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LAWRENCE, KANSAS, FRIDAY, MARCH 12, 1943
NUMBER 90
40th YEAR
President of Kansas Press To Speak Here
C. W. Wheeler, president of the Kansas Press association and business manager of the Abilene Reflector - Chronicle, will visit the University Wednesday afternoon and evening. He will speak to two journalism classes in the afternoon and to an informal gathering that night.
Theta Sigma Phi, national honorary journalism sorority, is making arrangements for a dinner to be held in hi shonor at the Colonial Tea room for journalism faculty members, their wives, and students. Sorority members will sell tickets for the dinner which will be at 6:15. Will Diseuss Publicity
Mr. Wheeler will discuss the task of being publicity chairman for the state Republican party at 2:30 in room 107 of the Journalism building. If a larger room is required, the change will be announced later, Elmer F. Beth, acting chairman of the journalism department, said. At 3:30 in the same room he will speak about war-time problems in advertising, circulation, and job printing.
Members of the political science, sociology, and psychology departments have been invited to attend the 2:30 speech, Professor Beth said. Wednesday evening following the dinner, Mr. Wheeler will talk informally about the importance and work of a state press association. Attended Baker
Mr. Wheeler was graduated from Burlington High School, and received his bachelor of arts degree from Baker University. He has taken some summer courses at the University.
In 1929, he purchased the Abilene Chronicle, then a weekly paper, de-
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Fire Damages Patee Movie Theater
Fire discovered at 7:29 o'clock this morning did extensive damage to the Patee theatre at 828 Massachusetts street.
Starting in the floor in the balcony, the flames had spread to the ceiling and swept to the back of the room to the projection booth which did not ignite. Many of the seats were destroyed and because of the difficulty in replacing them, it may be impossible to reopen the theatre.
Firemen lay the cause of the fire to a burning cigarette which evidently was dropped on the floor last night by a patron.
The Patee theatre, oldest movie house west of the Mississippi, was started in 1905 by Claire Patee, a Frenchman, who was associated with Edison in the motion picture industry.
... C. W. Wheeler
ROTC Enters Rifle Contest
The University entry into the William Randolph Hearst national ROTC rifle competition has been sent to the service command headquarters in Omaha. The individual scores of the marksmen cannot be released until verified at Omaha, Lt. Col. Jack Gage, director of University marksmanship, reported.
The rules of the contest call for a five-man team, each firing only one target in the four positions. The University team finished their targets early this week and sent them to Omaha. The contest ended today, and the scores of each entry in the nation had to be at their respective service command headquarters.
The five men that fired in the contest were Frank B. Tyler, Dale N. Lingelbach, Edwin Crowley, Leonard Diehl, and Hillman Dickinson. The results will be released in about two weeks, said Colonel Gage, who is "confident that the team he entered will make a credible showing."
Total Mounts In Red Cross Contributions
Contributions on the campus reached a new high today as students and faculty members dug deeply into their pockets to swell the Red Cross fund this year the largest drive the University has staged. As the total continues to rise, Dr. F. C. Allen predicts donations will reach a mark well over the set goal
"Contributions received have been generous, and I feel sure that, when all donations have been received, we will have gone over the top in the biggest drive the University has staged." Dr. Allen, basketball coach and director of the drive at the University, said today.
Commends Navy
Dr. Allen especially commended the report from the navy showing a total of $593.98 given by the sailors on the campus. Division 6-M donated $36.93; Division 7-M gave $252.05; Division 8-M, $190.33; Division 9-M, $61.46; and officers and ships company and civilian employees, $53.21.
Special commendation is due Division 7, Platoon 3, who contributed an average of $2.80 per man. Dr. Allen said. The average pay of these men is $52 monthly.
Faculty donations have been generous. Dr. Allen stated, and their quota will be over the top, probably Additional Contributions
In addition to the list printed yesterday, the following organizations or groups have donated: Templin hall, $13.25; collection in Frank Strong hall, $7.59; in the Union building and in the library, $21.30;
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Differences in democratic feeling in the three countries are due partly to England's channel. America's ocean, and the absee of a natural defence for France, he said. He
Maurois Discusses Principle of Freedom
Referring to England as the bulwark of freedom, to France as its soldier, and to the United States as its conscience of freedom, Andre Maurois, noted author and lecturer, spoke to a crowd of about five hundred in Hoch auditorium last night on the common heritage of the three countries.
"Confidence of the United States in herself is equal to that of England in herself," Mr. Maurois declared, but he explained the difference by saying, "the confidence of England is in the present, but that of the United States is in the future." Differences in Feeling
The lecture was the last of this year's series of the Community Lecture course.
"France's contribution has been largely in military instead of political terms, because France has had to fight for her liberty," Mr. Maurois continued.
pointed out that his country had been invaded many times, but England had not been occupied since 1066, and America, never.
Sums Up Virtues
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In summing up the particular virtues of England, France, and the United States, he praised England for her tenacity, her character, and
Supplement to Student Directory Will Be Ready Soon
The supplement to the University student directory will soon be ready, it was announced by Dr. Laurence C. Woodruff, registrar.
The exact date of distribution is not known, but the material is now in the hands of the printers.
High School Art Is On Exhibit At Convention
Progressive ideas together with free individual interpretation are shown in the exhibits submitted by Kansas junior and senior high school students for non-competitive display today and tomorrow in the lounge of the Union building. The exhibit is held in connection with the combined meetings of the Kansas State Art Teachers Association, the High School Art Conference, and the Kansas State Federation of Art. Each entry was judged as to originality, color, design and composition and technique.
Merit badges, indicating superior ratings, were given the Lawrence Memorial High School for craft and lettering exhibits; the Newton Junior High School for modernistic, free-styled paintings; the Winfield High School for block prints and jewelry exhibits; the Newton Senior High School for paintings portraying typical Kansas scenes; the Chanute High School for modernistic paintings of flowers; the Scott City High School for water color and pen and ink drawings typifying the western Kansas country; and the Topeka Junior High School for paintings.
Critics Named
The art critics were Miss Dessa Jane Bush, instructor in design at the University; Miss Dorothy Barfoot, director of the art department at the Kansas State college, Manhattan; and Franklin Grits, art instructor at Haskell Institute.
The critics will hold private consultations tomorrow in the lounge of the Union building with students and their instructors having work on display, Miss Bush said. One hundred and seventy-nine delegates have registered at the convention. Banquet Featured
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Music Room Will Feature Debussy and Ravel Sunday
Featuring selections by Debusy and Ravel, the music room program Sunday afternoon will include three numbers from the pen of Debusy: "Nocturnes," "Afternoon of a Fawn," and "The Submerged Cathedral," and Ravel's "Daphnis" and "Chloe."
Other selections will be played upon request after the arranged program which will begin at 2:30. The music room will be open until 5:30.
Academy Will Commemorate 75th Birthday
The seventy-fifth anniversary of the founding of the Kansas Academy of Science will be celebrated at the annual meeting of the Society to be held at the University in April, Dr. Raymond H. Wheeler, president of the organization and chairman of the department of psychology, announced today. Dr. Walter B. Sears, internationally known botanist and plant ecologist now on the staff of Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio, will be the chief speaker for the meeting.
The Kansas society is the oldest state academy of science in the country. There are twenty-five such organizations in the United States and the Sunflower group is fifth in number of memberships.
Plan Banquet
Membership in the Academy is composed of teachers of science in the universities, colleges and high schools of Kansas, and of laymen interested in scientific research of publishable merit, either in pure or applied science. There are approximately 600 members of the group, including 50 life members, 7 honorary and about 30 group memberships, the latter being composed of junior science groups affiliated with the Academy.
A special celebration at the 75th anniversary banquet on the evening of April 10, will feature some of the older life members of the Academy. Dr. Wheeler, retiring president of the society, will be the featured speaker on the subject "The Effect of Climatic Cycles on Civilization."
In 1871, an act of the Kansas Leg-
Plan Faculty Follies For April--Gibson
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The Faculty Follies, an event which spelled hilarity for students and faculty alike last year, will be given sometime during April, Prof. Hilden Gibson, head of the committee in charge of the Follies, stated recently.
The actual date is being decided upon by committee members Prof. and Mrs. A. J. Mix, Dean Henry Werner, Prof. E. O. Stene, Prof. Calvin Vander Werf, and Professor Gibson.
Presented last year for the first time, the Follies was a new idea in entertainment for the University. This year's committee plans to bring forth more such hidden talent among faculty members as was found in the quartet of marionnettes composed of Chancellor Deane W. Malott, Dean Werner, Dr. Raymond Brewster, and Dr. E. Thayer Gaston.