UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
STUDENT PAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
VOLUME XXXVIII
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, SUNDAY, SEPT. 29, 1940
T. B. Tests To 424 K. U. Staff Members
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NUMBER 11
Faculty members and University employees who have reported for tuberculin tests at Watkins hospital Saturday noon number 424. There are still approximately 275 to be given tests. The tests required are part of a drive by the University to safeguard students from tuberculosis.
The test, which consists of a minute skin injection, is given in two parts: the first dose is extremely small and gives a positive result to the extremely sensitive person. If the result is negative, the second dose si increased 250 times. The test is a screen to pick out persons needing X-rays. In the past, the average positive tests among students was 35 per cent, the average active cases 3 or 4 per cent. The positive test shows that the individual at one time has been subjected to the tubercule bacilli, even though the bacteria may not be active anymore.
The University is concentrating on the tuberculin survey because an active case of the disease is so far advanced by the time the symptoms appear that many people are exposed.
After the faculty member and employee examinations are completed, tests will be given at the student hospital for all food handlers in any organized or unorganized houses operating for hill service. Thirty or 40 student tests have not been completed, because some students did not want to take the test. Others have dropped out of school.
Socialist Candidate To Speak Here
Maynard C. Krueger, vice-presidential candidate of the socialist party and member of the University of Chicago economics faculty, will speak at two meetings to be held in the Memorial Union building on Oct. 8.
Making a campaign swing that covers the Eastern and Central sections of the country, Krueger's only other stop in Kansas will be at Wichita.
Pachacamac, the minority party with the ten underdog votes, is the oldest collegiate party on any American campus. It was founded here in 1900 and now is in its thirty-first year.
The vice-presidential candidate running mate of Norman Thomas, will speak first following a noon luncheon in the Kansas room of the Memorial Union building at which he will be guest. Krueger's remarks at the second meeting, to be held at 3:30 p.m. in the Kansas room, will be followed by a group discussion of campaign issues, according to Freeman Myer, c'41, spokesman for the University group which is sponsoring Krueger's appearances.
Party control within the two parties is exercised by the Pachacamac inner council which had its first meeting last Sunday night and
Hill Political Parties Jockey For Positions
Krueger's ability as a student of contemporary economic problems has become widely known through his participation in discussions on the University of Chicago roundtable broadcasts. He became an assistant professor of economics at the University of Chicago in 1932 and for three years was vice-president of the American Federation of Teachers He was born on a Missouri farm and attended the University of Missouri
The Council this year is in the hands of P.S.G.L., (Progressive Student Government League), a six-year-old organization, which holds a one vote majority of the Council's 21 votes.
Krueger's appearance here will be the first visit by a Socialist in Lawrence since the campaign of 1936, when Norman Thomas addressed an audience in South park. His stop here is being financed by a drive for funds among interested faculty members and people of Lawrence. A meeting of students and other persons interested in the Socialist candidates is planned for the first part of next week.
Politics shift into high tomorrow with the first business meeting of the Men's Student Council scheduled for 8 o'clock in the Pine room of the Memorial Union building. On the docket for consideration are the M.S.C. budget, housing appropriations and the report of the parking committee;
Two new members will be sworn in: George Nafe, e'41, newly appointed Pachacamae member who takes the place vacated by George Rippey; and a member to be chosen tonight by the P.S.G.L. senate to replace Don Ebling, '40, who did not return to school this fall.
by the P.S.G.L. Senate which holds its first meeting' of the year tonight at 10:30.
Among the 21 M.S.C. members are the president and a representative-at-large, who is the defeated presidential candidate, and 19 representatives from allotred districts. All 21 were elected last spring in the general election. Eight representatives are chosen from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences; four from the School of Engineering and Architecture; four more are elected from the combined poll of the Schools of Business, Fine Arts, Pharmacy, and Education, and three are chosen from the district including the Graduate School and the schools of Law and Medicine.
The function of the Men's Student Council with the W.S.G.A. is to exercise the authority provided for student government here on the campus.
To Open New Medical Clinic Tomorrow
Kansas City, Sept. 28-(UP)-The new $225,000 clinic building of the University of Kansas hospital in Kansas City has been completed, and will be ready to receive patients Monday. The clinic is the last building of a 5-year building project, costing nearly one million dollars.
It replaces the old "barracks" built in 1924 as a temporary structure to serve until a fireproof building could be built. In 1936 a shell of the new clinic was built from a private gift fund. This shell stood idle three years because there was no appropriation with which to buy furnishings and complete the interior. Last year the state legislature set aside $40,000 for completion of the clinic.
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The new building is of red brick, four stories high, 200 feet long and 45 feet wide. It is situated on the east side of the quadrangle formed by the connected buildings constitut-
New Axis Front Brings Uncertainty to World
There were hints of new defensive techniques for London. Anti-aircraft fire was less intense than for many nights. London said nothing in explanation, but is was believed possible that night fighter planes had been sent up to maintain a continuous patrol.
The Battle of London crashed on. German night-raiders came over the great British metropolis Saturday night as they have each night for three weeks. Britain remained confident as ever of their ability to give blow for blow whatever the Germans attempted.
War popped on the world-wide diplomatic front Saturday night with hard blows created by Great Britain and Germany in the three-week-old air battle of London.
On the Eastern front Japan took a more belligerent stand with Germany and Italy at her back. The Japan Times, often regarded as re-
By United Press
In addition to their many Lawrence appearances, Mr. and Mrs. Wilkins have performed widely throughout this part of the country, filling numerous engagements in concerts and oratorio. In 1939 they were soloists with the Kansas City Philharmonic Orchestra in the Beethoven Ninth Symphony.
Professor and Mrs. Wilkins To Present First Recital
Britain prepared sharp counter-action against a new Berlin-Rome-Tokyo military alliance. Adolph Hitler engaged in conferences which may lead to new Axis moves involving Spain and the Balkans. The position of Soviet Russia in the fast-moving world diplomatic drama re-
The first faculty recital of the fall season will be presented to morrow evening, Sept. 30, by Joseph Wilkins, tenor, and Marie Wilkins, soprano.
Mrs. and Mrs. Wilkins have prepared a varied program with numbers in French, German, Italian, and English. rence appearances. Ms. and M.
More study followed these engagements, this time in Munich, Germany, where they spent six months, in 1933.
Within a week after their return to the United States Mr. and Mrs. Wilkins were engaged by the Shubert Theatre Corporation of New York, for whom they sang in operetta productions for the next four years, appearing in all the large cities of the East and Middle-west. They also played for two summer seasons at the St. Louis Municipal Opera where they appeared in some 20 different productions.
Two years of concert appearances in the Southeast followed. While in New York in the spring of 1835, Mr. Wilkins sang for Dean Swarthout and that fall came to Lawrence to live.
The training and professional experience of the singers have been wide and almost parallel. Both were graduated from Cornell University where their vocal study began. Later they studied in Paris. Mrs. Wilkins attended the Schola Cantorum in Paris, famous school founded by the pupils of Cesar Franck, and won a Diplome de Chant, the first American to receive diploma in singing from that school. Mr. Wilkins also studied in Paris, where the couple were married. They later went to Milano, Italy, living there for three years, studying the Italian operatic repertoire and singing many performances of opera.
Mr. and Mrs. Wilkins will be accompanied by Miss Winifred Hill.
Sour Owl Dummy To K.C.
Students who want to see if the Sour Owl will regain its "rugged" name or will remain a Sunday school journal won't have much longer to wait.
Editor Reggie Buxton, c'41, took the finished product—finished but for the printing—to Kansas City yesterday. If weather conditions remain good and Buxton ever gets back the magazine should be on sale here in the next few days. It is printed on an offset press and damp weather could hold up the process.
Besides the gossip, stories, and columns which Buxton says are "strictly high fidelity," the Owl is right useful with a date directory, which gives the low-down on all the pledges. Buxton claims that no library should be without this evaluation. He says he will keep one copy himself.
fleeting the Foreign Office opinion, said that the American State Department has so "bungled its affairs" that it had made an enemy of Japan, and "brought the war perilously close to the Pacific Ocean."
In answer to teh possibility that Japan might enter the war on the side of her new Axis partners Britain warned that she is "steeled in war experience and in a different mood from a year ago."
Too, Latin America feared last night that Japan's alliance would force the United States into war, and that South America would be the victor's prize.
The newspaper Nocias Graficas, of Buenos Aires said: "The United States cannot stop aiding Britain, so things will continue their course. Thus, the war appears about to extend over the entire world."
Lakeview Lions Club Scans Squad Pictures
Technicolor pictures of the Jayhawker eleven in action, with particular plays filmed in slow motion, were viewed by the Lakeview Lions club at their last meeting. Vic Hurt, assistant football coach, explained the plays in the films which were taken during last season. Pictures of the Missouri and Nebraska games, and scenes from the homecoming parade in 1938, were shown after which Hurt spoke on the prospects for the 1940 season.
Beauty, pep, and a pair of leather lungs are the necessary requirements for becoming one of the University's 1940 model cheerleaders. New to the campus this year is the pulchritude angle, which will be gained with the addition of girls to the staff of bellowers.
Beauty And Pep In Tryouts
Emphasis will be placed on showmanship this year, as well as vocal ability. More acrobatics will be evident under the new set-up.
Enthusiastic would-be pepper-uppers will try out before a committee of judges tomorrow afternoon at 3:30 in the stadium. The judges will include Bill Farmer, '41, president of the M.S.C. and chairman of the pep board, O'Thene Huff, c'41, president of the W.S.G.A., Betty Kimble, c'41, president of the Mortar Board; F. Spencer Ashcraft, c'41, preside the Jay James; Bill Beven, K-club president; Ernest Klema, c Chief Sachem; Tommy Arbuckle, c'41, president of the Ku Kus.