OFFICIAL STUDENT PAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
NUMBER 142
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, TUESDAY, MAY 2, 1930
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Propose Election Clean-Up Law
VOLUME XXXVI
M.S.C. Hears Reform Bill Introduced
★ Measure Would Reduce Campaign Expenses and Eliminate House-to-House Vote Soliciting
Sweeping election reforms embodied in a bill read by Andy Hibbard, c. 39, brought a dozing Men's Student Council to quick attention last night after a routine evening of passing three other men into law.
The re- nomary measure drafted by ribbard would require political parties to file all campaigning expenses with the secretary of the M.S.C. a short period after the spring election.
It would eliminate house-to house campaigning, handbills and the giving of financial or any type of aid in attaining an elective office.
Grimes For Reform
Candidates violating the provisions would have their names stricken from the ballot.
Hibbard and Blaine Grimes, c39 president of the Council, expressed approval of the section concerning limitation of expenditures but hastened to reject all credit for the remainder of the bill which, according to the council, was included in the request of institutional persons on the infur.
san truhey, 139, proposed shorter measure to supplement the one read by Hibbard "Why not draft a bill abillosing the P.S.GL." he said Hibbard rejoined by assuring Hautey that no political intent was withdrawn, and they replied with a debiting "Oh, no." Most Petition For Funds
Probably as important to President Grimes as Hilibard's astonisher was a bill passed earlier in the evening that will regulate petitions for funds from the M.S.C. According to the bill, which is now law, all organizations requesting financial aid must present to the Council, 24 hours before it meets, a petition stating what the funds will be used for; a statement of income by sources, and a statement of expenditures. The Council leader believes, will make for a more efficient distribution of M.S.C. funds.
Two other bills last night became a part of the M.S.C. constitution. One provides for the selection of the Var. dance manager by a new committee set-up. The other pertains to a statute that will bring that body under more direct control. One provision will require the Forums Board chairman
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ON THE
ON THE SHIN
by Jimmy robertson
CORRECTION: In this column has Sunday there appeared a little story about Chancellor Snow, retired Professor Sterling, and a Mrs. Brooks. Except that the story did not originate with Mr. Henry Werner, that Mrs. Brooks was a University benefactor and did not throw stones, that Professor Sterling had no part in the incident, and that Chancellor Snow never d trespass on anybody's lawn, the account was true and stands on the record as previously written.
If it's not true I till swear I never said it, but it comes through a round-about way from a reliable source. It is ALLEGED that while Miss Helen Rhoda Hoopes, a professor of English, was in Kansas City some time ago she had her eyes examined. She read a paragraph that the begin to read when her she spied a made that made her blood pressure rise. After calming her, the doc requested that she make any corrections after completing the paragraph. Which she did, saying
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Red Cross Visitor--
Raymond Schloetter of the American Red Cross, Aquatic Safety Session, who will be in Lawrence today through next Wednesday, May 10, to give presentations on types of first aid and swimming.
Owl Applications Due Tomorrow
Applications for positions of editor and business manager of the Sour Owl, Campus humor magazine, must be filed before noon tomorrow, Harry Hill, c'40, president of Sigma Delta Chi, said today.
Sigma Delta Chi, which sponsor the publication, will consider the applications at a meeting tomorrow afternoon, and then will notify applicants when to appear for interviews. Hill said.
The applications should be made to him, or to Stewart Jones, c40 secretary of the journalism fraternity, at the Journalism building.
Retiring editor and business manager are Dick LaBan, gr., and Web Chassen, b'40.
Delta Tau Delta Burglar Pleads Guilty in Court
Urbane Carl, Miami, who burglarized the Delta Tau Delta fraternity house here April 15, pleaded guilty yesterday to charges of burglary and grand larceny, as the May term of the District court opened.
He was sentenced by Judge Hugh Means to five to ten years for burglary and one to five years for larceny, the sentences to run concurrently.
Carl was arrested on the evening of April 25 by Missouri state highway patrolmen near Lees Summit, Mt. Personal property and cash taken from the Delta Tau house by Carl amounted to approximately $400 Most of the stolen items have been recovered.
Lloyd C. Beeler, who is charged with the burglary of three fraternity houses here, was also brought into court yesterday, but his arrangement was delayed when he asked that an attorney be appointed for him. His trial was set for next Thursday, May 4.
Raymond Phelps, who is charged with the deaths of Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Brown of Chanute through March, will be brought to trial May 3.
The trial of all criminal cases began this morning. There will be no court Friday or Saturday of this week.
Phi Delta Theta, for the fifth consecutive year, won the Phi Mu Alpha plaque at the Interfraternity Sing held in Hoch auditorium Sunday afternoon. The fraternity, under the direction of Jack Laffer, c'39, sang Brahm's "Lallahay," the Phi Delta Marching song, and the Alma Mater
Phi Delt's Win Fraternity Sing
The Sigma Nu group, directed by Don Woods, b'29, won second place, and Delta Tau Delta and Delta Upsilon tied for third place. Other fraternities who entered the sing were: Beta Theta Pi, Phi Kappa Psi, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, and Phi Gamma Delta.
Poet Startles Audience With Sense of Humor
★ Frost Pleases Listeners With Poems and Remarks Concerning the Pleasure And Uses of Writing
By Richard MacCann, c'40
An air of hiatus prevailed at Hoe auditorium last night as Robert Frost started some 800 persons into the realization that a poet—especially a Yankee poet—can have a broad and irrepressive sense of humor. A poem always has an element of playfulness in it, however serious (he says), and his callies are often both more and less otherwise, called forth explosive chuckles continually from his highly-plessed audience.
Yet, for all its well-planned simplicity and liveliness, the lecture was packed with pith and substance Frost objected to the world's preoccupation with its own confusion—the screaming headlines and radio commentators: he doubted "if any age is any more confused than any other." And with that double tone of bantering seriousness, he asks "How excited should an educated person get?"
"I don't try to make any permanent clarifications for myself," the poet explained, "but only shape some things together—for betting purposes. And if I lose—well, I have to reshape." His own isolationist spirit came out in the open, how-ever, and when he did, I wasn't born with an ambition to guide 120,000万人口; I'd rather have 120 words to work with."
Words Are His Choice
As for his own methods of writing, he talked matter-of-factly, indeed. "I never write a poem but I hope that a clarification will come at the other end of it. I don't know till I get to the other end, what's there. I'm such a lover of form that getting the better of one little poem makes me comfortable for a whole week." And later: "It's all done with great presence of mind. That's what I'll tell the newspaper-men the next time they ask me about it. Why do I write poetry? To see how much presence of mind I can put into it."
Reads Own Poems
Among the lighter poems which Frost read—and he says he doesn't get tired of reading his own poems because he takes care not to read specific ones too often—"wrum-lin Woodchuck," whom he described as "smug;" the Bearer of Evil Tidings," a girl story of "the land of the Yak;" and "Departmental," a description of the imagined burial of an ant. For a longer selection, the poet chose to read "The Witch of Coyas." The ghostly subject-matter plus his own use of twangy dialect contributed much to the audience's entertainment.
Among the more delicate poems were "The Road Not Takeen," "A Tuft of Flowers"—"a leaping tongue of the sytheh the sathe had spared," "Birches," "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"; "I Have Been One Acquainted With the Night," and above all, "Spring twice, saying that it was possibly his only purely nature poem.
Find a Warm Frost Famous Poet Looks Part
By Jim Bell, c'40, and
Here was a man who has three times won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry, who has been awarded honorary degrees from the leading American universities, and has used his mastery of the English language to write some of the greatest poems of 't' time. And yet as he talked about his travels and experiences, one was constantly comparing him with the writer of 't' garden in his old clothes and likes to talk to his dabblers.
C. H. Mullen, c39, president-elect of the Men's Student Council and Bong Galloway, b49, newly-chosen head of the Ku Kus, will speak to night at a meeting of the K-Club at 7:30 in Robinson gymnasium.
To Explain Tag Day Program For K-Club; Prexys to Speak
Frost's physical appearance and his personality are what you would expect from one who has lived all his life close to the soil and has written of the people who make their lives so full and white, the face tanned and lined with furrows. Set deep in this rugged face are two
John Randolph Tye, c.230
quiet, rugged, reserved—a perfect personification of the poetry which has won him fama—Robert Freqi relaxed in a bib costume chair at the home of John Freqi afternoon and proceeded to show how unpoetical a poet can act.
Mullen will discuss his ideas on Athletics at the University and Galloway will outline the pep program planned by the Ku Kus for next year.
Kormit Franks, c'40, president of the Y.M.C.A. and member of the K-Club, will explain the purpose of Tag Day to the group and request the athletes' aid in carrying out the Tag Day program.
The lettermen will consider methods of spending the profits from their hit production "The Drunkard."
Matthews Passed By Flying Corps
Major R. L. Cronan, air corps, told approximately 60 interested people the requirements, regulations and activity of flying cadets during and after training.
- Randalph Field Officers Interview Ten Students As Prospects
Ten men were interviewed as prospective飞 cadets by three officers from Randolph Field, air corps training school, at their temporary office on the third floor of Watkins Memorial hospital yesterday and this morning.
Lieut. E J. Smart, air corps, talked informally over WREN at 9:30 has night about the work the board of officers has done. Lieutenant Smart said more than 2000 students have been interviewed within the last 5 weeks, and 52 have been accepted. Of those accepted, from the 15 schools which the board has interviewed are from Kansas State College.
George E. Mathews, cunel, was accepted for the flying corps after a physical examination by Capt. E. J Kroettdt, medical corps.
Congress is expected to pass a bill soon which will place the flying cadet in a local civil aviation school for the first 12 weeks, Randolph Field training school for 12 weeks, and Kelley Field for the remainder of the training period, Lieutenant Smart said. Caddets receive expenses and a salary of $75 a month during training.
Applicants must be unmarried citizens of the United States between the ages of 20 and 27 years to be accepted. The air airforce wants to enlist men who will be graduated from the University this June, but they will accept those with two years of college credit.
Robert Frost
"The success of the play exceeded all hopes." Nelson Sullivan, c. 390. K-Club president said today "It is the intention of the organization to use the funds for an all-University purity program." The organization for another presentation next year."
Continuing on the subject, Frost spoke of the difficulties of judging a poet's work. What one writes today, he said, may be changed for better or for worse tomorrow. Mr. Brown told the stock market," he explained. "Our opinion today may be completely changed in ten years."
The play this year was placed on probation by the joint-committee on student affairs with the desire that the money cleared be spent in accordance with the administration requirement of an "all-University purse" said he explained this provision means that the funds must be used for the benefit of all students and not for one particular group.
light blue eyes which are animated yet reserved. His entire personality recalls the lines, which Milton wrote concerning the necessity of a poet being himself a true poem.
Frost answered questions about
himself and his work readily, but refused to comment on the writings of other contemporary poets.
"I know these men and women
Most of them are my friends.
I can't go around passing critical
things. I'm not a ittle,
That's out of my line."
His last book of poems, "A Further Range," was published in 1936. Although he is writing poems all the time, he has no new book in mind. "It may be years before I publish another volume," he said. In the meanwhile his poetical output is printed in the magazines which are his favorites-Atlantic Monthly, The Yale Review, The Virginia Quarterly, and the Saturday Review of Literature.
Police Out to Get Reckless Drivers, Not Campus Tulips
Campus tulips are lovely things, but the motorcycle roams the drives aren't out to pick them—out to pick up the hell-drivers.
Hell-drivers being those persons who take one minute to make a five minute drive; can't tell a human from a chicken; and sometimes charge a pedestrian like Don Quixote going after a windmill.
Frost showed a great interest in student life, and talked of his ex-
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Jude Anderson, local chief of police, has ordered his men to pick up traffic violators on the Campus just like they would ordinary persons down in the valley. About the only way drivers can keep from being plucked in the flower of their youth is to drive carefully, avoid having an over-crowded car, keep ride-mochers off the side of their vehicle and take "stop" signs literally.
Those who just can't see the copiers' viewpoint are in for a ticket for a minor infraction, and $10 bail for a serious breach of traffic etiquette. Bill House, 179, Grand Junction drivers be nice so that both they and the unfortunate pedestrian can continue smelling the spring flowers.
New members initiated were: faculty member, William H. Shannon, assistant professor of accounting seniors, Robert Aydelotte, Lloyd Auten Ralph Elsen, Maria Ghee, Clark Myers, Lorraine Pyle, Stephen Phyllis Fount, Nile Siebert, and junior, W. Keth Schleeman.
Beta Gamma Sigma, national honorary business society, initiated H new members at the banquet last week. Fice room of the Union building.
Business Society Initiates Eleven
Prof. Henry F. Holtzclaw, retiring president of the Kansas chapter, delivered a short talk after the initiation services. Mr. Shannon followed him with a brief address. Dean Frank T. Stockton reviewed the history and objectives of Beta Gamma Sigma and associated society to the American Association of Collegiate Schools of Business.
New officers were elected at the business meeting as follows: president, Joseph H. Taggart, professor of economics; vice-president, John G. Blocker, associate professor of accounting; secretary - treasurer Jerome J. Kesselman, instructor in accounting.
Senior Class To Meet
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The senior class will hold its annual meeting next Wednesday, May 10 at 10:30. The meeting will be in person on Saturday. Excesses are excused from classes this hour.
Pharmacy Group To Detroit
- Pork-Davis Company
To Be Host During
Three-Day Visit
The group, composed mainly of pharmacy majors, will have its expenses in Detroit paid by the Parke Davin company, manufacturers of medical and biological products. The trip will be made by train.
The company has planned a banquet for the group. Officials of the factory staff will speak on the work being done by Parke Davis drugsug, Entertainment for the remainder of the evenings will be less normal. The company in the past has given its guests theater tickets. Leaders of the trip will be Prof. Lloyd L. Boughton of the School of
twenty-nine pharmacy students and faculty members will make a trip to the Parke Davis laboratories and manufacturing plant in Detroit. They will leave at noon tomorrow and return Saturday.
The trip will be an educational one to study processes of drug manufacture and to make close-up observations of research laboratories.
The program planned for the field trip will include a visit to Parkedale, biological farm where the company experiments with drugs upon cattle and horses. Some expect to make a side trip into Canada, and still others will go through the Ford plant in Detroit.
Leaders of the trip will be Prof. Lloyd L. Boughton of the School of Pharmacy; J. T. Grogger, 26, a Parke Davis representative in Topeka; Mr. and Mrs. Lee Weber, druggists of Leavenworth.
The students making the trip arn Owen Bibb, Fletcher Blaylock, Richard Burdorf, Wayne Co, Katherine Durbin, Glenn Elliott, Willis Chanfuiser, Denald Fortney, Ted Foster, Fershing Frederick, Dike Göcken, John E Greene, DeWitt M Harkness, Midred Johnson, Emery Josserand, Malcolm S. Keith, Ruulen Zhao, Kevin Schmidt, Launlahin, Daniel Lewis, Jim Currygurley Norris, Robert Osborne Robert T. Pokorney, Dean Rogers, Lloyd Roser, Jane Stewart, George Varnes, and Bernard H. Walburn.
Marjorie Hawley, '38, of Topeka
Janet Maloney, Salina, and Katherine Stewart, Parsons, will accompany the group.
Philip Raup, c'39, has been appointed to a research assistantship in agricultural economics for 1039-40 at the University of Wisconsin in Madison He will assist Dr. Ashar of agricultural economics as an assistant of agricultural economics there.
Senior Is Appointed To Research Assistantship
Hobson was graduated from the University in 1913, and for seven years, from 1922 to 1929, he was a member of the United Nations at Geneva, Switzerland.
Ticket Drive For Rice Feed Nears Climax
\* Campaign for Funds to Aid Needy Chinese Students Opens With Banquet
Workers sold 307 tickets late this afternoon to the Bowl-of-Rice supper to be held in the ballroom of the Memorial Union building at 6 o'clock tonight, beginning the drive toward a $400 goal. Proceeds from the supper and from Wednesday's sale of tags will aid stricten Chinese college students.
Tickets to the Bow-of-Rice super were sold in the main buildings on the Hill Monday and Tuesday. As yet, only incomplete returns have been turned in. Twenty teams, including representatives in all organized houses at the University, will canvas the Hill Wednesday, "Tag Day," in a final effort to attain the $400 mark.
McMichael To Speak
Speaking on "Chinese Students in the Face of War," Jack McMichael, who recently returned from a year spent in the Orient, will illustrate with moving pictures of war and student conditions in China.
While in China, McMichael was with students when their university buildings were bombed. From China he traveled to India to attend the Madras conference at Christmas time. About two months ago he landed at New York, completing his trip around the world, and is now touring United States college campuses.
McMichael graduated from Emory University, Atlanta, Go., in 1937. He was a member of Omierson Delta
Kappa, and Sigma Alpha Epilon
Named as a Rhodes scholar, McA-
chiel chose instead to be the first
student exchange fellow in China. Hu
was a graduate from Lawrence Epi-
lon house while in Lawrence Tues-
day and Wednesday.
Jack McMichael
Makes Graph For Drive
Also speaking at the dinner to be presided over by Paul M尔其, c 39, president of the Y.M.C.A., will be Chancellor E. H. Lindley. As national committeeman for the Far Eastern Student Service Fund, Chancellor Lindley appointed students and faculty members to a general committee, headed by Jeanne Youngman, c 39, and John Moore, Y.M.C.A. secretary to conduct the drive.
Prof. Allen Crafton of the department of speech has constructed a graph to indicate the amounts being raised. The graph will be in the form of replica of two Chinese university buildings, one new and the other a bombed structure. The graph will be placed on the bulletin boards in front of Watson library. On a runaway from one building to the other, a Chinese student will cross to the new structure. As the fund increases the student approaches the new building.
W. S.G.A. To Meet
The W.S.G.A. will meet in the Pine room, Memorial Union building, at 7:30 tonight. All members are requested to attend.