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Mary Collins (Q), had charge of the Dorothy lllidge ( A £ ) . was Junior P th: i: Qtizen's Union indorses Jessie J£ughan
ess •diiuring Junior Week-end at
htivants Health Camp at r p E N of a group of forty-seven New York City candidates for the State As-
X sembly were indorsed yesterday by the Citizens Union. The organization refused
Greenville, Ohio. full indorsement for re-election to each Assemblyman w h o failed to support at the
special session the bill conferring immunity upon witnesses called before the joint
university of Oregon. She is president legislative committee now investigating municipal affairs.
of the Archery Club and has a gold
medal for her accomplishments iu The recommendations were made after the report of the organization's com-
national telegraphic meet mittee on local candidates had been tabulated, and each judgment is based on the
"public acts, capacity and character of candidates, irrespective of party affiliations."
r\ i The candidates were asked to express themselves, without making specific pledges, on
seven topics likely to be subjects of legislation during the 1932 session.
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In explaining its refusal to indorse candidates for re-election who failed to
4 support the immunity bill, the organization said that "the only inference that
could be drawn f r o m the attitude of leaders of the locally dominant political
Madeline Bernard ('31), Martha Temple Maurine Garret (£), represented the organization was that they were seeking to protect individuals who properly have
('31), and Virginia Smith ('31 J, alum- Grecians in the pageant given by the no place in any political organization pledged to honest public service." The state-
na_ of Pi Delta, have received Fellow- School of Home Economics at the ment also declared that "those who submitted to the dictates of these leaders placed
ships at the University of Maryland themselves i n the position of encouraging concealment of facts and impending
for the year. They are studying zoology, University of Oklahoma. ascertainment of the truth concerning governmental conditions in New York City."
home economics and French, The favored candidates were graded in three categories, which were " i n -
respectively. dorsed," "qualified," and "preferred." I t was explained that "indorsement of a
candidate means that the Citizens Union commends the candidate t o the voters
and believes his election highly desirable; by qualified is meant that the candidate
is deemed fit f o r office, although not necessarily to such a degree as to j u s t i f y
indorsement; by preferred i t is meant that the candidate, although not necessarily
fully qualified, is considered the preferable candidate of those seeking the office."
The recommendations follow:
3rd A.D.—Jessie Wallace Hughan ( A ) , (Soc), indorsed. Miss Hughan possesses
intellect and training that fit her for this office.—New York Herald Tribune
<JMore of Kodak Qpntest and ^Marion Jfaller
A / [ R S . J O H N F. H A L L E R (Marion W . Staples, E '25), of Middlebury, Ver-
IVJL mont, has received a check for $3,000 as first prize for the best snapshot
taken in the United States this summer, according to an announcement in The
New York Times.
Mrs. Haller's photograph, which was of her baby daughter, Patricia, was one
of mort than 1,300,000 photographs which were submitted in America to an inter-
national competition offering more than $100,000 in prizes.
Five other major prizes of $500 each, and nearly 1,000 smaller prizes, have
also been awarded. The six m a j o r winning photographs w i l l be sent t o Geneva to
compete against 276 winners f r o m other parts of the world.—Cornell Alumnus News
