THURSDAY, MARCH 26, 1942
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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Republics to Celebrate Pan-American Day
Washington, D. C. — (UP) — For the first time under wartime conditions, the 21 Republics on April 14, will celebrate Pan American Day—the day of the Americas.
For eleven years the American republics have been celebrating April 14 as a day commemorating the bonds of friendship between them, and "that spirit of mutual helpfulness and cooperation which is the es-
This year the celebrations have a deeper significance, as many of the nations of the hemisphere are belligerents in the struggle against the Axis. Others, although neutral, have severed relations with the Axis and granted special privileges to the American nations at war in the use of ports and other facilities. Name Was Changred
It was in 1930 that the Governing Board of the Pan American Union, headed by the then Secretary of State Henry L. Stimson and including the 20 Latin American Ambassadors and Ministers stationed here, decided that beginning in 1931, a special day would be set aside each year so that the peoples of the Americas "might recall the community of interests, the unity of sentiments and aspirations, the ties of history, and the intimate relationships that bind each country to the other nations of the Americas."
April 14 was selected as the date, because on April 14, 1890, the First International Conference of the American States, meeting in Washington with James G. Blaine as chairman, passed a resolution creating the "Commercial Bureau of the American Republics," which was later transformed into the "Pan American Union" and made the official organ of the 21 Republics. Elsie Houston to Sing
The first actual celebration occurred on April 14, 1931, which coincided with the proclamation of the Second Spanish Republic—an event which was hailed in the Americas as constituting a step toward democracy in the mother-country of many of the American republics. The Spanish Republic, however, which began to run into trouble around 1934, ceased to exist in 1939.
The Pan American Union Governing Board will hold a special meeting on April 14, at which some distinguished orator will speak on the significance of the day. At night the Pan American Union will sponsor a concert of music of the Americas, by the United States Marine Band. Elsie Houston, Brazilian singer, will be vocalist for the occasion.
Reports from other capitals of the Hemisphere indicate that schools, clubs, civic associations and other groups also will celebrate the day. War Strengthens Bond
Thousands of schools in the United States, which are taking an ever-increasing interest in teaching Portuguese and Spanish as well as history and geography of Latin America, will hold special exercises on that day. A barometer of their enthusiasm is the amount of material which they obtain from the Pan American Union for such events. In 1937 the Pan American Union received 5,885 requests for material from the United States and Latin America, while in 1941 this figure was more than double--being 12,-566 requests.
The very fact that the United States is virtually "blockaded" from big portions of Europe and Africa on one side and Asia on the other, has intensified its interest in Latin
America. In its war effort, the United States has become increasingly dependent on Latin America for its supplies of essential raw materials, now that East Asia has been cut off. Similarly, Latin American industrialists and professional men, formerly dealing with Europe more than with the United States, are now becoming more and more interested in their northern neighbor.
Law Fraternity Initiates Eight
Eight students in the School of Law were initiated into Phi Delta Phi, legal fraternity, in the court room in Green hall Tuesday afternoon.
The initiates were John Bremyer, second year law student; Karl Shawver, second year law; Earl Souligny, first year law; Bob Douglas, first year law; Page Benson, first year law; Neal Powers, first year law; Bob Miller, second year law; and Harold Wilson, third year law.
Following the initiation service, a dinner was held in the Kansas room of the Memorial Union building. Justice Walter G. Field of the state supreme court spoke to fraternity members on "The Problem Facing Lawyers During the War Emergency."
Seniors to Plan For Graduation
Guests at the dinner were W. H. H. Piatt of Kansas City, Mo., graduate of the School of Law and former football player; Judge Nelson Johnson of Kansas City; Herb Hoffman, president of the Phi Delta Phi Barrister Inn in Kansas City; Pat McAlister, magistrate of the Inn at the University of Kansas City; Walter A. Steiger, province president of Topeka; and Henry Asher, Forrest Jackson, and Clarence Gorrill of Lawrence.
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The meeting, Rankin said, is to start work on the senior class Commencement week activities by coordinating the organizing activity and making the necessary arrangements. Fred Ellsworth, executive secretary of the Alumni association, will speak to the group.
Senior officers and committee members will meet in the Eme room of the Memorial Union building at 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, to organize commencement week activities for the class of 1942, Howard Rankin, senior class president, announced yesterday.
Rankin indicated that the meeting is to select a class project and vote on other measures has been tentatively scheduled for the first week in May. The exact time, he said, would be announced later.
Besides the four class officers, the class committees will attend the executive meeting.
Brig. Gen. H. J. Casey, former assistant professor of military science at the University, has been chosen by Gen. Douglas MacArthur to command MacArthur's engineer units in the Philippines.
General Casey's picture is on page 16 of the March 16 Life magazine.
Joe A. Boyer, sanitary engineer at the Fort Scott Water works, wrote a letter to the department of military science and tactics here and called attention to the picture and to the fact that Casey had been connected with R.O.T.C. work here, during 1925 to 1928, when Boyer was in school.
Boyer feels that MacArthur picked the right man for the job, and he says, "I don't believe that there is a member of the engineer corps of the time Casey was at K.U. that wouldn't want to be with General Casey now."
High School Speech Festival Here Tomorrow
The annual high school speech and drama festival sponsored by the department of speech and drama with the co-operation of the extension division will start here tomorrow and continue on Saturday.
About 23 class A, class B, and class C schools are expected to attend the meeting which will include one-act plays, radio dramas, extemporaneous speeches, standard orations, original orations, after-dinner speeches, dramatic readings, humorous readings, prose readings, and informative speeches.
One-Act Plays
One-act plays will be presented in Fraser theater. About six plays will be given by high school groups tomorrow afternoon starting at 2 o'clock. The remainder of the plays will be given Saturday morning from 9 o'clock until noon.
All radio dramas will be presented in the studio of KFKU. Groups will be given a chance to rehearse from 1:20 to 3 p.m. tomorrow, and productions will be given from 3:45 to 6 p.m. At 3 o'clock one of the radio dramas will be broadcast from KFKU, and Wyandotte High School will present a play on the air at 6 p.m.
After-dinner speeches will be given at a banquet in the Memorial Union building at 6 o'clock tomorrow evening. Following the banquet the school students will attend a staged reading of "Mrs. Moonlight," comedy by Benn Wolf Levy directed by Allen Crafton, professor of speech and drama, in the little theater in Green hall. The cast which read the play for the University several weeks ago will present the reading tomorrow. Dancing in the ballroom of the Memorial Union building will follow the play.
After-Dinner Speeches
Other speech events will be held in the rooms in Fraser hall and Green hall tomorrow and Saturday morning. The program is operated on a festival plan with each group being ranked according to ability. Certificates of award will be presented by the student activities association to the individuals or schools in the two top divisions.
22 Schools Enter
Schools which have notified the extension division that they are participating in the events are: Eudora, De Soto, Lansing, Hamilton, Linwood, Lyndon, Oskaloosa, Overbrook, Perry, Rossville, Stanley, Bonner Springs, Holton, Paola, Rose dale, Atchison, Topeka, Catholic, Lawrence, Ottawa, Shawnee Mission at Merriam, Wyandotte, and Haskell. The speech events are open to the public.
Puerto Rico Honors MacArthur
San Juan — (UP) — In honor of the latest U.S. hero, the San Juan Board of Commissioners has voted to change the name of one of the city's main thoroughfares from Calle Tetuan to "General MacArthur Street." The board also decided to make an as yet undetermined date "MacArthur Day," a school holiday.
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