University Dailu Kansan
STUDENT NEWSPAPER
OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Lawrence, Kansas
Proposed Plans To Double Size Of Student Union
Preliminary plans for two proposed additions to the Union, which will nearly double its present size will be finished and ready for approval early in January, said Ogden S. Jones, first vice-president of the board of directors of the Memorial corporation.
A report on their progress was made by George Beal, director of the University building program, at the final meeting of the board on Dec. 10.
To be built onto the north and south sides of the Union, the proposed million-dollar additions will house student activity offices, the recreation rooms, meeting rooms, and an addition to the cafeteria. The latter will free the ballroom from use as a cafeteria, so that it may be used for lectures and parties, Mr. Heal said.
The structure will be financed through bond issues and a $5 Union fee charged each student at registration each semester. This fee has been collected for five semesters and the Union fund now totals approximately $186,000.
It is hoped that the contract for construction will be awarded early next summer. The preliminary plans, which are being drawn by the A. R. Mann company of Hutchinson, must be approved by the executive board of the Memorial corporation, the Union operating committee, and Charles Marshall, state architect. They will be returned to the Mann company, which will draw up final plans and specifications. The final plans must be approved by the state architect and the board of regents of the University before they are presented for bids.
Grocer Wins Television Set
At AMVets Christmas Party
A television set was given away Dec. 16 at the annual AMVETS Christmas party at the group's club house at 100 west Ninth street. The If the set was Norman Emmonds, 2220 Vermont street, a grocer.
Non-Profit Organization Operates Memorial Union
Robert Leneyar, commander of the local AMVETS post, presented the set to Mr. Edmonds.
(In order to acquaint the University students and staff members on the operation of the Memorial Union building, and to answer questions the Kansan has received recently, the University Daily Kansan today publishes a background article on the Union. It was written by Kay O'Connor, Kansan reporter).
The Memorial corporation is a private, non-profit organization whose purpose is to supervise the management of the Union.
Twenty-one persons, including alumni, faculty members, and students, are on the board of directors. They meet once a year, within three months of the start of the fall semester, to hear reports of the operation and financial status of the Union for the past year. This year they met on Dec. 10.
University Shares Watkins' Estate
The Elizabeth M. Watkins estate,
valued at $1,800,000, was settled
Dec. 17 with approximately $9,000
distributed to each of nine institutions.
The will provided that the balance of the estate after debts, personal bequests, and annuities were taken out should go to Watkins and Miller women's residence halls at the University; Watkins Memorial hospital; Lawrence Memorial hospital; University Endowment association; Kansas Children's home in Topeka; Bethel college, Newton; Father Flanagan's Boys Town, Boys Town, Neb.; and the Presbyterian Tuberculosis sanitarium, Albuquerque, N.M.
The will was probated June 5, 1939. Frank Gray, probate judge, granted the petition from executors for discharge and final settlement. They were Raymond Rice, Dick Williams, and Judge Hugh Means.
THE WEATHER
KANSAS: Cloudy skies and mild temperatures are on tap for Kansas today. The weatherman said considerable fog will prevail over east portions of the state this morning. Increasing cloudiness and continued mid tonight and Tuesday, except snow and much colder northwest and extreme west Tuesday afternoon. High today 50 to 55 degrees north and 60 to 65 degrees south. Low tonight near 30 west and 35 to 40 east.
More Than 6,000 Persons Attend Christmas Vespers
By DALE S. ROMIG
A double brass quartet playing carols greeted the more than 6,000 persons who attended the 102nd All-Musical Christmas vespers at two performances Sunday in Hoch auditorium.
The single figure of Mary, without kings, angels, and shepherds and with a minimum of props clutching the scene, was impressive and beautiful.
The program, presented by the School of Fine Arts, opened with the organ prelude, "Les Cloches" (Lebeuge-Anderson), and ended with the choir recessional, "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing", a pleasant combination of music and well-designed and staged tableaux.
Preceding the above tableau, the A Cappella choir sang the poignant, "Sweet Little Boy Jesus," (Niles), with D. M. Swarthout, dean of the School of Fine Arts, conducting.
A unique combination of color and shadow provided a refreshing approach to the manger scene in the meat unified, "Sweet Little Boy Jesus."
The tableaux vivants, done by the departments of design, drawing, and painting were superb this year. The lighting, original costumes, and sets were a tribute to the ingenuity and ability of their originators.
Three committees, the executive, the Union operating, and the Union bookstore, work under the board. The eight members of the policymaking executive committee have full authority for the board excepting the election of officers. The chairman of this committee is the first vice-president of the board of directors. Other members are the president and treasurer of the board, the director of the Union, two other members of the board chosen by it, the president of the All Student Council, and another student opposite the sex of the A.S.C. president.
The Union operating committee supervises the student activities in the Union and the welfare and development of the present building. Its 19 members include the first vice president at the board as chairman, the president of the board, the director of the Union, five University faculty members chosen by the chancellor, three alumni, of which one is secretary of the Alumni association, and eight students chosen by the A.S.C., including its president and secretary.
Campbell, fine arts sophomore, sang the spiritual, "Rise Up and Foller" (Ringwald), with the A Cappella choir. His lyric, plaintive voice was impressive in the number.
While the offering for the Christmas vespers fund scholarship was being received by the Red Peppers, the University Symphony orchestra, directed by Russell L. Wiley, professor of band and orchestra, performed Howard Hanson's "Romantic Symphony." Frank Kress, fine arts sophomore, played the important French horn part in the Lento portion of the symphony.
Two other soles were by Reinhold Schmidt, baritone and Colin Campbell, tenor. Mr. Schmidt, an associate professor of voice, sang "O Men From the Fields" (Hughes), accompanied on the organ by Laurel Everette Anderson, professor of organ and theory.
Kitty Walter, fine arts senior, sang the soprano solo.
Members of the executive committee beside Irving Hill, president are Ogden S. Jones, first vice-president; L. C. Woodruff, second vice-president; and Ernest C. Friesen, third vice-president. Fred Elsworth secretary of the Alumni association, is secretary of the board, and Karl Klooz, University bursar, is treasurer.
Other members of the executive committee of the board are Leonard H. Axe, dean of the School of Business; Craig Hampton, president Wilma Shore, secretary of the A.S.C. and Miss Hermina Zipple.
Members of the board not on the executive committee are: F. C. Allen, professor of physical education; W. J. Baumgartner, professor emeritus of zoology; George Bradshaw, professor of civil engineering; Miss Carol Hearn, dean of women; Walter J. Keeler, Lance Mccellor Deane W. Malott; Drew McLaughlin, a member of the board of regents.
Miss Elizabeth Meguiar, assistant professor of home economics; Miss Martha Peterson, assistant dean of women; Richard B. Stevens, Lawrence; C. C. Stewart, Lawrence; C. C. Cible, a justice of the Kansas supreme court; and Mary Esther Twente, professor of social work.
Vacation Hours For Art Museum
Nineteen persons are on the Union operating committee. Alumni members are Fred Ellsworth, Ogden S. Jones, and James Postma, assistant instructor of business law. Faculty members include George Beal, director of the University building program; Karl Klooz, Miss Martha Peterson; Howard Stettle, assistant professor of business; and L. C. Woodruff, dean of men.
On the bookstore committee are its chairman Ogden S. Jones, Karl Klooz, Lorraine Ross, College junior; Howard Stettler; and L. C. Wooldruff.
Student members are Robert Bennett, first-year law student; Melvin Clingan, business junior; Ernest C. Friesen, College senior; Craig Hampton, fine arts senior; Donna Heller and Louise Lambert, College seniors; Douglas Paddock; College junior; Wilma Shore, education junior; Robert Thayer, engineering senior.
The vacation schedule for the Museum of Art is as follows: The museum will be closed Christmas day and New Year's day. The museum library will be closed Monday, Dec. 26 and Monday, Jan. 2.
The museum will have regular daytime hours, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. today through Tuesday, Jan. 3. It will be closed evenings beginning today until Tuesday, Jan. 3.
Students To Go To Church Meet
Sixteen Methodist students will represent the University at the Fourth National Methodist Student conference at the University of Illinois in Urbana from Tuesday, December 27 to Sunday January 1.
Accompanying the group will be Dr. Edwin D. Price and Helener Kane Currier, directors of the Wesley foundation at the University.
Chancellor Robert Hutchins of Chicago university, Dean Liston Pope of Yale university, President G. D. Stoddard of the University of Illinois, Bishop G. Bromley Oxam, former president of the Federal Council of Churches, and Herman Will of the Methodist Peace commission are among those to speak at the conference.
special interest groups on the Bible, social action, ways to peace, vocations, choral speech and drama, audio-visual aids, journalism, student work, and fellowship groups will be held.
Dr. Russell Ames Cook, Conductor of the Princeton Symphony Orchestra and the Portland Symphony Orchestra, will direct music "Monsieur Vincent," the French prize-winning film by New York will present a concert. New Year's eve a communion service will be held.
University students attending the conference are: Dorothy Lear and Howard Hallman, College seniors; Donna Hull, College junior; Donovan Hull, College sophomore; Joy Hutchinson, College freshman; Tillman Peters and Mary Elizabeth Kerr, education seniors; Janice Broadsward, education junior; George Sheldon, pharmacy junior; Betty E. Brown, and Jeannine Neihart, fine arts sophomores; Gloria Simpson, fine arts freshmen; Clifford Newberry, engineering junior; Claude Moore, junior in College and Medicine; William E. Baker, graduate student; and Bozena Nemcova, special student.
Carillon Group To Contract For 50 Bells
The board of trustees of the University of Kansas Memorial association Sunday authorized its carillon committee to enter a contract for a 50 bell carillon. The committee, after two years investigation and on recommendation of D. M. Swarthout, dean of the School of Fine Arts, recommended choice of John Taylor and company, Loughborough, England, as the foundry to cast and tune the bells.
Hugo T. Wedell, president of the K. U. Memorial association, said the financial campaign has progressed to a point where the trustees feel justified in ordering the bells and the devices which go with them to make up the carillon. Cost of the basic instrument will be a minimum of $78,000. Additional cost will depend on how many accessories are purchased.
Signing of the contract with the Constant Construction company of Lawrence, to build the bell tower in which the bells are hung will take place in a few days, if the plans of the Memorial trustees in their meeting Sunday carry through.
Since the Memorial completion campaign was started Nov. 1, when the amount needed to cover estimated costs stood at $13,654.51, gifts have come in totalling $7,620. The remaining amount necessary to complete the project enough can be obtained soon to let the contract on the basic part of the bell tower the ground can be broken by or before the first of the year.
The scenic driveway running along the edge of Mt. Oread past the base of the campanile or bell tower is also a part of the Memorial. It is well advanced in construction, which is being done by the National Association for association funds to be assigned to that project, at least the basic part of it, have already been collected and set aside.
Adjuncts of the Memorial still to be provided by sponsors include doorways decorated with sculptured bronze figures, plaques carrying bas-relief replicas of the bells and the inscriptions on_the bells, the Gold Star roll of names to be carved in Virginia Greenstone, lighting equipment for flood lighting the campanile, striking mechanism for time signals from the carillon, and plantings along the driveway.
Postmasters In For Bad Time In Towns With Xmas Names
Washington—(U.P.)—If you don't believe the Christmas season is upon us—just look at the map and the postmarks on your holiday cards.
There are places like Christmas, Fla.; Christmas Cove, Maine; Santa Claus, Ind.; Gift, Miss.; Candlewax, Va.; Jerusalem, Ohio; Barnstable, Mass.; Wisman, Ark.; What Cheer, Iowa; Balsam, Minn.; Noel, Colo.; Angeles, Calif.; among others. About 40 such towns in all.
These towns are included in a Christmas map exhibit at the library of congress. The show features maps from around the world, with the emphasis on Palestine. Jerusalem by the man division of the library.
Walter W. Ristow is acting head of the map section and is assisted by Mr. Maud Cole and James Van Storv.
The post office department reports that the towns with Christmas-like names give their postmasters a bad time. Some of them are so small they don't even have a post office. But the ones which do really catch it.
Take Santa Claus, Ind., for instance.
The government allows the postmaster just so much money for extra help during the holiday season, to take care of the added burden of sending out the Christmas mail.
But a couple of decades ago people caught onto the idea of mailing big bundles of their Christmas cards to Santa Claus, Ind., to get them postmarked from the unusual town.
The postmaster there once told me he was in a fine old fix. His office force wasn't big enough to handle the load. He himself worked day and night because each of the letters which came in had to be postmarked. He called in all of his relatives and paid them off with a big Christmas dinner financed out of his pocket.