V. 18, 1
University Daily Kansan
STUDENT NEWS PAPER
OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Lawrence, Kansas
KU Debaters Win Top Honors In Tournaments
University of Kansas debaters won honors in two tournaments the past week. At Purdue university's forensic conference K.U. debaters won three top honors. At Saturday's Kansas State college tournament K.U. had the largest number of undefeated teams of any school represented.
J. Steve Mills was rated as the top speaker in the Purdue university tournament. Mills and Alan Kent Shearer, both College juniors were highest affirmative team in number of speaking points and number of debates won.
The four-man suqu, which also included Robert F. Bennett, first year law, and Ernest C. Friesen, College senior, was rated best of the tournament on the basis of speaking points and number of debates won.
Mills and Shearer debated against teams from the United States Naval academy, Purdue and DePauw universities, and Wabash college, winning all four rounds. Bennett and Friesen, K.U. negative team, won over teams from the universities of Chicago and Wisconsin and Michigan State College of Agriculture and Applied science. They lost to the University of Florida team.
Bennett and Friesen placed second in number of points and rounds won in the tournament for negative teams. A team from the University of Wisconsin was first.
Alan Kent Shearer was rated third in number of speaking points in the tournament. Out of a possible 180 points, Mills received 164. Eysler of Navy and Kalas of Wisconsin received 162, and Shearer received 158.
The K.U. debate squad, with seven rounds won out of eight, was given a total of 639 points out of 700 possible points. Southern Methodist university was second in number of rounds won, with six out of eight, and the University of Wisconsin was second in number of points with 599
Debate squads attending the tournament were chosen on the basis of their school's record in debate last year.
At the K-State tournament three K.U. debate teams were undefeated in four rounds of debate. This was the largest number of undefeated teams of any of the 12 midwestern schools represented at Manhattan in the beginners' contests.
Winning team members were Heywood Davis and Win S. Koerper, College sophomores; Elizabeth Dillon, College junior; and Patricia Gardenhire, College freshman; and Donald Dirke and William Nulton, College freshmen. All of the teams named argued the negative side of the national question.
Jack Stewart, college sophomore, and Gene Balloun, business junior, won three rounds out of four, debating on the affirmative. K. U. teams debated a total of 27 rounds, winning 19.
Undefeated teams from other schools were negative teams from the University of Nebraska and Kansas State college and an affirmative team from Washburn college.
All participants in the contests were without previous inter-collegiate debating experience.
WEATHER
KANSAS: The first snow flurries of the season were scheduled to strike Kansas today. The weather forecast calls for partly cloudy skies with occasional snow flurries northeast today. Colder. High today 35 to 40 west and south, 30 to 35 northeast. Generally fair tonight and Tuesday. Colder east tonight becoming warmer throughout state Tuesday.
KU Flower Fund Provides Small, Short-Term Loans
The K.U. Flower fund which provides small, short-term loans to students has made 227 loans for a total of $9,209.20 since the fall session began.
Funds Set Up For Scholarship
A $250 yearly scholarship will be set up at Haddam, Kan., Rural High school for graduates to use at the University of Kansas, Kansas State College, or the University of Nebraska.
"We have hard nothing about the fund other than what we have read in the papers," Irvin Youngberg, endowment association secretary, said today.
Arthur H. Drips, a traveling salesman who died Nov. 9, arranged for the fund to be established before his death. He made bequests for his sisters and brothers, and provided that the remainder of his $100,000 estate used for scholarships.
The money is to be put in a trust administered by R. S. Wilfley of a Haddam bank. It will be available after the death of his sister, Mrs. Maud Multer, Haddam. The money will be devoted to scholarships for 20 years. The grants will be made for four years of college if the student maintains a specified standard.
The trustee is to rely on the University Endowment association in the selection of students.
Future Business Leaders Plan Tuesday Meeting
The Future Business Leaders of America will meet at 4 p.m. Tuesday in room 8. Strong anthex D.
Thomas J. Porter, pharmacy junior and president of the organization, said that everyone is invited.
During the 1948-'49 school year the fund made the 493 loans for a total of $8,473.74. The reason for this year's increase in the number of loans is that the veterans' subsistence checks were slow in arriving, said Irvin Youngberg, executive secretary of the Endowment association.
The fund is supported and maintained by contributions of money which would have been used to buy flowers for special occasions. When the donation is received by the Endowment association, Mrs. Lucille E. Allison, office secretary, sends a note of appreciation to the donor and a note of explanation to the person for whom the flowers were intended.
The maximum loan offered by the Flower fund is $100. No interest is charged for the first 60 days, but after that period the interest is $2½ per cent. Each loan must be approved by Mr. Youngberg and by either the dean of men or the dean of women.
or women. Veterans whose checks were late have borrowed money to buy food and clothing for their families. Other loans have been made to students who wished to pay their rent, buy glasses, or provide for their families.
502 Students Take English Proficiency
Five hundred and two students from three schools took the English proficiency examination Nov. 12. Mrs. Natalie Calderwood, instructor in English, said. Credit for the examination is a requirement for graduation from the William Allen White School of Journalism and Public Information, Education, and the College.
Forty-two journalism students, 63 education students, and 397 students took the examination. Seven rooms were used in giving the examination. Mrs. Calderwood said.
Diane Lee Brewster, College freshman, reigned as Homecoming queen Nov. 19. Gov. Frank Carlson of Kansas, left, presented Miss Brewster with the bouquet. Gov. Forrest Smith of Missouri, is standing at the right of Miss Brewster.
Burl Ives
Ives To Give Concert Today
Burl Ives, "Wayfarin' Stranger" of the radio, movies, and stage, will bring his guitar and a vast repertoire of folk songs to the stage of Hoch auditorium at 8:20 p.m. today. His program will be the second of the University Concert course.
Before the war, Mr. Irv appeared as a ballad singer in several Broadway plays. Then, in 1944, he began a 15-minute daily radio program "the Wayfarin' Stranger." Since that time he has played in the movies as well on the stage. His recent pictures have been "Smoky" "Green Grass of Wyoming," and "So Dear To My Heart."
Mr. Ivens tonight will sing the following songs:
"Lilly Monroe," "The Boll-Weevil." "Edward." "When I was Single."
"I Know Where I'm Going." "Midnight Special," "Cowboy's Lament," "Turtle Dove," "How Now Sheherd," "The Wee Copper O' Fife," "The Wandering of Old Angus."
"Darlin' Cory," "Nightingale Song," "Black-Jack Gypsies," "Riddle Song," "Golden Vanity," and "Mr. Froggie."
Ives Will Be Guest At Reception
Burl Ives, ballad singer, who will appear at the University today will be entertained after his performance at a reception given in his honor by the Inter-dormitory council at Corbin hall.
Members of the council, their dates, and other guests are invited and late permission will be granted to all women who wish to attend.
Court Denies Rehearing In Library Case
Now that the Kansas supreme court has denied a rehearing to Mrs. Irene Ellis, the University of Kansas has full ownership of the 65,000-volume ornithological library assembled by the late Ralph Ellis.
The question of what the word "library" means may develop into further litigation. After its Nov. 18 decision denying a rehearing to Mrs. Ellis, the supreme court will order Douglas county to change their decisions to comply with the high court's findings.
"The probate court will decide what constitutes a library and what doesn't," John W. Brand, attorney for Mrs. Ellis, said today. "We plan no further action in the case."
Mr. Brand brought up the question of what the world library means. Webster's dictionary describes a library as being "a collection of books, etc., kept for study or reading." The possibility that probate court judge may find stacks, furniture, stones, and material of other classifications not included under the "etc.," of that definition was noted by Mr. Brand.
If the probate judge should rule that the library includes only bound books, the University may appeal the case to the supreme court. On the other hand, if the probate judge rules that library includes everything, Mrs. Ellis may appeal to the supreme court.
The library was loaned to the University by Mr. Ellis in 1945. In the agreement, which Mrs. Ellis signed, the library was to go to the University in case of his death. He died of pneumonia seven months later in California.
Court action for possession of the library followed between Mrs. Ellis and the University. Finally, after reaching the supreme court, that body ruled that the agreement was a valid will and decided in favor of the University. Mrs. Ellis' one remaining chance for rehearing was denied Nov. 18.
The Gould collection, a part of the library and considered one of the finest in the world, contains many drawings, manuscripts and letters. Biographers doing work on Mr. Gould are expected to come to the University when the library is made available.
Mr. Ellis, who assembled the library, was termed "America's foremost expert on ornithological literature," by Dr. E. R. Hall, professor of zoology.
Dr. Walter Schoewe Describes Kansas As Having Picturesque Topography
Gently rolling hills, steep slopes, rugged topography, picturesque valleys, and scenic beauty is described by Dr. Walter Schoewe, associate professor of geology, in the second of series of his articles on the geography of Kansas.
Dr. Schowe's first article on the political geography of the state was published in the September, 1948, issue of the Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science. The second article appears in the September, 1949, issue of the same magazine.
In describing the physical geography of the state, Dr. Schoewe points out that Kansas is far from being a broad flat plain. Many hills, valleys, and slopes exist in the state and the surface rises gradually from east to west at the rate of 10 to 15 feet per mile.
Dr. Schowe divides the state into three major physiographic sections
—the great plains, the central lowlands, and the Ozark plateau. Subdividing these areas, he describes surface features and lists elevations, mentions relative agricultural and industrial importances, and locates many natural beauty spots, giving detailed instructions for reaching these places.
For more than 200 million years geologic forces have been actively shaping the surface of Kansas, laying down rock formations that furnish the soil and contain the mineral resources vital to the very existence of Kansas today. Dr. Schowe explained.
The 55 illustrations accompanying the 72-page article include generalized maps of the physiography, topography, and geology of the state, guide maps to the scenic areas, and photographs of various service features and attractions.