UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
OFFICIAL STUDENT PAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
VOLUME XXXVI
Two Hundred Will Take Part In Vesper
- Orchestra, Glee Club,
Cappella Choir to Appoint
In All Musical Program
Sunday in Auditorium
More than 200 students and faculty members will take part in the sixteenth All-Musical Vespers Sunday afternoon in Hoch auditorium. D.M. Swarthout, dean of the School of Fine Arts, announced today.
The program will present num-
bers by three of the Hill's largest
musical organizations—the University
Symphony Orchestra, the Men's
Glee Club, and the Westminster A
Cappella Choir.
NUMBER 94
To open the program Prof. G Criss Simpson will play the opening movement of Mendelssohn's Sonata in F Minor.
Another item will be the first public presentation of part of the recently composed "String Quartet in B Minor" by Charles Sanford Skilton, professor of theory and organ in the School of Fine Arts. Professor Skilton wrote the number during his stay in Vienna last winter, and it was performed then at a private musical and again about a week ago at an invitational concert given under the auspices of Pi Kappa Lambda, honorary musical scholastic society. The Adagio, or third movement, will be performed.
A movement of a "Concerto Grosso" by the early Italian composer, Corelli, using a string quartet plus solo parts for two extra violins and one cello will also be included.
A soprano solo from Schubert "In Ewening's Glow," sung by Meribah Moore, will be accompanied by string quartet and organ. This arrangement was prepared especially for the Vespers by Professor Skilton and receives its first performance on Sunday.
The A Cappella Choir will sing three numbers from its 1939 program, including a number from the 16th century, "Adamus To" by Matthew Forster for choirs singing against each other and again together.
The Men's Glee Club under Prof Joseph Wilkins sings three numbers including "Ave Maria Stella" by Grieg, and closing with an arrangement of the familiar Negro spiritu "Swing Low, Sweet Chariz."
The program starts at 4 p.m. and will last a little more than an hour. It will be broadcast over station KFKU.
I. S.A. Will Give Two Hour Dance
Closing the afternoon's concerthe Symphony Orchestra plays the opening movement of the Unfinished Symphony" by Franz Schubert, directed by Prof. Karl Kuester-stein.
Membership in the LSA. is not a prerequisite for independent students desiring to attend.
Because of the success of last week's dance, the ISA, according to Louis Fockele, president, will hold another dance in the lounge of the Memorial Union building tomorrow night from 7 to 9.
ON THE SHIN
by jimmy robertson
Ed Elibel, checking the roll at a first meeting of one of his classes last week, called out "J. Jones." There was on answer, but undiscouraged. Mr. Elibel shouted J. Jones. Someone punched him the ex-Julie Heimbrook who befuddledly answered "here."
Unless eight informants were wrong, it's really true that Anne Carlisle almost a Sig Ep pin for almost 10 minutes last night just to amuse herself. Reminds me of the time my second cousin swallowed an ordinary every day after it came out of his left earble foot first. Only that particular pin incident would have been worthy of an item.
In case you have an alligator kicking around in your bathtub or kitchen sink that you don't want anymore, you might send it to Bob McKay, who now mourns the death of
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LAWRENCE, KANSAS. THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 16. 1939
Greer Leads Discussion
At Mathematics Colloquium
"Algebraic Invariants from Cannonial Forms" will be Edison Greer's topic at the meeting of the Mathematics collocium to be held at 4:30 this afternoon in room 203 Frank Strong hall. Greer's discussion of the subject will be based on the thesis of E. W. Enery. "34. Emery derived the invariants of conic sections and quadric surfaces under the group of rigid motion transformations.
The determination of invariants from canonical forms was first accomplished by E. J. Wileznaki. His method has been greatly simplified by Dean E. B. Stouffer Dean (1965), who developed a metric and projective differential geometry in the next two meetings of the colloquium.
WEATHER
Hoover, 37, who has just returned from two years in Argentina spoke to El Ateneo, the University Spanish club yesterday afternoon, telling of his adventures in South America and the numerous facilities available for Americans there.
Graduate Tells Spanish Club Of South American Trip
The prime requisite, he said, is a knowledge of Spanish. After a good course in the language, it takes but a few days to become acquainted
with the slang and colloquialisms of a particular locality. When he was in Brazil, he was able to understand the people who spoke in Portuguese while he replied in Spanish due to the great similarity of the languages.
Hoover worked for an American implement company who had in their offices people of all nationalities.
The Argentine is a mixed blood who may be part Indian and part Irish. In Hoover's office there were two Irishmen who spoke English to any degree.
Theta Tau's Back Isabelle West For Queen
Inside sources reveal that Theta Tau, professional engineering fraternity, is backing Isabelle West, e-40, the Gamma Phi Beta candidate for the Hob Nail Queen. The significance of this lies in the fact that she has been known to have pushed a looser in the kind of policies during the last few years.
This group of engineers will admit however that they are perturbed over the effect that the Pi Phi enemies the Miller, cD, may have on the votes.
The election of the queen was conducted today on the first floor of the engineering building under the supervision of the Engineering council. The outcome is to be kept a deep dark secret until tomorrow night. The team will announce the council will announce the winner at the Hob Nail hop.
The boys from Marvin hall are holding their annual slide-rue saire'r tomorrow night at the Student Union ballroom. The dance, open to all University students, is to be played by Clyde Smith's band. The program and decorations have been arranged for the council. The party is to be informal and the regular varity admission of 75 cents will be charged.
The Queen is to be elected from a field of five students; Patiy Payne, c'41. Gamma Phi Beta; Helen Johnson, c'41. Cakra Kappa Gamma Marguerite Meyers, c'uned. Kappa Marguerite Women's pictures. The women's pictures have been on display in Marvin hall during the last week.
I.S.A. party, Union building,
7 to 9 o'clock.
Authorized Parties
Saturday, Feb. 18, 1939
Delta Chi, dance at house, 12.
Phi Gamma Delta, party at
house, 12 o'clock.
Hobnail Hop varsity dance, Memorial Union building. 12.
Edward Tonniem, National Broadcasting commentator on South American affairs, who writes to the editor of o2 clock in Hoech audium.
Sigma Alpha Epsilon, dance at Memorial Union building. 12.
ELIZABETH MEGUAI,
Advisor of Women, for the Joint Committee on Students Affairs.
Speaks Tonight--
The people there are friendly and are always willing to help a foreigner get started, he said. There is a warm, friendly spirit in all the country, and it is easy to make friends. People gather in the cafe for several hours of talking over their coffee, the former student said.
Of course they have American movies, but they also have pictures from Italy, Germany, and England, he said. Mickey Mouse and Greta Garbo talk in English, but the films have subscripts written in Spanish for the benefit of the population who do not speak English. Hooverhes there is more to the English spoken there is leaked from the movie.
For entertainment one can find almost anything that we have in the United States, according to Hoover. There is much swimming, golf, and tennis, for the wealthy people of South America came to Buenos Aires, the trade capital of South America, for their recreation.
Asked if he would make the trip again if he were just new graduating from the University, Hoover said, "Anyone who goes to Buenos Aires or São Paulo comes out of three and a half million people, and is one of the clearest large cities in the world. I'm ready to go back again tomorrow."
Kansas Network To Feature Band
Applications for Watkins Hall and Miller hall resident scholarships for 1939-40 or for the renewal of such scholarships now held must be made by March 15 with Miss Elizabeth Megurian, Scholarship Committee, Hall II Scholarship Committee, Room 220, Frank强兴 hall.
The third in a series of bans broadcasts over the Kansas network will be presented by the University of Kansas band Monday night from 8 to 8:30 o'clock. The program can be heard in this location over station WIBW of Topeka and will also be carried by stations KCKN of Kansas City, KANS of Wichita, and KSAL of Salina.
The following program will be played: "Zingaresia" (Curonz), a gypsy esprite featuring Dick Gage, c'39, and his clarinet; "Firtulations" (Clarke) a trumpet trio played by the Jowhawk Trumpeteers with band accompaniment; "Aguero" (Franco) a Spanish march; "From Africa to Harlem" (Bennett), a rhapsodic evolution; and "Overture of 1812" (Tchaikowsky). The program closes with the Alma Mater.
NOTICE TO BAND MEMBERS
The University of Kansas
Band will rehearse in the
Memorial Union hallroom at 7:30
tomorrow morning instead of
the regularly assigned place.
U. G. MITCHELL,
Chairman of Committee
on Aids and Awards.
Local Men to Attend Area Council Meeting
NOTICE
Students who plan to apply for scholarships, gift or loan, for 1893-40, should file their applications before March 1 with Miss Perks Cook, executive secretary, in room 1 Frank Strong
NOTICE
Paul Moritz, c39, president of the campus Y.M.C.A. and John Moore, executive secretary of the organization will attend the Y.M.C.A. Area Council meeting in Topeka to be held Friday and Saturday.
This meeting of the West Central area will be attended by delegates from Kansas, Colorado, Nebraska, Missouri, and Iowa. The purpose of this meeting, held annually, is to discuss the policies and activities of Y.M.C.A. in this section for the coming year.
Following the meeting in Topeka
the student secretaries of the West
Central area will meet here on Sunday
afternoon and Monday morning.
- Prof. Storer to Discuss Work in Connection With Construction
Dedicate William Pitt Telescope
The William Pitt 27-inch telescope will be formally dedicated at a meeting of Stigma Xi. hmoryze sd-
cimayz. The observatory tomorrow night.
Dr. N. W. Storer, associate professor of astronomy, will discuss recent work in connection with the telescope after the lecture, the telescope after the lecture, the telescope and a bronze dedication tablet will be permanently placed upon it.
Dr. Harold Hungerford, president of the Kansas chapter of Sigma Xi, intended to present Mr. Pitt with a medal in recognition of his interest in science, his research work in connection with the making of the telescope and gifts to the University, but, as Mr. Pitt is now in New Jersey, he can not be present at the dedication.
The detailed designs of the mechanical parts of the telescope were supervised by Mr. Manley Hood, 29, and Mr. Dixon Hood of the School of Engineering.
Mr. Pitt, a machinist interested in optical work, contributed his skill and the use of his home to the work of polishing the parabolic surface of the 27-inch mirror. This was the first large mirror made of pyrex, which does not expand and contract with temperature changes, and its accuracy is estimated to be within one millionth of the perfect figure.
The William Pitt 27-inch telescope has been in the observatory for almost ten years, but it has just been completed for some use within the next few years. Dr. Shoer said that it is now ready for more extensive use.
The announcement of winners in the state composers contest was made by Miss Fenn Dielmann, state chairman of Kansas composers research of the Kansas Federation of Music clubs.
Professor Preyer's composition was entered in the national contest, the winner's of which will be given to maniacs over the CBS radio chain.
Judges for the compositions were Frank Cunke, of the University of Nebraska; Carl Weisman, Texas State College for Women; and Spen Roeder, of the University of Arkansas. Excellent quality of the individual work was emphasized by the judges.
Carl A. Preyer, professor of piano, was awarded first prize today for piano composition in a contest held by the Kansas Federation of Music clubs. Professor Preyer's winning selection is entitled "Sonata." Second place went to Gail Kubik of Coffeville, with "Danse," and third to Baker Case of Wichita for "Satire Suite."
Professor Preyer Wins Music Prize
NOTICE
Students may obtain their fall semester's grades by calling at the registrar's office according to the following schedule of initials: Monday  __ A to G inclusive Tuesday  H to M inclusive Wednesday  N to S inclusive Thursday  T to U Those who are unable to appear at their scheduled time may do so on Friday.
NOTICE
The make up exam for those who missed the psychological exam for new students will be held in the second room, 18 in room 154 Fraser hall.
A. H. Turney.
N.B.C. Reviewer Will Discuss Lima Conference
- Edward Tomlinson Sees Future of Our Markets in Southern Countries; Tonight at 8:20
Mr. Tomlinson, a World War veteran, reported the eight international Conference of American Lima, Peru, in the winter of 1938.
Edward Tomlinson, National Broadcasting commentator on South American affairs, and the final speaker on the University lectures series, will speak on the Lima conference at 8:20 o'clock in Hoch auditorium.
Believing that the future of American markets lies in South America, he turned from European affairs to devote his time to those of South America, when he had completed his formal education.
For the past fourteen years, the commentator has made an annual visit to all the important cities in Latin America and attended all recent Pan-American conferences. Such visits as these have taken him across more than 100,000 miles of South America by plane.
At the Buenos Aires conference, Tomlinson broadcast 57 times in 23 days.
Boyd to Plead For Clemency
Topeka, Kan., Feb. 16—(UP) Tom Boyd, former state treasury convicted of illegal removal of bonds from the state treasury a few years ago, will place his application for executive clemency before Governor Payne Rattner the latter part of this week. The prisoner was convicted along with Ronald Finney, principal figure in the bond scandal, and Leland Caldwell, an assistant of Bovd.
Boyd, sentenced on two counts or from 2 to 5 years, to run consecutively, entered the Lansing prison on March 11, 1935, and has been a model prisoner since his entrance. With "good time" credits he was eligible to appear before the parole board last week.
Neither Governor Rattner nor the state board of administration, which sits as a parole body, has given any waiver for such permission. Boody's application will be treated.
Alex Fielder has been added to the School of Fine Arts faculty for the present semester as an instructor of flute.
Fielder Joins Faculty Of Fine Arts School
Boyd began serving his time as a "hand" in the prison coal mine, but is now doing clerical work in the prison office. Visitors of Boyd say the former state official has aged considerable and that he shows plainly the stress of his incarceration.
Fielder has studied the flute extensively for several years and has appeared as solist in several recitals at the University as well as at the Royal College of Music. A section of the University Symphony Orchestra for the past two years.
Influenza Epidemic Strikes Leavenworth Penitentiary
Leavenworth, Kan., Feb. 16—(P)-An influenza epidemia today tased the hospital resources of the city to treat two hundred prisoners were ill.
The annex hospital has only 150 beds, and an improvised hospital was set up in a cell house to care for the new. There have been no deaths.
Proficiency Exam Is Saturday
The second of three proficiency examinations in English composition which are to be given this year will take place Saturday, Feb. 23 at
All juniors in the College have not taken or passed exams should do so now in order to avoid complications. Students must register at the College office, 121 Frank Strong hall, between Feb. 20 and 22
Open Ping Pong Tournament Starts Monday In Union
University ping pong enthusiasts will get their first opportunity this year to determine their relative skill when an open tournament gets unrunched. Monday in the men's recreation room at the Memorial Union building.
Deadline for entries is Saturday night. Contests may enter at the desk in the recreation room. First prize in the tournament, open to all University men students, will be a ping pong paddle.
Considerable interest was demonstrated in two such meets last year. Malcolm Black, 'ls, winner of both events, is not in school this semester so competition for the mythical Campus championship is wide open
Count Basie Here 'For Sure'
★ Dance Management Announces Completion of Prom Arrangements
Don Wood, varsity dance manager, this afternoon confirmed reports that Count Basie and his nationally-known colored swing band University Campus for the annual Junior Summer From Friday, March 3.
"We have been very fortunate," Wood said, "in securing for the Junior Prom Count Basse's band the greatest colored musical attraction."
Wood's announcement affirmed reports from unofficial sources yesterday that the Negro swinger was to play the Prom. Basis began his climb to the "name" band class at the Reno Club in Kansas City. "He will be the best orchestra to play here since Bob Crosby," Wood said. "Although Basie will cost the dance management more than usual is paid, customary prices will brevail."
Definite assurance of Bassie's appearance was obtained in a telegram the dance manager received today from the Music Corporation of Chicago, agents for the colored band. Charles McCreight, auditor of student organization funds for the University of Texas at Austin, officials here were awaiting a contract which had been mailed by the Chicago agents.
The Junior Prom, one of the four "big" parties of the Campus year, traditionally is the only all-school event. The junior parties are formal for women only.
Mal Hallett and his orchestra played for the Prom last spring. Following this year's junior class party, only one all-school dance remains, the Senior Cakewalk, on Friday, April 5.
The general committee to plan the University's seventy-fifth anniversary cannot reach a decision concerning the most advisable time. Fal or early summer, for the celebrations of the 75th anniversary, Mitchell chairman of the committee.
Alumni To Decide Jubilee Dates
Two opposing points of view will be printed in the Graduate Magazine together with a request for alumni to mail to the Alumni office filled out questionnaires of which they would prefer.
To determine alumni preference between the two suggested periods of October and June for the Diamond Jubilee will be the purpose of a questionnaire appearing in the Feb. issue of the Graduate magazine.
Since nearly 5,000 alumni will probably attend the fete, it is necessary to sound their preferences before plans are finished.
The scope of attractions which the event will present include expositions of works of noted alumni, pagentry, talks by national leaders, and reunions of alumni classes and groups.
Miss Helen Morton, executive sec
Y.W.C.A. Executive Meets Cabinet and Advisory Board
retary of the national student council of the Y.W.C.A., will meet with the Y auburn, Freshman commission member of the afternoon at 4:30. Miss Morton will discuss qualifications and applications for a new general secretary.
Say F.D.R. Advised Aid To France
- Morgenthal, Woodring Testify Before Senate Committee on Military Affairs
Washington, Feb. 16 - (UP) — Henry T. Morgenthal, Jr., secretary of treasury, told the Senate Military Affairs Committee today that government aid to a French air mission in purchasing American military planes was given "at the request of the president."
It was revealed that General Malin Craig, army chief of staff, objected to the government's part in the French purchase on two grounds, but that he was overruled by "higher-ups". Senator Warren R. Austin, (Rep-Vt) made the disclosure to newspaper men after Morgenthau and Secretary of War Harry H. Woodrow appeared for the second time to speak about the problem into the presence of a French air ministry official aboard an experimental bombing plane that crashed recently on the Pacific coast.
Austin said Craig testified he did not favor cooperation with the French mission because:
1. It might interfere with this country's own airplane procurement program.
2. It might entirely deprive this country of the type of bombing plane in which the French representative was a passenger.
"Despite these objections," Austin said, the president discussed the matter with Mr. Morgenthau and the secretary of the navy, and according to Mr. Morgenthau's testimony, issued instructions to the various departments to go ahead with the negotiations.
Naval Flyers To See Seniors
- Will Interview Students Interested in Flying School At Pansacola
Tomorrow will be a busy day for graduates or seniors to graduate from accredited universities interested in aeronautical training.
Representatives from the department of Navy will be on the Campus to interview the students who are interested in taking a year of flying instruction at the naval air station, Pensacola, Fla.
Following the year of instruction, the students will serve three years as pilot with the aircraft squadrons of the United States fleet.
Applicants for this training are to be selected from graduates and from seniors who will graduate this spring.
Physical examinations will be given in room 116, Marvin hall, beginning at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning. Lieutenant Frank E Weld, the Commanding officer of Fairfax airport, Kansas City, the United States Naval Reserve aviation base in this section, will head a party consisting of Lieutenant Keith Krieger, Dr. P. H. Bassett, and Captain C. J. Peters, of the United States Marine Corps.
A program has been scheduled at 4:30 in the afternoon in room 296, Marvin hull, illustrating by films the naval air station, Pensacola.
Prize Winning Designs On Exhibit in Union
The department of design of the School of Fine Arts has twenty-four mounts on exhibition in the lounge of the Memorial Union. Other features include the work of the freshman, sophomore, junior, and senior classes.
Twenty of the designs are for printed textiles in silk and cotton (fabrics and four are well-paper designs. Thirteen of the white mounts are printed on a gloss-finished first prize at the Kansas Free Fair in Topeka last year.
Engineers May Receive Money
Engineers may benefit money
Students who left books with En-
signs for them can be sold at the
bath of the semester may ob-
tain their money or books at
the bath on the first floor of Marvin hall today and tomorrow.