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              The Maroon Volume XI LOYOLA UNIVERSITY, NEW ORLEANS, LA., MARCH 17, 1933 No. 21 LOYOLA-S. M. U. DEBATE THURSDAY Dixie Sodality Convention Opens In Shreveport Tomorrow Mustangs Will Engage Wolves in Discussion Here Dallas Team Follows Louisiana State University Encounter WAR DEBTS AGAIN SUBJECT Southern Methodist Is Texas Champion Forensic Team Loyola University's second varsiti forensic encounter of the present season will take place next Thursday evening in Marquette Auditorium when Loyola's varsity debaters will meet the representatives of Southern Methodist University, of Dallas, Texas. Loyola will defend the negative side of the question, "Resolved, That the United States Should Agree to the Cancellation of the Inter-Allied War Debt." Southern Methodist teams are well known in intercollegiate debate circles, having won the Pi Kappa Delta regional championship in 1930, and having been champions of the state of Texas several times in the past five years. The teams will be composed of two men each, and the Loyola debaters will be selected from the six men who met L. S. U. this week. DELEGATES FROM FIVE SOUTHERN STATES ATTEND Mayor of Shreveport Will Begin Convention With Welcome FATHER LORD TO PRESIDE "We Dare for Mary" Will Be Official Meet Slogan ——MM ' Approximately 10 Loyola students under the leadership of the Rev. Alvin G. Hayes, S. J., were numbered among the New Orleans delegation that left this morning for Shreveport to attend the Dixie Sodality convention that will open in that city tomorrow morning. The delegation numbering 200 or more sodalists from colleges and high schools in the city, was headed by Rev. Richard Needham, S. J., spiritual counsellor of Jesuit High School. The convention will open tomorrow morning when the mayor of Shreveport welcomes the sodalists to the city and Bishop Daniel F. Desmond of Alexandria gives his benediction to the convention which has for its slogan "We Dare for Mary," aiming at personal holiness and promotion of Catholic action. Rev. Lorig, S. J., pastor of St. John's church in Shreveport will be host to the sodalists. Rev. Daniel A. Lord, S. J., national director of the sodality, will preside. The program for the meetings could not be secured but following past procedure resolutions probably will be offered by the resolution chairmen of the various delegations which represent sodality councils in Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas and Arkansas. The resolution chairman for the Loyola delegation will be chosen before the convention opens. Leaving at seven o'clock this morning, the delegation will spend three days at the convention and return to the city Monday evening.Night Council Formed A sodality council for students in the night school was formed Monday night, according to Rev. Alvin G. Hayes, S. J., dean of men and director of spiritual activities at Loyola. The following officers were elected: Odette Berthier, chairman; Charles Kenny, vice-chairman; Rita Thiberville, recording secretary; Joseph Dougla-,, corresponding secretary. - - ■ MUSIC SCHOOL TO PRESENT RECITAL Program to Be Given in Auditorium on Saturday The Loyola College of Music, affiliated with the New Orleans Conservatory of Music and Dramatic Art, presents its first Student Recital, Saturday, March 18th, 8 p.m. in Marquette Auditorium.The six phases of the program, with the names of the students taking part in the recital are listed as follows: I Allegro in E flat Haydn Novelette in F Schumann Henry Gustine, pianist II Aria Mendelssohn Aubrey Oswald, baritone Eugie Tebault, pianist 111 Tutto Amor Vergin The Lass with the Deljcate Air Arne Vivian Ballard, soprano Cora Sadler, pianist IV Ninth Concerto de Beriot Ruth Schaeffer, violinist Yvonne Thomas, pianist V Water Boy D, Robinson The Sleigh Kountz Aubrey Oswald, baritone Eugie Tebault, pianist VI G Minor Rhapsody Brahms Henry Gustine, pianist FINAL CONTEST ON NEXT FRIDAY Class Rush Will Close Race For Hausmann Trophy The fifth and final event in the Hausman trophy contest, the class rush, will be held on Friday evening, March 21 at 4:15 p.m. on the practice football filed. With the standing all even, the Freshmen having won the debate and the oratorical contest and Sophomores being adjudged winners in the tug-o-war and the basket-ball game, much interest and enthusiam ig being displayed in this deciding event. The sophomores, winners of last year's contest as Freshmen, are confident of victory, boasting of many football stars and other athletes. The Freshmen, however, are expected to furnish much stiff competition as they have in the preceeding events. Both classes are expecting a hundred per cent turnout of their respective members. The Student Council, at a recent meeting, laid final plans and rules for the contest. All Sophomores and all Freshmen will be allowed to participate. This means that the Sophomore class can use the Freshmen Dents and all others who. are Sophomores on the campus. The Frosh can avail themselves of all newcomers.The object of the rush will be to get a football, which will be raised on the flagpole about fifteen feet off the ground and to carry it to a specific spot. The two classes will start at a given signal from 'either side of the track about half way from the gym. Several referees will mingle in the melee to prevent unnecessary roughness, outright slugging, etc. The combat should be confined to wrestling and joustling as much as possible and above all no weapons will be allowed. When any referee blows his whistle, all contestants will immediately stop until penalized participant is ejected and the signal is given to resume activities. GARDEN PLANNED Plans for beautifying the grounds and the planting of a garden at the new Loyola College of Music, Calhoun street and St. Charles avenue, were made by the Parent-Teacher association of the school, at a meeting presided over by Mrs. W. Reid Stryker, president. Plans were also tentatively made for a tea to be given Friday night by the group. LOYOLA WINS! Flash: In last night's debate with L. S. U. at Baton Rouge, an audience vote gave a tie decision of 11-11, most of the audience not voting. Harry Wise, Richard Cadwallader and Allen Bell, upheld the affirmative against Loyola's negative team composed of Paul Barker, John Nugent and Stephen Rodi. In the New Orleans part of the dual debate with L. S. U., held in Marquette Hall, last night, Loyola defeaetd L. S. U. by a 51-16 audience decision. Leo Zinser, Sam McNeely and Harry Herman upheld the affirmative for Loyola, while Miss Elvira Burge, John Paul and Guy C. Mitchell argued the negative for L. S. U. Blue Key Begins Pledge Balloting Each Year National Fraternity Chooses Outstanding Juniors and Seniors The Loyola chapter of Blue Key, national honor student leadership fraternity, will meet Saturday at 1:30 p. m., in the student activities office, according to an announcement by Felicien Lozes, president. At the meeting the active members of the chapter will begin balloting on the students who will be chosen by the fraternity for initiation in May. Each year the fraternity picks the students from the junior and senior classes who have been outstanding student leaders or who have rendered outstanding service to the university. Membership in Blue Key is one of the outstanding honors that a student can receive while in school. President Lozes stated that more than a dozen of the delegates to the N. C. P. A. convention held here last week who were members of Blue Key were informally entertained by several members of the Loyola group. 2 REPORTERS GET EDITORIAL POSTS Home and Nugent Advanced By the Maroon Editor Two Maroon reporters, Daniel M. Home and John F. Nugent, were appointed to editorial posts on the paper by Paul Capdevielle, editor-in-chief, at a special meeting held this week. Home, who succeeds Emile Wagner as news editor, is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences and engaged in journalistic work in his freshman year. He conducts the "Certain Point of View" column. He and Nugent have the honor of being the first students of journalism at Loyola to advance to editorial posts. Nugent, an Arts sophomore, was made feature editor of the paper, a post which has not been filled since the resignation of Ednard Waldo some weeks ago. Wagner resigned as news editor this week because of the pressure of scholastic duties. To "Doc" "Doc" Erskine, Loyola welcomes you. Everyone from the president of the University to the lowliest freshman is elated over your appointment as head coach of our athletic teams. They are elated not only because of your magnificent record at Jesuits High School, not only because of your proven ability to produce champions, but also because they know that you stand for that which is evn greater than victories—sportsmanship. Practically every student at Loyola has seen one of your teams in action. They have seen their display of clean sportsmanship,- their indomitable spirit against the greatest of odds, their ability to fight to the last minute; and they know that you will bring to Loyola teams that same spirit and sportsmanship. Loyola knows that you consider football not as a "racket" or a job, but as a game tat you love. Tey know that ,just as a real artist must love his work, a real coach must love the game. Your determination to study the game when physically incapacitated from playing proves that you have a true love of the game. Your coaching of sandlot teams is conclusive of the fact. » So v, «ty "Welcome Doc." The Maroon as voice of the students of Loyola addresss you in the familiar appellation because we know that you are interested in cultivating the friendship of the youths with whom you like to associate. We not only welcome you but we promise you our unqualified support and send you our best wishes for success in your new position. To the Team Under the leadership of "Doc" Erskine Loyola begins a new chapter in its athletic history. Whether that chapter shall be a success or a failure depends to a large extent upon you. You have as a coach a man of proven ability, the pick of more than 100 applicants. You have a man who will give everyone a "break" regardless of what he has been. You have further a man who will do anything within reason for you whether it be connected with sports or not, a man who will be your true friend both on and off the athletic field, who was not content to know you by number, but insisted on meeting you personally. He asks in return that you give him your wholehearted support. What he means by support was outlined to you last week. It consists in keeping training, keeping up in your studies and playing the game to the best of your ability. He has a right to ask this of you and it is your duty to him and to your alma mater to do this ior him. To the Student Body Without your support the team will not function at its best. Football is an emotional sport, a sport in which the mental attitude of the players is paramount. Unless the members of the team feel that you are backing them, they cannot give their best on the field. In the ultimate analysis, upon you depends the spirit of the team. And a team without spirit might just as well stay off the football field. The team of '33 will look to you for support. It's up to you. To the Athletic Council CONGRATULATIONS on securing for Loyola the best coach in this section of the woods. AFFIRMATIVE WINS LOYOLA DEBATE Upholding the affirmative of the question "Resolved, That the United States Should Agree to the ! Cancellation of the Inter-Allied J War Debts," Matthew Braniff and j Charles Bailey won a decision over J Beucher Amann and Lee Le Blanc j Tuesday night in the regular bimonthly meeting of the Loyola Debating Society in Marquette Hall. Leo Zinser, president of the society who presided as chairman, made formal announcement of the Loyola-L. S. U. debate  night at 7:30 p. m., urging the! members to bring all their friends. | LOYOLA SEISMOGRAPH RECORDS DISASTER The Rev. 0. L. Abel, S. J., Loyola's recording seismologist, an- I nounced Saturday morning that I Loyola's seismograph had record\ ed the earthquake in Southern California Friday night and Saturday. The seismograph recorded the quake as being of great intensity and about 1900 miles from New Orleans. Father Abel recalled that the results on the seis| mograph were practically identij cal with those of the Santa Barj bara tremblor in 1925. TEA DANCE WILL BE GIVEN SUNDAY Next University Gym Dance Features Feast Theme The next university dance will be a the dansant to be given in Loyola gymnasium, Sunday, March 19, from 5 to 9. According to an announcement made late last night by J. Skelly Wright, chairman of the dance co/nmittee, plaits and decoration* for the dance which will be in keeping with the feast of St. Joseph, have been completed, and it is also reported that the ticket sale has been unusually heavy, insuring a nice crowd for the occasion.Those who are desirous of attending the dance and who have not obtaned ther tckets as yet, may purchase them from the following, who are members of the Loyola Dance Committee: Charles April, John Blasi, Paul Barker, Bill Calhoun, Charles Bailey, Dan Horne, Harold Heidingsfelder, Larry Babst, Eddie Shaheen, Konrad Lagarde, Leslie Hottinger, M. V. Jarreau, A 1 Leach, George Leppert, Milton Mary, Bill Mc- Hardy, Emile Wagner, and Adrien Drouhillet. The committee also announced that the regular monthly gym dances will be given immediately after Easter, and will again include featured floor shows. JURORS FAIL TO AGREE IN COURT The Old Lady Shows Her Mettle as Plaintiff In Suit The jury which sat at the third | moot court held last Saturday night j j in Civil District Court, failed to J agree and consequently a mistrial j | was rendered in the case of Fair- j | child vs. Johnson, which resulted | from an injury sustained by the j plaintiff while attempting to cross ! at the intersection of Galvez and Canal streets. Mrs. the plaintiff, was an old lady 65 years of age, and was her sole support. She was rendered a cripple by the accident. The attorneys for the plaintiff j were James Steiner and Oliver Livaudais, Jr., while the defendant was ably represented by Albert Bienvenu and Henry Oulliber. Sam Morgan and Charles Lancaster were the counsel for the co-defendant. Amelie Buchmann portrayed the old lady. All are members of the senior law class. William H. Talbot, prominent member of the New Orleans bar, I acted as judge. Gy;// Dance Sunday IT'S COMINQJ ERSKINE TO BE HONORED! Flash: As the Maroon goes to press, information is received that the student body will meet in Marquette Auditorium Tuesday at 10 a. m. in order to welcome Loyola's new grid coach, "Doc" Erskine, to the university. Gym Dance Sunday It has been announced by Prof. Cupero that an important meeting will be held in the band room on March 20. All members of the band are urged to attend, as there will be very important business discussed. This meeting is extremely imperative, therefore all be present.