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OFFICIAL STUDENT PAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
VOLUME XXXVII
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LAWRENCE. KANSAS. THURSDAY, JANUARY 4, 1940
NUMBER 67
Will Close Brynwood Purchase
Plan Special Anniversary KFKU Show
★ Fifteenth Year of Broadcasting Will Be Celebrated Over University Radio Station Monday Night
Fifteen years of broadcasting will be celebrated when KPKU, Universi-
radio station, presents a special
event at 10:30 until midnight Monday.
To Offer Dramatic Sketch
Governor Payne H Ratner, Chancellor Deane W. Malto, and Fred M. Harris, chairman of the board of regents, will be guest speakers on the commemorative broadcast. The University Symphony orchestra to the band, and the Men's Glee Club will provide musicality to the specially aired program. The department of speech and dramatic art will dramatize an episode from Kansas history, "Johnny Frye of the Pony Express."
Another section of the broadcast will be a dramatic sketch introducing University alumni professionally engaged in radio work and faculty members taking part in the regularly presented programs.
$20,000 for Equipment
Now broadcasting on a day time power of 5,000 watts, the University radio station first boarded Kansas air wavies. Dec 15, 1924, operating with unlimited time on a frequency of 1,000 kilocycles and 500 watts power. Today the station shares time with station WREN of Lawrence on a frequency of 1,220 kilocycles.
A grant from the University budget of $20,000 was provided in 1934 to be spent in constructing the towers and antenna, installing the transmitter, and equiping the studio. Room for the studio and control room was provided in the electrical engineering laboratory.
Programs offered by KFKU today include those of the School of the Air, on which lessons in French, Spanish and German are offered twice a week from 2:30 p.m. until 3 p.m. Literature, science, and music programs of discussion are given regularly during the week.
Topics of social, economic, and political importance are informally discussed each night Thursday at 9:30 o'clock when University faculty members and students present the University of Kansas Roundtable.
Notable achievements during the 15 years of KFKU broadcasting include a 1925 loaded wire airing of proceedings of the state house of representatives. In 1926 the broadcasting of the sound of an atom by J. C. Sander of disease or chemistry, brought national recognition to the University.
On the Shin
By Reginald Buxton
Drifting about the village with the snow Tuesday night; one would have thought, judging from the number of celebrants, that either the last day of school had arrived or that the day of celebration had come. Two New Years—one to ring the gong with the parents and one to kick it around with the boys.
Driving back to school Tuesday a group of us state university "men" stopped at the Broadview cafe on the outskirts of Lyons. Back in the car and ready to leave, we were surprised when the door was jerked open and the quirious voice of the cook said, "All right, you cheap-skates, shell out that pepper shaker." Nothing could convince us known as "kleptokollegians." The chairman in charge of public our relations in Lyons evidently has been neglecting his work.
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This reminds me of another story. During Thanksgiving vacation an editor of a Capper publication was cursing because he had lost a new hat in Grace's at Topeka. A few (Continued on page two)
Popular Dean--in tent place, largely because it still has not reached its culmination, was the drive and arrangement to buy Brynwood Place for a men's club. But it's important when self-supporting University men actually occupy it.
For the sixteenth time D.M. Swarthout, dean of the School of Fine Arts, was re-elected as secretary of the National Music Teachers Association at its convention last week in Kansas City.
Honor Faculty Members During Xmas Holidays
A number of faculty members distinguished themselves during the Christmas holidays at meetings and conventions by being elected to offices, appointed to committees, and by reading papers. Among those who were elected were allowed to continue in their present positions are:
Dean D. M. Swarthout, of the School of Fine Arts, who was reelected National Secretary of the National Music Teachers Association for the sixteenth consecutive year.
Dean F. J. Moreau of the School of Law, was appointed to the general committee on cooperation with the bench and the bar and the law students, both of the Association of American Law Schools.
Dr. R. I. Camutson, director of the student health service, was asked to continue his position as chairman of the health service committee. In addition he was elected president of the American Student Health Association the annual meeting at the Hotel New Yorker, New York City.
Prof. J. F. Brown of the department of psychology was appointed a member of the committee which is publishing a yearbook on Peace and War, headed by the Society of Psychological Study of Social Issues. The meeting was held at Urbana, Ill.
Allen Crafton, professor in the department of speech, was elected vice-president of the Nation Association for Speech, which was held in Chicago.
Miss Anna McCracken, instructor in philosophy, enjoyed a trip to Dallas, where she was reappointed to the Department of Philosophy in the Teaching of Philosophy.
W. H. Horr, associate professor of botany, who attended a meeting in Columbia, Ohio, was appointed to the council of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
A get-together for all new women students is being planned for Wednesday, Jan. 10 from 3 to 5 in the Memorial Union building by a committee of freshman representatives from the organized houses and halls of the university. The chairman of the committee, tickets will go on sale today for 10 cents for the party which will consist of games and dancing.
Plan Party For New Students
[n Annual News Ranking
New Chancellor Tops List
By Harry Hill, c'40
In a year that had more than its share of accidents, fires, gold gishers and political explosions, the naming of Deane W. Malott to the University Chancellorship was the top news event on the campus.
The sudden death on June 1 of Mrs. Elizabeth Watkins, aged benefactress of the University, was placed second. Mrs. Watkins, who gave two women's dormitories, Watkins Memorial hospital and a nurse's home to the campus, provided more than $300,000 in her will for the maintenance of the buildings she financed and presented about 25,000 acres of Kansas land to the Endowment association.
As students returned from Easter vacation April 11, the Board of Regents announced its choice of Chancellor Malott, climaxing a four-month search following the resignation of Dr. E. H. Lindley. Because the coming of a new Chancellor is an event that occurs hardly once in a generation, it won first honors for 1939 in the annual ranking of news stories by the Daily Kansan.
Watkins' Death Second
Watkins' Death Second
Third in the hit parade of news was the ban on smoking, now effective at least partially in all University buildings. Proposed Oct. 9 to the Men's Student Council and two nights later to the WSGA, the suggestion that smoking should be allowed a sky caused a fire up of opposition among the legislators. Stu-
The most important campus news stories in 1839 as chosen by The Kansan:
1. Naming of Deane W. Malott as Chancellor.
2. Death of Mrs. Elizabeth Watkins
6. Death of Dr, James Naismith.
7. Senior Cakewalk with Kay Kyser.
3. Ban Against Smoking.
5. Death of Three Student in Car Wreck.
Re-Elect Dean For 16th Term
6. Death of Dr. James Naismith
All but two members of the School of Fine Arts music faculty attended the meeting, which drew over 1.100 delegates from all sections of the country. A number of University students also attended. Musical and discussion programs constituted activities for the convention, which ended on Dec. 30. Waldemar Geltch, head of the department of violin, presented a paper discussing "Chamber Music".
In a coincidental meeting of the Kansas division of the association, 100 members voted to hold the next annual convention of the state organization at Lawrence, with the University as host to the 300 members expected. The conference will be sometime next fall and University faculty members in charge hope to arrange for several complimentary attractions for the members of the state association. Karl Kuersteiner, conductor of the University Symphony orchestra, is president of the association and of Lawrence, good, who received the degree of bachelor of music from the School of Fine Arts in 1929, is vice-president.
According to Raymond Nichols,
executive secretary to the Chancellor,
it was Dr. and Mrs. Lind-
don D. Williams, who will
until after the first of the year.
Chancelro Emeritus and Mrs Lindley are still in Pekin, China according to latest reports.
The last direct word from Doctor Lindley arrived here Dec. 13 though it was written Nov. 11.
D. M. Swarthout, dean of the School of Fine Arts, was elected for a sixteenth term as secretary of the National Music Teachers Association during a three-day convention in Kansas City, Mo., last week.
8. Reorganization of Board of Regents
★ D. M. Sworthout Named President of National Music Teachers' Association
9. Wreck in Which John Battenfeld Was Killed.
Lindleys Are Still in China
The series of fires in the Phil Delta Theta fraternity house, culminating in a double header blaze Nov. 12 which caused more than $8,000 damage and brought an investigation by state officials, ranked fourth. Presence of a fire bug was hinted, although no results of the investigation have been announced. In fifth spot was the tragic car accident March 18 in which three University students died. When their车 crashed at high speed into a steel filling station pole, Henry G. Lewis and Robert Faulconer were killed instantly. Carlton Dickinson, driver of the
dents already are accepting the bar as a matter of course.
Phi Delt Fires Unfolded
10. Drive for Brynwood Place.
Eighth and ninth places respectively went to the scuttling of the Board of Regents March 17 by a legislative bill that created a new, bipartisan board; and to the automobile wreck Dec. 17 in which John Batterfield was killed and Dan Hamilton seriously injured.
There were hosts of other note-worthy events. Between March 30 and April 2, four large conventions—two of them national—were held on the campus. On April 1 Little Robert Ramsay set an intercollegiate gold-
machine, died the following day.
In the early morning hours of Nov. 27, Dr. James Natimith, professor of physical education and famed inventor of basketball, died following a series of heart attacks. His death aroused nation-wide tribute and was placed sixth.
runvette's most successful hoedown in many years, the 1939 Senior Cakewalk with Kay Kyser's orchestra, ranked seventh. A precedent shattering event, the dance combined three unusual features—it was held on Tuesday, September 25, week night (Tuesday) and it was a huge financial and entertainment hit.
machine died the following day.
Kav Kyser Ranks Seventh
Weather Grounds Flying Students
Don Ashercraft of the Ashcraft Brothers flying school received his instructor's rating the day before school was dismissed for the holidays. Forty students can now be instructed. Two other pilots are to be rated by the Civil Aeronautics Authority in the future.
Chorus members went to Kansas City by special bus yesterday where they will hold rehearsals with the orchestra. Karl Krueger, conductor of the Kansas City Philharmonic orchestra, will conduct the orchestra and lead the chorus in presenting two songs, "Polynetian Dances" (Borodine) and "Chorus Number 10" (Billa-Lobos).
Seventy members of the Westminster A Cappella Choir greeted Dean D. M. Swarthout a day early, Tuesday for final rehearsals in preparation with the Kansas City Philharmonic orchestra today and Friday.
Because of bad flying conditions, students taking the University flying course were grounded yesterday. "The ships were picking up ice," said Bill Ashcraft yesterday afternoon. The five Aeronca planes were confined to the hangar. "The students will be able to fly tomorrow if the weather is all right. The field has a covering of snow, but it is suitable for landings," the instructor said. Ten students regretted the weatherman's prank for they were scheduled to go up for
In the same concerts, the symphony orchestra will play an arrangement of Prof. Charles Sanford's "Suite in E Minor for Piano."
A Cappella Choir To Kansas City
Bank's Round In Watkins Case
★ Estate Goes to Missouri Bank if Executors Fail To Answer Court Writ
The First National Bank of Kansas City, Mo., was granted an alternate writ of mandamus Tuesday by the state supreme court as the initial step in a friendly suit against the executors of the will of the late Elizabeth M. Watkins, University and Lawrence benefactor.
Under the writ, the executors of the will are required to turn over to the bank some $600,000 or show why this should not be done. An answer to the action must be filed by the defendants before Jan. 12.
The Kansai City Bank was named in Mrs. Watkins' will as trustee in 10 provisions of the will including a $250,000 trust for the upkeep of the building; a $75,000 trust for the upkeep of a $175,000 trust for the upkeep of the Watkins Memorial hospital.
Defendants in the case are Frank R. Gray, Douglas county probate judge, through whose court the Watkins will was probated. Judge Mick Williams, Dick Williams, and Raymond F. Rice, executors of the estate.
A meeting of the Freshmen Pep Club will be held Thursday at 8 p.m. in the men's lounge of the Memorial Union building. Bill Cavert, c'43, president of the organization announced yesterday.
Seating arrangement for the basketball games will be made and plans for drafting a constitution for the new team were discussed at the meeting. Cevert said.
Freshman Pep Club Meets To Plan Constitution
According to Rice, attorney of the estate, the case was taken directly to the supreme court in order to clear up the case and establish the trusts within a year as provided by the will.
Seventeen Hour Service With Bayles' New Telephone Plan
A night telephone operator, recently appointed by C. G. Bayley, superintendent of buildings and grounds, will assure the University a permanent 17-hour telephone service.
Students Sponsor Holiday Meetings
★ Movies and Roundtable Alumni Conferences Held by Commission
Albert Gish, former night watchman, began duty as the night switchboard operator, Dec. 29, when the new arrangement in the University telephone system was affected by University officials. His duties will include operation of the switchboard and keeping in touch with the night watchmen and night policemen.
A number of meetings were sponsored over the state by the Students Statewide Activities commission during the holidays; window displays were sent out, and additional meetings were planned with the idea of further advertising the University.
A moving picture entitled "A Tour of Mount Oread" was shown at Strong City and Cottonwood Falls. This movie shows the students' work and activities at the University and prints pictures released for this purpose.
The other movie was shown to a Pratt audience. It was taken in color or at the 1938 Homecoming celebration.
At Oksalawea a round table conference was held, with alumni and interested supporters of the University attending.
Arrangements were made by this Statewide Activities commission to have a "K.U. Day" at Hutchinson, Independence and Coffeville between semesters. Final arrangements still pending in many instances.
To further advertise the University, window display boards, which were prepared by the alumni office, under the direction of Fred Elsworth, university secretary are being furnished to the men of the Statewide Activities Commission have made arrangements for local displays.
These boards display pictures of the varied activities and classroom work of students at the University of Kansas. From time to time additional pictures will be sent to supplement these.
Art Museum Adds Paintings
Two new exhibitions of paintings are on display at Thayer museum for the month of January, according to Marie S. Moody, curator of museums.
The first shown in cooperation with the department of drawing and painting, is a group of 19 oil paintings by James Gilbert, for nine years instructor in painting at Washburn College and now residing in Massachusetts. Mr. Gilbert's work has been exhibited several times at Thayer museum. Portraits predominate in this exhibition with several landscapes and still life studies making up the remainder of the group.
Hi Ho, Hi Ho, It's Back to School We Go, Hi Ho--Hum
The second exhibition, first shown in Boston, Mass., last fall, is composed of 23 water colors of trees by O'Hara, prominent water color artist
With New Year's Eve still dining in their ears the hardiest of 4,610 students dragged back to Mount Oread yesterday to commit three prize inanities.
By Roscoe Born, c'41
Since "nice" probably doesn't begin to cover the sort of a vacation you had, one might suggest a session with a Thesaurus. But then, if you described your two weeks of heaven as "delectable" certain!
ask every acquaintance if he "had a nice vacation."
you would be in for ridicule.
The second was coming back to
Answering "yes, I had a nice vacation" comes next.
The first was coming back at all. Getting bounced out of the warm comfort of a two-week recess is something to resist.
Of course, you might go into detail for several hours but the results might be too personal.
Now turn to the other subject of pertinent conversation—final exams. You can be trite here and not hurt anyone's feelings.
The next time your companion is helpless on an icy walkway, start telling him about your study plans
for the next month.
Tell him how you are going to slave in the library from 6 to 10 every night and how late you will sit up each night with the same
Tell him about the short-haired old duffer in the such-and-such department who is making you do a term paper and six back papers before you can take the final.
I book.
Then tell him that you are not even going to see the basketball game Friday night and he'll know you're lying.
Tell him that you are giving up varities and mid-weeks for the rest of the semester. That you have sworn not to go near the Kappa-Jugga house 'till February.
To Complete Minor Details Within Week
★ Bondholders on Old Acacia House Reduce Price to $9,000; Bradford Contributes $5,000
$5,000 For House and Grooves
It was said the bondholders had reduced the selling price to approximately $4,000 from the base and grounds. Robert H. Bradford, El-Dorado, a former student at the University in 1902, recently contributed $5,000 for the restoration and furnishing of the building, but allowed his gift to go toward the purchase of the building.
Raymond Nichols, executive secretary, said last night that purchase of the property was complete with the exception of several business details connected with the transfer from the Acacia bondholders, owners of the property, to the Endowment association.
Prof. Olin Tempik, secretary of the Endowment association, said that about $3,000 was still needed for pur-
    menting and furnishing the Aenon house.
$9,000 For House and Grounds
Purchase of the old Brynwood property by the Endowment association for use as a dormitory for self-supporting men students probably will be consummated within the next week, it was learned yesterday.
"It is expected that the campaign will be concluded in the near future, and that the building will be ready for occupancy next summer," Professor Templin said. Agreements between 40 and 50
Accomodate between 40 and 50
Between 40 and 50 men will be accommodated in the building. Professor Templin said that occupants of the dormitory would be chosen from applications on the basis of evidence of superior character and ability; inability to continue as student without such assistance; sufficient resources to meet a share of the maintenance cost; and the applicant's spirit of cooperation.
Workmen Clearing Debris
According to present plans, a committee of the student residents subordinated to a faculty committee will manage the dormitory. The student responsible for the work in the house, including maintenance, cleaning, and cooking.
Several workmen have been clearing debris from the grounds of Brynwood place for the past several days. The property has been largely neglected since Acea fraternity members moved from the old building to a new location in 1937. Acea fraternity purchased Brynwood place in 1919.
The committee which has been seeking to purchase the property for a men's dorsitory property to rechristen the building and grounds "Alumni Chapel at the University next year during the school's seventy-fifth anniversary.
Mrs. Lawson Dies Of Heart Attack
Mrs. Paul B. Lawson, wife of Dean Lawson of the College, died after a heart attack at her home Dec. 26.
Mrs. Lawson had been a patient for several weeks at Lawrence Memorial hospital and returned to her home shortly before her death.
Funeral services were held at the first Presbyterian Church with the tev. Theodore Azzman officiating all bearers were E. B. Stouffer, taymond Nichols, O. H. Cooper, frank Rowland, H. B. Hunter, J. A. Beamer, Novel Sherwood and J. H. Nelson
Mrs. Lawson is survived by her husband and two daughters, Mrs. Pardy Moats of South Milwaukee, Mrs. Charles Smith of akewood, Ohio.
No Crime to Say 'Hullo'
No Crime to Say 'Hullo'
Pretoria, South Africa (UP)—It is not a crime to smile at a girl and it is the Supreme Court here ruled and the fine imposed at Johannesburg Sydney Howard Bustin.