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1 THE SOONER MAGAZINE December, 1932 OKLAHOMA ALUMNI NEWS Volume V, Number 3 A News Magazine for University of Oklahoma graduates and former students published monthly except August and September by the University of Oklahoma Association, Oklahoma Union Building, Norman, Oklahoma Chester H Westfall, '16 journ, Ponca, president ; Frank S Cleckler, '21 bus, Norman, secretary-treasurer Membership dues : Annual $3 of which $2 is for THE SOONER MAGAZINE, Life $60 of which $40 is for THE SOONER MAGAZINE Copyright OFFICERS Chester H Westfall, 16journ, Ponca, President Lewis R Morris, '15as, '17law, '15MA, Oklahoma, Vice President Shelley E Tracy, 'l 1as, Dallas, Texas, Vice President Frank S Cleckler, '21bus, Norman, Secretary-Treasurer Joseph A Brandt, '21journ, Norman, Editor BOARD MEMBERS Mike Monroney, '23journ, Oklahoma, ex officio Luther H White, '14as, Tulsa, at large Otto A Brewer, '17as, '201aw, Hugo, at large 1932 by the University of Oklahoma Association Entered as second-class matter October 13, 1928 at the postoffice at Norman, Oklahoma, under the act of March 3, 1879 Established 1928 Joseph A Brandt,'21journ, editor; George McElroy, '34 law, business manager ; Betty Kirk,'29, John Joseph Mathews, '20, Dorothy Kirk,'23, Winifred Johnston,'24, Duane Roller,'23, Elgin E Groseclose,'20, Leonard Good,'28, Muna Lee,'12, George Milburn,'30, Harold Keith,'28, contributing editors Neil R Johnson, '15as, '17law, Norman, at large Dr Ray M Balyeat, '12as, '16sc, '18M D, Oklahoma, at large Lee B Thompson, '25as, '27law, Oklahoma, at large John Rogers, '14law, Tulsa, at large Mrs Floy Elliott Cobb, '17as, Tulsa, first district A N "Jack" Boatman, '15as, Okmulgee, second district Hiram Impson, '15as, McAlester, third district Ben Hatcher, '24as, '25law, Ada, fourth district Fred E Tarman, '10as, Norman, fifth district H Merle Woods, '17journ, El Reno, sixth district Dr Lealon E Lamb, '26sc, '28M D, Clinton, seventh district Fritz L Aurin, '14as, '15M A, Ponca, eighth district Oklahomans at home and abroad ASSOCIATION PROGRESS Migration day banquet fn celebration of "migration day" a small but most enthusiastic group of Sooner graduates and former students met in the Adolphus hotel, of Dallas, Texas, for the annual Oklahoma banquet and dinner dance, on the evening preceding the yearly Oklahoma-Texas clash Shelley Tracy, '11B A, president of the Texas club, served as toastmaster J H "Bo" Rowland, assistant football coach, demonstrated why he has become so popular in speaking to alumni meetings, by keeping the attendants in a humorous uproar fn commenting on the recent legal action to enroll a football player at the university, he characterized it as a "Dammanus" rather than a "mandamus" action He also said "We left Lewie in Denton so he wouldn't be running round up here all night!" Rowland emphasized that "Oklahoma has a fighting team, but not one of championship caliber, which only time can build " Bennie Owen, in referring to the same legal action, wittily remarked "We used to have trouble getting football players to enroll, but now we have to go to court to keep them from doing so " Owen said that the present coaching staff believed in his type of football, that of "offensive," and forecast strong teams for the future George Smith, '08 BA, of St Louis, Missouri, informed the group that "it would be the first Texas-Oklahoma game for him since 1903, and that in those days we used Bill Cross as a quarterback, because he was so light, and we could throw him further Frank Cleckler announced the program for Homecoming to be held in Oklahoma and Norman, on November 4 and 5, and invited the group back for the big event of the year Toastmaster Tracy closed the meeting by saying "This event is becoming a real secondary homecoming, and we Texans are looking forward to it more and more each year " CONTENTS Oklahomans at home and abroad 67 The Sooner season 74 By Frank Culwell, '33 Dr J W Scroggs 75 By William Witt, '32 To save the stadium union 76 Book-of-the-month 77 Dictated but not read 78 Fundamental economic adjustments necessary for economic prosperity 79 By Dr A B Adams New university debate forum 83 By Walter Emery, '28 The passing of profitable politics 84 By Benton Ferguson, '31 George B Parker, '08 85 By Maureen McKernan Sooner roll call 86 Belles lettres and bell ringers 94 Those attending were Mr and Mrs Shelley Tracy, '11B A, Mr and Mrs Weaver Holland, '13 BS, of Dallas ; Mr and Mrs E R Newby, '08 BA, and '14 BA, and family, of Oklahoma ; Fred Tarman, '10 BA, Norman ; W J Cross, '09 BA, Norman ; George Smith, '08 BA, St Louis, Missouri ; Mr and Mrs M A Tracy, '09 MA, of Dallas John "Buck" Weaver, '32, and father, G S Weaver, Ben G Owen, Norman ; Coach J H "Bo" Rowland, W W Milam, '17ex ; Mr and Mrs L L Lookabaugh, '17ex, George H McElroy, '34, and Frank S Cleckler, '21B A Elected The Democratic wave which swept over the United States November 8 found four Sooners elected to the state supreme court, four to congress, and three to the state senate, while nineteen Sooners were elected to the Oklahoma house of representatives The list (Democrat unless otherwise indicated) : Presidential elector : Jess L Pullen, '24ex, Sulphur United States representative : Will Rogers, '30M S, at large ; Wilburn Cartwright, '20law, McAlester, third district ; F B Swank, '99ex, Norman, fifth district ; Jed Johnson, '15ex, Anadarko, sixth district Justice of the state supreme court : Wayne W Bayless,'20law, Claremore ; Earl Welch, 'ilex, Antlers ; Monroe Os-

2 68 December born, '04ex, Pauls Valley ; Orel Busby, '14law, Ada State senator : Tom Waldrep, '15law, Shawnee ; T Donald Wilbanks, '22law, Holdenville, twenty-second district ; David M Logan, '16as, Okmulgee, thirtysecond district State representatives : Thomas 7, Wright, '29bus, Beaver, Republican ; Richard H Cloyd, '19as, '28law, Norman; J T Daniel, '25sc, Waurika ; Herbert M Palmer, '34law, El Reno ; R C Garland, '26ex, Wilburton ; J I Gibson, '30law, Wellston ; John Steele Batson, '21ex, Marietta ; Arthur Grunert, '25ex, Ardmore ; Merton E Munson, '29as, '31law, Lawton ; Jack Sutherland, '35law, Altus ; William H Cline, it, '21as, '31law, Newkirk ; Leon C Phillips, '16law, Okemah ; T H Ottesen, '19law, Okemah ; Wilbur L Morse, '28as, '30law, Henryetta ; Kenneth H Abernathy, '31law, Shawnee ; W D Grisso, '26as, '28law, Seminole ; Leslie Conner, '27law, Oklahoma ; William O Coe, '28law, Oklahoma ; George H Copeland, '31law, Oklahoma Alumni Homecoming register Frank Cleckler, '21, Norman George C Smith, '08, St Louis, Missouri Anna Pick, '30, Lawton Clendon Man, '30, Oklahoma Joseph A Brandt, '21, Norman Ben Hatcher, '25, Ada F L Aurin, '14, Ponca Chester H Westfall, '16, Ponca E D Meacham, '14, Norman Ida Lucille Brown, '28, Oklahoma Jeanne Green, '26, Oklahoma Opal Green, '28, Oklahoma Mrs C G Hunkapiller, '15, Pampa, Texas Ruth E Moore, '20, Norman Vivian Lalley, '25, Oklahoma C B Memminger, '14, Atoka Fred E Tarman, '10, Norman Lee B Thompson, '25, '27, Oklahoma Neil R Johnson, Norman Opal Bell Wilson, '24, Purcell Lucille Blanchard, '25, Purcell Lewis R Morris, '15, '17, Oklahoma Ruth Morris, '15, Oklahoma Eva Lee, '12, Oklahoma Theo G Morris, 'llex, Oklahoma These are the winners in the Oklahoma university two mile run with their prizes ; first a turkey, second a chicken and the third received a duck Glen Morris, '14ex, Oklahoma Fred Hansen, '14, Oklahoma Art C Reeds, '10, Oklahoma Waldo L Geis, '32, Shawnee Lawrence E Bennett, '32, Oklahoma Paul Thurber, '31, Tishomingo Glen O Morris, '15ex, Oklahoma Ram Morrison, '25ex, Oklahoma Earle Radcliffe, '09, Oklahoma Nina Summett Cheadle, '24, Tulsa John A Cheadle, '24, Tulsa Sabert A Holt, '14, Medford Julia Kelley Sparger, '24, Ardmore Mike Monrony, '24, Oklahoma M H Fenn, '31, Oklahoma Pauline J Fenn, '31, Oklahoma C W McFerron, '11, '18, Oklahoma L E Beattie, '17, '20, Ardmore Mrs Ben Hatcher, '29ex, Ada R W Armstrong, '98, Vian F E McReynolds, '08, Tishomingo Joe J Miller, '22, Chickasha Joe B Slover, '19, Sulphur Vernon H Fielding, '19, La Junta, California Agatha Martin, '23, Dutton H L Waterbury, '27, Pocasset J Milton McCullough, '29, Oklahoma Mr and Mrs Boots Tahaferro, '18, Shawnee Mr and Mrs Ray Evans, '20, Shawnee Mr and Mrs Jack Bell, '25, Shawnee J M Austin, Seminole Bill Gamier, '34, Oklahoma Francis Alexander, Okmulgee Creasie L Jackson, '29, '31, Norman Mrs W W Clinkscales, '27, Duncan Hedwig Schaefer, '18, Norman Irlene R Boyd, '20, Norman Edward Gerkey, jr, '30, Jefferson, One of the Homecoming day yard displays put up by the Delta Upsi lon fraternity depicting a Sooner using the Missouri Tiger for a football Missouri Frank Madden, '18, Norman Ed Corkill, '16, Fort Sill Dr and Mrs E D McBride, '12, Oklahoma Mr and Mrs R E Whealley, '22, '28, Vinita Carolyn Seitz, '21, Ardmore Catherine Harris, '32, Antlers Della Barnwell, '31, Billings Mrs Lloyd B Drake, '21, Miami Harry L S Halley, '15, '17, Tulsa Elton B Hunt, '13, Tulsa Mr and Mrs L V Duval, Salt Fork Vivian Zirkle, '29, Norman Ward R Vickery, '29, Wichita, Kansas Louise Fain, '26, Atoka Ollie Chapman, '24, Norman Vida M Lynch, '32, Chelsea Odeine Lynch, '32, Chelsea Edna C Newby, '13, Oklahoma Nina K Black, '13, Norman Jerry B Newby, '12, Oklahoma S Doborah Jaines, '13, Tulsa A M McCullough, '16, Norman Jack Gable, '15, Norman Mrs Jack Gable, Norman John Cullen, Ponca Dr and Mrs Roy Emanuel, '24, Chickasha Mary Elizabeth Simpson, '25, Norman George Howard Wilson, '29, Enid Bob Feemster, '32, Oklahoma Katherine Barr Hill, '16, Norman Ruth Updegraff, Norman Al Mayhew, '30, Claremore Mildred Hutchison, '31, Oklahoma Mary Elizabeth Filson, '29, Guthrie Mrs Ben Huey, '30, Norman George H Copeland, '30, Oklahoma Winifred Burke, '27, Norman Florence Page, '26, Norman A Martin Kingkade, '06, Oklahoma Mary Lee Kretz Bradley, '26, Okmulgee Edna Bickett, '31, Norman Erma Bickett, '29, Norman Leonard Logan, '14, Norman Doris P Woods, Ardmore Mort Woods, Ardmore George A Tallant, Oklahoma Roxey Fitch Tallant, '30, Oklahoma Vivian Tallant, '28, Oklahoma Charles N Berry, '14, Oklahoma Pat Lawson, '29, Oklahoma T M Long, '14, Oklahoma Ulah Floyd, '27, Oklahoma Samuel O Neff, '14, '30, Oklahoma

3 Lewis S Salter, '12, '17, Norman Reaves Alford Salter, '20, Norman lma Lee Philips, '29, Oklahoma G H Dent, '29, Oklahoma Mrs Jap Haskell, '23, Norman Mrs Dick Norton, '29, Oklahoma Dick Norton, '29, Oklahoma John Speck, '28, Stillwater Mrs John Speck, '29, Stillwater Mrs Paul Darrough, '18, Oklahoma W O Cralle, '15, Springfield, Missouri Buck Stinson, '15, Chickasha Mrs King Price, '24, Norman King G Price, '25, Norman Mrs Lewis Smith, Poteau and Spiro Lewis Smith, Poteau and Spiro Mrs Ransdell Cobb, Oklahoma Mr and Mrs L A Courter, '25, Oklahoma Mrs R D Dorsett, '32, Norman R D Dorsett, '29, Norman Lillian Jo Swearingen, '25, Norman Mrs Josh Lee, '23, Norman Hollis Griffin, Edmond Lloyd E Swearingen, '21, Norman Tom Lowry, '14, Oklahoma Dick Lowry, '14, Oklahoma Mr and Mrs C R Loucks, '15, Oklahoma OUR CHANGING VARSITY Homecoming guests Homecoming guests of Kappa Sigma Saturday at luncheon were : Moody Tidwell, Miami ; Paul Reed, Sulphur ; Fred Hood, Gilbert Roberts, Francis Irwin, Mr and Mrs Don Nicholson, Dr Carl Lindstrom, Jay Lynn Orevlees, Mr and Mrs Arley Wall, Mr and Mrs Frederick Brigham and Allen Street, Oklahoma ; and Frank Crider, Altus And Ross Johnston, and Otho New man, Shawnee ; Mr and Mrs Garner Collum and James Collum, Mr and Mrs Richard Martin, Muskogee ; Dr Charles Maupin and Charles Sessions, Waurika ; William Foggs, El Reno ; Charles Memminger, Atoka ; and Mr and Mrs O C Keegan, Bartlesville ; and Don Cochran Delta Gamma : Virginia Moody, Margaret Moody, Mary Louise Street, Catherine Leavitt, Margaret Kuhn, Mrs John T Brittain and Mrs Felix Tapp, Oklahoma ; Marian Goss, Watonga ; Martha Hamil, Tulsa ; Muriel Monsell, Sand For a few minutes the air above the stadium at the Missouri game was filled with balloons thither bound which had been released by the Ruf- Neks and the freshmen Springs ; Mary Elizabeth Filson, Guthrie ; Louise Gordon and Dorothy Tourtellot, Enid ; Katherine Haberly, Wapanucka ; Harriet Stewart, Muskogee ; Mildred Thornton, Cordell ; Mildred Patterson, Duncan ; Virginia Johnson, Fairview ; Pauline Rector, El Reno ; Nampalee Wineland, Seminole ; Florence Gannaway, Clinton ; Kathleen Sultan, Walters ; and Mrs Mary Dinner, Alva Delta Tau Delta : George Dent, Dan Garnett and William McDonald, Oklahoma ; Lloyd West, Joyce Coffee, Clyde Hamilton and William Hamilton, Ardmore ; Otis Writing, Joe Delavey, William Clapole, Hill Clark, LeRoy Mc- Kay, and Florence McKay, Durant, and Mr and Mrs W Brockway, Watonga Alpha Gamma Delta : Mary O'Leary, Elizabeth Lewis, Marie Becker, Clara Marie McCarrel, Doona Schamaker, Martha Setzer, Elizabeth Patterson, Mrs Ernest Schouter, Mrs Charles Miles, Mrs Douglas Stuart, Mr and Mrs E R Hughes, Dr E I Bertram, Dr Charles Lincoln White and May Beth Gillette, Oklahoma And Mrs Herbert Scott, Mrs George T Cobbs, Mrs Harold Jenkins, Mrs Sam Pangborn, Mrs Ralph Beegle, Mrs Lynden Mannen, Genevieve Pemberton, Lenore McKittrick, Walter Jenkins, Norman; Irene Garner, Mr and Mrs F C Garner, Jo Paxton, Tulsa And Margaret Henderson, Purcell ; Margaret Buford, Eufaula; Anne Smith, Drumright ; Ferril Pruitt, Anadarko ; Grace McKinney, Henryetta ; Nine Snyder, Neosha, Missouri ; Frances Dunlap, Carnegie ; Mrs William Flynn, Paden ; Pansy Briscoe, Hollis ; Pauline Edwards, and Mazie Bush, McAlester This is Jap Haskell, freshman coach, telling a few of the boys a thing or two Gamma Phi Beta : Mr and Mrs Edward Dupree, Mrs Irene Dozin, Mrs Vivian Henry, Mrs Elizabeth Cooms, Elizabeth Dekoach, Eleanor Bothwell, Dorothy Bothwell, Mr and Mrs J S Anderson, Mr and Mrs Walter Graalman, Mrs Clarence White, Mr and Mrs M Jett, Mr and Mrs William Laux, Marcella Hill, Kathryn Younger, Louise Lillard, Virginia Walker, Velma Johnston, Geraldine Shields, Oklahoma And Trevellyn Jones, Katherine Bozart, and Mary Tripodi, Okmulgee ; Mrs Ralph Clark, Mrs Roger Stanley, Alva Trueblood, Okemah ; Kathryn Ford, Floy Grimmet, Shawnee ; Dedo Shaw, Hollis ; Mrs Ralph Blanchard, Purcell ; Ora Denner, Chickasha ; Betty Krebbs, Tulsa ; Qand Mr and Mrs Walter Keigan, Bartlesville Guests of Alpha Tau Omega were Raymond Hill, Emmett Darby, Joe Witter, and A McColl, Oklahoma ; Donald Palland, Ardmore ; and Mr and Mrs Patrick O'Byrne, Shawnee Delta Phi Epsilon : Kenneth Greer, Oklahoma ; and Francis Coleman, Clinton Delta Chi : Hurst Swiggert, Hugo ; Ernest Cole, Atoka ; Randolph Kizarre, Hugo ; Otto Walker, Cement, and Ralph Livingston, Seminole Phi Kappa Psi had as Homecoming guests Harold Buford, Robert Catlett, Stanley Catlett, Peyton Harrison, Theodore Thornton, Mendall Smith, Samuel Fryer, James Lisk, Felix Trapp and Robert Berry, Oklahoma ; William Davis, Dallas, Texas ; Louis Hill, Enid ; Douglas Wood, and Ralph Strader, Fort Worth, Texas; Jack Rone, Elk ; Charles Davis, Chickasha ; Eugene Mitchell, Lawton ; William Mugler and Dan Breugle, Perry Lambda Chi Alpha : Clifford Huff, Ray Quick, and Bill Baldring, Hobart ; Mr and Mrs C J Barker, Temple, Texas ; Rowe Cook, Atoka ; Bill Biggers, Wewoka ; and Howard Ritter, J D Harwood and C A Bates, Oklahoma Delta Upsilon : Mr and Mrs Forrest Pruitt, Chandler ; Duane Rogers, Jefferson, Missouri ; Dr Ray Emmanuel, Chickasha ; Robert Bradford, Shawnee ; John Embry, Chandler ; Malcolm Black, Ponca ; and Robert Hefner, Ernest Lippencourt, Victor Bocen, Byron Mc-

4 72 December The engineering float which outlined for the visitors and others all that goes to make real Sooner spirit ; look closely Showing the Pi Phi tee pee and covered Sooner wagon which they had placed in their yard for Homecoming day nual "walk-out," attended a dance in Oklahoma and broke other rules of the university Their disappointment over the announcement of the sentence was insignificant compared with the woe it caused among the members of dance orchestras on the campus because the cutting out of the dances diminished their source of income and it appeared as if some of them were going to have to leave school But ingenuity appears to be a characteristic of the average collegian when it comes to hedge-hopping obstacles The men's council each year is confronted with the problem of loss of interest in student council dances after the first two or three months of school The idea was slyly introduced that these dances would be more successful if advertised as being exclusive and so they announced that dances would be lockout affairs at which only the first 150 purchasers of tickets would be allowed to attend Fraternities barred from entertaining with dances of their own are buying the tickets and the council dances are such successes that the men's council is overjoyed and the orchestra members are eating again with more confidence Playful Rex Rex, the Phi Gam Great Dane puppy, laid the law to Clyde Amerin, the postman on their route Federal laws do not require a postman to deliver mail where there is an untied vicious animal Rex may have been playing and having a little fun with Amerin, but the Phi Gams now have a boulevard substation box and unhappy pledges make daily trips to the box for the brothers' mail Expaddle The esteemed gentlemen who love to wield a paddle on pledges and thereby help along the progress of education in a manner the college professor cannot, are finding the going rather difficult this year President Bizzell informed the presidents of the fraternities that the no-paddling rule of the university must be strictly observed this year Many fraternities which have been civilized during the past few years have abandoned paddling either wholly or in part ; a few have retained this eighty-niner custom The interfraternity council on Wednesday, October 19, notified, through its discipline committee, the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity that its pledging privileges had been removed until February, 1934, for failure to observe the regulation Willis Stark, president of the council, declared that "Fraternities must realize the rule must be enforced at any cost Although the penalty is severe, there was no other path open to us in view of the evidence presented in this case " Considerable indignation among students was aroused by the action of the Ruf Neks in paddling a number of students who attended the Tulsa-Oklahoma football game Contest winner James E White, '32bs, Oklahoma, took honors in a national insurance contest in which 5,000 participated Since entering the employ of the Oklahoma office of the Home Life Insurance of New York he has sold insurance totaling $59,000 in one contest, and from June 1 to August 31 a total of $79,000 thereby winning one local and two national contests His prospects are, for the most part, college students and recent university students Hi-Y, editors The week-end of November 19 saw conferences of state Hi-Y members, Oklahoma and Arkansas engineering professors and their wives, 100 editors and sponsors of state highschool newspapers, the Oklahoma Interscholastic Press Association and an inter-city meeting of Rotary clubs in Norman One hundred and seventy highschools and junior colleges were to be represented in the meeting; of state Hi-Y groups Swimming in the university pool, rifle matches and the Oklahoma- Nebraska football game were to furnish entertainment for them At the meeting of high school editors Sigma Delta Chi, professional journalistic fraternity, was to present a shield to the most outstanding high school newspaper in the state and Theta Sigma Phi, professional journalistic fraternity for women, was to present a cup to the high school girl writing the best news story during the year SPORTS OF ALL SORTS Big Six Standing (As of November 12) w L T PTS Big Six Scoring (As of November 12) OP PTS Nebraska Oklahoma K Aggies Kansas Missouri Iowa State TD FG EP T Graham, K Aggies Dunlap, Oklahoma Schaake, Kansas Russell, K Aggies Stacy, Oklahoma Impson, Iowa State Dumm, Kansas Sauer, Nebraska Bushby, K Aggies Masterson, Nebraska A tiger about to have his tail twisted brought Homecoming spirit to the Alpha Xi Delta yard on the day Missouri was played

5 Supreme court justices The state supreme court will have a Sooner majority next year Top, left to right : Justice Fletcher S Riley, '17BA, who will become chief justice ; Monroe Osborn, '05ex, Pauls Valley, elected November 8 ; Earl Welch, 'llex, Antlers, another Sooner elected in November ; bottom, left to right : Orel Busby, '14law, Ada, judge of the eastern Oklahoma district court, also elected ; and Wayne Bayless, '20law, Claremore, the fourth justice elected, making five University of Oklahoma alumni to sit on the supreme court bench OKLAHOMA'S RECORD 1932 Oklahoma 7, Tulsa 0 *Oklahoma 21, Kansas 6 Oklahoma 10, Texas 17 *Oklahoma 20, Kansas State 13 Oklahoma 0, Oklahoma Aggies 7 *Oklahoma 6, Missouri 14 *Oklahoma 19, Iowa State 12 Total Oklahoma won four, lost three *denotes Big Six games Shorter mention University of Nebraska Cornhuskers will replace the University of Missouri Tigers on the Texas schedule next year Texas will play Nebraska at Lincoln October 7, 1933 Oklahoma has scheduled Southern Methodist university basketeers for January 2 and 3 at Dallas Bus Ham, sports editor of the Daily Oklahoman, considers Paul Young of the Sooners deserving of a place on the All-American selection this year "Ok- lahoma never has had a more meritorious player than Young," writes Mr Ham "1f he doesn't make all-big Six, the East- West game and receive all-american recognition, there simply isn't any justice in, all' selections He's a tower of brilliance in one of the nation's six major conferences " Ad Lindsay, former Sooner head football coach, has revived the Jayhawkers since being made head football coach at the University of Kansas The Notre Dame game elicited wide-spread praise,