The Torch, May 2, 1935

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V. U. WELCOMES
YOU, ORATORS
Published Weekly by the
Students of
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Valparaiso, Indiana
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VOLUME XXIV
VALPARAISO, INDIANA, MAY 2, 1935
NUMBER 26
V. U. HOST TO ORATORS FRIDAY NIGHT
STUDENT GROUP
TO VOTE FOR S. C.
OFFICERS MAY 7
Name 4 Polling Places;
Open From 1-5
Elections of Student council officers and representatives will be
held Tuesday, May 7, from 8 a. m.
to noon and from 1 to 5 p. m., at
the various polls designated to
each college.
The candidates appearing on the
ballots for the four major offices
| of Student council are:
President—Daniel Gahl, Lenard
Gotsch, Melvin Nuss and Elvin
Pretzer.
Vice-president — Norma Kroencke and Lois Rohifing.
Secretary—Lois Brauer, Juanita
Conklin and Helen Oelschlae-
ger.
Treasurer—Frank Fierke and
Roland Grimmer.
The nominees for representatives
to the Student council which were
named at the Tribunal meetings
were:
Liberal Arts—Elwood Pett, Earl
Reinke, Harold Brasch, Donald
Tewes, Gertrude Moehling, Paul
Meier, Fred Gieseke, William Galen, Ralph Watson, Kenneth
Wunsch, Christine Biedermann,
Eleanor Reidenbach, Elmer Hartig,
Vietta Schroeder, Norma Kroencke,
Margaret Schroeder, Roma Kemena, Hermine Beiderwieden, Mildred Nierman and Flora Rosenthal.
School of Law—George Bush,
Andrew Chrustowski, Oliver Eggers and Louis Lichtsinn.
College of Engineering—Frederick Persson.
College of Pharmacy — Bettie
Ann Borgman and George Roedel.
Student council representatives
are elected in number according
the enrollment of the college they
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Kittenball Season
Will Begin Next
j0 Tuesday, May 9
The intramural kittenball league
will again swing into action when
five games will be played at Brown
field tonight. Rudy Smatlak has
charge. He has asked that the
following rules be observed. Cooperation on the part of the teams
will help avoid confusion:
1. The manager of each
team should report at the field
house before each game to receive the team's bat and ball,
for which he shall be respon-
sibile. They must be returned
immediately after the game.
No person other than the manager will receive any equipment.
2. The manager or a member of each team must keep
the score of each game.
• 8. Games must be played
as scheduled on the diamonds
specified.
Any one willing to offer his
assistance by officiating at games
please call Rudy Smatlak at 585
R Assistance is a necessity and it
will be greatly appreciated.
The schedule of games for the
coming week follows:
Tuesday, Hay 7—7 p. m.
•1.   KDP vs N. Lembke.
2.    Engineers vs Si  De Ka.
5. Phi Pai vs S. Lembke.
4. AE vs Sis Chi.
6. Kappa  Psi vs KIP.
Thursday. May I—7 p. aa.
1. Kappa Psi vi Sig Chi.
2. AE va S. Lembke.
5. Phi Pal vs SI Da Ka.
4. N. Lembke va KIP
5. KDP vs Engineers.
*  Denotes diamond number.
Tribunal Presidents
The students have invested the
powers of tribunal presidency in
the above four men: Daniel Gahl,
Herbert Findling, Arthur Raelson,
Wilbur Strubig.
Council Tribunal
Officers Elected
For 1935-36 Term
Tribunal elections held Monday,
April 15, in the various college
buildings resulted in naming the
following presidents for the school
year 1935-36:
Daniel Gahl, Liberal Arts; Arthur Raelson, School of Law; Wilbur Streubig, College of Pharmacy
and Herbert Findling, College of
Engineering.
These presidents with the officers-elect of Student council will
compose the executive board of the
Council next year. This board has
the task of preparing material for
presentation to the regular Council.
Other officers of the tribunals
are Lois Brauer, secretary of
Liberal Arts; Anthony Aiello, vice-
president and Raymond Broviak,
secretary of the College of Pharmacy; and Arthur Mahler, vice-
president, and Lester Malzahn,
secretary of the College of Engineering.
V. U. Tennis Squad
To Have Busy Week
With Three Meets
Three matches are on the card
for Valparaiso's tennis team for
the coming week's activities. The
three teams scheduled to meet the
Uhlans are Manchester, Ball State
and South Side college of Chicago.
The Manchester affair is to be
played at Manchester on Friday
which will fit into the Spartan's
"May Day" program. On Saturday the Uhlans return to Brown
field and match their strokes
against those of Ball State. On
Tuesday, May 7, the Uhlans travel
to Chicago to face South Side college.
This past Monday the Brown and
Gold squad were to play Ball State
at Muncie but because of wet
courts the match was postponed
until a later date. Coach Christiansen upon being notified about the
postponement declared, "This is
really a break for us for now we
are able to get in that much needed
practice." It looks however that
the break didn't arrive for ever
since Monday old Lady Luck has
frowned upon the Uhlans by sending inclement weather.
EDITORIAL
Adding Interest To Student Elections
Election of officers for the student council are scheduled for
May 7. The student council, in name at least, is THE STUDENT
GOVERNING body. Elections in the past have always been very
dull, and unexciting. The majority of the student body make no
effort to elect the man most fit for the various offices. Some friend
or acquaintance comes along, asks the student to sign the petition
for his candidate, and at election time the student merely votes for
his best friends.
Elections could and ought to be made more interesting on
this campus. The present student council might well do the student body a favor, call a special meeting before May 7, and adopt
some form of election that has proved so popular at other universities.
At present elections are blind affairs. The student votes for
a candidate, knows him personally, but in most cases does not
know what sort of an officer he will be. Too often he is just being
put into office by his own organization so that their prestige may
be added to. To offset this in part the candidates should be made
to set up a platform before election, to which they can be held
responsible during their term of office. In this way the students
could know what to expect. To add spice to the election the candidates could make "stump speeches" and use their own ingenuity
in devising effective campaigns.
Student council, what do you say to this plan? Platforms and
campaigns would not only add interest to elections, but would
insure to a greater measure better service from future student
councils. Are you willing to help in building up a better student
governing body?
KATHRYN WITWER, SOPRANO
ARTIST, TO APPEAR HERE MAY 21
Kathryn Witwer, the girl who
rose from stenographer to one of
the highest positions in the world
of opera, will appear in Valparaiso,
May 21, reports to the contrary
notwithstanding. The Valparaiso
Woman's club is sponsoring the
program.
Miss Witwer is one of the most
highly advertised of American prima donnas. The $150,000 Nash
Christmas program appearance undoubtedly made Miss Witwer one
of the most outstanding soprano
artists. It was a transcontinental
broadcast and the biggest broadcast ever attempted.
At present this opera star is
heard weekly on "The Northerner"
program over radio station WGN,
every Monday evening at 9:30
central daylight saving time. The
Northern Trust company are the
sponsors.
Critics Favorable
Mrs. Ira C. Tilton is president
of the local woman's club, and the
people interested in higher community standards are aiding in
backing this organization. Tickets
will be fifty cents to all.
In a recent article in the Chicago
Herald and Examiner the following quotation appeared:
"Miss Witwer showed ample rea-
V. U. Band To Present
Second Concert May 9
Mr. Harold Rogers and the University band will hold their second
concert of the year in the Auditorium, Thursday, May 9, at 8 p. m.
The following program will   be
presented:
Concert March—Men of Sparta. .Zamecnik
Overture—The Trojan Prince Holmes
Cornet Trio—Flirtations
Novelty—Whistling Farmer Boy. .Fillmore
Suite—A Day in Venezia Nevin
a) Alba
b) Gondolier!
c) Canzone Amorosa
d) Buona Notle
Clarinet Solo—Rigoletto
Kenneth Green
Patrol—Baby Parade Pryor
Tone   Poem—Vistas Gillette
son for the great number of concert engagements which demand her
services throughout the country.
Not only is she greatly experienced
in the matter of voice, and distinguished among American sopranos
by reason of her interpretive talents, but she has learned to make
the English language both beautiful in sound and eloquent in meaning."
NOTICE
Due to a delay of the "cuts"
the results of the Torch "Best
Dressed" Contest can  not  be
published until next week.
Engineer Association
To Hold Spring Banquet
The annual spring banquet of
the Association of Engineers will
be held Wednesday, May 8, at the
Washington Township high school.
Dr. C. E. Bardsley, professor of
hydraulics at the Missouri School
of Mines and Metallurgy, and consulting engineer of RoIIa, Missouri,
will be the principal speaker.
Tickets are being sold through
class representatives at 55 cents
each. All engineers are urged to
be present. This will be the final
social gathering of the Association
this semester.
Freshmen Hope To Start
Tradition With Banquet
The freshmen class, with the
hope of establishing a tradition,
will hold an informal banquet
Monday evening, May 6, at 6:30
in the Lutheran parish hall.
Dr. Walter Bauer will officiate
as master of ceremonies. A human
interest story of the. World War
by Dr. E. G. Schwiebert, an overseas veteran, will be the evening's
feature.
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Friday's Host
Mr. Derrill Place has worked hard
to insure students that Valparaiso
University's first Indiana State
Intercollegiate Oratorical contest
will be a success.
Pres. Kreinheder
Announces Plans
Of V. U. Directors
Dr. Walther A. Maier, nationally
known Lutheran radio hour preacher, will be the main speaker at the
open-air commencement service
June 16, and the Rev. Oscar
Fedder, Chicago, will be the speaker in the morning of the same day
at the Baccalaureate service. This
announcement was made yesterday,
by President 0. C. Kreinheder at
the Valparaiso University Board
of Directors meeting which was
attended by 13 of the 18 members
of the Board.
University dormitory improvements was one of the issues included in the discussion of the
meeting and was referred to the
Committee on Buildings and
Grounds which has the authority
to plan for necessary improvements. It is contemplated by the
committee to make these improvements during the summer months.
A bequest of $7,000 and $1,000
for the Endowment fund was reported by the president of the
University. The gift of $1,000 was
bequeathed the University by a
friend in Crown Point.
The Board members reported
progress in the enrollment of
Minutemen throughout the country
for the University. They further
reported that individual congregations of Synod are answering the
appeal for participation in a Tenth
Anniversary Thanksgiving offering
for the University.
Further plans of the program for
the anniversary will be made within the next week.
WOMEN'S AUXILIARY INVITES
ALL WOMEN TO SILVER TEA
The Valparaiso university women's auxiliary will sponsor a
Silver Tea Wednesday, May 8,
from 2 to 4:30 p. m. at the Henry
Baker Brown house. All University
women are invited. Silver donations will be received.
NOTICES
Senior class dues are to be paid
now. The dues are only $1.00.
Payment should be made to the
treasurer or to Florence Schulte,
Clements Gremel, Gilbert Krause
or Walter Matthews.
Carl Melinat, treas.
606 Brown street.
Pre-Legal meeting Wednesday,
May 8, 8 p. m. at the Sigma Delta
Kappa house.
Education club, Thursday, May
2, at 8 p. m. at Dr. Lindberg's
home. Rev. Schmidt—main speaker. Election of officers.
SEVEN COLLEGES
TO BE PRESENT
FOR STATE MEET
Buescher   To   Represent
Home School
The 1935 Indiana State Intercollegiate Oratorical contest, winners
of which are eligible to compete in
a national contest, will be held Friday evening, May 3, at 8:16 o'clock
in the University auditorium. Admission is free.
The University glee club under
the direction of Mr. Harold Rogers
will open the program with a
short concert. They will also sing
during intermission periods.
Dr. E. G. Schwiebert will act as
chairman of the contest which will
be judged by coaches of the various schools represented, all passing
opinions on contestants other than
their own.
This is the first time in the history of the school that Valparaiso
has been host to an affair such as
this.
The Contestants
A complete list of speeches, contestants  and   schools   represented
follows:
"Soapbox Peace," Walter Bue- •
scher, Valparaiso university;
"Neighbors In A World Community," T.
Franklin Miller, Anderson
college {"Building For Peace,"
Levi Hartzler,
Goshen col-
lege; "The
Ghostly Challenge," David
D.Webb, Earl-
ham college; "The Real Menace
To World Peace," Robert L. McVie,—
Wabash college; "A Word That
Moves A World," Winston Bram-
bach, Manchester college; "Pet
Paradoxes," Milton Persons, Taylor university.
Prizes awarded by the Misses
Helen and Mary Seabury of New
Bedford, Mass. are as follows: first
prize, $50.00; second prize, $30.00;
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"Wind And Rain"
To Be Presented
At Fitting Time
Buescher
College life as seen by Merton
Hodge in his three act comedy,
"Wind In The Rain," is to be given
May 23 at the Memorial opera
house. Mr. Place, director, explained that the date set was near
graduation and the play will fit
in well with the spirit which accompanies that time o' the year.
Some men can never five without a woman's influence. And so
it is with our hero who had always been his mother's little "darling." Going away to school was
a break which many students feel
when untying themselves from
mother's apron strings for the
first time. So thought the young
doctor in the play. He needed a
woman's help. For five long years
in the medical school he craved
the understanding which before he
had received only from his mother,
and which now he must seek elsewhere.
"Wind In The Rain" was quite
successful in New York having a
fifteen weeks run on Broadway.