PAGE TWO UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1939 Kansan Comment Former Student Recalls "Wad" (The following editorial from the Chanute Tribute was written by Ernest W. Johnson, a former student of Harvard.) From the ranks of men and women who write and edit Kansas news has been lost a friend and counselor—the most "typical" newspaperman of them all, "wad" is dead. Anyone knows that "FDR" means Franklin D. Roosevelt; any Kansas newspaperman knows just as well that "wad" signified William A. Dill. Typical of the profession because of a mat of hair that seemed always to need a comb, nervous energy spent in beating a deadline, methodical accuracy, pride in past "scops," and an inquisitive mind, "wad" devoted much of his journalistic career in the unexciting classroom. There he taught the younger folks, several generations of them as students in the University of Kansas, to do the tasks he liked to do. If Kansas newspapers are more mathematically inclined than they used to be, and sprinkle comparative figures and tables through their stories, then "wad" is probably to blame. He was mathematical about news too, and he turned out numerous booklets giving statistics on Big Six athletics and explaining the best methods of keeping box scores at athletic events. If Kansas newspapers are using more timely pictures than in the past, "wad" should have at least some of the credit. One of his favorite classroom tales concerned experiences on Oregon newspapers where he "beat" the nearby metropolitan press with pictures when the Titanic sank because he had developed a good morgue service. Certainly "wad" had a far-reaching influence upon the young men and women who went out of the University to find newspaper jobs. He helped them to develop a love for newspaper life, and stressed principles to develop accuracy and interest in the contents of newspapers. At the same time, he conducted the University's press service, supplying to papers over the state readable items, always initialed "wad," always news happenings at K.U. Now it is "30" for "wad." He will be missed in the classroom and the press box, and those initials will not be seen again on the university's publicity material. But William A. Dill will continue to exercise a decided influence in news writing and editing. The hundreds he trained for newspaper work will continue to benefit from the friendly counsel and helpful suggestions they received from him on Mount Oread. Brandeis Spends Life Dissenting The resignation of Louis D. Brandeis from the Supreme Court marks the end of a life of legal service furnished by an upright, courageous man fighting for the rights of a minority in a democracy. Justice Brandeis believed that human rights should be placed above property contracts, that the majority had no more right to oppress the minority than the minority has to oppress the majority, that man has certain rights which the State should not take from him, and that freedom of speech should be given the widest and its finest interpretation. In short, he was a "liberal" in the best sense of the term. As a young lawyer, he spent his time fighting the public's case against what he considered unjust public utility franchises. As an elderly justice of the Supreme Court, he spent his life trying to infuse his liberal and progressive ideals into the laws of the land. During much of the time he was in the minority. For twenty-one years his record was one of dissentions. His well-written minority opinions gave impetus to liberal thinkers throughout the country. Finally, however, the tide turned. No longer was he in the minority on the Supreme bench. It is fitting that he should continue his work and battle for minority rights by aiding his race. The lamentable conditions of the persecuted Jewish people is a cause needful of the highest type of leadership. Nowhere could a race find a greater leader than in their greatest American, who now retires from the Supreme Court after twenty-three years of service. Brain, Not Heart, Should Govern Foreign Dealings Dangerous business is the recent trend of organizing pressure groups to stir up feeling in America against Nazi Germany, for people can be very easily led by propagandists to hate a nation and a people whose policies they already dislike. The foreign situation is already sufficiently ticklish to bring apprehension to every American. Questions of life and death, of peace and war are being decided in Europe today. At this time it is necessary, therefore, that the public looks at the situation rationally, clearly. and fairly without falsely aroused emotions. During the past month several anti-Ger man groups have been formed in this country. One of them, having obtained the signatures of such notableas Mary E. Woolley and Helen Keller, is determined to get twenty million signers. Another has secured the signatures of William Allen White, Al Smith, and William Green. The interest of American people in foreign affairs is increasing. Although they are practically unanimously against the policies of Nazi Germany, few of them are so bitterly opposed to that nation's principles that they would be willing to so out and fight militantly against it. With the coming of these pressure groups led by publicists and a widely-read newspaper columnist, and with nationally respected names to razze-dazzle recalcitrant signers, many Americans will doubtlessly join this movement. One pressure group asks Congress to sever all trade relations with Germany, thus terminating our neutrality. Germany is deserving of much of the criticism it has received from the press; it has no doubt earned a great deal of the animosity which in this country is felt against its policies. But today, as never before, America, if it would remain out of another world war, must learn to consider world affairs in an unprejudiced and rational manner. Board of Regents Looks for Best Man (Editor's note: The following editorial is reprinted from the Pursons Sun.) It's a rather wholesome sight to watch the State Board of Regents conduct a far-reaching search for a new Chancellor at the University of Kansas. The manner in which the regents have gone into the task indicates that they seek the man best qualified for the job without fear or favor of local conditions. The need of a high-class educator is recognized by the Board if the university is to maintain the present standards achieved largely by the administration of Chancellor E. H. Lindley. The regents are going into every part of the country in their search for the right man. It's no small job, picking a successor to Chancellor Lindley, but the regents deserve praise for the neat piece of work they seem to be doing. UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS OFFICIAL BULLETIN Vol. 36 WEDNESDAY, FEB. 15, 1839 No. 93 *Notice due at Charleterre* Office at 11 a.m. on date of publication and, 11:36 a.m. for Sunday issue. --by John Randolph Tye AIEE: The University branch of the AIEE will meet Thursday evening. Feb 16, at 7 o'clock in 203 Marvin Hall Several papers will be presented by student members. Richard Graber. Secretary. GRADUATE SCHOOLSHIPS AND FELLOW-SHIPS: Students interested in applying to graduate programs at University or at other universities are invited to inquire at the Graduate office, 225 Frank Strong hall. MATHEMATICAL COLLOQUIUM: Mr. Edison Greer will speak at the next meeting of the Mathematical Colloquium, Thursday, Feb. 16, at 4:30 o'clock in 203 Frank Strong Hall. His subject will be "Invariants from Canonical Forms." Anyone interested will be invited. E. B. Stouffer, Chairman Colloquium Committee. MU FHI EPSILON; There will be a meeting of all members of Mu Phi Epsilon in Miss Orcutt's studio at 8:30 this evening. Please be prompt. Lucile MeVey President. PHI SIGMA: The regular meeting of Phi Sigma will be held at 7:30 this evening in 206 Snow Hall. Professor C.V. Kent, of the Physics department, will speak on "Mitogenetic Rays". All members are urged to attend, and members of the Physics department and同学们 interested are invited. Mildred Parsall, Secretary. *STUDENT CORRESPONDENTS' COMMISSION* The Student Correspondents' Commission will meet Monday afternoon at 4:30, Ft. 20, in 102 Journalism building. All members are urged to attend. A special announcement will be given by C. H. Mullan, director activities. Activities Commission - Velson Wilson. Chairman. QUACK CLUB: There will be a required meeting of all Quack Club members at 8:15 this evening. Tryouts will be held, and there will be a short business meeting after tryouts. Mary Learnard, President. TAU SIGMA: There will be an important meeting of Tau Sigma at 4:30 Thursday afternoon in Robinson gymnasium. Attendance is required—Arleen Irvine President. **WOMEN'S RIFLE CLUB:** There will be a meeting of the Women's Rifle Club at 7:30 Thursday evening. The range will be open for firing today afternoon from 1:30 to 5 and after that from 6:30. Helen Narmorp, Castain InEditor-in-Chief Associate Editors—Vincent Davis, Roderick Mary Lou Nieman Mary Lou Nieman UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Official Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LAWRENCE, KANSAS Editorial Staff Publisher Harold Addington News Staff Managing Editor Campus Editors News Editor Night Editor Teacher Editors Makeup Editors Sunday Editor Suette Editor Sunday Editor Sunday Editor Stew Jones and Jack Jim Robertson Harry Hill and Harry Bronwen Milton Oliver Milton Bowen Edwin Browne Business Manager Edwin Brown Advertising Manager Orman Wanakaer Subscription rates, in advance, $8.00 per year, $17.50 per semester, Published at Lawrence, Kansas, daily, during the school year except Monday and Saturday. Entered as second class mate September 2, 1879, office at Lawrence, Kans., Date of the Art of March 3, 1879. Plan 'Oread' Symphony For Band's Spring Concert Next week the University's 75k anniversary is to be commemorated on the stage of Fraser theater by the dramatists of The Hammer jubilee will be observed in music when the University of Kansas Band plays the symphony "Oread" which has been written especially for this birthday by Bill Ward, a 40. Bill's symphony is complete with four movements and uses familiar Kansas airs for the themes of three of the movements. The first movement is supposed to represent college loyalty from morning until night. It uses its main theme "A hawk" and the "Roak Chalk" well The second movement is based on the "Crimson and the Blue." The chorale and fugue here are used to represent the academic and spiritual life of the students of the instrument composer Ward has attempted to set down and perpetuate this age of Swing Music. The movement is marked "Tempo de Swing," and the whole movement is supposed to resemble a good new-fashioned "jhm" jazz composition, which sensitizes the social life of the University. One Movement Is Swing An original theme by Ward is used in the fourth movement. It is a light, fanciful, frivolous air and is supposed to portray the life of the student from his entry until graduation. The themes of the other movements are re-echeated in this final section of the symphony. By Ken Postlethwaite Bill dedicated his symphony to the University Bend and the members notes'n discords by John Randolph Tyre The life of a columnist is anything but a joy. Just when everything was going along nicely, we have to take time out to worry about whom the president will appoint to the Brandeis vacancy. It is almost an insult to a man of the retiring Justice's stature to refer to him as a liberal, especially after he was named president banded about for the past half decade, and applied to every demagogue in the country. A Burns girl attending the University was all broken up recently, the News reports. She wrote home a letter to her brother, and her folks send her a study lamp. --but others claim the scene was comparable to that of the swimmin hole on a June day. --but others claim the scene was comparable to that of the swimmin hole on a June day. Marian Ellet, Concordia Muntwumpes, takes the N. W. Year-Telegram over the tracs for being fearful that the feed between the President and the Virginia senator will lower the dignity of the courts, and so we finish says she "After that we can afford to think about the pleasant illusion that bench appointments, like marriages, are made in heaven." Out of a thousand students enrolled at the University of Omaha, only 18 signed up for a new course in "Mortar Throwing." The school offers two dollars. For two dollars you can buy a marriage license and learn by experience. People who live in greenhous shouldn't cast aspersions. An informer says that "How the War Was Won," a satirical slice of "Cum Laude." will make pacifists of Hillville grit their molars with joy. (Continued from page one) One of these dhs days some poon student, driven berserk by nickle-leodeons, will rise in a fit of rage and pull a Logan Clendening. Shippoos and foes: Mr. French teaches French and Mr. Dixon teaches diiction . Dean Schwegler has the biggest and furriest earrmuffs on the campus . . . pledges who didn't make their grades now understand the difference between a C minus a D plus . . . Professor Springer collected an assignment from Fine Arts children to paper napkins—so least they improve their time while jelving. On the Shin -have been eloquent in their praise of the composition. They have been rehearsing several of the movements for some time and are unmimious in expressing their belief that it is a creditable work. The next time I go to a concert in Hoch auditorium and have to sit in the balcony where I can see a Russell L. Wiley, director of the band, said, "It is an unusual work and BBI deserves a lot of credit for the conception of such a pretentious writing. I am delighted that our concert band will have the opportunity of giving it its premier performance." Writing a complete symphony isn't something a Fine Arts student does between meals. A symphony is a large work and requires lots of time. Bill started on his "Oread" a year ago last August and just finished it. Last June. It will require about forty minutes for its rendition. Bill's symphony is his largest work. He has arranged more than 35 numbers for the University band; has written several fraternity and sorority songs that are being used on the HIll; wrote his high school Alma Mater at or Norton and has taught students about the for the band, including: "Boloer"; "Improvisation"; "Laughing Gnome" and several unnamed marches. This Year Bill was awarded the E. A. Stephenson Scholarship for the outstanding student-composer of the Hill. He plans to graduate from the School of Fine Arts next year and be a public school music and composition. Bill plays the bass drum in the University band. He also plays the piano. lot of empty seats in the reserved section going to waste. I'm going to munch peanuts and flip the shells on blue-bloods below. Believe I'll take along about six bottles of strawberry pop, too! After calling roll at the first meeting of his religion class last evening and discovering the half-dozen boys absent were basketball players, they insisted that he asked those present if the course had a reputation for being a snap. Aside to Mr. Barr: Of course not! But if Gumma Phi's and journalists have a problem, there's some Tuesday night you just might find cause to be a trifle suspicious. Two Operations at Student Hospital Edward Kriepe, e'40 was operated upon for appendicitis at Watkins Memorial hospital Tuesday morning. NOTICE The Quill Club will meet Tuesday, Feb. 21, in room 7 of Fraser hall. All members are required to be prepared. Plans for initiation are to be made. Jay Jane Jamboree Is Today The Jay Jane Jamboree, an all girl dance, sponsored by the women's pep organization, will be held at the Memorial Union in the Memorial Union building. 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