UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
STUDENT PAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
38TH YEAR.
NUMBER 136.
Phi Beta Kappa To Initiate 26 New Members
Phi Beta Kappa will hold initiation services for 26 new members, elected this month, and its annual banquet in the Memorial Union building tomorrow night.
Five talks based on quotations of famous people and following the banquet theme will be given by students and faculty members who are Phi Beta Kappa's.
The initiation at 5:30 p. m. will be followed by the banquet in the ballroom.
Prof. L. R. Lind, of the department of Latin and Greek, will base his talk on "Man is the measure of all things," a quotation from Protagoras. Renest Klema, college senior, will talk on "The mission of science is to bring mankind nearer to equality by means of the wider diffusion of wellbeing" from Ballard.
LAWRENCE KANSAS WEDNESDAY, APRIL 30, 1941.
"The Scholar in a Troubled World" is the theme of this year's banquet at which Miss Josephine Burnham will preside.
"Each age must write its own books," as stated by Emerson, will be discussed by Mrs. Robert Calderwood. Betty Kimble, college senior, will talk on "Men never solved their problems but they were kept alive by the struggle to solve them," a quotation from Wilhelm Moberg.
Chancellor Deane W. Malott will conclude the program with "Mankind may expect America to be the intellectual synthesis of the world," a statement from H. G. Wells.
Evacuate
45,000
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BY UNITED PRESS
LONDON—British evacuate estimated 45,000 from Greece, about 15,000 including 3,000 dead and wounded fail to get away; foreign office issues statement showing Greeks advised BEF to withdraw on April 21; Plymouth virtually smashed by fifth savage air attack in eight nights; RAF smashes at Mannheim; air ministry reports hits on five German supply ships off French, Belgian and Norwegian coasts.
TOKYO—Foreign office newspaper proposes comprehensive peace plan giving Germany complete domination of Europe and Japan complete domination in far eastern Pacific and South Seas.
MOSCOW—Pravda reports arrival 12,000 German troops in battle-kit on southwest coast of Finland; Russia bans transit of war materials across Soviet territory.
BERLIN-German troops reach southern Peloponnesus ports; claim capture of 5,000 troops including one general; Roosevelt plan for naval patrols draws another threat of Nazi torpedo reprisals; Luftwaffe hammers Plymouth, Malta and Tobruk; claim sinking of 44,765 tons of British shipping off English south coast.
Whodunit?
Dandelion Day on the campus last Wednesday brought more than dandelion diggers to the hill. It brought a deluge of handbills denouncing the possible all-out entrance of the United States into the present world conflict. The appearance of the handbills coincided conveniently with the peace strikes sponsored by the American Youth Congress on university campuses throughout the country. The writers of these handbills cleverly capitalized on the impossibility of future Dandelion Days if the United States enters the war. But these persons refused to disclose their identity.
In the past week, the Kansan has made every effort to discover who was behind the move. Reporters have traced down the fact that the sheet was printed in the office of the Douglas County Democrat. They have also found a group of persons who speak of the existence of a secret peace organization, but are unwilling to disclose the names of any members of the group.
After seven days' work by several Kansan reporters the identity of the group still remains unknown.
The University Daily Kansan in no way attempting to persecute this group of students. We hold that one of the basic principles of democracy is freedom of speech, but in such critical times demonstrations and announcements should be backed publicly by their sponsors.
The Kansan is not advocating war. During periods of world war and emotional unrest, all people are affected by particular opinions voiced by individuals on every side of every question. Freedom of speech is the privilege of democracy. But it is also the privilege of democracy that everyone should know the names of the sponsors of particular political doctrines.
—EDITOR, DAILY KANSAN.
Complete Seminar
"Romance does not end with marriage," said Mrs. Gladys Hoagland Groves, of Chapel Hill, N.C., speaker at the marriage seminar which ended last night with a meeting in the Pine rooft of the Memorial Union building.
Romance Does Not End With Marriage Expert Tells Meet
"Those who believe marriage ends the romantic element are mistaken," the expert said. "They remain at an adolescent stage, without realizing that marriage involves continually developing and changing romance and happiness. You don't just marry and 'live happily ever after'—you work for it."
Mrs. Groves' husband has taught a college course in marriage for 16 years at the University of North Carolina. Having been happily married 21 years, Mrs. Groves can speak with authority from her own experience.
"Young people must be prepared economically, physically, and mentally for marriage," she believes. "Most important of all, they must
Senate Meets Today
Consider Patrol
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WASHINGTON, April 30—(U.P.) The Senate Foreign Relations Committee meets today to consider two resolutions bearing on the convoy-patrol question.
The meeting comes less than 24 hours after President Roosevelt's expanded patrol was said to be functioning within 1,500 miles of western British ports and may be operating within the combat zone around the British Isles as defined by Germany.
Before the Senate Committee are resolutions by Senators Charles w
Tobey, R. N. H., and Gerald P. Nye, R., N. D. Tobey's would forbid peace-time convoy operations altogether. Nye's would require the President in time of peace to seek Congressional consent before undertaking to convoy or to transport war materials in American vessels.
Fifty Congressional non-interventionists last night pledged their "unalterable opposition" to American convoys "by whatever name they are called," and voted to petition to ap-
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Army Officers Inspect R.O.T.C.
"Entirely satisfactory" was the opinion of Lieutenant Colonel H. H. Davis, infantry officer, and of the University staff concerning the inspection of the University R.O.T.C. so far today.
Colonel Raymond E. Briggs, R.O.T.C. officer of the Seventh Corps Area, is conducting the administrative inspection; Colonel C. A. French, University of Minnesota, the coast artillery inspection; and Colonel Davis, University of Arkansas, the infantry inspection.
Elect 'Sweetheart Today
For the first time I.S.A. is to have a Sweetheart.
Today from 1 to 5 p.m., I.S.A. men voted in center Frank Strong hall for five "Sweetheart" candidates, who had been selected by a secret committee of five men. They were Evelyn Kamprath, college junior; Helen Edlin, fine arts junior; Genevieve Harman, college junior; Georgia Mae Landrith, college junior; and Helen Rymph, fine arts sophomore.
The winner of the Sweetheart contest will be kept secret until the I.S.A. Jay Hop Friday night, when it will be ceremoniously announced, Fred Robertson, I.S.A. president, said today.
The other four candidates will be the Sweetheart's attendants. Only men were eligible to vote in today's election.
Soggy ground was not expected to halt the march of the regiment and the University band down to the intramural field south of Marvin hall where a review, parade, infantry drill and inspection was to be carried out.
Add Color
The inspecting officers were honored at a luncheon in the Memorial Union building this noon. Attending the luncheon were the inspecting officers, Dean Paul B. Lawson, Colonel Baldwin, R. O. T. C. staff members and the R. O. T. C. Senate committee.
The American flag, the regimental colors, red company guilds of the artillery battalion and blue guardions of the two infantry battalions was to add color to the 625 uniformed cadets comprising the University regiment.
All For Art
The inspection will continue tomorrow morning with the inspection of the first year advanced coast artillery and infantry and this will be followed by practical exercises on the campus grounds.
Lions Goes Hollywood And City Parks
Cameramen are covering Lawrence these days filming the life and industry of the city for the movie being sponsored by the Lions club. Ruth Rodgers, University Relays queen, is the cinema "visitor," and is being shown the city while her activities, from cashing an out-of-town check to getting the morning
And City Parks
1 Never Done It ★★★★
Mock Trial
Sam Prager, first year law, accused of shooting a North Lawrence bartender, was acquitted yesterday afternoon by a jury of freshman law students in a mock trial held in the courtroom of Green hall.
The state contented that Prager shot and killed the bartender at 4 am. in an alley in North Lawrence but Prager produced an alibi that proved that he was nowhere near the scene of the crime at the time of the slaying.
State's attorneys were Worden Davis, Kenneth Moses, and Howard Dunham, all third year law students.
Defense attorneys were Don Gamet, Karl Ruppenthal, and Fred Litttoy, also third year law students. P. W. Viesselman, professor of law, presided at the trial.
Pictures of Miss Rodgers "arriving" in Lawrence were taken at the municipal airport and other pictures will be taken as she visits the University, Haskell Institute, the elementary schools, business concerns and the city's industries.
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The pictures will be shown at the Granada theater May 7 and 8. Three shows will be given each day. All proceeds from the pictures will go toward buying playground equipment for the city parks.
Tonight pictures will be taken at the mid-week dance, showing students of the University at play. Saturday pictures were taken at Wiedemann's. The show will include pictures of all places of interest in and around Lawrence as well as people and shoppers up and down Massachusetts street.
The cameramen began "shooting" the town last Friday and will continue taking pictures during the week.