UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
OFFICIAL STUDENT PAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
VOLUME XXXVI
Legislature Proposes New Buildings
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★ New Petroleum Building Will Cost $325,000 and Relieve Crowded Classroom Conditions
Proposals before the state senate ways and means committee indicates the possibility of a new petroleum industries building for the University. The proposed building, to cost an estimated $325,000, would provide space for the departments of geology, chemical engineering, petroleum engineering and Geological Survey, and several engineering laboratories.
A tentative appropriation of approximately $100,000 is included in the proposals for the purpose of completing the children's war and the clinic building at the University hospital and medical school in Kansas City. The building is now under construction and the proposed amount is believed to be sufficient to complete it.
The building, which would relieve crowded conditions in Wahrom hall and Bailey Chemical laboratories, was set up by Marvin hall and the observatory.
Other Small Increases
LAWRENCE, KANSAS. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1939
The University will probably receive a small increase in funds for salaries. The tentative draft proposed $25,000, less than half of the $60,000 asked by the Board of Regents to pay new instructors and heads of departments. An additional $25,000 would be set aside for the maintenance of state property at the University.
There will be slight increases in salary allowances for the five state schools, but the University is to be the only school to get a new building at this time. The Board of Regents urged the legislature to adopt a 10-year building program in the state schools with $2,000,000 set aside for this purpose. Every one of the state schools is in need of additional housing facilities according to the survey made by the regents, and the 10-year program would do much to relieve the crowded conditions.
All of the schools have had a marked increase in enrollment the last two years and it will be necessary to add to personnel and equipment in all of them to keep Kansas as standard of educational facilities.
Enrollment Increase
The proposed budget for the state schools has been prepared by the ways and means committee, but it is by no means in its final form. Efforts to boost appropriations for education should also increase in the allowances before the committee makes its final report to the senate.
ON THE SHIN
by jimmy robertson
Doc Zimmer's dachshund, Otto, is the most personable pup on the campus. A rounder and a wattle, Otto strikes out for Brick's when he is let out in the morning. There he pads about all day, visiting every booth and sitting up to bag. And when sad-eyed Otto sits up to beg, no one has the heart to refuse him a tasty morsel.
At week's end, Pi Phi his blunderer unforgetfully by singing the Sig Alph violet song to Phi Gams who had just completed a serenade following their Pig Dinner. The Fits have rehearsed so diligently of late that sororites can no longer recognize them. In view of the foregoing evidence, the Fits categorize malleium gossip a report that some inhabitant of the University club discharged a fire-arm while the boys hullablab Kappa's.
Proprietor Eddie Penchard estimates that in another week or so Otto will have developed a figure fault that will make travel through a two-inch snow impossible. If the wayward dog don't none home by closing up time, Eddie puts him in a cab and sends him.
While Sig Alph's were partying in the Union ballroom Saturday night a well dressed fellow ambled up to
Pan-Hel Delegate--audience is being amused by something else. And the scenery, by the way, deserves more than a mere casual mention. It alone is a source of much entertainment and in the last episode is almost inspiring.
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Tom Graybill, c. 1923, president of Sigma Alpha Epsilon, who will attend the inter-fraternity conference at Norman, Oklahoma. Feb. 24 and 25 as representatives of the Hill Creek organizations.
NYA Works In Many Fields
\* Students Carry on Cancer Experimentation and Research at Bell Memorial
The administration's accomplishments represent work in a number of different fields. Through the work and funds of the administration the campus has been land-scaped; a chemical engineering laboratory has been equipped; the University museum of paleontology has been systemized; airplanes have been constructed; and research work in cancer is now being carried on.
During the first four months of the present school year approximately 380 students have drawn $26.32 million from National Youth Admissions department of the University employs at least one N.Y.A. student.
Civic organizations in Lawrence also profit from the administration's activities. Work has been done for two years at Chamber of Commerce of the city.
The cancer research is being carried on by seven medical students at Bell Memorial hospital. Experiments in X-ray treatment is also the hospital by N.Y.A. students learning with the aid of N.Y.A. funds.
A recent proposal of congress to incorporate the N.Y.A. and the W.P.A is opposed by Martha Till-Neil, a senior National Youth Administration here.
Mrs. Tillman says "We are all hoping such a change will not be made. The work of our organization does not even compare to the Works Progress Administration. If any change is made at all in the program, it belongs in the field of education."
Kansas Awarded Aviation Help
Washington, D.C., Feb. 21— (UP) The University of Kansas was one of 13 colleges and universities today awarded contracts for government financed aviation construction.
The contracts call for 8 hours dual instruction, 9-hours dual flight instruction, and 18 hours of solo flying for each student. Twenty students are to be instructed at the University of Kansas. The government award will be provided that contract will be handled through the Robertson Aircraft Corporation of East St. Louis.
rosh To Skate Thursday
A skating party for all members of the freshman class will be held Thursday p.m. from 4:00 o'clock to 5:00. The party is being sponsored by the freshman groups of the Y.M.C.A. and the Y.W.C.A.
The two groups will meet at Henley House at 3-45. The party is to be held at the Rollerdrom Skating academy, 737 New Hampshire Avenue, to join the group there. An admission charge of $12 cents will be asked.
Modern Youth Not Educated For Marriage
- 'Romance Is Stressed Too Much', Says Doctor Popee in Convocation Yesterday
"The three fundamental institutions of home, church, and school have failed to educate the youth of today sufficiently for the adult enterprise of love and marriage," said Dr. Paul Popenoe, director of the Institute of Family Relations at Los Angeles when he spoke yesterday a 10 a.m. before all-student conversation in Hoch auditorium.
The eminent biologist, psychologist, and author maintained that the young people of this generation had grown to depend too much on the computer. Their love for Hollywood movie romances, billboards, and cheap love magazines.
Doctor Popenoe, outlining the life of a man, began with the child inborn love for himself. Next the infant infuses his emotional horizon to include affection for his parent particularly his mother. Followin
"When a man or a woman desiring marriage can pass himself on five lectures, it's really true - love real," said the lecturer. These five desires are the biological mating impulse, economic rating, emotional security, intellectual companionship, a d child.
If more than one or two of these desires are lacking, marriage is in no way advisable, according to Dr. Popenoe.
"Until a boy or a girl has reached the level of desiring monogamy, he hasn't become adult emotionally." Dr. Poonee declared.
The convocation yesterday morning marked the beginning of a series of afternoon and evening lectures and seminars on love and marriage which will continue throughout this week until Thursday.
Dr. Poenone, is also secretary of the Human Betterment Foundation at Pasadena, Calif. Since 1933, he has been a lecturer in zoology at the University of Southern California and is the author of numerous tech- books on heredity other areas in the fields of heredity, genetics, and family relations.
Name Students To Attend Youth Conference in Tonck
Four students have been appointed by the Men's Student Council and the Women's Student Governing Association to attend the Kansas Youth Conference. The women who pike. The meeting is sponsored by the National Youth Administration.
The purpose of the conference is to discuss the social and economic problems that confront the youth of New York, and to value the value of the work of the N.Y.A.
The delegates selected are: Paul Moritz, c'39, Bill Farmer, '42, Edna May Parks, c'40, and Velma Wilson, c'40. Representation at the conference was based on enrollment and as a consequence the University will be the heaviest represented school there.
Corbin Corporation Must Sell Model T To Pay Expenses
Disaster has overtaken the Corbin hall corporation for crippled cars. Ten girls recently purchased a 1920 Model T and went to so as to plan for survival.
They crashed into another car. Instead of being angry the owner thought the incident very funny, but the damage wasn't so funny to the girls. Edigar, the Corbin house man, and an author on Model T's, estimated that about $20 would be needed to cover the damage. The corporation is taking the noble way out. Their beloved car will be sold at an auction in the near future. According to their publicity director the "announcements will be printed on very pretty paper."
However, the car had different titles. The girls pushed off from Corbin Hall Friday afternoon, and acter the car had gained considerable momentum the steering wheel caught. Luckily they missed several sandpiles and rockpiles, but their luck couldn't hold out forever.
Legion Executive Speaks Thursday
- Chadwick Will Talk on Americanism and Student Duties at Convocation
National Commander of the American Legion, Stephen Fowler Chadwick, will speak on "Americanism and the Responsibilities of College Men and Women to America" at a conventure in Hoch auditorium at 10 c'clock Thursday morning.
The whole production moves at a bang-up pace all the way through, tonnable scenery changes are completed in the few seconds the
Chadwick, prominent Seattle attorney and son of Stephen James Chadwick, a late chief justice of the Washington supreme court, was elected national commander of the legionnaires last September in a retaliation veto of United States Siberian Expeditionary Force of 1918.
Several ex-national commanders and high officials of the American Legion will be present at the convocation. Among them will be: Ralph T. O'Neil, chairman of the Board of Regents and former national commander; Harry Colmery of Topeka, another former national commander of the organization; Ray Hobson, former national commander of the legion; and Jim Richardson, commander of the post in Lawrence.
First in Art Series Tonight
Prof. Karl Mattern will speak at 7:30 Tuesday night at Spooner Thayer on "Water Color Paintings, Past and Present."
This is the first talk in a series to be given each Tuesday for 7 weeks by professors of the University.
NUMBER 97
Stafford Ruhlen, c40, was elected president of Wesley Foundation. Methodist student group, replacing John Lintner, c29, at the regular meeting Sunday evening. Maxine Patterson, c41, was elected vice-president, and Erma Lee Wallace, c42, will be the new secretary. The new officers will be installed Sunday, March 5.
Methodists Elect Officers
Eight Naval Training Planes Crash in Fog
Its primary purpose is to amuse, and it achieves this end by being reproducably funny. From the overture's first chord clear through the finale it is obviously satirical but never crudely so. At times it is possibly too subtle. For example, in "The Elephant," he says that the Englishman wears a Homberg and carries an umbrella.
*Production Moves Speedily*
Pensacola, Fla., Feb. 21—(UP) Eight naval training planes, trapped in the air for five hours by a ground fog, crashed last night over an area of several hundred square miles after exhausting their gasoline in vainy hunting unobscured landing places. Two pilots were killed.
Lieut. Norman M. Oostergert also died. His body was found near the wreckage of his plane near McDavid. He was buried in of here. His plane had burned.
H. G. Ingham, director of the extension division of the University of Kansas, was the main speaker yesterday at the first meeting this semester of the Students Correspondent's Bureau.
- Two Pilots Killed as Search For an Unobscured Landing Place Fails; Four of Flight Alight Safety
Fingham Speaks To Correspondents
Interesting facts and statistics concerning the extension division were told to the students who write for the journal. The writers throughout the state of Kansas
The extension department is really divided into two divisions," said Ingham, "the extension teaching department, and the public welfare department." This latter department is split into the bureau of general information, the bureau of education, and the lecture courses, and also several activities that necessitate the employment of extra members.
Lieut. G. F. Presser of the Brazilian navy, "courtesy student" at the naval station attempted to "ride his plane" to earth eighth the fog and was killed when the machine rashed and burned.
Four planes of the original flight of 12 which took off from the Pensacola training station shortly after dusk for night-practice of maneuvers in the air. The six of the eight planes which crashed parachuted safely to earth.
Elmer McCarty, as the official guide, did a magnificent job of holding the show together. When his assistant fell ill, he suffered from ingrown laughter in
With the earth completely fog-obscured, and their motors sputtering as they drained the final drops of gasoline, six of the pilots went overside with parachutes. Except motor brakes they were uninjured.
Cum Laude Commended
Navy men estimated the value of each of the old-type Boeing navy training planes at $18,000.
By Jimmy Robertson, c'40 When a cynical critic, who enjoys coffee nerves and insomnia, laughes louder and claps harder than any other member of a first night audience, or when the same critic joins in the cry of "Author!" at the conclusion of the production, he can do but one thing honestly—produce it a hit.
Professor Crafton directed all 22 scenes of "Cum Laude" and not one of them even hinted at laying an *eau*
Last year the bureau of correspondence study had an enrollment of 2865. Of these students, over 60 per cent were enrolled at the University, and 40 per cent worked. Ninety-two of the 103 counties of the state were represented.
C. H. Mullen, c39, chairman of the Student Statewide Activity Commission, reported that 41 of the representatives and senators of the present legislature in Topeka were graduated from the University.
Professor Allen Crafton authored "Cum Laude" in commemoration of the seventy-fifth anniversary of the University. The University will probably celebrate the seventy-fifth anniversary of "Cum Laude."
Effective light and a lot of it is used. If you have any trouble seeing what's on the stage be sure to visit an oculist.
By Jimmy Robertson, c'40.
Jack Laffer Stars
ated from the University.
attempting not to miss 1001 funny lines.
But there were too many stars—too many high spots to list them all separately. The beat thing is to keep it simple, and to laude "yourself." At the risk of putting it trifly, it's an opportunity your parents wouldn't want you to miss. However, perhaps it is well to advise you to notice the follow-
Citizen Strolls Through
Prof. Robert Calderwood, the Citizen from Great Bend, who struts conspicuously through the show without rhyme or reason; Don Newlin, the Citizen's son, who has come to college and wants to see "the people that collect dirty jokes for the Sour Owl"; the Citizen from Greater Boston features the "awmill" motif from an oldtimer mollerdrammer and the voices of Crafton and Gretchen Speelman while Don Newlin, Marvin Moon and others furnish the action. Or give looks and listeningsto
Or give looks and listenings to Curtis Alloway and Pattye Wadley doing the popular old song, "Bi-
Back in Stride--junior forward, who seceded 13 points in the Kansas-Iowa State game last night, and led the Kansas attack in the second ball.
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DON EBLING - FORWARD
In Usual Form--sensational sophomore forward, who took second high scoring honors last night in the Kansas-Iowa State game with 12 points, and sparked the team with his brilliant passing.
CAREFULNESS
WARNING
RALPH MILLER
Kansan Contest Begins Sunday
The contest for Daily Kansas subscribers sponsored by cooperating Lawrence merchants and the Daily Kansas will start with the publication of a content form in Sunday's issue of the Kansas.
The form will appear in that and each succeeding issue of the paper for a period of eight weeks. Competing students will fill out these forms with their own signatures and the signatures of merchants whose advertisements appear in the Daily Kansan.
Votes will be awarded competing students dependent upon the size of the advertisements of the merchant whose signatures are obtained.
In each of the eight weekly contests, prizes amounting to $60 in merchandise will be awarded. Tentatively, the first week will find a top price of $18 in merchandise with several significantly smaller awards.
WEATHER
At the end of the contest the grand prize of $200 Berry tour will be awarded to the student accumulating the greatest number of votes during the eight weeks. This tour will include a visit to Washington, D.C. a three day stop in New York for the World's Fair, and a return trip through Canada with stops at Montreal and other scenic points. During the trip, the winner will enjoy the comfort of traveling on air-conditioned trains and the luxury of living in first-class hotels.
Fair tonight and Wednesday. Rising temperatures tonight and in southeast Wednesday.
Jap Bombers Kill British Policeman
- Twenty Wounded Inside British Border; Train Also Struck; Ninety-Eight Persons Injured
The Chinese village of Shumclun was reported in flames. There were unconformed reports that about 20 persons, including policemen, were wounded inside British territory and that a British train was hit. Borders of Chinese and British territory were closed as a result of the raid.
Hong Kong. Feb. 21—(UP) —Japanese airlines dropped bombs in British territory today and killed a British-Indian policeman during a raid on the Canton-Hong Kong railroad. It was reported that 98 per cent of the bombers were wounded in Chinese territory, immediately adjoining the Britain area.
Nine Japanese bombing planes dropped bombs first on Shumacham on the other side of the Hong Kong crown colony. Two of the bombers detached themselves from the main group and swept across the border british territory over the Lowlands, which is the last station in the British area on the railroad that extends from Kowloon City to Canton.
The two bombers apparently were trying to hit a British train which, according to reports, was just on the side of the locomotive in Chinese territory.
'Must We Pet?' Popenoe Asks
"I is petting desirable?" asked Dr. Paul Popeneo, speaking before the first meeting of the University Seminar on Social Relations held yesterday afternoon. The answer should be in relation to consequences of petting for two specific persons with no definite rule prevailing.
Dr. Popepen, of the Los Angeles Institute of Family Relations, used as his main topic "The Biological Background of Marriage."
The results of petting should be analyzed by the individual according to such standards as: is the experience merely physical or is the whole personality included; is it accepted by ones group; is it a habit forming drug; does it exclude all other activities; and does it leave a feeling of satisfaction or inhibition? There is a decided difference between physical maturity and ecological education prepares for marriage. Individuals are physically ready for marriage at puberty, but more than 10 years longer is required for economic and intellectual readiness.
Dr. Popenove, for the best results, advises marriage after emotional and physical maturity but before intellectual maturity. People have the best chance of being happily married if they marry in the early twenties. In relation of the rates of maturity for males and females, it has found that the female develops more rapidly than does the male. This causes the college level women to be approximately three years older biologically than men of the same age in years.
The speaker concluded by saying that many marriages which result in divorces are those of biologically unrelated couples, although this is not always the case.
Committee Will Interview W.S.G.A. Office Candidates
Candidates for W.S.G.A. offices will be interviewed by a committee composed of Mary Louise Kanaga, Alice Pade, Charlotte Stafford, Mary Virginia Stauffer, and Gvene Landrish will meet Thursday after-evening at 7 in the Pine Room of the Union building.
The offices open are: president of council, vice-president of the council secretary, and treasurer of the council, college representative, fine arts representative and the vice-presidents and secretaries of the sophomore, junior, and senior classes.
NOTICE
There will be a W.S.G.A. dinner meeting at 5:30 tonight in the English room of the Union building.—Roberta Cook, Secretary.