UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
OFFICIAL STUDENT PAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
VOLUME XXXVI
Women's Council Finishes Plans For W.S.G.A.Meet
- Barclay to Fill Vacancy of
Point System Manager;
Office of Treasurer Is
Also to Be Filled
Meeting in a long-winded session the W.S.G. last night put the finishing touches on their governing responsibilities for the year and discontinue details of their national convention to be held here next week.
It was the last business meeting of the year. Officers elected in this spring's election will be formally installed April 13 at Evan's Hearth and will immediately take over the tasks of governing Hill women.
Members of the Council were perturbed to find that Maxine Patterson, c'40, recently elected treasurer of the new Council, was ineligible because of junior standing. She had won over Jean Steele, c'41, by a close vote. Patterson was a sophomore last semester, but attendance in the last summer session moved her to junior classification this semester. Because the office has a two-year term, sophomore rating is required
The new treasurer will be elected by the old council, and applications must be turned in at the Adviser of Women's office this week. Applicants will be interviewed by a committee of five senior women, who will recommend contestants to the Council.
Members of the council learned that $50 had been returned from the K-Book and a small sum from the Social Relations Committee which sponsored Dr. Popoense's lectures here. The returns were from a $100 appropriation to the publication and a $33 one to the Committee.
Elizabeth Barclay, c'40, was elected by the council to fill the position of point system manager, made vacant by the resignation of Delos Woods, c'unel.
It was announced that the Mens' Student Council had paid $75 of its pledged appropriation to the Student Forums Board and put $100 in a Treasury to alleviate grief over the $280 budget gave to the Board earlier in the year.
Members of the W.S.G.A. expressed dissatisfaction concerning the term "Mens Radio Forums," supplied the greater part of the money
Delos Wools submitted suggestions concerning future point-system management. Under the existing setup, the number of activities in which a woman may participate and hold office is limited.
The bill for re-organization of the constitution, which carries no restriction against combines and which caused some furlon in the recent election, was brought up for the second time. The committee's stipulation will be available at the office of the Adviser of Women next week.
ON THE SHIN
by jimmy robertson
While Ye Shinater tries the 101 favorite cold cures suggested by the few people who still speak to him after yesterday's review of "Out-Out," he takes his life in his hands and does the following column—J. R.
Winchelings: Feeling the need of spice in his life, Wayne Wilson last week decided on Marguerite Myers for his variety. This is his first break in the steady routine with Marian Springer for a many a moon, and stooys have it that this is good news to some of the boys. However date-book complications forced Marguerite to call the deal off and Wayne haunted the Dine-a-Mite dragless.
Patti Payne still gets those regular postals from Joe Elmore although the herbage isn't exactly thriving under her paddies, while he is home. Absence makes the heart grow fonder?
Tracing programs and dopersest have it that Clark Myers, Ed Wienecke, and Lloyd Faust are the favorites in the Virginia Ruse Sweep-away. Book-makers however are not offering odds on Myers. Wienecke is
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LAWRENCE, KANSAS, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 29, 1939
Sklar Blames Snow,
Shoe and Sidewalk
For Broken Finger
Sidney Sklar, c41, can blame the untimely snow storm, a slippery sidewalk, and his shoe for a broken finger. Tuesday when Sklar was walking to school, he slipped and while attempting to break his fall, he accidently jammed his little finger of his right hand in his shoe, catching his finger and breaking it.
Last spring whenworking on the campus, Sklar stuck a pitch fork in his leg, laying him up for several days. He doesn't blame that on the snow.
Byrd's Lieutenant To Speak Here
Dr. Laurence McKinley Gould second in command of the Byrd expedition, will lecture Friday evening at 8 o'clock, on "Exploration of the Antarctic." The lecture, sponsored by the Kansas Academy of Science, will be given in Hoch auditorium at an open meeting of the Academy. There will be admission charge.
Gould has served with several exploration expeditions other than the Byrd Antarctic trip. He has been honored by the American Geological Society and the National Society of Chicago. He also was awarded the United States Congress gold medal for his outstanding work. Doe could ill illustrate his life.
Dr. Gould will illustrate his lecture Friday night with motion pictures.
The news staff for the Daily Kansan for the remainder of the spring semester was announced this afternoon by Harry Hill, 40, new managing editor. A new position of picture editor has been added to the news stuff. The new staff will take over its duties tomorrow.
Those named by Hill are: News editor, Reginal Buxton, *c*40; campus editors, James Robertson, *c*40 and Walter Meringer, *c*41; Sunday editor, Stewart Jones, *c*40; night editor, Wayne Huff, *c*41; telegraph editor, Clavelie Holden, *c*40; makeup editors, Ruth Fitzgerald, *c*39, and makeup editors, Cary Bohm, *c*29; Mary Lou Randall, *c*unc; and picture editor, Elon Torrence, *c*39; Jim Bell, *c*40, will continue as sports editor.
Hill Announces News Staff For Remainder of Semester
Business Students To Make Industrial Tour Tomorrow
Junior and senior students in the School of Business going on the industrial tour sponsored by Delta Sigma Pi, business fraternity, will leave for Kansas City tomorrow morning at 7:30.
The schedule of visits for the tour will include the Ford assembly plant Sears Roebuck company, Hall Stationery company, and Sheffield's.
DeVon Carlson, e41, was chosen to represent the University chapter of Searab, architectural fraternity, at the annual national convention at Los Angeles June 15, at a meeting at Marvin hall last night.
Dr. V. W. Lapp, Dr. E. R. Elbel, and James Rapell, all of the physical education department, left this morning for Sioux City, Iowa, where they will attend the Central District Physical Education convention which starts tonight and lasts until Saturday.
Physical Education Profs Attend Sioux City Meeting
The University instructors were accompanied by L. R. Perry, director of athletics at Lawrence Memorial high school, and Maurice Kennedy, coach of the Lawrence Junior high school.
Herbert G. Allphin, instructor of physical education, who has been attending the physical education meeting conducted in Tulsa, Oka., will meet the University instructors at Sioux City.
Bert A. Nash, professor of education, spoke yesterday in Mound City to teachers on "Problems of Reading." He said many cities were guests at the meeting.
The convention will be held in the Isla Temple in Southern California. Representatives to the convention will attend an excursion trip to San Francisco.
Nash Speaks in Mound City
Carlson Represents Scarab At National Convention
Six pieces of sculpture by Bernard "Peeo" Frazier, painter-sculptor at the University, are attracting much interest and attention at the annual exhibition of the Nebraska Art Association which opened in Lincoln, Neb., on March 5. Frazier is the only Kansan among the sculptors whose work is being shown in Lincoln this year.
K.U. Sculptor's Works Merit Attention at Nebraska Exhibit
The pieces of Frazier's work or exhibition are entitled "The Hawk," "Rebecca," "Supplication," "White Stallions," "Mare Colt," and "Peace." Of these "Mare Colt" is Mr. Frzier's favorite, and of this work he says, I believe that colts begin as true descendants of their wild ancestors and as wobbly dependents on man. As I modelled the "Mare Colt" her mustang blood showed, for she kicked me three times before I learned to keep my distance."
Frazier was given a special invitation by the Art Association to exhibit his works in their annual
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show which represents the work of the beat contemporary American painters and sculptors. Frezier is the only Kansan among the sculptors whose work is shown in Lincoln this year.
Rosalyn Tureck Here April 24
- Eminent Young Pianist Will Be a Featured Port Of Annual Spring Festival
Other artists who are represented at the Nebraska exhibit are George Grosz, Morris Kantor, Maurice Uriztel, Walt Kuhn, Alberto Brook, John Stewart Curry and many others equally well known.
Dressed in his working costume which included the pauperial blue smock, but looking like anything but the pauperial "estete," he captivated his audience by modeling a spirited-looking horse, giving, at the same time, an informative talk on sculpture. While his hands skillfully模仿 the familiar clay, he told his hearseners in a different form of sculpture are made, interspersing his remarks with flashes of humor which delighted his listeners.
Rosalyn Tureck, world-renowned pianist, will present a concert in Hoch auditorium on Monday evening, April 24. Miss Tureck is applause on the University Concert Course and the annual spring festival.
Miss Tureck was a former pupil of Jan Chiatchupo, Dott. Italian pianist; who is a member of the faculty of the School of Fine Arts.
Her triumphal performances in this historic series won for her the coveted Town Hall Young Artists Award for 1938, and an opportunity to appear on the Town Hall Endowment Series.
Critiques have accaimed her as one of America's youngest outstanding musicians. Her latest presentation of the entire 48 preludes and Figuins as well as many other works of J. S. Bach, in such excitations, in Courtney Hale was well-observed by New York's critical audience and press.
K-Club to begin Fridays Friday
Travels for the K-Club dramatic play
program. Students will be held at 7 o'clock Friday evening in the Little Theater of Green hall.
Only members of the K-Club are eligible to try out for the clubs performance of William Smith's play
following four days beginning April 18.
Must Tureck has been presented many numerous awards for her artistic ability. Among them are: first prize in a Greater Chicago Piano Tournament in which 15,000 students participated; a fellowship in the Jullibard Graduate School of New York; the $1,000 award of the National Federation of Music Clubs; and the Schubert Memorial award of an appearance with the Philadelphia orchestra.
New courses are being offered in the fields of vocational education and administration for juniors, seniors, and students.
Add Graduate Course
Administration and Supervision of Vocational Education, a senior and graduate course with three hours credit, deals with the co-ordination
Faculty Approves Change In Education Curriculum
New Book Recall System To Be Tried by Library
Books chagged to faculty members from the library and needed by students may be obtained by filling out a request form for assistance in sonr for requirement of the book.
By Dorothy Dyer, c.10 The Curriculum Revision committee announced its report to the faculty meeting of the School of Education yesterday. The changes in the curriculum which they recommend will improve faculty, and will go into effect at the beginning of the Summer Session.
Tonight's program will include
"Gavotte and Variations" (Rameau)
"Sonata in Major," allegro ma non
troppo, andante mesto e molto
expresivo, prestige (Bortklewicz);
"Prelude, Op. 32, No. 12) (Rachmann-
Johannes Bachlinle) (Edna Woods);
"Benedictine Dieut Saus la Solitude"
(Lüstz).
Joint Y.W.-Y.M. Meeting Thursday
There will be no meeting the Freshman Commission of the W.Y.C. a this week. However the freshmen will participate in the joint Y. W.-Y.M. Assembly to be held tomorrow afternoon at 4:30 in the auditorium of Frank Strong hall, according to Louise Webster, publicity chairman.
Bv Dorothy Dver, c'40
Lacie McVeay, 39, piano pupil of Howard C. Taylor, will present the third in this week's series ofSenior Awards for Superior Sound auditorium today at 8 p.m.
Changes have been made in two courses which are required for the elementary certificate. Course A2 Elementary Education was changed from three to two hours credit and from four hours credit to one hour of administration of Elementary Education. Course Mla Supervised Teaching in the Elementary Schools is being offered for five hours credit in place of three under the name Mla Supervised Instruction, which conforms to the State Board of Education requirement.
Miss MeyVey is a member of Gamma Phi Beta, social sorority, of Mortar board, honorary senior women's organization, and of Pi Lambda Theta, honorary education sorority. She is president of the Women's Glee Club, and of Mu Phi Epsilon, honorary musical sorority. Last year she was elected Fine Arts representative on W.S.G.A.
If the reasons given by the student seem to justify a recall of the book the professor will be requested to return the book. The student will be notified and the book held 26 hours for him.
Miss McVey's last number will be Liszt's "Hungarian Fantasy," with the orchestral parts on the second piano by Mr. Taylor.
McVey To Present Senior Recital
Joint Y.W.-Y.M. Meeting Thursday
of vocational and general education.
A graduate course in Problems in the Practice of Vocational Education with two to three hours credit has been added, providing an intensive curriculum in problems and practices in the teaching or administration of vocational work in school.
Content and Procedures in Craft Work and Industrial Arts Instruction is offered for three hours credit. This course deals with procedures and materials in industrial arts and craft work and with organization for teaching these in both the elementary and high school.
Directed Projects in the Practice of School Administration and Supervision is being offered for one to three hours credit in the Graduation History course in the problems and practices of school administration carried on in a co-operating public school system under the immediate guidance of an approved school administrator or supervisor.
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Prerequisites for the Principles of Community Recreation have been
I.S.A. Convention Opens Friday In Auditorium
- Except 300 Independent Students as Delegates for Three-Day Conclave; Marco Morrow To Speak
With the call to order of the national Independent Students' Association convention Friday morning at 10 o'clock in Hoch auditorium the 500 local members will have the opportunity to gain insight into the workings of their national organization, Louis Fockele, c39, president of the local chapter this morning.
The three-day conclave is expected to attract more than 300 students, faculty members, and speakers from colleges and universities which range from George Washington University to the University of California, and from the University of Texas to Northwestern University.
In a last minute meeting of the council last night LSA, members were urged to attend the opening meeting as well as all other discussion groups and lectures which their colleagues have attended. The cards will be necessary for admittance to all such functions. It was stated.
indley To Welcome Delegates
Chancellor E. H. Lindley will welcome delegates at the opening meeting Friday, followed by Mr. Marc Morrow, vice-president and associate CEO of the Publications, who will give the key-note speech of the convention.
John Ise, professor of economics,
will be the speaker and guest of
honor at the Saturday night banquet
in the Memorial Union ballroom.
Tickets are available at the hostess'
desk in the Union for 50 cents and should be obtained before
Thursday afternoon. The banquet will begin at 6:15. The semi-formal
dinner from 9 to 12 o'clock in the
ballroom on Thursday will be
climax the convention. Clyde Smith and his orchestra will to furnish the
music, and membership cards will admit.
Because delegates attending from other schools asked for it, a dating bureau has been set up in the convention headquarters in the Union Activities office in the basement of the Memorial Union building. Printed convention programs containing all topics and names of women as well as member cards, may be obtained there Thursday.
Friday night the dramatic production "Hay Fever" will be presented for all delegates and local members in Fraser theater at 8 o'clock and will be followed by a reception at Corbin hall.
'Hay Fever' a Feature
All luncheons will be served in the Union cafeteria, and Friday dinner guests will be divided in two sections, one dining in the Old English room and the other in the Pine Room. Members of the local LSA may attend all meals upon payment of the $2.00 registration fee.
Roundtables and panel discussion groups will hold sway throughout the conclave. After dinner Friday, Assistant Dean of Men Charles of the University of Illinois, will speak on "Independent Housing."
Paul Meacham, a delegate from the University of Indiana, will lead a discussion of "Fraternity-Independent Relationship" in one section of the 8:45 Saturday morning roundtable to be held in the auditorium of Bailey Chemical laboratories.
Business Organization Elects Twelve New Members
Beta Gamma Sigma, national honorary business organization, elected to membership William H. Shannon, assistant professor of accounting; W. Keith Schuerman, b'40; Lloyd Auten, b'39; Robert Aleydote, b'29; Joseph Bowls, b'39; Bryllum, b'39; Martin Geiger, b'39; George Kathary, b'39; Clark Myers, b'39; Thelma Pyle, b'39; and Niles Siebert, b'39 at a meeting held Tuesday afternoon.
Membership in the organization is limited to students of honor ranking. Not more than 10 per cent of the senior class nor more than 2 per cent of the junior class may be elected in any one year.
Sour Owl Features Expose Of Hill Politics This Week
The Sour Owl hasn't lived on Oread all these years for nothing. He's a wise old bird. When he haslied out Friday he'll have enough political dirt tucked under a wing to make the big shots in both parties want to permanently close the eye he's winking.
Dick La Ban, c39, editor of the magazine, said today, however, that the publication is not devoted entirely to politics. Pictures of the Little Abner dance sponsored by the independent students, the Junior Prom, and candid shots in the "jelly joints" will be included.
Reginald Buxton, c'40; Frieda Cowles, c'40; Tom Bowlin '41; Bert Cawley, c'40; John McGowan, Sue Johnson, c'42; and Groves Lucas, b'40, the contributors.
Convocation
Opens Confab
* L. W. King, State Supt.
Of Education, to Be First
Speaker
Convocation for all students h.
education Friday afternoon at 4
o'clock will be the first meeting of
the conference. Conference
to be held this week end.
Raymond A. Schwegler, dean of the School of Education, is chairman, and the address will be "Teachers Look to the State Department of Education" by L. W. King, superintendent of the State Department of Education, Jefferson City, Mo.
The first general session will be Friday evening, March 31 at 7:30 in room 206 Fraser. Chancellor E. H. Lindley will give an address which will be followed by "Education and Public Welfare" by Supt. L. W. King. The School of Fine Arts will be in charge of the music.
Saturday morning at 9 o'clock in Fraser theater J. W. Gowans, superintendent of schools at Hutchinson, will be chairman of the meeting 'Educational Programs That State Departments of Education Should Sponsor' he discussed by Dr. G. Buckley, former presiding officer of Education St. Paul, Minn.
A luncheon at 12:15 Saturday at the Memorial Union will have George McClennay, Kansas State University, for Public Instruction, as toastmaster,
The last session will be Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock in Fraser theater. The chairman of this meeting is M. F. Stark, superintendent at Hawtha. Dr. John G. Rockwell, State Commissioner of Education, will speak on the address on "A Professionalized State Department Education."
At the conclusion of the conference Dr. Earl Hillbrand, University of Wichita, will give a "Critical Evaluation of the Conference."
R.O.T.C. To Select Outstanding Senior
For the fourth consecutive year the University has been chosen from a large group of schools to recommend one R.O.T.C. member of the United States Marine Corps as second lieutenant in the United States Marine Corps.
Chancellor E. H. Lindley and Col Karl F. Baldwin, professor of military science and tactics, are working together to choose a man suitable for the position. The student must not only have a high standing in the military science department but have a high scholastic record. An announcement of their decision will be made soon.
Permanent appointment for the appointee will be effected after one year of preparatory training in the Marine school on the east coast. Merril M. Day, c38, recommended last spring by the University and College of the Sea. Time and Chevy S. White, c36, who was sent as the honor man three years ago has received his permanent second tenureship.
Company To Interview Engineers Representatives of the Aluminum Company of America will be on the Campus April 5 to interview senior students in metallurgical, mechanical and chemical engineering-related employment after graduation. E. D. Kinney, associate professor of mineralogical and metallurgical engineering, announced today.
Three Collisions In Fifteen Hours; None Injured
★ Train Hits Ford Truck
At Gradc Crossing; Two
Head-On Crushes Result in
Two Arrests
Three accidents, two or written were automobile wrecks and the train and dump truck crashed, occupied 15-hour period last night and this morning. No one was seriously injured and the amount of damage was not great. night at Second and Elm streets. The first accident occurred last about 7:14 o'clock when the car driven by Paul Derry, 21, and a Ford truck driven by William Kane, 411 Elm street, collided head-on.
Derry was driving on the left side of the street going west while Kane and his wife were driving east. Mrs. Kane was hurled against the windshield and suffered minor cuts and shock. Kane and Derry were uninjured. The amount of damage was small.
Derry was arraigned in Justice of the Peace court this morning on a charge of driving while intoxicated and having liquor in his possession, and being based on a $300 bond. The date for his hearing has not yet been set.
At 7:42 p.m. Ray Hunter, 773 Hickory street, who was driving
Police issued a warning to all University students and Lawrence citizens today, following the frequent automobile accidents of the past two weeks, that they will begin rigid enforcement of traffic laws and that they will be on the lookout for carless and reckless drivers.
The damage to the Zvacek accounted to $75 while that of Hunter's car has not yet been ascertained.
north on Massachusetts street,
crashed head-on with a Plymouth
driven by Miss Ann Zweck, 220 W.
Both drivers were uninjured.
Hunter was arraigned in police court this morning and charged with driving while intoxicated. He pleaded not guilty and was released on $250 bond. The date of his hearing was set for April 10.
The third accident happened at 10:30 this morning when a Santa Fe passenger train struck a dump truck driven by W. A. Dunbar, at the crossing on East Eight街步道 where a bar was uninjured while his assistant, O. A. Grant, suffered minor lacerations.
Junior Academy To Hold Meeting
Representatives from 28 junior and senior high schools in Kansas are expected to attend the meeting of the Junior Academy of Science to be held at the University, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday.
The Junior Academy, organized by Dr. J. W. Baumgartner, professor of zoology, will begin its program Thursday afternoon with the registration of delegates. On Friday and Saturday the students will attend the general meetings of the Kansas Academy of Science.
A special banquet will be given Friday night. Saturday morning the meeting will close with the presentation of awards to the individual and group winners of scientific awards.
Student Breakfast to Follow Early Palm Sunday Services
The second annual Palm Sunday fellowship breakfast and sunrise communion service sponsored by the Student Christian Federation is to be held Sunday morning. Paul Moritz, c. 320, will lead the service with Dr. Joseph A. Gill, frank Hind Stroigh hall at 6:30 am. The Rev. Edwin F. Price, student pastor of the Methodist church, is to administer the communion.
The breakfast which follows will be held in the Union cafeteria. Tickets may be obtained now from Bernice Randall, 41, at Corbin hall, from the Y.M. and Y.W. offices, or from Myers hall. In case of inclement weather, the communion service will take place at Myers hall.