UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
OFFICIAL STUDENT PAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
NUMBER 136
VOLUME XXXVII
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, TUESDAY, APRIL 23, 1940
Z-229
Business Men Celebrate Tomorrow
Pleasure will take precedence over business tomorrow when students, faculty, and alumni of the School of Business stage their annual Business School Day.
The festivities will consist of lectures, the election of school officers, the annual faculty-senior baseball game in the afternoon, and a banquet at 6 p.m. in the main ballroom of the Memorial Union building.
The election of officers will take place during the day on the main floor of west Frank Strong hall. Parties Announce Candidates
The Coalition party has announced the following slate: president, Lee Huddleston, b'41; vice-president, Ray Buzzell, b'41; secretary, Dotty Wise, b'41; treasurer, Sidney Sklar, b'41.
On the Commerce party's ticket are president, Howard Elegman. b'41; vice-president, Wayne Whelan. b'41; secretary, Mary McLeod. b'41; and treasurer, Junior Collins. b'41.
Seven alumni of the business school will return in the capacity of guest lecturers for the occasion, Dean Frank T. Stockton said today, and will teach classes in economics, money and banking, public service industries, retail merchandising, market management and statistics, and public finance. The instructors will include Arnold R. Jones, '27, member of the Kansas Corporation Commission; Harold Null, '26, investment banker; Archie H. Cowles, '27, general manager of Dodge, Inc.; Donald D. Hoag, '26, retail store manager; Paul H. Woods, '28, Wichita banker; Jack Gates, '28, district representative of Republic Gear
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Geology Frat Pans Gold Today
Four new members of Sigma Gamma Epsilon, professional geology fraternity, panned "gold" on the campus at 1:15 this Tuesday as part of their initiation ceremonies. The formal initiation Tuesday will be followed with a steak fry.
The new members are Alvin Leonard, c'41, Ross Ley, c'42, Rowland Raup, c'41, and Garvin Van Matre, e'41. Dr. Wallace Lee, geologist for the Federal Geology Survey, will be initiated as an associate member.
Mosser Heads Dorm Aid Drive
Donn Messer, c'42, was last night named head of a Men's Student Council fund drive on the campus to help furnish the two men's dormitories which will open next fall.
Mosser plans to canvass the campus and rooming houses to raise enough money to furnish several rooms of a new dorm or to buy their bedding. The goal will be about $2,500.
The M.S.C. voted $25 to the fund for initial impetus.
First reading of a bill to abolish the position of Dance Manager was made last night. The bill would fill the post with a dance committee, composed of two members of the M.S.C. and two of the W.S.G.A. The president of the Student Union Activities board will be the fifth man. This committee will decide when and how often varsity dances will be held.
Some assurance that the Engineering Exposition would be on the University budget was given by C. H. Mullen, '142, when Brewster Powers, e'40, reported the recent exposition to be a success.
Powers is also formulating a plan to hold Negro mid-week dances next year in the Kansas room of the Memorial Union building.
Bill Farmer Still M.S.C. President
No New Vote Council Tells Pachacamac
By Roscoe Born, c'41
Cause of all the trouble was the contested election in District I which awarded the presidency to Farmer by a lone vote. Pachacamac claim that since graduate students voted in that district without paying activity fees, the election is invalid. Lots to Say
Nineteen Men's Student Councilmen proved last night that wrangling was not exclusively a western range custom.
At about 9 o'clock the boys started their optical dagger-throwing. When they closed shop at 11:15, Bill Farmer, l'41, was still president-elect of the M.S.C.
Judging from the time spent going over the controversy, one might thing the political leaders had a lot to say on the matter. They did. It ran something like this:
Pachacama spokesman A: "Now Maddox is 'director of the count' and he says those graduate votes make the election unconstitutional. We've got to have a new one. There is no point in the Council accepting the election results when we've got to do it over."
P.S.G.L. spokesman A: "But Mad-
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Richard Crooks Signed To Take Tibbett's Place
Richard Crooks has been signed to fill the spot on the Music Festival left vacant by the illness of Lawrence Tibbett. Crooks, well-known star of the Metropolitan Opera, has achieved more recent success, as the tenor of the Monday evening Firestone Hour over the N.B.C.
Reached yesterday in Atlanta by telephone, Crooks consented to come to the University Wednesday night, May 1, instead of Friday, April 29, which was the night scheduled for Tibbett. To
Applications Due For Owl Positions By Noon Thursday
Applications for the positions of editor and business manager of the Sour Owl for 1940-41 will be considered Thursday afternoon at a meeting of Sigma Delta Chi, journalism fraternity.
Students applying for the positions, should present written applications to Stewart Jones, c'40, secretary of the organization, before noon Thursday. Applicants may be called before the fraternity for brief interviews at the following meeting.
The letters of application should state the candidates' qualifications along with suggestions for improvement and ideas for publication next year, Jones said.
WEATHER
Clear skies and rising temperatures were forecast for eastern Kansas tomorrow. The returning fair weather is expected to arrive tonight and hold out for several days.
'Sing 'n Swing' All Set To Go At 8:15 In Fraser Theater
By Harry Hill, c'40
While winter still is giving return engagements to a fed-up Mount Oread, spring moves into Fraser theater on the wings of dance and melody tonight when W.S.G.A.'s gala musical review, "Sing'n Swing," opens a three-night run at 8:15.
Sell-out crowds are probable for Wednesday and Thursday performances, but seats are still available today for the premiere. Profits from the production will go to the W.S.G.A. scholarship fund.
The entire cast of 75, including dancers, soloists, chorines, and musicians, staged its final practice session last night before a small closed-rehearsal audience which witnessed the last efforts of directors to weld the assortment of specialty acts and solo numbers into a smoothly-running review.
Built around a theme of swing in a setting of springtime colors and melodies, "Sing 'n Swing" combines the talents of the University's popular entertainers in a production that should be a worthy successor to "Spring Swing" and "Cum Laude."
Ross Robertson's Modern Choir, with solos by Loren Miller, Pattye Jayne Wadley, and Jane Schlagel, harmonizes on three numbers, one a tricky piece called "That Guy Named Si." The chorus of ten coeds includes at least six former beauty queens and the costumes of shorts and skirts in pastel colors displays the talents of the dancers to the best advantage.
Those who have sneaked a preview of the presentation predict that the all-star band, picked from the three leading Hill dance orchestras, will be the sparkling star of the review. Led by Bud Balzer, versatile musician who composed most of the show's ten catchy tunes and made all the arrangements, the band has heavy duties throughout the entire two-hour performance.
Barbara Edmonds, ace song dispenser for Clyde Smith's orchestra, and Donna Hughes, fine artist extraordinary, are featured in vocal numbers and Billie Doris Jarboe and Warren Littlejohn have fast stepping dance routines. Lorenzo Fuller takes the stage for a number of the Negro spiritual type.
make the concert appearance here, it will be necessary for the tenor to make the trip by air. He is at present on tour with the Metropolitan Opera Company.
The School of Fine Arts Gala Concert has been shifted from Wednesday to Monday evening. This will include the presentation of the "Magnificat" (Bach) by the chorus, and a number of solo and orchestra numbers. Most of the rehearsals will be shifted and curtailed to enable this change.
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32 High School Seniors Finish Two-Day Testing
Thirty-two weary and well-tested high school seniors will return to their home towns tonight after the two-day whirl of conferences, dinners, and examinations constituting the final hurdle for prospective Summerfield scholars. Ten to fifteen will receive Summerfield scholarships, renewable each year for four years. The number of scholarship recipients depends on the money available and the needs of the winners.
The finalists spent yesterday in individual conferences with members of the Summerfield scholarships committee composed of C. D. Clark, professor of sociology, U. G. Mitchell, professor of mathematics, Ivan C. Crawford, dean of the School of Engineering and Architecture, Hilden R. Gibson, instructor in political science and Olin Templin, secretary of the Endowment Association. Last night the candidates with 55 resident scholars and the committee dined in the Kansas room.
Written tests were given all day today, interrupted only by a noon luncheon at which time the committee had a personal visit with the candidates.
The 32 finalists were selected from 310 high school students who took a preliminary examination March 23.