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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
STUDENT PAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
38TH YEAR.
LAWRENCE KANSAS TUESDAY, APRIL 22, 1941.
NUMBER 130.
Dandelions Begin Cowering As Jayhawk Gardeners Prepare
Festivities Start With Digging at 9
A total of 3,400 students and faculty members have been recruited for tomorrow's dandelion digging campaign, Chuck Wright, officer of the daisies, said today. He reports the dandelions have already begun cow- ering in anticipation.
Tomorrow is a day for the vigorous type—no doubt about it. At 9 o'clock the house-to-house flying squadrons of Ku Ku's Jay Janes and K-Clubbers go to work. Nine o'clock is the time when every digger and puller is supposed to be at work on his or her plot, and the flying squadrons will see to it that the battle lines will be kept filled with recruits.
Stop at Noon
Jay James will sell coca-cola and ice cream bars all day at 3 cents.
But the work doesn't last all day. At noon each captain will turn in his burlap bags full of dandelions to the receiving stand and truck in front of Fowler shops, where the harvest will be weighed.
Acme news service of Kansas City will have photographers on the campus during the day, and the Kansas City Star will carry Dandelion Day pictures in its Sunday rotogravure section. Pictures also
If the Hill is subjected to a heavy rain tonight or early tomorrow morning, the whistle will blow at 8 o'clock, again at 8:20 and we go to class. If it blows only at 9 o'clock, we pull dandelions.
will be sent to Life and Look magazines and to other newspapers in this section, but all the movie companies are too busy photographing labor strikes to be here, Wright says.
Carnival in Afternoon
The carnival, with its Bingo, dart throwing, K-Club skit, kangaroo court, penny pitching, hot dogs, and greased pig will begin at 1 and last until 4:30 o'clock. Street dancing, to the music of Clyde Bysom and Clayton Harbur, begins at 2 and continues to 4:30 o'clock, with an intermission from 2:45 to 3:30 for a radio program and coronation ceremonies.
The radio program will be broadcast from the front steps of Frank Strong hall, and will include presentation of the Dandelion Day King and Queen and the awarding of prizes. After the broadcast, carnival concessions and dancing will resume their normal pace, and continue until the greased pig chase sometime between 4 and 4:30 o'clock.
Dance Tonight
Tired and sunburned dandelion snatchers won't have a chance to dance at a regular Midweek tomorrow night, Carter Butler, president of the Student Union Activities board, announced this afternoon.
But, substituting in a bigger and better way will be the two-hour pre-Dandelion Day dance in teh Memorial Union ballroom tonight, with music from the bands of both Clayton Harbur and Clyde Bysom.
Dancing will cost dancers 10 cents, date or stag, and the music will be on tap from 8:30 to 10:30 p. m.
Taraxacum,
That Bum
By PROF. A. J. MIX
I have a callous on my thumb
From digging up Taraxacum.
The dandelion's a lusty plant,
It grows where other herbage can't,
But also, which is not so good,
It grows wherever bluegrass should.
 Its root is long and very tough
And one small fragment is enough,
If left undug, to sprout anew
Brining gala blossoms to K. U.
It's seed, it really is a fruit,
Is borne by silken parachute,
If roving insects come too late
It's hairy blooms to pollinate.
It sets its seeds, without a miss,
By sheer Parthenogenesis
In fact the dandelion's a bum
By which I mean Taraxacum.
Dandelion Heads
Dandelion plots were staked off and posted with number signs this afternoon, Dandelion Field Marshal Charles Wright reports, and each team captain has been assigned a claim.
The final list of active captains and the tracts they have staked are the following:
Plot 1, Maurice Baringer and Mary Margaret Anderson; 2, Eleanor Allen and Clint Kanaga; 3, Margot Baker and Jim Arnold; 4, Ruth Beeler and Max Howard; 5, Patty Bigelow and Howard Sells; 6, Jeanne Brock and Roland Raup; 7, Jean Brownlee and Garland Landrith; 8, Nancy Carey and Roy Edwards; 9, Olivia Cole and Jim Bernard; 10, Elizabeth Curry and Paul Yankey.
Plot 11, Letba Epperly and Bob Hamilton; 12, Audene Fausett and Dick Westfall; 13, Maxine Pringle
Hold Finals For Summerfields
Down the final stretch wrote the thirty Summerfield finalists as they pored over their last examinations in the ballroom of the Memorial Union building this morning.
Prize Offered
The tests concluded a round of activities during which the high school men were entertained at luncheon by the Summerfield committee yesterday noon, at dinner last night by the resident Summerfield Scholars, and participated in a series of round table discussions in the afternoon.
Now they can only wait and hope The awards will be announced within the next two or three weeks, and approximately 15 will receive four year scholarships to the University.
Students Will Chase Pig
Dandelion Feature
A greasy old greased pig to chase and be chased will be released as the last event of the Dandelion Day celebration tomorrow afternoon.
Athletically and agriculturally inclined dandelion diggers ursue the slippery swine, and to insure the critter's safe Student
Athletically and agricultur will pursue the slippery swine, capture the Men's Student Council has offered a $5 prize to the man (or woman) who brings him back alive. All students are eligible to compete for the prize. The M. S. C. hasn't even excluded the members of Phi Kappa Psi and Kapp Alpha Theta, although they have had previous pigging experience.
Paul Yankey, busi ess senior, wha
The hog is now in the process of being washed and dried, after which he will be covered thoroughly with good rich, black transmission grease. The race will begin about 4 o'clock.
has charge of pig arrangements, says that the snouted individual which has been obtained is a red job, 1940 Duroc model, and is as rangey as an Arkansas razorback.
and Bob Allen; 14, Lillian Fisher and Wills Fankhauser; 15, Virginia Ford and Bob Trump; 16, Dorothy Gear and Ray Davis; 17, Betty Jean Hess and Lee Huddleston; 18, Virginia Griswold and Bob Haynes; 19, Betty Haney and Donn Mosser; 20, June Hammett and Lloyd Svoboda.
Plot 21, Martha Jane Hayes and Keith Martin; 25 Dorothy Howe and Charles Walker; 26 Lois Howell and Harry Wiles; 27 Mary Gene Hull and Ed Suage; 28 Myra Hurd and Jim Burdge; 29 Billy Doris Jarboe and Don Morton; 30 Nancy Kerber and Clarence Peterson.
Plot 31, Edna Greenwell and Hugh Metzler; 32. Viola Knoche and Ernest Vienes; 33. Barbara Koch and Dick Lee; 34. Betty Ann Lease and Fred Eberharrt; 35. Georgia May Landrith and Paul Hines; 66. Margaret Learned and Glee Smith; 37. Helen Martin and Bob Collett; 38, 40. Oread High School; 39. Mary Frances McAnaw and Kenny Kost.
Plot 41, 43, 46, Jessie McClune, Ruth Moritz, and Selda Paulk; 42, Marsha Molby, and Elden Beebe; 44, Emily Mumford and Ward Benkelman; 45, Dorothy May Nelson and Jack Beamer; 47, Colleen Poorman and Wendell Tompkins; 48, Georgia Ferrel and Gene Rickett.
Plot 52, Mary Lou Randall and Bob Holmer; 56, Reba Rodgers and George Kettner; 57, Jean Rubbra and Milt Allen; 58, 59, 60, Helen Rymph, Mary Robble Scott, and Jean Sellers; 61, Joyce Standiferd,
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Politicos Make Final Drive For Election
The election Thursday will mark the end of one of the shortest Men's Student Council campaigns in history.
Hill politicians have been making a last concerted drive for votes. Because of an agreement between the PSGL's and the Pachacamacs to declare a truce Dandelion Day, the day before the election, last night's regular M. S. C. meeting was called off to give candidates more time for active campaigning.
McKay, who lost the Council presidency to Bill Farmer last year by one vote and served as representative-at-large on the Council, again heads the Pachacamac slate, opposed by Jim Burdge, the present secretary of the Council and standard bearer for P. S. G. L.
The P. S. G. L. platform advocates the extension of men's housing facilities, better orientation of new students, improvement of food and housing regulations, and establishment of a non-profit book store.
Pachacamac is campaigning for the creation of a student labor board, the employment of student labor on campus building projects, and the reference of important Council bills to a student straw vote.
War in Brief
Rome Says Greeks Quit
northwest of Athens in Thermopylae area; Nazi planes bomb continuously right up to Athens outskirts, air alarm sirens abandoned.
BY UNITED PRESS
London—British fleet attacks Tripoli for 42 minutes, badly smashes German base for invasion of Egypt; Allies fall back to Thermopylae line in Greece; authorities decline comment on reports British start evacuating Greece; Luffawaffe attacks Plymouth; British fear axis thrusts in Spain, Turkey and Far East at climax of spring offensive.
Rome—The newspaper, II Tevere, in a special edition, quoted unconfirmed reports from Lisbon today that the Greek army had surrendered.
Athens—Allied forces fall back south of Lamia under terrific Nazi air attacks; lines about 100 miles
Berlin—German troops occupy Volos, Lamai, Ioannina, press on southward; believe large bodies of Greek troops from Albania cut off; 31,000 tons of transports sunk; believe Greeks may ask armistice; British attack on Libyan frontier repulsed.
Rome—Admit British attack on Tripoli; Italian troops cross into Greece from Albania.
Vienna—Drafting of axis new order in Balkans gets under way; Bulgaria, Hungary and Croatia will get slices of Greece and Jugoslavia, Rumania not slated for gains.