WEDNESDAY, MAY 14, 1941
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
PAGE FIVE
Swedish Artist Brings Fame To Bethany College
Lindsborg, May 14.—(UP)—One of the nation's great artists and one of the world's finest lithographers is a Swede transplanted to the plains of Kansas.
He is Birger Sandzen, who at 24 left his Stockholm home to accept a teaching position at Bethany College here. For 47 years he has held the post, building for the school a prominent institute of art and expanding his own repetition
The climax came for Sandzen when Vollmer Bostrom, Swedish minister ta the United States in the name of King Gustav of Sweden conferred on him the Royal Order of the North Star—knighthood in recognition of his contributions to the world of art.
Sandzen was lured to Kansas by tales Americans told in Paris of the western frontier where Indians still roamed and every man was a pioneer. A friend at Bethany College suggested he apply for a teaching position there.
He wrote the college officials telling them as modestly as possible of his art training in Stockholm and Paris, of his family background—his father was a minister of the State Church of Sweden. A cable announced his acceptance as a staff member.
Sandzen received his early training under Erlandsson, who gave the boy French lithographs to copy for hour after hour. It was to this training that Sandzen attributes his success as one of the world's greatest lithographers. His lithographs and paintings are shown in museums throughout the world.
The Swedish artist is a hard worker. He paints in the classroom and in his studio at home. Besides art he teaches several foreign languages, gymnastics and voice.
For the most part Sandzen's works are portrayals of the country he loves—Kansas and Colorado. He has been lauded by critics who say he puts all the honest beauty of the landscape into his oils, water-colorings, woodcuts, linoleum cuts and lithographs.
Elect Kansan Staff Members
New members of the Kansas Board, governing body of the Daily Kansan, and an editor-in-chief, managing editor, and publisher for the fall term were elected at a meeting of the Board yesterday afternoon.
The names of the Board members and editors will be kept secret until the Kansan Board banquet Friday night in the Colonial Room.
Henry J. Allen, former governor of Kansas and once a United States senator, will be the speaker at the banquet.
Awards for the best news story feature story and editorial published in the Kansan during the past year will be made. Another traditional award to the most outstanding junior or juniors in journalism.
Kansan Will Have New Feature
Next year one issue of the Kansas each week will contain a rotogravure section. This brown section is a Collegiate Digest and will contain pictures from members colleges and Universities throughout the United States.
Advocate War Risk
New York, May 14—(UP)—President Roosevelt was urged today, in a statement signed by 45 representatives of clergy, press, stage, screen, labor and literary circles, to take a strong stand, even at the risk of "war now."
The statement, released by the Fight for Freedom Committee, critized former president Hoover, Sen. Burton K. Wheeler and Charles A. Lindbergh as isolationists "making a large noise . . . trying to tell us that we do not know what we want; that we are afraid; that we are disunited; that we are impotent in a world of foes."
"We want the defeat of Nazism, and we are willing to pay whatever price our president finds necessary," the statement finds. Its signers included:
The Rev. Henry W. Hobson, bishop of the Protestant Episcopal diocese of southern Ohio; Etl Barry-more; Dorothy Thompson; Rachel Crothers; Darryl F. Zanuck; Rear Admiral Harry E. Yarnell, retired; Rupert Hughes; Dr. Horace D. Taft, brother of former president Taft; Dr. Christian Gauss, dean of Princeton University; Herbert Agar, editor of the Louisville Courier-Journal and Daniel J. Tobin, president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Stablemen and Helpers.
To Honor Schwegler With Banquet
A dinner in honor of Dr. R. A. Schwegler, who will retire as dean of the school of education at the end of the school term, will be given Monday, May 26, by the faculty and students in the School of Education.
J. W. Twente, professor of education, will preside at the dinner. Scheduled to speak are L. W. Brooks, principal of Wichita East high school; Cancellor Deane W. Malott and Dean Schwegler.
Dr. Schwegler, who has been dean of the school since 1924, will continue as a full-time professor.
The senior class of Oread Training school left the campus at 8 o'clock this morning to go to Kansas City, Mo., on its annual sneak day.
Oread Seniors Go to Kansas City For Sneak Day
Produce 5,000 Earth Blocks For Sod House
Production of stabilized earth blocks for the Engineering Research laboratory has recently passed the 5.000 mark.
Fourteen students were accompanied by Ruth Litchen, education graduate and class sponsor; Mary Margaret June Gray, college senior; David Rice, college senior; Mrs. Mrs. Alletta Powell, college senior, and H. F. Summers, education senior.
This is approximately one-eighth of the number needed for the laboratory, which will be 160 by 40 feet in dimension, and one story in height. It will be located in back of Marvin hall and east of the Engineering Laboratory.
The older forms, which were made of wood, could produce three blocks at a time, but were not sturdy enough for rough usage.
New-type forms have been put into use in the basement factory of Hoch auditorium. These new forms are made of metal, are operated with a lever, and can produce one block at a time.
Early experiments with metal form proved unsuccessful because of the earth sticking to the side of the forms, but a special molder's powder has overcome this difficulty to a great extent. Four of these metal forms are in use.
Last Jayhawker Come Out June 2 With Beauty Queens
University Grad Roosevelt Man To Be Here
The fifth and last issue of this year's Jayhawker will come out June 2, Betty Coulson, Jayhawker editor, announced today.
There will be eight pages of two-color photographs. Pictures of the queens will be in two colors.
In addition to 500 pictures of graduating seniors it will have portraits of the 15 beauty queens. The name of the winner of the beauty contest will not be released until the Jayhawker is out.
For Seventy-Fifth
President Roosevelt will not be here for the Seventy-fifth Anniversary in June, but his right hand man and executive chief of personal staff will be, in the person of Harold D. Smith, director of the federal budget.
Smith, a graduate of the University School of Engineering in 1922, left a job in Lansing, Mich., to take over the position he now holds. He has, in effect, be-?
now holds. He has, in effect, become the President's business manager.
He does everything for him from writing his veto messages to drafting executive orders which set up such agencies of defense as Knudsenhillman's OPM and Henderson's OPACS. Roosevelt has gradually come to use him on personal trouble-shooting assignments far afield from his former duties.
The former state budget director
of Michigan was for 10 years director of the Michigan Municipal league, and had started his career as a staff member of the Detroit Bureau of Governmental Research in 1924.
He took an M.A. degree at the University of Michigan after being graduated from K.U.
Members of the Fachacamac party will hold a caucus tonight to plan for putting their platform into effect and choose their candidates for officers of the Men's Student Council, McClure announced this morning.
McClure To Head Rising Sun
Smith will conduct a forum in connection with the Seventy-fifth Anniversary, Sunday, June 8.
Bob McClure, college junior, was elected president of the Pachacamac party at a meeting last night. McClure, who served as campaign manager for the party in the spring election last month, replaces Gene Whestone, special college student.
Other officers elected to guide the destinies of the prty of the Rising Sun next year are Reed Whetstone, freshman engineer, treasurer; Fred Coulson, college junior, secretary; and Orville Wright, college junior, vice-president.
Teacher's Friends Give To Fund
Friends of the late Alberta Corbin, professor of German for many years, have contributed more than $100 to the University Flower fund in her memory, Olin Templin, secretary of the Endowment association, announced today.
The Flower fund is a fund to which people can contribute money for lasting memorials in aiding University students, rather than sending flowers to funerals, Templin said.
The fund in memory of Miss Corbin will be used to buy books for the library at Carruth hall. Among other contributions in her honor are 100 volumes for the Carruth library given by William Allen White of Emporia.
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