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STUDENT NEWSPAPER
Friesen Elected House Speaker At Debate Meet
Ernest Friesen, College junior, was elected speaker of the house at the fourth annual Delta Sigma Rho congress, April 1 and 2, held in Chicago. E. C. Buehler, professor of speech, was re-elected president of Delta Sigma Rho, honorary debate fraternity.
The Delta Sigma Rho congress is a student legislative assembly which is a substitute for the customary debate tournament. Civil rights was the issue discussed and debated by the assembly, Professor Buehler said.
"It's an impressive scene to see 100 of the top potential leaders from 36 campuses seriously discussing the vital issues of the day to help democracy and make a better world. Judging from the past, there should be at least five future governors or senators in the group." Professor Buehler said.
"Thirty six schools were represented. Each school was limited to four regular delegates. The assembly was operated on the pattern of the one house legislature," Professor Buchler said.
The other two representatives from the local Delta Sigma Rho chapter were Robert Bennett, College junior, and Hal Friesen, business senior.
Bennett said, "The congress was a very worthwhile venture in that there was no pressure on the individual as far as the judges were concerned. It was more realistic in the usage of parliamentary procedure and legislative activity. The only regret, is that more people from the University could not go."
Ernest Friesen said, "The congress did much to illuminate the legislative committee and system of compromises which precede the activities of he legislature. It was all in all a highly profitable experience for those present."
Hal Friesen said, "The Delta Sigma Rho national congress is the most well rounded program in which the University has participated. When the speaker is elected, you get experience in politics and drafting bills which is the embryo of all legislative ideas. The debate on civil rights was very real during which the 'state of Virginia' walked out. The congress was definitely a very leftist group. However, the Kansas representatives were to the right of the general response of the delegates."
X-Ray Tests Begin For Staff Members
The University health service will make tuberculosis X-ray examinations today until Friday, April 15 for all University faculty members and employees.
This examination is in co-operation with the ruling of the board of regents requiring University employees to present evidence of freedom from tuberculosis. Those who have had examinations since September, 1948, are exempted.
The examination will be made without charge. Those who do not take advantage of this opportunity are expected to present a report of an x-ray taken elsewhere at their own expense.
WEATHER
Service will be available from 9 a.m. to noon and 1 p.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday, and from 9 a.m. to noon on Saturday.
Kansas: Fair and a little warmer today, tonight and Wednesday. High 'today' 58-65. Low tonight 35-45.
Applications Due For YMCA Jobs
Students interested in Y.M.C.A. cabinet positions as commission or committee chairmen, should notify the Y.M.C.A. office in the Union building immediately.
Positions open are publications, recreation, membership, ways and means, social responsibility, forums, personal and campus affairs, publicity, Christian heritage, world-relatedness, and intramurals.
Carlson Signs School Bills
Topeka, April 5—(U.P)—Gov. Frank Carlson today signed 50 million dollars worth of school appropriations.
Among the bills he signed was the appropriation of $2,962,000 to the University of Kansas to construct a science building, remodel Fowler shops to house the William Allen White School of Journalism and Public Information, make library improvements and expand the K.U. School of Medicine, Kansas City.
The elementary act that Governor Carlson signed will send 26 million dollars during fiscal 1950 and 1951 to grade schools from the Kansas sales tax fund. Based for the first time on experience and training of the classroom teachers, the distribution will be double the present rate of assistance.
The outlay for operating state universities and colleges the next two years will reach almost 24 million dollars. In the two-year period just ending it was some 16 million dollars.
Plans for sine die adjournment of the legislature were revised due to delay in printing final drafts of 40 bills which the governor must sign or reject before the formal ending of the session.
That may come tonight, or with clocks stopped, the house and senate may quit tomorrow.
40 High Schools Compete Here In State Contest
Students from 40 Kansas high schools will compete in the state speech and drama festival at the University Friday and Saturday.
"There have been a number of regional contests held all over Kansas the past few weeks," Allen Crafton, professor of speech and drama, said. "The schools with first division ratings in regional contests are coming here for the state contest."
There are contests in six fields: dramatic readings, standard orations, humorous readings, original orations, extemporaneous speaking, and one-act plays.
The judges of the contests are faculty members of the speech and drama department. They are Allen Crafton, E. C. Buehler, professors of speech; Miss Frances Feist, instructor in speech; Miss Margaret Anderson, associate professor of speech; Kim Giffin, and Don Dixon, assistant professors of speech. The contests will be held in Fraser hall, Frank Strong hall, and Green hall.
The Kansas high schools entered in the contest are from Bonner Springs, Seneca, Winchester, Kinsley, Larned, Winfield, Coffeyville, Bemnington, Trousdale, Eudora, Fairview, Newton, Hays, Dodge City, Bethel, Ellis, Liberal, Atchison, Bucklin, Eskridge, Arkansas City, Russell, Ottawa, Beloit, Buhler, Anthony, Wichita, Pittsburg, Lansing, Wellington, Baldwin, Tonganoxie, Lakin, Centralia, Jarbola, Rosedale (Kansas City), Arma, Ness City, and Sterling.
Veterans who are planning to go to summer school under the G.I. bill must have the correct certificate of eligibility. Those without a certificate or with one dated before September 1, 1948 must get a new one.
Veterans Need Certificates To Attend Summer School
A supplementary paper is needed if a veteran intends to take summer studies in a different school.
Virginia McDowall, stage and screen actress, will portray Lady Maeduff in "Macbeth" tonight.
'Macbeth' Staged Tonight In Fraser
Almost 200 tickets are still available for Margaret Webster's Shakepearian company's presentation of "Macbeth" at 8 p.m. today in Fraser theater. Tickets are on sale in the basement of Green hall until 4 p.m. and at the ticket office in Fraser hall from 7 p.m. till curtain time. All
Red Cross Makes Quota
Co-operative student and faculty participation again pushed the recent Red Cross drive "over the top." Henry Shenk, chairman of the University Red Cross committee, announced today.
"The quota of $1,350 was exceeded by $100. The men's organized houses contributed $89.25 and the women's organized houses gave $69.69. The balance was made up by members of the faculty and employees of the University," he said.
The quota assigned to the University has been exceeded during every previous drive, Mr. Shenk added.
Students Applaud New Buildings Program
By DORIS GREENBANK
The state legislature is to be commended for its appropriations bills of $2,962,000 for University buildings. This was the view of 10 out of 17 students interviewed Monday.
Included in the bills passed April 2 were appropriations for a science building, the remodeling of Fowler shops, stacks and equipment in Watson library, and expansion of the School $ \textcircled{4} $
of Medicine's Kansas City campus. The University's request for field house funds was partially granted. Dormitories or a fine arts building,
The majority of students interviewed are satisfied with the appropriation bills. Four students believe the measures are at least a step in the right direction with hope for even more improvements in the future. Three students feel the University was slighted in the requests not granted by the legislature.
William Conboy, College senior:
"As the heart of America, K.U.
should have a strong program. Other
universities are putting forth tre-
mendous improvements. I'm glad to
see the legislature beginning to push
harder to keep K.U. in step with
the modern age."
Their comments follow:
Ann Cowger, fine arts sophomore: "I think it was a very wise move. I'm pleased with the legislature's bills even though no provision was made for the much-needed fine arts building."
house get started. The bills as a whole sound like a good deal."
Patrick Thiessen, A.S.C. president: "I think it's fine what they did for us. I would like to have seen the girls build up but I guess we can't have everything."
Hilda James, College senior: "I believe it's unfortunate that no dormitory appropriations were included, but at least some of the other schools are getting them."
John Dickerson, education senior:
"I didn't think we could do it. I am surprised, but glad, to see the field
Louise Lambert, College junior: "This is certainly a step in the right direction. We'll get that field house vet."
Robert Nichols, pharmacy junior:
"Any student who has feared a shower of plaster each time he enters Bailey hall will certainly appreciate the new science building."
Nancy Smith, journalism junior: "I think it's wonderful about the journalism building. I wish I were going to be here when it is finished."
Ralph Winter, engineering senior:
"The appropriations are a good start.
I hope we can have an aeronautical engineering building in the future."
Claude Houchin, business junior:
"If we do as well at the legislature' next session, we'll be pretty well set."
Yvonne Veverka, College freshman: "I'm surprised about the whole thing, but I think it's wonderful."
Darell Norris, journalism junior:
"I wish I were going to be around when all the improvements are made. We owe the legislature a vote of thanks. K.U. should become one of the leading universities of the Mid-West."
Harold England, education sophomore: "It's too bad the field house can't come first. The profits which the University could obtain through the better facilities of a new field house, could be used to finance some of the other buildings later."
Betty van der Smissen, first year law student: "I think it's fine because it will provide for the University's much needed expansion."
Don Giffin, College sophomore:
"The appropriations are commendable though not adequate. They are indiscriminate toward better education in Kansas."
Philip Preble, pharmacy senior: "It's satisfying to know that the crowded chemistry and pharmacy departments will soon have the modern facilities they need."
James Henderson, engineering senior: "It's a great improvement and certainly works in the right direction."
seats are reserved for
The Webster company will arrive at 4 p.m. today to prepare for the performance. They will arrive in a bus converted into a wardrobe that can be unloaded at the stage door. Included also will be a specially designed set that can be put up in less than an hour.
"Too much cannot be said in praise of Miss Webster's direction. In scene after scene it ignites the action with a fire which I, for one, have never seen equalled. No one has in any way approached Miss Webster's for pictorial liness in groupings, revelatory by-play, or sheer melodramatic excitement," said John Mason Brown, theater critic and lecturer, who visited the campus recently.
Miss Webster said, " 'Macbeth', it seemed to me, is more closely linked to the trappings of a barbarian world, to primitive impulse and savage imagination, not because it is more limited in application but because it deals with the deepest forces which lie at the base of man's nature—his inheritance from darkness, the terrible drive back to the abyss. 'Macbeth' is an unbridled play."
Miss Webster's company is presenting "Macbeth" and "Hamlet" on their 40,000 mile tour. Doing both plays with 22 players is, Miss Webster says, "a bit of a trick." She recalls more than once feeling as her mother, the late Dame May Whitty, did while preparing to tour with a company about the size of this one.
Dame May, working out the battle scenes in "Henry IV," suddenly flung the manuscript to the floor, stamped her feet and snapped, "I cannot make two armies with eight people. I must have one more."
Carol Goodner, Joseph Holland and Alfred Ryder will portray the leading roles in "Macbeth." Miss Goodner appeared in the recent productions of "The Man Who Came to Dinner," "Blithe Spirit," and "Deep Are the Roots."
Mr. Holland last appeared on Broadway with Katherine Cornell in "Anthony and Cleopatra." Last season, Mr. Ryder played in Ibsen's "Ghosts" with Eva LaGalilienne between movies for Paramount.
Ten men in the Y.M.C.A. will receive special senior awards at the annual Y.M.C.A. dinner at 6 p.m. today in the Kansas room of the Union.
The men to receive awards are Robert Chesky, College junior; Edward Chesy, College senior; Wilbur Noble, College senior; Bruce Bathurst, business senior; Dean Gregory, College senior; Stanley Kelley, College senior; Joseph Brown, education senior; Fred Henderson, graduate student; Darrell Wood, graduate student; and Kenneth Upp, College junior.
10 To Get Honors Today
Other features of the program will be the presentation of new officers and of advisory board members and the presentation of athletic awards.
Y-Teens To Help In Rat Campaign
The Y-Teen group of the University High school are assisting in a preliminary survey for the rat control program in Lawrence.
The work will be completed by the end of this week.