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SUNDAY, APRIL 19, 1942
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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Zilch Welcomed
Joy In Crescent City
In New Orleans
New Orleans, La., April 18—(by the Kansan's special leased carrier pigeon service from the Crescent City.) Southern hospitality is undergoing a savage test today as the entire city of New Orleans turns out to welcome Elmer A. Zilch, erstwhile proponent of streamlined journalism. Zilch arrived in the Queen City of the South at exactly 2:30 this afternoon amidst the loud tumult of the anxious $
crowd which had lined the Basin street docks since early dawn today.
The triumphant procession wounded its way down Canal street, stopping for two minutes in silent tribute before the statue of Louisiana journalism's hero of the "Grapes of Wrath,""Fightin' Verdie" Daste.
Today's incidents served to dispel the concern felt the earlier part of the week that Zilch would be unaware to attend the annual dinner in his honor to be held in Lawrence, Kan., Tuesday, April 21. Since leaving Tibet almost two weeks ago, Zilch has had several narrow escapes, the most memorable being his flight from the jungles of Borneo. Abandons Ship
Zilch is planning to abandon his submarine, the "U-Boat 86" for a flatboat with which to venture on the rough and rolling northward river route. It is unknown just when he will be able to make his departure from the back door of the Mississippi, because negotiations are under way for a transfer of the Latin belle he accumulated in Rio for an appreciable quantity of cherry bounce. It is reported (only reported) that current stores of the liquid are rather scarce in the Sunflower state, and the eminent journalist does not to risk being a victim of the shortage during his brief visit there.
Quaint Old South
The grand old man of international journalism will be feted tonight in the Hotel L'Adroncsoncone, oldest established lair of its type in this quaint French city. Being given thought is a proposal to hold future Mardi Gras festivals in April instead of in February so that Zilch might be able to attend. Such a plan might result in a co-celebration in future years of Zilch's return to New Orleans along with the regular Mardi Gras. Eventually the Zilch fete may supplant the Mardi Gras entirely, it is asserted by several persons not too far from a connection with authoritative sources.
A new statue will be dedicated sometime this summer in honor of Zilch, the patron saint of type-lice hunters. It is to be erected where the statue of Andrew Jackson now stands. The present plan is to tear down the sculpture memorializing the sixth President of the United States, and re-melt the iron. This measure was decided upon since priorities have made it impossible to get enough material for building an additional statue.
Date Is Scheduled For Student Play, "Night Must Fall"
The date for the all-student play, "Night Must Fall," has been set for May 4. The play will be presented for one night only in Fraser theater. The play has a student director, student stage managers, and student players.
Send Invitations To All Parents For Mother's Day
Invitations to attend Mt. Oead's annual Mother's Day celebration, May 2 and 3, will be sent Monday to parents of all students now enrolled in the University, Miss Elizabeth Meguiar, advisor of women, and chairman of the committee, announced yesterday.
"Although these invitations are being sent out by the University," Miss Meguiar said, "the students are expected to individually write their parents and ask them to come. In order to make this event the greatest possible success, we need the cooperation of each and every student."
The program for Saturday, May 2, will officially begin with registration of the visiting parents at the Memorial Union building in the morning. Parents desiring them will be given complimentary tickets to the K.U.-Kansas State track meet to be held in the afternoon at Memorial stadium. Parents will be able to purchase tickets at the registration booth for the buffet-dinner to be held in the ballroom of the Union building at 6 o'clock Saturday evening.
For the visiting mothers who do not wish to attend the track meet, a fashion show has been planned at the same time as the athletic event. Following the show the mothers will be the guests of the department of home economies at a tea to be held in the basement of Fraser hall. The buffet-supper and accompanying entertainment, which includes a talk by Chancellor Deane W. Malott, will conclude the University's portion of the two - day program.
Sunday, May 3, will be left open in order that the fraternities, sororities, and other organized houses may carry out their individual programs.
Miss Meguiar also expressed the opinion that not only should the students who are attached to some organization planning a program for Sunday request their parents to stay over for the second day, but that all students of the University should make some sort of plans for this day with their parents at the University.
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Debunking the common belief that cowboy songs are impromptu compositions of the cowboys on the range, William A. Owens, professor of English at Texas A. and M., presented a lecture-recital on American folk songs in Fraser theater Friday afternoon. The leading authority on folk music reported that cowboy music has a distinctly English quality which is not a result of the rhythm of horseback riding.
Owens became interested in the subject of folk music while at college and began his serious investigation with the study of English ballads. He related that during his collecting of typical musical compositions of the southwestern part of the United States he had encountered little difficulty in securing recordings of both secular and spiritual negro music. Accrediting this to the negroes' love for singing, Owens related several experiences while collecting certain rare selections.
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Owens told how he sometimes had to take his musicians as far as thirty miles from their homes in order to reach electricity with which to operate his recording machine. He demonstrated his lecture with recorded selections of different groups and races of people. The lecture was sponsored by the department of English.
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Fred Ellsworth Attends
Wichita Alumni Meeting
Fred Ellsworth, secretary of the Alumni association, is in Wichita today for a meeting of the local alumni. Jack Spines, Jr., president of the Wichita group, will be host at the open house in the Commons building at the University of Wichita. Justice Hugo Wedell, of Topeka, president of the Alumni association, will be present.
Tomorrow, Ellsworth and Wedell will attend local alumni chapter meetings in Eldorado, Eureka, and Chanute.
ADDITIONAL SOCIETY—
PHI GAMMA DELTA . . .
... entertained with its spring formal Saturday night. Flowers, white lattice work, and Chinese lanterns decorated the house. On the lower porch was a fountain surrounded by moss and flowers.
Chaperones were the following housemothers: Mrs. C. A. Thomas, Phi Gamma Delta; Mrs. Dean Alt, Pi Beta Phi; Mrs. E. D. Charles, Sigma Chi; Mrs. C. H. Landes, Delta Tau Delta; Mrs. L. D. Harris,
Delta Chi; and Mrs. William Hutting. Triangle.
BLUE MILL
- LUNCHES
- SNACKS
Guests were Comora MacGregor Auden Fausett, Jane Robinson, Ada Lee Fuller, Helen Wilkins, Sue Kaths, Ann Wellington, Jeanne Anderson, Peggy Schroeder, Margaret Funk, Claudine DeVaney of Baxter Springs, Christine Turk, Barbara Brelsford, Pat Harvey of Wichita, Helen Hilliard of St. Joseph Mo., Martha Nearing, Betty Perkins, Marcile Peterson, Peggy Roberts, Marjorie Owen, Susie Stone, Betty Lou Young, Chestine Wilson, Mary Louise McNoun, Bette Tommye Thompson, Jackie Myers, Norma Henry, Mickey Rowse, Nancy Donovan, Bobbe Peck, Peggy Shoaf of Ottawa, and Charlotte Mason of Eldorado.
- DINNERS
When You Speak of GOOD FOOD You Think of the BLUE MILL
Lois Anderson, Rosemary Atzenweiler of Kansas City, Mo., Marjorie Tibbets, Ann Domingo and Carolyn Kline, both of Topeka, Martha Rayl, Peggy Benson, Joan Wagstaff, Nancy Jane Petersen, Elizabeth Love, Betty Lou Alliph, Mary Hanna, Shirley Bayles, Madolyn Youse of Baxter Springs, Katie Green, Georgia Wells, Jean Bailey, Mary Lou Crawford, Martha Thompson Martha Jane Green, Martha Kenagy, Patti Dunean, Ann Louise Scarittt of Kansas City, Mo., Sadie Wilkerson, Beverly Bowin, Bob Lou Stephenson Beverly Frizell, Marjorie Purnell, Jane Priest of Wichita, Susie Skates, Mary Colmery of Topeka, and Mary Shaeffer of Salina,
Jeanne Fergus of Wichita, Dorothy Walton, Shirley Crawford of Lyons, Alice Lewis, Marjorie Calhoun, Jackie Borg of Lawrence, Erma Hase Lasty, Julie Harvey, Patty Proctor of Atchison, Frances Mee, Joan Gibben, Doris Pasewark of Lawrence, Mary Lou Nelson, Mable Baker of Lawrence, Sue Jameyson, Betty Lou Robinson, Adra Smith of Wichita, Margaret Turner, Jill Peck, Betty Craig, Irene Eschbaugh of Lawrence, Irène Hoover, Kathleen Martin of Topeka, Betty Lay, Darlene Unruh of Topeka, Barbara Rice, Jane Duff of Topeka, Marlita Tierman of Kansas City, Mo, Patsy Filler, and Eugenia Hayworth.
PHI DELTA THETA . . .
...weekend guest is Dick Driscoll of Russell. Driscoll, an alumnus of the chapter, is now enrolled in the School of Law at Washburn Municipal University in Topeka.
ALPHA OMICRON PI . . .
...dinner guest last night was Ada
Kay Kirchoff of Lawrence.
Turn to the editorial page for the second article on the subject, "Post War World." These editorials are contributed weekly by members of the University faculty. Today's editorial was written by Domenico Gagliardo, professor of economics.
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