UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
OFFICIAL STUDENT PAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
VOLUME XXXVI
Z-229
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, WEDNESDAY, MAY 31, 1939
NUMBER 162
Confirm Littooy Appointment
An Editorial-tough his term as Chancellor will end July 1. Dr. Landley's concern was for the future of the University. "The greatest sadness to me," he said, "is the fence of unfinished tasks." The chancellor had hoped for at least five more buildings, he said, and had the locations for them chosen. "However," he said, "I have been here 19 years and 16 or 17 of them have not been included in the skills of the people of the state I marvel at what they have been able to do for the University."
An Open Letter to Students
This is your Campus, your school. The affairs of this Campus are your affairs. The business of choosing a Varsity Dance Manager is your business.
Thus, the blame for the political irresponsibility exhibited during the selection of a Dance Manager falls on your heads. You must answer when the actions of your representatives inexcessibly detour the normal, established procedure of student government.
May 2, 1939; the bill providing for a new method of the selecation of the dance manager was passed by the Council. All that remained to put the bill into effect was to "be attested by the secretary, signed by the President, and submitted to the chairman of the Advisory Committee for his approval on behalf of the University, after which they shall be published once in the University Daily Kansan, ten days after which they shall be in full force and effect . . ."Ar- ticle 7 of the Constitution of the Associated Men of the University of Kansas.
From a situation that could not be misconstrued even by the average student, the dance manager selection has been blotched into a mess that would stump any one but a shyster lawyer. Here are the dates in the evolution of this comedy of errors:
The new bill provided that the selection must be made by May 20.
May 12, 1939—Announcement that applicants for the position of dance Manager should file their names in Henry Werner's office. The dance manager bill has not been delivered to the Chancellor's office for his signature yet.
May 15, 1939—New Council installation. Chancellor asks the new Council for a strong, courageous administration of student government. Everybody happy.
May 20, 1939—Committee meets and selects a dance manager for next year.
May 23, 1939 - Bill impowering the committee to select the dance manager reaches the Chancellor's office and is ready for his signature.
May 25, 1939—Committee to select dance manager meets, but can't decide whether or not it should do anything or not.
May 30, 1939—Committee meets again and selects a dance manager for next year.
May 27, 1939—Chancelor signs bill, but too late to be published in the Daily Kansan for Sunday.
Today--Daily Kansas publishes bill which will go into effect ten days from date. It is apparent that the committee in selecting a dance manager has acted under a bill that is not yet in effect. It is also apparent, from a reading of the bill, that the committee cannot act after May 20.
But the committee must act, if the University is to have a dance manager. And so perhaps its members are excused from forgetting about the red tape involved. All the same, you ought to keep closer tab on student government on the Hill—because, after all is said and done, you are responsible for it.
Final Examination Schedule--tough his term as Chancellor will end July 1. Dr. Landley's concern was for the future of the University. "The greatest sadness to me," he said, "is the fence of unfinished tasks." The chancellor had hoped for at least five more buildings, he said, and had the locations for them chosen. "However," he said, "I have been here 19 years and 16 or 17 of them have not been included in the skills of the people of the state I marvel at what they have been able to do for the University."
THURSDAY A.M.
June 1 P.M.
FRIDAY A.M.
June 2 P.M.
SATURDAY A.M.
June 3 P.M.
2:30 classes, 5,4 3 hours at 8:30 to 11:20
2:30 classes, 2,1 hours at 8:30 to 11:20
9:30 classes, 5,4 3 hours at 8:30 to 11:20
9:30 classes, 2,1 hours at 8:30 to 11:20
10:30 classes, 5,4 3 hours at 8:30 to 11:20
10:30 classes, 2,1 hours at 8:30 to 11:20
Sunday, June 4, 1939
MONDAY
June 5
A.M. 8:30 classes, 5,4 12 hours at 8:30 to 11:20
P.M. 8:30 classes, 2,1 hours at 8:30 to 11:20
TUESDAY
June 6
A.M. 1:30 classes, 5,4 12 hours at 8:30 to 11:20
P.M. 1:30 classes, 2,1 hours at 8:30 to 11:20
WEDNESDAY
June 7
A.M. 11:30 classes, 5,4 12 hours at 8:30 to 11:20
P.M. 11:30 classes, 2,1 hours at 8:30 to 11:20
THURSDAY
June 8
A.M. 3:30 classes, 5,4 12 hours at 8:30 to 11:20
P.M. 3:30 classes, 2,1 hours at 8:30 to 11:20
Friday
June 9
A.M. 4:30 classes, all hours at 3:30 to 5:20
Closing Hours 12:30
Through Finals;
8 p.m. Men's Curfew
You men are going to have to speed it up. Although the women are granted 12:30 a.m. closing hours beginning tonight and continuing throughout final exams, no men will be allowed inside women's houses after 8 p.m. Saturday night is the lone exception.
WEATHER Fair and warmer.
Housing Inspection Fee To Be Dropped
Large Crowd Pays Tribute To Lindley
The Housing Inspection fee will be abolished next year although every rooming house accommodating University students will be inspected thoroughly, Wilbur Leonard, c39, head of the Housing Inspection committee, said today.
Nearly 3500 persons stood in ovation Monday morning as the retiring Chancellor E. H. Lindley appeared on the platform of Hoch auditorium for his own convocation, last of his career as head of the University.
★ Chancellor Reiterates Experiences Before Students And Faculty at Convocation Monday in Hoch
By Roscoe Born, c'41
Dr. Lindley, University administrator for nearly two decades, himself halted the vigorous applause. But twice again during the convocation the audience was on its feet in tribute to the veteran educator.
Inspection next year will be more strict than it has been in the past in an effort to raise rooming house conditions on the Hill, Leonard said.
Monday was designated by the University Senate as "Chancellor's Day" and Dr. Lindley was asked to speak at length on "any subject of his choice." It was the first time in the Chancellor's Kansas career that he could say what he really wanted. He explained how the 99-year-old scholar rose to receive the tribute he found it "very difficult to speak."
Eye to Future
Speaking " frankly and informally," Dr. Lindley said that in his early contact with administrative work in universities he saw much trouble and difficulties and resolved never to do any work in administration. It was when a "very clever man" pointed out that Dr. Lindley wrote his thesis on education that he took over an administrative post,
In his youth the Chancellor managed a soda fountain, he said, and was out of college as much as he was in it. During his soda-jerking days, the Chancellor's father wanted him to go into the business world seriously. "But even then," Dr Lindley said, "I knew that I would rather live a university life than any other I ever knew."
Three Principles
In reiteration of his first speech at the University, Dr. Lindley stated his idea of the principles of democracy. The first was "voluntary obedience to law." If a law is disaffective it may be repealed or amended, but while a law it must be obeyed, he explained. Secondly, the Chancellor stressed the treatment of persons as equal and not as individual; this principle was the "treatment of persons, particularly young persons, not as they are but as you think they are capable of becoming."
Dr. Lindley called teaching the "worst pain but the best rewarded of the professions" and indicated that he would rather teach than administer. He said he felt his loss at having given up teaching at every commencement when he shook hands with the parting graduates. "That is why I am taking the other job," he said.
The Chancellor said that his only interest in administration was to get his theory of university life across to students. This theory of student life is that a University should provide "all the vitamins" and maintain a balanced ration. "If Vitamin A comes in athletics then we should have athletes. If $A$ a balanced ration than we would be hoped to get the new chancellor also fight for this "balanced ration." Command Reports
Kansan Anniversary
Editions Go Fast;
Some Still Available
It's not too late to get a copy of The Daily Kansan's Seventy-Fifth Anniversary edition — if you hurry. Hundreds of extra copies were printed for general sale, but the demand has been greater than our most optimistic editor had imagined.
Commanding the Board of Regents for bringing back to Kansas a former resident as Chancellor, Dr. Ruth Reagan was chosen by leadership in this state. "Most
There's no end to the variety of uses you may have for the issue. If you're a senior, buy one as a souvenir of your days at the University. If you're an undergraduate, the information in the paper will be invaluable during the two remaining years of celebration of the University's diamond jubilee.
Greek students would find it advantageous to send a copy to high school seniors who are prospective rushes. Anybody can learn a lot about the University from a perusal of the 38 booklets.
Commends Regents
But you'll have to get your copy right away because they won't last long. The price is 15 cents, the place is the Kansan Business office in the Journalism building.
Pennsylvania Man To Teach Here
Dr. Nathaniel Knowles of the University of Pennsylvania will arrive here soon to take over the summer teaching duties of Dr. Loren Eiseley, assistant professor of sociology, Doctor Eiseley petitioned for summer leave from the University t do research work in the East.
Dr. Knowles, who was a Harrison Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania and attended Yale University, is interested primarily in the ethnology of the Southeastern Atlantic seaboard Indians.
Recently he contributed a study of Australian totemism to the 25th annual volume of the Philadelphia Anthropological Society.
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His three courses in the University will include Primitive Society, the American Indian, and Element of Sociology.
Dr. Eiseley plans to study the early post-glacial archaeology of North America.
He will spend most of the summer utilizing the archaeological and palæological materials in the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. Before he returns to Kansas in September, he will visit recently discovered archaeological sites in the east.
Henry Werner, men student's adven-
driver, became the first faculty sponso
or of the Independent Student Asso-
ciation Sunday. Werner also has
the right to sit regularly with the
council.
Werner to I.S.A Faculty Post
On accepting the sponsorship of the organization Mr. Werner said: "I am happy to accept the position of adviser for the LSA. under two condition, namely, that paternalism is not the purpose of the position and the group remains non-political."
Dance Post Effective In 10 Days
- Committee Selects Park And Oberlin To Assist Manager Without Pay During Next Year
Fred Littlery, c'39, was selected Varsity Dance Manager for the second time. Lee Johnstone, c'40, president of the Student Union Activity Board, announced today.
Litioey was named at the first meeting of the Varsity Dance committee under the provisions of a new bill that had not been enacted into law through failure to have the Chancellor sign it and to have it published in the Kansas. The committee met again but could do nothing since the bill still had not been signed and published.
Monday the committee met for the third time and Littoy was named again with the proviso that the selection would not go into effect until 10 days after the bill is published in the Kansas.
In announcing Littloy's appointment, "Johnstone said, 'The selection was made at this time only for the sake of expedition.'"
Along with Littcoy the committee appointed Dave Oberlin, e'41, and Emmet Fark, c'40, as assistants. Johnstone said that Park and Oberlin would receive no pay for their services nor would they have an inside track on the Varsity Dance Manager's job next spring.
Sour Owl Appears This Afternoon
Final exams and the recent hot summer weather are enough to slow down anything on the Campus this week. And so has it slowed down the publication of the last issue of the Sour Owl.
Scheduled to appear on the Campus Monday the magazine has been delayed in printing and will not be put on sale on the Campus until this afternoon at all Jelly Joints and by the usual Hill salesmen.
Chancellor E. H. Lindley, whose autographed picture is on the cover of the issue, is honored in this, the graduation number.
Editor Dick La Ban contributes an article, "After Graduation—What?" and Steve Howbert has written an exposition of the Hill's most popular extra-curricular activity, Stock Fries. A Dissenters Charles Lamb has been co-authored by Bill Koester and Vincent Davis.
The gossip pages of this edition of the Owl reveals some of the latest doings of Hillies, their midnight meandering, marriages, and things you wouldn't write home about. Sue Johnston and Agnes Mummet compiled the material and it was written by Vince Davis.
With this edition of the Sour Owl the humor magazine completes 26 years of publication at the University.
Men who today march with the University corps for the last time will receive the regulation olive drab uniforms of the army to replace the blue worn by University
R.O.T.C. Men Receive Awards
Following the awards, ranks will be dismissed and a barbecue will become the military objective of the uniformed men.
One of the highest awards, the Chancellor's Cup, goes to Company "E," the company having the highest rating in drill, appearance, bearing, and attendance. The name of the company will be engraved on Cadet Captain Leroy C Cooper is the company's commander.
- Cadet Officers March for Last Time Today; Barbecue Follows Citations
Marksmanship and military bearing will be on parade this afternoon as the University R.O.T.C. marching for the last time this year, concern in the Memorial stadium at 4:30 to receive annual awards for service.
Legion Cup
None Infected Here
Wassermann tests for '38-39 given by Watkins Memorial hospital show less than 0.3 per cent of the examined student body to be victims of syphilis, Dr. R. I. Canuteson, director of the University Health Service, revealed today. Tests were given 1,006 new students and freshmen this year. Two men and one woman were found to be infected.
To the commander of the best trained platoon in the First Battalion goes the American Legion cup Cadet First Lieutenant O. I. Porks, commanding the First Platoon Company "B," receives the award with the company band. To receive the award medal with "platoon" bar. Company members are:
By Ruth Saunders, c'uncl.
H. W Adams, e41; O. W Bilyeu,
H. W Adams, e42; M. W Carlisle,
Course, e42; C. F Draunacs, e42;
L. C Diosem, e42; J. F Eby, e42;
H. F Harris, e42; B. W. Henrichs,
e42; L. P. Johnson, e41; J. W Kelly,
e42; R. H. Kovach, e41; Maricle, e42; R. L. McKade, e42;
A. Petri, euncl; E. J. Renth,
e42; R. H Sarns, e41; P. Shane,
e42; M. Willard, e41; G. R Wiznesz,
e42; C. W. W. Wright, e41.
Cadet Captain William F. Beaty, b'39, commander of the First Platoon, Company "E" receives the Douglas County Chapter Reserve Officer Corps up as companion of the second battalion in the Second Battalion.
Less Than Three Out of 1,000 Are Syphilis Victims
The University of Kansas, R.O.T. C.T. award medal with platoon goals to all members of the First Platoon, Company "E"
Those members of Company "E" are: J. Owen, A. ellen; J. A. Bradley, c;42; D. S. Brose, c'unel; R. Carlo, c'unel; W. B. Duncan, c'unel;
Professor Jones Tests Models of Major Projects in Engineering Laboratory
(Continued on page three)
"Small scale testing of a major project" is the work which Professor J. O. Jones, instructor of hydraulic engineering, and W. F. Seierle, 38 have undertaken in the engineering laboratories. They are concerned with pumping station to be built at Memphis, Tenn., in the fall.
The scale for the model is four feet to the inch. The completed project will be 48 times as large as the miniature station.
Professor Jones explained the purpose of the pumping station as being to lift flood waters which collect on level ground into a swiftly moving current. "The completed pumping station will carry rain and water waters off of the low Tennessee delta, insuring crop preservation and
preventing marshy ground, "stated Professor Jones.
"College age students throughout the state will show the same percentage whether they are in school or picked at random," Dr. Canuteson said. "In fact we find that none of the students giving positive reactions contracted the disease here on the Campus."
The exact location of the pumping station, he explained, would be on a creek so that the water waters might be carried into the river with
In testing the model, Professor Jones and Mr. Sofoffel have used a stream of water which flows at the rate of 200 gallons per minute. By distribution of the water is insured by a wall of metal screen and small stones which curb the force of the water and distribute the flow equally for the six flood gates through which the water passes.
Each gate, a diminutive 2-1-2 inches by 3-3-4 inches on the model, represents an opening 10 feet by 15 feet on the completed project.
Wood, putty, and paraffine were the principal materials used in the construction of the model.
Much of the value of the model comes as it is fitted in estimating the cost of the finished project and in the determining of the weak features of
Initial tests for the plant were begun last Saturday and further testing will be carried on for about two more weeks.
Gravity has been an important factor in the work done on the model. According to Mr. Scofield, by building the plant so that the level of inflowing water is higher than that of the outflowing stream the water will end to run out without having the pumps turned on. The result will be more economical operation of the plant.
Cure Possible
None of the cases which were found last year were congenital which means that the 1,775 students tested in 1937-1938 all had parents whose disease never contracted disease or had received proper treatment for it.
"Statistics such as these are pushing the percentage of the syphilis victims lower over the whole country." Doctor Canutesson said. Two facts were pointed out as being significant in the fight against this disease: (1) nearly 20 percent of the persons having syphilis acquire it innocently.
"This is a blood stream disease and it is almost impossible to spread the germ through kissing, drinking fountains and other public services,"
Second, there is a special cure for 95 per cent of those afflicted. "It is this that makes the running of numerous tests each year worthwhile for the University. The students having positive tests are given every benefit of medical possibilities while they are here." Doctor Camusone explained, "They are not expelled or punished, but they are their reputation is ruined. The whole reason for existence of the University Health Service is not only to care for the colds and temporary ailments of the students but to prepare them for the future with an eye to preventive medicine."
During the same meeting, Roderick Burton, c40, was elected chairman of the Kansan Board and Eliza Kirsch, krcn. elw, was elected secretary.
Kansan Board Picks New Staff Heads
The top three positions on the staff of the University Daily Kansan for the next semester were filled by the election of Harry Hill, c40, to the office of publisher, Marilyn McBride, c40, editor-in-cief, and Stewart Jones, c40, managing editor at the first meeting of the 1838-40 Konrad Holdoffold. Hill will retain his position for the entire semester, while McBride and Jones hold office for the first nine weeks.
The outgoing officers are Harold Addington, c'29, publisher. Harry Hill, c'40, managing editor and Roderek Burton b'40, editor-in-chief. The retiring head of the Marine Board is Marvin Goebel, c'29.
Faculty Member Finds Dessicator
A twice-efficient material, a substance which will take water vapor out of a gas steam, has been discovered by W. W. Deschner, assistant professor of chemical engineering through the Engineering Experimentation in cooperation with the J. F. Pritchard company in Kansas City.
Professor Deschner began work on the project last fall, testing the material and doing experimental work leading up to the idea. The substance will be sold commercially, quotations now being out.
The ability of the material to remove thoroughly the water from natural gas are among its many practical uses.