Kansas State Historical Society Topeka, Ks.
University Daily Kansan
Tuesday, Oct. 17, 1950
O F THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
STUDENT NEWS PAPER
Lawrence, Kansas
Sigma Tau To Hold Conclave At KU
The national conclave of Sigma Tau, honorary engineering fraternity, will be held at the University Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. Delegates from 26 chapters throughout the United States, representing more than 20 states, will attend the bi-annual meeting of the fraternity.
A banquet and initiation, an all engineering convocation, and roundtable discussion will feature the conclave, Dwane Crowl, engineering senior, president of Lambda chapter of Sigma Tau, said today.
Chancellor Deane W. Malott will address the delegates at a banquet at 7 p.m. Friday in the Kansas room of the Union. Preceding the banquet Lambda chapter, the University affiliate of Sigma Tau, will initiate 66 persons into the fraternity. This includes 62 students and 4 honorary members.
Paul H. Robbins, executive director of the National Council of Professional Engineers will address an engineering conventation at 10 a.m. Saturday in the auditorium of Strong hall. Mr. Robbins travels extensively throughout the United States as representative of his group which is campaigning for the licensing of engineers.
Thursday, Friday, and Saturday will be devoted entirely to fraternity business. Crowl said. The purpose of the bi-annual conclave is for national business of Sigma Tau to be discussed and acted upon. Friday's program will include a 1½ hour tour of the School of Engineering and Architecture by the delegates.
Two of the honorary initiates are N. T. Veatch, Kansas City, Mo., of Black and Veach consulting engineers; and Kenneth A., Spencer, Kansas City, Mo., president of the Spencer chemical company.
delegates.
Two roundtable discussions will highlight the conclave. The topics are "Standardization of Alumni Practice" and "Public Relations of the Fraternity."
Lambda chapter of Sigma Tau has 74 members on the campus. This includes 59 students and 15 faculty members. All fields of engineering are represented by the membership.
Clifford Newberry, engineering senior chairman of the preparations committee, has made arrangements for the delegates to be housed in various University fraternity houses. Many of the delegates, he said, will stay in fraternities with which they are affiliated.
The conclave will adjourn Saturday noon.
Hitt Attends ACAC Meeting
James K. Hitt, Registrar, is attending the meeting of the Association of College Admissions Counselors in St. Louis today.
The purpose of the meeting is to discuss problems concerning selection of colleges and admissions and to exchange ideas which will aid in solving these problems.
"The registrar is well established but the college counselor is something new," Mr. Hitt said. In the past colleges and universities waited for the prospective students to come to them. Now they send counselors out to the various high schools to solicit new students.
The Association of College Counsellors is set up to stop any schools from using unethical practices to solicit new students and to establish a good moral code for the counselors in the association to follow.
This is the first time the University has been represented at one of these meetings. ___
Dean To Talk At NU Nov.2
Dean Marvin's subject will be "Wanted: More Truth for a Free People." The Avery lecture is sponsored by the Palladian Literary society, of which Dean Marvin was president in his senior year at the University of Nebraska in 1934-35
Burton W. Marvin, dean of the William Allen White School of Journalism and Public Information will give the second annual Avery Memorial lecture at the University of Nebraska on Thursday, November 2. This will be the second lecture given in memory of Dr. Samuel Avery, chancellor of the University of Nebraska from 1909 to 1927.
The annual meeting of the second district members of the Kansas Press association will be held Friday at the William Allen White School of Journalism and Public Information.
Kansas Editors To Hold Meeting Here Friday
Registration will take place in the University Daily Kansan newsroom at 1 p.m., and the meeting will begin at 2 p.m. in 107, Journalism building.
Ernie Miller, district president and managing editor of the Olathe Mirror, will preside, and reports will be made by Max Miller, president of the Kansas Press association and editor of the Russell Record, and Larry Miller, secretary-manager of the Kansas Press association.
Angelo Scott, editor of the Iola Register, will speak on "Page Production Cost," and Carl Postlethwaite of the Postlethwaite Advertising company, Kansas City, Mo., will speak on "Advertising Layout Improvements."
William Reddig, editor of the Johnson County Democrat, will be the speaker at a banquet to be held in the English room of the Union building Friday evening. Mr. Reddig was a reporter on the Kansas City Star for many years and is author of the book, "Tom's Town", dealing with the Pendergast era in Kansas City.
Douglas, Johnson, Franklin, Anderson, Linn, Allen, Bourbon, Miami, and Wyandotte counties compose the second district of the press association.
It is the job of all university students to become interested enough in the welfare of our country to stop the trend of socialism in the United States or their hours of study are wasted, Edward Powers, Republican candidate for the state legislature, told members of the K.U. Young Republicans club, Oct. 12.
Class Examines Fossils At Lone Star Reservoir
KU Republicans Hear Candidate
Members of the zoology class, Animals of the Past, saw how Kansas looked 250 million years ago when they examined a fossil coal swamp at Lone Star reservoir on a recent field trip.
Frank E. Peabody, assistant professor zoology, said the purpose of the field trip was to show how fossil animals and plants occur in strata and how they are preserved. Each of the 35 students did his own excavation to find well preserved plants of another age.
Advertising Jobs Open On Jayhawker
Orville Walker, College junior,
found a fossil cockroach embedded
in a rock pebble. The cockroach was $1\frac{1}{4}$ inches long and had its wings in place. Dr. Peabody says that detached wings of cockroaches are often found, but it is rare to find one so complete. Other students found detached wings mixed with fossil ferns.
Applications will be taken for positions of salesmen and copywriters on the Jayhawker advertising staff. Anyone interested should go to the Jayhawker office in the Union lounge between 1 and 5 p.m. on Tuesday and 3 and 5 p.m. on Wednesday.
Mr. Powers, a graduate of the University in 1935, is a resident of Wvandotte county.
At one time the plants of this ancient swamp became so closely packed that they eventually formed a thin layer of coal. In places, however, some plants still remain so unchanged that stems and leaves look like any leaf preserved by pressing in a book.
exceptional. B.
The accumulation of these ancient plants at Lone Star took place in the Pennsylvania age approximately 250 million years ago when the coal beds of Pennsylvania and Ohio were forming. These plants many of which reached tree proportions are extinct relatives of living ferns, horsetail rushes, and club mosses.
He went on to say that if the people of the United States are not interested enough to stop this trend, they must prepare themselves to be robots in a government controlled state.
"The only place that people who believe in a free America can go to is the Republican party. Any man with an eye for the future has to support the Republican party," he concluded.
C. B. Realey, professor of history, will give the fifth "World in Crisis" lecture at 7 tonight in Fraser theater.
"To find plants so well preserve is exceptional." Dr. Peabody said
Realey To Speak To 'Crisis' Class
Professor Realey has been in the history department since 1927. His specialty is English history and the British Empire.
His speech, "Balance of Power— Yesterday and Today," will deal largely with British military power.
"The Republican party must be a party that has the courage to say we must retrench to restore free enterprise in our nation." Mr. Powers said.
The usual hour discussion period will follow the lecture.
Larsen Urges Laymen To Improve Schools
Public schools belong to the people and the people must be brought back into their affairs; utilizing a potential interest on the part of people everywhere that could be sparked and brought into action, said Roy E. Larsen, president of Time, Inc., this morning.
Fall Round-up Is ISA Theme
Fall Round-Up will be the theme for a series of parties to be held by the Independent Students association.
A Halloween dance from 9 p.m. to midnight Saturday in the Union ballroom will be the first in a series of social functions designated as Fall Round-Up by the I.S.A.
The dance will be informal and skirts, jeans, or anything will be suitable. Admission is free to I.S.A. members and 50 cents for non-members.
Other features of the series will include a Sadie Hawkins vice-versa dance Friday, Nov 1.0; a treasure hune to begin Tuesday, No. 7, and to conclude with a dance Friday, Nov. 17; and a movie to be announced soon.
450 Hear Prof. Schmidt
By Ellsworth Zahm
A capacity crowd of 450 persons attended the Reinhold Schmidt voice recital Thursday night.
The audience warmly applauded Mr. Schmidt's selections, which included works by Bach, Brahms, Milford, Peel, Peterkin, Hindemith, and Barber.
Featured on the program were three numbers by Miss Katherine Mulky, instructor in music theory, which were especially written for Professor Schmidt. They are, "Winter Sketch," "Spring Fantasy," and "Tranquility."
Miss Mulky was introduced to the audience by Professor Schmidt after the recital when she shared one of his curtain calls.
Mr. Larsen, who heads the organization that issues Time, Life, and Fortune magazines, is chairman of the National Citizens commission for the public schools, and it was in this capacity that he spoke at a special convocation in the auditorium of Fraser hall.
"After 150 years the importance of our schools as a keystone in our political, economic, and social system has not changed; if it has it has become more important," Mr. Larsen said.
The National Citizens commission is trying to help Americans realize the importance of the public schools in this country and to arouse in each community the intelligence and will to improve the public schools.
"We want to remind people that the schools are their business," he said.
Mr. Larsen said that when he was in high school in 1914 only 20 percent of the people of high school age attended high school. Now there are more students in college than were in high school at that time.
We need to attract more of the best students to go into this profession, he declared.
"This is an indication that something is happening in this nation as to the appreciation of teachers," he said.
A survey recently conducted by Life magazine for an issue on public schools shows that people all over the country rank teachers first in importance in the community.
"The needs of schools were becoming so great that without a complete understanding with the people of the community, it would be difficult to keep up the standards of the past," he said in speaking of four years ago when the commission was first formed.
New Secretary For Dean Of Men
Mrs. Reese is becoming acquainted with her duties this week. Her husband, Robert W. Reese, is a graduate student.
Mrs. Margaret Reese will be secretary to Laurence C. Woodruff, dean of men, starting Monday, Oct. 23rd.
World Wide News
Truman To Speak Tonight
San Francisco, Oct. 17—(U.R.)—President Truman was ready today to give the American people and the world his long-awaited report on the foreign policy of the United States.
The President was expected to sound a new warning against further Communist aggression in the Far East and to restate the American policy of neutrality to Formosa.
Since his dramatic meeting with Gen. Douglas MacArthur on Wake Island three days ago, the President worked long and hard on what was billed as an "important" speech scheduled to be delivered at the War Memorial Opera house at 10:30 p.m. (C.S.T.) tonight.
The speech will be broadcast over four major radio networks.
President Truman was not expected to define a new approach to the Far East on the part of the United States, but he was expected to "clarify" the American position towards that area of the world.
Hurricane Heads For Florida
Miami, Fla., Oct. 17—(U.P.)A late season hurricane changed directions after crossing Cuba today and shot
across the Atlantic straight toward the Florida East coast.
The hurricane was howling with winds up to 110 miles an hour as it slammed against the Cuban coast, but when it emerged over open water again it was down to 60.
The weather bureau said, however, that it crossed Cuba with the center intact and probably would regain hurricane force on the trip to Florida.
Mencken Remains Very III
After Having Heart Attack
Baltimore, Oct. 17—(U.P.) H. L.
Mencken, the "sage of Baltimore," is critically ill in Johns Hopkins hospital here.
The 70-year-old author, critic and newspaperman was admitted to the hospital Thursday after suffering a severe heart attack. Hospital officials said his condition is "about the same."