1920 February - To Dragma

184 TO DRAG MA OF ALPHA 0 MIC RON PI

Mary Glowacki is working in the executive department of the War Stamps
and Savings department of the government. She is connected w i t h the Phila-
delphia office, which has charge of all matters pertaining to " T h r i f t " among
the foreign speaking peoples of eastern United States.

Genevieve Glascow is working in the advertising department of the Phila-
delphia Evening Bulletin.

Helen Schaack is studying this year at the Women's Medical College, Phila-
delphia.

Many stories and verses written by Cecelia G . Gerson have appeared re-
cently in children's periodicals and young folks' departments in Sunday news-
papers in different sections o f the country.

Ruth Bond is employed in the advertising department of the Curtis Pub-
lishing Company, Philadelphia.

CECELIA G . GERSON, '17, Alumna Assistant Editor.

OMEGA

GENERAL

Edna Gilbert is teaching domestic science in Cleveland, Ohio.
Lucile Dvorak is doing advertising work in Cleveland, Ohio.
Florence Keyerleber is doing social service work i n Cleveland.
M a r j o r y Kercheval has returned to Indianapolis.
On Saturday afternoon during the Indiana Teachers' Association, Martha
Anderson, '19, M a r j o r y Kercheval, '19, Jane Sickels, ex-'ai, Emily Nash, '17,
Mary Anderson and Sylvia Vorhees had a reunion in the form of a theater
party at English's.

Martha Anderson, Emily Nash, and Jane Sickels attended the spread given
in October by the Indianapolis Alumna? Chapter for the visiting Alpha O
teachers of Indiana.

Mildred Rothhaar is teaching near Cleveland.

MARRIAGE

M i l d r e d Bercaw was married December 13 at 11:00 A. M. to Marshall
Smith. Her home w i l l be in Mason, Ohio.

E M I L Y N A S H , Alumna Assistant Editor.

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SMILES

A New Contribution. Three-year-old Louise ran home f r o m Sunday school
in great excitement. "Mother," she cried, "the teacher told us about some
rich man who put lots of money in the church box, but there was a widow
who didn't have much money and she put i n two mice."

JAMES KNEW

James returned home f r o m school with strong evidence of a mysterious
disagreement with some of his associates. As he entered the room his mother
looked at h i m and in surprise i n q u i r e d :

"Why, James, how d i d you get your clothes so badly torn?"
" T r y i n g to keep a good little boy f r o m being licked."
"And did you?"
"You bet I did."
"That is just like my brave little son," said the mother fondly. " W h o was
the good little boy?"
"Me!"

THRIFT

Without me no woman ever achieved success, nor has any nation ever
become great.

I have been the bedrock of every successful career, and the cornerstone of
every fortune.

A l l the world knows me and most of the world heeds my warning.
The poor may have me as well as the rich.

He who possesses me has contentment in the present and surety in the

future.

Once you have me no man can take me away.
I l i f t my possessor to a higher plane of l i v i n g , increasing his earning
power and bring to realization his hopes of l i f e .

I make a man well dressed, well housed, and well fed.

I insure absolutely against the rainy day.

I drive want and doubt and care away.
I guarantee those who possess me prosperity and success.

I have exalted those of low degree, and those of high degree have found
me a h e l p f u l f r i e n d .

To obtain me you need put out no capital but personal effort, and on all

you invest in me I , guarantee dividends that last through l i f e and after.

I am free as air. Association.
I am yours i f you will take me.
I A M T H R I F T . — A m e r i c a n Bankers'

EFFECTS OF MILITARY TRAINING, NO DOUBT

At a college f o r women concert, a coed whose voice had been developed
instead o f cultivated, sang a song whose r e f r a i n was, " D o you think he w i l l
miss me?"

A senior f r o m the men's Glee Club sat through two refrains politely, but
when she shrieked for the t h i r d time, " D o you think he w i l l miss me?" he got
up and hollered, " I f he does, take the gun away f r o m h i m and give i t to me!"

186 TO DRAG MA OF ALPHA OMIC RON PI

TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY Gazette.

Ladies wore bustles.
Operations were rare.
Nobody had seen a silo.
Nobody swatted the fly.
Nobody had appendicitis.
Nobody wore white shoes.
Nobody sprayed orchards.
Cream was five cents a pint.
Cantaloupes were muskmelons.
M i l k shake was a favorite drink.
You never heard o f a " t i n lizzie."
Advertisers did not tell the truth.
Most young men had "livery bills."
Doctors wanted to see your tongue.
The hired girl drew one-fifty a week.
Nobody "listened-in" on a telephone.
Farmers came to town f o r their mail.
Folks said pneumatic tires were a joke.
Nobody cared for the price of gasoline.
The butcher "threw i n " a chunk of liver.
Strawstacks were burned instead of baled.
There were no sane Fourths nor electric meters.
Jules Verne was the only convert to the submarine.—Hotel

TO DRAGMA OF ALPHA OMICRON PI 187

EXCHANGES

Alpha Omicron Pi acknowledges the following exchanges: For November,
The F.leusis, The Key, The Crescent, The Shield, Aglaia, The Anchora, Delta
Delta Delta) The Lyre, Alpha Gamma Delta, Sigma Kappa, and the December
Alpha Phi Quarterly.

From December Alpha Phi Quarterly:

Our National Panhellenic delegate, A m y Comstock, Iota, has opportunity
to broaden her viewpoint by contact with the other national fraternities and to
study their methods. She expresses herself as f o l l o w s :

"The unity of any national organization demands an active worker on the
job year in and year out. A n organization to be truly national cannot be
sectional. A n y group or individual members distributed over an entire con-
tinent cannot continue a well-knit body unless a community of interest be
maintained, to accomplish which the whole must be kept informed of what
the several parts are thinking and doing. This message can only be carried
in person. There are S. O. S. calls to be answered; the administrative body,
to act intelligently, must be up to the minute on conditions and situations
everywhere; to develop in accord with national ideas and policies, chapters
must be kept in touch with each other and with the national body; there are
young chapters to be advised ; difficulties must be ironed out, not l e f t hanging
for lack of someone on the ground to see them t h r o u g h ; fields for expansion
should be investigated so that the initiative might as often come f r o m the
national as the local organization. T o maintain these fundamental facts,
essential to a strong national organization, a fraternity should have an execu-
tive secretary, sufficiently well paid to attract talents capable of meeting such
demands. A firm foundation demands the skill of a master hand to complete
the structure on the' same broad lines that inspired the original builders."

From October Crescent of Gamma Phi Beta:

The organization of this work by the Alumnas Secretary and her twenty-two
assistants w i l l be no easy task, but once established should be mostly routine
work.

I f Gamma Phi Beta means no more to you than your own college chapter
then what you want is a local society, not a national organization. I f you
want a strong national to back you up, to help you over difficult places, and to
which you can point with pride—a national that will give you a name worth
offering to freshmen—then, do your part to make the national strong. The
college g i r l owes her loyalty to her chapter and university. The alumna is
and should never be bound by her active chapter. She should have the na-
tional spirit. Her chapter is the district i n which she lives and helping the
active chapters within that district should be among her tasks. Her loyalty
and interest in her own college chapter w i l l only be increased by such a spirit.
Through the Alumna; Secretary, Gamma Phi Betas moving to new localities
can be put in touch with other Gamma Phis there i f only the rovers w i l l report
changes of address to the Alumnae Secretary. When membership files are kept
strictly to date, how easy to renew old friendships! Haven't we all, at one
time or another, wanted to get in touch with some Gamma Phi of whom we
have lost track? The directory is a w o n d e r f u l help in some cases—but how
Gamma Phis do move about!

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