University DAILY KANSAN
Friday, March 21, 1947
STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Friday, March 21, 1947
44th Year No. 106
Lawrence, Kansas
By Bibler
Y.M.C.A. Elects Officers, Board; Noble Is Head
Wilbur Noble, College sophomore, was elected president of the YMCA Thursday night. He served as secretary for the past year.
Other officers elected were vicepresident, Edgar Thomas; secretary, Robert Davis; and representative to the All Student Council, Robert Thayer.
Installation of the officers will be in Danforth chapel at 2:30 p.m. March 30.
Dean Smith, retiring president, was elected regional representative. Cabinet appointments will be announced next week. They will be chosen by the president with the approval of the vice-president, secretary, and executive secretary.
Tom Page, instructor in political science; Parke Woodard, associate professor in physiology; Harold Ingham, director of the extension division; and Hilden Gibson, associate professor of political science and sociology, were elected to the Advisory board of the organization.
The board chairman will be elected by the members. Other members of the board are Arthur Davidson, Lloyd Houston, George Montgomery, W. E. Sandelius, N. W. Storer, J. W. Twente, Calvin VanderWerf, Irvin Youngberg, and the executive secretary, D. Ned negar.
Little Man On Campus
Paul Friesen To Give Recital
Paul Friesen, tenor, will present a senior recital at 8 p.m. Monday it Frank Strong auditorium. Robert Glotzbach, pianist, will accompany
The following vocal selections compose the program: "Postate, Dormite" (Bassani); "O Sleep, Why Dost Thou Leave Me?" (Handel); "I Attempt from Love's Sickness to Fly" (Purcell); "Morgen" (Richard Straus); Aria: Le Reve, from the opera "Manon" (Massenet); "Clair De Lune" (Debussy); "La Mariage Des Roses" (Franck); "Chere Nuit" (Bachelet); "My Lady Walks in Loveliness" (Charles); "Old Mother Hubbard" Hutchinson); "The Last Song" (Rogers); and "Wie Melodies Zieht Es Mir" (Brahms); "Du Bist Die Ruth" (Schubert).
It's The First Day Of Spring, And—
Engineers, Lawyers 'Bury Hatchet'
It's the first day of spring today, and there's spring in the hearts of K.U.'s law students and engineers. At 12 noon today, they got together and "buried the hatchet."
and curled the matte.
The deans of the schools of law and engineering, and an outstanding student from each school, got together in the Marvin hall library and shook hands all around.
"There are no hard feelings," said J. O. Jones, dean of the school of engineering. "We hope it will stay like this for many year."
"We're happy about it, too" said F. J. Moreau, dean of the school of law, "but we wish we could get our pictures back."
Also present were Robert E. Douglas, third year law student, and William C. Oberlin, Engineering junior.
"We regard the theft of the law school pictures as sheer vandalism," said Dean Jones, "but we've got to admit that the Marvin bust incident was one of the cleverest tricks pulled."
The bust was placed on its pedestal in the engineering library by Reverdy L. Mullins and R. T. Kingman, representatives of the University Daily Kansan.
As the heads of the two schools shook hands for the photographer and assured each other that they were happy about the whole thing, engineering students crowded into the library as spectators.
As the party left the room, the bust of Dean Frank Olin Marvin looked down serenely from his honored niche.
He was the only one there who had nothing to say.
Kansas Legislature Asks K.U. 'The $64 Question'
'Will It Be Dormitory, Classrooms, Or A Fieldhouse?' Law-Makers Sav
By ALLAN W. CROMLEY
Will it be dormitories, classrooms, or a fieldhouse?
That was the question that stumped fieldhouse boosters who appeared before unenthusiastic legislators in Topeka Thursday.
Lawrence businessmen and several University officials discussed a fieldhouse appropriation bill with a skeptical House ways and means committee of the Kansas legislature. This committee is composed mostly of representatives from central and
western Kansas. They must be selected from counties having no state institutions.
Introduced by Alfred Page, representative from Shawnee county, the House Bill No. 200 would appropriate $650,000 and have the athletic corporation of the University provide $500,000, for a total of $1,-150,000.
E. C. Quigley, director of athletics, led the attack.
"We want more than moral victories at K. U.," he told the committee. "To have winning teams and physically fit men, we must have a place to train. Our job in the athletic department is to turn out he-men, but we've got to have a place to do the job."
Walter Thiele, justice of the Kansas Supreme Court, followed Mr. Quigley. "It's a shame that the students of Kansas University can see only half of their own basketball games," he said.
games. In a committee, that the fieldhouse would also be used for events other than basketball.
"Kansas university football practice is already two weeks behind Missouri and Oklahoma, because we have to wait for decent weather. A fieldhouse would allow indoor drills in bad weather. Indoor track is the same story. Winter sports will not come up until we give the boys a chance to practice during the winter."
The $64 question of the hearing was asked when Chairman Cauthers inquired, "What do you consider of the greatest importance: dormitories, classrooms, or a fieldhouse. We haven't enough money to provide them all."
Raymond Nichols, executive secretary to the chancellor, said that I was a question he could not answer.
"We need them all," he added. None of the other University officials and Lawrence business men present ventured an answer.
A member of the committee, Representative Holstrom, said that
Marvin's Back And The Kansan's Got Him
By REVERDY L. MULLINS AND
R. T. KINGMAN
Two Daily Kansan representatives, armed with a letter of authorization from Henry Werner, dean of student affairs, took off yesterday afternoon for the Nelson gallery of art.
Marvin's back—and the Daily Kansan's got him.
"It is the duty of the University Daily Kansan," they said, "to preserve the peace on Mount Oread.
Tom VanCleave, president of the University alumni association of greater Kansas City, reminded Rep. Thomas Cauthers, chairman of the
Getting the letter of authorization was easy. It only took two and a half hours, three or four trips from Frank Strong hall to a faculty
Uncheon in the Union, and conferences with Raymond Nichols, executive secretary, Henry Jones, dean of the school of engineering, Dean E. B. Stouffer of the University, and Dean Werner.
But it was worth the trouble to see the look of relief on the faces of personnel at the receiving room of the Nelson gallery.
The representatives of the Kansas were Reverdy L. Mullins, assistant managing editor, R. T. Kingman, former city editor, and Robert Line, photographer.
The bust of the first dean of the School of Engineering was sitting on top of a crate, surrounded by unpacked paintings and other works of art. It had never been removed from the receiving room.
Mullins signed a receipt for the bust to C. W. Simpson, superintendent of the gallery, and then arranged
"We heard they'd been arguing up there about who was going to bring the statue back," one gallery employee said, "and from the sound of things we figured wed' probably have to send it up ourselves."
"That would have been tough, another added. "Lumber's mighty scarce."
for a formal photograph of the signing.
Mullins shook hands with Pau Gardner, director of the gallery Line snapped flash bulbs, and Kingman sagged for some 20 minutes under the weight of the 65-pound bust.
"Well, now, I wouldn't say—cause I hate art. Art, art, art, all around me every day. I get awful sick of it, so please don't ask for an opinion," he answered.
The doorman, a man of about 70, said he'd known of Dean Marvin as an artist in his own right. He held many exhibits of his etchings.
bust.
"What do you think of the bust as a work of art?" Mullins asked one attendant.
With big plans for a picture for today's paper, the rescuers pulled up to a short-notice engraving plant made complicated arrangements for sending the engravings to Lawrence by bus this morning.
The Daily Kansan car pulled away from the gallery with the bust of Dean Marvin safely stowed on the floor of the car, an arrangement which fascinated Mullins' little boy, R. L. III. He patted Dean Marvin on the moustache.
But the photographs, for which Mullins had shook hands so energetically and Kingman had hugged Dean Marvin so valiantly, were ruined. The developer, using a method which didn't require putting his hands in the solution, had ruined the negatives by using boiling water.
The question of athletic profits was brought up by Chairman Cauthers, who asked Mr. Quigley what happens to the profits of the athletic department.
"By golly," growled Line, "I stick to the old fashioned method. If you've got your hands in the stuff you can feel how hot it is." He was still muttering when the car hit Lawrence.
It was some trouble, then, but the Daily Kansan was only too happy to do it.
But don't count on that. If the engineers ship "Uncle Jimmy" Green to the Louvre~somebody else will have to make the trip.
Chancellor Deane W. Malott had indicated to the legislature on a previous occasion that repair and enlargement of Watson library and Fowler shops should have priority.
Mr. Quigley replied that up to the present they had been used to pay off the debt on Memorial stadium.
He added that in 1926 there was a bonded debt of $25,000 on the stadium, but that this deficit has been almost erased. The athletic corporation now has the funds to wipe out the debt completely.
A member of the committee argued that Hoch auditorium would be adequate in a few years, when the number of students might decline.
Mr. Nichols answered that if the enrollment decreased as much as 50 per cent, which he said is highly improbable, the present facilities would still be inadequate.
"If we put off this project, we are foregoing the revenue that a field-house would bring, possibly $30,000 a year."
As the meeting was being adjourned, Donald Pomeroy, College senior, interrupted to point out a fact that he said had been ignored.
Several representatives doubted after the hearing that the measure would ever reach the floor of the House.
Edwin F. Abels, Douglas county representative, spoke in favor of the bill after first assuring the members he would not take long because "you hear me enough anyway." "We are not giving something to K. U., we are getting something for the state." he said.
Representative Cauters questioned the advisability of building anything at present.
"You have never had higher costs for building material and you have never gotten less for your dollar."
Representative Page admitted in a conference before the hearing that the purpose of the bill is to provide for the construction of a glorified basketball court.
It reads, "The sums appropriated
It reads, "The stuff applies . . . shall be used for the purpose of aiding in the construction and equiping of a building primarily designed for the furnishing of suitable facilities for the playing of basketball and such other activities as may be conveniently located therein." The bill would have to be amended before it would provide for the usual type of all-purpose field house.
Chess Club To Meet Tonight
The Chess club will meet at 7 tonight in 111 Frank强厅hall, Daniel Samuels, Romance languages professor, said.
The membership of the club has increased to 23, Mr. Samuels said. The meeting tonight will be important in selecting the team that will represent the University in inter-school competition.
WEATHER
Kansas- Partly cloudy with little change in temperature today, tonight and Saturday. Low tonight 30 north to 40 south.