UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS STUDENT PUBLICATION
Daily Kansan
39th YEAR
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1941.
NUMBER 55
Landon Says GOP Stymies Dem. Machine
Topeka—(UP)—The Republican minority in Congress was pictured by former presidential candidate Alf M. Landon today as the "last thin red line" preventing establishment of a one-party governmental machine in the United States. To a State Young Republican convention Landon praised Rep. Joe Martin, minority house leader, for a courageous fight against what he said was an administration-directed campaign for elimination of the two-party system.
"The administration controls the radio. If it can make the people of the country lose confidence in the press and eliminate any real worthwhile minority party, then anything is possible. We will have a one-party system and the machinery to perpetuate it."
"We are overlooking the perils in the third term business, the systematic campaign to discredit the press over a long period of years; the continual support of those who believe our capitalistic system is a failure and no longer can perform its historic function," Landon said.
Peril in Third Term
Representative Martin praised the record of the Kansas Republican delegation in congress for "doing a magnificent job of standing by American principles." Work Hard"
'Work Hard'
Martin urged the young men and women to work hard to re-establish a system of balanced bi-party government and warned that monoparty government can result in dictatorship just as disastrously as one-man government.
Today the convention elected officers and adopts resolutions. A delicate subject will be the matter of endorsements in connection
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First University Calendar Carries K.U. Landmarks
Flashing the Crimson and Blue, the new University of Kansas calendar for 1942 will hit the campus Wednesday. The calendar will be sold to students for 15 cents, approximately half of its cost. One thousand copies have been printed.
An innovation of the Men's Student Council, the Jayhawk calendar is designed to publicize the University, and is fashioned after calendars of other universities. Some copies will be distributed through the Student Statewide Activities Commission to Kansas high schools. These pictures are placed above the monthly calendars and a schedule of University events that
The calendar's main sales area, however, will be right on the campus. It will go on sale Wednesday morning at the stenographic bureau in the Journalism building, the Alumni office, and the book exchange in the Memorial Union building.
The covers of the '42 calendar are blue with two diagonal red stripes to match the red plastic spiral binding at the top. In the center is a pen and ink sketch of Watson library. A tassel, either blue or white, will be attached to the cover to facilitate hanging.
Twelve University scenes will form the body of the calendar.
The calendar this year was financed by the University Reserve Fund. The MSC plans to publish it every year.
Following are the campus buildings to be pictured in the calendar and the months they represent: Watkins Memorial hospital, January; Watson library, February; Spooner-Thayer museum, March; Marvin hall, April; Frank Strong hall (front entrance), May; Fraser hall, June; Mississippi drive, July; Journalism building, August; Dyche museum, September; Potter lake, October; Memorial stadium, November; and Blake hall, December.
Big Six Fathers May Change 'No-Bowl' Rule
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Kansas City, Mo.—(UP)—The Big Six conference rule that prohibits teams from playing football games after the last Saturday in November may be changed today when athletic directors, coaches and the faculty committee meet to consider conference problems.
The rule has been sidestepped four times in the last four years to permit member teams to play in bowl games. A substitute rule under which each school will receive a share of the gate receipts may be adopted.
The faculty committee and the di-
Y.W.C.A. Nets $80
On Christmas Bazaar
The Y.W.C.A. Christmas bazaar will net about $80 this year, Miss Roberta Tucker, Y.W. executive secretary, said today. Closing at 5 o'clock this afternoon, the bazaar in the lobby of the Memorial Union building was open three days for displaying and selling Christmas gifts and novelties.
The profit from the Christmas project goes to the Y.W. budget for the advancement of the yearly program. Members have a goal this year to increase the budget $600. The bazaar was one project of student members to contribute their share.
"Thunder Rock" opens in Fraser theater Tuesday.
Thunder Opens Tuesday
Repair Toys
Poor'sSanta
The firemen of the Eighth and Vermont street station have begun their annual role as Santa Claus.
Broken and unused toys are being repaired, painted, and turned over to Ed Anderson, chairman of the Elks club Christmas committee. These unused toys will gladden the hearts of children in needy homes this Christmas.
'Industries Revision Plans Still In Air
Raymond Nichols, executive secretary to the Chancellor, stated today it would be sometime before revisions in plans for the Mineral Industries building can be announced.
"It might take a week, or it might take a month for the changes to be decided upon" Nichols said.
The revisions must be made to bring the cost of the building within the figures of the appropriation made by the state legislature earlier this year. Construction bids submitted this fall exceeded the appropriation by more than $82,000. The difference in estimates was believed due to the rising costs of building material.
The new structure has priority ratings on steel and other restricted materials, since it will be used also as a research and testing headquarters for explosive plants at Pittsburg and Parsons.
Meanwhile, work is continuing at the site of the planned building south of Marvin hall. N.Y.A. and student labor is being used. Workers have concentrated principally upon the digging of the structure's foundation with some concrete already poured.
Weather Men Are to Hear Clime Blamed
The controversial weather cycle theory of human behavior, developed by Dr. Raymond H. Wheeler, chairman of the department of psychology, will be explained to the Kansas Weather-Crops Seminar meeting here tomorrow in joint sessions with the Kansas City Meteorological Seminar which 300 are expected to attend.
Kenneth Moore, assistant instructor in psychology, will present the theory in a talk, "The History of Climate, Its Relation to Human Behavior, and a Postulate Regarding Future Trends," in the Seminar's session in room 206, Marvin hall, at 2 o'clock tomorrow afternoon.
Doctor Wheeler's theory contends that the weather follows predictable cycles and that events determined by human behavior can be forecast from these cycles. Tour Psych Lab
A tour through the experimental laboratory of the department will follow the meeting, with charts on the history of climate being shown to support the theory.
Chancellor Deane W. Malott is honorary president of the Kansas Weather-Crops Seminar, an affiliated unit of the Kansas Academy of Science. Malott will preside at the meeting and will be toastmaster at the evening banquet.
The program of the Kansas City Meteorological Seminar, a branch of the American Meteorological Society, opens at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning, with talks by two representatives of the United States Weather bureau in Kansas City, Mo., and a meteorologist from Transcontinental-Transcontinental and Western fttal and Western airlines. Robert W.
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Fool-Proof Music, Dance Highlight Concert
By JOY MILLER
With the help of almost foolproof musical selections and an hilarious modern dance, the Symphony Orchestra presented a creditable concert last night in Hoch auditorium.
The program was opened by two students in R.O.T.C. uniforms and a woman dressed as a Red Cross nurse, who appeared on the stage to salute the flag, raised while the orchestra played "The Star Spangled Banner."
Tschalkowsky's Sixth Symphony, the "Pathetique," began the concert with a "heavy." Only serious composition offered by the orchestra, the Sixth Symphony was familiar enough to most concert-goers, and those whose eyes became heavy-lidded after the first ten measures, succeeded in staying awake by watching the bows of the string section sweep up and down, or by admiring the colorful formal gowns dotting the stage.
Lack of coordination was not too obvious, and since any errors either passed completely unnoticed or were chalked up to the genius of Tschaikowsky as just some eccentric part of the music, the listeners who crammed the auditorium were for the most part complacently relaxed and a trifle bored.
But this B- performance wouldn't cause Peter Iljitch to turn over under his tombstone — modern swing writers have had their bid in first.
Leaving the mournful "Pathetique," the program became more "vivace" as it swept into the "Perpetual Motion" of 30 solo violins and woodwinds, a brief but well-executed number.
Alice Sherbon did some interesting but not very inspiring gyrating to deFallas "Ritual Fire Dance," with Robert Glotzbach at the piano. If last night's performance of the "Quartet from Rigoleto" was any indication, the Moncrieff singers
E. M. Brach, tenor, who sang the melodic aria at the beginning of the "Quartet" did a good job of his solo work.
have a successful future ahead of them. The audience liked them, making them take three bows.
The poignantly fragile "Intermezzo" was followed by "So What? a dance executed by Alice Sherbon and Melba Schilling that refused to take anything seriously. The dance romped through a pseudo-interpretative "ivory-towerist," pseudo-modern "heavy-contemporary-if-it-kills," and other "pseudos" to a "finale, with a superficially light comment upon a current problem."
Miss Sherbon, the choreographer, "used various dance techniques, distorted to represent various human characteristics." The slap-happy gymnastic farce had for unmusical accompaniment off-key piano and violins, and some novelty percussions of whistles, squeaks, rasps, and groans.
Concluding the program was the eternal hope of all two-gun western epics, the Overture to "William Tell." The orchestra played it seriously with commendable restraint or fury at the proper places, but the finale still provoked the audience to smothered laughter as the Lone Ranger astride Silver thundered down the canyon.