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UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS STUDENT PUBLICATION
UNIVERSITY Daily Kansan
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LAWRENCE, KANSAS, TUESDAY, APRIL 21, 1942
39th YEAR
NUMBER 123
Professors Battle Floral Menace
W.S.S.F. Starts Drive To Finance Scholars
Starting with a "prisoners' fare" supper at 5:45 o'clock this evening in the Memorial Union ballroom, team captains and student workers in the World Student Service Fund will launch their annual drive, which will continue this week.
Miss Leona Handler, director of the Unitarian church, will speak to the group. Miss Handler was engaged in this type of work for 18 months in Transylvania. Jim Gillie, business senior, heads the central committee, under which 35 teams including
students, faculty members, organizations, organized houses and independents at large will compete.
Introduce New Band
Tomorrow night the WSSF will sponsor a mid-week in the Memorial Union ballroom from 7 to 8 o'clock. Kats, an orchestra that was organized at the first of the year but is making its first appearance on the Hill tomorrow night, will play for the dance. The orchestra is under the direction of Walt Martie, fine arts freshman. Admission will be 10c per person.
The World Student Service Fund is a national organization to aid students in refugee camps, prisons and internment camps. Since 1937, $151,000 has been raised by American students. Aid is in the form of food, clothing, supplies for study, medical aid, and leisure-time leadership.
Give to U. S. Students
Previously, money has been sent mostly to Chinese and European students; however, with the present situation aid will be given to United States refugees and students as well as to those on foreign soil. The fund
Enlist 200 Members In Hill Co-ed Corps
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About 60 new members were inducted into the Co-led Volunteer Corps at its second meeting yesterday afternoon. This brings the total membership to about 200.
Jill Peck, college sophomore, major of the organization, introduced the 16 other officers who will serve on the cabinet, and plans were discussed for sponsoring a milk drive on the campus and to help in the Men's Student Council defense stamp drive.
The University R.O.T.C. unit will parade in review for the State military inspectors and the Co-ed Volunteer Corps Wednesday afternoon at 4:30 o'clock at the parade ground. The girls will meet and form in ranks behind the Anatomy building at 4:10 p.m.
The organization will be divided into platoons in the organized and semi-organized houses; each platoon consisting of eight girls and a platoon sergeant.
Twenty Respond To First Talent Bureau Roundup
The response to the newly organized Student Union Entertainment Bureau has brought 20 applications to committee chairman Newell Jenkins and John Shelton, and more are expected within a few days.
The bureau, organized for discovering and developing hidden talent on the University campus, is sponsored by the Student Union Activities.
All students interested in entertaining are asked to fill out applications at either the Student Union Activities office or at the hostess desk in the Memorial Union lounge.
Talent will be auditioned soon, Jenkins said. There will not be much activity the remainder of the year, but the organization is being set up for next year, and all applications are being considered for that time. With auditions out of the way this spring, the bureau can start off next fall without preliminary auditioning being necessary.
The possibility of an all-University review, present annually or semi-annually, is being considered by the committee.
Henry Werner, dean of men, aproves of the bureau. "To organize this unquestionable talent and make it available for the entertainment of
Law Students Hold Practice Court Today
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Law practice court was held at 2 o'clock this afternoon in the courtroom of Green hall. The case concerned a suit filed by the retailer of material used in a building; when the purchaser was unable to pay. The material purchased was used to build a floor for a roller-skating rink, and the retailer demanded that the materials be returned.
Speaking for the plaintiff were Harry Akers and Leo Kerford, third year law students. Representing the defendant were Karl Shawver and Harry Waite, also third year law students. Prof. L. T. Tupy acted as judge.
HU SHIH
Hut, Hup, Hit, Ho ★ ★ ★
Inspect ROTC
Polish that brass! Fix that chin-strap! Inspection's comin' up right away.
The annual scrutiny of the University ROTC will begin at 8:30 tomorrow morning and last till 10:15 a.m. Thursday.
Administrative inspection will be given by Col. Raymond W. Briggs and will include checking up on records and regulations, commutation of subsistence and uniform accounts, records of students, classroom discipline and methods of instruction, rooms, supplies, and equipment. Infantry will be given the once over by Col. R. J. Halpin, while the coast artillery inspection will be handled by Lt. Col. H. L. King.
Two periods of fifty and forty-five minutes each have been allocated for classroom theoretical and practical work, and two sections will be provided for each of the basic course classes, with change of section between.
EUGENE NININGER Story on Page Three.
Faculty On Its Knees Friday For Dandelions
The University faculty will attempt to combine erudition with campus beautification Friday afternoon, when they turn out to dig dandelions atop Mt. Oread. At a sub-committee meeting of the faculty Monday afternoon, it was decided that 40 teams, each captained by a staff member, would meet at 2 o'clock to begin the eradication of the yellow pests.
Chinese Envoy To Speak Monday At Convocation
No classes will be dismissed, it was emphasized. All faculty members who have no classes after 2 o'clock, will begin operations then. Others will join them at the conclusion of any afternoon sessions they may have, including members of their families, and the whole affair will wind up with a big campus picnic. The picnic supper will be served under the direction of Miss Hermina Zipple, and wives will be spared the ordeal of arranging a picnic supper. The charge will be 25 cents a plate for all participants.
Dr. Hu Shih, Chinese ambassador to the United States, will speak at a convocation Monday in Hoch auditorium.
Dr. Hu, who has held his diplomatic post since 1938, has a distinguished record in educational and literary fields, as well as in international service. Coming first to the United States as a student at Cornell University on a Boxer Indemnity scholarship, Dr. Hu studied in the college of agriculture, later shifting to the college of liberal arts and sciences, where he won the Corson prize for the best essay on Robert Browning. He has two sons now attending Cornell.
A member of the Peking National University faculty from 1917 to 1926, Dr. Hu devoted himself to writing a series of articles designed to expose corruption and inefficiency in the Chinese government. In 1928 he became a member of the staff of Kwang Hua University and in 1931 went back to Peking National University, where he remained until 1937, when he toured the United States as a lecturer.
Dr. Hu is the author of many books and periodical articles and is at present engaged in preparing a history of Chinese literature and a history of Chinese philosophy.
Jay Janes Elect New Members Friday
The spring election for membership in the Jay Janes, women's honorary pep organization, will be held following the final tea Friday, April 24, in the Old English room of the Memorial Union building.
The 20 vacancies will be filled from the 60 candidates who have been invited to attend the tea Friday. Those elected will be notified Friday evening and pledging will be held Wednesday, April 29, at 4:30 o'clock in the Pine room of the Memorial Union.
Margaret Butler, Jay Jane social chairman, is in charge of planning a tea early in May in honor of the new pledges.
Generalissimo of the digging operations will be Dr. Laurence Woodruff, assistant registrar. A committee headed by F. A. Russell, and D. D. Haynes, both of the department of engineering, will plot the campus for the teams. Special attention will be devoted to the "front yard" of the University—the spaces adjacent to Oread avenue which are particularly noticeable to visitors to the campus. After the yards along Oread avenue are cleared of dandelions, the army of staff members will shift activities to the slopes on either side of the Hill.
"We have one of the most beautiful college campuses in America," Dean Paul B. Lawson stated in discussing the proposed event. "We ought to try to improve that beauty every year, and one of the ways in which we can do that is by working
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James Barton, instructor of speech, will be master of ceremonies at the annual inter-fraternity sing next Sunday, April 26, Herb Muehler, chairman of the sing committee and fine arts sophomore, said today.
Annual Fraternity Sing To Be Sunday
Open to all campus fraternities, the sing is sponsored each year by Phi Mu Alpha, professional music fraternity. To the winner goes a plaque, which must be won three years consecutively before ownership becomes permanent. Second prize is a silver trophy; third prize, a smaller gold trophy.
Singing in an order to be determined by number-drawing immediately before the contest, each fraternity will present one of its fraternal songs, the alma mater, and one song of its own choice. While awaiting the decision of the judges.
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