A TEN UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN. LAWRENCE. KANSAS FRIDAY, APRIL 21, 19 The Editors Report — THE KANSAS RELAYS: Silver Lined ye ED Another year has rolled around and the Kansas Relays are here once again. We always look forward to the event because it is something worth seeing. The sports of track and field represent man's highest perfection in athletics. And yet they are perhaps the oldest. Many of the individual sports date back to man's beginning—when your life depended on how well you could throw a javelin, hurdle a tall boulder. As nothing else can, the sports of track and field explode the myth that "the men of yore were better men than they are today." Year after year, that myth has been blasted to bits as the youngsters better the records set by their fathers. The Kansas Relays are twenty-five years old this year. In a quarter of a century, the spring athletic event has grown to be one of the finest of its kind in the country. It seems to become better each year. More and more fine athletes come to participate in the events. By the time, perhaps long before, the spring meet has passed another silver anniversary, it will be the biggest and best in the country. There's nothing holding us back. Many people will be up on the Hill today and Saturday to watch the "thin-clads" do their stuff. And while we are glad to have so many spectators visit us, we think they, like ourselves, ought to pause a moment and think of the time and effort the boys "out there on the greens" have given up in training themselves for this one event. Each and every athlete who will be taking some part in the Kansas Relays will be out there to win for his team and himself. They will be doing the best they know how. Still, only one can be the "best man." Someone has to lose; someone will win. But regardless of which man wins and which man loses, we spectators should remember that they are all good sportsmen. Perhaps, we too, should remember to be good sportsmen and give each and every athlete fair treatment. They deserve it. They are going to give us a great show. IT'LL TAKE A GOOD MAN To Fill His Spot by Robert Leonard The Kansas Relays have come to K.U. today. Today and tomorrow, the men of the track and field will be down in Memorial Stadium "strutting their stuff." When the prizes have been won and last year's records broken, they'll be leaving. It was this thought that reminded us, with something of a shock, that another "star" on the K.U. horizon will soon be leaving. So today, on the last great sports event day of this year, we'd like to take time to say goodbye to that "star." For time does slip by so quickly. If you haven't already guessed, the "star" we refer to is E. C. Quigley, director of K.U. athletics, "Quig" has decided to retire. A new director of athletics will sit in the north office of Robinson gymnasium next year. Mr. Quigley has decided "to take things easy." Mr. Quigley is 67 years old. He has been at the University six years, since August 1944. When he retires this summer, he will leave knowing he has carried out his wish that more persons become interested in sports at the Jayhawker school. When he first took over his duties here, "Quig" faced two major problems. He has licked both of them. His first problem was to build title-winning varsities for the University. He has seen that accomplished. He was here only three years when the Jayhawk football squad was asked to play in the Orange Bowl. He also helped legalize the open interviewing of prospective athletes for Big Seven schools. To overcome his second difficulty, that of paying off the $113,000 Memorial stadium debt, he devised a plan in which alumni and friends of the University could buy savings bonds and turn them over to the Athletic association. In this way the debt and the interest on the debt was paid off—long before the date of payment was due. This is the kind of man our athletic director has been—a man who gets things done. We really hate to see him go. But he has made up his mind. Yet we hesitate to say "goodbye." We would rather make it "so long!" We hope that, like other K.U. alumni, this one "alum" will be dropping in to see us every so often. He's welcome any time. A LETTER HOME You know I told you about a big track meet which they are having down here. Boy it is really something to see. A whole dang bunch of guys will take off like a bunch of scared rabbits when a fellow shoots off a gun. They'll run and run, but I never seen any one of them catch anything yet. Dear Ma: Some others was trying to jump over a bar, and there was only one of them that finally did it. I see Pa jump that high anyway the time the bull got out and see Pa driving off the cows. Pa never had much of a start either, as I remember. Your loveable sun. A few of them can throw a plate-like affair for quite a ways. They ain't very accurate though. I seen Aunt Nettie glance a plate off of Uncle Earl's head from farther than that; and she wasn't even trying extra hard. TODAY'S MAIL It's Been Done Recent opinion voiced through the editorial column and through letters to the editor has shown that students and faculty of the University are in favor of honoring both Dr. Naismith, inventor of basketball, and Dr. Allen, "Mr. Basketball" of 1950, by naming the fieldhouse after them. A policy has been uncovered which supposedly would prohibit the naming of any University building after any man now living. The campus today boasts a contradiction of that ruling in Danforth chapel. Danforth chapel was named after William H. Danforth, founder of the Ralston-Purina company in St. Louis. Mr. Danforth is not an alumni, nor did he attend K.U. at any time. He did, however, contribute a large amount of money to be used for the erection of a chapel on this campus. Many other campuses have chapels named in his honor. Mr. Danforth is still very much alive. We fail to see where the question of naming a building after a living person should even arise since the rule, supposing there ever was one, has already been broken. Why then, should not the name of a man who has probably done as much as any living person to spread the fame of K.U. be honored together with basketball's inventor? Wendell E. Yockey Graduate Student Ed. Note: Like Mr. Yockey, we can see no reason why Dr. Allen's name should not be coupled with Dr. Naismith's to form a suitable name for the new fieldhouse. Yet however much others and ourselves may admire the name, it is unlikely that a few will be able to make the Naismith-Allen fieldhouse a reality. This will have to come by the concerted action of a large group. The suggestion for naming the new fieldhouse might be a suitable subject for the All Student Council to decide and then pass on their decision to the board of regents. That might do some good. University Daily Hansan News Room K.U.251 Adv. Room K.U.378 Member of the Kansas Press Assm. Associate of the Associated College Press Assn., and the Associated College Press. Represented by the National Ad- dress Service, $20 Madison Ave. New New York City. James Morris Editor-in-Chief Student Newspaper of the UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS Doris Greenbank James Shriver Managing Editor James Migr Asst. Man. Editors ...Norma Hunsinger Kay O'Connon John Hill City Editor ...Ralph Hemenway Edward Chapin Asst. City Editors ...Christopher Martinyl Marks Elaine Elig Steve Ferro Feature Editor ...Francis Kelly Photograph Editor ...Frank Watts Telegraph Editor ..Robert Sigman William Graves Richard Tatum Lloyd Holcke Sports Editor ..Richard and Danaher Asst. Society Editor ..Bob Leonard Ray Solidan Arthur McNellire Mong Kun Li Society Editor Faye Wilkinson Asst. Society Editor ..Billie Stover Emily Stewart Editorial Assts. Pete North John Bannigan Keith Leslie Adv. Mgr. Charles Reiner Gt. Mgr. Yvonne Josserand Net Act Mgr. Potent Heath Classified Ad. Mgr. Lee Dyer Promotion Mgr. John Wiedeman "Don't say anything about it but he's perty sensitive about being shorter than Marge." 'Small Things' by Keith Lesli Cambridge, Mass police officers have been issued instructions to give themselves a cooling-off period before approaching a law violator. It is recommended, however, that the arrest be made before the cooling-off reaches the feet, as it seems to have done in a fairly large city down the river. DAY. The Engineering Exposition got under way today and Rodney Nipnap says he has been through twice. He was going through the third time but then he found out it was free. We sneaked in to look at the robot wizard that can't be at tit-tat-toe. We're still not exactly sure but we think we caught him cheating in the game we played. We have always wondered a bit if all the clubs listed in the Official Bulletin are real. After reading an item in yesterday's paper under that heading which said, "Old Faithful," the University steam whistle, can be heard at Lone Star-lake, nearly 16 miles away, we're more suspicious than ever. Rain cancelled the intramural games recently. Harry Bilbop, student union junior, says that is enough for him. From now on Harry will be out for the swimming team. Memo to the new track queen from last year's queen: Don't depend on your legs to get away from these boys. Nine times out of ten, they'll jump the gun on you. Most of them have plenty of reserve energy that gives them a flashing finish. A hatpin is all the best defense. Yet there is one thing about that item on "Old Faithful" we were glad to find out. It answers our bewilderment as to why Lone Star is so popular with students in the spring. Engineers Show Magnified Clay Particles Now that the range of "Old Faithful" has been made official, we're waiting for some resourceful lad to come up with this answer to an irate housemother. "Sorry to get Flossy in so late, but we just decided on the spur of the moment to dash out to Lone Star and check on "Old Faithful." We waited and waited but didn't hear a thing." A film display of clay particles magnified 48,500 times will be an exhibit of the state geological survey in Lindley hall during the engineering exposition. If a human hair was magnified that much, it would have a width of nine feet. The micrograph display of clay particles was done through use of the electron microscope at the School of Medicine in Kansas City, Kan. Miss Ada Swineford, who prepared the clay samples for the micrographs, said the instrument, which cost approximately $25,000, was derived from funnel or cancer research. Under McUICLU's department of oncology, enlarged the micrographs it is possible to enlarge pictures of the clay particles to 100,000 times the size of the original particles. Miss Swineford is working on the mineralogy of windblown silts and the microscopic characteristics of ceramic glazes. The electron microscope will help determine the value of Kansas clays as a building material. Maxon On Speaking Tour John Maxon, director of the Museum of Art, is now touring the state, speaking to high school students on art at the University. Mr Maxon will visit Salina, McPherson, Hutchinson, and Winfield. He will return Saturday. Can; Ca the u paid pr g the Satur Daily m bld before words itional E. green 12. W price. S). Fo- time. city Co PILET tell sel-' 7 p. r. JARLE 2. (A) 1.25, 3.75, 6.25, 8.75, 11.25 E L I N irons case. R not b who b u this k This so m u verbilt h Cal r p n 12, at 164 URINK pus g. G MEL o l g h p MEL MOD ect. 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