University DAILY KANSAN
STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Wednesday, May 28, 1947
44th Year No. 150
Lawrence, Kansas,
Little Man On Campus
By Bibler
H. APLY KANSAY
"You must be slipping professor—there have been no public complaints of the lectures you've made lately."
May I Have This Waltz, Bub?
Leave Us Have Schmaltz, Hey
K. U. is getting square. From a musical standpoint that is. The transition has taken several years but now the ninety-degree angles stand out like a moose in a telephone booth.
Jazz is out. Not only on the Hill but everywhere. The double-jointed Voutian has been transformed into a waltzophile.
t's Cycles, Bub
Ask any man in a K.U. dance band how to clear a dance floor and he'll tell you, "play a screaming fast tune." The dancers pull back into the woodwork like a covey of inferiority-com- 1- plexed termites.
The reason? Cycles.
Everything comes in cycles nowadays. From the influx of the tse-tse飞 to the lowering of ladies skirts, it's all cycles. Music is no exception; the cold or romantic cycle phase is now coming to the fore.
coming to the yard. Complex music is fading fast. The spontaneous improvising of pure jazz is taking its place with button shoes and the iron deer in the front yard.
And in its place the dancing and listening public (those that stay at the dances) want slow socrine schmaltz. Anything will do as long as they can hum it. A waltz tune will bring more applause today than an economy promise at a Republican convention.
And Here's The Deal
After polling several members of top KU, bands (those bands which are still eating regularly) the following seems to be the consensus:
ONE. People won't dance to fast tunes. Either the cycle theory is right or nearly everyone has developed sclerosis of the liver.
TWO. People will dance to waltzes even if they can't waltz. This, they say, is worth seeing.
THREE People want slow dreamy ballads . . . full of subtle romantic meanings. This is called the Have-lock Ellis phase.
Tous In Twenties
In the twenties, jazz really came to the front. Five or six musicians in various degrees of sobriety turned gut hour after hour of pure jazz and the public ate it up. But after passing thru the mutation of organized jazz (circa 1935-38) the median line was crossed and the Freddy Martins and their kazoo bands started taking in the dough.
Lawrence Business Closed Friday
Most of the Lawrence business houses will be closed for Memorial day, Friday. All federal, county, and city government offices will be shut down.
Harry W. Johnson, engineering junior, has been re-elected president of Tau Beta Pi, honorary engineering fraternity, for the 1947-48 academic year. Prof. F. L. Brown has been re-elected faculty advisor
In the past year, every "name" band worthy of that title, which played terrific arrangements and featured fine jazz men (Ellington excepted) has folded.
The post office windows won't be open but regular holiday mail service will be maintained.
Tau Beta Pi Elects Johnson Again
Drug stores will stay open although the hours of operation will be curtailed.
KC Ballot Boxes Rifled After Jury Asks Vote Probe
In their place, the bands with "lots of people playing melody" have won the public's applause.
Other officers are William J. Hall,
vice president; William R. Nation,
recording secretary; Arthur Toch,
corresponding secretary; Norman
G. Miller, cataloger; and Richard
R. Potter, treasurer.
Another era of jazz is coming back.
Probably around 1960 or 1966. Dances will jump again instead of looking like quiet hour at the city morgue.
But until then, leave us be brave. Hum the melody together very quietly and watch Willie waltz around again.
Kansas City, Mo. (UP)—Ballot boxes containing records of 34 Kansas City precincts, studied by a county grand jury which returned almost 70 election fraud indictments, were rifled during the night by professional safecrackers who invaded the towering Jackson county courthouse.
BULLETIN
Jefferson City, Mo.—(UP)—Grover W. Dalton, state Republican chairman, charged in a statement today that the theft of ballots from the Jackson county election commission vault Tuesday night makes it evident "that the Pendergast machine, under the protection of Harry S. Truman, is as rampant and vicious as it was when directed by Tom Pendergast."
Mr. Graves announced he had received word from the F.B.I. office here that it was "coming in on the case on instructions from the attorney general in Washington." He immediately went into conference with F.B.I. agents.
Sought Vote Records
With the vote fraud finger once more pointing to Kansas City, after a 10-year gap, the night raid on the ballot boxes, held in a vault behind twin locked doors, produced from Mr. Graves the flat statement:
Payments Boosted For Married Vets
Washington—(UP)—The house veterans committee approved legislation to increase the subsistence allowances of married veterans attending college under the GI bill
"Whoever broke in there was trying to steal records in the vote fraud proceedings."
A recital by advanced students in the School of Fine Arts will be presented at 7:30 tonight in Frank Strong auditorium.
The present subsistence allowance of $65 a month for single veterans would remain unchanged, as would the present ceilings of $175 on earnings and benefits combined. The $200 ceiling for married veterans also was retained.
In Washington, Atty. Gen. Tom Clark and F.B.I. chief J. Edgar Hoover were called before a senate subcommittee to answer questions as to the government's hands-off policy in the August congressional primary in the 5th Missouri district, in which Roger C. Slaughter was "purged" by the Democratic party at the request of President Truman. Jury Urges Inquiry
26 Fine Arts Students To Perform Tonight
The educational benefits of married veterans attending college would be hiked from $90 to $105 a month. They also would receive an additional $20 for one child and $15 for each additional child.
The county grand jury, charged Tuesday that the nomination was stolen from Mr. Slaughter by illegal election practices. The jury urged the federal government to enter the inquiry.
Vacation Library Hours Announced
Twenty-six students will present vocal and instrumental numbers in the second of a series of three advanced recitals. They are from the studies of Allie Merle Conger, Marie Wilkins, Joseph Wilkins, Meribah Moore, W. T. Marrocco, Irene Peabody, Jan Chiapusso, Alice Moncrieff, and Raymond Stubl.
University libraries will remain open during the Memorial day recess. C. M. Baker, director of libraries, announced today. The Western Civilization library will be closed on Friday only.
Schedule for Watson, Engineering and Geology libraries will be:
Friday 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Saturday 8 p.m.
Sunday 2 p.m. to 10 p.m.
More than 1000 ballots have been received by mail in the annual election of the alumni association, Fred Ellsworth, alumni secretary, announced today.
Alumni Vote For Officers
"The three weeks remain before the deadline, so this year's vote is almost certain to exceed any previous total," Mr. Ellsworth said. The highest number of ballots received on a single day is 269. Last year 1398 votes were cast.
A canvassing committee of local alumni will be appointed to count the ballots, and winners will be announced at the annual alumni meeting on commencement day. June 16.
"Many ballots arrive unsigned. These must be returned to the voter for a signature, or they cannot be counted," the alumni secretary said. Many prominent members, including an ex-governor of Kansas, have made this error, he added.
Ballots were sent with subscription cards and a news letter featuring athletics. New members will probably total several hundred after a final count is taken, he said.
Candidates are; president, J. Wayne McCoy, Topeka, and Clay C. Carper, Eureka; vice-president, Paul J. Neff, St. Louis, and Blake Williamson, Kansas City; directors, Carl I. Windsor, Ralph E. Perry, Margaret Purves, and Lloyd Ruppenthal.
The Sachem circle of Omicron Delta Kappa, men's honorary society, followed its custom Tuesday night of selecting officers by lot.
Sachem Selects Officers By Lot
WEATHER
Kansas—Rain and local thunderstorms and decidedly cooler today and tonight with strong northerly winds. Thursday partly cloudy west, rain ending east, continued cool. Low tonight 38 northwest to 55 southeast.
The lucky men are Dale Rummer, engineering junior, president; Robert Campbell, College sophomore, vice-president; and Jack Hollingsworth, engineering junior, treasurer.
ASC Sponsors Dance June 7; No Cakewalk
Test-happy students will get a weekend break from studies at a final week dance from 9 to 12 p.m. June 7 in the Military Science building, Shirley Wellborn, social committee chairman, announced at the final spring term meeting of the A.S.C. This is the first dance of its kind sponsored by the A.S.C. Music will be by Jimmy Holyfield and his band.
Miss Wellborn said that the Senior Cakewalk will not be held this year—they had trouble getting a band, and it was too late in the school year.
Announced Closed Dates
Closed dates for the coming school year, and chairman of standing committees were also announced.
Committee Chairman Announced
The Union Carnival, on Oct. 18,
will be the first closed date of the
year. The rest will be: the Pumpkin
Prom, Nov. 1; the Homecoming
Varsity, Nov. 22; the I.S.A. Christmas
dance, Dec. 6; the Freshman Frolic, Jan. 17; the Sweetheart
Swing, Feb. 14; the Sophomore Hop,
Feb. 14; the Junior Prom, April 10;
the I.S.A. Sweetheart dance, April
24, and the Senior Cakewalk, May
8.
George Robb, chairman of the committee on committees, announced new standing committee chairmen, who are: Lynn Leigh, elections; Betsey Sheidley, publications; Elizabeth Webster, smoking; Bill Cole, public relations; Arnold England, finance; George Fyle, auditing; Arthur Ruppenthal, tradition; George Caldwell, charter; David Schmidt, parking, and Margaret van der Smissen, society.
A convocation attendance required of new students, will be held the night of Sept. 15 in Hoch auditorium.
Motions to revive the Thanksgiving Drum parade, a betweenhalves ceremony at football games, and to sponsor movies on the Hill, were referred to committees.
A. S.C. sponsorship of the official University calendar was suspended for six months. The new calendar is being published by private interests.
To Move Into New Buildings Monday
The two emergency buildings north of Frank Strong hall will be occupied next week, Leonard Axe, director of University services, said today. These are the best of the 10 surplus army buildin - the Federal Works administration is building on the campus.
The structures, each 181 by 25 feet, will be used as an office for the University veterans' bureau, as a library for the Western Civilization reading course, and as classrooms for secretarial training.
Littlest Man-On-Campus Is —
Pablo Mendoca "Man-With-The-Stick"
The Littlest-Man-on-Campus is not the one who is drawn by Dick Bibler.
Instead, he is Pablo Mendoca, the short, familiar man-with-the-stick. Dark-skinned Pablo spends a working day spearing paper dropped on the campus by careless students.
Pablo, who measures 4 feet 11 inches, efficiently produced a pencil when the reporter's lead broke during the interview.
"I've been working on the campus for five years," he explained. "Before that, I worked on the railroad. I like it pretty well. I get acquainted with the students."
Pablo, who looks as though he should be wearing a tall sombrero and a serape, has been in Kansas for 40 years and speaks good English. He was born in Mexico.
He lives in Lawrence with his wife,
"Yes, she's taller than I am," he admitted.