UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
OFFICIAL STUDENT PAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
VOLUME XXXVII
Z-229
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1939
Hill's Greatest Rally Tomorrow
NUMBER 34.
Beebe Shows Undersea Film To 2,000
By George Sitterly, c'14
Nearly two thousand persons witnessed the showing of color slider and motion pictures with which William Shakespeare and artist author, illustrated his lecture last night in Hoch nutidiumr.
★ Scientist Describes
Moving Pictures He Took
500 Fathoms Below Sea
Level
Prolong Men's Indoor Smoking Two Weeks Five Thousand
The beauty, interest, and discoveries made him forget the dangers that beset him at all times during his descents, Dr. Beebe said. He described the ocean dwellers 3,000 feet down, and showed the probable life cycle of a number of them with cartoons made under his personal supervision. The brilliance of their coloring, their way of stunting food, and their ways of defense had to be surmised from their form, and from post mortems made on the specimens captured in nets.
The bathsphere, by which Dr. Beebe made his dives into the ocean to the depth of a half mile, was connected to the barge above by a cable and a telephone line. He kept in constant touch with a stenographer on deck in order to describe the creatures he saw, and to make sure that what was there actually correct on the bist and in the bathsphere.
The pictures showed ocean inhabitants seen in their natural habitat by only one other man, his assistant. It would have been too great to imagine it being accomplished speaker to describe the ocean without the aid of pictorial evidence.
Dr. Beebe said that the real reason for his extensive explorations was to try to explain the underlying evolutionary idea of the animals. He believes that diving is the most thrilling experience he has had although he has done a great deal of living under all sorts of conditions.
King Will Teach Ground School Classes at Topeka
Dr. H. H. Lane, professor of zoology, introduced Dr. Beebe to the audience.
Thirty men have enrolled in the ground school classes in aviation to be conducted during the winter by Richard King, instructor of mechanical engineering, under the direction of the extension division Harold G. Ingham, director, announced yesterday.
Speech Tryouts Set For Nov. 7
Tryouts for the campus problems speaking contest will be held Nov. 7 at 7:30 p.m., in the Little Theater of green ball, Miss Margaret Anderson, assistant professor of speech announced yesterday.
The class is composed of 16 Washburn College students and 14 noncollege men.
Hatch To Talk to Latin Roundtable in Topeka
The contest is open to any student in the University. Speeches will be four minutes in length, and may be submitted to the University's website pertaining to all universities.
Maurice Hatch, instructor in the department of English, will talk to the Latin round table Friday afternoon at Topena at the Convention of the Kansas State Teachers association. His subject, "The English Teacher Looks at the Classes," will deal with the relationship of the high school studies in Latin to college studies in English.
Those wishing to enter the contest should notify Professor Anderson by next Monday.
The judges will select eight speakers to participate in the finals to be held Nov. 14. The winner of the contest will receive a silver lover's gift, Gift ID.
Attend the rally tomorrow.
By Roscoe Born, c'41 Cigarettes can be pounced legally in University buildings for two more weeks even though the Men's Student Council Monday night voted to penalize indoor smokers.
By Roscoe Born. c'41
Huskers' Banquer Prevents Midweek
There will be no mid-week to night. The Memorial Union ballroom is prepared for the Cornhushkling banquet tomorrow, and since more than a thousand persons are expected to attend the dinner, dining tables were set up two days in advance.
Women Voters To Attend Tea
ings which a special M.S.C. committee deens safe. Smoking is expressly forbidden, however, on the first and second floors of Frank Stallah, though they may be fireproof. The committee will be appointed today.
- Freshmen Will Meet Class
Ninomies This Afternoon
In Frank Strong
Freshman women candidates in to morgue's council election will be introduced to voters at a special W.S.G. tea for all freshman women in the lounge of Frank Stroh hall from 3 o'clock until 3 o'clock this afternoon.
The women will choose a vice president and secretary for their class. On Nov. 9 freshman men will
Polls will be open tomorrow from 9 o'clock until 5 o'clock in the center of Frank Strong hall. The following W.S.G.A. members are in charge of the polls: Velma Wilson c'40, president of W.S.G.A.; Mary Murine Maurine Gray, c'40 Maurine Mong, c'40; and Anne Munert, c'40.
The officers elected will take their place on the W.S.G.A. council the first meeting after election.
Nominies to be introduced are: vice-president, Jean Brock, fa'43; Anne Lewis, c'43; Martin Ann Hailm, c'43; and Betty Jean Hess, c'43; secretary, Rutil Moritz, c'43; and Anna Jane Hoffman, c'43.
no-smoking act cannot be signed until Friday. This will delay publication until at least Sunday and the law will not be in operation until 10 days from that time, about Nov. 14.
According to the M.S.C. constitution a bill is in effect 10 days after publication in the Daily Kannan. But before a bill can be printed it must be signed by the Chancellor. Since Chancellor Malott is of town the
Watkins Memorial hospital has just received a new short-wave dithermery machine, a gift from the class of 1914, Dr. R. I. Canuteson director of the University health service, announced yesterday.
Hospital Receives Diathermy Machine
The new machine is large enough to produce hyperphexia or fever treatments, and to be used for electrocautery in minor surgical cases. The same machines can also be used for localized heat treatment of sorbins and bruises.
"With the addition of this new equipment to that provided with the original hospital furnishings, staff re-arrangements will be made to consolidate all physio-theory specified days," said Dr. Canutzone.
Harold W. Wilson, 14, Horton, w chairman of the committee the presented the machine to the hospital.
Don McCoy, 37, was the principal speaker at the regular meeting of Kappa Psi, professional pharmacy fraternity; last night in the men's building, he planned a pharmacy building. McCoy discussed practical pharmacy with the members.
A meeting of the Freshman Pep Club will be held this evening at 8:30 in the Men's Lounge of the Memorial Union building. Final plans will be made for the stunt to be sponsored by the club between halves of the Kansas-Kansas State game. Freshmen must purchase their sweaters at Ober's before tonight's meeting.
McCoy Is Main Speaker At Kappa Psi Meeting
The rest of the meeting was spent in making plans for the pharmacy exhibit at the National Cornhusking and in discussing business matters.
Freshman Pep Club To Meet
After the law goes into effect smoking will be legal in University build-
Exhibits Open This Morning At Cornville
- Today Is 'Lawrence and University Day' as Preliminaries to National Husking Contest Begin
The big show opens today.
At 9 a.m. Cornville, the city that
Cornhuskin built, will become the
World's Fair of the Midwest for
the next three weeks and the
max of the National Cornhuskin
Contest at 11 a.m. Friday.
R. C. Moore, director of the exhibit, has proclaimed today to be "Lawrence and University day" to give the townpeople and students a chance to see the show before the outside crowds take over the grounds. Afternoon program features include 13 University students including selections by the cornet trio, Tracey Fa'41, and Wallace Kunlek; c'43; a marimba by Robert Jenkins, fa'43; baton twirling by Saralena Sherman, c'43; and singing by the Barber Shop Seven. Frank Annberg, gr, will demonstrate "The Upside-down Man", and George Lupfer, e'41, will be a "Juggle Extraordinary."
Expect 150,000
More than 150,000 persons are expected to throng Corvillie, the streets of Lawrence, and the University Campus. In Corvillie they will view the 156 of the Resource-Full Kansas Exhibits showing the mineral, industrial, and agricultural wealth of the state. At the University booth they will see students in action on the Campus by means of an autobiographical biography and achievements of the state in the static displays of three Schools and 13 departments of the University.
The Independent Student Association will sponsor a food concession stand. The stand will employ six I.S.A. members and will sell coffee, hamburgers, and other refreshments.
Tomorrow more visitors will arrive in time to attend the banquet at 6:15 p.m. in the Memorial Union building and see the big rally at 8:30 p.m. on Mississippi street. The Cornhushvari will be held at 9 o'clock tomorrow in the balroom of the Memorial Union building.
Twenty-nine students of the K Club, Owl Society, and the Ku-Ku Club will act as guides to Campus visitors during the three-day event. Tours of the University will be conducted from the Memorial Union building all day Thursday and Friday morning.
Friday the University will shut down for the Cornhusking contest in the morning and for the Kansas State football game in the afternoon. No classes will be held, and Watson library will be closed all day.
Library Closed Friday
Kansas Players
Hang Out Standing
Sign for Tonight
Standing room only signs will be hung out side the doors of Fraser theater tonight since all tickets have been placed.
Thirty-five to forty tickets for tomorrow's performance are still available, and a considerable number replayed by the plays presented Friday night.
Gerhart Tomn, tgn, ticket salesman,
said that Monday night was one of the largest first-night au-
thorships in history and had in the past several years.
Tickets for the remaining performances can be had in the basement of Green hall from 9-12 a.m. or 1-4 p.m.
Phi Delt's Place Loss at $7,000
A loss of nearly $7,000 to the Phi Delta Theta house was attributed to the fire that gutted the third floor of the fraternity building Monday morning in memory of the fraternity estimated damage. The house of the fire still remains unknown.
★ Fire Chief Still Unable
To Ascertain the Origin
Of Fraternity Blaze
Fire Chief, Paul Ingles said to night that he had not yet found what might have caused the fire, which was discovered by Jack O'Hara, c42, while members of the fraternity were at dinner.
Insurance adjusters last night were unwilling to estimate the extent o damages until a more thorough investigation had been made.
The greatest damage, Chief Ingels said, was to the roof of the house. Plaster on the ceilings of second floor rooms was losened by water. Water also dripped through to the living room on the first floor.
William A. Keast, e'42, received a severely cut hand while aiding firemen place a ladder at the house when a slate shingle fell from the roof and struck him. About 12 stitches were required to close the wound, physicians at Watkins Memorial hospital said yesterday.
Economic History Class Visits Kansas City Firms
Economic history students visited six firms yesterday, when they made their first industrial inspection tour of Kansas City, Mo. Ross Robertson, instructor, accompanied the class.
This was the first of five tours to be made during the semester. The tours have been planned to meet our goals and provide actual contact with industrial life.
A similar trip will be made Nov 1) by students enrolled in courses under F. T. Stockton, dean of the School of Business.
Attend the rally tomorrow.
Independents To Publish Own Newspaper
- Applications Duc Today For Editor, Business Manager; First Issue Next Week
Eight-hundred copies of the Hill's latest newspaper will appear on the Campus next week when the Independent Student Association distributes free to its members the first issue of its new paper, "The Independent."
The paper will be distributed free to all LS.A. members each week. Whitney was uncertain whether the copies would be mailed out or if members would have to come after the paper.
The LSA, in founding the paper,
opens two more salaried positions
to students. Applications for editor
and business manager will be
accepted at the Association office in
room 1. Frank Strong hall today.
Marsh Will Speak On Democracy
David Whitney, c'42, general manager of the organization, said that the paper would deal almost exclusively with Independent news and intramural sports. News of international camps may also be used.
Regular issues will have six five-column pages but the first issue, because of time shortage, will be a four-page paper.
Benjamin C. Marsh, executive secretary of the People's Lobby, with headquarters in the national capital, will speak to the social science classes at 10:30 and 11:30 this morning in the auditorium of Frank Strong hall. The topic at 10:30 is "American Democracy at the World's Crossroads," and the topic at 11:30 is "America and the International Situation." The lectures are open to all who are interested.
Marsh studied conditions in Europe this summer when he made his seventh European trip since 1929. He worked at the agricultural work for more than 32 years.
Mr. Marsh wrote "An Introduction to City Planning," the first book on the subject in America, and "Taxation of Land Values in American Cities." He contributes to magazine titles such as "The People! Bobley Bulletin."
Halloween Pranksters Get Early Start
Although Uele Jimmy Green has been painted with the Konas Agile purple so often that he did not mind it, he was a bit shy and smeared of this status with purple
Purple paint on the statue of Uncle Jimmy Green, a gate at the residence of Chancellor Deane W. Malott forced open, and a "Chick Sale" with a "Malot hall" sign on it, in front of Frank Strong hall, gave him a morning that Halloween pranksters had jumped the gun a night early.
Jayhewker's First Issue Distributed Today
The first of five issues of Jay-
hawker magazines will be distributed today from the W.S.G.A. book exchange in the sub-basement of the W.S.G.A. library for distribution will be from 9 a.m.
to 12:30, and from 1:30 to 4 p.m.
Identity of the pranksters is not known. The painting of Uncle Jimmy could have been done by engineering or Halloween pranksters, or Halloween pranksters.
A pact between the two schools was effected in 1936 which states specifically that all rights and pregame activities are to be abolished. The agreement, which was made by the Student Councils of the schools, further states that any violations of the pact will warrant "serious" punishment. Prior to this agreement the Kansas State students had put an estimated 50 gallons of paint on the Law School's monument.
or green paint or any other prank would be an infraction of the mutual agreement between the University and the State College...If the Agencies did it.
But since purple and green pain instead of the appropriate purple and white, colors of Kansas State Col-
logo, were used and because the damage took place so early in the week, some doubt is held that the logo grid rivals of Friday are responsible.
A real prank of the Halloween spirit, which occurred Monday was the placing of the "Chick Sale Special" at Frank Strong hall and which remained there for two hours yesterday morning.
It is not easy to ascertain who forced the gate leading to the short cut through Chancellor Malolet's residence Monday night. The gates were removed by the Chancellor yesterdays after any further damage to them.
Again suspicion of paint-daubing (Continued on page two)
Five Thousand To Join In Pep Demonstration
By Huck Wright, c'41
Believe Steamer On Norway Coast
One of the largest pep rallies in the history of the University is predicted for tomorrow night when students and visitors to the National Cornhusking contest gather on the south side of the Memorial Union building at 8:30 to conjure up a fighting spirit on the eve of the University-Kansas State football game.
While the rally is getting under way, 975 cornhusking visitors will be breaking up at a cornhusking banquet in the Memorial
★ City of Flint Expected To Reach Germany in a Week
Copenhagen, Oct. 31. —(IP)—The American stairship City of Flint, sailed by a German prize crew, was reported tonight to be proceeding down the Norwegian coast and to have reached Bodes, Norwegian sea, from Trømssie, which was left behind at 4 p.m. yesterday.
Telephonic reports from Norwegian points indicated the City of Flint, believed heading for a German port on a course which will run it into or through the British blockade, was proceeding cautiously, hugging the coast within the three-mile limit of Norwegian territorial waters. Such a procedure would require the greatest care because of the numerous islands and shallong the lagged Norway coast.
Calculations made since she was last reported off Lofoten indicated the American ship had made a little more than 100 sea miles in 12 months, considerably less than has estimated potential speed of 15 knots.
Rumors were spread during the afternoon that the City of Flint, captured as a contraband carrier and brought by the Germans to the Russian port of Murmursk, had been stopped off the Lofoten islands by British warships. These were discounted here as most improbable.
Reports received by telephones from Norwegian points were that the American crew was safely aboard the vessel, while prisoners of the German prize crew, and that the ship was in good condition.
At this rate the Flint would require at least another week to reach Germany. It was not known whether her progress had been impeded by rain and fog prevailing over northern waters today and it may be that she will pick up speed on the southern lin of her journey.
Postpone Tryouts For Debate Team Until Nov.20
Postponement of the varsity debate tryouts was announced yesterday by E. C. Buehler, professor of speech and dramatic art. The tryouts will be held in Green hall Nov. 20 instead of today.
Because of unforeseen conflicts Prof. Buehler believes it advisable to change the time of trials. The change in date gives six days between the time for the mid-semester grades to be in the offices and the day for the debates. This allows more time for research.
Candidates for the varsity team will give 5-minute constructive speeches and a 3-minute rebutal on one side of the official Pi Kappa Delta debate topic for this year. The question is, "Resolved: That the United States should follow a policy of strict (economic and military) isolation towards all nations outside the Western hemisphere engaged in armed international or civil conflict."
Bibliographies for the tryouts are now available in Professor Buehler's office in the basement of Green hall.
Union building. Many of these visitors and others from over the state will witness the celebration.
This special rally is being aided by the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce and the National Cornhushaking committee. These two organizations have helped to make possible several loud speaker trucks to be used at the rally and, so that plenty of noise will be assured, they are furnishing five aerial bombs to rally officials.
"This rally," said Henry Werner, Men's Student Advisor, "will undoubtedly be the outstanding rally of the year and will probably never again be duplicated, simply because there will be a cornbushkill rally." And gathered at the University student rally, some 5,000 persons will be there, and if that isn't a rally, what is?"
"Strings" Dixon, famous University neuro trainer, will start the program rolling with a short pop talk to be followed by a short talk by Coach Gizmo Hewitt. Another attraction on the program will be a sparkling electric baton twirling number by Sarena Sheerman, c43. The University Band will be on hand to lend the musical atmosphere.
Lighted Platform
A huge platform illuminated by giant lights, will face the sloping embankment on the east side of Mississippi street so everyone may see the program. A system of loud noisers will be used on the platform.
In order to eliminate confusion that might be caused by the commuting visitors' cars, Mississippi street will be blocked off at 4:30 p.m. for vacancy beginning at the building down from the Phi Pi house and opening at the buses at the Chemistry building. Busses will be detoured.
A large bon-fire on the practice football field will wind up the rally. Immediately after the rally, a cornhusk contest Varsity舞 for students will begin in the ballroom of the Memorial Union building where Dale Brodie and his band will play.
Come As You Are
The Varsity is to be a strictly "come as you are" affair and no ban will be placed on any violator of Esquire or Vogue.
As an added point of interest it is rumored that the dances program might be broadcast. At any rate, numbers have been planned.
Closing hours for the evening have been placed at 12:30 a.m. in observance of the all-day holiday on Friday.
Start Ticket Sale On Fine Arts Fling
Tickets are on sale today for the "Fine Art Fling," a party for members of the School of Fine Arts, the University Band, the two glee clubs, and the students, which will be held Saturday, Nov. 11, in Robinson gymnasium.
The Fling, which is to be a sport dance, is the first party to be sponsored by the members of the School of Fine Arts. Tickets may be bought from members of Delta Phi Delta, Phi Mu Alpha, and Mu Phi Epsilon. Clyde Bysom and his band will play.
Attend the rally tomorrow.