VOL. XXXI, No. 24 [PRICE TWELVE CENTS] MARCH 14, 1929 Rochester Chosen for Next Alumni Convention—Athletic Survey Progress Reported Track Team Bests Yale in Exciting Indoor Meet—Score is 58 to 55 Basketball Team Defeats Yale at New Haven—Wrestlers Win from Columbia Allyn Abbott Young, Professor of Economics, 1913-1920, Dies in London Published weekly during the college year and monthly in July and August. Subscription $4 per year. Entered as second class matter, Ithaca, N. Y. Postmaster: Return postage guaranteed. Use form 3578 for undeliverable copies. CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS to and from Ithaca through scenic splendor Quality A comfortable chair in a glass enclosed observation car through open country; a smooth riding road bed, excellent meals, and The Black Diamond service is yours. lehighValley RaiI road CΊhe Route of The Black Diamond Service R. A. Heggie & Bro. Co. E. H. 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Collins Members of the New York Stock Exchange CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS VOL. xxxi, No. ITHACA, NEW YORK, MARCH 14, 19x9 PRICE ix CENTS For Better Golf Courses Turf Garden to be Established at Cornell to Develop Good Grasses—State Golf Association Sponsor A turf garden will be established at the University by the New York State Golf Association for the purpose of developing good strains of grasses and to study problems arising in connection with the maintenance of good turf and playing conditions on golf courses in the State. The garden will be maintained in cooperation with the Arlington Turf Garden at Washington, D. C., and the Country Club of Ithaca. The garden will be in charge of Professor Ralph W. Curtis Όi. Professor Cedric H. Guise '14 is chairman of the greens committee of the Country Club. Speaking of the project Professor Curtis said: "In 1923 there were 1,000,000 persons playing golf in the United States and over $500,000,000 was invested in the sport that year. Of this amount more than $10,000,000 was spent in the production of turf and good playing conditions; and experts agree that much of this money was wasted through ignorance and inexperience. When it is shown that golf enthusiasts are increasing at the rate of 100,000 annually and country clubs and golf courses at the rate of ten percent a year, one is forced to realize both the magnitude and the increasing appeal of golf in the United States." Five years ago the late Dr. Charles V. Piper of the Department of Agriculture at Washington, D. C., recommended a special training course for greenkeepers and golf superintendents at Cornell. Dr. Piper and Russell A. Oakley were the prime movers in creating the Greens Section of the United States Golf Association and in establishing the central test garden at Washington now known as the Arlington Turf Garden. The results of these tests and the experiences of cooperating clubs in different parts of the country were reported regularly in the Bulletin of the Greens Section of the United States Golf Association. This publication is now a classic of American turf culture. Dr. Piper early realized that there would be a growing demand for well trained men to direct golf courses. That was why he asked Cornell* and other institutions to provide special training. A course in lawn making and green keeping was organized under Professor Curtis of the Department of Floriculture and Ornamental Horticulture. It is announced that the University will accept such men as special students and arrange a special sequence of studies for them in the regular University classes which in two years' time will give a fundamental training for successful golf work." Professor Curtis says that the improvement of the turf gardens at Cornell will have a direct bearing on the lawn problem of home owners throughout the State. MOUNTAIN PEAK NAMED A peak in the Great Smoky Mountains of North Carolinahas been named in honor of Horace S. Kephart, '81-5 Grad., by the United States Geographic Board. A letter notifying Mr. Kephart of this honor states: "The Board seldom approves naming features for living men, unless in unusual cases which merit the honor. In this case the board felt the name was fully merited, due to your distinguished services to the public in connection with the peak." The proposal that the peak should be named Mount Kephart was made by the North Carolina Historical Commission. Mr. Kephart has long been known as a writer on the Great Smoky Mountains region. Mount Kephart is approximately in the geographic center of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The North Carolina-Tennessee State line passes over its crest. While he was at Cornell, Mr. Kephart was assistant in the Library. He catalogued the collection at that time. He was later librarian of the St. Louis Mercantile Library. He is a member of the State Literary and Historical Association of North Carolina. He is the author of "Our Southern Highlanders," "Camping and Woodcraft," and other books. CLASS DAY OFFICERS NAMED Class Day officers have been named for the exercises to be held by the Class of 1929 in Bailey Hall June 14. They are Robert E. Evans '29, Westfield, N. J., class orator; Ralph T. Kartell '29, Brooklyn, class poet; Harry L. Case '29, Buffalo, class historian; Stanley W. Abbott '29, Yonkers, and Earl C. Clark, Jr., '29, New Hartford, class marshals; Dudley N. Schoales '29, Cleveland Heights, Ohio, senior custodian of the pipe; and Howard S. Johnson '30, Charleston, W. Va., junior custodian of the pipe. John F. Anderson '29 of Glendale,Ohio, president of the Student Council, will preside at the Class Day exercises. The office of class prophet has been abolished. Akron Seeks Swindler Another Fraudulent Cornellian Appears Now in Ohio—Finds Several Easy Victims A man known as Scott O. Stuart, representing himself as a Cornell graduate, is being sought by the Akron, Ohio, police. Stuart was in Akron recently and disappeared suddenly, leaving a number of unpaid hotel and store bills. He departed with sums of money varying from $50 to $200, which he had obtained from residents. Described as smooth, debonair, gay, well-dressed, and about thirty-five years old, Stuart arrived in Akron in January. He interested a resident there who was instrumental in obtaining for him a position with the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company. He first made his residence at the Akron Hotel, and left a week later to live at the University Club. O. M. Morris, manager of the Akron Hotel, has sworn out a warrant for Stuart's arrest on a charge of defrauding an innkeeper. The manager stated he suspected nothing until reports on Stuart's sudden departure and his propensity for running up accounts came to him. Morris said that Stuart told him his mother lived in Shaker Heights near Cleveland and that he had several famous dogs. Stuart had promised pups to several prominent men of the city, according to Morris. A jewelry company sold Stuart a diamond ring, costing $225, and the account for this ring is now in the hands of an attorney for collection. Officials of the University Club said that Stuart had left there without paying his bill. Several clothing and haberdashery stores also sold goods to Stuart on credit. On his visits to these stores, Stuart also took a> friend or a fellow employee of the Goodyear Company to introduce and endorse him. The Goodyear Company is also interested in locating Stuart, who had obtained an advance on his salary before he disappeared. MRS. ANTHONY DIES Mrs. Eliza G. Anthony, widow of William A. Anthony, formerly professor of physics at Cornell, died on January 2 at Berkeley, Cal. Her son, Charles C. Anthony '85, is living at 141 Corte Madera Avenue, Mill Valley, Cal. 286 C O R N E L L A L U M N I N E W S Alumni Directors Meet Choose Rochester as Place for Next Convention—Hear Athletic Survey is Progressing The tenth annual convention of the Alumni Corporation will be held in Rochester, the directors determined at a meeting in Ithaca March 9 and 10. The invitation of the Cornell Club of Rochester was accepted, and the convention will be held in connection with the Princeton game at Ithaca in late October. Because of the increasing activities of the Corporation, resulting in a need for additional funds, the per capita tax against constituent clubs was raised from twentyfive to fifty cents per member. Part of the increased revenue will be used for the work of the Committee on Relations with Preparatory Schools. The directors also took steps to attract into the field more nominations for the Alumni Trusteeships to be filled this year. The nominations must be filed with the treasurer of the University by April i. The committee studying the athletic situation reported progress in its survey. Its members have been active for several weeks, and a meeting of the full committee is planned for the near future. The officers and directors attending the meeting were Conant van Blarcom Ό8, Cleveland, president; Dr. Mary M. Crawford '04, New York, and Dr. Floyd S. Winslow '07, Rochester, vice-presidents; C. Rodman Stull '07, Philadelphia, director at large; Foster M. Coffin '12, Ithaca, secretary; Thomas I. S. Boak '14, Seneca Falls; Charles A. Taussig '02, New York; John L. Collyer '17, Buffalo; Alfred D. Warner Όo, Wilmington, Del.; Benjamin O. Frick '02,Philadelphia; Newton C. Farr '09, Chicago; and Arthur P. Bryant Όo. TALKS OF PROHIBITION The Saturday Lunch Club entertained Robert Conradini, director of research of the World League against Alcoholism, on March 2, when he spoke on "Ten Years of Prohibition." Mr. Conradini is an expert in statistics, and in his work he is assisted by a large staff of experts. Conditions of enforcement, according to the speaker, are more effective than commonly reported, although Mr. Conradini admited that there still exists a controversy over the question of prohibition and that enforcement of the Eighteenth Amendment had not been an unqualified success. The effectiveness of prohibition is determined by the amount of alcohol drunk, he said. "There is a direct correlation between prohibition and drunkenness, and the effect is immediate. There is also a strong correlation with poverty, insanity, and dependance, apparent after a lag of three to four years." ATHLETICS Track Team Beats Yale Superiority in the distance runs and in the weight events gave the track team its fourth victory over Yale in the Drill Hall Saturday night. The score was 58 to 55. For once, in this colorful competition, the one-mile relay race, the final event, did not decide the winner. Cornell had clinched the meet before that event was called, chiefly by the performance of Colyer, who placed second in the pole vault by turning in his best mark of intercollegiate competition, 13 feet. Sturdy of Yale continued the smashing of the pole vault record carried on for the past three years by Carr of Yale. Sturdy, although he failed at an attempt to clear a a new world's mark of 14 feet ι% inches, set a new dual meet and Drill Hall record of 13 feet 7^ inches. For the fourth year, spectators at the meet saw an assault on the world's pole vault mark by Yale athletes. The breaking of records was not confined to Yale men. Treman of Cornell set a new dual meet and Drill Hall record when he uncorked a fine sprint to win the 88o-yard run from his teammate, Elmer, andTalcott of Yale, in 2.00^. Until the final lap, Treman hung around third place, but as the gun sounded he started out and finished about eight yeards to the good. Captain Anderson tossed the 16-pound shot 47 feet 2^ inches to set a new dual meet and Drill Hall record, eclipsing his own former mark. The fourth record to go by the board was the dual mark meet for the 440 yard dash, when Tuttle sped the distance in 0.515/5. The former record holder, Engle of Yale, finished second. Cornell took all six places in the shot put and hammer throw, and Cornell runners did the unexpected by finishing one-two-three in the one and two-mile runs. Eldridge captured the mile, going the distance in 4.36^, four seconds behind the dual meet record set by Smith of Yale in 1927. Hendricks was an easy winner of second place, about five yards behind the victor. Brumder came from behind to nip Smith of Yale at the tape and take third place. The two-mile run showed Levering, captain-elect of cross country, at his best. He won by sixty yards; Benson, former intercollegiate two-mile champion, and Beaman finishing in a tie for second, yards ahead of Jacob of Yale, who won the event last year. Yale runners led for the first mile, Smith doing the mile in 5.01. The next lap saw Benson go into the lead, but Levering started out on the eleventh lap and ran his own race the rest of the way. The high point winner was Kieselhorst of Yale, who garnered eleven points by winning the dash and the low hurdles and by placing third in the running broad jump. The summaries: TRACK EVENTS 75-yard dash:won by Kieselhorst, Yale; Gill, Yale, second; Meinig, Cornell, third. Time: 0.074^. 44O-yard dash: won by Tuttle Yale; Engle, Yale, second; Dulaff, Cornell, third. Time "0.51 ^ (new dual meet record). 88o-yard run: won by Treman, Cornell; tie for second between Elmer Cornell, and Talcott, Yale. Time: 2.00^ (new dual meet and Drill Hall record). One mile run: won by Eldridge, Cornell; Hendricks, Cornell, second; Brumder, Cornell, third. Time: 4.36^. Two mile run: won by Levering, Cornell; tie for second between Benson and Beaman, Cornell. Time: 9.49. 75-yard high hurdles: won by King, Yale; Young, Cornell, second; Heasley, Cornell, third. Time: 0.09 ff. 75-yard low hurdles: won by Keiselhorst, Yale; Cunningham, Yale, second; Young, Cornell, third. Time: 0.08^. One mile relay: won by Yale (Smith, Thompson, Ferguson, Engle); Cornell (Meinig, Bryon, Dulaff Young), second. Time: 3-3* X FIELD EVENTS 35-pound weight throw: won by Worden, Cornell, 51 feet 4% inches; Weiss, Cornell, second, 47 feet n inches; Dickinson Cornell, third, 45 feet 6 inches. Running broad jump: won by Oldt, Yale, 2i feet 10% inches; Williams, Cornell, second, 21 feet 7^ inches; Kieselhorst, Yale, third, 21 feet ι% inches. 16-pound shot put:won by Anderson, Cornell, 47 feet 2% inches; Levy, Cornell, second, 46 feet 6^3 inches; Wickham, Cornell, third, 45 feet 3% inches. (New dual meet and Drill Hall record.) Pole vault: won by Sturdy, Yale, 13 feet, 7^5 inches; Colyer, Cornell, second, 13 feet; tie for third between Pond and Cone, Yale, 12 feet 6 inches. (New dual meet and Drill Hall record). Running high jump won by Wolf, Yale, 5 feet 10% inches; tie for second between Kaul, Yale, and Wickham, Cornell, 5 feet 8<*/8 inches. Intercollegiate Results The summary of the annual intercollegiate indoor track championships at New York March 2 is printed below: 16-pound shot put: won by Anderson, Cornell, 47 feet 7% inches; Adelman, Georgetown, second, 47 feet 6% inches; Sexton, Georgetown, third, 47 feet y± inch; Berlinger, Pennsylvania fourth 46 feet 9^ inches; Levy Cornell fifth, 45 feet 6^8 inches. Freshmen medley relay (i Ί/% miles): won by Pennsylvania (Coan, Keer, Bailey, McKniff); Georgetown, second; Boston College, third; Princeton, fourth; Bowdoin, fifth. Time: 7.42 6/10. 7o-yard dash: won by Daley, Holy Cross; Wildermuth, Georgetown, second; Stevens, Dartmouth, third; Mason, Harvard, fourth; Baker, Pennsylvania, fifth. Time: 0.07^. Pole vault: won by Sturdy, Yale, 13 feet 7 % inches; Berlinger, Pennsylvania, second, 13 feet Δ^/i inches; third, tie between four men, Colyer, Cornell, Dunlap, Harvard, Pond, Yale, Cone, Yale, 12 feet l/ί inch. (New intercollegiate indoor record.) One-mile run: won by Hickey, N. Y. U.; Edwards, N. Y. U., second; Offenhauser, Penn State, third; Montgomery, Pennsylvania, fourth; Ritchie, Pennsylvania, fifth. Time: 4.20. 35-pound weight throw: won by Sexton, Georgetown, 49 feet 6% inches; Weis, Cornell, second, 48 feet 8J^ inches; Stiner, Pennsylvania, third, 47 feet 7 inches; CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS 287 Alcock, Harvard, fourth, 47feet 4^ inches; Worden, Cornell, fifth, 46 feet 3}^ inches. Two-mile relay: won by N. Y. U. (Gassner, Phillips, Veit, Edwards); Bates, second; Georgetown, third; Princeton, fourth; Pennsylvania, fifth. Time: 7.52. Running broad jump: won by Furth, N. Y. U.; Newkirk, Pennsylvania, second; Berlinger, Pennsylvania, third; Wildermuth, Georgetown, fourth; Donner, Dartmouth, fifth. Distance: 22 feet 5 ^ inches. Running high jump: Hedges of Princeton and Pump of Colgate tied for first; Maynard, Dartmouth, third; four men, Seston, Georgetown, Berlinger, Pennsylvania, Russel, Brown, Wolf, Yale, tied for fourth. Height: 6 feet 3 inches. Two-mile run: won by Hagen, Columbia; Levering, Cornell, second; Messenger, Penn State, third; Lerner, N. Y. U., fourth; Flaksman, Harvard, fifth. Time: 9 3i. One-mile relay: won by Dartmouth (Pratt, Houston, Andrews, Swope); Harvard, second; Syracuse, third, Yale, fourth; Colgate, fifth. Time: 3.22. 7o-yard high hurdles: won by Collier, Brown; Furth, N. Y. U., second; Mardulier, Harvard, third; Heasler, Cornell, fourth; Young, Cornell, fifth. Time: 8^ seconds. Defeat Yale on Court The basketball team scored its second victory of the season over Yale at New Haven March 9, 29 to 21, in a last minute rally in which Kass, Schreuder, and Lewis scored goals from the field to overtake the Elis. Cornell had difficulty in getting started, failing to score in the first ten minutes of The victory gave Cornell a record of three victories and three defeats for the dual meet season. Cornell's two intercollegiate champions, both competing out of their class in which they won their titles last year, threw their Columbia opponents. Josef son defeated Farmlett in the 125-pound event and Captain Stafford won over Baker in the 175- pound class. Columbia's entry in the 158-pound class, Clark, was the only winner. He fought a hard battle, going into two extra periods, before he won the decision on a time advantage over Abkarian. Columbia's other points resulted from a draw decision in the heavyweight event. The summaries: H5-pound class: Lazar, Cornell, defeated Johnston, Columbia, on decision. Time advantage: 9.31. 125-pound class: Josef son, Cornell, threw Farmlett, Columbia, with reverse double arm hold. Time: 8.42. 135-pound class: Lipshitz, Cornell, defeated Lombardo, Columbia, on decision. Time advantage: 5.42. 145-pound class: McConnell, Cornell, threw Relyea, Columbia, with half nelson and crotch hold. Time: 6.39. 158-pound class: Clark, Columbia, defeated Abkarian, Cornell, on decision. Time advantage: 2.52 (two extra periods). 175-pound class: Stafford, Cornell, threw Baker, Columbia, with half nelson and crotch hold. Time: 5.21. Unlimited class: Scott, Columbia, and Wakeman, Cornell, wrestled to a draw. the encounter. But the last ten minutes of the half gave Cornell a three-point lead. The team lengthened the advantage early in the second period, getting a lead of 18 to 9, before Yale rallied and tied the score with only a few minutes left to play. The Cornell spurt, however, clinched victory. While Yale and Cornell were playing at New Haven, the Pennsylvania quintet, which twice defeated Cornell this season, was beating Princeton, 23 to 16, to take the championship of the League for the second consecutive year. The line-up: Cornell (26) G Hall, I f Layton, r f FP 306 102 Lewis, r g Murphy, r f 317 oil Schreuder, c Stein I g Kass, r g 306 102 102 Other Results The swimmingteam closed its season by losing to Colgate at Hamilton March 9, 45 to 17. Colgate swimmers took all first places, except the relay. The Cornell relay team was composed of Osborn, Lyon, Solavitch, and Brooke. The freshman wrestling team defeated Pennsylvania in the Old Armory March 9, 2i to 6, in the last meet of the season. Patterson, 125-pounder, and Cornish, heavyweight, scored falls. The fencing team lost a close match March 9 at Princeton to the Tiger foilsmen, 9 to 8, when the Red and White epee men lost three of four bouts. Cornell won the foils, 5 to 4, and the teams broke even with the sabres. Athletic Awards Eight varsity hockey Cs were awarded at a recent meeting of the Athletic Council Totals Yale (21) G Horowitz, If Nassau, rf 4 0 Linehan, c 2 Brockelman, Ig I Cook, rg 2 F 2 O I O O to Earl C. Clark, Jr., '29, New Hartford; 26 Carl L. Weagant '29, Douglaston; Edward W. Guthrie '30, Ithaca; Ernest H. Kings- P bury '30, Ithaca; Richard C. Llop '30, 10 O Ithaca; Donald H. Uffinger '30, Summit, 5 N. J.; Harold T. Clark '31, New Hartford; 2 Benjamin B. Rhodes '31, Gowanda. 4 The election of Harold T. Clark '31 of Totals 9 Referee, Degilan. New Hartford as hockey captain and Samuel Wakeman '30 of Salem, Ohio, as Wrestlers Beat Columbia football captain were ratified. Joseph C. Pursglove, Jr., '30 of Lakewood, Ohio, was The wrestling team, ready for the inter- named manager of freshman football. collegiates at Lehigh this week, closed its Jeremiah S. Finch '31 of Albany was dual meet season by defeating Columbia, elected assistant manager of varsity foot- 25^ to 4^, at New York on March 9. ball, Robert C. Groben '31 of Buffalo, assistant manager of freshman football, and James B. Smith, Jr., '31 of Denver, Colo., football representative on the interscholastic committee. The hockey insigna wereawarded to Dudley N. Schoales. '29, Cleveland Heights, Ohio; John R. Parker '30, Schenectady; Carleton H. Endemann '31, Forest Hills, and Robert F. Spitzmiller '31, Buffalo. Winter Schedules Cornell, 28 Cornell 33, Cornell 27, Cornell, 28 Cornell 13, Cornell 24, Cornell 18, Cornell 29, Cornell 21, Cornell 29, Cornell 40, Cornell 23, Cornell 23, Cornell 36, Cornell 30, Cornell 25, Cornell 28, Cornell 30, Cornell 26, March 11 BASKETBALL Niagara 24 Alfred 19 Rochester 29 Niagara 29 Michigan 45 Michigan State 38 Syracuse 31 Syracuse 39 Princeton 25 Yale 15 Hobart 15 Pennsylvania 25 St. Bonaventure 21 Dartmouth 29 Columbia 35 Pennsylvania 26 Dartmouth 33 Princeton 16 Yale 21 Columbia at New York WRESTLING Cornell 21, Syracuse 6 Cornell 12, Lehigh 15 Cornell 25!, Pennsylvania 4! Cornell 12, Penn State 15^ Cornell 13, Ohio State 15 Cornell 25^, Columbia 4! March 15-16 Intercollegiates at Bethlehem FRESHMAN WRESTLING Cornell 12, Wyoming Seminary 24 Cornell 6, Lehigh 21 Cornell 21, Pennsylvania 6 Cornell 31, Cornell 4th; Cornell 58, March 23 TRACK Harvard 47 Dartmouth 37 Intercollegiates won by New York University Yale 55 Michigan at Ann Arbor Cornell o Cornell i, Cornell 3, Cornell 2, Cornell i, HOCKEY St. Lawrence i Williams o Colgate i Clarkson 5 Colgate 2 FENCING Cornell 8, Pennsylvania 9 Cornell 9, Columbia 8 Cornell 20, Yale, 21, Hamilton 10 Cornell 8, Princeton 9 March 16 Intercoolegiates semi-finals at West Point March 28-29 Intercollegiates at New York Cornell 23, Cornell 17, SWIMMING Lehigh 36 Colgate 45 288 C O R N E L L A L U M N I N E W S BOOKS The Language of Boethius A Concordance of Boethius, the Five Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy. Compiled by Lane Cooper. Cambridge, Mass. The Mediaeval Academy of America. 1928. 25.5 cm., pp. xii, 467. Price, $5. This handsome work, the product of the Cayuga Press, is the first of a series of special monographs to be issued by the Mediaeval Academy. It is highly appropriate that this initial number of the series should have to do with the work of an illustrious author who wrote in the beginning of the Middle Ages (470-525) and whose work was of such importance that it has since been repeatedly rendered into English, the list of translators including King Alfred, Chaucer, and Queen Elizabeth. It was very natural that so thoroughly religious a writer should be claimed by the champions of Christianity as of their party. The question has never been definitely decided; but opinion has rather veered away from the view which classes Boethius among the disciples of the Nazarene. If it is too much to hope that a study of Boethius' language, such as this book now makes possible, can settle this question, nevertheless such a study, as the author points out, may throw light on other problems. It may help to settle the question of the genuineness of the five Theological Tractates. It affords a ready instrument for detecting the wide influence of The Consolation of Philosophy. It will help in studying the development of Scholasticism. And it will furnish a convenient means of comparing, as to syntax and diction, the Latin of the sixth century with that of earlier and of later centuries. The skill, the good taste, and (we believe) the accuracy exhibited in the making of this book leave nothing to be desired. The Propagandist Propaganda. By Edward L. Bernays '12. New York. Horace Liveright. 1928. 2i cm., pp. 159. Price, $2.50. This is an interesting and highly stimulating book. The author has already discussed the crystallization of public opinion in a work reviewed in our issue for May 15, 1924. He now returns to the subject and indicates the scope of the business of systematically influencing public opinion. His first chapter is entitled 'Organizing Chaos." The implication is that public opinion "before taking" is chaos and after receiving the results is cosmos. We are not so sure; we think this may well be taken with some allowance. Yet it is undoubtedly true that the public mind can be legitimately influenced by a campaign of well directed effort and that the result may be beneficial in many ways. And while many kinds of propaganda, for good and for bad ends, have been and will be attempted, we have faith to believe that in the long run only the better kinds will prevail and that relatively there is progress toward what may be thought of, in comparison with previous conditions, as a cosmos. In certain lines of business, of course, there is a limit to the possibilities of propaganda. The amount one eats is pretty strictly limited. If the packers put on propaganda to encourage eating more meat, and succeed, it will mean less prosperity for the bakers and vegetable gardeners. Business as a whole, so far as it affects the food supply, will not be greatly affected. So with clothing. Suppose the velvet maker by propaganda creates a large market; he simply takes trade away from the silk manufacturer. There is no real gain to society. Yet other types of propaganda may result in enormous gain to the world at large. Political propaganda on a high plane may do much. In the realm of education, of social service, of much needed reforms, propaganda may bring the most beneficent results. The public or mass mind needs to be educated just as must be the mind of the individual. A great responsibility rests on the propagandist, and Bernays does well to lay stress on the development of a high ethical standard among those who undertake the work of professionally steering the public mind toward certain states. In the end, we believe, only honorable propaganda will be found profitable, just as the voice with the smile always wins. This book deserves a wide reading. It will open many eyes. Books and Magazine Articles A novel, "Plum Bun," by Jessie Redmond Fauset '05 has just been published by the Frederick A. Stokes Company of New York. In The Journal of Educational Psychology Dr. Guy M. Whipple Όo describes "Experiments in Teaching Students How to Study." In The Journal of Social Forces for December "Cultural Evolution" by Professor Charles A. Ellwood '96 of the University of Missouri is reviewed by Floyd N. House. In Minnesota History for March, 1928, Professor Clyde A. Duniway '92 of Carleton College had an article on "Daniel Webster and the West." In School and Society for January 19 Professor Theodore H. Eaton writes on "What Education is Rural?" In The Cornell Countryman for January Professor Elmer S. Savage, Ph.D. Ίi, writes on "The Protein Feeding Experiment at Cornell." Kate Sager '29 tells "Why I Won't Marry a Farmer" and an anonymous writer explains "Why I Might Marry a Farmer." In The New England Quarterly for April Professor Clarence P. Hotson Ί8 of Drury College had an article entitled "A Background for Emerson's Poem Grace." In the issue for October Professor Wilbur CΓ Abbott, '92-5 Grad., of Harvard reviewed "The Petty Papers" edited by the Marquis of Lansdowne. Allan Nevins's "Fremont" was reviewed by Frederick Merk. "The New England Clergy and the American Revolution" by Dean Alice M. Baldwin Όo of Duke was reviewed by Samuel E. Morison. Carol Aronovici Ό6 and Rollin L. McNitt are the authors of a pamphlet on "Architectural Control and Civic Design," reprinted from The Community Builder, Los Angeles, Calif. In The New York Times for January 27 Professor Emeritus Edwin H. Woodruff '88 has a note on "President Tappan" of the University of Michigan. "The Middle Ages" by Professor Edward M. Hulme, A.M. '02, of Stanford, is announced for publication in April by Henry Holt & Company. In The Woman's Home Companion for January Elsie Singmaster '02 has a story entitled "The Golden Rug." In The Nation for January 9 H. G. Wells's "The Way the World is Going" is reviewed by Professor George E. G. Catlin, Ph.D. '24. In the issue for January 23 Dr. Hendrik W. van Loon '05 has a cartoon on "The Point of View." In The International Journal of Eethics for January Professor G. Watts Cunningham, Ph.D. Ό8,writes on "Emergence and Intelligibility." Professor Frank Thilly, '91-2 Grad., reviews Frank Chapman Sharp's "Ethics." HEADS CORPORATION Ralph S. Kent '02 has been elected president of the Ward Baking Corporation of New York. He is an executor of the estate of William B. Ward, whom he succeeds in the presidency. He became associated with the Ward interests as confidential attorney in 1925. After he took his B.A. degree, Kent studied law, taking his LL.B. degree in 1905. He was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and president of his senior class. He also played center on the varsity football team. He is a member of the American, New York State, and New York City Bar Association, the New Rochelle Hospital Association, and of numerous clubs in the Metropolitan area. He is also president of the Ward Foundation Corporation and the Robert Boyd Fund, a charitable foundation established by Mr. Ward during his lifetime. Mr. Kent is the brother of Willard M. Kent '98, Tompkins County judge and surrogate. The Ward Company represents assets of $44,000,000, with 8,000 employees, and twenty-one plants throughout the country. CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS 289 OBITUARIES Beverly S. Randolph '73 Beverly Strother Randolph was killed by a train at Darkesville, W. Va., on February 5. He was born in Berkeley Spring, Va., on July 17, 1851, the son of James L. and Emily Strother Randolph. He spent two years in the civil engineering course. For a number of years Mr. Randolph was superintendent of the mines at Frostburg, Md.,owned by the Consolidation Coal Company. He was also a prominent horseman and maintained stables at Hancock, Md., for many years. Ida M. Perkins Ball '82 Ida May Perkins (Mrs. J. Frank) Ball died at her home in Wilmington, Del., on January 31. She was born in Wilmington, the daughter of Benjamin F. and Rachel Strahorn Perkins. She spent a year in the optional course. Mrs. Ball was active in religious and social service work in Wilmington, and was a prominent suffragist. Her husband, two daughters, Mrs. Ethel Ball Stanier of Wilmington and Mrs. Hugo Schlatter of Stamford, Conn., and four grandchildren, survive her. Milton Smith '87 Milton Smith, one of Cornell's most prominent alumni in the West, died in Denver, Colorado, on March 2 after a short illness. He received the degree of Ph.B. and was a member of Chi Psi, Phi Delta Phi,and Theta Nu Epsilon. For some years he had been head of the legal staff of the Rocky Mountain Telephone and Telegraph Company, a corporation serving Colorado and seven other States. Mr. Smith was also prominent in state political affairs, and had been chairman of the State Democratic Committee of Colorado. His son, Milton Smith, Jr., '22, survives him. Walter H. Ottman '97 Walter Henry Ottman, a teacher in Philadelphia, died on December 28. He was born on December 24, 1873. In 1897 he received the degree of A.B. and in 1900 his Ph.D. He was a member of the Curtis Club. He had taught at the Penn Charter School. Herbert A. Heminway '00 Herbert Andrew Heminway, a prominent attorney in Corning, N. Y., died suddenly at his office on February 27, of cerebral hemorrhage. He was born in Nunda, N. Y., February 26, 1875, the son of Allen and Caroline Underwood Heminway. He received the degree of LL.B. in 1900, was admitted to the bar in that year, and opened his law practice in Corning, where he had remained since. He formed a partnership with Judge Frank H. Hausner Όo which continued until 1909. Until 1923 Mr. Heminway followed the profession independently, then forming a partnership, which was dissolved two years ago. He was well known throughout Steuben County and the Southern Tier in New York. He was particularly well known to several generations of Cornellians because he frequently came to Ithaca to coach and tutor many students in law subjects. On June 23, 1902, Mr. Heminway was married to Miss Ella May Daley, who survives him with two daughters, Caroline Ella and Marion Louise Heminway. Frederic R. Mason '14 Dr. Frederic Raoul Mason, member of the .advisory staff of the Willard Parker Hospital, died at his home in New York on February 25, after an illness of two years. He was born in France thirty-five years ago. He was educated in Paris and spent two years at Cornell. In 1916 he received the degree of M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania, and had since been practicing in New York. He also served as assistant professor of pediatrics at the New York Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospital. During the War he was a captain in the medical detachment of the ιo8th Infantry, Twenty-seventh Division. Ralph E. Morton '16 Ralph Encell Morton died at Wellsville, Ohio, on December 18. He was born on February 18, 1893. He took arts during 1912-^3, and agriculture during 1913-16. He was manager of the Champion plant at Wellsville of the McLean Fire Brick Company. A MARCH SNOWSTORM ON CENTRAL AVENUE Courtesy Cornell Annuals 290 C O R N E L L A L U M N I N E W S Published for the Alumni Corporation of Cornell University by the Cornell Alumni News Publishing Corporation. Published weekly during the college year and monthly in July and August; forty issues annually. Issue No. 1 is published the last Thursday of September. Weekly publication, numbered consecutively, ends the last week in June. Issue No. 40 is published in August and is followed by an index of the entire volume, which will be mailed on request. Subscription price $4.00 a year, payable in advance. Foreign postage 40 cents a year extra. Single copies twelve cents each. t Should a subscriber desire to discontinue his subscription, a notice to that effect should be sent in before its expiration. Otherwise it is assumed that a continuance of the subscription is desired. Checks, drafts and orders should be made payable to Cornell Alumni News. Cash at risk of sender. Correspondence should be addressed— Cornell Alumni News, Ithaca, N. Y. Editor-in-Chief and ) Business Manager f R. W. SAILOR '07 Circulation Manager GEO. WM. HORTON Managing Editor H. G. STUTZ '07 Assistant to Managing Editor JANE URQUHART '13 Associate Editors CLARK S. NORTHUP '93 FOSTER M. COFFIN '12 ROMEYN BERRY '04 MORRIS G. BISHOP '13 WILLIAM J. WATERS '27 M. L. COFFIN Officers of the Cornell Alumni News Publishing Corporation: R. W. Sailor, President; W. J. Norton, Vice-President; R. W. Sailor, Treasurer; H. G. Stutz, Secretary; Romeyn Berry and W. L. Todd. Directors. Office: 113 East Green Street, Ithaca, N.Y. Member of Intercollegiate Alumni Extension Service, Inc. Printed by The Cayuga Press Entered as Second Class Matter at Ithaca, N. Y. ITHACA, N. Y., MARCH 14,1929 THE ROCHESTER CONVENTION ΛjUMNI who have experienced as individuals the hospitality of the Cornell Club of Rochester will be pleased to learn that the directors of the Cornell Alumni Corporation have accepted its invitation for the convention for next fall. The Rochester Club has always ideally combined as its objectives the entertainment features, so dear to alumni clubs everywhere, with an interest in the problems of the university and of alumni organization that prove eternally interesting to its members. Year in and year out there has been no apparent slacking of interest or weakening of power. Rochester has not pressed its claims as a Cornell convention city in all these years, principally because of its nearness to Ithaca. We shall look forward to the Rochester convention with anticipations of pleasure, both from its entertainment features and from its real contribution to the furthering of the interests of the University and of its alumni work. INDUSTRIAL ART IN PICTURES Margaret Bourke White '27, whose photographic studies of the Campus have been published in THE ALUMNI NEWS, is achieving a national reputation as the only woman industrial photographer. Her studies of the industrial art of America, according to a recent newspaper article, are now being made for some large corporations. The story of her work in Cleveland, where her studio is located, tells how she began photography. "She was in her senior year at Cornell. She had dabbled a little in amateur photography and had had some art work. "One day there had been a heavy snow. The buildings seemed more beautiful than ever. The co-ed got out her camera and cut a class to try a snow scene shot.. The picture was a Vow/ her roommate said." Four of her photographic studies have been permatently hung in the Commission of Fine Arts in Washington, D. C. A Columbia University text book on economics is illustrated with her photographs. And another publication, "The Story of Steel," is being prepared. It will be illustrated entirely with Miss White's pictures. COMING EVENTS Friday, March 15 Annual Banquet, Schools of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering. Risley Hall. 7 p. m. Wrestling, intercollegiates at Bethlehem. Saturday, March 16 Lecture. Edward H. Thompson. "The Maya Ruins in Yucatan." Baker Laboratory. 8.15 p. m. Wrestling, intercollegiates at Bethlehem. Fencing, intercollegiate semi-finals at West Point. Sunday, March 17 Sage Chapel Service. Dr. Rufus M. Jones, professor of philosophy at Haverford College. 11 a. m. Monday, March 18 University Concert. Margaret Matze- nauer. Bailey Hall. 8.15 p. m. Wednesday, March 20 Lecture. Professor Merritt L. Fernald of Harvard. "The Evolution of Species of Plants." Baker Laboratory. 8.15 p. m. Saturday, March 23 Freshman Wrestling, Michigan at Ann Arbor. Monday, March 25. Lecture. I. Maurice Wormser, editor, New York Law Review. "Arguments in Appellate Courts." Boardman A. 12 m. March 28-29. Fencing Intercollegiates in New York. March 30 Spring Recess begins, i p. m. MARCUS M. HARRIS of Newark, N. J., and Jack F. Macomber '29 of Kendalville, Ind., have been elected members of the Board of Managers of Willard Straight Hall, to fill vacancies. The annual election of officers will be held in April. Allyn A. Young Dies Professor of Economics at Cornell from 1913 to 1920 Pneumonia Victim in London Allyn A. Young, professor of economics from 1913 to 1920 and, since 1927, professor of political economy at the University of London, died in London on March 7 of pneumonia. He was fifty-two years old. A graduate of Hiram College, he received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin. During the World War ProfessorYoung was chief of the Division of the War Trade Board. He was economic adviser to the American delegation at the peace conference, and last year was named to the economic consultative committee of the League of Nations. He was an authority on the Dawes Plan and other developments in European economics since the War. He was one of the three Americans to take part in the work of the Preparatory Committee of the International Economic Conference at Geneva three years ago. He was a member of the International Statistical Institute, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, and Phi Beta Kappa, and a fellow of the Royal Statistical Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Statistical Association,of which he was president in 1917. Professor Young went to Harvard when he left Cornell,teaching there until he was called to the University of London, whose department of economics is unexcelled. There was some comment then on the action of the board of governors in selecting an American, but the director of the school stated that the best man was wanted for the professorship. Professor Young also taught in Western Reserve, the University of Wisconsin, Dartmouth, the University of Washington, and Stanford, where from 1906 to 1911 he was head of the department of economics. He was the author of "Economic Problems, New and Old" and "An Analysis of Banking Statistics." His wife and one son survive him. PROFESSOR George C. Embody Ph.D. Ίo, of the Agricultural College, has been elected president of the Tompkins County Sportsmen's Association. Professor Leonard A. Lawrence Ίo, Spec., of Civil Engineering is treasurer. This society has been responsible for interesting the State Conservation Commission in operating a game farm at Cornell as a conservation project and not an experimental station, and in interesting the State in purchasing 4000 acres of land on Connecticut Hill for a game refuge and reforestation purposes. IN The Modern Language Journal for February Emma Gertrude Kunze Όi of the West Philadelphia High School writes on "Summer Study Abroad." CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS 291 The Week on the Campus THE Board of Directors of the Alumni Corporation is in town at this writing and is hotly discussing our problems as these words are being set down. Look for the Board's conclusions, released in future. The president of the Corporation, Conant van Blarcom Ό8, who was left on a bed of pain in Italy in our issue of February 28, is here and in charge; so I guess everything is all right. The members of the athletic survey committee are presenting their report, which has been in gestation for some months. THE JUNIOR SMOKER, dedicated to Coach James Wray, was held on Friday evening. The C men and their supporters were addressed by Professor Charles L. Durham '99 and by Gustavus T. Kirby, president of the I. C. A. A. A. A. THE ATHLETIC Survey Committee could have found a significant document for its study in the Sun's editorial on the morning of the Junior Smoker. The editor urged attendance at this function in a somewhat far-off and abstracted manner. He continued: "In a way the Junior Smoker is one of those vestigial functions which persist here more because nothing has come to take their place than because they fill the place for which they were originally intended. Though we speak of this age as one of overemphasis of college athletics, neither the general student body nor the athletes themselves attach the importance to the awarding of the C that they once did. Paying honor to the athletic benefactors of the Alma Mater does not enjoy its pristine importance." THE SKATING is wonderful; an unusual item for the tenth of March. But alas, the hockey team has been disbanded; and Coach Wray and his men have no ice boats. SEVENTY WOMEN reported for the first indoor crew practice, under the supervision of Miss Ellen B. Canfield Όo Spec. They are working on the men's machines in the Old Armory. You know what women are and what they will be. By 1939, we boldly prophesy, they will be.the varsity crew. THE FRATERNITIES, meanwhile, are concentrating on their bridge game. Twenty fraternities and clubs entered two-man teams in a tournament to be played in the Willard Straight game room. You HAVE NOTICEDour summary of the report of our Librarian, Willard Austen '91. It is pleasing to note that the Library maintains its position as the fourth largest college library. But the constant accessions of books bring their problems. Almost every cubic foot of the stacks is now in use. We are in the situation of every booklover who, narrowly housed as we all are today, keeps his last-year's novels under the bath-tub and his oldCornellians down cellar with the mason jars. THE MESSENGER LECTURE SERIES gegan last week. Dr. Edward L. Thorndike, professor of educational psychology in Teachers College, Columbia, delivered the first three of his dozen on "The Nature and Evolution of Human Learning." OTHER LE CTURES of the week were Professor Gaetano Salvemini, formerly of the University of Florence, who on March 6-9 delivered four speeches on "The Intellectual Forerunners of the French Revolution in the Eighteenth Century," and also spoke to the Liberal Club on "Fascism" and to the University Club on "The Peace Pact between the Vatican and Mussolini"; Samuel K. Ratcliffe, the British editor, who spoke on March 5 on "The World Conflict of Color"; William L. Finley, of Nature Magazine, who lectured on March 7 on "Camera Hunting on the Continental Divide" and FredericK J. Libby, executive secretary of the National Council for the Prevention of War, who addressed the Saturday Lunch Club on "Some Recent Developments in International Understanding." AND HENRY R. DUTTON, manager of the Boston City Club, talked to the students in Hotel Management on problems of management. This meeting was also addressed by Albert E. Koehl '28, who, with Donald C. Swenson '28, has been working in Paris hotels and inspecting others with a professional eye. This idea of a European Wanderjahr, working one's way instead of paying one's way from hotel to hotel, must appeal to the undergraduate with his itch for travel. A PROPOS, the Student Agencies, which do our laundry, typing, and transfer work, and take our magazine subscriptions and find us our rooms, have expanded to include a Travel Agency. Competitions for its management are now in progress. THE DRAMATICCLUB repeated its sucessful "Dr. Knock" on Friday and Saturday. VARIETY, journal of the amusement buinesss, ran an article recently on the dramatic activities of the colleges of our section. The work of the Dramatic Club, outclassing everything in the area considered, was most heartily commended. This item by kindness of "Pat" Fries Ίi. THE ANVIL CLUB gave a very swell dance last Wednesday in the Old Armory. Snowballs, blizzards, and eskimos were the theme of the divertissements. ANNOUNCEMENT has been made of the marriage of Miss Laura Jennings Smith of Cortland and George A. Shipman of Saratoga Springs, instructor in government in the University. FRANK R. BENTON '90, widely known as "Beau" Benton, died last Thursday at his home in Ithaca. His was an unusual life. Taking his LL.B. here, he practiced law for a time, but his interest in the stage led him to abandon his profession to become stage manager for Frank Daniels. He returned to Ithaca about 1900 and opened the Sideboard Restaurant on North Tioga Street. But the lure of the footlights was still strong; he became stage manager of the Lyceum in 1910, and there continued until, by the most surprising of shifts, he became preparator in the Department of Anatomy in the Medical College. He continued in this capacity until his regretted death. M. G. B. NEW X-RAY DEVELOPMENTS That the moving pictures, not content with portraying the action of human beings as we see them in everyday life, have sought out and produced, with the help of the all-seeing x-ray, actual motion pictures of the behavior of a human stomach digesting a meal, was one of the demonstrations of present day developments in the realm of these remarkable short-wave radiations as described by Professor Floyd K. Richtmyer '04, before the New York Electrical Society on March 6. Dr. Richtmyer demonstrated the powers of these, even yet mysterious rays of wavelengths between .0010 centimeter for the soft and .00029 centimeter for the hardest and most penetrating of the x-rays. Dr. Richtmyer pointed out that applications of x-rays in both pure and applied science had been greatly facilitated by a careful study, made in scientific laboratories, of the properties of these powerful radiations. For example, in the early days of the uses of x-rays, particularly in medicine, both operators and patients were sometimes severly burned, not infrequently with fatal results. A scientific study of the nature of x-rays, showed them to be waves, much like light, only much shorter, and that the different wavelengths have different penetrating powers: the shorter the wavelength, the greater the penetration. The x-rays of longer wavelength are easily absorbed by very thin layers on the surface of the body, and it is this high concentration of x-ray energy in the thin layers of flesh which causes the very dangerous x-ray burn. By means of careful measurements of the laws of absorbtion of x-rays in various materials, the roentgenologist is now able to put suitable "filters," thin sheets of suitable metals, in the path of the x-ray beam before it reaches the patient, and thus remove the harmful part of the radiation. X-ray treatments are now given without danger either to patient or to operator. DEAN DEXTER S. KIMBALL spoke on "Industrial Economics" before the Schenectady Section of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers on March 8. Dean Kimball has the distinction of being the only engineer to have been the head of the four leading engineering societies in America. 292 C O R N E L L A L U M N I N E W S Forestry Exchange Arranged Professor Emanuel Fritz Coming From Stanford and Professor Arthur B. Recknagel Will Go West An exchange of professors with the University of California, in the field of forest utilization, is announced. The principals are Professors Emanuel Fritz and Arthur B. Recknagel. The former has been at the University of California since 1919, teaching wood technology and lumbering. Professor Recknagel has been at Cornell since 1913 and is now teaαhing wood technology, forest utilization, and forest management. Professor Recknagel obtained his undergraduate degree from Yale College in 1904 and his master's degree from the Yale Forest School in 1906. Prior to taking up teaching at Cornell, he was a member of the staff of the United States Forest Service, first in the Southwestern District until 1907, and then in the Washington office on timber sale work, later as chief of the section of timer reconnaissance. In December, 1908, he returned to the Southwest as assistant district forester, remaining until October, 1911, when he began a year of graduate study in Europe. Professor Recknagel is secretary of the Empire State Forest Products Association, and is the author of two texts, "The Theory and Practice of Working Plans/7 and, with Professors John Bentley and Cedric H. Guise '14, "Forest Management." Of popular books he has written "The Forests of New York State" and, with Professor Samuel N. Spring, "Forestry," now in press. Professor Fritz obtained his bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering at Cornell in 1908. Then he became an instructor in the Baltimore Polytechnic Institute, and was employed in the engineering departments of several steel companies. He entered the Yale School of Forestry in 1912, graduating in 1914. Thereupon he joined the United States Forest Service and later entered military service, commanding an Air Service School squadron overseas for one and one-half years. He is a member of the editorial board of The Journal of Forestry, and of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. Both Professors are members of the Society of American Foresters. Professor Recknagel goes to California for the fall semester of 1929, and Professor Fritz will be at Cornell for the spring semester of 1930. MARION E. MURPHY '30 of Phoenix has been elected editor-in-chief of the W. S. G. A. News. Others named were Madeline E. Wagner '30 of Buffalo, senior editor, and Miriam Prytherch '31 of Binghamton and Alice E. Schade '31 of Akron, Ohio, associate editors. THE CLUBS Plaίnfield The Club held its February meeting on the 18th at the home of Dixon Coale Philips Ί6. Fifteen members enjoyed a general discussion of Cornell affairs. Schenectady The annual banquet will be held at the Hotel Van Curler at 6.30 p. m., Friday, March 15. Coach John F. Moakley will be the principal speaker. He will also address the boys of the Schenectady High School, at both morning and afternoon special assemblies. A SPECIAL ten-day hiking contest, held in connection with the University walking contest, was won by Harold I. Saperstein '31 of New York, whose record was 143.6 miles. Chester C. Beebe '31 of Ithaca was second. HYMAN TAUBMAN '29 of Brooklyn won the annual current events contest held under the auspices of The New York Times. Second prize was awarded Harry Chashin '29 of New York and third prize to Andrew Toruben '32 of Yonkers. PROFESSOR MORRIS G. BISHOP '13 was the speaker at the weekly Rotary luncheon on March 6. The 1929 CORNELLIAN * The Year Book of Cornell's Undergraduates * * The Reference Book of CornelΓs Graduates * The 1929 Cornellian will include action photographs and interesting write-ups of all the undergraduate activities. It will contain familiar views of the campus, pictures of the seniors, fraternities, sororities, professors, and snapshots of various phases of college life. The price of subscriptions, if received before March 22nd, will be seven dollars. Those who have paid two dollars toward the 1928 Cornellian, but did not receive their copies, may obtain them at the office for an additional five dollars. THE CORNELL ANNUALS, INC. ITHACA NEW YORK CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS Here, Gentlemen of the Committee, is the answer of one industry No. 9 of a series inspired by the report of the Secretary of Commerce's Committee on Elimination of Waste 293 IT GOES FOR DISTRIBUTION, TOO IN the ideal distributing system, there would be no more toleration for the costly ' 'jamming" of the flow of merchandise than there is for the jamming of an ice-bound river. How closelyWestern Electric has, over a period of time, approached this ideal is revealed in its distributing costs—under 6%—which all those familiar with such costs will recognize as a low point in industry. That figure is a reflection of the well-coordinated, smooth-running mechanism which functions as the purchasing, manufacturingand distributing organization serving the Bell System. Western Electric's purchasing work begins in the far corners of the earth. Its distribution work ends in the nearly-as-far corners of America. It is, all in all, a true, unique and effective partnership of engineering and commerce. Western Electric Purchasers., Manufacturers... Distributors 294 C O R N E L L A L U M N I N E W S THE CORNELL ALUMNI PROFESSIONAL DIRECTORY DETROIT, MICH. EDWIN ACKERLY A.B. '20, LL.B., Detroit, '22 Real Estate Investment Specialist 701 Penobscot Bldg. KENOSHA, WIS. MACWHYTE COMPANY Manufacturers of Wire and Wire Rope Streamline and Round Tie Rods for Airplanes Jessel S. Whyte, M.E. '13, Vice President R. B. Whyte, M.E. '13, Gen. Supt. BALTIMORE, MD. WHITMAN, REQUARDT & SMITH Water Supply, Sewerage, Structural Valuations of Public Utilities, Reports, Plans, and General Consulting Practice. Ezra B. Whitman, C.E. Όi G. J. Requardt, C.E '09 B L. Smith, C.E. '14 18 E. Lexington St. ITHACA, N. Y. GEORGE S. TARBELL Ph.B. '91—LL.B. '94 Ithaca Trust Building Attorney and Counselor at Law Ithaca Real Estate Rented, Sold, and Managed P. W. WOOD & SON P. O. Wood Ό8 Insurance 316-318 Savings Bank Bldg. NEW YORK CITY MARTIN H. OFFINGER, E.E. '99 Treasurer and Manager Van Wagoner-Linn Construction Co. Electric Construction 143 East 27th Street Phone Lexington 5227 REAL ESTATE & INSURANCE Leasing, Selling, and Mortgage Loans BAUMEISTER & BAUMEISTER 522 Fifth Ave. Phone Murray Hill 3816 Charles Baumeister Ί8, '20 Philip Baumeister, Columbia '14 Fred Baumeister, Columbia '24 CHARLES A. TAUSSIG A.B. '03,LL.B., Harvard '05 220 Broadway Tel. 1906 Cortland General Practice Delaware Registration & Incorporators Co. Inquiries as to Delaware Corporation Registrations have the personal attention at New York office of JOHN T. McGOVERN Όo, President 31 Nassau Street Phone Rector 9867 E. H. FAILE & CO. Engineers Industrial buildings designed Heating, Ventilating, Electrical equipment Industrial power plants Construction management E. H. FAILE, M.E. Ό6 441 Lexington Ave. Tel. Murray Hill 7736 TULSA, OKLAHOMA HERBERT D. MASON, LL.B. 'oo Attorney and Counselor at Law 1000-1008 Atlas Life Bldg. MASON, HONNOLD, CARTER & HARPER WASHINGTON,D. C. THEODORE K. BRYANT '97, '98 Master Patent Law, G. W. U. Ό8 Patents and Trade Marks Exclusively 309-314 Victor Buiilding 1819 G Street, N.W. One block west State War and Navy Bldg. LUNCHEON AND DINNER RUTH L. CLEVES Ί6 THE BALLOU PRESS CHAS. A. BALLOU, JR. '21 Printers to Lawyers 69 Beekman St. Tel. Beekman 8785 POWER PLANTS— COMBUSTION— FUELS H. W. BROOKS, M.E. Ί i Member A.S.M.E., Fellow, A.I.E.E. (Formerly of U.S. Bureau of Mines) One Madison Ave. Central National Bank Bldg. New York, N.Y. St. Louis, Mo. & Bristol ADVERTISING 285 MADISON AVENUE, NEWYORK Phones; LEXINGTON 0849-0850 MAGAZINES TRADE PAPERS Arthur W. Wilson '15 NEWSPAPERS FARM PAPERS Ernest M. Bristol, Yale '07 THE ALUMNI '77—At the Burns concert of the Caledonian Society of Chicago on January 29 Professor William F. E. Gurley of the University of Chicagorecited a poem on Burns. '07 CE—Laurence J. Conger, vice-president of L. C. Smith and Corona Typewriters, Inc., is now located in the new offices of his company in the New York Life Building, 51 Madison Avenue, New York. At present he is living at the Prince George Hotel. OS—Alfred M. Sobieralski of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, has been relieved from duty as chief of the section of field work in the Division of Hydrography and Topography, and has been ordered to report to the chief of the Division of Charts. '09—John F. Goodrich, who is a scenario writer in Hollywood, writes that his life consists of ''pictures, pictures, pictures; talk, talk, talk; hooey, hooey, hooey." His address is 5177 Franklin Avenue. '09 CE—William J. Mauer is vice-president and sales manager of the Dwyer Equipment Company with offices at 4534 West North Avenue, Chicago. He lives at 2525 Coif ax Street, Evanston, 111. '09 CE—Don 0. Stone is vice-president and general manager of the Stone Construction Company, at 452 South Pearl Street, Columbus, Ohio. He lives at noi Elmwood Avenue. Ίo ME—Russell B. Hurlburt is Southern representative of the Robert GairCompany, manufacturers of folding boxes and corrugated containers. His office is at 808 Liberty Trust Building, Philadelphia. He lives at 103 Bloomingdale Avenue, Wayne, Pennsylvania. Ίo AB—John B. Smith, Jr., is assistant manager of the Eastern Printing Company at 150 Lafayette Street, New York. He lives at 8543 iiόth Street, Richmond Hill. Ίi CE—Octave de Carre, who is a major in the United States Army, is now at the Quartermaster Subsistence School in Chicago. His address is 1819 West Pershing Road. '12 ME—Lennox B. Birckhead has been appointed general sales manager of the Austin Machinery Corporation in Muskegon, Mich., manufacturers of trench excavating machinery. He is living at 1392 Fifth Street. '12 CE—Franklin E. Holland is manager of the railway sales department of the Sherwin Williams Company of Canada, Ltd. His address is 2182 Comte Street, Montreal, Quebec. '13 ME—Stanley J. Chute is now chief engineer of Heat Transfer Products, Inc., at 30 Church Street, New York, which is affiliated with the American Locomotive Company. He lives at 84 Linwood Avenue, Ridgewood, N. J. CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS 295 '13 CE—J. Holloway Morgan is an associate hydraulic engineer with the United States Geological Survey. He lives at 9 Elm Street, Melrose, Mass. '13 CE—Frank S. Selby is assistant secretary of the First Trust Company at 400 First National Bank Building, Omaha, Nebr. " '14 CE—Linton Hart is vice-president and general manager of the Gow Company, Inc., at 90 West Street, New York. He lives at 236 Chestnut Street, Englewood, New Jersey. Ί6 ME—Frederick J. Smith has been with the Ingersoll-Rand Company since his graduation. He is now in the Export Division at n Broadway, New York. He was married last June to Miss Leora I. Johnson of Painted Post, N. Y. They are living at 74 Newfield Street, East Orange, New Jersey. '17-18 Grad.; Jι8 BS—A daughter, Jane Elizabeth, was born on February I to Martin C. Hughes Ί8 and Mrs. Hughes (Rebecca J. Worster Ί8). Their address is Electrical Engineering Department, College Station, Texas. '19, '20 CE—Benjamin N. Fishman is secretary of the J. T. Sullivan Lumber Company in Springfield, Long Island, N. Y. He lives at 11401 H7th Street, South Ozone Park, Long Island, N. Y. '19 CE—Naphtali Weidberg recently opened offices for the practice of law in the Stuart Building in Jamaica, N. Y., in association with A. E. Markowitz, under the name of Weidberg and Markowitz. '19 LLB; '20 LLB; '20 LLB—John H. Scmid '19, William E. Vogel '20, and Mary H. Donlon '20, together with four others with whom they have practiced law as associates, have announced the formation of a partnership under the name of Burke and Burke, with offices at 72 Wall Street, New York. Interior of Chapel, University of Chicago. Bertram Q. Qoodhue Associates, Architects. The exterior of this magnificent new building is also of Indiana Limestone. Beauty andPermanence '21, '22 AB—William C. Murray is vicepresident and general manager of the Utica Radiator Corporation in Utica, N. Y. He lives at 1603 Sherman Drive. Make this Natural Stone Ideal for Interior and Exterior Use '22 AB—A son, Frederick, was born on February 5 to Mr.' and Mrs.George H. Thornton. They have also a two-year-old ^PHERE is no other stone so well suited of Indiana Limestone. We will gladly •*• for sculptured detail and elaborately give you this information without obli' daughter, Emilie Hilyard. Their address carved interior work, as well as for ex- gating you in any way. Simply put us in is Overhill Road, Ardmore, Pa. Thornton teriors, as Indiana Limestone. This hand" touch with your architect. has been playing left wing on the Pennsyl- some, light'colored natural stone has be- Booklet Free vania Athletic Club ice hockey team this come nationally famous as a building winter. material. '22 AB—Herbert F. Johnson, Jr., is in the wax business with S. C. Johnson and Son. His address is 1730 Wisconsin Street, Racine, Wise. With Mrs. Johnson, who was Gertrude Brauner, a daughter of Olaf M. Brauner of the College of Architecture, Modern production methods now used in the stone industry bring Indiana Lime' stone within the reach of any institution's building appropriation. There is really no need of your considering any less desk' he sailed this month for a combination able material on account of expense. business and pleasure trip in Europe. The best way to prove this to your They have three children, Karen Andrea, own satisfaction is to get an estimate on five, Henrietta Converse, two, and Herbert Fish Johnson, 3d, who is one year old. your new building's cost if constructed Wriίe for our handsomely illustrated booklet showing examples of fine college buildings. It will post you on modern col' legiate architecture. We also have a book' let on residences that will interest any one about to build. Ad' dress your communi' cation to Dept.810, Service Bureau, Bed' ford, Indiana. '23 BS—Malcolm E. Smith, who is with the United States Department of Agri- INDIANA LIMESTONE COMPANY culture, has been transferred from New General Offices: Bedford, Indiana Executive Offices: Tribune Tower, Chicago 296 C O R N E L L A L U M N I N E W S York to Boston, where his address is Room 703, 408 Atlantic Avenue. '23 BS—Gertrude Hicks is in charge of dining rooms at Willard Straight Hall. She lives at i East Avenue. '23—A son, Edward Weir, was born on February 20 to Mr. and Mrs. Arthur W. Crouch. They live in McMinnville,Tenn. '24 ME; '24 AB—William L. Hearn is an engineer with the Public Service Corporation of New Jersey. Mrs. Hearn was Margaret E. Latshaw '24. They live at 280 Gregory Avenue, Passaic, N. J. '25 EE—Richard W. Moulton on January i became associated with Scqvell Wellington and Company, accountants and industrial engineers, in their Boston office. He lives at 121 President Lane, Quincy, Mass. '25 AB; '24 AB—Helen E. Perrell is teaching Latin and organizing student governments at the Jay Cooke Junior High School in Philadelphia. Her address is 1429 Lenox Avenue. She writes that Ruth A. Oviatt '24 is doing newspaper work in Georgia and will be there until the spring. '25 CE—James E. Duffy is superintendent of the construction of a nine-story apartment house on West Eighty-second Street, New York. He is associated with the firm of Psaty and Fuhrman, Inc. He lives at 72 Barrow Street. '25 BS—Helen E. Watkins is executive secretary of the Orange County Health Association, and is directing the nutrition service. Her address is 15 South Street, Goshen, N. Y. '26 BS—Mr. and Mrs. George Westfall of Saratoga Springs, N. Y., have announced the engagement of their daughter, Rachel, to Truman A. Parish '26. He is living in Franklinville, N. Y. '26—James A. Stillman is with the United States Gypsum Company. His address is Lake House, Port Clinton, Ohio. '27 EE; '27 AB—Mr. and Mrs. Leon Tyrrell of St. Petersburg, Fla., have announced the marriage of their daughter, Veora M. Tyrrell '27, to Windsor D. Lewis '27, on January 19, in the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York. Among the attendants at the wedding were Pauline Ace '27, maid of honor, Laura P. Menconi '26, bridesmaid, Eugene J. Kelley '27, best man, and Duncan Whitehead '26, usher. Lewis is in the New York office of the Westinghouse Electric International Company. 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