UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 31, 1948
51 High Schools To Be Here For Music Festival
More than 2,000 musicians from 51 Kansas high schools will meet at the University Friday and Saturday for the Kansas district music festival. It will be the largest festival since pre-war days. Neal Wherry, principal of Liberty Memorial High school and festival chairman, said.
Orchestras, bands, and large vocal groups will play and sing Friday. Fifty-eight of these groups will perform in the University and high school auditoriums.
carls high voice. Four judges will rate the large ensembles. They are John K. Howard, director of band and orchestra at the University of North Dakota; Lytton Davis, music education director of Omaha public schools; Dennis Cowan and Leopold Llegal, Kansas State Teachers' college; Emporia. University of Kansas faculty members will assist in rating smaller groups Saturday. You will be held
Vocal and instrumental solosists and small ensembles will compete Saturday. The greatest number of entries in one event are the 45 in girl's high voice, Wherry said.
Ten district contests will he held throughout the state this week. Between ten and twelve thousand high school students are expected to take part. The festivals are sponsored by the Kansas State High School Activities association.
Civil Service Waives Rule
An acute shortage of civil engineers in the state highway commission has led the Kansas civil service board to waive the two-year residence requirement in examinations to be given soon for six classes of engineering positions, Arthur A. Herrick, director of civil service, announced recently.
Applications for these classes will be received until April 20. Information about the examinations can be obtained from the Kansas department of civil service, 801 Harrison street, Topeka.
Three classes of subprofessional engineering aid positions are also scheduled for examination with the residence requirement retained.
residence requirements. The courses open are civil engineering through V, state highway engineering, and Engineering Aide I, II, and III. The highway commission estimates that it needs 125 engineers, primarily in the classes of Civil Engineering I and II, where the starting salaries range from $254 to $294 a month. The jobs are in all parts of the state.
Governor Frank Carlson issued the following statement concerning the openings: "Our present highway program and the expanded construction which we anticipate present a real opportunity for careers with the state highway commission. There is now a chance for trained men to identify themselves with an active and skilled organization, making a fine contribution to the progress and future of a growing state."
Alpha Kappa Psi Tours Plaza Store
A tour of Sears Roebuck's department store at the Plaza, Kansas City, Mo., was made recently by 20 active members and guests of Alpha Kappa Psi, business fraternity. This was the first of the fraternity's field trips this semester.
J. L. Franke, superintendent of the store, accompanied the group through each department and answered questions on general store policy and merchandising procedures
Faculty members who made the trip are Wiley Mitchell, instructor of economics; Earl Neilson, instructor of economics; Keith Weltmer, instructor of accounting; and Lloyd M. Jones, instructor of economics.
7 Authors Will Attend Summer Writers' Clinic
The Kansas Writers' conference, consisting of discussions with eminent literary figures, will be held at the University from June 21 to July 2. The conference will be sponsored by University Extension and will be directed by Ray B. West, Jr., associate professor of English.
Mr. West said that the objectives of the conference are to give the pro-
Sigma Tau Offers Engineers Trophy
The Sigma Tau Engineering Exposition trophy is being dusted off. A judging committee was elected Tuesday by the honorary engineering fraternity to select the most outstanding display of the exposition this year and present the trophy.
this year and prior.
The Engineering Exposition will be held April 16 and 17 with the Kansas Repsys. The decision of the committee will be announced on the day of the displays, and the loving cup will be awarded to the department of the School of Engineering sponsoring the best exhibit.
Members of the committee are Paul Grattyn, Jack Daily, Morris Borene, James Harrison, Joe Beeler, Harry Johnson, and Anthony Cooper, engineering seniors; James Ralls, and Don Owen, engineering juniors. R. S. Stockton, instructor in mechanical engineering, is chairman.
The national council of Sigma Tau will also offer a graduate fellowship of $500 to any recent graduate from an engineering school, who was a member of Sigma Tau. Applications are in Mr. Stockton's office and should be filled out before May 1.
Campus News
AVC Birthday Banquet Celebrates GI Pay Raise
The annual birthday banquet of the American Veterans' committee will be held at 6:30 p.m. tomorrow in the Kansas room of the Union.
John lse, professor of economics will be guest speaker.
the increase
The banquet will also celebrate the increase in veterans' subsistence allowance which goes into effect tomorrow. ___
DeYoung To Head AK Psi
Leon R. DeYoung, College sophomore, was recently elected president of Alpha Kappa Psi, business fraternity.
Geologists Attend Meeting
The other officers are Park C. Pen-
ington, vice-president; Francis W.
Ronnan, secretary; Harold D. Jones,
treasurer; and Glenn A. Sowders,
master of rituals.
Dr. R. C. Moore, research director of the state geological survey, and Dr. John C. Frye, executive director, are attending a meeting of the Association of American State Geologists in Tuscaloosa, Ala., this week.
Leonard H. Axe, dean of the School of Business, will arrive in Lawrence tomorrow for a one-week vacation.
Dean Axe has been on leave of absence at Harvard since February doing special work in human relations.
Dean Axe To Have Vacation
Members of the Russian club will hear a discussion at 4 p.m. today of the change in Russia from ancient democracy to autocracy in the period from the ninth to the 16th century. Mrs. Rachael Solveitchik, instructor in Russian, will speak to club members in 402 Fraser hall.
Instructor To Discuss Russia
Alpha Kappa Psi Elects
Alpha Kappa Psi, business fraternity, elected officers recently. They are Leon R. DeYoung, president; Park C. Pennington, vicepresident; Francis W. Ronnan, secretary; Harold D. Jones, treasurer; and Glenn A. Sowders, master of rituals.
professional writer an opportunity to have his work analyzed and criticized, to encourage beginning writers, and to raise the standards and interest in writing among students, professional men, and teachers in this area.
The conference is open to non-writers as well as writers. Any one interested may register, whether he intends to submit manuscripts or for Pees for the conference will be $25, which will entitle the person to submit a short story of 6,000 words or less or a group of poems of not more than 10 double-spaced type-written pages. For an additional $10 members may submit book-length manuscripts.
Veterans may attend the conference and have their fees paid by the Veterans Administration. Seven Authors Will Attend
Seven literary celebrities will attend the conference. Among them is Allen Tate, poet, literary critic, novelist, editor, and publisher. Mr. Tate was the first person to occupy the chair of poetry at the Library of Congress and has twice held Guggenheim fellowships.
Others attending Katherine Anne Porter, fiction writer. Miss Porter received a Guggenheim fellowship in 1931, and in 1937 the Book-of-the-Month club awarded her a fellowship of $2,500. She is the author of "The Flowering Judas" (1930 and 1935), "Pale Horse, Pale Rider" (1939), and The Leaning Tower." (1944).
Others attending are:
Caroline Gordon (Mrs. Allen Tate) author of a volume of short stories and six novels. She was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship in 1934. She teaches courses in short story and novel writing at Columbia university.
Erskine Caldwell author of "God's Little Acre" and "Tobacco Road." In 1933 Mr. Caldwell was awarded a $1,000 prize by the Yale Review for his story "Country Full of Swedes." Author of 'Ox Bow' Incident
Walter Van Tilburg Clark, novelist. He is author of "The Ox Bow Incident" and "The City of Trembling Leaves." He is considered one of the most promising young writers of fiction in America.
John Frederick Nims, editor of "Poetry: A Magazine of Verse." Mr. Nims won poetry awards in 1942 and
A Cappella Choir To Give Concert
The University A Cappella choir, directed by Dean D. M. Swarthout, will give its annual concert at 8 p.m. April 5 in Hoch auditorium. The 106-voice choir has sung at four vesper programs this year.
The choir will sing 16 numbers, including 15th century music, Russian secular and liturgical numbers, Negro spirituals, and selections from modern and contemporary composers.
Union Activities To Pick Officers
Applications for president, vicepresident, secretary, and treasurer of Union Activities will be accepted April 5 through April 8 in the Union Activities office.
Applications must have the student's full name, Lawrence address and telephone number, home address, age, school, classification, grade average, position applied for, experience with Union Activities, University activities and interests, and plans for improvement of the Union next year.
An applicant must be a sophomore, junior, or a senior who will be on the campus for two semesters after he leaves office. During this period he will be an advisor.
ne wgrade average of "C" plus is necessary, and students must have had some experience with Union Activities.
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The Union operating board, headed by Ogden S. Jones, acting director of sanitation, will read and consider each application. Those who have turned in the best applications will be interviewed by the operating board April 14. New officers will be announced April 16.
Applicants are reminded that this is a full time job and they will be expected to spend most of their extra time with Union Activities.
1943. He was one of the five young American poets of the New Directions volume published in 1944.
Miss Louise Bonino has for 12 years been editor of children's books for Random House publishers. She is the author of "The Cozy Little Farm," a book for children.
Robert W. Stallman, assistant professor of English at the University, will also take part.
Little Man On Campus
By Bibler
"Former student, no doubt"
New Rent Law Into Effect Tomorrow
Washington, March 31 — (Ur) The new rent control law goes into effect tomorrow, backed by a government pledge to do everything possible to hold rents at "reasonable levels" until March 31, 1949.
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President Truman signed the bill into law late Tuesday, less than 36 hours before existing controls were due to expire. He promised that the housing expedition would use fully his new power to protect tenants against illegal evictions.
However, Mr. Truman noted in a statement that he had asked congress for "stronger rent control legislation.
The new law permits landlords to agree on "voluntary" 15 per cent increases, in return for leases running at least through 1949. However, those tenants who signed up for one 15 per cent boost under the old law cannot be forced to accept another. I also say:
The law extends rent controls for one year, but permits exceptions if they are approved by local rent advisory boards and the federal housing expediter. In cases where the expediter does not agree with a local board recommendation, the emergency court of appeals will decide.
1. Lifts ceilings from non-housekeeping rooms in private homes having not more than two roomers.
2. Removes restrictions on use of scarce building materials for recreation and amusement facilities.
3. Requires 65 per cent of all "owners" in co-operative apartment developments to be "stockholders, tenants, and occupants."
4. Directs the expeditor to grant "hardship" rent increases on proof of the landlord that he is losing money.
5. Authorizes the expedition to seek injunctions against landlords who charge above-ceiling rents or evict tenants illegally.
Robert Bock, first-year law student, veteran, and member of the Kansas legislature, is now head of the nation-wide Students-for-Eisenhower movement organized March 26.
Bock Heads 'Ike' Group
Temporary headquarters have been set up in Cambridge, Mass., but it is expected that they will be moved to Washington D. C. within two weeks.
On the national executive board of the group are student leaders from New York, Massachusetts, Illinois, California, Indiana, North Carolina and Ohio. The organization plans to have members in every state in the nation within 10 days.
The great and immediate response is proof that the draft-Eisenhower movement has been hailed by liberals as the solution to the strange political dilemma presented by the hopeless mudding and short-sightedness of the Republican party, the Communist domination of the Wallace party, and the recent policy fumbles of President Truman which have lost him most of the liberal support he once had," said Bock.
An Austrian movie with English sub-titles, "Beli-Ami," will be shown today for the last time at the Varsity theater. The picture is sponsored by the German and Romance language departments.
'Bel-Ami' To Have Final Performance
The movie will be shown at 2:30. 7:30, and 9 p.m.
Stanley Schwahn, theater manager, said today, "The possibility of future showings of foreign films in Lawrence depends on the response given to this one. I am interested in continued showings if the attendance at this movie shows that students and Lawrence people are also interested."