UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
OFFICIAL STUDENT PAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
VOLUME XXXVII
Z-229
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, FRIDAY, MAY 3, 1940
NUMBER 142
A Remodeling Job On Union Basement
Mom and Dad on Campus Tomorrow for Annual Day
Campus Ready For Waring's Song Tonight
Eyes of the collegiate world will be focused on Mount Oread tonight as Fred Waring and his Pennsylvanians introduce, over a nation-wide NBC network, the song which has been written especially for the University by the noted orchestra leader.
Jayhawkers will predominate throughout the program. The studio audience will be composed entirely of Kansas alumni. The song will be dedicated to the University by Maestro Waring. And to top off the evening, recent Kansas graduates will give the Rock Chalk yell. The program will be presented over the NBC network at three different times tonight. At 5 o'clock, the following stations will carry the broadcast: WOAI, San Antonio; WOW, Omaha; WSN, Nashville; and WLW, Cincinnati. At 9 o'clock, the program may be heard over stations KANS, Wichita; WHO, Des Moines; KOA Denver; and WKY
Fred Waring
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Dad and Mother will take over the University tomorrow.
Officially, it's the twelfth anual Parent's Day. Unofficially it will be (please not, weather man) a pleasant spring day and a chance to show the folks around the campus, introduce them to the Chancellor, and have a good visit with the Bill-Payer and the Cake-Baker.
More than 150 parents are expected to attend the banquet which will be held in their honor in Memorial Union building at 6:30 o'clock tomorrow climaxing the program of afternoon activities planned in their behalf. This number is based upon advanced reservations which were made today. Committees, which have been working on the program for the past three weeks, would be happy if 1,000 parents appeared.
Prizes will be presented at the banquet by C. H. Mullen, l'41, to those parents having come the longest distance and to the parents having the most children attending the University. The organized house with the largest percentage of parents present at the banquet will receive honorable mention, while the county with the largest number of parents present will also receive honorable mention.
At the dinner music will be presented by the Women's and Men's Glee clubs. A group from the Men's Glee club will sing selected numbers and a sextet from the Women's Glee club will sing "I Dream of Jeanie" by Foster and "The Prayer" by Hymprednick from "Hansel and Gretel." All groups will be under the direction of Prof. Joseph F. Wilkins.
Horse Invades Frank Strong
Registration will be held at the (Continued on page seven)
Equitation was added to the curriculum of the University at the beginning of this semester, but until last night the horses had kept their places in the great outdoors.
This morning when custodians came to Frank Strong hall they found evidence that a horse had been in the basement hallway.
The custodians began their work.
Gannett Flays Farm Set-Up Of New Deal
In an NBC Red network broadcast, Frank Gannett, candidate for the 1940 Republican presidential nomination, last night appealed to the nation for an adequate solution to the farm problem before an estimated 600 G.O.P. supporters in the Varsity theater.
The Rochester, N.Y., publisher proposed a monetary policy favoring the restoration of farm prices to normal, not controlled, but with production to cure the basic ills of agriculture. Emphasizing that the farmer has suffered most from the depression, he said, "The farm problem must be solved before we can have general recovery and we must have general recovery soon or our form of government will be in danger."
Citing the apparent success of British governmental efforts to hoist farm prices to parity with industrial prices and wages as proposed at the Empire's economic conference in Ottawa, Canada, in 1932, Gannett
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Frank Gannett
Whole Floor Will Be Torn Out to Walls
By Roscoe Born, c'41
A game of upset the fruitbasket for the Memorial Union building's pool-shooters and coke-drinkers was envisioned today when Henry Werner of the Union operating committee announced that the Union's sub-basement would be torn out "from wall to wall" to make way for a suite of "new and modern rooms.
The new basement is expected to be completed by next fall and will re-arrange all rooms in the Union's lowest floor in a move for space economy.
May Approve Plans in a Week
Just where the fountain, recreation room, and other offices will be placed is not yet known, but Werner said he expected the final plans to be approved within a week.
Two sets of plans for the basement already have been furnished by the architectural firm of Bloomgarten and Frohwerk of Kansas, City. Both sketches were discarded by the sub-committee of the Union operating board, which is working on the idea.
Both members of the Kansas City firm are University alumni and are considered experts in this particular field, Werner said. Frohwerk, who is giving special attention to the basement's plans, is expected to develop "some of the finest rooms in this part of the country."
To Use Fluorescent Lights
Werner said plans included fluorescent lights for all rooms and added that the whole basement would be "new and modern."
So many organizations had requested offices in the Union's basement, Werner said, that it was felt some space-saving move (Continued on page eight)
Malott Advises Seniors To Write Fewer Letters
"Don't write 50 application letters." Chancellor Malott advised 35 job-hunting seniors who gathered in room 213 of Frank Strong hall yesterday for the third Employment forum. "It is better to concentrate on six or eight companies which your investigations indicate might have need for the services you are selling."
Because there are so many roads to success, the choice of the first job is not so vital as it seems to the average senior. Rather, ultimate success depends upon analyzing one's ambitions and abilities, the correct approach in applying for the position, and the right attitude toward work, fellow workers, and
the boss, after the job is obtained,
Malott said.
Yesterday's forum was the last in a series of three which has been sponsored by the senior class and th Alumni association. The first was Feb. 27, when J. E. Walters, personnel director for Purdue University spoke. Charles S. Stevenson, general manager of Hall Brothers, Inc., was speaker at the meeting of April 10.
Fred Ellsworth, secretary of the Alumni association, said this morning that the success of this year's series of forum indicate a reorganization and even more extensive program of help for the seniors of 1941.