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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME XXXVII
OFFICIAL STUDENT PAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Z-229
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 31, 1940
NUMBER 83
Alumni Place Gets $1,000 From Grads
★ Mr. and Mrs. Frank Marcy
Present Gift; 'Great Boost;
Malott Says in Assuring
Opening Next Fall
A gift of $1,000 from Mr. and Mrs Frank Marcy, San Diego, Calif., to be used toward the rehabilitation of the Brynwood property has been received by the Endowment association, Pro. Olin Templin, secretary of the association, announced yesterday.
Both Mr. and Mrs. Marey are alumni of the University, Mr. Marey received a degree in engineering in 1900, and Mrs. Marey, nee May Finney, received a bachelor of arts degree in 1901.
'A Great Boost'
In commenting upon the Marcy's gift, Chancellor Deane W. Malott said, "This gift is a great boost to the opening of the Brynwood house to students next fall. This help constitutes approximately a third of the amount yet needed to complete the alumni's project to build a seventy-fifth anniversary gift, and the entire University joins me in thanking the Marcy's for their generosity."
Marcy, a native of Vermont,
worked his way through the Uni-
versity doing old jobs and working as a poetographer. Marcy had a photographic studio on the sixth floor of the south tower in Fraser Hall.
Formerly A Lawrence Resident
After being graduated, Marcy was employed for a time by a machinery company in Butte, Mont., and later in Salt Lake City, Utah, he invented the Marce ore mill. He has been active in its manufacture and installation in various sections of the country.
Folberty A Lawrence resident
Mrs. Marcy was a graduate of
Lawrence, a sister of E. C. Finney.
She served for some time as first
assistant Secretary of the Interior.
The Marcy's had a daughter, Helen May Marcy, now Mrs. Arthur Johnson, who attended the University in
1925.
Construction of a utility tunnel to provide heat and electricity at Brynwood place will begin as soon as weather conditions permit, it was said last night. The tunnel will join the underground network which provides electricity and heat to University buildings.
The Marcya have resided in Sor Diego for a number of years, returning each summer to Mr. Marcya's house, the Ranch, Vic. To Construct Heat Tunnel
Workmen began clearing the three-acre property of dead trees Monday.
Final negotiations in the purchase of the property and house from Acacia fraternity bondholders were completed last Wednesday. The property will be rechristened "Alumni Place."
Reading Service Tests 700 Students
About 700 high school students of the state have been tested for reading difficulties by the Reading Diagnostic service of the University sponsored jointly by the Extension position and the School of Fine Arts.
The field crew of the service, which, since September has visited between 25 to 30 towns of the state, sends all data on the progress of students having difficulty in reading to the University, where it is reviewed by Dr. Bert Nash and Dr. A. H. Turney, both of the School of Humanities, is made by these two men and recommendations returned to the student's teachers, at whose requests the tests are made.
Because many of the small schools do not have 40 pupils who need the diagnostic service, which is the minimum that the field crew can test and at the same time meet expenses, a county clinic has several of the small schools can obtain the service as a joint project. About 12 of the county clinics have been planned thus far.
Ball Room Goes 'Cafe Metropole' For Monday Varsity
Dancers attending the Varsity Monday night will be relieved of the task of running up and down steps of stairs to quench their thirst.
Tables are to be installed in both the east and west ends of the ballast frame. The ballasts have only to sit down, and give their orders to the waiters.
The Varsity will be played by Dale Brodie and his orchestra.
Speech Festival Here in March
- Twenty-one High Schools Enroll for Oratory, Drama Contest
Enrollment of high schools in the speech and dramatics festival, which will be held at the University on April 30, has soared to 21 thus far.
While the festival is open primarily to high schools in the vicinity of Lawrence, entries have been received from all over the state. The festival is sponsored by the extension division with the cooperation of the department of speech and dramatic art. Seven divisions of competition will be provided for this year: extemporaneous speech, standard oration, original oration, after-dinner speaking, one-act drama, and musical drama. Judges will rate each entry and awards will be presented to first and second places in each division.
The University Dramatics Club will present a short play complimentary to the high school visitor on the last night of the festival.
Must Furnish Transcripts To Tranfer to University
Transcripts must be submitted to Miss Edna Teeter, secretary of the advanced standing committee, if the student is registering from another college. If the student has never registered in another university, he must submit his high school transcript.
Kansan To Appear As 8-Page Tabloid
The University Daily Kansan will be published as an eight-page tableau during the next semester Stewart Jones, 240, chairman of the Kanaan Board, governing body, newspaper, announced yesterday.
The action of the board will change the newspaper's page size to five columns, each 15 inches in diameter, a number of pages will be doubled.
Walter Meininger, c'40, publisher of The Kansan for the next semester, said the change in form would give advertisers better display and would allow better departmentalization of news.
"In taking this step, the Kanans is following a modern trend in university newspapers which has been found successful at the universities of Northwestern, Nebraska, and Iowa State College. Meininger said.
Turpentine Fumes Cause False Alarm
After unsuccessfully examining the house from basement to attic, the firemen were on the point of giving up the search when the broken bottle was found in the kitchen.
Fumes from a 'broken bottle containing turpentine resulted in a false alarm answered by Law-**
**rence, who had moved house at 1333 Kentucky street.**
Author of Best Seller Says Young People Are Pampere
Boston (UP)—Mrs. Bertha Daam, author of "Grandpa called I Carnal," thinks children should be reared in a farmhouse — without central heating, telephone, radio, hot or cold running water.
She told the Massachusetts Federation of Women's Clubs that young people are too pampered and spoiled with easy living and as a result aren't able to cope with the difficult years ahead of them.
difficult years ahead of them.
Karl Krueger will conduct the Karl City Philharmonic orchestra in its six consecutive yearly concert here on Feb. 19, highlighting a list of three concert presentations in the first month of next semester.
★ Krueger's Orchestra Will Highlight Series of Three Concerts Next Month
Since Conductor Krueger first began to build the Kansas City musical organization in 1933, the orchestra has improved steadily in ability and has found a corresponding increase in popularity with University audiences since its first concert here six years ago. Its recently introduced series of "Pop" concerts in Kansas City at lowered prices have brought increased interest in its work.
On Sunday afternoon preceding the Philharmonic concert, students and faculty members in the School of Fine Arts will present the sixty-first musical composition he has everves, a widely-varied program of vocal and instrumental numbers.
The San Francisco Opera ballet on tour after its regular season, will appear as a presentation of the University concert course, replacing the concert of Walter Giesling, German pianist whose American tour ended. The two concert course presentations will require activity books for映本 but the vesper program will be open to the public.
The University will play host to 500 or more persons March 16, when an all-day physical science conference for high school science teachers and their outstanding students culminates in a general of the extension division.
Expect Conference To Draw 500 From High Schools
Lectures and lecture demonstrations will be on the program by the departments of chemistry, physics, geology and astronomy, which are co-operating with the extension division in presenting the conference.
The event, for which invitations to the high schools have been issued, will be the second conference of its kind held here, although none was sponsored last year. The previous conference was held two years ago this spring, when about 300 attended.
Dispensary hours at Watkins Memorial hospital Friday, Saturday and Sunday will be from 10 until 12 noon. It was said in the hospital yesterday.
Set Temporary Dispensary Time
Physical examination of new students will be conducted at the hospital Monday and Tuesday, it was said, and the hospital will return to its regular dispensary hours Wednesday.
Lloyd Roser, ph, and Dalton Stover, cpr, who were admitted to the hospital suffering from pneumonia, were both admitted. Roser was admitted to the hospital Jan. 23 and Dalton was admitted Jan. 13.
The condition of Annete Woods c'42, who underwent an appendectomy at the hospital Sunday morning and was satisfactory yesterday afternoon.
London, Jan. 30—(UP)—A German bomber was shot in an air battle off the east coast today, the air ministry announced, as the Nazi air force carried out "Blitzkrieg" attacks on British air force and the second one consecutive day with a monstering cone-tive life.
British Down Nazi Bomber
In the past 24 hours of Germany's most violent aerial attacks since the start of the war more than 20 ships have been bombed and machine-gunned and perhaps 40 seamen killed.
Aid for Finns---which have been holding two Russian divisions in a triangular pocket of murderous fire deep behind the Soviet lines.
Italian Volunteers Bomb Russian Naval Base
Tonight's military communique announced that the Finnish air force had bombed "a certain harbor and vessels lying there" and well informed quartets and the harbor was in danger of being on the eastern end of the gulf of Finland.
Helsinki, Jan. 30, —(UIP) -Italian volunteer airmen flying stream-lined Savio-Marchetti bombers were reported tonight to have bombed the big Russian naval base of Kronstadt and scored direct hits on several Russian warships, buildings and airplane hangars.
On the fighting northwest of Lake Ladoga, the communique said fresh enemy assaults in the Russians' 10-day-old attempt to outflank the Manorheim line were inflicted on the Russians.
The Russians again attempted to storm across the ice near the eastern shore of Lake Ladoga and silence the guns of Finland's Marta fortress
Boyce Names Editorial Staff
Associate editor will be Loretta Diggs, c'40, Helen Markwell, c'41, and Gerald Banker, c'40, will serve as assistant editors. The new feature editor is Betty Coulson, c'41, who will be assisted by Hal Ruppenthal, c'42.
A new staff for the editorial side of The Kansan was announced yesterday by Richard Boyce, c40, newly-elected editor-in-chief of the Kansan.
These appointments will be in effect Feb. 6, when the next Kansan will appear.
Workers Sabotage Library Studying-- Bore from Within
Noise of unquestionable origin have brought currently inquisitive noses out of reference books, and have rudely interrupted the last minute efforts of final-conscious students in the basement reading room of Watson library for the last two days.
Students fidgected, fumed, and reassumed the role of scholars, still puzzled over the origin of the nefarious "underground activities" in the library. The truth came out when a complicated inquiry revealed that the photo bureau was constructing two new darkrooms. Students chronically dissatisfied with the lack of their activity books thus find further causes for grievances against the University Photographic bureau.
The enemy attack on Manast fort, supported by planes and artillery, was repulsed the Russian had fired from the island in army across the ice, it was said.
The communique also announced that 21 Russian planes were shot down in air battles by anti-aircraft fire in yesterday's aerial attacks on southern Finland which killed and wounded 838 personnel, mostly civilians.
The 21 Russian planes, largest number shot down by the Fimins in any one day, brought to an estimated 300 the number of Red army planes brought down since the start of the war two months ago.
Two Days To Go---
WEDNESDAY
January 31
THURSDAY
February 1
The Russian air force, presumably seeking vengeance for the stalling of the offensive northeast of Lake
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"Newton was wrong," he declares. "If he was right there wouldn't be any earthquakes."
American Institution Of 'Dates' Charming, Egyptian Girl Finds
"I'm not going to explain by laws to you," he says. "You wouldn't understand them. But anybody can understand the facts."
Members of the School of Education will attend meetings in Topeka this weekend. Those attending the meeting of the council of administration in Topeka Friday and Saturday are: Dean Raymond A. Schweigler of the School of Education; J. W Twente, professor of education; P. O Russell, associate professor; E. Brennan, Instanten instructor in education; and E. H Chandier, associate professor of education.
The whole thing hinges upon the fact that Thrupp has re-formulated Newton's law of gravitation.
Dean Schlegler will participate in an education forum sponsored by Beta Sigma Kappa, an optometrist fraternity, Sunday in Topeka. Dr Herbert Stukey, an alumna of the university, will also participate in the forum.
Youngstown, O. (U.P.)—To a 19-year-old Egyptian girl, "dates" are the most charming of American institutions.
Selam Bishlaw, a native of Cairo, Egypt, says, "I have indulged in the American custom, and I think it is grand." Marriages in Egypt, as she complains, are arranged by the parental and "dates" are impossible there.
Topeka Meetings Attract Educators
Revises Law Of Gravitation
Last June, Thrupp made 24 predations for 1939 and 1940. These were not "locking the barn" predations but were set down on paper eight months ahead and mailed to scientists all over the world. By the middle of January 11 of them had taken place.
Miss Bishlaiw is in America to study music and the Bible in Wooster College at Wooster. O. Though she is a Mohammedan, she has a background here because the religious essentials of Islam and Christianity are much the same.
Vancouver, B. C. (UP) - Edgar Chrimp, is right then Sir Isaac Newton was wrong. Newton's law of gravitation is challenged because Thrupp has a perfect record for Thrupp's work in a theory hat denies Newton's law.
Thrupp, an amiable, scholarly, retired civil engineer, has been called the "earthquake man" (a title he scorns), because he forecast the destructive Ankara earthquakes starting Dec. 26, and those which occurred in North America from Nov. 7 to 23.
8:30 classes, 5, 4.3 hours at 8:10 to 11:20
8:30 classes, 2,1 hours at 8:10 to 4:20
3:30 classes, 5, 4.3 hours at 8:10 to 11:20
4:30 classes, all hours at 8:10 to 5:20
4:30 classes, all hours at 8:10 to 5:20
Civil Engineer Denies Newtonian Law of Gravity
The facts are that Thrupp has predicted earthquakes, and earthquakes have occurred. He has pre-died. He has also occurred. He has predicted sunspots, and just that kind of sunspots have appeared.
What's more, his predictions have been registered months in advance with the Royal Society and the Royal Astronomical Society.
He predicted small magnetic disturbances for Aug. 1. They occurred. A magnetic storm predicted for Aug. 10 was observed by Imperial Airways trans-Atlantic fliers the night of Aug. 10-11.
He predicted magnetic storms and auroras Sept. 15-16. They started Sept. 14 and continued to Sept. 17.
Nov. 8 to 20 he said would be a dangerous time. Temblors occurred in California, Japan, Oregon, Washington, British Columbia, Easter Island, Jamaica, Juneau, Turkey, and the Mississippi Valley Nov. 7
12, 14, 20 and Valley 23.
Between Dec. 25 and Jan. 19 (Continued on page three)
To Sign 'Em Up---
George O. Foster, University registrar, who announced yesterday that the registrations of new students will be received Monday and Tuesday.
Editor Robertson Makes Forecast:
Owl Out Next Week
The latest issue of the Sour Owl, pet project of Jimmy Robertson, c'40, editor of the magazine, will be on sale within the coming week, according to latest reports from Mr. Robertson.
Among the highlights of the coming issue will be a picture of Dolores Hiller, c'42, "the day of" the Sour Owl; a full page of drawings by Jack O'Hara, c'42, called "Short Shorts"; five pages of pictures snapped at recent Hill Farm shows; and a book titled "Popular Misconceptions," the product of the artistic pen of Bedy Dodge, fa'43.
Stories which merit featured spots in the humor magazine are "Medieval Mirth," by Christopher Vanderveer, incognito, and "Dancetiquette," by Steve Marland, also incognito. The former story seeks to prove that *Eve*. h'adam could have been a man with great brains and the latter deals with "how men's manners make dancing a delight."
Robertson stated that more student art will be featured in future issues of the magazine with greater space being devoted to gossip also. The cover of the new issue was done by Chestine Wilson, fa4, 39, with a studying co-ed as its motif.
Approve Nineteen Practice Teachers
A supplementary list of 19 stu- students in the School of Fine Arts who have been approved for practiceteaching in music and art in Orea theatre schools during the spring semester was an onneed yesterday.
Those approved are:
Art. Henri Finchee fa: 40; Beulah
Gordon Finchee fa: 40; Kaufmann,
fa: 40; Joe Kresbhel, fa: 40; and Alice
Schwartz, fa: 42
Music: Greta Gibson, fa'4; Edn Givens, fa'4; Leona Mae Hall, fa'4; Howard Hardenson, fa'4; Dorothy Hendrison, fa'4; Franice Hurd, fa'4; Martha Jackson, fa'4; Mary F Jackson, fa'4; Marilyn Konanz, fa'4; Gail Little, fa'4; Daisy Tucker, fa'4; Marian Wadley, fa'4; William R. Ward, fa'4; and Mrs. Vetia Retel, ed'40.
The students will begin teach elementary grades and continue to work of a high school level.
Chubb Reviews Finnish Situation for Rotary Club
The relationship of Finland and Russia during the last 100 years was reviewed by Prof. H. B. Chubb, of the department of political science, when he addressed the Lawrence Rotary Club Monday noon.
The invasion of Finland was prompted by Russia's desire to offset German influence in the Baltic Professor Chubb said. It was also the speaker's opinion that the Nazi, Fascist, and Communistic states are not at war with Russia and Poland," and that they are all on endeavoring to hide such aggressive policies under the ideologies which they profess to be following.
Professor Chubb was introduced by Col. Karl F. Baldwin, professor of military science.
Announce Enrollment Schedule
- Monday and Tuesday
Set as Dates for Registration
in Second Semester
Classes
Enrollment hours for the spring semester were announced yesterday by the Registrar's office.
Enrolling times for the College and Schools of Business are as follows:
Registration will be held for new students and transfers from other colleges and universities on the same two days. Students who registered in the fall will not be required to register in the spring according to Geo. F. Ooster, registrar.
The enrollment period will cover two days, Monday and Tuesday, Feb. 5 and 6. Freshmen, sophrorms, juniors and first semester seniors will be instructed on the next two days. Second semester seniors were enrolled last week.
Monday, Feb. 5
Tuesday, Feb. 6
8:30-10:00  S.N. Q.
10:00-11:50  D.H.
1:30-3:00  Z.O. G, W.
1:30-4:50  E.B.
3:30-4:50 - J, M, X, I.
Students in the University's other schools will not be required to enroll by initial letters.
Places of enrollment:
College-Robinson gymnasium.
Engineering-Marvin hall.
Fine Arts-Robinson gymnasium.
Business-104 Frank strong hall.
Education-Robinson gymnasium.
Law-Green hall.
Biology chemical lab.
Medicine-10 Frank Strong hall.
Graduate-225 Frank Strong hall.
All new freshmen and advanced standing students will be required to take a psychological examination,
which will be given Friday afternoon, Feb. 9, in Fraser theater.
8:30-10:00 -V, C, K.
8:30-11:50 -F, P, A, Y, U.
8:30-4:50 -J, M, X, I
Students in the University's other
Debate Meet Here Saturday
Schools which will participate in the tourney include Washington, Bethel, Turner, Bonner Springs, Eureka, Garnett, and Osage City. Turner High School won the tournament last year.
Seven high schools will meet here Saturday in a class B district debate tournament, H. G. Ingham, di-门le the extension division, and vested yesterday.
The district tournament will precede the state debate contest by two weeks. Wimmers of district tournaments will participate in the state competition.
The Lawrence district tournament is one of nine class B district meets held over the state.
On the Shin
By Reginald Buxton
Drops of goo: Cooperation with a friend, Kappa Sig Dick Harwood fluffed off Pi Mary Jane Miller the other evening. His friend, however, didn't fuss his hanka and harwood, double-crossed and brokebasted, spent a freuft hour on the phone straightening matters out.
. speaking of the double-crossing friend reminds me that "Spunny" Spanbauer will soon he himself to New York bidding good-bye to the Hill and Pi Phi Cora Heworth. Virgil Mitchell, late Shin writer and later still of Laramie, Wyo, will be back in school next semester. . it's a wooden expression but Alpha Chi Mary Francis Nelson and Kappa Sig Howard Harris (a Haas-been) are making a neat two-by-two.
Always a cut-up, Prof. Henry Ladd Sikkim slipped one over his "law of the Press" class and had them ask their own questions for the finals. After an hour Jimmy Hirsch (who was also set) was still working on his first question; had asked himself one so hard he couldn't answer it.
Another Lincoln-Holmes story:
Chancellor Malott walked into Fraser hall and was greeted by the jasnor with a "Hey, you! can't you pipe your feet?" To which the Chancellor cheerfully answered, "Yes, I guess so," and walked outside.
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