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And So Ernie Does Not Mention Katharine Hepburn's Sisters Who Are College Girls at Bennington.

ENXNNINGTON, Vt, Oct. 5.—Four of the girls of Bennington College took me to lunch. I felt old, and couldn't make talk. They were nice girls, and helped me over the humps. We had black bean soup, and the girl at my left discovered she had read my column in Cleveland. That made things wonderful, and her name was Barbara Haas. We had asparagus salad. and | the girl at mv right asked if I'd | ever been in Hawaii. Had I! That gave me a chance to brag. and her | name was Mary Harriman. i We had peaches and cream, and the girl in the gray suit said she | racket was swell. I] how else would I get! Her name was |

thought do, too. for into a girls’ school? June Torrey. { We had cigarets, and the girl with the bangs said they'd even take me into No Man's Land and show m eir rooms. Her name was Elizabeth Shoepperele, and I

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liked her, too. All but one of the girls were seniors, and if three vears here has done them any harm I couldn't see it. They showed me several of the rooms. Each girl has a single room, furnished with maple bed, desk, chair and bureau. The girl furnishes evervthing else. They all looked so tasteful and homey you'd like to | sit down and read all afternoon { When we were introduced. I didn't get any names, | So after we parted I checked with one of the faculty on their names. And this Mary Harriman at my right—who do you suppose she was? Her papa the Union Pacific Railroad, that's all. talked to in |

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Gia I suppose she's the richest girl I ever my life. But gee. she was nice! i There are a lot of rich girls here, whose papas have big names. The school doesn't like to have them men- | tioned too often. But I mention Mary Harriman because she shows you can be rich and nice too. Her | sister is also here. . And there are a couple of other well-known sisters here. They're written up, it seems, every time they stick their heads off the campus. “Why don’t you distinguish yourself.” one person said to me, “by not | mentioning Katharine Hepburn's sisters at all?” { 0. K. Consider me distinguished Rennington is’ an expensive school, about it. The tuition is $1000 a year room costs another $650. Additional run from nothing te anvwhere. Bennington has the reputation a fashionable Yet there are many poor girls here. About | two-thirds of the students pay the full $1000 tuition. | The others get “grants” ranging from a few dollars | down to absolutely free tuition. If Bennington finds a girl it wants, it doesn’t let | her dad's lack of money stand in the way. Nearly half | the girls do some outside work to help pay their way. | The bulk of these are waitresses in the college dining | rooms. |

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Solving the “Date” Problem

Every vear the college takes one outstanding girl from Bennington high school—a girl who can't afford | to go to college—and thev give her tuition, board, | room. evervthing free | Because of this, Bennington College stands high in the eves of the less wealthy people of Bennington | town. Also. the far upper strata are all for the collene. But it's the midole class sneer at the school. Among them, Bennington College is without honor in its home town { The students come mainly from Boston and New | York. But recently people farther away have been hearing about Bennington, This year, 22 states are represented The town of Bennington has only a thimbleful bovs. So the boy problem becomes a big one. The Williams College, 15 miles away in Mas-

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of answer is sachusetts And this is very funny in some ways. Williams is | an cold. old conservative school. So you can see that Williams wouldn't like its traditionalized blue-bloods ! associated with these radical Bennington blue-bloods. | But associate thev do. and there 1s quite a young | love path beaten between the two schools. And, as far | as I ever knew, that's what college is for anyhow.

My Diary

By Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt

First Lady Is Impressed by the | Beauty of the Kentucky Landscape.

OWLING GREEN, Ky, En Route—Last night, for old friendship’s sake, we broke our rule of always stopping at hotels, and spent the night in Louisville, Ky. with Mr, and Mrs. Barry Bingham, son of the late Ambassador, i What beautiful country this is! From the terrace | to the big house, which we visited this morning. there is a view over the tops of the trees, which are just beginning to turn, to the Ohio River. As we drove along this river last night, Mr. Bingham told me that during the flood there were 40 feet of water over the road. One can still see the repair work going on. The voung Binghams have a delightful house. It started as a very small house for a lone lady and has been added to twice until it now very comfortably accommodates 2 young and growing family. I always enjoy houses which have been added to, because they have such unexpected features. In this one, you go down two flights to ‘he dining room. After being interviewed by three ladies of the press, I changed from my traveling clothes and had the pleasure before dinner of seeing three charming children—two boys and a little girl. She was born just at the time of the flood. so she will carry through life a constant reminder that she is a “flood baby.” The auditorium was crowded and I had to go outside and stand on a table for a minute to say a word of greeting to those who could not get in. This Women’s Institute is a delightful contribution offered to the women of the state bv the Louisville CourierJournal. It gives them opportunities which even the university cannot duplicate. It was a joy to see President and Mrs. McVey again, who came with some friends to see us after the lecture.

NYA and PWA Projects Interesting

At 10 o'clock this morning, we started off to see Miss Lou Tate, who has been doing some very interesting research in old weaving patterns. It has never been my privilege to see so many collected before. From there we were accompanied by the NYA and WPA state directors, and went to visit two projects. Both of them were housed in abandoned schoolhouses. The first one, an NYA youth center for white boys and girls, had as its main work, a sewing room | and a wood-working shop. In the related activities, the youngsters had an opportunity to many | other things and enjoy some recreation. Then we went to a colored girls’ sewing center housed in the same building as a WPA women's project. They told me that only 10 per cent of the girls and women knew how to sew when they came on this project and it is astonishing to see what really charming dresses and what well-made overalls lor men they are now turning out. We are now on the train en route for Nashville,

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Bob Burns Says—

OLLYWOOD, Oct. 5—This is the greatest country in the world for automobiles. I heard one fella | sav that his house leaked so bad that when it rained, the family goes out and sleeps in the limousine. 1 heard another fella tell his boy to take the car in and fill her up and if he had any money left, get a loaf of bread. ; Last summer 1 was going through a little town in the Middle West and I stopped in a bank to cash a check for $10. The banker says, "I Know the check is good, but there ain't that much money in | the bank, but I'll take you over to the gasoline sta-

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By Paul Boxell Times Bloomington Correspondent BLOOMINGTON, Oct. 3. —If Bud and Mary write home to say thev're afraid they've returned to the wrong school, just bear with them and probably in a few days another letter will tell you everything is all right—it's Indiana University, after all. With no less than 30 new faces greeting them in the classrooms and administrative offices, and with additional new buildings popping up and old ones going down in heaps of lumber, they're apt to be a bit confused during their first month or so on the campus. Since Herman B. Wells became president last March, the I. U. faculty personnel has undergone a reconstruction program equaled only by the 1889 expansion efforts of David Starr Jordan. And the program is only half completed, President Wells says. As soon as he gets the academic wheels rolling smoothly for the new semester, he will resume his search for “almost as many new members as were appointed this vear, including deans of the Schools of Business and Dentistrv.” Most of these will be replacements for veterans affected by new provisions enacted by the Legislature for retirement at 70. Eighteen of the new appointees are filling such vacancies. Youth has been injected into the faculty in strong doses with the addition of these new members. The average age of all 30 newcomers lies in the middle 30s. Youngest to be named is 23-year-old Dr. William M. Degnan, who received the Ph. D. degree from Yale just last spring. Oldest members of the group are 46. » » »

OBERT E. SANDERS. Music School dean. is the youngest of the eight new departmental heads. He is 32. Only two of the others are more than 40. President Wells, himself 36 and one of the country’s youngest university presidents, declares. howthat “we had no deliberate intentions of selecting young men. There were, nevertheless, several factors which made it natural that younger men should be chosen. “Principally, there was a desire on the part of older faculty members themselves for the selection of younger colleagues. They felt we should obtain men who had just entered, or at least had not passed, the most productive period

| of their lives, considered, I believe,

between 30 and 50. “Our salary scale is lower, of course, than those of heavily endowed institutions and the larger Midwestern schools. So, it's not easily possible to attract the top ranking men in every field who have established themselves elsewhere. “Our best program is most cases, then. was to secure the most promising younger men obtainable. In them we have the leaders of tomorrow. Their successes will be identified with this university, » » ” “PPLEASE don't misunderstand me. There were hundreds of applicants for each post to be filled. many of them highly capable educators, so that we had to be keenly selective in choosing our men. Indiana is definitely a major league school, and is interested only in major league ‘talent. “Where our salary scale fell short we had to use other attractions—such as laboratory and research opportunities, advancement, and home-town ties here— to persuade many of these men to join us. “Not all of the newcomers need be rated as ‘promising,’ however. Some have fulfilled their promise; they come to I. U. with world recognition in their fields already won.” President Wells, Dean Fernandus Payne of the Graduate School and Dean H. L. Smith of the School of Education attended meetings of associations such as

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1938

New Faculty Faces at |. U.

30 Staff Changes Made; Program Only Half Completed, Says Wells

Dr. Allan C. G. Mitchell, phys-

ics department head.

the Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Chemical Society, soliciting the opinions of leaders of these groups. » » ~ HEN the president and Deans Pavne and Smith hustled about the country a total of some 33.414 miles by train, plane, bus

and auto, investigating 354 prospects. Of that number, they interviewed 190. Additional interviews with the more favored prospects followed. The final act was consideration of the appointments by the trustees. The division most drastically affected is the physics department, where a new director and three assistants have been named. Prof. Allan C. G. Mitchell, formerly chairman of the New York University department of physics, is the new department head. Dr. Mitchell will embark on wide scale experimentation in atom smashing and is bringing to this campus from N. Y. U. 200 milligrams of radium for research into “the fundamental nature of energy and matter.” The university is building a large cyclotron which will generate five million volts of electricity for Dr. Mitchell and his staff. His new assistants are Dr. Franz N. D. Kurie, coming from the University of California where he was a research associate in the radiation laboratory; Dr. Lawrence M. Langer, who served as Dr. Mitchell's assistant at N. Y. U. and won the Morse Medal in 1934; and Dr. Emilie J. Konopinski, native of Michigan City and author of several papers on nuclear physics. = EJ =

THER “new faces” Bud and Mary arc likely te meet as they attend classes include: Dr. Emil Artin, professor of

mathematics, internationally recognized for work in number theory and modern algebra; coming from Notre Dame university. Dr. Ralpn E. Cleland, head of

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Dr. Edward D. Seeber, associate French and Italian professor.

Robert L. Sanders, dean of the

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botany department, widely known for studies in genetics; coming from Goucher College. Casper O. Dahle, principal of new demonstration school, teacher in Middle West public schools for 15 years. Dr. H. H. Cook, assistant professor of French and Italian; member of University of Wiscon-

sin faculty since 1926. Dr. Edward D. Seeber, associate professor of French and Italian; authority on 18th Century French literature; from College of Charleston. Daniel L. Hamilton, assistant professor of French and Italian, former faculty memberships at Northwestern, University of Texas, Jacksonville College, Amarillo College and the University of Chicago. Dr. Aubrey Diller, assistant professor of Greek; instructor in Greek and Latin at Michigan University and Heidelberg College. John E. Stempel, head of the journalism department; I. TU. graduate, formerly New York Sun copy editor and Easton (Pa.) Express news executive.

Dr. Robert G. Stephens, in-

Dr. Franz N. D. Kurie, assistant physics professor.

Dr. William M. Degnan, youngest of the new appointees. structor in philosophy: coming here from Yale University. ” ” # R. SANDERS, Music School dean. composer, conductor and teacher; from University of Chicago. Samuel T. Burns, professor of public school music; formerly at Ohio State, Northwestern and Columbia Universities. William E. Ross, assistant professor of voice; former member of Chicago City Opera Co. Dr. Robert Theodore Ittner, assistant professor of German and acting department head; from the University of Illinois. Richard C. Murray, business administration instructor; DePauw graduate; from Tulsa Central High School. Ernest Cohn, lecturer in advertising; former officer of Indianapolis Advertising Club and extension school lecturer. Edith M. Evans, lecturer in advertising; I. U. extension lecturer in Indianapolis. Dr. Degnan, instructor in chemistry; laboratory assistant in advanced organic chemistry at Yale last year. Dr. Walter Wall, assistant instructor in German department; from Ohio State University.

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Dr. Aubrey Diller, assistant professor of Greek,

Mr. Emil Artin, professor . of

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. ROSS BARTLEY, News Bureau director; I. U. graduate; former Associated Press Bureau correspondent and executive; correspondent on President Harding tours; secretary to Vice President Dawes, and director of promotions at Chicago Century of Progress. Mrs. Kate Hevner Mueller, dean of women; degrees from Wilson

College, Columbia, and University of Chicago; psychology instructor at Wilson College and University of Minnesota. Mrs. Lottie M. Kirby, associate dean of women; I. U. graduate; former executive of Indiana State Business and Professional Women’s Clubs. Leah Weidman, instructor in home economics; from Des Moines High School faculty. Margaret Rufsvold, instructor in library science; speaks, writes and reads Norse and French; reads Italian, Latin and Spanish; from Teachers College, Columbia University. Branch McCracken, head basketball coach; from Ball State. Carl Anderson, assistant football coach; from Western Kentucky State Teachers College, where he was head football coach.

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TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

1—How long is the term of U. S. Senators? 2—What does the college degree LL.B stand for?

3—What state is represented in Congress by Senator Hiram W. Johnson?

4—Where is the Adour River?

a—In which state are the Adirondack Mountains?

6—How long does the Governor of New York hold office? T7—How many feet are in the U. S. nautical mile? 8—What is the correct abbreviation of the word merchandise? 2 »n ”

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Ind.

Washington

By Raymond Clapper

Roosevelt All Along Has Objected To Farley's Plan for Switching Lehman and Wagner, He Learns.

ASHINGTON, Oct. 5.—President Roosevelt and his political manager, Postmaster General Farley, appear to have crossed wires, if not words, over the New York Governorship. Mr. Farley has been trying for months to persuade Senator Wagner to switch and run for nomination as Governor. Two or three days before

the Democratic State Convention last week Senator

Wagner announced that he would run for re-election to the Senate and nothing else. Faced with that refusal, Mr. Farley turned to Governor Lehman and persuaded him to abandon his ambition to go to the Senate and to run instead for a fourth term as Governor. Now I learn on authority which cannot be questioned that Mr. Roosevelt has never favored switching Senator Wagner to the Governorship, that for months he has wanted Mr. Lehman to run for Governor again. The President, it is definitely stated, has always been in favor of Governor Lehman running for a fourth term, even in face of Mr. Leh= man’s letter opposing the Supreme Court Bill. Mr, Roosevelt felt that Mr. Wagner could easily be reelected to the Senate. He could not see why anyone wanted to take Mr. Wagner out of the Senate and put him in Albany. He argued that while people would vote for Wagner for the Senate, they might be uncertain about him as Governor. Similarly he thought voters would take Mr. Lehman for the Governorship, | but not necessarily for the Senate. In other words,

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| Mr. Roosevelt could not see that it was good politica

to switch Senator Wagner and Governor Lehman,

| preferring that each man run for his old job on the | record he had made in it. | position long before Mr. Dewey came into the pic=~

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ture as the probable Republican candidate. That's the story as it comes to me on a stack of Bibles.

Scrambled Politics in Kansas

Mr. Farley. on his recent trip to Kansas. put the blessing on Senator Capper, Republican, describing

| him as a “pretty good New Dealer, who has such a | good record of New Deal performance that I invite | him to come over with us formally and help make | the voice of Kansas in indorsement of the New Deal unanimous.”

Senator Capper didn’t budge. It’s a good thing

| he didn’t, because Kansas politics are badly enough

| scrambled this year as it is. One conservative said | “There aren’t enough real Republicans left around | here to start a bridge game.” Some important Republican support will go to | Democratic Governor Huxman, up for re-election, | not on the New Deal issue, but in spite of it. The Re publican candidate, Ratner, is considered somewhaf leftish. At the same time some Democratic leaders are suspected of being sympathetic to a move to knife Senator McGill, the Democratic candidate for reelection, and Mr. Farley came to his support when he spoke in Kansas a few days ago.

Jane Jordan—

Don't Be Alarmed, She Says, by an Older Man Writing Love Letters.

EAR JANE JORDAN—What do you think of a 37-year-old man who has a wife in another state, but who writes to girls, not mentioning that he is married, and who plasters his photographs and pictures of his house from one end of the globe to the other? There is a man who holds an assistant foreman’s position where I work who does this. I think he must be in his second childhood to send his name { and picture to women of all nationalities. He seems | to think it is smart to show the boys at work letters | from girls who think he might make a prospective | suitor and who want to visit him. The poor women do not know the true circumstances. What do you think? BUD.

Answer—I think what you think and what every | other sober-minded person thinks—that the man is making himself ridiculous. You can call it his sec= ond childhood if you wish, but the chances are he did not have a first childhood worth speaking of. I | imagine his adolescent years were rather sparse, filled with hard work and deprivation, lacking in romantic attachments. His marriage, too, I am willing to wager, is a drab one. Now that his youth is beginning to slip away, he is trying to compensate for all that has been lost by building up an incredible yarn about himself. Don’t you know that full many a man older than 37 pictures himself as a gay Lothario? Few go to such lengths as this man. As you represent the situation, he carries on his fantasy through letters and never tries to come down to cases. His method of establishing himself as a lover of great note is comparatively harmless. I should say that his letters to | foreign nations are particularly fruitless so far as any | actual misdemeanor is concerned. Why interfere with his fun since he does nothing but write about it? Perhaps the poor gullible women who regard him | as a prospective suitor get as much fun out of the | correspondence as he does. Probably he would run a | mile if he met one of them face to face.

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EAR JANE JORDAN-—I am 25 years old and have just got out of prison, I am in love with a young | man whom I met just lately. He is married to a woman who has consumption and is nof expected to live much longer. He wants me to wait for him, but that sounds as if we wish her to die, but we don’t. | I am sorry for her. Should I keep geing with him and | tell him about being in prison? ROSE. Answer—You have no choice but to tell the man yon | have been in piison. If you don’t tell him, somebody | else will. In view of your unfortunate record. wouldn't | it be well to exercise more discretion in going with a married man whose wife is fatally ill? If it is discovered, you will have another count against you | which you cannot afford. It also would be better taste on his part not to make love to another woman while his wife is in this condition. JANE JORDAN.

Put your problems in a letter to Jane Jordan, who will answer your questions in this column daily. 3

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