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SUMMER SESSION KANSAN
FRIDAY, JUNE 25, 1937
Comment
Who Said No Sports?
Several summer session men recently were heard bewailing the "fact" that recreational facilities are not available at the University during the summer term. A bit of investigation into the matter shows how misinformation they are.
Jay Plumley, supervisor of men's athletics this summer, listed no less than 14 different sports when queried this week, all available at little or no expense to every male student in the University.
Here's Plumley's list:
Softball—a league has been organized and is well underway. About 60 men take part, and there's always room for more. Games are played at 4 p.m. on Mondays and Thursdays south of the gymnasium.
Handball-a tournament probably will get underway this week-end. Six indoor and six outdoor courts at Robinson gym are available, with equipment furnished.
Tennis -no less than 16 courts, all in excellent shape, are available, near the stadium.
Golf—the University has a 9-hole course northwest of Snow hall, open every day to any student. It is in good playing condition.
Swimming—the indoor pool in the gymnasium is open at scheduled times, already announced. The downtown pool offers a low monthly ticket rate.
Basketball—plenty of room in the gymnasium, balls furnished.
Track-indoor at the gym, outdoor at the stadium.
Horseshoes—four playing places, horseshoes and pegs provided.
Volleyball -nets, balls and playing space available at the gym.
Hiking—the whole Kaw and Wakarua valleys are yours. Plenty of inviting spots for camping.
Gymnastics—no end of apparatus and mat equipment in the gym.
Boating the Kaw above the dam would float an America's cup contender, and a firm rents boats and canoes there cheaply.
Boxing-gloves and ring may be had at the gym.
Wrestling—mats and arnica in large quantities are yours for the asking.
Who said no sports?
When the Kansan received a letter early this week urging action to help overcome the inconsistent situation caused by lack of a 1-mill tax token, it visioned itself as perhaps becoming the sponsor of a great campaign which would save Kansas citizens many dollars over a period of time. But no response to the letter has been forthcoming. How about it? The "letters" column is yours to fill.
"The they are inheriting not wealtl alone, but great obligations and responsibilities," reads the will of the late George F. Baker, Jr., bequeathing $100,000,000 to his two sons. All of which is well and good, but Mr. Baker himself passed up a "great responsibility" when he neglected to say just what those obligations are. For doesn't he know that every American boy—not just his two sons—plans to grow up and be a millionaire?
Barbara Bramwell, '36, Belleville, has secured a position with the Woman's Home Companion in New York City.
THIS and THAT BY KENNETH KITCH
Kansas City has installed a powerful telescope on the tower of its new city hall. Probably so that it can point with pride to Columbia, St. Joseph, Leavenworth, Lawrence, Topeka, and other outer edges of its city limits.
But that isn't a patching to what 'tis said a recent San Francisco paper published: "San Francisco's community chest fund must be enlarged this year because many of our new citizens in the Matanuska valley will need Christmas treats for their children."
Des Moines' police inspector has just announced that he can find no law against "spooning" and "petting" in the statute books. But who in the world wants to spoon in the statute books?
The surest way to get men to read hints about safe driving is to head the article: "Instructions to Women Drivers."
Things: Somebody says that Jewell is going back home to work on his thesis. A lot of zip and zest will be gone from the bull sessions. . . .
The announced at one of the downtown ball games the other evening suddenly boomed forth, "A little girl is lost and wants someone to take care of her. Will someone come and claim her, please." Voice
from out of the sudden stillness:
"How old is she?" . . . Some of the folks have been going down town to listen to the Lawrence band concerts. If they love good music, however, they ought also to take in these fine University concertes of late Sunday afternoons. . . . The athletic department has received lots of compliments concerning the fine condition of the tennis courts. They're being kept in good shape and more people are playing tennis this year than for many summers in the past. . . Education graduates have formed a "Jitters Club"—composed of those luckless wights who are coming up for their orals. . . Phi Delta Kappa is going to meet in the basement of Fraser hall after this. Room 15 because it's cooler. . . Hint to Robinson gymnasium officials: Someone has bored a hole in the door which connects the men's shower room and the swimming pool. It's beside the point, but so far, George the cop, hasn't been able to discover from which side of the door the hole was started.
Jewish Rabbi Will Speak
Here Next Wednesday Night
Rabbi Abraham D. Shaw, Baltimore, will speak here next Wednesday night as the first invited lecturer of the summer session.
Rabbi Shaw is a member of the Jewish Chautauqua Society, the only organization in America providing lectures on Jewish history, literature, ethics and achievements to non-Jewish groups. Its purpose is the promotion of understanding and good will.
The rabbi has chosen "Judaism and Democracy" as his subject here Wednesday night.
Enter Newspaper "Hall of Fame"
THOMAS BENTON MURDOCK
Two new selections for the Kansas Newspaper Hall of Fame, sponsored by the University department of journalism and Sigma Delta Chi, journalism fraternity, were announced this week by L. N. Flint, chairman of the department.
The honorees are John S. Gilmore, for 40 years publisher of the Wilson County Citizen, at Fredonia, and Thomas Benton Murdock, founder of two newspapers in El Dorado, and at one time editorial writer on the Topeka Commonwealth. The men's pictures, large copies of which have been hung in the University Daily Kansan newsroom on the campus, appear above.
JOHN S. GILMORE
Mr. Gilmore, a native of Rochester, N.Y., came to Kansas when he was nine, and lived with his parents near Emporia. At 17 he became a printer's apprentice in the Emporia News shop. Later he worked on the Burlington Patriot, the Oswego Register, and Leavenworth Daily Commerical, the Osage Chronicle (under M. M. Murdock) and the Emporia Times. He started his first paper, at Guilford, with $600 when he was still 20. He continued in the newspaper game and held several public positions .
Flowers Fill Ballroom As Florists Convene Here
Mr. Murdock also was reared on a homestead near Emporia. He founded the Walnut Valley Times at El Dorado in 1870, and went to Topeka to write for the Commonwealth in 1880. He returned to El Dorado in 1883, and founded the El Dorado Republican, continuing as its publisher until his death in 1910. Like Mr. Gilmore, he was active in public life.
The Memorial Union ballroom turned into a huge floral display this week while it served as headquarters for the 18th annual convention of the Kansas State Florists' association.
Two hundred and ten Kansas florists and 20 more from Kansas City, Mo., gathered here for the meeting, which started Tuesday morning and concluded yesterday afternoon. The convention was in general charge of Walter B. Balch, secretary of the association.
Besides numerous social events, the convention's program included a series of sessions on flower display work and floral decoration. Thirty salesmen from all parts of the country set up booths in the ballroom, displaying many kinds of equipment used by florists.
The convention was the second to be held in Lawrence, this town having been the site of the 13th annual meet in 1932. Last year's meetings were in Winfield.
Summer Session Kansan
Address All Communications to
SUMMER SESSION KANSAN
EDWARD BARNETT ... Editor
Associate Editors
BILL TURNER ... JACK BERNET
F. QUENTIN BROWN ... Business Mgr.
Telephones
Business Office ... K.U. 66
News Room ... K.U. 25
Called by Illness
H. E. Chandler, assistant director of the summer session, was called to Beloit yesterday morning by the serious illness of his mother. The elder Mrs Chandler has been ill for a considerable length of time.
Speaks at Kansas City
Dean R. A. Schwegler spoke to summer school students of Kansas City Teachers College at two meetings this week. Tuesday morning his subject was "Horace Mann," and Wednesday morning his address was entitled "Functional Education."
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