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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
OFFICIAL STUDENT PAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
VOLUME XXXVI
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Cunningham Beats Rideout In 4:15 Mile
- Trails Opponent Until the Last Lap, Then Spurts To Last Lead; Was Fifth Facye Mile
Boston, Jan. 29. — (UP) — Glenn Cunningham made his first indoor mile start of the season with a victory over Blaine Rideout of Texas Teachers' College and in the Francis Facey mile at the 18th annual Knight's of Columbus race before 13,000 fans.
The Kansan, who holds the world's indoor mark of 4044.4 was content to trail until the last lap. Then Cunningham running in his fifth consecutive Facey mile, started a typical spurt.
Cunningham's time of 4:15.25 was comparatively slow as he has run the mile in 4:10 on the same track.
Students at the college voted last spring, 2130 to 676, in favor of the plan by which each student would be assessed not more than $5 a semester in order to raise the money necessary for the construction of the building. Parker advised President F. D. Farrell of the college that the proposal would not stand a court test. If the attorney general's decision had been in favor of the plan, a bill to authorize the bond issue would have been introduced into the state legislature.
The proposed plan for financing a student union building at Kansas State College by the assessment of students was ruled unconstitutional yesterday by Attorney General Jay S. Parker.
K-State Union Plan Not Legal
President Farrell has suggested that as an alternative to the proposal a corporation be set up in order to issue bonds to finance the building. Such bonds would be paid out of a student fee.
by jimmy robertson
ON THE SHIN
One of the state senators who visited the Campus recently told Ed Abel, publisher of the Douglas County Republican, about dinnering at one of the sorority houses. The venerable gentleman said the frigged him thin so much they never had seen a real beard-man before.
The senator shouldn't feel so flattered. The girls probably mistook him for a sister's professor.
The Sour Owl's next issue will be done in the manner of a pulp magazine, the main substance of which be "horror stories. They are not so much an agreement with its editor that the mag should be put on a higher plane.
A few days ago there appeared in this column a little item concerning the affairs of Pi Phi Betty Patton in which Ye Shinster predicted that "Country Boy" Cheatham would out-suit Suiers Max Louck and Fred Lake. But late last week "County Boy" and Max spent a night together for a gentlemanly discussion of the situation.
They invited Fred to join them and the next morning the triumvirate traveled to a remote site to take her choice. The choice: Max Louch.
More chaff: The love-ship of Kappa Jean Egbert and Kappa Sig Jack Congrove is floundering on romanceian shouts. Jean didn't mind much when Jack said his only companion was a book. But Sunday sun-dried he studied at one Six Corsets that wore a gray fur coat.
Last night's Journal-World carried a picture of Dan Hamilton Continued on page 2
Wins Again-that says you've-loafed-all-year now-study-all-night. This latter study.
Glenn Cunningham, World's greater miler and K.U.A.'s traveling professor* who won the MVP of C games in Boston last night.
Young G.O.P.'s Meet Tomorrow
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, SUNDAY, JANUARY 29, 1939
- Will Celebrate Kansas Day With Their Elders in Topka
The Young Republicans of college age will convene in Topeka Monday to hold their second annual Young-Republican convention in connection with the traditional Kansas Day celebration of their elders.
Registration and committee meetings will occupy the attention of the delegates Monday morning. At noon delegates from the different colleges and universities in the state will hold a luncheon at the Kansan hotel.
A general meeting of all delegates will be held in the afternoon. The reports of the morning committee meetings will be heard. Constitutional changes, plans for future activities, and the election for the coming year are also scheduled for the afternoon assembly.
The future politicians will attend the annual Kansas Day banquet, sponsored by the state republican organization, in the evening. Gov John W. Bricker, of Ohio, will address the assemblage. Following the banquet a dance will be held at the Masonic Temple.
NUMBER 84
For the contents of women's handbags usually are more fantastic ranging from perfume and curling-tongs to poison and fried chicken, according to Boston police who list contents of handbags reported stolen
Art Farrell, of Kansas State College, is the present head of the Young Republican club. Marl Markham, fa39, of the University is vice president, and Ralph Young, oo of the Organization in the capacity of secretary.
Boston, Jan. 28- (UP) - No longer the downstretched male writer under women's criticism of the offer "junk" he carries in his pockets.
Another young woman, whose screams failed to prevent loss of her purse, confessed that it contained poison tablets with which she had intended to end her life on reaching home.
Delegates from the University selected so far are: John Slocum, c42; Dwight Sinney, c39; Ed Beoultner, 79; George Chase, c39; Lloyd Eskes, c42; Joe Bornow, c42; Ray Tripp, c43; Betty Coulson, c41; Sam Iwig, c41; Gene Holmberg, fa-40; and Sue Reid, c43.
The youth who snatched a Brookline woman's handbag must have been surprised to find a waxy-paper envelope nested anion hairpins and coins.
Fried Chicken Joins Women's Purse Oddities
Contents of six other handbags stolen recently were listed as follows: Vanity case, mirror, nail file, lipstick, pench, comb, handkerchiefs, nitebooks, train tickets, mending kit, fountain pen, stamps, keys, roary, manicure set, eyeglasses, safety pine, bobby pins, snaps, scissors, address book, rouge, club literature, perfume, auto license, check book, calling cards, medals, mascara, knitting and -indigestion tablets.
Kansas: Unsettled and colder today; rain, changing to snow is forecast. Tomorrow generally fair rising temperature.
WEATHER
Kansas Players Start Work on Satire-Review
By Bill Fey, c'40
Theater-going students will be given a chance to view the University campaig of 1965 when the Kansas Players start production of their review February 20. The satire comedy on the University's seventy-fifth anniversary will run four nights in Fraser theater.
The material for most of the costumes and a lot of the scenery had to be ordered from New York when it was learned that it couldn't be procured in the Middle West. M. Allen Crafton, in charge of costuming, has already been at her sewing machine for two weeks preparing costumes which she promises to be of true Broadway calibre. Although some of the costumes will have to be ordered from stage supply houses, most of the work is being done in her touch in the fall of Prison Hall. Costumes for the review will represent the dress of women from the 12th century to the present, as well as chorus dance ensembles.
In 22 scenes the production will present a wide variety in stage pagement. For one thing, a scene of Massachusetts street is so real it's stalling when seen. One multiple set will carry the audience through the repressions of five foreign countries to show how love is made in other lands.
22 Scenes in All
On the historical stage of Frasier will be seen Old North College of 1880, Mount Ouakon in 1856, and the old saw mill where daring Dick saved his true love Tess from the whirling wheel of schemes schemes of a Villanovan demon.
Kansan Editorial Staff Announced by Tye
The editorial staff of the Kansan for the first half of next semester was announced last night by John Randolph Tve, editor-in-chief.
New associate editors will be Roderick Barton, c'40, Vincent Janisler, c'40, and Mary Jane Sigler. The feature editor, c'10, cunel, was named feature editor.
Phillips Fires On 'Red' Profs
Oklahoma City, Jan. 28. (UP) - Leon Phillips, aggressive re-credited governor of Oklahoma today accused professors in state colleges of teaching communistic doctrine in the method that they desired.
The school of fine arts, the law school, and most of the other schools of the University, including the dramatic department, will be the target for satire in fast shifting scenes on the stage.
He said he had "positive proof that several faculty members at the University of Oklahoma A & M, the state school, had been teaching communistic principles in their classrooms.
"It is all right for anybody to believe in communism if he wants to" Phillips said, "but he can't be a community and teach in our public school system. After all, tax payers money is being snout."
Dr. W. C. Bizzell, president of Oklahoma University said he would welcome a "thorough investigation" of Philips' accusations. In a prepared statement, Bizzell asserted that Philips is entirely right in the statement attributed to him that faculty members in state supported school have no right to propagandize students with any illusions."
A stage-building crew, headed by Prof Allen Crafton is spending every afternoon in building flats, painting, and sewing yards of curtain and backdrops. The 22 scenes for the review will require a stage crew of 10 which will be headed and directed by technician Don Dixon, instructor in the speech department.
Unusual Lighting Effects Used
Well over 1,000 board feet of floorumber and about 240 yards of sateen and 900 yards of muslin will have been used in the set construction when they are completed. Batteries of spot lights from the bridge above and behind the curtains, spots from the rear deck of the exterior border lights will give lighting effects that Dixon promises never have been seen here before.
The entire production staff of the review including the meters will be around 55 people. There will be some 40 thespians including the speaking parts, the chorus of dancers, and the singers. Rehearsals for the part later part of the week. Many of the parts will rehearse through vacation.
Music Prepared Especially
An orchestra playing music especially written for the production will be used. Many of the solos and chorus songs have already been heard by the dramatist who will be the review and are proving popular.
Museum Displays Daumier's Work
The exhibition of 45 lithographs by Honore Daumier, brilliant French caricaturist, in Spoinger-Thayer museum during February was announced yesterday by Miss Mimie Koch. It is to be shown in the south gallery.
Daumier, whose cartoons with the passing of time have achieved the status of art, began his career on a Parisian daily newspaper, Le Charivari, about 1840. Within a period of twenty years his penetrating, surgical delicinations of the parisian scene, its politics, its institutions, its common people, bourgeois and wealthy have gained for him the name "The Milchangelago of Caricaturists," among many critics.
Damier painted in oil and water-color, but these efforts have never been recognized in the same light as the one he made at the age of 71, he died in poverty.
Evacuating 'Ghost' City Destroyed by Earthquake
Santiago, Chile, Jan. 28- (UP)—Evacuation of the city of Chilán once rising metropolis of 40-000, was ordered by authorities tonight as they sought to cope with pestilence in the quake-ridden zone. United Press tabulations showed that 7,000 bodies had been buried in the earthquake area. Appeals were dispatched for gas masks for use in cities and areas of wrecked cities and villages where rescue workers were working.
Grimes Wins Speech Contest
- Will Represent University At Kansas Day Contest in Topcka
Blaine Grimes, c39 will represent the University at the state wide annual oratorical contest held at Tepopka on Kaugaun Day. He was set to judge judges as the winner of the contest held over WHEN Thursday night.
The second in the speech content series will be heard Thursday over WREN at 8:00. The subject of the interview is "What's Wrong With Missouri."
The audience vote is not yet known but Grimes was selected to enter the Kansas Day contest by the judges on the merit of his speech on the subject "What's Wrong With Kansas."
The students who will appear on this program are: John Linter, c29; Eldon Smith, c39; John Oaken, c40; McAnaw, c41; Brooke Bickert, c44.
Dr. Lindley made the trip especially for a called meeting of the board of directors of the Carnegie Institute, directed directors met in New York Friday.
The judges for this contest have not yet been announced.
Chancellor Speaks In Philadelphia
Before returning to the Campus late tomorrow night or Tuesday morning the Chancellor will transact business in Washington, D. C.
Prof. W. A. Dill of the department of journalism was reported in a serious condition at his home yesterday.
Professor Dill Remains In Serious Condition
Professor Dill suffered a heart attack early last Sunday morning and has been in bed since. Yesterday he suffered two seizures.
Debate Team Has Heavy Schedule
Members of the University debate team will face a heavy schedule during the spring semester. They will make trips to St. Louis and Texas to meet teams the early part of the term. During the summer, they men will go to Iowa State College.
The debaters expect to speak against teams from Nebraska, Crayton College, South Dakota, and Darthmouth. In the spring they will go to Colorado University to attend a Missouri-Illissippi Valley Conference debate.
Debate teams from Texas, Dartmouth and Craynton will come to Lawrence for return debates. The debate team will match marches dramatics, said yesterday.
Leo Rhodes, b'40, and Omer Voss,
[T39, will make the trip to Texas.
Prof. Buehler said.
Last year, sixty-four colleges belonging to the Association of College Unions entered teams in the contest. The University of Wisconsin won the three-cushion championship, and the University of Florida trophy and the University of Florida emerged victorious in the pocket billiard divisions.
Team Enters
Billiard Tourney
A qualifying tournament to pick three teams of five members and three alternates will be held at 8 p.m. in the men's recreation room on the following dates: straight rail, Feb. 6, three cushion rail, Feb. 15, and pocket bilbards on Feb. 24. The inquiry team will be held Feb. 9, the three cushion Feb. 23 and the pocket billard meet March 9.
The tournament consists of a number of pre-arranged key shots to be played. Each player attempts to count points for each shot and continues to play until he misses or has scored 10 points. Total scores of the team, as well as for each individual, are telegraphed to the trophy. The total standings may be computed. The trophies awarded will be contributed by Gene Tunney, Gar Wood and Nobel Kizer.
College billboard matrices are notnew. Harvard beat Yale in the first intercollegiate billboards match in 1890 - nine years before Princeton and Rutgers played the first intercollegiate game. However, low gate scores, high cost of transporting teams, led to discontinuance of the sport.
A five-man team representing the University may be entered in the intercollegiate tegraphic billiard tournament this year if the plans of the men's recreation room of the Memorial Union building are carried out. The tournament, conducted by wire, was started seven years ago through the efforts of Charles G. Peterson, famous trial shot, artist, who gave an exhibition here early this semester.
Culver-Stockton College is construcing a hotel on its campus.
ansan Surveys Final Trouble of College Students
- To Select Five-mon Team By Tournament Play Next Semester
This business of studying for exams is divided into two schools of thought: the school that says relax-and-go-to-a-movie and the school
By A Staff Writer
Procrastinators quit procrastinating this week on account of there wasn't any tomorrow to put things off to that they couldn't do today. If half the procrastinators did half as much studying every week as they have done this week they could finish a four year college course in short month. If the Kanaas Electric Power company doesn't pay dividends on this month it never will.
*Examination time catches a lot of students*, says the year, and every one has his own private way to circumvent the difficulties involved in doing a semester's studying in one night. For instance there is the hopeful soul who resorted to the bottle instead of the book before he took an exam in "Social Control" yesterday.
And there are always the girls who have 57 varieties of stowing cribs away in the multidualidad folds and pockets of their feminine attire. One girl, we heard about, kept her crib in her spectacle case and she had to use her glasses every time she looked at the questions on the board. Another wrote things on the mirror in her compact. But this business of cribs is old stuff and smart students frown on it. Those that aren't smart, however, don't.
Blaire Grimes, c. 39, president of the Student's Men Council, who won the "What's Wrong" speech contest with speech contest Thursday night.
'Cribs' Are Popular
Wins Oratory Prize-
Over at the Law School they use the honor system and if you don't think it works, just go over and take an exam with the lawyers. There is more restraint with the professor absent in the law school than if they had set the Holy Trinity and Santa Claus to watching every student. The college has another system. school has two divisions; one that be-
lives in studying until four in the morning and then going to bed for 41 or 2 winks; the other division goes to bed and gets up at four o'clock to The put an empty chair between every student writing an exam. It was such a scene as this that met the eyes of Jimmy Robertson, pseudo colonist of the Daily Kanan (adv.) when he went in to take an Astronomy quiz Friday afternoon. Looking casually over the segregated students he broke forth with a thoroughly audible, "Honor system, eh?" A Professor's Survey
Incidentally, Professor Posey of the Geography department has conducted an investigation over past years which may be of interest to students who want to make a good impression if nothing else. Professor Posey says that the students who hand their papers in first and those who finish last get the lowest grades. Those who get in on the middle some place usually get the best grades. It was pretty embarrass-
sing in one of the Professor's classes yesterday when nobody wanted to be the first one through. After everybody in the class had chewed his pencil killing time, Bill Bright braved the storm and handed his paper in first. Bill's pretty worried about the whole thing.
Finals are a problem to every Joe and Josephine College, even for Ph Beta Kappas—and even for the dummies, for these Joe College have to figure out what kind of tuberculation to use when the tests are over (the change as it may seem, finally some affect our dear professors.
“Oh the honor system, eh?” said the Fine Arts student as he sat in his harmony of music final today. “Then they started making that hickory over my head, for”
Prof. Eide, up-and-at- em' journalism professor, locked his quizzes in the business office at the shack and yesterday afternoon when the pupils begged to start the grind, 'ol Eide couldn't get the questions.
Few Air School Candidates Are Passing
- One-Third of 58 Men Find Physical Examinations the Stumbling Block For Entrance Here
About one-third of 58 candidates who have been examined for the government flying school have been disqualified already, Dr. R. J. Cau特us, director of the University health service, said yesterday.
Prof. Earl D. Hay of the School of Engineering, and head of the committee on arrangements for the air school here, said 127 students of the University required for their physical exam. Tenteen men over the state have also enrolled. Professor Hay expects that not more than 10 more men from the Campus will register.
Defective vision has been the stumbling block for the biggest number of applicants, the head examiner explained, but ear trouble and being underweight has also kept a number from passing the tests.
Only 70 Will Take Final Tests
Of the nearly 150 candidates taking the examinations, only 70 will be given the final tests under government supervision. Instructions have been given for the determination what measures will be taken if more than the specified 70 pass the local examinations.
Dr. L. S. Powell, Lawrence physician, has been appointed by the Civil Aeronautic Authority to conduct the advance examinations under the supervision of an inspector from Washington, but the dates for these examinations have not been announced.
Applicants taking the physical tests at Watkins Memorial hospital are given a rigid examination after the pattern of those given for entrance to the army and navy.
Emphasis on Eye Tests
Doctor Canutesson is being assisted by Dr. M. A. Rabe, and Dr. T. Ditzgerald, both of the University staff hospital. The examinations take about 30 minutes, with the most emphasia placed on testing the eyes. The examinations take about 15 pounds under weight or more than 20 pounds over weight.
As soon as a candidate falls down in any particular part of the examination it is not continued, Doctor Camteson said.
He also stated that the tests would continue throughout final week and that most of the applicants would have them over with by Thursday evening. Those not completed by Friday finished early the week of enrollment.
After the 70 are selected for the final examinations by Doctor Powell they will be given more thorough defects in vision and equilibrium.
It will be from this group that the 20 men will be selected for the flying course.
Miles of Human Misery On Way Out of Spain
Barcelona, Jan. 28.—(UP) The armies of Generalissimila Franco closed in tonight on a rapidly crumbling fusco in northeastern Spain, seeking to administer a blow to the legions in Catalonia.
Nationalists claimed that resistance to their advance on Gerona, the new Republic capital, had collapsed. Military advisers said that there was not even a reac guard kept by the Loyalists.
Miles of human misery swept down the highway from the French frontier as thousands of refugees enclave in France, seeking refuge from France.
Denius Elected President Kansas Author's Club
Topeka, Jan. 28. -(UP)-Joe Dennis, publisher of the Dodge City Globe and a member of the state senate, today was elected president of the Kansas Author's club. He携手 Harry L. Rhoeades of Topeka.
Art Supervisor Will Attend Annual Meeting in Wichita
Miss Maud Ellsworth, an instructor in the School of Education and supervisor of public school art, will speak on "A Statewide Program in Teaching Art" in celebration of the Kansas State Art Teachers' association in Wichita Feb. 4.