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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
OFFICIAL STUDENT PAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Z-229
VOLUME XXXVI
NUMBER 130
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, FRIDAY, APRIL 14, 1939
Record Phi Beta Kappa Clas
Plans Announced For Music Festival Here April 23-29
The most extensive Music Week in the history of the University will be held on the Campus beginning Sunday, April 23, and continuing through April 29. Music Week is an annual event at the University and is combined this year with the fifth annual
Music Week will open at 11 o'clock Sunday morning, April 23, with special musical services in Lawrence churches. At 2, Sunday afternoon, the Haskell Institute Band, under the direction of Phil Cato, will give a free concert on the Campus of the Indian school. The renowned Pro-Art String Quartette of Brussels, Belgium will present a recital in the library. Students are welcome to be open to the public without charge. Tickets may be secured all this week at the Fine Arts Office at the University.
Two Programs
Both events are sponsored by the School of Fine Arts of the University.
Two programs will be given simultaneously Sunday evening. At 7:30 the Westminster A Cappella Choir, under the direction of Dean D. M. Swarthout, will present a concert in the First Presbyterian Church. Also at 7:30 the University Music Department's reaction of Miss Irene Peabody, will sing in the Haskell Institute Auditorium.
Monday various musical groups of the University will present musical
Rosalyn Tureck
numbers at the Rotary District Convention being held in Lawrence at that time. At 3:30 in the afternoon the Pro-Arts Quartette will give its second free recital in Fraser Theater. Tickets for this concert may be obtained free of charge at the Fine Arts Office all this week.
At 8:20 Monday evening Miss Rosa-
la Turcock, young American con-
cert pianist, will be presented by the
University Concert Course in Hoche
Auditorium. Student activity and
season tickets will admit. Admission to others will be: $2; $1.50; and
$1.
Banquet Is Tuesday
Tuesday, April 25, will be Fin (Continued from page two)
ON THE SHIN
by Jimmy robertson
On discovering that Chancellor-to-be Deane Malott was a Beta, Y Shinster hit a new low in the way of drolrums. After maping morbidity about for several days, however, he was able to bring to light a sordid incident in the life of the new Chancellor.
It happened back around 1920 and Prof. J. K. Jistier, cham and classmate of Mr. Malott, was on hand to witness the deed . . . which consisted of crashing a rock through one of Fraser hall's windows.
While Janet Coulison played her recital in the auditorium of Frank Strong hall, a few minutes ago she was introduced to the row as she watched a mouse scamper
(Continued on page two)
W.S.G.A. Officers Are Installed
- Govern Landrith, Retiring President, Addresses the New Council
Following a dinner with the retiring officers and faculty sponsors last night at Evans Hearth, formal installation services were held for 16 new members of the Women's Self Governing Association Council. After a farewell visit was given by retiring president Gevene Landrith, c'29, the usual oath was taken and the ceremony ended.
The installation Dimaxed a spring election and the recent national convention here. The new officers will be appointed by the president of next year. New officers are;
President, Velma Wilson, c'40 vice-president, Betty McVey, c'40 secretary, Winifred Jameson, b'40 treasurer, Jean Robertson, c'41 college representative, Ruth Olive Brown, c'40; fine art representative, Ethelynne Burns, fa'40; senior vice-president, Betty Jane Buddington, c'40 senior secretary, Mary Garrison, c'40.
Junior vice-president, June Amiller, c4' junior secretary, Dorothy Hendrikson, fa41, sephomore vice-president, Jeanne Moyer, fa42, sephomore secretary, Jenne Brussel, fa42; point system manager, Eliza McDowell, sephomore sensitive, Barbara Edmonds, c4'0 book exchange manager, Helen Pierce, b4'0 and Corbin hall representation, Helen Finke, fa40
Roosevelt Pledges 'Force To Force' Support From U.S.
Washington, April 14 — (UP)
President Rosevelt today pledged the United States' economic support and to match "force to force" if necessary in defending western nations against foreign aggression.
He spoke before the governing board of the Pan-American Union in participation in Pan-American day. For this occasion the President called for a general meeting in West in a bold veto against dictorial organization of the world.
The Progressive Student Government League today completed its election by naming two fraternity men and two independent women, and District II (Fine Arts, Business, Medicine and Education Schools).
Mr. Roosevelt reminded all men that "they have within themselves the power to become free at any time."
His words, apparently inviting the plain people of totalitarian states to "break their bonds," were broadcast as he uttered them and are being translated for short wave designeers to changes to every corner of the globe.
P.S.G.L. Completes Slate; District Two Announced
In announcing the candidates Wilbur Leonard, c.29, president of the P.S.G.L., attributed the delay in picking the District II ticket to the "painstaking fleort required in selecting the proper men."
The ticket is as follows: Mike Andrews, fa 41, Leo Henricks, b'40, Harold Johnson, ca 40, John Fortney, ph 40.
Neutrality Act Ineffective; Need Firm U.S. Stand
- Student Survey Reveals 93.2 Per Cent Believe Law Can't Keep Nation Out of Conflict
By Student Opinion Surveys Of America.
Austin, Texas, April 14—Ask one hundred typical American college students whether they believe the present neutrality law can keep the United States out of war, and less than seven will answer "yes."
An overwhelming majority of 93.3 per cent of the students of the nation shake their heads at the possible effectiveness of the law in case of war, and 26.7 per cent of coast to coast have discovered in a poll conducted by the Student Opinion Surveys of America. The Daily Kansas cooperates in the polls.
With Congress wrangling over neutrality and the President reportedly ready to back any move to repeal the act, student opinion is in tune with general public opinion, which has given various indications that the United States should take on the side of the democracies.
The question used in the survey:
"Do you believe our present neutrality law can keep us out of war?" The answers:
Majority Say No
YES ... 6.7 per cent
NO... 83.3 per cent
And with remarkable uniformity, students of almost every part of the country think the same way, in almost identical numbers.
Most common reason given for the ineffectiveness of the neutrality act was that no law of any kind can keep the country out of a general war under the present system of international politics, mainly because of our economic interests. Said a Michigan student enrolled at Wayne University in Kentucky as a law degree. We could keep out of war probably if we aided nations in defeating nations which are endangering our peace."
That opinion seems to reflect the sentiment of the majority of college men and women who in previous polls have voted this way: Sell planes to democracies and not to dictatorships. 52.8 per cent; approve of rearmament, 71.8 per cent; build an army and navy strong enough to protect the entire Western Hemisphere, 62 per cent.
Campus Gandhi On Hunger Strike To Stop Fads
San Diego, Cal., April 14—(UP) Joseph Annhr Pramis, a sophomore at San Diego State College, is disgusted with the growing college fad of swallowing goldfish, mice and worms and mass kissing of co-eds. He announced "in all seriousness" that he is immune to such fads. As a protest he started a one-man hunger strike, now in its third day, to return American collegians "to their senses."
Boulder, Colo., April 14—(UP) Externally speaking and debaten opened the second session to the first of the Missouri Valley Speech Conference to be held in the Rocky Mountain area.
Charming, Aren't They----
Mother and child, baxom Ralph Miller, later, and demur Howard Engleman who have stellar roles in the K-Club club farce, "The Drunkard," which opens Monday night in Green hall auditorium, Miller, graceful-bipped beauty of the basketball court, portrays Mrs. Wilson, whose alluring daughter, Engleman, charms and alarms throughout the play.
The extemporaneous contest will be completed today, officials said, with the debate champions being named tomorrow night. Sessions are being held at the University of Colorado.
Paul Mortz Wins Second Place
Students representing the Universi-
studies of Texas, Kansas, Oklahoma
Arkansas, Louisiana State, South
Dakota and Colorado, and Creighton,
Iowa State and Kansas State
were entered in the competition.
John E. Stephens of the University of Texas, speaking on "The Pied Pipers of Hysteria," was awarded first prize of $25 last night in the 10-school oratorical contest. Paul Moritz, of the University of Kansas, won second prize of $15 with his deliverance of "Well, Here We Are Again." The topic was Jason Wiley, senior, Louisiana State University, whose topie was "A Paradox of Democracy."
\* University Orator Gets
$15 Prize in the Missouri
Valley Contest
Deane W. Malott, Chancellor of the University, will receive a salary of $10,000 a year beginning July 1. Chancellor Lindley received this same amount before the depression made necessary a cut to $8,000 for him and the president of Kansas State College.
Malott To Receive $10,000 a Year
Elect Forty-Five Scholars; Total Now Is Fifty-Two
Grade Average of Top
10 Per Cent Is Unusually
High; No Installation
Date Set
Forty-five persons, the largest group ever elected to the local chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, honorary scholastic society, were named as members of the organization.
Those chosen, all seniors in the college, are: Harold E. Addington; Loren Wesley Akers; David W. Angevine; Lawrence P. Birney; Robert E. Blair Almon Blanchat; Jessie Bradbury.
Dorothy  Elaine  Bublitz; John Martin Burger; Dean Dalton; Mary Elizabeth Douglas; Zenith Mae Fowler; Richard Gage; Ruth Marian Germann.
Kenny Lewis Is Chosen
William James Glistier; Blaine E. Grimes; Mildred Ruby Hauser; Mary Louse Kaugani; Irving Kass; Ruth I. Lewy; Mary Minta McDonald
Philip M. Raup; William L. Read;
german M. Raup; Lael Isabel Raisb
lizabee Louise Searle; Phyllis
darguerite Sikes; Emi. E. Sim
Robert James Morton; Charles H. Mullen; Veto Newosinke; William H. O桑曼; Martha Ann Pinnoe; J. James C. Pinney; David Prager.
Doris Stockwell; Neil Nesluss;
Sexer, Dean Sutton; Evelyn Ruth Thompson; Ruth Timpe; Randall Wedd; Margaret Josephine Wilson; Mary Elizabeth Wilson; Barbara Ellen Woodard; and Tom Yoe.
Seven students at the University were elected to Phi Beta Kappa last fall bringing the total chosen this year to 52. Elected at that time were Philomene Bourassa; John V. Liner; Palm Mortiz; Elizabeth Ray Born; Edwin E. Bohn; B. Smith; and Earl Stuckenbrück
**Average High**
Phi Beta Kappa is the first college fraternity to be organized in the United States, having been established Dec. 5, 1776. The Kansas chapter was organized April 2, 1890, and was the twenty-ninth chapter to be admitted. This year marks the organization's forty-ninth anniversary in Kansas. There are now more than 100 such chapters in the nation.
Members for Phi Beta Kappa are chosen each year from the upper 10 per cent of the senior class of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Miss Vetra Lea, assistant to the dean of the college, teaches the graduate average of the top 10 per cent of the senior class was unusually high and that the number eligible for membership in the honorary society was quite large.
No date has been set for either the initiation or banquet of the local chapter. A committee is to be appointed to set the dates.
Officers of the local chapter o. Phi Beta Kappa are: president, Domenico Gagliardo, professor of economics; vice-president, Wealthy Babcock, assistant professor of o. Economics; instructor, Kins, instructor of English; and, secretary, Raymond Nichols, executive secretary of the Chancellor's office. Miss Veta Lear, assistant to the dean of the College, and Miss Edina Teeter, assistant registrar, are responsible for undergraduate appointments.
No Date Set
Dr. Raymond C. Hall, of the University of California, and a graduate of the University, has spent some time this week visiting the departing professor of biological science here. Doctor Hall is professor of zoology and mamology.
Zoology Prof. Visits
Modern Religion Is Topic
The Rev, Joseph King will lead a discussion on the "Modern View of Plymouth" Sunday at the Plymouth Congregational church 925 Vermont street.
Dartmouth Forensic Team---
Members of the Dartmouth College debating team who will meet University speakers here Monday night. From left to right: William S. Green; Clif Stratton; John R. Willetts; Jack J. Preis; and Louis H. McGregor. He is a graduate of "a japka high school." He is a sophomore at Dartmouth.
Hitting a full rehearsal stride, the Men's Golf Club under the direction of Prof. Joseph Wilkens is whipping the program for its annual spring tour into presentation shape. The trip, a three-day affair starting Wednesday, will take the singers from northeastern Kansas.
Rehearsals Prepare Glee Club for Spring Tour
Thursday morning the glee club will sing before Hawaiah High School. On their way to Atchison where they will present a program in front of the glee club High School the men plan to step in Boston to give a concert.
Wednesday morning they will give a concert at Wyndotte High School of Kansas City, Kan, and then sing before the Chamber of Commerce luncheon where Cancellor E. H. Lindley will be the guest speaker. The men will sing over radio station KMBC at 3:15 p.m.
Friday morning another program will be given in Atkinson. In the afternoon the glee class will meet before the high school. Friday night they are sheed-
The numbers the Club will sing are: "A Song of Joy," (Grechanin-ok McKiney); "Ave Maris Stella" (Grieg); "The Creation" (Richter); "Swing Low, Sweet Charity;" "Bones Come A-Krittin"; and "The Battle of Jericho." The club will take its quartet composed of Art Wolf, c'30; Fred Lake, c'40. Don Wood, b'39, and Bill Hayes, b'40.
uled to present a concert in Leavenworth, sponsored by the Leavenworth Music Club.
The second part of the program will open with a musical sketch written and directed by Jack Laffer, c'29, called "The Serendamers." The men taking part in it are: Robert H. Warey, c30; J. D. Ransey, c30, and Laffer.
As the final number the glee club will give a concert arrangement from the second act of "The Desert Song" with solos by Louis Folecke, c'39, and Gray Dorsey, c'unc. Other soloists on the program will be Don Hood, Douglas Tarbet, and Jack Laffer.
The Average College Man Fewer Divorces, Less Relief Among College Graduates
Washington, D.C.—(UP)—If you are an average male college graduate who has been out of school eight years, the department of interior decided that your status is something like this:
You make $2383 a year, are married, have at least one child, probably live in a large metropolitan area, and pay $38 a month rent. You are less likely to have been divorced than your friend who did not get a higher education, and you almost certainly have never been out of work for a while after leaving college.
These facts were contained in a report issued by the department's
office of education covering a study made of the economic status of 41,000 alumni of 31 colleges and universities graduated between 1222 and 1036.
If you studied dentistry and succeeded in establishing a practice, the chances are that you make about $3,300 each year. But if you entered the newspaper field, you probably make only $1,875 annually.
The statistics showed that the highest paid profession was dentistry; the highest paid occupation, airline transportation, at $150. The lowest median income for professionals which also was lower than all occupations except clerical, in which the median was $1,816.
Famed Engineer Graduate Dies
Oliver H. Horner, e'14, member of Tau Beta Pi, honorary engineering fraternity, and widely known civil engineer, died yesterday afternoon at Kansas City of a blood-stream infection.
His ideas for a busy river front on the levee are now being put into operation in the five-million-dollar food market terminal being constructed in Kansas City. In 1925 Horner opened the low flat area near the river to industrial expansion with the construction of the Fairfax sewer.
During the World War, Horner was one of the ten engineers of the country chosen for the erection of army cannonets. Later he enlisted in the navy and was discharged with the rank of ensign.
with the construction of the largest export elevator in the world at Galveston, Texas.
Horner was retained as a grain elevator engineer by the Kansas City Terminal railroad and the Alton lines. Recently he was associated
Authorized Parties---
Friday April 14
Friday April 14
Theta Tau, Memorial Union
Building, 12.
Phi Kappa Psi dance at the Country Club, 12.
Saturday, April 13
Alpha Kappa Psi, Chapter
House, 12.
Kappa Sigma, Chapter House, 12.
Gamma Phi Beta, Union building, 9 to 12.
I. S. A., Union Building, 8 to 10.
ELIZAEBETH MEGUAI
Adventor of Women
for the Joint Committee
on Student Affairs