UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
OFFICIAL STUDENT PAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
VOLUME XXXVII
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, THURSDAY, MAY 2, 1940.
NUMBER 141.
Will May Play In Hoch
Frank Gannett
Coulson and Woodward New Jayhawker Heads
Betty Coulson, e'41, will be the first girl to edit the Jayhawker magazine in nearly 20 years.
Miss Coulson and Bob Woodward, c'42, were named editor and business manager of the Jayhawker magazine for 1940-41 yesterday afternoon by the Jayhawker Advisory committee, according to L. N. Flint, professor of journalism and chairman of the committee.
Woodward was freshman office assistant on the Jayhawker last year, and this year has been business assistant.
Miss Coulson has been a staff writer on the Jayhawker for the post
two years. In addition she has been society editor, campus editor, feature editor, and associate editor of the University Daily Kansan.
Miss Coulson and Woodward replace Richard MacCann, c'40, and Chad Case, c'41, as editor and business manager of the magazine.
John F. Ebelke, instructor in the department of German, has been offered an assistant instructorship at the University of Michigan for the coming fall semester. This position is offered in connection with the graduate scholarship of the University of Michigan.
Ebelke To Michigan
Gannett Says New Deal Stops Youth
Frank Gannett told 55 members of the Young Republicans' Club at a luncheon in the Sunflower room of the Memorial Union building at 12:30 p.m. today that there were 4,000,000 young people in the country who had never held jobs and that the 1,500,000 students who would graduate this year had little chance of getting jobs because of the controlled economy tactics of the New Deal administration.
Gannett, publisher and Republican candidate for presidential nomination, flew to Lawrence from Topeka in his private plane this morning. He flew to Topeka yesterday from Rochester.
Saw Dictators
Gannett said that he had been a newspaperman with no intention of entering politics until he visited foreign countries controlled by dictators. After seeing what had happened in these European nations he decided to do what he could in the United States to prevent any possibility of a similar situation arising.
Not entirely pessimistic in his outlook, Gannett told his student audience that the country offers
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When Waring's On
5 o'clock
WOAI, San Antonio.
WOW, Omaha.
WSN, Nashville.
LWL, Cincinnati.
Wants All Students Counted in Census
9 o'clock
KANS, Wichita.
WHC, Des Moines.
KOA, Denver.
WKY, Oklahoma Citv.
10:15 o'clock
WDAF, Kansas City.
In order that the census may be as accurate as possible, the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce is acting as a clearing house to see that all University students are reached in the national nose-counting project.
George Hedrick, secretary of the Chamber of Commerce, announced today that any students who think they might not have been counted at their permanent home address will be checked up on if they will call the C. of C. office and leave their names.
Hedrick said that one of the census-takers will come around and see students who call in.
By a vote of 8 to 5, W.S.G.A. passed the recommendation of the central committee on student activities that $250 be given to the University Housing Bureau at a special meeting last night. By a unanimous vote the Council passed the bill granting $550 to the leveling of the west intramural field.
Thirty-five members of the old and new W.S.G.A. councils were present at the banquet in the English room of the Memorial Union building. Velma Wilson, c'40, and O'Thene Huff, c'41, gave reports of the National Convention of the Intercol-
W.S.G.A. Passes On Donations
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Must Sell 450 Tickets By Monday
Senior Cakewalkers may get to dance in Hoch auditorium when they congregate for the slide music of Will Osborne, May 10, but the place where dance is entirely up to the dancers.
Dance Manager Fred Littoy,
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Will Osborne
New K.U. Tune On Air Tomorrow Waring Ready To Play It
The nation. will hear a new University of Kansas school song tomorrow night when Fred Waring and his Pennsylvanians broadcast their regular weekly program. The song will be dedicated to the University before an NBC studio audience made up entirely of alumni of the school. pus in order that it can be
Students may hear the program over NBC station at three different times tomorrow night. Plans are going ahead for transcribing the song here on the campus in order that it can be used at the University Band dance Saturday night. After cutting a record of the new melody, a dance band arranger will stay all night making the arrangement. Saturday Bob
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Crooks and Audience Take To Each Other
By Christopher Vandaveer
Some singers use their voices as though they were flutes—something to be blown into gently and handled with care; others use their voices as hammers—an instrument with which to beat a prescribed piece of music into subjection; then occasionally, very occasionally, there breathes a vocalist who uses his voice as an organ—he
For almost two hours last night he played on that versatile voice box of his with wondrous results. The usually lethargic Kansas University audience actually applauded as though it were more than a polite nicety due a visiting
can play on it softly, with only one st open, or fortissimo with aops pulled. Richard Crooks belongs to the latter group.
artist. And Mr. Crooks responded.
He sang not one encore but seven which, as far as we can recall, is an all time high for Mount Oread.
All Kinds of Trouble
Singer Crooks' concert wasn't presented under the most ideal conditions either. First it was the piano which required considerable switching so that the accompanist would have sufficient light to read his music; then the foot lights had to be flipped up out of the basement so that the audience could see something of the artist besides his thinning gate; pate two listeners in the front row had frequent paroxysms of coughing that caused the Metropolitan's favorite tenor some trouble; and then, to crown it all, the backstage telephone rang just as he was launching into the delicate, tender "Longing," by Vassilenko.
Mister Crooks was not one to be taken aback by the unexpected intrusion of a busy world on his concert. He stopped singing, motioned to his accompanist to go see what the
man on the other end of the wire wanted, and stood quietly waiting until whatever it was that needed attention got it. Mr. Schauwecker, the pianist, came back motioned that all was well now and Mr. Crooks began "Longing" all over again.
A Well Balanced Program
The large audience that heard Crooks' concert last night could not complain that the program was too "arty." It was well balanced with something included for every taste.
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