Choose Your Valentine Queen Entry Today From Bevy of Beauties Shown on Pages 4,5 UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Flu Total Hits 31 at Hospital
The total of influenza cases at Watkins Memorial hospital rose to 31 last night. There are 46 patients now in the hospital.
With the number of "flu" cases gradually rising, the number of inoculations against influenza is rising much faster. Dr. Ralph I. Canutson, director of the student health service, announced today that up to last night 667 vaccines had been given to volunteers.
Chancellor Deane W. Malott, 19 staff members of the hospital, faculty members, and students from Hill organizations have taken the influenza test. The University offered to make this mass test to aid the Rockefeller Institute, where the discovery of the vaccine was recently made.
Anyone who is,free from a cold, flu,food allergies, or who has not recently had the flu,may apply at Watkins Memorial hospital for the inoculation.
Jakosky Describes Defense Courses
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, TUESDAY, JANUARY 14, 1941
To familiarize students with "organizing, assembling and processing materials through the manufacturing operation" is the main purpose behind the national defense courses to be started Feb. 3 at the University, said J. J. Jakosky, dean of the School of Engineering, while speaking on the National Defense Question Box program over radio station WDAF Sunday.
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However, of the five national defense courses originally planned to be presented in the School of Engineering during the second semester, only two have a definite chance of being given, F. A. Russell, professor of civil engineering, said this morning.
Forty men have sent in applica- (continued to page five)
Valentine Queen Contest Into Last Lap Tomorrow
Supporters of Becky Trembly, Kappa Alpha Theta aspirant to the title of Valentine Queen, started her campaign last night at the Iowa State game by throwing handbills from the balcony of Hoch auditorium.
All candidates and their friends are working fast to bribe, charm, or coerce Hill males into the proper voting mood for the election Thursday.
Until Thursday the Campaigning will be hard, because never before have the publicity stakes been so high in a campus contest. The gal selected by the severest critic, man, will not only be hailed as the campus beauty, but she will have her picture published in Life magazine with other Valentine Queens of other schools.
The next to the luckiest, or second best Queen, will be awarded $5 worth of tickets to the Lawrence theaters by Stan Schwahn, general manager of the theaters.
This contest is being sponsored by Life Magazine, the Men's Student Council, and the University Daily Kansan.
Banners Fly--right. This is true, whether it is college football, intramural, or merely sandlot athletics. But on the commercialized basis of subsidization and post-season games the football player is glorified; not the man in him.
Polls in Frank Strong hall will be open from 9 a.m. until 5 p.m. Thursday. The polls will be attended by members of the Men's Student Council and the Kansan staff. Voters must present their activity books before they cast their ballot for the Queen. Ballots and the pictures of the candidates for the contest will be printed in the Daily Kansan for two days before the election, and extra copies of the election issue will be available at the Kansan business office.
Kansas State Students Parade For Fieldhouse
Manhattan, Kan., Jan. 14—(UP)—Approximately 1,500 students from Kansas State college last night staged a noisy parade in an effort to persuade the state legislature that they need a new field house.
It was announced that members of the Kansas legislature, along with Governor Ratner, will be guests of the Kansas State department of athletics for the annual intra-state basketball game between Kansas and Kansas State.
Cars jammed with students carrying signs and banners paraded through the streets. One banner, referring to the small Kansas State gymnasium, said: "Are we men or sardines?"
Percy Grainger To Direct Camp
The Manhattan Junior Chamber of Commerce aided the students in the demonstration.
Percy Grainger, world renowned pianist, composer and director, has been secured for the Mid-Western Music Camp this summer for a week as director of the camp band and orchestras, as well as for a piano recital which will be one of the features of the summer session music calendar here.
Mr. Grainger, internationally known for such compositions as (continued to page five)
Engineers Hold Second Banquet
Hot competition will be served as an after-course at the second of a series of informal engineering banquets being held at 6 o'clock tonight in the ballroom of the Memorial Union building under the sponsorship of the Engineering Council and the six engineering department societies.
The competition will result when all engineers sign their names on the backs of their tickets after which 10 of the tickets will be drawn and their holders entitled to participate in a contest. The contest will consist of solving slide-rule problems and the winner will receive a $13 slide-rule donated by Rowlands Book Store.
The competition will be on the "up-and-up," however, for W. O. (continued to page five)
Fine 76 Drivers;
Dismiss 16
In Parking Cases
Fines were hung around the necks of 76 male student violators of the parking regulations while 16 cases were dismissed by the Student Supreme court which considered 92 charges in its session last week.
The fines assessed ranged from $24 to $1 with the majority being less than $5.
Only 56 of the male docket of 92 cases appeared before the court. The judgments in the 36 cases did not appear went automatically against the defendants.
By constitution the court must notify the defendants of judgment within one week after trial, and so the judgments will be mailed toorrow, Bob Marietta, clerk of the court, announced today.
The Student Supreme court is provided by the men's constitution in order to handle the judicial power of the Men's Student Council. It has jurisdiction, not only over violations of M.S.C. laws, but also over controversies between students.
To Interview Women Friday Concerning Nursing Courses
Miss Henrietta Froehike, superintendent of nurses of the University hospitals, will be on the campus Friday to interview women students planning to take nursing courses, the College office announced today.
All those interested in obtaining an interview with Miss Freohlke are requested to make appointments at the College office.
No Midweek Dance Tomorrow Night
There will be no midweek dance tomorrow night. Carter Butler announced this afternoon. The Union activities president said it had been called off because of the small attendance last week.
Elliott Echoes Allen's 'Grid Doom' Statement
Bv TOM THOMPSON
"On the commercialized basis that football has been running on for the past three years, I would say that football might not last 10 years." That is what A. J. "Dad" Elliott, former Northwestern All-American tackle, now executive secretary of Christian Evangelism Among Youth, Inc., said today, echoing the statement that Dr. F. C. Allen made a few months ago.
College athletics are just as valuable to the Loy as ever, "Dad" went on to say. "To teach a boy to play right, is to teach him to live
"It is not fair to the team as a unit to maintain them as a part of the paid staff of the school. The student body won't support a team that it knows is getting the 'soft breaks.' The members of the team are looked down upon. But still, some
alumni and athletic directors say that the professional players on a college team are the crux of the publicity department. They are the means of getting the school name more widely spread.
"Unless schools and student bodies recognize this big-business wedge that is being driven into the higher educational system, football is doomed. When the football teams are drawn from the student body; then football may be revived."
Elliott suggested, as a remedy, that the post season games such
as the Rose bowl, Sugar bowl, and especially the All-Star games, be outlawed by the schools. Then, he said, the colleges should get a hundred students out for fall practice, instead of 30 paid men. In short, "Dad" Elliott says to keep football an athletic competition, instead of a big business enterprise.
Sunday morning, Elliott spoke before theregation of the First Presbyterian church. Later Sunday he talked to a student group in the ballroom of the Memorial Union
building, under the auspices of the Student Christian Federation. Yesterday he told the Lawrence Rotarians that the greatest danger today is not outside forces, but the disintegrating forces within this country. He has held several classroom conferences on the University campus.
Elliott is the executive secretary of Christian Evangelism Among Youth, Inc., and he has been on almost every college and university campus in the country. He made his last visit to the University 32 years ago.