1941
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS STUDENT PAPER NIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, FRIDAY, SEPT. 26, 1941
39th YEAR
NUMBER 10
Six Girls Bunched NewManLeads
A new man went into the lead in the Kansan's Holiday Excursion Contest today. In an astonishing burst of voting Kenneth Ketchum, independent candidate, swept out in front of the field by about 2,000 votes.
In second place among the men is Henry Skorga, who hel the lead until yesterday. Bunched in third place are Ray Evans, Dave Watermulder, and Kenneth Nicolay. She has already received a
Among the women the race is developing into a tooth and toenail battle with six candidates heading up the list. Ruth Kelley and Georgia Mae Landrith are leading, but several sorority candidates are close behind.
Following the two independent leaders are Shirley Henry, Gamma Phi; Jean Moyer, Sigma Kappa; Muriel Henry, Chi Omega; and Mary Beth Dodge, Kappa Kappa Gamma.
Today Miller Hall entered its candidate in the contest, Betty Austin.
She has already received a number of votes. Another new candidate is Margaret Boyle of 1222 La.
Vote ballots in the contest are given away with each subscription to the University Daily Kansan. Kansan subscriptions may be obtained at the Kansan business office or from individual salesmen-
Ballots should be cast in the ballot box in the newsroom of the University Daily Kansan. Subscribers are urged to vote as soon as possible for the contest closes one week from today.
Wanted:
Omph Kids
To Cheer
All Freshman and Sophomore men and women who have ambitions of leading the cheers for the old Alma Mater must report at the Memorial Stadium at 4:30 Wednesday afternoon for the annual cheerleader tryouts. Of the five berths to be filled on the cheerleading staff four will be freshmen and one will be a sophomore. In all probability the sophomore will be a man, but the girls still have a chance.
Judges who will look over the applicants and select the five best are David Watermulder, president of Men's Student Council; Doris Twente, president of W.S.G.A.; Genevoeve Harman, President of the Jay Janes; Roy Edwards, president of the KuKu's, and head cheerleader; Vernon McKale, head of the Owl Society; and Fred Robertson, head Sachem.
Weather Forecast: Continued fair with slight rise in temperature.
46 Enrolled in C.A.A.
Although four students have yet to pass their physical examinations, announcement of 46 men enrolled in primary and secondary C.A.A. courses for the fall semester was made this morning by Kenneth Razak, advanced course ground instructor.
According to Razak, the selection of the additional four will be made sometime before Monday.
This year's quota of 50 men, 30 primary students and 20 advanced, represents a decrease of 30 men over last spring's quota of 80. The reason for this reduction, Razak stated, is that more centers are being established throughout the
country with fewer enrollees at each. Ground school instruction began last Monday and it is expected that actual flight training will start next week. Razak and Edward E. Brush have charge of the ground school while the Ashcraft Brothers Flying School takes care of the flight instruction.
The C.A.A. training is sponsored by the federal government to train students as eventual flight instructors. A series of courses is offered which if passed by the student entitles him to a flight instructor's rating-
C. A.A. training was first introduced here at the University of Kansas in the fall of 1939. There are approximately 27 schools in Kansas today offering the primary course. Ten of these schools, of which Kansas is one, also teach the advanced course.
Courses given in the program include private course, advanced training, cross-country, student instruction, and the final review. Qualifications for admittance require that the applicant be at least 19 years old and not over 26; that he has
had one year of college' work; and that he has passed the C.A.A. physical examination.
Out of over 75 applications, the following 46 men have been accepted and are now enrolled in the University's C.A.A. flight training:
Primary: Floyd David Bender, Robert Martin Bond, James Parker Brown, Bill Rayl Cole, Jack Horace Doores, Kenneth Harvey Dunn, Glenn M- Dunne, Jr., Richard Holcmb Edwards, Dwight Wm. Ferris, Orlin J. Goering, Edward Hall, (continued to page eight)
Debate Tryouts Will Be Held October 5
E. C. Buehler, professor of speech, announced that tryouts for positions on the freshmen debate team would be held Oct. 5 in the Little theater at Green Hall. The topic for debate; that all able bodied male citizens should be required to complete a year of military training before the age of 21. This topic will be debated as a permanent policy, disregarding the present military system of selective service.
All debaters should be prepared to give a five-minute speech, either pro or con depending on the debaters personal choice.
Kappas Capture Highest Honors at WAA Powwow
Honors went to two groups last night at the W.A.A. sports Powwow, held at 4:30 in Robinson gymnasium for all girls interested in athletic activities. Once again Kappas took the cup for largest number of points through an organized group, and Evelyn Harriman walked away with individual points.
The list of presentations as they were made by Miss Ruth Hoover, head of women's physical education, are as listed: fall horseshoe trophy, Watkins Hall; tennis singles, Kappa Kappa Gamma team; tennis champion, Mary Beth Dodge; archery champion, Betty Currant; independent volleyball, I.W.W.; organized volleyball, Kappas; basketball, Corbin Hall; table tennis doubles, Kappas; table tennis singles, Kappas; table tennis champion, Shirley Irwin; and aerial darts champion, Evelyn Harriman.
Swimming, Kappas; badinton champion, Evelyn Harriam; independent baseball, I.W.W.; organized baseball, Corbin Hall; spring horseshoe trophy, Kappas; tennis doubles, (continued to page eight)
Faculty Will Decide Fate Of Council
The question of who will control a majority on this year's Men's Student Council will be decided by a faculty committee either late this afternoon or early tomorrow.
Tension is growing tighter in Hill political circles as both the Pachacamac and the Progressive Student Government League parties try to outdo each other in preparing a case to present to the faculty committee to settle the Student Council question. Law students in both parties seem to think that they have the answer.
The facts of the case, whether the appointment of David Whitney, senior in the College, to fill the vacancy left on the Council when Watermulder became president, is constitutional, will be presented to a committee composed of three members of the University Senate either this afternoon or tomorrow morning.
Smith and Chubb Selected
In a meeting with Henry Werner, adviser of men, yesterday afternoon, Watermulder and Robert Marietta, P.S.G.L. leader, selected Professor J. B. Smith and H. B. Chubb as two of the three members of the committee to settle the case. Chubb and Smilf.h will meet and select the third member of the group.
After the third member of the committee has been selected Watermulder will notify each party of the time and place set for the hearing. Each party will send one representative to argue its case before the judges.
Watermulder said he believed that the hearing would be held this afternoon some time but was not sure. At noon today he had not yet heard when the meeting would be held.
"Phog" Says Football Doomed
By Bill Porter
Dr. Forrest C. "Phog" Allen took another blast at big-time college football last night in a speech delivered to the student body of William Jewell College, when he predicted that intercollegiate football, as now played, will not last past the present national emergency. This declaration recalls a similar statement made last season, at which time Dr. Allen predicted that college football would die out within ten years. In an interview this morning, "Phog" gave several reasons upon which he has been basing his pre-
"As I see it," he said, "the college coach who depends upon recruiting material for his teams more than by receiving them in regular college enrollment is nothing more than an athletic beagle hound. He is no longer a character-builder, and has lost prestige with the public as well as with the boys on his team. He has become little more than a driver in the three-ring circus of spectacular, big-time athletics.
"The romance of the game is being lost as the participant is becoming more and more to be one of the group who gets his board, room, tuition, books, and what-have-you for playing on athletic teams. The public no longer takes football seriously; it now looks to the game only for entertainent."
Romance of Game Lost
In the economic situation which
will follow this war, the people will be overburdened with taxes and making a living and will have no surplus to spend on subsidizing athletes, pointed out Dr. Allen. "Fraternity who have been feeding athletes will not have that extra money to spend, and universities will find it increasingly harder to get contributions from alumni.
Uncle Sam to Interfere
Dr. Allen believes that the government in an indirect way will have something to do with the situation. "Uncle Sam will have most of the athletically fit young men in the army, and the great intramural system that the government employs will show educators that the scheme can be used in colleges. With the de-emphasis to bigtime athletics during the war period that is coming the educators of
DR. F. C "PHOG" ALLEN
Sees End to "bigtime stuff"
Dr. Allen, who coached football for ten years, stated that he was strong for the educational value of football as well as basketball. He deplores the fact that the public is no longer taking the game seriously, and sees an end to "all big-time" stuff.
the future will seize upon this opportunity to control athletics in a different way. This huge giant tusker which the educators have been neither controlling nor guiding will be made to serve a useful purpose once again."
"This sort of football benefits no one," concluded Dr. Allen, "and the game will be made more real and earnest when the frills and foibles of spectacular competition are reduced."