of nursing has instituted a new servicedesigned to make the service of nursesobtainable for a few hours instead ofonly by the day . The Hourly Nursingregistry, with headquarters at the train-ing school of university hospital, will

handle calls for nurses desired for onlya short time . Eight graduate nurses areon the list of the registry . The purposeis to serve the doctor as needed and topermit a better distribution of profes-sional nursing service.

New We membersCaptain S. H . Alexander, '28, and

Mrs LeBeryl Henderson Alexander, '27,of Fort Douglas, Utah .

OUR CHANGING VARSITYSummer graduation

Eighty masters degrees were amongthe some two hundred degrees awardedat the annual summer commendementexercises August 7. Dr M. A. Beeson,president of Central State Teachers col-lege, delivered the commencement ad-dress . The first intersession held be-tween the regular summer session andthe fall semester did not attract manystudents.Among the students receiving degrees,

especially worthy of mention was Alfre-do Beruman, a native of Mexico, whoarrived in the United States unable tospeak English, but by hard work mas-tered English, obtained a B . A . degreefrom the university and on completionof his fifth year's work last summer, theM. A. degree . Mr Beruman was presi-dent of Eta, Sigma Phi, classical lan-guage fraternity, former president of LasDos Americas and other activities. Heworked his way through school as aSpanish tutor . A poet, he plans to con-tinue with literature as a career .

No gownsThe hottest September in forty-one

years found the annual convocation cer-

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emony devoid of much color lent by ac-ademic gowns worn by faculty members .President Bizzell not only postponed hisannual reception because of the heat butannounced academic costumes need notbe worn at the convocation ceremonyin the fieldhouse September 22, when hedelivered his annual address, publishedin full elsewhere in this issue .

Chiropractors and medicineAn executive decree of Governor Mur-

ray July 27 opening the university hos-pital to practice by chiropractors precip-itated an argument between the medi-cal and chiropractic professions that end-ed eventually in the resignation of DrLeRoy Long, dean of the school of medi-cine and a member of the university fac-ulty since 1915 .Mrs W. O. Burgett of Hollis, a pa-

tient in the hospital, asked for chiro-practic treatment . Under the rubes ofthe American Medical association nonebut medical practitioners may be admit-ted to practice in the hospital ; this rulingis enforced and where it is not observed,the rating of medical schools is usuallywithdrawn .The administration of the hospital

which is the laboratory of the school ofmedicine, refused permission . GovernorMurray conferred with Dean Long andstated later : "Doctor Long said `We'lljust have to quit the hospital if chiro-practic is introduced here,' so I replied,maybe that would be a good thing.

"Chiropractors are licensed by thestate. Chiropractic treatment has beenlegalized . The hospital is a public in-stitution . It is folly to think that underthe law a chiropractor can't practicethere."The executive order stated in part :Denial of the right of the patient and her

family to have such treatment is discriminationin the law between regularly licensed and law-fully permitted attendants upon the sick. Ihereby direct the hospital shall permit anychiropractor to treat Mrs Burgett and that theauthorities of the institution may be authorizedto be present while such treatment is progress-ing to the end that they may know at all timesthe condition of the patient.

A chiropractor was admitted despiteprotests of the medical faculty. The at-tending physician protested that manipu-lation of any kind would be dangerousto the patient, who, he said, was suffer-ing from sunstroke . The chiropractorstated that he met with courteous treat-ment from the hospital staff .

In the meantime, fear was expressedthat the school of medicine would loseits rating. Representing the students ofthe school, Wendell Smith, '32 med .,visited the governor and explained thecase for the students who would lose inmany instances as much as $5,000 in-vested in their education if the rating

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were withdrawn . Mr Murray expressedsympathy with this viewpoint and de-clared that he would not make it a gen-eral rule to admit chiropractors but thathe would do so when occasion demand-ed .Mr Murray told the United Press that

the predictions of disaster to the medicalschool were based on "medical fanati-cism" and continued :

There has been too much of this systemwhereby some group or profession dictates tothe state what the administration of the lawshall be .The law makes it plain that it is to be ad-

ministered equally .But the law is changed to give authority to

control to some boards or superintendent innearly every instance . This group in nearlyevery instance will dictate the administrationof the law.When you talk of some change in an edu-

cational institution here comes the alumni dic-tating how the institution shall be operated orsome other group, maybe foreign to the state,will lay down the rules under which the in-stitution shall operate.

In the matter of a hospital they tell us thelaw makes it mandatory to violate the law ofequality in order to comply with some outsidegroup in the management of the institution,and they've been getting away with it becausethe board would challenge and threaten thecourage of the public official.

So long as I am governor these institutionsare going to be run upon equality before thelaw as contemplated by the law under policieslaid down by the chief executive .

If that angers anybody, I shall have no worryabout it . My greatest worry is how to admin-ister the law to all alike, whether they be weakor strong, or whether they be the unorganizedmultitude, or some clique or association withinor without the state.

Just what is the proper school of medicine Ihaven't any more idea or any more right to saythan I would have to say which church or creedis correct . But they will all get the same con-sideration .

Dr LeRoy Long, dean of the school ofmedicine, resigned his post. GovernorMurray by executive order named DrSamuel R. Cunningham of the medicalfaculty as temporary dean . The boardof regents met August 13 and namedDr L. J . Moorman, member of the medi-cal faculty, as dean and passed a resolu-tion barring chiropractors from the hos-pital, which exists as a laboratory for theschool of medicine .Dean Long resigned his post August 8,

and with him resigned his sons Dr Le-roy D. Long, jr ., ex '15 and Dr WendellLong, '22 arts-sc ., both lecturers in theschool .Doctor Long issued this statement fol-

lowing his resignation :I have no honorable alternative . It is a de-

plorable situation and I pass the responsibilityto the governor of this state, who ha's, over ourmost vigorous protests, insulted not only thefaculty of the school of medicine, but 3,000regular doctors of medicine of this state .

I have waited for two weeks for some ac-tion by the university board of regents and Iam utterly unable to explain its inactivity.With ample time at its disposal the board hasdone nothing to indicate its intention to resist

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the high handed action on the part of Gover-nor Murray .

I have been dean of the school of medicineand professor of surgery for sixteen years. Ihave seen the school grow and develop untilit is now a magnificent institution recognizedthroughout this country and Canada. And nowthe product of all our efforts is placed in jeop-ardy . It is a deplorable 'state and I pass theresponsibility to the governor of the state.Governor Murray, informed of the

dean's action by newspapermen, wasquoted as saying :

I don't know but what it is a darn goodthing. You want to remember that you and Ican pass along and there will be a man to takeour place, just as good or better .

"From England wrote George Arliss,

celebrated actor, to compliment the gov-ernor . Wrote Arliss :

Dear Governor Murrav : News has reachedEngland of your splendid stand for medicalfreedom . It is refreshing to find that there issomebody in power who is willing to admitthat we, may have some intelligent ideas aboutour own bodies, and who is ready to help usbe allowed to choose the healer in whom wehave the most confidence without being regard-ed as cranks or renegades .My wife and I tender our sincere congratu-

lations, believe me yours truly .

Survey custodianBy executive order of Governor Mur-

ray, Carl L. Pawlowski, former associateprofessor of piano in the university, wasappointed custodian of the OklahomaGeological Survey which has been closedsince July 1 due to veto of the funds forits maintenance . Mr Pawlowski was per-mitted a monthly salary not to exceed$150 to be paid from the sale of surveypublications and was ordered to give anaccounting of all publications sold .

Union guest roomsTwo of the fourteen guest rooms on

the third floor of the Oklahoma Unionbuilding were finished during the sum-mer for occupancy . They will be rentedfor $400 per annum . Association Secre-tary Cleckler and Dean Cornwall, in-structor in geology_ are the renters . forthe first year .

Dentistry?The Oklahoma Dental association is

investigating the possibility of introduc-ing courses in the university for studentsinterested in taking up dentistry .

EnrollmentRegistration :for the first semester of

the academic year began Friday, Septem-ber 18 . Freshman week began Wednes-day, September 16 . No figures wereavailable as this edition of the magazinewent to press . Great increase in the

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number of students transferring theircredits from other schools to hte univer-sity gave preliminary indication that thegraduate enrollment might exceed thatof last year .

Ye gods!In the celebrated Cosmopolitan Mag-

azine for September one reads under apicture of Will Rogers (illustrating anarticle by O. O. McIntyre) that MrRogers holds the degree of Doctor ofApplesauce from the University of Ok-lahoma. Doctor Rogers holds the de-gree-if any-from Oklahoma City uni-versity .

Council dancesAdmission prices for couples and stagsat student council dances have beenlowered to seventy-five cents by F. W.(Doc) Kirby, dance manager for thefirst semester .

X-rayAn x-ray machine with fluoroscopic

attachment has been added to the uni-versity infirmary, Dr Gayfree Ellison,director, announces. This now makesthe university infirmary one of the mostcomplete at any university in the country.

Kingfisher scholarThe first . scholarship awarded by the

Kingfisher College Endowment is toLynden Mannen, '27 arts-sc., who willwork under the direction of ColonelJack Alley, director of the school of citi-zenship and public affairs . He will fol-low out the plan of the Kingfisher boardwhich is to study some vital phase ofpublic affairs in Oklahoma and to pub-lish this study as the first contributionof Kingfisher college to the work of theuniversity . Kingfisher college, whichclosed in 1925, is now a part of the uni-versity, income from its endowment be-ing used to help the school of religion .Another function is the granting ofscholarships similar to Mr Mannen's .

FacultyDr Findley Weaver, assistant profes-

sor of economics, resigned to accept asimilar position at Pennsylvania Statecollege at an increase in salary . DoctorWeaver had been a member of the uni-versity faculty one year .

Professor T. M. Brewer, head of theEnglish department, spent a month dur-ing the vacation season in New York andin Virginia .

Frank S. Cleckler, '21 bus., secretaryof the University of Oklahoma Associa-

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FATHER AND SON

Colonel JohnAlley, '02 Kingfisher, directorof the school of citizenshipand public affairs in the uni-versity, wi II soon have to lookto his laurels . Long one of themost valued contributors tothe Oklahoma Municipal Re-view, Professor Alley's sonJohn N. Alley is writing forthe magazine, and articles ofboth father and son appear inthe same issue and the sonwas on the editorial staff inthe compilation of the muni-cipal index and directory ofOklahoma municipalities . Thephotograph of father and sonwas made while fishing atHidden Lake in mountainsnear Chama, New Mexico,last summer

tion, spent two weeks at Manitou andEstes Park, Colorado, during the sum-mer.John B. Ewing, assistant professor of

economics, received his doctor of philos-ophy degree from the University of Wis-consin this summer. His thesis subjectwas "Economic Issues Involved in theUnemployment Insurance Movement inWisconsin."

Dr J. B. Smith, director of universityhospital, is recovering from the effectsof Malta fever.

Harry Rutledge, manager of the Ok-lahoma Press Association and member ofthe school of journalism staff, has beenelected president of the Newspaper As-sociation Managers, Inc., at the annualmeeting held in Omaha September 4 .

President Bizzell is chairman of acommittee of judges of a national con-test being conducted by the ContinentalOil Company of Ponca City to obtain thebest answer to the question "What be-comes of the hidden quart of Conocogerm processed motor oil and how doesit benefit the motorist?" First prize is$5,000 and the contest was to close Sep-tember 28 .

Journalism by correspondenceTo meet a demand that has been

growing each year, the correspondencestudy department of the extension divis-ion of the University of Oklahoma isthis year offering courses in journalism

for the first time since correspondencestudy has been conducted.Two courses have been prepared for

study this year. The first course has beenplanned to fill a three-fold need . Theperson desiring a cultural or educationalstudy in journalism will obtain a gen-eral knowledge of newspaper writingand reporting and how it is done . Thestudent planning a career in journalismwith a view of taking a college coursewill find it a splendid foundation uponwhich to build in later studies . The onewho needs practical training to equiphim to do actual newspaper writing nowwill find it a splendid guide in master-ing the "how" of writing.The second course is planned more

for those who desire to act as a corre-spondent for newspapers, either smallor metropolitan papers . A foundationin general news writing is first given,and the student is trained in givingnewspapers what they want . The broadfield of news writing is not covered asthoroughly as in the first course, but itwill prove helpful to correspondents . Atpresent neither course is being given forcollege credit, but the work is equiva-lent to a college course . High schoolcredit is given for completion of thework .The

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two courses have been preparedC. Smith, '32 graduate assistantschool of journalism at the Uni

versity of Oklahoma . Mr Smith is aveteran newspaperman with more than

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seventeen years actual experience . Hehas published small weekly and semi-weekly papers, and also has had metro-politan newspaper experience. He is aformer member of the staff of The Tul-sa Tribune, and has done writing fortrade magazines and for other publica-tions, including Colliers Weekly .

GRADUATES IN EMBRYODoctor ClaytonThe fifth doctor of philosophy de-

gree conferred by the university was onJoseph Buren Clayton, professor of his-tory in the Southeastern Teachers col-lege, Durant, during the summer term .Doctor Clayton is a graduate of WakeForest college, class of '10, and holds hisM. A. degree from the University ofChicago, class of '21 . He is a native ofNorth Carolina and began teaching inNorth Carolina in 1902 .The Southern Unionists and the Civil

War was the subject of Doctor Clayton'sthesis . The visiting member of the ex-amining commission July 3 was Profes-sor Clement L . Benson. of the Universityof Arkansas.The abstract of Doctor Clayton's thesis

follows :The controversy between the contending

forces of nationalism and states rights, or unionand disunion, is as old as our constitution . Theunionists in their encounters with the disunion-ists were consistently victorious up to 1860 .But at that time, the agitation of the slaveryquestion, increasing and intensifying sectionalantagonism, greatly depleted their ranks. Andin the campaign of 1860, on account of the dis-ruption of the last of the national political par-ties the nomination of four sectional candidatesfor the presidency, the disunion issue wasbrought to the forefront. The popular vote didnot indicate a positive victory for the secession-ists so the "fire-eaters," violently displeasedwith the results, proceeded to carry out theirplans, and South Carolina seceded from theunion, declaring her independence .The other cotton 'states soon followed suit,

but, in their secession convention, the unionistsand the co-operationists fought a losing battleagainst the determined, uncompromising seces-sionists. For the time, however, in Georgia,Alabama, and Louisiana, the opposition to dis-union was especially strong, and in Arkansas,the convention voted down secession and madeprovision for a popular election to determinethe question of union or disunion . The Vir-ginia unionists controlled the convention of thatstate for more than two months, checked thesecession movement for a time, and, possibly,prevented the ultimate success of the south .North Carolina refused to call a convention toconsider the question of secession while Tennes-see voters piled up a large majority against dis-union and the calling of a secession convention .So for months the unionists of that common-wealth refused to surrender . But the inaugu-ration of President Lincoln's coercive policydrove these four border states to the defense oftheir southern sister states .Most of the Southern unionists went with

their states into secession and the Southern Con-federacy . . But the political conversion of manyof these, effected, as it were, under duress andwith reservations, was more apparent than real .Many unionist leaders, at home or in exile,kept up the fight. Nearly one hundred thou-

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sand men from the seceded states enrolled in theUnited States army ; thousands, before the warended, returned, openly or secretly, to theirformer allegiance, and other thousands, in or-ganized bands and other capacities, openly de-fied Confederate authority and rendered serviceto the north .

Large numbers of southern unionists effect-ively aided the union cause as members of vari-ous secret orders and movements, under thecamouflage of constitutional opposition tothe southern government, as unfaithful stateand army officials, and under other masks anddisguises.Numerous and varied quasi-unionist activities

did much, directly and indirectly, to hasten theruin of the south. These included, along withothers of similar import, destructive, unscru-pulous opposition to the Confederate administra-tion, and policies perpetrated by the governorsof certain states and many general government,state and army officials . Deserters, draft evaders,hoarders, and speculators, likewise, played theirpart in the game of destruction.The causes, usually assigned as factors, which

occasioned the collapse of the Southern Con-federacy are not sufficient to account for thedisaster of April, 1865 . But the influence andactivities of the southern unionists must betaken into consideration as constituting a factorof major importance in determining the finaloutcome.

Military trainingSigns of "Military Must Go" and

"Join the Movement Against MilitaryTraining" greeted students returning forthe opening of the university's fortiethacademic year . The movement follow-ed one initiated last semester at Oklaho-ma Agricultural and Mechanical collegeby Orville English, of Guthrie, who in-itiated the attack at the university thissemester with the aid of Raymond Mc-Clung, '35 arts-sc ., of Norman, a candi-date for the ministry who has conscien-tious objections to taking military train-ing .The campaign is part of one initiated

by the Committee on Militarism inEducation of New York and is not con-fined to the University of Oklahoma.The charter of the university statesthat one of its objects will be to give mil-itary training . Compulsory drill was in-troduced following the war, as the re-sult of a contract entered into by theboard of regents with the war depart-ment . The university R . O . T. C. unitoffers artillery instruction only . Malestudents are required, unless they are notphysically fit, to take two years of thebasic course . They may elect two moreyears and obtain a commission in the re-serve corps . Students over twenty-oneyears of age are not required to take drill .Although some newspaper headlines re-

ferred to the protest as a "revolt," it wasanything but that. Mr English and hisfellow workers worked quietly circulat-ing a petition to obtain signatures pro-testing against compulsory drill . In themeantime, students continued to enrollin drill, three students formally protest-ing against doing so. These cases were

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referred to the committee on militarytraining . Luther English, '35 arts-sc ., ofGuthrie, brother of Orville English, wasexcused from drill by the committee af-ter he had stated his objections to it . MrMcClung was likewise excused.

Referring to Luther English's requestfor exemption, President Bizzell stated :"If the case had come up in the normalroutine, it is probable it would have beengranted without discussion . It is prob-able that any other student protestingon the same grounds also will be ex-empted."The administration's attitude is that it

must observe the regulations of the boardof regents, unless that body changes theregulations .Mr English directed his petition to the

board of regents . It was accompanied bya protest signed by all the ministers ofAlva . A circular Mr English distributedto students stated :

Student groups at the University of Oklaho-ma and the Oklahoma Agricultural and Me-chanical college appeal to the public and to theauthorities at these institutions to abolish thepeace-time anachronism of compulsory militarytraining in civil colleges .

Enlightened opinion and common sense sup-port this move to let students choose whetherthey will train to become officers in our armyreserve corps or take courses preparing themfor peaceful service along other lines.

The catalogue of the University ofOklahoma 'states : "Requests for exemption frommilitary training will be submitted for decisionto the professor of military science . Appealsfrom such decisions may be made to the com-mittee on military training."

Students opposed to compulsory drill willrender the cause a real service this year by join-ing ifs in asking exemption for all who object .Such requests will not only meet the wishesof the individual students but will clarify theissue.We believe it unfair, unwise and unnecessary

to compel each individual student to press forexemption. If drill is elective, the cataloguesshould frankly say so. Lone students and theauthorities of the college should not be sentthrough the "red tape" of arguing each case.The circular quoted a letter from John

A. Simpson, president of the Farmer'sEducational and Co-operative Union ofAmerica as promising his support to themovement against compulsory drill .In the meantime, Scabbard and Blade

and the Bombardiers were taking stepsto combat the anti-drill movement.

Major Harry Malony, new R. O. T .C . commandant, found his first officialweek at the university doubly interest-ing as a result of the movement . Hemet with several students who protestedand discussed with them genially . Thegovernment spent $113,000 in the mili-tary department.

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DepressionWith the most curtailed budget in

university history testing administrativeskill to the utmost, university officialsthemselves turned attention to helpingstudents weather one of the worst eco-

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nomic depressions in the history of thenation as the fall semester opened .

Fraternities eliminated many expen-sive features of their rush program, wo-men's groups not having orchestra mu-sic . Striking feature of rush was thefew alumni who returned .

In the matter of enrollment, it wasapparent that the number of freshmenthis year would show a decrease, whilethe upper classmen would probably re-cord an increase, due to the many stu-dents returning after several years ab-sence to complete work on degrees .Piesident Bizzell announced a survey

of textbook changes, his object being toprevent needless change and thus savestudents additional ' expense . Principalelements in textbook changes, declaresCharles Miles, '21 arts-sc ., manager ofthe Book Exchange, is the frequentchanges by textbook publishers.

"If it develops that there is an excess-ive number of changes, forcing studentsto buy new texts and preventing themfrom buying used ones, it may prove ad-visable to establish some system ofchecking in advance the number of text-book changes," President Bizzell said ."However, I do not believe that in-

vestigation will reveal many unnecessarychanges ."Employment agencies had more re-

quests to place students in jobs than atany time in the history of the university .There were some fewer jobs available inthe university this year than in the past,due to the restricted budget . Normanpeople, however, took care of many stu-dents in giving them work .The Lew Wentz student loan fund

was early exhausted by the great numberof applications for loans and also be-cause of the rather slow repayment ofloanees . Emil R . Kraettli, ex '17, sec-retary of the fund, announced that be-fore the loan board met there were a to-tal of $34,077 requested . One hundredand five applications for $19,722 wereapproved . All loans this year were lim-ited to $200 and to applicants having anaverage of C or better.Whjle prices in Norman had not gone

as low in many staple lines as those inother Oklahoma cities, there were mark-ed savings possible for Norman students .Barbers announced a rate of twenty-fivecents for the haircut . Taxi fares, on theother hand, were increased . The rateruling the second semester last year andduring the summer was ten cents theride . Under a new city ordinance, thefare has been placed at twenty-five centsfor the first mile, with an additionalcharge for fractions of the mile . Alltaxicabs are required to carry meters, awelcome innovation in Norman . Thebasic rate for the taxi was calculated onthe fact that the twenty-five cent ratewill take a student from the interurban

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station to the administration building ofthe university.The Y. M. C . A . reduced its mem-

bership fee to fifty cents instead o£ onedollar for the year .

For the convenience of fraternity al-umni who may have occasion to usethem, we publish herewith the telephonenumbers of Norman fraternities :

Sophomore PledgingSerious consideration is being given by

university administrative officials and fra-ternity officers to possibility of sopho-more pledging by fraternities at the uni-versity . President Bizzell has approvedthe plan and has asked for proposal tobe presented before next September . Thepresident believes the plan can be put inoperation over a period of three years .

"It is obvious that the present rushingsituation is unsatisfactory both to therushees and fraternities," he said . "Anyplan of first year rushing is unsatisfac-tory because it gives too short a time forthe best selection . A more democraticand more satisfactory system must beworked out and it probably will be nec-essary to abandon first year pledging.

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Sophomore pledging has worked outwell at the University of Texas and otherschools and I believe it will be equallysatisfactory here."

Fraternities are giving serious consid-eration to ways of introducing sopho-more pledging . There has been consid-erable criticism in the state of the methodof pledging women.

HostessesAmong the new hostesses of fraterni-

ties are :Mrs Anice K. Fisher of Lindsay, Pi

Kappa Phi ; Mrs Walter Long of Ok-lahoma City, Kappa Alpha ; Mrs LouisBrown of Muskogee, Phi Beta Delta ;Mrs T. J . Van Norman of Meridian,Mississippi, Alpha Phi ; Mrs D. B . Burkeof El Reno, Chi Omega ; Mrs Charles S .Joiner of Memphis, Tennessee, Pi BetaPhi ; Mrs Blanche Speiner of KansasCity, Missouri, Sigma Delta Tau .

EnrolledTom P . Gore, jr ., son of United States

Senator Gore, in the college of arts andsciences . First distinction-universityband .

First in EnglishPaul Fine, '35 arts-sc ., of Idabel, placed

first in the annual English entrance tests,with a score of 153 out of a possible 172points .

Nary a BickerSixty-four students during the spring

semester last year made all "A" grades .Norman, with fifteen students, rankedfirst, followed by Oklahoma City withfourteen and Tulsa with six .

Freshmen medicsSixty-one freshmen were fortunate to

be admitted to the school of medicinethis semester . Due to the limited en-rollment of the school, scarcely a thirdof the applicants may be accepted for ad-mission . All things being equal, choiceis given residents of Oklahoma in ad-mission and all but five of the freshmenare Oklahoma citizens .

SOONER TO SOONERSend them to O. U .Porto Alegre, August 7, 1931 . "With

exchange against us and a cut from aliving allowance I have had to delay alittle my check for dues . But here itgoes . After all it is no later than the Of-ficial Ballot was in reaching me . Since

Acacia 345Alpha Tau Omega 311Alpha Sigma Phi 1711Beta Theta Pi 1477Delta Phi Epsilon 445Delta Chi 1373Delta Sigma Pi 2319Delta Tau Delta 1500Delta Upsilon 1444Kappa Alpha 1313Kappa Sigma 152King Hall 449Lambda Chi Alpha 661Masonic Dormitory 630Phi Beta Delta 772Phi Gamma Delta 475Phi Delta Theta 235Phi Kappa Psi 674Phi Kappa Sigma 2300Pi Kappa Alpha 549Pi Kappa Phi 1490Sigma Alpha Epsilon 2570Sigma Alpha Mu 1073Sigma Chi 170Sigma Mu Sigma 220Sigma Nu 726Alpha Chi Omega 226Alpha Gamma Delta 1780Alpha Omicron Pi 246Alpha Phi 801Alpha Xi Delta 418Beta Sigma Omicron 1175Chi Omega 971Delta Delta Delta 260Delta Gamma 650Gamma Phi Beta 148Kappa Alpha Theta 2560(Kappa Kappa Gamma 182Phi Mu 896Pi Beta Phi 1516Sigma Delta Tau 2222

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I want you to know how I voted I amsending the ballot back too .We used to get our allowance in dol-

lars, and then when the milreis droppedit helped us for a time until prices wentup to meet the milreis . Now we getour living in milreis so that the NationalCouncil makes the difference. Even so,the National Council is so hard up thatit is recalling secretaries from all overthe world, and we are praying that wewill be allowed to stay to finish ourwork, regardless of the living . Condi-tions must be bad in the states from thereports we get from our friends, Mis-sion boards and the National Council .

I surely do enjoy The Sooner Maga-zine . You were fine to send me severalcopies of the number that carried our Ed-ith's picture . Thank you very much . AnAmerican lady said the other day, "Yourfamily is surely made to order." Andif I do confess it, it is a wonderful fam-ily . Bad as I am, I do not bring downthe average enough to hurt much . OurJames, fourteen years, besides being ableto speak, read and write German andPortuguese well, beats me on any Eng-lish test we try together . He finishesthe German high school in December ;is also in the fifth year of piano study .He is five feet eleven and not bad look-ing . Two boys and a girl are dark, aboy and girl fair ; all are intelligent, mu-sical and good looking. It was a greatday for me and the world when theirmother consented to marry me. It wasgreat luck that we were out here inBrazil where there were few Americanmen to choose from .And now we are at a loss to know

where to send our youngsters to college .O . U . i s so large, and Randolph Macon,so expensive, besides we would like tohave them together .

If we are not retired because of finan-cial difficulties, we do not hope to getback till 1933-that will be my twenty-fifth commencement . Does not seempossible, and I am still a boy, playingnow on the Y first basketball team, atthe request of the boys .Three cheers for O . U . football team;

wish I were there to help train and boastfor the team .

Sincerely yours,FRANK M. LONG, '08

Insulting appreciated(Formal letters to past-due members

were sent out in the summer . "Lessthan a penny a day will keep these lettersaway" was the motto. "Certainly a pen-ny a day is cheap enough for member-ship in an association that was of in-estimable assistance to your Alma Materat the time of gravest crisis . Certainlyyou owe something to the universitywhich gave you education tuition free .

And there is no better way of showingthat gratitude than by subscribing to thestrong right arm of your university-theUniversity of Oklahoma Association." Anumber of replies were received, includ-ing the three reproduced below.)Tulsa,-This is a damned sarcastic let-

ter . If our alumni are to be judged asto loyalty solely on the subscription listof The Sooner Magazine I as a Soonerheartily endorse the selection of newjudges . As to free tuition I have been ataxpayer and liberal contributor to the in-stitution since my earliest affiliationthere. My father contributed likewisesince its first inception . Can our judgesshow a similar record? This type of let-ter will not, cannot build an associationanytime-much less trying times likethese~VIRGIL O. WOOD, '16 arts-sc .Comanche-I appreciate your effort to

keep our Association on top financially .I want to assure you that I also appreci-ate our university and at heart feel loyaltoward it even though I am not able atpresent to demonstrate it financially . Be-cause of semi-blindness I have had tolive extremely frugally recently . I can'tspare a penny a day just now but hopeto make up for it at some later time . Ican hardly ask you to continue sendingThe Sooner Magazine . Assuring you ofmy interest in the success of the schoolwhich our Association was created toserve, I am cordially-JoE S. SMITH, '21arts-sc .Wichita, Kansas-Yours Re: Less

Than a Penny a Day was a knockout .If I had had any intention of not re-maining it would have changed mymind . Been trying for sixty days to gettime to write but deferred because ofthing principally more urgent.The writer, for one, appreciates the

service being rendered by the Associa-tion . The alumni do not fully appre-ciate the service you are rendering inmaintaining its prestige against politicalonslaughts which come one after another .I have heard numerous, comments onthe magazine, all favorable . Most every-one says the best put out by any school .-LEROY ELMORE, '18 law .No insult to long-loyal member Wood

intended . Magazine goes forward as us-ual to loyal member Smith.

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SPORTS OF ALL SORTS

Lower tolls

The Sooner Magazine

Football fans residing in southern Ok-lahoma will have to pay only fifteencents toll over the Purcell bridge, insteadof twenty-five cents, according to a newruling of the state corporation commis-sion .

Coach Moseley returns

Varsity schedules

Schedules

OKLAHOMA AGGIES

October

Prof . John O. Moseley, M. A. '16,after a year spent on a sabbatical leaveof absence in California, has returned tocoach the Sooner tennis teams in an at-tempt to regain the tennis leadership theuniversity had four years ago .

TWO MILEOctober 10-Nebraska at Lincoln .October 24-Kansas State at Manhat-

tan .October 31-Iowa State at Norman .November 7-Kansas at Norman .November 14-Missouri at Columbia .

FOOTBALLOctober 3-Rice Institute at Norman .

(Boy Scout Day) .October 10-Nebraska at Lincoln .October 17Texas at Dallas . (Migra-

tion day) .October 24-Kansas Aggies at Man-

hattan .October 31-Iowa State at Norman .

(Dad's day) .November 7-Kansas at Norman .

(Homecoming) .November 14-Missouri at Columbia .November 26-Oklahoma Aggies at

Norman .(Thanksgiving. Associated Press day) .December 25-Champion of Hawai-

ian Senior Football League at Honolulu .January 1, 1932-University of Ha-

waii at Honolulu.

The following schedules are of inter-est :

September 26-Northeastern StateTeachers college and Bethany college(Lindsborg), Stillwater, double-headerat night .

October 3-Minnesota at Minneapolis .October 9-Arizona at Stillwater .October 16-Haskell at Stillwater, at

night.October 23-Oklahoma City univer-

sity at Oklahoma City, at night .October 31--Kansas at Lawrence .November 7-Creighton at Stillwater .November 14-University of Tulsa at

Tulsa .November 21-Wichita university at

Stillwater.November 26-Oklahoma at Norman .

KANSASSeptember 24--Colorado Aggies at

Lawrence .October 10-James Milliken at Law-

rence .October 17-Kansas Aggies at Law-

rence .Octdber 24-Nebraska at Lincoln.

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