UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
OFFICIAL STUDENT PAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Z-229
VOLUME XXXVI
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, TUESDAY, APRIL 25, 1839
NUMBER 137
Music Week Hits First Chord
Half College Students See Harder Road
- Survey Reveals 48 por Cent Believe Opportunities for Success New-Less Than Three Decades Ago
By Student Opinion Surveys
By Student Opinion Surveys
Austin, Texas, April 25—There are six million young people who within six weeks to several years will leave college with a pessimistic out-look on their own futures.
Almost one-half of the men and women in colleges and universities in this country believe they are facing a world that offers less opportunity to get involved in the time they were born. These are the results of a poll just conducted nationally by the Student Opinion Surveys of America, the weekly sounding board of college youth, of which the Daily Kansan is a mem-
Majority Optimistic
A scientifically-defined cross-section of students was asked, "Do you think the opportunities for most young men and women to get ahead today are as good as they may have been thirty years ago?" The economic problem of youth is no myth to 48 per cent of the collegians, while only about 10 per cent have an optimistic view of the world into which they are going.
Although very few college students today have a personal knowledge of conditions three decades ago, their answers appear to be based on experience and they have learned about the past. A slight majority is convinced that opportunities have been increasing, like the Pennsylvania student who points to the greater number of occupations which now exist.
On the other hand, another student in the same state, in Temple University, answers negatively, stating that the number of youth has increased, thus reducing the number of available jobs. A Cornell senior with success is regard for those with initiative, regardless of conditions.
The survey also shows that students in the southern and west central states are the most optimistic, while less than 50 per cent of those elsewhere believe their chances are better.
The growth of the use of machinery, the demand for more education, and government regulation of industry and employment are given as reasons for a decrease in opportunities to get ahead.
The poll, of course, makes no attempt to analyze the situation, but it does definitely show the attitude of students on the question asked.
Galloway Elected Prexy Of Ku-Ku's for Next Year
The Ku Ku's, men's pep organization, held an election of officers for the coming year last night. The men elected are president, Bob Galloway, b'40; vice-president, Ceil Frey, c'42; secretary, Lane Davis, c'40; and treasurer, Dan Lewis, ph'41.
Student's Automobile Burns
A car owned by Keith Starr, c'sp,
was damaged slightly Sunday morning
when the wiring burned out
while the car was parked at 1008
Main street. The Lawrence fire
department answered the alarm.
ON THE SHIN
by jimmy robertson
Doubting the veracity of a recent item, Editor-in-chief Rod Burton dropped by to remind me that "It's Shin to tell you a lie." Wheeee-ee-el. Now I'm sorry I didn't take a chance on getting a lenient jury the time he said my stuff is okay until it appears on paper and then it's tearable.
Speaking of the speech department as if we really were, Dan Lewis topped the climax in the "How-to..." (Continued on page two)
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Snow Is Gone-Storm Doors Aren't; Energy Needed For Study
The johnny-jump-ups have finally peeled their "pertly" little heads over the dirty dirt, so it's time for the buildings and motion to detach the storm doors from their various hitchings.
There aren't any more snowballs to throw at them, so we don't need them anymore. Storm doors, it is believed, cause the average student to expend slightly more than too much energy to get into a building, and now, during the time we are learning how to workable, students think they must be permitted to use all their pop for the last sprint to spring semester grades.
R.O.T.C. to Stand Federal Inspection
Down with the storm doors, they say.
The R.O.T.C. Coast Artillery corps and Infantry units will have their annual federal training and administrative inspections Thursday and Friday, April 27 and 28. Colonel Raymond W. Briggs, Field Artillery, R.O.T.C. officer, 7th Corps Area, will make the administrative inspection April 28. Lt. Colonel E. C. Mead, Coast Artillery corps, and Major W. H Donaldson, Jr., (Coast Artillery Corp), General Staff Corps, will conduct the training inspections April 27 and 28, for the Coast Artillery and Infantry units, respectively.
The Wentworth Military Academy band from Lexington, Mo, which is here for the music festival, will play for the public parade and review of the entire R.O.T.C. on the intramural fields back of Robinson gymnasium at 4:30 p.m. on Thursday. It is unusual to have a military band playing under the University play for the radio notice and without rehearsal, Col Karl F. Baldwin said. The University of Kansas Band has played fo
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Former Student To Columbia U.
Paul W. White, a former student in the University, has been appointed assistant professor of journalism at Columbia University. He will instruct students in News Broadcasting.
White, who was enrolled in the University for two years beginning in 1919, entered the Columbia University School of Journalism in 1927. After leaving from Columbia and joined the of the United Press Association. In 1930, he accepted the position of News Editor of the National Broadcasting system, and has been successively, publicity director, vice-present, and general manager of the reporter of public relations since them.
Resolved: That Debate Be Given More Publicity
By Betty Coulson, c 41
"For every 43 yards of grass given half inches are given to debate, oratory, and extemporaneous speaking, although more schools and colleges support debate than inter-collegiate athletes," according to Professor Bloom's department of speech and dramatic art.
This year alone the forensic division sponsored 110 public events Sixteen were in the form of local or international exposes and extemporaneous speeches.
At the University, debate has zoomed tremendously in importance. Fifteen years ago a poster was put out by the department bearing the slogan, "If You Can Debate, Kansas Needs You." Today more persons contest for positions on the debate than the school can possibly use.
Out of a total of 78 public debates
Concert, Banquet Head Annual Festival Program
The annual School of Fine Arts banquet will be held before the concert at 6 p.m. in the Memorial Union building. Guest speakers will be Karl Kruger and Chancellor E. H. Lindley.
With the completion of the banquet and concert, "Fine Arts Day" will be officially over and musically minded persons will turn attention to the opening of Midwestern Music Festival competition, highlight event of Music week.
- Karl Krueger Will Conduct University Orchestra Tonight; Expect 4,000 High School Competitors in Midwestern Competition Which Opens Tomorrow; Bands To March at Haskell
Karl Kruger, director of the Kansas City Philharmonic Orchestra, will conduct the overture from "Romeo and Juliet" at the concert by the University Symphony Orchestra at 8:30 tonight in Hoch auditorium.
Bv Virginia Gray. c'41
The orchestra, under the direction of Karl Kusersteiner, will feature the Symphony No. IV "Romantic" by the little known composer Anton Beuckner. Other compositions by well-known composers will make up the program.
Registration of the 4,000 high school musicians for the festival competition will start at 8 o'clock to tomorrow morning in Hoch auditorium. Following registration solo competition in brasses, woodwinds, strings, vocals, pianos, and percussion will begin in Hoch auditorium. Fraser theater, Marvin hall. The 43 ensembles in brass, woodwind, string, will be held in Hoch Strong auditorium, the Memorial Union building, and Marvin hall. Entries in solo contests reached 355. Outstanding musicians and conductors who will judge the solo and ensembles are Karl L. King, president of the American Band Association, Claude Sinkton of Evanson, I., N. D. Rubertis, former conductor of the School of Music, and the School of Music, orchestra, and D. M. Swarthout, dean of the School of Fine Arts.
The concert will consist of "Overture to Egmont" (Beethoven); the overture to "Romeo and Juliet" (Tschiakowsky) ("Romantic") (Bruckner); "Die Meiste singer von Nurmberg" (Wagner), with Joseph Wilkens as tenor soloist; "On the Trail" (Ferdie Grofe); and "The Flight of the Bumblebee" (Rimsky-Korsakoff).
A marching demonstration of 10 class A and B bands will be given at 8:00 p.m. tomorrow in Haskell stadium under the flood lights. Included in the demonstration will be the baton twirling contest by the drum majors of the marching bands. A special program by the Liberty Memorial High School music organizer at 7:20 a.m. at the Lawrence High School. Groups taking part in this program will be the boy's glee club, the a capella choir, the symphony orchestra, and the children's chorus.
Five speakers discussed "What's Wrong with Kansas," and an additional five spoke on "What's Wrong with Missouri." "Missouri Personality, Governor Stark," and "Kansas Personality, Glenn Cunningham" received treatment first from the woman's and then from the man's point of view. In the last two broadcasts both men and women speakers attempted to decide "What's Wrong with the American Political Scene."
As a new feature in this year's program of speech activities, six programs were broadcast over WR EN through the co-operation of the University Student forum. A de-equately received, these will be a permanent part of the future forensic schedule.
24 were intra-squard contests, 1 were over radio programs, and the remainder were local in nature.
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★ Europeans Mix Art With Life Convocation Speaker Tells Audience
Art a Language Krueger Says
"Art is a fundamental language used by man to express himself," Karl Krueger, director of the Kansas City Philharmonic Orchestra, declared in his talk concerning "The Fine Arts and Common Sense" at the Fine Arts Day Convocation this morning in Hoch auditorium.
Grauer based much of the attitude of people towards art as a subject set apart on the lack of the so uncommon "common sense." That the people of Europe hold an entirely different viewpoint he explained by the statement, "Their Universities are placed in the center of the hurley-burley of life where they can quickly turn from their studies to their work." The Art Galleries are located where the emotion received from them can be summed up. He summed up the use of art in this connection by saying, "Art should be used every day as is fresh air."
A test of the arts might be made by those who doubt the fulfilling of a certain need, Krueger pointed out, by those same people endeavoring to explain the effect of the Arts on the people as a whole.
"Art is with us always. Even primitive man expressed himself in some crude fashion," said the speaker. "Man and the world in which he lives is the most interesting study of the universe. The expression of this is made through the search for truth and beauty one which results in the finding of the other."
Search for Beauty
In turning on the modernists, Krueger declared the attempt to justify the co-ordination of jazz with symphony music as being "Silly." "Each is an art but at different stage," he said. He compared jazz in fulfilling its purpose to that need of the savage or primitive man for a certain rhythmic pattern of music.
American progress in the way of art is vital to Knüger. "Unless we are willing to show character which our founders showed—what we feel as we feel it—we are wasting our lives." Two or three hundred years has removed us from the infancy stage he believes and it is not because of lack of ability that we have failed.
Wasting Lives
"We are allowing ourselves to follow a fashion," he said. "We feel inferior." The important reason for lack of development he feels is because art to be worthy must spring from roots which belong to man and the peoples of America have failed to produce roots which would give the energy to Art to prevent its toppling over.
Grueger warned against just getting by in the practice of art. "The country grows rich not in the using of it, but the loving of it."
of art but the loving of it."
Rosalyn Tureck Is Received Enthusiastically
\* Audience Calls for Three Encores From Brilliant Young Pianist; She Was a Chiapusso Pupil
By John Randolph Tye, c³ 29
Rosalyn Turek, making her first appearance on the Hill presented a program last night in Hoe auditorium that would have done justice to an artist of much greater reknown. The enthusiasm with which the audience greeted the young pianist when she first walked upon the stage continued throughout the evening and brought Miss Turek back to the platform to play three encores.
Selected from many to appear on the annual Young American Artist program, always one of the highlights of music week, Miss Tureck demonstrated in a pretentious and well-executed program her right for consideration as one of America's most promising young pianists. An added interest in last night's concert was that the artist was for many years a pupil in Chicago of Jan Chiapus, now a member of the piano faculty of the School of Fine Arts.
Miss Tureck played with a fine sense of tonal beauty, making the instrument speak where needed in the most delicate and sensitive manner or asserting itself with authority and great tonal power where the moment demanded. She possessed an amazing strength at the keyboard, a power which allowed her to move dramatically on the Chopin "Sonata" which formed one of the highlights of the program.
Beethoven's seldom heard "Variations on God Save the King" opener the program, followed by Bach's "English Suite in G Minor." The performance of the group is different movements well balanced and the clear, crisp playing of the artist was evident.
Guest Conductor--
Three Receive Speech Honors
Karl Kreuner, director of the Kansas City Philharmonic Orchestra, who will conduct one number at the concert by the University Symphony group in New York. The Krueger spoke today at the annual Fine Arts Day convention.
Wagner, Laffar, Voss Are Given Awards at Departmental Dinner
Lucile Wagner, gr, and Jack Laffer, c93, were named the year's best actors, and Omer Voss, t93, received the Delta Sigma Bfa award for debating at the annual speech arts dinner last night.
The banquet, attended by members of the Dramatic Club, the debate squad, majors in speech and performance, invited guests, was held in the Pine
A Thrill in Her Fingers----
Resalyn Tureck, outstanding young pianist, whose appearance light in Hoe on the authority on the Young American Artist recital series, is a member of the prestigious U.S. Symphony Orchestra.
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Chipa's "Sonata in B Flat Minor composed the second group on the program and was given a remarkable presentation. The work of this exacting number was the high point of the evening's performance.
For the closing group, Miss Turek played two effective and colorful Spanish selections by Infante "Canto Flamenco" and "Danse Giatane" and three Debussy precludes "Minstrels" "Les Sons et les Paroles" in which the artist showed an excellent understanding of the fine
room of the Memorial Union build ing.
Leo Rhodes, 1/40, received the award for excellence in debate. Participating in 30 decision debates in the last three years, Rhodes has been on the losing side only three times.
Irving Kass, c'39, was honored for showing the most improvement on the debate squash this year. Prof. E. C. Buehler, varsity debate coach and professor of speech and dramatic art presented the awards.
General service awards went to Lucille Gayn, c'39, and Bob Rhode, c'39. Robert Cook, fa'39, Marvin Moon 'cunl, eaucl Cmery McCarty, c'39.
For improvement in acting, Prof. Allen Crafton, chairman of the department, cited Betty Smith and Earl Porter, both in the Col-
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Business Day They Play Eat, and Elect
- Fifteenth Anniversary Celebration May 4;
Recognition to Lindley;
Dismiss Classes
The Campus spotlight will turn on the School of Business May 4 when "Business Day" is celebrated with an election, baseball games, and a dinner in the balloon of the Memorial Union building. This marks the school's fifteenth year of operation.
The school's two political organizations, the Coalition a'1 Commerce parties, today announced their slates for the election. Keith Schuerman, b'40, heads the Coalition slate as presidential candidate. The supporting candidates are as follows: Merle Lindsey, b'40, vice president; Margurite Jones, b'40, secretary; and Charles Yeomans, b'40, treasurer.
The Commerce party will run Bob McKay, b40; for president; LeeRoy Peterson, b40; for Vice President; Jerry Reid, b40; for President; Bill Waugh, b40; or treasurer.
The election will be held during the morning. Afternoon classes in the School will be dismissed and baseball games played between student and faculty teams. The present president, Robert E. Baxter, Business headed by Ralph Elson, b-39, president in charge of the day's arrangements.
The dinner program in the evening will have Chancellor E. H. Lindley and Dr. J. E. LeRossignol, dean of the School of Business at Nebraska University, as speakers. Dr. Lindley has spoken annually at the Business Day dinner since 1925 and according to Frank T. Stockton, dean of the School of Business and toulouse, to be held in special recognition of the Chancellor's contribution to the work and objectives of business education, as well as to the University as a whole.
The other speaker, Dean LeRosignet has been head of the Nebraska University Business School since 1913. He had his undergraduate at McGill University where he was a classmate of Dr. James Naismith.
University Publicity Campaign Active
Highland Park High School in Topeka is the present seat of interest for the Statewide Activities commission in its campaign to publicize the University and interest students in attending college here.
Alumni of the high school who are members of the commission do their work by means of verbal and written propaganda. To this end they held a lunchroom Friday for all 'Highland Park entrées in the Relays.
The commission sends the Daily Kansas to the high school regularly and the bound Jayhawk each year. The over-Easter program, April 3, telling what the University offers each student was carried out by Sam Iwagi, c41; Dorothy Gear, c42; Rhea Bamberg, c42; Paul Heinze, c41; Ted North, 41; Betty Stratchem, fa24; Ben Barrett, gr; Charles Wright, c4; Leena Mae Hall, fa4; Martha Tillah, C.S.E.P. administrator; and Bob Momadson, instructor of botan仗 Topeka.
Camera Club To Show Sound Film The sound movie, "Highlights and Shadows", produced by the Eastman Kodak Co. has been obtained by the Camera Club and will be shown at 8 o'clock tonight in the ballroom of the Memorial Union building.