OFFICIAL STUDENT PAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Z-229
VOLUME XXXVI
WRENCE, KANSAS, FRIDAY, MAY 12, 1939
NUMBER 150
Union Cafeteria Is 'Not Guilty'
Applications For Dance Manager Oper
- New Varsity Head Will Be Chosen Under Changed System; Any Student May Apply
By Reginald Buxton, c'40
Selection of the 1939-40 Varsity Dance Manager under the new set-up was begun today with the announcement by C. H. Mullen, c'39, president of the Men's Student Council, that applications for the position must be in the office of Henry Werner, men's student adviser, by May 19.
Under the provisions of the dance manager bill recently passed by the M.S.C. the Varsity Dance Manager will be selected from a slate of candidates from the University at large. Any Student Eligible
The old method of selection which allowed the M.S.C. to name the five candidates was considered inequitable and was replaced this year by the new bill that will make it possible for any competent applicant to secure the position regardless of political affiliations.
A committee composed of the chairman of the Memorial Union Operating committee, the retiring Varsity Dance Manager, the president of the Union Activities Board, and two members each from the two student councils will make the actual selection of the next year's manager. The Union Operating committee must place the final stamp of approval on the candidate chosen.
Big Mogul
Desirable of the position lies in the salary paid. Five dollars a Varsity is given to the dance manager with a bonus from the Union Operating Committee being given up to $50 if there is a surplus in the Varsity Dance Fund at the end of the year.
The Varsity Dance Manager is the big mogul of the Campus entertainment world. He, with the advice and consent of the social committees of the W.S.G.A. and the M.S.C., decides how many dances shall be performed. The quality of the dance bands secured is determined by him.
Professionals Sweep Engine Election
ON THE SHIN
bv jimmy robertson
Being sort of a nuremur creature myself, this morning at 2 o'clock I enjoyed a chat with Mr. Glash, one of the University's night watchmen Since he spends most of his time climbing steps, he is the source of much vital and interesting information concerning steps. For example from the book of *Possess* he hall tells of how sole there are 189 steps. Of those, however, he must climb only 127 but he must do so twice each night.
One of his duties is to take a quick room through the medical building which contains about 60 cadavers. He doesn't carry a gun for protection and has been frightened only once when he was held up for times in the med building. Once it by a rat and another time by a cat.
At the last meeting of the old M.S.C. a bill was introduced to clean up Hill politics. In spite of the fact that it contained sweeping election reforms it didn't have a prayer for passage—partly because it was carelessly written, but mostly because the council to which it was presented never meet again and such a bill requires three readings. Doomed at the outset, the bill was the first attempt to take politics out of politics. The new council meets only twice more this year but promises to take action early next semester. In the meantime a lot of
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Cakewalk Counterfeited----
Probe for Bogus Tickets
Suspicion that counterfeiters have manufactured bogus Senior Cakewalk tickets and sold them to students at a nice profit caused alarm today among happy ticket-holders. For the "protection of students who purchased bona fide tickets," the district announced this morning that all ducats must be presented sometime Monday at a table in the center lobby of Frank强 hall.
There the good tickets are to be stamped or exchanged for new ones. Wood said absolutely "no one will buy" them Tuesday night unless his ticket is
verified Monday.
Spring Fencing Matches To Feature Foil, Epee and Saber
Spectators are invited to watch the annual spring fence tournament on Fowler grounds, just east of Robbins gymnasium, tomorrow after.
The first rounds begin at 2 o'clock, and there will be foil, epee, and saber matches. Both men and women entrants will participate.
The tournament is under the direction of Kalman Oravetz, c'10 president of the University fencing club.
Hubbel and Price Get Chemical Jobs
To add to its record for job placement after graduation, the department of chemical engineering reports that two more men have been placed permanently in their respective fields.
To aid in the detection of the bogus tickets, Harold Allen Lawrence job printer who printed the originals, has consented to sit at the table during the event.
"All students who purchased tickets from the Business office or at the Memorial Union building have nothing to worry about." Wood said. "Positive identification is possible and we are checking all tickets in order to protect those who paid money for bonfide ones.
Charles Hubbell, who graduated at the end of the first semester, has begun work in the Joseph Seagrams factory in Louisville. Hubbell began his own insecticide factory in Independence. Mo., but gave
"Since it would not let us possible to examine all tickets at the door Tuesday night, it is imperative all tickets be checked before hand. Absolutely no one will be admitted unless his ticket has been verified." Meanwhile, scalpers apparently were going merrily on their way. Student governring officials, while stating they strongly oppose this activity, are no way to stop it unless students themselves expose the scalpers. The Cakewalt tickets, it seems, are so much in demand that the student body will not "succel" on their exploiters.
Phi Beta Kappa To Initiate 45
- Theme of Program Is Taken From Picture Show 'Lost Horizon'
It was not known today when Kay Kyser will arrive in Lawrence although it is believed possible he has been a rehearsal here sometime Tuesday.
"The Retreat to Shangri-La" suggested by the book "Lost Horizon" will be the general theme of the program at the annual dinner of Phi Beta Kappa, honorary scholastic society, at 6:30 Monday evening in the Union ballroom.
Initiation services for 45 initiators will be conducted by Prof. Domenico Gimardini, president of the tech center, at 8:30 p.m. in the tech lounge.
Professor Gagliardo will also serve as toastmaster at the dinner. The speakers will be Mrs. John E Hankins and H. H. Lane, professor of zoology, representatives of the active chapter; and Barbara Woodard, c'39; and John Lintner, c'39; representing the students. Raymond Nichols, secretary to the chancellor, attends the dinner promises to be the largest in the history of the chapter.
In high style is the way Bill Bailinger, 741, traveled home to Dodge City yesterday. Bill's father, who is associated with the Santa Fe Railway company brought up his special car to take Bill back in.
Though he has had a nine week stay at Watkins Memorial Hospital, Bill is about on crushes now and seems expects to disgard even them. Baskinger was injured March 18 in an automobile accident which was fatal to three University students.
Alice Marie Meyn, fa 39, soprano,
will present her senior voice recital
at 8:00 p.m. Monday, in the auditorium
of Frank Strong hall. She is a pupil of Alice Moncrief, professor of voice.
Meyn To Present Senior Recital
The program will consist of four groups of numbers, and will be accompanied by Winifred Hill, fa41.
Rippey Beats Bounds 9 Votes For President
- Social Fraternities Get Only 3 of 13 Council Positions; Rumors Charge Fraud
By Walt Mendenhall x 40
George Rippey, e 40, was elected president of the School of Engineering yesterday as professional fraternities swept the annual election in a landslide.
Bv Walt Meininger .c'40
Candidates of the social fraternity faction managed to win only three of the 13 positions at stake. The vote was:
Ripley polled 121 ballots again 112 for Jim Bounds, e40. The closest of three rival candidates
For president. Rippey, 121; Bounds
112; David Young, 18; and Eugene
Maxwell, 14.
Vice-president: Bill Sorenson, 134;
Joe Clark, 68; and Dean Ritchie, 56.
Secretary treasurer: Dwigh I
Kirk, Moore, 80; and Russei
Chitwood, 51.
They've Served Their Time---The Retiring Council
Chemical representative; Joe Giech 23; Ray Stancliff, 17; Robert Mitchell 10; and Albert Reid, 3.
Above is the retiring Engineering council whose successors were chosen yesterday in the school's annual election. Bottom row, left to right, John Morley; Herbert Krauss; Lester Hang; Roy Toomey; and President-elect George Rippey. Middle row, Bill Shears; Robert White; Engent Maxwell; and John Laidig. Top row, Stanley Bloom; Marshall Nye; Bill Sorenson; Devon Carlson; and Francis Yeatch.
Petroleum representative: Harold Sells, 11; Garvin Van Matre, 7; Leonard Dickey, 2.
Mining representative: Vernon May, 8; Conrad Besinger, 7; and Scott Ellis, 1.
Architectural representative: Richard Hansen, 15; Bob Johnson, 8; and Bruce Johnson, 7.
Civil representative: Art Williamson, 17; Bob Paulette, 12; and Clark Hammond, 9.
Electrical representative: Louis Shuey, 4f; Schuyler Rice, 8; and Richard Cochner, 1.
Mechanical representative: Harold Haight, 38; Dan Hirschler, 15; and Wray Fogwell, 3.
Senior representative: Kenneth Rosebush, 62, and Leonard Schroeter 36.
Junior representative:Darrell Lisbon, 41; and John Cadden, 26.
Sophonore representative: Ben Pack, 12; Charles Walker, 10; and Herbert Hower, 6
The three successful aspirants of the social fraternity coalition are Hansen, who won the architectural position on the Engineering council; Park the winning sophomore representative; and Haught, who was chosen from the department of mechanical engineering and Haught are believed to have had professional support. All other ten positions went to the professional machine.
A mixup occurred on the presidential ballot that may or may not have been announced, were circulating around Marvin hall this morning. Dave Young, one of four presidential n o i m i e s, allegedly resigned as a candidate to throw his support into the fight name appeared on the ballot, however.
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I.S.A. To Introduce New Officers and Council at Dance
Forty-one members of Pi Lambda Theta, educational sorority, attended the annual strawberry festival in the Old English room of the Union building last night. Chief attraction of the raceceting was the installation of officers for the coming year.
Install New Officers At Annual Festival
The purpose of the dance is to introduce the new officers and the Council for the coming year. Membership cards will admit, and the very latest in swing and sophisticated rhythm will prevail.
The L.S.A. will present another of its series of information nights between 7 and 9 o'clock in the lounge of the Memorial Union building.
Last Proficiency Exam Tomorrow
New officers installed are Miss Mateel Rich, president; Miss Ruth Kenney, vice-president; Ethyline Burma, burn 49, recording secretary; Doris Nelson, fa'40, keeper of the records; Dorothy Whilia, c38, treasurer; and Marjorie Ward, fa'39, corresponding secretary.
Mrs. Ethel Falk, national vice-president villed the chapter and spoke of the national work being done to increase meeting was the last one of the year.
The chapter elected Miss Matee Rich secretary to the dean of the School of Education, as delegate, and Miss Ruth Kenney, bureau of correspondence secretary, as alternate, to the national P.I. Lambia Theta convention at Leland Stanford University. Palo Alto, August 2 to 5.
The last of three proficiency examinations in English composition will be given tomorrow morning at 9:00. Each student planning to take the jest was designated a place for it during registration at the College office.
Those expecting to graduate in 1946 must pass the examination in order to qualify for enrollment next fall, last 30 hours of resident work.
Swimming, Boating, Eats Planned for Art Fraternity
Delta Phi Delta, honorary art fraternity, will hold an all-day outing tomorrow at Lake Lotawanna, 22 miles east of Kansas City, Mo. The group will leave Lawrence at 8:30 a.m., will have lunch and dinner at the lake, will swim later in the evening. Plans for swimming and boating are being made.
Faculty members in the department of design who will attend the picnic will be: Miss Marjorie Whit- D. Jones, and Mr. Arvid Jacobson.
Fireside Forum To Hear Life Insurance Head
John Sees, president of the local Standard Life Association, will speak on "Eugene V. Debs, His Ideas and the Time" at Fireside Forum Sun-day evening. Wallis Campbell, b'40, will sing. The meeting will be held at 7 p.m. at the Congregational church.
Students will be admitted to the Missouri-Kansas track meet tomorrow upon presentation of their identification cards. The meet gets under way at 2 p.m. in Memorial Stadium.
A Jayhawker track team that has reached full strength for the first time all season was prepared today for the annual invasion of the Missouri Tigers tomorrow.
Jack Millar, '36, who students will remember as slide trombonsist with Louie Kuhn, has been steadily advanced during the last two years. After graduation, he began work with the Skelly Oil company in El Dorado. Several months later he started producing Seagrams in Louisville. From Seagrams he was recently transferred to the Calvert company in Relay, $\mathrm{Md}_4$
it up a position with Seagrums.
Glenn Price, e'29, will begin work immediately after graduation with the National Adhesives corporation in New York City.
It will be the thirty-eight track and field meeting between the schools. The meet starts at 2 p.m. in Memorial Stadium.
By Larry Winn. c'41
It's the Tiger and Jayhawk Again
As a prelude to the Big Six carnival at Ames next week, tomorrow's clash will reveal its winner as the favorite to cop conference honors. The Tigers won the loop indoor title. Kansas taking an unexpected second. Bill Hargiss has added strength to his Oral sound since then, how.
ever and hopes for the best Jay hawk showing of the year.
Bird Should Win
The Kansas coach expects an easy victory in the pole vault, with Don Bird virtually certain to break the meet record of 13 feet 2 inches he holds jointly with Ray Nohle of Kansas. Bird soared 13 feet 3 inches at Manhattan last week to break that meet record.
Capt. Lyle Foy should pull through with a victory in the dashes,
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Bob Stoland will have little trouble in winning the high jump event, and sephomore Bob Lorenzen should gather those important minor points. The record in the high jump is 6 feet 4 inches held by Kelly Missouri, and Stoland is capable of cracking the mark.
with Darrell Mathews following close on his heels. Both will be strong Jayhawker contenders next week at Ames.
Werner Declares Only Students Faculty Use It
By Harry Hill, c'40
\* Operating Committee Is Cooperation With Lawrence Establishments, the Chairman States
Henry Werner, men's student adviser and chairman of the Union Operating committee, gave that opinion today after learning the chief executive had called upon the Board. Regents to remove the safe operated by the Kansas Teacher college at Emporia and other state education institutions from "direct competition with private cafes and eating establishments."
The cafeteria and other eating facilities offered by the Memorial Union at the University will not be affected by Gov. Payne Ratner's proposal to limit operation of cafeteria state educational institution
'Already Cooperating'
"We are already cooperating along the lines Governor Ratten suggests," Werner said. "The Union Operating committee passed a resolution at least six months ago saying our dinners were open to students and faculty members and in cases where the University was a host."
Following receipt of a complaint from Elmer W. Siedhof, president of the Emporia Hotel and Restaurant association, that members of the association were unable to compete against the college-operated cafe, the governor wrote the Board that the same practice was being followed in other cities when state schools must maintain facilities.
Should Not Compete
"It seems to me that in bidding against private eating establishments, the college cafe has thereby entered into direct competition with private business," the governor stated in his letter to the board.
"I do not believe that a state-owned or government-owned business of any kind should be operated as an enterprise which would compete with private business in similar lines, unless there is some very weak law that might detach such appear to exist at Emporia," Governor Rather wrote.
Many Refusals
Werner said the Memorial Union here not only does not bid in competition with private establishments, but goes so far as to refuse numerous requests from groups outside the University.
"The Union's facilities are so much in demand," Werner declared, "that we even turn down the requests of wives of faculty members. In addition, University alumni, some of whom have given personally as an excuse their union, are refused permission to use the building for private affairs."
The cafeteria refused requests of three outside groups yesterday, he said.
University Cooperates
"All this has been done in cooperation with requests of business interests in Lawrence," the Memorial Union chairman said.
It was not known here today what action the Board of Regents would take on the Emporia complaint. In his letter to the governor, the Emporia restaurant 'president stated banquets had been served at the college because its bids were lower than private enterprises in the city could make. Siedhoff said the col- 1000s of its ability to buy supplies at lower cost than members of the Emporia association.
Biologists Hear Angle
Phi Sigma, honorary biography fraternity, held a dinner meeting last evening in the Pine room of the Memorial Union building. Dr. John Fred Angle of the University of Kan-den, spoke on behalf, spoke on the subject, "Undergraduate work." Approximately 30 members of the fraternity were present.