UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
OFFICIAL STUDENT PAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
VOLUME XXXVII
Z-229
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, SUNDAY, APRIL 14, 1940.
NUMBER 128.
Hill Ready To Vote
Swarthout Looks For Best Music Festival In History
Music Club To Honor Carl Preyer
At 4 o'clock this afternoon the Music Club of Lawrence will honor one of the best composers in the United States, Prof. Carl A. Preyer, University faculty member. Preyer is composer of numerous musical selections, published by some of the world's foremost publishing houses.
One of the best numbers on this afternoon's program will be his concert piece for piano and orchestra. It will be played by Ruth Orcutt, assisted by Mrs. Dorothy Enlow Miller
Composed by Preyer during a vacation in Michigan, it was first performed by him at a May Music Festival here with the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra under Emil Oberhoffer. The orchestral accompaniment was arranged from the piano score by Carl Busch of Kansas City. Later Preyer played the piece with the Kansas City Symphony Orchestra and with the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra directed by Max Zach. In 1935 Ruth Orcutt played it with the Kansas City Symphony under Krueger.
The German firm of Breitkopp and Haeret published Preyer's first Sonata, a theme and variations, a scherzo, and a concert for piano and orchestra. When the scherzo ap-
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Musicians Take Over The Hill
The strains of music faded with the sun yesterday as more than 3-000 high school students from 62 schools "played Taps" to the annual district music festival here.
Ensembles and soloists performed yesterday, while many prize winners and disappointed aspirants of Friday's session returned home in order to avoid creating a housing problem. Four sites on the campus rang with the dying notes of the festival. In Meyer hall mixed ensembles, girls ensembles, and boys ensembles were featured, and girls vocal solos and boys vocal soles were sung in the Memorial Union building and Fraser theater, respectively
A note of carefree gayety characterized the meet, with the many visitors and the cars in which they came creating a major traffic problem on Oread avenue. And perhaps in no previous festival has there been so much color and hilarity.
Relays Committee Urges County Clubs To Act
Owl Society Elects Twenty-two Members
County Club chairmen were urged today by the Kansas Relays Committee to invite high school students from their counties to the Relays, and to do their best to make them feel at home here.
In one of the least controversial elections in years, Owl society, junior men's honor organization, has elected 22 sophomores to its ranks, Budd Russell, 'c41, president of the organization announced today.
Success of such activities in the past encouraged the Relays Committee to follow a similar plan this year.
Without the long drawn out bickering of past years, the junior brain trusters elected one of the most representative groups of the junior class ever to be given membership. The composite grade point average of the 22 new men is 2.47. Owl society is purely an honorary organization, having no specific function, and the main requisites for membership are scholarship and Hill activities. Initiation services for the new men will be held in about two weeks.
The new members are Elden Beebe, c'42; Jim Brown, c'42; Bob Collett, c'42; Bill Collinson, c'42; Jack Dunagin, c'42; Fred Eberhardt, c'42; Bob Fluker, c'42; Max Howard, c'42; Clint Kanaga, c'42; George Kettner, c'42; Keith Martin, c'42; Ben Matasarin, c'42; Bob McElfresh, c'42; Donn Mosser, c'42; Eugene Nininger, fa'42; Edwin Price, c'42; Fred Robertson, c'42; Keith Spalding, c'42; Jim Surface, c'42; Charlie Walker, c'42; Bob Woodward, c'42; and Art Wahl, c'42.
The annual Music Week festival, beginning Sunday, April 28, is expected to be one of the best ever held at the University, it was announced yesterday by Donald M. Swarthout, dean of the School of Fine Arts. A record list of performers has been signed to appear during the week.
Tickets have been placed on sale and a large number of sponsors for the week of music has been secured. Season tickets, for the three concerts, will cost $1.53, while admission to a single concert will be one dollar.
Churches to Observe
Dean Swarthout, in announcing the program for the festival, said that customary observances would be made in many of the churches of the city. Sermons and special musical programs are being planned by church officials. In the afternoon at 4 o'clock the musical groups of the grade, junior, and senior high schools will present a varied program of orchestra, band, and choral numbers from the stage of Hoch auditorium.
Lawrence Tibbett, world-famous baritone, will give a concert in the auditorium Monday evening, April 29. as a regular attraction on the University concert course. Already there has been a large sale of tickets for the baritone's concert to patrons all over the state it was announced by the Fine Arts office. Plan Arts Convocation
Fine Arts Day is set for Tuesday, April 30. In the morning at an
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Three University Students Are Named In $15,000 Suit
at DeSoto Dec.
The petition names James Novak,
c'43, Richard Trubey, ph, and Ben
Mayer, c'42, all of Ellsworth and H.
H. Sheldon of DeSoto defendants.
Erle Hunter of Wyandotte county
filed the suit.
Three University students have been named in a $15,000 damage suit filed in Douglas county district court by a DeSoto truck driver in connection with an automobile accident at DeSoto Dec. 17, 1939.
Hunter states that at 2:30 a.m., Dec. 17, he was riding west on highway 10 in a car driven by Carl Rogers of Kansas City when a truck driven by Hunter of Ellsworth struck the car in which he was riding throwing it onto a bridge. The petition then states that the car in which the three students were riding struck the defendant's car.
Bill Farmer, l'42, P.S.G.L.'s entrant in the race for president of the Men's Student Council.
Bob McKay, b'40, Pachacamac hope for the presidency of the Men's Student Council.
Move Picture to Malott's Office
Move Picture to Malott's Office
The original Sanden painting,
"Autumn in Kansas," which was on
exhibit in Spooner-Thayer museum
the first semester, has been taken
to the Chancellor's office. The
painting is owned by the Pi Beta
Phi sorority and was lent to the
museum. It will be replaced by
Richard Miller's "Lady in Green."
Politicians Flay Rivals With Ballyhoo
By Reginald Buxton, c'40
A campaign that has had all the surface aspects of a Sunday School election took a spurt this morning and last night with the circulation of newspapers, matches, and personal letters to voters.
The newspaper, a Pachacamac publication called the "Student Government Counselor," flayed the P.S.G.L. for raising class barriers between independent and fraternity men. An article in the "baby" tabloid labeled the P.S.G.L. as "Yes Men." The Rising Sun "journalists" took several cues from the Kansas City Star's crusade against the machine party in comparing the qualifications of their presidential candidate, Bob McKay, b'40, with P.S.G.L.'s Bill Farmer, '42.
P. S.G.L. strategists last night put out matches bearing the picture of presidential candidate, Bill Farmer, The matches, a sore spot with Pachacamac since last year's ruckus over those of C. H. Mullen, brought an expression of disgust from Seth Gray, b'41, Pachacamac leader, and a veiled threat of "prosecution."
(Editor's note: The constitution of the Men's Student Council limits the value of articles given away in a campaign to one-half of one cent each. P.S.G.L. leaders insist the matches stay within this limit; Pachacamac is not so sure.)
The policy of the P.S.G.L. campaign, according to Wilbur Leonard, I'42, has been to emphasize personal contact with the voters instead of all the "ballyhoo" of broadsides, ac-
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Jayhawker Out Monday; Beauty Contest to End
The spring issue of the Jayhawker goes on sale Monday afternoon at 1:30 in the book exchange in the basement of the Memorial Union building.
The benefits of fraternity and independent life are debated in articles by Reginald Buxton, c'40, taking the independent side, and Bob Hedges, b'40, upholding fraternity point of view. The respective articles are "Independence with a Vengeance" and "Lo, the Happy Fraternity Man."
Other articles concern Glenn Cunningham, the basketball season, the Y.M.C.A., and the extension division.
The deadline for the Jayhawker beauty queen contest has been set at noon, April 15, by Editor Richard MacCann, c'40. Anyone may submit a photograph of any girl student to the Jayhawker office in the basement of the Memorial Union building.
From the photographs entered, the editor and business manager will select the ranking 15, to be photographed at the Hixon studios. The new photos will be sent to a national beauty authority not yet selected. The winners, who become the recognized campus beauties, will be announced in the Jayhawker appearing the latter part of May.