The Kansan To Back TBTests For Food Handlers See Editorial page 6. UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
STUDENT PAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
VOLUME XXXVIII
Z-229
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 18. 1940
To Measure Parents' Applause
A vocalometer will be used at the Parent's Day banquet at 6:30 Saturday evening in the Memorial Union ballroom. This instrument has been prepared for the celebration by the physics department. The vocalometer measures the amount of sound in the room and audience entertainment will be so measured next Saturday. Rivalry in popularity is expected among the two glee clubs and the Modern choir.
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Letters of invitation have been sent out from the University to the parents of the students.
Henry Werner, adviser to men, will act as chief interlocuter in an "Information Please" session, adopted from the clever Clifton Fadiman production. Many embarrassing questions with humorous angles will be used. Both university glee clubs will sing and the Modern choir is scheduled to sing three numbers. Chancellor Deane Malott will make a welcoming talk addressed to the parents.
Tickets for the banquet are on sale at the business office and at the Union building for 65 cents. Reservations cannot be made on Saturday. The deadline on reservations is 5 p.m Friday.
The second floor galleries in the Spooner-Thayer museum will be closed to the public for more than a week for repairs. Miss Minnie Moodie, curator, disclosed yesterday.
Museum Repairs Are Now Under Way
A cloth covering with rubber backing is being put on the walls of two of the rooms. As soon as that has been completed, all the woodwork in the gallery will be repainted. The position of the switch box which controls the lights to the gallery is also being changed.
In and Out-the unfit, the athlete and the men who merely watch him from the bleachers. They are registering today for selective military service.
GOV. PAYNE RATNER
—spoke here but didn't stay long.
Makes Political Tour In Douglas County
Governor Payne Ratner visited Douglas county this morning and was accompanied in his tour of the county to Lecompton, Eudora, and Baldwin by the Republican county chairman, the chairman of the county's young Republicans and Bill Douce, e'41; the president of the University of Kansas Young Republican club.
Besides visiting these three towns, Ratner delivered two speeches in Lawrence, one over WREN and the other at St. Luke A.M.E. church Douce announced.
Foodhandlers Begin Tuberculin Tests
Letters announcing tuberculin examinations for foodhandlers at Watkins Memorial hospital were received at organized and unorganized Hill houses yesterday.
Six groups have sent their food workers to be tested. First was Sigma Chi, then Delta Tau Delta, the Dunakin club, Pi Beta Phi, Acacia, and the Memorial Union.
Dr. Ralph I. Canuteson, director of the health service, has urged all foodhandlers take the examination.
Both the Women's and Men's Pan-Hellenic councils have made the test, which is given free of charge, a requirement.
Slow To Register For Conscription In Kansas Room
16,404,000 Men Begin Line of March Today
U. P. CORRESPONDENT
Seven a.m.! It was zero hour for a generation of manhood. Seven a.m., and by Presidential proclamation the registration began. Seven a.m., and 16,404,000 men, 21 to 35 years old, inclusive, began to file into the registration offices.
It was 7 a.m. of Oct.16,1940,and a new age began.The United States is listing its defenders for a peace time draft:
"All males - - - " That is the story. All males, high and low, rich and poor, the lame, the halt and the blind, the fit and
Dove Hits Against Draft
Seven women will be initiated at the second meeting of the Women's Aeronautical Club at 7:30 tomorrow night in the Union lounge. After the initiation and the business meeting, the members will go to a roller skating rink.
Making its first appearance in two years, The Dove, liberal newspaper of the campus, is on sale today. Protesting the Burke-Wadsworth conscription bill and its effect on American democracy, the paper takes its stand against compulsory training.
The "Thomas for President" club was featured, and a report was given of the speech that Maynard Krueger. Socialist candidate for vice-president, made here last week.
Seven To Be Initiated In Women's Aero Club
Time zone by time zone as the zero hour moved westward the young men were on the march. They sign up at a rate of 1,000,000 or more an hour.
There are 11 questions and the man gets a card. His card later gets a number and some 900,000 of those numbers will call for guns. There are about 3,280,000 of those young men who are on the march today who will be fit and available—no dependents, no essential job. The first 900,000 are among them somewhere as they come today from field and factory, cities and towns
There are little blobs of dissent. A teacher here, a parson there cannot reconcile conscience to assist the draft. Some young students —so young—feel that they cannot conscientiously give their names despite assured deferment.
A few more hours and the job will be done.
WEATHER
Continued clear skies and moderate temperatures.
Expect Late Rush Tonight; Only 500 Sign
An unofficial figure of 500 University men had walked into the Kansas room of the Memorial Union building at 2:30 o'clock this afternoon to register for the Selective Service act.
The line started at 7 a.m. today when about 10 students stood outside as the doors of the registration room were opened.
George O. Foster, registrar of the University, who is in charge of the draft registration on the campus, said that until this afternoon the registering crew of about 31 had succeeded in keeping ahead of the line of men from 21 to 35 years of age who filed to the third floor of the Union building, with the exception of short periods between classes.
Many faculty members as well as students had appeared before the R-Day board. The Kansas room will remain open until 9 p.m. for late registration. An official count of the number of registrees will be made immediately after the doors close, Mr. Foster said.
A personnel of approximately 31 members of the draft board sat at tables in the registration headquarters today ready to fill out the selective service cards with the information of: name, home address, telephone number, age, place of birth, country of citizenship, name of person who will always know permanent address, address of that
Pep Drive Starts Tomorrow
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Voices of students will be raised for the University football squad to beat Nebraska in a pep rally to be staged at 10:30 o'clock Friday morning in front of the Robinson gymnasium. The annual Nightshirt Parade will be staged down Massachusetts that night terminating in South Park with a bonfire and rally.
Tomorrow night the Ku Ku's and Jay James will again participate in a torchlight parade. The pepsters will
meet in front of the Memorial Union building and from there will wander over the campus to serenade students with songs and yells.
This year the old custom of freshmen walking on the south side of the campus will be revived. All freshmen are urged to cooperate on this tradition and to wear their freshman caps. Street-crossing will only be allowed at Snow hall, Frank Strong hall, the Chemistry building,
and Green hall. The upperclassmen will walk only on the north side of the campus and each group is responsible for the cooperation of the other.
Pajama-clad men students will gather in front of the Memorial Union building Friday night at 7:30 o'clock. Flying squadrons of Ku Kus and K men will scour the organized and unorganized houses to rout out any slackers who do not voluntarily
join the parade. Jay Janes will ride in four trucks over campus streets urging women students to join the parade. At the Memorial Union building the Jay Janes will turn their trucks over to women students to ride in the parade procession.
The procession will start down Indiana to sixth street, there it will turn east to Massachusetts and then south down the main thoroughfare to South Park. Ku Kus and Jay
Janes will follow the band in the winding procession, carrying torches. Men students clad in sleeping apparel will wind down the main street in a snake dance.
Following the rally in South Park, led by Bob Wright, c'41, cheerleader, will be free refreshments and free movies at the Granada and Varsity theaters at 9 o'clock. At 11 o'clock pep rallys will be held on the stages of these theaters.
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