UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME XXXVII
OFFICIAL STUDENT PAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
NUMBER 63
Z-229
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1939
Poet Offers Reasons Why People Read
- Untermeyer Says Americans Seek Escape from Reality in Books; Live Adventures of Characters
Though both his lectures here have been entitled "What Americans read and Why." Louis Untermeyer denied before 3,600 perimeterarium yew trees that he should be called one lecture Untermeyer."
"As a matter of fact," the poe said, "I have two lectures. Some day I hope to give the other one."
The speaker insisted, however,
that the repetition was as bad as
it seemed. "The first time I talked
here was five years ago," he said.
"and at least half of the students
are still asking me now." Gives Two Answers
Untermierney deagnaged "Cinderella" type books as fulfilling this desire. "We all feel an inferiority," he went on, and we rise from the ashes of our obscurity to triumph in the person of fairy-story heroes." The book's title is safe from the prying gaze of reality No Stuckbed by "Tobacco Road"
To get more of life, rather than to escape it, was Untermerk's second reason. "Here we read to know life by experiences other than our own," he explained, "and use books as a clue to that life. In fairy-story heroes we see artificial characters, not human beings," he said. "Perfumed ink, not blood flows in their veins."
On the subject again, Untermeyer gave two answers to the question his subject asked. His first answer: to escape reality. The reader wants to isolate himself, the poet said, wants to get "solidly behind the walls of a romantic, therefore remote, realm."
Untermeyer was not shocked by books such as "Grapes of Wrath" and "Tobacco Road," "They may be hard, truthful, and ugly," he said "but they bring out the beauty and strength of America today."
*Vulgarity Means Common People*
"We mustn't be ashamed to look at our vulgar elements," he went on. "Vulgar means 'common people' and that is part of America." Steinbeck's book mirrored a part of the American scene and did it brilliantly, be said.
The poet said he was shocked when he discovered that "Grapes of Wrath" had been banned in Kansas City. "I was more shocked by the ban than by the book," he added.
Untermerkern told of the Italian Fascist ban on detective books. This was done, he explained, because in such books evidence and proof of guilt is necessary before a person can be convicted; the other hand, the "invested and most random person" is arrested at random.
Hygiene Class Visits City Health Departments Tuesday
Thirteen members of the personal hygiene class and Miss Jole Staplen of the School of Physical Education visited various health departments in Kansas City, Mo. Tuesday.
One place visited was the open air room at Woodland School.
The clues also visited the R. J.
DeLano School for the Crippled,
noting particularly the physical
therapy and occupational therapy
At Bell Memorial, the class was directed through the University of Kansas hospitals by Miss Mariannowe, a medical social worker.
Music from Its Silent Tower-at last.
Carols from Dead Dyche Spark Season Spirits
Dyche museum will come to life at here.
Plants are being completed for a broadcast of Christmas carols at 7 p.m. daily from its tower during the Christmas season, according to C. G. Boyles, superintendent of buildings and grounds.
The music will be transmitted from the KFKU studio to the tower. It will be amplified by a public address system.
The plan was proposed by Ray.
Four To Attend Language Session
Four professors from the departments of German and romance languages will attend a meeting of the Modern Language association of America Dec. 28 to 30, in New Orleans.
Miss May Gardner, and Miss Amia Stanton, associate professors of romance languages; William H. Shoemaker, professor of romance and Otto Springer, professor of German, all plan to meet the meeting.
Prof. Shoemaker is a member of the bibliography committee of the Renaissance group.
Mrs. Shoemaker will also accompany the group on the trip. They will leave Lawrence Dec. 26 and return Jan. 1.
Exhibit New Rayon Types In Memorial Union Building
No definite decisions have beer made by members of the department of English concerning their attendance at the meeting.
Illustrative material showing the process of manufacture of different types of mayon is being displayed in the museum. A bidigit in the Memorial Union building.
Methods of testing both silk and ayon are also included. Samples of one of the newer textile fabrics are hown including the much publicized "eyn" *ywnyl* as well as *vinyon* made from rosin), cassein fibers, fiber-plas* and a paper slip plow, fiber-plas* and a paper slip plow, Miss Ruth Parker, instructor in extiles in the department of home economics.
Sophomore Hop, ballroom of Mc
memorial Union. 1 a.m.
Fireside Forum, party at Congregational Parish house. 12 p.m.
Saturday, Dec. 16
Campus house, dance at Evans
Heath, 12 p.m.
Kappa Kappa Gamma, Christmas formal in ballroom of Memorial Union. 12 p.m.
Saturday. Dec. 16
Corbin hall, Christmas party a hall. 12 p.m.
Cosmopolitan Club, party at 1011 Indiana, 11:30 p.m.
Kappa Psi, dinner-dance at Weidemann's, 12 p.m.
Pledges of Kappa Eta Kappa, party at chapter house, 12 p.m.
Dance at 1140 Louisiana, 12 p.m.
Deltasigma Theta, dinner-dance
in Kansas rqom of Memorial Union
12 p.m.
mona Carr, University electrician
The University electricians are donating their own time to operate the programs.
Westminster hall, dinner-dance at Colonial. 12 p.m.
Sigma Alpha Epsilon, dinner-
dance at Eldridge hotel and chapte-
house, 12 p.m.
The exact nature of the programs is not yet known. However, the plan is to broadcast musical programs under the direction of Dean Swarthout and recordings of Christmas cards.
Ricker hall, semi-formal party at hall, 12 p.m.
Phi Kappa Psi, dinner-dance chapter house. 12 p.m.
Wednesday, Dec. 20
Wednesday.
Beta Theta Pi, dinner-dance at chapter house, 12 p.m.
Elizabeth Meguar, Adviser of Women, for the Joint Committee on Student Affairs
The broadcast will begin Sunday, if they do not conflict with the Christmas Vespers. They will continue daily throughout the week.
featuring the "11 Parade" and a new society column "Tales and Tails," by Betty Coulon, c41, The Sour Owl will cover the Hill today according to Jimmy Robertson, c40, editor of the magazine.
Sour Owl Features Glamor Girl Photo, Column by Coulson
The monthly glamour-girl feature is continued with a full page photorah by Hixon.
The cover, designed by Andy Darling, c41, is ultrumodernistic in its make-up and design, said the editor.
In addition to a variety of pictures two full pages of gossip are featured.
Ted Fio Rito To Entertain Soph Hoppers
Newsletter Available To English Majors
Copies of this week's University Newsletter are now available to English hall in room 201 Fraser hall, Miss Evelyn Lewis, secretary of the department of English, announced yesterday.
This issue of the Newsletter was edited by a committee of faculty members from the department of English. Those serving on the committee are: G. N. Bebout Jr., instructor in English, Mull Lu Gardner, professor of English, C. K. Hyder, associate professor of English and J. H. Nelson, associate dean of the College.
Copies have been sent to English teachers of high schools and colleges throughout the state. The purpose of mailing this particular issue to various schools of the state is to furnish new and better information about the department of English in the University.
first meeting of the committee is being held today for the purpose of accrediting engineering schools throughout the United States. At the second meeting it will be held that committee will make recommendations for changes in engineering curricula.
Ivan C. Crawford, dean of the School of Engineering and Architecture, is in Chicago attending committee meetings of engineers and engineering educators today and tomorrow.
Crawford Attends Meeting
- Annual Dance Tonight Starts at 9 O'clock in Memorial Union; Viola in Spotlight
Ted Fo Rito with his "swingy busy sweet" orchestra will play from 5 p.m. to 1 a.m. tonight at the Sophomore Hall in the Memorial Union hallroom.
Featured along with Fio Rito is Regina Travers, who supplies the vocal refrains, and drummer Frank Flynn who "jives" with his swinging novelties. In taking the "vulgarity" out of hotter music, Fio Rito has added another piano and pianist to play with him.
Tonight Norma, Botnick. Fio Rito's viola player, will attempt to show how the viola has replaced the saxophone as the musical instrument with the most "yumph". Botnick will also swing the baton when Fio Rito's fingers glide over the piano key board.
Each finger, estimated by Fio Rito at a value of $30,000, has helped to pick out more than 150 compositions.
with 85 hit tunes to his credit the maestro's fame as a composer leader has spread far into the musical world. Recently this band has played before gay crowds at the Edgewater Beach Hotel, Chicago; the Coconut Grove, Los Angeles; and on commercial broadcasts. Fio Rito made his latest guest appearance on the Fitch Bandwagon.
A Famed Composer
Where Fio Rito formerly used three violins, he now utilizes a viola. Fio Rito believes that the viola offers deeper and more resonant qualities, and at the same time blends with the oras instruments. Several of his arrangements emphasize the viola.
As a boy, Ted started his climb up the ladder of musical fame. In his hometown of Newark, New Jersey, he pounded out melodies in a "honky tonk" theater. At the age of 18, he began his career as conductor and composer. Shortly, he organized his own band. Fio Rito then broke into Hollywood where he appeared in productions for M.G.M, R.K.O., Warners and Paramount studios.
Broke Into Movies
Tickets are still on sale for tl Sophomore Hop at the Memori Union building.
Alumni Office Completes
Pamphlet on University
A seven-page mimeographed pamphlet dealing with various aspects of University life and activities has been prepared by the Alumni office for delivery to students among students, faculty members and alumni.
The booklet contains material on enrollment, living conditions on the Hill, expenses, recreation, employment, the health service, scholarships, college programs, buildings, and state services. Information also is given concerning the seventy-fifth anniversary of the University and University traditions.
Arrest Two Kansas City Boys
Two Kansas City boys, Jack Timm, 12, and Donald McKenzie, 14, were arrested Wednesday night by Sheriff C. E. Banning, Under-sheriff L. B. Read, and two city police officers who shot a man stolen from Kansas City. An hour after the car was stolen the arrest was made in Lawrence.
Promising Outlook For Business School Seniors This Year
The outlook for graduates at the end of this semester is brighter now than it has been in several years, according to a report by Frank T Stockton, dean of the School of Business. He says that the number of graduates for periods during the last few weeks. In the last 10 days 5 firms have made inquiries.
Six company representatives are now interviewing seniors, and many other firms have made dates for interviews in January and February.
The requests have been mostly for accounts, saleemens, and women office workers, Dean Stockton said.
Okay Advanced Flying Course
University Is One of Thirteen To Receive Extra Training
The Civil Aeronautical authority has announced that the University has been chosen as one of the 13 schools in the United States to offer advanced aeronautical training. The course is to be given as a test of advanced training for student pilots. If successful, it will be given on a nation-wide scale next year.
Nine students in the University took a preliminary course last year and are eligible for this advanced training. Each student in the group expressed his desire to enroll in the courses offered by the university of the class that ranked second in the nation's civil astronautical classes last year.
The advanced course will train approximately 90 students throughout the entire United States. Instruction will include 40 to 50 hours of flight training in a regulation army training plane with a 150 horse power motor and tandem cockpits. The ground school work requires 60 hours of classroom instruction. Flight training includes a regulation preliminary army pilot's training and instruction in stunt flying.
The authority will pay flying school operators $750 for each student for the flight courses and $50 for any further ground school training, given by the operator.
College Expert Suggests Women Cook to Music
Emmensburg, In. (UP) - If you're tired of cooking, try doing it in waltz time.
That's the advice of Miss Ruth Swanton of Emmetsburg, who is an instructor in home economies at the Country Day School at Philadelphia.
She says that cooking is all a matter of counting.
"And counting to music makes the actual work seem easier," she adds. That's why she suggests baking to the blues, stewing to Stravinsky and peeling potatoes to a waltz tune. She says: "To bake the perfect cake, we cream the butter and sugar until it's light and fluffy--about 400 strokes. It mixes well. To be a bit tougher, to Sweat the Wizard the Wonderful Wizard of Z. We beat the eggs 300 strokes to 'Come Love,' and 'Stairway to the Stars' sifts four slowly and with the correct motion.
There's No Santa Claus--They Say--But
The Weather
Kansas: Continued clear and cooler.
Charles Sanford Skilton
Leadership Class Plans Meeting
Professor Taggart discusses inflation in the United States since the World War. He concludes his article with the statement that if there is an ice cream in which credit expands or if a consumer purchases substantial price increase. He believes that such a period is already in progress.
Prof. Sevile Chapman, instructor in physics, recently organized a research seminar which meets to discuss current topics in physics. Talks about results in physical research and related subjects are presented by members of the group and outsiders. Professor Chapman said that the chief advantage in the seminar is that it provides for a period of informal discussion on the most recent advances in physics.
Ry Mary Schultes, e^42
Campus Dresses Up for Christmas
By Mary Schultes, c 42 Are Joe and Betty College sitting smugly by glowing firesides beaming like little cherubs and writing their letters to Santa Claus? No, not by any means—all their industry and ambition, which seems to be super-abundant as Yuletide season progresses, has been directed toward making the University Campus radiate with magnetic Christmas spirit.
Plan Graduate Reunion
Chapman Organizes Seminar
Taggart Writes on Inflation For Bankers Magazine
Questions concerning the possibilities of infiation in this country are discussed by Joseph H. Taggart professor of economics in his article "Inflation Possible Factors." December is issue of Banker Magazine.
Plans for a reunion of the class of 1915 will be made today by a committee of graduates of that class with the assistance of Fred Ellsworth, alumna secretary. The committee is as follows: R. A. Dummie, Spring Hill, and Major Raymond Edwards, Ethyl Ulrich Brownlee, and Charles Holmes, all of Lawrence.
The scope and purpose of the group leadership training class will be interpreted by Lewis Irwin, grat at the first meeting of the claus in the lounge of the Memorial Union at 3 o'clock Sunday afternoon.
That essence of Yulelet festivities — the Christmas tree — merrily winks and gleams from every fraternity, sorority, and dormitory on
200 To Present Annual Vesper Program Sunday
...
Yes! Santa Claus can well b
Object of the class is to teach group leadership to students and to place them in camps at teachers at the beginning of summer vacations. They will study the skills subjects as child psychology, camp skills, recreation leadership, elementary astronomy, elementary botany, and camping-out.
The group leadership training class is a project under the direction of Irwin, a graduate in the School of Computer Science at the University of his thesis is "Summer Camps."
Sororites have their best representatives in the Pi Beta Phi and Alpha Chi Omega houses. The front and sides of the Pi Phi house are decorated with eight large red cardboard candles topped with ar-
proud of the decorations that have made the Campus glitter as if it had been touched with a magic wand. Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity wins our vote for the largest Christmas stocking, however. The glittering white two-story pillars of the S.A.E house have been transposed in columns of celestial blue, lighted wreaths in every window from an aesthetic background of crimson.
Sigma Phi Epsilon has a "Merry
official blue glowing flames. The Pi Phi arrow, illuminated with red and green lights, adorns the south side of the house while ropes of entwined pine hooks and pine beams frame a captivating decoration for the entire house.
A myriad of colors decorates the Alpha Chi house. The white house itself, makes a scenic background for light blue wreathes in all windows. An immense wreath adorned with silver bells and pine cones decorate the front doorway. Two multi-colored Christmas trees and a blue-lighted hedge add a variety of color to the scene.
Girls dormitories on the campus have responded to Christmas atmosphere with appropriate decorations. Corbin hall's exterior has received a trimming of brightly colored lights and pine boughs. Miller hall has an archway of cedar boughes entwined with colored lights and topped with a blue and silver star. Hoch auditorium features a moribund building, the only build-around the Campus proper to have selected Velvetia garments.
Christmas" sign announcing greeting to holiday visitors. Members al so plan to welcome 1940 with a farewell to the city. The guests in the first greeting after Dec. 25
By Russell Barrett, c'42
By Russell Barrett, c'42 The sixty-third all-musical vespers will be presented Sunday afternoon and night, when 200 students and members of the School of Fine Arts faculty combine efforts in a program of Christmas vespers which last year drew more than 8,000 persons.
Arranges Basque Carol
Written especially for this year's Christmas vespers, a choral composition by Laurel Everette Anderson, faculty member of the School of Fine Arts, will be introduced in the programs which will be presented in Hoch auditorium at 4 c'clock and at 5:30 p.m.
An arrangement by Prof. Charles Stanford Skilton of a Baoise Christmas carol for the 100-voice chair and a separate number by the 100-piece University Symphony orchestra are included in the program. Anderson's composition has been written for the chorus, directed by Dean D. M. Swarthout, and includes solo parts for three women's voices, a trumpet trio, and an organ solo. "Hodie Christus Natus Est" (Christ is Born Today) are the words around which the choral composition is written.
Professor Skilton's arrangement of the Basque carol is for a soprano voice accompanied by the University string quartet and the organ.
Meribah Moore, a member of the School of Fine Arts faculty, will sing the solo part of the arrangement. Besides the special number, Karl O. Kuerstein, associative professor of violin, will direct the University symphony in accompaniment with the processional and recital.
Plan Four Tableaux
A group of four tableaux, has been planned and arranged by the department of painting and design. Tableaux to be given include "The Carriage," "The Wheel," "Imm." "It Came Upon a Midnight Clear," and "Madonna and Child."
Of the two programs given, both open to the public without charge, the first is intended primarily for persons coming from outside of Lawrence. A brass quartet will play Christmas carols from the balcony of the auditorium for 20-minutes preceding both programs.
Expect Students to Attend
Dean Swarthout has received word that a group of 70 students and faculty members from the Tongoxie schools will come for the 4 o'clock class from the Kansas City, Mo., schools also will attend.
During the special number played by the Symphony orchestra, members of the Jay Jane, women's pop organization, will take a collection which will be added to the Fine Arts scholarship fund.
As in last year's program, the candle lighting ceremony will be presented by Dolph Simons, Jr., and Whitfield Anderson of Lawrence.
Chess Tournament Scheduled To Start This Weekend
Entrants in the chess tournament will don their thinking caps this weekend when the matches get under way. Winford Ferry, e4, head of the contests, plans to have the schedule completed by today. Each player will be matched with every other player twice.
Games are to be played at the Memorial Union building or at the homes of the competitors, and the results turned in at the hostess' desk in the lounge of the Memorial Union building.
The checker tournament, which was also scheduled for this week, has been canceled because of lack of interest.
Y.W. Commission To Visit Lawrence Mexican Youths
Mexican children from the settlement in Lawrence will be entertained today at 4:30 p.m. at the annual Mexico American Service Commission of the V.W.C.A.
Four members of the commission will take popper balls, Christmas candy and apples to the children and spend an hour with them playing and singing songs. Nearly 30 children are expected to attend the party.