Acacia Triagram - August 1941

u friendly adviser on fraternity features and some interesting explanations showing the way to

The Triagram Published by

THE ACACIA FRATERNITY August

Edited by Herschel L. Washinqton, National Editor 1322 Commerce Bldg., Kansas City, Mo.

1941

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"To Strengthen the Ties of Friendship" "It is your desire and mine that your next four years be very successful and happy ones. These years can be the greatest experience in your life. This booklet is int&nded to provide you and your parents with facts needed to make an intelligent appraisal of the general fraternity system and of Acacia Fraternity in particular. The values are relative and whether or not you affiliate with a fraternity is a rather personal problem, which must be based on your conscientious observations. Acacia Fraternity has always stood for those ideals that strive for the best in us, and has sincerely lived up to the name of a fraternity-a brotherhood of strong ties.''

WALTER W . KOLBE. Nationa l Prealdent of Acacia.

PLEASE REMEMBER:

That the man who has had the opportunity to consider his fraternity preference before the activities of rush week actually begin, usually makes a better choice. That the only fraternity that costs too much is one that does not give a full return. That the product offered must be worthy of consideration by the buyer. That the fraternity is a non-profit organization which was created, and continues to function, for the benefit of its membership. That the heart of a fraternity is the fellowship of the members. That Acacia sets its price, maintains its standards and requires that a man measure up; Acacia has always commanded admiration and respect of present members and prospective pledges.

Walter W . Kolbe

Huaky football playora take time out to dlacuas prospects and opponenta.

Dear New Student! could have called you Jack, or Pete, or Bob, but you are s ¡ l a ne s uden. Co si er yourself properly saluted!

From the time you entered high school and perhaps even fur he bac , you have al ays heard about college fraternities. The boys before you, and perhaps your older bro her, have all helped to give you your presen idea s on college frat ern ¡ es. Ha you s op analyze yourself and ask, "Just what do I know about a fra erm y?" I never 1d, b i I i I'd have found I didn't know a red cent's worth. I'd always heard abou ra erni ies, b t my ideas were spotty and rather vague-some thing abou a bunch of fello s who lived in a big house, stayed out late at night, had a mascot named Tige, called hemselves by Gree letters I could never remember, did as little studying a s possible, wore bo ies an ore around in all kinds of cars. My parents a lways referred to fra ernities as " those fra hou es."

After registering at the university I began to g et a lot of mail from di ferent houses an calls from many of them. A few of the boys came to my town to see me and impresse me very much with their ways and what they knew about everything an I li ed hem a lot.

I did all I could to arrange dates with all the different houses-and I liked them all. They were swell fellows, but I had a hard time deciding which ones I liked he best. I didn' have dates enough nor time enough to know them all. At the end of a very full an very interesting rush week crammed full of cokes, dinners, b ull sessions, swimming, and alks abou t scores and batting averages, I was finally chosen by a house I liked and pledged nd I still didn't know any more about fraternities. Bu t I thought I did!! My experiences from there on out have meant a lot to me and I thoug ht you might like to know just a little abou t what you can and should expect from your fraternity.

"The fraternity must help the man to attain the requirements of a man among men in the positions demanded of him in the years to come."

You came ocollege o rece1ve an educa 'on. What a, simple s atemen 1 Will you get one? Firs of all, Y<;>U ~ant receive an education because the university doesn t gtve one; all it can do is o giVe you an opportunity and the m~ns ~o educa e yourself. Someone once said that an educatiOn 1s like a bunch of keys to use to get something when you need 1 . Recen ly, a group of college presidents and fraternity ~e?, in a "Report on Relations Bet:vee~, College and F~ate,~nlty gave a definition of an education .. Formal education, they said, "by organizing human expenence, devel.ops the many desirable potentialities of the student. It stimulates selfexpression; it fosters self-government, and promot~s responsible leadership; it encourages self-development, and strengthens zeal for service." Today, in times that are unusual and men are called upon to do more clear thinking than ever before, college men are giving serious thought to what will be demanded of them in the world outside the campus. The answer is not in mathematical terms, nor in statistical terms of economics or of science; but rather in the capacity for work, the will to see a job through, clear thinking, and physical and moral control in order to capitalize on the ability you already have. The fraternity must help the man to attain the requirements of a man among men in the positions demanded of him in the years to come.

Yes, a fraternity is a social organization; but surely the socia l life of young men engaged in the most fascinating intellectual adventure that they may eve r have should differ radically from that of a group of playboys or politicians in a sma ll tow n . A restricted educational background, in class or out, restricts the level of thinking a nd achievement you desire. Each of you nurses the secret ambition and hope to become a leader and a positive force in your community, or in the wider world beyond. Your socia l life is a reflection of what you think and are. If you are men of purpose, and if you are thinking of the selfdevelopment which will translate your dreams of influence and leadership into actuality, should not your chapter life in a fraternity reflect and promote these? Why cheat yourself of a fighting chance to attain an ambition?

Life, surprisingly enough, will teach you that what you know w ill count for far less than what you a re. It is your charaCter and personality which will determine how far any ability you have will carry you. And this is the time to think of your character and personality.

Where is there a better place to develop these than among a friendly group of fellows of high character and moral calibre? Now is a time to ta ke a businesslike inventory of your aiisets and liabilities, and concentrate on getting yourself out of the red. There can be a no more significant role of your fraternity than that of helping you to do this.

"The fraternity is in a position to promote not only the education of its members, but to give particular emp ha sis to the individual."

The fraternity is in a position to promote not only the education of its members, but to give particular emphasis to the individual. The primary concern of a university is the intellectual development of its students, and there is a broader and more practica l education than that of academic work or studies of the classroom. Since the fraternity is an accepted part of the educational system, the primary objectives of the university a re also the ob jectives of the fraternity. Too often institutions overlook the environment of the stud ents and individuals, and the fraternity is in a position in which it cannot overlook this.

Perhaps the greatest field for fraternities from the educationa l standpoint is in developing the social and ethical being of its members. This is the realm of persona lity and character. From a list that appeared in a recent fraternity publication, those th ings are given here in which a fraternity can help in this field of Education: l. Since the fraternity is an organization of young men of about the same age, bound by common idea lism, the members can criticize each other in a constructive manner.

2. A fra emiy can develop spiri ua l a l e, no onl viduals, ins i u ions, and the na ion.

3. It can create and p omo e social habi s, co nd .on , and c s o manners, etique te, courtesy, emperance--in all h'ngs, lo al y, an 4. A fraternity is in an excellen posi ion o de e op an intellectual, bu also physical and moraL 5. They can develop the highes ype of friendsh 路p beca se a brotherhood!

6. Most importan of all, a fraterni y ca n each is membe o man.

One of many fraternities is Acacia Fra e rni y, bu o kno that has contributed to these important func ions a nd .oles of of a man's life for over four d ecades. The creed of he fra er y is: "To of friendship, one with the other. To pre pare ourselves as ed ca ed me o a a live part in the affairs of the commun ity in which we may reside. n bo e all, o truth, and knowing it, to give light to those w i h whom e may e assoc1a e along life's pathway." This creed and the me n who li e by his creed exp e s any other expression, the aims and the essenc e of Aca cia.

Joe E in, '41.

The Acacian counts his gains in dignity and strenqth in term of as ocia1ion with men to whom belief in real fraternalism 路 synonymous with living a. tull Lif that fraternalism which w 11 up from the h art - which is another name for love of justic and charity- in a word. love for his fellow men.

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The Acacian. as a true fraternity man, has believed that his fraternity has b eo doing something for the individual. In that respect he considers himself fortunate in having likewise received certain immeasurable benefits. Among these. naturally. the most cherished is friendship.

The Acacian's deep appreciation of th motives on which Acacia was found ed, has seemed to him never more desirable and vital to the usefulness of his po ition than in these present times.

Acacia has carried on quite remarkably in a changing world. It has kept on iusti路 fying its existence through the fulfillment of useful aims. Yes, Acacia has remained one of the qreat forces for good.

Acacia! It takes something to erect a solid foundation and make it serve the structure for which it was intended. inspi路 rationally and lastingly! The transmission of Acacia standards in fraternalism is practical to carry out because they are the natural process of orderly living.

To Acacians Acacia is like the eternal fire that glows at the top of any other qreat American shrine. As Acacia travels toward qreater fraternalism the respondent gleam of a precious emblem continues to shine and light the future.

These Things Are True

Greek Fraternities and Their Backgrounds The American college frate rnity is unique. Corresponding to the American college fra1ernity, the Eurcr peon Unive rsities have student societies, many of which are old and have much tradition back of the m. Honor and prestig e accompanies bo th these societies and the Ame rican fra1emity. Some of the American fraternities have spread fro m the United Sta1es into Canada, but the Canadian chapters are founded on the same principles as in the United Sta1es.

The Student Societies of European colleges (which we hope will and can flourish again after the present awful turmoil in Europe) are ancient affairs-many having an actual age that will make the oldest American college fra1ernity young by comparison. A knowledge of the European and American systems of higher learning demonstrates the grea1 difference which exists between the>se institutions.

In Europe, higher education has always been restricted to the social aristocracy. But in America, higher educa1ion has developed into o very democra1ic system. lass distinctions are not folowed. It is only na1ural tha1 wherever students should congrega1e, they should organize instinctively into roups of common purpose and interest. It is an instinct f man to organize into

Occasionally one should tum to -introspection to discover what makee up the system of things he is in. The fraternity system is no exception. A fratemlt7 has many challenges and here are some of my interpretations and conclualoaa as an undergradua1e member of a fraternity.

A fraternity has certain ideals which it should achieve. The fraternities aN not yet achieving these ideals, but they are living, growing institutions. We have not reached our ultimate. We are still striving toward the ideals we hoaestly admit we have not yet reached. Yet. my personal experience makes me proud of my fraternity-proud to be a part of it. And I am certain that becCNM of it, definitely because of it, I have gained much from the university that I mlqht otherwise have missed.

The Church sets up ideals which it admittedly has not attained, yet its members do not cry that they are ashamed. Those who are conscientious, buckle down and try to improve the church. They do not look for marked improvement overnight; instead, they look far into the future. The people of a church are far from being ashamed-they are proud.

The business relations of the . world are far from perfect. There is a code of ethics which is not followed too well, but there has been progress in businea along these lines, and continues to be. One does not throw up his hands when he finds the business relations imperfect and the ethical code disreqarded. crying shame the while and hurling insults at associates. One strives for a goaL We as individuals do not commit hari kari because we have not risen to the heights of human goodness-we are ashamed of ourselves. We should be concerned, yes, but death is the coward's way out. A strong man will fight for his ideal. Very few things are perfect, and I am glad they are not-there are always gQals to strive toward and work for, feeling the sweet taste of accomplishment in the end.

Acacia does not depend on sentiment alone to hold its members; their loyalty is also based upon honorable pride, which stimulates in the members an urge to stand higher in scholarship, conduct and proper management, in order that the group may be h eld in highest esteem by the college authorities.

Fraternities have their goals and ideals. It may be admiHed without bluahlaq too readily that there are faults in the fraternity system: I would be surpriaeclll there were not. Of my fraternity, which is the only one I can speak of with sufficient knowledge, I do say it has made much progress toward worth-while ideals.

To get man to thinking rationally is the maior aim of an education. Does the fraternity encourage its members to think? Definitely! A fraternity lives ouly because of its members, and if pledges fail to make their grades there will 110011 be no members. It is quite natural that the active members be concerned about the grades of their pledges: from that standpoint it is common busineu sen-.

The concern should go deeper than this, and does in many cases. but it Ia dJIB. cult to analyze the value one is qetting from many of hia own courses, let aloDe analyzing the value another is getting from his. The well-known bull-snaloaa and group discussions about such things, are frequently enlightening on indl-riduals' viewpoints on various courses. I know these talks with the fellows aboal this course and that professor have made me try to put into words my to the question, "What are you gettinq out of this course?" I surprise myu)f the answer sometimes, and I am sure my fellow members must have atmiJar rude, or possibly pleasant. awakenings.

It is difficult to Judge the real mental attitude of a freshman pledqe. F'rec;ru..-n he is having his first experiences in worldnq things out for hlmseU away - - -..home. New ideas are beinq formed. The fraternity trainluq and the COidal:tâ&#x20AC;˘

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Because of the many truths it tells about the modem fraternity. this prizewinning essay by Undergraduate Charles Willis appeals.

with older men, of the same group can result in excellent training. However. with the freshman, there is always a certain. amount of orientation and confusion qoing on within him and the results of the coaching and contacts are not always easy to recognize. However. I can safely say that among the older men in the fraternity the big majority have the true student attitude, and the average of this group is continually increasing.

So far, my discussion has referred to straight academic learning, but I could qo further and point out several other ways in which the fraternity fosters thinkinq. I have mentioned the "bull-session." This form of discussion can be abused, but we all agree that there are some pretty intelligent discussions.

Then there are the faculty dinners. These come just often enough to be con路 sldered high spots usually developing very constructive discussions. Just talkinq to a man who is an expert in his field is an inspiration to endeavor to learn more and more.

Very important are the officers' positions in the chapter. What an excellent opportunity to build the qualities of leadership! If a man has ever held an office in the chapter, he knows that it takes far more than just getting by. Criticism Is always rampant, requiring the best of a man. The majority of chapter offices require initiative in meeting practical problems that cannot be treated lightly.

Besides the offices, every well-run organization has hundreds of small jobs that require a good deal of initiative, stick-tO-it-iveness and intelligence. Currently, progress is made.

To discuss culture as such is like treading on hallowed ground. Does a fraternity fosture culture within its members? Its trends may be so, but it may not obviously do so without defeating its purpose. It is not normal for one young man to tell another that he should attend a concert or do a certain thing because of its cultural value to him. This same condition exists among all walks of man. yet a fraternity can influence the individual c<!>nceming cultural aspects of life without offending him. Personal actions and expressed opinions do this. I cannot help but be influenced by my associates. The fraternity may not officially outline where and when to go for cultural benefit, but the individual members exert a powerful compulsion on each other. This influence in my frater路 nity has wrought an upward swing in all cultural advancement and appreciation within me and I note it in all those about me with pride.

To be specific, there are in our house only two Music School students. yet several members have large collections of records of the best路 in music. Many members evidence familiarity with the better composers and their compositions. and all members appear to enjoy good music. Every noon hour there is a recorded symphonic concert on the radjo, and for one hour that is all that is played. The men like it. Enjoyment of this particular program seems to have steadily increased this year. I believe we have become true lovers of music without being high-hat about it.

An organization can never b e strong and p rogressive excep t it has men who make it so; for, after all , the p rinciples a nd organiza tion of a fraternity depend entirely for their expression upon the men in it.

Interest in the opera has been increasing in the house. In adClition to many individual attendances. there have been two group attendances this year-the first with five men and the second with nine. The attendance of plays in the city and in the university theatre results in more members becoming interested each time because of the discussions and comments about them. The opinion regarding cultural matters is constantly becoming more and more unanimous.

Next we come to fraternity pledging. It has been said in the past. especially In the 1920's, that fraternities are too much interested in the superficial aspects

smaller social group . In Europe these groups have an arislocra ic background, ut the American fra emily is of a far mo re democratic an cosmopolitan nature.

The fir I college society in America with a Greek-le ter name was Phi Beta Kap .

It was founded in that year, so im ortanl to every Amer ican , 1776, at the College of William and Mary at Williamsburg, Virginia. Phi Beta Kappa soon became, and has since remained, an honorary organization of Liberal Arts scholastic attainment. Of a social character, Kappa Alpha Society is the oldest fraternity which has had continuous existence in United Stales colleges and is often recognized as the parent of the vast system of college fraternities. It was founded at Union College, Schenectady, New York, in 1825.

Sigma Phi and De lta Phi soon followed the e xample of Kappa Alpha and were founded in 1827. These three fraternities are often referred to as the "Union Triad" and became 路the pattern for the American fraternity system .

These organizations soon founded other chapters in nearby schools. Opposition to these three fraternities soon invoked the exis!ence in Miami University of three more fraternities - Beta Theta Pi. Phi Delta Theta, and Sigma Chi. These three are referred to as the "Miami Triad." Later, in 1856, Sigma Alpha Epsilon was organized at Alaba ma .

Durin the Civil War, collegiate activity everywhere was weakened, and in the South was almost entirely suspended. Alter the Civil War, a ffai rs were such in the South hat the reestablishmen t of chapters by northern fraternlties was not at once generally und e rtaken . New Southern fro ternihes were naturally created, and especially at institutions made prominent by their military characte r. Thus, Alpha Tau Omega was born in 1856 at Virginia Military Institute in Lexington, Va., and Kappa Sigma . Kappa and Sigma Nu In 1869; Kappa Alpha was founded at Washington and Lee University .

Alpha Gamma, 1861. was founded at Cumberland University, and Kappa Sigma at the University of Virgi11ia. With the founding of the above fratern1ties in the middle 1800's, the fraternity system rapidly grew until the early 1900's.

The adoption of Greek letters by the organizations was merely a distinction made between different organizations. Since so much of the early education in the American universities was classic and patterned after classic lines, it is easy to see why they choose Greek letters. In the Old World, intellectual enlightenment and culture reached its highest .peak in Athens and in the Greek schools, revealing the possibilities of human attainment.

Greek-letter fraternities do not necessarily have a special Greek significance or relationship, since the letters of the Greek alphabet are often used simply to represent some secret name or motto.

Many fraternities, however, do base some of their ideals and goals on Greek teachings and Greek philosophers.

of their rushees. and that they often pass up a lot of good boys who Just d011 h appen to shine like some of their more fortunate brethren. This is SOJ1llet11111•1 unavoidably true. but the fraternity is definitely not to blame. The fratemlt necessarily uses the same methods of judging prospective members as d women's clubs, civic groups, business associations, and even church rrr .......... .

It has been said that water seeks its own level. There is no nnnnnunitv observe the rushee over a long period of time. There is more of an ODIDOI~Illh; l however. for the rushee to regard the fraternity over a period of time from more angles. The fraternity must resort to the methods of the business who is judging the applicant for a position. The employer is interested in ab~ records and scholastic standards, as is the fraternity. and he is also interestec in the general appearance and manner of the applicant. He is interested lr the applicant's poise and self-assurance. manner of talking, and all the details which go to make up a personality. I am subconsciously lDliUttnc:eo by similar things when I make a new acquaintance, and it must be vice versed I do. however. flatly state that while I have been a member of Acacia, no man has been refused entrance as a pledge because he wasn't an athlete or an activities man in high school. or because he didn't have a father who was an Acacian or a recommendation of an Acacian. or because of his or his father's fin ancial status or occupation. It can be truthfully said that even scholarship takes a b a ck seat when we start to decide on a man. If we like him. we bld him, and other factors are forgotten.

Fraternities all have friendly rivalries, and they like to call each other names -either to impress outsiders or to build up their own egos. Yet I know that each of us realizes that the fellows of another house are swell fellows and that we get along very well with the majority of them. There is an interfraternity broth· erhood. Name-calling is the highly amusing and artificial part of friendly rivalry.

Socially, perhaps, there is more of a discrimination between independent and fraternity men. An organized group can go farther than the individual. There are plenty of examples of this social dilierence, but the bearing on the scheme of things is somewhat vague. I am inclined to ask if this so-called social discrim· ination is not one of those things that you hear about only when it is interestinq?

And the rest of the time you forget about it. In other words. to be concrete, the times that an independent and a fraternity man mix, or an independent girl dates a fraternity boy are forgotten, because they are so usual that they arouse no interest. The fact that a fraternity man might refuse to go out with an ind• pendent girl just because she is an independent would really be interestiluJ because it is so contrary to social etiquette. It is the unusual that attracts atten· tion and criticism. Too many of us come from the average American famlly with the common sense of etiquette and social behavior to ever think of such an outlook. Natural selection seems to still have the sway. Like the stories of fortune tellers. the successes are often repeated. but one never hears of the failures-they aren't interesting, but they are by far most numerous.

Loyalty to Aca cia had its origin in Masonic fea lty; a nd while Acacia is not a branch of Masonry, its truths a nd tenets are the fundamental standards of our goal in fraterna l living.

To admit that a thing is not perfect is no boast nor flaunt, but it is not a baaia for shame. Progress is what we all seek for and perfection is the goal. It is men who make the fraternity. and as the world of men is. so is the fraternity to beqln with. It has the privilege of trying to better its world, and has more of an opportunity. Its men are subject to failings and temptations which all must know, but it keeps its ideals and aims ever befcre the men. The effort is well worth whlle and the fraternity men of the past have been leaders in preparing the advance bulwark of today.

I belleve that the fraternity contributes something to the university and to the individual that could not be had otherwise. l believe I have received the• advantages and I am proud to be a fraternity man!

CHARLES WILLIS.

JR.. Northwestern.

Cordial association with other fraternity men, and n on-fraternity men, is not a violation of the Aca cia spirit, but works in the direction of a fine social ideal.

The Strength of a National Fraternity A national fraternity, such as Acacia, stands for and means friendship. The

atemity is the first lesson that you get in altruistic friendship; in doing somei.inq for each other. in doing something without any thought of return. There in life. whether you become a banker or a broker or a butcher, that rill be more valuable to you, that will bring you more lasting satisfaction. iiendship is one of the few things in life that lasts. Those of you who have been ld enough to see what happened during the depression don't need to be told 1at the things you can grasp with your hands are here today and gone tomor::w. But. friendship is the thing that stays, in some intangible way. The na"nal fraternity system of the country, in which Acacia is well represented, is ie finest experiment in friendship that we laiow of in this country.

A national fraternity, such as the Acacia Fraternity, gives you other material dvantages. It gives you supervision. It re-enforces the help that alumni give. ¡ qives guidance. It gives encouragement. It gives you the benefit of the expe.ence of a great many chapters. Many a chapter has been saved because a ew point of view was brought to it.

When a chapter experiences difficulties the national comes to its rescue. You ave not only the force of your own organization, not only the alumni of your \Yn chapter, you have¡ the force of a national organization. scattered from one nd of the country to the other. with alumni of other chapters who are interested. eenly interested. interested enough to supply the money and the means to help ¡ou to go on. because they are unwilling that one of their chapters should die.

Don't imagine for a moment that your national fraternity affiliation is limited ) the men of your own chapter. or even to the men of your own fraternity.

One of the dangers in life is to become so absorbed in one's own local organ~ation. fraternity or business that one becomes provincial. Association with nen from other colleges and other chapters bringing, as it usually does, the liscovery that things are often being done as well in other places as by one's wn organization. is an education in itself.

Another remarkable testimonial of the national fraternity is the number of nstitutions which speak of their national fraternities with pride and as if it were 1 certificate of respectability. One of them' says: "If we can get one or two more trong national fraternities on our campus. we shall feel that we have a happy olution of our social problem."

Most college officials feel that many national fraternities (including Acacia) 1re making a definite contribution to American college life. From the standpoint ,f the college, Acacia and several national fraternities are doing a great deal to nake college life more wholesome and satisfactory. The scope of such national rganizations extends in those directions by which social advance develops. \nd finally, Acacia's strength, or any national fraternity's strength, is based in act on the widest influence possible in promoting, nationally, its principles and 1bliqations to society; at the same time co-operating with colleges and univerities, while their faculties and sponsors concede that it has a social value and c salutary effect on the lives of the members.

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Fraternity Criteria (Adopted by the National Interfraternity Conference) We consider the fraternity responsible for a positive contribution to the >rimary functions of the colleges and universities, and therefore under an obliJation to encourage the most complete personal development of its members, ntellectual, physical and social. Therefore, we declcire: 1. That the objectives and activities of the fraternity should be in entire ac:ord with the aims and purposes of the institutions at which it has chapters.

2. That the primary loyalty and responsibility of a student in his relations Yith his institution are to the institution, and that the association of any group ,f students as a chapter of a fraternity involves the definite responsibility of the 1roup for the conduct of the individual.

3. That the fraternity should promote conduct consistent with good morals md good taste.

4. That the fraternity should create an atmosphere which will stimulate subltantial intellectual progress and superior intellectual achievement.

5. That the fraternity should maintain sanitary, safe and wholesome physical :onditions in the chapter house.

6. That the fraternity should incul9ate principles of sound business practice 1oth in chapter finances and in the business relations of its members.

Among the most outstanding of these philosophers are Plato, Aristotle, Pythagoras, and Socrates. Their teachings reveal something of the idealism which actuates the entire fraternity movement.

Half a century ago, fraternities were classified generally according to their place of origin, as Western, Eastern, Southern, and Northern .

Now, such classifications can no longer hold true.

Acacia Fraternity grew from an organization of college men which was based on Masonry started in 1894 at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. It is the only general social fraternity which was founded there.

The first professional fraternities were also founded at Michigan-Phi Delta Phi (Legal) in 1869, and Nu Sigma Nu (Medical) in 1882. Acacia Fraternity was formally founded on May 12, 1904, and because of its high principles, Masonic character, scholastic standing, and outstanding men, grew rapidly.

It restricts its chapters to Universities only, and is the only "University Fraternity."

Its membership is Protestant.

The word Acacia comes from the Greek word AKAKIA and differs from other Greek letters of organizations in that the word has an independent meaning. The word AKAKIA is the name of an Hellenic evergreen, meaning undying or everlasting.

Today the college fraternity seeks new worlds and expands itself by the application of the basic underlying principles of a human institution. Progress and light in all things is the keynote. Its alumni are the leaders of thought and action in almost every field of activity. They have been influenced by the wealth of friendship and comradeship of outstanding men with principles of their own. Their characters and personalities have been molded in an atmosphere of human service and friendship. To its ends and purposes may it ever strive, and may it brings eternal recognition to itself and to its members for its service in the educational system.

Universities of the Chapters of Acacia California Cincinnati Colorad o Cornell George Washington Illinois Indiana Iowa State Kansas Ka nsas State Michigan Minnesota Missouri

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MORE THAN FOUR DECADES AGO in a room a1 the University of Michi9ai a group of students determined to found a fra1emity on a new basis. The organi zation was to be built on the principles of Masonry as a background and wa. to be actuated by a search for high scholarship. In May of 1904 the Acacic Fraternity was founded at Ann Arbor. Michigan: an organization built to h£ free from drinking, gambling, and· social vices which had for years been a blo on the fraternity life of the nation.

SO ENTHUSIASTICALLY RECEIVED were the ideals on which the fra1emity was· organized that, before a year had passed. similar groups in Stanford Uni versity and the Universities of Kansas, Nebraska, and California had been organized and installed. Within another year the group thus formed was aug mented by the installation of chapters a1 Ohio State, Dartmouth. Harvard, Dli, nois, Pennsylvania (called Franklin}, Minnesota and Wisconsin.

AT THE PRESENT TIME. Acacia has twenty-five active chapters in the leading universities from coast to coast and has over 12.000 members. Its chapters are located solely in universities, thus having the distinction of being the only "University Fraternity." With the exception of a few. most of the chapters own their own home. and are valued in excess of one million five hundred thouscmd dollars. The valud1ion of Acacia chapter houses is exceeded by few fra1ernities.

FREEMASONRY IS THE PARENT of all fraternal organizations, including college fra1ernities. Until 1931 the membership of Acacia was restricted to Masons. Since then, the membership has been altered, retaining the MasoDic background, but restricting its membership only to those of the Protestant faiths.

Because of the Masonic background. the members are traditionally more conservative and more democratic than the average college fra1ernity.

THE WORD ACACIA comes from the Greek word AKAKIA which is the name of an Hellenic evergreen symbolizing everlasting life. AKAKIA differs from other Greek letters of organizations in that the word has an independent mecming. The motto of the fraternity is "Human Service."

HIGH IDEALS are an integral part of the fra1ernity. Acacia was founded as a protest to the excesses of the national fraternity system as they existed prior to that time. Unrelenting and rigorously the rules are enforced by both 0.. local and national organizations of Acacia prohibiting gambling, the use or possession of intoxicating liquors in the chapter house, and the taking of womeD into the house for immoral purpose~. For the violation of any of these rules the penalty is expulsion from the Fra1ernity.

SCHOLARSHIP has always been stressed in Acacia. Almost without excepo tion since the Fraternity was founded, Acacia has had the highest scholastk standing of any na1ional social fraternity. Statistics compiled by the NatioiUil Interfra1emity Conference in 1937 show that Acacia stands highest in scholarship of all the national social fra1ernities. High scholarship is a prerequisite to initiation into Acacia. Each student must maintain a grade better than averafJI to be initiated into the organization. Most of the chapers provides tutors wh duty it is to aid those not attaining suitable grades, and to help others better tb BEING A UNIVERSITY FRATERNITY is of advantage to Acacia. There no chapters located at small colleges where standards may be low. The tribution of chapters is national rather than sectional. It has always been desidera1um in Acacia to quality rather than quantity in chapters.

A HIGH CREDIT RATING with tradespeople wherever Acacia chapters loca1ed has so long been the rule that the financial responsibilities of the bers of Acacia on respective campuses is traditional. Members are not mitted to "run bills" with the chapter or with the town tradesmen.

Universities of the Chapters of Acacia Nebraska

(Aims. ideals and facts about Acacia.)

MORE FACULTY MEMBERS than any other fraternity is the record of Acacia m most campii where the Fraternity has chapters. This is one of the reasons ;vhy Acacia is able to maintain the highest scholastic standing of all social l'aternities. Members are able to secure the best counsel and advice from men ,f experience ¡who are sympathetic and who have a personal interest.

ACACIA IS A CHARTER MEMBER of the Interfraternity Conference which IS an organization comprised of the leading national fraternities in the country. i'he conference meets annually to discuss with representatives of each fraterttity the problems of, and to promote the policies and welfare of all fraternities.

DEMOCRACY OF ITS MEMBERS toward outsiders is one of Acacia's finest traditions. The time and effort spent on the publications of the Fraternity and ln the training of pledges has proved justifiable, for, generally, when an Acacian is a candidate for a campus honor, he is more successful in securing the support and votes of non-fraternity students, as well as the active support of the members of other fraternities--especially when his opponent is a member of some organization considered "snobbish" by some.

THE ALUMNI INTEREST is of vital importance to every living. growing organization. Because of the background and interest of members. the alumni interest in Acacia is very keen-more so than is in most other college fraternities. Every chapter has an alumni chapter, keeping up relations with one another after college days are over. These groups ultimately mean even more to some than their original active chapter. In all the principal cities of the United States there are also alumni organizations which meet regularly. A hearty welcome is assured an Acacian wherever he may go.

THE OFFICIAL PUBLICATION of Acacia is the TRIAD. This magazine is published five times a year and is devoted to information about all the chapters, their doings, things of general fraternity interest, and outstanding members. The Fraternity also publishes a directory of members, songbook, and pledge manual.

HOUSE MANAGEMENT AND OWNERSHIP is usually vested in a group of alumni who are members of the board of directors of a house corporation which holds title to real estate. Funds are collected from the alumni for the payment of any indebtedness or for the accumulation of funds for repairs, purchase of .furniture and equipment, etc. The active chapter pays rent to the corporation which in turn applies the proceeds of that income to the payment of expenses.

THE GOVERNMENT of Acacia is vested in the National Council and the National Conclave. The National Conclave is held every second year and is composed of National Officers and two delegates from each chap~er, one of whom shall be the chapter advisor and the other the chapter president. The National Conclave is the supreme legislative body of the fraternity, subject only to the referendum vote of the chapters upon constitutional questions. Each delegate is entitled to one vote. The chapter advisor is elected at a joint meeting of the active chapter and the alumni, and his council to the cha-pter is subject to the approval to the National Council. It is his duty to be informed on the chapter and supervise activities. The National Council is composed of the Na!ional President, Treasurer, Secretary, Editor, and Counsellor.

THE CHAPTER GOVERNMENT is vested in ¡the members themselves. Each chapter has the aid and advice of alumnus who is the advisor. He is usually a faculty member of the university or a local business man. The advisor meets weeldy with the members to discuss plans and policies. His guidance keeps a wise course over routes previously traveled.

ON THE CAMPUS, each chapter of Acacia leads in various fields. It is the aim of Acacia to be well-rounded. Intra-mural sports, varsity athletics, scholarllalp. and campus activities such as debate, dramatics, committee chairmanahlpa. newspaper writing, and other social activities all have added to the pres~ of the chapters and the influence of the members. A broad education results.

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Northwestern Ohio Oklahoma Oklahoma State Pennsylva nia Penn State Purdue Syracuse W..ashington Washington State Wisconsin

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WILLIAM B. BIZZELL, President of the University of Oklahoma, became a memb er of Oklahoma chapter shortly a fter the chapter was chartered. He is one of the foremost educators in the United States and is the author of ten books ranging over a variety of subjects: sociology, education, political science. During the past ten years of salary cuts and reduced budgets he has been able to keep his faculty intact -an achievement of which few college a dministrators in the Middle W est have been capable. He will be found at the Acacia Chapter house in Norman next September, for he values and appreciates his membership in Acacia and the contacts it gives him.

Some of Acacia's athletes, left, top to bottom: Vallance. Steele, Sickler, Stillman.

WILLIAM B. BIZZELL. Oklahoma

Prominent Acacians Acacia with 12,000 members out of a total of 913,000 fraternity men in the United States-slightly more than 1 per cent-has, the present time, a good deal more than her share of the high and federal elective offices with two governors, four members the House of Representatives, one Senator, and the Speaker of the Kansas House of Representatives.

It is safe to assume that a good percentage of the men holding such offices are not members of any fraternity, which serves only to make the Fraternity even more outstanding in this respect.

In the educational field, the Fraternity is also far in the lead of other general colleg.e fraternities with more men on the faculties of the leading pniversities than any college fraternity. Witness the fact that at Oklahoma University there are 17 members of the fraternity on the faculty to say nothing of the fact that the president of the university, the president of the Board of Regents, the secretary of the same board and the head coach are all members of Oklahoma chapter.

Other prominent members are: Wilburn Cartwright, Oklahoma, member of Congress from the Third Oklahoma District; ¡ Sam C. Ford, Kansas, Governor of Montana; William A. Pittenger, Harvard, member of Congress from Minnesota; Reid F. Murray, Wisconsin, member of Congress from Wisconsin; Joseph M. Brougp ton, Harvard, Governor of North Carolina; George A. Malcolm, former Chief Justice-Philippine Islands, now Attorney General of Puerto Rico; Clay C. Carper, Kansas, Speaker of the Kansas House of Representatives; Walter G. Thiele, Kansas:Justice, Kansas Supreme Court; Alexander Wetmore, Kansas, ~ rector, Smithsonian Institution; Paul V. McNutt, former govern of Indiana, Federal Social Security Administrator; Major John Griffith, Illinois, Commissioner of Athletics, Big Ten Conferen Roscoe A. Pound, Nebraska, Dean of the Harvard Law Scho

ARTHUR CAPPER, United States Senator from Kansas; President of Capper Publications, Inc., Topeka, Kansas. He is the largest publisher of farm journals.

In official public life Arthur Capper first served as a member of the Board of Regents of the Kansas State Agricultural College. In 1914 he was elected Governor of Kansas, served four years; was elected to the United States Senate in 1918, and has served continuously in the Senate ever since. In the Senate he is ranking Republican member of the Committee on Finance and the Committee on the District of Columbia; is a member also of the Committee on Agriculture and Forestry, the Committee on Foreign Relations, and the Committee on Immigratiol'\.

ARTHUR CAPPER. Kansas State

Prominent Acacians WILLIAM .JENNINGS BRYAN, initiated at Nebraska in 1908, known to every school boy as the standard bearer of the Democratic Party for so many years, probably has signed more Acacia chapter guest books than any other Acacian aside from members of the National Council. He never failed to visit the Acacia Chapter house when nearby and many times spoke of the honor and privilege he considered his Acacia membership to be.. Although he held no office in the Fraternity, his interest was always great.

WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT, Yale, the only man in the history of the United States to hold the offices of President and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, was initiated at Yale in 1913. His interest in the Fraternity was great and, when the Acacia Conclave was held in San Francisco in 1915, he made the trip there to make the principal address. In later years he visited many of the chapter houses and his autographed photograph will be found in most every chapter house. ¡ WENDELL BERGE, Assistant United States Attorney General in charge of the Criminal Division, is a member of Nebraska chapter. He received his A.B. degree at Nebraska in '26, his LL.B. degree from Michigan in '28 and his Doctors degree from Michigan in '30. After practicing in New Yark City for two years he went to Washington as a member of the staff of the Department of Justice. He has been a faithful and loyal member of Acacia and, last February, flew to Lincoln from Washington to attend the chapter's Founder's Day Celebration.â&#x20AC;˘

No man can cut the cords of fellowship and live alone. He must have something to think about, he must have something to fall in love with, he must have something to talk about. If he is to eat, something must be grown; if he is to work, there must be confidence and relationships; if he is to think, theremust be some truth for examination. That is why, strictly speaking, it is a misnomer to speak of a self-made man.

Thomas B. Mather.

Top to bottom: WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN, Nebraska WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT. Yale FRANK V. BIRCH. past president, Lions International and prominent Milwaukee executive.

THE ACACIA MEMBER . LEARNS TO ...

• Respond to persons ad· dressing him, with dignity, poise and proper salutations .

• Enter in conversation with proper dignity, voice modulation and reserve. • Speak with proper respect to his superiors, elders, associates, friends, parents and relatives.

• Give proper respect to those of a different race, creed, language, social position, economic position, etc.

• Treat with respect the maimed, the blind, the deformed, the sick, the aged, and the unfortunate. • Show proper respect for people, property, and personal opinions. • Mingle with social groups without injurying others' feelings, person, or property. • Respect the political, social, religious, and economic beliefs of others. • Keep personally clean and neat. . • To obey the social, moral, and ethical dictates of the group with which he is concerned. • Know and abide by the provision of the local, state and national requirements relating to personal and social behavior. • Know the laws of good health, good dress, and good manners and to conform to these laws. • Know proper attitudes and responses necessary for all types of social intercourse. • Acquire habits of punctuality, promptness, accuracy and determination .

.* * At the right is a typical display of pictures depicting chapter "doings." Acacia's officia.l publication,- The TRIAD, devotes a generous amount of its space to pictorializing the hundreds of fraternal, social, sporting or humorous incidents occurring within the various chapters.

It is the kind of graphic representation members enjoy, and records their college and fraternity life in such a way as to provide pleasant recollections and amusement in later years. Acacians feel it is money well spent to "say it with pictures." We wish we could include more of them in the Triagram.

The Answer to An Acacia Quest for Loveliness, and How! Typical Acacia Chapter Houses.

Below: Another of Acacia's fine Chapter Houses-home indeed.

Miss Portia McClain of Canton. Ohio. who was chosen as Acacia's "Sweetheart," and candidate for Duchess of the annual InterFraternity Ball which was held at the Stevens Hotel in Chicago. Miss McClain is a member of Delta Delta Delta.

songsters about to begin. Below: Thinks he has found the best position for delving into the lesson.

There's some speedy dexterity displayed by fellows we are proud to have as brothers.

A group of chapter offi. cera who. as such. receive invaluable lessons in leadership and business administration-not tauqht in classrooms.

Any visiting ex-house member who plays the piano soon draws a crowd.

"To sow that others may reap; to work and plant for those who are to occupy the earth when we are dead; to project our influences far into the future, and live beyond our time; to rule as the Kings of Thought, over men who are yet tinbom; to bless with the glorious gifts of Truth and Light and Liberty those who will neither know the name of the giver, nor care in what grave his unregarded ashes repose, is the true office of a Mason and the proudest destiny of a man."-Albert Pike .

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15 Oklahoma ultimatum to enroll in a basic R. 0. T. C. course or quit school, agreed to take military science.

University officials had decreed that the conscientious objector should make up his mind.

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Matthew Arnold said of perfection, "Perfection is not a having and a being-but an eternal becoming"-an endless becoming of something finer, better, more vital and beautiful.

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The tides of American memory are rising, as they have always done in emergencies. It happened even during the Revolution, when the national feeling was thin, local, and hardly aware that there was a nation to feel about. Americans who had heretofore hardly thought of themselves as Americans began to remember the past they had shared, the hopes they had cherished, and to reflect that ¡ this was America, not a province of Europe transplanted. At different times since then there have been different things to remember, different things to emphasize in remembering.

And now the stress is on the values of democracy-which twenty years ago there was a whole school of critics to suspect and challenge.

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Dan Pyle, '00, as Circuit Court Judge at South Bend, Ind., didn't like the system of granting natu.r alization papers and he didn't like the way in which political candidates managed these naturalized voters. He got mad and said: "Why damn it all, mister, it was indecent, the advantage those fellows took! I decided right then to do do what I could to stop it. In lots of courts, a foreigner just has to answer a couple of questions about the Constitution, and tell who is President, and is given the right to vote."

Dan organized classes for the applicants for citizenship and required them to study.

For three years he was teacher and examiner. Instead of giving the naturalization papers in an informal manner, he held graduation exercises in the court room. Aoplications increased so rapidly that he was compelled to call for helpers.

The city of South Bend furnished school rooms, patriotic societies paid for the books and the W . P. A. supplied the teachers. At the present time, graduation exercises are held four times a year and more than 200 take the course every two months. In the past eight years, 3,021 foreigners have been graduated and the exercises are attended by thousands of people. Many visitors attend the examinations and

October, 1941

Dan enjoys asking them the examination questions before he gives them to the candidates.-Delta Upsilon Quarterly.

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A study of the effect of praise and blame was made upon large groups of workers in shoo and office and it was found that reproof more often than not tended to increase steadiness in men and what seems stranger still, praise more often than not reduced their steadiness. With women the effect was just the opposite-blame upset them and praise gave them confidence and steadiness. However, I still don't believe that it helps men in their work to bawl them out very often.

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Already stripped of many old traditions, England's Eton recently sacrificed one of its most sacred: its uniform. The world's best-dressed schoolboys always had to wear blackstriped trousers with their Eton jackets, a different prescribed outfit for every occasion, every sport. Headmaster Claude Elliott sent to parents of prospective matriculants a sad note: "It has been decided that the college dress shall remain unaltered except that any kind of gray trousers may be worn with tails or jackets. In addition, new boys may continue to wear at Eton the overcoat, shoes, gray flannel trousers, football boots and fives clothes which they already possess.

The Eton tailors have a large quantity of second-hand tail coats, jackets, waistcoats and trousers which can be purchased without (ration)" coupons at small cost. The use of these will help to conserve existing supplies of cloth and clothes."

who once saved a drowning couple, one a night watchman who had roused the crew of a burning tanker, and so on.

What each did, or how much real fame it earned him, is unimportant. The point is that in his own eyes and heart he had done something heroic.

H. I. Phillips, the New York Sun columnist, likes to tell how he once sent twenty-five friends, for no reason at all, identical1-word telegrams saying: "Congratulations."

Only one inquired what it was all about. The other twenty-four accepted the kudos with thanks. Each had done something lately for which it seemed entirely appropriate that he be applauded.

Human nature being what it is, the real way to make friends and influence people is to be generous with applause.

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A Japanese psychologist, Matsumoto, tried several different methods of measuring the "amount of change" in people's minds from hearing a discussion of a question. He found all had changed to some extent. The ones who maintained they were "of the same opinion still" were not of the same opinion. Their opinions were either stronger or weaker.

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Only a strong character will admit he is in the wrong when he knows he is.

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During President Theodore Roosevelt's second term, John Hay, then Secretary of State, accompanied the President on a trip to the Mid-West. The Presidential party was scheduled to spend a day in Minneapolis. The streets were packed with citizens, all eager to catch a glimpse of the distinguished visitors, as they Common sense is chiefly the rode along in the spectacular ability to base your judgments parade which had been arupon facts and act on them ranged in their honor. without being biased and conIn the same carriage with fused by your emotions.

President Roosevelt, sat our celebrated Brother. Three of Scholarship, specialization, the Tau Deuteron boys, huderudition-these are all noble dled together in the mass of attainments and represent in- people. Just as the President's disputable values. The culti- carriage came abreast of them, they gave the Theta Delt vated world, it is to be hoped, whistle.

There being no other will always respect them. But,. louder noise at the moment, it by and large, books, learning rang out clearly.

Instantly and all the paraphernalia of Brother John Hay rose from learning are only means. They his seat, and turJ1ing toward are valuable only in so far the point from which it came, as they enrich a man's capacity he gracefully acknowledged it for living. with a smile and gesture of recognition.

Hay's fraternity delegation The inquiring reporter whom the New York Daily News is '58. He must have learned sends out into the highways the whistle when he was in and by-ways of Manhattan to college, which substantiates question his fellowmen asked the fact that it is in itself a very old tradition. It has resix New Yorkers: sounded down the years im"Were you ever a hero? " planting itself in the hearts of Yes, said four .

One was a hotel man who'd generations of Theta Delts, in played football, one an actor such a manner that it is never

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forgotten. This w as typified

by John Hay in the incident related here . May w e a ll revive our memory of it and use it more frequently, that we, too, shall recognize it whenever it may come to our ears.

- NORMAN HACKETT in The Shield of Theta Delta Chi.

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After a fellow ge ts to be independent he quits trying to show his independence.

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Psychologist Maier, of the University of Michigan, has shown that nervous prostration is due largely to having to decide somet hing without any clear -cut reason. One clear-cut goal, with enough side hobbies to give occasional relaxation, is life's great stabilizer.

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The notion that you cannot be pleasing to other people, get along happily with them and influence them is absurd. Some persons are born with greater physical and mental talents for achieving a good personality, but we must also agree that every human being above the feeble-minded is born with capacities by which he can acquire a good, pleasing personality.

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Try to have a few friends ready for the time of need.

You can't make friends quickly, as you can enemies.

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Luck affects everything ; let your hook always be cast; in the stream where you least expect it, there will be fish.

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One of the most famous and influential moral codes in existence, the Laws of Manu, which govern the lives of 250,000,000 Hindus, condones lying only when saving a life and when paying a compliment to a woman.

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We are chided b y Dr. Jacob B. Adler of Brooklyn, New York, for publishing a photograph of a college student resting one of his feet on a textbook titled The American Government--one of the illustrations for our recent shoe-style pronouncement, Feet First.

The doctor says The Amerkan Government "is not the proper thing to step on.-Shoe Trade Journal.

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For sending nine sons and daughters through the University of Washington, Mr. and Mrs. John H . Reid of Seattle were awarded the honorary degree of "Parentes Extraordinarii" by the university yesterday.

It was the first such award granted by the university since 1889. The only other recipients were the late Marshal Foch, French World War hero, and Frederic James Grant, an early Seattle newspaper editor.

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Voices in the DiStance

Attitude Too Casual "What sort of a fraternity is Alpha Alpha Alpha? " That question was directed by a personable freshman to a junior who is an independent on a large university campus. His answer follows: "Well, when I was a freshman I thought it was tops on this campus. I was rushed by it and would have been happy to have accepted its invitation to join had I been financially able to join a fraternity. The fellows were most cordial, but after I told them that I could not afford to join, they didn't know me on the campus, at least few, if any of them, spoke to me."

Alpha Alpha Alpha lost that prospective pledge.

And yet the Alpha Alpha Alpha chapter is not a group of snobs. It is made up of likable, friendly fellows. What had happened is a perfectly understandable thing, yet it is the cause of much misunderstanding about fraternities. When the boy in whom they were interested refused their bid, they naturally turned their attention to other prospects in the hectic rushing period, forgetting the lad in whom they had been interested earlier. But the lad considered their attitude as an evidence of snobbishness and branded them in his thinking.

The only way that such a condition can be minimized is for every member to make an honest effort to remember those men who refuse bids and be cordial to them throughout campus life. When a chapter honors a man with an invitation to membership, there should be a desire to keep that man as a friend even if he doesn't decide to become a b;other.

Such a man can often be of real service to the group, even though not a member, but, more important, it is highly desirable for a fraternity member to have friends among independents. To limit one's friendships to the members of one's chapter or to other Greeks is most unfortunate for the individual and injurious to the chapter. It is a form of provincialism that should be avoided.-GEORGE STARR LASHER, The Fraternity Month.

Belief Means Discipline "To believe in Democracy and to believe that our ideals are worth preserving.

Failing in this, our Democracies will follow the sad path to oblivion, already taken by other countries.''

What shall be done to bring about this belief in Democracy ? In America certainly, the first step is to revive the,practice of discipline.

All they need to do is to apply the sportsmanship and teamwork they learned on the football field, and the consideration and forbearance for others that they

were taught in their fraternity houses, to discover a new and electrifying meaning in "Democracy."

If the faces of American youth are to be "lighted with the certainty of their right," let the U . S. A. teach youth that the main purpose of life is not to do solely for themselves, but to cooperate for the betterment of the nation and consequently of all its citizens.

While we decry much that is done by the European Dictators, we are not blind to some of the obvious good that they have accomplished-particularly the care and attention that is given to their young people. Every visitor confirms it. If you have any doubts and aren't able to travel abroad, drop in for an hour at any news reel movie and convince yourself that the youngsters in Germany, in Italy, and in Russia have found their ideal. And unless the youthful sons and daughters of the Democracies promptly find their Ideal, those nations will be retired-without a pension.

Mobilize youth and save Democracy!

-Delta Kappa Epsilon Quarterly.

The Ritual The American college fraternity system is, of course, largely indebted to Freemasonry for its ritualistic material. The Fraternities and Masonry both embrace the idea of brotherhood and it is but natural that in the early period of their development the fraternities should have looked to Masonry for assistance in the development of form and ceremony.

Many other fraternal organizations have obtained help from the same source.

The ritual has a definite place and purpose in our Fraternity. We are a society of men scattered throughout the nation and in foreign countries, all bound together by the common tie of brotherhood.

This word connotes a rather intangible idea and it is necessary to find tangible representations of the idea in order that our members may know and feel that they are all worshiping at the same shrine: This is the place, logically and analytically, where the ritual comes in.

The first concept the new initiate has of the Fraternity as a whole is derived from the ceremo~al work. He may previously have been rmpressed by the fraternity house, by the personal qualities of members, or by statistical information, but when he is initiated he sees something mor.e, and for the first time begins to re~1ze ~he nature of that vital principle which, m the final analysis holds the Fraternity together.-CHARLE~ T. BoYD, Delta Tau Delta, The Rainbow.

Explorer a First One The famous eighteenth century explorer, Meriwether Lewis of the Lewis and Clark expedition, was Missouri's first Royal Arch Mason, according to recent research reported by Ray V. Denslow, grand secretary for the educational committee of the order in this state. Mr. Denslow writes: "For many years it has been believed that the earliest known record of a Royal Arch Mason in Missouri was the signature of Maj . James Bruff to an application for a lodge in St. Louis. He had signed the application as 'J. Bruff, Royal Arch.' But recently, through the courtesy of Ray Baker Harris, librarian of the supreme council A. A. S. R., we have received a copy of the Royal Arch diploma of Meriwether Lewis-and the diploma being dated 1799 constitutes the earliest Royal Arch Masonic record of the Louisiana Purchase. The original diploma is in the Library of Congress in Washington and reads: "We, the High Priest, Captain of the Host, and Captain of the Guard, of the Royal Arch Chapiter of Royal Arch, Superexcellent MASONS, of Staunton Lodge No. 13, do certify and attest, that our worthy faithful , true, and well beloved Brother Meriwether Lewis (who has affixed his name adjacent to the Seal) was by us exalted to the sublime degree, of a Royal Arch. Superexcellent MASON; he having with due honor and justice to the Royal community, justly supported, with skill and valor, the different, and amazing trials attending his exaltation: and as such, We recommended him, to all true and faithful Brethren of the Royal Arch.

"Given under our hands and Seal of our Chapiter this 31st day of October Anno Dam. 1799, and of Royal Arch Masonry 2809.

Wm. Chambers, H. P .

Joshua Parry, C. H. Robert W. Donnell, C. G. Teste Vincent Tapp, Scribe."

"We are very happy to award the palm of being the first Royal Arch Mason to that sturdy pioneer whose explorations opened up the great West for settlement.

Freemasons have ever been pioneers.

Our traditions are full of references to brave and courageous souls who have given up their lives in support of their social and religious beliefs, and those who sacrificed their all on the altars of truth, justice and liberty. Truly does our fraternity teach that rugged individualism where each is limited only by his vision, and his willingness to do and dare."

Goodness does. not consist in greatness, but greatness ~n goorlness.-Athenaeu-s.

The Triad

17 As we assemble for our Twenty-third Conclave, our nation is in the midst of a gigantic preparedness program which may ultimately end in war. Many of our own boys have already been called to the Colors and are serving in the Army and Navy. At no time has there been greater need for clear thinking on the part of our fraternity administrators. It was with this thought in mind that we initiated the Acacia training school for officers, which, by the way, is a new undertaking for our fraternity, and I sincerely hope the training you receive here will help you to solve the problems which may arise this year.

In my opinion, many of our chapters have made very fine progress during the past two years, while some have made very little, and a few have slipped backward. I am by no means satisfied with the progress but I realize no program of reconstruction or of strengthening the chapters can be carried out in a year or even two. Whether in a fraternity or business, whenever we become satisfied with our accomplishments, our organization begins to disintegrate or slip back.

During the past two years, practically all the universities have increased their enrollment, and last year, some of them showed the largest number of students in ten years. Many of our chapters took advantage of this increase in enrollment to strengthen the membership and financial status of their chapters. Not for one minute would I have you think this progress was obtained without excellent planning and a lot of hard work and sacrifice on the part of actives and alumni. Nothing worth while can be accomplished by any chapter unless there is a close working agreement and complete coordination between actives and alumni. One is as essential to a successful chapter as the other.

A few of our chapters who were indebted to the national fraternity and local merchants have done an outstanding job of liquidating their debt. Evidence that old obligations can be paid off with the proper cooperation of actives and alumni has been demonstrated by four or five of our chapters during the past four years. These chapters did not sit back and say, "It cannot be done," and "The indebtedness is not our obligation but of the former group." They rolled up their sleeves and went to work.

Chapters which have made no attempt to fulfill the agreements they entered into with the National Council in the 1935, 1937 and 1939 Conclaves for liquidating their indebtedness should expect very little consideration. Had all our chapters operated on a sound financial budget, they would all be in the same position as those chapters which are now debt iree. These chapters are prepared for the troublesome times we now face and will emerge victorious, but those chapters which have operated on an unsound financial plan or have given very little thought to their finances have small hope of surviving unless some drastic action is taken immediately.

The matter of delinquent obligations

October, 1941

Our National President's Report of the Twenty-Third Biennial Conclave has been stressed at the past two Conclaves. I quote from National President Lewis' report at the 1935 Conclave: "Another source of great worry is that many of the chapters remain continually behind in their payments of per capita dues, taxes and initiation fees. When will these chapters assume their full responsibility for prompt transmittal of these funds as they collect them from their members? Those chapters which have conscientiously met their financial obligations will feel, and rightly so, that they should not carry the major financial load of the fraternity."

The chapter officers and financial and chapter advisers have a moral obligation to see that funds collected for rent, food, dues, initiation fees are spent for those purposes and not misappropriated for other uses.

At the 1939 Conclave, the following resolution was adopted and unanimously carried: Resolved, that we, the National Officers and Delegates of the Fraternity in good standing with the National Fraternity under ' the provisions of Section 1-401 of the Constitution, do hereby consent that notwithstanding the provisions of such section, the chapters now in default in accordance with such section may be seated at this, the 22nd Conclave of Acacia; provided, however, that such seating shall be upon the express condition that no motion shall be made at, or entertained by, this Conclave for the modification, amendment or repeal of the provisions of said Section 1-401 or of Section 2-606 of the By-Laws; and "Be it further resolved, that this practice be discontinued by succeeding conclaves."

We all know the seriousness of continuing such a practice. In my opinion, it is unfortunate that preceding Conclaves did not take a firm stand on this matter and make certain provisions which should have been strictly followed in order for those chapters under suspension to remain members in good standing. I think it would be unwise to take any action now regarding the seating of delegates from those chapters under suspension, which would be contrary to the resolution adopted at the last Conclave.

Your National Council urges that particular emphasis be placed on economy and that active chapter officers and alumni officers get together immediately upon your return home, if you have not already done so. Food costs, labor and supplies have increased five to fifteen per cent. Every chapter must set up and operate on a budget based on the actual income of the chapter rather than a budget made up for a full house when the rooms may be only about fifty per cent

occupied. Your room and board charges must be carefully reviewed and possibly some upward adjustments made. This is no time to be thinking of expensive r ushing parties and social functions for the coming year. Some fraternities have made a practice of engaging expensive orchestras for their formals , which should be abolished. Whenever possible, work around the fraternity house, such as waiting on tables, washing dishes, making beds, shoveling snow, cleaning house, etc., should be done by the actives and pledges.

Expenditures which are not absolute necessities should be curtailed.

The National Council has felt that economies could be effected in the National Fraternity and has scrutinized all costs very carefully. We made a definite saving for the two-year period over the budget which was adopted at the last Conclave, notwithstanding the fact that we have provided more facilities and services for the active chapters.

Since I have come into office, February 1, 1940, I have visited fifteen of our twenty-five chapters and have met with representatives of fourteen of our alumni organizations. During the past six months of my term, I contributed thirty-one days of my time to the fraternity, exclusive of many evenings and hours while at my regular duties. Since the first of the year, I have not been able to contribute the amount of time I should because my business problems have become more pressing each day and I have had little time to spare for anything else.

I have felt for some time that the fraternity needs a full-time man who could work with the chapters on a program of cultural developments, finances, rushing, officer training-all of which require more time than imy of our national officers can give. This plan was adopted by the Council and Jack Erwin was employed last April.

After visiting so many of our chapters, I felt there was a definite need for an officers' training or leadership school where all the chapters might pool their ideas and each one could profit by the experiences of the others. Here, also, our officers could be .trained so there would be uniformity in the records of the various chapters. This would make the interchange of ideas easier and simplify inspections for visiting officers. The training school plan was adopted by the Council at their March meeting and in view of the fact that we could get very desirable rates at Purdue University and we felt the school would not be a success if only the venerable dean and chapter adviser were present, it was decided to pay the expenses of three additional officers while at the school. The organization and planning of the school has meant

18 considerable work but it was another way in which the Council felt it could per form a real service for our chapters. We are able to do all this and still keep our expenses down to a very little more than those for an ordinary Conclave, and much less than we originally planned to spend.

I can't urge you too strongly to formulate a definite policy for payment of house accounts. Each year, thousands of dollars are written off by our chapters due to "dead-beats" among the members.

Don't forget this: You members who pay your bills eventually pay the carrying charge for those men. Some of our chapters are in such desperate straits today because they had more "dead-beats" than paying members. Also, let me urge the alumni officers to take vigorous action on the collection of old house accounts and building fund notes. Each member who has an obligation should be approached in a business-like and friendly way. The true fraternity man will recognize and make every effort to pay his obligation.

I am definitely convinced that no organization, whether it be fraternity or business, will live and prosper unless it has a sound financial set-up. No organization can continually spend more than its income-notwithstanding the fact that we have numerous "crackpots" in our great Capital City who advocate just such a plan. I have spent a good deal more time on the collection of national fraternity accounts and helping chapters work out their financial difficclties than I ever thought would be necessary. I feel there are too many serious problems confronting us today for the National President and other members of the Council to be devoting the majority of their time to the collection of old debts.

During the past two years, we have collected $3,605.99 on indebtedness which was incurred prior to 1939. I want to congratulate those chapters which have made a real effort and sacrifice during the past four or five years to pay off their old indebtedness and to those who have continued to keep their current account paid. Also, I want to say to those chapters that the National Council has taken a firm and fearless stand in collecting moneys due the national fraternity. As long as I am a member of the Council I will use my influence to protect you; rights and assure you that there will be no let-up in our vigorous action to collect these old debts. Our Accounts Receivable as of July 1, 1941, are $13,569.75 as compared to $15,323.19 on July 31, 1939; and, while this is only a reduction of $1,753.44, during the last two years, $3,605.99 has actually been paid on old indebtedness incurred prior to 1939.

If some of our other chapters had not slipped backward, we would have had a somewhat more impressive record. During the 1939-41 biennial, ten chapters increased their indebtedness to the Nat ional Fraternity by $1,764.30 ; nine chapters reduced their indebtedness by $2 _ 134.47, and six chapters have continued to keep their record clear.

I have dwelt more on the finances of the fraternity than I had planned be-

cause I want to inform this group what some of our chapters have done to pay off their indebtedness and to impress upon you actives that the key to most of your fraternity troubles starts with financial difficulties. At the last Conclave, a resolution was adopted recommending the financial adviser system. Let me urge those chapters which have not already adopted this plan to do so at once. If a business feels the need for a comptroller to manage its financial affairs, it is logical that it would also be necessary for a fraternity whose members are young and with very little experience. A chapter which must devote most of its time to its financial problems cannot give the thought which is necessary to the cultural, social and scholastic development of the fraternity. However, chapter officers should welcome the opportunity of

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alumni financial superv1s1on. And for those who have any doubt as to the workability of this plan, I suggest you talk to . the chapter adviser and active delegat~ ' of those chapters which are operating with a financial adviser system.

I have given considerable thought to the matter of budget and how we could most wisely and prudently spend our money so that the chapters could benefit more than they have in the past. Already, many of our most active and interested alumni are feeling the pressing need for devoting more and more time to their work and cannot give as much time to the fraternity. This is especially true of men in business. Members of our Council who are in business have many more demands on their time, and with the uncertain conditions which face us today, I feel it would be for the best interests of the fraternity to have a full time secretary who can devote his entire time to problems as they arise.

We have given careful consideration to the matter of expansion. There are four or five groups with whom we have been working and it is quite possible that one or two will take on sufficient life to become a chapter of Acacia unless the war destroys what spadework we have already done. It is a difficult task to organize a new chapter. I won't at this time attempt to go into the many problems with which we are confronted in trying to organize a group. We have approached the idea of strengthening the fraternity through a union with another fraternity of somewhat 'equal strength and similar requirements. I believe a union of two fraternities offers the greatest possibilities for making a strong fraternity when each alone might not have the financial reserve to withstand another major depression such as we undoubtedly will have if this country is drawn into this great war. I firmly believe all such possibilities should be exploded, and the Council would welcome an expression of opinion on this matter.

Our publications have been a real asset to the fraternity and we can justly be proud of them. We are deeply indebted to National Editor Herschel Washington for his splendid work. A year ago this fall, we published a pledge manual which should be a distinct help to all chapter officers. Those chapters which did not order them last year should do so now. It is your loss if you don't avail yourself of these things which we have prepared for you just so you can carry out a program of cultural developments within the fraternity. This summer, through the efforts of Jack Erwin, Herschel Washington, and with a little help from some others, we have published a new Acacia Triagram to be used for rushing, which is a creditable piece of work.

Since I have been on the Council, I have been astounded by the small number of life subscribers to the TRIAD in some of our chapters. A wonderful opportunity of keeping our alumni Acaciaminded presents itself through the medium of our publication. I find our ~a­ ternity is one of very few which does not require the payment of the life subscrip-

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(2) commend the National Council for of life subscribers but it is difficult to sell 5. A full-time man be employed to having taken this very progressive and the boys after they leave school. At the manage the affairs of the Fraternity. present time, we have 940 life subscrib6. The Traveling Secretary plan which forward step in the administration of fra was adopted this last spring should be ternity affairs . . . . Carried. ers, 381 of which are from the lllinois Be It Resolved, (1) That the National continued to assist the chapters in a proand Northwestern chapters, which have Council be authorized and directed to gram of cultural, social and scholastic derequired payment of the life subscription develop and adopt a plan to employ such velopment. at the time of initiation. I believe this I wish to express my appreciation to paid executive help as may be needed to Conclave should take action to include all who have coo,Perated with me and administer the affairs of the Fraternity; payment for a life subscription to the (2) that such a plan be effectuated as especially the members of the National TRIAD at the time of initiation. rapidly as possible, and (3) that salaries Council and Brother Ruppenthal, ChairThe matter of investment of our life man of the Jurisprudence Committee. I heretofore paid to the National Secretary subscription funds has been given serious have enjoyed the work and my associa- and to the National Editor and funds althought. After counseling with some of tions with you immensely, although many located for secretarial help to the Nathe best-informed men, we invested aptimes during the past six months I thought tional Secretary and for chapter visitaproximately $11,000 of our funds. In init would be impossible to continue with tions be diverted toward the accomplishvesting these funds, we kept foremost in all the problems which have come up in ment of this plan .. .. Carried. mind the security of principal and, sec- business.

Good of the Fraternity Actives: ondly, the income which would be deMr. Brockob: Brother National Presirived for the operation of the fraternity. dent, a lot of this material was covered These securities were purchased at a by the School, so we didn't include it in strategic time and have appreciated in the but these are things that we EXCERPTS FROM THE felt report, should be included. value since then. These investments are returning us 5% per cent on the basis of 1. Expansion to schools of smaller calMINUTES OF THE last year's interest and dividends. ibre but accredited schools. Leave it up We have . continued with the regional to the National Council to decide on the CONCLAVE schools. conferences which more started about three years ago. During the spring of We did that because we felt the CounMr. McMillen: The following resolu- cil probably knows the type of school we 1940, four regional conferences were held, tions and recommendations were passed: with all but two chapters attending. In want included under that and the ones A resolution was adopted expressing that we don't want. view of the fact that we were holding an appreciation to the National Council for officers' training school this year, we felt 2. Resolve to retain Jack Erwin and it would be a duplication of time and the splendid manner in which the Train- at least one other man as traveling couning School for Chapter Officers was con- cilors to visit and inspect every chapter efforts if they were sponsored this spring. ducted, and for the work of the various in rotation in the course of a year and Thought should be given to changing the term of office for the members of the individuals who participated. Approval spend as much time as necessary in each was expressed for the excellent work of chapter to correct its faults and trouNational Council. In my opinion, a fourJack Erwin in his visitation work as well bles. To establish their office and duties year term has kept many good men from as for his part in the training school. to a National Office. being considered as national officer maAs a result of discussions, the followterial. As another fraternity man ex3. To provide each chapter with a copy pressed himself when I went into office, ing recommendations were made: of the minutes of this and succeeding 1. A recommendation to the effect that Conclaves, just one copy, and as an addi"That's not a term; that is a sentence."

I know of no other fraternity which has special attention should be given by the tional suggestion, we believe it would be various chapters to the matter of correct best to condense it, so we can read it and a four-year term for its national officers.

In closing, I wish to summarize the addresses (in the files ) of both actives understand it. and alumni, with particular regard to points on which I think definite action 4. Recommend that Regional conferthose men in the service. It is deemed ences be held and encouraged for altershould be taken by this Conclave if we advisable to make a special effort to nating years beginning in the year 1942. are to strengthen our position and compete with other fraternities. We are fac- maintain contact with these men.

5. Recommend that training schools be 2. A recommendation that an alumnus continued and streamlined to more dising chaotic conditions and no one knows be assigned to each chapter officer in or- cussion and less reading of mimeographed what the future holds in store for frader to bring about more alumni coopera- material and to include concentrated ternities. You must realize the extreme seriously of the situation and take prompt tion and closer contact between alumni group instruction. By "concentrated and active groups. T}:lese men should be group instruction," we mean, have a speaction which will enable our fraternity appointed by the President of the Alumni cial group for the V. D.'s, a special group to keep in step with the changing world. for the Senior Deans and so on down.

Following are my recommendations for group.

3. A recommendation that earlier chapserious consideration: ' 6. Provision be made to have at least ter elections and installments be consid- one morning or afternoon free during the 1. A definite program should be adopted for liquidating the debt of those chapters ered by various chapters in the interest Conclave for the benefit of men to do as of better spring and summer rushing. they please. We have heard several comwhich are now under suspension for nonpayment of per capita dues and initiation Such a plan would permit the retiring plaints on the part of the fellows to the fees. officers to advise and help the incoming effect that they haven't had time enough 2. All future initiates should be re- officers to set up a better organized rush- to visit the University here, and we feel quired to pay the life subscription to the ing program, especially for summer and that if we had a little extra time in the fall. morning or afternoon, we would be able TRIAD at the time of initiation.

4. A recommendation that a new cen- to do that. ... Adopted.

3. An adequate system of bookkeeping be set up in the National Secretary's tral office be established and that a field Mr. Gauch : Report of the Conclave and office. secretary be employed to carry on a pro- Training School Committee: 1. We recommend the continuation of (b) All chapters now indebted to the gram of visitations and help to the varidebted to the National Fraternity or local ous chapters. The committee was definite Regional Conclaves. that this set-up should involve no in2. Although too much favorable commerchants be instructed to adopt some creases in National dues. ment regarding this 1941 Conclave canfinancial control or adviser system. not be made, we do suggest: (2) All chapters now indebted to the Ways and Means Committees: (a) That much more advance publicNational Fraternity and local merchants Be It Resolved, That the delegates to be required to submit a budget at the this Conclave (1) endorse the action taken ity be given to the Conclave, not only to beginning of the school year and monthly by the National Council this Spring in the Active Chapters and Advisors, but

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20 to the Alumni, in order t o stimulate attendance and interest and properly publicize Acacia. (b) Also recommend that all possible college and city newspapers be utilized to publicize Acacia Fraternity and its Conclave, not only in advance of, but during and after the Conclave. (c) Also, in order that the dividends of t hese sessions-! have got to use one insurance word, anyhow-may benefit the largest possible number, we recommend that the various chapters promptly mail out a well-composed newsletter to their Alumni-promptly meaning immediately after getting back-largely about the high points of this Conclave. (d) We recommend also that the forenoon and afternoon sessions be shorter, thereby giving and providing for a little more leisure time. (e) It is also recommended that some forenoon or afternoon session during the Conclave be devoted to sectional meetings, such as one for Treasurers, another for Venerable Deans, another for Advisors, et cetera, and that the program mailed out in advance schedule these Sectional meetings. I mention that because if you had one for the singing group, it would stimulate those individuals to come on to these meetings.

(3) Our approval of the Training School in conjunction with the Conclave cannot be expressed too superlatively.

We heartily appreciate the worth-while mimeographed material, which gives each of us something concrete to carry back to our various chapters. We particularly appreciate the efforts of all those who contributed to the excellent preparation of this material and we recommend the continuity of this plan .. .. Adopted.

President Kolbe: We will call on the Chairman of the Jurisprudence Committee, Brother Ruppenthal: This involves the amendment of Section 1-1901: "Membership in Acacia may be terminated only by the death or expulsion of the member." . . . We propose to amend Section 1-1901 as I have stated and to repeal original Section 1-1901 and Section 1-1902.

Secretary Tuthill: The Advisor will answer first; the delegate, second. Answer "Yes" or "No." ... the vote was unanimous. The proposed amendment is as follows: Section 1-1802 is hereby amended to read as follows: "Any student who shall have been an active member and who shall have severed his connection with the university or college at which his chapter is chartered shall thereupon become an alumnus member. Subject to the provisions of Section 1-1801, he shall, upon re-entering such college or university, again become an active member."

Secretary Tuthill: Brother National President, the vote again was unanimous.

Section 1-1701 is hereby amended to read as follows : "Active membership in Acacia shall be solely by invitation of a chapter extended pursuant to a vote taken as hereinafter

provided. Proposals for membership shall be made by a member of the chapter at a stated or special meeting." And then w~ strike the next two lines. "The vote upon such proposals shall be by secret ballot taken at a stated or special meeting and a unanimous vote of those present and voting shall be necessary for election." " If at the time of the initiation of the candidate an objection thereto is made and is sustained by a vote (taken by secret ballot) of one-third of those present and voting, he shall not be initiated at that meeting." And this is the new part of the section: "Provided, however, that a Board of Election Commissioners may be elected by secret written ballot of two-thirds of those present and voting at any regular meeting of the active chapter. Such Board shall consist of not more than five members of the active chapter and shall be elected for a period not longer than the end of the ensuing school year. The Venerable Dean and Rushing Chairman shall be members of such Board. Such Board shall have full power and authority to rush and pledge prospective members without further vote of the active chapter, under such rules and regulations as said Board from time to time may adopt and the active chapter approve."

Secretary Tuthill: Brother National President, the vote is unanimous.

This will be a new By-Law-2-608.

"Any active chapter, under suspension by reason of the provisions of Section 1-401 of the Constitution, shall be required to operate under such financial control or advisory system as the National Council may prescribe."

The question has been called for. All those in favor, say "Aye." It is unanimous.

The Report of the Resolutions Committee: , Mr. Lund (Washington State): Brother National President, this is the report of the Resolutions Committee of the 23rd Acacia National Conclave: Whereas, the 23rd Conclave of the Acacia Fraternity, as all former Acacia Conclaves, embodies united and cooperative labors of the members and others interested in the Fraternity; and Whereas, the National Conclaves of Acacia offer an opportunity for expressing the thoughts and feelings of its friends and delegates in true appreciation for all that contributes to its success: Therefore, Be It Resotved, by th~ delegates of Acacia in its 23rd conclave assembled: (1) That they express for themselves and their respective chapters their deep appreciation of the faithful and efficient services so diligently and ~o sacrificingly rendered by the National Officers of the fraternity , both singly and collectively, during the two years just passed ; for their readiness to drop their personal affairs and go to the aid of particular chapters in their emergencies, whatever the necessities of time and distance involved ¡ for the cordial sincerity and appreciatio~ to those who are thriving, and their sym-

pathetic appreciation of the problems of those who are laboring under difficulties.

(2) To the Purdue Chapter of Acacia actives and alumni, who have given of their time and efforts for the comfort convenience and entertainment of th~ Conclave, its delegates and guests, we tender our thanks.

(3) Particularly do we testify our appreciation: (a) To Brother Bill Knapp, General Chairman of the Conclave Committee on Arrangements, for his untiring attention to the registration of delegates and visitors, to reservations for their accommodations and the general supervision of the Conclave, and others who have assisted him. (b) To Mrs. Knapp, for her supervision of the women's program of entertainment. (c) To L. G. Balfour and Company for the tokens to the ladies. (d) To the University of Purdue, through its administration, and especially through the management of Cary Hall, we express our sincere appreciation for the splendid cooperation in making this, our 23rd Conclave, a most successful and inspirational gathering of fraternity men. (e) To Herschel Washington, our dapper toastmaster, and to R. B. Stewart, Controller of the University of Purdue, and National President of Alpha Chi Rho, for his challenging address at the final Conclave Banquet. (f) To Al. Stewart for his descriptive example of fraternity singing; to Hugh McMillen for his song leading at the meals. (g) To Dean Potter for his highly inspirational and important message on the subject of National Defense and Education, which subject is so vital to the welfare of Acacia today.

Therefore, Be It Resotved, That this Conclave unanimously endorse the action of the National Council in establishing the Officers' Training School, and especially be it resolved that we recognize the efforts of the National President, Walker Kolbe, in the preparation of the program and materials used in the training school.

It is self-evident that we, as active members and alumni, realize the vast benefits which have resulted from our reputable publications, and the fraternity has for many years been extremely fortunate in having these publications of distinguished types, operated on sound editorial policies.

Whereas, the National Council has been in a position to and has given admirable leadership to the Acacia Fraternity publications, under the guidance of our experienced Editor; Be It Resotved, That the delegates of the 23rd National Conclave of the Acacia Fraternity give recognition to an outstanding Brother who has given unselfishly of his services to his fraternity through fraternal leadership in the development of a more perfect alumniactive relationship through the national publications, and especially the TRIAD. Be It Resotved, That a rising vote of

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appreciation be given to Brother Herschel Washington for his distinguished and meritorious services. . . . Adopted.

Section 2-601c is hereby amended to read as follows: "Each active chapter, within ten days after the initiation of each member, shall pay the National Fraternity an initiation fee of fifteen dollars, and a TRIAD Life Subscription fee for such member of fifteen dollars."

The repeal of the original Section 2-60lc, Section 2-601d, as amended in 1!)39, is hereby amended to read as follows: "Each chapter shall pay to the National Fraternity on or before the fifteenth day of the month a monthly per capita tax for each person who shall have been an active member thereof at any time within the month immediately preceding. The rate of such per capita tax shall be determined by each National Conclave for the period ending with the next ensuing National Conclave, based upon chapter reports of membership and the estimated expense for such period. One dollar per year of the per capita tax so paid shall be credited to the payment of the TRIAD subscription of each active member represented, who is not a TRIAD Life Subscriber. The per capita dues payment of each member who is a TRIAD Life Subscriber shall be reduced one dollar per year."

Secretary Tuthill: National President, the ballot was 32 for, 9 against.

Ways and Means Committee further report: Dr. Lewis: The Ways and Means Committee recommends that the report of the Conclave and Training School Committee, the report of the Committee on Good of the Fraternity (active delegates), and the report of the Committee on the Good of the Fraternity (advisors) be referred to the National Council, with the expressed desire of the delegates to this Conclave that the recommendations contained therein be given careful consideration and, where practicable, be placed in operation for the benefit of the chapters and of the National Fraternity ..

The resolution is adopted.

Dr. Lewis: We have a resolution to submit: Be It Resolved, That in view of the importance of Group Singing as a vital part of Acacia Fraternity life and the development of esprit de corps, the National Council be instructed to appoint a permanent "Music of Acacia" Committee.

This committee shall review all new songs, see to or delegate the assembling of individual chapter songs, revising of the Song Book of Acacia as needed, arrangement of orchestrations of leading songs for use on public occasions, arrangement of part harmony and interpretation for group singing; and Be It Further Resolved, That a definite plan be made for securing publicity of Music of Acacia through national broadcasts, magazines, publications and other means. . . . It is carried.

Dr. Lewis: We have another resolution:

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Be It Resolved, That the National Council be instructed to plan Regional Conferences to be held in the spring of 1942 ; that the programs thereof include a short training school, with particular emphasis on Rushing, and that the Traveling Secretary and such National Officers as can ~onveniently do so, attend and participate m these conferences. . . . The motion is carried.

Dr. Lewis: We have an additional resolution: Be It Resolved, That this Conclave instruct the National Council to make a consistent effort to increase the number of Life Subscribers to the TRIAD and the number of Life Members of the Fraternity ... . It is carried.

Dr. Lewis: This matter has not been brought before the Ways and Means Committee but I feel that I should make some report on it. It requires no action, but yesterday Roy Clark received from a very active and always-interested Acacian, one who has been down through the years, Brother Art Hendrickson of the Yale Chapter, a letter requesting that something be done to stimulate more interest in the alumni of those chapters that no longer are active, . . . I simply present it ... refer the matter to the Jurisprudence Committee for consideration and possible presentation of some legislation at a future conference.

Dr. Lewis : The Ways and Means Committee is bringing in another resolution.

Be It Resolved, That the National Council and Jurisprudence Committee be instructed to prepare such amendments to the "Laws of Acacia" as may be necessary to provide for keeping the title to the badge of the Fraternity in the respective chapters or in the National Fraternity and that this matter be presented at the next Conclave . ...

Mr. Erwin: Now, will you please make a note of this. . . . I would like sample booklets, more than one, two or three, of each chapter's local publication. I would like any other sample booklets that you can get that are put out by other fraternities on your campus. . . . I would like a copy of your Inter-Fraternity Council booklet. ... I would like an outline, just briefly, but an outline of what sort of rushing rules you follow during Rush Week. . . . I would like a sample of the form letters you send out to the rushees and to your alumni in contacting them during the summer .. .. Will you please make a copy of all the songs you know, that you use. You don't need to send me the music, if you don't have the music, but do send me the words ... . This material would best be sent to Jack Erwin, and my last name is E R W I N, 1245 Fletcher Street, Chicago, Illinois.

President Kolbe: The past two or three Conclaves, . . . award a cup to the chapter which has made the most progress during the past biennium, and the chapter which has had the most outstanding record. The first is the Canman A ward and the second is the Behrens A ward.

Editor Washington: The National Council, in spite of my holding out for the Okies to the last, has awarded the Can-

man Cup to Indiana. . . . The Behrens Cup has been awarded to Northwestern.

President Kolbe: The next order of business will be the report of the Nominating Committee, by Brother Kirby of Penn State . .. .

After careful consideration of the available men and a study of their qualifications, your Committee submits the following nominations: For National Secretary-J. K. Tuthill and Cecil Brite.

For National Editor-Herschel Washington.

President Kolbe: ... The next item is the election of officers. . . . The first office . . . that of National Secretary. . . . Are there any other nominations for National Secretary? If not, I presume you want to ballot on these two men, and we will proceed to that. . . .

President Kolbe: ... We have a report from the Chairman of the Tellers.

You have selected Brother Cecil Brite as your new Secretary... .

President Kolbe: The next office to be filled is that of National Editor. The Committee reported out one name. . . . Are there any further nominations from the floor?

Mr. Lusk (Indiana): Brother President, I move the nominations be closed and the Secretary be instructed to cast the unanimous ballot for Brother Herschel Washington ... . It is carried. You have elected Brother Washington.

President Kolbe: .. . According to our Constitution, 1-1501, it is necessary to appoint our permanent committees.. .. members of the Jurisprudence Committee. . . . I am appointing for the next biennium, Brother Ruppenthal as Chairman of this Committee, and Brother Stepler of George Washington Chapter and Brother Floyd Nelson of Minnesota as our Permanent Jurisprudence Committee to serve for the next two years.

Busy Career and Back to Alma Mater (Continued from page 12) edited a volume on of the United States, American Academy Social Science. He

Anti-Trust Laws published by the of Political and is co-author of Business and Government, published by the Foundation Press. It has been used as a standard text in a hundred colleges and universities and has gone through four editions. He is also joint author on the text International Law cases.

Hervey married the former Miss Hallie Holloway of Marlow and their family consists of Janis Marilyn age five, and John Douglas age two. They have established a home at 620 S. Flood in Norman and are busily engaged in renewing their wide circle of old friendships.

The University of Oklahoma and Acacia are extremely lucky to regain the Herveys.-ERVIN K. WILLIAMSON.

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J, R. Burkhart

1st Lt. F. A.

R. E. Clark J, V. Crabb

Capt. In!.

1st Lt.

W. S. Green

Capt.

W. E. Heltzel

1st Lt.

E. Leisure

1st Lt.

W. McPherson

1st Lt. F. A.

C. D. McAIIiston

Lt. Col.

H. N. Riise

Cadet

W. C. Royer

1st Lt.

C. J, Snyder

1st Lt.

J, R. Wergin AI Rogers

lsi Lt.

KANSAS F. Crocker Bacon

lsi Lt.

Allen Anderson

2nd Lt.

350th Field Artillery, Camp Livingston, La. Purdue R.O.T.C., Lafayette, Ind. 70th Coast Artillery, Camp Stewart, Ga. 5th Tr. Regt., Ft. Bragg, N.C. Purdue R.O.T.C., Lafayette, Ind. !13th In£.. Trenton, N. J. Air Corps, Langley Field, Vt. Air Corps, Lowry Field, Denver, Colo.

C.C.C. No. 1503, Moscow, Idaho (Res.) 109 Woodside Ave., Indianapolis, Ind. 18th Field Artillery, Ft. Sill, Okla.

Stockton Field, Stockton, Calif.

U. S. Navy Aviation, Pensacola, Fla. Intelligence Office, Ft. Story, Va. 35th Field Artillery, Camp Blanding, Fla. A. C. Flying School.

Moffett Field, Calif.

Air Corps Flighting

(awaiting orders)

U. S. Marine Aviation Corps 1st Lt. Ft. Rosecrans, Calif.

Army Air Corps Santa Maria, Calif.

William R. Ward Frank D. Yaussi Schiller and Chester Shore F. C. Amos Carol J. Freeman

Officers Capt.

Lt.

Clyde Woodman

2nd Lt.

Robert L. Burns Dick Treece Bob Perry

2nd Lt. Ensign

MINNESOTA Linton Lehrer

Pvt.

Sidney Alexander

Pvt.

Robert Tiffany John Livingston

Pvt. Pvt.

Gordon Lundin

2nd Lt.

Camp Robinson, Ark. Fort Mills, Philippine Is. National Guard Stalwarts, Camp Robinson, Ark. Chemical Warfare, Edgewood Arsenal. Md. Reserve Corps U. S. Navy, Boston, Mass. !27th Observation Squadron , Ft. Leavenworth, Kans.

Co. E, 1st Omtr., 2nd Batn., Ft. F. E. Warren, Wyo. Co. B, 6lst Batn., lst Pit., Camp Wolters, Texas Fort Wolters, Texas Hdqts. Batn., !48th F. A. Regt., Fort Lewis, Wash.

IOWA STATE Leonard Neidigh

Lt.

F. E. Hienton

Capt.

MISSOURI Donald Lowry

Pvt.

James Reid Joseph Pech

2nd. Lt.

Bob McMillan

Pvt.

C. Wayne Rausch

2nd. Lt.

Roland Lanser

2nd. Lt.

NORTHWESTERN Robert Brown C. James Nelson Dan Macer Roger Case Benhart Fred Leslie Bennett C. Elmer Haglund Richard M. Chadwick Curtis Erickson Wm. Masoner Richard W. Evans

Pvt. Pvt. 2nd Lt. Pvt. Pvt. Lt., Sr. Grade Lt. , Sr. Grade Lt., Jr. Grade Ensign Ensign Ensign

SYRACUSE Ralph Unger Harry Brewster Gus Tracy Stephen Smith Arthur Gutman Marlon Jacobs Lawrence Sholtes Myles Esmay Clinton Tasker OHIO Orville K. Knight Kenneth E. Oefller Don A. Walter (Pledge) Howard Farley Otto A. Jjskra

Capt.

Naval Air Force Army Air Force Lt. Lt.

Pvt. Pvt. Bombardier Lt.

2nd Lt. 2nd Lt. Aviation Cadet Aviation Cadet Pvt.

WASHINGTON Robert C. Devoe

2nd Lt.

Charles C. Johnson

2nd Lt.

James N. Shepard

2nd Lt.

805th Engr. Avia. Batn., Chaine Aux. Field, Albrook Field, Panama Canal Zone 91 7 Grand Court, Davenport, Iowa

U. S. Marines Corps, San Pedro, Calif.

U. S. Army Air Corps U.S. Army (somewhere in La.) U.S. Army, Camp Wolters, Texas U. S. Army Air Corps (California) U. S. Army (Texas)

U.S. Army Training Training U.S. U. S. U.S. U.S. U. S. U.S.

Army Marines Army Army Army Air Force Army

Fort Hayes, Columbus, 0.

Fort Stotsenburg, Philippine Islands Randolph Field, Texas Oxnard Field, Calif.

363rd School Sqd., A. C., Bcrrrack 464, Lowry Field, Colo.

32nd Infantry, Fort Ord, Calif.

32nd Infantry, Fort Ord, Calif.

4th Engineer Corps, 5638 South East Hawthorne Blvd., Portland, Ore.

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PLAYING HOST

a half hour would make that much difference."

The social season is well started Because she had been late on other now, and there will be many oppor- occasions her "host" set the time a tunities for playing host or hostess, half hour too early so that she would either to one guest on a twosome, or have ample time. Turning over a new to a number of guests in the sorority leaf, the girl actually came at the hour or fraternity. Because of the many he had mentioned, and of course had persons who will be house guests this thirty minutes in which to work up season, and because we gather around additional appetite. Funny situations the dinner table so frequently with can develop, but forewarning helps. these friends, let us first consider the The guest likes to meet a few of problems of the dinner guest in the the house members, b~t not be burhouse-and leave the tete-a-tete diffi- dened and embarrassed with hasty inculties for another time. troductions to all in sight. If the host As an earlier undergraduate guest, or hostess will plan ahead, and invite and more recently as chaperon, I have a particular friend--or several-to sit many recollections of mealtimes in together during the meal, the guest various sororities and fraternities. will really feel that he is among Some were during house-party season friends. Waiting until after being when everyone is feeling generally seated at the table makes for awkfestive. Others were during the week ward, futile introductions. when no party was in session. The Exchange names in the living room well-liked host at any meal is always before going into the dining room. Or the gracious person who does not have if you must introduce your guest at to assume company manners when the dinner table, don't always attempt company comes to dinner. From the to include the whole table of ten or first introduction to the last goodbye twelve. Think how you would feel the well-liked host is consistently con- repeating "How d'you do" mechanisiderate of the guest's comfort-men- cally to a dozen strangers! tal and physical.

Particularly if the guest is a newOften the guest is a stranger on the comer to the house, he appreciates campus, and there is always a first being thrown a "life line" as part of visit to any fraternity or sorority the introduction. That is, some brief, house. The thoughtful host explains helpful bit of information about the what may be new to the visitor so person being introduced with which that the newcomer will not feel ill-at- to start a conversation. Simply "Helen Ward, Jack Jordan," is not the kind ease in the new surroundings.

If the dinner comes during a house- of an introduction which provides an party, the guest appreciates knowing easy conversational approach. The in advance whether the other guests following introduction would provide will dress for dinner, wear simple an opening wedge for a conversaafternoon or even sport clothes-or tional start: "Helen, this is Jack Jordan, Helen possibly come in fancy-dress costume.

During one spring house-party at a Ward."

"How 'dyou do," in unison. sorority which I chaperoned, I can re"Jack is the quarterback we watched call one man being very embarrassed appearing in a sack-suit for dinner this afternoon." " Oh that was a marvelous run you when the other men were wearing dinner-jackets. His "hostess" had made, etc.," says Helen.

And they are off to a happy start. carelessly told him to "come any How often have you squirmed in way." And at a fraternity costume party, one of the brothers neglected the dead silence following an introto tell his date that the dance com- duction? Do you always throw out a mittee was offering a prize for the "life line"?

A whole chapter could be written most original costume in a parade after dinner. Needless to say, both of about table conversation and table these evenings started out at an all- manners. But a few general comments will have to suffice for the prestime low!

It is also well to have a definite ent. Recalling embarrassing moments understanding about the time that . suffered by some house guests in the dinner is served. Recently a friend of past, may I take a plea here for elimmine went to an eastern college house- inating the practical jokes and lustier party and wasn't warned that dinner songs and tales to which some groups hours in the house were practically are given more than others? Supinviolable. On the evening of her ar- posedly a guest is being entertained, rival she had an almost cold meal by and should not be tested to see taking extra time to complete a man- whether he can "take it"-meaning icure. "He told me six-thirty," the not to blush at more colorful songs or Tardy One ali~ied, "but I didn't think stories, and to "be a good sport" as

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the victim of a joke. Once at a fraternity dinner my date insisted upon playing tricks with two glasses of milk which eventually spilled on my light-colored dinner dress. He didn't offer to have the dress cleaned and the spots were never removed successfully!

A Woman's Viewpoint This is an extract from a letter to a serious young Acacian from a girl who has much on her mind about fraternity and the timeliness of things. Because we consider it apropos we are including it here, but the recipient and the sender of the letter are kept anonymous.-The Editor.

Dear Peter, A girl does not have a very good idea of what a fraternity is like, even when she is in college. â&#x20AC;˘I have gleaned some things from your Acacia TRIAGRAM and I like what I have found there. I am sure that your fraternity is a light in the path for a great many young men-and how young men need light these days! The world is so wicked, isn't it? There surely has been something wrong with Education ... not just here, but universally. I have been told that in the Old World there are some exceptionally splendid institutions of higher learning-but not all their wisdom and culture has kept Peace. I think that Man lacks fraternity to a great and awful degree.

But what is to be done about it? And just now I have wondered many times just what one could and should say to a young man just starting his work in a university?

Truth and Light and Liberty! What beautiful and shining words they are -and surely they are not 'and never will be decadent. But how are you going to make us youth accept them when the world is full of Falsehood and Darkness and Slavery? Is it for this, our generation, to be a lost generation in the war to end all possibility of another war? Can it be don~?

Do you know one of the first things I would do if I could? I would go into every village, hamlet, city ; country and continent, and destroy, once and for always, every monument erected to the memory of a man whose life was more devoted to the latter of the three -slavery. It is sickening to think of all the books that have been written about conquerors-bloody devils-and about political knaves ; all the towers and statues and obelisks that commemorate some wicked deed termed in history as a victory ; the shrines and buildings sacred to the remains or to the last worldly goods of a hero-

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killer!! I do get so incensed on this subject, being a woman, but you understand what I mean . . . . And so it was impossible. And the world went on in its false and evanescent smugness. And it wore a uniform beautifully tailored by a funny little man who talked with his hands and did not live to see the day that the world donned his handicraft.

And the world, that was almost blinding in its buttons and bars and saber, smiled a demoniac smile as it chopped off the head of a sweet little person sitting at the side of the road with three tiny bundles to give awayTruth, Light, and Liberty. And everywhere this world went he left death and decay in his wake until there was nothing left for him to slaughter, and so he plunged into space and was seen no more. Somewhere there lies in the deserted wastes, three tiny bundles; but where, nobody knows ... and nobody cares ~ . . because now there is nobody.

Aren't you glad this isn't true? Perhaps, somehow, man can again know what fraternalism means.

There was a grand storm tonight, with lightning, rain and thunder. It did me good. I like to feel the wildness of a storm once in a while. Don't you? When the tempest has passed, how lullabyic is the wind, cool with rain.

Pleasant Goodnight, SUZAN.

Bonds of SA E (Continued from page 10)

Delegates to Conclave OFFICIAL CONCLAVE DELEGATES

( Continued from page 9)

Delegates

Verle Cireson, David G. Turner and H. Verle Wilson.

MicmcAN Fred Seyfried Indiana: J. C. Forsyth, J. Warren John S. Pierson Fox, James Gaddis, Harold F. Lusk, Lloyd Ruppenthal KANSAS Robert G. Kluth, John P. Lutz, Wm. Fred Stubeck L. Welch and Gus. Y ochem.

NEBRASKA Wendall Groth Iowa: Fred C. Freytag.

William Hastings Iowa State : Fred J . Beard, Clair J. CALIFORNIA John R. Bell Claxton, Laurenz Greene, Walter E. Lauridsen, Robert A. Muschamp and OHIO Raymond Gauch Ralph H. Rawson, Jr. George Painter Kansas: L. H. Ruppenthal and Fred ILLINOIS Jack K. Tuthill Stu beck.

Fredrick Brockob Kansas State: Ray D. Caughron, FRANKLIN None present V. D. Foltz and James Sealey.

MINNESOTA Wayne Hopkins Michigan: J . Ross Clark, John R. George Larsen Pierson and Fred J. Sigfried.

Minnesota: Wayne Hopkins, George WISCONSIN Henry 'franmal Hugo Kuechenmeister Larson, Robert Livingston, Duane Norby and Willard Thysell.

MISSOURI Elmust L. :Monroe Missouri: Louis W. Brittingham, CORNELL Gustave F. Heuser Carl Huffman, E. L . Monroe and VicR. Stephen Hawley tor E. Sparling.

PURDUE Al. Rogers Nebraska: Luther (Boots) Andrews, A. Eugene Snyder Wend ell Groth, William Hastings and Robert H. Shoemaker.

IowA STATE Fred J . Beard Walter Lauridson Northwestern: Roy C. Clark, Robert W. Kittridge, Wm. B. Miller, Carl PENN STATE Dr. R. S. Kirby 1 Simonson and James 0. White, Jr. W. John Gillespie Ohio State: Jack Bentley, Raymond WASillNGTON None present Gauch and George A. Painter.

Roy Clark Oklahoma: Jack Bates, Cecil Brite, NORTHWESTERN Robt. Kittredge Harold Cooksey and Robert Gillespie.

Hugh E. McMillan Penn State: John Gillespie, R. S. COLORADO John F. Lewis Kirby and Raymond B. Stein.

Purdue: Howard Ayres , Frank SYRACUSE None present Baynes, James Baynes, W. L. Baynes, V. D. Foltz James R. Burkhart, R. C. Eisenbach, KANSAS STATE James Sealey John M. Gano, L. D. (Abe) Gordner, Harold Cooksey Jack H. Kneale, J. B. Kohlmeyer, OKLAHOMA Jack Bates W. E. Lommel, Frank S . Moore, Rob- • Harold Lusk ert Martin, Arthur W. Menke, Richard INDIANA J. Warren Fox K. Mulvey, Arthur McQueen, Albert Harold Stepler Rogers, Wm. T. Ruggles, Wm. J. Scott, Ralph E. Simpson, John H . Skinner, GEORGEWASHINGTON William Ashby Arthur E. Snyder, Harold E. Tabbert OKLAHOMA STATE None present and George Towle.

CINCINNATI Marion H. Huber Washington State : Clifford D . JaWilliam Klahm cobs, Lester N. Liebel, Glenn E. Lund, WAsmNGTON STATE C. D. Jacobs Elmer E. Meustel and Willard A. ZollGlenn E. Lund mer.

Wisconsin: H. Kuechenmeister, Jr., and Henry Tranmal.

Schoo!

nor a sense of humor, nor athletic ability, nor conversational technique, nor adroitness in ballyhooing and bootlicking, nor prowess with women, nor the ability to consume, hold, and carry large amounts of spirituous, vinous, and maltous liquors. What a man wants in a friend is a common experience and a united purpose, a traveling to the same goal bound by the same ideal. He wants to know that that friend sees with him eye to eye in all the fundamentals and will not offend him in the trivialities. He wants to know that he will play his cards close to his vest and will not peep, cheat, whine, gripe, or stall, in the great game of life. He wants to be reassured by solidarities and entertained by whimsi- torn asunder and amidst the wreck of calities. He wants a friend with whom time and falling fragments of his lithe can differ without a difference and tle world about his feet, he can say, can joke without bitterness or resent- "I still have my friend." ment; one to whom he can recount his This fraternity is built on a Bond. successes without being a braggart That Bond is Friendship. Friendship and his failures without being a is built on character, ability, and perwhiner; a man on whom he can de- sonality. Without that bond you have pend, even though the universe be a boardinghouse, not a Fraternity.

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WASHINGTON STATE

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1. Our Prexy.

2. Our cook and her doq, the house mascot.

3. The pride and joy of Washinqton State. (Formerly of the University of Washinqton Chapter.)

4. The seniors of '41.

SYRACUSE 5. Roomies Zauner and Castes.

6. Brother Gutman at the sad partinq.

7. Brother Cosies payinq a debt to Brother Bartlett.

8. Brother Zauner enjoyinq somethinq qood.

9. A recent quest at Brother Cosies' home.

1D. Brother Hoffman in a pensive mood.

11. The way we win our scholarship cups.

12. Brother Walpole with qown and qirl friend.

13. Ex V. D. Foster with his usual diqnified manner.

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MISSOURI I. The new Chapter House.

PENN STATE 2. V. D. Walck before getting ready for his favorite pastime.

3. Harve Bair '43, first assistant football manager.

4. Pledge Brother Jaffurs. a starting guard on the Wittany eleven this year.

5. Bob Dierken '44. the house politician, studying poll returns while sucking on beloved cigar.

OKLAHOMA 6. Bates and Rogers "collar" Ivy. 7. Members Gillespie and Atchley corner Rushee Wilson, who doesn't seem to be too unhappy.

8. Shilling starts the football practice.

9. Pledges Bumpass and Ethridge find the scandal interesting.

10. Atchley greets his roomy, Pledge Brown.

I I. Rogers seems very unhappy that he must wait until next June for the future Mrs. 12. House Manager Grames and Pledge Captain Massey look the situation over.

13. 0. U. Chapter House where you will always find a w&lcome.

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IOWA STATE 1. Venerable Dean Laurisen and Chapter Advisor Beard at Conclave.

2. More picnic!

3. Iowa State's Chapter House in a wintry setting.

4. The Iowa Staters at the Conclave.

5. Um-m-m-m! Do we need to explain!

6. Acacia on a picnic!

NORTHWESTERN 7. Jim Cleland. John Kottick. Fred Woods, Jim White, and Art Heelck entertain two rushees.

8. Track Coach Frank Hill, '25, was a quest speaker at one of our rushing dinners. National President Walt Kolbe listens intently. as do V. D. Bob Kittredge and Roy Clark. chapter adviser.

9. That silly man at the left is. Ashton Bisbee. From left to right, the others are John Southworth. Wally Gibbs, John Pakan, Bill Ross, Hank Loewer. Neal Leach. Jack Schaefer. and Bill Martin. The occasion is the stag party at Sally's restaurant, in Spokie. Ill. Don't they look happy?

10. George Heinemann looks enthralled and Jack Schaefer looks tired. Well, who wouldn't be tired, by the time rush week draws to a close?

11. Pledge Sam Walker gives his electric "qit-tar.'' while rushees Tom Howell. Bob Laechle, Ed Merritt. John Southworth. and Wally Fischer. listen in awe and wonderment. A nameless rushee accompanies him on the piano.

12. Rushees gawk at movies. as George Heinemann narrates.

13. "Our glasses we'll fill and we pledge with a will--." Singing the drink song at Sally's, 14. A pledge class that practically outnumbers . the actives. You can see we had a busy rush week.

15. And here 's our entire chapter for this year. 44 in allL..-(;ount 'em. Quite a qanq, eh. wot?

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IOWA STATE Each is elated over having won (as the best quartet) the prize-a pie. Not "four and twenty blackbirds'' but among five fellows four pieces won't do.

DOINGS

IN

THE CHAPTERS

Nothing makes progress except intelligence. education, tolerance, kindliness, friendly discussion of problems, and the generous fellowship of free men.

KANSAS

Things to Do

1. Bud. would rather fly than eat-Boy! does he like to eat.

2. Yanssi 4 days after induction into the Army Air Corps at Santa Maria, Calif.

3. Tommy and Bill are plenty happy. Why? They just came through initiation.

4. Tommy Adams believes in cleanliness and originality.

5. Vern, in one of his reclining moods.

6. Max, stops to look over things on his way to Lake Tahoe.

7. Ivan the terrible after reports of final week-alias Ned Martin.

8. Ned looks confident that he can lake it up and set it down safely.

1. Immediately take advantage of the

OHIO STATE 9. Ed and Curt Porter.

10. Walters and Christensen at the airport.

11. Ping-pong in the recreation room.

12. A game of cards in the card-room.

new provision for the election of a board of election commissioners to facilitate rushing and pledging.

2. Place in operation the plan adopted by the Conclave for the payment of life subscriptions to the TRIAD. Several chapters now collect small amounts each month from each pledge which is placed in a special fund and available to pay to the National Fraternity when the pledge is initiated.

3. Continue your rushing program even though you have your house full now-undoubtedly you will lose some men during the year.

4. When you have a new idea which has worked in your chapter, send the details to Jack Erwin, 1245 Fletcher Street, Chicago. He will see the other chapters get the advantage of it.

Minnesota PLEDGES : Donald Johnson, Robert Carlson.

Seven men were put through initiation last week. They were: Gordon Harrison, Jerry Oppel, Allan Harington, William Allen, Dick Anthony, Sigurd Sjoberg, and Russell Larsen.

The Minnesota chapter is now settling down to the fall quarter routine after a strenuous initiation, redecoration of most of the house and the usual pandemonium which prevails at the beginning of a new quarter.

Many of the men returned early this quarter and painted their rooms. The house also bought new carpeting for the smoking room and the main hall downstairs. "Luxurious," was the main com¡ ment by returning brothers. During initiation the nine men entombed between walls, papered with jet black wallpaper, were relieved. The old wallpaper was

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George Washington

is now in the Army Air Corp and we are only waiting for Hitler and Mister Big to en~ it all in order to get him back.

Durmg the summer we repapered the basement hall and renovated one of the study _rooms, replaced the lighting fixture~ lfol two others and in general are contmwng the job of making our quarters more livable. The Chapter House was the scene of three Alumni dinners held during the summer months, June, July and September, in order to elect new officers, organize rush committees and create interest in the Alumni organization among the younger alums. This work goes apace under the presidency of C. Seeliger.

Dave Pfeiffer and his social committee have put on a fireside already this year and are planning the best social year for some time. A bang-up pledge party for October 17, and Homecoming October 24 are now occupying the attention of Pfeiffer et al.-CHARLES VAN FLEET.

PLEDGES: October 5, 1941-Pledge Sun' day at George Washington Universitywe pledged Lyman J. Hall, Herman E. Conyers, Albert P. Brodell, Jr., Harry Boatright, Richard E. Hurdle, Stanley Mague, Robert Moorman, Richard B. Berryman, Jr., Wallace L. Ashby, Gordon Grimwood, Robert Grill, Richard Warfield, Howard K. Carlson, and Austin Childress.

INITIATES: Last initiation was June 21 1941, at which time William H. Seabrooke: Jr., and Frank Farkas, were initiated.

Our next initiation is tentatively scheduled for Thanksgiving week-end, at which Cornell time we expect to initiate two more men whose initiation at the earlier June dat~ The house has pledged John Merriman was impossible.

The house h~ been gone over and gen- Fuller, Architecture, Parker Scoville erally. g~tten mto good order, including Agriculture, Emmons Joseph Whitcomb: Jr., Chemical Engineering, James Kingt~e pamtmg of the dormitory, and installatiOn ~f new window~ on the sleeping porch man Horne, Mechanical Engineering, portiOn of the dorrrutory. New curtains in Robert Avery Jasper, Agriculture, Wilthe drawing room and foyer also add bur Maker, Veterinary Medicine, Robert Keir, Hotel Administration, Melvin greatly to the al)pearance.

Opening the interfraternity athletic Harold Sidebotham, Chemical Engineerseason, the interfraternity golf tourna- ing, Charles Albert, Hotel Administrament was played at Bradley Hills Coun- tion, William Gibson, Mechanical Engitry Club October 12. The Acacia team neering, Richard Lawrence, Mechanical included Jack Washington, Harvey Sea- Engineering.

Meredith (Bud) Cushing, '44, is playbrooke, and pledges Dick Berryman, Herman Conyers and Wallace Ashby. Un- ing first-string center on the Cornell footfortunately our team did not place, top ball team. . He chipped in with stellar honors gomg to Kappa Sigma, with a to- work in the Syracuse game, intercepting a pass on his own five-yard line and endtal 4-man score for the 18 holes of 320.

Rush season was featured by three big ing a Syracuse drive for a touchdown. fee?s, under the heading "Boots. Beer, His defensive play sparked the stonewall line-work against Harvard. Richard ~emers, and Stuff," a picnic; "Chicken m the Rough," which is just what you Calvin Bonser, '43, is alternating at first and second-string guard with the 150-lb. ~uessed; and our annual banquet. Promment on our rush schedule was a lunch- football team. Roy Stephen Hawley, '43, eon, St. Mary's football game, buffet sup- is expected to star with the polo team, as per, and dance-all one afternoon and he is one of the returning veterans.

The chapter held a victrola-dance on night. A fine touch at the dance came when each of the Sigma Kappa sorority Saturday evening, October 11. A large gathering attended, among whom was members, our guests for the occasion was given a very red rose as the flowe~ Guest George Polzer, utility infielder for the Baltimore Orioles. Cider and doughof Acacia.-WILLIAM H. S~ABROOK. nuts were served in the playroom.

Robert Blazey, '40, returned to tell his old friends that he is teaching at Hartwick Seminary, in Oneonta. Walter Sickles, who twirled with the Baltimore Orioles last summer, stayed at the house Washington for a week after registration. He participated in 34 games with the International Leaguers. Carl Osberg, member of the Late but pertinent news is the initiation lacrosse team in '39, stopped for a day at of the following fellows during the last the house while en route to San Diego, few days of spring quarter: Magnus Olau- California, where he is to report for duty sen of Winslow, Wash., a junior in Engi- with the coast air corps. Alfred Arthur neering; Charles Van Fleet of Seattle, Hagedorn, '41, is serving as a second lieugeneral studies; and Bill Carton of Se- tenant at Dayton, Ohio. He flew to Ithaca attle, whose major is Botany. for the Cornell-Syracuse game.

Washington starts the new quarter With deep regret, the house announces with seven pledges whose Captain is Jack the death of Stephen Allen Smith, '42, Norman of Anacortes, brother of By Nor- Civil Engineering, of Middletown, N. Y. man who was initiated in '37. Others are Stephen drowned in Lake Cayuta on AuJack Henshaw of Mt. Vernon, a former gust 11, where he was staying as a stuM. C. of De Molay, Milton Trafton of dent at the Civil Engineering summer Mt. Vernon. Vance Anderson of Ana- camp. His remains were recovered the cortes, Pat Coburn of Port Angeles, Sam following Sunday. He was house manWeems and Bob May of Seattle. Ev. ager and is survived by his parents and Blakely last year's only leftover pledge brother.-LEO HAMALIAN.

Octobe1¡, 1941

California PLEDGEs: Bernard J ensen Donald Goodwin, Reed K eyes, Tramm~ll Combs Lee Williams, Ed Schram, Harry Larsen Vic Dugger, Golder DeWitt, Bob Buchan an George Martin. ' INITIATES: Fred Anderson, J ohn Bell Ernie Burroughs, George Croyle Bob Davidson, Bruce Dwelley, Tom Eby, Dick Ke ndall, Cliff Misener , Ed Prewitt, Ted Rowe.

California has started the new year with a new lease on life. The old house looks and "eels like it never has before.

During the pas t summer P aul Dallas Bob Davidson, George Martin and alum: nus Emery Sweetser, not t o mention the fellow~ that have their homes here, went down m the basement a nd found a couple of cans of paint that they used to excellent effect on the exterior of the hou e.

The cornice was given a new coat of white paint along with the window frames, and the sashes were trimmed up in green. They did not stop there though.

They got tired of the weather outside so they moved inside and really went to work. The ceilings of the living room, den and hall were calcimined; several pieces of furniture were re-covered ; new linoleum was laid on the kitchen floor ; and several pieces of new furniture were bought and put around the house. Included in this new furniture was a swell, big picture to hang over the fireplace to take the place of the old and abused antlers. I want to bring to light that the fellows did all this work after they got off work at their regular jobs around the bay area, and on Sundays.

The house was doing nicely in intramural sports this semester until we me t the Delta Tau Delta's in football and Cliff Misener, one of our backfield men, in the last few minutes of play, went up in the air after a pass thrown by our "honorable opponents" and forgot to land on his feet when he hit the ground. The result was a broken arm for Cliff. That seemed to take away from the spirit of the fellows a little because it was the second casualty we have suffered in football. Last year Bruce Dwelley broke his collar bone on the same field playing the same sport. After the fourth contest we were eliminated from intramural football. The sports looming up now are tennis and bowling in which we have done quite well in the past. Our tennis team is made up of John Bell, Golder DeWitt, Ed Prewett, and Ernie Burroughs. The Bowlers are George Croyle, Lee Williams, Golder DeWitt, and John Bell.

We lost one of our best bowlers, Kenny Moore, to West Point last summer. This year two of the fellows have entered the University band, Don Goodwin playing the trombone and Lee Williams playing the clarinet.

The highlight of our social program thus far came about September 27 when our semi-annual pledge dance was held .

The evening began with dinner at the house with piano music in the background. Ted Rowe and his fiancee and Harry Larsen and his spouse shared honors at the head of the table. Harry was elected honorary pledge president for the occasion. After dinner was over the party trekked over to the Hotel Mark Hopkins to dance the remainder of the eve-

30 ning away, to the smooth music of ~aul Pendarvis and his orchestra. The highlight of the evening came about with the playing of The Acacia Sweet Heart and Acacia Farewell by the orchestra in our honor and for the pleasure of the dancers.

Our guests of the evening were advisor Fred Tabor and his wife. By the way, Fred put all the fellows to sh ame as far as the dancing end of it went. Even Mrs. Tabor remark ed that he must have been practicing up on the side without her knowing it. Arrangements had been made for a photographer to be present in the Hotel to take pictures of our tables and candid shots. Unfortunately he did not show up and as a result we h ave no pict ures to show in the TRIAD of our dance and fun . So much fo r the pledge dance.

The dance coming into view now is t he barn dance to be held at the house on the evening of November 8. It has always been a big affair in the past and promises to be this time, better than ever.

Attention Bob Livingston of the Minnesota chapter. We received a letter from y our brother John who is in Camp Roberts. He wrote of the Army life he is living and said also that he would be here at the chapter house soon to meet the fellows and perhaps see a football game and attend the after-the-game dance. We are looking forward to meeting him.

Trammell Combs took the spotlight in the matter of romancing at the pledge dance; however, Cliff Misener, with his broken arm, ran a close second.

Harry Larsen and Cliff Misener, those two lonely engineers on the basement floor, have suddenly started after the opposite sex.

Ban Nelson, alumnus and past Venerable Dean, was married late this August.

The exact date is not available at the present time.

The house has taken a six weeks' old pup under its wing for a mascot. Her name is "Sis" and she continually keeps t he fellows on the lookout for foreign matter around the house. The girls in the sororities think she is, quote, "Awfully cute," unquote.-JOHN BELL.

Nebraska Many Nebraska Acacians are in Uncle Sam's fraternity , the army, at present.

Lt. David Cramer is serving at Brownwood, Texas. Lt. Keith Van Neste is at Fort Sam Houston in Austin, Texas, as is Lt. Thomas Hicks. Fort Robinson, Arkansas, claims several Acacians from old N. U . Pat Patterson corporal in a Nebraska National Guard Band, Edgar Burroughs, sergeant in an infantry company, Sergeant Mel Johnson, also in an infantry division, and Val Kleppinger are all serving in Uncle Sam's army in Arkansas. Lt. Dave Rankin is with the air corps training school at Austin, Texas.

James Bordwell and Gordon Milligan, former members, here, are with the air corps in Rantoul, Illinois. With a total of ten men in the army from our chapter we feel that Nebraska chapter has more than done its part in helping to defend America.

Nebraska has several members active

in campus affairs this year. Burton Thiel is President of Innocents, men's honorarv society, and is also President of the St~­ dent Council. Bob Shoemaker is an active member in Corn Cobs, men's pep group, and also in Kosmet Klub, dramatic society for men. Bill Hasting~ V. D ., is on the executive committee of the interfraternity council. Warren Dalton is the politician of the house, as he is president of the Union Faction, supported by all Greek houses on the campus.

Bob Douglas is the newly elected steward of the house and is handling the feeding and buying and paying and receiving of food, bills, etc.

Bob Shoemaker and Bob Thatcher are playing in the university's red and white band again this year.

Nebraska is looking forward to a great football season this year and has a good start already having defeated Iowa State 14-0 and Kansas 21-6. We are willing to bet hides with all Big Six and Big Ten schools except Minnesota. Minnesota chapter should know why we are excluding them.

Well, the summer was nice, and the vacation, too, but now fall is here and winter is ahead, and we are looking forward to a pleasant year as we hope all other Acacia chapters are. Here's to some good luck during the school year. Until the next issue the Nebraska chapter remains as ever studying hard. Oh, yes, Nebraska was third in last semester's scholarship list with only two fraternities having a better boning average than us, Zeta Beta Tau and Sigma Alpha Mu.NED B. EASTLACK.

Our great thoughts, ouf gfeat affections, the t fu ths of ouf life, nevef leave us. Surely they cannot separate ffom our consciousness, shall follow it whithe,-soever that shall go, and are of their nature divine and immortal.-THACKERAY.

Iowa State Busy days and future busy weeks are the words which are in every Iowa State Acacian's vocabulary. The many new pleasant faces seem to be growing in number as each day goes by. September 15 found nearly all of the old season~d men back in their working clothes ready to clean the 2-year-old house (2 years for Acacia) in preparation for what has been the most successful rushing season in many years. The eighteen new men may be listed as follows: Charles Clark, Le Claire, Iowa ; Donald H amann, Persia, Iowa ; Jack Larimer, Des Moines, Iowa ; Allen McArthur, Springville, Iowa ; Charles West, Rochester, Minnesota; Norman Dixon , Kennard, Nebraska; Darwin Vipond, Grand Junction, Iowa; Robert Norton, Maple Plain, Minnesota; Bob Carstens, Cedar Rapids, Iowa ; Ronald Carmichael, Independence, Missouri; Kenneth Schuck, Sioux City, Iowa ; Robert Denny , Redding, Iowa ; Robert Mayo, Des Moines, Iowa ; Erwin Bentz, Tampa, Kansas; Don Young, Lenox, Iowa ; Floyd Damman , Melbourne. Iowa; Jean Lewis, Chicago, Illinois ; Ted Laser, Winnetka, lllinois.

Going back to the end of the year '40 and '41 we find that several new men fashioned the hard maple paddles and were thus admitted into the ranks of the

true Acacians. The following men were initiated on May 17, 1941. Donald Grobeck. Omaha, Nebraska ; Robert Grobeck, Omaha, Nebraska; Edward Till, Chicago , Illinois ; Mervel Wood, Alden, Iowa ; George Buck, Grand Junction, Iowa; Bruce Johnson , Maxwell, Iowa ; George Gross, Des Moines, Iowa.

The summer found the Iowa State Acacians scattered a ll over the United States doing many and varied jobs. The Venerable Dean, Walter Lauridsen. was in Battle Creek working in a dairy plant ten hours out of every day. Clair Claxton, Senior Dean, was swinging gates at the Chicago stock yards. Ralph Rawson, the secretary, was in schooi preparing himself for a job in our National Defense. Robert Muschamp, the treasurer, spent his time seeing the United States as a whole.

Socially. Iowa State is planning a big year . Exchanges with many of the sororities and dormitories and firesides spaced at regular intervals are included in the social program for the coming year. The annual hay ride will be held at the usual traditional date at Homecoming.

One of the Acacia boys t0ok this summer to walk alon g the well known "last mile." Bruce Liljedahl and Harriet Peck were married on September 4. Two other fellow members have hung their pins in anticipation of following Bruce's example. The boys are namely, John Wessman and Helen Louise Baird of Ames

and John Ewan and Doris Allen, of Des Moines.

We here at Iowa State are starting the new year with a new house mother, Mrs. Helen Durkin, Billin~s , Montana.

Iowa State is proud of its progress and we sincerely hope that we will be honered by a visit from other Acacians from chapters both near and far.-JOHN EwAN.

Purdue Under the superv1non of William T. Ruggles, our senior dean, the fall rush was very successful, with the result that the new pledges bring the number of fellows living in the house to its capacity of thirty-two. The fourteen pledges are as follows: Robert S . Allen, Brookfield, lllinois; Gene P. Baynes, Richmond, Indiana; James E. Baynes, Salem, Indiana ; Porter C. Davis, Greens Fork, Indiana ; Robert E. Fischer, Kendallville, Indiana; Hubert H . F orbes, Kendallville, Indiana ; Robert D . Henderson, Gary, Indiana; Jack T. Kimbrell, Chicago, Illinois ; Frank K. Mitchell, Bronxville, New York ; Richard J. Nelson, Hobart, Indiana ; Jack M. Pearson, Hammond, Indiana ; Charles C. Rogers, Frankfort, Indiana; Arthur C. Tues-

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31 burg Michigan City, Indiana; and Meredith 'o. Ulrich, Huntington, Indiana.

During the summer, numerous interior decorations were made in the house with Miss Eleanor Eisenbach in charge. Miss Eisenbach is a daughter of R. C. Eisenbach, an honorary member of the Purdue chapter, and we are all indebted to her for the very attractive and masculine manner in which the house was decorated. New carpets were laid in the living and dining rooms and the entire first floor was painted and rearranged. Several study rooms were decorated and carpets laid in them which were made from the rugs that formerly were in the living room. The second and third floor halls also got their share of the decorating, and altogether the house is in excellent condition as the school year begins.

The annual mustache fights and corduroy hunts took place officially between September 25 and September 27, but treasurer Charles Skinner had his mustache shaved off about a wee~ prematurely. Of the fifteen seniors, only Fred Herr, Hugh Gommel, Jim Baynes, and Porter Davis brought their mustaches through the fracas unscathed. However, Hugh Gommel and Porter Davis were both missing from the house during a large part of the open season. Only four pairs of cords were found, the unlucky owners being Charles Skinner, Hugh Gammel, Dick Robertson, and Porter Davis. T~e finders did very artistic pieces of work in decorating the cords with India ink and paint. The raspberry banquet was held SeJ)tember 29, at which time the seniors whose cords were found and the underclassmen who did not find any cords ate raspberries from a dish dog style.

The Pledge dance will be held in the chapter house on October 18, the music being furnished by the campus band of Irv Given. Our first alumni banquet of the year was held on October 6, and this year again the banquets will be held on the first Monday of each month. Sometime during October we are having a trade dinner with the women's residence halls.

During the spring and summer, five of our members were married. Henry Mangus, Joe Maish, and Leverne Sams graduated last June, and Ed Reddick and Dick Robertson are comJ)leting their senior years. Maish, Reddick, and Robertson are living in West Lafayette, Mangus in Crawfordsville, and Sams in Clinton, Ill. The boys report that it's a great life.

-FRANK E. SKJNNER.

Michigan Pu:ocEs: George H. Crocker, of Saginaw, Michigan ; WilliamS. Dixon, Detroit, Michigan ; Marcelles J. Hebden, Grand Rapids, Michigan; Warren W. · Shelley, Elkhart, Indiana; C. Gene Sherry, Hammond, Indiana; R. G. Smellie, Canton, Ohio; Richard G. Widman, Detroit, Michigan; and John H. Moehlman, Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Friends of Acacia will be pleased to know that the fraternity finished second scholastically among forty-one general fraternities on campus. The chapter

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average was also well above the general average.

In the line of social activities a buffet supper is planned following the 'Michigan State football game on the 27th. Other~ise, little ac~ion has been taken, pendmg the appomtment of a new Junior Dean to replace Richard M. Spath, who has taken over the position of House Manager.-PAUL JoNES.

Illinois The year started out very well for us with sixteen pledges. One of these is a local man and will not live in the house, but the other fifteen are all in the house.

The total number of men now is fortynine and there are several other pledge prospects.

The pledges are: William G. James, younger brother of Brother Robert James and son of Brother Leonard James of LaGrange, Til. He is in Chemical Engineering.

John L . Webb, also from LaGrange and also in Chemical Engineering.

Dan C. Swickard, a transfer student from Purdue who intends to become a doctor of medicine.

Edward L. Verkler, another Peoria man and enrolled in Architecture.

Guy H. Luster, Jr., a graduate of Bowen High School in Chicago and in the General Curriculum of Liberal Arts and Sciences.

Earl W. Fleming, in the College of Commerce, came from the Riverside Brookfield Township High School.

Roy V. Augensen, a graduate of the Oak Park High School and in the College of Engineering.

Leo J. Gorenz, Jr., from Woodruff High School, Peoria, Illinois, and in the Commerce College.

Roy J. Ferrette, Jr., also from Riverside Brookfield High School and in the Commerce College.

David W. Andrews, a graduate of Peoria Central High School and in the College of Engineering.

David A . Monson, also from Peoria Central High School and a student in the College of Commerce.

Maurice K. Borklund, a transfer student from Indiana Central College in Indianapolis, Indiana, and a Chemistry Major.

Richard W . Ball, valedictorian of his class from Cairo , Ill., and in Chemical Engineering.

Joseph M. Cook, son of Morris Cook of Riverside and enrolled in Engineering Physics.

John Dahlberg, from Proviso Township High School and a student of Chemical Engineering.

John Tuthill, son of our National Secretary and a graduate of the Urbana High School.

A new second-floor bathroom was installed during the summer. It is tiled in cream and trimmed in black. All the fixtures are of modern design. Also the new dining room furniture has arrived. These helped during rush week.

Our first dance of the year, a radio dance, was held on October 11. The members and pledges of Alpha Kappa Lambda were our guests and the theme was Tennessee feuding party.-ROBERT M. JAMES.

Oklahoma Greetings Acacians everywhere! Oklahoma wishes you a successful year in your activities and membership programs.

Our pledges to date include: James Massey, Tipton · Cliff Banks, McAlester; Frances " Red" Ivy, Waurika; Emory Brownlee, Kingfisher· Clancy Pitts, Okemah· Alfred Brown, Wellsville, New York ; J . Frank Bumpass, Fredrick· and two pledges brought in by our alumniRay Johnson, brought in by his father Dean Johnson of the Pharmacy School; and David Ethridge, Oklahoma City, brought in by Paul Brown, '25, an active alumnus lawyer of the same city. Our only wish is that we had more such alumni for every chapter.

The chapter house has had new paint in many of the rooms. The lawn and shrubs were cared for all summer by an expert gardener who has had quite a time trying to save the trees and clinging ivy from the beetles.

Jack Steele, Chad Vallance, and Cliff Banks are reporting for football. Several members and pledges have recorded their intentions to join in the int{amural sports this year and are under the management of "Red" Ivy, our fiery boxing champion of t he past two years.

On September 25 the faculty members will come over for dinner and a gettogether with the purpose of getting t hem organized for their own social events and also for the purpose of having them to meet the boys here . Two nights later many of them will be back for a buffet supper after the 0 . U . and Oklahoma A. & M. football game to meet t he other alumni and many of the Acacia members of the Oklahoma State chapter.

We are having our first dance at the University Club on October 17. All Acacians are welcome to attend.

Some of the alumni attending our first rush dates were Jean P azoureck, Yukon ; Hubert Smyrcka, Yukon ; B. G. Davenport; Ben L. Young, Tulsa ; H arley Ivy, Waurika ; Marvin Moran, Tipton ; Paul Brown, Oklahoma City ; Harper Quarles, Yellowstone National P ark; Dean Johnson, Dr. Edwin DeBarr, Emil Kraettli, Dr. Lloyd Swearingen, Harold Cooksey, J ames Mayfield, Cecil Brite, and G. G .

Rice, all of Norman .

I see that Wichita, K ansas, has an active Alumni Association that meets every Tuesday noon at Wolf's Cafeteria, 121 S .

Main, and that our own Robert Blase, '32, is its president. You actives a nd alumni of that territory would do well to drop in on them and any other in your vicinity. The associations are usually listed on the back of the TRIAD .

Some of our last year alumni are making a good success for themselves. Harley Ivy is assistant County Attorney at Waurika. G. G. Rice is leaving soon for a position in Boston, Mass. Lindsey Long recently married Lois Burnham and took her to his home at Russellville, Arkansas, where he has a defense job. Bill Carson is a lieutenant in the Air Force and breezed through here t he other day in his new Buick convertible.

Oklahoma is proud that we have another Acacian added to the faculty . He is Dr. J ohn Gaines Hervey, '23 , brought here to be Dean of the Law School. We are also proud that Cecil Brite has been elected National Secretary. Information concerning them will be found elsewhere in this issue.-ERVIN K. WILLIAMSON.

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Northwestern The quality, as well as quantity, of this year's pledge class is reward enough for rushing chairman Howie Coleman and his rushing committee heads, Carl Simonson, Loiel Ryan, Ace Southworth, and Bob Kittredge. The chapter pledged one of the largest groups in its history. At present there are 24 actives and 24 pledges. The new pledges are Charles Cederberg, Wilmette, Ill. ; Charles Sayre, Oak Park, Ill.; Roland Bolyard, LaFayette, La.; Thomas Howett, Wilmette, Ill.; Neal Leach, Joliet, Ill.; Fred Bruce, Maywood, ill .; Sam Hazelett, Cleveland, Ohio ; William Martin, Akron, Ohio; William Ross, Mt. Morris, ill.; Newell McCartney, Evanston , Ill. ; Henry Loewer, Buffalo, N. Y.; John Southworth, Edgerton, Wis.; Howard Ringholm, Wilmette, Ill.; Marshall Burmeister, Oak Park, Ill.; and Walter Gibbs, John Pakan, Jack Schmitz, George Piper, Sam Walker, Edward Broezel, Robert Meynen, Robert Laechle, Robert Vucha, and Edward Merritt, all of Chicago. With such a group the actives are all but outnumbered. John Southworth was elected pledge captain at the first pledge meeting of the year on September 22.

On September 27, the chapter initiated two new men. They are George Morgan, 325 S. Park Road, La Grange, Illinois; and Horace Southworth, 212 Bently Place, Edgerton, Wisconsin.

Actives and pledges who returned for rush week, September 8-15, were greeted by an immaculately clean house, thanks to several local resident members who spent a week painting walls, washing windows, and washing and waxing floors.

The Northwestern chapter was awarded the cup for being the most outstanding chapter in the fraternity at the conclave at LaFayette, Indiana, August 25-30. The cup, in existence for three years, has been previously held by the Michigan and Minnesota chapters.

The combined University Homecoming and Dads' Day week-end was highlighted on October 18 by the football game with Michigan. Chuck Willis was head of the house decorating committee, Howie Coleman directed the house skit for the Homecoming Frolics show, and Howie Peterson headed the committee charged with building a float for the Homecoming parade.

On Sunday night, September 14, immediately after the formal pledging ceremonies, the entire chapter held a stag get-together at Sally's restaurant in Skokie, Ill. The pledge class first encountered the beauteous Northwestern coeds on September 22, when they had an enjoyable party with the pledges of Chi Omega.

The chapter had its first house dance and party on Friday, October 3.

Northwestern University track coach Frank Hill, '25, visited the chapter house one evening during rush week, and gave a short talk about university and fraternity life.

George Heinemann, '41, is in the Army Air Corps, taking an advanced flying course. At present he is stationed at Lansing, Michigan.

Leon Meyer, '41, is personnel manager for Western Cartridge Company, East Alton, Illinois.

George Jansen, '42, is gain~ in~o the Navy in December as an Ensign m the Supply Corps, quartermaster st~. .

James Numon, '40, is managmg editor of the Crete (Nebraska) News.

Robert Chapman, '41, is an assistant instructor in geology and is doing graduate work at Syracuse University.

Frank Peacock, '41, is working at the Phillips Oil Company, in Dallas, Texas.

-HOWARD PETERSON.

Wisconsin Wisconsin is installed in its new chapter house and looks forward to one of its most successful years. After spending two years far from the campus the bo:(S are all enthusiastic about being back m the heart of the fraternity district. Three new men: Pledges Robert L. Turner of Milwaukee, Francis A . Byers of Marion, and .Donald Ray Olson of Wausau are living in the chapter house this semester.

Several of the members aided by the very active Madison alumni chapter spent nearly a week making arrangements for and transferring furniture to our new location and since that time we have all been busy cooperating in painting, scrubbing, rearranging furniture , and_ decorating the new house for the commg year.

Our new basement recreation room and spacious chapter room are among the new house's greatest attractions.

Preferential rushing on four successive evenings climaxed an extensive summer rushing program. A continuous rushing program is planned for the fall season.

Several local alumni and rushees have visited the house during the first week and one and all expressed their admiration of our new house and its favorable location.

Our recently installed Venerable Dean, Hugo Kuechenmeister, Jr., is the new commodore of the University Yachting Club. Bill Ritter is getting in training to rejoin the varsity swimming team on which he won his "W" last year.

Miss Opal Smith, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James W. Smith of Madison, on June 23 became the bride of Stanley Ihlenfeldt, one of this chapter's two 1941 graduates. John Kotick, who also graduated last June is currently employed in the merchandising department of the Chicago Tribune and is living at the Northwestern chapter house in Evanston, Illinois.-ROBERT HOLMES.

Missouri Missouri started the school year by pledging four men during . the fall rush week: James Keller, St. Louis; John Kraus, St. Louis; Harold (Red) Gockenbach, LeMay Station, St. Louis County; and W. C. (Scotty) Scotten, Kansas City.

This by no means concludes our rushing campaign, as the entire chapter under the leadership of Rush Captain Ray Shelley continues to carry on a ceaseless search for men of Acacia caliber.

At the time of this writing two lowly followers of Pythagoras are taking the

long and arduous journey across sea and desert with the bright land of Acacia as their goal. Ray Shelley and Norvel Thusen are the lowly amoebas undergoing thi~ transformation from pledge to active.

We have exchanged our former house for one which can be operated for a figure which does not resemble the national debt. Our domicile is now 1323 Wilson; we cordially invite our alumni and members of other chapters to visit and inspect our new home.

Acacia at present occupies an advantageous position in the realm of campus ' politics, since we have in our ranks two members of the Student Court, the judicial body which controls the destiny of Missouri's politicians. Bill French, our Tiger Claw representative assures us that we will be responsible for our share of noise and enthusiasm at all football games, while Carl Huffman makes his bid for fame as a member of the committee in charge of Homecoming festivities.

We were honored recently by a visit from Jack Erwin, the National Traveling Secretary. While here Jack achieved undying fame on Missouri's campus by appearing at Stephens College for young ladies nattily attired in shorts and little else. Such sophistication was a little beyond the comprehension of our provincial society, so Jack came home and put his pants on!-E. L. MONROE.

Colorado Colorado completed a very successful rush week with the pledging of fourteen men. Those pledged are: Arland Abrahamson, Idaho Springs, Colorado; Richard Bruner, Boulder, Colorado; Shelby Cooke, J r., Denver, Colorado; Robert Eckel, Boulder, Colorado; Grant Hurley, Alamosa, Colorado; Herb Johnson, Denver, Colorado; LeRoy Johnston, Longmont, Colorado; Elwood Lynch, Canon City, Colorado; F. Burton Smith, Jr., Washington, D. C.; Thomas Stavely, Jr., Beulah, Colorado; Robert Strasser, Cincinnati, Ohio; Bill Utlaut, Sterling, Colorado; John Waggener, Berthoud, Colorado; and Delos Welch, Idaho Springs, Colorado.

On Sunday, September 28, the parents of the pledges were guests at a dinner given in honor of the new pledges.

Colorado has planned a busy fall , socially. A radio dance is scheduled for the week-end of October 4. As this is the first dance this year, every one is looking forward to a good time.

Other social activities planned for fall term are the regular fall formal, several more radio dances, and probably a steak fry and hay ride.

Cupid was apparently a very busy little man this summer. Quite a few pins changed hands, more are likely too before very long, and two of the actives, Jim Wilson and Roy Lewis, joined the ranks of the happily married. How do you boys do it?

Two of the alumni, Charles A. Wagner and Harold 0. Bergman, also changed their income tax exemptions this summer. Congratulations to all.

Another recent addition is Rowdy, our new mascot. Rowdy, at the present time, is a very bewildered little pup, and he hasn't quite made up his mind just how he likes college life. For those who may

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33 be interested, Rowdy is part Bull Terrier, part Water Spaniel, and part undecided.

-DAVID RusK.

Kansas State Since the most recent publication of the TRIAD, five new names have been added to the pledge roll of our chapter: Bruce Buchanan, '45; Guy Buchanan, '44; Keith Hodgson, '45; Jerald Porter, '43; and Orlin Russel, '45. The continual process of rushing is being conducted enthusiastically by Darrell Bozarth.

Along the athletic line, Jerry Porter, a recently pledged member, predominates in the wrestling team. Jerry capably fills his position as captain of the squad.

Bill Peycke and Guy Buchanan, who are Wampus Cats-the creators of pep--can be trusted to boast for Brother Jerry from the sidelines when the competition becomes rugged.

At various times during the past weeks, it has been our pleasure to have as our guests: George Schiller, Richard Brown, AI Lester, Max Wann, Jack McKinsey, R. G. Porter, 路c. J. Lentz, Kenneth Hall, John Poole, Kenneth Rector, W . C. Meschke, Jack Erwin, and Sam Caughron.

Immediately following the Founder's Day banquet of May 9, four qualified members laid aside their pledge buttons to have them replaced by the symbolic jeweled pin of Acacia. These men, who are now respected as actives are: Gordon Boy, William Peycke, P hil Pierce, and Don Rowsey.

To sort of differentiate from the socalled routine, a large group of members, mingled with rushees, swung out and enjoyed an evening of dancing at a house party Saturday evening. The dining hall, which was temporarily converted into a decorated lounging room with the familiar punch bowl, was a place where amusem路e nt besides dancing was enjoyed.

-GuY R. BucHANAN.

Washington State We have had a fairly successful rush week this year pledging eight men, they are: Clarence Smith and Ralph Smith, Prosser,路 Washington; BiU Fordyce and Fred Williams, Sunnyside, Washington; John Veach, Delmar Dow, Wesley Cope, and Dick Ellett, Pullman, Washington.

These plus the members and pledges who returned from last year give a total of 25 fellows in the house and three outside. We hope to have more by the end of the semester.

Four pledges are eligible for initiation this fall, but the date has not been set; however, it is planned for sometime within the next month.

We are entering all intramurals this year, starting with touch football. Last year Sidney Buckley won the intramural boxing championship in the 155-pound class for Acacia and we have hopes for added success this year. Last Tuesday we had our first pep rally of the year, seeing our team off to play U. C. L . A. An informal fireside was held on the first Saturday night of the school year

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and several after-dinner dances are scheduled to start our social season with a bang.

Brothers Glen Lund, Venerable Dean, Williard Zellmer, Lester Liebel, Elmer Neustel, and Dr. Jacobs, Chapter Advisor, were delegates to the conclave at Purdue. They voted it a huge success in every way.

By the way, what has become of our graduates of last year? They have all been placed: Fred Croxford is working for General Electric at Schenectady, New York; DallaFl Jones is practicing veterinary medicine at Albany, Oregon ; James Shepard is a Second Lieutenant United States Army Engineer Corps stationed in Portland, Oregon; Robert Devoe and Charles Johnson are Second Lieutenants United States Army Infantry stationed at Fort Ord, California.-CHARLES BLICKENDERFER.

Syracuse Greetings from Syracuse! The new academic year finds the house in as strong a position as we have enjoyed since our reorganization five years ago. As of this writing we have eight pledge members.

Homer Beck, Frank Linton, Vernon Unger, Ray Unger, Lenny Beil, Bill Ulrick, Francis Scranton and Leon Rasbach. The last two named are sophomores who pledged at the opening of the school year.

Formal rushing of freshmen is now in progress so we cannot report the outcome of our fall rushing until the next issue of the TRIAD. We are indebted to the local Women of Acacia group for many improvements we found in the house this year. They include new lamps, drapes, and curtains which have done much to make the house more home-like.

Fred Irion, Missouri, is in school here this year and is a welcome addition to our house membership. Bob Chapman, Northwestern, is also here at Syracuse this year.

The armed forces of Uncle Sam have called upon several of our recent graduates. Brothers Smith, Sholtes and Jacobs are now in the army; Brother Brewster in the naval air corps ; and Brother Gutman has recently accepted an active commission in the Marines.

Brothers Spokes, Williams, Manhold, Parker, and Tasker have all been married since we wrote last. We extend to them wishes for the best of luck.-FREDERICK W ALPQLE.

Penn State Having been hard hit by last June's graduation and by our Uncle Sam, the Penn State Chapter found itself with only 17 active members this fall. However, nine new members have been pledged and these coupled with those pledged last spring raise the total to 31.

Those pledged last spring, but living in the house for the first time are: Bob Cree, '44 Chern. Eng.; John Class, '44, Arch.

Eng.路 and Herb McVey, '44, Electrical Eng.' New pledges are Bill Whitby, '45, Arch., and Schell Teets, '45, IE, from

Uniontown ; Larry Scheffer, '45, Pre-Med, Philadelphia; Bob Troxell, '45, Metallurgy, Shamokin ; Elmer Strunk, '45, D.H., Philadelphia; Will Knouse, '45, Pre-Vet, Arentsville ; John Jaffurs, '44, Phys. Ed ., Wilkensburg ; Tom Wiggans, '42, Education, Clark's Summit; Jim Weiss, '45, L.A.; and Curtiss Short, '45, I.E ., both from Allentown.

During the summer the Square and Compass Association made several needed improvements around the house, notably a new ceiling in the chapter room and repairs on the front porch.

Venerable Dean Dick Walck, George Schubert, Lloyd Shenefelt, and Tucker Parke spent six weeks of their past summer's vacation in army camp as part of their advanced course in the R. 0 . T. C. Dick Walck earned his private pilots license las t spring and intends to transfer his commission to the Air Corps and became a flying cadet. Pledge Brother John Jaffurs is a varsity guard on the "State" eleven and we expect great things from "Bang-up" as he is but a sophomore. Harve Bair is a "first assistant" manager in football and we would not be surprised to see him manager next fall.

Bob Dierken is a member of the Soph Hop committee, the '44 class dance. Jack and Dan Gillespie are active in the Penn State Christian Association. Jack being secretary and Dan on the Council. Bob Cree and Bob Troxell are in the Penn State Blue Band which, attired in natty new uniforms, will play at our football games this fall. Cree is also photographer for Froth, the campus humor m agazine.

Tom Wiggans is practice teaching and will not be back with us until December.

Ernie Berkaw, '40, is with the Navy ; J.P. Thomas, '40, Bob Jones, '41, and Dick Abbot, '34, are in the Army ; and Marshall Smith, '41, is also in the Navy.DAVID KEENEY.

Ohio State Another school year has rolled around again and so it is time to turn over another leaf in the scholastic calendar.

Let's all start this year off with a bang and end it with the same vigor and enthusiasm.

Before the ending of spring quarter last year Ohio pledged the following men: Bob Deetz a pre-dental student from Canton, Ohio ; Stephen L. Veres, an Agriculture Engineering student hailing from Columbia Station, Ohio ; Clarence R. Cole comes from Crestline, Ohio , and is enrolled in Veterinary Medicine ; John E .

Wolfe calls Lancaster, Ohio, his home. He is a pre-Veterinary Medicine student.

And last but not. least is Frank Hegyes from Cleveland, Ohio. Frank is enrolled in the Arts College and was a freshman footballer.

J.,ast May we initiated three men: Ernest C. Rice, whose father and a brother are members of Acacia, Heman Truman, and Jack Scott.

Before the opening of school the Fraternity House had its face lifted, so to speak, by some repairs. Amon~ other things these included remodelmg the front entrance and arranging quarters for our new housemother.

Mrs. George Bohon Schmitt is our new housemother. All the fellows think she is one fine person. We all hope that we

34 can stand as high in her estimation of us as she stands in our estimation of her.

Two more members are in the Army.

Howard Farley, last year's V. D ., is in the Army Air Corps training school at Oxnard, Calif. Otto Jiskra volunteered and is now at Lowry Field, Colo. Also Lt. Ken Oeffier is now stationed in the Philippine Islands.

There's not much else in the news line from this point at the present t ime. In order to beat the dead-line date this article was written before Ohio State opened, so be looking forward to our next article in the TRIAD.-GEORGE A. P AINTER.

Kansas PLEDGES: James Bond, Midwest, Wyoming ; Ural Horton, Midwest, Wyoming; Harold Craig, Raton, New Mexico ; Norman Dissin, Washington, D. C. ; Ivan Josserand, Johnson, Kansas; Elton Pugh, Overbrook, Kansas ; Wayne Russ, Burdett, Kansas ; Carol Smith, Lawrence, Kansas ; Bill Firner, Lawrence, Kansas; Don Cole, Lawrence, Kansas.

INITIATES: Dwayne Eugene Adams, Charles William Rohler, Walter H. Lucas, Williamson T. Hough, Stanley H . Miller, William T. Kopp, Wilbur P . McCool, Vernon C. F. Mahon.

Several of the members who remained in Lawrence during the summer spent their spare time in painting the sidewalls and ceilings of the kitchen and the main floor front hall, and the floors of the basement hall and the chapter room. In addition to this, they varnished the stairways and laid rubber treads on the steps.

Charles W. Rohler and Ross H. Ley have been selected as members of the newly-formed Pershing Rifles unit of the R. 0. T . C. Ley has received the honor of being made captain of the unit for this, its first year of activity.

Both upperclassmen and freshmen have been busy looking over the new crop of sorority pledges at the annual "open houses" which the sororities hold by way of starting the social year.

Commander and Mrs. H . P . Lowenstein, II, and daughter, Helen Lowenstein, of Chicago, visited the chapter this fall.

Henry, the son of Commander and Mrs. Lowenstein, pledged the Kansas chapter in the fall of 1939, but was soon called to active duty in the U.S. Naval Reserves.

Robert L. Burns, '41, has a position of considerable responsibility in the office of t~e City Manager of Kansas City, Missouri.

Frank Yaussi, '39, is a flying cadet in preliminary training at Santa Maria, California, having been transferred there in August of this year from Fort Ord, California, where he was stationed with the regular Army.

Summer vacations were spent in varied parts of the United States this year. Max Fessler took an extensive tour of the western part of the country, including Salt Lake, Grand Canyon, and California.

Tommy Adams spent the latter part of the summer touring the East. T . K . Myer spent part of his summer in Colorado, and Mr. and Mrs. Wally Sturm fo und enjoyment in a trip to the Gulf States.

The Army and Navy h ave already taken up two of our men who graduated last year. Ensign Dick Treece has spent the past week with us while he is on leave

of absence before taking active duty on the U.S.S. "Trenton." Second Lieutenant Clyde Woodman has completed his training at Fort Leavenworth and is expected to take up active duty with the Army in the near future.

The election of officers has held the spotlight in Kansas chapter proceedings of late. Fred Stubeck was selected as Venerable Dean, he has already shown himself quite versatile in handling the affairs of the chapter. Tommy Adams was selected to guide the social affairs as Junior Dean. Tommy is really working fast, as he has already arranged an hour dance, steak fry, and winter formal. Bill Rohler was elected Secretary to succeed Fred Stubeck, and also to be our athletic director. We plan to take some of these intramural championships under Bill's supervision. The chapter installed a new office under the title of Publicity Director. The duties of this officer will be to handle the TRIAD correspondence, see that an annual scrapbook is compiled, and in general to further the name of Acacia on the campus. Abe McCool was selected as the new officer. The Rush Captain for the ensuing year will be Stanley Miller. With the help of the chapter, I am sure that Stan will produce many prospects for Acacia.-ABE McCooL.

Indiana On September 8 the doors of Acacia were officially opened, and rush week was on. Our chapter was very successful and the following list of pledges (all from Indiana) is the result: Rex Curfman, Marion; Joe Bonham, Hartford City; Bob Shawhan, Hartford City; Richard Derby, '42, Elkhart; Donald Mann, Michigan City ; William Detroy, Evansville ; Mark Rudolph, Indianapolis; Robert Gemmer, Indianapolis ; Donald Crooke, Indianapolis ; James Magennis, Indianapolis ; Vachel Anderson, Indianapolis; Robert Pruett, Indianapolis ; James Howard, Valparaiso; Bernard Howard, Valparaiso; Robert McCracken, Terre Haute ; Quentin Alcorn, Aurora; Clyde Fox, Bloomingt~n; Fred Huff, '43, Bloomington ; Morris Beck, Bloomington; Tom Harbaugh, Bloomington; Frank Zeller, Bloomington ; Fred East, Bloomington; Ward Williams, Colfax ; and James Shaw, Gary.

June 1, 1941, found five pledges eligible for initiation into our chapter: John Springer, '42, of Indianapolis; Donald McMurtry, '43, Frankfort; Roy E. Jones, '44, Pittsboro ; Charles Jarrett, '44, Princeton; and Harry Appenzeller, '44, Redkey.

When we returned to the house, we found that the library had r eceived all new fixtures from the wall paper to the new rug. A new carpet has also been laid in the second floor hall to match the rug on the first floor. The president's room was repapered, and the cook has a new mixer.

The activity men this season include J. Warren Fox, who is circulation manager of the Red Book. student directory ; and James Tedford, who is chief assistant on the same staff. Kieth Wilson is Junior manager of the I. U . basketball team.

Floyd House is our representative in Sphinx Club. Gene Rodenberger and J . Warren Fox are the Interfraternity Council men for the current year. Fred

Huff is now playing regular right tackle on the varsity football team. He is the boy responsible for opening up the hole for I. U.'s only touchdown against Detroit in the opening game. James Tedford and James Gaddis are the Skull and Crescent men, and Gaddis is president of the organization and also sophomore football manager.

So far in the current year we have had two exchange dinners-with the Chi Omega sorority and the Alpha Omicron Pi sorority. Our pledges have selected November 8 for their annual dance. Elaborate plans are being completed for the Homecoming game and for Dad's Day and we are again planning to honor 0 ~ dads here at the house that week end.

All of the fellows from this chapter who were able to attend the Conclave at Purdue absorbed a lot of new ideas and made a lot of new acquaintances. The Indiana chapter won the cup offered by the National Council for being the most progressive chapter of Acacia. Where was Purdue? On the bottom as ever.

Our grads of last year have spread far and wide. Robert Eifler is a student at University of Michigan's Law School Robert Sill is working in Gary, Indiana' and is reported to be engaged, Robert Stresser is now stationed in Chicago with the U. S. Army, Merrill Beck now holds a position in Indianapolis, Indiana, Wilhite Foster is selling fountain pens for Schaffer Pen Co., Charles Coats is now teaching school in Carthage, Indiana, Dick Russell is taking graduate work at Franklin College, Louis Culmann and Vernon Broertjes are both in Uncle Sam's Army.

That is all for now, but Indiana Acacians will be back in the next issue.JAMES GADDIS.

CHAPTER ETERNAL HARUTYUN G. TERZIAN Syracuse On September 5, 1941, funeral services were conducted in Philadelphia, Pa., for Harutyun G. Terzian, 53, of Philadelphia, who received his master's degree in engineering at Syracuse University in 1913, and later became one of the country's outstanding authorities on production of carburetted and blue water gas, and who developed the Terzian factor used by gas engineers in controlling water gas production.

Mr. Terzian died of a heart ailment in his hotel room at Niagara Falls Wednesday and was found dead in bed. He had been stopping at the hotel while working on a business project in that section in recent weeks.

Born in Armenia, Mr. Terzian attended the American University at Beirut before coming to the United States in 1910 and studying for his master's degree at Syracuse University. He first was associated with the Syracuse Lighting Company's gas production department, and later worked in the United Gas Improvement Company experimental plant in Philadelphia, Pa. He recently returned from China and Japan where he had been working for his company.

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England has (or had) a sheltering home where orphans of genteel but indigent parents are cared for while being schooled in Canadian lore, in which country they are destined to be settlers. Thousands of such boys have become citizens of Canada, and among them was John Mullowney, who found a foster home with Murdo McLeod in a cabin in the Canadian woods.

After eight years of that life, Mullowney lived with McLeod's father until the latter died. John then worked on a farm in New Hampshire and there met Dr. Harry Boynton, who took to the lad. By working in the summer at hotels in the White Mountains, John was able to go to preparatory school at Exeter, where he mowed lawns and won a scholarship for three successive years. He then spent a year at Harvard and a year as principal of a small high school. In 1904 he enrolled in the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, where in spare time, he was a laundry agent and a book agent. After graduating at Pennsylvania and passing the examination to practice, he went to China as a medical missionary. Dr. Mullowney was in China at a time when great political changes were going on. He met some of the Chinese leaders, notably Hwang Hsing, for whom he edited a book, "A Revelation of the Chinese Revolution." When he came back to America he accepted a position as inspector of tenements for the Philadelphia City Department of Health and later a position in the state department of health. In four years he was appointed head of the science department of Girard College in Philadelphia. Stephen Girard left $6,000,000 to establish a college for poor white male orphans. The first class of one hundred orphans entered its first white marble building in 1848. The original endowment of $6,000,000 has grown now, the author says, to $88,000,000.

Four years later Dr. Mullowney was offered the presidency of Meharry Medical College in Nashville, Tenn., and there he remained until he retired in 1938 and went to live in Florida. He draws a vivid picture, first of an unrecognized school without buildings, equipment and adequate organization, and second of a recognized and new Meharry Medical College with a $2,000,000 wellequipped plant. Dr. Mullowney was able to obtain this great sum through the generosity of the Rockefeller Foundation, Mr. Edward Harkness, the Nashville Chamber of Commerce, Mr. George Eastman, the Rosenwald Foundation and the Methodist Episcopal Church. A new site was selected for the college in Nashville, not far from the Fiske University campus. The author has great faith in the future of Meharry and in some of its fine teachers and graduates. The white race gave the $2,000,000 plant to the Negroes, and the white group must continue for a while to help them.

A thorough going-over such as the American newspaper has seldom experienced furnishes the meat for Curtis D. MacDougall's Newsroom Problems and Policies. Dr. MacDougall objectively probes every cranny of the Fourth Estate and if he washes some dirty linen in public, it is with the object of enabling the press to see and correct some of its ills.

In his introduction Dr. MacDougall remarks that more questions are asked than answered. That is certainly the case; but they are questions that need asking even though the answers are not readily apparent. They constitute a soul-searching for the newspaper, from the reason for its existence to intricate matters of policy.

Newsroom Problems and Policies, the author states, is intended as a textbook.

It is considerably more than that. While it undoubtedly will prove of large value in the classroom, it is a book the reading of which will benefit working editor and reporters as well.

From the very headline gothic of its title page, Dr. MacDougall's volume is a liberal, conscientious inquiry into why is the newspaper, what is the connection between the newspaper and democracy, whether the press fulfills its responsibilities and wherein lie its abuses and shortcomings. The survey includes the influence of the press on public opinion, the controversial objectivity versus interpretation argument, the sacred cows of the newspapers, a probe of newspaper "controls" and pressure groups, a chapter on space grabbers and a review of propaganda devices. The last category is of especial importance during critical world times.

Where the newspaper oversteps the bounds of decency (and what makes decency), where it transgresses individual rights, whether it is ever justified in suppressing news-these major points are viewed from all sides.

Especially in the field of crime news"news of anti-sociability"-is Dr. MacDougall's book significant. He points out that while the general impression that many papers devote a large amount of space to crime news is erroneous, the press has been largely unaware of the sociological factors making for crime.

After a revealing chapter on sensationalism, Dr. MacDougall concludes his work with a summary of the challenge and problem presented by radio, and finally, looks to the future and the future newspaperman. Included in the last category are working conditions, qualities the journalist must have, and the educational background, he will find necessary ..Journalism schools which strive to meet changing conditions and maintain integrity of the profession do not fare badly.

Newsroom Problems and Policies is an extraordinary complete review which gives the journalist and prospective journalist plenty to think about.

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Acacians the World Over (Co ntinued fro m page 13) Insurance Corporation. During the past two years he has made his headquarters at Washington, D. C., and his duties have taken him to every state of the Union to effect agreements with agricultural colleges designed to improve the crop insurance program.

Mr. Henney's family consists of his wife, the former Grayce Cole of Cambridge, Nebr., whom he married at Buffalo , N. Y ., in 1924, and one son, Edward N. Henney, 15, who is a second-year high school student. The family at present makes its home in Washington, although maintaining legal residence at Manhattan , Kansas, where Mr. Henney owns far m and town properties.

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(I. SENATOR ARTHUR CAPPER, Kan-

sas State, celebrated his seventy-sixth birthday, July 14. For thirty-odd years the veteran Kansas Republican has given a party for Topeka children on his birthday, but only when Congress is not in session has he been on hand to enjoy the fun. In returning to Topeka for a visit Capper is breaking his rule of remaining in Washington as long as Congress is in session.

At 76 Arthur Capper is one of the most widely-known members of Congress. As far as Washington is concerned he is Public Citizen No. 1, knows more persons here and can call more people by their first name than anyone in town. During the Republican regime Capper headed the district committee and was looked upon as the federal city's "mayor." Today he is almost as powerful in the affairs of the town, although the responsibility for the local government has passed to the Democrats.

If anyone would ask Capper his formula for remaining in public life it probably would be to "vote the way a majority of your constituents want you to vote." His colleagues say he has been able to keep both ears to the ground at the same time, thus enjoying an uncanny ability to judge public sentiment.

Capper is against our entry into the European war. He insists a big majority of Kansans feel the same way about it.

If they didn't he would be for active participation. Capper is not a statesman and doesn't want to be. A majority of the voters who keep him in the Senate can change his mind on any issue. It's all right for others to forget politics and become statesmen.

Few athletic stars just out of college can keep up the day and night pace of the veteran lawmaker. Six hours' sleep is all Capper needs or gets at 76. It is a rare night that he isn't out dancing until the early hours. His name appears in the society pages as a dinner guest of virtually every social dowager. Sandwiched in between social affairs of the champagne and diamond tiara set are numerous civic affairs, local clubs and charities. Once Capper attended a dinner, made three speeches, and wound up the evening at a dancing party at the Shoreham Hotel.

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UNDERGRADUATE CHAPTERS-OFFICERS AND LOCATION OF CHAPTER HOUSES IIIOBIGA.N-1923 Geddes Ave., Ann Arbor, Mich. Venerable Dean-John B. Pierson. Secretary-Stuart Churchill. Correepondent-Ra:r Denny. Keeper of Archives-Frank McDonald.

Chapter Advisor--C. Russell Pryce, 1411 East Park Pl., Ann Arbor, Mich.

ILUfiA.It-1600 Ohio St., Lawrence Kan. Venerable DeanClyde E. Woodman, Jr. Secretary-Fred Stubeck. Correspondent-Thomas Myer. Chapter Advlsor-Dr. Lee Treece, 1636 Mia. St., Lawrence, Kan. lQDIIIlA.IKA.-1503 H St., Lincoln, Neb. Venerable Dean-Wm. Hulings. Secretary--Charles Slagle. Correspondent-Ned B. Eutlack. Chapter Advisor-Wendell Groth, Lincoln, Neb. V.U.III'ORNIA.-2340 Piedmont Ave., Berkeley, Calif. Venerable Dean-Ted Rowe. Secretary-Kenneth Moore. Correspondent -Art Poulin. Chapter Advisor-Fred Taber, 249 Scenic Drive, Piedmont, Calif.

ORJo-1835 Indianola Ave., Columbus, Ohio. Venerable DeanPhil Snowberger. Secretary-Jack Bentley, CorrespondentGeorge Painter. Chapter Advisor-Raymond Gauch, 204 E. North Broadway, Columbus, Ohio.

ILLINOis-501 E. Daniel St., Champaign, Ill. Venerable Dean -Frederick C. Brockob. Secretary-Robert P. Bishop. Correepondent-Robert M. James. Chapter Advisor-Jack K . Tuthill, Box 616, Station A, Champaign, Ill. JI'RA.NKLIN-3907 Spruce St., Philadelphia, Pa. Venerable Dean-Wm. P. MacFarland. Secretary-John H. Stunz. Corrupondent-Frederlck W. Orttung. Chapter Advlsor-Wm. R. Hockenberry, 57 W. Plumstead Ave., Lansdowne, Pa. IRNNESOTA-1206 Fifth St., S. E., Minneapolis, Minn. Venerable Dean-Bob Tltrany. Secretary-Willard Thysell. Correspondent-Robert Livingston. Chapter Advisor-Harold R. Shipman, 1937 Arthur St., Minneapolis, Minn.

WIICONSIN-609 Howard Place, Madison, Wis. Venerable Dean -Hugo Kuechenmelster, Jr. Secretary-Robert Holmes. Corresr.ondent-Robert Holmes. Chapter Advisor-Harry Tramrna , 1709 Hoyt St., Madison, Wis. IIIIISOURI-1323 Wilson Ave., Columbia, Mo. Venerable Dean -E. L. Monroe. Secretary-William French. CorrespondentDon Lowrey. Chapter Advisor--Chester L. Brewer, 215 So. Glenwood, Columbia, Mo. CORNELL--318 Highland Road, Ithaca, N. Y. Venerable Dean -John W. Bryant. Secretary--Jed Alfred Hyde. Correspondent-R. W. Melville. Chapter Advisor-Gustave F. Heuser, Ithaca, N. Y. PURDUE--427 State St., W. Lafayette, Ind. Venerable DeanArthur E. Snyder. Secretary-George R. Towle. Correspondent-Frank E. Skinner. Chapter Advlsor-W. A. Knapp, Purdue University, W. Lafayette, Ind. IOWA. ITA.TE--142 Gray Avenue, Ames, Iowa. Venerable Dean -Walter Lauridsen. Secretary-Ralph H. Rawson. Corre-

spondent--John Ewan. Chapter Advisor-Fred Beard • Ames • fu~ PENN STATE-Locust Lane and Foster Ave., State College Pa. Venerable Dean--Jack W. Strong. Secretary--Jac k F: Gillespie. Correspondent-Warren W. Parke. Chapter Advisor -Robert S. Kirby, Penn. State College, State College, Pa. WA.SHINGTON-5004 17th Ave. N. E ., Seattle, Wash. Venerable Dean-W. B. Dexter. Secretary-Dean Nlcholsen. Correspondent-Bill Dexter. Chapter Advisor-Frank W. Scott, 510 Virginia St., Seattle, Wash.

NORTHWESTERN-Lincoln at the Lake, Evanston, Ill. Venerable Dean-George Jansen. Secretary--Craig Clemons. Correspondent-William B. Miller. Chapter Advisor-Roy C. Clark.

COLORAD0-955 S. Broadway, Boulder, Colo. Venerable Dean --Jack Lewis. Secretary-Robert York. CorrespondentDavid Rusk. Chapter Advisor-Hugh McMillen, 2331 12th St., Boulder, Colo.

SYRA.CUSE-102 Walnut Place, Syracuse, N. Y. Venerable Dean-Warren Bartholomew. Secretary-Donald Jameson.

Correspondent-L. Edgar Hotrman. Chapter Advisor-E. E. Enos, Syracuse, N. Y. KA.NSAS STATE-340 N. 16th St., Manhattan, Kan. Venerable Dean-James H. Sealey. Secretary-Darrell Bozarth. Correspondent-Phil Pierce. Chapter Advlsor-V. D. Foltz, U18 Bertrand St., Manhattan, Kan. OKLAHOMA-Elm at Cruce, Norman, Okla. Venerable Dean -Jack Bates. Secretary-George Reneau. CorrespondentErvin K. Williamson. Chapter Advlsor-J. C. Mayfield, Norman, Okla.

INDIA.NA-702 E. Third St., Bloomington, Ind. Venerable Dean --Clltrord Forsyth. Secretary-August Yochem, Jr. Correspondent-James Gaddis. Chapter Advisor-Geoffrey L. Carmichael, 820 E. 1st St. GEORGE WASHINGTON-1757 N St., N. W., Washington, D. C. Venerable Dean-Grant McClellan. Secretary--Clark Ashby.

Correspondent-Harry G. Brewster. Chapter Advisor-Harold G. Stepler, 1903 Key Blvd., Arlington, Va. OKLAHOMA STATE-302 Knoblock, Stillwater, Okla. Venerable Dean--James L. Green. Secretary--Carl Vineyard, Jr. Correspondent-Arthur L. Kennedy. Chapter Advisor-Perry Morley, 1215 W. College, Stillwater, Okla.

CINCINNATI-2617 University Court, Cincinnati, Ohio. Venerable Dean-Jack Llssenden. Secretary-Richard Wightman.

Correspondent-Bill Borders. Chapter Advisor-Marion Huber.

WASHINGTON STATE--1607 Ruby St., Pullman, Wash. Venerable Dean-Glenn Lund. Secretary-Elmer Neustel. Corre-spondent--Charles Bllckenderfer. Chapter Advlsor--Clltrord D. Jacobs, 606 Oak St., Pullman, Wash.

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INDIANAPOLIS

Meets Every Thursday Noon at Board of Trade.

President Secretarv RALPH E. HANNA T. W. AYTON 301 Buckingham Dr. 17 N. Meridian St. RDey 7622 KANSAS CITY, ltiO.

Meets Every Tuesday Noon, at Engleman's Cafeteria on the Balcony, 11th and Grand.

South Side Meeting Every Wednesday Noon at Martin's Cafeteria, 4638 Wyandotte Street.

Predd4mt SeC7'et4t"V FRED GABLEMAN DR. HARRY c. LAPP 2609 Walnut St. 1314 Professional Bldg.

HArrison 0682 VIctor 9335 LAWRENCE

Meets Third Tuesday of Each Month at the Chapter Houae at 6: 15 p . m.

Preftdent SeC7'et4t'JI T. L. JoBNION DicK MARTAIN 945 Ohio St. 917 Tennessee St.

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School of Mlnea Univentty of IIIDa. IOta

NEW YORK

Social, Third Saturday Evenlnl.

Residence. 400 Riverside Drive, 4-A Predd4mt SeC7'etarv ll'a.una.m L. Bvn Suczy 1'. Ho-.r.

Hudson View Gardens 44 Moody Place Wadsworth 3-7800 Staten llland Gibraltar 2-6408 B OMAHA

Preddetd GtJY WILLIAMB 1124 Harney St.

Secretarv

GEORGE C. PAliiiD Omaha Nat'l Bank Bldg.

PEORIA

President Erie Mlnlng Co.

Meets First Friday of Each Month at 6:30p. m .

Preddent SeC7'e&«rv FRED H. YOUNG R. K . COOPER 1255 Steele St. 1310 So. University Blvd.

SeC7'et4rv

Meets Every Friday Noon at Mlller'a Cafeteria.

Preftdent SeC7'etat'11

LLoYD GOULD

DENVER

SeC7'et4t'11 Gl.lllnf E. WCIOIIB

SeC7'e&«rv RIIJcua.

ROBERT

723 West Gift St.

PHILADELPHIA

Meets Every Monday Noon at Chancellor HalL 13th and Chancellor Streeta.

Chainnaft Wn.BERT C. ColtNIILL

125 Long Lane, Upper Darby, Pa. SAN FRANCISCO

Meets Every Tuesday Noon at The l'raternltJ Club, 2nd l'loor, Palace Hotel.

Preddent Secret4t'11 I'RED M. HoFER HDRY C. Mni.D 2861 Santa Clara 450 McAllllter St. Ave..

UNderhill 8700 Alameda, Calif.

ST. LOUIS Last Friday of Each Month at the Downtowll

Y.M.C.A. at 6:15p.m.

Preftdent SeC7'etaT1/ A . D. FLAGMAN ROT G. Slllftll CEntral 1350 1528 Locust St. CEntral 1350

SEATTLE

Meets Every Monday Noon, Manning'• ~ Shop, 4th Avenue and Union Street.

Preftdent SeC7'et4t'11 ANDREW A . JoRDAK El.JoR G. Joa. .

721 2nd Ave. 1925 8th Ave. TOPEKA

President NoaMAK RoBERTI 1305 Washburn Ave. WASHINGTON

Meets Every Thursday Noon. Cblld'1 ...._. rant. 1423 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW. Preftdent SeC7'et4t'11 ILuOLD G . STJII'LD R. I. TOIIPJmiB 217 Meadow Lane 343 N. Glebe Rd. Falls Church. Va. Arllngton, Va. WICHITA

Meets Every Tuesday Noon at Wolf'a Cafetldl.

121 South Main Street.

Preftdent SeC7'etat'11 RoBIIIIT BLASE LERTa :tt.Ava Bitting Bldg.

632 So. Elte11e