1940
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
OFFICIAL STUDENT PAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
NUMBER 117.
VOLUME XXXVII
Z-229
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, FRIDAY, MARCH 29, 1940.
Title Is At Stake
M.S.C. Delegates to K-State Tonight
Plan Peace Talk With the Aggies
Five members of the Men's Student Council left for Manhattan at 2:30 this afternoon to draw up a new treaty which will put a halt to post-game football brawls between members of the K.U. and K-State student bodies, such as occured here last fall.
C. H. Mullen, l'42, president of the Men's Student Council, heads the specially appointed delegation which includes John Oakson, c'40, Brewster Powers, c'40, Ed Page, l'40, and Russell Mosser, c'40. The trip was made by motor car. A banquet is scheduled for 6 o'clock this evening at the Hotel Ambassador in downtown Manhattan. The actual conference and drawing up of the new treaty will follow the banquet.
On March 3 Mullen wrote to Russell Leeper, president of the combined men-women student council at Kansas State, asking him to set a date for a possible peace conference. Leeper's reply was favorable and he suggested the meal and meeting in Manhattan for today. The original peace treaty, now in effect, was drawn up in Lawrence in 1935 and contained provisions for only pre-game feuding.
The combined K-State governing body contains only nine members, all of whom will attend the conference tonight. Mullen remarked last night that he expected the new treaty to be copied mostly from the one now in use, with some clauses added to make it all-inclusive. Mullen said, "The treaty of 1935 will be the basis of any understanding to improve relationships of the two student bodies."
Students in the School of Engineering and Architecture,believe in practicing the maxim "all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy." All previous attendance records were smashed last night when more than 400 students,members of the faculty, and alumni gathered for three hours of general fun making at the Engineers banquet in the Memorial Union.
400 Attend Engine Banquet
The highlight of the evening's program was a talk on the "Heritage of the Engineer" by Ernest E. Howard, world known civil engineer, author and inventor. Mr. Howard explained the development of the
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Speech Festival Gets Underway in Fraser
The first all-inclusive Speech and Dramatics Festival got under way at 2:30 this afternoon in Fraser Hall. The event, which was discontinued several years ago, formerly covered only plays. The activities today and tomorrow were to include readings, after-dinner speeches, original orations, standard orations, extempore speaking, one-act ___
alter-dinner speeches, original tempore speaking, one-act plays, and radio drama. Contestants registered this morning from 35 schools.
Judges for the events are members of the University faculty and Mrs. Allen Crafton. They are Miss Margaret Anderson, W. E. Sandelius, Mrs. Crafton, Mrs. Myrtle Bair, John Hankins, E. O. Stene, and H. C. Ingham. University students will serve as chairmen of the groups are Mary McAnaw, c'42, John Lintner, gr., Betty Kimble, c'41, Donald Hayman, c'40, David Rice, c'41, C. H. Mullen, l'43, Russell Baker, c'42, and Karl Ruppenthal, l'43.
Following the contest, the winners will be ranked in Fraser Theater at 3 p.m. Saturday. At this time, the prize winning plays will be presented before all the 35 delegations. The best actor and actress will be given an award.
A member of the speech department said this morning that a number of last minute changes in the schedule had been made, necessitated by the withdrawal of Turner high school.
A special display was erected in the main hall of Fraser hall this morning, demonstrating the services which the University Speech and Dramatics department offers to schools, and other organizations over the state. The department keeps over 4,000 plays circulating in Kansas all the time, a faculty member said today.
High school students are being housed in organized houses and fraternity and sorority houses tonight. The festival ends Saturday afternoon.
Four More Candidates In Popularity Contest
contest.
Pi Kappa Alpha announced today thta Bob Hamilton would be its candidate for the glamour boy title. Kappa Kappa Gamma and Pi Beta Phi have made no decision as yet and Gamma Phi Beta indicated that it would stay out of the tussle.
Sigma Chi put forward Dick Mize as its entry. As usual the Sigma Chi's have the support of their neighbors, Kappa Alpha Theta. Theta has a candidate of its own in Kayo O'Sullivan. Miss O'Sullivan, if successful, will be escorted by John Wayne, the picture's masculine lead. Betty Butcher, a Theta, was the "Sour Owl's" "Most Alluring She" in that magazine's last contest.
Four new candidates for the Kansas's popularity contest, to choose escorts for the Hollywood stars at the world premiere of "Dark Command" to be held here April 4, entered the race today.
Another cage star was added to the list when Delta Tau Delta announced it would back Bruce Voran to escort glamorous Claire Trevor. The Delt's were successful in the last contest of this type when they elected all-American basketballer Fred Pralle, '38, as the "Sour Owl's" "Most Fascinating He."
The following hopefuls were announced yesterday: Dick Harp (S.A.E.), Howard Engleman (Kappa Sigma), Walter "Sunny" Jones (Phi Kappa Psi), Bill O'Shea (Phi Gamma Delta) and Ivan Cain (Independent).
Ballots will be found in today's Kansan. When signed, they are to be delivered to the Kansan newsroom. The contest will close at 5 p.m. Tuesday.
Virginia Ford, of Chi Omega, is the only other coed in the contest at the present time.
PROF. HENRY LADD SMITH
Prof. H. L. Smith Wins Award
H. L. Smith, the instructor in journalism who makes a definite point of telling his students how crowded the writing field is today, will have some explaining to do.
He was recently informed that he has received a $1200 award for the most promising history book of the year. The award is given by Alfred A. Knopf, a New York publisher, for outstanding literary works in history, fiction, and biography.
Mr. Smith began compiling data on the history of airlines for his doctor's thesis from the University of Wisconsin, and after having written part of the article, he came to the decision that his material would make a book.
Professor Smith confesses that his interest in flying is very much like that of the lame boy who loves baseball. A Middle Westerner of the first air-minded generation—he grew up in Cleveland, where he was born in 1906—he has long had an
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World Premiere Parade To Feature Vehicles
Arrangements for the vehicles to be brought to Lawrence from Ft. Leavenworth for the "Cavalcade of American Transportation" parade which is being held April 4, in connection with the showing of the world premiere of "The Dark Command" were made by William Saal, special representative of Republic pictures, yesterday. lected include
By Stan Stauffer, c'42
lected include a prairie schooner which was used in 1872, a huge Conestoga wagon that was used to haul freight across the plains in 1860. a Wells-Fargo express wagon that
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Twenty-three units of wagons representing a period of over 100 years of American transportation have been selected and will be brought to Lawrence April 3. The wagons sea tie in their own league, participate in an inter-conference game with Oklahoma A. and M. for the right to represent the fifth district, then go through two gruelling battles with Rice and Southern Cal-
Indiana U. Is the Foe Tomorrow
By Jay Simon, c'40
It will be the Big Six against the Big Ten to see who is the Big One when Kansas and Indiana square off tomorrow night in Kansas City's Municipal auditorium to decide the National basketball championship.
The game will start at 8:30 o'clock and a sellout is already assured. Only a few of the 9,000 available seats were left late today.
For years cage fans have been spouting the merits of the sport as played in the provinces of the Sunflower and the Hoosier, but until the N.C.A.A. went to work on the situation their basketball representatives have not met.
Indiana Took It Easy
"Swing 'n Sing," the W.S.G.A. musical, started rehearsal today, following the announcement of the cast of the women's chorus by Rolla Nuckles, director.
Indiana Took It Easy The Jayhawkers come into the finals the hard way having to break
Announce Chorus For W.S.G.A. Show
Immediately following the championship N.C.A.A. basketball game tomorrow evening between the Jayhawkers of Kansas and the Hoosiers of Indiana, ardent K.U. fans will hold a reunion in the About Town room of the Hotel Phillips. Doctor Allen has promised to be there and to bring as many members of the squad as he can round up.
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The "Elephant Walk," a specialty number, is composed of the follow-Mary Noel, c'40; Hilda Slentz, f'a40; ing women: Betty Gene Sayles, b'a40; Jane Waring, e'40; Betty Ann Yankee, b'40; and Mary McCroskey, c'42.
Other dancers for the revue are:
Ann Jones, c'41; Kay O'Sullivan,
c'42; Hilda Slentz, fa'40; Jane Waring,
e'40; and Helen Johnson, c'41