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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME XXXVII
OFFICIAL STUDENT PAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Z-229
NUMBER 72
LAWRENCE, KANSAS. THURSDAY, JANUARY 11, 1940
Athletic Fund Drive Fails; Councils Split
★ Men's Governing Body Refuses To Top Reserve; Women Approve $1850 Sports Grant
W. S.G.A. action which Tuesday night gave qualified approval to the Athletic Board's request for funds will amount to nothing, Raymond Nichols, executive secretary, said last night.
Monday night the Men's Student Council refused to give its approval to the $1850 grant which the Central Committee made. The women's council, however, voted to give that sum to athletics with the provision that it be used solely for spring sports.
The money which the board wished to tap is under the control of the Central Activities Committee and may be approved by both student councils.
Nichols added that all the approval might do is keep the question open for possible reconsideration by the men.
Nichols, however, said that unless both councils approved of the grant the move was lost. The W.S.G.A. would be given the vote to give the money to the board.
The $1500 would be drawn from the Activity Reserve, Fun, and is all but $450 of the money now in those coffers. Each student pays 30 cents to the fund annually by way of the activity fee. Since the council has already given $200 to a Negro varsity, this would leave only $250 in the reserve fund for the rest of the year.
C. H. Mullen, 'f42, M.S.C. service', said it was the first time that the councils had differed when asked for an approval on a Central Committee grant. Mullen not sure how the situation would stand with one council standing for and one against the appropriation.
By Reginald Buxton=
On the Shin
Having convinced myself that fighting the flu standing up in this inclement weather was impossible, engaged Ken Postlethwaite to write this morning's column while i heetok myself to bed. Ken used up an hour of his time to host a lost dog. Pat (the dog) returned home in time to wreck a marvelously written item and yours truly is stuck with filling up the hole.
Alexander Woodliff once used a quip concerning two actors that might be employed to describe those manies of laughter, roommates and Mary Rubeke Scott; "Two minds without a single thought."
A proprietress of a Hill cafe tells of having a dream about one of the waiters that was so realistic she likefir him the next day for being there. My advice is to wait until the third time and then "caut" him-quick.
Ch O Helen Beth Faubion dropped into the office to leave a note for the Shin. Not knowing what she had or her mind I can only guess that it was another personal fashion note. Helen Beth has always been right proud of her two suits of gray and blue long-handed underwear. I prefer pajamas is this sort of weather—warm but not sticky.
This is where Ken comes in:
Guest writer, Ken Postlethwaite.
Note to teachers of Tuesday's 1:30 classes; If several students in your classes were late it wasn't their fault at all. Betty Mutchin and a bunch of Tieta's that plutoebrate automobile owners coming up the south drive to the Hill.
We were going to write a paragraph about Chancellor Malott knowing how to skii, but none of the nouns meaning people who can ski looked right. Skier, skier, skist
When traffic finally got to moving there were cars all the way down the Hill to 17th street, everyone of them stuck one way or another. Two con- automobiles left their automobiles where they stopped and went on to class, a la foot.
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Plans Picture History
Professor Taft of the department of chemistry is compiling a photographic history of the University covering 75 years.
Taft Preparing
Pictorial Historiu
Dr. Robert Taft, professor of chemistry, is preparing a pictorial history of the University, it was learned last night.
★ Chemistry Professor's Publication Out in 1941; Now Has 300 Pictures
It is the first time an attempt has been made to cover so long a period with photographs. The collection of illustrations is expected to be completed for publication when the University holds the final celebration of its Seventy-fifth Anniversary in 1941.
Considered one of the foremost authorities on history of photography, Doctor Taft is the author of numerous magazine articles. His book "Photography and the American Scene", published last year was widely praised. In 1935, a two-part article on "M. B. Brady and the Daguerecotype Era", printed in the "American Photography" magazine doctor Taft the P H Brady medal, awarded annually for important contributions to the science, practice or history of photography. At that time, only two other Americans had received the 30 medals presented.
His collection of photographs on University history now numbers more than 300. Additional pictures are designed, however, and Doctor Taft would paint these points which only any phase of the 75-year life of Mt. Oreed.
Old Greek Icon,
Religious Plaque,
Hangs In Museum
An icon, picturing the Virgin Mary and an angel, has been received by Spooner-Thayer museum from Miss Peers, former member of the department of design, now living in France.
The icon dates back to 1769 an is of Greek origin. An icon is use by the Greek people as a form of idol. When the prayers are answered a jewel is added to the crown screwed on the Virgin's head. The jewel is removed from the crown removed, but the hules from the screws are still there.
Miss Minnie Moodie, curator of the museum, said it was one of the most beautiful she has ever seen, and that the Greek icons have more colors than the Russian icons. It is a great addition to the possession of the University.
The plaque is hanging on the north wall of the first floor at Spooner-Thayer museum.
Because bad weather prevents, the R.O.T.C. from drilling yesterday, they were shown a movie concerning first aid treatment. They saw a blood wounds, treat fractures, and载 the wound from the field.
If the weather prevents drilling next Wednesday, another movie will be shown, officias said.
Snow Chases R.O.T.C Indoors To See Movie
Fourth District To I.S.A. Polls Under New Rules
District IV of the Independent Student Association will hold the first election under the Association's new leadership at 7 o'clock tonight in Miller hall.
★ Election Will Be Held at Mellier Hall; To Choose One To Serve as District Representative
The district will choose one of its members to serve as the district representative on the new LSA. executive council. Members will also nominate two others to be candidate in representative-at-large on the council.
Each of the other three wards will hold a similar meeting Jan. 16. From each will come a district representative to sit on the executive board, and two candidates for other council posts.
Of the resulting eight nominations four will be elected to the council as a general election Jan. 22. Voters will also choose the Association president that day from candidates to be named soon by the present council.
District III: Watkins hall, 7 p.m Jan.16.
District I: Men's lounge, Memorial Union building, 7:30 p.m., Jan. 16.
District II: Corbin hall, 7 p.m., Jan. 16.
Dates and places for the other three district elections are:
district elections are:
District I: Men's lounge. Memorial
Previously announced dates which differ from these are incorrect. Members must present their I.S.A. cards at all elections.
To Play Final Table Tennis Matches Saturday
Final play in the all-University table tennis tournament, sponsored by the Memorial Union building student activities committee, is expected to begin Saturday, Winford Ferry and the director of the tourney, sail 'last night.
Medals will be awarded winners of the three divisions which include women's singles, women's singles, and men's doubles in the tournament began Monday.
Second round matches played yesterday include:
Ham over Conrad, Matthews over Kirk; *Oil*Ne over Edwards; *Cline* over Holmes; Shupe over McFerrin; Chapman over Davison; Kremezier over Patterson; Byler over Hansen; Jones over Jones; and Petterson over Keaver.
Second-round matches schedule today are:
Brockett to Moseley, Radford to Love, Martin vs. Heijberg, Black vs. Gorillz, and Fugit vs. Fowler. Third-round, matches, schedule
Advanced by byes—Virginia Anderson, Eddie Parks, Ellen Irwin, Ala Bingham, Virginia Hartmann, Placida Koelzer, Norma Tibbets, Molly Tanner, and Margaret McCoy Doris Johnson defeated Shirley Irwin; Jane Irwin defeated Betty Van Ardsale.
Ham vs. Matthews; Shupe vs. Chapman; and Weigel vs. Petterson Play in the women's division includes the following results:
Jane Waring vs. Marjorie Rader.
Mary Louise Lockhart; vs. Helen Markwell.
Virginia McMaster vs.
Doris and Doria Johnson vs.
Olcarg Alc.
Third-round matches schedule today:
Edicle Parks vs. Doris Johnson
(Thelea); Alta Bingham vs. Virginia
Hill; Molly Koehler vs. Jane Irwin;
Iwain; Tanner vs. Margaret McCoy.
Second round matches scheduled for tomorrow include:
First round matches scheduled for tomorrow include the following:
st and second rounds in (Continued on page three)
Even the Athletic Association couldn't get the jump on Schiller Shore, who also is seeking money from the Men's Student Council.
Schiller Shore Seeks M.S.C. Fund Grant For Restocking Lake
Although the governing body of athletics requested about $1,800 more than Shore desires, there is no less sincerity in the latter's bid for a "nominated consideration." The self-named warden of Potter lake asks the appropriation to finance re-stocking the campus game paradise with "full-blooded Kansas catfish."
"Each spring," Shore said, "golfers by continually knocking balls into the lake damage our supply of fish enormously. This leaves two alternatives; either we must get rid of the golfers or keep adding new fish. The last approach appears more possible."
Sware, through M.S.C.-er Harold Johnson, is presenting a bill at the next meeting and has written letters seeking support of his measure.
Rush week for men at the University next fall will be Sept 12, 13 and 14. Dan Rhule, ed.40, president of the University Council, announced wednesday.
Set Rush Week Dates For Men
The dates will fall on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday of the week preceding the actual opening of class work. Rhule said that the Council decided on the time with the thought of avoiding any conflict with the University's Freshman Week program.
★ Rhule Announces Greeks
Will Pledge Sept. 11, 12
and 13 in 1940
No changes in rush week regulations for men were made, Rhule said. Date cards are now available at the Allen Press, if any fraternity wishes to begin registering dates with prospective 1940 freshmen.
Dates for women's rush week have not been set, Barbara Edmonds, c40, president of the Panhellenic Council, said last night.
Six Are Pledged To Jay Janes
A bulletin announcing a course for housemothers and house directors to be offered at Purdue University Summer Session June 17 to July 12, has been received by Miss Bemegui, adviser of women.
With the awareness of the importance of the student living-group has come a growing desire of college and university officials and fraternity officers to have house directors and house mothers trained for their work, the bulletin points out.
Six women were pledged to Jay James, women's pep organization, yesterday afternoon at the regular meeting of the group in the Pine room of the Memorial Union building. Those pledged are Leah Edkinson, Nicole Furness, c'42; Nancy Carey, c'42; Mariann Lacey, c'42 and Betty Bidress, c'41.
According to the announcement any housemother or house director is eligible to take the course.
Purdue To Offer Training For House Directors
Rundt Wiedemann, b'41, was elected vice-president of Jayanes to succeed Nell Clark, c'40, who recently resigned from the organiza-
The training school will be devoted to a study of house management and the techniques of achievable goals in student groups.
Award University $6,106.35 Estate After Two Years
- Kansas High Court Gives School of Fine Arts Right To Money Left by Miss Annie Bundy
After nearly two years of litigation the Kansas supreme court has ordered the National Bank of Topeka to endorse a check for $6,106.35 from the estate of the late Miss Annie M.P. Bundy of Topeka, thus clearing the way for the School of Fine Arts of the University to receive the money for scholarships for deserving students.
The check, dated Sept. 30, 1937, has been held in the business office for the past two years, pending solution of technicalities. The contest arose when the insurance company made out the check jointly to the School of Fine Arts and the Topaka bank because Miss Bundy had failed a few days before her death to state in writing regarding the final disposition of two annuities. Miss Bundy earlier, before witnesses, had marked the annuities for the School of Fine Arts, it was said.
A graduate of the School of Fine Arts in 1895, Miss Bundy for many years had retained an interest in the school, according to Dean D. M. Swarthout. Several years ago she started the Mrs. Eliza Bundy Perry scholarship of $50 annually, in memory of her mother, for deserving students in the school. This continued for five or six years, being discontinued upon her death, when, the University contended, she intended that the larger fund would take its place.
The money from the estate will be placed in a permanent fund and the interest used to help needy Fine Arts students continue their schooling. The students will be chosen by a faculty committee, and the awards made annually, probably in the summer, would come from the amount will approximate $175 to $185 annually, it was estimated.
Snow Grounds 40 Flying Students
"The snow is six inches deep on the field now, and it's too fluffy to make landings in," said Don Ashcraft, head of the flying service. "If the field is graded, piles of snow will be left. Landings would be dangerous then. But one day of heavy snow could become unusable condition, for the ground soaks away the moisture rapidly," the pilot said.
Forty students enrolled in the civilian flight training course are grounded until the snow melts from the fielding of the Municipal airport.
Applications to take the training course are still being accepted by Prof. Earl D. Hay of the School of Engineering.
Harry Cressey will arrive in Lawrence tomorrow. If Cressey passes his instructor's raing test Monday he will teach the remaining 10 students in group 5 the practical part of their pilot training course.
Pep Club Will Meet To Ratify Constitution at 8:30 Tonight
A meeting of the freshmen pr club originally scheduled for Wednesday will be held tonight at the memorial stage of the Memorial Union building.
The meeting, which is being held for the ratification of a constitution or the newly formed organization was changed to tonight because of the lecture by Alexander Woollott last night.
Final seating arrangements for the basketball games will be made, Bill Cavert, c'43, president of the organization, said.
Eight of Miss Gray's Chi Omega sorority sisters volunteered as donors for the blood transfusion yesterday and were typed in the hospital's laboratory. However, when it was found that Mrs. Gray had the same type blood as her daughter, it was decided not to use the students' blood.
Students who volunteered as donors include Helen Heard, c'41; Mariolou Miller, ed'42; Helen Beth Faubion, c'43; Jean Brown, c'42; Jean Talbott, c'40; Louise Bowen, c'40; Mary Louand Randal, c'41; and Miss Grav's sister, Virginia Grav, c'41.
Mary Margaret Gray, c.42, whose mother, Mrs. C. E. Gray of Emporia, yesterday acted as a donor for a blood transfusion to build up her daughter's general body condition, was scheduled for an operation at 8.45 o'clock this morning at Watkins Memorial hospital.
Miss Gray, who fainted after the Chi Omega winter formal dance Saturday night, was admitted to the hospital Sunday. The attending physician said she probably would miss the hospital for a week or more.
Two Lawrence physicians will per form the operation this morning.
Kiwanis Will See
Tumblers At Noon
Mother Is Donor For Mary Gray
The team this year is captained by Also Gordes, #41; Frank Anneberg, gr; is the team's manager, and Herbert Alphin instructor in physical education, is faculty sponsor of the organization.
The Jayhawk Tumblers will perform for the first time this season at a Kiwanis Club luncheon today at Wiedemann's cafe.
★ Woman Student Under-
goes Transfusion Prior To
Operation
Other members of the team are:
Gene Roads c'40; Sidney Salt, e'42;
Delbert Small, c'42; and Roy Mill,
e'uncl.
Award Whitcomb Scholarship
To Laura Holste, Jane Robison
The Edna Osborne Whitcomb scholarship of $100 this year was awarded jointly to Laura Louise Holc, c'41, and Mrs. Jane Raup Robinson, c'41, it was announced yesterday.
The scholarship, which was established in 1932, is awarded annually to women students selected by a committee composed of faculty members of the department of English. Members of the committee include Rose Morgan, chairman, Miss Nellie Barnes, and W. S. Johnson.
Woollcott Lecture From Sharp Wit To Deep Pathos
Treat Snowball Victim
Stuart E. Bunn, e41, the first casualty of the Hill's snowball wars, was treated at Watkins Memorial hospital yesterday afternoon for a gash above his left eye. Two stitches were required to close the cut caused by a thrown snowball. Bunn was released after being treated.
Language Instructor To Wed
A marriage license has been issued at the office of the Lawrence probate judge to Perry Westbrook a member of English, and Miss Myrtle Moyer, assistant instructor in the department of German.
That's Proof,' Woollcott Says of Ulrich, Blind Student
Rv Jim Bell. e'40
"There's the proof what I was saying," chirped Alexander Woolfort backstage in Hoch auditorium last night, as John Ulrich, 741, and his "Seeing Eye" dog "Dutchy" walked away. "There's your right
that the Right Listener was always there, and retold his classic story about the "Seeing Eye" dog from New Jersey.
When Ulrich came backstage to meet the story teller, he found him sitting on a piano bench wiping the perspiration from his chubby bows, signing copies of "While Rome Burns."
Shortly before his meeting with Ulrich. Woollcott told 3,000 persons
He broke his conversation to tell Ulrich of another blind lawyer he knew with a dog like "Dutchy." This lawyer, said Woolcott, practices on the West Coast. He has at the business for two years and has yet to lose his first case. Ulrich listened carefully, then patted "Dutchy" on the head and said, "We'll do it, too."
He was willing to autograph anyone's copy of one of his books but refused to sign his name under any other sign. He insisted on thinking of my publishers," he quipped
Woolcott told friends that he enjoyed his lecture here. "College audiences are always more respondent to what he as he chatted nervously to students."
"Of course, I enjoy being back in college. I've been to 28 of them or this trip." His was his answer to a query
answer or a quoll.
As a parting throw in the collegians, he offered to help of the Hill's fraternity house during rush week for a nominal sum.
as he smiled behind a pair of thick glasses.
■ Alexander Woollett rolled his oblique frame and his acute wit onto the stage of Hoch auditorium last night to give 3,000 persons a taste of Fesquire humor and edge-of-the neap pathos.
Woolcott called his talk "The Right Listener" and somewhere in the ramble of anecdotes he may have talked on the subject. He talked on so many that it is difficult to tell. Some personal biography.
Believe-it-or-not tales.
He talked about himself and in declared that there was no harm in it. "When people talk to me I wish they would talk about themselves," he said. "That's something they know something about."
Tales you probably can't remember off-hand but that you will think about at odd moments during future years. Not one tale at a time, but one within another, and maybe even one in the middle.
Tales you wouldn't tell you clergymen.
Woollett got into newspaper work he said, because he wanted to attend the theater every night and journalism gave him the free tickets. When at 27, he was made dramatic critic of the New York Times, Woollett said his first thought was about the passes he would get.
But when the profession got too fast for the slow-moving critic he "fled from the nightmare" of many edition journalism.
Woolcott discounted any rumors that some power had forced him to quit the radio work he took up next. "It would be good to be called a marryt to free speech," he said, "but it's not true." He dled from radio career because he found himself "filling up" an amount of time just as Walter Wincell is filling up a certain amount of space."
Accoustics in Hoch felt the edge of the Town Crier's wit.
"If, after I start, someone cannot hear me, and wishes to, if he will wave his hand I shall not misconstrue the gesture."
It was "plug Knickerbocker" for a while. H. R. Knickerbocker, a friend of Woollott's who will speak here in February, was the object of a lengthy but not-complicated antecedent. "It is only fair that we who take to the road should do some advance publicity on each other," he apologized.
Graduate Engineers Serve on Board
Joseph Jacobs, 99, consulting engineer of Seattle, Wash., was elected to the office of vice-president of the Society of Civil Engineers recently.
Three other University graduates and nationally known engineers have seats on the board of this organization. They are: Edward Noyes, 07, another vice-president of the organization; Henry E. Riggs, 86, serving on the board as past president; and Glen Parker, 06, director representing the Pacific Northwest.
Chiapusso To Play French Music for French Relief
Jan Chiapso, professor of piano will give a predominantly French musical program at a benefit concert in the Little Theater of the Kansas City Municipal auditorium, Monday evening.
The benefit is under the sponsorship of the French Relief Association of Kansas City.
The program will include works of Luili, Courperin, Rameau, and modern French composers.
A few tickets are still available at the office of the department of romance languages in Frank Strong hall.
Woodard To Speak For Phi Sigma Parke Woodard, associate professor of physiology, will speak on "History of Medicine" at the meet- centary biological fraternity, at 7:30 tonight in room 101 Snow hall.
Chemistry Club to Hear Taft
Dr. Robert Taft, professor of chemistry, will speak on "Kansas Salt" at the regular meeting of the Chemistry Club at 4:30 p.m. today.