UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS STUDENT PUBLICATION
UNIVERSITY Daily Kansan
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, FRIDAY, MAY 1, 1942
39th YEAR
NUMBER 129
Annual Music Week Begins Sunday
A meeting for all men interested in the new United States Army Enlisted Reserve program will be conducted by Major Malcolm Green, of the Army Air Corps, at 7 o'clock this evening in the auditorium of Frank Strong hall.
Army Major To Give Air Program Tonight
The new program is similar to the Navy's V-7 program in that it is a co-operative arrangement between the Army air forces and the schools and colleges of the country.
The program has been organized on a two-plan basis. College men who wish to continue their education as far as possible before entering active
duty, may do so by enlisting in the Army Air Corps Reserve on a deferred basis. In this way college men may continue their courses through graduation before benig called into active service, unless the secretary of War finds it necessary to call them for service.
Applicants who desire to enlist for immediate service may take the Aviation Cadet physical and mental examinations and be enlisted for active duty immediately as privates in the army air forces, and earmarked for aviation cadet training. This plan is not recommended for University students.
Men between the ages of 18 and 26 inclusive, who have been citizens of the United States for at least ten years prior to the date of application are eligible for the new program. They may be either married or single.
The meeting tonight will explain the preliminary details of the new program. Enlisting officers from the Air Corps will return to the campus on May 16 to complete enlistments of all students who wish to participate in the cadet training program.
Dr. Laurence Woodruff, assistant registrar, has been appointed coordinator of the new program at the University.
Shelter K.U. Cares For War Children
By LORETA BOTKIN
A committee of Lawrence townspeople, inspired by former governor Henry Allen of Wichita, last fall undertook to raise $4,000 for the support and care of 40 orphaned children between the ages of two and five years. The plan provided for the British government to match the sum and set up an approved dwelling which offered food, shelter, and supervision by persons trained in child care. The shelter is to care for children from bombed areas and children whose mothers are employed in munitions facories.
The committee headed by A. J. Mix, professor of botany, reached its goal.
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Coalition Sweeps Business Election
With their "straw hat" day canceled because of a shortage of straw hats, their holiday and baseball game canceled because of the speed-up program, students in the School of Business Wednesday indulged in the only spring festivities left for them: election of officers and the annual publication of the Business School News.
The election was cut in half when the Commerce party failed to nominate any candidates for office. The light vote cast was for the candidates of the Coalition party. Elected to offices were Willis Tompkins, president; Jim Gillie, vice-president; Mary K. Brown, secretary; and Harlan Altman, treasurer. All are business juniors.
Edited by Marjorie Jacobs, business senior, the News contained the latest on the activities of former business students, members of the business faculty, and students in the School.
Opera Star ★★★ Traubel Wants Her Own Fame
"I would much rather be the first Traubel than the second Flagstad," was the answer of the St. Louis soprano who has become the new Wagnerian name at the Metropolitan opera when reporters suggested that the Metropolitan might be grooming her to take the Norwegian diva's place.
For although Helen Traubel, who will be heard at Hoch Auditorium Tuesday evening as the first major musical event of Music Week, has often been referred to as "the American Flagstad," she diplomatically and judiciously holds to her belief that whatever fame is to be hers in the future must be bame "which I win because the people appreciate my art, not because they compare it with someone else's."
There can be no such thing as competition in the world of arts, according to Miss Traubel, who explains that "Any interpretive or creative artist who succeeds in his or her field does so because he or she possesses some quality that is not found in others." When you read a book by Thomas Mann you find something that you do not find in a book by Thomas Wolfe, yet both are great novelists," Miss Traubel illustrates her point.
The Olympian young American soprano who has come to the fore within the past year likewise resents any artist billing himself or herself as "Another Paganini." "A
Clark then discussed some of the social implications of modern total war. In contrast to former wars, the present conflict is between whole organized social systems pitted against each other in survival struggle, involving all human and physical resources, not just the armies. The gravest concern is whether our social structure can stand up under
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Clark Tells Social Implications of War
"The social organization of our country has been conditioned by an environment in which peace was taken for granted and outside threats largely discounted or ignored," was Dr. Carroll D. Clark's contention in his lecture to the World at War class last night in Fraser theater.
The abrupt transition to war-time functions from such an organization puts unusual strains on our institutions and results in serious dislocations, Clark, chairman of the department of sociology, pointed out, but the American people should be more interested in the positive ad- $ ^{ \textcircled{1}} $
interested in the positive adjustments, which are being made more rapidly than in the dislocations.
stress and strain, if our institutions are adaptable to the necessities of war, and if our society and people can be unified and integrated to meet the test of a long conflict.
Judging from reactions of America to the opening phases of the war, Clark believes the stability of our society was unshaken by the initial totalitarian onslaught or by the preceding barrage of psychological warfare.
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Feature Helen Traubel InMusicWeekFestival
Since music is universally believed to keep alive culture and love of the beautiful, most thoughtful citizens feel that this year's observance of Music Week is of great importance in a word at war.
Music Week will open Sunday with special observances in Lawrence churches, and in the afternoon the Lawrence public
Hessler To Head Staff Personnel For Navy Work
The personnel of the staff appointed to conduct work on an important research project for the United States Navy in the engineering labs of the University, was announced today by J. J. Jakosky, dean of the school of engineering. The Navy has appropriated a large amount of money for the research work on the project, the nature of which must of necessity remain a wartime secret
Heading the staff is Dr. V. P. Hessler, chairman of the department of electrical engineering at the University. Hessler, who was head of the department of electrical engineering at Iowa State College from 1927 to 1938, when he came to the University, has worked each summer for the past six years on the engineering staff of the General Electric company.
In the naval research, he will be assisted by J. G. Speer, president and engineer in charge of new developments for Air Communications, Incorporated; and H. G. Koenig, treasurer and engineer in charge of production for Air Communications, Inc. Speer has been associated as an engineer with Bell Telephone, Fox Film corporation, Bendix and other important manufacturing concerns, and Koenig has been connected with the same companies.
Jakosky and Hessler left today for Washington for a conference with naval officials.
The research work on this project, which was secured by the University because of the outstanding background of Dean J. J. Jakosky as a geophysicist, will be done at the University in a special naval ordnance laboratory, which will be closely guarded, because of the confidential nature of the work
In the laboratory will be set up all necessary instruments, and in addition a small, well equipped machine shop is being installed in order that instrument parts may be built without utilizing Fowler shops, chief mechanical division of the Engineering school.
schools will present their musical vespers at 4 p.m. in Hoch auditorium.
The annual Fine Arts day will begin Monday with an all-University convocation in Hoch auditorium, at which Roy Harris of Cornell University, a distinguished American composer, will speak on "Music and People." The University band and orchestra will play, while Dean D. M. Swarthout will preside at the convocation.
The annual Fine Arts banquet, at which all persons interested in the arts are invited to attend, will be held at 6:30 Monday evening in the ballroom of the Memorial Union building. Guests of honor will be Chancellor Deane W. Maalot, Governor and Mrs. Payne Ratner, Roy Harris, and Dr. Wiktor Labunski of the Kansas City Conservatory of Music.
The well-known dramatic soprano of the Metropolitan Opera company, Helen Traubel, will be presented on the University Concert course at 8:20 Tuesday night in Hoch auditorium.
The prima donna will be accompanied by Coenraad V. Bos at the piano.
The final number of the University Concert course will present Miss Carroll Glenn, violinist, in the Young American Artist program. Miss Glenn has already won the Naumburg, Town Hall, and Schuubert Memorial awards, as well as the $1,000 Federation of Music Clubs first prize. The young artist will perform in Hoch auditorium at 8:20 Wednesday evening.
Thursday evening will be the Gala Concert by the University Symphony orchestra, band, and A Cappella choir, featuring compositions of the distinguished American composer, Roy Harris. Also on the program will be Chadwick's patriotic chorus and orchestra number, "Land of Our Hearts." The concert will begin promptly at 8 o'clock Thursday night.
Music Week will close Friday with the annual banquet and ini (continued to page eight)
Applications for the positions of editor and business manager of the Summer Session Kansan should be submitted to the committee in charge of the publication not later than Tuesday, May 5. Applications may be turned in to E. F. Beth, Thomas C. Rythe, or K. W. Davidson, all of the department of journalism.