Voted Most Popular, SKe Rebels
“Why Did They Pick on
Me?” Moaned Dorothy
When She Won the ^
Contest After a
Hectic
Rumpus
INSURGENT
F.dv ard Bauer, Fiery Young Student
Loiter of the San Mateo College ‘ San
Vatean,'* Whom Bitter Denunciation*
.f the Fraternity Syftem Caused Him
te Be Kidnaped, Taken to a Lonely
Spot, Disrobed and Made to Walk
Home.
DUl'.O'l H V TL l.l.V 1 the nm-t pop
ular girl in California a San
Mateo Junior College, ;n ac
tlaimed by a vote of the students. but
s she happy over the honor, blushing
lay ly when her friends refer to it?
Instead—“I'm so disappointed they
had to pick me out for this thing. 1
wish my name had never been men
tioned. 1 just know my future at
belaud Stanford Cnivet. ity will be
•uined'.'’
That's tile way Dorothy feels about
ter election It is a point of view
.hat’s hard for the outsider' to under
stand, unless he knows the inside story
of the hectic weeks preceding the pop
ularity contest.
Dorothy is pretty, vivacious, and
her intense dislike of the crown which
«he has been forced to wear is not due
to any unusual adolescent complex
against applause. Under norma! cir
cumstances, say those who know her
best, she wouldn't have minded being
thosen the most popular girl. But
now, with the school a seething caul
dron of charges and counter-charges
as a result of a State-wide fraternity
row, Dorothy would rather be ignored.
Her election was the climax to an
intense feud at the college—a feud
that echoed in the State Legislature
when Assemblyman Roy Bishop at
tempted not long ago to pas3 a bill
that would repeal the present law pro
hibiting fraternities and sororities in
high schools and junior colleges. His
onDonents, headed by Senator Herbeit
I-RATS’ FRIEND
Assemblyman Roy Bishop,
Whoie Bill Would Make
Junior College Fraternitiee
Legal Again in California
—Despite a Barrage of
Parent-Teacher Protests.
W. Slater, are emphatic
in their efforts to keep
the law as it is.
San Mateo Junior Col
lege burst into the lime
light of the frat rumpus
when the srhool at
tempted to hold its first
popularity contest more
than a month ago. One
ballot box was stolen,
another was stuffed with
“TAKEN FOR A RIDE”
Thi* Photo Wa» Fatten of
Edward Bauer a* Ha
' Arrived Home After a
Gruelling Ordeal at the
Hands of School Frat
Leader* Who Took Hi*
Clothe* and Made Him
Walk Back to Town.
HE EXPELLED
Dean Hopkina of San
Mateo, Foe of the
Frat», Who Threw
Seven Students Out
of School for
Kidnaping the
Caustic School Paper
/ Editor.
man Bishop-, protesting
tiiat his bill would en
courage snobbery and
work hardships against
student? who weren’t
asked to join.
Then came the popu
larity contest. The fra
ternities boasted that
they would “run away
with the race.” None
votes—arm nmwara Bauer, editor or
the school newspaper, was kidnaped
by seven prominent students and
“taken for a ride.”
When Assemblyman Bishop intro
duced his bill to reinstate the student
-ocial societies, two fraternities at San
Mateo revealed that they had enrolled
the outstanding athletes, scholars and
elite of the school. Parents and
teachers were incensed in many in
stances and wrote letters to Assembly
nut mem tiers nau a umnvc.
Bauer, in the “San Matean,” student
publication, of which he is editor,
printed a scries of editorials sharply
taking the fiat members to task as
disloyal to the school.
The theft and "stuffing” of the pop
ularity ballot boxes brought forth an
article by Bauer which contained
veiled hints as to the identities of the
guilty students. Next morning, on his
way to school, Bauer was asked to
Curiosity Is Indispensable for Success
Says Doherty
Henry latham doherty,
president of a company with
more than f400,000,000 in as
sets and 125 subsidiaries, insists today
that his preliminary education was
cleaned from gas catalogues, riom
the start he was hard working, inde
pendent and seemed to possess an un
usual amount of mental and physical
energy. He had an insatiable thir
for knowledge, hence his notable trait
•f curiosity. To quote Mr. Doheity
%n“Curio»ity i* a builder of men. The
man who i.n’t curiou. about what ha ta
doing and why won’t want to educate
himself; and when I eay education. I
don’t mean a college degree, by any
ynean*. Ignorance and illiteracy are
not the earn* thing nor doe* the usual
definition of education mean wi.dom.
A vary great part of the big, »cientific
advancement of our age ha* been due
to the effort* of men who didn t have
the college brand of education. 1 hey
were curiou*. They had inquiring
mind*. They wondered and worked
end (bettered tradition.
“5 om« tne greater
would have *>*oa ruined by * cut-and
dried adueation which would have de
stroyod their curiosity about the why»
of simple things. Edison bad no scien
tific education. He was curious, worked
lor his practical knowledge, and shat
|a red tradition. Michael Faraday,
whose great discoveries in magneto
electric induction opened a vast elec
trical domain, describes his own educa
tion as being ‘of the most ordinary de
scription, consisting of little mors than
the rudiments of roadie’, ’ritin’ and
'rithmotic.’
“Yes, Michael Farady, son of a
blacksmith, outstripped in science
thousands of college men of his time,
because ho had curiosity and as book
binder’s apprentice read the books he
had to bind. That’s the kind of edu
cation aad curiosity I mean. Much of
It begins with the daily office or sales
Unties. It’s what a man has to have
to carry on his work successfully.
“A shovel is an awkward tool for a
(nan who hasn't taught himself to use
It But having grasped the fundamen*
tals necessary for his daily task, the
•mpleyo who Is going to develop, whose
vain* to his employer is always going
te increase, is the man who is curious,
who seeks out knowledge of something
beyond his daily task.
"The man who masters his shovel
*L
and is still curious and seeks more
knowledge, is the man who invents an
improved shovel or gets to be the
president of a company making
dredges. The man who isn’t curious,
who is satisfied with his job, or has
never taken heed of anything outside
his duty will never go ahead.
"Cne of the fallacies of socialism is
HENRY L. DOHERTY.
that opportunities are as limited as the
seats in a popular theatre; that if one
man grabs a seat, somebody else ha*
to stand outside in the rain. Opportu
nity is as unlimited as space itself.
Men do not fail because of lack of
opportunity. I think every man gets
chances, but some fail because before
the opportunity comes the individual
has not fitted himself for it. When the
big chance arrives he has to say,
‘Sorry, but 1 don’t know bow.’ He
hasn’t had enough curiosity to find out
what it is all about, go and get the
knowledge he needs and fit himself for
the job ahead and the one ahead of
that."
Henry Doherty is an outstanding ex
ample of the man who has reached
gur.deis and power through his own ef
forts. Born in Columbus, Ohio, in
1S70, he began his commercial career
ten years later. He was only ten years
of age when he left trade school to sell
papers on the streets. Two years later
ho obtained a job as office boy with a
local gas company. It was then that
he began his diligent study of gas cata
logues that was to teach him all about
the company he was serving.
Henry Doherty is a unique and driv
ing force in all the industries in which
his dynamic energy and constructive
genius have been applied to create
greater efficiency. Inventor, philoso
pher, financier, engineer, he prefers
to be classed as the last named.
enter a ear contain
ing a number of
well-known San
M8teo students.
Hours later he
trudged home,
stripped of most of
his clothes, foot
sore and scratched
from his hike
through the woods.
He had been driven
to a lonely spot far
from town ami
there warned to
cease his anti-fra
ternity agitation.
His clothes had
been removed, with
the exception of hi* trous
ers, anti he, had been left 10
cet home as best he could.
The seven students who
nail taKcn part in Hauer s
kidnaping—the victim had
recognized them all-—were
summoned before Dean
Hopkins and expelled. Whereupon the
student body of the school rose to pro
test the expulsions. They threatened
to give Bauer another ride if the young
men weren’t reinstated, and there were
murmurs about an intended strike.
“Mob rule will not be tolerated,” de
clared Superintendent Frank H. Boran,
of the San Mateo district, "even, if the
offenders acted with the desire to
punish one who in their judgment was
reflecting on the good name of the
school ”
And as the strike talk increased
Dean Hopkins decided that something
must be done to distract the attention
of the students. Why not another
popularity contest?
Boxers were again set up. this time
under guard. But only forty students
responded with ballots. These forty
named Dorothy Tully as the most pop
ular girl, and Ernest Worth as the
most popular man. No one seemed to
know Ernest very well, and he seemed
to be as much irked by the honor paid
him as was Dorothy.
“What will I ever do after ! get to
i.eland Stanford," moaned Dorothy,
"with my name linked to this awful
business? Oh. 1 wish no one had ever
thought of me!”
Apparently Dean Hopkins threw up
his hands in despair at this point and
left town. The report went around
that he was "investigating conditions"
in other schools.
There the scene shifted to San Jose
Junior College, where students kid
naped Charles Danna, a senior, shaved
off his hair and mustache and made
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UNWILLINGLY HONORED. ^
Pretty Dorothy Tully, Who We* Chosen the Most Popular Co«ed of San Matef
College by Students’ Ballots. Instead of Being Delighted She Wept.
him walk many weary miles hark home.
Ami at Marin Junior College a similar
episode took plaee.
Pretty Dorothy Tully has been the
innocent victim of the furore. It's
terrible to be called the most popular
girl in school when you’d rathrr tie
the most ignored 1 Dorothy doesn’t be
lieve in popularity contests anyway.
I. II i i . ——
Meanwhile reports are that the fra
lernities are going on just the same
whether Assemblympn Bishop get* hi?
bill passed or not. The proponents of
the fraternity system have declared
that the biggest reason for repealing
the bill which now prohibits them is
the fact that they can’t be really done
away with—bring secret organizations.
By OASEJWI/m-GirlPad-Artel
THE SCRIBBLER
(On iheRicerbank)
"Hewn and chiseled .... end fearless at marble statue*
Cared to the sunlight.”
M
'.IF 7 be always a crystal of
many facets
Through which life shines.
Thus 1 shall break the light
Info myriad rainbow hues.
The truth into beauty.
It is easy to be like a clouded glass
Dimming all brilliance,
Or a muddy stream
Staining all things
That are dipped therein.
VT it is It ant
To be sparkling liquid, clear,
Undiluted, even by perfume.
My thoughts must be hewn
.4nd chiseled—
Clear-cut, unmistakable.
And fearless as marble siaiues
Bared to the sunlight.
These my ideals . , . But, knowing
myself,
1 add one final hope—
May mu lapses be brief and
infrequent.