The Wooster Voice (Wooster, OH), 1944-02-24

              The Wooster Vo i Volume LX WOOSTERi OHIO THURSDAY FEBRUARY 24 1944 Number 15 Red Cross Sets Quota For Local Drive at 65000 A quota of 65000 has been set by the national Red Cross for Wayne County as its part in the 1944 War Fund drive which starts March 1 This figure represents 46150 Wayne Countys share in the nationaldrive pjus 18850 to cover expenses of the local chapter reported Father Charles Hoot of Orrville chairman of the drive When many many letters arrive from local men in service typified by the following statement people realize the Red Cross work must go on One Wooster boy Ed Mc Dowell son of Dr and Mrs Phillip McDowell landed in the hospital just after Thanksgiving with a broken leg He writes In the afternoon movie star Brian Aherne was here to talk to us arid give a boost to our morale There was a flopr show to entertain us and we really got a kick out of it Be lieve me the Red Cross is sure doing a swell job in keeping us in terested and entertained How I wish I had contributed more to it while in civilian life From C6ip7HarbldFfeedlander stationed in Texas comes If you can boost the Red Cross They do a great job from where Im sitting An interesting letter received by Mr and Mrs Harold Burkey from a friend in Italy tells of Christmas for the soldiers We had turkey and all the trimmings The Red Cross had a party in the afternoon and evening On this side its the Red Cross that runs the shows and Continued on Page 4 Club Comer Club meetings for the next week are few and far between Phi Alpha Theta the honorary history fraternity will initiate eight members tonight Feb 24 at 730 in lower Babcock The new addi tionsare Eleanor Webster Phyllis Uher Elizabeth Cavert Ellen Vaugh Mary Jane Slifer Jane Mc DonaldMargaret Miller and Car olyri Trump Tonight at 800 Pembroe will meet in Babcock Betty Gonrley Marie Thede and Jeanne Washa baugh will be in charge of theprogram Plans will be made for the groups theatre trip to Cleveland Paris will be discussed at the French Club meeting next Monday Feb 28 at 6 pm in Babcock Margaret Ackerman will have charge of the program International Relations Club will hold a group discussion on t h e question of lobbies and pressure groups at a business meeting on Wednesday Mar 1 in lower Bab cock at 730 The Art Guild will meet Friday at 7 pm in Taylor Hall The pro gram will include a short slide lee ture by Vera Louise Irwin and some experimentation in plaster casting in addition to the usual sketching and clay work All mem bers please be present The regular meeting of the Chemistry Club has been postponed until next Thursday Trustees to Select Prexy The committee to investigate ap plicants for the presidency will make its recommendations at the Trustee meeting this Saturday The trustees will vote on the candidates and the man chosen will be con tactedr The announcement of the new president will then be made Lf John Benton Dies in Action In South Pacific wN Courtesy Wooster Daily Record LT JOHN BENTON Word has been received of the death of Lt jg John O Benton by his mother Mrs H F Benton of441Pearl St Wooster LtBen ton who attended Wooster College for two years was reported killed in action Although it was not re vealed by the Navy department it is known that Lt Benton was en gaged in fleet action against the Gilbert and Marshall islands He flew a carriepbased fighting plane While attending Wooster Col lege Lt Benton took the CPT course offered by the Wooster air field and college He enlisted in the Naval Air Corps in September before Pearl Harbor and got his wings in August 1942 at Corous Christi Texas He was transferred to San Diego Calif where he was married to Patricia Brown Report Capl Lamale Of USMC Missing Capt Paul Lamale of the Marine Air Corps is reported missing in ac tion in the South Pacific The an nouncetnent was made yesterday While at Wooster Paul was a ma jor in political science He was graduated in 1941 Whats the Score There comes a time in the life of every college senior when he or in 69 cases out of 82 in The College of Wooster Class of 44 she won ders what its all about What has she learned in college Taking inventory there are first of all the essentially practical as pects of a college education There is for example the acquisition of the gentle art of dressing in five minutes and looking as though it took ten The self preservative trick of inverting the pile of bread on the plate and taking the bottom most slice usually the least dry is acquired The momentous ques tion of whether to darn ones socks or wear one V boots is answered as automatically after four years in a dorm as the equally weighty prob lem of wearing a clean shirt or putting on a sweater Then there are the obvious re suits of a college education the accumulation of a five foot or fraction thereof shelf of books a pair of glasses to be worn from time to time assorted hardware for the chest to indicate that the wearer is or is not going steady as the gen der may be and a certain scholarly slump acquired from much bending over many books and sitting on one s shoulders in Chapel Further there are the assumed mm mmmmmmA Metropolitan Opera Tickets Go on Sale Tickets for the Metropolitan Opera which will play in Cleve land from May through May 6 are now on sale at the Conserva tory Students are urged to buy their tickets before Mar 1 as a tax bill is pending which will in crease the price of the tickets The schedule for the operas is as follows Monday night Talcs of Hoffman by Offenbach Tuesday night La Traviata by Verdi Wednesday night The Marriage of Figaro by Mozart Thursday night Mignon by Thomas Friday matinee Tannhauser by Wagner Friday night Lucwt di hammer moor by Donizetti Saturday matinee Carmen by Bi zet Saturday nightrRigoIctto byVerdi Six Men Enter Armed Services In the next week Wooster will lose six from its much depleted male population of seventy Don Swegan highscore basketball star will play his last game Saturday against Otterbein before leaving for the Navy V 12 EcJ Funk winner of this years oratorical contest and Don Fordyce also leave soon for V12 training Kacee Correyreports for the Army and Gus Gesc gnet has left for California and the Merchant MarinesRonald Sea ton will continue his premedical studies in Connecticut under Navy supervision Petitions for Administrative and Judicial Presidents of the WSGA for next year will be circulated from Monday Feb 28 through Friday Mar 3 Any junior woman is eh gible for either of these posi tions Petitions may be ob tained from Jane Atkinson or Eleanor Webster and must contain 50 signatures Hine Will Tell advantages from exposure to six hours of English and the social sciences eight hours of modern language a limited amount of philosophy and psychology a years worth of each of natural science and the classics or math and 30 hours of a major and selected short subjects if studentselectedusually very short But is there nothing more Are there no deeper 4dvantages to be derived from 124 semester hours in a classroom Is the assortment of random knowledge usually just slight enough to make one uncom fortable worth what it costs in money time andIaugh if you dare effort Here gentle reader you emit a snort at having been thus beguiled into reading a sermon on the values of education Sorry but youre wrong This is no sermon Its merely the statement of a stillvery muchdazed dampbehindtheears undergraduate who has suddenly come to believe what has been dinned against her tympanum ever since she left high school the fact that school really does make sense Just what kind of sense she is not prepared to say or even to hint at in 123 order Now are you con Continued on Page 4 Girl Cast Gives Shubert Alley McKnight Gives Lecture on Race In chapel Friday morning Feb 25 Mr William T McKnight will give a lecture in correlation with the national Brotherhood Week sponsored by students on the cam pus Mr McKnight of Cleveland is director of the Fair Employment Practices Committee in Region V an organization established by the president last year when an organ ized negromovement threatened to march on Washington unless dis crimination against negroes in war industries was discontinued A graduate of the University ofKansas and Yale Law School Mr Mc Knight is sent to Wooster under the auspices of National Confer ence of Christians and Jews The display table in the library this week features pamphlets books and sketches on the subject ofincreased goodwill toward all races emphasizing the Negroes and Jews Races ofManindr the pamphlet which caused such a stir recently when USO centers refused to dis tribute it to soldiers because it was controversial material is now on sale in the library In chapel Tuesday morning Feb 29 John Bathgate will give an interpretive report on the survey of student opinion on the race question On Wednesday evening a Broth erhood meal of soup milk and crackers was served to all students and the money saved on these re duced rations has been sent to the Friends Service Committee tcraS sist with work among refugees in war areas particularly starving children In connection with this problem there is a book on display in the library Europes Children of photographs by Therese Bonney of unfortunate war children Race Riot Reports On Negro Situation DETROIT MICH AGP Segregation is not the answer to the race problem in Detroit or any where else asserted Dr Alfred McClung Lee and Dr Norman D Humphrey of Wayne university in their new book Race Riot On the contrary they state in looking for a formula to prevent a repetition of violent disturbances which occurred here last June seg regation in particular must be re practical preventive course is onel aw wis uuuti oniv uiu vny involving thousands of workable adjustments which will in effect mv plement the Golden Rule and per mit the growth of healthy race re lations Time and again the authors point to the fact that in Detroit thedisturbances were most violent in dis tricts where conditions approximat ing segregation prevail Further more they claim there was little or no trouble in areas where Ne groes and white live together as neighbors We must remember they say that the blind hate of intol erance is a product not of associa tion but of what sociologists call social distance Let us never lose sight of three great lessons of the Detroit tragedy People who had become neighbors in mixed Negro and white neighborhoods did not not against each other The stu Continued on Peg 4 Annual Kappa Thctc Play Tells Success Story In Unusual Way Kappa Theta Gamma the honor ary dramatic society will present as its annual play Shubert Alley by Mel Dinelli on March 2 3 4 The play is unusual in that it is not a unit but a series of seven one act plays and its cast comprises nineteen women The plot deals with the rise to stardom of a proiiF ising young actress and depicts var ious scenes in her life showing her determined struggle to accomplish her ambition The cast consists of Chris Pat Ewing Fay Eleanor Hadley Hester Sara Roser Beulah Margaret Rath Elsie Cary March Anita Mary Eleanor Weisgerber Miss Elliott Jeanne Wagner Rita MarjorieJSteltzer Helen foanne Gault Nancy Ann Barbara Massey Florence Jean Ann Pierce Hattie Doris Culley Lucia Janis Howe Madge Sarah Lantz Pat Ruth Mast Poppy Ruth Bartchy Miss Royce Bette Cleaveland Miss Shuman Ruth Whiston Nellie Bettv Leonard Dr Lean is directing and Miss Marilyn Johnston of Speech De partment is the technical director The committee for the stage crew is being handled by Peggy Doug lass properties by Rosanne Ken non costumes by Janet Thompson makeup by Mary Eleanor Weis gerber and business by Ellen Vaugh The play will be given for the cadets on WednesdayeveningMar 1 Tickets will be on sale Friday Feb 25 in the main en trance of Kauke Hall from 1245 to 4 1 5 PM After that tickets may be obtained at the Rexall Drug Store The price of admission will be 40 cents as usual until Feb 29 after which the pending gov ernment tax will increase the price to 45 cents Woosters Debaters Compete at Kent U Resolved That the United States should participate in the establish ment and maintenance of an inter national police force Armed With this nrnnraiHnn Woosters debate team traveled to thrinteTcollegiate debates at Kent University on Feb 19 Virginia Miller and Emily Kuhles made up the affirmative team while the neg ative team was composed of Jack MacLeod and Phyllis Uher Each team participated in four rounds of debating and out of these eight rounds Wooster won three This is to be heralded as a success for a debating class competing for the first time as a varsity team It is hoped that the team will take part in the debating tourna ment at Notre Dame College in ClevelandonMaril Dont forget to buy war stamps from the Dominoes in the dorms every Tuesday and Saturday noons and everyMonday and Thursday from thePyramids in the Unions r y