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When you tune in the "Super-Suds" girls, Clara, /.», and Em, arc you aware that the (AXQ), Helen Waldo ( K A 0 ) , and Marguerite D. Winant ( A r ) , the
center of the trio, Lu, is none other than Isabel Carruthers, of Kappa Kappa Gammar' other members. Any member of Alpha Omicron Pi interested in apply-
— zSfnd Other Qreek <J\ews —
P H I BETA KAPPA announces the appearance in January of a new
quarterly, The American Scholar. This periodical is designed not only
for members of Phi Beta Kappa but for all who are interested in
scholarly endeavors. It is a non-technical journal of intellectual life. "A
whole diet for the whole mind" will be found in this new magazine. Sub-
scriptions are two dollars a year and may be ordered from the offices
of The United Chapters of Phi Beta Kappa, 145 West 55 th Street,
New York. The first number contained articles by such people as John
Erskine, John Finley, Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Owen D. Young, John
W. Davis, and Frank Aydelotte.
K A T H E R I N E NOBLE (ITB<i>), a graduate of Knox College, Galesburg,
Illinois, won the second New York City Panhellenic scholarship of $500.
The third scholarship award will be announced on April 1, 1932, and
will be available for use in the fall of 1932. Our Stella George Stern
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Perry (A), is on the award committee. Helen Knox (KKT), is chair-
man, with Mrs. Robert A. Harper ( A * ) , Mrs. Arthur K . Schulz
ing may receive information from Mrs. Ralph S. Marx (%), Bowles
Hall, Berkeley, California. Do not consider the scholarship unless you
are a college senior or graduate by April 1, 1932, and desire to spend
the college year of 1932-33 in study in New York City. Application
should be made by February 1.
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T H E REPRINT which follows comes from the pen of Oswald C. Her-
ing, editor of The Delta Kappa Epsilon Quarterly (which we've seen in
spite of their exchange policies!). We rarely feel that we can reprint
much material from other magazines because of our limited space, but
we felt that Mr. Hering's ideas are too interesting and vital to be read
by Dekes alone.
In line with the principle that consecutive drops of water will wear away a
stone, we have been dripping, at quarterly intervals, during the past seven years,
on the White Rock of Prohibition, until this colossal gall-stone has taken on a
perceptible concavity. We propose, now, to turn the hose on the Follies of 19—.
After numerous rehearsals, since the beginning of the current century, pre-
paratory to the initial opening of the first of the Follies, the curtain finally went
up on July 1, 1914. The Great War was, unquestionably, a "smash." Then fol-
lowed a number of minor Follies, in which were featured the women who
wrecked the cotton and wool industries, and the men who mortgaged their future
by buying stocks on margins, and household goods on the installment plan. In
1920 came the second smash hit, "The Eighteenth Amendment"—with its inimitable
"Volstead Act"—followed, two years later, by the stupendous Folly—"The Treaty
of Versailles."
In their wake came ''The Bootlegger," "The' Racketeer," "The Gangster," "The
Night Club," "The Smoot-Hawley Tariff Bill," "The Farm Relief Board," and
various others, put on by crooks, bankers, economists, and politicians. The out-
standing hit of 1928 was that side-splitting frolic, "Hoover and Prosperity," and
r'ght on its heels came the most sensational and spectacular production of all
time—"The Crash of 1929."
Since then, we have been given "Looking Backward" and "If," but they were
not so hot.
We respectfully suggest that the "Follies" be given a rest, and that, for a
sPell, we have a revival of the "Legitimate." The main obstacle in the way of this
Pr°gram is that 3 5 per cent of the adult population, those born and brought up in
tfte jazz years, do not know the meaning of "Legitimate." Living in abnormal
tunes, they have grown up in an era of hysteria. The poor lambs can't be blamed
*or assuming that the habits and customs of the past two decades were normal.
These youths and maids, products of heredity, but mostly of environment, have
Cached maturity after the slow process of character building. How are they to be
Wade to understand that while they were children the world went mad and that
consequently most of their notions are crazy?
, The salvation of the world will rest with the new generation—those who will
nave reached their maturity after the great debacle of 1929. Unless our eyes and
ears deceive us, there is a seriousness in the look, talk, and the behavior of the job
"Unting college class of 1931 that foreshadows a new era. These youths know that
^wething has gone wrong with the machinery of present-day civilization, and that
n the fall of 1929 more than a screw became loose. The whole works began to
A C K . Their job will be to build anew.