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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
NUMBER 73.
38TH YEAR.
Z-229
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1941.
Regents Back Mill Tax Levy Harris Says
By BOB TRUMP
"We think :: would be a great forward step in the development of state educational institutions."
If the bill is acted upon favorably, the University would receive funds for a new building or a substantial addition every three or four years.
Other schools besides the University which would benefit from the proposal are Kansas State College at Manhattan, Kansas State Teachers' College at Emporia, Kansas State Teachers' College at Pittsburg, and Fort Hays College.
Thus Fred M. Harris, Ottawa lawyer and chairman of the Board of Regents, described the proposed mill tax levy which is to be placed soon before the state legislature in Topeka.
"We call attention to the fact," said Harris, "that for years no new building projects have been provided by the legislature at any state school except for repairs on Dyche museum, the Kansas State chemical building, and the University of Kansas School of Medicine at Kansas City."
The measure would levy a tax of one-fourth of a mill for the purpose of providing funds for a modest long-term building program in the five state institutions of higher learning.
Harris pointed out that in 1917 the state legislature adopted a constitutional amendment which levied a tax, the proceeds of which were to be apportioned among the various state schools. This amendment was approved in a general state election in 1918 and has been part of the law for more than 22 years, but no attention has ever been paid to it.
The mill tax bill probably will be introduced early in the present legislative session by Rollo Coleman, Johnson county senator. Coleman was a member of the Senate in 1917 when the constitutional amendment was passed.
These longer and more luxurious library hours have been established to accommodate the increased number of students who are using the library these days.
These new Sunday library hours were observed for the first time last week, and will hold for the next two Sundays.
More Time For Study
For those students who do not take their seventh day of rest seriously Watson library is now open on Sunday from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m., and again in the evening from 7 to 10.
Social Climbers---
200 To Jam and Cram At Band's Dinner Dance
By ED GARICH
200 band members, guests, and band alumni will congregate in the Kansas room of the Memorial Union building at 6:15 tomorrow evening for the formal dinner dance which highlights the social season for the musicians. $ \textcircled{9} $
After the food, those present will listen to records of the University band, and the coy corn of E. Thayer Gaston's terrible twenty. If anyone survives this revival of the old home town band, these hardy ones will be rewarded by listening to the
tunes 5oth mellow and hot of Clayton Harbur's orchestra, as they two-step until 12.
Present Policy Leads To War Says Flynn
Dean D. M. Swarthout will speak, and perhaps other guest will be called on by toastmaster Bob Hampel.
"You'll be in this war, not only with machines, but behind those machines," John T. Flynn, noted economist and writer, told the young men of his audience in a talk to 400 students and faculty members in Fraser theater yesterday afternoon.
Speaking under the auspices of the America First committee, Flynn warned, "It is impossible under present governmental policy to prevent it."
Flynn, widely known as an isolationist, told his audience that it is absolutely untrue that England does not want our men as well as our machinery for her war. "To win this war," he said, "England must drive the Germans out of France and Holland. Can she do it?" Flynn believes that she cannot without the help of the United States.
"Mr. Roosevelt has said, 'We're going to bring freedom from want to the rest of the world.' " "This," says Flynn, "is a lot of baloney with neon lights."
Flynn's talk was threaded with humor. He brought in a comparison of Greek and modern government, saying that everything that has happened to the world lately,
"Roosevelt Is Wrong
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Skidmore Celebrates Twice
Charles Skidmore, college senior, has a double occasion for celebration on this burry day.
The other, he received notification from the War department this morning of his appointment as a flying cadet in the Army Air corps. Skidmore will begin preliminary training after graduation. He is scheduled to report June 7 or July 19 to a field not yet designated.
For one, he reached manhood today, beginning his 21st year at 12:01 a.m.
'Kansas Engineer' On Sale Monday
The January "Kansas Engineer," the largest in several years, will go on sale Monday, editor Charles Baer announced today.
Dean J. J. Jakosky has entered an original article concerning modern and future trends in education The other features have been supplied by students of engineering and architecture.
Especially good are the accounts on Prefabrication by Bob Brockett, senior engineer; Army Engineering by C. T. Hammond, senior en- (continued to next page)
Mary K. Brown Victorious In Bid For Regal Honor
More than 4,000 persons witnessed the close of a week of stilted, competitive relations among University women when Chi Omega's Mary Kay Brown stepped into the center of the floor of Hoch auditorium last night to receive a bouquet of roses
MARY K. BROWN
C of C Proposes $10,000 Airport Improvement
The C.A.A. pilot training may necessarily be curtailed here at the University, because of inadequate airport facilities. The aviation committee of the Chamber of Commerce met recently to consider the matter. Another meeting is scheduled for Monday night.
The preliminary training will probably continue, but the advanced course will suffer unless the lack of field lighting, hangars, and class-
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Flynn Discredits Wheeler; Wheeler Discredits Flynn
ing a period of civil wars, and the present world war is not going to last long enough for the United States to get in."
Irregardless of who wins the war Britain will go fascist and Germany communistic according to Flynn. Wheeler answered this with, "The civil wars at home will cause all of the major European powers to become more democratic. We are just starting into a cold spell, a time when democracy flourishes."
In an interview with a Kansan reporter after his campus speech yesterday afternoon John T. Flynn, economic and social writer, discredited the weather cycle theory of Dr. R. H. Wheeler of the University psychology department by saying that he had "no belief whatsoever in the theory of weather determining political events."
and the title of Valentine Queen of the University.
ing the actions of governments might have had some force, but that now it is men alone who are responsible for the international muddle.
Today Wheeler came back with a refutation of nearly all of Flynn's statements.
Flynn went on to explain that perhaps several hundred years ago the theory of cold and warm spells shap-
In response to Flynn's prediction that the United States would be in the war by spring and eventually would send an army to Britain's aid, Wheeler commented, "The whole idea is ridiculous. We are now enter-
Pi Phi's Billy Giles won second place in the voting, while Gamma Phi's Ada Lee Fuller finished in third place. Both received bouquets of roses during the between-halves festivities last night.
The presentation concluded the Hill's election to choose a University entry in Life's inter-collegiate contest for the title of "The Ideal Valentine Girl." Miss Brown's photograph which brought a third of Mt. Oread's male voters to the polls yesterday, was mailed to Life magazine last night.
Peak in Afternoon
Interest in the competition between the 12 contestants reached its peak yesterday afternoon when the entire rotunda of Frank Strong hall, the scene of the voting, became a mass of women concentrating on attacking innocent male students with "have you voted yet?" "will you vote for our candidate?" and "will you sign this ballot and vote?" urges.
Nearly an hour later, the members of the election board mopped their brows and heaved a sigh of relief. More than one thousand votes had been dropped into the ballot box, ranking the Valentine Queen contest second only to M.S.C. elections from the point of total votes cast.
As the hands of the clock crawled toward the 5 o'clock voting deadline fresh groups of co-eds continued to push University men toward the polling place or gathered around election judges in an attempt to learn "how the race was going."
When the turmoil had subsided, the M.S.C.-Daily Kansan election board composed of Stan Stauffer, Roscoe Born, Rex Cowan, Bill Farmer and Bob McKay began the job of counting the ballots in the Pine Room of the Memorial Union building. Cast More Than 1,000 Years.
But even an M.S.C. election could not have provided more intrigue, more excitement, and more downright popular appeal than did yesterday's regal race.
Kansan Staff Bows to Exams
The Daily Kansan will suspend regular daily publication during the next two weeks in order to enable journalism students to study for final examinations.
Publication dates for the remainder of the semester are Sunday, Jan. 19; Tuesday, Jan. 21; Wednesday, Jan. 22; Sunday, Jan. 26; and Wednesday, Jan. 29.