UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
OFFICIAL STUDENT PAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
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VOLUME XXXVI
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LAWRENCE, KANSAS. SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1839
Glenn Takes Hunter Mile; Sooners, K-State Win
Veteran Kansan Licks Fast Field; Time Is 4:10.8
- Wayne Rideout, North Teachers Texas Ace, Sets Early Pace But Is Nipped at Tape
Boston, Feb. 11—(UP)—Glem Cunningham of Kansas ran his fastest mile of the 1939 indoor season tonight in winning the classic Hunte mile at the 50th annual Boston A.A. track and field meet.
The 29-year-old king of world milers won the event for the fourth time and was clocked at 4:10.8. A crowd of 11,000 which filled Boston garden for the oldest indoor meet in the country cheered Cunningham as he passed away of Wayne Rideout one of the North Texas State Teachers stars.
Cunningham ran his usual race, letting the others set the pace until the final lap, opening up with his famous finishing kick and ended with it, equalling his record of 4.108 which he set last year.
Cunningham caught Wayne Rideout in the last stretch. The final lap he opened up a five yard lead as he ran down the straight away leading into the final turn, but Rideout was not through. The Texan spurted in the last 40 yards and was only two vards behind at the finish.
Archie San Roman, former Emporia Teachers star, took the lead at the start and held it for four laps before Blaine Rideout, the other twin from North Texas State Teachers, assumed command. Blaine stayed in the lead until the ninth lap when San Roman again took over.
Weather
Fair today and tomorrow rising temperature in east portion today.
by jimmy robertson
ON THE SHIN
Neatest practice joke of the year was pulled by Gam Phi's Thursday night when they called up seven fraternity men for whom they had no great love and told them that they had been selected for the "student-faculty relations committee" which would meet Friday at 4:30 p.m. in Adviser to Women Meguiar's office.
Just to keep the record straight, the boys called were: Sig Alph Harold Jones, Beta George Bryan, Delta Tau Keehrain, A.T.O. Bob Doollitt, Phi Deltal Alain Sleeper, Pii Mahir, and Pii Pat Tred. North
Purpose of the meeting, the girls explained, was to discuss closing hours for women because several infractions of present rules have been reported. Without exception the fellows considered their selection a big honor. Later they were chagrinned aptly.
The Library will have to hang don-
t-pick-the-posey signs beside nosmoking signs at the entrance, what with a lilac bush in full bloom per-
fect for a gathering. There are bush ball sessions there can sniff flowers,
too, just like Ferdinand.
Diary of a Friday Nighter: Off to the Dine-a-Mite, which has become a spot most frequently frequented by Hill fun-louvers week-ending, and for a time enjoyed a delightful table conversation with Medicine Tom Orn who in a discussion of cadavers told me the difference between typical and non-rical rips. Saw Jack Lack-yard, with Martha Browning and was much impatient. The place, by the way, has four "no tagging" signs which makes dancing more enjoyable. Chatted for a moment with Kistler who was there with his Kappa sister, Betty, and was reminded to see more of my own little sister, Jean. Watched John Batten-feld make a long distance call to Los Angles. Thence home to bed.
Most revolting of recent additions to English idioms is the "throw an X" (Continued on page two)
NUMBER 91
Athletes Battle On Many Fronts This Weekend
University athletes went to battle on many fronts this weekend. The basketball, swimming, track, and fencing teams took on opponents and the University billiard team competed in an intercollegiate telegraphic meet.
To begin with, the Jayhawker cagers maintained an old jinx over Washburn College Fire night, de-
fense firefires 37 to 34 in Topeka.
The fencers won over Kansas City 5 to 2 but the tanker and cue artists fared badly. Iowa State, favorites in the Big Six swimming competition, all but drowned local splashers last night winning 61-23. The billard team placed ninth in its meet.
Dr. Glenn Cunningham swept by an all-star field in Boston to clip off the fastest indoor mile this season, 4:10.8.
Kansas trackmen lost their dual meet with Nebraska 62-45 at Lincoln yesterday.
Iowa State swimmers made a clean sweep of their road trip tour by winning their third match in two days when they defeated the Jaw-hawkers 61 to 23 in a dual meet last night. The Cyclones lived up to their name as they won first place in all the events with the exception of the diving contest, which Paul White won for Kansas.
Four new pool records were established as the Cyclones reached "typhoonic" fury in the 50-yard dash, 150 yard back stroke, 200-yard breast stroke and the 400-yard relay, and won them easily.
George Haldeman, captain of the oiA state team and Big Six breast stroke champion, slithered from its specialty—the 200-yard-breast stroke in the record time of 22.34. This clocking was 10.3 seconds faster he swam the event in the Big Six league when he was taken up when he set the Big Six record.
Charles McCaffrey, Cyclone swimming coach stated that the Jayhawker pool is the fastest that the Cyclones have swum in this year.
The Cyclones defended Nebraska at Lincoln Friday, and sunk K-Suite at Manhattan yesterday morning, to gain their clean sweep.
Paul White and Procter Ritchie were the Kansas mainstays against the Cyclones. White won the diving event from Baker by four-tenths of a point, and Ritchie won two seconds in the 50-yard free style and the 150-yard back stroke. The summary:
300 yard midley relay—Won by Iowa State (Armstrong, Hudler, Hargesheim); second, Kansas (D.Ritchie, Wilson, Poindexter) Time—
220 yard free style—Won by Gibbs, Iowa State; second, Hargrove, Iowa State; third, Johnstone, Kansas. Time — 235.4
50 yard free style—Won by Adams, Iowa State; second, P. Ritchie, Kansas; third, Rosebush, Kansas. Time —24. (New pool record).
100 yard free style--Won by Adams, Iowa State; second, Harge-shemer, Iowa State; third, Wilson, Kansas. Time--$6.5.
Diving—Won by White, Kansas; second, Baker, Iowa State; third, Carr, Iowa State. Winner's score — 79.5 points.
200 yard breath stroke—Won by Haldeman, Iowa State; second, Hudor, Iowa State; third, Lawrence, Time—3.234.3 (New pool time)
150 yard back stroke—Won by Armstrong, Ironwold State; second, P. Richie, Kansas; third—Helander, Time: 1-48.3 (New pool record.)
400 yard relay-won by Iowa State (Hargeheim, Gibbs, Adams, Haldenman); second, Kansas (Means, Dahlman); third, Texas; Time-3:49.5 (new pool record).
440 yard free style—Won by Egenes, Iowa State; second, Hargrove, Iowa State; third, Poindexter, Kansas. Time--5.33.7.
Starter—Herbert G. Alphin.
Boy Scats Trip Tigers 43 to 40 To Gain Lead
★ Kansas State Topps Iowa State in 44 to 40 Game as Wesche Scores 18 Points
Big Six Standings
| | W | L | Per |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| Oklahoma | 4 | 2 | .667 |
| Iowa State | 4 | 3 | .571 |
| Kansas | 4 | 3 | .500 |
| Nebraska | 3 | 2 | .500 |
| Kansas State | 3 | 2 | .286 |
Norman, Okla., Feb. 11—Ohioa's Sooners took over the lead in the Big Six basketball race tonight by defeating Missouri 43 to 40. Tonight's victory gives the Sooners a first round and two losses at this stage of the race and maintains the home floor jinx. Eighteen of 19 games played on home floors of Big Six teams have been won by the host schools.
Mhattan, Kan., Feb. 11 — (UP) — Kansas State came to life and pulled Iowa State out of the Big Six conference lead by downing the Cyclones here tonight 44 to 40. The Wildcats had half a dozen wins.
Homer Wesche led the Kansas State scoring and boosted his game average by scoring 18 points. Gordon Nicholas, Iowa State sophomore center, made 13 points to lead the Cyclone scoring attack.
The game was close nearly all the way. Iowa State gained a 36 to 31 lead midway in the last half but Wesche began to hit the basket for Kansas State and brought the scor up to 39 to 36.
Bob Harris sank a free throw for Iowa State, but a basket by Miller and a free throw by Reid put Kan-ingen at 42 to 37 with five minutes to play.
Kansas Trackmen Lose to Huskers
Lincoln, Neb.-Feb. 11, (UP)—The University of Nebraska won a dual meet today from Kansas Uni-
dual at 42 at the Inaugural Cornhuger.
Nebraska won six of the 12 events and tied for first place in a seventh. The Huskers swept the 440 yard run which was won by Bob Simmons. Big Six conference champion, at 32.1.
Ten amusements which Shilver Shore and a few others call art will be on display in the news room of the Kansan tomorrow for one day only.
Lyle Foy, Kansas sprinter took the 60 yard dash in 63 seconds but was tied in the low hurdles by a team mate, Paul Mason, who also finished. Emrie Clam gave the team their first place with a 4.367 mile.
These paintings are done by finger alone and are true color as only printers ink is used. The latest of Shore's paintings, called "Sunrise on the Waukee" will be in this collection well as his first attempt at the art.
Shore Displays Smearings In Kansan News Room
NOTICE
There will be an important meeting of the Ku Ku club tomorrow night in the Union building. The attendance of all members is required.
NOTICE
Starting Monday, all regulations concerning parking and speed limits on the campus will be enforced. Drivers must observe all stop signs. The speed limit is 20 miles an hour on the campus. All cars must be parked in the right zones, and the car must be parked at the zone at all. Fines will be levied for parking without tags. There will be no parking on campus drives from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
ALAN SLEEPER
President
Use Wanamaker's Letter in National Advertising Stunt
A letter written by Orman Wannmaker, advertising manager of the Daily Kansan, has become an example of the power of the collegiate world, at least as far as setting fashions is concerned.
The National Advertising Service Inc., was so pleased with a progressive suggestion of Wanamaker's that they have issued a sales pamphlet incorporating the suggestion. The pamphlet is being given nation wide circulation among concern's likely to advertise in newspapers and magazines published by universities and colleges.
- Dr. Paul Popenoe Gives Lectures Here Starting Feb. 20
Family Life Topic Of Seminar
Dr. Paul Popeno, an authority on the promotion of education of social relations and family life in schools and colleges, will lead a three day seminar beginning Monday, Feb. 20.
Afternoon seminars will be held
Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday
at 3:30 and at 4:30. The evening
will be scheduled for 8:30 on
Tuesday and Wednesday.
Doctor Poponeo is the general director of the Institute of Family Relations of Los Angeles, and a lecturer at the University of Southern California.
The two evening lectures will be Tuesday, "Looking Forward to Marriage." Wednesday, "Making Marriage a Success." All the meetings will be held in the Memorial Union ballroom. The general problem of personality adjustment in the marriage relationship will be pursued in more detail in the afternoon seminars.
In addition to the sessions in the afternoon and evening, Doctor Popeno will address an all-University convocation on Monday morning. Personal conferences may be arranged with Doctor Popeno who is here he is.
A fee of 50 cents will be charged for the entire series of lectures Tickets may be obtained at the offices of the adviser of men and of the adviser of women, at the psychology and sociology offices, and in center Frank strong hall. Thursday and Friday of this week.
Y.M.-Y.W. Members Attend Retreat at Manhattan
Included in the K.U. delegation are Eleonor Halfmoon and Ida Bote, members of the Y.W.C.A. at Haskell. Mano Stukey, gr., will direct the conference party Saturday at the West Michigan Café to toastmaster at the Estes banquet. The group will return home Sunday afternoon.
Fifty University students left Saturday morning at 9:30 in two carbed buses to attend the tri-school Y.M.C.A.-Y.W.C.A. retreat at Manhattan. Delegates from the University of Nebraska, Kansas State University and University of Missouri are co-operating in this conference on World Christianity.
Robbers Visit Sigma Chi, Beta Fraternities
- Losses Totalling $ 1 4 0
Reported by Members;
Believe Thief Entered
Through Front Door
Sigma Chi and Beta Theta Pi fraternity houses were robbed of cash and jewelry valued at about $140 early yesterday morning.
Apparently the burgled entered
the Beta house about 4 a.m. through
the front door, ascended to the second
and third floors and picked up one
watch, three pocket watches one pocket
watch, three pocket fraternity
keys, and $3 in cash.
The thief was bold enough to enter two rooms in which men were sleeping. About 4:45 a.m. Weaver McCain, c39, awoke to find his desk light on and the door of his room open. Finding nothing down-room, he jumped back to bed. It was not until 7:45 that the first loss was discovered.
After robbing the Beta house, the same thief was thought to have entered the Sigma Chi house. About $18 in cash and $15 in jewelry had been stolen from the second and third floor rooms there. The thief entered by the back door about 4:30 a.m., it is believed.
Frank Pinet, c'42, reported the first loss about 8 o'clock and further investigation disclosed that other members had been robbed.
Lawrence police are working on the case.
Individual losses are: Jim Bounds,
e'40, pocket watch, three honorary
fraternity keys, and i'5 in cash
Al Decker, e'42 $ in cash; Dan
Hillock, e'39 $ in cash; Bob Howard,
b'39 glasses; Fred Littoy,
c'39 $15 in cash; Jim Surface,
c'42 wrist watch; Frank Pintel, c'42
$ in cash; Bill Horton, c'41, $1.75
in cash; Leo Brady, c'42 $ in cash;
Dick Overfield, c'42 $10 in cash;
Marcus Feldman, c'42 $1.75 in cash;
Ward Crowell, c'41 glasses
and 1.15 in cash.
Debaters Meet K-State Team at Topeka Tonight
The University debate team will meet the Kansas State College team this evening in a debate before the members of the Unitarian Church in Topka. The question to be debated in Resolved: "That the Fed's government should cause the use of public funds to stimulate 'business'."
ThTe University speakers will be Omer Voss, l'29, and Russell Baker, c'42.
D. C. S. Skilton, professor of organ, will talk to the Westminster Forum at 7:30 this evening on "German's march into Austria."
Skilton Talks At Forum
The meeting of the forum will be in Westminster hall. Dr. Skilton was in Vienna when Hitler took over Austria.
Marshall Speaks to Engineers
Superstitions, folk ways and traditions almost akin to fire worship are responsible for the loss of mil- lion statues throughout the world in America, according to Shea.
T. H. Marshall, professor of chemical engineering, read a paper, "Field Corrosion Studies of Oil Fipe Lines" at the annual meeting of the Kansas Engineering Society held recently at Topeka.
Psychologists Will Fight Forest Fires Through Group Studies
John P. Shea of the Adult Education society, Kansas City, who received his Ph. D. in psychology at Kansas in 1944, issued a call for cooperation from other psychologists Monday. On the part of the forest service, Shea urged formation of massed attack on the fire problem by an advisory council of psychologists sociologists and educators.
Psychologists will fight forest fires now.
The United States' fire fighters have tried water and shovels and backfires; they have used chemical extinguishers and smothering gases they have used airplanes in the fight, but to little avail.
Now they will call on their new-weapon attack, the attack on the human minds of those potential "fire bugs" who, by various ways and means instigate some 155,000 foreset force every year in the United States.
"A great number of people burn their forests by intent, regularly—even 'religiously,'" he said. "The motives may be found in a study of group psychology. Studies are needed involving both the habits of individuals and the folk ways of groups—their attitudes, economic needs, customs, mores, superstitions"
True, the careless smokers and campers are originators of many fires but they should not take all the blame for man. The problem of forest burning is a problem of human behavior, says Doctor Shea. He describes technologists to cooperate immediately to lend a solution to the problem.
"It is a race between public education and disaster. Ways must be found to change public attitudes and habit. Like falling cards knocking down their neighbors, where forests are burned the soil goes down. When the soil goes down the people go down. The paradox is that America'ans are doing this to themselves." Doctor Saehl concludes.
Wields Baton--in an extemporaneous speaking contest for class B schools, Paola defeated Turner high school. These were the only schools entered.
Karl Krueger, who directs the Kansas City Philharmonic orchestra here tomorrow in two concerts at Hoch auditorium. The afternoon program begins at 2:15 o'clock and the evening concert starts at 8:29 o'clock.
Oread Places Second in Debate
★ Topcka and Turner Win
Class A and B Arguing
Contests
Oread Training School celebrates its first year of debating by tying Eskridge in the first round of the class "C" debate tournament here yesterday. Oread took second in the run-off when Eskridge won both the affirmative and negative sides. In class A, Topela High School took first place by winning its decisions. Lawrence High School placed second with Wyandotte High School, Kansas City, Kan., taking third place. Only three schools competed in this division, Topela Catholic and Atchison withdrawing a short time before the debates.
Turner High School, the smallest school in its league, outshone all other schools in the class B division by winning all of its decisions. Paola placed all and Osawatomi took third.
The question debated was: Resolved: "That the United States should establish an alliance with Great Britain." This question was made to the one debated by the British team which visited here last week.
The winners of the debates will be allowed to compete in the state tournament to be held here on Feb 24 and 25.
Judges for the tournament were members of the University debate squad and members of the faculty. Some difficulty was experienced by the officials because of last minute shifting and dropping out of teams. The team, led by a high school education, is the coach of the Orcad Training School team.
Bounds To Draw Plans For Armory at Paola
James Bounds, c'40. Paola, has agreed to draw up plans for a newly proposed armory for Paola, according to the Miami County Republi-
An agreement from Bounds to perform the duties as architect of the new building will be submitted for a formal meeting to be called shortly.
Would-Be Aviators To Be Examined Friday
NOTICE
Physical examinations will be given in room 116, Marvin hall, beginning at 10 o'clock Friday morning for those interested in taking a year of flying instruction at the Naval Air Station, Pensacola, Fla., and following that, three years of service as pilot with the Aircraft Squadron of the United States fleet.
Students interested in taking part in the classes for improved reading and study habits are requested to leave their names with Bert Nash, room 18. Fraser hall, or Henry Van Swearingen this week.
Lieutenant Frank E. Weld, Commanding officer of Fairfax airport he U.S. Naval Reserve aviation ase of this region will head the representatives who will interview students.
Philharmonic Gives Concert Here Monday
\* Organization Plays Two Programs Tomorrow in Hoch Auditorium; Karl Krueger Conducts
The Kansas City Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Karl Krueger, will play two concerts in Hoch auditorium tomorrow. The first, which will be a young people's concert, will be played at 2:15 p.m., and the second, which will be played at 8:15 p.m., is a program for adult listeners.
The Kansas City Philharmonic Orchestra, which is one of the foremost organizations of its kind, was organized by Karl Kruger in the fall of 1933. It was the goal toward which he had been working all his life. While he was still very young, he mastered the cello and the organ, but his ambition was to become a conductor.
This ambition was still with him when he took a law course at the University of Heidelberg. This was done to please his father, who was a professor in Leipzig University. When it was finished, Krueger went to Arthur Nikisch, Europe's foremost conductor, and convinced him that he should have conducted music as well, incidentally, the only one of Nikisch's pupils for whom that great conductor ever predicted any great success.
After he left Nikish, he served as assistant conductor of the Vienna Opera, and was with the Seattle Symphony Orchestra for a few seasons. These positions gave him the background and experience necessary to build the 65 unorganized musicians which he found in Kansas City into the present Philharmonic Orchestra.
The full orchestra, which now contains 85 musicians, will fill the stage of Hoch auditorium, when it plays a new piece of the University tomorrow night.
The afternoon program follows "Rakoczy March" (Berlioz); Ballet Music from "Feramors" (Rubenstein); "Symphony, No. IV" (Tschalowski), third and fourth movements; "The Spinning Wheel of Dreams"; "A Midsummer Night's Dream" ("Mendelssohn"); "My Old Kentucky Home" (Busch); and The Ride of the Valyries (Wagner).
The evening program is as follows: Overture to "The Marriage of Figaro" (Mozart); "Symphony No. 2" (Mozart); "Rachmaninoff" (Rachmaninoff); "Spanish Symphony for Violin and Orchestra", Op. 21 (Galio); and "Bolero" (Ravel).
Students Receive School Loans
George O. Foster, registrar, has announced that 85 University loan applicants have had their applications approved by the University of Houston and that $4,812 will be lent to the applicants for the spring semester.
of different persons or groups of persons. Since the loan fund is limited in reserve, it is distributed so as to make assistance possible to the greatest number of worthy students who are in financial straits. Those assisted must be of good character, and capable of carrying on college work successfully. All loans bear interest from date at six per cent per annum. Full payment of all he may be made any time before maturity, interest being charged only until time of settlement. Notes also may provide for installment payments at any time.
According to Foster, for the spring semester $100 was the amount of the maximum loan.
School of Business Adds A New Professor
The School of Business has announced the addition of John A. Loftus, assistant professor of business finance, to the staff. Mr. Loftus will teach courses in business organization and investments.
Loftus is a graduate of John Hopkins University in Baltimore, Md. He was an assistant instructor there.