TUESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1942
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
PAGE SEVEN
Letter to the Editor
To The Editor of the University Daily Kansan:
We of the University of Kansa band, with all respect to the students of the University, protest to the editorial which appeared in the University Daily Kansan of Friday, October 16. These matters we are determined to right through the love of our own organization and the respect we hold for our conductor, Russell L. Wiley.
The railroads cannot accommodate us. It should also be known that on two different occasions our director was advised by Chancellor Malott not to attempt even one football trip, since war conditions have crowded railroad facilities to the extent that a request for special accommodations for ninety people could be construed as unpatriotic. The "more than one-hundred student-owned cars on the Hill" are not all going to K-State; and if fifty went, taking two members of the band in each car, there would not be the usual group of cavorting always-loyal students who pretend to have the best interests of the team at heart rather than their personal good time.
The band has given up greater things than Frolics in order to do its duty. And, if it is of interest to you, the band likes to take trips. The Manhattan trip was voted down with the realization that the only trip of the year was going by the wayside.
As far as the band is concerned, this is a personal matter. It would seem that $\tilde{\mathbf{a}}$ crusader who so bravely looked to the student interests does not realize there is something more important than K. U. bands, football teams, and University Daily Kansans. Or doesn't he realize the condition of travel on the rails because of the war, and especially because of a well-known fort to the west of Manhattan!
We want to go to K-State, too, and some of us will be there . . . and we may stay to hear Harry James that night, if he is there. Is there any objection? But, as a group, we will not be assembled before the hoisting of the flag to play the national anthem.
No accuse the K. U. Band of disloyalty and lack of school spirit is not only unfair, but ridiculous. Not very many K. U. students carry a five-hour 7:30 class and receive no credit, or at best, one hour's credit. The multiplicity and variety of school functions in which the band participates is proof enough of its loyalty to K. U. Next time the Kansan wants to raise the question of school spirit, let them pick on a slacker, not on an organization that stands highest in service.
By the way, we hope you saw the drill we did at the half at the game! Just another one of those things our critics take for granted.
Signed:
Wallace Kunkel
Publicity Manager
Executive Committee
University of Kansas Bands
"Monument to Wheat," a memorial in native Silverdale limestone, designed and executed by Max Nixon, graduate of the department of painting, was recently dedicated at Newton.
Alumnus Completes Limestone Memorial
The figure, which stands 11 feet high upon a six-foot base, depicts the bringing of 24 pecks of turkey red hard winter wheat from the Crimea to Kansas in 1874 by a small band of Mennonite settlers.
The project was sponsored originally by the Newton Junior Chamber of Commerce. It was aided by gifts of wheat from farmers, mills, grain dealers, and elevators, which were converted into cash to finance the project.
"The Art Digest" of New York carries a two-column reproduction of the monument in its latest issue with a story of its erection.
Nixon, now a private in the army. Produced the monument while employed by the Federal Art Project. He was awarded the commission by submitting his design to competitive test.
CIGARS AND--guests at a buffet supper Saturday evening were Joe Svoboda,
(continued from page six)
show he toured France for a year
entertaining the other marooned
American soldiers. When he
returned to the United States, he took
a teaching position at Northfield.
Minn., before he came to the
University.
A Playwright and Author
Much of the success of the dramatic department in the last few years has been due to Professor Crafton's uniring efforts to make the University speech department unequaled in the state. Not only does he act, direct and produce college plays, but he also writes them.
In 1940, he wrote a revue called, "On With the Show," which was similar in form to 'Helzapoppin'."
Professor Crafton has also written books. In 1938 he wrote "Play Directing," and a book on acting and another on the general subject of play production. In his second book, called "The Process of Play Production," he was aided by his wife. Mrs. Crafton also helps him in producing plays and sometimes acts in them.
Professor Crafton is also interested in radio. He has written several plays for radio station KFKU. In 1937 he was asked to speak before the radio group of the National Association of Teachers of Speech at New York by the Columbia Broadcasting System.
Painting being his avocation, he designed the insignia for the 25th Bombardment Squadron during the first war. The design appeared with others in the Life Magazine in 1937, the first time Professor Crafton had seen the insignia since the war.
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Pleistocene
Elephant Tusk
Now In Dyche
An elephant's tooth, found in a gravel pit by Fred Heinlem of Stafford, was donated recently to Dyche museum.
This particular tooth of the Columbian mammoth, a large elephant which lived in Kansas and surrounding states during the Pleistocene period, is over a million years old. During the period in which the Columbian elephant inhabited Kansas, the big camel, the large horse, similar to the modern horse, the big bison, the big Dire wolf, and the sabra cat also lived in this territory.
Probably, the elephant, to whom the tooth belongs, grazed in the valleys and slopes of the tall grasses, and then died on a hillside. Rains might have washed away the rest of the skeleton, and deposited the fossil tooth in the John Rexin sand pit southwest of Stafford, explained Claude W. Hibbard, curator of the museum of vertebrates and paleontology.
Mr. Heinlein found the fossil while hauling sand from the pit. He has the tooth about two years, and exhibited it in the window of a business building of Stafford. During a trip to western Kansas, searching for other fossils, Dr. Hibbard stopped in the town and accidentally learned about the tooth. Mr. Heinlein, who wished to the have the fossil available primarily for school children, donated it to Dyche museum.
The tooth measures 10 inches high, 2 inches wide, and has a grinding surface of $ 8 \frac{1}{2} $inches.
Letter to the Editor
My comments at the game Saturday regarding the editorial in Friday's Daily Kansan were made with the idea that the band had been made an injustice. If such action appears to have been striking below the belt, then I am sorry.
TO THE DAILY KANSAN:
My whole life is wrapped up in this organization, and perhaps I was too hasty and unfair in taking advantage of the use of the public address system to explain our angle in the matter.
The band desires to cooperate in all University activities, and the public should know that the band and the University Daily Kansan are still on the best of terms.
Russell L. Wiley, Director University of Kansas Band
ADDITIONAL SOCIETY--guests at a buffet supper Saturday evening were Joe Svoboda,
(continued from page three) Pees, Bill Bunt, and Max and Bolivar Marquez.
KAFPA KAPPA GAMMA . . .
...announces the engagement of Naney Munger, college junior to John Kraemer, junior in the business college and a Beta Theta Pi. The pin was pinned on Miss Munger by Fatty Miller at dinner Saturday evening.
Sunday dinner guests were John
Jenkins and Doris Sheppard.
...weekend guests were Frances Finn and Alice Taff, Great Bend; Margaret Parker and Cyra Louise Duff, Kansas City, Mo.; Mary Alice Johnson, Hutchinson; Marva Jo Fincher and Julia Ann Buell, Salina.
..guests Saturday were Judge and Mrs. Alden Branine, Newton; R. E. Ham, Garden City; Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Laffer and Max Kocour, Wichita.
ALPHA CHI SIGMA . . .
James Proctor, Paul Renick, Fred Powell, Ray Stoenner, Max Marquec, and Boivar Marquez.
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