UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
OFFICIAL STUDENT PAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
VOLUME XXXVII
Z-229
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, THURSDAY, APRIL 18, 1940.
NUMBER 131.
Engineers Open Doors Tomorrow
Something better than a three-ring circus will open here tomorrow when the annual Engineering Exposition of the School of Engineering and Architecture get under way at 2 o'clock. Exhibitions and demonstrations by each of the various departments of the school will continue Friday evening and Saturday morning.
Simultaneously motion pictures pertaining to the various phases of engineering will be shown in the auditorium of Marvin hall.
Many things "new under the sun" will be exhibited by the departments. The architects, featuring the "Real World of Tomorrow" will present models, sketches, and plans of mod- (Continued on page eight)
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Recount Tomorrow Afternoon
The tense political situation which arose from the closeness of the race for presidencies of the Men's Student Council and the sophomore class, will be relieved at 3:30 tomorrow afternoon when a second count of the ballots will be made.
Political leaders said today that only heads of the rival parties will be present and no returns will be made public until the count is completed.
Dean Wahl on KFKU
Dr. H. R. Wahl, dean of the University School of Medicine; Dr. C. B. Johnson, practicing physician of Eudora; and David Draper, Lawrence, a student at Oread High School, will participate in a talk on vocational guidance in the profession of medicine over station KFKU at 2:30 o'clock tomorrow afternoon
25 Coeds to Meet Here For Pep Club Convention
Twenty five Phi Sigma Chi delegates from four Middle West colleges will be guests of the Jay James in a convention of the national organization of women's pep clubs here Saturday. The delegations will represent the Municipal University of Omaha, the University of Nebraska, Kansas State, and Washburn College.
The convention will open with a business meeting at 9:30 a.m. in the Pine room of the Memorial Union building. After a business report from each chapter, the meeting will turn into a round table discussion with suggestions for improving the organization.
Also in the morning will be the initiation ceremony of the Washburn chapter which entered the organization this year. The ceremony will be conducted by Betty Kimble, c'41, acting national chairman for Winifred Jameson, b'40, who will be unable to attend.
After a special luncheon at 12:30 p.m., the delegation will be guests of the Jay Janes at the Kansas Relays in the afternoon.
Give $100 Boost To T.B. Drive
The committee arranging for the convention included Betty Kimble, Winifred Jameson, and Maurine Mong, c'40.
The money given by the county association is from the fund contributed by students and faculty members to the annual Christmas seal sale last year.
A financial boost of $100 was given the student health service's program of examination of food handlers by the Douglas County Tuberculosis and Health association, Dr. R. I. Canuteson, director of the service, announced today.
Doctor Canuteson said that the money will be used to pay for x-ray films needed in the examination of non-student food handlers for tuberculosis.
Paul Moritz Named Honor Man At Convocation
'Keep Faith Ford Urges University
Guy Stanton Ford, president of the University of Minnesota, today told a seventeenth annual Honors Convocation audience to keep faith in the great past of the University of Kansas and its great scholars and they will face the future unafraid.
Speaking in Hoch auditorium this morning where 168 students were honored for meritorious achievement, President Ford discussed the great scholars of the University in the light of their contributions to the building of the institution's name. "It is great teachers, and great students who make a university," he said, and added, "certainly the University of Kansas has had almost more than its due share of both."
The importance of a great university in state government was emphasized when President Ford said, "behind and beyond and above any roll of individual names there arises in great majesty before the eyes of the historian of any state university, the people of the state—not one generation of founders but countless successive generations—all with the same faith in public education, even in the higher reaches beyond their understanding . . . the same faith that its maintenance is the one sure guarantee of the preservation of a people's government."
April showers may bring flowers to the pedestrian who dashes recklessly across the street with vision obstructed by an umbrella.
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Honor to Him-fee, more than the amount allowed to any other activity. The band's allowance drew 3 1-2 per cent from the athletic fund and from every other amount on the ticket.
Paul Moritz
Commerce Party Names Engleman To Head Slate
The Commerce party has named Howard Engleman, b'41, to head its slate in the annual School of Business election which will be held Wednesday. April 24, it was announced today by Bill Waugh, b'40, Commerce party campaign manager.
Other of the party's candidates are: Wayne Whelan, b41, vice-president; Mary McLeod, b41, secretary; and Junior Collins, b41, treasurer.
The members of the School of Business will go to the polls April 24, to elect officers for 1940-41, as a
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May Re-Distribute Activity Fee Funds
Raymond Nichols, executive secretary, denied today that the $3.25 increase in the activity fee would all go to the Athletic Association.
At present the Athletic board receives $3.50 from the activity
The increase was not made public until yesterday, when it was noticed in new catalogs now being distributed in the registrar's office. First reports incorrectly indicated that the fee would not be redistributed and that all the increase would go to the Athletic Association. Nichols did not know today when the new quotas would be decided, but said the University Band would now be given a permanent place on the fee.
The hike was approved by the Board of Regents March 5, Nichols said, but added that the redistribution of the fee would be handled by the administration.
The fee for next fall will be $7.50 and students will pay $4.50 in the spring semester.
Fred Harris of Ottawa, chairman of the Board of Regents, said recently that the increase was made in an attempt to equalize the activity fees at the different state schools. He pointed out that students at Kansas State pay $15 yearly.
The $15 fee at Manhattan, however, includes the college paper and annual. It was believed today that the University's new $12 fee would not include those things.
No change will be made in the price of basketball season tickets here, it was said. Students will still pay $1.50 plus the regular activity fee if they are to attend basketba games.
Scholarship Awards Given 168 Students
One hundred and sixty-eight students were honored for outstanding University achievement at the seventeenth annual all-University Honors Convocation this morning in Hoch auditorium.
Paul Moritz, '39, now in China as an official of the Student Christian Federation, was named Honor Man of the class of 1939 by virtue of his allaround superiority in four qualities, scholarship, leadership, breadth of vision, and service to the University. Formerly president of the University Y.M.C.A., Moritz has been in China since last summer. Of the seniors in the upper 10 per cent scholastically, there were sixty-one from the college, eighteen from the School of Business, fifteen from the School of Engineering and Arch-
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To Celebrate 50th Year
Four hundred members of Phi Beta Kappa and Sigma Xi will gather at 6:15 o'clock tonight in the Memorial Union ballroom to celebrate the fifteenth anniversary of the founding of the organizations at the University.
The program will include a greeting communication from Arthur Graves Canfield of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, the only living member of the charter group of Phil Beta Kappa which, along with Sigma Xi, honorary scientific fraternity, was established here April 21, 1890. Mr. Canfield, 82 years old, found it impossible to attend the banquet, but 10 years ago he delivered an address at the fortieth anniversary celebration of the honorary groups.
The program will be brief but impressive, said Prof. U. G. Mitchell, head of the department of mathematics at the University and pres-
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