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LAWRENCE, KANSAS. TUESDAY, MARCH 25, 1941.
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NUMBER 113.
Littooy Announces Dandelion Dance News of University Holiday Spreads
Captains In Conference
The all-out attack on the pestiferous dandelion is receiving more than local publicity.
At a meeting of the team captains yesterday afternoon in the Memorial Union building, Chairman Charles Wright, fine arts junior, presented a letter from members of a chemical manufacturing concern in Chicago who had read about Dandelion Day in Chicago papers.
According to Sergeant William Kollender, assistant instructor of military science, the students are ready to put something into the beautification of the campus, instead of taking something out of it. He said he had arranged with poultry houses to present each student who does not do his part with a white feather,
They had, the letter said, a much more effective method of killing dandelions than digging. They suggested that if a certain kind of lye were used, extermination would be two and one-fourth times as rapid. To Aid Campus Appearance
A method was suggested whereby those who work and those who only attend the festivities in the afternoon may be distinguished. Captains will wear red tags, team members blue tags, and those who are found without a tag may be presented with a yellow one.
An instruction sheet given to the captains, said that the purposes of (continued to page eight)
Medical Students To Use Burdick Book
William L. Burdick, professor of law, has written a book, "The Law Relating to Physicians and Surgeons," which will be used by students in the University School of Medicine at Kansas City, Kan.
Patriotic Sundae
Yum Yum!
The book is a collection of Burdick's lectures upon legal topics of interest to physicians and surgeons. The lectures were delivered in past years to senior classes of the University School of Medicine.
St. Louis—(UP) —The newest thing in ice cream concoctions which will tick'lhe the palates of several million steaming Americans this summer is the "All-American Sundae."
It's a delectable missegenation of chopped red cherries, marshmallows and blueberries. Members of the merchandising classes field here by the Ice Cream Merchandising Institute, Inc., sampled the patriotic mixture.
Fritzi Finds Future
Student Starts Shop
Fritzi Meyn, college freshman, has been appointed manager of the Virginia May gift shop in the Eldridge hotel building by her father Fritz Meyn. Lawrence businessman, who announced purchase of the shop yesterday.
Miss Meyn will continue in school and will arrange her classes so that she may be at the shop each afternoon. Her mother, Mrs. Fritz Meyn, and her sister, Mrs. Paul Smart, will assist her in the business.
Miss Meyn plans to finish the present semester at school and then devote her time exclusively to the management of the shop. The new owner plan to redeem
The new owners plan to redecor-
Justice William A. Smith brought greetings to Burdick from the Kansas Supreme Court. F. J. Moreau, dean of the School of Law, introduced the guests and Ernest Deines, third year law, was toastmaster.
K. U. Students To Prepare Bundles For Britain
One of the most noticeable changes, Huxman said, is that much of the practice formerly before the court is now before governmental boards and commissions.
ate the shop and to add to the stock.
University students will have the opportunity to aid in the Bundles for Britain drive according to plans made at a meeting of the Lawrence branch of the organization last night in the Chamber of Commerce office.
Meyn purchased the shop from Mrs. Betty Osborn and Miss Josephine Sublette who have operated it for the past three years.
Ten student organizations represented at the meeting were Alpha Phi Omega, national service fraternity; Men's Pan Hellenic council; Women's Pan-Hellenic council; M. S. C.; W.S.G.A.; Jay Janes; Y.W.C.A.; Mortar Board; House Presidents' Council; and Corbin Hall.
Discussing changes in the practice of law before the circuit court as seen by a judge of the court, Walter A. Huxman, former governor of Kansas and now judge of the United States circuit court spoke to 95 law students, alumni, and guests at the Burdick Day banquet held Saturday evening in honor of the eighty-first birthday of William L. Burdick, professor of law, in the Memorial Union building.
Miss Cleo Benninghoff, secretary of the organization in Kansas City, spoke on the work of the organization and the ways in which students as well as townspeople may contribute.
Knitting sweaters, socks, and mittens was one of the chief projects mentioned. Mrs.C.J.Posey, chairman of the Lawrence knitting committee, reported 20 volunteer knitters from among the townpeople. Several girls in the Gamma Phi and Kappa houses are also knitting for Britain.
Huxman Discusses Changing Practices In Circuit Court
Mrs. Henry Werner, wife of the adviser of men, was elected chairman of the Lawrence auxiliary of the national organization.
Stouffer and Lawson To Go To Convention in Chicago
E B. Stouffer, dean of the Graduate School, and Paul B. Lawson, dean of the College, will leave tomorrow for Chicago where they will attend the annual convention of colleges and secondary schools Wednesday through Saturday.
Swing Out Friday Night
Dean Stouffer is a member of the executive committee of the association.
Probably with an aching conscience after postponing the Junior Prom, Fred Littioy, varsity dance manager, this afternoon gave couples who had planned a prom date something to do this Friday night by announcing a gala Dandelion Dance.
The feature of the dance will be a battle of Hill bands with Clyde Byson's boys on one side of the ballroom of the Memorial Union building and Clayton Harbur's band on the other. A trio composed of Loren Miller, Art Wolfe, and Grier Stewart will sing to the accompaniment of the bands.
Tables will be placed at the north end of the ballroom and cokes will be dispensed during the evening.
The dance will last from 8 to 12 o'clock. Admission will be the Varsity price of 75 cents for couples and stags.
Nash,Virtue Hopkins to Attend Teachers' Meeting
Bert A. Nash, professor of education; John B. Virtue, assistant professor of English; and Edwin H. Hopkins, retired professor of English, will leave Wednesday for Colorado Springs to attend a regional conference of the National Council of Teachers of English.
The conference will be held from Thursday evening, March 27, to Saturday afternoon, March 29, in the Broadmoor hotel.
Six states besides Kansas will be represented at the conference. They are Colorado, Oklahoma, Nebraska, Wyoming, Utah and New Mexico.
To Present Entrada June 4,5,6
Coronado's Entrada and the Kansas Cavalcade will be staged in Memorial stadium June 4, 5, and 6, in connection with the Seventy-fifth Anniversary Celebration, Prof. Leonard Axe, chairman of the operating committee, announced today.
It is the largest show of its kind ever staged in Kansas, having scenery and costumes purchased with money appropriated by the government. Its mammoth 300-foot stage, built of steel, measures 35 feet in height. Mounted on rubber rollers, parts of the scenery can be shifted to represent mountains, river valleys, and plains, as the program calls for them.
The pageant will reproduce the trek of Coronado and his band from Old Mexico through the Southwest to Kansas, depicting Indian fights, the efforts of Father Padilla to convert the savages to the Christian faith, and many of the hardships of the journey. A pageant of the de-
Coronado's Treks
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Naval Officers Quiz Prospects
Recruiting officers from the U. S. Marine corps and the Naval Air force are on the campus today interviewing and giving physical examinations to students interested in entering those branches.
A Naval Air Cadet Selection board composed of Ensign T. H. Jenkins, a naval aviator, and Lt. M. D. Robinson, medical examiner, interviewed and examined students until noon today.
Lt. R. D. Taplett and Dr. Bill Yavorsky of the Marine corps will be on the campus all day interviewing and examining students for the Marine Corps Candidate class, a Marine officer's training course.
Students between the ages of 20 and 26 interested in joining either the Naval Air force or the Marine corps should apply at the R.O.T.C. building.
All K.U. Groups---three years ago at the University. In the last two years 215 students have been trained in aviation work and planes in use now number 12.
Keep Pace With U.S. Preparation
BY DON COLE
"With the speeding up of the tempo of America's preparation, the University is keeping pace." Chancellor Deane W. Malott said today.
With new developments breaking into the news continually, the average University student may not realize the significance of this statement. The University is keeping in step with numerous projects. Military Projects
Defense project No. 1 - Military front. Best known of the many defense phases on the campus is the R.O.T.C. R.O.T.C. courses might have been regarded as just so much spit and polish plus a lot of fun sev-
Military Projects
It's hard work, but 625 male students of the campus are taking no chances. It's foolish to pass up a chance at being an officer if you are to be called for a year's training. Work is under way on the new Military Science building and better training facilities will be available when the building is completed. Air Front
eral years ago, but now the R.O.T.C. student takes his work more seriously.
---For Defense
Defense project No. 2—Air front The C.A.A. flight training program, "conceived to make the nation air conscious, and to provide a large air reserve in the event of war" began
Continuance of the advance training course will be decided by Lawrence citizens who will vote on a $15,000 bond issue to meet the new requirements for advanced training in the C.A.A.
Thus far no student enrolling in the flying courses has been required to enroll in army or navy air training.
Defense project No. 3 — Production front. Although University students are not enrolled in the Defense (continued to page eight)